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[tahoe-dev] ANNOUNCING Tahoe-LAFS v1.4
by zooko 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem, v1.4 The allmydata.org team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.4.1 of "Tahoe", the Lightweight-Authorization Filesystem. This is the first release of Tahoe-LAFS which was created solely as a labor of love by volunteers -- it is no longer funded by allmydata.com (see [1] for details). Tahoe-LAFS is a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant cloud storage system. All of the source code is publicly available under Free Software, Open Source licences. This filesystem is distributed over multiple servers in such a way the filesystem continues to operate correctly even when some of the servers are unavailable, malfunctioning, or malicious. Here is the one-page explanation of Tahoe's unique security and fault-tolerance properties: http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html This is the successor to Tahoe-LAFS v1.3, which was released February 13, 2009 [2]. This is a major new release, adding garbage collection, improved diagnostics and error-reporting, and fixing a critical performance problem when downloading large (many GB) files. See the NEWS file [3] and the known_issues.txt file [4] for more information. Besides the Tahoe core, a crop of related projects have sprung up, including frontends for Windows and Macintosh, two front-ends written in JavaScript, a Ruby interface, a plugin for duplicity, a plugin for TiddlyWiki, a new backup tool named "GridBackup", CIFS/SMB integration, an iPhone app, and three incomplete frontends for FUSE. See the Related Projects page on the wiki: [5]. COMPATIBILITY Tahoe v1.4 is fully compatible with the version 1 series of Tahoe. Files written by v1.4 clients can be read by clients of all versions back to v1.0. v1.4 clients can read files produced by clients of all versions since v1.0. v1.4 servers can serve clients of all versions back to v1.0 and v1.4 clients can use servers of all versions back to v1.0. This is the fifth release in the version 1 series. The version 1 series of Tahoe will be actively supported and maintained for the forseeable future, and future versions of Tahoe will retain the ability to read files and directories produced by Tahoe v1 for the forseeable future. The version 1 branch of Tahoe is the basis of the consumer backup product from Allmydata, Inc. -- http://allmydata.com . WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? With Tahoe, you can distribute your filesystem across a set of servers, such that if some of them fail or even turn out to be malicious, the entire filesystem continues to be available. You can share your files with other users, using a simple and flexible access control scheme. Because this software is new, we do not categorically recommend it as the sole repository of data which is extremely confidential or precious. However, we believe that erasure coding, strong encryption, Free/Open Source Software and careful engineering make Tahoe safer than common alternatives, such as RAID, removable drive, tape, "on-line storage" or "Cloud storage" systems. This software comes with extensive tests, and there are no known security flaws which would compromise confidentiality or data integrity. (For all currently known issues please see the known_issues.txt file [3].) This release of Tahoe is suitable for the "friendnet" use case [6] -- it is easy to create a filesystem spread over the computers of you and your friends so that you can share disk space and files. LICENCE You may use this package under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or, at your option, any later version. See the file "COPYING.GPL" [7] for the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. You may use this package under the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1 or, at your option, any later version. (The Transitive Grace Period Public Licence has requirements similar to the GPL except that it allows you to wait for up to twelve months after you redistribute a derived work before releasing the source code of your derived work.) See the file "COPYING.TGPPL.html" [8] for the terms of the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1. (You may choose to use this package under the terms of either licence, at your option.) INSTALLATION Tahoe works on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Cygwin, and Solaris, and probably most other systems. Start with "docs/install.html" [9]. HACKING AND COMMUNITY Please join us on the mailing list [10]. Patches are gratefully accepted -- the RoadMap page [11] shows the next improvements that we plan to make and CREDITS [12] lists the names of people who've contributed to the project. The wiki Dev page [13] contains resources for hackers. SPONSORSHIP Tahoe was originally developed thanks to the sponsorship of Allmydata, Inc. [14], a provider of commercial backup services. Allmydata, Inc. created the Tahoe project, and contributed hardware, software, ideas, bug reports, suggestions, demands, and money (employing several Tahoe hackers and instructing them to spend part of their work time on this Free Software project). Also they awarded customized t-shirts to hackers who find security flaws in Tahoe (see http://hacktahoe.org ). After discontinuing funding of Tahoe R&D in early 2009, Allmydata, Inc. has continued to provide servers, co-lo space and bandwidth to the open source project. Thank you to Allmydata, Inc. for their generous and public-spirited support. Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn on behalf of the allmydata.org team Special acknowledgment goes to Brian Warner, whose superb engineering skills and dedication are primarily responsible for the Tahoe implementation, and significantly responsible for the Tahoe design as well, not to mention most of the docs and tests and many other things besides. April 13, 2009 Boulder, Colorado, USA [1] http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-March/001461.html [2] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=3620 [3] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/NEWS?rev=3835 [4] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/docs/known_issues.txt [5] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/RelatedProjects [6] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/UseCases [7] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/COPYING.GPL [8] http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/COPYING.TGPPL.html [9] http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html [10] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev [11] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/roadmap [12] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/CREDITS?rev=3758 [13] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Dev [14] http://allmydata.com --- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem -- http://allmydata.org store your data: $10/month -- http://allmydata.com/?tracking=zsig I am available for work -- http://zooko.com/risumi.html _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev(a)allmydata.org http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev ----- 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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EDRi-gram newsletter - Number 7.19, 7 October 2009
by EDRI-gram newsletter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

============================================================ EDRi-gram biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe Number 7.19, 7 October 2009 ============================================================ Contents ============================================================ 1. Controversial draft Framework Decision on Child Sexual Exploitation 2. Reding: EU policy for information society for the next years 3. Turkey blocks thousands of foreign websites 4. Deja-vu: France's three-strikes law referred to Constitutional Council 5. The Pirate Bay may be banned in Italy 6. France wants to filter online gambling sites 7. Paris Court of Appeals on a GPL - related case 8. US gives up its unilateral supervision powers over ICANN 9. ENDitorial: Amendment 138-EP asked to choose between democracy and defeat 10. Recommended Reading 11. Agenda 12. About ============================================================ 1. Controversial draft Framework Decision on Child Sexual Exploitation ============================================================ The Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament held its first exchange of views on the controversial Proposal for a Framework Decision on combatting the sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography. The draft legislation includes an obligation to require ISPs to "block" access to child pornography sites and attempts to harmonise the approach of the 27 EU Member States to this issue. This new legislation repeals and replaces an existing instrument from 2004, which failed to have a significant impact on harmonisation in some of the key areas covered by the legislation, such as the definition of "child pornography" and which was also not fully implemented by all Member States. In the meeting, the European Commission defended its proposal for mandatory blocking on the simple basis