December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

"A new battle over keeping the Net clean," by J.Weber/LATimes
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 10:49:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: fight-censorship-announce(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: "A new battle over keeping the Net clean," by J.Weber/LATimes ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 09:23:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Weber <Jonathan.Weber(a)latimes.com> To: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> Subject: ratings story Innovation/ Jonathan Weber A New Battle Over Keeping the Web Clean WASHINGTON When Congress passed the Internet censorship law known as the Communications Decency Act early last year, the many companies, advocacy groups and individuals with a stake in the Internet rose up as one to challenge the measure in court. But now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the CDA unconstitutional, the victorious coalition is fracturing, and a bitter battle is being joined over the Clinton-backed effort to develop a rating and labeling system for the Internet. On one side are the big, mainstream Internet and computer companies, led by America Online and Microsoft, which proclaim their eagerness to make cyberspace "safe for families.'' Lining up against them are free-speech advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Library Assn., which see ratings systems as censorship tools. It's not exactly a fair fight: Ratings proponents have popular opinion, the economic interests of the industry and the power of the presidency on their side. But here's a prediction: The free-speech forces will lose the battle, but they'll ultimately win the war. And with a little luck there won't be too much damage done in the interim. The debate over ratings begins with a technology called PICS, which stands for "platform for Internet content selection.'' PICS is a mechanism for labeling Web pages according to their content. The labels can then be read by a software program, which in turn can block access to sites that have specific types of content. PICS itself is not a ratings system, but rather a method for implementing a ratings system. The theory is that once PICS is in place throughout the Internet, a multiplicity of ratings systems would emerge. A Christian Coalition ratings system might block access to anything with any sexual content as well as certain political sites, for example, while another system might block only hard-core porn. Parents and others could easily choose. So far, so good. There would be no law requiring Web sites to use PICS labels; the Clinton administration has stressed that any ratings plan would be voluntary. But parents and others would get a new toolone more robust and effective than existing software programs, such as CyberPatrol, that block out sites deemed unsuitable for kids. The free speech purists have a philosophical objection even to this. ""Ratings systems are developed to enable one individual to exercise control over what another person sees,'' says Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. That might be OK for parents and their children, he allows, but such a tool will inevitably be used by public institutions and governmentsif not here then abroadto restrict speech. An even bigger worry is that what's being sold as a voluntary system that will include a multiplicity of ratings systems is actually going to be an all-but-mandatory system that offers very few choices. Consider, first of all, what happens to Web sites that decline to rate their pages. Any PICS-based filter would have to block all unrated pages. Already, ratings proponents are calling on the major search services, such as Yahoo, not to index unrated sites. Overseas Web services would face the choice of adopting a U.S. labeling system or forgoing access to any U.S. readers. Web publishers that didn't want to participate might suddenly find themselves in a deserted backwater of the network. There's also the question of how disputes over ratings would be arbitrated. Sites would be self-rated, and in fact the vast majority of sites would have no incentive to misrepresent themselves. But what happens when some do anyway? Would it be a crime for a porn site to proclaim itself suitable for children? At the moment, moreover, it doesn't appear that there are a variety of ratings systems under development representing different values. In fact, a system being created by the Recreational Software Advisory Council, a Microsoft-led industry group, is quickly emerging as a de facto standard. The battles over how RSAC handles certain kinds of sites have only just begun, but to see the inevitable problems one need look no further than the ongoing discussion about news. N ews sites, reasonably enough, don't want to rate themselves. At the very least it would be impractical to label every page of a big news site every day to warn of violent or tasteless or otherwise disturbing content. And labeling news just doesn't seem very consistent with freedom of the press. So the news organizations want to have a special news rating. Who qualifies for a news rating? Well, a committeeoperating under the auspices of the Internet Content Coalition, which represents a number of major publishers (including The Times)would decide. News organizations get together to decide who is and who isn't a news organization. Hmm. In the face of these objections, the Clinton administration and the companies backing the ratings effort say that, first of all, something has to be done to stave off new legislation. If industry doesn't act, Congress will come up with "son of CDA,'' and this time it might hold up in court. There are other motives too, though, namely a desire to expand the market. "Nothing is as important as making this medium family-friendly,'' America Online Chairman Steve Case declared here last week. That's funny coming from him, because AOL owes much of its success to its decidedly un-family-friendly sex-chat rooms, but he's obviously decided that a clean image is important to further growth. The online giant is spearheading a two-day meeting here in October, where the ratings battle is likely to come to a head. The administration and the big companies both want to bring the Internet into the mainstream. If some of its wilder and woollier aspects are marginalized in the process, well, good. And that is the nightmare of free-speech advocates: that a medium that the Supreme Court declared ought to be treated at least as liberally as print (ever heard of ratings for books?) will nonetheless be driven into TV-like conformity. This is a legitimate fear. Personally, though, I don't think the worst will happen. The Internet is simply too big, too diverse and too fast-changing to be tamed by even a semi-voluntary ratings mechanism. The business interests, moreover, cut both ways: Family-friendly might look like a way to expand the market today, but pornography and gambling and even radical politics are sure to remain a big part of the online landscape. AOL's Case says that online service providers competing on the basis of who is more family-friendly would be akin to airlines competing based on their safety records. That's a ridiculous analogy: Everyone thinks plane crashes are bad, but not everyone feels the same way about controls on Internet content. In my ideal world, Internet providers should be competing based on values, not trying to impose some kind of bogus consensus. Esther Dyson, one of the industry's most respected thinkers, favors the development of PICS as a tool but stresses the importance of choicesand of people taking responsibility for their actions. In the wired world, she says, power is constantly shifting and devolving away from central authorities, and that requires individuals to be less passive: "I want local control,'' she says. "I don't want no control.'' PICS and RSAC have powerful forces behind them and stand a good chance of establishing themselves as part of the mainstream Internet. But there's a natural tendency toward diversity in cyberspace, and it's hard to see how they would become ubiquitous. If individuals and organizations are vigilant about how ratings are usedi.e., not by governments and not by public institutions such as librariesthere's a chance that they'll remain what they were originally intended to be: one of many means for people to manage the often unmanageable Internet. Jonathan Weber (Jonathan.Weber(a)latimes.com) is editor of The Cutting Edge. ********************************************************************** Jonathan Weber Jonathan.Weber(a)latimes.com Technology Editor Los Angeles Times

