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future history of remailers
by landon_dyer＠wayfarer.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

i just picked up greg bear's new SF novel _Slant_. it's set in mid- next-century. i'm only twenty pages into it, so i can't honestly give it a recommendation yet, but the following is from one of the "chapter intro" quotes, and it has some cypherpunk-topical stuff in the author's 'techie gobbledygook' in the 2nd paragraph [note: possibly offensive ... but if you're on this list, why am i bothering to warn you? :-) ] >From: Anonymous Remailer >To: Pope Alexander VII >Date: December 24 2043 > >"You're just a Catholic Dickhead, you know that? Come to my town >(wouldnt you like to know you shit) sometime and I'll show you a >GOOD TIME. Let you bodiguards know that I'm about seven feet tall and >dressed like the Demons in NUKEY NOOKY which I bet you've plaid too >you asswipe hippocrit!!!!! Have a nice day!!!!!" > >EMAIL Archive (ref Security Inv, Re: Thread = Encyclical 2043 Vatican >Library> Cultural Tracking STAFF /INDA 332; reverse track through >Finland> ANONYM REMAIL Code REROUTE> SWITZERLAND/ZIMBABWE> ACCT HDFinster> >Harrison D. Finster ADDRESS 245 W. Blessoe Street Apt 3-H Greensboro NC >USA PROFILE> 27 years of age at time of message, >CONCLUSION: FLAME >PROFILE No action necessary. ref Vatican Internal Investigator >comments: "Young, shit for brains.") imagine that, the vatican cracking remailers.... "Democracy is government by the people and for the people, on the theory that the people should get the kind of government they deserve, good and hard." -- Robert Frezza, _The VMR Theory_

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The value of free speech...
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> "Philip A. Mongelluzzo" <phimon(a)ix.netcom.com> writes: > > > How do we deal with child pornography and free speech in such a way > > as to allow both to exist and insure our children are not exposed to > > pornographic material until they are at a maturity level where they > > can deal with it? > > > A battle that must be won without killing the enemy to > > insure continued free speech. Quite a challenge I think. Now, do > > you have any idea how to do that? When I was twelve years old a man stepped out of the proverbial dark alley in my small hometown and offered me twenty dollars to give him a blow-job. I said no. In retrospect, if he had offered me a thousand dollars, I might have recognized the value of free speech at a much earlier age than I eventually did. Also, my parents used to let me go to out-of-town hockey games with other kids and Father Flanigan, admonishing me, "Don't let him stick his hand in your pants." I didn't. Today's world may seem more dangerous, with a greater chance of children's contact with unknown entities/weirdos, but I find it hard to believe that there is greater saftey to be had by keeping children ignorant of information that goes beyond this or that boundary of morality/integrity/world-view/lifestyle. If your children see a picture of a young child with a dick in his or her mouth and don't see anything wrong with it, then I don't think the problem is with the picture. TruthMonger TruthMonger

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CDA Overturned - AP Write through 9-0
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

9-0 I called it. 06/26/1997 10:16 EST Court Nixes Internet Smut Provision WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress violated free-speech rights when it tried to curb smut on the Internet, the Supreme Court ruled today. In its first venture into cyberspace law, the court invalidated a key provision of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. Congress' effort to protect children from sexually explicit material goes too far because it also would keep such material from adults who have a right to see it, the justices unanimously said. The law made it a crime to put adult-oriented material online where children can find it. The measure has never taken effect because it was blocked last year by a three-judge court in Philadelphia. ``We agree with the three-judge district court that the statute abridges the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment,'' Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the court. ``The (Communications Decency Act) is a content-based regulation of speech,'' he wrote. ``The vagueness of such a regulation raises special First Amendment concerns because of its obvious chilling effect on free speech.'' ``As a matter of constitutional tradition ... we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is more likely to interfere with the free exchange of ideas than to encourage it,'' Stevens wrote. Sexually explicit words and pictures are protected by the Constitution's First Amendment if they are deemed indecent but not obscene.

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17 Dec '03

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Re: NEWS.COM - Rumor Mill
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Not a rumor -- it's true. Crowell was wandering around wondering what was going on. The excuse was that ~60 votes were scheduled on the Senate floor yesterday. -Declan At 14:26 -0700 6/26/97, Alan Olsen wrote: >No Freeh lunch? > > >http://www.news.com/Rumors/0,29,,00.html > >At the end of the article... > >While hackers were getting busy, the crypto honchos were >getting dissed in D.C. Apparently, a group of bigwigs, >including Louis Freeh of the FBI, William Crowell of NSA, >Peter Neumann of SRI, and Ray Ozzie of Lotus, flew all the >way out to the nation's capital for a Senate Judiciary >Committee hearing on cryptography, only to be informed 20 >minutes before the meeting that it had been canceled. >Grumbling ensued as the various participants stormed back >to Dulles airport. The meeting may pick up after the July 4 >recess.

