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Prologue 5/0
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Prologue 5a/0
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Prologue 5c/0
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Prologue 3/0
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~ SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS / PROLOGUE 3/0 ©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©© The Most Dangerous Man In Lost Wagess: They had followed him from the CypherPunks physical meeting to the outskirts of Las Vegas, before losing him. Two days of frantic searching by a variety of law enforcement agencies led to the Plaza Hotel and Casino, where he was playing the penny slot machine and associating with a variety of local riff©raff and no©accounts. An in©depth consultation with the Plaza head of security revealed that they had been keeping a close eye on the subject for the last two days. "He doesn't cause any real trouble, or anything," the head honcho said, shrugging, "but everything about him seems just a little strange, if you know what I mean." This comment seemed designed to elicit some sort of response from the poker©faced men questioning him, but they failed to respond, merely waiting for him to continue. "He buys ten dollars worth of pennies," and tips the change lady a dollar. "He plays for hours on end, also tipping the waitresses a dollar every time they bring him a free beer. Hell, he even tips the cleaning people when they clean his ashtray." The honcho shook his head, as if this type of behavior from someone spending most of their time playing the penny slots was puzzling and also disconcerting. "Sleeps in his car, with his dog. Only leaves the slot machines to feed, water, and run his dog around our parking lot. It's kind of unnatural, the way he seems to dote on that animal." the security honcho winked knowingly. "Has he met with anyone who doesn't usually frequent your casino?" one of the men asked, impatiently, tired of hearing odd details of the man's lifestyle which seemed intriguing to the denziens of normality that they were constantly having to interview in regard to the subject's movement and activity. "He ran into some legal©eagle named Larry Joe," the honcho said, noting the first sign of interest shown by his interrogators. "My second©shift security chief says he's a middle©weight poker player, taking part in a tournament at the Rio..." adding with a knowing tone, "but the mouthpiece is hanging with one of the heavy hitters on the local poker scene." "Larry Joe Dowling, an Austin attorney." one of the interrogators said to the others. "He usuallyÜj We'd better shift our surveillance team into high gear." The man rose to leave, telling the others, "Dig up all you can here, file a report, and get some sleep. You're going to need it." Boogers? We don't need no stinking boogers!: The agent pulled out his hanky and wiped the disgusting mess off of his jacket sleeve. "I can't believe that they pulled us off of the Tim May detail to check out this fucking loser." "Shit!" he screamed, as he brushed his arm against the steering column and picked up another piece of disgusting slime on his jacket sleeve. "I've shaken down this guy's personals before." the man's partner said, with a grin. "That's why I gave you the driver's side of the vehicle to check out." "He feeds his nose©candy to his dog, and he always leaves her a little desert on the steering wheel for her to chow down on after he brings her back from her walk." He laughed as he saw the bile rising to his new partner's throat. He couldn't help himself©©he reached over and plucked a booker off of the horn button and told his partner, "I'll trade you a green one for a yellow one..." His partner lurched out of the vehicle and concentrated on tossing his lunch while not messing up his shiny new shoes. The more experienced agent finished snapping photos of the gathered items and then replaced them carefully in the same position they had been in before their intrusion. "He usually walks Baby for about ten minutes, to give us time to make a complete pass of his vehicle, so our time is about up." The agent closed and locked the doors of the vehicle, motioning his green©faced partner toward their vehicle. It's A Nuke! No, It's Anthrax! No, It's...AAARRGGGHHHH!!!": Justin Case, Special Agent in Charge of the current investigation, was bothered by the fact that the suspect had seemed to be doing nothing more than wandering around various sites and casinos in Las Vegas, with no apparent pattern or plan to his movement and actions. Until he read the report of the suspect's lingering interest in the placement of the columns serving as the foundation for the Stratosphere Casino, and the layout of the preliminary work on the new Foley Federal BuildingÜj "Soft targets." agent Case said out loud, causing a considerable amount of disconcertment to his fellow agent, Bobby Siller. "Damn!" Siller swore, "We have reports of him having met with Leavitt and Harris, but we didn't have any taps on them, so we don't have any details of what they are planning." "Don't worry about it," Case seemed unconcerned, "if he's scouting soft targets, then he's not planning any sudden moves." "Patience comes to those who wait." Justin Case said, softly, quoting the Author, and making a mental note to have agent Siller shake the Anthrax Twins down a few days after the suspect departed Vegas. "Hold it!" agent Siller shouted, motioning for his superior to remain silent, as Siller adjusted his earpiece to more clearly hear the live report he was receiving from his agents at the Riviera gun show. "The suspect went into the gun show empty handed, and left with several copies of 'Gun List' and then returned to his vehicle. He took his dog for a walk and our agents discovered a 'Dalian' watch wrapped in tear©outs from the firearms paper, dealing with Romanian AK rifles and Bulgarian SLR©95's. The 'Dalian' watch is some type of Polish/Chinese make, or something." Justin Case rolled his eyes, but remained silent. The suspect was yanking the chains of the agents who were shaking down his personals, and it looked like Siller's men didn't have the experience to know when they were being toyed with. The agent that Case had pulled off of the Tim May detail would be wise to the suspect's shenanigans, but it was unlikely he would get in the way of Siller's men making fools of themselves. "He's returning to the casino, using the copies of 'Gun List' to hide whatever it is he's carrying." agent Siller said, with great excitement. "I think we ought to take him in the parking garage, before he reaches the main building at the Riviera." Siller anxiously awaited the word from his superior. "Maintain." was Case's nonchalant reply, causing Siller to have an ill©disguised internal shit©fit. If this operation went totally to hell, it would be Siller's ass on the line, being the Las Vegas station chief.

