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Sorry about accidental spamming
by Tom Helenius 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear Security Professional, We apologize for the annoyance and confusion we might have caused to you due to human error in our email addressing. As a result some of our internal emails about the newly announced F-Secure VPN v1.1 software were erroneously emailed to your attention. It is definitively not our company policy to contribute to spamming on the Internet, and we do hope that you'll still want to receive the otherwise unbiased information sent to the members of our press list. Yours sincerely, Tom Helenius Data Fellows -- Tom.Helenius(a)DataFellows.com, World-Wide Web http://www.DataFellows.com

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ALERT: Show Your Support for Privacy on the Net During August
by Jonah Seiger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

============================================================================== ___ _ _____ ____ _____ _ / _ \| | | ____| _ \_ _| | Visit Your Member of Congress during the | |_| | | | _| | |_) || | | | Month of August - Help Support Privacy | _ | |___| |___| _ < | | |_| and Security on the Net!! |_| |_|_____|_____|_| \_\|_| (_) Posted July 29, 1997 Please forward where appropriate until September 2, 1997 This alert brought to you by The Voters Telecommunications Watch, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF-Austin Americans for Tax Reform, and Wired Magazine _____________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents What's Happening Right Now What You Can Do To Help Privacy And Security On The Internet - Meet Your Member of Congress, Tell Them How You Feel Background On The Encryption Policy Issue and HR 695, the SAFE bill What's At Stake in this debate About This Alert _____________________________________________________________________________ LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD... The government is demanding that you provide guaranteed law enforcement access to your private online communications and business transactions. Your Congressman will be heading home for the month of August. Now is a great time to let him or her know that privacy on the Internet is important to you. Please read the ALERT below and find out what you can do to help. ________________________________________________________________________ WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW The FBI, CIA, NSA and other law enforcement agencies are pressuring Congress to pass legislation to force anyone who wants to protect their privacy on the Internet to use programs with built in "key recovery" features -- virtual back doors which would allow law enforcement (and anyone else sophisticated enough to find a weakness) access to your private communications. This effort by the Clinton Administration to force the domestic use of government approved "key recovery" encryption represents a very real threat to your privacy and security in the Information Age. Fortunately, a bill known as the "Security and Freedom Through Encryption Act" (HR 695) is making its way through the House of Representatives. The bill, known as SAFE, would help protect privacy and security on the Internet by: * Prohibiting the government from imposing key recovery or key escrow encryption inside the United States or abroad. * Allowing Americans the ability to use whatever form of encryption they choose. * Encouraging the widespread availability of strong, easy-to-use encryption technologies by relaxing cold war-era export restrictions. SAFE enjoys support from a bi-partisan majority of 250 Members of the House of Representatives, and has been endorsed by civil liberties and public interest groups from both sides of the political spectrum, as well as a broad cross section of the computer and communications industries. The SAFE bill has recently cleared two key House committees and is expected to be voted on by the full House of Representatives in September. As your Representatives in Congress head home for the August recess, now is a great time to let them know that the folks back home care about protecting privacy on the Internet. Please read the instructions below to find out what you can do to participate in "Meet Your Member Month," and join the fight to protect your right to privacy online. ________________________________________________________________________ WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW Between August 1 and September 2, Congress will be in recess and your Congressman will be in your area meeting with constituents at large town hall meetings and individual appointments. These meetings are a great opportunity to show them that the folks back home care about privacy on the Internet. If you can't make a meeting, consider sending a letter or making a phone call to your Congressman's home office. Whatever you can do to show your support for privacy and security on the Net will make a big difference when the issue is voted on by the full house in September. Instructions: 1. Visit http://www.crypto.com/member/ Simply enter your Zip Code to: * Find the name and contact information for your Representative * Sign up to join the Adopt Your Legislator Campaign; * Learn about your Congressman's voting record and positions on the encryption issue; * Tips on how to set up a meeting and contacting your Congressman; * Links to background information on the SAFE bill, and more. 2. Forward this ALERT to your fiends and colleagues. Urge them to join Adopt Your Legislator campaign at http://www.crypto.com/adopt/ Two years ago, the Internet user community responded in overwhelming numbers to the threat of censorship and joined together to defeat the Communications Decency Act. The ongoing debate over US encryption policy reform is no less important, and will determine the future of privacy and security in the Information Age. Now is the time to join the fight, before its too late. ________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND ON THE ENCRYPTION POLICY ISSUE Complete background information, including: * A down-to-earth explanation of why this debate is important to Internet users * Analysis and background on the issue * An analysis of the Risks of Key-Recovery by leading cryptographers * Text of the Administration draft legislation * Text of Congressional bills to reform US encryption policy, includig SAFE * Audio transcripts and written testimony from recent Congressional Hearings on encryption policy reform * And more! Are all available at http://www.crypto.