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Minnesota wins ruling.. in LV website lawsuit
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Minnesota wins ruling in LV gaming website lawsuit Assoc Press ST. PAUL, Minn.-Minnesota has the right to regulate Internet activity, the state Court of Appeals ruled in a widely watched l case involving a L as Vegas company's gambling site on the World Wide Web. The site's operator said Monday he would appeal. "For Minnesota to have jurisdiction over a site that has never taken a bet, that requires someone from Minnesota to go look at it, is ludicrous," said Kerry Rogers, president of Las Vegas-based Granite Gate Resorts Inc. The case stems from a push by ~Attorney General Hubert HumPhrey IlI to block Rogers' gambring operation from soliciting business~ from Minnesota residents on the Internet. The court's opinion, filed Friday, said Granite Gate demonstrated a clear intent to solicit business with Minnesota residents, including one successful solicitation. Rogers claimed a lack of jurisdiction because he had not mailed anything or advertised in Minnesota. "We've never taken a single bet in the history of the deal," Rogers said. "It was an idea. I'm being sued for an idea." The decision upholds a district judge's refusal to dismiss the case filed in 1995. The attorney general's office accused Rogers of false advertising, deceptive trade practices and consumer fraud. Now, Humphrey said he would seek a court order to stop the advertising and seek civil penalties of at least $25,000. Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor who specializes in constitutional, copyright and computer technology cases, said the decision is "a barrier to interstate commerce." "This is a very significant case because when you put up a web site in Nevada, you are essentially doing business in every one of the 50 states." He said the debate is over how to characterize the business: Does the transaction occur in the state of the site's origin, the state where the user is, or in cyberspace? --end PGP mail preferred, see http://www.pgp.com and http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html RSA PGP Fingerprint: FE 90 1A 95 9D EA 8D 61 81 2E CC A9 A4 4A FB A9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Schear (N7ZEZ) | Internet: azur(a)netcom.com 7075 West Gowan Road | Voice: 1-702-658-2654 Suite 2148 | Fax: 1-702-658-2673 Las Vegas, NV 89129 | economic and crypto dissident --------------------------------------------------------------------- The push by western governments for financial transparency and banning unrestricted use of cryptography is blatent politicial tyranny. Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell

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I told you so
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To my non-surprise, even the House is getting in on the "ban crypto" bandwagon. This just in (excerpted, to limit copyright infringement...read the full article in your Yahoo or the like service) Wednesday September 10 2:52 PM EDT House Panel Votes To Tighten Encryption Controls By Aaron Pressman WASHINGTON - The House National Security Committee has approved a proposal to tighten already strict U.S. export controls on computer encoding technology, dealing a surprise setback to legislation that would have relaxed the limits. In a 45 to 1 vote, the committee adopted an amendment from Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) and Rep. Ron Dellums (D-Calif.) that would condition all exports of coding technology on the potential for harm to national security. Software companies, civil libertarians and Internet user groups were stunned by the amendment, which they said gutted the bill under consideration. Coding technology, or encryption, uses mathematical formulas to scramble information such as electronic mail or a credit card number sent over the Internet to prevent hackers from stealing the information. Encryption has become an increasingly critical means of securing online commerce and global communications. Under current policy, U.S. companies can only export encryption products offering a weak degree of protection, unless the products also allow the government to decode covertly any coded message. The Weldon-Dellums amendment requires the president to set "the maximum level of encryption strength that could be exported from the United States ... without harm to the national security of the United States." Products at or below the established level could be exported after a one-time review specified by the secretary of commerce with the concurrence of the secretary of defense. The president would be required to review the established level annually to determine if it should be changed without harming national security. Representatives of software companies were aghast after the vote. "This is a disaster," said Rebecca Gould, vice president for public policy at the Business Software Alliance. "This was a bold step backward," said Alan Davidson, staff counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a cyberspace civil liberties group. "It is worse than the status quo..... [rest elided] --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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New Forbes Article
by Mark Hedges 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Patrick Mullen wrote: >There is a really good article in the new Forbes. Many >familiar names are mentioned... > >http://www.forbes.com/forbes/97/0908/6005172a.htm It's a great article, but they said that Sameer authored and runs the Anonymizer. He ran it for a while, but Justin Boyan wrote the thing, and now we operate the server. Mark Hedges Anonymizer Inc.

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Re: Renaming TEA remailer
by Antonomasia 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Alex de Joode <adejoode(a)replay.com>: > Do they own the trademark in the UK ? If not you can still use > Anonymizer for whatever service you are providing in the UK. Don't know, don't care. There was a Nice Thing To Do. (Don't forget Lance Cottrell is connected with Infonex, and without him we wouldn't have mixmaster remailers to run.) -- ############################################################## # Antonomasia ant(a)notatla.demon.co.uk # # See http://www.notatla.demon.co.uk/ # ##############################################################

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Income Tax Reform
by Jon D. Luman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A great way to reform the Federal Income Tax is to file and start enjoying your exempt status (you qualify if born in one of the 50 states). Then, these taxes will no longer apply to you. If enough people exercised their right to their exempt status, the government would have to live within it's means. Get details at: http://FutureGate.com/tax_buster ............................................... To be removed from future mailings, send to remove@futuregate,com with Remove in the subject line.

