July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: [IP] CALEA - Final Rule
by Brett Glass 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Dave: This is disturbing. The FCC Report and Order on CALEA (see http:// cryptome.org/fcc070506.htm) appears to drag all broadband providers -- including small, rural ISPs such as myself -- into a messy regulatory regime, merely because one of my customers might choose to use a VoIP service. Worse still, the requirements are vague and potentially extremely onerous. I do not offer VoIP myself, but of course it is possible for any of my customers to do VoIP via a third party service. Now, any VoIP service worth its salt would encrypt conversations such that it would be pointless to intercept calls by tapping my network. Any rational law enforcement agency would want to go to one of the ends, where the data was present in the clear, to listen in on the call. What's more, even the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, which recently ruled in an awkward, poorly reasoned split decision (see http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/ace_v_fcc.pdf for the text) that the FCC could define the words of a statute differently in different contexts to reach an outcome it desired, admits that non-VoIP traffic is clearly not subject to interception under CALEA. There is no rational reason to subject an ISP such as myself to the statute's expensive requirements. Yet, the FCC is trying to do so. What's more, to add insult to injury, it has stated that it does not intend to allow ISPs to be compensated for the expense of making their networks tappable. In short, the FCC seems eager to impose requirements upon us which would do nothing to enhance homeland security but could well drive us and other independent ISPs out of business. This would ensure a cable/telco duopoly and hamper the expansion of broadband service to rural areas like ours. In my opinion, the FCC R&O *must* be challenged via an appeal of the lower court's ruling to the Supreme Court. Otherwise, the end of broadband competition may have just come much closer. --Brett Glass, LARIAT.NET ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen(a)leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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[IP] more on CALEA - Final Rule
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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<nettime> Raphael Satter: Minister: Iceland refused to help FBI on
by Patrice Riemens 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

(bwo Eveline Lubbers) original to: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/02/01/4592727/minister-iceland-refused-fb… Minister: Iceland refused to help FBI on WikiLeaks Posted Friday, Feb. 01, 2013. By RAPHAEL SATTER (Associated Press) LONDON ? Iceland's interior minister said Friday that he ordered the country's police not to cooperate with FBI agents sent to investigate WikiLeaks two years ago, offering a rare glimpse into the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation of the secret-busting site. Ogmundur Jonasson told The Associated Press that he was upset when he found out that FBI agents had flown to the country to interview an unidentified WikiLeaks associate in August 2011. "I, for one, was not aware that they were coming to Iceland," he said in a brief telephone interview. "When I learned about it, I demanded that Icelandic police cease all cooperation and made it clear that people interviewed or interrogated in Iceland should be interrogated by Icelandic police." Jonasson said that Icelandic diplomats protested the FBI's trip to their U.S. counterparts. "We made clear to the American authorities that this was not well-seen by us," he said. The exact purpose of the FBI's trip to Iceland isn't clear - the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik referred questions to the FBI, and the bureau did not immediately return an email seeking comment - but the tiny north Atlantic nation has been a key hub for WikiLeaks and its supporters. In 2010 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange helped craft Iceland's journalist-friendly media law, and WikiLeaks payment processor, DataCell, is based in Reykjavik. Several key allies, including lawmaker Birgitta Jonsdottir and WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson, are also from the country. Hrafnsson said in a telephone interview that he believed the target of the FBI's trip might have been a former WikiLeaks volunteer, whom he declined to name. Regardless of what the target was, the minister's account of the FBI's trip opens a window into a sensitive inquiry which has so far remained largely under wraps. The U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating WikiLeaks since it began pouring classified U.S. documents into the public domain, but officials have refused to reveal almost any information about the size, scope, or nature of their inquiry, citing national security concerns. --- Online: Raphael Satter can be reached at: http://raphae.li/twitter Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/02/01/4592727/minister-iceland-refused-fb… # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Richard Rahn "Currency that Kills" The Washington Times
by Novmgtco＠aol.com 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