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Question: What's with cypherpunks-unedited?
by Feanor 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just wondering what the story was behind the split and subsequent going-away of cypherpunks(a)toad.com? Also, I'm getting about 20 msgs a day: is that correct or is my gateway broken again? Thanks! -Robin

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eternity server makes wired
by Ariel Glenn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Good going, guys... http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/5778.html [Masthead] [] [Navigation bar] [Stocks] __________ ______________ [Search] [WIRED magazine] [] [Back] Creating Anonymous Sites That Can't Be Revoked by Michael Stutz 12:05pm 5.Aug.97.PDT Web sites, having a physical, traceable location, are always subject to censorship. In such attacks, a government or other localized entity orders the removal of - or even physically raids - those sites which host non-approved content within its sovereign borders; these sites are often forced to "unpublish" or destroy such information. Now, a means of creating anonymous, unrevokable Web sites has been developed. Originally proposed in theory by UK cryptologist Ross Anderson, the Eternity Server is being implemented by a band of cypherpunks including Adam Back, a research fellow at Exeter University. The idea is simple. Web content - even entire sites - can be posted to Usenet in such a way that it can be easily retrieved. Usenet's discussion forums are distributed across thousands of news servers around the world. This, it turns out, makes for a perfect, anonymous digital repository: "No one knows who's reading it," said Back. "They can't find all Eternity Servers from some centralized list. It's decentralized, unlike a mailing list, where there is a central node which can be taken out." The mechanics of document submission are as follows: Eternity Service recognizes its own fictitious top-level domain, .eternity. From there, a Web document is given its own virtual URL, and the subject line of the message becomes a unique mathematical representation of that virtual URL, from which the document can be retrieved using search techniques. Furthermore, the message is encrypted so that knowledge of this URL is necessary for decryption. Once posted to Usenet, the document will be viewable in perpetuity and can be reconstructed in a Web browser by any Eternity Server program, which simply decodes the .eternity URL into its equivalent Usenet message, then fetches, decrypts, and displays it. Eternity supports digital signatures to maintain author anonymity, allowing for unconditional free speech. Mike Duvos, a Seattle-area computer-software consultant, is an Eternity Service user. He sees this as part of Usenet's ongoing evolution, just as it previously changed from a text-only medium to include binary files as well. "Establishing a convention for the posting of Web content to Usenet, employing modern encryption and authentication tools, and permitting transparent browsing of that content, is just another step in the same direction," he said. While still fresh out of beta, the technique shows a great deal of promise as a foil to conventional means of censorship. "The attention gathered by censoring an Eternity Server will ensure that lots of other servers start up," said Back. "It will generate a feeding frenzy of new servers springing up," he said, assisting free speech from here - to Eternity. Find related stories from the Web's top news sites with NewBot [Back] [Navigation strip] Feedback: Let us know how we're doing. Tips: Have a story or tip for Wired News? Send it. Copyright ) 1993-97 Wired Ventures Inc. and affiliated companies. All rights reserved. [HotWired and HotBot] [] [] Click here for Vivo [technology] TECHNOLOGY Today's Headlines Creating Anonymous Sites That Can't Be Revoked Microsoft Reportedly Entering Net Search Biz Macromedia Offers Dynamic HTML Helper NCR Licenses Solaris Testimony Gets Animated MP3 Music Pirates Lurk in Chat Zones Eword: Doctor Roboto Outta Beta: Community Building Blocks Click here for Vivo [INLINE] ------ Ariel Glenn / AcIS R&D / Columbia University ariel(a)columbia.edu standard disclaimer, blah blah blah...

