May 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Brinworld: Streisand sues amateur coastal photographer at californiacoastline.org
by Major Variola (ret) 30 May '03

30 May '03

Barbra Streisand has filed a lawsuit against an amateur photographer, claiming he is violating her privacy by displaying a picture of her bluff-top Malibu estate on a Web site designed to document erosion and excessive development along California's 1,150-mile coastline. The lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Santa Monica, besides seeking $10 million in damages, asks retired software engineer Kenneth Adelman to remove the image of Streisand's mansion from the 12,000 photos he has posted on http://www.californiacoastline.org. Adelman and his wife, Gabrielle, have been snapping pictures for months from their helicopter to show the splendors of the coastline and what they consider environmental threats. "The quality of the photographs is staggering," the lawsuit says, so anyone with an Internet connection can view the layout of Streisand's pool, the positioning of her parasols and deck chairs, as well as the location of her windows, French doors and balconies of her main and guest houses none of which are visible from the ground outside the estate. The singer and actress has taken steps to shield her private life from public view and protect her privacy, says the lawsuit, which argues that the photograph intrudes on her privacy and violates a state law that targets the prying telephoto lenses of paparazzi. But Adelman's lawyer dismissed the lawsuit as one without legal merit and as an effort to intimidate his client. "Mr. Adelman is not a paparazzo. He's not doing this for profit, or stalking anyone," said his lawyer Richard Kendall. "He is engaged in a public-interest effort to document the entire coast to preserve it from degradation. He's not about to carve out exceptions for celebrities who don't want to be identified as owning coastal land." Kendall said the photograph of Streisand's house, which includes two neighboring houses, does not capture an image of Streisand or any other person. "There isn't a constitutional right to privacy of the placement of your parasols and deck chairs on your outside patio," Kendall said. "The anti-paparazzi statute is designed to prevent trespass and the stalking of celebrities. He is shooting from a helicopter far offshore, and the statute does not immunize beachfront mansions from aerial photographs." Streisand's lawyer, John Gatti, said the lawsuit was filed under seal, which specifically requires that the complaint not be publicly released until a judge determines whether it should be released or kept private. "An important civil right of privacy is involved," Gatti said. "The lawsuit seeks to establish the extent to which individuals are protected against technologically enhanced encroachment into their private property." Alonzo Wickers, a 1st Amendment lawyer who represents television networks and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, said it will be difficult for Streisand to prove an intrusion into her privacy or a violation of the anti-paparazzi law because she does not appear in the photograph. "If it were a picture of her sunbathing topless, they might have a case," Wickers said. The legal standard, he said, is capturing an image that would be highly offensive to a reasonable person. "It's very hard to argue that the appearance of her backyard would be highly offensive to a reasonable person," he said. "The standard is not what's offensive to a reclusive celebrity who is highly concerned about her privacy and security." Kenneth and Gabrielle Adelman, Caltech graduates who retired in their 30s after selling two start-up software companies for $445 million, have been using digital photography to snap pictures of every inch of the coastline. She flies their helicopter while he leans out the side snapping pictures in an effort to record images of every cliff, beach, rocky outcropping and sign of development along the coast. Adelman said he takes his pictures from an elevation of 500 feet in public airspace over the ocean, shooting back toward the shore using a standard lens, not the enormous telephoto lenses preferred by paparazzi. The lawsuit contends that the high resolution of the photographs allows Web site browsers to click their way to a considerably larger and more detailed view of Streisand's home. Browsers can also pick out Streisand's home because the photo includes a caption that identifies it as "Streisand Estate, Malibu." In two letters to Adelman, Streisand's lawyers demanded that he remove the photograph or face legal consequences, including punitive damages and attorneys' fees. Adelman refused, citing protection under the 1st Amendment to publish such photographs. He said he didn't target Streisand's home and didn't add the caption below the photograph. He said he made the Web site interactive so that anyone from the public can add captions to any photo to help identify various features along the coastline. Someone did, he said. He also noted that his Web site does not list Streisand's address, unlike other Web sites that provide virtual tours and maps of homes of the stars, including hers. Adelman said his project is an effort to establish a photographic record of the entire coast and that he doesn't want to begin exempting certain areas. The only place he has yet to photograph is Vandenberg Air Force Base, which has so far denied him permission to fly by on the grounds that his photos might pose a security risk. Adelman said about 620,000 viewers have inspected the Web site so far, including university researchers and local, state and federal agencies, among them the California Coastal Commission and the U.S. Geological Survey. A status conference on the case is set for Aug. 28 before Superior Court Judge Allan J. Goodman. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-barbra30may30,1,4414970.story?coll=…

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Extent of UK snooping revealed
by barabbus＠hushmail.com 30 May '03

