December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

145 Million
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17 Dec '03

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Software Money
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/editorial/0,1012,1722,00.html The Netly News (http://netlynews.com/) February 2, 1998 Software Money by Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) Successful political campaigns follow a simple formula: 1) Spend heaps of money; 2) Puzzle out how to squeeze your message into one sentence, or, better yet, a bumper sticker. Silicon Valley finally got the first part right. Software chieftains, historically eager to squander cash on doomed marketing campaigns but loath to spend the same opposing government regulations, are about to ante up millions to detangle the skein of rules that restrict sales of data-scrambling encryption software. Sure, it's pocket change to California's zillionaires, but it may be just enough to get their deregulatory point across in the nation's capital. [...] Together the duo will coordinate the lobbying and media efforts of a new industry coalition, as yet unnamed but likely to be dubbed something like the Alliance for Computer Privacy. The soon-to-be-announced project (contracts haven't been signed yet) grew out of the Alliance for a Secure Tomorrow, which firms hurriedly created last fall to battle FBI-backed legislation banning software such as PGP, which is capable of encoding messages so securely that police can't crack them. But the AST languished. Soon CEOs of more than a dozen high-tech companies started talking about a more aggressive approach. "The only time you're going to win this battle is when you put money on the table," says Lauren Hall of the Software Publishers Association. [...]

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Re: FW: SEC Rule Announcement
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com Fri Feb 6 14:41:14 1998 > > Peter is quite right that the interesting part is HOME computers. It's the > Electronic Messaging Association, BTW. My article with comments from them, > SEC, NASD, ACLU, etc. is at: > > http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1731,00.html > > The SEC may have approved a rule that violates federal law. > > -Declan It was quite unnecessary: all a company has to do is require all company business email contact go through the company's systems, even if home. Furthermore, brokers send email during the work day - like the list of AXEs they have for that day - and send it in the morning. Home email directly to clients is basically non-existent. ---- Stange, how monitoring home email to third parties would be illegal, but Deutsche Bank showing up at a random time to demand (and watch) you give a urine sample is completely legal. ---guy

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STOA Report Bibliography
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We've transcribed the 26-page bibliography of STOA's "An Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control:" http://jya.com/stoa-bib.htm (85K) Zipped version: http://jya.com/stoa-bib.zip (32K) The substantiating details of the cited literature -- study after study of the consequences of inhumane policy and savage commerce eager to oblige it -- are grimmer than the main report. A steady drumbeat for ever more ingenious technology to enforce submission.

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Krauts Weaken Constitutional Privacy
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

