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Clinton blathering about Internet terror
by Mike McNally 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

See http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/960417/news/stories/internet_1.html. ______c_____________________________________________________________________ Mike M Nally * Tiv^H^H^H IBM * Austin TX * pain is inevitable m5(a)tivoli.com * m101(a)io.com * <URL:http://www.io.com/~m101> * suffering is optional

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Fascist takes another bite
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Reuters, 4/17/96: Clinton worried Internet may help arm terrorists TOKYO, April 17 (Reuter) - U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Wednesday he was worried the Internet was aiding international terrorism by making it too easy for sinister forces to learn how to make bombs or produce nerve gas. "Are people learning, for example, from the Internet how to make the same sort of trouble in the United States that was made in Japan with sarin gas?" Clinton said at a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto in Tokyo. "Isn't it a concern that anybody, anywhere in the world, can pull down off the Internet the information about how to build a bomb like the bomb that blew up the Federal Building in Oklahoma City?" he added. Clinton said Japan and the United States, both victims of home-grown terrorism last year, should learn from each other about how to deal with the issue. In the United States anti-government groups are linked "like no rebel force has ever been" by the Internet and fax, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group which campaigns for civil rights, said in a report released last week. Anti-government right-wing activism has been linked to the Oklahoma blast in which a truck bomb destroyed a federal building and killed 168 people on April 19, 1995. Information on how to construct a similar bomb is available to anyone around the world with Internet access. Meanwhile in Japan, the doomsday cult Aum Shinri Kyo (Supreme Truth Sect) was able to download from the Internet a formula for synthesising green-mamba snake venom, according to a recent magazine report. The sect is also believed to have been looking to procure samples of the lethal ebola virus. Cult leader Shoko Asahara goes on trial on April 24 charged with the murder of 25 people, including 11 who died in a sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway on March 20, 1995. About 5,000 other commuters where taken ill in the incident. Clinton also told the news conference that in the next 20 years "every great nation will have to face" the question of terrorist access to the Internet. Clinton called acts of terrorism, whether home-grown or international, "a genuine threat not only to the lives of the innocent civilians who may be killed in them, but to the whole idea of an open, civilised society in a global economy." Clinton's comments on the Internet were in response to a question about his thoughts on terrorism. He said nations must ask "how can we work together to learn with each other about how to prevent these things before they occur, when they're purely domestically driven, as well as sharing information and technology and law enforcement about the international terrorist networks that are out there?" REUTER

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Pauline Hanson's One Nation update
by Global Web Builders 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Clinton blathering about Internet terror
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:54 AM 4/17/96 -0500, Mike McNally wrote: >See http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/960417/news/stories/internet_1.html. But he's still dishonestly trying to make it look like the danger is to ordinary individuals, rather than government functionaries. >From the news item addressed above: >In the United States anti-government groups are linked ``like no rebel force >has ever been'' by the Internet and fax, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a >group which campaigns for civil rights, said in a report released last week. So what's wrong with this? Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: Bernstein case decisision (fwd)
by Michael Froomkin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

