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Re: Voluntary Mandatory Self-Ratings and Limits on Speech
by Bill Stewart 22 Aug '01

22 Aug '01

>On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote: > > Many of us don't believe this common belief today, that the First is > > mainly about political speech, is consistent with the intent of the > Framers. If you're talking about tobacco advertising or dirty pictures on the Net, politicians will tell you "Oh, No, the Freedom-of-speech-and-press stuff in the First Amendment isn't about that, it's about protecting political speech." But if you're talking about campaign finance, "well, no, elections are too important to let people with money pay to have their opinions published, that would corrupt the election process." We've got a current case in California, reported in the 8/21 SF Chronicle, where Gov. Gray Davis is asking a judge to block psuedonymous TV ads criticizing his atrocious mishandling of the electricity crisis. This is pure political speech, not even mentioning elections or opposing politicians, just slamming the "Gray-outs from Gray Davis". According to the article by Ray Delgado, Davis's campaign committee sued, complaining that the American Taxpayers Alliance, based in DC, broke California law by not registering with the CA secretary of state as a political organization and not disclosing the identities of its donors. They spent about $2M, and it's headed by Scott Reed, a Republican campaign consultant, and registed with the IRS as a non-profit corporation. Delgado says that Time Magazine identified Reliant Energy as a big contributor, and the Center for Responsive Politics says their prime donors are oil&gas companies (big surprise there, eh?) The Alliance's lawyer, James Bopp, says that this ad is an assessment of the gov's performance in office, and protected by the First. Davis's mouthpiece is Joseph Remcho, and the Judge is San Francisco Superior Court Judge David Garcia. (Of course, I'd be extremely surprised if the ad also criticizes Davis's predecessor, Republican Party Reptile Pete Wilson, whose economic cluelessness got us into this mess, leaving behind a system that would take *far* more economic competence than any major Democrat can be expect to have to repair it.)

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Re: Lawyers, Guns, and Money
by dmolnar 22 Aug '01

22 Aug '01

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Faustine wrote: > Harvard is supposed to have the best program, but here's a little something > I found online from the University of British Columbia which explains what > it's all about. This one seems a little business-heavy, but other analysis > programs have a lot more room to focus on technology policy. At least this Perhaps in evaluating potential programs, it would be helpful to list people in the policy + technology area who are worth looking into. Along perhaps with which institutions they studied at? I'll start. I regret that I'm not familiar with this area, and so I'm sure I'll overlook many interesting people. I'm also not sure what to do about people with some policy interests who are primarily cryptographers -- do we include Ron Rivest because of his work on electronic voting? -------------------------------------- L. Jean Camp (currently at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government) Was a student at CMU with Doug Tygar. Since then, Tygar has moved to UC-Berkeley; I don't know if Berkeley has any similar technology + policy program. She has done some work which would be of interest, including protocols for anonymous transactions, papers on how to handle law enforcement, and "Pricing Security."(Maybe relevant to the recent debate over insurance incentives for computer security; I haven't read it yet.) Home page: http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/degreeprog/courses.nsf/wzByDirectoryName/L.Jea… Publications: http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.jcamp.academic.ksg/cv.html ------------------------------ Lorrie F. Cranor (ATT Research) http://lorrie.cranor.org/ Works on Publius, P3P, online voting, other privacy-related issues. Attended Washington University in St. Louis for her PhD. Has links to pages on "Social Informantics" and "Value-Sensitive Design" which may be of interest. (Personally, I am intrigued, but I have a low tolerance for the way in which these are talked about; which is part of why I was not a History of Science major.) ------------------------------- Susan Landau (Sun Microsystems) http://www.sun.com/research/people/slandau/ Went to MIT. Wrote _Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption_ with Whitfield Diffie. -------------------------------- Michael Froomkin (U Miami law school) http://www.law.tm/ Wrote "Flood Control on the Information Ocean." Among other things. Used to show up on cypherpunks once upon a time. I don't see where he went, so perhaps it doesn't matter. ---------------------------------------- By the way, what exactly do you *do* after you graduate from a technology and policy program? Every now and then I wonder if I will eventually end up in law school or a policy + technology program. The thought is alternately exciting and saddening. Then again, so is the prospect of being a "pure" researcher. -David Molnar

