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TEN_ysp
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

2-13-96. NYT: "New Spynet Links C.I.A. and Envoys." The C.I.A. is planning to buy commercial comm gear, put an encrypting scrambler on it, and give diplomats in Bosnia and elsewhere the ability to receive adulterated facts that it previously had been unwilling or unable to share except with enemies. Soon, diplomats will be up to speed with spying foreign correspondents, many of whom have portable comm gear combining sat phones and computer ports. "We have our own classified Internet in the intelligence community, with home pages just like you do on the Internet," gurgled a spy-leaker to this reporter-siphon -- who already knew by spying browsers and snooping search engines what the dagger-gagger duhhed. TEN_ysp

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Australian net limitations
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This may have some relevance to the Australian crypto regulation thread a while back. -Allen From: IN%"rre(a)weber.ucsd.edu" 12-FEB-1996 23:51:48.10 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This message was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE). Send any replies to the original author, listed in the From: field below. You are welcome to send the message along to others but please do not use the "redirect" command. For information on RRE, including instructions for (un)subscribing, send an empty message to rre-help(a)weber.ucsd.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 18:28:44 -0800 From: madanmohan rao <rao(a)IGC.APC.ORG> To: "Multiple recipients of list india-gii(a)cpsr.org" <errors(a)snyside.sunnyside.com> Subject: Internet news about Asia, India Hello folks - Here are excerpts from this week's edition of my column, "International Internet NewsClips." The full version plus archives are at MecklerMedia's Internet World site (http://www.iworld.com/netday/NATW.html) You can also find my reviews of books on Internet-related subjects at this site. Comments, feedback, etc. most welcome as always. - madan ______________________________________________________________ Madanmohan Rao (rao(a)igc.org) Communications Consultant, United Nations Inter Press Service bureau. -------------------------------------------------------------- [...] Internet Legislation To Be Formulated In Australia -------------------------------------------------- 1996 is probably going to be a watershed year in Australian Internet history. Decisions are going to be made about what is and is not allowable on-line. Concerned users will have a chance to express their opinions to the Australian Broadcasting Association's On-line Services Investigation, by February 16. The ABA's is the second similar investigation in the last six months. A Senate report last November argued that it should be an offence to "transmit, obtain possession of, demonstrate, advertise or request the transmission of material equivalent to RC (refused classification), R or X categories." But this would mean that the on-line world would be restricted by tighter standards than the off-line world. The ABA has issued a comprehensive Issues Paper for its inquiry (http://www.dca.gov. au/aba/olsissue.htm). Available since December, the paper deals with the concepts of codes of practice, the development of a representative industry body, the establishment of an independent complaints-handling body and other mechanisms for controlling access in the on-line environment. It also looks at consumer and Australian content issues on the Net, provides a handy guideline to censorship classification, and a summary of the findings of the Office of Film and Literature Classification's own informal search of the Net - 27 hours of porn hunting yielded the discovery that "restricted and refused classification material was difficult to find, at times difficult to download, and was more prevalent on Usenet newsgroup files than on the World Wide Web." The ABA accepts submissions by e-mail (online(a)aba.gov.au) (Sydney Morning Herald; February 6, 1996) Nations See Internet As Cultural, Political, Economic Threat ------------------------------------------------------------ Nations are discovering that data sent via the Internet can be every bit as threatening to a country's laws or its culture as the armies of yesteryear. "Nation states are trying to assert themselves with increasing aggression into cyberspace," said Electronic Frontier Foundation's John Perry Barlow, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It's not just cultural or social sovereignty that governments worry about. The power to tax is also being eroded by the increase in economic transactions that take place over the Internet, some of it encrypted so that prying eyes of the tax department could not read them. "You can't control it, it's uncontrollable," said MIT's Nicholas Negroponte. "If someone tells you that you can, they are probably smoking pot." (Toronto Globe and Mail; February 3, 1996)

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NETSCAPE IS "IN MERGER TALKS WITH AMERICA ONLINE"
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

PowerPC News (free by mailing add(a)aptdata.co.uk) quotes Reuter as as saying that Thomas Middelhoff, a board member of Bertelsmann AG, which has a significant stake in America Online, said that a decision on the merger could be made within a month. He noted that new data showed that 40% of US Internet traffic was flowing through America OnLine's network and that together with Netscape the two companies would effectively control the technology now shaping the global network - "And then Microsoft would be left without an Internet standard,".

