July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

Lucrative update
by Patrick 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Lucrative release 4 is out. I know many people are used to seeing releases numbered like "0.000001", "0.000002", "2.0.3.0.14.657" etc. but release numbering systems are essentially arbitrary in nature so don't get excited as Lucrative goes toward version 50+. This release is a fairly minor one, but included some changes such as the client name that I wanted to get out as soon as possible. There is also a new development weblog at http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/weblog/. I went through an install with someone over IRC last night and made a blog entry summarizing the install notes. I recommend reading the notes before attempting an install. I am glad to help with an install, drop me a note at patrick(a)lfcgate.com if you have trouble. Some documentation on the various entities in the Lucrative system is now available on the website, http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/documentation.php but more is needed and coming. If Lucrative is interesting to you, please consider helping in any way you can: Feedback Installation reports Suggestions Comments Criticism Feature requests Source code patches Donations Are all very much welcomed. And criticism is more useful to me than praise. My sincere thanks to everyone who has participated so far by installing, testing, providing feedback, spreading the word, and donating. And finally I just received word from SourceForge that the project registration for Lucrative has been approved. Regards, Patrick -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> mQGiBD5ECKcRBADUvjXHwLtxIyS4AyjBs/dFtN6rdeP18Fhzh1hD5fJwkFevqY9Z I1ASROTh6eXYF7pU5sEvbcPshHyTB41ZtTqZvQvpwWN0fUzOuutuI0mtC5UPp9Rz j47SdWLdEXNHjwnHDCYSyqtqZu8GujGRQybR0eP3NIh/NwbSDUKdgz7IjwCg//Jo UtjP3zUFobm/0UYA+CJ5krED/091x9Js0gwNwvjbzM8DqO+r8qNz0kXI13FkrPRk QNd37lxt6m2m8HZD1WYM2wKwtMzHSwJcWzaDZ/tNc+ppYjzpw0EQCh9FqjGs8Vau guF6PA1M8lJTCcLKaL4e7ynic+PAw5Xa/tdOYgFCG+eLMU5RLvzRCYoOLIjgMJLJ yG98BACAMlDmFVYgC/UKvzZmHfZ5CtCKd8sPfCXrYLu5NeFRE0LR6D6zjzmhi1xX okfreR5o3T/y78VBM98js+m2/+7Z0AElqydeW/RnV1zqwDGjDr9z2MgARf3yLAbs n3BU8Fz61RwvHy6cRkT+2dR2f69QQUSpkupvLwZIGX/iwm4uKLQdUGF0cmljayA8 cGF0cmlja0BsZmNnYXRlLmNvbT6JAE4EEBECAA4FAj5ECKcECwMCAQIZAQAKCRBb mvb9yuOVfaA2AKDAu5tDj9F2KI8cJMrKKkQRAcUyxACg6/bei7lUJH+E5igJqGRx SjKrRA65BA0EPkQIpxAQAPkYoH5aBmF6Q5CV3AVsh4bsYezNRR8O2OCjecbJ3HoL rOQ/40aUtjBKU9d8AhZIgLUV5SmZqZ8HdNP/46HFliBOmGW42A3uEF2rthccUdhQ yiJXQym+lehWKzh4XAvb+ExN1eOqRsz7zhfoKp0UYeOEqU/Rg4Soebbvj6dDRgjG zB13VyQ4SuLE8OiOE2eXTpITYfbb6yUOF/32mPfIfHmwch04dfv2wXPEgxEmK0Ng w+Po1gr9oSgmC66prrNlD6IAUwGgfNaroxIe+g8qzh90hE/K8xfzpEDp19J3tkIt AjbBJstoXp18mAkKjX4t7eRdefXUkk+bGI78KqdLfDL2Qle3CH8IF3KiutapQvMF 6PlTETlPtvFuuUs4INoBp1ajFOmPQFXz0AfGy0OplK33TGSGSfgMg71l6RfUodNQ +PVZX9x2Uk89PY3bzpnhV5JZzf24rnRPxfx2vIPFRzBhznzJZv8V+bv9kV7HAarT W56NoKVyOtQa8L9GAFgr5fSI/VhOSdvNILSd5JEHNmszbDgNRR0PfIizHHxbLY72 88kjwEPwpVsYjY67VYy4XTjTNP18F1dDox0YbN4zISy1Kv884bEpQBgRjXyEpwpy 1obEAxnIByl6ypUM2Zafq9AKUJsCRtMIPWakXUGfnHy9iUsiGSa6q6Jew1XrPdYX AAICD/wKwtF7Y4NKBe8PQ6jDbjWziiTv9Ac/EnRTJDQEoqgLa2LyE+6Ahw/VPGvp mfxkD2MKxC9E7kYVmasn6sHnSpvAv3e7O1Bqbo/qLzzCcJQ5VCurZ+elRM1GZ4Oc fM19FPKutb0/JFEv0nrqS4BGkF7WFBbu5dKYl/GIO7Co1mAerFIb719dOwMPVEIz OT08u8uB9jyR8gEElf+CVuNfOUkrUGg4HS4SbmTTrCSz3/8n5PkquSuAyjCB/dwM ZsZwA0/TTR8sDYlmlf9xPj5PGpGnV9OUwfig6eE0eWtRFeasmz0uiX+yp45ABtNh 6EXP/PFaBgXi9omXXjeeFYfpDvmfA6izvTIQfXTV6V9ZWrBfXarM+GQ+6guXWVbd 9fXvmCr982LkzuKQrK1OpRXBMUapXL+tOy/LYzz91InqKKhgPNGa12fvotZ4LzlM iqoM+Hpz5L9B5We1Ph0lD6RBVXDCqd+P8extnY/7AaDy7tC0UghaAaUuEZXJQPIc oQ3QGbpjM0nGe/VZN5EZhljau0NNENFaU56cOpvOhcO04gLGNNc2NS+rIpTMsaHh o1CG90c5zZZJuUbyx0mIHriNQXDgEwunSZPQorKK9KSppyyjeuOyi5F/mBBPXeyT weLhLqLvAr9se/+Z3aQvMADJi8zUZtGggLTw+N9R5XSwtSh2R4kARgQYEQIABgUC PkQIpwAKCRBbmvb9yuOVfWayAKC+mBhHdn1XZ5uH0RocAyJ32hx2kgCePyhB+IqM TjWLDLarQxcPYhbkFi4= =nx1M -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- --- 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)wasabisystems.com

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Vaccine developed for lethal ricin
by R. A. Hettinga 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99992783 NewScientist.com Vaccine developed for lethal ricin 10:31 12 September 02 Andy Coghlan A vaccine against the lethal toxin ricin could soon be available - and it may be needed, researchers warn. "A big stash of ricin was found in the caves of Afghanistan," says Ellen Vitetta of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, whose team developed the vaccine. "They weren't collecting it to make stew." Ricin, a natural toxin found in castor beans, is cheap and relatively easy to produce. And as it is a powder, it is easily turned into an aerosol that can be inhaled. Nor does it take much to kill someone: just 1 to 10 micrograms of ricin per kilogram of body weight. About this amount on the sharpened tip of an umbrella was enough to kill