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ WHAT'S AT STAKE Encryption technologies are the locks and keys of the Information age, enabling individuals and businesses to protect sensitive information as it is transmitted over the Internet. As more and more individuals and businesses come online, the need for strong, reliable, easy-to-use encryption technologies has become a critical issue to the health and viability of the Net. Current US encryption policy, which limits the strength of encryption products US companies can sell abroad, also limits the availability of strong, easy-to-use encryption technologies in the United States. US hardware and software manufacturers who wish to sell their products on the global market must either conform to US encryption export limits or produce two separate versions of the same product, a costly and complicated alternative. The export controls, which the NSA and FBI argue help to keep strong encryption out of the hands of foreign adversaries, are having the opposite effect. Strong encryption is available abroad, but because of the export limits and the confusion created by nearly four years of debate over US encryption policy, strong, easy-to-use privacy and security technologies are not widely available off the shelf or "on the net" here in the US. A recently discovered flaw in the security of the new digital telephone network exposed the worst aspects of the Administration's encryption policy. Because the designers needed to be able to export their products, the system's security was "dumbed down". Researchers subsequently discovered that it is quite easy to break the security of the system and intrude on what should be private conversations. This incident underscores the larger policy problem: US companies are at a competitive disadvantage in the global marketplace when competing against companies that do not have such hindrances. And now, for the first time in history, the Clinton Administration and members of the US Senate have proposed DOMESTIC RESTRICTIONS on the ability of Americans to protect their privacy and security online. All of us care about our national security, and no one wants to make it any easier for criminals and terrorists to commit criminal acts. But we must also recognize encryption technologies can aid law enforcement and protect national security by limiting the threat of industrial espionage and foreign spying, promote electronic commerce and protecting privacy. What's at stake in this debate is nothing less than the future of privacy and the fate of the Internet as a secure and trusted medium for commerce, education, and political discourse. For more information on this issue and the various legislative and administration proposals to reform US encryption policy, visit http://www.crytpo.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THIS ALERT This message was brought to you by the following Internet advocacy groups who have joined togther to educate Congress and the public about the importance of encryption policy reform: * the Center for Democracy and Technology -- http://www.cdt.org/ * the Voters Telecommunications Watch -- http://www.vtw.org/ * the Electronic Fronter Foundation -- http://www.eff.org/ * EFF-Austin -- http://www.eff-austin.org/ * Americans for Tax Reform -- http://www.atr.org * Wired Magazine -- http://www.wired.com/ For more information, visit http://www.crypto.com/about/ _____________________________________________________________________________ end alert 07.29.97 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW TO REMOVE YOURSELF FROM CDT'S POLICY POST LIST: To unsubscribe to CDT's Policy Post list, send mail to policy-posts-request(a)cdt.org with a subject: unsubscribe policy-posts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Boylovers, NAMBLA, and Net-vigilantes, from The Netly News
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 10:03:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Boylovers, NAMBLA, and Net-vigilantes, from The Netly News ----- http://pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1222,00.html The Netly News (http://netlynews.com/) July 29, 1997 This Boy-Lover's Life by Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) Anne Cox is nothing if not determined. For months the Net-vigilante has been unwavering in her crusade against pedophiles, undaunted by insults, threats and even the "horrible things" done to pictures of her as a baby that she had digitized and placed online. She fought back with just about every possible tactic: argument, public humiliation and sometimes-spurious threats of legal action. Now, the war is escalating. It started in May, after Cox launched an assault on "boy-lover" web sites in an attempt to force them offline. But she and her allies ran into a serious obstacle: the sites aren't illegal. They're filled not with child pornography -- which is banned by federal law -- but, instead, photos of boys in swimsuits. "They shouldn't be doing these things with the children's pictures," Cox says. [...] Some argue that Cox and her allies have gone too far. Besides boy-pix sites, this team of Net-vigilantes has attacked a group of gay teens organizing "to fight against" discrimination. They've tried to take down a consensual spanking page for gay adults, and even an archive of sexually-explicit stories that specifically rejects tales about pedophilia. Then there's the murky Children's Protection and Advocacy Coalition, which Cox claims to run -- yet she refuses to name its member organizations. [...]