that it will "prevent crime" because customers will no longer be able to access commercial child pornography sites directly. Fundamental issues such as whether this approach, with its various technical limitations and practical inadequacies, would be proportionate to the "solution" being offered were not addressed or acknowledged. The fact that circumvention is possible was, however, mentioned. A Commission official also made several obscure references to plans to take "extraterritorial" action to have websites taken offline at source. These statements appear to echo plans in the Commission Communication of June 2009 on "an area of freedom security and justice serving the citizen" COM(2009)262 to create "mechanisms to revoke the IP addresses of criminal ISPs and to facilitate rapid shutdown of websites outside Europe". The MEP in charge, Roberta Angelilli (EPP, Italy) was also responsible for a report on the previous Framework Decision adopted by the Parliament earlier this year. At that time, the Parliament rejected her attempt to propose blocking as a solution for child pornography websites. In the previous session of the Parliament, she was an ordinary member of one of the smallest political groups in the Parliament, but she is now a Parliament Vice-President and a member of the biggest political group. She was not present for this first discussion and her substitute Salvatore Iacolino (EPP, Italy) did not mention blocking. EDRi distributed its position paper to the political groups before the meeting. During the debate, issues raised in the EDRi position paper were highlighted by some MEPs. In particular, Jan-Philipp Albrecht (Germany, Greens) and Birgit Sippel (S&D, Germany) raised serious concerns regarding the need to engage in effective international cooperation to remove websites at source rather than leaving them online to be accessed via technical circumvention measures or accessed directly in countries where they are not blocked. On the other side of the argument, certain MEPs did not reflect on the rights and wrongs of blocking, preferring instead to call for "everything" to be done to protect children, on the unexplained assumption that blocking would achieve this goal. One key issue of controversy in the Impact Assessment is the question of whether or not a legal basis for blocking is necessary in order for it to comply with Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. This is significant because some countries that have already implemented blocking have done so without a legal basis and rumours emerging from the Council suggest that "self-regulation" is being discussed as an alternative to mandatory blocking. The Commission document explains that Member States should only consider legislation in the absence of "effective" self-regulation (i.e. no legislation is needed). It then goes on to explain that over-blocking is a concern and, in the absence of a blocking being "prescribed by law", "this measure risks to amount to a non-legitimate interference with fundamental rights" (i.e. legislation may be needed). Finally, the Impact Assessment argues that "as interpreted by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, to respect fundamental rights such interference needs to be in accordance with the law and constitute a necessary measure in a democratic society for important interests, such as the prevention of crime.Such measures must indeed be subject to law, or they are illegal". EDRi position paper: Framework Decision on Child Sexual Exploitation (Angelilli Report) (28.09.2009) http://www.edri.org/files/edri_blocking_paper090928.pdf Impact assessment: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=SEC:2009:0355:FIN:EN:… Proposal: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52009PC0136:EN:… (links to all EU languages) Commission Communication on freedom, security and justice: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2009:0262:FIN:EN:… (Contribution by Joe McNamee - EDRi ) ============================================================ 2. Reding: EU policy for information society for the next years ============================================================ The EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding, participated last week at a breakfast event organised by the European Digital Media Association (EdiMA) and had a speech that highlighted the main EU key policy areas for information society for the next commission. Ms. Reading insisted that the President Barroso has announced his policy commitment to define, under the next Commission, an ambitious European Digital Agenda that is scheduled for adoption in March 2010, aimed at tackling the main obstacles to a genuine digital single market with targeted legislative measures. She also pointed out the main five points where pro-active measures are needed from the Commission: 1.The issue of mass scale digitisation of books and orphan works. Ms. Reading expressed her frustrations in relation with the development of Europeana, Europe's digital library and pushed for "a modern set of European rules that encourage the digitisation of books, including one or several European Right Registries" "If we don't act quickly, soon U.S. citizens will not only benefit from the largest digital content offer, they will also be able to access through a simple click almost 10 million books, including orphan works which are largely part of our European cultural heritage. As European citizens, students, teachers and researchers will not being able to do the same, there is an actual risk of establishing a new digital divide across the Atlantic" stressed the Commissioner. 2. A harmonised single European market with clearer rules enabling users to be free to buy and enjoy anywhere, anytime and on any platform the content they paid for. On this topic the Commissioner suggested a reflection paper over a set of possible policy and legislative options aimed at facilitating multi-territorial or EU-wide licensing for digital content. She rejected the "Copyright task force" aimed at policy coordination - as suggested by EDIMA - and argued for a common objective of the key directorates in the Commission "a modern, pro-competitive and consumer-friendly single-market framework for digitising, accessing and licensing digital content online across the 27 EU Member States." 3. The European-wide adoption of the global web accessibility standard, the new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. 4. Industry and consumers should work together for a European system of trustmarks. 5. Network neutrality. Ms Reding praised the European Parliament for "strengthening" the provisions concerning net neutrality in the Telecom package and suggested a broad debate in 2010 about this topic. The Commissioner also confirmed that she was a strong advocate for Internet neutrality: "I have myself indicated that I would be prepared to act on this basis in case of continued blocking of Voice over IP services by certain mobile operators. The new Telecom package is in many instances a quite robust answer to such new threats to net neutrality. However, I also know that technology and regulation will evolve further in the years to come. And I plan to be Europe's first line of defence whenever it comes to real threats to net neutrality." This seems contradictory with the current text of the Telecom package, heavily criticized by civil society especially for not providing enough safeguards for network neutrality. Moreover, the discussions between the EP Conciliation Committee and the European Council seem to go in the opposite direction: not to open up again the negotiations on the network neutrality subjects. Viviane Reding Member of the European Commission responsible for Information Society and Media The Digital Single Market: a key to unlock the potential of the knowledge based economy EDiMA's White Paper on Policy Strategy for the Development of New Media Services 2009-2014 - Launch Breakfast Event Brussels (1.10.2009) http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/09/429&forma… Opening the Package "too risky" for EU (28.09.2009) http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=415&Item… Concerns About Article 20, 21 and Recital 26 of the Telecoms Package (27.09.2009) http://www.laquadrature.net/en/concerns-about-article-20-21-and-recital-26-… ============================================================ 3. Turkey blocks thousands of foreign websites ============================================================ Following the entering into force in November 2007 of the Turkish Law No. 5651 entitled Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Suppression of Crimes Committed by means of Such Publication, a large number of websites have been blocked in Turkey. According to Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Founder and Director of Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK), there are at present more than 6000 websites blocked in Turkey including known sites such as YouTube, WordPress, GoogleGroups and Sites, DailyMotion and others. Some of the sites are blocked by court orders while most of them are blocked by administrative blocking orders issued by the Telecommunications Communication Presidency (TIB). Some websites are blocked because they are considered obscene, others for involving child