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Re: "A new battle over keeping the Net clean," by J.Weber/LATimes
by bpettigrew＠usa.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>At the moment, moreover, it doesn't appear that there are a variety of >ratings systems under development representing different values. In fact, >a system being created by the Recreational Software Advisory Council, a >Microsoft-led industry group, is quickly emerging as a de facto >standard. The problem isn't with PICS, or with ratings, or even with RSAC. The problem is that nobody else is making the effort to set up alternative rating systems. This leaves RSAC as the only option, by default. Let the free speech organizations demonstrate their commitment to their cause by creating their own ratings. Rank sites on the basis of their support of freedom, or on how privacy-friendly their policies are. Even formalize the geek code. Do something, anyway. The solution to bad speech is more speech. Don't suppress, ban, or oppose RSAC. Provide alternatives. Bubba

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Bulk Email For Profit
by may＠zeta.org.au 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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eternity-0.08 up, more beta testers?
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We are now on eternity-0.08. See: http://www.replay.com/aba/eternity/ and http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/eternity/ for the software. It's now much easier to install there are even some instructions on what to do in the README. There is now a configure script which greatly simplifies installing. Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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Microsoft postpones plans to include RSACnews in Explorer
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 16:35:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: fight-censorship-announce(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Microsoft postpones plans to include RSACnews in Explorer [Note that Microsoft still plans to include RSACnews in Explorer 5.0. --Declan] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Inter@ctive Week August 5, 1997 Microsoft Tables 'News' Rating System For Explorer By Steven Vonder Haar 1:30 PM EDT Microsoft Corp. has tabled plans to include new technology in its Internet Explorer 4.0 browser that would have made "news" oriented sites exempt from content rating standards promoted for use on the Internet. Officials at leading media companies, including Time Warner Inc. and Dow Jones & Co., have lobbied industry leaders during the past month in an effort to generate support for an approach that would exclude news sites from content rating systems such the one promoted by the Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSAC). The media companies, rallied by the Internet Content Coalition industry group, contend that the ratings are the equivalent of private censorship that will eventually cut into freedom of speech rights on the Internet. "No one puts a filter over the mailbox to determine whether Time magazine is appropriate for our audience," said Dan Okrent, editor-in-chief at Time Inc. New Media. "The same standards should apply to the Internet." RSAC's current rating tool is integrated into the current Explorer browser. It allows parents to block access to content based on RSAC ratings. Sites that do not carry RSAC ratings also can be blocked. RSAC recently came up with a "news" category designed to allow display of news content without suitability ratings for individual stories. RSAC President C. Dianne Martin said Microsoft is running out of time to implement the separate designation for news sites before the launch of the 4.0 version of Explorer later this year. However, the company plans to include the news designation in the 5.0 version of Explorer when it is made available, likely sometime next year. RSAC can be reached at www.rsac.org Microsoft can be reached at www.microsoft.com

