Re: [liberationtech] Stanford course: Surveillance Law
This was January 2015, not forthcoming. -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Special Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org From: liberationtech [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Yosem Companys Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2016 12:17 PM To: Liberation Technologies Cc: Richard Forno Subject: [liberationtech] Stanford course: Surveillance Law From: Richard Forno <rfo...@infowarrior.org> FYI, my Stanford CIS colleague (a securitylegalgeek rockstar) is offering a 6-week online course on surveillance law. Well worth checking out, if you're able and/or interested! -- rick Surveillance Law Learn how police and intelligence agencies can access your data, and how the law (might) protect you! Hackers, attorneys, and concerned citizens are all welcome. 6 weeks of study 1-3 hours/week English Jonathan Mayer / Stanford University It’s easy to be cynical about government surveillance. In recent years, a parade of Orwellian disclosures have been making headlines. The FBI, for example, is hacking into computers that run anonymizing software. The NSA is vacuuming up domestic phone records. Even local police departments are getting in on the act, tracking cellphone location history and intercepting signals in realtime. Perhaps 2014 is not quite 1984, though. This course explores how American law facilitates electronic surveillance—but also substantially constrains it. You will learn the legal procedures that police and intelligence agencies have at their disposal, as well as the security and privacy safeguards built into those procedures. The material also provides brief, not-too-geeky technical explanations of some common surveillance methods. Course Syllabus I. Introduction We will begin with a brief overview of how surveillance fits into the American legal system. We will also discuss how surveillance issues can be litigated. II. The Basics of Surveillance Law Next, we will review established police surveillance procedures. Using telephone technology as a simple starting point, we will work through various sorts of data that investigators might seek to access—and the constitutional and statutory safeguards on that data. III. Applying Surveillance Law to Information Technology Having learned the basics, we will turn to more modern technologies. We will discuss snooping on email, web browsing, and mobile phone location, as well as hacking into devices. IV. Compelled Assistance to Law Enforcement What happens when data is technically protected? In this section, we will talk about the government’s (limited) ability to mandate backdoors and to require decryption. V. The Structure of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Law The law that applies to foreign intelligence activities runs parallel to the law that applies to police activities. We will compare the two systems of law and review key distinctions. The section places particular emphasis on Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, and Executive Order 12333. VI. Controversial NSA Programs In the final section, we will review the conduct and legality of controversial National Security Agency programs. We will discuss in detail the domestic phone metadata program, PRISM, and “upstream” Internet monitoring. < - > https://www.coursera.org/course/surveillance -- It's better to burn out than fade away. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] A great move by Tor
Congratulations to Tor on successfully concluding its search for a new Executive Director: former EFF Executive Director Shari Steele. Tor has already many great technical folks. Having known and worked with Shari for many years, it's hard to think of a better choice to lead Tor's organizational side. Great move! https://blog.torproject.org/blog/announcing-shari-steele-our-new-executive-director -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Special Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] PBS Frontline: United States of Secrets ( 2 part series )
Requires Flash, but pretty good even for those of us who've been involved directly for A Very Long Time, likely much better for those not intimately familiar. -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Special Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org From: liberationtech [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Nicholas Merrill Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 7:07 PM To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Subject: [liberationtech] PBS Frontline: United States of Secrets ( 2 part series ) United States of Secrets (Part One) How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans? In United States of Secrets, FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to reveal the dramatic inside story of the U.S. government's massive and controversial secret surveillance program -- and the lengths it went to try to keep it hidden from the public. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-secrets/ http://video.pbs.org/video/2365245528/ Part 2 airs May 20th -Nick -- Nicholas Merrill Executive Director The Calyx Institute 287 Spring Street New York, NY 10013 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] ACLU amicus brief in the Lavabit appeal
EFF's amicus: https://www.eff.org/files/2013/10/24/lavabitamics.pdf -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Special Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -Original Message- From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech- boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of d.nix Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 9:33 PM To: liberationtech; cypherpu...@cpunks.org Subject: [liberationtech] ACLU amicus brief in the Lavabit appeal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/aclu-lavabit.pdf - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSafRiAAoJEDMbeBxcUNAe3DAH/1C6ZySo9+Ge2kCu7rDS6tcv p9qRNaX1GbwuSjAT5P7r7Dbf/BdYf7HY/Cl3gAqpOv2uQqw7/dRDs1elAucaCaeP EknINz81IpL47Smph5MMBBVN+IyNog7iCQ1XZeoPiiL9W0SU89pBvmcMmRUmjiM0 wQMPZLRdkieWyiw/iXntUyxLIrFH0D/vCNmAfk/zOElkDL9y6cv7VdygtVgW+pmZ UecLGPtsedzattq1rKoL9vwLJ7VmNOr2sT8ostAciKfIUOrPU1dC7M/zUZXv9nir 4G9Q+GT1qhe9mk4DdO06Hko7hAPBaBHNduFT/nUgtaiAjMzwd0Nr9aMz0tiB2PI= =oX7e -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] NSA-GCHQ meeting on Tor (with slides!)