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[Fwd: Fwd: Engineers] Fwd: Engineers
by EFF 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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proposal: commercial data recovery
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If we take the design goal of designing a commercial data recovery system which is not GAK compliant, we can most succinctly state this design goal as the task of ensuring that: - at no point will any data transferred over communications links be accessible to anyone other than the sender and recipient with out also obtaining data on the recipient and/or senders disks I think we can distill the design principles required to meet the design goal of a non-GAK compliant Corporate Data Recovery (CDR) down to ensuring that: 1. no keys used to secure communications in any part of the system are a-priori escrowed with third parties 2. second crypto recipients on encrypted communications are not used to allow access to third parties who are not messaging recipients manually selected by the sender 3. communications should be encrypted to the minimum number of recipients (typically one), and those keys should have as short a life time as is practically possible Included in 2) is the principle of not re-transmitting over communication channels keys or data re-encrypted to third parties after receipt -- that is just structuring -- and violates design principle 2. With these three principles you still have lots of flexibility because you can escrow storage keys, do secret splitting of storage keys, and store keys encrypted to second storage accessors on the local disk for stored data recovery purposes. As an additional bonus, principle 3 adds extra security against attackers gaining access to encrypted traffic after the fact -- the recipient no longer has the key -- this is a form of forward secrecy. Systems designed to the CDR design principles are of significantly less use to GAKkers than PGP Inc's GAK compliant Commercial Message Recovery (CMR) design. The CDR design significantly hinders the take up of GAK if widely deployed. Design principle 3 -- forward secrecy -- is inherently hostile to GAKkers, and is the strongest statement you can make against GAK: you are purposelly _destroying_ communications keys at the earliest possible moment to ensure that GAKkers can not obtain the keys by legal and extra-legal coercion, black mail, and rubber hose cryptanalysis. The whole system translates into the Feds having to come and physically take your disk to obtain information about you, which is much better than GACK, and not what the GAKkers are interested in at this point. The GAKkers would like to install themselves, and coerce companies into installing for them (via GAKker/USG/NSA/NIST organised efforts such as the 56 bit export permit for companies installing key escrow; and efforts such as the Key Recovery Parners Alliance (KRAP)). I fear that PGP Inc's CMR proposal inadvertently meets most of the NIST/NSA specified KRAP requirements. What the GACKers want is systems where they can perform routine key word scanning and fishing expeditions into your communications from the comfort of their offices, without your knowledge. This is push button Orwellian government snooping. Within the constraints imposed by the CDR design principles, there is plenty enough flexibility to acheive the commercial data recovery functionality to similarly weak levels of enforcability as achieved by the CMR design. Weak levels of enforceability are appropriate because there are other exceedingly easy bypass routes: super-encryption, and walking out of the office with a DAT tape. I would like to organise a collaborative effort to write a white paper discussing how to implement various functionalities using the CDR design principle. Then I would like to see discussion of which set of these functionalities which best acheive the user requirement for company data recovery. Lastly I would like to see a collaborative development effort to provide a example implementation of a CDR system which can be used as a discussion point for the OpenPGP standardisation process. I suppose the best place to discuss this process is the IETF forum for discussion of the OpenPGP standard, the OpenPGP mailing list (subscribe by sending message body "subscribe ietf-open-pgp" to "majordomo(a)imc.org"). I have already had people express in email to me their interest in doing this. Those people can speak up if they want to. Technical input is sought from people opposed to GAK compliant software, and from PGP Inc, and others defending PGP's GAK compliant CMR proposal. Adam -- Now officially an EAR violation... Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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17 Dec '03

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Freeh says FBI doing great, supports Weaver killer
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI Director Louis Freeh today declared his agency "in great shape" despite a recent spate of public relations embarrassments and said he has no plans to step down from his job. Timothy McVeigh's conviction for the Oklahoma City bombing, the capture of CIA shooting suspect Mir Aimal Kansi of Pakistan and other recent successes have helped restore public confidence in the FBI, he told reporters today. The agency's image has suffered in recent years in the wake of a variety of controversies, including its conduct in the investigation of the Atlanta Olympic bombing, allegations that its crime lab had mishandled evidence and accusations that he had failed to fully brief the White House on China's alleged efforts to contribute money to U.S. political campaigns. "I think in large part that we're past it," Freeh said of the FBI's public relations problems. "We will always be controversial. ... But I think that how the FBI responds to those problems is what's important." In an April edition of Newsweek, an article quoted Freeh as saying he had considered quitting his job. But today, Freeh said he may even serve out his 10-year term. "I'm staying on," he said. "I've got no current plans to leave." He also said the FBI is close to hiring a new assistant director for the crime lab, choosing from a list of candidates that includes "world-class scientists." He also said the FBI continues a vigorous investigation of a June 1996 bombing that killed 19 American airmen in Saudi Arabia, despite the fact that Hani al-Sayegh, a Saudi dissident, had reneged on an agreement to provide information on the case. "His reneging on that agreement is not a serious setback to our own investigation," Freeh said. The FBI will continue to stand behind Lon Horiuchi, an FBI sharpshooter charged last month by local authorities with involuntary manslaughter for the shooting death of Vicky Weaver, wife of white supremacist Randy Weaver, during a deadly standoff in Idaho, Freeh said. "We fully support him," Freeh said. "It was a horrible tragedy. It was a mistake on his part, but we believe he was acting as he was trained to do. He was within the scope of his authority. ... He reasonably believed at the time that what he was doing was proper."

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GAO's Chaos Cryptosystem Algorithms
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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