the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov, after an infamous attack on London's Waterloo Bridge in 1978. "You get flu-like symptoms, then suddenly you're dead," says Vitetta. "This stuff really frightens me." Fluid retention The toxin has two components. Its "B chain" binds to cells, allowing the second component, the "A chain", to enter the cell and disable the protein factories. Just a single A chain can kill a cell. The team's vaccine, which is a stripped-down version of the A chain, arose as a spin-off from Vitetta's work on ricin-based anti-cancer drugs. The idea, which many groups are working on, is to attach the A chain to antibodies that target tumour cells. In trials, however, Vitetta found that while the ricin-based drugs do kill cancer cells, patients given high doses can develop a side effect called vascular leakage. "They retain fluid, gain weight and can have organ failure," Vitetta says. To improve the anti-cancer drugs, Vitetta and her colleagues stripped out the part of the toxin that was causing vascular leakage. "Then we thought: why don't we make a vaccine by stripping out the active site, too." Army interest Of the three versions of the A chain they genetically engineered, two turned out to have the desired effect on mice. The animals survived exposure to 10 times the dose of ricin that killed unvaccinated mice. "It's cheap, simple and protects wonderfully without side effects because it's a totally inactive protein," Vitetta says. She has now applied to the National Institutes of Health for further funding to test the vaccine against aerosolised ricin and hopes eventually to test the vaccine in people. The US Army is also interested because no approved vaccine exists. Previous attempts to make one by chemically inactivating the toxin failed. Journal reference: Vaccine (vol 20, p3422) 10:31 12 September 02 -- ----------------- 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' --- 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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use of routing information in anti-fraud mechanisms
by Geoffrey Goodell 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

It seems that some anti-fraud mechanisms have evolved to use information about how a user is connected to the Internet to determine whether they are likely to be fradulent. Specifically, in my case it turns out that Paypal does not accept my debit card: "We were unable to verify this credit card through our card validation process. To proceed with checkout, please verify the information you entered is correct or try a different card." I do not have other cards, and my card works everywhere else. A little online investigation suggests that Paypal outsources its card verification process to an overzealous company called CyberSource, and there are many false positives. I suspect that in my case, the false positive is related to my use of Tor. According to this article, geographic location (i.e. "where a buyer's computer is") determined by IP address and ISP data, can cause a transaction to be denied: http://www.intelligentbanking.com/brm/news/ob/20000915.asp These articles cite geolocation as a useful anti-fraud technique: http://www.cybersource.com/news_and_events/international/view.xml?page_id=5… http://www.reliant.com/yhb/department/1,,CID457419,00.html?&cktst=true&REID… A544C80-A195-0762-7F7B-9DCB487135AD http://www.slate.com/id/74654/ http://www.collectionsworld.com/cgi-bin/readstory2.pl?story=20031201CCRU387… ml http://www.networkworld.com/news/2001/1022visa.html It seems to me that the world has already begun walking down the dangerous road of developing infrastructure that rely upon routing information and ISP data to identify fraudulent activity. This will present a major stumblingblock to the deployment of location-independent services and overlay networks such as Tor that attempt to separate location from identity. Geoff ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 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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[Politech] Weekly column: Tracking you wherever you drive -- GPS bugs and the Transportation Department [priv]
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-5980979.html Perspective: E-tracking, coming to a DMV near you By Declan McCullagh December 5, 2005, 4:00 AM PST Trust federal bureaucrats to take a good idea and transform it into a frightening proposal to track Americans wherever they drive. The U.S. Department of Transportation has been handing millions of dollars to state governments for GPS-tracking pilot projects designed to track vehicles wherever they go. So far, Washington state and Oregon have received fat federal checks to figure out how to levy these "mileage-based road user fees." Now that electronic tracking and taxing may be coming to a DMV near you. The Office of Transportation Policy Studies, part of the Federal Highway Administration, is about to announce another round of grants totaling some $11 million. A spokeswoman on Friday said the office is "shooting for the end of the year" for the announcement, and more money is expected for GPS (Global Positioning System) tracking efforts. [...remainder snipped...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.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 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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[E-B] EFF: Secret Surveillance Evidence Unsealed in AT&T