Kyle Maxwell wrote NSA culture discourages employees from being open about where they work. Most will say Department of Defense or, in some cases, Ft Meade. So the fact that you've not met people who openly disclose their affiliation with NSA doesn't *necessarily* mean that you've not met any NSA engineers / CS types. Often true, but not always. I know one such person who, while with NSA, also was the elected Mayor of College Park, Maryland. His constituents knew where he worked, it wasn't a secret. Unexpected to me at the time, but true. -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] NSA Admits: Okay, Okay, There Have Been A Bunch Of Intentional Abuses, Including Spying On Love Interests | Techdirt
Best summary: https://twitter.com/slworona/status/370946271646711809 -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -Original Message- From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech- boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of coderman Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 9:46 PM To: liberationtech; cpunks Subject: Re: [liberationtech] NSA Admits: Okay, Okay, There Have Been A Bunch Of Intentional Abuses, Including Spying On Love Interests | Techdirt LOVEINT!!! oh god this alone makes it all worth it,,, thank you Snowden! P.S. setup a bitcoin donation address. best regards, On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu wrote: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130823/18432024301/nsa-admits-okay- okay-there-have-been-bunch-intentional-abuses-including-spying-loved-o nes.shtml NSA Admits: Okay, Okay, There Have Been A Bunch Of Intentional Abuses, Including Spying On Love Interests from the and-we're-just-now-telling-congress dept So, this week, we wrote about the NSA quietly admitting that there had been intentional abusesof its surveillance infrastructure, despite earlier claims by NSA boss Keith Alexander and various folks in Congress that there had been absolutely no intentional abuses. Late on Friday (of course) the NSA finally put out an official statement admitting to an average of one intentional abuser per year over the past ten years. The AP is reporting that at least one of the abuses involved an NSA employee spying on a former spouse. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal suggests that spying on love interests happens somewhat more often: The practice isn't frequent - one official estimated a handful of cases in the last decade - but it's common enough to garner its own spycraft label: LOVEINT. A handful is still significantly more than once. And it's a lot more than the zero times we'd been told about repeatedly by defenders of the program. While the NSA says it takes these abuses seriously, there's no indication that the analyst was fired. Much more troubling is that it appears that the NSA only told its oversight committee in the Senate about all of this a few days ago: The Senate Intelligence Committee was briefed this week on the willful violations by the NSA's inspector general's office, as first reported by Bloomberg. The committee has learned that in isolated cases over the past decade, a very small number of NSA personnel have violated NSA procedures - in roughly one case per year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who chairs the committee, said in a statement Friday. Of course, this is the same Dianne Feinstein who, exactly a week ago, said the following: As I have said previously, the committee has never identified an instance in which the NSA has intentionally abused its authority to conduct surveillance for inappropriate purposes. Yeah. Because apparently the NSA chose not to tell the committee until a few days later, despite it happening for years. And, of course, they release this all on a Friday night, hoping that it'll avoid the news cycle... In the meantime, the NSA just made Senator Feinstein look like a complete fool. She's been its strongest defender in Congress for years, and has stood up for it time and time again, despite all of this questionable activity. Then, last week, it lets her tell lies about it without telling her beforehand that there had been such abuses. At this point, it's abundantly clear that Feinstein's oversight of the NSA is a joke. She's either incompetent or lying. Either way, it appears that the NSA is running circles around her, and isn't subject to any real Congressional oversight. At some point, you'd think that maybe she'd stop defending it and actually start doing her job when it comes to oversight. You'd think the fact that it let her make a complete fool of herself by claiming there had been no intentional abuses should make Feinstein realize that the NSA situation is out of control. But, tragically, this seems unlikely. Even her statement seems to want to minimize the seriousness of the fact that she -- the person in charge of oversight -- was completely kept in the dark about very serious intentional abuses. Senator Feinstein just got hung out to dry by the NSA. You'd think she'd stop going to bat for it and its lies. Either way, we've now gone from General Keith Alexander and Feinstein claiming no abuses, to them saying no intentional abuses, to this latest admission of plenty of intentional abuses, including spying on lovers. Perhaps, instead of lying, it's time for the NSA to come clean and to get some real oversight
[liberationtech] Lawful Hacking: Using Existing Vulnerabilities for Wiretapping on the Internet