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Re: Florida Drivers Permits
by liberty＠gate.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [Welcome back, Professor] You posted: >Will, starting next year, containg a digitized photo, plus the current >info. <snip> >Anyone know any details about the technololgy? <snip> Not really. I saw the same story. The name, address, age, & height mentioned are already obvious on licenses, but this may preclude incorrect data entry by FL cops, and counterfeiting (a problem here for *years*). I saw nothing on the digitized photo, but we could be looking at different stories. Phase-in in July, '96. The story I saw suggests that other data, such as tickets, criminal violations (presumably convictions) and "other biographical information" [welfare, credit info] could eventually be included, depending on FL's state budgetary considerations. No author, just "Associated Press," listed on the story, and the card uses a magnetic strip "like those on credit cards" rather than a chip, which may be a mistake [considering the renewal period & my experience with bank-cards]. Story doesn't say it, but it sounds like FL *may* be the first state to do this. Are any other states doing this already? JMR - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Freedom isn't Freeh iQCVAwUBMD4DiW1lp8bpvW01AQGF+QP/RG9aTxVeujNDL2ebdyNL558PrtXclUhf 9iLETvzNu/OtplKZXng67SkBkECpbh5LyOpoeRkhhWUANJhcIUhJKhcaUIOmLR2n KLjQ6WnGx5OHXPr53htVrvyg4L6Y0tX5233AEk8iDxxBh79alHmxuklT7s13CPgI k9HklCZ77kg= =teIz - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Regards, Jim Ray "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it." -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to H.L. Pierce, 6-Apr.-1859 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PGP key Fingerprint 51 5D A2 C3 92 2C 56 BE 53 2D 9C A1 B3 50 C9 C8 Key id. # E9BD6D35 James M. Ray liberty(a)gate.net - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Support the Phil Zimmermann (Author of PGP) Legal Defense Fund! email: zldf(a)clark.net or visit http://www.netresponse.com/zldf ________________________________________________________________________ - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMD4D+SoZzwIn1bdtAQGy+gGAq40gk8nqgdvnSrp6QBQ3jcW5f8kI0wux IoWUKN8tHUaOHuP+s4ImuW6j++Mhht1b =zXwD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Auto-pgp for pine/elm/tin
by Henry W. Farkas 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Does anyone know of an addon to the Pine mailer that supports PGP? > the only PGP software i could find required me to first compose a > letter in an editor then run it through a pgp signature program > then finally read it into my favorite mailer. > > I'm looking for something that is hopefully transparent, or if not > relatively quick to do. > ________________________________________________________________________ > Sameer Manek Seawolf(a)challenger.atc.fhda.edu > ________________________________________________________________________ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yes, it exists, and I'm using it now. I've tried competing products and found this to be the cleanest, smoothest and easiest to install. I have no personal, commercial or financial interest in this product. It does "auto-pgp" for pine, elm and tin. *********************************************************************** * BAP v.1.01 * * Written August 1995 by Bryce Wilcox * * e-mail: <bryce.wilcox(a)colorado.edu> * * PGP key id: <617C6DB9> * * snail mail: <2228 Canyon Blvd, Apt. 1E, Boulder, CO, 80302> * * URL: <http://cs.colorado.edu/~wilcoxb/home.html> * * BETA TEST VERSION! DO NOT DISTRIBUTE! * * (Note that documentation, among other things, is still unfinished.) * *********************************************************************** I also found the author responsive to my comments and suggestions. Just please do *-NOT-* put your pass phrase in a cleartext file! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ =========================================================================== Henry W. Farkas | Me? Speak for IBM? Fat chance. hfarkas(a)ims.advantis.com |------------------------------------------------ hfarkas(a)vnet.ibm.com | http://newstand.ims.advantis.com/henry henry(a)nhcc.com | http://www.nhcc.com/~henry - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP 6.2.2 Key fingerprint: AA D0 F5 44 C1 8C 11 52 B3 80 34 1C CE 38 EC 53 Public key at: pgp-public-keys(a)pgp.mit.edu, and other popular key servers. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by Henry's Hardware: Home of the Pretty Good Hack "We're not fast, but it's not bad, and we're cheaper than the guy down the street!" =========================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Auto-signed with Bryce's Auto-PGP v1.0beta iQCVAwUBMD30WaDthkLkvrK9AQF6sQP/fVen7ZI4DbgC14y+NPdZYOjaRQ9/jQNT d4StD638OoBRkO7b8efiTd/rNULwuzSPKDiplKwRdE8Bboh4FdSWYvz6wfqgNJcd D3imouQcEt+erjEC2H5haQyZwBHeNNR9mTYhkzoBt4+jMqsRCECduaExyHUOTWFj euOkRqTJ0l4= =2q74 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Search This Space Please
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

When one leaves ones machine running all night with the screen turned off, one should be careful to turn the sceen on *before* hitting the power switch. Since hitting an on button switch will turn it off before you collect the search results. I have tried to REJECT this range but haven't been able to figure out the syntax the server expects. I am without fast machines for the weekend. Here it is: ************************************** brutessl ssl.pf 2977 0198 20 assuming the config info is in ssl.pf so go do it ! ************************************** Thanks, DCF

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