Re: shmoo on web of trust, Israeli-Iran TOWs

2000-02-14 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 18:38 2/14/2000 -0800, Tim May wrote: Yet another wrongheaded interpretation of "trust." Insofar as key signings go, political views are not important. Golda Meier could have signed the Ayotallah Khomeini's key with complete equinimity. Think about it. Right. This shouldn't need to be

Maine AG plays Net-Cop, sends nastygrams after flamewar

2000-02-15 Thread Declan McCullagh
A better-formatted version (the below msg is difficult to decipher) is at: http://www.adamsreport.com/message_board/waitingforpidot.html Maine attorney general's office: http://www.state.me.us/ag/homepage.htm -Declan ** From: "Reisman Household" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Choate Detritus Revisited

2000-02-16 Thread Declan McCullagh
I'm starting to suspect the latter. We discussed this before at some length, and I recall Jim changed his mind. So why would he now go back to infecting innocent Subject: lines? -Declan At 07:20 2/16/2000 +, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: If it's a technical problem, the alternatives

Re: Freeh says DoS attacks require FBI access to plaintext

2000-02-16 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 17:16 2/16/2000 -1000, Reese wrote: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34388,00.html Reviewing the article again, there was no comment on the obvious and repeated unconstitutional affronts Freeh et al. wish to visit upon the American populace, in the name of combating cyberterrorism,

Re: Freeh says DoS attacks require FBI access to plaintext

2000-02-17 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 02:12 2/17/2000 -1000, Reese wrote: Agreed, links to usual suspects such as the ACLU are in the 2nd and 3rd tier,,, but were they all? Perhaps I parsed too quickly, I saw nothing of the EFF, Cato, or et cetera. I'm not responsible for your slothfulness in following links. sleep well, you

Re: Clinton Gore Vow To Fight The Establishment On Crypto (YeahRight)

2000-02-17 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 21:52 2/17/2000 -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: Most people who work for governments are ordinary people and not the facist thugs of your bizare fantasies. True. Although good people can do bad things, especially if few incentives are there to do otherwise. As I said, the civil rights

Re: FCF's Dean Lauds Congressional Privacy Caucus

2000-02-10 Thread Declan McCullagh
If the Congressional Privacy Caucus actually did anything, it could be a very dangerous group. It's primarily a collection of folks not known for their commitment to freedom and liberty. It is not focused on government invasions of privacy, and is instead intended to lobby for severe

Re: Boston flights to FC00

2000-02-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
That may be right -- I just got off the phone with American. The bottleneck seems to be San Juan, and American will happily fly you there on many available flights. You'll just have to switch to another carrier once you get that far. TWA apparently offers codeshare flights, for instance, so

RE: Brands on privacy

2000-02-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
Austin, Thanks for your note below. A question, though: Can you tell us what your plans are for licensing the patents in a way that would permit payor- and payee-anonymous digital cash? Do you have *any* plans to do such a thing, either for noncommercial/free or commercial use? Stefan B.

Re: Damn french ;-) (Re: damn commie hypocrite leech! (was Re: Re: Re: why worry?))

2000-02-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
To correct myself: My Canon does 5 fps. The Nikon D-1, which came out last October, can do 4.5 photos/second. This is comparable to all but the speediest analog cameras. My analog Canon can only do 8 photos/sec.

University prof writes letter to editor -- sex harassment

2000-03-01 Thread Declan McCullagh
Thought you might find this item interesting. Copyright 2000 The Saturday Oklahoman THE SATURDAY OKLAHOMAN February 26, 2000, Saturday CITY EDITION HEADLINE: Professor's letter draws ire BYLINE: Ed Godfrey,

RE: X.BlaBla in PGP??? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

2000-03-06 Thread Declan McCullagh
This has been an amusing, if for the most part useless, debate. Phill is undeniably pompous, and takes himself far too seriously. "Reese" seems to share these same affectations, and in addition appears (based on the limited sampling of posts I've read) likes to shower the cpunx list with

