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Who does the First Amendment protect?
by Declan McCullagh 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

perhaps relevant to our remailer discussion... ----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> -----

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sued for spying on employees inside your own house
by Subcommander Bob 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

Posted: September 6, 2001 06:02 PM (WSVN, JUST ONE STATION) Talk show host Rosie O'Donnell is being sued by former members of her security staff. They claim she spied on them and illegally recorded their conversations at her South Florida mansion. Although she doesn't live down here all the time...Rosie O'Donnell is part of the South Florida celebrity scene. And now like many celebs before her, she finds herself on the wrong end of a lawsuit. Rosie O'Donnell is a superstar. But she's lost three of her fans. Chris Delia, Steve Rubio and Ted Van Rijan have filed a lawsuit against Rosie and two security firms. They say while working security at her star island home - their conversations were illegally recorded by a device hidden in smoke detector. All had worked for her for years and say they felt close to the star and her four children. Steve Rubio, Security Guard said, "We developed a bond with the kids you know, we were the male figures, the dominate male figures in their lives pretty much." But the men say any feeling of family evaporated when they were fired after they complained about the hidden recordings. Steve Rubio, Security Guard said, "It's especially hurtful because you basically feel betrayed." They say if she had apologized , they wouldn't have filed a lawsuit. Instead Steve says he got a phone call from an irate Rosie. Steve Rubio, Security Guard said, "And she was just yelling and screaming and cursing at me and you know it was - I was shocked to the point I couldn't even respond to her except to say I think it's probably best to speak, you know, to our attorney." All three men are private investigators and say they understand a star's need for privacy. They suspect they were recorded because Rosie was concerned about leaks to the media about her private life. Its something they say they never did. Steve Rubio, Security Guard said, "Absolutely. And could you look Rosie in the eye and say - absolutely and she should know better - she should know that." But their lawyer says it was Rosie who violated their privacy. Russell Adler, Attorney says, "My clients protected Rosie's family and their privacy and that was very important to them to do that - and Rosie didn't protect theirs." Steve Rubio, Security Guard said, "We would never betray her the way she betrayed us - we would never do that." Expect Rosie O'Donnell to challenge that. she wasn't talking about the lawsuit - but her publicist denies any wrongdoing and says Rosie looks forward to defending herself in court. http://www.wsvn.com/extra/entertainment/box1/

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DoJ claims to have subpeona'd reporters phone records 13 times/decade
by Subcommander Bob 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

DoJ claims to have subpeona'd reporters phone records 13 times/decade http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA94IS6BRC.html

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police tracking activists (the more things change...)
by Subcommander Bob 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

September 6, 2001 By VIK JOLLY and TONY SAAVEDRA The Orange County Register ANAHEIM -- Detectives compiling information on Latino activists used an investigative technique typically reserved for investigating organized crime, drug networks and street gangs, according to a former police captain. Police, under orders from Chief Roger Baker, created organizational charts on five Latino activists who complained about alleged police misconduct. Baker presented the confidential report Nov. 14, 2000, to the City Council in a closed-door briefing. Retired Capt. Marc Hedgpeth said the charts showing the activists and their connections to community groups were part of a process called "link analysis," often used to outline conspiracies. Hedgpeth, who headed Anaheim's intelligence unit for four of his 25 years with the department, said the process in Anaheim is almost never used on non-criminals. To my knowledge just looking at the report, I can't think of a time when we ever used a link analysis process to deal with people who are not suspected of any kind of criminal conduct," said Hedgpeth, who competed with Baker for the chief's post. "At least four of those people who were attacked by Baker, we never suspected them of any kind of criminal conduct." <snip> http://www.ocregister.com/local/chief00906cci1.shtml

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Trummel v. Mitchell: 1st Amendment Issue
by Vicki Richman 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