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Citizen Foils Armed Home Invasion
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

RAINBOW CITY, Ala. (AP) -- Officers who went to a house with a warrant to search for drugs were met at the door by a couple in bulletproof vests and a surprise gunfight. A blast from an assault weapon, apparently fired through the front door, killed Chris McCurley, 46, the recently appointed chief of Etowah Country's drug task force, authorities said. Etowah County Sheriff James Hayes said a man and woman came to the door wearing bulletproof vests when law officers arrived Friday at their new house in a quiet neighborhood near the Coosa River about 65 miles northeast of Birmingham. After McCurley was shot, the man walked outside and continued firing, striking three more officers before he was finally shot down by police hiding behind trees, said Minnie Bellew, who lives across the street. Ezra George Petersen, 50, was hospitalized with minor gunshot wounds to his extremities, Hayes said. He was under guard at Gadsden Regional Medical Center. The woman, Connie Stozzie, 30, was taken to jail and was on investigative hold. Petersen shot at officers with an AK-47 assault weapon with a 100-round drum of ammunition, Hayes said. Officer Gary Lee Entrekin, 34, was in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the back, said M.D. Garmon, a spokesman at Riverview Regional Medical Center in Gadsden. Altoona police officer Khris Yancey, 26, was shot in the back, but his wounds were not thought to be serious. Reserve officer Rick Correll, 46, was in fair condition with wounds to an arm and foot. ``The law enforcement community and its supporters will not rest in this county until Petersen gets what he justly deserves -- and that's the electric chair,'' Hayes said. Neighbors said the tall, tattooed Petersen was a friendly man frequently seen riding a motorcycle. He had bought $20 worth of oranges Wednesday from Mrs. Bellow's grandson, who was selling fruit for a school fund-raiser. ``He was real nice. I talked to him about his motorcycles, all the stuff he did to them,'' 14-year-old Jake Bellew said. -- 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: Libertarians for whom Jim Bell tolls...