Annoyed feminist activist says judge needs shooting

2000-03-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
Just made me think of some similar discussions here... 'Many feminists were dismayed, especially by the judge's decision to make the woman's name public; one activist fumed that "the judge needs shooting."' Date: 7 Mar 2000 12:06:18 - To: List Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing-List:

RE: X.BlaBla in PGP??? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

2000-03-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 21:36 3/6/2000 -1000, Reese wrote: But although Phill has been intentionally obtuse in this debate, most likely for his own amusement, he also has the substantial advantage of knowing what he's talking about on at least this narrow point. "Reese" responded with open-source dogma straight

fed.gov and the cypherpunks photo archive

2000-03-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
A visitor from a subdomain of cis.fed.gov has shown up at the cypherpunks photo archive (http://www.mccullagh.org) and seemed particularly interested in folks including Tim. Other connections have come from BXA, White House, etc. They connected by clicking on URLs I posted to this list. I

Department of Defense antiterrorism federal officer badge

2000-03-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.mccullagh.org/image/otherphotos/terror.html

Freeh to complain about crypto tomorrow

2000-03-02 Thread Declan McCullagh
tomorrow? or march 7th, which ever comes first

Freeh to complain about crypto tomorrow

2000-03-02 Thread Declan McCullagh
(watch for it) 10 a.m. - Hearing EVENT: Senate Appropriations Committee AGENDA: Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary subcommittee hearing on "FY 2001 Budget for the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Naturalization Service". WHO: Louis Freeh,

Use Nuclear Threats To Deter Chemical and Biological Attacks

2000-03-02 Thread Declan McCullagh
something for tim... 4 p.m. - Seminar SPONSOR: Woodrow Wilson Center (WWC) TOPIC/SUBJECT: holds a seminar, "Should The United States Use Nuclear Threats To Deter Chemical and Biological Attacks? A Debate." PARTICIPANTS: Scott Sagan, associate political science professor, Stanford University;

Cyber-warnings on toxics in computers -- look out!!!

2000-03-02 Thread Declan McCullagh
Date: March 3, 2000 For more information contact: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Leslie Byster - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 408-287-6707 or Ted Smith - 408-287-6707 = Media Advisory: Warning: Hazardous Substances in Computers A "warning message on the presence of hazardous

Re: Justice Department criticizes online anonymity

2000-03-04 Thread Declan McCullagh
If you think that report was disturbing, check out my article that should be at wired.com at 3 am pt. --Declan

Re: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

2000-03-04 Thread Declan McCullagh
To the contrary, there have been questions raised about the book by journalists who are not in any way a "Mitnick supporter." Check out way back issues of CuD. Mitnick may well be a loser but that does not mean everything written about him was true. -Declan t 10:57 3/4/2000 -0500, Phillip

Maybe we'll hear more about the Evils of Crypto

2000-03-05 Thread Declan McCullagh
Noon - Hearing EVENT: House Select Intelligence Committee AGENDA: Full committee hearing on drug interdiction in Colombia. (Rescheduled from February 17) No new date announced.) WHO: Bob Brown, supply director, Office of National Drug Control Policy; Gen. John Gordon, deputy director, Central

Cypherpunk photo archive now online

2000-03-05 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 12:02 3/5/2000 -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: Ooops, sorry Tim! On the net you both look alike you know. Perhaps my cypherpunk photo archive can solve Phill's apparent identity crisis. You can poke around there, but some useful starting links might be:

White House report says government wants to trace Net users

2000-03-06 Thread Declan McCullagh
The forthcoming report: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/unlawfulconduct.html * http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34720,00.html U.S. Wants to Trace Net Users by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 3:00

Justice Department criticizes online anonymity

2000-03-01 Thread Declan McCullagh
United States airliners on encrypted files on his laptop computer. -Declan http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34659,00.html U.S. Wants Less Web Anonymity by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 3:00 a.m. 1.Mar.2000 PST

