December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Internet Police Law (fwd)
by Adam philipp 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This seems to be an interesting developement in GA... With CP relevance. >It is being dubbed the Internet Police Law. Georgia's state government is >beginning to catch a little net-heat because of a new law signed by the >Governor last week which, according to some, CRIMINALIZES the use of e-mail >addresses which don't properly identify a person, as well as the practice of >linking to another web page by name without first obtaining permission to >link. > >If anyone cares to see information and commentary on this new law, feel free >to browse over to www.kuesterlaw.com. I would love to know what everyone >thinks about the constitutionality of this bill, as well as any other comments. > >Thanks. >jk >Jeffrey R. Kuester, Esq. Patent, Copyright, & Trademark Law >6445 Powers Ferry Road, Suite 230, Atlanta, Georgia 30339 >Ph (770) 951-2623 Fax (770) 612-9713 >E-mail: kuester(a)kuesterlaw.com >WWW: http://www.KUESTERLAW.com (The Technology Law Resource) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-\ | My PGP key is available on my |Unauthorized interception violates | | home page: http://www.rosa.com |federal law (18 USC Section 2700 et| |=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|seq.). In any case, PGP encrypted | |SUB ROSA...see home page... |communications are preferred for | | -=[ FUCK THE CDA]=- |sensitive materials. | \=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/ If A is a success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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WWW proxies?
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Has anyone developed such a beast yet? Will we have as extensive a WWW proxy network as remailer network? --- My preferred and soon to be permanent e-mail address:unicorn@schloss.li "In fact, had Bancroft not existed, potestas scientiae in usu est Franklin might have had to invent him." in nihilum nil posse reverti 00B9289C28DC0E55 E16D5378B81E1C96 - Finger for Current Key Information Opp. Counsel: For all your expert testimony needs: jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: Anonymous banking
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"unicorn(a)schloss.li" "Black Unicorn" 24-APR-1996 21:06:33.48 Thank you for the information. >Not too bad, but there are crackdowns on anonymous and pseudonym accounts. >MLAT's exist with the United States. Austria has been the focus of >careful investigations and a lot of diplomatic pressure. EC membership >will require compliance with standards for client identification. The >article is somewhat in error. Anonymous accounts are no longer easy to >open and generally require the voucher of a local attorney. Speaking of attorneys, is there any way that an attorney can serve as an anonymous mail forwarder? The user would give the attorney permission to look at anything suspicious (e.g., mail from a credit card company) to make sure no fraud, theft, et al were being committed. Would this be covered under lawyer-client confidentiality in the US? >In general adding a country to the money laundering offender list is a >political decision and NOT demonstrative of a country's actual money >laundering use. (Note that Vanuatu is not included, nor is Isle of Man). >Mostly its a question of countries with corrupt officials who will look >the other way, not of countries which strict banking privacy. Fascinating. >This is nearly irresponsible reporting. Reporters nowdays are getting so overloaded that they're taking information from whoever will talk to them. Look at what happened with the chips-in-Iraqui printer story. -Allen

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Re: OS/2 encryption utilities
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I thought the following from CuDigest should serve to illustrate some of the discussion recently on this subject. -Allen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Computer underground Digest Sun Apr 21, 1996 Volume 8 : Issue 32 [...] Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 10:50:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doc_Holliday(a)AWWWSOME.COM(M. Steven McClanahan) Subject: File 3--Canadian "criminalization of technology" [...] Speaking as one who had a Power Macintosh with a 2 gigabyte hard disk drive and all my backups subpeonaed in a civil case, I can tell you that the other side is not likely to want or accept your help in determining what is on your mass storage devices and/or in learning how your systems work. I had to stand by while the attorney corrupted all the data on my hard drive trying to beat my PGP encryption. Then he did the same thing to my back ups. Despite my protests I would have GIVEN them the key to decrypt the data - he didn't trust me. This is in a CIVIL case, imagine how they would feel in a CRIMINAL matter. They spent days trying to get past PGP and could not. Even if they had, all they would have gotten was copies of email between my wife and I. The downside was it took me two weeks to reconstruct my hard drive, time which the courts refused to order the attorney that started all this to pay me for. (They did sanction him after he threatened to punch me during a deposition for refusing to reveal my sources - which were protected by attorney-client privilege - which I thought was interesting; apparently he could waste all my time, but he couldn't hit me.) The court decided my data had no value and that having to rebuild my hard drive was a "minor inconveneince" compared to the "interests of justice." Since it is a no win situation, extending cooperation is problematic. It probably won't do any good. My experience told me most people in law enforcement have not advanced, technologically, past the level of an Atari 2600 and are completely baffled by complex systems. Based on what they did with a Mac system, I doubt they would even be able to access anything now that I use a SPARCstation 4. An attitude seems to have developed in the prosecution of computer crime that "the ends justifies the means." As the voters have gone along like sheep and surrendered many civil rights in the prosecution of drug related crimes, they are similarly doing in the prosecution of computer crimes having to do with the Internet and claims of "child porn." This is extremely dangerous as. If you look long and hard enough on any system,and systems accessible to it, you can, eventually, find something that will offend someone. Therefore, applying the rule that "the ends justifies the means," everyone who connects to a computer network is thereby "criminalized." The frigthening part is that, whether or not the innocent victim is doing anything illegal, the reams of good press such actions bring for prosecutors and police just encourages them. After it is all through and nothing illegal is found, law enforcement still looks good in the press, (because the public has been whipped up into such a frenzy they preceive any action as "good"). The victims of such harassment are always "guilty" in the eyes of the public, simply because the government took any action.