by EFF 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-------Fwd: Private Email (Identities XY'ed)------- Subject: Re: Libertarians for whom Jim Bell tolls... Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 11:32:11 -0800 From: XXXXXXXX To: YYYYYYYY >> "In the plea agreement, BELL also admitted that on March 16, 1997, he >> conducted a chemical "stink bomb" attack on the IRS office in Vancouver, >> Washington, using the noxious chemical mercaptan. ... > This is interesting, since they had no evidence that he did so. >However, they managed to get him to "confess" by illegally holding >without bond for crimes which they never intended to charge him with >in the first place. > I hope that Jim's lawyer is suitably rewarded for his part in selling >Jim down the river. Nancy Lord has had a lot of success in cases like this, and was interested in helping Bell's public defender file briefs challenging a lot of the IRS' charges and behavior, on First Amendment grounds. She tells me the public defender never even returned her calls. >> "IRS Inspectors indicated that the mercaptan attack may have been linked >> to the Feb. 20, 1997 seizure of BELL's vehicle by the IRS for unpaid taxes. > In effect, they are saying that since they didn't have any evidence >against Jim for the crime that they wanted him to "pay" for, that they >used the threat of major criminal charges to convince him to "confess" >to the crime, and held him without bail to let him know that the Justice >system is under the control of the IRS, and not the defendant. More or less. The big fuss, and the reason for holding without bail, was supposedly that his web postings constituted evidence he was planning to assassinate IRS agents. Yet, curiously, he was never charged with anything like "conspiracy to solicit murder." Instead, people go to jail for years for the equivalent of pouring skunk urine on someone's welcome mat, and for "using false SS numbers." Funny, I thought the folks who gave us SS numbers swore they'd always be confidential between us and our SS retirement fund manager, and would "never be used as a national ID number." Since I'm sure the SocSec Administration would never confirm or deny for the IRS Mr. Bell's REAL SS number, I wonder who they knew which ones were bogus? Are we to believe SocSec has never made a mistake, and issued one person two numbers? Anyway, was Mr. Bell accused of using the bogus numbers to fraudulently extort wrongful benefits from the SocSec Administration? Apparently not. So. since money will be withheld from your paycheck no matter WHAT SS number you file, the only possible "fraud" can have been to work different jobs under different numbers -- with no chance of ever collecting any "benefits" from the "bogus" accounts. An odd kind of "fraud," that pays money to the government with no hope of ever getting any back. >Vin, > Did you know that the IRS used the information gleaned from Jim Bell's >hard drive to send the "chilling" details of Jim Bell's plea agreement >to the individuals and mailing lists he corresponded with? > Did you know that when he arrested, there were no Assassination Bot's >in existence, and that there are now at least six prototypes currently >in operation? > > God Bless AmeriKa. > >XXYYZZMonger Hi -- It would probably be considered (by overzealous pro-government extremists) a violation of some bogus new enactment if I proposed that it would be a good idea for someone to widely and publicly post the names and home addresses of every employee of the IRS ... and possible the FBI, DEA, and ATF, to boot (after all, those people have no problem accessing the intimate details of OUR personal lives, on a moment's notice. We all live in more or less constant fear of THEIR midnight knock on the door.) So I won't suggest that. I don't suggest that. I hope no one ever does that. And if anyone ever does, I CERTAINLY hope such lists are not widely downloaded and disseminated. X.Y.

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No Subject
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

So many things I would have done, but clouds got in the way.

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National Security Agency markets commercial ASICs
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://techweb.cmp.com/eet/news/97/965news/national.html National Security Agency markets commercial ASICs By Loring Wirbel SNOWMASS, Colo. -- On a scale unprecedented for a government intelligence arm, the National Security Agency (NSA) is expanding its selling of ASICs and design services, even offering commercial semiconductor designs for selected space-based and terrestrial applications. Terry Brown, NSA deputy chief of microelectronics, said the customer list will still be so specialized that the agency won't compete directly against developers of military ASICs and rad-hard devices. "Any customer of ours would still require a government sponsor at some level," he said. Nevertheless, at an IEEE conference held recently, representatives of Harris Semiconductor and UTMC Microelectronic Systems wondered how and why a secret government agency would compete against them. One representative of a commercial IC house, who asked not to be identified, said, "Whenever the government thinks it can sell products to OEMs, it inherently raises some problems." The commercial efforts involve NSA's 6-inch CMOS fab, run by National Semiconductor Corp., at NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Md., and a Microelectronics Research Lab run by NSA at an undisclosed Maryland location. The agency has developed special ASICs for selected customers ever since National helped open the fab in the late 1980s. Some, such as the Mykotronx division of Rainbow Technologies Inc., were partners in crypto chips, while others sought NSA expertise in radiation-hardness for space applications. Looking to expand that customer base, the agency has named Leland Miller its first director of marketing for microelectronics. At the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference, NSA had a large trade booth advertising the capabilities of "NSA Microelectronics." Brown said NSA has special talent in data-path design, used in signal and image processing but ignored by many ASIC vendors. NSA's fab has a library of more than 100 standard cells, optimized for CMOS feature sizes from 0.5 to 1.2 microns. The fab handles double- and triple-metal designs and is just beginning to add non-volatile EPROM and E2PROM cell capabilities.