Re: Reno Tired of First Amend Protect. of Publishers

2000-03-09 Thread Declan McCullagh
We've been talking about it since last week: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/unlawfulconduct.html At 15:27 3/9/2000 -0600, Jim Burnes wrote: People: I usually don't publish links to misc stuff on the web, but this looked interesting.. "Janet Reno would curb press freedom on line

RE: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

2000-03-09 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 20:31 3/9/2000 -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: I helped change the world. You guys sat on your ass and debated theology - policing each other for political correctness as assiduously as any Trotskyite faction. Hahahahaha... What Matt wrote is correct, of course, but at least this part of

Re: bomb making

2000-03-02 Thread Declan McCullagh
Bernie, You're years behind. It was fashionable circa 1997 to run scare stories about the Internet and junior finding bomb making info (gasp) on it. Reference: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,4575,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,19785,00.html It would be far more

UK regulator wants to create new Web addresses; China CEO intv

2000-03-14 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34937,00.html UK Wants Tighter E-Trading Laws by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 3:00 a.m. 14.Mar.2000 PST FAIRFAX, Virginia -- It's not that Phillip

Re: www.cybercrime.gov propaganda\\\\\\information web site.

2000-03-14 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 11:30 3/14/2000 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: Some of the bits are old - the encryption FAQ is from April 98, when the Administration was still trying hard to get key recovery. A mild correction: It's true that the date at the top of the document says April 98, but at the bottom you'll see a

CyberPatrol sues cryptanalysts who revealed flaws in its software

2000-03-15 Thread Declan McCullagh
Background: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=cyberpatrol If you want to download the software before the injunction hits: http://hem.passagen.se/eddy1/reveng/cp4/cp4break.html If anyone sets up a mirror site, please let me know. -Declan Date: Wed,

Jim Bell's Wild and Wacky Crypto-Convict World Tour

2000-03-16 Thread Declan McCullagh
I understand that convicted crypto-criminal Jim Bell -- of US News and World Report domestic-terrorist-photo fame -- is going to be released from prison in Phoenix, Arizona in two or four weeks. (He reportedly thinks that he should have been out already and The Man has cheated him out of time

Boston judge rules on Cyberpatrol decryption utility

2000-03-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
Judge Harrington ruled today in the case brought by Mattel over the cphack program that decrypts Cyberpatrol's poorly-encrypted blacklist: http://www.politechbot.com/cyberpatrol/final-injunction.html He seems to be inviting Mattel to file contempt of court charges against cphack mirror sites:

Mad Cow Culture on Dot Coming to Market

2000-03-30 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.madcowculture.com/madcow-00021.html Sat, 25 Mar 2000 15:21:18 Dot Coming to Market By Mad Cow Culture The dot com companies are getting out of hand. No I don't mean spending $3 billion on a 30-second Super Bowl television spot. Or auctioning Pamela Anderson's chest implants for a

Re: Date rape site

2000-03-30 Thread Declan McCullagh
This tamd character doesn't seem entirely on the level. There are plenty of free hosting services he did NOT take advantage of. I have a tarball of the site if anyone's seriously interested. -Declan At 14:20 3/30/2000 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The owners of a controversial site, which

Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As Corporate Bully

2000-04-06 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 09:21 4/5/2000 -0700, Tim May wrote: And why all the focus on Microsoft? Cisco and Intel both have larger market shares of their respective (and key) markets. So? Some of the typically clueless around here have alleged that Microsoft was trying to defeat its competitors and that this is

Enonymous.com's privacy ratings include errors, oversights

2000-04-12 Thread Declan McCullagh
* http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35587,00.html Odd Privacy Ratings Exposed by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 3:00 a.m. Apr. 12, 2000 PDT Marc Rotenberg is nothing if not a privacy zealot. As the founder of the Electronic Privacy Information Center