abuse and sexual exploitation, gambling, betting, prostitution and others for being considered as related to crimes committed against Atat|rk. Part of the websites has been blocked by courts although the reasons for blocking them were outside the scope of Law No. 5651. The website blocking can also occur in relation to intellectual property and websites such as The Pirate Bay or MegaUpload are constantly blocked in Turkey. Myspace has been recently blocked and, for a temporary period of time even Farmville, the game offered by Zynga.com through Facebook was also blocked based on an administrative decision because Zynga promotes gambling through some of its social games. Two other sites related to the largest gay community in Turkey were blocked the same day and it seems the sites intend to challenge the order. Since May 2009, TIB has decided not to publish any statistics or details related to the websites blocked on the basis of Law No. 5651 which as Dr. Akdeniz says is "a step backwards and in the absence of information, openness, and transparency". >From Farmville to Gayville, Internet censorship continues in Turkey (4.10.2009) http://cyberlaw.org.uk/2009/10/04/from-farmville-to-gayville-internet-censo… At least 6000 websites censored from Turkey (22.09.2009) http://cyberlaw.org.uk/2009/09/22/at-least-6000-websites-censored-from-turk… Unblock The Banned Websites In Turkey Petition (28.09.2009) http://www.besthostingservices.net/215/unblock-the-banned-websites-in-turke… EDRi-gram: Turkey: Another blocking order against YouTube (3.12.2008) http://www.edri.org/edri-gram/number6.23/youtube-turkey-blocked-november2008 ============================================================ 4. Deja-vu: France's three-strikes law referred to Constitutional Council ============================================================ As expected, on 28 September 2009 the socialist group of the French National Assembly submitted their referral to the Constitutional Council against the second version of the three strikes law (so-called Hadopi 2) passed in September through both chambers of the French Parliament. The text of the referral, obtained exclusively by Liberation, challenges the law article by article. The main argument supported by the socialist group against the law is the non-observance by the Assembly of the "procedural guarantees regarding the sanctions involved", meaning the right to a fair trial, right to defense, presumption of innocence etc. Other arguments are some of those which caused the rejection of the first version of the law, Hadopi 1, by the Constitutional Council in June 2009, such as the sanctioning of a user for negligence. Another anti-constitutional provision is related to the simplified procedure chosen by the government in the application of sanctions. According to the French Criminal Code, "the public ministry can appeal to the simplified procedure only when it results from the police enquiry that the deeds the defendant is investigated for are established". A simple IP address sent by HADOPI authority to the judge is not enough to prove the facts the user is accused of. The procedure looks more like an administrative procedure, putting the judge in the position of just approving an already taken decision. The Constitutional Council has a month to take its decision on the matter. Hadopi 2: the appeal to the Constitutional Council submitted on Friday (only in French, 24.09.2009) http://www.numerama.com/magazine/14056-hadopi-2-le-recours-au-conseil-const… Hadopi-2 goes to Constitutional Council http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=417&Item… Hadopi 2: Exclusively, the referral submitted to the Constitutional Council (only in French, 28.09.2009) http://www.ecrans.fr/Hadopi-2-En-exclu-la-saisine,8192.html EDRi-gram: The French Constitutional Council censures the 3 strikes law (17.07.2009) http://www.edri.org/edri-gram/number7.12/3-strikes-censured-council-constit… ============================================================ 5. France wants to filter online gambling sites ============================================================ >From 7 till 9 October 2009, the French National Assembly will discuss a draft law on opening the competition and regulation of online gambling sector. The text foresees the creation of a similar authority to that of HADOPI, called ARJEL that would order the filtering of the gambling sites considered to operate illegally. Although in a first version of the draft law ARJEL was referring to a judge for the blocking of the site, now, in order to expedite the procedure, the present text gives the authority the direct right to impose filtering of websites to ISPs. ARJEL is meant to operate in a similar way to HADOPI. The authority will address the non-authorised gambling sites asking them to observe the interdiction and giving them 8 days to present their observations. In case of non-compliance, the authority may order the banning of the service. The authority can act upon any claim made by any natural or legal person. The text says nothing about the filtering methods to be used or the way to make public or update the list of sites to be blocked and no reference is made to the costs incurred by blocking the sites. Deputy Lionel Tardy and the socialist group have submitted an amendment to the text by which they require the filtering modalities to be specified by the law as well as the modalities to compensate the costs supported by operators. The group also asks for the reintroduction of the initial legal procedure, where a judge is the one who takes the decision regarding blocking the websites. La Quadrature du Net warns that not only filtering sites is entirely inefficient but it is also a dangerous measure as it may just be a precedent allowing for an extention from gambling sites to other types of sites later on, opening the door to limitations of the freedom of expression and bringing forth the risk of censoring the Internet. There is also the risk of blocking other sites than the targeting ones which may happen when access to a site is blocked especially if this is done based on their IP address. Another serious issue is that ARJEL as administrative authority is given the power to direclty filter sites, which is unconstitutional. As it happened in case of Hadopi, la Quadrature du Net encourages the citizens to contact their deputies and convince them to stop Internet filtering. Online gambling: The Assembly asked to vote for Net filtering (only in French, 5.10.2009) http://www.numerama.com/magazine/14141-jeu-en-ligne-l-assemblee-appelee-a-v… Blocking a site is to limit access to the Internet (only in French, 2.10.2009) http://www.ecrans.fr/Loi-sur-les-jeux-en-ligne-Bloquer,8276.html Online gambling: Filtering the Net on 7 October in the Assembly (only in French, 5.10.2009) http://www.laquadrature.net/fr/jeu-en-ligne-filtrage-du-net-le-7-octobre-a-… Draft project: Economy: online gambling- Preliminary works of the National Assembly - First reading (only in French) http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/dossiers/jeux_argent.asp Draft Law N0 1549 - National Assembly - on the openness to competition and the regulation of online gambling (only in French, 30.03.2009) http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/projets/pl1549.asp ============================================================ 6. The Pirate Bay may be banned in Italy ============================================================ An appeal won on 24 September 2008 against the decision of the Italian court enforced on 10 August 2008 ordering the seizure of The Pirate Bay (TPB) in Italy, has been reversed by the Italian Court of Cassation. The Order of the Justice for preliminary investigation of the Court of Bergamo issued on in August 2008 was asking for the "seizure" of the PirateBay website for displaying links to allegedly illegal duplicated material and was forcing Italian ISPs to block the access to that site. Following the EDRi-member ALCEI report to the Italian Data Protection Authority showing violations of the law in the seizure order, the Bergamo Criminal Court overruled the seizure but only on a procedural basis. Now the Italian Court of Cassation has addmitted the recourse of the Bergamo Prosecutors and has decided to send back the case to the first comptent court. TPB can once again be blocked in Italy, to the satisfaction of FIMI, the major representative body of the Italian record labels which, early this year, together with anti-piracy organisation FPM, filed a 1 million euro damages lawsuit against the site on behalf of the Italian music industry. In the meantime in Sweden, in TPB's appeal case against the ruling from April 2009, judge Fredrik Niemeld has been disqualified by the Appeal Court from the hearing planned for November 2009 for holding stock options in Spotify digital music service. Italian Appeals Court Rules against Pirate Bay (1.10.2009) http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3ie41d1967dbc1d096… Cassation: The un-seizure of TPB is revised (only in Italian, 30.09.2009) http://punto-informatico.it/2718088/PI/News/cassazione-dissequestro-della-b… Baia, the judge takes sides. But with whom? (only in Italian, 30.09.2009) http://punto-informatico.it/2717757/PI/News/baia-giudice-parte-ma-quale.aspx EDRi-gram: An update on the Italian