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2312107 Lawful Hacking: Using Existing Vulnerabilities for Wiretapping on the Internet Steven M. Bellovin Columbia University - Department of Computer Science Matt Blaze University of Pennsylvania - School of Engineering Applied Science Sandy Clark University of Pennsylvania - School of Engineering Applied Science Susan Landau Harvard University; Sun Microsystems, Inc. August 18, 2013 Privacy Legal Scholars Conference, June 2013 Abstract: For years, legal wiretapping was straightforward: the officer doing the intercept connected a tape recorder or the like to a single pair of wires. By the 1990s, though, the changing structure of telecommunications - there was no longer just Ma Bell to talk to - and new technologies such as ISDN and cellular telephony made executing a wiretap more complicated for law enforcement. Simple technologies would no longer suffice. In response, Congress passed the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which mandated a standardized lawful intercept interface on all local phone switches. Technology has continued to progress, and in the face of new forms of communication - Skype, voice chat during multi-player online games, many forms of instant messaging, etc.- law enforcement is again experiencing problems. The FBI has called this Going Dark: their loss of access to suspects' communication. According to news reports, they want changes to the wiretap laws to require a CALEA--like interface in Internet software. CALEA, though, has its own issues: it is complex software specifically intended to create a security hole - eavesdropping capability - in the already--complex environment of a phone switch. It has unfortunately made wiretapping easier for everyone, not just law enforcement. Congress failed to heed experts' warnings of the danger posed by this mandated vulnerability, but time has proven the experts right. The so--called Athens Affair, where someone used the built--in lawful intercept mechanism to listen to the cell phone calls of high Greek officials, including the Prime Minister, is but one example. In an earlier work, we showed why extending CALEA to the Internet would create very serious problems, including the security problems it has visited on the phone system. In this paper, we explore the viability and implications of an alternative method for addressing law enforcement's need to access communications: legalized hacking of target devices through existing vulnerabilities in end--user software and platforms. The FBI already uses this approach on a small scale; we expect that its use will increase, especially as centralized wiretapping capabilities become less viable. Relying on vulnerabilities and hacking poses a large set of legal and policy questions, some practical and some normative. Among these are: . Will it create disincentives to patching? . Will there be a negative effect on innovation? (Lessons from the so--called Crypto Wars of the 1990s, and, in particular, the debate over export controls on cryptography, are instructive here.) . Will law enforcement's participation in vulnerabilities purchasing skew the market? . Do local and even state law enforcement agencies have the technical sophistication to develop and use exploits? If not, how should this be handled? A larger FBI role? . Should law enforcement even be participating in a market where many of the sellers and other buyers are themselves criminals? . What happens if these tools are captured and re-purposed by miscreants? . Should we sanction otherwise--illegal network activity to aid law enforcement? . Is the probability of success from such an approach too low for it to be useful? As we will show, though, these issues are indeed challenging. We regard them, on balance, as preferable to adding more complexity and insecurity to online systems. Number of Pages in PDF File: 70 Keywords: wiretap, CALEA, surveillance, hacking, vulnerabilities, cyber-security, law enforcement working papers series Download This Paper Date posted: August 19, 2013 -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Snowden: Unencrypted Journalist-Source Communications Unforgivably Reckless
The passage Nadim highlights is of course quite appropriate for this list. But for those who have some extra time (it's very long) the whole article is worth reading. -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Nadim Kobeissi Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 9:00 AM To: liberationtech Subject: [liberationtech] Snowden: Unencrypted Journalist-Source Communications Unforgivably Reckless Hey LibTech, In a recently published interview with the New York Times, Edward Snowden called unencrypted communications between journalists and sources unforgivably reckless: I was surprised to realize that there were people in news organizations who didn't recognize any unencrypted message sent over the Internet is being delivered to every intelligence service in the world. In the wake of this year's disclosures, it should be clear that unencrypted journalist-source communication is unforgivably reckless. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/snowden-maass-transcript.html I hope sending this along will be useful for journalists on this list as well as for those who need extra material to help them convince their journalist friends to adopt privacy-preserving practices. As usual, I'll take the opportunity to again vouch for the need for accessible, easy to use encryption, like what Guardian Project, Whisper Systems and Cryptocat are working on. NK -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] Shrimping with the NSA
