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17 Dec '03

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Safe Speech
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Blue-Nosed Guardian (Nikki Craft, NJ) December 4, 2000; THURSDAY; ALL EDITIONS SECTION: OPINION; HEADLINE: PEDOPHILES IN THE BIOSPHERE; WE MUST STOP SPOKEN CHILD PORNOGRAPHY EVERYWHERE BYLINE: The Record BODY: The increasing presence of child pornography in spoken communications is a national problem that must be dealt with aggressively and quickly. This is not a free-speech or First Ammendment issue. Child pornography is a crime. We do not tolerate it on our computers, and we should not tolerate it in audiospace. Unfortunately, as a Page One article in the Blue-Nosed Guardian pointed out yesterday, audiospace is tailor-made for the dissemination of child pornography. It allows peophiles instant access to explicit descriptions of childhood sexual activity almost anywhere, and it gives distributors and collectors enough anonymity to avoid getting caught and being prosecuted. Using advanced non-digital technology, two pedophiles can meet almost anywhere, and exchange explicit descriptions of childhood sexual activity, with little fear of detection. Phrases like "Timmy, aged 7, has a stiffie" and "Little Mary's muffin swelled and moistened when she saw little Timmy's cute red knob" can be exchanged with ease vicariously victimizing inocent children worldwide by transforming them into sexual objects for pedophiles' selfish gratification. In fact, the ease of communicating descriptions of childhood sexual activity through the spoken word may actually have broadened the audience for child pornography. And law enforcement officials worry that this may lead to increased child abuse, because American parents might actually begin to believe that guilt-free sex-positive messages are good for children, in lieu of the normal beatings and state-mandated psychotherapy. Vice President and famed child-rearing expert Dr. James Dobson has been leading a campaign to make sound waves safe for children. This week, he announced a new partnership between cities and the Justice Department effort to crack down on child pornography, and a toll-free hotline where people may report any neighbors heard discussing the sexuality of minors in terms other than those used in Surgeon General Phyllis Schlafly's "Innocence and Abstinence" report. But law enforcement officials, sound wave experts, and child advocates say it's not that easy, by any means. Even if landlords, businesses, and professionals cooperate in monitoring all speech uttered by persons on their premises, there are hundreds of small conversations which take place in other locations, where people are loathe to police others, because of liability concerns, or because they consider it to be a waste of time. The Blue-Nosed Guardian's article also pointed out that most law enforcement officials are not knowlegable enough to track down child pornography distributors, who are experts at whispering spoken descriptions of child sexual activity and finding new ways to conceal their communications from onlookers. Law enforcement officials may also lack the manpower needed to track down pedophiles. "If we want to break into someones house and install recording equipment," one investigator said, "we actually have to go in front of a judge and get a warrant." Child advocates say they hope to eliminate such "loopholes for pedophiles" in the future. Many more "audiocops" are needed at the federal, state, and local levels, who have the expertise to stay ahead of spoken communication, and much more manpower and training is needed. In New Jersey, state Sen. stupid fuck Andrew Ciesla, has introduced a bill which would set aside $400,000,000 of money stolen from the taxpayers for a special unit to investigate spoken child pornography, and create a 24-hour toll-free state hot line for people to turn in their neighbors. Alerting the authorities is a key component of this crackdown, and Dr. Dobson also announced a national "AudioTip" hotline to report any comments about childhood sexuality which might be overheard. Dr. Dobson also took the opportunity to plug his new book, "Dare to Discipline III: Electrotorture and Enemas." The Vice President is to be commended for seeking ways to stop these ugly predators. But this effort must be more than just lip service. It must result in all Americans understanding that children have no sexual feelings, and engage in no sexual behavior prior to age 18 unless they have been corrupted by pedophiles, and that abstinence is the expected behavior of those over 18, before entering into a stable marriage which can only be terminated by the death of one of the partners. In the meantime, intense pressure should be brought to bear on the non-mute citizen units, and those who supervise them, to make a huge dent in this particularly vile audiocrime, through aggressive self-policing and frequent government-sponsored self-criticism sessions. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Re: "Kids summit" -- CNNfn interview
