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121. Anonymity is important to Internet users who seek
by strick (henry strickland) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From the CDA decision: ( http://www.vtw.org/speech/decision.html ) Anonymity 121. Anonymity is important to Internet users who seek to access sensitive information, such as users of the Critical Path AIDS Project's Web site, the users, particularly gay youth, of Queer Resources Directory, and users of Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR). Many members of SPR's mailing list have asked to remain anonymous due to the stigma of prisoner rape. Anonymous remailers are mentioned in this secction: Obstacles to Age Verification on the Internet 90. There is no effective way to determine the identity or the age of a user who is accessing material through e-mail, mail exploders, newsgroups or chat rooms. An e-mail address provides no authoritative information about the addressee, who may use an e-mail "alias" or an anonymous remailer. There is also no universal or reliable listing of e- mail addresses and corresponding names or telephone numbers, and any such listing would be or rapidly become incomplete. For these reasons, there is no reliable way in many instances for a sender to know if the e-mail recipient is an adult or a minor. The difficulty of e-mail age verification is compounded for mail exploders such as listservs, which automatically send information to all e-mail addresses on a sender's list. Government expert Dr. Olsen agreed that no current technology could give a speaker assurance that only adults were listed in a particular mail exploder's mailing list.

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UK's Trusted Third Parties
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks to Professor Denning's pointer to this URL for the UK's Trusted Third Parties regulatory intent. http://dtiinfo1.dti.gov.uk/cii/encrypt/ June 11, 1996 STATEMENT ON HMG POLICY CONCERNING USE OF ENCRYPTION ON PUBLIC NETWORKS PAPER ON REGULATORY INTENT CONCERNING USE OF ENCRYPTION ON PUBLIC NETWORKS 1. Summary The Government recognises the importance of the development of the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) with respect to the continuing competitiveness of UK companies. Its aim is to facilitate the development of electronic commerce by the introduction of measures which recognise the growing demand for encryption services to safeguard the integrity and confidentiality of electronic information transmitted on public telecommunications networks. 2. The policy, which has been decided upon after detailed discussion between Government Departments, involves the licensing and regulation of Trusted Third Parties (hereafter called TTPs) which will provide a range of information security services to their clients, whether they are corporate users or individual citizens. The provision of such information security services will be welcomed by IT users, and will considerably facilitate the establishment of, and industry's participation in, the GII, where trust in the security of communication has been acknowledged to be of paramount importance. The licensing policy will aim to preserve the ability of the intelligence and law enforcement agencies to fight serious crime and terrorism by establishing procedures for disclosure to them of encryption keys, under safeguards similar to those which already exist for warranted interception under the Interception of Communications Act. 3. The Government intends to bring forward proposals for legislation following consultation by the Department of Trade and Industry on detailed policy proposals. [Balance snipped] ---------- Professor Denning also has comments dated June 11 on the NRC cryptography report: http://www.cosc.georgetown.edu/~denning/crypto/NRC.txt

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HACKERPUNKS-OWNER ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As we expected - our Announcement-posting generated a number of lame Followups. Our Answers follow: in LACC-Diggest Bill Unruh <unruh(a)physics.ubc.ca> wrote: >Actually if I were a "haker" I would be far more worried that this is actually >a FBI/CIA/NSA/... run site. It sure would be a convenient way to pick off >whole loads of self styled hackers and tie them in to ongoing investigations. >"nobody can find out who hides behind alpha.c2.org accounts" >or who hides behind alpha.c2.org HACKERPUNKS-OWNER ANSWERS: Actually if you were a "haker", you should be worried REGARDLESS of who runs this List: FBI/CIA/Stasi agents can trivially create an alias like FBI(a)alpha.c2.org and SUBSCRIBE to this List. They would know all Information that is available to the List-owner, except the subscriber-list. But, the subscriber-list is useless because of Anonymity. Even if alpha.c2.org were an FBI run Site, its Users must use Anonymous-remailers to access it. That preserves their Privasy. in Newsgroups David Sternlight wrote: >Remind anyone of the police department that anonymously announced a >resisters' seminar on how to make bombs so they could find out who to >watch? HACKERPUNKS-OWNER ANSWERS: how can they find out who to watch if subscribers are Anonymous?? SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N wrote in cypherpunks: >I don't have a C2 account, and don't really want to pay for one. >I trust someone will put the hackerpunks archives on the web so >the rest of us can read them. HACKERPUNKS-OWNER ANSWERS: alpha.c2.org Accounts are FREE. Ecafe Mixmaster Remailer wrote in cypherpunks: >There was a minor error in my earlier post. If someone were to notice a >node on the internet receiving a bag with L(In)=L(Posted) *before* any >other nodes on the internet, then one could guess that node had a user who >was the owner of Hackerpunks. HACKERPUNKS-OWNER ANSWERS: There is a minor Error in your current Post. L(In) <> L(Posted) because of prepended Headers. For Protection, hackerpunks List receives some Junk-mail, automatically trashed, to create Noise. HACKERPUNKS-OWNER _A_D_V_I_S_E_S_ Sameer Parekh and GhiO to add Code to their Alpha-remailer to insert Random-Size Header 'X-Random-Noise:' before Encryption of Messages sent to Users of alpha.c2.org Accounts. Other Remailers are advised to change the Size of these Header Lines. HACKERPUNKS List-bot adds a Random-size Kookie to every outgoing Message to preserve Privacy of Subscribers.