Prior to XKeyscore, the work of the NSA analysts was comparable with Forrest Gump on his shrimping boat off the coast of Alabama, reads the report from Griesheim. From the ocean of data, the report reads, the analysts pulled in a boot, a toilet seat, seaweed, and, there they are . three shrimp! (ellipse in original) To get to these few shrimp, they were forced to use vast resources, including documents or metadata that expand knowledge about the targets. We deal with tons of toilet seats, the spam and other junk, the report reads. But after the introduction of XKeyscore, the work, the report indicates, became much more efficient, because the tools made it possible to make precise casts, bringing in more shrimp and less by-catch. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/germany-is-a-both-a-partner-to-and-a-target-of-n sa-surveillance-a-916029.html or http://goo.gl/SQZNwj (The whole article is worth a read.) -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] EFF presentation at SIGINT
Thanks, Greg. I knew Rainey had done the talk, but I hadn't seen it before. On the same general subject, a new article by James Bamford, who's been digging into NSA longer than anyone. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/aug/15/nsa-they-know-much-more-you-think/ -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -Original Message- From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech- boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Gregory Foster Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 9:07 PM To: effaustin-disc...@lists.effaustin.org Cc: cypherpu...@cpunks.org; liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Subject: [liberationtech] EFF presentation at SIGINT -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 EFF (Jul 5) - The Politics of Surveillance: Understanding the National Security Agency by @RaineyReitman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OESf9y-638k Kudos to EFF for fighting the good fight, and kudos to Rainey for synthesizing and presenting a lot of useful information. Mentioned in the talk, Freedom of the Press Foundation (Jul 2) - Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillance by @micahflee: https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/encryption-works gf - -- Gregory Foster || gfos...@entersection.org @gregoryfoster http://entersection.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJR80dJAAoJEMaAACmjGtgj9PwP/2O6erOD9Zciwh1wEWe/RpAm av4b9ZDQhcIwkMbCBKL7ptlKYe5lHIlTXqsrfdOJFRCekJYBoenKbyex2qHGi/S+ 1w0C3Qc2CNtjsIOmynDGS2dNa6YeuaRvZkQZ/BkxG5VTV703+JafaCmS2+bGL3uD oWdlbEgLIn/pGM8Hc0Epa7hsrkKt8CuQWSmqu74uuOtzUfCBYQ77/ojDlcOD/CG4 FQVNyB/PyrXXJKg/gPbhRxoWyEQ3DtfFE5/NwVKnpxCJmYeFQy3XV2ZRvGg63xat m4e49c5irQy4MOsJ6eXCvCy+uWIp7/+ce1BFHVS2SxsdAjpsyT2ZnSi9XwGJ0nGd mp9It1cbZ44N+NbrBOOC6nN3tzdFS/jbnaq2GKjnssRAamEdNG/2cYQUtK8EGtMd nWy6rKuJwNxrk8IIqJFNaACPxyeEkhckkajKoUUJRqGOth7LDv0zZI8Y0mEU07OW cZIIBr5KOn1PhPGbqNbPMJjba3cdBVAOauHmlFlWB/0vqv0x3fv8tUhji5hoZOgC Vb2YyfcdkKcvu4m7iKkLOXtLdbwITmzC8iavYFcrurUh3jdvDNcr4aw2+gJFeFBR p/+yMSfb29hW2/5G3QZUNK24+eFAsiGaUG7XFgS480PvTJV0fFxFDzkW0KTFx9qF vbug+icoNC2cBwG1Ju3o =gnIq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
[liberationtech] EFF's new lawsuit against the NSA
For those interested, we filed a new lawsuit against the NSA today. We have another still in litigation, but this one focuses on a specific aspect of the new revelations. Intro, FAQ and a link to the Complaint at https://www.eff.org/cases/first-unitarian-church-los-angeles-v-nsa -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] NSA's crypto city
Oddly, a former NSA operative I know was, while still with NSA, the Mayor of the nearby town in which he lived. Perhaps his colleagues stuffed the ballot box for him. '-) -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Shava Nerad Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:38 PM To: Liberation Technologies Subject: [liberationtech] NSA's crypto city For those who think it's unlikely that a staff of 5000 would be involved in something called crypto staff for the NSA? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#Headquarters NSA is the largest employer in the U.S. state of Maryland, and two-thirds of its personnel work at Ft. Meade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-Barnett-20 [20] Built on 350 acres (140 ha; 0.55 sq mi) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-Gorman-21 [21] of Ft. Meade's 5,000 acres (2,000 ha; 7.8 sq mi), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-22 [22] the site has 1,300 buildings and an estimated 18,000 parking spaces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-23 [23] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-24 [24] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NSA_Employees_only.JPG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NSA_Employees_only.JPG An exit sign for NSA employees along the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore-Washington_Parkway Baltimore-Washington Parkway The main NSA headquarters and operations building is what http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bamford James Bamford, author of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_Secrets:_Anatomy_of_the_Ultra-Secret_National_Securi ty_Agency Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency, describes as a modern boxy structure that appears similar to any stylish office building. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-BamfordBodyofSecretsp488- 25 [25] which is covered with one-way dark glass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-BamfordBodyofSecretsp488- 25 [25] The building has 3,000,000 square feet (280,000 m2), or more than 68 acres (28 ha), of floor space. Bamford said that the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Capitol U.S. Capitol could easily fit inside it four times over. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-BamfordBodyofSecretsp488- 25 [25] Under the outside glass the building uses copper shielding to trap in any signals and sounds to prevent espionage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-BamfordBodyofSecretsp488- 25 [25] The facility has over 100 watchposts, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-BamfordBodyofSecretsp4884 89-26 [26] one of them being the visitor control center, a two-story area that serves as the entrance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-BamfordBodyofSecretsp488- 25 [25] At the entrance, a white pentagonal structure, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-BamfordBodyofSecretsp490- 27 [27] visitor badges are issued to visitors, and security clearances of employees are checked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-BamfordBodyofSecretsp489- 28 [28] The visitor center includes a painting of the NSA seal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-BamfordBodyofSecretsp490- 27 [27] The OPS2A building, the tallest building in the NSA complex and the location of much of the agency's operations directorate, is accessible from the visitor center. Bamford described it as a dark glass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik%27s_Cube Rubik's Cube. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-29 [29] The facility's red corridor houses non-security operations such as concessions and the drug store. The name refers to the red badge which is worn by someone without a security clearance. The NSA headquarters includes a cafeteria, a credit union, ticket counters for airlines and entertainment, a barbershop, and a bank. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-BamfordBodyofSecretsp490- 27 [27] NSA headquarters has its own post office, fire department, and police force. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#cite_note-Bamford-Alexander-30 [30] I know our cyberwarrior said he worked in an unmarked building in Virginia. But I just wanted to post this as support for my testimony that there is a lot of NSA in the area. A *lot*. And that this place is called, Crypto City. It's a term of affection, since, what, the 80s at least when Bamford wrote about it, when I first heard the term
[liberationtech] FW: Federal Judge Allows EFF's NSA Mass Spying Case to Proceed
For those who've not already seen this. Our fight continues. -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -Original Message- From: presslist [mailto:presslist-boun...@eff.org] On Behalf Of EFF Press Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 4:40 PM To: pressl...@eff.org Subject: EFF: Federal Judge Allows EFF's NSA Mass Spying Case to Proceed Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release For Immediate Release: Monday, July 08, 2013 Contact: Cindy Cohn Legal Director Electronic Frontier Foundation ci...@eff.org +1 415 436-9333 x108 (office), +1 415 307-2148 (cell) Kurt Opsahl Senior Staff Attorney Electronic Frontier Foundation k...@eff.org +1 415 436-9333 x106 Lee Tien Senior Staff Attorney Electronic Frontier Foundation t...@eff.org +1 415 436-9333 x102 (office), +1 510 501-8755 (cell) Federal Judge Allows EFF's NSA Mass Spying Case to Proceed Rejects Government's State Secret Privilege Claims in Jewel v. NSA and Shubert v. Obama San Francisco - A federal judge today rejected the U.S. government's latest attempt to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) long-running challenge to the government's illegal dragnet surveillance programs. Today's ruling means the allegations at the heart of the Jewel case move forward under the supervision of a public federal court. The court rightly found that the traditional legal system can determine the legality of the mass, dragnet surveillance of innocent Americans and rejected the government's invocation of the state secrets privilege to have the case dismissed, said Cindy Cohn, EFF's Legal Director. Over the last month, we came face-to-face with new details of mass, untargeted collection of phone and Internet records, substantially confirmed by the Director of National Intelligence. Today's decision sets the stage for finally getting a ruling that can stop the dragnet surveillance and restore Americans' constitutional rights. In the ruling, Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California federal court agreed with EFF that the very subject matter of the lawsuit is not a state secret, and any properly classified details can be litigated under the procedures of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). As Judge White wrote in the decision, Congress intended for FISA to displace the common law rules such as the state secrets privilege with regard to matter within FISA's purview. While the court allowed the constitutional questions to go forward, it also dismissed some of the statutory claims. A status conference is set for August 23. EFF's Jewel case is joined in the litigation with another case, Shubert v. Obama. We are pleased that the court found