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 27 Nov 97 at 13:12, Declan McCullagh wrote: > [I'd still like to hear more on the inner workings of next > week's "kids on the Net" summit from our friends at CDT who > are sponsoring it. The lineup of speakers includes Janet > Reno, Al Gore, and the secretaries of commerce and education. > All joining together to Protect the Children! --Declan] Here is the piece about the CNN show transposed to another, accurately analagous context to show the utter idiocy of what's going on. What's really sad, what's really scary, is how _little_ I actually had to transpose to do this. All I changed were the occurrences of "online," "software," and "Surf." I modified a couple of other related words just to comport with the shift of the metaphor from online to streets/public places. Many paragraphs remain unaltered because they contain none of the key words. For credible transposition, imagine that the "tools" they're discussing are something like a headset, blinders, and body armor that kids can be made to wear while in public to protect them from the realities of public places. Ask yourself how different that would be from the assinine blocking software being discussed in the original interview, and how intelligent is it to presume to think one can mold all public places to be as safe and comfy as the family living room. These people must be on very strong drugs. This is also an indirect statement on the utter superficiality of present day "news" coverage. The original interview _says_ virtually nothing, communicates virtually no facts. It is really just an emotional rallying and back-patting with little discernable in the way of contextual detail. PropagandaMongerII ---------- > HEADLINE: Kids & Public Streets > JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNNfn ANCHOR, ASPHALT JAM: Next week family > advocates, educators and industry leaders are coming together to > discuss ways to keep children safe on public streets. One of the > sponsors of the Streets Summit is Curbwatch, a company that makes > blocking tools to help parents and teachers filter out > objectionable street content. > Joining me now from Stanford, California to discuss the goals > of the summit is Michael Sears. He is the president of Curbwatch. > Michael it's great to have you on ASPHALT JAM. Welcome to you. > MICHAEL SEARS, PRESIDENT, CURBWATCH: Thank you, a pleasure to > be here. > DEFTERIOS: First of all, let's discuss how this summit came > about. Was it a building movement that finally crescendo. > SEARS: I think it is. It's actually the outgrowth of what we > did last June with President Clinton and Vice President Gore. In > fact June and July time frame the SDA (Streets Decency Act) was > overturned. The White House decided to take the initiative and > asked the industry to get together to see what we can do to > actually empower kids and enable kids on the streets. > DEFTERIOS OK. What is the happy medium here, Michael because > that's what everybody is really looking for because the Street > Decency Act did stumble and we had people on both side of the > debate wanting to stake out their territory. What is , in your > view, is the center ground? > SEARS: Well, the debate will continue, but the center ground > really is that it's all about kids. What we're talking about doing > here is bringing together industry and law enforcement and public > policy people and talking about to empower kids on streets and give > them effective tools. Effective tools that are also very easy to > use. > The idea behind that is how can kids actually get onto the > streets, learn, research, discover, play and do it in a really > enriching environment. But also we realize that there are a lot of > safety concerns in public places. That's probably what we're going > to talk about primarily. > DEFTERIOS: How about the ACLU, they were raising concerns > about being blocked out here or filtration or censorship on the > extreme. How do you deal with that side of - the people on that > side of the debate? > SEARS: It's a slippery slope. The idea here is do we block, > companies like Curbwatch, do we block content in public places. > The idea once again is we target your typical 12 year old in the > US. If that 12 year old should see something or if that 12 years > old needs to discover something we try to make sure that we have > all of our technology, all of our processes in place to insure that > information comes forward. Such as, we don't block the