reposted with permission. A. Michael Froomkin | +1 (305) 284-4285; +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 05:23:47 -0400 >From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic(a)well.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <cyberia-l(a)warthog.cc.wm.edu> Subject: Re: Bernstein case decisision [...] The following summary is from my colleague Shari Steele: What Judge Patel said. First, the judge ruled that Bernstein could bring his case even though the Arms Export Control Act specifically precludes judicial review, because what we are asking the judge to review (i.e., the constitutionality of the statute and its regulations) was not what had been precluded (i.e., the government's determination in a particular instance whether or not something was exportable). "With respect to constitutional questions, the judicial branch not only possesses the requisite expertise to adjudicate these issues, it is also the best and final interpreter of them." Next, the judge determined that only the source code was at issue here, not Bernstein's academic paper describing the source code. Bernstein tried to get the government to rule separately on the paper and the code back in 1993 by filing separate CJ requests. The State Department merged the requests and rejected them all. On June 29, 1995, after we filed this suit, the government sent Dan a letter saying that the paper could be published and never had been forbidden. While Judge Patel claimed that the issue of the paper now appeared to be moot, she commented, "It is disquieting than an item defendants now contend could not be subject to regulation was apparently categorized as a defense article and subject to licensing for nearly two years, and was only reclassified after plaintiff initiated this action." Finally, the key ruling in the case. "This court can find no meaningful difference between computer language, particularly high-level languages as defined above, and German or French....Like music and mathematical equations, computer language is just that, language, and it communicates information either to a computer or to those who can read it....Thus, even if Snuffle source code, which is easily compiled into object code for the computer to read and easily used for encryption, is essentially functional, that does not remove it from the realm of speech....For the purposes of First Amendment analysis, this court finds that source code is speech." This is the first time that we know of that a court has ruled that source code is speech for First Amendment analysis. This is a Big Deal - a very important precedent. The judge drew an analogy to copyright law, which treats computer software as a "literary work" and offers it copyright protection, to help her come to her conclusion. The judge, therefore, did not throw out any of our claims (the ITAR acts as a prior restraint on speech, the ITAR is overbroad, and the ITAR is vague). She looked at each of them one by one and determined that each of them had merit. What this decision means. Most directly, it means that we can continue on with our lawsuit. The government had brought a motion to dismiss the case, contending that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear this matter because it was a matter of national security. The judge struck that down and said that we can go forward with our suit. More indirectly, the judge's ruling sets the stage for us winning at trial. She clearly "gets it," and isn't intimidated by the government's use of precedential cases that aren't on point.

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RE: COQ_tal
by Matt Thomlinson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

damn, that's the second time I've done that this week! dang 'R' key.. apologies, mattt >

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COQ_tal
by Matt Thomlinson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Protocols at the Point of a Gun
by Henry Huang 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Apr 16, 16:22, Steve Reid wrote: > Security classification and "decent/indecent" ratings are rather > different, IMHO. With security, the author of the data has to decide the > best rating for his/her own security. With decent/indecent filtering, the > author has to decide what is best for _other_people_. I suppose it's not > as bad as that with the third-party ratings in PICS, but there will still > be inconsistancies. "As bad"?!? Actually, it's a good deal worse. See below. > The main reason I think decent/indecent filtering should be done at the > application level is, if they create a ratings system and later decide > that they've screwed up and another system would be better (which is quite > possible, if you understand the previous paragraph), all that's really > required is re-writing the application software. OTOH, if they did it at > the transport layer and later decided to switch to something else, they > would have to change the protocol, which is very difficult. And, depending > on the changes, they may have to re-write the apps again anyways. > > Also, at the application layer, ANYONE could create their own ratings > system, and the market could decide which is best. (The downside of that > is that there would be nonstandardized chaos for a while). Well good. Better nonstandardized chaos than a single, arbitrarily defined and applied system. (Ref: "Parental Advisory" stickers, which were IMHO totally useless, and a doomed concept from the start.) I think that if there's going to be ratings, better to have lots of different organizations reflecting different tastes and mores than one organization reflecting political pressures and prejudices. (No real crypto relevance in the concept per say, but perhaps in the application (as Bill pointed out with the PICS excerpt).) -H

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Will New Sendmail Block Remailers?
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Markoff in the NYT reports today on the release of a new Sendmail upgrade by author Eric Allman that will block spam by checking the legitimacy of the originating address before delivery. The report claims that spam is up to 10% of e-mail worldwide, And that Sendmail is used on 75% of the computers that route e-mail, all of which are being fitted with the new program. What are the chances that this will affect remailers or other means of eternal anonymity? Except Sualk, GL, UB and Nuh, all of whom we now know are Otot GinPu Tca as those crazy Syug Irtmid Irun.

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Re: why compression doesn't perfectly even out entropy
by JonWienke＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a message dated 96-04-16 15:51:46 EDT, Perry Metzger writes: >There is no reason you can't have a string of 20 1 bits in >a row in a perfectly random sequence, for example. Usually, random >sequences are non-compressable, but it is possible (though very >improbable) for Hamlet to appear out of a random number generator, >and it is of course quite compressable... Of course, if that happened, the odds of it happening from a Trojan Horse or other type of attack are overwhelming...

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