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Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 10:42 AM 12/3/97 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: >This is nothing new. Honest (self-identified) leftists like my friend Bob >Chatelle complain about the censors on the left almost as much as censors >on the right. Other fave leftist censorship causes: > Not to forget the CPUSA's long time platform plank that promised to make racisim a crime punished by imprisonment. DCF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNIWH6oVO4r4sgSPhAQH7YwQAo/vMb7hqDMQ/6GP+gBXtruClj31qstbx mBSrb8VG8+9ZQO8/Tl8zY3h2FzRKea/sOQIlhpVeD2kryQUyqc2D6z79dklru5vu D7b5iJEY1na8xkQW/c3nD3ejsJRQ/5kjcNcZBQ4zxG/jM95B0tt3Wmn4B0/uMmid bJZDE0fMMEQ= =9qf9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Another of Gary Burnore's Lies Exposed (was: Re: not so fast Re: Kudos to NETCOM!)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Sam" <sam-001(a)dpinc.ml.org> wrote: > In article <3485813d.117631170(a)nntp.best.ix.netcom.com>, > gburnore+NOspam(a)netcom.com (Gary L. Burnore) writes: > > > On 2 Dec 1997 14:59:30 GMT, "Sam" <sam-001(a)dpinc.ml.org> wrote: > > > >:Found it: > >: > >:Subject: Re: Burnore forgeries easily solvable > >:From: Sam <sam-000(a)usa.net> > >:Date: 1997/07/10 > >:Message-ID: <5q3ms3$phq(a)chronicle.concentric.net> > >:Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.anonymous,alt.anonymous.messages,alt.censorship,news.ad > >: > >: > > > > > > Nice try Sam but no go. > > Not so fast. In the message that this was a follow-up to, > <gburnoreED2z89.GHs(a)netcom.com>, your own exact words were: > > > This one dated 9 July 1997 > > is a good example. See the forged from line? Ths did not come from > > mmdf(a)databasix.com > > Well, no matter how you look at it, it was. It did came from > mmdf(a)databasix.com. There was no forgery. And that was precisely the > point of my initial post. I cannot believe that someone who is supposed to > administer a mail server cannot recognize an auto-ack generated by his own > machine, instead insisting that the message came from a third party, forged > with his return address. > > This puts all other claimed forgeries from a mail2news gateway, that you ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > have taken an issue with, and used as a basis to form your claims against > UCE-baiting, and such, as suspect. ^^^^^^^^^^ You've noticed that too, huh? Gary Burnore's "big lie" technique depends upon his claims being retold over and over, by himself and his associates such as Belinda Bryan <eridani(a)ix.netcom.com>, WITHOUT SERIOUS ANALYSIS like yours, in order to be believed. Gary's continuous whining about "forgeries" is becoming pathetic. In his haste to falsely claim that something was "forged" he missed the fact that the claimed "forgery" was traceable back to HIS OWN SERVER. He shot himself in the foot trying to frame the remailers this time. What would be the point in trying to forge a Usenet post to make it look like it came from "mmdf(a)databasix.com", anyway? Gary Burnore's forgery allegations against Mailmasher are similarly suspect. First of all, before planning the attack, somebody apparently didn't do his homework, or he'd have realized that Mailmasher was a web-based 'nymserver, not a remailer. Despite being challenged to do so, Gary has never been able to produce a single piece of documentation showing that Mailmasher ever had the ability to paste From: headers. The "evidence" that was posted had truncated Path headers that stopped at the mail2news gateway and contained "X-No-Archive" headers, just as Gary's own posts do, presumably to explain why none of these posts is independently available from third-party archives for verification. If the posts even existed in the first place, they are more likely to have been generated from a Netcruiser account, complete with headers designed to frame Mailmasher, than from Mailmasher itself. --

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More microsoft monopoly::Re: NT 4.0 Option Pack released (fwd)
by Ray Arachelian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Microsoft has now broken up the Service Packs into Bug Fix and Option Pack (new feechures) packages. However the catch is this: they require you to have Internet Exploiter 4.01 installed *BEFORE* you can install the Option Pack (whose features have little to do with Internet Exploiter, though they are part of the IIS web server. For example RAIDUS Remote Access Authentication has nothing to do with Exploiter.) IMHO: This is a cheap shot at making their browser more "incorporated" with the OS, that way they can get around the Justice Dept. :( Lame. Another message claims VC++ requires IE as well -- can anyone confirm this? =====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos============== .+.^.+.