The Washington Times _www.washingtontimes.com_ (http://www.washingtontimes.com/) ____________________________________ Currency that Kills By Richard W. Rahn Published November 11, 2009 ____________________________________ Converting to electronic money could prevent disease Can you imagine how many people have physically handled your money? Do you know who has previously touched it? Did they have a flu virus or some other communicable disease that is transmitted by physical contact with an infected object? Physical paper currency is often dirty - not so much to the sight, but it is a good home for dangerous microbes. It is often kept warm by our body heat and even absorbs some body moisture - a perfect breeding ground for bad stuff. It has been well-known for decades that paper currency is a major source of disease transmission. During the life of the average dollar bill, it will be handled by hundreds, if not thousands, of people. It is hard to think of any physical object that is handled by more different people than paper currency. Millions become ill every year as a result of handling currency, and a not insignificant percentage of them die. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 36,000 Americans die each year from flu-related causes. How many people received the flu from paper currency? The precise percentage is unknown, but if it is just 10 percent, that still translates into a couple of million needlessly ill people and thousands of deaths. The good news is that it is no longer necessary to use paper currency in the digital age. Payments of all types can be made by electronic means - with electronic banking; credit, debit and smart cards; and cell phones - all of which help the user avoid physical contact with dirty paper money. (Note: Most paper currencies are made largely from cotton cloth, which makes them very absorbent.) The bad news is that government policies are slowing down and, in many cases, preventing the movement to the use of digital currencies. Most electronic payment systems require the user to have a bank account. For decades, the percentage of the population having a bank account grew, but that growth stopped a couple of decades ago as the government started its war on money laundering - which, ironically, resulted in the unintended consequence of requiring more people to handle dirty paper money. Physical money is expensive to produce. It is subject to counterfeiting, easily stolen and costly to handle. As noted, it is a major transmitter of disease. A rational and responsible government would be doing everything possible to eliminate physical currency. But no - legislators and policymakers have put destruction of the citizen's financial privacy and tax collection above reducing the costs and dangers of physical currency. People will only move away from paper currency when they can easily use an "electronic wallet" and have the ability to make non-identifiable and non-traceable transactions. As noted above, an electronic wallet can be a credi t, debit or smart card - a cell phone or a PC. The electronic money can be held in an electronic chip within the cell phone or other device or in a depository account that can be in a bank, telecom company or some other depository institution. Encryption software has become sufficiently robust to protect users of digital money and is far safer than holding or handling physical cash. In many parts of the world, monetary transfers by cell phone are becoming the norm - they are particularly useful for small payments. The Philippines has become a world leader in cell-phone payment systems and use. Cell-phone use is expanding at a very high rate through the developing world - already, in Africa, a third of the people have cell-phone subscriptions, most of which can be used for electronic payments. The fact is that the spread of digital technologies will soon make it possible for all paper currency to become obsolete, but unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen because of the global political class. The politicians and international bureaucrats are increasingly limiting the ability of people to use non-highly regulated bank institutions as the depositories and clearinghouses for electronic money. As the political class demands ever-more-stringent and costly "know your customer" and other anti-money-laundering regulations, fewer and fewer people can qualify for bank accounts. The young, who have no financial track record; the poor; and those in transient occupations are particularly discriminated against and thus are forced to use inefficient, costly and unhygienic paper currency. The political class is also increasingly requiring banks and other depository institutions to spy on their customers and reveal all transactions to government officials - which gives individuals about as much privacy as having all their expenditures posted on a public Web site. Almost everyone occasionally wants to keep some expenditures private; for example, not wanting a spouse or loved one to know how much one spent on a gift; making an anonymous or confidential contribution to a church, charity or other nonprofit group; or even using the Internet for legal gambling, porn, cigarette or alcohol expenditures, etc. Encryption technology has developed to the point where electronic expenditures can be kept private if governments would only allow it. The fact is, people will not give up the use of paper currency, for good or bad reasons, until they know they will have the same anonymity with electronic money as they do with paper currency. Meanwhile, each year, millions of people needlessly get sick and thousands die because the folks who run Washington and the other world capitals are too dimwitted to understand the unintended consequences of their financial regulations - or are just plain callous. Richard W. Rahn is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth. _http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/11/currency-that-kills/_ (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/11/currency-that-kills/) Copyright ) 2009 News World Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Richard Rahn "Currency that Kills" The Washington Times
by Novmgtco＠aol.com 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

