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Re: Computerized war serves citizens virtual baloney
by Major Variola (ret) 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

At 12:52 PM 11/28/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > One group of loonies thinks anyone should be able to kill anything the >easiest way possible -- simply because we can. Neo-cons? > Instead, we have people who think it would be "sporting" to hunt and kill >animals by remote-control with their computer. That sort of thinking is >just plain sick. Except when its the US military doing it... > Where exactly is the "sport''? More importantly, where is the hunt? > > Webster's New World Dictionary defines "hunt'' this way: "1.) to go out to >kill or catch (game) for food or sport; 2. to search eagerly or carefully >for; try to find 3. a.) to pursue; chase; drive b) to hound; harry, >persecute 4. a) to go through (a woods, fields, etc.) in pursuit of game'' >and on and on in that vein. How do they define war? > Nowhere is there any mention of sitting in a home or office, watching a >computer-display screen and punching buttons. If that qualifies as hunting, >no one really need ever hunt again because we've then reduced the killing >of animals to the shooting of pictures. How does the author feel about rifled barrels? Chemical propellants in general? Is an atlatl moral? How about a 'net-connected atlatl? Just curious.

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[osint] CIA finds Arafat's $1.9bn fortune
by R.A. Hettinga 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

--- begin forwarded text To: "Bruce Tefft" <btefft(a)community-research.com> Thread-Index: AcTSpMVj5XG6vXZWTjG/IuLd8itgOwBF6nSQ From: "Bruce Tefft" <btefft(a)community-research.com> Mailing-List: list osint(a)yahoogroups.com; contact osint-owner(a)yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list osint(a)yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:51:40 -0500 Subject: [osint] CIA finds Arafat's $1.9bn fortune Reply-To: osint(a)yahoogroups.com CIA finds Arafat's $1.9bn fortune By PETER ANAV in Jerusalem 22nov04 THE late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat controlled a network of companies, investments and bank accounts with a value totalling at least $1.9 billion, according to the Austrian business magazine Format. Quoting a Central Intelligence Agency report, it said yesterday the CIA had conducted inquiries after receiving information that a holding company of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation had invested $11.6 million in a small pharmaceutical company in the Canadian town of Belleville, Ontario. Format said investigators had "stepped on an anthill" when they uncovered the stake held by the Palestinian Commercial Service Corporation in Bioniche Life Sciences. They uncovered a whole network of PLO funds such as Chalcedony, Onyx, Evergreen, SilverHaze and Avmax International, the latter based on the Caribbean island Aruba. The magazine said it had seen a file "detailing in concrete terms for the first time how much money was involved". The financial network was alleged to have been run by Arafat. Format said between 1998 and the Palestinian uprising of 2000, an Austrian bank and a group called Casino Austria financed a gambling casino frequented by Israelis at Jericho on the West Bank. It also alleged Arafat controlled $1.03 billion in bank accounts in Austria, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Arafat's nephew yesterday arrived in Paris from Cairo to pick up the deceased leader's medical records. Nasser al-Qidwa, who was accompanied by the Palestinian Authority's representative in France, Leila Shahid, did not make any statement. Arafat's death has caused speculation, controversy and continuing mystery. He was admitted to a Paris hospital on October 29 and died on November 11. However, his cause of death has not yet been revealed. Late on Friday, lawyers for Arafat's widow Suha said she had been given her husband's medical file and had left for her second home in Tunisia. Mrs Arafat, invoking French medical confidentiality laws, has kept a tight grip on information relating to her husband's treatment during his last days. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-osint(a)yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor bisoldi(a)intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint(a)yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Computerized outdoors idea serves users virtual baloney
by R.A. Hettinga 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