| Ray Arachelian |Prying open my 3rd eye. So good to see |./|\. ..\|/..|sunder(a)sundernet.com|you once again. I thought you were |/\|/\ <--*-->| ------------------ |hiding, and you thought that I had run |\/|\/ ../|\..| "A toast to Odin, |away chasing the tail of dogma. I opened|.\|/. .+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"|my eye and there we were.... |..... ======================= http://www.sundernet.com ========================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 08:08:57 -0500 From: Russ <Russ.Cooper(a)RC.ON.CA> To: NTBUGTRAQ(a)LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM Subject: NT 4.0 Option Pack released FYI, the final release of the NT 4.0 Option Pack has been posted, you can get full details at; http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/default.asp For those that aren't already aware, Microsoft has split the old Service Pack into two components. One is the Option Pack, which includes new features and functionality, while the Service Pack will be kept to bug fixes or patches only (or so they say, we still haven't seen what this new SP will look like). Amongst other things, this first release of NTOP includes; IIS 4.0 Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0 Microsoft Message Queues 1.0 Microsoft Certificate Server 1.0 Internet Connection Services for Microsoft RAS (Radius) Microsoft Site Server Express (Web Usage and Content analysis/reporting) Internet Explorer 4.01 These components will now ship on a separate CD included with NT. Its important to note that IE4.01 *must* be installed prior to installing any of the NTOP components. Cheers, Russ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 17:05:35 +0200 From: "Juha [ISO-8859-1] Jäykkä" <juolja(a)utu.fi> To: NTBUGTRAQ(a)LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM Subject: Re: NT 4.0 Option Pack released > Its important to note that IE4.01 *must* be installed prior to > installing any of the NTOP components. And MSIE must be installed before installing Visual C++.. Soon we hav= e it that MSIE must be installed before TCP/IP is installed... and then befo= re NT in installed! Is there no limit to this??? Is there any way to prevent = MS from *FORCING* us to install MSIE - other than boycott all MS products entirely (with NT5 it would seem that we have to boycott even the OS to= save ourselves from MSIE)??? Sorry the bitter tone - I just don't like programs that require me to install yet another program which I don't want to install. --=20 ----------------------------------------------- | Juha J=E4ykk=E4, juolja(a)utu.fi | | home: http://www.utu.fi/~juolja/ | | pgp-key: http://www.utu.fi/~juolja/pgp.txt | -----------------------------------------------

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Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 8:42 AM -0700 12/3/97, Declan McCullagh wrote: >This is nothing new. Honest (self-identified) leftists like my friend Bob >Chatelle complain about the censors on the left almost as much as censors >on the right. Other fave leftist censorship causes: > >-- MacKinnonite antiporn laws (she's a self-identified Marxist, I recall) And her partner, Andrea Dworkin, belies the oft-quoted notion that someone so far to the left comes out a libertarian rightist. No, this chick Dworkin is so far left she's just plain _left_. She argues that porn for womyn (or is it wimmin?) is fine and dandy, because this represents lesbian sisterhood exploring their own blah blah blah, but porn aimed and directed at men, even if containing precisely the same images of naked chicks, is inherently exploitative and should be banned. (How?) Dworkin has clamined, several times, that all heterosexual sex is rape. >-- "Hate speech" bans And "hate speech" laws are already spreading on the Net. Just a day or two ago there was a report that a student is being prosecuted for "hate speech" messages mentioning Asians (or maybe just Japanese?) in a derogatory way. What part of "shall make no law" is not being understood here? What part of "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me" did they not understand? (This being one of the lessons, along with several other crucial memes, that some of us learned early on...apparently this lesson, and the fable of the grasshopper and the ant, has been replaced by the Dworkin-approved "Heather Has Two Mommies" lesbian propaganda.) >-- Sexual harassment "hostile environment" regulations (Give me a break. >This is the justification for at least one library censorware >installation.) This is a fairly old one, at least 15 years old. Girlie calendars, even of bikini girls, are banned in most work environments. GIFs or JPEGs with sexy themes are banned (unless, one presumes, they are "lesbigay or transgender" (!), in which case they must be encouraged by Management so as to provide a nurturing environment for lesbigays...sort of a kind