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Motherjones.com -- Web Exclusives - Privacy 'On the Road'
by Jim Choate 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/commentary/opinion/newshole.html -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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Slashdot | How Corporate Lobbyists Colonized the Net (copyright)
by Jim Choate 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

http://slashdot.org/articles/01/04/12/1533240.shtml -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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"cypherpunks" [there is no movement] lose out to fear of crime?
by Ken Brown 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

A quick Choating: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/04/15/magazine1.html?10070 The burden of the article is a brief (& mildly inaccurate) account of James Ellis & Whit Diffie & PKC, a complaint about the rise and rise of TV (& other) monitoring of public places, and a rant about the UK's absurd TV licencing system. It uses the word "cypherpunk" more than once. "NO HIDING PLACE" "Britain is now a surveillance state. The authorities may be prying into your 'private' life this second. And in the electronic age, it is much easier for innocent people to be mistaken for criminals. Bryan Appleyard investigates..." [...] "Since both the NSA and GCHQ are founded on the principle that they should be able to read any communication anywhere in the world, this is their worst nightmare. Since 1975 they have been battling to find ways of ensuring they can still eavesdrop on anything. And, because Diffie's trick was already out there among the nerds and hackers of the world, this battle had to take place in public. Essentially, both the British and American security services wanted copies of all keys to be lodged with government agencies - so-called "key escrow" - or, as in the system we now have in Britain, they wanted to be able to demand the surrender of keys." "But the libertarian nerds, known in this field as "cypherpunks", fought back in the name of freedom from the all-seeing eyes of Big Brother government. In the United States they have had some success, thanks to the native distrust of government; in Britain they have had almost none." "After the collapse of communism in 1989, this issue became even more urgent. The primary targets of the security services were no longer the Soviets. Now they were organised criminals, drug traffickers and terrorists. This meant they wanted to watch their own citizens rather than just foreign spooks. The possibility of the high-tech, constant-surveillance Big Brother state was threatening to become a reality." [...] "Do we care? In Britain, apparently not." [...] [Perhaps odd that it turns up in the Sunday Times which hasnlt had much of a reputation (dare I use that word, having never met the journalists in the flesh?) for civil liberty campaigning for the last few years. It's a Murdoch paper, Britain's best selling "serious" newspaper, traditionally a little downmarket of it's more famous daily sister - the default weekend reading of 2-car, 2-parent mildly right-wing Tory-voting suburban families. For a couple of decades it has been leading the march of the Sunday papers away from campaigning journalism and into vast piles of supplements and sections full of beautiful photographs of sundried vegetables]

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anarchy and your opinions
by Kenneth Sigafoose 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

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RE: Starium?
by Trei, Peter 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

At the RSA conference I saw a company selling Starium-equivalent units, both for voice and data encryption. The voice only units were about $1400 apiece. (frankly, at that price, you could plug a PC with an A/D converter card between the handset and the base, and roll your own). I'm still decompressing, and have not unpacked all my bumph, else I'd have more specific data. Peter Trei > ---------- > From: Declan McCullagh[SMTP:declan@well.com] > Reply To: Declan McCullagh > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 1:46 PM > To: Dr. Evil > Cc: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > Subject: Re: Starium? > > I have a pair of their preproduction units they sent me in December. > --Declan > > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 02:01:10AM -0000, Dr. Evil wrote: > > Does anyone know if Starium is ever going to release anything? I > > noticed on their News section that they have engaged an M&A > > specialist. That's probably not a good sign for them operating as a > > stand-alone company. email to them bounces.

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From Teen Hackers to Job Hunters - 2600 is a positive influence
by Jim Choate 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

http://www.washtech.com/news/media/9091-1.html -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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CNN.com - Kevorkian lawyer accused of disrespecting judges - April 17, 2001
by Jim Choate 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/04/17/fieger.michigan.ap/index.html?s=2 -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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CNN.com - Judge rules felons have right to DNA testing - April 17, 2001
by Jim Choate 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

Somebody read the 6th... http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/04/17/dnatesting.ap/index.html?s=2 -- ____________________________________________________________________ The ultimate authority...resides in the people alone. James Madison The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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CNN.com - FBI issues advisory on April 19 violence - April 16, 2001
by Jim Choate 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/04/16/april.19/index.html?s=7 -- ____________________________________________________________________ The ultimate authority...resides in the people alone. James Madison 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 Mirror - Sensitive laptop left in taxi
by Jim Choate 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

http://www.mirror.co.uk/shtml/NEWS/P1S1.shtml -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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