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lynx for mirroring? (Re: Advertisements on Web Pages)
by Subcommander Bob 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

At 10:41 PM 8/7/01 -0500, measl(a)mfn.org wrote: > >> >(I'm surprised no one has urged me to use Lynx. Is it still being used?) >> >> For very limited values of "used", yes. Declan once gave a lynx command line that would download a website (recursing) less the images, of course. I found it didn't preserve file names or directory hierarchy, so it was less useful for mirroring sites I anticipated being oppressed. Can anyone recommend a better tool? For wintel?

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by Stephanie Key 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

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by Fountain Of Joy 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

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Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions
by Faustine 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

Here's the most comprehensive source of case law covering the subject I've ever seen: Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations "This publication provides a comprehensive guide to the legal issues that arise when federal law enforcement agents search and seize computers and obtain electronic evidence in criminal investigations. The topics covered include the application of the Fourth Amendment to computers and the Internet, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, workplace privacy, the law of electronic surveillance, and evidentiary issues. This publication supersedes "Federal Guidelines for Searching and Seizing Computers" (1994), as well as the Guidelines' 1997 and 1999 Supplements." http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/searching.html

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Watermarks, Satellite Hacking, DMCA and more.
by Peter Wayner 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

Lately I've been researching the world of satellite signal hacking. Some people think that there may be as many as 1 million people hacking into the DirecTV satellite signal so they can watch all of the sports, all of the movies and all of the porn without paying. As an experiment I decided to sell electronic copies of a long story on the topic. I think both the payment system and the watermarking/copyright protection mechanisms are pretty novel. To get a copy all you need to do is send 75 cents from a paypal account to satstory(a)flyzone.com. You'll get a personalized watermarked copy in return. This is a far cry from the micropayment digital cash systems of our dreams, but it is fully functional. The watermark is not sophisticated. You can learn how to disable it in the copyright notice to the story. There's no challenge for the 3L33t h4X0rs among you. After all of the fuss about copyright circumvention, I thought a light touch may be better. It was also substantially easier to engineer. My guess is that the ease of use will bring in more sales than are lost to hackers. More information can be found here: http://www.flyzone.com/satstory/ Please let me know if you have any thoughts, complaints, or other suggestions. Peter Wayner pcw(a)flyzone.com

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Pavlovich
by Aimee Farr 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/californiastatecases/h021961.pdf Filed 8/7/01 CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA SIXTH APPELLATE DISTRICT MATTHEW PAVLOVICH, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Respondent; DVD COPY CONTROL ASSOCIATION, INC., Real Party in Interest. H021961 (Santa Clara County Super. Ct. No. CV786804) Petitioner Matthew Pavlovich petitions for a writ of mandate to compel the trial court to quash service of process. We deny the petition. PROCEDURAL HISTORY On December 27, 1999, real party in interest DVD Copy Control Association, Inc. (DVD CCA) filed a complaint in the superior court against petitioner and other defendants for misappropriation of trade secrets. The complaint alleged that petitioner had repeatedly republished DVD CCAs trade secrets and copyrighted material throughout the Internet. ...Pavlovich is the president of a start-up technology company. He was, [f]or the most part of . . . four years, a computer engineering student at Purdue University, and had worked as a computer technician for Best Buy and Pingtek Corporation. The discovery materials on record indicate that Pavlovich and the other defendants developed and/or posted computer programs on the Internet, including a program called DeCSS, that misappropriate DVD CCAs trade secrets. Such computer programs have been designed... ...The question in this case is whether Californias long-arm statute reaches owners, publishers, and operators of those Web sites when, in violation of California law, they make available for copying or distribution trade secrets or copyrighted material of California companies. We hold it does. ...Here, Pavlovich, a computer engineering student, a technician in the computer and telecommunications industry, and the founder and president of a start-up technology company, knew that California is commonly known as the center of the motion picture industry, and that the computer industry holds a commanding presence in the state. In his deposition, Pavlovich spoke of Californias dominance in the motion picture industry, as follows: Q. . . . Are you aware -- do you have any understanding where the major motion pictures studios [sic] are located? A [by Pavlovich]. By major Im just going to go out on a limb here in that you mean some of the larger motion picture producers or production companies. Q. Thats correct. The sort of plaintiffs that were the plaintiffs in the matter that you were just an expert witness in. A. Okay. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, they make a lot of movies in California, Hollywood, yeah. Q. Right. So whats your understanding of the term Hollywood? A. Hollywood is the big area in California where they make a lot of movies and a lot of movie stars live and whatnot. ...So also here, the fact that Pavlovich used the new medium of the Internet to inflict harm on a California plaintiff, instead of the print media that was used in Calder, is irrelevant. It should not matter whether the delivery system used to inflict the injury is the traditional delivery system of air, land, or sea transportation, or the cutting-edge technological system of cyberspace, satellites, cable, and electro-magnetic waves. ...Pavlovich cannot claim innocent intent. As a computer engineering student, a technician in the computer and telecommunications industry, a founder and president of a technology start-up company, and a leader in the open source movement, Pavlovich knew, or should have known, that by posting the misappropriated information on the Internet, he was making the information available to a wide range of Internet users and consumers throughout the Internet world, including users and consumers in California. Accordingly, there is sufficient showing of purposeful availment within the.... [...] ~Aimee

