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Press Release
by Sugarpine.Sierra.West＠greatbasin.net 21 Jul '01

21 Jul '01

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Adobe's Dentures (was Re: Adobe's Teeth. (Was: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday))
by Subcommander Bob 21 Jul '01

21 Jul '01

>The nightmares, which continue to this day, were just the start of a whole >new deck of fears the family had to deal with once they returned to Los >Altos after their month retreat. Chuck's insecurities about his safety >invaded all aspects of his life. The 6-foot, 1-inch, 220-pound Chuck now >scares easily. Russians are usually skinnier. You think DS won't have post-traumatic fun? Nice of Chuckie to jail a guy with two small kids. Guess he didn't learn much about the appropriate use of force. Obviously protesters doing anything *physically* threatening is just stupid, opposite to the 'appropriate use of force' principle, and generally harmful for getting this engineer out of immediate hassle. As stupid as trying to toss a heavy metal cylinder at a riot cop who'se got a head shot at close range.

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Press Release
by Sugarpine.Sierra.West＠greatbasin.net 21 Jul '01

21 Jul '01

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OPT: DMCA Protest on the Capitol steps, AUSTIN, Texas, MONDAY, 11am-12:30pm (fwd)
by Jim Choate 21 Jul '01

21 Jul '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:49:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dkr. Armand Geddyn" <ageddyn(a)minitru.org> Reply-To: austin-cpunks(a)ssz.com To: austin-cpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com Subject: DMCA Protest on the Capitol steps, AUSTIN, Texas, MONDAY, 11am-12:30pm "DMCA Protest on the Capitol steps, AUSTIN, Texas, MONDAY, 11am-12:30pm" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dkr. Armand Geddyn <ageddyn(a)minitru.org> Michael Badnarik 2002 Libertarian Campaign LAS VEGAS - On July 16, the American FBI arrested Russian citizen and PhD candidate Dmitry Sklyarov, after his presentation on encryption techniques and standards of Adobe's popular "eBook" format. Sklyarov is the first programmer to be arrested under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and is currently being held in a Las Vegas prison, awaiting extradition to California to face charges filed by Adobe. He has reportedly been denied contact with his employer, peers, or family. Sklyarov is, in short, a political prisoner as a result of the U.S.'s draconian copyright and intellectual property laws. What is the DMCA? Public Law No. 105-304 was signed into law by Congress October 28, 1998, and is often referred to as "the DMCA" or "the WIPO." In short, it is a fundamentally flawed and grossly unconstitutional act which, in part, makes it a federal crime to conduct and present otherwise legitimate cryptographic research. What does this mean? Imagine a toy secret decoder ring. Someone explains to you how to decode a secret message using that secret decoder ring. That person can be arrested for "trafficking in a product designed to circumvent copyright protection measures," if Adobe uses this simple encryption to "protect" its eBook content (which it does -- Adobe specifies ROT13 as part of its encryption standard). This is exactly what happened to Dmitry Sklyarov, when he explained a method for decrypting eBooks for legitimate, personal use. Another example is if Congress had passed a law banning the possession or sale of paper clips, hair pins and wire clothes hangers, because such insidious technologies could be used to pick locks, escape from handcuffs, or steal cars. In fact, they may as well have passed a law making it illegal to simply TALK about picking locks with hair pins. What can you do? Join Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik (www.badnarik.org) the Ministry of Truth, and the Austin Cypherpunks on MONDAY, July 23, at the Capitol steps to show your support for Dmitry Sklyarov's plight and your opposition to the grossly unconstitutional DMCA. We expect there to be TV news representatives on the scene, so please be prepared to explain the effects of the DMCA concisely and succinctly. Where can I learn more? Read up on the DMCA Legislative History, at: http://www.hrrc.org/html/DMCA-leg-hist.html Read the Department of Justice's press release: http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/20010717_doj_sklyarov_pr.html Read the Slashdot and Pigdog Journal reports, at: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/17/130226&mode=thread http://www.pigdog.org/auto/scary_tech/link/2155.html Michael Badnarik is expected to speak on this and other Libertarian issues on Austin's KLBJ 590 AM radio, Saturday, July 21, between 9 and 10pm. -- Dkr. Armand Geddyn | ageddyn(a)minitru.org "You can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than you can with just a kind word." - Ben Franklin

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Re: G8, issues, and familiarity
by Faustine 21 Jul '01

21 Jul '01

Jim wrote: >CNN's poll is asking "Are you familiar with the issues behind the G8 >summit". >58% said "No". >Perhaps the protesting will help motivate more to educate themselves. True, that would be great. But how many of the remaining 42 percent consider themselves educated, but are nevertheless content to mindlessly repeat mickey mouse platitudes and propaganda spoon-fed to them from on high, and who couldn't pass a rudimentary econ 101 test if their lives depended on it? More analysis, less rhetoric. ~Faustine.