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PBS show
by Blake Wehlage 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hey did any of you guys(and ladies) see the PBS show called, Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires in Silicon Valley. I thought it was very interesting and informative. (That's coming from a 13 year with the teachers say have no future) If you saw it I was wondering your feeling on the show. Thank you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blake "Pokey" Wehlage Age-13 Gaa- 3.69 (for ice hockey goalie) <jwilk(a)iglou.com> My page- http://www.iglou.com/members/jwilk.html Quote- Does whiskey count as beer? -Homer Simpson

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NYT on CDA Win
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

6-13-96. NYP, Page One lead: "Judges Turn Back Law To Regulate Internet Decency." In a unanimous decision that celebrated the Internet as "the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country -- and indeed the world -- has yet seen," a three-judge Federal panel in Philadelphia yesterday declared unconstitutional major parts of a new law intended to regulate indecent material on the global computer network and blocked the law's enforcement. The three judges called Government attempts to regulate content on the Internet a "profoundly repugnant" affront to the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech. "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects," Judge Dalzell wrote. http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/cdawin.txt (3 articles) ----- Or, if the http fails, send a CDA_win to <jya(a)pipeline.com>.

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Re: Kaos vs Control
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:31 AM 6/12/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: >I see little chance that people who don't >understand anarchy derives from "an-archy," "no top/leader/highest level," >will become educated.) Unless they choose "anarchy" without even knowing it. As in my Gallup Poll question to "prove" that 90% of Americans are anarchists: "Some groups advocate aggressive violence as a means of achieving social ends. Do you agree with them? Do you advocate aggressive violence as a means of achieving social ends?" So 90% of the population answer "No" and demonstrate that they are either anarchists or don't understand the nature of government. >Good to see the courts reaffirming that "chaos" and lack of control by >authorities is a core part of the U.S. system. Maybe the control freaks of >Europe and Asia who have been charting their own authoritarian courses will >give more thought to ensuring liberty even if it causes more "chaos." One would hope. Perhaps reality will have to do it for them. DCF

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Re: Kaos vs Control
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 13 Jun 96 at 10:06, Duncan Frissell wrote: > At 11:31 AM 6/12/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: [..] > >Good to see the courts reaffirming that "chaos" and lack of control by > >authorities is a core part of the U.S. system. Maybe the control freaks of > >Europe and Asia who have been charting their own authoritarian courses will > >give more thought to ensuring liberty even if it causes more "chaos." > One would hope. Perhaps reality will have to do it for them. Reality never did anything for the (Supreme) Court, and certainly not a lot of politicians. But yes, one would hope... Rob. --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.

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Re: Report from Germany on "backdoor" net-censorship
by um＠c2.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A short update from Germany: The "ICTF" attorney has half-retracted their announcement on Usenet. "ICTF" is going to be only an advisory group for ECO members. They will make recommendations about newsgroups that might be 'dangerous' to carry, and will only react on individual articles when they are informed about articles that would be illegal to keep on the news servers. The "ICTF" plans to use a modified Cancel message format that will only affect their members' servers. He says that the press release was not addressed to the net (well, they tried their best to hide it...) but to journalists with no clue. Of course, political harm has been done, but I am glad that the Social Democratic Party's net expert has severly critizised this censorship attempt in a press release and on Usenet. For those who can read German (if you can't you'll sure find the most important news on Declan's international censorship page), I have put up a web page on "ICTF" at http://www.thur.de/ulf/zensur/ In September, we will see what they are really going to do other than issuing bogus press releases.

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No Subject
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"We're sitting here watching the sun rise for the first time and we've never even seen the sun" -- Rush Limbaugh about the Internet on today's show. Rush also opined that it was impossible to regulate. DCF

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President Clinton's Statement on the CDA Decision
by jseiger＠cdt.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What's more interesting is what it doesn't say. He is not at all definitive on whether the gvt will file an appeal... Jonah -- THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 12, 1996 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT The Justice Department is reviewing today's three judge panel court decision on the Communications Decency Act. The opinion just came down today, and the statute says we have twenty days to make an appeal. I remain convinced, as I was when I signed the bill, that our Constitution allows us to help parents by enforcing this Act to prevent children from being exposed to objectionable material transmitted though computer networks. I will continue to do everything I can in my Administration to give families every available tool to protect their children from these materials. For example, we vigorously support the development and widespread availability of products that allow both parents and schools to block objectionable materials from reaching computers that children use. And we also support the industry's accelerating efforts to rate Internet sites so that they are compatible with these blocking techniques. -30-30-30- * PROTECT THE INTERNET AND THE FUTURE OF FREE SPEECH IN THE INFORMATION AGE * Join the legal challenge against the Communications Decency Act! For More Information, Visit the CIEC Web Page http://www.cdt.org/ciec/ or email <ciec-info(a)cdt.org> -- Jonah Seiger, Policy Analyst Center for Democracy and Technology <jseiger(a)cdt.org> 1634 Eye Street NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20006 (v) +1.202.637.9800 PGP Key via finger (f) +1.202.637.0968 http://www.cdt.org/ http://www.cdt.org/homes/jseiger/

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