of affirmative action for dykes and fags). The City of Berkeley has floated proposals to ban public reading, in diners, restaurants, etc., of magazines like "Playboy." Not because children might catch a glimpse of a naked breast, but because womyn and other sensitive souls might be offended. (I don't know if this was ever passed into law, let alone challenged in court.) >-- Various FCC regulations aside from indecent stuff Like mandatory voluntary ratings. Like mandatory voluntary "public service announcements." Like denials of licenses for politically incorrect stations. >-- Labeling/compelled speech requirements (Jamie, are you out there?) > Labelled speech will be the touchstone for the next couple of decades of debate about censorship, hurtful speech, and mandatory voluntary self-ratings. "But you can say anything you wish, provided you voluntarily and accurately self-label your words, and provided none of the protected class members are offended or insulted." >>bottom line is that most any political orientation is likely to thrash free >>speech when it appears to be a threat. > >Well, at least the libertarians in the audience are consistently opposed to >government censorship. Such has it always been, such will it always be. --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: CDT and the Threat of Gov't Intervention
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:46 AM 12/3/97 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: >Besides demonstrating that cyberporn is a topic that will >never disappear, the Kids and the Net summit has >highlighted the tensions between the different types of >Net-advocacy groups here in Washington. I'm sure the Feds are happy that their Good Cop (Clinton) / Bad Cop (Freeh) routine is having the divisive effect they planned, and making sacrifices seem acceptable. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Information is a dense, colorless, odorless material readily transmitted across empty space and arbitrary boundaries by shaking charged particles.

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Khristian Kult Killings
by Canadian Nutly News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[CANADIAN NUTLY NEWS-Bienfait, Saskatchewan]AN ASSORTMENT OF POLITCAL criminals from Washington, DC, held a press conference at the Coaldust Saloon last night, with the main topic of discussion being the gangland battles between rival Christian cults. Bill Clinton expressed dismay over secret intelligence reports that not only were the Christian gangs widely dispersed throughout the school system, but that there was evidence of involvement by many teachers and school administrators, as well. "Many of these cults have beliefs very similar to the Heaven's Gate cult, with their members involved in preparing to participate in an exiting of the physical plane in a similar manner, and the eventual overthrow of democratic government in all countries, led by their currently exiled guerilla leader." Lying Jackoff Fuck Louis J. Freeh stated that more crimes are committed in America by followers of the Christian cults than even the large number committed by people with Italian names. "The problem is enormous." Freeh stated. "Many of the children are committed to these gangs by their parents, almost from birth. It is not surprising that the kids seldom manage to escape the grip of these cults, even as adults." Murdering Nazi Cunt Janet Reno stated that BATF agents had informed her that Christian cult members throughout the U.S. were in possession of more weapons than members of the paramilitary. "The real threat of having weapons in these people's hands is that, like most paramilitary members, they don't regard the Federal government as being the supreme authority." Anonymous sources at the scene of the recent cult slaughter at a high school in Kentucky confirmed that several copies of a popular cult manifesto were found in the homes of both the shooter and the dead participants in the bizarre ritual. The manifesto, which is vastly more subversive and violent than books such as "The Turner Diaries," is often referred to by cult members in oblique coded-language as simply, "The Book." Bar maids and local drunks at the Coaldust Saloon denied the rumors that the book, known as the Word of God to most cult followers, was actually one of the early manuscripts of the author of 'The True Story of the InterNet,' and that 'God' was nothing more than a thinly veiled anagram for 'Dog', representing one of the author's many nefarious aliases. However, A Sorry Drunk To Be Named Later informed gathered reportwhores that if Christian cult members around the world sent their tithes, in cash, to PO Box 281, Bienfait, Saskatchewan, that they would be assured a space on the spaceship approaching earth in the shadow of comet Khrist-Bop-Shoo-Bop. (When pressed for details as to the time of arrival of the mythical space aliens worshipped by the cult, A Sorry Drunk To Be Named Later merely winked and said, "Let's just say that cult members will be swept up into another dimension on the same day as their computers.") Canadian Nutly News sources confirmed earlier today that the shooter in the ritual slaughter at the high school in Kentucky was wearing a T-shirt with a radical cult slogan often used to whip cult members into a violent frenzy, "He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of Dog." ~sog~