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Re: Leahy bill nightmare scenario?
by Gary Howland 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Dan Weinstein writes: Dan says "you" wrote: > > Question: What, exactly, is the motivation of a person running an > > anonymous remailer? His motivation is clear: To allow people to > > send anonymously untraceable messages. Assuming he's of ordinary > > levels of intelligence or beyond, he is aware that somebody may some > > day use his system for illegal purposes. You're going to have to > > explain why a court _CAN'T_ interpret this as being in violation of > > the law. > > If I rent cars, someone might one day use a car rented from me in a > robbery. Does that make my an accessary? NO. This is an unfair analogy. Now if you had said that you rented cars without asking for proof of identification, thus making your car hire centre very useful to robbers, that may more closely resemble the anon-remailer situation. Gary - -- pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary(a)kampai.euronet.nl> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06 - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMUQKsCoZzwIn1bdtAQFvMgF+M2YV6V31uBGswLkZtltCnwZ+Gwn3gavf 2KeYva5tb1+myr3plgxgXEvHe8wt3lXZ =vQMv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: What about PGP? (was Re: Leahy Bill a Move to Slow Crypto Exports as Much as Possible)
by shabbir＠vtw.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mutant Rob writes: >Timothy C. May wrote: >> I think this is showing that one of the intended purposes of the Leahy bill >> is to slow down exports of crypto for as long as possible, and then only to >> grant export licenses when competition from abroad threatens to undo the >> effects of the stalling process anyway. I think this is somewhat skewed. Let's look at our situation now: We don't get to export much crypto software. The Leahy bill takes us to: We get to export lots of software that is "generally available", "in the public domain or publicly available", or if similar products exist already in other countries. (That's a lot of stuff, but it's not the whole enchilada.) We want to be at: We get to export all crypto software. (I mean legally; I think we all know that export controls don't work against someone with enough brains to post news, send mail, or use ftp) This is a pretty good improvement in the situation, and will hopefully pave the way for the "whole enchilada". It's not good strategy though to criticize this because it's not the ultimate crypto bill. Let's be honest with ourselves here, this is Congress we're talking about and this is a pretty bold step. We need to educate them to see the facts we understand so thoroughly: that crypto export controls do not work, endanger our own requirements for confidentiality, and aren't helping contain this technology in the rest of the world. Forcing Congress to have this debate will lay bare these facts and hopefully embarass the Administration for their absurd policy approach on encryption. They say that liberty is seldom lost all at once, but a little at a time. Regaining it is probably done this way as well. In this case, the Leahy bill gives us back a mouthful. -S > >Hmmm. > >But what about the case of PGP? It's a relatively strong product, and >an international version exists. I'd guess that PGP 3.0 may implement >other algorithms (PK and symmetric), and likely an international PGP3 >would follow... so how could the Commerce Dept rationalize not giving >an export license to ViaCrypt? > >And would a similar, but non-compatible, utility that used RSA and/or >IDEA, 3DES, etc. also be exportable? ... > -Shabbir J. Safdar * Online Representative * Voters Telecomm. Watch (VTW) http://www.vtw.org/ * Defending Your Rights In Cyberspace

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Prologue 3a/0
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

SAHMD 3A ©©©©©©©© "Maintain," Siller told his agents, but couldn't help adding, "and disclose." This was a vague term meant to signal his men to intercept the suspect and do a bump©and©run on him to sniff out what it was he was hiding©©without alerting Siller's superior that his orders were being countermanded. "The Electronic Privacy Papers." agent Case said, to no one in particular. "What?" Siller asked, perplexed. "Documents on the Battle for Privacy in the Age of Surveillance, by Bruce Schneier and David Banisar, ISBN: 0©471©12297©1." Much to agent Siller's consternation, his superior continued, "That's what your men are going to discover he is hiding furtively under those copies of the 'Gun List' magazines when they disobey my orders and risk blowing their cover." "It's the suspect's form of humor." Justin Case smiled at his subordinate's discomfort. "He's laughing at all the spooks from various agencies, including yours and mine, who are at the gun show shadowing the Anthrax Twins, the Samsonite Nuclear Warrior, and various members of the Loose©Screw Gun Nut Club." Seeing the confused look on agent Siller's face, he explained further. "The suspect is laughing because he believes he is carrying the most dangerous weapon available at the gun show." "And he's probably right..." Case said, with a far© away look in his eyes that sent shivers down agent Siller's spine. Special agent Justin Case took a tattered copy of a paperback titled, "Paper Prison" out of his inside jacket pocket, and stared at it©©lost in a universe that belonged far in the past, but which seemed to be intersecting the present in a manner which bode nothing but ill for those who continued to live in both. "The future is now..." Justin Case said, in a low monotone voice that seemed to come from a world beyond the one in which he and agent Siller were so diligently pursuing the 'Threat of the Day'. "He's carrying a book." the voice came crackling through Siller's earpiece. "Never mind." Siller said, adding, "Maintain." "Maintain." Siller repeated inwardly, to himself,Üj crept up his spine and into the lower regions of his mind as he observed the strange, semi©hypnotic state that his superior had entered into. "Maintain."

