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Re: Piracy Bests ITAR
by Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Bruce Murphy wrote: > > Has nothing to do with socialism... even works nice in a capitalist > > as in the case where people try the software, decide they like it, > > and then buy it latter when they can afford it. Sidekick and WordStar > > became popular because of this "borrowing". MS-DOS probably would > > be so widespread if it weren't pirated. > > Uh huh? And you are saying that there were *heaps* of computers out > there which could run MS-DOS which didn't come with it? And how much > more would those companies have made had the products been *forced* to > be sold rather than pirated. The point of the original article was that those products probably would *not* have been sold. What life would be like in other circumstances is hard to consider... and rather moot (a friend of mine has an expression for describing hypotheticals... "What is my grandfather had four arms?"). FSF/GNU and projects like FreeDOS, if they were several years earlier, would have made things quite interesting.... A point NOT in the orig. article but hinted at in the subject, though: if people cannot *buy* the software because of regs like ITAR, they'll steal it. - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMSiSGioZzwIn1bdtAQHIzwF+NiBHyvvJRviXZv91iqEnMKc0LQWGok+z m8TiKOspP7wAZgGNmeRXWFXwrt2BV7sO =LEUO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Russian Crypto Laws
by Michael Froomkin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone know whether 1) the russians have issued any crypto licenses to either russians or foreigners? 2) whether anyone has been prosecuted for unlicensed crypto use in Russia? or even been charged or warned? [The above may have been dictated with Dragon Dictate/Win 2.0 voice recognition. Be alert for unintentional strange word substitutions.] A. Michael Froomkin | +1 (305) 284-4285; +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) Associate Professor of Law | U. Miami School of Law | froomkin(a)law.miami.edu P.O. Box 248087 | http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA | It's warm here.

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Re: Patents and Trademarks invalid
by jf_avon＠citenet.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Here's an idea: whenever someone uploads something like the RC2 source code, >why not have everyone attach it to their .signature? Is criminal justice >seriously going to pursue tracking down millions of people that did this? >Or would they pull the plug. Man's survival tool is his mind. Patents and copyright are establishing the ownership and protection the result of the exercise of his survival tool. Therefore they are good. To try to eliminate them is equivalent to promote slavery. JFA **** NEW PGP 2.6.2 KEY ********* This key is actually suspended, as of Feb, 16 1996, was never distributed, and might be subject to deletion. Sorry for the trouble my mis-management might have caused. 2048 bits Key ID:24201BA1 1996/02/13 Jean-Francois Avon <jf_avon(a)citenet.net> Key fingerprint = 23 B6 24 31 86 67 FB 35 C7 A7 AF 12 A1 61 E9 3D **** OLD KEY: DO NOT USE ANYMORE UNLESS FOR VERIFYING SIGNATURES **** 1024 bits Key ID:57214AED 1995/10/04 Jean-Francois Avon <jf_avon(a)citenet.net> Key fingerprint = 84 96 76 AE EB 7C AB 15 88 47 87 B0 18 31 74 9F

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Assassination Biz
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hey, Jim Bell, here are some clients, or competitors, or best, targets? The Hit Men (Newsweek, Feb 26, 96) Call it "in-your-face-capitalism." You lose your job, your ex- employer's stock price rises, the CEO gets a fat raise. Today, the more people a company fires, the more Wall Street loves it, the higher its stock price goes. Cheer up, you're serving the greater good by being blown away by what economist Joseph Schumpeter christened "the gale of creative destruction." The world is changing and no matter how big and rich a company is, it has to adapt or die. But Wall Street and Big Business have made a bad problem worse by being greedheads. Lots of CEOs have messed up big time. They let payrolls get bloated. Then to recoup, the offer up employees as sacrifices to Mammon, god of Wall Street, hoping to get their stock price back up. When the price rises, it's like Wall Street spitting on the victim's bodies. Corporate heads, salaries and layoffs: Robert Allen, AT&T. Salary: $3,362,000, 40,000 layoffs. Louis Gerstner, IBM, $2,625,000, 60,000. Robert Palmer, Digital Equipment, $900,016, 20,000. Walter Shipley, Chemical/Chase, $2,496,154, 12,000. Charles Lee, GTE. $2,004,115, 17,000. Ronald Allen, Delta Air Lines, $475,000, 15,000. John McDonnell, McDonnell Douglas, $577,791, 17,000. Robert Stempel, General Motors, $1,000,000, 74,000. Edward Brennan, Sears, Roebuck, $3,075,000, 50,000. Michael Miles, Philip Morris, $1,000,000, 14,000. Frank Shrontz, Boeing, $1,420,935, 28,000. William Ferguson, CEO Nynex, $800,000, 16,800. Albert Dunlap, Scott Paper. $100,000,000 in salary, stock profits and other perks, 11,000.

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Re: True random numbers
by eli+＠GS160.SP.CS.CMU.EDU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May writes: >4. I'd avoid altogether phrases such as "generates random numbers," unless >your method uses radioactive decay or Johnson noise measurements, for >example, and maybe not even then. Persi Diaconis gave a talk here last week on pseudorandom generation, during which he was asked by people didn't use hardware RNGs. He said that he wasn't aware of any that passed the standard battery of statistical tests. (He also mentioned that nobody had thoroughly tested the complexity-theoretic generators such as Blum-Micali, and got into a rather vigorous discussion with a professor who argued that testing was superfluous. Diaconis: "You theorists always take that tone!") -- . Eli Brandt usual disclaimers . . eli+(a)cs.cmu.edu PGP key on request . . arrest me: violation of 18 U.S.C. 1462: "fuck".