that FISA overrides the state secrets privilege and look forward to addressing the substance of the illegal mass surveillance, said counsel for Shubert, Ilann Maazel of Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady LLP. The American people deserve their day in court. Filed in 2008, Jewel v. NSA is aimed at ending the NSA's dragnet surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans and holding accountable the government officials who illegally authorized it. Evidence in the case includes undisputed documents provided by former ATT telecommunications technician Mark Klein showing ATT has routed copies of Internet traffic to a secret room in San Francisco controlled by the NSA. The case is supported by declarations from three NSA whistleblowers along with a mountain of other evidence. The recent blockbuster revelations about the extent of the NSA spying on telecommunications and Internet activities also bolster EFF's case. For the full decision: https://www.eff.org/node/74895 For more on Jewel v. NSA: https://www.eff.org/cases/jewel For this release: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/federal-judge-allows-effs-nsa-mass-spying-case-proceed About EFF The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading organization protecting civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, we defend free speech online, fight illegal surveillance, promote the rights of digital innovators, and work to ensure that the rights and freedoms we enjoy are enhanced, rather than eroded, as our use of technology grows. EFF is a member-supported organization. Find out more at https://www.eff.org. -end- ___ To unsubscribe or manage your email options: https://mail1.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/presslist -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Salt Lake Tribune on NSA's Utah Data Center
Interesting, thanks. But, unlike Reuters, it doesn't tell us that NSA is getting demoralized. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-nsa-furloughs-20130703,0,5221135.story -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -Original Message- From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech- boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Gregory Foster Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 8:32 PM To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Subject: [liberationtech] Salt Lake Tribune on NSA's Utah Data Center The Salt Lake Tribune (Jun 29) - NSA in Utah: Mining a mountain of data by @Tony_Semerad: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56515678-78/data-nsa-http-www.html.csp?page=1 Nice compilation of information, including new interviews, by reporters at The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake is just 20 miles from Bluffdale where the NSA's $1.5 billion, 1 million square foot data center is scheduled to open this fall. gf -- Gregory Foster || gfos...@entersection.org @gregoryfoster http://entersection.com/ -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
[liberationtech] Watch 2013 Barack Obama Debate 2006 Joe Biden Over NSA Surveillance
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/watch-2013-president-obama-debate-2006-joe-biden-over-nsa-surveillance JUNE 14, 2013 | BY DAVE MAASS AND TREVOR TIMM Watch 2013 Barack Obama Debate 2006 Joe Biden Over NSA Surveillance After a leaked FISA court document revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) is vacuuming up private data on millions of innocent Americans by collecting all the phone records of Verizon customers, President Obama responded by saying let's have a debate about the scope of US surveillance powers. At EFF, we couldn't agree more. It turns out, President Obama's most formative debate partner over the invasiveness of NSA domestic surveillance could his Vice President Joe Biden. Back in 2006, when the NSA surveillance program was first revealed by the New York Times, then-Senator Biden was one of the program's most articulate critics. As the FISA court order shows, the scope of NSA surveillance program has not changed much since 2006, except for the occupant in the White House. Watch this video, as Senator Biden from 2006 directly refutes each point President Obama made about the NSA surveillance program at his news conference last week. -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
[liberationtech] The government is no longer the only party to win a matter in the FISA Court
Now EFF has too. https://www.eff.org/document/fisc-opinion-and-order-granting-effs-motion -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
[liberationtech] FW: The government is no longer the only party to win a matter in the FISA Court
