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by sunder 11 Sep '00

11 Sep '00

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Re: CDR: Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars
by Duncan Frissell 11 Sep '00

11 Sep '00

At 05:16 PM 9/8/00 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: >The 'law' stems from the individual right to self-defence. Law is backed >by violence because that is what is is about. We wouldn't have a problem is it stopped at our individual right of self defense. Unfortunately, taxes, murder, regulation, and kidnapping are not rights of self defense that I possess so I can't delegate them to the state. The state does all those things and therefore cannot be justified under a theory of delegated rights to self defense. DCF ---- You can horsewhip your Gascony Archers. You can torture your Picardy Spears. But don't try that with the Saxons or you'll have the whole brood round your ears. From the highest Thane in the county to the lowest chained serf in the field. They'll be at you and on you like hornets. And if you are wise you will yield. -- Advice of a Norman Baron to his Son -- Kipling

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11 Sep '00

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CDR: Germans to tax PCs for Lars
by David Honig 11 Sep '00

11 Sep '00

Germany Reportedly Plans 'Internet Tax' BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is planning to slap new levies on computer, telecommunications and Internet products to ensure that authors are properly rewarded for the use of their work, a newspaper said Wednesday. The Berliner Zeitung said proposals had been drafted requiring manufacturers of goods from computers to printers, modems, compact disc ``burners'' and other devices to pay royalty fees that would then be forwarded to music and film companies. Officials at the Justice Ministry, which it said was behind the move, were not immediately available for comment. The new tax would particularly intend to ensure that the authors of cultural products available on the Internet were properly rewarded. Similar levies already exist in Germany on devices whose main function is that of copying, such as scanners, photocopiers and fax machines. Depending on the power of the machine involved, the taxes range from $30-$275. The levies are paid by manufacturers to firms that specialize in collecting royalties on so-called ``intellectual property.'' They then pass these fees on to clients such as authors, music, film or software companies. Hardware companies say extending the taxes to computers and telecom equipment like modems could make them up to 30 percent more expensive. Because the taxes are only payable when the products are bought in Germany, there have been warnings they could lead hi-tech firms to flee the country and sell through mail order and other channels from abroad.

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11 Sep '00

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CDR: Big Comrade is Watching
by An Metet 11 Sep '00

11 Sep '00

Russian law lets agency monitor e-mails, Net traffic and cell-phone conversations without users' consent BY MARGARET COKER Cox News Service MOSCOW -- For Russian computer users, the message ``You've Got Mail!'' might now well read, ``You've Got Company.'' Under a far-reaching new law going into effect this month, Russia's intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service, or FSB, is allowed to snoop on all Internet traffic and eavesdrop on cellular telephone and pager communications -- all without the user's consent or knowledge. Russia's flourishing Internet service providers, or ISPs, say the government's demand that they install the eavesdropping equipment and train intelligence officers to use it will put the fledgling companies out of business. Meanwhile, civil rights groups say the surveillance measures, known by their Russian acronym SORM, are yet another sign of a return to Soviet-style political repression under current President Vladimir Putin. ``This is the end to all e-mail privacy,'' said Anatoly Levanchuk, an Internet and free-speech advocate. ``Wiretapping is now only a click away.'' The Draconian regulations were first issued by government decree in 1995. At this time, they only covered wiretapping telephone calls. SORM was updated in 1998 to include Internet technologies -- the venue where, Russian officials believe, most crime in the 21st century will be committed. The Justice Ministry approved the measures on July 25, effectively making them law. The amended directives require all Russian ISPs to equip their networks with an FSB monitor and connect them with a high-speed fiber-optic link to FSB headquarters. The link permits the agency to keep an eye on electronic transmissions -- from private e-mails to e-commerce purchases -- in real-time and in total privacy. Failure to put in the bugging devices, which the Internet firms say cost between $15,000 and $25,000, will mean the loss of the service provider's operating license. Alexei Rokotyan, a top official in Russia's Communications Ministry, admits that the regulations -- the Orwellian-termed ``System of Operational and Investigative Measures'' -- give the government access to all information transmitted via Russian ISPs. ``Security organs and special forces have the right, and now the capability, to monitor private correspondence and telephone conversations of individual citizens in the name of establishing legal order,'' Rokotyan told Russian television in July. He insisted, though, that SORM would be used only for ``monitoring individual cases according to the law.'' Internet surveillance has come under fire in many countries, including the United States. In 1994, U.S. lawmakers authorized the FBI to wiretap and eavesdrop on criminals conducting or discussing crimes over the Internet. The measure was vehemently opposed, with only limited success, in 1998 by civil liberties groups and telecom businesses who viewed it as a threat to both profits and personal freedom. Human rights advocates in Russia say these same issues that aroused opposition in the United States are magnified here because there are virtually no checks-and-balances to prevent the FSB from using their expansive powers to cross from law enforcement into political blackmail and commercial espionage. ``No one is saying that the FSB should not have access in the course of a criminal investigation. There is a law that says Internet (service) providers must render assistance in a criminal case. But free access to the Internet gives the FSB great power that would be easy to abuse,'' said Ina Zemskova, a lawyer with the St. Petersburg-based Citizens' Watch, a human-rights group. ``In our country, no one monitors the eavesdroppers.'' Legal experts say the SORM regulations are fraught with loopholes that allow the FSB to sidestep the required warrant before conducting any electronic surveillance. That leaves telecommunications firms in the dark. ``We do not know exactly what the FSB does in our network. We cannot see what they are doing, when they are tapping in. We can only trust that they are not working against our clients' interests,'' said Mikhail Yakushev, the head of the legal department at GlobalOne, a multinational telecommunications company. About 7 million people, or 4.8 percent of Russia's 145 million population, are connected to the Internet. That number is expected to rise to 8 percent of the population in the next three years, according to Avi Krel, the telecom analyst at UFG investment bank in Moscow. Although minuscule compared to the United States, this activity has generated 2,000 Internet start-ups in the last two years. More than 300 businesses are licensed to provide Internet service here, and some 20,000 Russian Web sites offer search engines, chatrooms and e-commerce outlets. Economists estimate Russia's dot-com economy's annual turnover at $100 million. So far, the Internet has offered Russians much more than monetary gain. The information superhighway has spurred the growth of environmental organizations, academics and a rising number of government critics by connecting them across Russia's 11 time zones that extend from the Pacific Ocean to the Polish border. In many cases, the most outspoken opponents of government policy are chatroom monitors or network operators themselves. They were among the first to sound the alarm about SORM, leaving the traditional media in their wake as they posted up-to-the-minute news about the progress of the proposed regulations. Oleg Syrov, the director of an ISP based in the northern Russian town of Volgograd, has become one of SORM's most vocal critics. After denying the FSB access to his Bayara-Slavia Communications network in 1998, Syrov said he received anonymous death threats. He said he has also fought off multiple attempts by the FSB to shut down his business. An FSB spokesman contacted about the allegations raised refused to comment for this story, But around the rest of the marketplace, opposition to the regulations among ISPs has weakened as the government's determination to institute the surveillance measures have strengthened. While the Communications Ministry said the vast majority of Internet providers are complying with SORM, all but one of the six Moscow-based ISPs contacted for this story refused to say whether they had installed the eavesdropping equipment. The exception -- GlobalOne -- said all of its hardware and software contained the equipment necessary for the FSB to dial in. ``The resistance movement is as good as dead,'' said a grim Alexander Levanchuk, the founder of www.libertarium.ru, a Russian political Web site, and one of the people spearheading a legal challenge to SORM. ``The FSB can outmuscle us, and it usually wins these things.''

