--- begin forwarded text X-Sender: rah@mail.shipwright.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 08:55:11 -0400 To: dcsb@ai.mit.edu, dcsb-announce@ai.mit.edu From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: DCSB: A Future Garrisoned Sender: bounce-dcsb@ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Peter Cassidy Author, Technology Analyst A Future Garrisoned: How Long Can Military Fiat Control Digital Commerce Technologies? Tuesday, October 7, 1997 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA It is the wonderful American expectation of the new that informs a belief that what is technically possible is inevitable. Peter Cassidy's presentation - "A Future Garrisoned: How Long Can Military Fiat Control Digitial Commerce Technologies?" - will measure the political distance between what is possible in digital commerce and the reality of trying to establish it in the face of a campaign of disruption orchestrated by as influential an actor as the military-intelligence complex. Mr. Cassidy will discuss the decades-long twilight engagement that has been fought between the military intelligence agencies and the civilian sector since the late 1970s when it became apparent that cryptography would not long remain the preserve of the military without political intervention. (In his research, Mr. Cassidy has discovered that military intelligence agencies in the United States have a larger scope of interest in communications technologies than that which makes its way into the mass media, including such vital parts of the modern infrastructure as the civilian telephone network.) Mr. Cassidy will extrapolate what political and industrial barriers this campaign of disruption presents for the wide-scale adoption of strong cryptographic technologies, digital specie and other electronic financial instrumentation - such as adaption of Federal Reserve policy to the digital commerce space. As well, Mr. Cassidy will look at the routes of evasive action that are taken by creative digital commerce pioneers to end-run the most palpable of military barriers to electronic commerce: the export control regulations. For the public presses, Peter Cassidy covers technology, white collar crime and national affairs and, for research firms, he authors analyses on technologies and their relevant markets. His reportage and opinion pieces have appeared in WIRED, Forbes ASAP, The Economist, The Covert Action Quarterly, The Progressive, The Texas Observer, Telepath Magazine, Bankers Monthly, American Banker, InformationWeek, CFO Magazine, OMNI, The Boston Sunday Globe, Boston Magazine, The Sunday Sacramento Bee, ComputerWorld, National Mortgage News, Mortgage Technology, The International Digital Media Yearbook (Japan), NetscapeWorld, CIO Magazine, Webmaster Magazine, Datamation Magazine, World Trade Magazine and dozens of magazines and newspapers worldwide. Several of his pieces have been included in anthologies and college social studies texts. His expertise in information technologies has garnered him contracts with some of the most prestigious industrial research firms in America - Giga Information Group, Dataquest, CI-InfoCorp, Business Research Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Cahners/Reed Elsevier, and NSI Information Services - for whom he has authored analyses on a range of subjects including cryptography and the network security industry. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, October 7, 1997, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $30.00. This price includes lunch, room rental, various A/V hardware, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men (and no sneakers or jeans), and "appropriate business attire" (whatever that means), for women. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your lunch if the Club finds you in violation of the dress code. We will attempt to record this meeting and put it on the web in RealAudio format at some future date We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, October 4, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $30.00. Please include your e-mail address, so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: November Carl Ellison Identity and Certification for Electronic Commerce December James O'Toole Internet Coupons January Joseph Reagle "Social Protocols": Meta-data and Negotiation in Digital Commerce We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah@shipwright.com> . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo@ai.mit.edu> . 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Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNBABAcUCGwxmWcHhAQF45wf+JDd6Iz0LvZkGBTQZ3ASM8lNEgwW0/oOI RXR3BZW+9j3+2+BtZZzVIDIeCHHjNdWp4DfVB9RYalLf5nVrtB9go5JRJbQZ9L/7 pYq4w5/a3YJpf4voIO+MtcbK0iVMyfskHs+VZMLztu5ZnBrb4xcjkncZH3qfULy+ Gf00ehqK8VZM3f3Bx+MfXX3xadvv6l5xJQWY5GC+pIKeaoptIkuOxaZYPVWyYnJg aMm0iapqalOGAeK+cB6uQI3xdg94EjNZ5aUwaJVHEV4WFm01g3PVxMcRWQy2Bd6Y ypj1e4SBA4LyyMki/Br4NY4suO2L/PiXAJsJ7VA5fhzYy6Qr/NR8Zw== =eDqt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request@ai.mit.edu" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/