Meant to post this to the whole list, sorry. -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -Original Message- From: James S. Tyre [mailto:jst...@eff.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:23 PM To: 'Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb' Subject: RE: [liberationtech] The government is no longer the only party to win a matter in the FISA Court Hi Bernard, whose surname is almost confusingly similar with mine. '-) A blog post we did when the Government filed its opposition to our motion should do the trick for you. (I'm insanely busy, else I'd just type something.) https://www.eff.org/node/74486 -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -Original Message- From: Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb [mailto:ei8...@ei8fdb.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:14 PM To: James S. Tyre Subject: Re: [liberationtech] The government is no longer the only party to win a matter in the FISA Court -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi James, For the none legal experts amongst us, I wonder if is it possible to give a summary of this case? I'm reading the words but they're not making much sense! Thanks, Bernard On 12 Jun 2013, at 21:43, James S. Tyre wrote: Now EFF has too. https://www.eff.org/document/fisc-opinion-and-order-granting-effs-mo tion - -- Bernard / bluboxthief / ei8fdb IO91XM / www.ei8fdb.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRuOSSAAoJENsz1IO7MIrr0moH/0ol+mqebUYNtYFwmQymw1Ly 86jfLGA2OFvIYXVs8zBOF+GOlZZN7qYA6OPC2kUwKVlhwldmnk9dNS7DePGhd4Yg TvlMIBydPtl0922zkQo9zFkSym/9I0OxZSwEpIPYlHDzhhzmJh7g9xDKdApe+fTx ZqQ/MHCCX4HhWknpYqngv9HMKW4cjHz5ZYcI5BNjb/l7W7/isrqXc8sPDsR+m6pa 8ayv+lMZewvyo9NIZFtSCH/cJ8mWpspoQNqnHRYBekxwIiXizISggxxF2/tOjv6h Re76cmvLJSCN/LYhBwLEY9J2Uv8uJABOXF73iohYh/+sAIPiaV6anTFCD6EjbGo= =uWSB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] NSA whistleblower revealed
His allegiance to internet freedom is reflected in the stickers on his laptop: I support Online Rights: Electronic Frontier Foundation, reads one. Another hails the online organisation offering anonymity, the Tor Project. Heh. -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -Original Message- From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech- boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Yosem Companys Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 12:31 PM To: Liberation Technologies Subject: [liberationtech] NSA whistleblower revealed Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell. The Guardian, after several days of interviews, is revealing his identity at his request. From the moment he decided to disclose numerous top-secret documents to the public, he was determined not to opt for the protection of anonymity. I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong, he said. -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION
Joe, how would you see? '-) (I do, unless I'm in front of my ginormous monitor.) -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -Original Message- From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech- boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph Lorenzo Hall Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 7:37 AM To: liberationtech Subject: Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION err, I haven't seen any indications that we have libtech members that use screen readers... sorry for the double post. best, Joe -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall Senior Staff Technologist Center for Democracy Technology https://www.cdt.org/ On Apr 3, 2013, at 10:33, Joseph Lorenzo Hall j...@cdt.org wrote: On Apr 3, 2013, at 6:31, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 12:27:47PM +0200, Jillian C. York wrote: Which is worse: Top-posting is definitely worse. Don't do it. A very minor point that isn't especially relevant to libtech, I suspect: I work with a number of blind advocates and top-posting makes their lives much, much easier (since scrolling for them can be quite difficult). So, this is just to point out an exception to the tendency to always favor top-posting... however I have seen indications thy we have libtech members who use screen readers. best, Joe -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Please Vote on Reply to Question
Reply-to-all -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Interesting legal question about copyright happening right now
Youtube has restored it already. -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Yosem Companys Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 10:28 PM To: Liberation Technologies Cc: Dean Collins Subject: [liberationtech] Interesting legal question about copyright happening right now From: Dean Collins d...@cognation.net Interesting legal question about copyright happening right now, as you probably know by now there was an incident in the last lap of todays Nationwide Daytona race where several cars crashed and parts went over and through the fence. Whats interesting is that a fan posted a video he took from his seat in the stands of 2 minutes after the accident. YouTube pulled the video on behalf of Nascar as they are claiming copyright http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151632321154705 http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151632321154705set=a.76650969704.71443.18807449 704type=1 set=a.76650969704.71443.18807449704type=1 Makes for interesting argument - Is Nascar within its rights as it IS private property. - Is the fan within his rights as he posted less than 1% of the event (eg he shot the accident scene 5 seats over where a tire landed on someone) Either way what has happened...and this is so true about the internet once something is uploaded it can never be deleted...the video is now being displayed on 20 different websites some which have refused to remove it in addition to it being uploaded to youtube under many different accounts with no mention of Nascar so cannot be located through simple keyword search. Any legal eagles on the list want to have a crack with your thoughts? .and in case you are wondering..yes of course we had a live fan chat for todays race - http://www.LiveNascarChat.com/go/19750 Regards, Dean Collins Founder - Live Fan Chat d...@livefanchat.com +1-212-203-4357 tel:%2B1-212-203-4357 -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] was: Forbes recommends tools for journalist; is now: depressing realities