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0728dod.html
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[1][ISMAP] [2] [LINK] [LINK] [1.][January..] ___Audio ___Video __ [3][ISMAP]-[4][USEMAP] [5][ISMAP]-[6][USEMAP] July 29, 1997 Internet Technology Invades Dept. Of Defense (07/228/97; 4:00 p.m. EDT) By Saroja Girishankar, [7]CommunicationsWeek When it comes to embracing Web technologies, no organization in the world has mobilized its forces as extensively as the U.S. Department of Defense. In what could become a textbook example for other nations and major businesses, the DOD's deployment of Web servers and browsers is expected to encompass 2 million users across an assortment of military and civilian agencies, making it the world's largest single community of Web users. To date, 1.5 million Web browsers have been installed across DOD's classified and nonclassified intranets. Already, Web servers at 16 major server sites, applications across 530 military command sites and an additional 37 component command sites provide a secure environment for tens of thousands of high-level Army, Navy and Air Force personnel, plus the joint chiefs of staff. They will use it to plan military exercises, perform logistics for troop movement, ready medical services and other operations related to combat. The ultimate goal is to provide all military personnel in need with a single, multimedia view of military command, control, communications and intelligence information, regardless of where they are located, according to Frank Perry, technical director for the engineering and interoperability directorate and the joint interoperability and engineering organization. Perry said Web technologies, from basic E-mail, newsgroups and Internet chat rooms to more advanced Java programs, are making that possible. Extending DOD's Reach "The Web browser and applications have made a profound difference in getting more and more things to more and more people in the DOD, and basically have given us a broader, faster and simpler reach for various applications in a truly network-centric way," Perry said. One area where this plays out is managing the movement and deployment of U.S. troops in Bosnia. According to Lt. General Albert Edmonds, who last month retired after a three-year stint as director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), and who oversaw the Web implementations, critical information related to the deployments were downloaded and easily replicated across secure Web servers that could be accessed by all parties involved. Regardless of the different desktops and laptops, personnel could download and access information, and the distributed format reduced bandwidth congestion as well. Before the Web rollout, most databases were on mainframes and could be accessed only by a small group of people. The DOD, along with other government agencies, has for some time relied on commercial products and technologies for faster development and lower costs. DISA, which is responsible for operating four networks -- the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN), Global Command and Control System (GCCS), Global Combat Support System (GCCS) and the Defense Messaging System (DMS) -- under the umbrella organization called the Defense Information Infrastructure -- has been moving its antiquated mainframe-based networks to distributed [8]TCP/IP[LINK] networks and other emerging technologies. According to Perry, all GCCS users are being moved to Windows NT desktops outfitted with browsers from both Netscape Communications and Microsoft. This enables them to exchange E-mail and participate in newsgroups and Internet relay chat for planning military exercises. For GCCS and GCSS users who have real-time needs of even more reliable and secure access, existing Unix clients will be retained. Users who have traditionally been using Unix-client software are being gradually moved to thin clients that use browsers with Java applets. Over time, all GCSS users will also be given similar software. Lastly, both GCCS and GCSS are moving to Java-based applications with authentication and cryptographical capabilities required for high security. Perry said Microsoft's [9]ActiveX[LINK] has not been an option because it allows executable content to move around distributed environments in a mobile mode and raises security questions. Java Virtual Machine and its sandbox construction offer better assurance, he said. Perry said GCCS and GCSS operate over a high-security TCP/IP router network called the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network that has 500 core routers as well as hundreds of routers at regional and local networks linked to a WAN using a [10]T3[LINK] line. A nonclassified network, called the Nonclassified