PirateBay case (8.08.2009) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.19/update-piratebay-italy ============================================================ 7. Paris Court of Appeals on a GPL - related case ============================================================ The Paris Court of Appeals published in September 2009 its decision on a case that involved the distribution of the VNC Software, remote desktop access software available under GPL GNU licence. The case was brought forward by AFPA (Association for professional education of adults) against Edu4, a commercial company. Edu4 won a contract in 2000 that foreseen the delivery of a software solution to AFPA. The Association discovered that VNC was distributed with this equipment without providing the source code or keeping the licence notices. Free Software Foundation France presented the case like a landmark ruling and stated: "Companies distributing the software have been given a strong reminder that the license's terms are enforceable under French law. And users in France can rest assured that, if need be, they can avail themselves of the legal system to see violations addressed and their rights respected." Unfortunately, the case is merely a contractual dispute between the two parties that did not involve the GPL licence as such. Also, the court did not specifically address the enforceability of the GPL Licence. As the lawyer Martin von Willebrand explains on his blog "Not a single claim (by either party), as cited in the court's decision, is based on GPL license, any interpretation of GPL as a contract or any copyright. The decision cites GPL license a number of times, mostly to describe VNC-software and also partly related to the discussion whether it was allowed or not to include free software into the outcome of the project." The court decision considered that " Edu4 has failed to fullfil its contractual obligations delivering in December 2001 (...) a product which, on the one hand, created privacy risks for EOF users and, on the other hand, did not satisfy the terms of the GNU GPL licence, as Edu4 had replaced by its own copyright the original VNC's copyright notices regarding the ownership of the two files and the text of the licence." Thus, this case can't be considered a landmark ruling, with the GPL licence playing a side role in the context of the entire case. However, it is worth underlining that "the court habitually considers the software licensed under the terms of GNU GPL and attaches legal significance to the terms" as von Willebrand concludes. Paris Court of Appeals condemns Edu4 for violating the GNU General Public License (22.09.2009) http://fsffrance.org/news/article2009-09-22.en.html Recent Court Decision in Paris (referred as Paris GPL case) (1.10.2009) http://martinvonwillebrand.net/2009/10/01/recent-court-decision-in-paris-re… Court decision - Cour d'Appel de Paris, Ptle 5, Chambre 10, no: 294, (only in French, 16.09.2009) http://fsffrance.org/news/arret-ca-paris-16.09.2009.pdf ============================================================ 8. US gives up its unilateral supervision powers over ICANN ============================================================ In a movement welcomed by the European Commission, the US have announced they would become more open in Internet governance and give up their dominant position in the supervision of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body created in 1998, responsible with the global management of the internet domain names and addresses. A recent statement co-signed by US Communication and Information Administration and ICANN stated the "commitment to a multi-stakeholder, private sector-led, bottom-up policy development model for the domain name and addressing system (DNS)" and that "A private coordinating process, the outcomes of which reflect the public interest, is best able to flexibly meet the changing needs of the Internet and of Internet users." According to Massimiliano Minisci from ICANN this actually means that "the political responsibility of the Internet moves from the US to the global community" which includes governments, civil society, companies and experts from all over the world. Since 2005, the US have been largely criticised for their dominant position in ICANN and strongly pressured by the European Commission to be more open and loose its tight grips on Internet governance. In a speech made on 4 May 2009, Commissioner Viviane Reding made an appeal to president Obama to reform the US position in Internet governance. "I trust that President Obama will have the courage, the wisdom and the respect for the global nature of the Internet to pave the way in September for a new, more accountable, more transparent, more democratic and more multilateral form of Internet governance," said Reding at that time when she proposed a large reform of the Internet governance including "an independent judicial body" and "a multilateral forum for governments to discuss policy and security issues" related to the Internet. She proposed the forum to be structured as a G12, with two representatives from Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Asia, one from Oceania, and the chairman of ICANN as a non-voting member. Starting with 30 September, the "Joint Project Agreement" in the US, presently ensuring a unilateral supervision of ICANN's decision by the US Department of Commerce will be replaced by a joint "affirmation of commitments" of the US Government and of ICANN. Reding expressed her satisfaction for the US's present decision considering that ICANN's decisions related to domain names and addresses can now be "more independent and more accountable, taking into account everyone's interests". She stated that ICANN's performances would be periodically evaluated by external review panels. The panels will be appointed jointly by ICANN and ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee which is open to governments and public authorities from all around the world and advises the ICANN Board on public policy aspects. The Swedish EU Presidency considers the US announcement as "an important moment in the process towards the increased internationalisation of ICANN's coordination and management of the Internet DNS". EU hails US move to open up Internet governance (2.10.2009) http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/eu-hails-us-move-open-internet-gover… European Commission welcomes US move to more independent, accountable, international internet governance (30.09.2009) http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1397&format=H… Reding attacks US rule over Internet governance (6.05.2009) http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/reding-attacks-us-rule-internet-gove… ============================================================ 9. ENDitorial: Amendment 138-EP asked to choose between democracy and defeat ============================================================ The opening meeting of the informal conciliation discussions between the Council and European Parliament (EP) has taken place. This process was largely brought about by the Parliament's overwhelming rejection of a "compromise" proposal with regard to the famous "amendment 138" text in May of this year. The Council of Ministers' current proposal is for the Parliament to unconditionally overturn its current position and accept the text that it previously rejected. As a result, the debate has become wider than "simply" the wording of one paragraph of a piece of telecoms legislation. Instead, it is now a question of the credibility of the Parliament as an institution and as a truly equal partner in the legislative process. Consequently, the parliamentarians in the Conciliation Committee are faced with a very stark choice between a defeat, whose consequences for the Parliament will extend far beyond the telecom package, or defending the democratic choices it has already made: Defeat Parliamentarians can choose to accept the Council's text. If they do so: 1. This will establish a new benchmark for inter-institutional negotiations, suggesting that any Parliament vote of any size on any dossier is vulnerable to being abandoned at a later stage in the decision-making process. This can only serve to durably weaken the Parliament's negotiating credibility. 2. They are laying the Parliament open to the accusation that they were being pro-consumer before the elections and now betraying the trust of citizens by taking an opposite position after the elections. 