July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> This robots.txt issue was exaggerated by leftist crtitics of the > administration. (This is not a general defense of the White House, > just a statement of fact.) The Bush WH.gov server has a special Iraq > section where press releases, speeches, etc. are reposted in a > different HTML template. The WH only wants the "master" copy indexed > and not the duplicate copy in the second template. Hence the apparent > weirdness in robots.txt. > > I have not found any skullduggery going on, though I suppose it > wouldn't hurt to keep a copy of the Iraq section for "diff" purposes > just in case. > > -Declan > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:59:07PM +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:56:24PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > Can somebody with a webspider crawl these documents, and put it up > > > on the web? > > > > > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt > > > > All or nearly all of them are duplicates of same documents > > elsewhere in the directory tree; "X/text/" and "X/iraq/" are > > supposed to be copies of "X/", with images removed in the first > > case. I suspect that downloading them all would just confirm that. > > > > -- > > avva

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Re: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> This robots.txt issue was exaggerated by leftist crtitics of the > administration. (This is not a general defense of the White House, > just a statement of fact.) The Bush WH.gov server has a special Iraq > section where press releases, speeches, etc. are reposted in a > different HTML template. The WH only wants the "master" copy indexed > and not the duplicate copy in the second template. Hence the apparent > weirdness in robots.txt. > > I have not found any skullduggery going on, though I suppose it > wouldn't hurt to keep a copy of the Iraq section for "diff" purposes > just in case. > > -Declan > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:59:07PM +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:56:24PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > Can somebody with a webspider crawl these documents, and put it up > > > on the web? > > > > > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt > > > > All or nearly all of them are duplicates of same documents > > elsewhere in the directory tree; "X/text/" and "X/iraq/" are > > supposed to be copies of "X/", with images removed in the first > > case. I suspect that downloading them all would just confirm that. > > > > -- > > avva

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Re: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> This robots.txt issue was exaggerated by leftist crtitics of the > administration. (This is not a general defense of the White House, > just a statement of fact.) The Bush WH.gov server has a special Iraq > section where press releases, speeches, etc. are reposted in a > different HTML template. The WH only wants the "master" copy indexed > and not the duplicate copy in the second template. Hence the apparent > weirdness in robots.txt. > > I have not found any skullduggery going on, though I suppose it > wouldn't hurt to keep a copy of the Iraq section for "diff" purposes > just in case. > > -Declan > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:59:07PM +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:56:24PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > Can somebody with a webspider crawl these documents, and put it up > > > on the web? > > > > > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt > > > > All or nearly all of them are duplicates of same documents > > elsewhere in the directory tree; "X/text/" and "X/iraq/" are > > supposed to be copies of "X/", with images removed in the first > > case. I suspect that downloading them all would just confirm that. > > > > -- > > avva

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Re: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> This robots.txt issue was exaggerated by leftist crtitics of the > administration. (This is not a general defense of the White House, > just a statement of fact.) The Bush WH.gov server has a special Iraq > section where press releases, speeches, etc. are reposted in a > different HTML template. The WH only wants the "master" copy indexed > and not the duplicate copy in the second template. Hence the apparent > weirdness in robots.txt. > > I have not found any skullduggery going on, though I suppose it > wouldn't hurt to keep a copy of the Iraq section for "diff" purposes > just in case. > > -Declan > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:59:07PM +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:56:24PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > Can somebody with a webspider crawl these documents, and put it up > > > on the web? > > > > > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt > > > > All or nearly all of them are duplicates of same documents > > elsewhere in the directory tree; "X/text/" and "X/iraq/" are > > supposed to be copies of "X/", with images removed in the first > > case. I suspect that downloading them all would just confirm that. > > > > -- > > avva

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Re: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> This robots.txt issue was exaggerated by leftist crtitics of the > administration. (This is not a general defense of the White House, > just a statement of fact.) The Bush WH.gov server has a special Iraq > section where press releases, speeches, etc. are reposted in a > different HTML template. The WH only wants the "master" copy indexed > and not the duplicate copy in the second template. Hence the apparent > weirdness in robots.txt. > > I have not found any skullduggery going on, though I suppose it > wouldn't hurt to keep a copy of the Iraq section for "diff" purposes > just in case. > > -Declan > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:59:07PM +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:56:24PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > Can somebody with a webspider crawl these documents, and put it up > > > on the web? > > > > > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt > > > > All or nearly all of them are duplicates of same documents > > elsewhere in the directory tree; "X/text/" and "X/iraq/" are > > supposed to be copies of "X/", with images removed in the first > > case. I suspect that downloading them all would just confirm that. > > > > -- > > avva