<http://www.adn.com/outdoors/story/5849296p-5765085c.html> Computerized outdoors idea serves users virtual baloney (Published: November 28, 2004) A Texas businessman wants to rig a robotic, high-power rifle to a Webcam in a game park so people can punch buttons and "hunt'' from the comfort of their handiest Internet connection. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants everyone to stop eating fish because the slippery critters are, in their own way, as cute and cuddly as cats and dogs. Has the world gone nuts? The proponents of what has been labeled "remote-control hunting'' are, predictably, arguing that a sanitized, virtual slaughter would be a boon for the disabled. The leaders of the Fish Empathy Project are, with equal predictability, trying to convince everyone to spare the fish because they are sensitive, thinking creatures that travel in schools. One group of loonies thinks anyone should be able to kill anything the easiest way possible -- simply because we can. The other group thinks nobody should kill anything because we're all brother fauna. The flora are apparently exempt from the discussion because they're rooted in place. Were they able to move around and wag their leaves, PETA would likely argue we shouldn't eat them either. Whatever happened to the natural order of things? Instead, we have people who think it would be "sporting" to hunt and kill animals by remote-control with their computer. That sort of thinking is just plain sick. Where exactly is the "sport''? More importantly, where is the hunt? Webster's New World Dictionary defines "hunt'' this way: "1.) to go out to kill or catch (game) for food or sport; 2. to search eagerly or carefully for; try to find 3. a.) to pursue; chase; drive b) to hound; harry, persecute 4. a) to go through (a woods, fields, etc.) in pursuit of game'' and on and on in that vein. Nowhere is there any mention of sitting in a home or office, watching a computer-display screen and punching buttons. If that qualifies as hunting, no one really need ever hunt again because we've then reduced the killing of animals to the shooting of pictures. After all, a hunter who chose to engage in this sort of computer "sport" wouldn't really be shooting an animal. He'd be shooting a picture of an animal on his computer screen, thereby telling a piece of machinery in the middle of a field somewhere to do the actual execution. And if all you're really doing is shooting a picture, what differences does it make if the picture represents a real animal or a virtual one? For that matter, how would you even know for certain what you shot? Think how easy it would be to scam this sort of "hunting.'' Put up a Web site. Run a film of animals walking around in a field. Let the people who sign onto the Web site and pay their fee shoot the animals. Run some film of an animal dying. Then you ship the hunter 50 pounds of beef from the supermarket and tell her that's the animal she killed. Someone really creative might even be able to convince PETA to endorse an Internet hunting site that kills virtual animals. Look, PETA wants to save real animals from being killed. If shooting a virtual deer spares a real deer while satisfying someone's instinctive urge to hunt, isn't that a good thing? And if we can do this with hunting, why not fishing? Someone could rig a Webcam to a robotic fishing rod along the Russian River. You could sit at home and watch on your computer as the red salmon swarm up that stream, then maneuver a joy stick to make the rod cast a fly in front of them. Let it drift. Maybe even hear the computer going tappa-tappa-tappa to give you the feel of a lead weight bouncing along the river bottom. Feel the joystick jerk against your hand as a fish hits and then battle it across the table as the fight is on. Oh, the thrill, the excitement, the virtual adrenaline rush, until at last you bring that flapping salmon into view of the robotic net that scoops it up. A week later, salmon filets would arrive in the mail. Does it matter if any of this is real? Isn't the experience exactly the same if all you are seeing on your computer is virtual? Does a prerecorded film of salmon coming up the Russian really look any different than a live camera feed of salmon coming up the stream? Of course not. The only problem might come in producing a soy product that really tastes like salmon. But science can certainly solve that. Wouldn't that be perfect for just about everybody, except the poor, dead soybean plants? I hear they're quite sensitive, too. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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U.S.'s neighbors rap expanded border ID program
by R.A. Hettinga 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2920227> HoustonChronicle.com Nov. 28, 2004, 12:44AM U.S.'s neighbors rap expanded border ID program Fingerprinting and photographing at Canadian and Mexican crossings called divisive By DOUG STRUCK and KEVIN SULLIVAN Washington Post Andrea Schnekenburger pressed her two index fingers on a scanning pad at the U.S. border, becoming one of the first travelers to submit such data to a vast new bank of fingerprints and photographs that will be taken of millions of people who cross land borders to enter the United States. "At least they didn't use ink," said Schnekenburger, 42, a German resident of Canada en route to a U.S. business appointment on Nov. 18. "It was easier than I thought." Three U.S. border crossings - one from Canada, at Port Huron, and two from Mexico, at Laredo and Douglas, Ariz. - launched a program run by the Department of Homeland Security to collect fingerprints and photographs at U.S. borders. It will be expanded to the 50 busiest crossings by the end of next month, U.S. officials said. The requirements won't apply to U.S. or Canadian citizens or to travelers under age 14 or over 79. There are exceptions for Mexicans with special border-crossing cards known as laser visas, according to Homeland Security officials. Only 3 percent of an estimated 108 million people who enter the United States at legal land checkpoints annually will be affected, they said, while the program will increase security for the United States, catch criminals and speed processing at the border by computerizing some functions. But groups in Canada and Mexico complain that the new process will collect an Orwellian databank of personal information on law-abiding visitors, will unfairly target racial groups, might slow the border-crossing process and is unlikely to stop a terrorist from coming into the country. Mexican critics say the program is another step toward making the borders in America "a dividing line" and a sign of "distrust" of Mexicans. Canadian critics say files created on thousands of their residents will "criminalize" the border process. Those crossing the bridge with no Canadian passport, like Schnekenburger, are directed into a building where an agent takes digital photos of them and scans their index fingers. The system began operating at 130 airports and seaports in the United States in January, and fingerprints and photos already are required as part of the application for anyone needing a visa. But this expansion to land crossings particularly affects the busy daily commerce across the borders of the country's only contiguous neighbors. Canadian passport holders and Mexicans who work in the United States and have a laser visa card, which already carries the bearer's photo and fingerprint, are now exempt from the program. U.S. officials have sent mixed signals about whether the data collection eventually will include everyone. Critics in Canada say the exclusions mean the program unfairly targets an estimated 1 million Canadian residents who are classified as "landed immigrants" or permanent residents who have not obtained a Canadian passport. Critics also say the new process will exacerbate delays at the Mexican and Canadian borders, which already have considerable daily shuttling of trucks and workers. "This program could turn what has traditionally been a bottleneck into a complete blockage," said Rafael Fernandez de Castro, a leading international relations specialist in Mexico City. "This could be truly terrible. The border, instead of being a connecting bridge, is becoming a dividing line." -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Actor Is Fined $600,000 For Role in Movie Piracy
by R.A. Hettinga 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