idea of > breast, for instance, because breast could be talking about a > chicken recipe. It could be talk about breast cancer. However, if > it's a sexually explicit depiction or expression of that word > that's where you come in and use filtering tools to block. > DEFTERIOS: There's another side to this, of course, that kids > are often much more street savvy than their parents. How do you > over that hurdle? > SEARS: That's a major hurdle. In fact we're talking about > empowering kids with effective tools, but those tools have to be > very easy to use and the ease of use isn't really for the kids > because the kids know how to do this stuff. They know what's on the > streets. They know what's out there and they know how to get > there. What we really provide are the easy to use tools for mom > and dad. So mom and dad pointing and clicking and turning switches > on and off very easily can really control the family's environment. > DEFTERIOS: As you know, this is a political hot potato for > President Clinton because he didn't want to seem extreme on both > side and he would like industry to work it out. When it is all > said and done, Michael, what is the solution here? > SEARS: Well, the solution that this market is all about is > called parental control. Curbwatch started the market about three > years ago and the word parental control itself was important not > only because it's the technology, but because of those first two > words, parental control. Mom and dad have to be involved. Mom and > dad have to engage not only to help the kids in public places, but > also make sure that in street conversations or with graffiti or > with explicit pictures they can really sit down and talk to the > kids and moderate what their kids are doing. We're just a tool. > DEFTERIOS: This is not a government. Not to interrupt you, > but we're almost out of time here. But this is, you're saying, not > government intervention then. > SEARS: Absolutely. > DEFTERIOS: The technology is out there to let the families > tackle this on their own. > SEARS: That on and off switch should be in the hands of moms > and dads not the government. > DEFTERIOS: OK, great. How about your market share before we > let you go tonight? How are you faring against your competition? > SEARS: I think we're doing very well. All the buzz that's > been happening over the last couple of months has helped our shares > as well as our competitors. We've shipped millions of copies, 7.2 > last July. We haven't done the survey lately, but we're clearly in > the tens of millions right now. > DEFTERIOS: OK. It's great to have you. > SEARS: Great to be here. Thanks very much. > DEFTERIOS: And have a nice Thanksgiving holiday. > SEARS: Same to you. Take care. > DEFTERIOS: My pleasure. Michael Sears, president of Curbwatch, > joining us from Stanford, California.

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mail2news gateway (fwd)
by Alex de Joode 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anyone has more info ------ For the past several weeks, a right wing extremist group in Topeka, Kansas has been tampering with mail2news gateways, including yours, to prevent several people who oppose their hate agenda from posting to the usenet through your gateway. The affected gateways include at least alt.revisionism, alt.christnet, alt.politics.homosexuality and alt.abortion. Posts are returned "user unknown" suggesting that the mailbox may have been deleted. This is a group of *fanatics* (Westboro Baptist Church) whose website godhatesfags.com may be known to you. They also operate several other websites under aliases the best-known of which is revwhite.bestsites.net. They advocate murdering abortion clinic workers, homosexuals and blacks. 'Rev White' (actually a member of the Fred Phelps family aka Westboro Baptist Church) was responsible for conducting a reign of terrorism last year (see "WIRED" magazine, Jan. 1997) against the irc that included death threats and operator sabotage. Several in this group are highly skilled in hacking and are willing to spend whatever time it takes launching denial of service attacks so that some of their opponents' viewpoints can't be posted. And they're willing to do this everyday if necessary to harass and intimidate others into silence. Several of them have criminal records in Topeka. I'm writing to ask you in the name of fair play to re-open these gateways and do whatever is necessary to keep them open. Better yet, I hope you can kept them in the act like a Canadian ISP did and report them to Special Agent Tom Maiorana FBI 300 U.S. Courthouse Kansas City, MO 64106 816-221-6100 Thank you for whatever assistance you can be in this matter. -- Alex de Joode | usura(a)SABOTAGE.ORG | http://www.sabotage.org Sabotage Internet: Your Internet Problem Provider.

