December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

PGP Customs investigation subpoena (fwd)
by kelly＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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(fwd) Korea now accepts secret US patent applications
by kelly 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Xref: netcom.com misc.legal.computing:4115 misc.int-property:2011 Newsgroups: misc.legal.computing,misc.int-property Path: netcom.com!csus.edu!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!srctran From: srctran(a)world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Korea now accepts secret US patent applications Message-ID: <CD3H47.3Kz(a)world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 16:14:30 GMT Lines: 15 On July 29, 1993, the republic of South Korea became the 17th country to sign an agreement with the United States to protect patent rights of patent applications fild in the United States for which the government has classified secret and indefinitely delay the prosecution of the patent. Existing countries, mostly COCOM members, are: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey and United Kingdom. For more information on secrecy aspects of US patents, contact Robert Garrett at the Patent Office, 703-308-0753. -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian srctran(a)world.std.com Source Translation & Optimization 617-489-3727 P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178 --

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We need to get the 9 megs of Moby Crypto stuff mentioned out to as many sites as we can before the boots of the Feds seal our doom. Before the hearing next Wednesday. Use the Cypherpunks remailers to send as much out as you can. Janet Reno and her BATF/DEA/narcoterrorist New World Order fascist goons are now taking action against one of our own fellow privacy activists , Grady Ward, and the Austin Code Works. Use the remailers to post ftp sites we should send stuff too. As some of our more paranoid members have said, odds are high that this list is high on the list of places they're watching. USE THE FUCKIN' REMAILERS, FOLKS!!!! > From: grady(a)netcom.com (Grady Ward) > Subject: Subpoena served on Crypto > Message-ID: <gradyCDHKrr.46E(a)netcom.com> > Organization: Moby lexicons > X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] > Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 06:59:50 GMT > Lines: 180 > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > Subpoena served on Austin Code Works for > material related to Moby Crypto. ...... > SUBPOENA TO TESTIFY BEFORE GRAND JURY > documents of object(s) > ... > U.S. Courthouse & Federal Building > 280 South First Street > San Jose, CA 95113 So I guess this means the guys in the San Fran area won't get inside. Grand Juries are sealed. Remember these sites: > soda.berkeley.edu > ghost.dsi.unimi.it > nic.funet.fi > ota.ox.ac.uk > van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca > > and many other sites > The ones outside the States may be OK for a while. Until the NEW WORLD ORDER and the U.N. Crypto Authority gets control. Yours in fear, -TURING

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(fwd) Korea now accepts secret US patent applications (fwd)
by kelly＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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PGP Customs investigation subpoena
by Philip Zimmermann 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I will be posting a note similar to this one later on Friday to various newsgroups. You saw it here first. -prz -------------------------------------------------------------- On Tuesday, 14 September 93, Leonard Mikus, president of ViaCrypt, also known as LEMCOM Systems, in Phoenix, Arizona, was served a Subpoena to Testify Before Grand Jury, to produce documents. The subpoena was issued by the US District Court of Northern California, by Assistant US Attorney William P. Keane in San Jose, as part of an investigation from the San Jose office of US Customs, conducted by Special Agent Robin Sterzer. The US Attorney above Keane is Michael J. Yamaguchi. ViaCrypt is the company that will be selling a fully licensed commercial version of PGP, starting in November. ViaCrypt has a license from PKP to sell products that embody the patents held by PKP. That includes PGP, using the RSA algorithm. The subpoena, dated 9 September, orders the production of "Any and all correspondence, contracts, payments, and records, including those stored as computer data, involving international distribution related to ViaCrypt, PGP, Philip Zimmermann, and anyone or any entity acting on behalf of Philip Zimmermann for the time period June 1, 1991 to the present." The date specified for the production of documents is 22 September 93. The written agreement between ViaCrypt and myself explicitly states that US State Department cryptographic export controls will be adhered to. The implications of this turn of events are that this US Customs investigation has escalated to the level of a Federal Grand Jury and a US Attorney. US Customs says that this change was precipitated by a ruling recently handed down from the State Department that PGP is not exportable. Other subpoenas and/or search warrants are expected. I am the principal target of the investigation. I have advised EFF, CPSR, and my other attorneys of the situation. A legal defense fund will be set up by my lead attorney (Phil Dubois, 303 444-3885) here in Boulder. This case raises some serious public policy questions regarding First Amendment rights to publish, rights to privacy as affected by widespread availability of cryptographic technology, the equivalance of electronic publication with paper publication, the availablity of lawful domestic cryptographic technology in the face of export controls, and certain other Constitutional rights. This may turn into the test case for these issues. -Philip Zimmermann prz(a)acm.org 303 541-0140 --

