December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Tim C. May's Interpretation of the U.K. Proposal
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timothy C. May wrote: > > The U.K. may sense that, absent such "local content" laws, the market for > key signings, time-stamping, and other services will naturally concentrate > in certain markets. > Longer term, the concentration may be more > globalized, or even in "cyberspace," but almost certainly not in Britain. > Nations may thus fear this flight of such services to other countries. Tim, at his best, interprets the U.K. laws from both a global and local … [View More]perspective. Certainly, any actions of the U.K., in particular, should be viewed from the lingering shadow of the British Commonwealth. The U.K., having ruled an Empire, is much more cognizant of the implications of how the structure of proposed legislation will affect the expansion of global aims, or the protection of indigeonous rule. Although "local content," as Tim points out, is undeniably one of the major factors behind the legislation, the U.K. is also undoubtedly positioning themselves to resist letting the *power* that comes from information *control* fall into the hands of others. We have passed from the age when currency, alone, ruled. We are now truly in the Information Age, and those who wish to rule, to control others, must rule and control information. This is why the great battles of the day now surround standards and encryption, and encryption standards, above all. The US Bumverments reversal on encryption policy is not a result of enlightenment, but a result of other nations taking a leading role in encryption development. They have not really abandoned their plans to control all information, but have merely recognized that they must move their efforts into the global community before other powers have locked up the market. The only solution to the threat of global information control by one, or a few, players, is to promote the widest possible variety of encryption development. > So, besides the obvious OECD/New World Order interpretations, the U.K. > action may be a sign of something we may see more often: various countries > attempting to restrict extra-territorial uses of encryption services for > economic as well as for perceived national security reasons. Not just national security, but national *control*. Perhaps the U.K. is the first country to truly recognize and act on the threat of national borders falling victim to the global potential of new Internet technology. After all, they were one of the first nations to feel the sting of the printing press, and to experience the birth pains of the global changes that it would give birth to. Truly their is another great global war shaping up, but this time the battle will be fought with bits and bytes, and the battleground will be electronic. The winner will rule the medium. The medium IS the message. Those who rule the medium will rule the message. And in the Information Age, the message will rule the world. "In the beginning, was the Message. And the Message was with God, and the Message WAS God." McLuhan was a voice crying in the wilderness, an electronic John the Baptist. He, too, spoke of one who would come who was greater than he. And he warned of the evil one who would fight to rule the minds of all mankind. He warned of wolves, in sheep's clothing, who would claim that their aim was to protect us from pornographers and drug dealers. Well, not in the King James version, perhaps, but I am certain that it was worded that way in "Tim's Vernacular Translation of the Bible." TruthMonger N o t D r. R o b e r t s ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [View Less]

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WebWorld 15
by Bubba Rom Dos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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WebWorld 16
by Bubba Rom Dos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: remailer spam throttle
by Bubba Rom Dos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Adam Back wrote: > With hash marks (##) "hash" capability remailers can already be made > to do this, where it will work, but this could be made the default, to > set the From to remailer(a)dev.null or whatever. No answer is required, > or possible via the from address (for mix and typeI), so why bother > with a valid From field? Adam, All remailer owners have full permission to use my dev.null server as their From address. I have a highly efficient staff at my command and … [View More]

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BXA InfoSys Meeting
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Federal Register: March 25, 1997: Bureau of Export Administration Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Partially Closed Meeting A meeting of the Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee will be held April 15 & 16, Room 1617M-2, in the Herbert C. Hoover Building, 14th Street between Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues, N.W., Washington, D.C. This Committee advises the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration with respect to technical … [View More]