3. They are giving up the mandate that the previous vote gave them to accept a Council position for which no coherent justification has ever been provided. Democracy On the other hand, the Parliament can demand that the Council (finally) explain its motives for opposing amendment 138, thereby fulfilling a key role that a parliament is supposed to play - demanding an adequate level of coherent and transparent decision-making from other institutions. For the moment, the arguments being used by the Council vary from the obviously weak to the simply far-fetched. According to sources in the negotiations, the Council has suggested, for example, that it cannot allow consumers an unconditional right to a prior judgement by a judicial body because of the need to protect networks from attacks. Telecoms Package - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecoms_Package List of MEPs on the Conciliation Committee: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/code/dossier/2009/2007_0247_telecom/members_e… (contribution from Joe McNamee - EDRi) ============================================================ 10. Recommended Reading ============================================================ European Association for the Defense of Human Rights: Human Rights must be the cornerstone, not just a reference, of the Stockholm Programme (7.10.2009) http://www.aedh.eu/Human-Rights-must-the-cornerstone.html Association Europienne pour la difense des Droits de l'Homme: Les droits de l'Homme doivent jtre le socle du Programme de Stockholm et non une simple rifirence (7.10.2009) http://www.aedh.eu/Les-droits-de-l-Homme-doivent-etre.html ============================================================ 11. Agenda ============================================================ 10 October 2009, Dublin, Ireland 2019 AC: After Copyright Keynote discussion with Anna Troberg, Swedish Pirate Party http://www.darklight.ie/ 16 October 2009, Bielefeld, Germany 10th German Big Brother Awards http://www.bigbrotherawards.de/ 21-23 October 2009, Istanbul, Turkey eChallenges 2009 http://www.echallenges.org/e2009/default.asp 24 October 2009, Zurich, Switzerland Big Brother Awards Switzerland http://www.bigbrotherawards.ch/2009/ 25 October 2009, Vienna, Austria Austrian Big Brother Awards http://www.bigbrotherawards.at/ 26-27 October 2009, Vienna, Austria 3rd European Privacy Open Space http://www.privacyos.eu 26 October 2009, Brussels, Belgium European Commission - Public hearing on orphan works http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/copyright-infso/copyright-inf… 29 October 2009, Barcelona, Spain oXcars, the biggest free culture event of all times, 2nd edition http://oxcars09.exgae.net 29 October - 1 November 2009, Barcelona, Spain Free Culture Forum: Organization and Action http://fcforum.net/ 3 November 2009, Madrid, Spain Civil Society Conference: "Global Privacy Standards in a Global World" Organized by "The Public Voice" coalition http://thepublicvoice.org/events/madrid09 4-6 November 2009, Madrid, Spain 31st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy http://www.privacyconference2009.org 10-11 November 2009, Cambridge, UK Public Domain Calculators Meeting http://wiki.okfn.org/PublicDomainCalculators/Meeting 13-15 November 2009, Gothenburg, Sweden Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit http://www.fscons.org/ 15-18 November 2009, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt UN Internet Governance Forum http://www.intgovforum.org/ 19-20 November 2009, Malmv, Sweden First popular European e-government conference http://malmo09.org/ 27-30 December 2009, Berlin, Germany 26th Chaos Communication Congress Deadline for submissions: 9 October 2009 http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/ ============================================================ 12. About ============================================================ EDRI-gram is a biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe. Currently EDRI has 29 members based or with offices in 18 different countries in Europe. European Digital Rights takes an active interest in developments in the EU accession countries and wants to share knowledge and awareness through the EDRI-grams. All contributions, suggestions for content, corrections or agenda-tips are most welcome. Errors are corrected as soon as possible and visibly on the EDRI website. Except where otherwise noted, this newsletter is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. See the full text at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Newsletter editor: Bogdan Manolea <edrigram(a)edri.org> Information about EDRI and its members: http://www.edri.org/ European Digital Rights needs your help in upholding digital rights in the EU. If you wish to help us promote digital rights, please consider making a private donation. http://www.edri.org/about/sponsoring - EDRI-gram subscription information subscribe by e-mail To: edri-news-request(a)edri.org Subject: subscribe You will receive an automated e-mail asking to confirm your request. unsubscribe by e-mail To: edri-news-request(a)edri.org Subject: unsubscribe - EDRI-gram in Macedonian EDRI-gram is also available partly in Macedonian, with delay. Translations are provided by Metamorphosis http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/edrigram-mk.php - EDRI-gram in German EDRI-gram is also available in German, with delay. Translations are provided Andreas Krisch from the EDRI-member VIBE!AT - Austrian Association for Internet Users http://www.unwatched.org/ - Newsletter archive Back issues are available at: http://www.edri.org/edrigram - Help Please ask <edrigram(a)edri.org> if you have any problems with subscribing or unsubscribing. ----- 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: best way to create entropy?
by Naslund, Steve 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

I know that a popular method for generating random bit streams is to take radio (stellar) noise and convert it into a digital bit stream. Very popular among crypto geeks. Steven Naslund -----Original Message----- From: Dan White [mailto:dwhite@olp.net] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 10:55 PM To: Jonathan Lassoff Cc: North American Network Operators Group Subject: Re: best way to create entropy? On 10/11/12 17:08 -0700, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: >On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> in the past, i've done many different things to create entropy - >> encode videos, watch youtube, tcpdump -vvv > /dev/null, compiled a >> kernel. but, what is best? just whatever gets your cpu to peak or are >> some tasks better than others? > >Personally, I've used and recommend this USB stick: >http://www.entropykey.co.uk/ > >Internally, it uses diodes that are reverse-biased just ever so close >to the breakdown voltage such that they randomly flip state back and >forth. +1. -- Dan White ----- 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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[wta-talk] Forbes: How to Spy on People
by PJ Manney 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Forget about the government and wiretapping. I've heard about a lot of this, but a couple of these babies were new to me. After reading this article, I sincerely hope you are all in happy, deceit free relationships and that none of you are doing anything nefarious. Because if you aren't, you're in for a world full of hurt. PJ In Pictures: How They're Watching You: http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2007/11/21/privacy-surveillance-technology-o… Commentary How To Spy On People James D. Zirin 11.28.07, 6:00 AM ET http://www.forbes.com/2007/11/27/zirin-cyber-spying-oped-cx_jdz_1128zirin.h… "No one cares more about the things you do than the person that used to be married to you," says Jacalyn F. Barnett, a New York matrimonial lawyer. Indeed, everyone knows that the government engages in pervasive surveillance of citizens in its prosecution of the war on terror. And, it has been widely reported that Google and Microsoft accumulate personal data on Internet users as well. But, the most pervasive form of electronic surveillance nowadays comes from people you know--your boss, your business competitor, someone on a journalist's beat, and even your spouse. In Pictures: How They're Watching You Want to zero in on someone anywhere on the planet? Just call GeoEye. GeoEye is the premier provider of geospatial imagery to its commercial customers to help them better map and monitor the world. GeoEye operates a constellation of Earth imaging satellites, mapping aircraft, an international network of ground stations and advanced imagery processing capabilities. And, if that's not revealing enough, GeoEye plans to launch its next-generation Earth imaging satellite, GeoEye1, in late first quarter or early second quarter 2008. GeoEye1 will be the world's highest resolution and most accurate commercial imaging satellite with a ground resolution of about 16 inches. Just think, one could punch up Angelina Jolie and see what she's doing anywhere in the world--with the camera lens only 16 inches away. On the other hand, if you don't care what your favorite movie star is doing geospatially, but are more curious about what your wife or business rival is doing on the Internet, you can bug her computer with a program known as "Pandora" available online for $49. Pandora will send to your computer a log of everything the target is doing. Yes, e-mails, Web site visits, draft letters--right down to the last keystroke. Pandora, named for the first woman in Greek mythology whose curiosity unleashed a multitude of sins, can be physically installed in the target's computer by one with access. It seems our entire culture is enmeshed in a thicket of electronic gadgets for bugging, visual surveillance and computer monitoring, which all but put the traditional private detective out of business. The president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers has said that there is electronic evidence in almost every case. "It has completely changed our field." No longer the need for the high-priced