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Re: Req. for soundbites
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 7:57 AM 2/19/96 -0500, tallpaul wrote: >On Feb 18, 1996 19:27:04, 'frantz(a)netcom.com (Bill Frantz)' wrote: > > >>>A local TV station has asked me for an interview, after I sent a graphic >>>of a mono-digital hand gesture with the phrase "censor this!" to the >Prez, >>>Veep, and the area congresscritters (cc'd to 2 TV stations and a radio >>>station), accompanied by a 'confession' and demand for swift prosecution. > >>> >>>Anyone got any nifty sound bites I can try to toss in? >> For the record, that is not my statement, but one I was replying to. No offense, I think I may have made the same kind of mistake. > >I do not think that sound bites are the way to deal with these complex >issues. Tallpaul is right when he says that one SHOULD not deal with complex issues through sound bites. However, the mathematical model for this part of politics is Prisoner's Dilemma. (BTW It is also the model for negative advertising.) When your opponent goes to sound bites, you also must, or you will lose. The CDA fans have been using sound bites such as, "It will protect our children from netporn." and, "The net is a sea of pornography." Lost jobs and dead teenagers are the strongest images I can present on our side and still feel look at myself in the mirror in the mornings. Regards - Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Frantz | The CDA means | Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 | lost jobs and | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | dead teenagers | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Encryption in software licenses...
by David J. Bianco 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone have a pointer to any good discussions on how to build programs with encrypted license keys? ftp.csua.berkeley.edu used to have such a file (/pub/cypherpunks/cryptanalysis/license.asc.gz), but the archive hasn't been accessible for a few days. Although I remember this to be mostly about how to crack such schemes, it has lots of useful information about how they are designed in the first place. Thanks, David -- ========================================================================== David J. Bianco | Web Wonders, Online Oddities, Cool Stuff iTribe, Inc. | Phone: (804) 446-9060 Fax: (804) 446-9061 Suite 1700, World Trade Center | email: <bianco(a)itribe.net> Norfolk, VA 23510 | URL : http://www.itribe.net/~bianco/

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ITAR Amended to Allow Personal Use Exemption
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From the most recent RISKS: >RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Friday 16 February 1996 Volume 17 : Issue 75 ... Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 14:04:39 EST From: denning(a)cs.cosc.georgetown.edu (Dorothy Denning) Subject: ITAR Amended to Allow Personal Use Exemption Today's Federal Register contains a notice from the Department of State, Bureau of Political Military Affairs, announcing final rule of an amendment to the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) allowing U.S. persons to temporarily export cryptographic products for personal use without the need for an export license. The product must not be intended for copying, demonstration, marketing, sale, re-export, or transfer of ownership or control. It must remain in the possession of the exporting person, which includes being locked in a hotel room or safe. While in transit, it must be with the person's accompanying baggage. Exports to certain countries are prohibited -- currently Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. The exporter must maintain records of each temporary export for five years. See Federal Register, Vol. 61, No. 33, Friday, February 16, 1996, Public Notice 2294, pp. 6111-6113. Dorothy Denning [This will probably become known as the Matt Blaze exemption. See Matt's ``My life as an international arms courier" in RISKS-16.73, 6 January 1995. PGN] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:18:02 -0500 (EST) From: Educom <educom(a)elanor.oit.unc.edu> Subject: Spreading the Word (Edupage, 15 February 1996) *The Washington Post* has reported that a Maryland family received a number of threatening calls after a University of Maryland student used the Internet to circulate a hearsay allegation that a daughter in the family was being mistreated by her mother. Posting his message on Internet newsgroups concerned with child welfare, psychology, left-wing politics, and civil liberties, the student urged people to call the mother "at home and tell her you are disgusted and you demand that she stops." The student claims: "You should be able to write what you want on the Internet, whether it's true or not." (*Houston Chronicle*, 14 Feb 1996, 2A) ------------------------------ _______________________ Regards, "Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves." -Gene Fowler Joseph Reagle http://farnsworth.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle(a)mit.edu 0C 69 D4 E8 F2 70 24 33 B4 5E 5E EC 35 E6 FB 88

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Net Partying Last Week?
by Bruce Baugh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm noticing something odd in the course of my remailer tests. There's an across-the-board increase in turnaround times for Sunday/Monday as compared with Friday/Saturday. Was there some remailer cyberbash I don't know about, or was this more likely to be a local problem? -- Bruce Baugh bruce(a)aracnet.com http://www.aracnet.com/~bruce

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Re: Some thoughts on the Chinese Net
by Bruce Baugh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:44 PM 2/19/96 -0600, Alex Strasheim <cp(a)proust.suba.com> wrote: >steady force towards liberalization. Once Chineese society has coexisted >with a vibrant black information market for a decade or two, making >things legal will probably seem sensible to most people -- no one will >expect the sky to fall if people are allowed to speak their minds. I'd like to agree, but I'm afraid I can't. Notice that many years of widespread use of currently illegal drugs in the US has not translated into widespread willingness to say that the drugs should be legal. Nor has the experience of decades of black markets turned into widespread Russian willingness to allow a lot more freedom: what they call "profiteering" and punish heavily is mostly what we call "wholesaling" and regard as an essential part of mundane distribution. Cognitive dissonance is really, really easy to come by, and hard to remove. -- Bruce Baugh bruce(a)aracnet.com http://www.aracnet.com/~bruce

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