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Re: Complete package for Cantsin Protocol No. 2
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Steffen Zahn wrote: >I have put together a package for Cantsin 2 Signatures, to generate >the keys, sign documents and check signatures. I've been looking this over and it's a nice job. The code is clean and orderly. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, but it looks like everything is done the right way. For example, it doesn't tell you how many valid signatures a file has, it outputs a fragment of the file for each valid signature. The database of known keys has the nice property that you can name each key anything you like. The source code is completely unencumbered. This is great! For some reason, it has been the custom to issue free software with all sorts of restrictions, in particular restrictions which hamper its commercial use. But, if we are giving it away to people so they will use it, why restrict it? If somebody can use it to start a cypherpunk company, this is a Good Thing. (This can even be a Very Good Thing for the original programmer. ;-) It might be a good idea to publish the SHA1 checksum of the file you are distributing. The checksum of the file I got (cantsin.tar.gz) was: D054C9E4ABD5CEE0C5A4343E5D1E2EF91C00048A I may not approve of the restrictions on free speech in Germany, but at least the German government isn't trying to stop people from publishing arithmetic. The truth is, that for Monty Cantsin's activities, he would get a better deal on free speech if he were German. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm Subject: Re: Complete package for Cantsin Protocol No. 2 To: cypherpunks(a)algebra.com 25BA1A9F5B9010DD8C752EDE887E9AF3 [Cantsin Protocol No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"Kids Safe" calls for mandatory blocking sw; op-ed on summit
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Dec. 5, 1997--Saying that we must protect children from the dangers of >sexually explicit material on the Internet, a leading child-safety advocate >Friday called on Congress to enact legislation to mandate that every >computer sold in the United States by 1999 be outfitted with parental >software that can block out sexually explicit or adult Web sites. "Oh my gawd! A nipple! I'm harmed for life! I'm going to hell! Jesus doesn't like this! All for a nipple!" Um, yeah. And the far-right wackos strike again, this time in the guide of "Kids Safe." And now in addition to paying for Windoze when you buy a computer you get to pay for censorware which you don't want. What if my machine comes with Linux preinstalled? Is censorware still mandated? What if I deliberately come up with a way to purposefully break the censorware every time they release it? What if I come up with a way to get around the idiotware...err, censorware? What if I specify that I don't want them to even TOUCH my hard drive -- just stick it in the case and hand me the CDs? But the #1 reason this is stupid is: What keeps me from using an ActiveX applet to exploit the "everyone is root" "feature" in Windows to remove the censorware or, better yet, check to see if it is installed and horribly hose the system? Granted nothing keeps me from destroying the system as it stands now, but this just gives people a reason to do it other than the standard (and justified) "Windows' point and click crap has destroyed the network." And of course there are two ways to use the actual ratings for civil disobediance. You can either rate porn as "acceptable for children" or you can rate *everything* as "hard-core XXX with graphic gunshots to the head, a bunch of blood, and people cussing." The same applies for filters; I can obsfuscate trigger words (i.e. "fuck" as "fsck" or "fuq") or I can deliberately strewn them all over my pages so that people are, in effect, FORCED to turn it off to read everything from a technical paper to a FAQ for comp.lang.c. One of these days these idiots are going to learn two things: 1) You can successfully censor very little material, and 2) It pisses people off and they go out of their way to offend and put up porn. Remember back during the Exon debacle? Hell, porn was posted to Cypherpunks.

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Re: NYTimes oped: Federal laws better than censorware
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I think the answer to your question is that most of us find the very idea >of filterware distasteful (let alone the generally poor quality of the >implementations. However, that's much the same as I find american cars >distasteful. If somebody else wants to blow their money on one of those >pieces of crap, by all means let them. (I admit, they're slowly getting >better) This leads us to poke fun at the current systems and argue against >people actually using them, much the same way a christian friend of mine >keeps trying to get me to accept jesus into my heart and love him so that I >won't go to hell. On the other hand, we get really pissed off when >somebody tries to force us and our kids to use this crap. It doesn't >matter if it is AOL or the FBI, outside coercion is outside coercion. Or public school districts, which are arms of the government regardless of the fact that many of them have the word "independant" in their name and have a quasi-independant regulatory joke known as a "school board." Strangely enough I'm taxed to provide Internet feeds in the schools, then taxed to censor those feeds, then bitched at for not "thinking about the children" when I post to USENET, then threatened with government regulation for the same. All while the public school system is turning out people who can't read or do basic mathematics. And we still come back to the old question: Who determines what is "suitable for children?" Since I, for instance, consider absolutely no material to be "inappropriate for children" on basis of their age and I absolutely deplore censorship in all its forms I would rate everything as "suitable for children," even if that means that I have to rate a porn page as having "no nudity," or a copy of a hack and slash novel with blood and gore all over the place as "no violence." It's blatently obvious to a human that they're walking into a porn page or a copy of The Terrorist's Handbook before they actually transfer it. Since the sole purpose of automated filtering and rating systems is to censor material which some censor decides is "inappropriate" for a particular audience without any input from that audience at all, and in many cases I'm the one paying for the network feed to begin with, screw them. And I'll put whatever I want on my pages, even if that is a ratings tag, thank you. If Little Johnny is of such fragile mentality that he will be damaged for life because he sees a penis or a breast, then he was screwed already. Think of it as evolution in action. Rate falsely and watch them load.