<http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB110128604066482889,00.html> The Wall Street Journal November 24, 2004 5:05 p.m. EST MEDIA & MARKETING Actor Is Fined $600,000 For Role in Movie Piracy A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE NEWS ROUNDUP November 24, 2004 5:05 p.m. LOS ANGELES -- A federal court judge ordered actor Carmine Caridi to pay $600,000 to two movie studios to resolve allegations that he gave copies of their films to someone engaged in movie piracy. In an unrelated piracy case, the Motion Picture Association of America said a Malaysian man was fined for running a Web site that broadcast pirated movies. Mr. Caridi, who is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was ordered by Judge Stephen Wilson to pay $150,000 per title for each of four movies he shared improperly, two each belonging to Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. Entertainment and Sony Corp.'s Columbia Pictures. Earlier this year, Mr. Caridi told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that, as he received screeners -- copies of movies the Academy makes available to members as they consider which deserve Oscar awards -- he sent them to an acquaintance in Chicago. The acquaintance, Russell William Sprague, duplicated them on DVD. The movies -- hundreds, sent over the course of three years -- wound up on the Internet. In April he pleaded guilty to one charge of copyright infringement. Mr. Caridi, who formerly played a police officer on the TV show "NYPD Blue" and also appeared in the Godfather II and Godfather III movies, didn't return a phone call seeking comment. Separately, a Malaysian man was ordered to pay film studios $23.8 million for running a Web site that allowed paying members to watch pirated movies, according to the MPAA. A federal judge announced the decision against Tan Soo Leong at a hearing Monday, said John Malcolm, the association's director of world-wide anti-piracy operations. Mr. Leong ran the Web site film88.com and a company called MasterSurf Inc., which set up computer servers overseas to protect the business from liability, Mr. Malcolm said. The MPAA said Mr. Leong previously ran a similar Web site, movie88.com, which was shut down by officials in Taiwan. Dutch courts also shut down servers he later set up in Iran and the Netherlands, the association said. Mr. Malcolm said the judge also ordered Mr. Leong to destroy copies of copyrighted movies on his Web site. "This case shows that some people will go to extravagant lengths to profiteer from pirating movies," he said. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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ACLU concerned that microchip passports won't be encrypted
by R.A. Hettinga 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