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RE: change your internet address
by WorldWideRegistry.net 21 Jul '01

21 Jul '01

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Re: Ashcroft Targets U.S. Cybercrime
by George＠Orwellian.Org 21 Jul '01

21 Jul '01

"Neil Johnson" <njohnson(a)interl.net> wrote: # # Is it just me, or did anybody consider the fact # that someone else was using her laptop ? Spending three hours screwing around on her laptop? Printing out a coupon for ice cream? ---- Jimmy Crick wrote: # # http://www.msnbc.com/news/603082.asp?cp1=1#BODY That's just fascinating, Choate. Only no one has accused Condit of personally making Levy disappear. No one. ---- Notes from Italy: the person who shot the protester was not a regular cop. He was a 20-year-old doing "national service". http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,30155,00.html # # Police said Saturday they were looking into bringing manslaughter # charges against the policeman who fired at Giuliani. They did # not release the officer's name but said he was a 20-year-old # drafted into Italy's Carabinieri, a unit that performs police # and military functions. Police said the officer was in shock # and had been hospitalized. ---- http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,30163,00.html # # IBM Develops Annoying "Passenger" to Keep Drivers Alert # # DETROIT - You're driving along and suddenly a voice starts # shouting personal questions at you: # # "Where did you go on your first date? What's your favorite song? # What's your mother's maiden name? Where'd you go to school? What's # your favorite food? Who won the ball game?" # # If you don't answer quickly enough, correctly or at all, then # the fun really begins. Windows start opening and closing, a buzzer # might sound and worse, you might get spritzed with a stream of # cold water. # # It's a cross between Stephen King's maniacal car Christine and # the yapping disembodied voice of Ann Sothern in the never-lamented # TV show "My Mother the Car." # # Indeed, IBM's "artificial passenger" is designed to be as annoying # as possible all in the name of safety, says David Nahamoo, IBM # senior manager for human language technology. # # "Essentially, the technology and the system relies on # conversational interaction as a mechanism for keeping a person # alert," says Nahamoo. But can you hump it?

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OPT: Slashdot | Unsafe At Any Runlevel
by Jim Choate 21 Jul '01

21 Jul '01

http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/21/2137243.shtml -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light. B.A. Behrend The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Ashcroft Targets U.S. Cybercrime
by An Metet 21 Jul '01

21 Jul '01

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, John Young wrote: > Declan: > > >The problem with this analysis is that he does not have to be the > >main commercial beneficiary for the charges to stick. > > But, to repeat, why the worker and not his bosses? Is this a way > for Adobe/FBI/DoJ to signal the interest of its own bosses? Very good question. > And why are the protests limited to Adobe when the FBI and > DoJ are doing the dirty work -- well, actually, low-level FBI > and DoJ? Oops, that's right, don't fuck with workers-pissed- > at-their-bosses who have the guns which they'd like to turn > upstairs. The protests aren't limited to Adobe. In fact, some of the protests occuring Monday are taking place at DoJ buildings. On Friday, a cypherpunk and a 2600 member crashed Ashcroft's press conference at Versign, and put copies of the EFF's letter to Ashcroft into the hands of nearly all of the reporters present. The DoJ is not being ignored. As for the organized mass rallies, Adobe is first on the protest list, however, since it is clear that they are behind the FBI and DoJ's actions. And, if Adobe were to withdraw its complaint, it is likely that charges would be dropped and Dmitry freed. If Adobe withdraws its complaint and Dmitry is not returned to his family, we will turn our attention full-force toward the DoJ. "There is perhaps nothing quite as distressing as the unintended consequences of well-intentioned government." --Ashcroft.

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Condit Has an Alibi
by Jim Choate 21 Jul '01

21 Jul '01

http://www.msnbc.com/news/603082.asp?cp1=1#BODY -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light. B.A. Behrend The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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