Jim Bell update, cyberpass down

2001-04-08 Thread Declan McCullagh
I'll be covering the trial for at least one more day, Monday. Friday's report about Bell taking the stand should be up on Wired News tomorrow morning. Cyberpass.net is down and I haven't received any cpunx traffic since Friday. -Declan

A young Jim Bell, just out of MIT and Intel

2001-04-08 Thread Declan McCullagh
A young Jim Bell (note same glasses as current): http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw/WCCF8/SemiDisk_booth.jpg See also: http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw/j-wccf8.shtml

Re: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-15 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 02:11:56PM -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote: You sell Alice a credit history on Bob; Bob takes a new identity; Alice is back to square one. Why would Alice buy credit histories? Not everyone will choose to be lost in the Net. So the solution is simple: I sell Alice a new

Re: Making the Agora Vanish

2001-04-21 Thread Declan McCullagh
The government argued that Bell had years in which to file a civil suit if he truly believed there was wrongdoing, and his numerous _pro se_ motions showed he knew how. Bell is not alienated from his parents, who were there for the trial. Sad, gentle folks. -Declan At 09:09 PM 4/20/01

RE: Interventions r gud

2001-04-22 Thread Declan McCullagh
This is nonsense. Even if you, say, don't believe (gays|blacks|IRS agents) should have any rights, and you assault or shoot one, you maintain your rights under the criminal justice system. To a trial by jury, to be confronted with the evidence against you, and so on. --Declan At 03:39 AM

Congress in action

2001-04-23 Thread Declan McCullagh
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Pia Pialorsi Monday, April 23, 2001 202-224-2670 107-38 Hearing on Booster Seats Set for Tuesday, April 24 The Consumer Subcommittee hearing Booster Seats and the

SecureMedia press release on EncryptoniteTM Encryption Engine

2001-04-23 Thread Declan McCullagh
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Robert Mendes da Costa SecureMedia (415) 345-7720 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Antiporn groups tell Supremes that morphed child porn law is OK

2001-04-23 Thread Declan McCullagh
://www.politechbot.com/docs/cppa.text.html Background (see wired.com for coverage tomorrow): http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=morphed -Declan ** From: Bruce Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: Our amici brief in Supreme Court in child porn case

Re: Right to anon. speech online upheld in US district court

2001-04-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:08:19PM -0500, Aimee Farr wrote: This caught me a nudder fish. I'm going into my reinforced steel shark cage, 'cause this tells Mr. Big Fish could be behind him (Tim is like those three sharks with memory in that Deep Blue Sea movie.) Aimee, I like you, I really

Re: The Crypto State

2001-04-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
Yep. Brands' book is out from MIT Press, so it's even accessible. (Well, relatively accessible; I keep planning on finishing it RSN.) For someone to ask on cypherpunks for pointers to basic crypto concepts and ignoring reading lists is like someone posting to a political mailing list and asking

Re: Amtrak The War On Drugs

2001-04-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
No argument here. I recall a lot of this was in the '96 legislative session, especially the summer. I have some articles on the topic archived at www.eff.org/pub/Publications/Declan_McCullagh -Declan On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:34:44AM +1000, Ralph Wallis wrote: On Tuesday, 24 Apr 2001 at

Re: Amtrak The War On Drugs

2001-04-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:43:20PM -0700, Tim May wrote: From our perspective, it will show the foolishness of government overreaction (ordering a million animals to be slaughtered and burned with tires and old pressure-treated lumber railroad ties). Good summary. Here's an ENS report:

Re: Fake Child Porn

2001-04-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:27:10PM -0700, Tim May wrote: If this becomes law, it will be a case of pure thoughtcrime. No victims, no aggression against another person, no actual people. Just thoughtcrime. It is law, actually. Passed in 1996, with the Bruce Taylors of the world testifying in

biochemwomd terror again, today

2001-04-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE Chemical Weapons Defense Subcommittee hearing on Chemical Demilitarization. Witnesses: Joseph Westphal, acting secretary of the Army; James Bacon, program manager, Chemical Demilitarization; Michael Parker, program manager, Assembled Chemical Weapons

even more biochemwomdterror

2001-04-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
Experts Highlight Shortcomings Of National Terrorism Preparedness Response Capabilities 7 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:01:41 -0400 7 Subject: 4/24/01 Experts Highlight Shortcomings Of National Terrorism Preparedness Response Capabilities 7 From: Hansen, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Airlines IDs [was RE: Amtrak The War On Drugs]

2001-04-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
I believe at least one FOIA request has been pending for the exact FAA rule. I wrote about this a few years ago and asked the FAA to clarify its position, and I never heard anything authoritative. In a recent article, I pointed out that the trend is shifting: You can now use kiosk check-in in

Re: Technological Solution

2001-04-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:32:08PM -0700, Tim May wrote: None of the non-cryptographic methods are very resistant to legal, technical, sniffing, and black bag attacks. And only multiply-chained encrypted-at-each-stage messages, a la remailers, are adequate for high-value messages. If only

Re: Technological Solution

2001-04-29 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 08:49:43PM -0700, Tim May wrote: Well, better than nothing. (Like I said in another article tonight, the best is often the enemy of the good.) We knew even in 1992 that remailers were a pale imitation of the DC Nets discussed a few years earlier by Chaum and

Re: layered deception

2001-04-30 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:24:09PM -0700, Steve Schear wrote: What if the sysadmin is intentionally located in an offshore location so that they cannot be kept from notifying all users of the logging order? Then we pass a cybercrime treaty to require them to follow U.S. laws. Law enforcement

Re: layered deception

2001-04-30 Thread Declan McCullagh
Steve, Even assuming that what you say is true, and I suspect it is, you'd be relying on protections enshrined in the law. The purpose of this treaty, of course, is to change the law. :) -Declan On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:07:33AM -0700, Steve Schear wrote: At 10:56 AM 4/30/2001 -0400, Declan

biochemwomdterror in dc

2001-05-02 Thread Declan McCullagh
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 1, 2001 For More Information Contact: Andrea Andrews (202) 224-6518 WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Richard C. Shelby (R-AL), Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, will hold a press conference Wednesday, May 2 to discuss

Re: Is Hatch a Mormon or a crypto Satanist?

2003-07-02 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:24:30AM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: I've also found it was less trouble to get a beer and _dinner_ late at night than in much of California, though perhaps they have rules requiring bars to also be restaurants. I was in Salt Lake City just after the Olympics (and

Secret nanotech spy agency meeting

2003-07-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
today... TECHNOLOGY National Academies Meeting of the Committee on Nanotechnology for the Intelligence Community. Closed session summary posted after the meeting Location: Keck Center of the National Academies, 500 5th St., NW, Washington, D.C.. Contact: James Killian, 202-334-1758;

Denver Post article on mattd/proffr/AP/Jim Bell/cypherpunks

2003-07-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1497971,00.html .. The development of digital money, and encryption software restricting government's ability to monitor Internet activity, are common goals among the online anarchists and libertarians known as cypherpunks. The ultimate purpose

Re: old encryption paper

2003-07-22 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 04:33:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, it is exactly this kind of commentary which scuttled an attack on free encryption software in the wake of the attack. Moreover, the monolith authentication schemes were also laid to rest or driven Well, no. This kind of

Re: Trouble at HavenCo?

2003-08-05 Thread Declan McCullagh
at HavenCo? http://rss.com.com/2100-1028_35059676.html?type=ptpart=rsstag=feedsubj= ne ws Has 'haven' for questionable sites sunk? By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 4, 2003, 1:38 PM PT LAS VEGAS--A widely publicized project to transform a platform