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Re: Rental Cars Now Big Brother Enabled
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

So now I need to bring Al foil and scotch tape when I travel?

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RE: Slashdot | Phoenix BIOS Phones Home?
by Kelley Walker 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

At 09:53 AM 6/20/01 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: >Jim: > >You really don't have a good memory, do you? We dealt with this >topic just 3 weeks ago. but, but, but... it wasn't on /. yet so it wasn't real. >Check for the thread 'BIOS Spying' around June 1. well, the thing i was interested in was the _potential_ for using it for nefarious ends. phoenixnet might not be, but who's to say... as you suggested in your closing comments about paranoia which i snipped. anyway, thanks for your comments to my query three weeks ago. i got busy and failed to acknowledge responses. kelley -- Kelley Walker Interpact, Inc. Security Awareness Training www.interpactinc.com Interpact sponsors InfowarCon: Sept 5-6, Washington, D.C. http://www.interpactinc.com/infowarcon.html

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Critiques of Libertarianism
by Jim Choate 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

http://world.std.com/~mhuben/libindex.html James Choate Product Certification - Operating Systems Staff Engineer 512-436-1062 jchoate(a)tivoli.com

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No case against teens for Web site
by John Doe #2 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

In this article, having a password controlling access to a site is partially exculpatory, at least in one opinion. Interesting. Wonder how long/difficult to guess those passwords were? [Cf recently lawsuit where boss sniffed employee's password to employee's private site and boss was nailed under computer-break-in laws] ............. http://www.nyjournalnews.com/westchester/061401/14standdown/ No case against teens for Web site By JONATHAN BANDLER THE JOURNAL NEWS (Original publication: June 14, 2001) NEW CASTLE Two Chappaqua high school seniors who were arrested for engineering a Web site detailing sexual exploits of some female classmates will not face criminal charges, Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro said yesterday. The two, one 18, the other 17, were to have appeared in Town Court today on charges of second-degree aggravated harassment. Detectives arrested the pair May 30 after learning of the Web site from Horace Greeley High School officials. The males were given summonses to appear in court, but prosecutors never filed formal charges. Pirro said although some of the material on the Web site was "offensive and abhorrent, the content did not rise to the level of criminal conduct." "This is essentially the high-tech version of gossip," said Pirro, who added she read all of the communications posted to the site. "I am offended, I am repulsed and I'm outraged as a mother. (But) this does not violate the Penal Law." The Web site set up on Yahoo GeoCities and accessible by password was shut down the day the two males were arrested. Police said 16 Greeley students had the password. As many as 40 girls mostly seniors were listed on the site, which included sexual acts they allegedly performed. Pirro said there was no crime because none of the girls were sent any of the Web pages, and the password meant the males kept the information among themselves. Chappaqua schools Superintendent Donald Parker said he wanted to put the issue "behind us" because the district had taken appropriate disciplinary action against the males. He would not detail the discipline but said the males will graduate with their class later this month. Mark Goodman, executive director of the Virginia-based Student Press Law Center, praised Pirro's decision. "A rational prosecutor knows this is just not a case that can be won," he said. "Gossip like that is as old as human culture. I think (the Web site) can be destructive, but it can't be prosecuted criminally." New Castle police refused to release the names of the two males, citing a policy of withholding the names of those 16 to 18 because they could be eligible for "youthful offender" status. State law permits such records to be sealed only by a judge who has received the charges. Police records of the arrests are not protected under the statute dealing with youthful offenders.

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Analog thoughts
by Morlock Elloi 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

It seems that time has come to do some serious interface rethinking. The advent of WIPO/DMCA ideology and it's steady infiltration into actual technology is starting to render traditional protection-busting schemes ineffective. It is or will soon become illegal and also technically difficult to meddle with hardware/software itself. The demise of general-purpose PC will certainly not help. The last frontier is human interface - eyes, ears and fingers (for the time being and due to failure of www.fufme.com to attract capital these are the only ones.) All content control breaks at this point - if there is a way to see or hear, then analog capture cannot be foiled. There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about quality of analog capture of picture and sound. That is to be expected when even dumb headphones are marketed as "digital" to stupefied public. My experience is that digitizing audio using standard mac h/w gives quality better than that of average .mp3 stream. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with going through analog stage with high quality components. And as long as there are wires going into speaker's amps, this will be doable. And after that hi-fi mic next to quality speaker will also do the job. Right now it all seems rather straightforward - even inferior peecee users should be able to set up things so that audio is digitized while being played and then converted to .mp3 or whatever. What I am interested in is how could this be prevented ? What would be the most effective way to disable analog audio recording and subsequent digitizing ? What are the signs to look for ? Is there open-source software for digitizing ? And on the legal side, how much spin would be required to make analog recording illegal under DMCA ? Thoughts ? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/

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Getting Out of Dot-Nowhere
by Jim Choate 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,44625,00.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ "...where annual election ends, tyranny begins;" Thomas Jefferson & Samuel Adams The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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EU elite 'is building a superstate'
by Jim Choate 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000114832908976&rtmo=3H3KrHYM&atmo=gggg… -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ "...where annual election ends, tyranny begins;" Thomas Jefferson & Samuel Adams The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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The Register - Data Protection Registrar on UK data swapping plans
by Jim Choate 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/19826.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ "...where annual election ends, tyranny begins;" Thomas Jefferson & Samuel Adams The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Slashdot | Phoenix BIOS Phones Home?
by Jim Choate 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

http://slashdot.org/yro/01/06/19/2039216.shtml -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ "...where annual election ends, tyranny begins;" Thomas Jefferson & Samuel Adams The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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BBC News | BUSINESS | Protest fear forces World Bank switch
by Jim Choate 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1396000/1396508.stm -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ "...where annual election ends, tyranny begins;" Thomas Jefferson & Samuel Adams The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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