The Washington Times _www.washingtontimes.com_ (http://www.washingtontimes.com/) ____________________________________ Currency that Kills By Richard W. Rahn Published November 11, 2009 ____________________________________ Converting to electronic money could prevent disease Can you imagine how many people have physically handled your money? Do you know who has previously touched it? Did they have a flu virus or some other communicable disease that is transmitted by physical contact with an infected object? Physical paper currency is often dirty - not so much to the sight, but it is a good home for dangerous microbes. It is often kept warm by our body heat and even absorbs some body moisture - a perfect breeding ground for bad stuff. It has been well-known for decades that paper currency is a major source of disease transmission. During the life of the average dollar bill, it will be handled by hundreds, if not thousands, of people. It is hard to think of any physical object that is handled by more different people than paper currency. Millions become ill every year as a result of handling currency, and a not insignificant percentage of them die. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 36,000 Americans die each year from flu-related causes. How many people received the flu from paper currency? The precise percentage is unknown, but if it is just 10 percent, that still translates into a couple of million needlessly ill people and thousands of deaths. The good news is that it is no longer necessary to use paper currency in the digital age. Payments of all types can be made by electronic means - with electronic banking; credit, debit and smart cards; and cell phones - all of which help the user avoid physical contact with dirty paper money. (Note: Most paper currencies are made largely from cotton cloth, which makes them very absorbent.) The bad news is that government policies are slowing down and, in many cases, preventing the movement to the use of digital currencies. Most electronic payment systems require the user to have a bank account. For decades, the percentage of the population having a bank account grew, but that growth stopped a couple of decades ago as the government started its war on money laundering - which, ironically, resulted in the unintended consequence of requiring more people to handle dirty paper money. Physical money is expensive to produce. It is subject to counterfeiting, easily stolen and costly to handle. As noted, it is a major transmitter of disease. A rational and responsible government would be doing everything possible to eliminate physical currency. But no - legislators and policymakers have put destruction of the citizen's financial privacy and tax collection above reducing the costs and dangers of physical currency. People will only move away from paper currency when they can easily use an "electronic wallet" and have the ability to make non-identifiable and non-traceable transactions. As noted above, an electronic wallet can be a credi t, debit or smart card - a cell phone or a PC. The electronic money can be held in an electronic chip within the cell phone or other device or in a depository account that can be in a bank, telecom company or some other depository institution. Encryption software has become sufficiently robust to protect users of digital money and is far safer than holding or handling physical cash. In many parts of the world, monetary transfers by cell phone are becoming the norm - they are particularly useful for small payments. The Philippines has become a world leader in cell-phone payment systems and use. Cell-phone use is expanding at a very high rate through the developing world - already, in Africa, a third of the people have cell-phone subscriptions, most of which can be used for electronic payments. The fact is that the spread of digital technologies will soon make it possible for all paper currency to become obsolete, but unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen because of the global political class. The politicians and international bureaucrats are increasingly limiting the ability of people to use non-highly regulated bank institutions as the depositories and clearinghouses for electronic money. As the political class demands ever-more-stringent and costly "know your customer" and other anti-money-laundering regulations, fewer and fewer people can qualify for bank accounts. The young, who have no financial track record; the poor; and those in transient occupations are particularly discriminated against and thus are forced to use inefficient, costly and unhygienic paper currency. The political class is also increasingly requiring banks and other depository institutions to spy on their customers and reveal all transactions to government officials - which gives individuals about as much privacy as having all their expenditures posted on a public Web site. Almost everyone occasionally wants to keep some expenditures private; for example, not wanting a spouse or loved one to know how much one spent on a gift; making an anonymous or confidential contribution to a church, charity or other nonprofit group; or even using the Internet for legal gambling, porn, cigarette or alcohol expenditures, etc. Encryption technology has developed to the point where electronic expenditures can be kept private if governments would only allow it. The fact is, people will not give up the use of paper currency, for good or bad reasons, until they know they will have the same anonymity with electronic money as they do with paper currency. Meanwhile, each year, millions of people needlessly get sick and thousands die because the folks who run Washington and the other world capitals are too dimwitted to understand the unintended consequences of their financial regulations - or are just plain callous. Richard W. Rahn is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth. _http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/11/currency-that-kills/_ (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/11/currency-that-kills/) Copyright ) 2009 News World Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.