<http://www.indystar.com/articles/5/197851-1715-P.html> The Indianapolis Star ACLU concerned that microchip passports won't be encrypted Associated Press November 27, 2004 WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration opposes security measures for new microchip-equipped passports that privacy advocates contend are needed to prevent identity theft, government snooping or a terrorist attack, according to State Department documents released Friday. The passports would emit radio waves that could be read electronically from as far away as 30 feet, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which obtained the documents under a Freedom of Information Act request. The ability to remotely read personal data raises the possibility that passport holders would be vulnerable to identity theft, the ACLU said. It also would allow government agents to find out covertly who was attending a political meeting or make it easier for terrorists to target Americans traveling abroad, the ACLU said. Frank Moss of the State Department said the United States wants to ensure the safety and security of Americans traveling abroad. But encrypting the data might make it more difficult for other countries to read the passports, Moss said. All new U.S. passports issued by the end of 2005 are expected to have a chip containing the owner's name, birth date, issuing office and a "biometric" identifier -- a photo of the owner's face. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Tin Foil Passports?
by Eugen Leitl 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/0026222 Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-27 05:05:00 from the joke's-on-you dept. Daedala writes "The debate over [1]contactless chips with biometric information in passports continues. Vendors have been chosen for testing in the [2]U.S. and [3]Australia. [4]Privacy advocates are still arguing about the measure, as are [5]security reporters and [6]bloggers. The [7]specs themselves are interesting, to say the least. The EETimes says that [8]in interoperability tests, the potential chips could be read from 30 feet away. However, both they and the New York Times have published [9]articles reporting vendors' low-cost solution: '[I]incorporate a layer of metal foil into the cover of the passport so it could be read only when opened.' Don't they know that the whole tinfoil hat thing is supposed to be a joke?" IFRAME: [10]pos6 References 1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/22/0040202&tid=158 2. http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=52200157 3. http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=51200486 4. http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-60594 5. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2004/nf2004115_1663_db016.htm 6. http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/000434.html 7. http://www.icao.int/mrtd/download/technical.cfm 8. http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=45400010 9. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/politics/26passport.html?hp&ex=1101531600… n=6e6254bd574cba42&ei=5094&partner=homepage 10. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5819&alloc_id=12652&site_id=1&request_id=4960775 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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RE: [p2p-hackers] Why UDP and not TCP? (fwd from travis@redswoosh.net)
by Eugen Leitl 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

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CFP-2005 Call for Proposals
by announce＠cfp2004.org 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