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Re: CDT and the Threat of Gov't Intervention
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Danny, I may respond in more detail to your post shortly (I'm supposed to be working on an article right now), but I wanted to ask you: Does CDT consider itself to be a "civil liberties" group? If so, how do you reconcile that stance with CDT director Jerry Berman's statements this week and elsewhere that we need to "balance free speech" and "balance civil liberties" with other concerns? If so, how do you reconcile this with your anti-civil liberties "compromises" on issues like wiretapping, the "harmful to minors" version of the CDA you supported, and the "crypto in a crime" jail penalties you continue to support? CDT seems to take positions that are often much closer to business lobbyists than civil liberties groups. Now, I don't mind business lobbyists -- I'm friends with many of them and I talk with them every day -- but I want to be clear on your position. -Declan On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Daniel J. Weitzner wrote: > At 12:45 AM -0500 12/3/97, Declan McCullagh wrote: > >Besides demonstrating that cyberporn is a topic that will > >never disappear, the Kids and the Net summit has > >highlighted the tensions between the different types of > >Net-advocacy groups here in Washington. > > > >The civil liberties groups (ACLU, EPIC, EFF, CPSR), and > >journalism, publishers, and media groups have lined up on > >one side [http://www.ifea.org/] saying the government > >shouldn't pressure the Internet to self-censor (or be > >censored by the Feds). They held a counter-summit press > >conference yesterday. Even the libertarian Cato Institute > >is in this corner. > > > >On the other side, the Center for Democracy and Technology > >[http://www.cdt.org/] is participating in the summit along > >with antiporn groups, high tech firms, and "censorware" > >vendors. > > Declan, > > Life would indeed be dull without tensions, but it's important to have a > clear picture of what's going on in the tension over filtering. > > Somehow you have filtered out a few groups on what you call the "other > side." Even though your was present for much of the Summit, you neglected > to mention important participants in the Summit including: > > People for the American Way, one of the nation's leading civil liberties groups > American Library Association > Media Access Project > > These groups are some of the leading defends of free expression in the > country, so I'm not sure why you left them out. > > In a statement issued at the Summit, People For the American Way's > President said: "We do not want an Internet where lawmakers and > corporations have decided for us what the best filtering method is, but > neither do we advocate a 'Wild West' where any safeguard is called > intrusive. We stand for traditional democratic principles like freedom of > expression and freedom of choice, and as such we believe that families > shold have an array of choices about how best to guide their children." > > CDT shares this view with People For and is committed to assuring that: > > 1) the Net does not become dominated by a single rating system; > 2) that the choice to filter or not is always up to parents, not > governments; and, > 3) anyone using filters has full knowledge of the filtering criteria used. > > Painting this as CDT vs. all other civil libertarians may be convenient, > but it's wrong. I do thank you for acknowledging, at least, the CDT is > committed to a diversity of options. > > We'll have more to say about what happened at the Summit in a day or so. > We welcome the debate over the desirability of filtering, and various > approaches to the issue can go on, but it isn't served by misleading > characterizations. > > Thanks. > > ============================================================================ > * Value Your Privacy? The Government Doesn't. Say 'No' to Key Escrow! * > Adopt Your Legislator - http://www.crypto.com/adopt > > ------------- > > Daniel J. Weitzner, Deputy Director <djw(a)cdt.org> > Center for Democracy and Technology 202.637.9800 (v) > 1634 Eye St., NW Suite 1100 202-637.0968 (f) > Washington, DC 20006 http://www.cdt.org/ > > > > >

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How long before McAfee PGP v6.0 with GAK?