by EFF Press 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Spying Case Reply-To: press(a)eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release For Immediate Release: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 Contact: Cindy Cohn Legal Director Electronic Frontier Foundation cindy(a)eff.org +1 415 436-9333 x108 (office), +1 415 307-2148 (cell) Kurt Opsahl Senior Staff Attorney Electronic Frontier Foundation kurt(a)eff.org +1 415 436-9333 x106 Secret Surveillance Evidence Unsealed in AT&T Spying Case Whistleblower Declaration and Other Key Documents Released to Public San Francisco - More documents detailing secret government surveillance of AT&T's Internet traffic have been released to the public as part of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) class-action lawsuit against the telecom giant. Some of the unsealed information was previously made public in redacted form. But after negotiations with AT&T, EFF filed newly unredacted documents describing a secret, secure room in AT&T's facilities that gave the National Security Agency (NSA) direct access to customers' emails and other Internet communications. These include several internal AT&T documents that have long been available on media websites, EFF's legal arguments to the 9th Circuit, and the full declarations of whistleblower Mark Klein and of J. Scott Marcus, the former Senior Advisor for Internet Technology to the Federal Communications Commission, who bolsters and explains EFF's evidence. "This is critical evidence supporting our claim that AT&T is cooperating with the NSA in the illegal dragnet surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "This surveillance is under debate in Congress and across the nation, as well as in the courts. The public has a right to see these important documents, the declarations from our witnesses, and our legal arguments, and we are very pleased to release them." EFF filed the class-action suit against AT&T last year, accusing the telecom giant of illegally assisting in the NSA's spying on millions of ordinary Americans. The lower court allowed the case to proceed and the government has now asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss the case, claiming that the lawsuit could expose state secrets. EFF's newly released brief in response outlines how the case should go forward respecting both liberty and security. "The District Court rejected the government's attempt to sweep this case under the rug," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl. "This country has a long tradition of open court proceedings, and we're pleased that as we present our case to the Court of Appeals, the millions of affected AT&T customers will be able to see our arguments and evidence and judge for themselves." Oral arguments in the 9th Circuit appeal are set for the week of August 13. For the unredacted Klein declaration: http://eff.org/legal/cases/att/SER_klein_decl.pdf For the internal documents: http://eff.org/legal/cases/att/SER_klein_exhibits.pdf For the unredacted Marcus declaration: http://eff.org/legal/cases/att/SER_marcus_decl.pdf For EFF's 9th Circuit brief: http://eff.org/legal/cases/att/9thanswerbrief.pdf For more on the class-action lawsuit against AT&T: http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/ For this release: http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_06.php#005304 About EFF The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to support free expression and privacy online. EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the most linked-to websites in the world at http://www.eff.org/ -end- _______________________________________________ presslist mailing list https://falcon.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/presslist ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.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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[IP] EFF: Secret Surveillance Evidence Unsealed in AT&T Spying Case
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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Vaccine developed for lethal ricin