BONN, Germany (AP) -- Germany reduced constitutional guarantees of privacy Friday to fight organized crime, ceding historical concerns over past dictatorships to present-day realities. By a one-vote margin, parliament's upper house approved changes to the constitution necessary for eventual passage of a law allowing electronic surveillance in private households. Before approving the measure, however, the opposition Social Democrats won a promise that a parliamentary committee would re-examine the proposed law to include protection for some groups -- including journalists, doctors and some lawyers. The proposed law has raised warnings about reviving the police state tactics of the Nazi regime and former communist East Germany. Mostly, though, critics are worried about breaching confidentiality essential to some professions, such as doctors. Outside of government, journalists and doctors have been the most vocal critics of the draft law, which currently shields conversations between suspects and clergy, parliamentarians, and defense lawyers. Journalists view the proposed law as an attack on press freedom. ``It's not about privilege for journalists,'' the chairman of the German Journalist Association, Hermann Meyn, wrote in an open letter to parliament. ``It's about protection of news room secrets, essential press freedoms.'' The vote Friday weakened the constitutional guarantee of the sanctity of ones home by defining situations when police could bug homes: during investigation of serious crimes -- such as murder, kidnapping, extortion, arms and drug trafficking -- with the approval of three judges. The changes necessary for the law also would allow electronic eavesdropping on suspects after a crime has been committed -- not just to prevent crime -- and for the first time allows information from bugging devices to be entered as evidence. Organized crime has risen sharply in Europe since the collapse of communist regimes in Russia and Eastern Europe, which loosened previously closed borders. Drug trafficking, car theft and smuggling of cigarettes, illegal immigrants and even nuclear material has increased. The law must be passed by both houses of parliament. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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The schizophrenic White House and the Internet
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:01:05 -0800 (PST) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: The schizophrenic White House and the Internet Carl makes a good point. When it comes to the Internet, the Clinton-Gore administration is schizophrenic. Ira Magaziner and other White House officials say their attitude towards the Internet is "hands off" and "deregulatory" -- a line that certainly makes for good copy from journalists who don't know any better and don't take the time to learn more. But in truth White House policy is far from hands off. Here are a few areas where the Clinton-Gore administration is calling for greater regulation, subsidies, taxes, and government control of the Internet and related technology: -- Criminal copyright (share software, go to jail) -- Encryption regulations (export ctrls and proposed domestic rules) -- CALEA / Digital Telephony wiretapping funding -- Gore Commission talking about extending FCC rules to Net -- Universal service (taxes and spending for Net access) -- Rating systems (Clinton: "every Internet site" should self-label) -- Net-taxation (has Clinton enorsed Cox-Wyden?) -- Rapacious government databases (DoD recently demanded more access) -- Subsidies for government-approved technologies -- FTC considering banning spam (what about technical solutions?) -- FTC actions on "children's privacy" -- Clinton calling for V-Chip for Internet These are hardly the actions of a deregulatory administration. -Declan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 15:33:44 -0500 From: Carl Ellison <cme(a)cybercash.com> To: declan(a)well.com Subject: Re: FC: Magaziner says "No regulation!" at Cato-Brookings event -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Of course, this means gov't hands off crypto policy, too, right? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.3 iQCVAwUBNNtzpxN3Wx8QwqUtAQFYHwP/XpBnkplWMZpc0bIfbNhEnlhzmUsXyMXa rjfgnJGW8jX31fkbXZqcILcURPA31HfHu0K8y/FmmcoD5rcz9my3J785EL5903iS gwm2zvF2uKMdIqACF7BP2pb1bmJvJYWWqXQP7SNjkQpbzFz0XGF4LHAFhbPf24Tw e7694fdXoc4= =vK41 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme(a)cybercash.com http://www.clark.net/pub/cme | |CyberCash, Inc. http://www.cybercash.com/ | |207 Grindall Street PGP 08FF BA05 599B 49D2 23C6 6FFD 36BA D342 | |Baltimore MD 21230-4103 T:(410) 727-4288 F:(410)727-4293 | +------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Fingerprinting in CA [was Whoa: British SmartCard rollout]
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From bill.stewart(a)pobox.com Fri Feb 6 18:50:28 1998 > > >> How did you CA cypherpunks feel about being fingerprinted? > > Well, if I'd been thinking about it, I'd have put some rubber cement and > whiteout on my thumb before getting the license :-) > More the issue at the time was that the politicians were > busy deciding that your ability to drive safely obviously depended > on whether your citizenship papers were in order (the month > I got it they'd temporarily stopped doing that.) But it is being rolled out all over, state-by-state, never a vote. They don't have problems with illegal aliens in Georgia, USA. A mercifully brief CM excerpt: * Dr. Linda Thompson: * YOUR STATE IS NEXT AND DON'T THINK OTHERWISE. Sandia and other defense * contractors, without a war elsewhere, are OUT OF WORK, so they're * creating job security for themselves by helping fascists wage war in the * United States on us and our rights!! * * Georgia, Texas and Oregon ALREADY require fingerprints for licenses. > California is already fingerprinting drivers, and many places outside of > the US are creating identity cards with barcoded information. > > Also, AmSouth and Compass Banks will soon introduce fingerprinting of > people who cash checks and have no account with their bank. This is > now standard practice in Texas and will soon be nation-wide. Oregon? It's like Wired magazine reported: the NSA is behind it all. The DMV records are online 24 hours for FBI access. > I recently renewed the license, and they didn't ask for papers > or thumbprints... They already got your number. When will some group express organized opposition to this? ---guy Your fingerprint tattoo.