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Someone forwarded a wired article: > | PGP is competing with RSA Data Security Inc.'s S/MIME (Secure > | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) to become a standard for E-mail > | encryption. So far, PGP appears to be winning the hearts of the IETF > | (Internet Engineering Task Force) because it is based upon the public > | Diffie-Hellman algorithm. Whoever wrote this isn't paying attention. S/MIMEv3 is an IETF process and also uses patent free algorithms. > ===> http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/8906.html > > | Pretty Good Privacy Not Looking So Great > | > | Legendary cypherpunk and former PGP Inc. chief technology officer Phil > | Zimmermann is in the uncomfortable position of having to eat his > | words. Following Monday's US$35 million cash acquisition of PGP by > | Network Associates, the man who once testified before the Senate that > | key recovery could "strengthen the hand of a police state" now works > | for a company that actively promotes it. > | > | Reaction from e-privacy activists was swift and harsh. > | > | "The users of PGP can no longer rely on the credibility of Phil > | Zimmermann to ensure that the product is everything that they've been > | promised it's been previously," said Dave Banisar, attorney for the > | Electronic Privacy Information Center and co-author of The Electronic > | Privacy Papers pgp5.x had corporate message recovery (CMR) features in it from the git-go. Not quite as bad as KRAP (Key Recovery Alliance Partnership -- the government toady scheme for companies argreeing to add GAK to their products), but still risky stuff the way that they implemented it. Anyone who is interested should read: http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/cdr/ where I attempt to compare the risks of PGP Inc's method of disaster recovery with more logical and more secure alternatives. The folks at PGP Inc who poo-pooed the uproar caused by their CMR exploits are now left with the thought that they have built the GAK mechanism for a KRAP company. The KRAP program calls for companies to implement GAK in a two year time-frame, in exchange for this they have the bribe of being allowed to export puny 56 bit encryption in place of the joke 40 bit encryption. So it may be necessary to forget PGP Inc. If I was PRZ I would demand that the name PGP not be used for KRAP. > | Network Associates, formerly known as McAfee Associates, is an active > | member of the Key Recovery Alliance, an organization that lobbies > | Congress for key recovery that would grant law enforcement agencies > | back-door access to private encrypted communications. Yup, they're government sell outs who are part of the "program" helping government to install key recovery government master back door keys etc. PGP Inc's CMR looks set to be the architecture for GAK much earlier than it's detractors predicted. Shame on those at PGP who invented it, and defended it. > | Network Associates and other companies support key recovery because > | it would allow them to export strong crypto software without bothering > | to make a separate nonrecoverable version for the domestic market. Not really, they are allowed to export 56 bit crypto which is still ultra puny. They won't be able to export 128 bit IDEA, or 128 bit CAST, or 112 bit 3DES which is what PGP5.x uses. So they'll either need two versions or they'll dumb down the whole lot to 56 bits, which is just too weak by far. > | But Zimmermann, a pioneer of strong encryption, has spent years > | crusading against key recovery, calling it an invasion of privacy. And > | the most recent release of PGP's encryption software allows users to > | disable key recovery. Many of us were already upset with PRZ for his part in the development of CMR, and for allowing it to happen. It was far too politically risky a technology to associate with the PGP name, or for someone who cared about privacy or personal freedom to endorse. > | "People should give their consent to use [recovery]," Zimmermann said. > | When asked whether future versions of the package will retain that > | option, Zimmermann replied, "Certainly, as long as I have anything to > | say about it." I would imagine that PRZ doesn't retain much control. > | "It's going to take some time to figure things out," said Zimmermann. I hope PRZ does the right thing. > | "It will require a fundamental examination by human rights groups and > | others about whether any newer versions of PGP are truly trustworthy," > | said Banisar. pgp5.x is already tainted with the features to interoperate with future GAKked software from NAI versions of PGP which will likely have GAK to comply with McAfee's KRAP program. Adam