by R. A. Hettinga 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99992783 NewScientist.com Vaccine developed for lethal ricin 10:31 12 September 02 Andy Coghlan A vaccine against the lethal toxin ricin could soon be available - and it may be needed, researchers warn. "A big stash of ricin was found in the caves of Afghanistan," says Ellen Vitetta of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, whose team developed the vaccine. "They weren't collecting it to make stew." Ricin, a natural toxin found in castor beans, is cheap and relatively easy to produce. And as it is a powder, it is easily turned into an aerosol that can be inhaled. Nor does it take much to kill someone: just 1 to 10 micrograms of ricin per kilogram of body weight. About this amount on the sharpened tip of an umbrella was enough to kill the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov, after an infamous attack on London's Waterloo Bridge in 1978. "You get flu-like symptoms, then suddenly you're dead," says Vitetta. "This stuff really frightens me." Fluid retention The toxin has two components. Its "B chain" binds to cells, allowing the second component, the "A chain", to enter the cell and disable the protein factories. Just a single A chain can kill a cell. The team's vaccine, which is a stripped-down version of the A chain, arose as a spin-off from Vitetta's work on ricin-based anti-cancer drugs. The idea, which many groups are working on, is to attach the A chain to antibodies that target tumour cells. In trials, however, Vitetta found that while the ricin-based drugs do kill cancer cells, patients given high doses can develop a side effect called vascular leakage. "They retain fluid, gain weight and can have organ failure," Vitetta says. To improve the anti-cancer drugs, Vitetta and her colleagues stripped out the part of the toxin that was causing vascular leakage. "Then we thought: why don't we make a vaccine by stripping out the active site, too." Army interest Of the three versions of the A chain they genetically engineered, two turned out to have the desired effect on mice. The animals survived exposure to 10 times the dose of ricin that killed unvaccinated mice. "It's cheap, simple and protects wonderfully without side effects because it's a totally inactive protein," Vitetta says. She has now applied to the National Institutes of Health for further funding to test the vaccine against aerosolised ricin and hopes eventually to test the vaccine in people. The US Army is also interested because no approved vaccine exists. Previous attempts to make one by chemically inactivating the toxin failed. Journal reference: Vaccine (vol 20, p3422) 10:31 12 September 02 -- ----------------- 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' --- 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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use of routing information in anti-fraud mechanisms
by Geoffrey Goodell 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

It seems that some anti-fraud mechanisms have evolved to use information about how a user is connected to the Internet to determine whether they are likely to be fradulent. Specifically, in my case it turns out that Paypal does not accept my debit card: "We were unable to verify this credit card through our card validation process. To proceed with checkout, please verify the information you entered is correct or try a different card." I do not have other cards, and my card works everywhere else. A little online investigation suggests that Paypal outsources its card verification process to an overzealous company called CyberSource, and there are many false positives. I suspect that in my case, the false positive is related to my use of Tor. According to this article, geographic location (i.e. "where a buyer's computer is") determined by IP address and ISP data, can cause a transaction to be denied: http://www.intelligentbanking.com/brm/news/ob/20000915.asp These articles cite geolocation as a useful anti-fraud technique: http://www.cybersource.com/news_and_events/international/view.xml?page_id=5… http://www.reliant.com/yhb/department/1,,CID457419,00.html?&cktst=true&REID… A544C80-A195-0762-7F7B-9DCB487135AD http://www.slate.com/id/74654/ http://www.collectionsworld.com/cgi-bin/readstory2.pl?story=20031201CCRU387… ml http://www.networkworld.com/news/2001/1022visa.html It seems to me that the world has already begun walking down the dangerous road of developing infrastructure that rely upon routing information and ISP data to identify fraudulent activity. This will present a major stumblingblock to the deployment of location-independent services and overlay networks such as Tor that attempt to separate location from identity. Geoff ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 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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[Politech] Weekly column: Tracking you wherever you drive -- GPS bugs and the Transportation Department [priv]
