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RSA/Security Dynamics filings are on the web
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The RSA/SDTI merger may be the only chance we ever get to see RSA's financial info. Previously it was a privately held company, which didn't report its finances publicly; now it'll be reported as part of SDI (a much bigger company), so its finances will be hidden in their larger business. You can also see what RSA and SDTI are saying about the RSA/Cylink/Schlafly lawsuits, the origins of VeriSign, how Addison Fisher bankrolled RSA and owned 55% of it, etc. Look on the SEC's EDGAR system, which contains copies of reports that the government requires publicly traded companies to file. Go to http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar?security+dynamics+technologies and view the various forms. The most fun is probably the big one, the 1.5MB S-4 form from the merger itself. These documents will require a tolerance for legalese, but there are lots of gems in there for the patient. John Gilmore

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Scan the Web for Live News, Sports, & Music (Talking E-mail)
by RealAudio Talking E-mail 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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cryptocd grabbing material
by Remo Pini 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Tue Aug 27 09:01:57 1996 If anyone out there knows of anything I should (and am allowed to) put on the cryptocd (check www.rpini.com/crypto/cryptocd.html) let me know. If anyone out there knows of anything I MUSTN'T put on the cryptocd (due to copyright, law or whatsnot), let me know also. Thanks, Remo Pini - ------< fate favors the prepared mind >------ Remo Pini rp(a)rpini.com PGP: http://www.rpini.com/crypto/crypto.html - ----< words are what reality is made of >---- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMiKdZhFhy5sz+bTpAQEg9gf9EY+SvhGMW1iKB+2U0JVNs3zDqGPNkYpJ zM9WW2oxTtTWn4znjMTXWEVAbGzmdZCkmgHsN3tFWwkWxIYxXrfFcInPNqCzxcXG DZHcQ2nNkH1MOnQ0Wzp9l9riz8TBCzbZNtJsPoVKMup6qAGLV6ninCrAKBGaQJmY 1KR3yez3OVq04SkRXUjXKQRjwtKH2OWmZfzSormEwphHvjgE0nPJhLB9gnVDevTw lSY3YP2NBPtIlaJbxohkvro8Mm+FGIk2vVoOY6cXwFcpZWONtyiwZPiYQzFfcOzw yjbIzGU8qU5MH58MeS/wZuTVzHhtmRl7lCLYS2xPH73ZpgvUh3ZDsw== =LGSU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Net Politics
by jseiger＠cdt.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 6:52 PM 8/26/96, Declan McCullagh wrote: >Jonah, > >I had expected some negative feedback from CDT, but I should say I was >surprised by the tenor of your response. I am going to try and resist the tasty-looking flame bait you have dangled in front of me here because we both have more important things to deal with, and because Seth Finkelstein summed up this argument perfectly: "One more round of 'work within the system' vs 'up against the wall!'," he said. This is an important debate that unfortunately seems to be dividing the net.community when we most need to be united. All of us working on net-policy issues share a common vision and goals - promoting the free flow of information, preserving and enhancing First Amendment values and protecting individual privacy. There are, for better or worse, many different views on the best way to accomplish those objectives, and the debate over who has the right tactics seems to frequently escalate in to religious war. Meanwhile, our opponents are well organized, determined, and do a much better job of keeping their internal strategic differences to themselves. Perhaps this is part of the reason they keep kicking our butts all over town. Jonah ** THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH ONLINE CONTINUES TO THE SUPREME COURT ** It's not too late to be a part of history -- Join the Lawsuit <http://www.cdt.org/ciec> -- <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 PGP Key via finger (v) +1.202.637.9800 http://www.cdt.org/ (f) +1.202.637.0968 http://www.cdt.org/homes/jseiger/