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Re: *** PGP HAS A BACKDOOR - by Phil Zimmerman
by Charlie Comsec 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Anonymous <nobody(a)REPLAY.COM> wrote: > > PGP 5.5 for Business Security can be configured to use escrow keys. It > > isn't automatic, you have to explicitly enable this. I am pretty sure, > > but not positive, that once enabled, the user is warned that that an > > escrow key is being used. > > Okay, we lived with Viacrypt and PGP 4.5 before. > Let's talk about reasons to include those pieces of suspicious code > in the 5.0 -version for _personal privacy_. > Activated or not, the idea alone is a bad thing and smells like betrayal. > > Why has it been done? Certainly it is not a big problem to compile a version > 5.0 with an activated key escrow-function? Is PGP Inc. waiting for the > law to catch up? > We should observe closely in the future and look out for the little > "enhancements" which will make PGP Inc. keep their market shares: Actually, I'm told the reason for those code hooks is so that commercial users can do INTERNAL key "escrowing", so that if a vital individual dies or quits and refuses to turn over his key to his successor, his employer can recover the key and access encrypted data that would otherwise remain inaccessible. If the employer is paying him to produce something, then the end result is the property of the employer and should not be lost if the employee dies or becomes disgruntled, quits, and refuses to turn over the key (or claims he "forgot" his passphrase) to his employer. OTOH, an employee should be allowed to properly revoke his key upon quitting and distribute the revocation certificate. (The employer may be wise to REQUIRE that.) I really have no problem with that as long as its use remains VOLUNTARY at the user's discretion. Needless to say, an employee in a situation like that should use one key for work-related purposes and a separate, non-escrowed one for his personal use. Although anything is possible, I doubt that the government would use this as a means of implementing MANDATORY key escrowing. The powers-that-be at the NSA seem to have real fits with software encryption to start with, and something that's available in source code and thus modifiable would give them nightmares. I'd expect anything they eventually approve/mandate to be merely a software interface to a tamper-resistant encryption engine in firmware (complete with embedded key[s]). - --- Finger <comsec(a)nym.alias.net> for PGP public key (Key ID=19BE8B0D) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNIWeZQbp0h8ZvosNAQE1GAf9E0/ZlxyCZSO9FUMIQ8EbdWJce84wqXDs Zm4MgrdVpOkaQJWeC14WEwE2cLl6RRtcS8NSq+2YWpaZw2+8lxFsOcAhPqSCowCi 5OoBw8MraGZd6ARmQSIoveqcEBWTvggwwg9hGUy1/Eh4JDNy2ZfWj+WLgRILG0Hj kV6Uzrlm56oPKdDW4927jwelQcFdj76UDbQSfeVVWXM6hpJtEpxayDdB9vXCWRZ5 eOVf2FA5Lu6LM23zqQ3+gpA1+XTFK4ENCWO+MSDk3OU20Pk7l5SAZ89bfuI7887a yai8KKwHnHmE18Y5DYOrKoP6aDbjgS0207R5Z5khKsv3BLqJ4zKdPQ== =BnQo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Superdistribution development/release
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Yet Another Watermark... Anyone wanna take bets on how long before it's broken, or at least easily pirated? Cheers, Bob Hettinga --- begin forwarded text From: "Blair Anderson" <blair(a)technologist.com> To: "dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu" <dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu> Cc: "Peter Cassidy" <pcassidy(a)triarche.com>, "Brad Cox" <bcox(a)gmu.edu> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 97 12:58:05 +1300 Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Superdistribution development/release Sender: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: "Blair Anderson" <blair(a)technologist.com> Silver Bullet for Digital Publishing Arrives TragoeS Announces General Availability of RigthsMarket(TM) PR Newswire - December 02, 1997 16:10 TRGO. %ENT %MLM V%PRN P%PRN CALGARY, Dec. 2 /CNW-PRN/ - RightsMarket hits the bull's-eye business opportunity of the 21st century - electronic commerce through digital publishing on the Internet for the $71.3 billion (US) publishing industry (Value-Line, April 11/May 20/May 30, 1997). ``RightsMarket harnesses powerful economic forces that will show people the money in digital document publishing on the Internet,'' stated Lindsay Moir, President of TragoeS Inc., during the company's news conference November 18th at COMDEX `97, Las Vegas. ``With RightsMarket suppliers of digital documents will be paid and 99% of the revenue loss due to piracy will be eliminated.'' TragoeS has successfully implemented the Superdistribution paradigm in RightsMarket. Superdistribution tracks usage rather than possession and is recognised as the best approach to selling digital property (digital versions of text, data, knowledge, pictures, music, videos, etc.) on the Internet. Pricing of RightsMarket is $50,000 (US) plus integration, support fees, and annual license renewal fees. Unique RightsMarket features include: Persistent Cryptographic Wrappers (RightsWrapper) - No matter where the digital document (financial newsletter, educational test, minutes from a court proceeding, sensitive health care records, etc.) goes, no matter how it gets there, whether it is used and then subsequently redistributed, etc. the document is always encrypted. It is never left decrypted and exposed even while it is being viewed. Rights Marketing `back office' (RightsServer) - Allows marketers to set the terms and conditions of use for the digital property. Features include support for the newly announced international Digital Object Identifier (DOI) publishing standard. Fault Tolerant Middleware (RightsConnection) - Provides a secure link to the `back office' from the user's desktop. As well, there is no requirement to be connected full time to the Internet in order to view the digital document. Metering and Enforcement (RightsClient) - Provides decryption services, meters use, and sends usage information to the RightsServer via secure middleware. Acrobat(TM) Trusted Tool plug-ins - Makes Acrobat, the world's most popular digital publishing tool from Adobe Systems Incorporated(C), ready for prime time digital document economic transactions on the Internet. With a plug-in for the Exchange and Reader, customers can encrypt documents and have a trusted player for viewing content. Shane Hayes, TragoeS' Vice President, Customer Implementation will be presenting at The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Technology Forum Wednesday, December 10, 1997 in New York City. The DOI is an important emerging international standard for identification of published material online. It forms the foundation layer of a set of technologies that will enable commerce in published material on the Internet so that copyright is protected, content creators can be compensated for their work, and consumers can benefit from technology that is sophisticated, yet seamless and easy to use. The International DOI Foundation (IDF), a non-profit organization established to administer the DOI standard, is looking to technology vendors to implement the necessary technology components and integrate them into secure electronic publishing solutions for the IDF's constituency: the worldwide publishing industry and beyond. In April 1998 in Washington, DC, TragoeS Inc. will participate in a three day conference sponsored by the Library of Congress, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and the University of Virginia. The conference is titled ``Exploring the New Media - The Paradigm Shift in Publishing: >From Book to Bytes''. TragoeS Vice President, Marketing and Sales, Fred Yee, will sit on a panel discussing `Solutions to Copyright Protection in Cyberspace'. TragoeS Inc., established in 1993, is a Canadian high technology company specializing in software products and services that support financial transactions. Its product, RightsMarket is the solution for the protection, metering and payment of digital intellectual property. TragoeS is a public company reporting in Alberta and Ontario and is listed on the Canadian Dealing Network (CDN TRGO). The Canadian Dealing Network or other regulatory authorities have neither approved nor disapproved of the information contained herein. SOURCE: TragoeS Inc. /CONTACT: Lindsay Moir, President, TragoeS Inc., (403) 571-1835, Fax: (403) 571-1838, Email: moirl(at)tragoes.com, Website: www.tragoes.com, www.rightsmarket.com or Mr. Peter Taylor, Investor Relations, (416) 368-0121, Fax: (416) 368-9175/ (TRGO.) 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