COMPUTERS, FREEDOM, AND PRIVACY CONFERENCE: Panopticon 2005 April 12-15, 2005, Westin Hotel, Seattle, WA www.cfp2005.org The 15th annual conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy takes place from Tuesday, April 12th, to Friday, April 15th, 2005, in Seattle, Washington. The Program Committee is now accepting proposals for conference sessions and speakers for CFP2005. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2004 CFP serves as an internationally recognized forum for the members of the technical, government, hacker, legal, business, education, media, cyber-rights, and non-profit communities to address cutting edge technical, business, legal and cultural issues. Programs, topics, and speakers from prior years' CFP conferences can be found at: www.cfp.org The CFP2005 Program Committee welcomes proposals on all aspects of technology, freedom and privacy. We are particularly interested in receiving proposals that ask the hard questions about privacy and freedom in emerging surveillance societies, and challenging those assumptions. For example, how much surveillance is too much? When does surveillance cease making us more secure and begin to change the fabric of society? The theme of the 15th CFP is "Panopticon 2005." Over time, and particularly recently, surveillance of ordinary citizens has increased to dramatic levels. Not only are governments watching more aspects of their citizens' lives, but those in the private sector are increasing surveillance of people as well. Often lost in the race to "increase intelligence" are discussions about different approaches to address problems like the threat of terrorism that are equally or more effective, but do not involve extensive and constant surveillance. In addition to topics directly related to the Panopticon 2005 theme, other areas of interest include: 1. domestic and international travel issues 2. communications surveillance 3. children and young adults growing up in a surveillance society 4. social networking 5. the flourishing of free speech (i.e. blogging) in spite of increased watchfulness 6. RFIDs and other emerging technologies 7. Intellectual property issues We are seeking proposals for tutorials, plenary sessions, workshops, and birds-of-a-feather sessions. We are also seeking suggestions for speakers and other relevant topics not listed above. Sessions should present a wide range of thinking on a topic by including speakers from different viewpoints. We particularly welcome proposals for non- traditional presentations - those that utilize drama, "mock trials," interactivity, the performing arts, and audience participation. Complete submission instructions appear on the CFP2005 web site: www.cfp2005.org All submissions must be received by December 31, 2004. The CFP2005 Program Committee will notify submitters of the status of their proposals by January 20, 2005. ======================================================================== Note: you have received this mailing because you were an attendee at a previous CFP conference or because you have requested information about CFP. If you wish to be removed from our mailing list, please send your request to: remove(a)cfp2005.org and be sure to note the exact email address at which you received this communication so we can purge it from the list. Please address all other queries to: feedback(a)cfp2005.org. Please do not respond to the address on this announcement; mail to this address is discarded without being read. ======================================================================== --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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CFP-2005 Call for Proposals
by announce＠cfp2004.org 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

COMPUTERS, FREEDOM, AND PRIVACY CONFERENCE: Panopticon 2005 April 12-15, 2005, Westin Hotel, Seattle, WA www.cfp2005.org The 15th annual conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy takes place from Tuesday, April 12th, to Friday, April 15th, 2005, in Seattle, Washington. The Program Committee is now accepting proposals for conference sessions and speakers for CFP2005. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2004 CFP serves as an internationally recognized forum for the members of the technical, government, hacker, legal, business, education, media, cyber-rights, and non-profit communities to address cutting edge technical, business, legal and cultural issues. Programs, topics, and speakers from prior years' CFP conferences can be found at: www.cfp.org The CFP2005 Program Committee welcomes proposals on all aspects of technology, freedom and privacy. We are particularly interested in receiving proposals that ask the hard questions about privacy and freedom in emerging surveillance societies, and challenging those assumptions. For example, how much surveillance is too much? When does surveillance cease making us more secure and begin to change the fabric of society? The theme of the 15th CFP is "Panopticon 2005." Over time, and particularly recently, surveillance of ordinary citizens has increased to dramatic levels. Not only are governments watching more aspects of their citizens' lives, but those in the private sector are increasing surveillance of people as well. Often lost in the race to "increase intelligence" are discussions about different approaches to address problems like the threat of terrorism that are equally or more effective, but do not involve extensive and constant surveillance. In addition to topics directly related to the Panopticon 2005 theme, other areas of interest include: 1. domestic and international travel issues 2. communications surveillance 3. children and young adults growing up in a surveillance society 4. social networking 5. the flourishing of free speech (i.e. blogging) in spite of increased watchfulness 6. RFIDs and other emerging technologies 7. Intellectual property issues We are seeking proposals for tutorials, plenary sessions, workshops, and birds-of-a-feather sessions. We are also seeking suggestions for speakers and other relevant topics not listed above. Sessions should present a wide range of thinking on a topic by including speakers from different viewpoints. We particularly welcome proposals for non- traditional presentations - those that utilize drama, "mock trials," interactivity, the performing arts, and audience participation. Complete submission instructions appear on the CFP2005 web site: www.cfp2005.org All submissions must be received by December 31, 2004. The CFP2005 Program Committee will notify submitters of the status of their proposals by January 20, 2005. ======================================================================== Note: you have received this mailing because you were an attendee at a previous CFP conference or because you have requested information about CFP. If you wish to be removed from our mailing list, please send your request to: remove(a)cfp2005.org and be sure to note the exact email address at which you received this communication so we can purge it from the list. Please address all other queries to: feedback(a)cfp2005.org. Please do not respond to the address on this announcement; mail to this address is discarded without being read. ======================================================================== --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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