30 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [If you're not making a serious attempt at limiting access to information about your on-line activities you're pissing into the wind.] Officials in the UK are routinely demanding huge quantities of information about what people do online and who they call, say privacy experts. Police and other officials are making around a million requests for access to data held by net and telephone companies each year, according to figures compiled from the government, legal experts and the internet industry. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3030851.stm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 2.3 wkYEARECAAYFAj7Jpz4ACgkQ3VqOYJkyXhUAbQCdFAfEZafzLWYlUzELMNMj5diQ0/oA nRLEnJdCxC6V2lYFC/Iplaj50Bn1 =j77T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Concerned about your privacy? Follow this link to get FREE encrypted email: https://www.hushmail.com/?l=2 Free, ultra-private instant messaging with Hush Messenger https://www.hushmail.com/services.php?subloc=messenger&l=434 Big $$$ to be made with the HushMail Affiliate Program: https://www.hushmail.com/about.php?subloc=affiliate&l=427

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Re: 8-bit modular exponentiation code?
by Major Variola (ret) 30 May '03

30 May '03

At 10:34 AM 5/30/03 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote: > >I think your best bet for an 8 bit CPU will be an assembly language >routine. Likely so. For those interested, I found this article, which does in fact use enhanced (it has a multiplier) Z80 assembly, included in the article: http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1030/ddj9309e/9309e.htm The Z80180 and Big-number Arithmetic Squeezing 512-bit operations out of 8-bit microcontrollers Burton S. Kaliski, Jr. For instance, in one recent project, our challenge was to implement 512-bit RSA private-key operations in less than 10 seconds on Zilog's 8-bit Z80180 microcontroller running at 10 million cycles/second. .............. The folks at cyphercalc.com have a cyphermath8 library, albeit commercial. See http://cyphercalc.com/math/features.htm They give this performance data for the Rabbit CPU (see http://cyphercalc.com/math/performance.htm) 780 milliseconds for a modular exponentiation with a 128-bit base, 40-bit exponent, and 128-bit odd modulus. Exponent ones density: 50%. Target: Rabbit Semiconductor RCM2020, running at 18.4Mhz. Compiled under Dynamic C, version 6.03, with assembly optimizations in effect. [no affiliation] .............. Smartcard vendors tend to include a modexp co-processor.

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Re: 8-bit modular exponentiation code?
by Major Variola (ret) 30 May '03

30 May '03

At 07:30 AM 5/24/03 +0100, Adam Back wrote: >Colin Plumb's crypto library bnlib supports multiple word size I >believe. >On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:36:58AM -0700, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: >> Anyone know of any open-source modexp code for 8-bit cpus? Thank you for your response, however (for the record) that code requires at least a 16bit CPU. From bnlib.doc (an amusing read, BTW): It is written in C, and should compile on any platform with an ANSI C compiler and 16 and 32-bit unsigned data types "Small" is defined as less than 65536, the minimum 16-bit word size supported by the library.

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Anti-Terror Law Used Against Hackers, Thieves
by barabbus＠hushmail.com 30 May '03

30 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The enhanced search and surveillance powers Congress gave the Justice Department in the USA-PATRIOT Act haven't just been used in the war on terror: it turns out they're helpful in everything from spying on credit cards fraudsters to tracking down computer hackers. http://www.securityfocus.com/news/5010 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 2.3 wkYEARECAAYFAj7XdsAACgkQ3VqOYJkyXhWcjgCfR4ps2KO3WvXDyqI1LxQGi0FDJz8A njQpFojke1mFjxbOeqQYek7Ru/80 =LcYr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Concerned about your privacy? Follow this link to get FREE encrypted email: https://www.hushmail.com/?l=2 Free, ultra-private instant messaging with Hush Messenger https://www.hushmail.com/services.php?subloc=messenger&l=434 Big $$$ to be made with the HushMail Affiliate Program: https://www.hushmail.com/about.php?subloc=affiliate&l=427

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Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Asia - NZ makes contact with detained national in China (fwd)
by Jim Choate 30 May '03

30 May '03

http://www.goasiapacific.com/news/GoAsiaPacificBNA_868036.htm -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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4 essay writers sentenced for subversion in Beijing / Friends met to talk about politics on university grounds (fwd)
by Jim Choate 30 May '03

30 May '03

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2003/05/30/MN49458… -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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The Register - California Supremes hear DeCSS Case (fwd)
by Jim Choate 30 May '03

30 May '03

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30944.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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U.S. Cautiously Begins to Seize Millions in Foreign Banks (fwd)
by Jim Choate 30 May '03

30 May '03

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/national/30PATR.html?ex=1054872000&en=4a5… -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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The Register - Court confirms DMCA 'Good Faith' web site shut down rights (fwd)
by Jim Choate 30 May '03

30 May '03

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30943.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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