The Death of the Cypherpunks

2000-04-12 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 15:07 4/12/2000 -0700, Tim May wrote: First, we have seen a lot of political junk discussion here lately, about the tired subjects of socialism, Microsoft, Nazis, and (presumably) even Heinlein. Second, code is indeed preferable to rhetoric. Right. Cypherpunks has turned into a spam list,

Re: The Death of the Cypherpunks

2000-04-12 Thread Declan McCullagh
into privacy. -Declan At 20:58 4/12/2000 -0400, dmolnar wrote: On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote: And now much of the focus is on corporate misbehavior, such as Doubleclick. At last week's CFP conference, everyone was nattering about how Big Brother is the corporation

Re: The Death of the Cypherpunks

2000-04-12 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 22:29 4/12/2000 -0400, dmolnar wrote: I'm also interested in your comment that contract law may be sufficient to combat this problem. Garfinkle raises and then dismisses the idea of considering personal information as "property", and then developing the notion of rights and contract which we

Salon on The Death of the Cypherpunks

2000-04-13 Thread Declan McCullagh
Note Salon's article that appeared today: "The Twilight of the Crypto-Geeks" http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/04/13/libertarians/index.html -Declan

Re: remailer in need of summer bandwidth in SF

2000-04-13 Thread Declan McCullagh
Why not just put the software on another box? Email me offlist. -Declan At 10:35 4/13/2000 -0600, noisebox remailer admin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- i run the noisebox anonymous remailer which processes anywhere from 400 to 6000 messages a day. from mid-may through mid-august,

Crypto-convict won't recant: Jim Bell gets out of prison today

2000-04-14 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35620,00.html Crypto-Convict Won't Recant by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 3:00 a.m. Apr. 14, 2000 PDT Before Jim Bell went to prison, he suspected that most government officials were corrupt. Three years behind bars later

Re: I will sue Cyber Patrol maker

2000-04-19 Thread Declan McCullagh
People have talked about this for years but nobody has ever done it, you know. -Declan At 07:58 4/19/2000 +0200, Anonymous User wrote: Just found on http://loser.port5.com/index.htm that our commercial site hosted (among many others) on http://shell8.ba.best.com/ has been blocked by the

Computers Freedom and Privacy photos now up at mccullagh.org

2000-04-20 Thread Declan McCullagh
I've placed most of my photos online from the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Toronto earlier this month: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/cfp00.html Here's the same list for low-bandwidth connections: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme-textonly/cfp00.html I didn't use my Nikon 950

Justice Department recruiting anti-filter folk to testify for COPA

2000-04-22 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35800,00.html Feds Try Odd Anti-Porn Approach by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 3:00 a.m. Apr. 22, 2000 PDT WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Justice is quietly recruiting critics of filtering software to help it defend

Intel nixes ID tracking numbers in future 1.5 GHz Willamette chip

2000-04-27 Thread Declan McCullagh
** Background: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=intel ** http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35950,00.html Intel Nixes Chip-Tracking ID by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 3:00 a.m. Apr. 27, 2000 PDT Hoping to avoid another campaign

Agents, Cabinet members, professional actors play at terrorism

2000-04-27 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=wpni/printarticleid=A26985-2000Apr27 or http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26985-2000Apr27.html Top Officials, Actors to Pretend at Terrorism By David A. Vise Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday ,

Re: Harmonized Packet Data Intercept Standards

2000-04-27 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 20:31 4/27/2000 -0700, John Gilmore wrote: [I think we need software for automatically extracting the words from PDF and MS-Word documents so they can be found in web searches. It looks like the bad guys are deliberately putting lots of interesting stuff in PDF to make it hard to find and

Re: Revelations about Echelon spy network intensify US-European

2000-04-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 18:08 4/28/2000 -0400, Matthew Gaylor wrote: The reason I post and how and what I post are decisions made by myself. Judging from the thousands of subscribers and the large number of thank yous I get for posting material, I don't think I'm going to change one iota the manner, frequency or

Dinner in Bellevue tonight?