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Medical Privacy Alert --- please redistribute to all concerned
by JWRCLUM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MASSACHUSETTS 99 Chauncy Street, Suite 310, Boston, MA 02111 (617) 482-3170 Fax (617) 451-000 CONTACT: John Roberts (617) 482-3170 http://users.aol.com/mcluf/home.html BENNETT-JEFFORDS BILL PLACES MEDICAL RECORD PRIVACY AT RISK The confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship will be totally undermined as medical records become widely available without patient knowledge or consent. BOSTON - February 27, 1998. On Thursday 2/26/98 the United State Senate's Labor and Human Resources Committee heard testimony concerning a bill proposed by Senators Bennett and Jeffords that, if passed, would license the widespread disclosure of personal medical information contained in files held by doctors, hospitals, employers, educational institutions, and others. The bill which purports to be a privacy bill is, in fact, just the opposite. It places virtually no restrictions on the disclosure of personal medical records within health care entities (no matter how large and geographically widespread) or to a long list of other entities and agencies including the following: - any agents or contractors of the health care entities - Public Health Agencies, Oversight Agencies - Health Care Accreditation Agencies - State Health Care Databases There are major loopholes in access provisions for - Health Care Researchers - "Outcome" analysts ("cost/benefit" analysts for hospitals, HMO's, insurers, etc) Even law enforcement agencies will have easy access to browse computerized medical record systems for so-called "legitimate" investigatory purposes. This will make every American's medical record part of a new massive law enforcement database. The bill will destroy the confidential "doctor-patient relationship" and replace it with a new "patient-health care industry relationship." "This bill serves only the interests of the burgeoning health care industry," said John Roberts, Executive Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts. "It allows the transfer of your medical records to many entities that stand to profit from its information. Gone is doctor-patient confidentiality. Your doctor cannot protect your most sensitive medical information from many entities outside your medical facility. Even employers who have health plans are considered 'health care providers' in the Bennett-Jeffords bill. How many of us want our employers to have access to any of our medical records without our knowledge or consent?" The bill will also - Impose requirements that patients sign blanket consent forms for release of information as a condition of getting treatment, even for self-pay patients - Redefine "treatment" to make the patient's record a subject of continuous research - Blur the boundaries between individual patient care and the so-called "Population Management" and "Disease System Management" The bill will pre-empt all state laws which may be more protective of the confidentiality of medical records. The bill will not apply even its own minimal privacy protections to so-called "non-identifiable" medical records information. But...interestingly, the bill also refers to issuing "keys" to re-identify previously purportedly "non- identified" information. A formal logical analysis of this reveals that the bill itself admits that what it calls "nonidentifiable" medical record information is actually identifiable (i.e. containing patient information). The ACLU of Massachusetts believes that what is really needed for medical privacy protection would be the following: - Federal law should set a foundation or floor of privacy protection - State laws which are more-protective of patient's rights should not be preempted - No "Unique Patient Identification Numbers" - No electronic "linkage" of patient records stored in various sites - Computerized patient records must be encrypted with keys provided only to those directly involved in the individual patient care - The right of the individual patient to contract directly with physicians and health care providers regarding the privacy of the patient's medical records. -end-

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TWP on Crypto Keys
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Washington Post, March 11, 1996, p. A18. Security and Software [Editorial] The number of computer users continues to grow, but use of the Internet for business and financial transactions isn't keeping pace. At least, that's the complaint of many who expected a flood of Americans to go on-line for banking, publishing and mail-ordering -- with tremendous profits to the on-line industries that handle these services. One big reason for the lag is customer concern about the safety of information, from credit-card numbers to bank balances and business secrets, in the hacker-rich environment of the Internet -- an eminently reasonable concern that many in the industry believe can be addressed only by the wider use and availability of sophisticated "encryption software," which scrambles information en route, making it indecipherable to anyone who doesn't hold the key to the code. The sense that encryption technology holds the key to future economic growth on the Internet is pushing an arcane but intense argument between the Clinton