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Cato Institute paper on "Lessons from FCC Regulation"
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 07:30:50 -0800 (PST) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: fight-censorship-announce(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Cato Institute paper on "Lessons from FCC Regulation" [I read through most of this paper last night. It doesn't say anything new about the CDA per se, but it is worth reading for what it says about way the Fairness Doctrine was used to intimidate political opponents, and how government controls over the … [View More]content of speech are intolerable. --Declan] ************* Linkname: 270. Chilling the Internet? Lessons from FCC Filename: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-270es.html CHILLING THE INTERNET? Lessons from FCC Regulation of Radio Broadcasting by Thomas W. Hazlett and David W. Sosa Executive Summary Congress included the Communications Decency Act in the Telecommunications Act, which was signed into law on February 8, 1996. The CDA sought to outlaw the use of computers and phone lines to transmit "indecent" material and provided jail terms and heavy fines for violators. Proponents of the act argue that it is necessary to protect minors from undesirable speech on the burgeoning Internet. The CDA was immediately challenged in court by the American Civil Liberties Union, and the special three-judge federal panel established to hear the case recently declared the act unconstitutional. Yet its ultimate adjudication remains in doubt. Ominously, the federal government has long experimented with regulations designed to improve the content of "electronic" speech. For example, the Fairness Doctrine, imposed on radio and television stations until 1987, was an attempt to establish a standard of "fair" coverage of important public issues. The deregulation of content controls on AM and FM radio programming, first under the Carter Federal Communications Commission in early 1981 and then under the Reagan FCC (which abolished the Fairness Doctrine in 1987), led to profound changes in radio markets. Specifically, the volume of informational programming increased dramatically immediately after controls were ended--powerful evidence of the potential for regulation to have a "chilling effect" on free speech. ******* Thomas W. Hazlett is a professor of agricultural and resource economics and director of the Program on Telecommunications Policy, University of California, Davis. David W. Sosa is a doctoral student in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis. This article originally appeared in the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, an online journal, and is reprinted with permission. [View Less]

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New Hampshire INTERNET SIG Meeting, Tuesday, April 1, 1997
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text To: nh-isig(a)bcs1.ziplink.net, isig(a)signet.org, talk(a)web-net.org, discuss(a)tarnhelm.blu.org, dubie(a)tnpubs.enet.dec.com, scryberdave <ltcdave(a)scryber.com> Subject: New Hampshire INTERNET SIG Meeting, Tuesday, April 1, 1997 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 97 09:55:47 -0500 From: "Jerry Feldman" <gaf(a)zk3.dec.com> X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-isig(a)signet.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: isig(a)signet.org When: Tuesday April 1, … [View More]1997 7PM Where: Nashua, NH Public Library, 2 Court St, Nashua, NH. Topic: Robert Hettinga, founding moderator of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston. The NH INTERNET SIG (Special Interest Group) welcomes you to its monthly meeting, the first Tuesday of every month. The next meeting will be on April 1st and will focus on the technology and social consequences of digital commerce and financial cryptography. Mr. Hettinga is also general chair of Financial Cryptography 1997, the world's first conference on Financial Cryptography. However, financial cryptography, the technology which underlies digital commerce in its most secure form, will have much more profound implications than merely the simplification of sales and distribution. It permits us to make anonymous *cash* transactions for everything from a billion-dollar foriegn exchange trade to, probably, the switching of internet packets themselves. If this promise is kept, it could change the fundamentals of our entire society. Please check out Mr. Hettinga's web site:http://www.vmeng.com/rah/ This meeting promises to be fun and informative for both the technical and non-technical computer users. For more information contact Ken Adams at (603) 598-1823 eMail: director(a)nh-isig.org For more information contact Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)signet.org>, NH-ISIG meeting coordinator.. Mailing list: nh-isig(a)bcs1.ziplink.net WWW: http://www.nh-isig.org NOTE: Empire.net is currently moving the web site to a new server. Please bear with us while the work is in progress. I have posted a more complete description and speaker bio at:http://www.gis.net/~gaf/hettinga.html Directions to the Nashua Public Library (Plenty of free parking after 5PM): >From south of Nashua: Take Route 3 North to Nashua. Take exit 5E, Route 111 East (Kinsley St., There is a Howard Johnson's Motel at the exit). Follow 111 East (Kinsley St.) to the fourth set of lights and Main St. North. Turn left onto Main St. and at the third set of lights turn right onto Temple St. Take Temple St. to 2nd left onto Cottage Avenue (Behind Indian Head Plaza) into Library's metered parking lot. (Meters in force 9AM to 5PM only). >From North of Nashua: Take the Everett Turnpike (Rte. 3) to Exit 7-E, 101A (Amherst St.) Follow 101A to major intersection and turn right onto Main St. Follow Main St. and turn left at the second set of lights onto Temple St. Take Temple St. to 2nd left onto Cottage Avenue (Behind Indian Head Plaza) into Library's metered parking lot. (Meters in force 9AM to 5PM only). -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Jerry Feldman gaf(a)SigNet.org New Hampshire Internet SIG Meeting Coordinator +-------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to majordomo(a)bcs1.ziplink.net with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe isig --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "Never attribute to conspiracy what can be explained by stupidity." -- Jerry Pournelle The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/rah/ [View Less]