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-5980979.html Perspective: E-tracking, coming to a DMV near you By Declan McCullagh December 5, 2005, 4:00 AM PST Trust federal bureaucrats to take a good idea and transform it into a frightening proposal to track Americans wherever they drive. The U.S. Department of Transportation has been handing millions of dollars to state governments for GPS-tracking pilot projects designed to track vehicles wherever they go. So far, Washington state and Oregon have received fat federal checks to figure out how to levy these "mileage-based road user fees." Now that electronic tracking and taxing may be coming to a DMV near you. The Office of Transportation Policy Studies, part of the Federal Highway Administration, is about to announce another round of grants totaling some $11 million. A spokeswoman on Friday said the office is "shooting for the end of the year" for the announcement, and more money is expected for GPS (Global Positioning System) tracking efforts. [...remainder snipped...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.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 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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[E-B] EFF: Secret Surveillance Evidence Unsealed in AT&T
by EFF Press 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Spying Case Reply-To: press(a)eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release For Immediate Release: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 Contact: Cindy Cohn Legal Director Electronic Frontier Foundation cindy(a)eff.org +1 415 436-9333 x108 (office), +1 415 307-2148 (cell) Kurt Opsahl Senior Staff Attorney Electronic Frontier Foundation kurt(a)eff.org +1 415 436-9333 x106 Secret Surveillance Evidence Unsealed in AT&T Spying Case Whistleblower Declaration and Other Key Documents Released to Public San Francisco - More documents detailing secret government surveillance of AT&T's Internet traffic have been released to the public as part of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) class-action lawsuit against the telecom giant. Some of the unsealed information was previously made public in redacted form. But after negotiations with AT&T, EFF filed newly unredacted documents describing a secret, secure room in AT&T's facilities that gave the National Security Agency (NSA) direct access to customers' emails and other Internet communications. These include several internal AT&T documents that have long been available on media websites, EFF's legal arguments to the 9th Circuit, and the full declarations of whistleblower Mark Klein and of J. Scott Marcus, the former Senior Advisor for Internet Technology to the Federal Communications Commission, who bolsters and explains EFF's evidence. "This is critical evidence supporting our claim that AT&T is cooperating with the NSA in the illegal dragnet surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "This surveillance is under debate in Congress and across the nation, as well as in the courts. The public has a right to see these important documents, the declarations from our witnesses, and our legal arguments, and we are very pleased to release them." EFF filed the class-action suit against AT&T last year, accusing the telecom giant of illegally assisting in the NSA's spying on millions of ordinary Americans. The lower court allowed the case to proceed and the government has now asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss the case, claiming that the lawsuit could expose state secrets. EFF's newly released brief in response outlines how the case should go forward respecting both liberty and security. "The District Court rejected the government's attempt to sweep this case under the rug," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl. "This country has a long tradition of open court proceedings, and we're pleased that as we present our case to the Court of Appeals, the millions of affected AT&T customers will be able to see our arguments and evidence and judge for themselves." Oral arguments in the 9th Circuit appeal are set for the week of August 13. For the unredacted Klein declaration: http://eff.org/legal/cases/att/SER_klein_decl.pdf For the internal documents: http://eff.org/legal/cases/att/SER_klein_exhibits.pdf For the unredacted Marcus declaration: http://eff.org/legal/cases/att/SER_marcus_decl.pdf For EFF's 9th Circuit brief: http://eff.org/legal/cases/att/9thanswerbrief.pdf For more on the class-action lawsuit against AT&T: http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/ For this release: http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_06.php#005304 About EFF The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to support free expression and privacy online. EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the most linked-to websites in the world at http://www.eff.org/ -end- _______________________________________________ presslist mailing list https://falcon.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/presslist ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.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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