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[drone-list] The Disposition Matrix
by Gregory Foster 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

WaPo (Oc 23) - "Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists" by Greg Miller: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/plan-for-hunting-terr… First of three articles. /b The problem with the drone is itbs like your lawn mower,b said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA analyst and Obama counterterrorism adviser. b Youbve got to mow the lawn all the time. The minute you stop mowing, the grass is going to grow back.b// / gf -- Gregory Foster || gfoster(a)entersection.org @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/ _______________________________________________ drone-list mailing list drone-list(a)lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/drone-list If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Re: <nettime> Umberto Eco: Not such wicked leaks
by Jan Wildeboer 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 12/07/2010 03:38 PM, almost(a)riseup.net wrote: > What nonsense. How does WL confirm that? It could only do so if it > released every file..... Or at least a LOAD of files... None were > released (or presumably leaked) of the highest classifications. #cablegate consists of content distributed via SIPRnet[1] - this network carries information up to the SECRET level. The TOP SECRET content is not distributed via SIPRnet, hence it cannot show up in the 250k cables WL is publishing. Jan [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPRNet # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Re: <nettime> Umberto Eco: Not such wicked leaks
by Jan Wildeboer 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 12/07/2010 03:38 PM, almost(a)riseup.net wrote: > What nonsense. How does WL confirm that? It could only do so if it > released every file..... Or at least a LOAD of files... None were > released (or presumably leaked) of the highest classifications. #cablegate consists of content distributed via SIPRnet[1] - this network carries information up to the SECRET level. The TOP SECRET content is not distributed via SIPRnet, hence it cannot show up in the 250k cables WL is publishing. Jan [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPRNet # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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[drone-list] Friday (11/9): Lives Under Drones: Civilian Consequences of Drone Warfare
by Yosem Companys 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

*Lives Under Drones: Civilian Consequences of Drone Warfare* ** ** A panel discussion on the civilian consequences of **** the United States' drone program in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen **** within the broader context of how the US conducts its political and military operations in those countries**** * * *Prof. Shahzad Bashir***** (Stanford Religious Studies Professor and co-editor of *Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands*)**** * * *Medea Benjamin***** (Co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange and author of *Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control)***** * * *Prof. Robert Crews***** (Stanford History Professor and co-editor of *Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands*)**** * * *Omar Shakir***** (3rd year Stanford Law student and co-author of the Stanford Law School report "Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians from Drone Practices in Pakistan")**** * * *Friday, November 9, 2012, 4:15 PM* Lane History Corner (Building 200), Room 205**** 450 Serra Mall, Stanford**** ** ** For more information,* *please visit antiwar.stanford.edu.**** ** ** [Sponsored by Stanford Says No to War, Muslim Students Awareness Network, Stanford NAACP, Stanford STAND, CDDRL Program on Human Rights, the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford Asian American Activism Committee, Pakistanis at Stanford, and the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center]**** ** ** [image: Inline image 1]**** ** _______________________________________________ drone-list mailing list drone-list(a)lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/drone-list If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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House Judiciary Committee draft CFAA amendments are terrible
by James Salsman 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130324/14342822435/rather-than-fix-cfaa… Makes "unauthorized access" a racketeering (involving automatic forfeiture on indictment, etc.) Expands conspiracy to result in the full punishment of the contemplated offense, not just the lesser conspiracy punishment Increases the severity of various punishments Redefines "exceeding authorized access" to include use of authorized access for purposes other than intended Incorporates CISPA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "science-liberation-front" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to science-liberation-front+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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