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Fwd: e-commerce and rights management list
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This showed up on a bunch of lists, not including cypherpunks or cryptography; Phil Agre added some interesting commentary and sent it to the Red Rock Eater list so I'm forwarding that version. >From: Phil Agre <pagre(a)weber.ucsd.edu> >To: rre(a)weber.ucsd.edu >Subject: e-commerce and rights management >X-URL: http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/rre.html >X-Mailing-List: <rre(a)weber.ucsd.edu> archive/latest/1815 > >[When Judie sent me the announcement for her new mailing list on practical >aspects of deploying rights management and e-commerce technologies, I >was incredulous that such a list doesn't already exist. She persuaded me >by means of the following catalog of related lists, which may be of some >interest. I assume that you can track down subscription info with the >standard search tools. encryption/certificates: ieft-pkix, ieft-open-pgp, >ieft-ldapext, cert-talk, spki, kerberos, dcsb, alice; digital signatures: >temple, california, georgia, texas; copyright: cni-copyright, ecup; legal: >cyberia, law-ipr, euro-lex; rights: cyber-rights, web-rights; e-commerce: >e-commerc, ica, e-payments; digital libraries: liblicensing, diglib, ifla.] > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >This message was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE). >Send any replies to the original author, listed in the From: field below. >You are welcome to send the message along to others but please do not use >the "redirect" command. For information on RRE, including instructions >for (un)subscribing, send an empty message to rre-help(a)weber.ucsd.edu >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > >Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:36:26 -0500 (EST) >From: Judie Mulholland <judiemul(a)kc-inc.net> >Subject: announcing E-CARM, a new mailing list (fwd) > >[...] > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Announcing the creation of a new mailing list: > > ***E-COMMERCE AND RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (E-CARM)*** > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >This mailing list has been established to foster and support an on-line >discussion forum where we can: > > * debate (non) technical, administrative and managerial issues > pertaining to: secure transactions, competing rights management > models (e.g. ECMS, PICS, certificates, FIRM, etc.), evolving > standards, supporting technologies and other approaches for > enabling electronic commerce; > * inform each other about upcoming conferences, workshops, etc. > * point to online papers, resources/links, new apps, web > sites, etc. > * identify the critical factors relevant to design, development > and implementation of a rights management infrastructure; > * raise questions, share problems, relate concerns; > * share success/horror stories; > * and much, much more ... > >If you are interested in subscribing to this list, please send a message >to: > ><listproc(a)lists.fsu.edu> > >with the following line in body of the message (NOT the subject): > >subscribe e-carm "FirstName LastName" (without the quotation marks) > >and after you are notified that you have been subbed, we would ask that >you send a short note to the list, briefly introducing yourself and your >interests in e-commerce and rights management so that we can begin to come >together as a community of shared interest(s). > >E-CARM is intended to be a member-driven, open, collaborative mailing >list. However, its success in creating a viable on-line forum will >depend on individual contributions. As a step in this direction, we >encourage you to share this announcement with other mailing lists or >anyone who may be interested in getting involved. > >Looking forward to seeing all of you on E-CARM, > >Judie Mulholland >Rajiv Kaushik > >List Moderators > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Lets check this out
by sphantom 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here is something for us to check out. Was just emailed to me today. I am curious how this person does it. Dear Friends, If someone named SandMan asks you to check out his page on the WEB DO NOT!!! It is at www.geocities.com/vienna/6318 This page hacks into your C:/ drive. DO NOT GO THERE HE WILL REQUEST A CHAT WITH YOU....don't do it. FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE...

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Most elegant wording against privacy/law-enforcement "balance"
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What are the most elegant rebuttals to politicians saying we need Key Recovery as a "reasonable balance between the needs of law enforcement vs. freedom of crypto"? I wasn't too elegant in the Crypto Manifesto. ---guy

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