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Double standard?
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 22 Aug '01

22 Aug '01

I'm sure everyone has seen this. http://cryptome.org/jones-v-cat.htm And I know how I dislike raw links so I won't do it. The Honorable Edith Jones has a VERY healthy attitude towards electronic snooping. IMHO she's outraged. Is the Washington-mandated snooping part of a power play where the behavior of the judiciary needs to be monitored and controlled in real-time or is it incidental to the stated goals of cleaning up office computer usage? Now I wonder how Judge Jones feels about snooping on the population in general? Is she a standout among judges or do those in power feel outrage only when the abuse is close to home? Do those in power want to create the virtual version of gated communities and limit the membership or all entitled to the same rights? Mike

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Re: Bomb Law Reporter - special edition
by Bill Stewart 22 Aug '01

22 Aug '01

At 07:07 PM 08/22/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote: >Have you happened to have seen any good papers on constructing do-it- >yourself cheap, effective, portable shielding? Probably might as well ask >for the moon too while I'm at it, but it's worth a shot! Back when I was playing with that technology, there was no such thing as "cheap, effective, portable" :-) The three main applications for shielding were - FCC-grade quietness - so your neighbors don't complain about TV interference, but that's not enough to stop eavesdroppers - TEMPEST-certified equipment, which not only needs the technical capabilities correct but also the testing and paperwork, which tended to add ~$5000 per PC. - ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC) testing, which uses big shielded rooms to make quiet environments for testing hardware in. The technology's pretty similar to TEMPEST-room shielding, except that you put the noisy stuff outside instead of inside, but it's the big expensive non-portable end of the product spectrum.

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22 Aug '01

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22 Aug '01

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The secret knock, the red carnation (Re: Gnutella scanning instead of service providers.)
by Dynamite Bob 22 Aug '01

22 Aug '01

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Gary Jeffers wrote: > If a scanner were written and widely deployed, then I think that >the problem of crushing Gnutella would be at least a magnitude harder. >Maybe the Gnutella support sites would promote and distribute such >a scanner? You can always use the following method: Participating Nodes listen on random (UDP, say) ports for "I'm here" and "Gimme a pointer" queries. When booting your Node, it randomly sends "Gimme a pointer" messages to random IP addresses/ports until a helpful Participating Node is found, who shares the indexing info he has. Or if you are worried about exposure when a Fed/RIAA/MPAA box receives such a query from your machine: Nodes could instead listen for contacts on an 'uninteresting' port like TCP/80, and disguise queries as innocent looking requests. (You'll note resemblances to Code Red IIS-exploits...) Note also similarities to how spooks arrange to meet in public places... with a deniable nonsuspicious introduction

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Re: Bomb Law Reporter - special edition
by Faustine 22 Aug '01

22 Aug '01

Bill Stewart wrote: At 03:31 PM 08/20/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote: >Eugene wrote: > > > and switching to an emission poor system (chucking CRT for LCD > > would do plenty for starters) > >Actually, that won't help you much: emissions from LCD screens can be >easier to decode than those from monitors. Active matrix LCD screens create >very strong and clear emissions--as long as a display uses some form of >pixel sweep where each pixel is activated at a unique time, then the >emissions are simple to decode. Though in theory LCD screens emit less than >a VDU, recent EMC controls have greatly reduced emanations from VDUs--with >the result that the graphics card will often be the greatest source of >compromise. >Also, most laptops have a VGA connector on the back, which leaks heavily. >An external VGA screen might be a bit quieter, because the cables can be >shielded, but it still depends on how capable the attacker is. >And basically, if the Feds are sitting outside your house listening >to whatever they can from your computer, you've already blown your >security :-)Shoulda used Blacknet. Have you happened to have seen any good papers on constructing do-it- yourself cheap, effective, portable shielding? Probably might as well ask for the moon too while I'm at it, but it's worth a shot! ~Faustine.

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