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Cell Kill 2
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

4-27-96 NYT op-ed claims: On April 21, two Russian laser-guided missiles reportedly zeroed in on the cellular phone of Dzhokhar M. Dudayev, leader of the Chechen rebels, and killed him. According to the Russian newspaper Izvestia, Mr. Dudayev died while phoning an aide to King Hassan II of Morocco, who had been asked by President Yeltsin to help mediate an end to the war. Will any leader ever again be so gullible?

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Clyink Encryption Units
by creal 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cylink STX-2400X Voice/Data Encryption Units - Easy hook-up to phone (4-pin modular plug) - 198 bit key - Clear/Secure voice/data - keyed lock - SEEK key exchange or manual key loading - User's manual - ac power supplys These are the same as the STX 9600X currently sold by Cylink at $3000/unit except the data transfer rate is 2400 bps instead of 9600 bps. Good voice recovery. Like new condition. Asking $450.

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(FYI) Fraud On The Internet
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>X-Sender: reagle(a)rpcp.mit.edu >Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 23:03:22 -0400 >To: coredohrs(a)RPCP.MIT.EDU >From: "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle(a)mit.edu> >Subject: Fraud On The Internet > > >Fraud On The Internet > >The National Fraud Information Center has begun collecting information >about fraud on the Internet. As part of the effort to gather >information and announce the project to Internet users, the NFIC has >created its own Web site and is accepting information via e-mail. The >Web site has links to state, federal and international law enforcement >sites plus details of the Internet fraud program and how suspicious >activity can be reported. >World Wide Web: http://www.fraud.org/ >E-mail: nfic(a)internetmci.com >_______________________ >Regards, I, man, am regal; a German am I >Joseph Reagle http://farnsworth.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html >reagle(a)mit.edu E0 D5 B2 05 B6 12 DA 65 BE 4D E3 C1 6A 66 25 4E > > > _______________________ Regards, I, man, am regal; a German am I Joseph Reagle http://farnsworth.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle(a)mit.edu E0 D5 B2 05 B6 12 DA 65 BE 4D E3 C1 6A 66 25 4E

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[;)] v2.0
by Dave Del Torto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

<http://www.well.com/user/ddt/info/jet-reply.html> (v2.0)

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Re: [NOISE] Re: Guardian angels, the decency brigade, and cyberserap
by angels＠wavenet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Peter Trei wrote about my signature: > >It's this last sig-quote that bothers me. It's worth noting that, unlike >the other two, it has no attribution. It looks like an inversion of >Benjamin Franklin's: > >" They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety > deserve neither liberty nor safety." > - Historical Review of Pennsylvania It is an inversion of that quotation and it does indeed sum up our focus. It has no name on it because I switched it around to make a motto for our work. Not that I disagree with Franklin though. The comment is true both ways around. > >People usually put in their .sigs quotes they feel sum up their personal >philiosophy. I guess soon we'll see 'Gabriel' give us some more words >to live by; these may be right up his alley: > >"War is Peace" >"Ignorance is Strength" >"Freedom is Slavery" > - Orwell, "1984" :) As a former teacher at the University of London department of adult studies, teaching history, politics and International Relations I can assure you I am very familiar with the history and belief of totalitarianism - and have opposed them all my life. > >Gabriel's also misquoting Burke - the actual text is: >"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do >nothing. " > That's not how I have it but hey! Obviously we are dealing here with a man who knows his quotes. Gabriel ********************************************************* "Two people may disagree, but that does not mean that one of them is evil" *********************************************************

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Anybody know anything about this?
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the Secretary of the Senate, in the enrollment of the bill (S. 735) shall make the following corrections: (Enrolled Bill (Sent to President)) --S.Con.Res.55-- S.Con.Res.55 Agreed to April 24, 1996 One Hundred Fourth Congress of the United States of America AT THE SECOND SESSION Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six Concurrent Resolution Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the Secretary of the Senate, in the enrollment of the bill (S. 735) shall make the following corrections: ... `(g) LIMITATION ON DISCOVERY- `(1) IN GENERAL- (A) Subject to paragraph (2), if an action is filed that would otherwise be barred by section 1604, but for subsection (a)(7), the court, upon request of the Attorney General, shall stay any request, demand, or order for discovery on the United States that the Attorney General certifies would significantly interfere with a criminal investigation or prosecution, or a national security operation, related to the incident that gave rise to the cause of action, until such time as the Attorney General advises the court that such request, demand, or order will no longer so interfere. `(B) A stay under this paragraph shall be in effect during the 12-month period beginning on the date on which the court issues the order to stay discovery. The court shall renew the order to stay discovery for additional 12-month periods upon motion by the United States if the Attorney General certifies that discovery would significantly interfere with a criminal investigation or prosecution, or a national security operation, related to the incident that gave rise to the cause of action. `(2) SUNSET- (A) Subject to subparagraph (B), no stay shall be granted or continued in effect under paragraph (1) after the date that is 10 years after the date on which the incident that gave rise to the cause of action occurred. `(B) After the period referred to in subparagraph (A), the court, upon request of the Attorney General, may stay any request, demand, or order for discovery on the United States that the court finds a substantial likelihood would-- `(i) create a serious threat of death or serious bodily injury to any person; `(ii) adversely affect the ability of the United States to work in cooperation with foreign and international law enforcement agencies in investigating violations of United States law; or `(iii) obstruct the criminal case related to the incident that gave rise to the cause of action or undermine the potential for a conviction in such case.

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