2000-04-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
Some of us are getting together for dinner. Meeting at 7:30 pm PT tonight in the Doubletree hotel lobby. We can then (more likely) adjourn to Velato's, the hotel restaurant on the ground floor on the right. Doubletree Inn 300-112th Ave SE Bellevue, Washington 425 455 1300 -Declan

Clinton signs bill to count wiretaps that encounter encryption

2000-05-04 Thread Declan McCullagh
** Wiretap stats from 1999: http://www.uscourts.gov/wiretap99/contents.html Clinton statement: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/clinton-crypto.050300.html ** http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36067,00.html U.S. to Track Crypto Trails by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL

Re: FBI report on violent crimes

2000-05-05 Thread Declan McCullagh
Your file is dated April 1999. Shouldn't it be on the FBI's site already? --Declan At 21:45 5/3/2000 -0700, L. Sassaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As this report seems to read as though it were written as a PR doc, complete with cheesy graphics, I suspect it will

House Judiciary committee considers anti-drug linking bill

2000-05-09 Thread Declan McCullagh
by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 3:00 a.m. May. 9, 2000 PDT Opponents of a bill to restrict drug-related information online are asking members of the House Judiciary Committee to reject it at a scheduled vote Tuesday morning

Congressional panel targets new privacy threat: Genealogy

2000-05-19 Thread Declan McCullagh
This is, sadly, not a joke. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36442,00.html New Privacy Threat: Genealogy? by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 3:00 p.m. May. 18, 2000 PDT Just when you thought there was nothing new to say about the oft-cited privacy threats

FBI gun-check computer crashes; Flash movie parodies Metallica

2000-05-13 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,36310,00.html Metallica Net Parody Flashy Fun by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 3:00 a.m. May. 13, 2000 PDT WASHINGTON -- If you thought the spectacle of a heavy-metal band whining to Congress about the Internet was hilarious

Re: Moonies buy United Press International

2000-05-23 Thread Declan McCullagh
Neil: Did you mean to say the Washington Times? -Declan (who rather enjoyed The Probability Broach) At 14:50 5/23/2000 -0600, L. Neil Smith wrote: Tom -- I'm forced to concede that the Moonies do some good things. The _Washington Post_ is one of the best papers in the country,

Re: Community or Crime Syndicate ?

2000-05-27 Thread Declan McCullagh
The story is not written by a mainstream journalist, and is a hoax. There are subtle errors, omissions, and clues that another reporter can pick up. Then there are the more obvious ones. FinCEN's director is not named J. Lee Thomas, for instance: http://www.treas.gov/fincen/infinc.html#dir

Re: Peacefire Study: Censorware Companies Use Double Standard

2000-05-27 Thread Declan McCullagh
Even more interesting than the Peacefire study, arguably, are the responses to it from blocking software vendors when I asked them why they apparently have double standards. And conservative groups weren't happy about excerpts of their pages being blocked as "hate speech" or whatnot:

RE: Posting Cookies for Cypherpunks

2000-05-31 Thread Declan McCullagh
That's a better suggestion than mine. It may even be implementable using standard majordomo config files with regex matching; I'd have to reread the manual. Design question: What happens to rejected posts (missing the CP or whatnot from Subject: line)? The default behavior for majordomo would

Re: Cpunk Havenco

2000-06-05 Thread Declan McCullagh
A followup article on the legal aspects is here: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36756,00.html My favorite quote from an international law prof at Georgetown University: "I suspect we could blow them out of the water, although I wouldn't recommend that, and if they were in fact

Re: article

2000-06-08 Thread Declan McCullagh
And what "bill" might that happen to be? -Declan At 11:02 6/8/2000 -0500, Cynthia Williams Wright wrote: Could you please e-mail me some information on the bill that "will harm children" but help pedophiles? I am doing an article on online pedophiles, and would appreciate any help you can

RE: Verifying this data crypt?