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PGP Customs investigation subpoena (fwd)
by gtoal＠an-teallach.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In article <9309170757.AA12199(a)netcom.netcom.com> kelly(a)netcom.com writes: > The subpoena, dated 9 September, orders the production of "Any and > all correspondence, contracts, payments, and records, including those > stored as computer data, involving international distribution related > to ViaCrypt, PGP, Philip Zimmermann, and anyone or any entity acting > on behalf of Philip Zimmermann for the time period June 1, 1991 to > the present." The date specified for the production of documents is > 22 September 93. Fun fun fun! Now we also get to find out if someone can be forced to disclose his pgp key! G -- Personal mail to gtoal(a)gtoal.com (I read it in the evenings) Business mail to gtoal(a)an-teallach.com (Be careful with the spelling!) Faxes to An Teallach Limited: +44 31 662 4678 Voice: +44 31 668 1550 x212

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more on AT&T
by George A. Gleason 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Compared to the recent news of subpoenas, the following is pretty mild stuff, but nonetheless it may be of some value: An AT&T companywide newsletter sent to 300,000 employees, contained a cartoon showing people all over the world talking together on the phone. In every continent there was a picture of a human, except for the continent of Africa, where a **monkey** was pictured. Upon having the obvious racist significance of this pointed out, AT&T issued an apology. Okay, anyone who can come up with a copy of this thing, email me: gg(a)well.sf.ca.us. LEt's get it into circulation; it will help make things hot for the company which sells Phones With Big Brother Inside. Hey, re these subpoenas: time for an emergency meeting to discuss legal strategies, publicity strategies, and all that stuff, yes? How about Sunday? -gg

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Re: Bad govt represents bad people?
by Rachel_P._Kovner＠gorgias.ilt.columbia.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

perry(a)imsi.com wrote: >They've never failed -- thats the thing. France has had five or six or >seven governments since its revolution depending on how you count >them. Italy's government was barely a few years old following the last >war when it became nothing more than a graft generator. Of all the >nations of Europe, only England in some sense can be said to have >survived more than the last sixty or seventy years without a major >change of government -- and it might be said that England's government >changed radically following the reforms of the last century and the >Parliament Act of 1911. (Well, some of the Scandanavian countries are >also partial exceptions, but not especially big ones.) Europe is >considered the "advanced" part of the workd, ladies and gentlemen. >The U.S.'s record of surviving over 200 years without a major upheaval >is quite an unusual thing. I agree with you that the U.S. is unusual in this way - but I would say that part of the reason the US has been so successful in warding off 'bad government' is because Americans have traditionally been very concious and protective of their liberties, more so than the French and Italians, and even more so than the Brits. I would suggest that this supports my 'eternal vigilance' statement, because it is only the country that has been most protective and concious of its rights that still has it's rights. (Having a written Constitution has helped a bit, too...) >But the people almost never resist. Usually, they want the bad >government -- it needs them to survive. Well, that's an awfully pessimistic attitude, but I think you would certainly agree that some countries in the world have worse government than others. I would say that the government reflects the people - the countries with the best government tend to be those with the citizenry which is most aware of the dangers of big government. Even if those countries eventually succumb to bad government, they will have succumbed because they cease to resist the big G. My point is this - G(g)overnment reflects the people in that it is the people who ultimately must insure that their rights are protected. If they don't, history has shown, 'bad Government' will take over. American liberties have survived in some form for so long because Americans have made efforts to maintain them - not because the forces which try to restrict/remove our liberties are not their. By the same coin, since these forces are always there, when the US gives into them it will be because our citizenry is no longer vigilant in resisting these forces. rk ---------------------------------------------- Delivered by the NLTL Internet Gateway

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Pasting syntax
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Regarding pasting headers for remailers - How does one paste in a "Cc"? Can it be done by adding it to the paste header, like so? :: Request-Remailing-To: Subject: Organization: Cc: I guess I'll find out....

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Moby Crypto
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Punkz, With the recent turn of events concerning the subpoenas for Austin Code Works, Grady Ward and Phil Zimmerman, I would suggest that each of us do our parts to disseminate PGP and all other forms of crypto FAR AND WIDE, as quickly as possible. The battle has been joined!

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