Internet Protocol Router Network, which is made up of [11]ATM[LINK] switches and TCP/IP routers, provides the basic infrastructure for all of DOD. Although only data traffic now goes over ATM, plans are for future transmission of all voice, data and video over that cell network. DMS Affected By Web Technologies The adoption of Web technologies is affecting plans for the DMS. Perry and Tom Clark, the DMS program manager, said they will adopt the emerging Internet Message Access Protocol 4 -- the Internet E-mail standard that promises to let disparate E-mail clients and servers talk to each other. DMS, which is expected to have 250,000 users by year's end and 2 million during the next few years, is an X.400 electronic messaging backbone under construction at DOD. DISA said the GCCS, which replaced the older mainframe-based Worldwide Military Command and Control System, was completed in 21 months instead of the typical five years previously required. In addition, the agency said it expects savings of $260 million in the systems and operational costs of its networks during the next five years. "Using and adapting the commercial Web technologies permits [the DOD] not to spend 20 years building military-unique systems from scratch and it requires less training of our users," said Emmett Paige Jr., president and COO at OAO, a Greenbelt, Md., systems integrator. Paige was the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence) until he retired last month. 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This is an E-Mail Chain Letter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by ahoier＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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7-29_b8_EXTRA_Internet.html
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tuesday July 29, 1997 [1]ImageMap LA Fitness Web gaming is 'ripe for fraud' _________________________________________________________________ By Patrick Wilson Washington Bureau _________________________________________________________________ WASHINGTON - Two senators toured Internet gambling sites Monday as they listened to warnings the growing online casino industry could be ripe for corruption and consumer fraud. Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Richard Bryan, D-Nev., looked on as Wisconsin Attorney General Jim Doyle presented what he characterized as questionable Web gambling sites. Doyle appeared before a Senate technology subcommittee studying a bill by Kyl to ban gaming on the World Wide Web. Doyle said Web gaming has grown from a "sleeping giant" to a developed industry that must be stopped. To demonstrate how easy it is to gamble online, he played a videotaped sample of online casinos such as the "Golden Palace," where Web surfers can use credit cards to play craps, keno, slots and blackjack, among other games. Doyle noted the Internet gambling industry even has its own online newsletter, "Rolling Good Times," which now is conducting an online poll where people can bet - for fun - on whether Congress will pass Kyl's bill. "Who knows what's on the other end of this screen?" Doyle said. "Who knows if those cards are fair? Who knows whether organized criminal activity is involved?" Bryan said he has "no confidence whatsoever that gaming on the Internet can be regulated now or at any time in the future." "Unlike the heavily regulated casinos in Nevada, Internet wagering is unregulated, and since many of these sites operate off-shore it is beyond the reach of U.S. authorities," he said. "Such a scenario is ripe for consumer fraud." Web gambling is catching on rapidly, with one estimate reporting 25 gaming sites and 100 more in the works. Bryan called Internet betting "something that's kind of mushroomed." Internet users can gamble online with a credit card or by setting up an account. There is no way to stop children from gambling on the information superhighway, say supporters of the Kyl bill. "Bringing gaming directly into people's homes, as we are beginning to see through the Internet, is so full of potential problems and so far beyond the ability of any state to regulate that despite whatever business potential it may have it needs to be prohibited on a national level," Bryan said. Kyl's bill, backed by the National Association of Attorneys General, would punish those who set up Internet gaming Web sites with a fine of up to $10,000, two years in prison or both. Those who made an online wager would face one year in prison and a $5,000 fine. [2]| Top of page | References 1. LYNXIMGMAP:http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/7-29_b8_EXTRA_Internet.html#na… 2. http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/7-29_b8_EXTRA_Internet.html#a

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