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Hash functions
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timmy May's father, an idiot, stumbled across Timmy May's mother, an imbecile, when she had no clothes on. Nine months later she had a little moron. /\ __/__\__ | 00 | Timmy May |: \ :| | \_/| \__/

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Re: Corrupted "From:" headers in my posts
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hal Finney wrote: > > Several people have noted that my posts have had duplicate "From:" lines. > In a recent message > where I quoted Greg Broiles, the headers > has From: lines both from me and Greg. > Apologies to those who have been bothered by this problem > with my posts. Hal, I began reading the post, thinking it was from Greg, and I had a heart attack because I thought he was finally making sense. I will be suing for medical expenses. -- Toto "The Xenix … [View More]

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Re: Tim C. May's Interpretation of the U.K. Proposal
by Phillip M. Hallam-Baker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Huge Cajones Remailer <nobody(a)huge.cajones.com> wrote in article <5h8e8u$b3h(a)life.ai.mit.edu>... > Timothy C. May wrote: > > > > The U.K. may sense that, absent such "local content" laws, the market for > > key signings, time-stamping, and other services will naturally concentrate > > in certain markets. Longer term, the concentration may be more > > globalized, or even in "cyberspace," but almost certainly not in Britain. > > Nations may … [View More]thus fear this flight of such services to other countries. I think that this is not quite accurate. To begin it is necessary to understand the different relationship of the Civil Service and the executive in the UK. Unlike in the US the CiVil service is apolitical, it prepares policy advice for ministers but couched in guarded terms. It explains the advantages and disadvantages of particular policies while avoiding conclusions. Thus it is a mistake to read too much into briefing papers. What really count are green and white papers. Green papers are the first draft of policy and frequently involve "kite flying" exercises. A proposal to implement GAK in a green paper may equally well be intended as a signal to opponents to put their case more coherently as a positive affirmation of the policy. The UK is currently having a general election which barring a resurgence by the Liberals the socialists will win. If you thought Bob Dole's campaign was dire watch the UK Conservatives for sheer and frequently adulterous incompetence. Ten Tory MPs have been accused of accepting bribes and the Govt manipulated the date of porogueing (ie suspending) parliament before it was disolved for the election to suppress publication of the report into the affair. Since two case have been proven beyond reasonable doubt this is a bad start to say the least. Traditionally the socialist are far more likely to support civil liberties than the Conservatives. The Liberals have the best record but the best they can hope for is to become the opposition in place of the Tories. During the years of Tory rule left wing political organisations such as CND have been monitored by MI5. Crypto will undoubtedly have support from the far left who have frequently been the target of politically motivated surveillance. > Tim, at his best, interprets the U.K. laws from both a global and > local perspective. > Certainly, any actions of the U.K., in particular, should be viewed > from the lingering shadow of the British Commonwealth. The U.K., having > ruled an Empire, is much more cognizant of the implications of how the > structure of proposed legislation will affect the expansion of global > aims, or the protection of indigeonous rule. The UK has also traditionally understood cryptography policy far better than the US. During both World Wars the US managed to persue a crypto policy of quite astonishing boneheadedness. > Although "local content," as Tim points out, is undeniably one > of the major factors behind the legislation, the U.K. is also > undoubtedly positioning themselves to resist letting the *power* > that comes from information *control* fall into the hands of > others. Its not legislation, nor even a proposal to legislate. Its one side in a discussion document. No need to panic! Instead we need to make sure we have a coherent lobbying strategy. To effectively lobby the UK government you don't need vast amounts of cash but having a permanent office to coordinate grass roots activity is usefull. Corporations with a heavy UK involvement such as IBM and DEC would be usefull sponsors, not so much for the cash as for links to constituency MPs. Also note that now is a good time to press the issue. The US administrations policy on Cuba has greatly discredited it abroad. The Helms-Burton act is a clear attack on other nations sovereignty, that its primary sponsor is notorious as a racist hatemonger makes matters worse. Similarly a US attack on the computer systems of the EU during the GATT negotiations has not been forgiven. Proposals to allow the US to break secret messages in other countries are correspondingly unpopular. Phill [View Less]

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