2000-06-08 Thread Declan McCullagh
Maybe we should feel the same way about Microsoft. :) Of course the black helicopters will eventually come. And it is important that they do. The value of Havenco is that every fight against tyranny requires a martyr. Their willingness to serve in this role is admirable and should be

RE: ZKS makes the WSJ (again)

2000-06-13 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 09:23 6/13/2000 -0700, Tim May wrote: If ZKS crashes and burns with an investment pool of several tens of millions of dollars--someone told me they'd raised more than US$75M, but I haven't looked closely--then "educated investors" will likely avoid this type of market. At CFP, ZKS told me

Antitrust espionage against MS: Cash for free-market trash

2000-06-15 Thread Declan McCullagh
*** Photos from investigation: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/act-investigation.html *** http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37022,00.html MS Espionage: Cash for Trash by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 6:00 p.m. Jun. 15, 2000 PDT WASHINGTON -- When Jonathan

Artificial intelligence filter blocks news -- but not smut

2000-06-20 Thread Declan McCullagh
Some pornographic images BAIR approved as OK and a Perl test-script: http://www.well.com/user/declan/bair/ http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36923,00.html Smut Filter Blocks All But Smut by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 3:00 a.m. Jun. 20, 2000 PDT When

Re: Ninth Circuit Letters.

2000-06-21 Thread Declan McCullagh
Jim, please do post whatever answers, if any, you get. And please change the list address. Toad.com is so, shall we say, 1997? -Declan At 01:12 6/21/2000 -0700, jim bell wrote: Jim Bell June 19, 2000 Court Clerk United States Circuit Court of Appeals Docket # CR 97-5270-FDB Dear Sirs: I am

Oracle admits to hiring private eyes to dig up dirt on MS

2000-06-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
*** Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:57:26 -0700 From: Jennifer Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Oracle Corporation To: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [personal note snipped --Declan] Statement of the Oracle Corporation June 27, 2000 Oracle Corporation hired Investigation Group

Re: tapping (was Re: Re: 'Carnivore' Eats Your Privacy)

2000-07-13 Thread Declan McCullagh
(resend) Michael: Have you forgotten what list you're on? Unlawful government eavesdropping should not primarily be fought in Washington. It should be fought with technology. The ACLU and EPIC are good for defensive battles only, and when it comes to restraining government surveillance, they

Re: Survivability of a minarchist society (fwd)

2000-07-13 Thread Declan McCullagh
Jim, Come, now. You're saying that if I run a mailing list and bounce email because of probable-spam source address, I'm an "accomplice" to some act for which I'm legally liable? Please give me a cite to any court case that backs you up. (Hint: You won't be able to.) -Declan On Wed, Jul

Re: An idea to limit the spam ... CPUNK

2000-07-13 Thread Declan McCullagh
Automated filtering is censorship. We don't want censorship. This is nonsense. Censorship is performed by government entities. Last I checked, there's no state action here. Don't like it? Start your own list. But don't whine. -Declan PS: Even your "predictable permutation" of

Re: Universal City Studios v. 2600, Day 1.

2000-07-18 Thread Declan McCullagh
I just skimmed the below, but it seems a very nice writeup. My general-audience pieces from yesterday and today are at wired.com. -Declan On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:11:02PM +0200, Anonymous wrote: The trial against 2600 Magazine commenced at 9am today (Monday) in the federal court house at

Re: JYA meets Drudge

2000-07-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
Forget four days. I had my story up on wired.com, at least arguably more mass media than Drudge, within a day. -Declan On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 09:40:00AM -0700, Anonymous wrote: The drudge factor: it took less than 4 days for story to migrate from cpunks to mass media. I would suggest

Re: Re: Carnivore - Matt Blaze testimony

2000-07-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
Jim, I think, with respect, you completely understand Tim's point. Democracy is a political process. Tim is advising precisely the opposite -- direct action and monkeywrenching the political process. That you haven't picked this up after years here is interesting. Or perhaps you were making a

Re: FBI on Carnivore: The horsemen ride!