Sadly, a proprietary format that won't play well with Linux. The video in question is an .mp4 file. Firefox v17.0.1 supports playing it back (or at least, I'm watching it right now) and I don't have any video playback plugins installed or running. The DownloadHelper Firefox add-on is merrily downloading the video to a file on my hard drive at this time at the same time (ue8827m7_rs04jin1_h264_298K.mp4, thus sayeth the uscourts.gov webserver), where it can be saved for posterity and played back in Microsoft's media player, VLC, or what have you. Thanks, good to know. I'm not a Linux user, but I was told that by one who is. Whether you'll thank me once you get through watching it is, however, a different matter. But you might enjoy playing the State Secrets Drinking Game when you watch it. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/state-secrets-drinking-game/ -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] was: Forbes recommends tools for journalist; is now: depressing realities
Great posts by Jake and Danny. Jake wrote: I think it is more than one thing - so in some cases, it is a matter of simply ignoring the facts; try talking to people about NSA Warrantless wiretaping program and the data (which by the way, I'm confident has been used in the WikiLeaks investigation) produced by it of US citizens on US soil. Eyes will glaze over and people will simply refuse to discuss it. Quite depressing. In some cases, I agree that even if we know that is/has/will/etc happen - some people don't really understand the magnitude of the surveillance state. For anyone interested and with an extra almost three hours to kill, there was a significant court hearing on Friday in Jewel v. NSA. It was video'd under an experimental pilot program, the video is at http://www.uscourts.gov/Multimedia/Cameras/NorthernDistrictofCalifornia.aspx?video_uuid=tg d2h877categoryId=48197%20 Sadly, a proprietary format that won't play well with Linux. -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Renesys: Syrian Internet Is Off The Air
Renesys has a nice follow up post today, the title explains the subject. http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/11/could-it-happen-in-your-countr.shtml Could It Happen In Your Country? By James Cowie on November 30, 2012 11:32 AM -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] SOPA Supporter Considered for Sec. of State
Minor correction. Hollywood isn’t, and before the recent redistricting wasn’t, in his district. His district includes, among other places, North Hollywood, but there is little relation between Hollywood and North Hollywood. -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Collin Anderson Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 9:56 PM To: liberationtech Subject: Re: [liberationtech] SOPA Supporter Considered for Sec. of State Howard Berman has had a long tenure in Congress that is worth a deeper evaluation than solely SOPA/ACTA, spanning legislation such as the Anti-Boycott Act, the infamous Berman Amendment (1988 Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act), NAFTA, False Claims Act, et al. Whether or not Berman would actually be an appropriate choice for Secretary of State, evaluating his merits should not be done in as shallow a manner as promoting the business interests of his district, Hollywood -- which is pretty appropriate for an agent model of representation. -- Collin Anderson Sent with Sparrow http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig On Monday, November 12, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Congressman Howard Berman is being considered as the replacement for Hillary Clinton when she steps down as Secretary of State in coming weeks: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-berman-secretary-of-state-clinton-20121107,0,963486.story Berman was a lead supporter of SOPA. His position as Secretary of State could be a disaster. I urge you to sign the petition against this nonsense: http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/sos_berman/?akid=1847.98995.P8lsnV http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/sos_berman/?akid=1847.98995.P8lsnVrd=1t=2 rd=1t=2 NK -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] NYT Op-Doc on NSA Whistleblower William Binney
For those who may be interested, the Declarations of Bill Binney, Tom Drake and Kirk Wiebe (no relation to Rick Wiebe, one of our team lawyers) in Jewel v. NSA, our case against the government. https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/binneydeclaration.pdf https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/drakedeclaration.pdf https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/wiebedeclaration.pdf -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Gregory Foster Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:19 AM To: effaustin-disc...@lists.effaustin.org; liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Subject: [liberationtech] NYT Op-Doc on NSA Whistleblower William Binney 10-minutes, well done. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-security-agencys-domestic-spying-program.html On a related note, #CryptoParty https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23cryptoparty . gf -- Gregory Foster || gfos...@entersection.org @gregoryfoster http://entersection.com/ -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