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CyberAngels
by ethridge＠Onramp.NET 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Don't know if this has been mentioned on this list, since i'm, as usual, a little behind on my reading. I found this while out about this while reading alt.religion.scientology. The Guardian Angels have decided to enter cyberspace and make it safe for us all. They have a FAQ on the web - http://www.safesurf.com/cyberangels/ . How is this relevant to cypherpunks? From their FAQ: "9) What kinds of changes would the Guardian Angels / CyberAngels like to see? a) We would like to see an improvement in User identification. User ID is impossible to verify or trace back. The very anonymity of Users is itself causing an increase in rudeness, sexual abuse, flaming, and crimes like pedophile activity. We the Net Users must take responsibility for the problem ourselves. One of our demands is for more accountable User IDs on the Net. When people are anonymous they are also free to be criminals. In a riot you see rioters wearing masks to disguise their true identity. The same thing is happening online. We would like to see User ID much more thoroughly checked by Internet Service Providers." Since i'm can't do emphasis in ascii well, i'll quote the interesting sentence again - "When people are anonymous they are also free to be criminals." I've never been a fan of anonymity, but it does have it's legitimate uses. allen

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uh oh, mutation time?
by Judith Milhon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Electronic Guerrillas: Resisting Net Censorship THE MUTATE PROJECT http://www.onworld.com/MUT "Don't black out YOUR website. Black out THEIRS" Hassan I Sirius 2/8/96 This is an invitation to join a public forum on the World Wide Web on resisting internet censorship. By now, you have all heard about the Communications Decency Act and you know, or should know, the scope of this law. This discussion will revolve around active resistance to this law; routing around it, on-line uncivil disobedience, pranking, hacking, and otherwise fucking with the Net Cops. And ordinary political organizing need not be excluded. Electronic Guerrillas: Resisting Net Censorship is a topic within a Forum called Kulchur Wars. Kulchur Wars is a Forum that is part of The Mutate Forum. The Mutate Forum is a part of the website "THE MUTATE PROJECT." THE MUTATE PROJECT is an outgrowth of the book "How to Mutate & Take Over the World" by R. U. Sirius, St. Jude & The Internet 21. While we'd planned to officially open THE MUTATE PROJECT in mid-February, we've decided to open up the forum TODAY, in response to the passage of this legislation. Don't worry. It's easy to open up this Chinese box. Just go to http://www.onworld.com/MUT click on Mutate Forum Read your induction papers Click on Join a Cool Conspiracy open Kulchur Wars add your posting to the string entitled Electronic Guerrillas: Resisting Net Censorship Feel free to post in the other topics start your own or to poke around in the scaffolding of THE MUTATE PROJECT but remember that it's STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION see you there R. U. Sirius Sirius Communications

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Re:A Cyberspace Independence Refutation
by strata＠virtual.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Duncan, A well-thought out set of replies, but entirely within your line of thinking. I apologize for not replying to your point by point, but I still have to keep my typing to a minimum due to RSI. I traded a work day for my Refutation (in typing time). I believe that you and I are working with either a subset or an almost disjoint set of facts in relation to each other on the subjects of the origins of the net, Operation Sun Devil, subsequent seizures, the operation of the IETF and InterNIC, and how physical routing policy can be used to easily implement gag orders. Rather than have us attempt to educate each other via back-and-forth messages, I will go back and re-examine some source material on each of these issues over the next few weeks. If my opinions change, I will post them to you and to this list. In the meantime, let us merely agree to disagree; your mind is clearly made up, as is mine. Cheers, _Strata