administration and the computer industry over whether to lift existing restrictions on the export of the most powerful encryption software. The administration, especially its law enforcement agencies, bars on national security grounds the export of encryption software above a certain difficulty level, saying that it needs to be able, if neqessary, to seek and obtain the equivalent of a permit to wiretap. The makers of the software argue that these restrictions are ruinous for U.S. competitiveness in the international market because foreign customers want the most secure encryption available. Some civil liberties organizations argue that the restrictions are an invasion of customers' privacy rights. Legislation introduced this month in both the House and the Senate would ease the export restrictions while attempting to meet some of the government's security concerns. Code makers would deposit a "spare key" to any exported encryption software with a trusted third-party agency -- a compromise the Justice Department and national security agencies also have been pursuing in talks with the industry, but at which the industry hesitates because it fears that the existence of "spare keys lying around" would cause potential customers to balk. (The Justice Department also would like a spare-key agreement for encryption software sold domestically, but has less leverage because such sales require no license.) The legislation would heavily penalize any "key holder" agency that provides an unauthorized copy to anyone besides the government. But it also would make it legal to export any encryption technology that is already "generally available" -- for instance, in stores or on domestic computer bulletin boards. Such a sweeping change, law enforcement authorities fear, could render the other barriers and safeguards in the bill close to academic in the borderless, lightning-quick world of Internet transmission. Once it's widely available overseas, "uncrackable" software or hardware can't be recalled. The U.S. intelligence agencies with their superior computing power can still crack most coded software, if not immediately, then much faster than 99.9 percent of ordinary commercial hackers. But that doesn't mean their concerns should be shrugged off. Like arms sales, encryption technology sales have implications for traditional national security interests as well as the economic kind. The urgent interest both sides share is to get this resolved soon. [End]

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Re: Vexatious Litigants (was: SurfWatch)
by Phillip M. Hallam-Baker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- E. ALLEN SMITH wrote: > > From: IN%"stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com" "Bill Stewart" 10-MAR-1996 04:29:37.67 > > >Presumably, almost nobody in Europe is going to add these silly Yankee > >rating labels to their web pages, except a few commercial content providers > >who want to sell advertising or services into markets that block > >un-rated web pages. So schoolkids behind rating-mandatory sites > >will have to ask their teachers why the "World-Wide-Web" is just American --- > >"It's got All 50 States, Johnny!" <Exonive deleted>! > > The WWW consortium is approaching European governments about their > rating system - the one found at SafeSurf. > -Allen Disclaimer: I don't work on PICS and I don't speak for the consortium. Actually the European govts are far more likely to see labels being used. In the US a piece of crackpot legislaion has been passed which has some clearly unconstitutional parts. The ban on abortion related speach for example which the justice dept isn't going to defend in any way. I expect that the Exon amendment will eventually be ruled unconstitutional through being overbroad. The problem is that it is difficult to get people to do something voluntarily after ordering them to do so and being overuled by the courts. This is the kind of small minded, foot stomping politics that the US congress is famous for worldwide. In Europe the governments tend to be more aware of their impotence. There is also much less hysteria about kids seing pornography, the main concern is violence and in particular amoral US TV shows for kids, the sort where people beat each other up but nobody ever gets hurt. In France one can buy hard core porn in the supermarket. The govt. is far more concerned about foreign language material. The whole point about PICs is that it is not bound to a single rating scheme. I had a go at producing a spec for a rating scheme back in '94 but gave up since life is too short to waste. The Web is decentralised and anyone can set up shop in it. Now we have a scheme in which anyone can set up a rating scheme. So we will have the kook brigade filtering out material on evolution and the concerned parents preventing their five year olds from viewing the alt.tv.very.scary gifs. Actually this is the main point of the exercise. I can't think of any system which is going to defeat determined 14+ kids from finding porn but its a bit easier to stop the 7 and unders from accidentially seeing stuff that will give them nightmares. Phill - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMURLKSoZzwIn1bdtAQGeWgGA0n4wmvgI8F4UspSxmWJ3Q9C2+LaxVPl7 xy+H0/0QN66VneWZg+h+pNZd3kmLdgOj =+z3H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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