gumshoe to follow someone around. Too labor intensive. Just install surreptitiously in the target's car a GPS vehicle tracking system, available on the Internet for $700, and follow her travels on your computer screen while you stay at home with your other eye, perhaps, on a football game. Is your child's nanny up to no good while you are out on the town? Follow her movements about the house with a $600 motion activated digital video camera neatly concealed in a clock, a book or an air purifier. Is your employee consulting lawyers in preparation for a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against you? Tap into his litigation strategy and discover the strengths and weaknesses of the case by intercepting office e-mail communications with his attorney. All you need do is warn the employee of an e-mail policy in place that provides, among other things, that your computers are to be used for business purposes only; that employees have no personal right of privacy in the material they send or receive through your computer systems; and that you reserve the right to access and disclose material on your system. A Manhattan judge recently ruled such communications outside the attorney/client privilege since the employee was warned that his boss was "looking over his shoulder." And if you get into litigation, almost all private information, if relevant to the lawsuit, is fair game for subpoena. Banking, brokerage and credit card records may reveal the most sensitive financial information. E-Z Pass bills may disclose clandestine journeys or secret meetings. Telephone records may tell a tale of who you know, who you talk to, how frequently and how long. If you think your life is an open book, you're right. Eavesdropping is dangerous and may even be criminal. Bernard Kerik, former New York City police commissioner under Rudy Giuliani, and Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro raised eyebrows recently over reports that he allegedly assisted her in bugging her estranged husband's boat. Hewlett Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn was indicted after she allegedly ordered intrusive spying on board members and journalists in a hunt for who was leaking business secrets to the press. The charges against her were later dropped in the "interests of justice." The private detective involved pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges. The company settled the civil suits for a reported $14.5 million. In most states and in the federal system, anti-eavesdropping laws largely prohibit interception type surveillance such as wiretapping. There have been few reported convictions. However, federal law, as well as New York law, generally allows recording of a conversation if one of the parties to the conversation consents. Such a recording is not deemed an interception. The recording, if relevant, would probably be admissible in evidence. In California, however, such one-party recordings are deemed inadmissible. Meanwhile, the "great game" continues in cyberspace. And the names aren't changed to protect the innocent. In Pictures: How They're Watching You James D. Zirin is a trial lawyer in New York and co-host of the program Digital Age. _______________________________________________ wta-talk mailing list wta-talk(a)transhumanism.org http://www.transhumanism.org/mailman/listinfo/wta-talk ----- 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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Baltimore Digital Commerce Society-- Korhammer on Lava Trading, Oct 2
by Peter Wayner 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

[Hey Balto Digital Commerce Attendees. Welcome back from the long summer. Our first talk for the fall is scheduled for October 2n. These guys are building a very cool, cross-exchange tool. It constantly keeps track of the bids and asks on a number of exchanges letting you send your business to where the prices are best. It's fascinating to watch the screen update the quotes in real time. This kind of semi-automated, trading assistance is bound to become more and more prevalent. I think Lava Trading is doing some of the most interesting stuff around. So, come check it out if you can. Please circulate think. -Peter] Baltimore Digital Commerce Society Tuesday October 2, 12:30 Speaker: Richard Korhammer, CEO of Lava Trading (www.lavatrading.com) Topic: Networks as Markets-- Why Exchanges are Becoming Virtual Richard Korhammer is the CEO of LavaTrading, one of the startup companies in New York diving into cross-market arbitrage. Their network links together all of the important market makers in ECNs and keeps track of all bids and offers. Buyers and sellers using the technology automatically get pointers to the best price possible. Traders with large blocks of stock do substantially better because Lava Trading will break up their block to match it with the best price available across all of the markets. This cross-market arbitrage improves liquidity for the market and makes it simpler for traders with large blocks of stock to wade into the marketplace without leaving a wake. In his talk, Korhammer will explore how fast networking and sophisticated servers can supplement and potentially replace the old fashioned stock exchange. Traders won't need to come to one place or one exchange to search for the best price because the network can constantly sort through all buyers and sellers. Korhammer believes that adding intelligence to the network and the servers supporting is more efficient than requiring traders to manually manage an otherwise complicated marketplace. Will these cross-exchange tools supplant the exchange? Will they eventually become the exchange? Will the disintermediation eventually make all trading a transparent event? Location: 11 West Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD Directions: The Engineering Society lies in the shadow of Baltimore's Washington monument in the center of town. From downtown, take Charles St north to the monument. The Society is to the left on Monument Street. From the north, take 83 south to Maryland Avenue exit. Follow Maryland Avenue south until Monument Street. The Society is to the left. Or look at this map: http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&add r=11+Mount+Vernon+Place&csz=Baltimore%2C+MD+21201&country=us&Get%07Map=Get+M ap Cost: $14 for a lunch buffet To reserve your seat: write pcw(a)flyzone.com Questions: pcw(a)flyzone.com --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Fourth Announcement for ECC 2003
by ECC 2003 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

--------------------------------------------------------------------- THE 7TH WORKSHOP ON ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY (ECC 2003) University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada August 11, 12 & 13 2003 FOURTH ANNOUNCEMENT June 13, 2003 ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* NOTES: 1) Please make your hotel bookings as soon as possible. The cutoff date for room bookings at the Waterloo Inn is June 29, and the cutoff date for room bookings at the Comfort Inn is July 7. The Waterloo Inn is sold out for the night of August 9. 2) The last lecture at ECC 2003 will end at 3:00 pm on Wednesday (Aug 13). This will give participants sufficient time to catch flights scheduled to leave Toronto after 7:00 pm. There are hourly flights from Toronto to Ottawa for those who wish to attend SAC 2003. 3) If you would like to be removed from this mailing list please reply with a brief note. You will promptly be removed from the list. ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* ECC 2003 is the seventh in a series of annual workshops dedicated to the study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas. The main themes of ECC 2003 will be: - The discrete logarithm problem. - Efficient parameter generation and point counting. - Provably secure cryptographic protocols. - Efficient software and hardware implementation. - Side-channel attacks. - Deployment of elliptic curve cryptography. It is hoped that the meeting will continue to encourage and stimulate further research on the security and implementation of elliptic curve cryptosystems and related areas, and encourage collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers in the academic, industry and government sectors. Attendees of ECC 2003 might also wish to attend SAC 2003 (Ottawa, Aug 14-15) and CRYPTO 2003 (Santa Barbara, Aug 17-21). The last lecture at ECC 2003 will end at 3:00 pm on Wednesday (Aug 13). This will give participants sufficient time to catch flights scheduled to leave Toronto after 7:00 pm. There are hourly flights from Toronto to Ottawa. SPONSORS: Certicom Corp. MITACS Motorola University of Essen University of Waterloo ORGANIZERS: Gerhard Frey (University of Essen) Darrel Hankerson (Auburn University) Alfred Menezes (University of Waterloo) Christof Paar (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum) Edlyn Teske (University of Waterloo) Scott Vanstone (University of Waterloo) SPEAKERS: Hans Dobbertin (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany) Florian Hess (University of Bristol, UK) Hugo Krawczyk (Technion, Israel, and IBM Research, USA) Tanja Lange (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany) Reynald Lercier (Centre d'Electronique de