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Re: V-chips, CC, and Motorcycle Helmets
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 8:15 PM 2/13/96 -0500, Declan B. McCullagh wrote: >Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 13-Feb-96 Re: V-chips, CC, and >Motorc.. by Bill Frantz(a)netcom.com >> Adding money to the pot will attract rational (and amoral) people who will >> then make a determination based on (1) profit, and (2) risk, which includes >> getting caught or killed. It seems to me that Secret Service levels of >> protection can protect a public figure against even Assassination Politics. > >That may well be true, but speaking as someone who's worked on U.S. >Presidential campaigns, that kind of protection is expensive, >time-consuming, intrusive, and unlikely to be extended. I assume that both Declan and Jim Bell agree that people high in the government will be immune because they already enjoy this level of protection (limitation one). So the only people we can hit are the cannon fodder, not the ones who gave the orders. It has always been this way with war. If, after a couple of the Waco people had been hit, I was given the responsibility to protect them I would proceed as follews: (1) Gather them and their families onto some Army base and step up the patrols. Now I have them safe. (2) Train and release them thru the witness protection program. Cost $20,000/person (if I remember the article John Young posted a pointer to correctly. (Thanks John)) This is probably about the same as the cost of their training, so it makes economic sense. (3) Make sure that the names/faces of the cannon fodder in future actions are not available to make it harder to target the guilty. Bill

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No Subject
by owner-cypherpunks＠toad.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In list.cypherpunks, sunder(a)dorsai.dorsai.org writes: > > On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Mark Allyn (206) 860-9454 wrote: > >> What do you mean by a speech bubble? >> >> "write in a speech bubble to the president dude" >> >> Does this mean a transparent plastic bubble over his head?? > > Like in comic books. i.e: I got a dollar bill yesterday with a rubber-stamped speech baloon saying "I Grew Hemp" next to George's head. First one I'd seen, so the transmission layer isn't too crowded. - -- Roy M. Silvernail [ ] roy(a)cybrspc.mn.org PGP Public Key fingerprint = 31 86 EC B9 DB 76 A7 54 13 0B 6A 6B CC 09 18 B6 Key available from pubkey(a)cybrspc.mn.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMSFXjxvikii9febJAQHaDAP9HQ/Iqw0CLNmSEBXcduwK9Wa0WaY6N026 bYU9fpvKMd16JBuRQ7wvQ6/l9QUwY9KF6J/LEnrbKC3bdEl3E09kqCg0VyL0QJYq 4y8b4QqvfzIt/yecOSVRyo4v3pCZXKeqaHvWq8wJnnYanzpMUXHGLmBL6FohJzi+ SvoHC5qlp9M= =S05W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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No Subject
by owner-cypherpunks＠toad.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:22 PM 2/13/96 -0500, Declan B. McCullagh wrote: >I do hope the religious right keeps fighting against GAK. However good >their intentions may be on *that* issue, it is transcendently obvious to >anyone who has been following the flux on Capitol Hill that they were >behind the recent push to regulate the Internet. Not obvious to me. While the religious right clearly supported the push to regulate the internet, the main push seemed to me to come from the existing mass media, primarily the three big TV channels. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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No Subject
by owner-cypherpunks＠toad.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Howdy from Australia. I am in the process of doing some research for an article on our present bandwidth difficulties in Oz. As a side issue, I wanted to cover the "overhead" factor inherent in the TCP/IP (v4?) protocol which I understand is reduced under the proposed IPv.6 protocol. I'd also like to discuss the "unfriendly" manner in which web browsers such as Netscape hog resources by sending multiple port access requests. Can anyone point me towards recent papers which deal with these issues? TIA Mark ___ Mark Neely - accessnt(a)ozemail.com.au Lawyer, Professional Cynic Author: Australian Beginner's Guide to the Internet Work-in-Progress: Australian Business Guide to the Internet WWW: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~accessnt

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