2000-07-26 Thread Declan McCullagh
infocalypse. Here's an excerpt from the hearing transcript (why weren't drug smugglers mentioned? someone's slipping). I take that back. That scare story appears later on (keep reading)... -Declan KEVIN DIGREGORY, DEPUTY ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, DOJ As we have seen throughout history,

FBI on Carnivore: The horsemen ride!

2000-07-26 Thread Declan McCullagh
Someone, I think Bill, talked about the FBI's usual n-horsemen of the infocalypse. Here's an excerpt from the hearing transcript (why weren't drug smugglers mentioned? someone's slipping). Interestingly enough, except for a passing reference by one witness ("I support encryption"), that was

Re: Carnivore - Matt Blaze testimony

2000-07-26 Thread Declan McCullagh
One industry's terrorism is another man's Napster. True, there's little hope of being able to challenge all these laws in court, and even if possible, the Supreme Court is not that likely to see things through cpunx lenses. (There's also a side issue of legitimizing groups that don't always

Re: Re: CARNIVORE HEARINGS NOW ON C-SPAN 10:30PM PDT

2000-07-26 Thread Declan McCullagh
When it comes to maintaining the size of government or giving more money to police, there is rarely gridlock. Look at the ever-increasing FBI budgets, for instance. If there were a terrorist attack that the FBI says could have been prevented by Carnivore, I suspect you'll see what little

U.S. military poised to respond to attack on GOP convention

2000-08-01 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37920,00.html Army Battle-Ready for Convention by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8:40 a.m. Aug. 1, 2000 PDT PHILADELPHIA -- The U.S. Army is prepared to respond to disruptions ranging from civil disobedience to nuclear explosions

Re: Spam?

2000-08-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
Jon, Greetings! Haven't heard from you in a while. Briefly we want to be able to allow posts from anonymous and pseudonymous accounts. Thus the list cannot accept posts only from its members, at least easily. This has been discussed at length in (gasp) the archives. -Declan On Sun, Aug 06,

Sen. Lieberman supports warrantless wiretaps, crypto-regs

2000-08-15 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38207,00.html Lieberman's Privacy 'Tap' Dance by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 7:53 a.m. Aug. 15, 2000 PDT The Democratic Party platform that delegates will adopt this week embraces personal privacy despite the checkered voting record

Judge sides with Hollywood in DVD descrambling/DMCA case

2000-08-18 Thread Declan McCullagh
Decision is at: http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/00-08117.PDF Final judgment and order: http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/00-08118.PDF http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38287,00.html Studios Score DeCSS Victory by Declan

Re: Breaking eggs

2000-08-23 Thread Declan McCullagh
te: On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote: One reason to punish a crime (rather than an attempt) more seriously is that there is usually some sort of damage, at least with traditional crimes. Murder, rape, theft, etc. Right. Damages, however, are Torts rather than Crimes. (translation

U.S. Justice Department, Leading Technology Association Launch Web Site...

2000-09-05 Thread Declan McCullagh
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:27:04 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-JID: 602169 Subject: U.S. Justice Department, Leading Technology Association Launch Web Site... U.S. Justice Department, Leading Technology

Clinton administration takes on Napster in court case

2000-09-08 Thread Declan McCullagh
From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FC: Clinton administration takes on Napster in court case To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 19:16:42 -0400 X-URL: http://www.mccullagh.org/ X-URL: Politech is at http://www.politechbot.com/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.2i The Clinton

And you thought Nazi agitprop was controversial?

2000-09-12 Thread Declan McCullagh
[A veteran free speech activist in Cambridge, Mass. sent me this. Any offers of mirroring should go to the list, where I assume they'll be duly forwarded. I wonder how long the HTML files in question here would last on a Geocities/etc account. --Declan] --- Hi Declan, I know you're aware of

Re: RISKS

2000-09-22 Thread Declan McCullagh
Carl is most certainly not an idiot. In fact, there might be a reasonable argument for this: You're changing the defaults of a contract by specifying what should be interpreted as reasonable authentication or not. Still, I don't agree with it, and it's something that should be left up to the

RE: CRYPTIC SEDUCTION -- CYPHERPUNK SPECIAL

2000-09-26 Thread Declan McCullagh
We ran a review of it at Wired, and I showed it at my CFP'99 event. It's worth buying, if just for the this-is-a-first-and-sort-of-strange value. -Declan At 17:16 9/24/2000 -0400, Templeton, Stuart wrote: here's something i dug up... at..