L'Armement, France) Ben Lynn (Stanford University, USA) William Martin (National Security Agency, USA) Christof Paar (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany) John Proos (University of Waterloo, Canada) Jean-Jacques Quisquater (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Pankaj Rohatgi (IBM Research, USA) Victor Shoup (New York University, USA) Jerome A. Solinas (National Security Agency, USA) Edlyn Teske (University of Waterloo, Canada) Nicolas Theriault (University of Toronto, Canada) Eran Tromer (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: There will be 15-16 invited lectures (and no contributed talks), with the remaining time used for informal discussions. There will be both survey lectures as well as lectures on latest research developments. All lectures will be held on the campus of the University of Waterloo. Here is a tentative list of lecture titles: Hans Dobbertin To be announced Florian Hess The GHS attack revisited Hugo Krawczyk Design and analysis of authenticated Diffie-Hellman protocols Tanja Lange Efficient arithmetic on (hyper-)elliptic curves over finite fields Reynald Lercier Algorithmic aspects of Mestre's p-adic point counting ideas Ben Lynn Applications of bilinear maps William Martin To be announced Christof Paar Hyperelliptic curve cryptosystems for embedded applications John Proos Security in the presents of decryption failures Jean-Jacques Quisquater 2 or 3 side-channels for ECC Pankaj Rohatgi Power, EM and all that: Is your crypto device really secure? Victor Shoup Standardizing public key encryption algorithms Jerome A. Solinas To be announced Edlyn Teske Weak fields for ECC Nicolas Theriault Index calculus attack for hyperelliptic curves of small genus Eran Tromer Hardware-based implementation of factoring algorithms REGISTRATION: There will be a registration fee this year of $250 Cdn or $170 US or Euros 160 ($150 Cdn or $100 US or Euros 90 for full-time graduate students). PLEASE REGISTER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AS SPACE IS LIMITED FOR THIS WORKSHOP; REGISTRATION IS ON A FIRST-COME FIRST-SERVE BASIS. We cannot process a registration until all fees are paid in full. The deadline for all fees to be paid and registration completed has been set for the 1st of August, 2003. However, you are encouraged to register earlier than Aug 1 since some hotels have a cutoff date of June 29. To register, complete, in full, the attached REGISTRATION FORM and return it along with your payment to: Mrs. Adrienne Richter, C&O Dept., University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1. You can also send your registration form by fax (519-725-5441) or by email (ecc2003(a)math.uwaterloo.ca) Confirmation of your registration will be sent by email when payment is received in full. ------------------------cut from here--------------------------------- ECC 2003 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM Fullname: _________________________________________________________ Affiliation: _________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ E-Mail Address: _________________________________________________________ Telephone #: _________________________________________________________ Registration Fee: Please check the appropriate box: [ ] Registration .......$250.00 CAD ..............$________ [ ] Registration .......$170.00 USD ..............$________ [ ] Registration .......Euro 160.00 ..............$________ [ ] Full-time Student ..$150.00 CAD ..............$________ [ ] Full-time Student ..$100.00 USD ..............$________ [ ] Full-time Student ..Euro 90.00 ..............$________ Registration Fee includes Banquet: Attending [ ] Yes [ ] No Vegetarian [ ] Yes [ ] No TOTAL AMOUNT PAYABLE: ............................$________ **Make Cheque/Money Order Payable to: ECC 2003 Credit Card Payments: [ ] Visa [ ] MasterCard Cardholder's Name: ________________________________________________ Card Number: ______________________________________________________ Expiration Date: __________________________________________________ Signature: ________________________________________________________ Additional Information: ___________________________________________ -------------------------cut from here------------------------------- TRAVEL: Kitchener-Waterloo is approximately 100 km/60 miles from Pearson International Airport in Toronto. Ground transportation to Kitchener-Waterloo can be pre-arranged with Airways Transit. TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM TORONTO AIRPORT PROVIDED BY AIRWAYS TRANSIT It is advisable to book your transportation between the Pearson Airport, Toronto, and Waterloo in advance to receive the advance booking rate of $38 CAD per person, one way, with Airways Transit (open 24 hours a day). Please quote "ECC2003" when making your reservation. Airways is a door-to-door service; they accept cash (Cdn or US funds), MasterCard, Visa and American Express. Upon arrival: Terminal 1: proceed to Ground Transportation Booth, Arrivals Level. Terminal 2: proceed to Airways Transit desk, Arrivals Level, Area E. Terminal 3: proceed to Ground Transportation Booth, Arrivals Level, between Doors B and C. You can make a reservation through their web site: www.airwaystransit.com Or, you can complete the form below and send by mail or fax (519-886-2141) well in advance of your arrival to Airways Transit. They will not fax confirmations: your fax transmission record is confirmation of your reservation. -------------------------cut from here--------------------------------- AIRWAYS TRANSIT ADVANCE BOOKING FORM - ECC 2003 ARRIVAL INFORMATION: ____________________________________________________________ Surname First name ____________________________________________________________ Toronto Arrival Date Airline Flight # ____________________________________________________________ Arrival Time Arriving From ____________________________________________________________ Destination in Kitchener/Waterloo No. in party DEPARTURE INFORMATION: ____________________________________________________________ Surname First name ____________________________________________________________ Toronto Departure Date Airline Flight # ____________________________________________________________ Departure Time Flight # Destination ____________________________________________________________ Pickup From No. in party ____________________________________________________________ Signature Date Send or Fax to: Airways Transit 99A Northland Road Waterloo, Ontario Canada, N2V 1Y8 Fax: (519) 886-2141 Telephone: (519) 886-2121 -----------------------------cut form here-------------------------------- ACCOMMODATIONS: There is a limited block of rooms set aside on a first-come first-serve basis at the Waterloo Inn for the evenings of August 10, 11, 12 and 13, and at the Comfort Inn for the evenings of August 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13. Please note that the Waterloo Inn is sold out for the evening of August 9. COMFORT INN Address: 190 Weber Street North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2J 3H4 Phone: (519) 747-9400 Rate: $80 Cdn plus taxes/night for a single or double room Please quote "ECC 2003" when making your reservation Availability: Evenings of August 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Cut-off date: July 7, 2003 WATERLOO INN Address: 475 King Street North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2J 2Z5 Phone: (519) 884-0222 Fax: (519) 884-0321 Toll Free: 1-800-361-4708 Website: www.waterlooinn.com Rate: $118 Cdn plus taxes/night for a single or double room Please quote "ECC 2003" when making your reservation Availability: Evenings of August 10, 11, 12, 13 Cut-off date: June 29, 2003 Other hotels close to the University of Waterloo are: UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO CONFERENCE CENTRE (on-campus accommodation; no air conditioning) Ron Eydt Village, Box 16610, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N3J 4C1 Phone: 519-884-5400, 519-746-7599 Website: www.conferences.uwaterloo.ca (see "Room Registration") Approx rate: $52 Cdn plus taxes/night DESTINATION INN 547 King Street North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 5Z7 Phone: (519) 884-0100 Website: www.destinationinn.com Approx rate: $73 Cdn plus taxes/night BEST WESTERN INN St. Jacobs Country Inn 50 Benjamin Road East, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2V 2J9 Phone: (519) 884-9295 Website: www.stjacobscountryinn.com Approx rate: $129 Cdn plus taxes/night THE WATERLOO HOTEL 2 King Street North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2J 2W7 Phone: (519) 885-2626 Website: www.countryinns.org/inn_waterloo.html Approx rate: $120-160 Cdn plus taxes/night HOTEL TO CONFERENCE TRANSPORTATION: A shuttle to/from the campus will be available each day of the conference from the Waterloo Inn and Comfort Inn only. Place and times for pickup and drop-off will be provided in the final announcement. FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information or to return your Registration, please contact: Mrs. Adrienne Richter Department of Combinatorics & Optimization University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 e-mail: ecc2003(a)math.uwaterloo.ca Fax: (519) 725-5441 Phone: (519) 888-4027 If you did not receive this announcement by email and would like to be added to the mailing list for the fourth announcement, please send email to ecc2003(a)math.uwaterloo.ca. The announcements are also available from the web site www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------- --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com