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Re: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> This robots.txt issue was exaggerated by leftist crtitics of the > administration. (This is not a general defense of the White House, > just a statement of fact.) The Bush WH.gov server has a special Iraq > section where press releases, speeches, etc. are reposted in a > different HTML template. The WH only wants the "master" copy indexed > and not the duplicate copy in the second template. Hence the apparent > weirdness in robots.txt. > > I have not found any skullduggery going on, though I suppose it > wouldn't hurt to keep a copy of the Iraq section for "diff" purposes > just in case. > > -Declan > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:59:07PM +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:56:24PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > Can somebody with a webspider crawl these documents, and put it up > > > on the web? > > > > > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt > > > > All or nearly all of them are duplicates of same documents > > elsewhere in the directory tree; "X/text/" and "X/iraq/" are > > supposed to be copies of "X/", with images removed in the first > > case. I suspect that downloading them all would just confirm that. > > > > -- > > avva

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Re: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> This robots.txt issue was exaggerated by leftist crtitics of the > administration. (This is not a general defense of the White House, > just a statement of fact.) The Bush WH.gov server has a special Iraq > section where press releases, speeches, etc. are reposted in a > different HTML template. The WH only wants the "master" copy indexed > and not the duplicate copy in the second template. Hence the apparent > weirdness in robots.txt. > > I have not found any skullduggery going on, though I suppose it > wouldn't hurt to keep a copy of the Iraq section for "diff" purposes > just in case. > > -Declan > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:59:07PM +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:56:24PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > Can somebody with a webspider crawl these documents, and put it up > > > on the web? > > > > > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt > > > > All or nearly all of them are duplicates of same documents > > elsewhere in the directory tree; "X/text/" and "X/iraq/" are > > supposed to be copies of "X/", with images removed in the first > > case. I suspect that downloading them all would just confirm that. > > > > -- > > avva

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Good to see the FBI follows procedures
by Eric Rescorla 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Ryan Singel reports that despite the rather lax standards required for wiretaps, some FBI agents seem to have decided that they could skip procedure: The revelation is the second this year showing that FBI employees bypassed court order requirements for phone records. In July, the FBI and the Justice Department Inspector General revealed the existence of a joint investigation into an FBI counter-terrorism office, after an audit found that the Communications Analysis Unit sent more than 700 fake emergency letters to phone companies seeking call records. An Inspector General spokeswoman declined to provide the status of that investigation, citing agency policy. The June 2006 e-mail (.pdf) was buried in more than 600-pages of FBI documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The message was sent to an employee in the FBI's Operational Technology Division by a technical surveillance specialist at the FBI's Minneapolis field office -- both names were redacted from the documents. The e-mail describes widespread attempts to bypass court order requirements for cellphone data in the Minneapolis office. Remarkably, when the technical agent began refusing to cooperate, other agents began calling telephone carriers directly, posing as the technical agent to get customer cellphone records. Federal law prohibits phone companies from revealing customer information unless given a court order, or in the case of an emergency involving physical danger. Singel's report is at: http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/12/fbi_cell You can read the actual document: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/minneapolisemail.pdf It's worth noting that a lot of what's going on here is device and call tracking, not content capture, so even if you have end-to-end crypto in your handset, it's only of modest value. -Ekr --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com ----- 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: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> This robots.txt issue was exaggerated by leftist crtitics of the > administration. (This is not a general defense of the White House, > just a statement of fact.) The Bush WH.gov server has a special Iraq > section where press releases, speeches, etc. are reposted in a > different HTML template. The WH only wants the "master" copy indexed > and not the duplicate copy in the second template. Hence the apparent > weirdness in robots.txt. > > I have not found any skullduggery going on, though I suppose it > wouldn't hurt to keep a copy of the Iraq section for "diff" purposes > just in case. > > -Declan > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:59:07PM +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:56:24PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > Can somebody with a webspider crawl these documents, and put it up > > > on the web? > > > > > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt > > > > All or nearly all of them are duplicates of same documents > > elsewhere in the directory tree; "X/text/" and "X/iraq/" are > > supposed to be copies of "X/", with images removed in the first > > case. I suspect that downloading them all would just confirm that. > > > > -- > > avva

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Re: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> This robots.txt issue was exaggerated by leftist crtitics of the > administration. (This is not a general defense of the White House, > just a statement of fact.) The Bush WH.gov server has a special Iraq > section where press releases, speeches, etc. are reposted in a > different HTML template. The WH only wants the "master" copy indexed > and not the duplicate copy in the second template. Hence the apparent > weirdness in robots.txt. > > I have not found any skullduggery going on, though I suppose it > wouldn't hurt to keep a copy of the Iraq section for "diff" purposes > just in case. > > -Declan > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:59:07PM +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:56:24PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > Can somebody with a webspider crawl these documents, and put it up > > > on the web? > > > > > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt > > > > All or nearly all of them are duplicates of same documents > > elsewhere in the directory tree; "X/text/" and "X/iraq/" are > > supposed to be copies of "X/", with images removed in the first > > case. I suspect that downloading them all would just confirm that. > > > > -- > > avva

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