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Cato Institute conference on Net-regulation, 9/20/96
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This should be a good half-day conference, with some interesting speakers. I'll probably show up for Charles Platt's keynote. Naturally, it's being held in the building's Hayek Auditorium. Hayek has some relevance to cypherpunks, I think -- he warned early on that the loss of economic freedom inevitably leads to the loss of civil liberties as well. He also described the phenomenon of spontaneous order (admittedly in the context of markets), which speaks to the way the Net has ordered itself. -Declan // declan(a)eff.org // I do not represent the EFF // declan(a)well.com // ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:05:44 -0400 From: Solveig Bernstein <sberns(a)cato.org> To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu Please redistribute this conference announcement freely: ********************************************************* Regulation or Private Ordering? The Future of the Internet The Cato Institute cordially invites you to a morning conference and luncheon Regulation or Private Ordering? The Future of the Internet Friday, September 20, 1996 8:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. The Cato Institute's F.A. Hayek Auditorium 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC The Internet promises users unprecedented individual control over information. It is at once a tool for universal communication, a new form of media, and a new way of doing business. But it is also a challenge to lawmakers and regulators. Existing laws cannot easily be applied to the Internet and appear doomed to failure. Do we need a new set of laws or will voluntary private action ensure order on the information superhighway? Cato's Regulation or Private Ordering? The Future of the Internet conference will bring together leading authorities on law, regulation, and technology to discuss the problems of adapting existing law to the Internet and to explore private alternatives to regulation. Can private ordering consistent with individual freedom forestall a government backlash against perceived Internet chaos? The cost of this conference is $25.00. Registration Wintergarden 8:30 8:35 a.m. Lawrence Gasman Welcoming Remarks Director, Telecommunications and Technology Studies, Cato Institute 8:35 9:20 a.m. JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES David Post;Collective Action in Cyberspace" Georgetown University Law Center Dan Burk Federalism without Borders; Seton Hall University School of Law 9:20 10:30 a.m. FEDERAL REGULATORY ISSUES Robert Crandall; Rate Regulation and Arbitrage; Internet Telephony; Brookings Institution Trotter Hardy;Congress and Digital Copyright: Avoiding a Balancing Act;William & Mary College of Law Lori Fena;Security of Personal and Corporate Information Online: Moving toward Industry Self Regulation; Electronic Frontier Foundation 10:30 10:45 a.m. Break 10:45 11:55 a.m. FREE SPEECH IN CYBERSPACE Danny Weitzner; The Empowered User: Internet Technology Tools for Limiting Access to Unwanted Material; Protecting Privacy; Center for Democracy and Technology Eugene Volokh;Private Online Speech Controls: Censorship, Constitutionally Protected Editing, or Both? University of California at Los Angeles School of Law David Sobel;Prospects of the CDA in the Supreme Court; Electronic Privacy Information Center 12:30 p.m. Keynote Address - Charles Platt; Net Futures: Scary and Sublime; Author, Free Zone, The Silicone Man, Contributing Writer, Wired Magazine 12:30 p.m. Luncheon News media please call Robin Hulsey at (202) 789 5293. To Register, please e-mail Scott Wallis at swallis(a)cato.org, or vist our web site at //www:cato.org. ********************************************************************** Solveig Bernstein, Esq. (202) 789-5274 (202) 842-3490 (fax) Assistant Director of Telecommunications & Technology Studies Cato Institute 1000 Mass. Ave. NW Washington, DC 20001

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Re: libelous action
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 26 Aug 96 at 20:28, Ross Wright wrote: > If I was John E. Holt, I would take a different public relations > tack. I would seek positive input, not a negative reaction to > criticism. Or I would ignore the critique altogether. > Ross Wright Yes Ross, but while writing this, your premise is that Holt has a product that is at least partially decent and that it could maybe be improved. You assume he might be making an honest error. Maybe it is not the case. ;) jfa DePompadour, Societe d'Importation Ltee; Limoges porcelain, silverware and crystal JFA Technologies, R&D consultants: physicists, technologists and engineers. PGP keys at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891