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Calif law applies everywhere; DeCSS
by Alfred Qaeda 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20010807/tc/out-of-state_resident_can_be_su… Out-of-state resident can be sued in DVD case By Jim Hu CNET News.com An out-of-state resident who allegedly posted computer code that circumvents DVD encryption measures can be sued under California law, a California appeals court ruled Tuesday. The Sixth Appellate Court of California decided that Matthew Pavlovich, who is not a California resident, could be tried for violating the state's trade secrets law. "The reach of the Internet is also the reach of the extension of the poster's presence," the ruling stated. The decision follows what appeared to have been a small victory for Pavlovich in December 2000, when the California Supreme Court ordered a lower court to show he should remain in the case even though he is not a California resident. Because of the ruling, others involved in the case living outside California will remain under the state's jurisdiction. The ruling could show that the Internet is not immune to California's long-arm statutes even when the publisher of the site is located outside the state. The DVD Copy Control Association originally filed a complaint in December 1999 against Pavlovich for allegedly posting the DeCSS (news - web sites) code on his Web site. The suit was meant to prevent the dissemination of DeCSS, a code whose original intent was to let programmers create a DVD player for Linux (news - web sites) machines. The movie industry and DVD CCA argued that DeCSS could be used to illegally copy DVDs and have taken legal action against people posting the code on their sites. In a federal case filed in New York, for example, the Motion Picture Association of America is suing 2600, a site that published and linked to the DeCSS code. Allon Levy, the attorney representing Pavlovich, could not be reached for comment. "The very significance in it has held that persons like Pavlovich in various parts of the country are subject to jurisdiction in a California court if they did what Pavlovich did," said Robert Sugarman, an attorney at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and a legal counsel for the DVD CCA.

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08 Aug '01

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Re: Traceable Infrastructure is as vulnerable as traceable messages.
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

>On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote: > >>>and wait for the next time something happens if you're on DHCP, or >>>they may have to get the cooperation of one or more other governments >>>if your login trail runs outside their jurisdiction -- but ultimately, >>>it's traceable. >> >>You apparently don't even understand how even simple remailer chains work. > >Hello, earth to Tim. > (1) You can send anonymous mail by sending it through a remailer, but > (2) The remailers themselves are not anonymous. > (3) If the remailers *were* anonymous, they could not operate > because then the users would not know where to send their mails. > > As long as the remailers themselves are traceable, make no mistake: >they exist only because the lions have not yet passed a law against them. > This may yet be attempted but even so success is not a given. > You cannot have encryption technologies advancing and leaving the law >behind, so long as any vital part of the infrastructure you need is >traceable and pulpable by the law. > > Bear > I think you mean "palpable." I don't think pulpable is good usage but if by that you mean able to be made into pulp well, OK, it's funny. I haven't read the mixmaster source but it seems to me that end-to-end encryption protects the contents. The traffic analysis part seems vulnerable on two basic fronts : subversion of a node and overall low traffic levels. Nested encryption protects a subverted node from being able to trace the entire chain in one fell swoop. As long as there is one uncompromised node in a chain subversion doesn't guarantee a matchup of "from" and "to" but it improves the odds. With low traffic levels through a chain the statistics of traffic analysis are also improved. I like the idea of making a remailer part of a worm but it might be just as well to make it an inherent part of a product since people will attempt to eradicate a worm. Just imagine if Napster were still going full steam with a built-in remailer - huge node count and shitloads of traffic. Mike

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Interesting intrepretation...
by Black Unicorn 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

----- Original Message ----- From: "Subcommander Bob" <bob(a)black.org> To: <cypherpunks(a)lne.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 1:58 AM Subject: Congressvermin, spoliation, Henry Waxman's head up his ass Quoting LA Times: "...they said the dispute highlighted the pitfalls for executives from _1st Amendment-protected industries_ who voluntarily appear in front of Congress." A slightly alarming choice of words...?

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