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11 Sep '00

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CDR: GSM?
by Michael Reives 10 Sep '00

10 Sep '00

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CDR: Simulations...
by Cyph-Relay 10 Sep '00

10 Sep '00

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CDR: Hardware support for trusted pc
by David Honig 10 Sep '00

10 Sep '00

Basically next year you could get a motherboard with a security module onboard. Which is both your friend, and not. The last EETimes-print-edition had an article with *much* more info but I found the following online. You can comment on the www.trustedpc.org stuff until October, on their site; they have whitepapers. Coprocessors Move Security Onto PC Motherboards (09/05/00, 6:51 p.m. ET) By Junko Yoshida , EE Times SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Responding to industry demand for better built-in security, vendors of PC chips and smart-card ICs are racing to develop security coprocessors that mount on a PC motherboard. Architectural approaches vary, but suppliers agree that this new design socket will start showing up in motherboards as early as the middle of next year. Integrating a security chip makes it possible "to view the PC as an endpoint for the delivery of goods and services" in the digital economy, said Geoffrey Strongin, platform security architect at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (stock: AMD), Sunnyvale, Calif. AMD is one of the PC chip makers readying a security device. The trend is to move "core security and e-commerce functions out to the edge of the Internet, and place them in all endpoint devices including the user's PC," concurred Steven Sprague, president and chief executive officer at Wave Systems Corp. (stock: WAVX), Lee, Mass., which fields the Embassy security chip and is working with AMD on a reference design. Promoters say that while much effort has gone into securing the network and the server-side infrastructure, until very recently the client has been overlooked. Thanks to advances in SSL software technology, the transmission of data across the Internet is more secure than ever. But "vulnerability often exists at the PC and at the server," said Cees Jan Koomen, chairman of the board at security-chip vendor Pijnenburg Securealink, Vught, Netherlands, which is also developing a coprocessor. "You need a cryptographic solution in hardware, placed at the server and PC terminal," he said. That way, "critical information, such as a key, is not available except inside the chip, while the hardware can accelerate the transaction speed." Driving the security-coprocessor groundswell is an emerging specification being put together by the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an industry group founded by Compaq Computer Corp. (stock: CPQ), Houston; Hewlett-Packard Co. (stock: HWP), Palo Alto, Calif.; IBM Corp. (stock: IBM); Intel Corp. (stock: INTC), Santa Clara, Calif.; and Microsoft Corp. (stock: MSFT), Redmond, Wash. http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000905S0019

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