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Re: Another of Gary Burnore's Lies Exposed
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mix <mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> wrote: > >:gburnore@netcom.com (Gary L. Burnore) wrote: > > [clipped only the equine manure parts of Mr. Burnore's article ] > > Hmmmm. Nothing left. > > Isn't it amazing how the Anti-Privacy Mr. > Burnore thinks there is only ONE anonymous person posting to correct his ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > outrageous lies and massive disinformation? Uh, oh! Head for the hills! Our secret is out! We have all of these remailers and they only have ONE USER. <g> > Isn't it amazing how Dumbo Mr. > Burnore calls 'an asshole' all those who choose to post a dissenting opinion > anonymously? Isn't it amazing how Anti-Free Speech Mr. > Burnore demands to know all anonymous identities yet himself hides the > addresses of where he lives and works? Most control freaks like Gary Burnore and the rest of the DataBasix Gang are hypocritical about privacy. They want to invade that of others at will while protecting their own. Gary Burnore and Belinda Bryan <eridani(a)netcom.com> were worried that their UNLISTED PHONE NUMBERS might be given out, but anyone who dares criticize their actions with an "unlisted" e-mail address is an "anon asshole". OK, let's make Gary happy. If he's so worried that my asshole is "anonymous", I guess I'd better give it a name -- "Burnore" sounds about right to me. So to all control freaks -- "stick it in your Burnore". I'm still wondering what wondrous plans Gary and Belinda had for all those e-mail addresses of the users of the Huge Cajones Remailer if Jeff Burchell had turned them over to DataBasux as they had demanded. (Not just the senders but the RECIPIENTS as well!) Fortunately, Jeff was smarter than your average Burnore and didn't keep such things around to tempt DataBasix, Scientology, etc., so we'll never find out.

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Why put up with KRAP?
by Adam Shostack 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Why put up with KRAP? >[Network Associates] believes that although the Key Recovery Alliance >is not in itself a political organization, membership in it has >unintended political consequences that outweigh any technical benefits >we may receive. So, this piqued my interest. What technical benefits did NA receive from participating in KRAP? Did they get any? The press release says "may receive." All Newspeak aside, does this mean that there is a secret document promising the KRAP group something? (This is what remailers and brown paper envelopes were invented for. I'm sure John Young would be happy to scan in some KRAP promises.) If there is no secret document that comes out, we have to ask ourselves, why the alliance? Did these companies really see a market demand? Did the government make promises about size of contracts it would offer to companies that shipped them KRAP? (Perhaps this relates to farming subsidies...) If so, those companies would be well advised to talk to AT&T, whose promised contracts for shipping the TSD-1300 with Clipper in place of DES never materialized. Is there a plan for interoperable KRAP? Is this going to relate to interoperable SET, where competing impulses, competing comittees, and no clear threat model or design goal lead to a spec that isn't, and a need to go back to the drawing board? the simple fact is that cryptographic security is hard enough to achieve without trying to add in layers of KRAP. So why bother? Network Associates decided it wasn't worth it. This then, becomes an open call to the charter members of the KRAP: Apple, Atalla, Digital, Bull, HP, IBM, NCR, RSA, Sun, TIS, and UPS to explain what they're doing in KRAP, what they hope to achieve, and to follow Network Associates proud example, and get the hell out. I'll advise shareholders in any KRAP companyto ask that same question: Is there a reasonable ROI on the KRA, and why are you involved? The hall of shame is on the web: http://www.kra.org/roster.html -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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Free Net Football Game
by return＠mail2.vspn.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.vspn.net is the WEB site of an all new FREE multiplayer football game for the internet. http://www.vspn.net/DownloadArea.htm for download. Play the wide receiver, quarterback, or fullback while others from all over the world play their positions. All in real-time 3D first person perspective. And it's FREE for the remainder of the beta test period. You like football? You like games? You'll LOVE VSPN. No need to reply as this is the only notice we will be sending.

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