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NSA Gave Other U.S. Agencies Information From Surveillance
by Monty Solomon 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

NSA Gave Other U.S. Agencies Information From Surveillance Fruit of Eavesdropping Was Processed and Cross-Checked With Databases By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 1, 2006; Page A08 Information captured by the National Security Agency's secret eavesdropping on communications between the United States and overseas has been passed on to other government agencies, which cross-check the information with tips and information collected in other databases, current and former administration officials said. The NSA has turned such information over to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and to other government entities, said three current and former senior administration officials, although it could not be determined which agencies received what types of information. Information from intercepts -- which typically includes records of telephone or e-mail communications -- would be made available by request to agencies that are allowed to have it, including the FBI, DIA, CIA and Department of Homeland Security, one former official said. At least one of those organizations, the DIA, has used NSA information as the basis for carrying out surveillance of people in the country suspected of posing a threat, according to two sources. A DIA spokesman said the agency does not conduct such domestic surveillance but would not comment further. Spokesmen for the FBI, the CIA and the director of national intelligence, John D. Negroponte, declined to comment on the use of NSA data. ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/31/AR200512310… 08.html ------------------------------------- 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] NSA Gave Other U.S. Agencies Information From Surveillance
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Begin forwarded message:

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[wta-talk] Forbes: How to Spy on People
by PJ Manney 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Forget about the government and wiretapping. I've heard about a lot of this, but a couple of these babies were new to me. After reading this article, I sincerely hope you are all in happy, deceit free relationships and that none of you are doing anything nefarious. Because if you aren't, you're in for a world full of hurt. PJ In Pictures: How They're Watching You: http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2007/11/21/privacy-surveillance-technology-o… Commentary How To Spy On People James D. Zirin 11.28.07, 6:00 AM ET http://www.forbes.com/2007/11/27/zirin-cyber-spying-oped-cx_jdz_1128zirin.h… "No one cares more about the things you do than the person that used to be married to you," says Jacalyn F. Barnett, a New York matrimonial lawyer. Indeed, everyone knows that the government engages in pervasive surveillance of citizens in its prosecution of the war on terror. And, it has been widely reported that Google and Microsoft accumulate personal data on Internet users as well. But, the most pervasive form of electronic surveillance nowadays comes from people you know--your boss, your business competitor, someone on a journalist's beat, and even your spouse. In Pictures: How They're Watching You Want to zero in on someone anywhere on the planet? Just call GeoEye. GeoEye is the premier provider of geospatial imagery to its commercial customers to help them better map and monitor the world. GeoEye operates a constellation of Earth imaging satellites, mapping aircraft, an international network of ground stations and advanced imagery processing capabilities. And, if that's not revealing enough, GeoEye plans to launch its next-generation Earth imaging satellite, GeoEye1, in late first quarter or early second quarter 2008. GeoEye1 will be the world's highest resolution and most accurate commercial imaging satellite with a ground resolution of about 16 inches. Just think, one could punch up Angelina Jolie and see what she's doing anywhere in the world--with the camera lens only 16 inches away. On the other hand, if you don't care what your favorite movie star is doing geospatially, but are more curious about what your wife or business rival is doing on the Internet, you can bug her computer with a program known as "Pandora" available online for $49. Pandora will send to your computer a log of everything the target is doing. Yes, e-mails, Web site visits, draft letters--right down to the last keystroke. Pandora, named for the first woman in Greek mythology whose curiosity unleashed a multitude of sins, can be physically installed in the target's computer by one with access. It seems our entire culture is enmeshed in a thicket of electronic gadgets for bugging, visual surveillance and computer monitoring, which all but put the traditional private detective out of business. The president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers has said that there is electronic evidence in almost every case. "It has completely changed our field." No longer the need for the high-priced gumshoe to follow someone around. Too labor intensive. Just install surreptitiously in the target's car a GPS vehicle tracking system, available on the Internet for $700, and follow her travels on your computer screen while you stay at home with your other eye, perhaps, on a football game. Is your child's nanny up to no good while you are out on the town? Follow her movements about the house with a $600 motion activated digital video camera neatly concealed in a clock, a book or an air purifier. Is your employee consulting lawyers in preparation for a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against you? Tap into his litigation strategy and discover the strengths and weaknesses of the case by intercepting office e-mail communications with his attorney. All you need do is warn the employee of an e-mail policy in place that provides, among other things, that your computers are to be used for business purposes only; that employees have no personal right of privacy in the material they send or receive through your computer systems; and that you reserve the right to access and disclose material on your system. A Manhattan judge recently ruled such communications outside the attorney/client privilege since the employee was warned that his boss was "looking over his shoulder." And if you get into litigation, almost all private information, if relevant to the lawsuit, is fair game for subpoena. Banking, brokerage and credit card records may reveal the most sensitive financial information. E-Z Pass bills may disclose clandestine journeys or secret meetings. Telephone records may tell a tale of who you know, who you talk to, how frequently and how long. If you think your life is an open book, you're right. Eavesdropping is dangerous and may even be criminal. Bernard Kerik, former New York City police commissioner under Rudy Giuliani, and Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro raised eyebrows recently over reports that he allegedly assisted her in bugging her estranged husband's boat. Hewlett Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn was indicted after she allegedly ordered intrusive spying on board members and journalists in a hunt for who was leaking business secrets to the press. The charges against her were later dropped in the "interests of justice." The private detective involved pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges. The company settled the civil suits for a reported $14.5 million. In most states and in the federal system, anti-eavesdropping laws largely prohibit interception type surveillance such as wiretapping. There have been few reported convictions. However, federal law, as well as New York law, generally allows recording of a conversation if one of the parties to the conversation consents. Such a recording is not deemed an interception. The recording, if relevant, would probably be admissible in evidence. In California, however, such one-party recordings are deemed inadmissible. Meanwhile, the "great game" continues in cyberspace. And the names aren't changed to protect the innocent. In Pictures: How They're Watching You James D. Zirin is a trial lawyer in New York and co-host of the program Digital Age. _______________________________________________ wta-talk mailing list wta-talk(a)transhumanism.org http://www.transhumanism.org/mailman/listinfo/wta-talk ----- 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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[cryptography] US Appeals Court upholds right not to decrypt a drive
by Steven Bellovin 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://volokh.com/2012/02/23/eleventh-circuit-finds-fifth-amendment-right-a… --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- 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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