Declan, this is not an electronic issue, but Trummel v. Mitchell, in Washington State, goes to the heart of a question raised on politech: Who is a "legitimate" journalist? See: http://www.contracabal.org/806-00.html Briefly, Paul Trummel, a retired journalist from Britain, with impeccable credentials, discovered what he believed to be fraud and abuse in the management of his moderate-income retirement home. He published leaflets and distributed them to his neighbors. The management got an order of protection against him, effectively banning him from his home and preventing him from approaching his neighbors. He argued freedom of the press, but the judge ruled that he was not a journalist, as he was retired and not employed by any "legitimate" publication. Therefore, the judge held, he lacked protection of the First Amendment and was guilty of harassment. In trying to get the order rescinded, Trummel has a pro bono attorney and an amicus brief by the ACLU. He'd like political civil-libertarian support, as well as financial contributions for his attorney. Solidarity, -- Vicki Richman vicric(a)vicric.com http://vicric.com **********

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Trummel v. Mitchell: 1st Amendment Issue
by Vicki Richman 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

Declan, this is not an electronic issue, but Trummel v. Mitchell, in Washington State, goes to the heart of a question raised on politech: Who is a "legitimate" journalist? See: http://www.contracabal.org/806-00.html Briefly, Paul Trummel, a retired journalist from Britain, with impeccable credentials, discovered what he believed to be fraud and abuse in the management of his moderate-income retirement home. He published leaflets and distributed them to his neighbors. The management got an order of protection against him, effectively banning him from his home and preventing him from approaching his neighbors. He argued freedom of the press, but the judge ruled that he was not a journalist, as he was retired and not employed by any "legitimate" publication. Therefore, the judge held, he lacked protection of the First Amendment and was guilty of harassment. In trying to get the order rescinded, Trummel has a pro bono attorney and an amicus brief by the ACLU. He'd like political civil-libertarian support, as well as financial contributions for his attorney. Solidarity, -- Vicki Richman vicric(a)vicric.com http://vicric.com **********

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Leilões ao preço da banana
by info＠giganetstore.com 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

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Club Cubana Goa
by Gregory & Nicholas 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

Club Cubana Goa`s hottest nightspot opening for the season 2001-2002 on the 14th October 2001 once again. Featuring Dj`s from London in the first half.

