-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Electronic Frontier Foundation <info@eff.org> will meet on Wednesday, February 15th at the WIRED magazine <info@wired.com> office in San Francisco. John Gilmore and Cindy Cohn will discuss the constitutional implications of export controls on cryptography. This topic relates directly to PGP. Attached you'll discover complete details about this meeting -- which I've borrowed from the EFFector, EFF's online newsletter. I hope to see you Wednesday! *************************************************************** Andre Bacard, Bacard wrote "The Computer Privacy Stanford, California Handbook: A Practical Guide to E-Mail abacard@well.com Encryption, Data Protection, and PGP Privacy Software" [for novices/experts]. Introduction by Mitchell Kapor, co-Founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation and creator of Lotus 1-2-3. +++ Book forthcoming. Write for details. +++ ***************************************************************** Subject: EFF SF Bay Area Meetings Announced - ------------------------------------------- EFF is pleased to introduce a series of monthly `BayFF' meetings in the San Francisco Bay Area. All EFF members, guests, and the public are invited. The first meeting will be in San Francisco on February 15, 1995, at 7:30PM. The gracious donor of our first meeting place is: Wired Magazine 520 Third Street, Fourth Floor San Francisco, CA +1 415 222 6200 voice John Gilmore and Cindy Cohn will speak on the constitutional issues around export controls on cryptography. John is a co-founder of EFF and Chair of the EFF Board's Crypto Committee. Cindy is an attorney in private practice at McGlashen and Sarrail in San Mateo. These controls inhibit free speech, publication of software and papers, academic freedom of inquiry, and personal privacy, as well as having a strong negative impact on computer security. We'll explore some of the implications and prospects for change. Dave Farber will speak on "Living in the Global Information Infrastructure -- some concerns". Dave is an EFF Board member and has more years of experience in computers and networking than the total experience at many startup companies. Vice President Gore has proposed that the nations of the world undertake the building of a Global Information Infrastructure -- the GII. While most leaders agree with the sprit of the Gore proposal -- namely to provide a mechanism which could invigorate the world economy in the forthcoming information age, many disagree with his belief that it will bring democracy to the world. They interpret such statements as being another example of American colonialism. It is this basic lack of uniform global agreement on what terms mean, what rules apply to electronic commerce and what impact a GII will have on their nation that underlies the comments Dave will make. These raise questions about the universality of Cyberspace. He will seek to table a set of questions that may stimulate your thinking in this area. There will also be plenty of time for general and specific questions, issues, discussion, meeting people, and socializing with frontier- minded folks. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.7 iQCVAwUBLz04Y96pT6nCx/9/AQF4CQP9EsOJdzn75G+5mG73nX/URpina5K58rIW marI385hS/66wqMDNlsRZ3d8VxCAFp7SPgO7XiajMMrNDTPEpAQjvqU233R2k3aP Yk19xNnIKisL8rBTmNw0r8eoH8dI+4/XqnDP3GOmf2nTq9Y/P9hVwtVqH9vpCaVD CjloHxczOwY= =4imy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----