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Re:Edited Edupage, 18 Aug 1996 [SATELLITES]
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:24 PM 8/26/96 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >At 12:35 AM 8/21/96 -0800, mccoy(a)communities.com (Jim McCoy) wrote: >>You want to avoid moving parts like the plague in orbit. They eventually >>wear out or fail and once that happens you have a very expensive piece of >>junk in orbit. Solid-state storage is the _only_ way to go if you want to >>avoid things like neding to pressurize the drive (eliminating any cost >>advantage over solid-state.) > >Why do you need to pressurize the drive? Most hard disk drives >for the last N years have been airtight sealed containers, >haven't they? (Removables are different, of course.) While I haven't looked at the more recent ones closely, most hard drives have an ultra-fine (<0.1 um particles?) filter element separating "inside" from "outside." It allows air to pass to equalize pressure and humidity, while keeping out the dust. (it is probably made of the same kind of material that is used, internally, as a filter for the airflow within the drive.) Even if they didn't, there is a big difference between an enclosure that's good enough to hold a hard disk on earth, and one which can spend N-years in a high vacuum yet maintain enough air to run a hard drive. > >I'd worry far more about the stresses of launch bothering >the drives. That's not a problem at all. Most modern drives are rated for 10's of G's, non-operating. Satellite launches are probably a breeze compared to this. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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"The Observer" calls the internet a child pornography ring
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Banner Front page headline in the British Observer, Sunday 25th "The Peddlers of child abuse" see http://scallywag.com/ The internet is presented as a conspiracy by child molesters. There is a picture of Johan Helsingius, the man who free of charge provides an anonymous remailer service: The picture is captioned "The internet middle man who handles 90% of all child pornography" He is represented as personally profiting from the distribution of child pornography, though in fact no posts to binary newsgroups can go through his system, and no large binaries can go through his system, and he provides the anonymising service free of charge. There is a picture of Clive Feather, the man who runs the largest internet service provider in Britain, captioned "The school governor who sells access to photos of child rape"]] The observer article savagely demonizes all who use the internet, presenting it as primarily existing for the purpose of distributing child pornography, and demonizes and libels by name those who have sought to defend the liberty of netizens. I urge you all to check out this article, and send snail mail letters to the observer condemning (since they are obviously too low tech to read email) and email letters of support to those netizens who have been savagely libeled for their defence of liberty. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald jamesd(a)echeque.com

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RE: File System Encryption
by Wayne Clerke 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- From: Drifter[SMTP:drifter@c2.net] Sent: Monday, 26 August 1996 16:19 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: File System Encryption I'm aware of the three main disk encryption programs SFS, SECDRV, and SECDEV, but I need to find a solution that works with Windows 95 32bit or Windows NT 4.0. I'm currently using SFS 1.17 and Secure Drive under Win-95, but am unable to continue to work in dos compatability mode due to severe performance hits. I am open to commercial products that have passed peer review, but know of none. If anyone could suggest a solution (outside of switching OS's), I would be *most* gratefull. Please respond to the list, as I am a subscriber under another account. Tried secdev? Edgar Swank (author of secdrv) recently posted that secdev (note, not secdrv) does, in fact, uses 32 bit disk access with win95. Win95 reports that the secure device is in compatibility mode, but the host disk (and therefore the secure volume file) is being accessed in 32 bit (disk) mode. Not sure what issues there are with '32 bit FILE access' mode here. Sounds worth a try though. Please post the results if you try this. The Drifter EMail: wclerke(a)emirates.net.ae PGP key ID: AEB2546D FP: D663D11E DA19D74F 5032DC7E E001B702 PGP mail welcome. Voice: +971 506 43 48 53 <a href=mailto:wclerke@emirates.net.ae>Wayne Clerke</a> If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.

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Re: AFDA Web Site
by David K. Merriman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Wed Aug 28 09:08:59 1996 > MEMORANDUM > > SUBJECT: AFDA Web site, located at: http://www.afda.org > > In September, the Web site for the Association of Federal Defense > Attorneys > (AFDA) will become password-protected for members only. Those of you > who > have paid your membership dues for 1996 will be receiving an email > message > containing a User ID and Password, which will be good through December > 31, > 1997 -- almost a year and a half of unlimited usage for the small > membership Okay, so are they going to encrypt the email, or should I go ahead and make arrangements to steal a message :-) Dave Merriman - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- PGP Email welcome, encouraged, and PREFERRED. Visit my web site at http://www.shellback.com/p/merriman for my PGP key and fingerprint "What is the sound of one hand clapping in a forest with no one there to hear it?" I use Pronto Secure (tm) PGP-fluent Email software for Windows -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMiOcLsVrTvyYOzAZAQG4XAQAnNHZtuU5rB9cttuP4xIJ16N/XO3Ds6+L k4sS0w0I8+Rm+0Py9kYf3en3I9oPrP8fuQxXefBtlTO9FltWrApSR5otgO1LJtX6 EzYtDcXnXwD7nRZ74efLFktn5DXG4xODIFT0fRWbohZOkukh6ePheWWnOiPc+nFr e8hXmqO7KWk= =IfoC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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