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Omniva\'s E-Mail \'Shredder\' Offers New Level of Security
by mean-green＠hushmail.com 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [Didn't these guys present something at a BA CP meeting last year?] September 6, 2001 Under the Radar Omniva's E-Mail 'Shredder' Offers New Level of Security By ELLEN BYRON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Imagine e-mail that can self-destruct after a certain amount of time, leaving no trace in in-boxes and servers. Omniva Policy Systems has created software that can do just that. Michael Burkland The San Francisco-based firm, founded in 1999 as Disappearing Inc., has taken on the loophole left by the deletion key: Even though an e-mail has been deleted, it still lurks within the servers of the sender and recipients. What Omniva (www.omniva.com1) aims to do is help companies establish retention policies for e-mail, much like those typically in place for paper documents, by offering the e-mail equivalent of a paper shredder. After spending nearly two years on research and development, the company released the first version of its software in July. E-mail "is a huge gateway -- electronic assets are constantly flowing in and out of a company," says Chief Executive Michael Burkland. "We're giving companies control." Here's how it works. The software installs a second send button on the user's e-mail program, titled "Send With Policy." When a customer selects the button, Omniva's technology encrypts the e-mail into an unreadable state before it is sent, and allows the sender to specify a detonation time of anywhere between 30 minutes or even years after the e-mail is dispatched. Only a specific and unique key from Omniva's server can make the e-mail readable. Once the message reaches its destination, the recipient's e-mail program requests the key from Omniva's server to decode the message. When the detonation time is reached, that key is voided, making all copies of the e-mail permanently unreadable, including forwarded copies. Corporate customers can customize the software to fit their document-retention policies. Firms may determine the level of control employees have in specifying e-mail expiration dates and what types of e-mail are retained. E-mails detailing lunch menus, for example, could have one expiration date, while communication regarding clients can have another. Likewise, departments and levels of management can also have respective retention policies set by the company. Though only Microsoft Outlook users can send the disappearing e-mail, any e-mail program can receive it, including the Blackberry hand-held device. Omniva is currently in collaboration with Ernst & Young LLP to develop a Lotus Notes version of the technology, due out later this year. Although a trial version of the current software can be downloaded free from the company's Web site, the company aims to customize the product for corporate customers. A one-year corporate subscription starts at $70,000. Omniva changed its name in July, saying it wanted to convey its software does more than just make e-mail disappear. Part of its broader focus is on electronic-document maintenance, which came about as the company became aware of an increasing amount of litigation involving recovered e-mail. Think Bill Gates in Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's courtroom. "Writing is permanent, compared to speech, so we were trying to find something that is between the two," the company's co-founder, Dave Marvit, says. "We're empowering people to have conversations that go away." Mr. Marvit, who had been at Alexa Inc., a San Francisco-based Internet archivist and Web-navigation service provider that is part of Amazon.com Inc., joined with his brother, Maclen Marvit, and two friends, Keith Rosema and Jeff Ubois, to found the company in 1999. Mr. Marvit now serves as a company spokesman, and his brother sits on its board. Mr. Burkland joined the company in September 2000; he is founder and former CEO of Eventus Software Inc., which is now part of Segue Software Inc. Since its founding, Omniva has raised $20 million, with the bulk of that coming from funds raised in February of this year. Its backers include venture-capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Menlo Park, Calif.; Red Rock Ventures, Palo Alto, Calif.; Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners, New York, and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., New York. The company, which has 30 employees, has no paying customers at this point; it says it is negotiating with two companies and several firms are testing the s! oftware. E-mail security that acts like a shredder, that is, software that enables e-mail to expire, is still a small industry, says Maurene Grey, senior research analyst at Gartner Group. Other players in the industry include Authentica Inc., Waltham, Mass.; Atabok Inc., Newton, Mass.; and Privacy Preserve Inc., Greenville, Del. She cautions that e-mail shredding is less defined by the courts than archiving and could be a liability should courts deem the action to be intentionally destroying company records. Between 85% and 90% of litigants routinely ask for e-mail records, up from about 1% to 3% in 1994, according to Joan Feldman, president and founder of Computer Forensics Inc., a Seattle company that provides assistance to attorneys acquiring and analyzing computer-based evidence and advises clients on developing privacy policies and retention-control programs for computer-based documents. Ms. Feldman says a growing number of companies see the need for e-mail retention policies, mainly due to costs involved in litigation and the risk associated with retaining everything. A company involved in a legal case could spend between $5,000 and $10,000 for electronic-recovery specialists to review just one day's worth of e-mail, she estimates. "The more documents you have, the greater the expense and the greater the odds that you have held on to something that could hurt you in your litigation," she says. But who sees those documents also matters. That's why Omniva is working to update its software so that managers can determine who can read an e-mail once it is sent. 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Re: onion p2p camouflaging as vanilla traffic
by Faustine 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

Eugene wrote: >A couple of questions to resident cluebots: > >1) what is the bulk of traffic originating on user side and which does not > end within the ISP? > >2) how much of that traffic is in clear? Specifically, what is the > percentile of SSL sessions, and what is the trend? Do we at > all already see things SOAPy, .NETy, or XML-RPCy out there in the > wild? > >3) browser-web server connect is bidirectional. Which do's and don'ts > needs one follow, if one wants to implement an unblockable (well, an > ISP not granting web access won't stay an ISP for long) p2p > infrastructure on top of that? > >(should have paid more attention to the REST thing on FoRK, damn). > >Some illuminating comments highly appreciated. You might want to check ResearchIndex, the NEC Research Institute's Scientific Literature Digital Library. They have a whole treasure trove of relevant PDFs online: an excellent resource in general(if you haven't come across it already.) Good luck! ~Faustine. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs

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