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by David Downey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Interesting Supreme Court decision on Brady Bill at http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-1478.ZS.html
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-1478.ZS.html A messy 5-4 decision, with two concurrences and three dissents. Overturns the part of the Brady Bill that forces local officials to perform some of the administrative functions. Lots of complex commentary.

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Australian "Walsh" report exposes the hole in key escrow
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This report was finally obtained (after suing the Australian government under Freedom of Information laws) by Electronic Frontiers Australia. I haven't seen it yet; this is the first I'd heard that it is released. The first paragraph does its best to scare people, but the gist is all correct: if you escrow authentication keys, digital signatures don't work. If you don't escrow authentication keys, then key escrow doesn't work. John Gilmore Forwarded-by: Hal Abelson (I don't know the original source). By John Davidson Governments will be forced to completely undermine the emerging global electronic commerce system if they want to prevent it being used by criminals and for tax evasion, one of Australia's leading data security experts has warned. Professor William Caelli, head of the school of data communications at Queensland University of Technology, said yesterday that it was all but technically impossible to satisfy the competing needs of law enforcement and international trade. The difficulty was in allowing encrypted data passing along the Internet to be monitored by law enforcement agencies, while at the same time giving legal status to the digital signatures that will underpin electronic trade. A suppressed government report into encryption, written by a former deputy director-general of ASIO, Mr Gerard Walsh, has agreed with Professor Caelli. The Commonwealth should abandon as "doomed to failure" attempts to control encryption by keeping a copy of the passwords, or keys, in escrow, Mr Walsh told The Australian Financial Review yesterday. The field of cryptography is generally divided into encryption, where data is scrambled for confidentiality; and authentication, where an electronic document is scrambled or signed to prove who it came from for legal purposes. Policy under consideration in Australia, the US and the UK calls for a separation of the two key types, with law-enforcement agencies having some sort of access to all encryption keys while individual's authentication keys are kept strictly private. It is widely accepted that escrowing authentication keys would render them legally useless for signing documents. "If you ever allow people to get near authentication keys you'll corrupt the administration of justice," said Mr Walsh. The problem facing governments, according to Professor Caelli, is that it is technically impossible to separate the two key types, since they are both just very long numbers. The thinking with the most currency, known as "key tagging", involves adding extra data to the start or end of a digital key to identify what it would be used for. But key tagging can't work in a PC environment, Professor Caelli claims. PC operating systems don't have enough security to prevent users from simply taking the tag off an authentication key and adding it to an encryption key, thereby bypassing government attempts to escrow all encryption keys. If, as it was likely, a dual-key infrastructure proved impossible in a PC world, governments would either have to escrow all keys, rendering digital certification meaningless, or escrow no keys at all, rendering data surveillance totally ineffectual, he said. Mr Steve Orlowski, a leading Government expert on cryptography, acknowledged that it was now impossible to build a secure dual-key infrastructure, but said that it was "possible that someone could make a breakthrough". "We're encouraging research into that area so we'll be able to make the distinction," he said. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology recently made a worldwide plea for cryptography algorithms that can be used for authentication and not for encryption. Mr Walsh's report, commissioned by the federal government to look into how it must legislate to satisfy security and privacy needs in the face of strong cryptography, has only now come to light following a successful Freedom of Information action by Electronic Frontiers Australia. The 96 page report, Review of policy relating to encryption technologies, was due to be published in October last year, and called for a period of public discussion about cryptography issues. However, it was never released, and was only made available to the EFA this week with 20 paragraphs deleted. A second report prepared at the same time but with specific recommendations is still secret, however. According to Mr Walsh, trying to put the lid on encryption with key escrow would be "an exercise in futility" because it would miss the very target it was intended to catch: organised crime, money laundering operations and terrorists. These groups would either refuse to escrow their keys, or simply embed a further level of encryption in their messages, he said. He also said in the report that it would also be futile to try to regulate the length of crypto keys on a nation-by-nation basis because "the notion of fixed national borders is simply anachronistic" thanks to the Internet. "It's not in the interests of the community's rights to privacy, nor the needs of the business community, to . . . limit the strength of cryptography simply to catch the occasional minnow," he said. Law enforcement considerations should not automatically leapfrog privacy considerations, and the government would have to mount a "damned strong argument" every time it wanted to access someone's encryption keys, he said. Mr Walsh said he was uncertain why his report had been suppressed, given that anything that might have been controversial was restricted to the secret report he also submitted. "I wrote (the first report) in the clear expectation that it would be publicly released," he said.

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