Down with techno-egalitarinism, from a reluctant cpunk

2000-10-02 Thread Declan McCullagh
I spoke Thurs night at the University of Virginia (http://www.politechbot.com/p-01393.html). I talked a lot about cypherpunkly topics (added some stuff that I haven't seen here, and plan to turn into an article) and even gave the how-to-join address of the cpunx list. Below is a response from

Events in DC: Gun control, McCaffrey on Our Balanced Approach to Drug Policy is Working

2000-10-04 Thread Declan McCullagh
(resend) SOCIAL ISSUES News conference to highlight the negligence of the House of Representatives to act on sensible gun safety proposals. Participants: Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.; Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y.; Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., and Nina Butts, Texans Against Gun Violence

RE: Vanessa Lynch, still whining (an impressive feat)

2000-10-17 Thread Declan McCullagh
responded in this manner. I hope you have a wonderful rest of the day and realize that this was not about you ... I just wanted off the list. Thanks so much! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Declan McCullagh Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 12:09 PM

Re: Protecting Our Children

2000-10-17 Thread Declan McCullagh
TED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Cypherpunks Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Protecting Our Children Makes it a crime not to keep the cough medicine in the triple lock gun cabinet it also mandates? Or just gives more money to the DEA to

Re: Tim May's anti-semitic rants

2000-10-20 Thread Declan McCullagh
Right. While I feel some sense of moral obligation to feel compassion for victims of genocide in Africa, the reality is that traffic in downtown Washington affects me more. To paraphrase: One person dying is a tragedy One million dying is a statistic One billion lost in NASDAQ value is a

Zero-Knowledge -- Open Source Initiative = Responsible Privacy

2000-10-23 Thread Declan McCullagh
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Lotus-FromDomain: WEBER To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:22:26 -0700 Subject: Zero-Knowledge -- Open Source Initiative = Responsible Privacy Hi Declan, I wanted to let you know that Zero-Knowledge Systems today announced that it has open-sourced its

Al Gore goes cypherpunk?

2000-10-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.rollingstone.com/sections/magazine/text/excerpt.asp?afl=rsnlngF eatureID=120lngStyleID What's in your top five from the past year? Being John Malkovich; East Is East; Shall We Dance? I liked Gladiator

Wired News tech scorecard for U.S. House of Representatives

2000-10-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
At Wired News, we've compiled a list of the technology voting records of each member of the U.S. House of Representatives. That meant picking seven tech bills and grading all 435 legislators -- at least the ones who showed up those days -- on their floor votes. If they chose to take a

RE: Wired News tech scorecard for U.S. House of Representatives

2000-10-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
the time being, and if we feel strongly about these issues, we need to accept that our representation may not be hearing us. Is it because we aren't speaking loudly enough on these issues? ok, Rush Carskadden -Original Message- From: Declan McCullagh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAI

Who says there's gridlock in DC?

2000-10-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
bills that the prez signed today... On Tuesday, October 24th, 2000, the President signed into law: H.R. 1509 Disabled Veterans' LIFE Memorial Foundation H.R. 3201 Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site Study Act of 2000 H.R. 3632 Golden Gate National Recreation Area Bountary Adjustment

Re: Al Gore goes cypherpunk?

2000-10-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
Perhaps this is one reason why Ralph Nader is reportedly drawing crowds of 5,000 at rallies. He's active: Bashing Gore, attacking corporations, etc. No philosophical twaddle (oh, it might have its place but not in politics) about landing on someone's balcony and trespass righs. -Declan On Tue,

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