I was wondering how much Slashdot-spam traffic Choate adds
to the list, so I did the below computation.
%fgrep 'From:' cypherpunks|wc -l
2210
%fgrep 'From:' cypherpunks | fgrep Choate|wc -l
366
Now, this is my "active" cypherpunks inbox and I suspect I delete
a lot of Choatisms from it,
From my weekly Wired column...
-Declan
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,44939,00.html
Thuggish cops: Police in Key West, Florida, arrested a newspaper editor
last week for printing an article that criticized an internal police
investigation.
The editor of Key West The Newspaper, Dennis
[At least they've got some DNA they can test... -Declan]
Interpol hit by parcel of rotten meat and excrement
LYON, France, June 26 (Reuters) - A suspect parcel delivered to Interpol
headquarters that prompted a three-hour evacuation of the building contained
nothing more lethal than rotten meat
questions askd during oral arguments were very much pro-MPAA.
It's true that they could be playing devil's advocate, but the queries
seemed to be genuine conviction, not intellectual gamesmanship.
-Declan
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:14:53PM +0200, Lars Gaarden wrote:
> Declan McCulla
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http://www.madcowculture.com/madcow-00077.html
MCVEIGH'S DEATH SPURS OUTCRY AGAINST POETRY
By Mad Cow Culture ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Ju
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 07:53:38AM -0700, David Honig wrote:
> At 07:30 PM 6/20/01 -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
> >The DMCA, according to the court, clearly prevents the use of DeCSS
> >and css-auth, even in the case that it has a legitimate use, because
> >it circumvents the access control measure
eck is that I don't have cocounsel for states other than Indiana
>- I welcome solutions to this problem.
>More info at http://communities.msn.com/robbinstewart
>
>>From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: Matthew Gaylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>In-Reply-To>Matt:
anti-union companies.
>
>Is what she wrote being alleged to be untrue? From my perspective
>disparaging politicians is like shooting fish in a barrel. Usually all
>that is needed is to truthfully compare their campaign speeches to their
>actual voting or other practices.
>
>At
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Subject: FC: Ex-GOP senator's wife pleads to email attack campaign
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 21:47:09 -0400
X-URL: http://www.mccullagh.org/
X
Yeah, "appears to be unpatented." Right. Whatever.
You can take that anonymous claim to the bank.
-Declan
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:00:04PM -, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote:
> Again, you misled the public by implying that all potential approaches to
> ecash were patented. In fact, Wagner'
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:00:21PM -, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote:
> It is a botched attempt to describe the "cut and choose" mechanism.
Right, it was an attempt to describe "cut and choose" in three
sentences or so. It's a news article, not a technical paper. Deal.
> The article also conta
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Subject: FC: Why we don't use digital cash
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:27:13 -0400
X-URL: http://www.mccullagh.org/
X-URL: Po
At 07:37 AM 6/13/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> > > > ORBS/MAPS/etc. "participate" by connecting to and reviewing sites,
> > > > much like I go out to and watch movies to review.
> > >
> &g
Right. It's a cost-benefit analysis.
Bob may pick up some of Alice's bad blocks, and there's a cost to that.
But if the benefit of spam reduction outweighs the possibly-minimal
cost, well, Bob's got a good thing going and he's quite happy to continue
with that practice.
-Declan
On Tue, Jun 12,
The analogy's not perfect, but analogies never are. If you don't
like what "spam critics" are doing, move to a different ISP.
-Declan
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:07:16AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
>
> > Yes, if you participate in an open forum like the
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:10:34AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> > ORBS/MAPS/etc. "participate" by connecting to and reviewing sites,
> > much like I go out to and watch movies to review.
>
> Not always.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:19:29PM -0500, Mac Norton wrote:
> Whoa. commie privacy leftie punks? what was ORBS?
> And we don't have to talk about holding guns to
> heads. We're talking about holding a boycott
> to heads. Sounds pretty commie leftie to me.
> Talk about sheeple, jeez.
Here's some
Yes, there's that Scalia, the well-known pinko commie.
-Declan
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:44:27PM -0700, atek3 wrote:
> what a frigging nightmare, when the only people standing in the way of a
> wholesale rape of our civil liberties are leftists.
>
> atek3
>
> - Original Message -
> F
27;re hardly perfect, and RBL could overreact and restrict some
folks who are undeserving in the interim.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:28:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> > ORBS is a reputation-publishing tool.
>
> Total Bullsh
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010609/ts/bush_oil_ethanol_4.html
Environmentalists said the administration was preventing California from
deciding for itself how best to protect the public health and clean air and
drinking water supplies.
http://www.madcowculture.com/madcow-00073.html
Not surprisingly, the mad cow scare has gone underground and spawned a fan
club that professes to live on the edge. Club members usually wear black,
go to all-night clubs in Greenwich Village, and demonstrate courage by
doing a line of cocaine. T
I have never programmed in VB, though I have written machine code.
Nowadays I do my work in Perl with some C and am quite happy.
That said, I suspect you can craft some useful programs in VB, and if it
speeds development time without greatly influencing running time, why not
do it? I'm too crank
PRZ told me last week he was working on (and I put this in my Wired article)
PGPfone in Java. You may want to compare notes.
-Declan
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 12:37:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Apropos, I'm looking for full-duplex no-hassle crypto
> voice programs (preferably, for *nix
Any chance of adding "uns-b-c-i-e" in the Subject: or body to majordomo's
verboten-words list?
-Declan
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:19:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> please uns--e me
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From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FC: Ashcroft tells Congress he'll take hard line on porn, piracy
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 13:07:57 -0400
X-URL: http://www.mccullagh.org
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:31:23PM -0700, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
> more power to you. But the Cypherpunks list is about getting things done
> more than it's about cutesy vanity.
Really? It always struck me as that this list was a lot more about
vanity than getting things done. :)
-Declan
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Subject: FC: Ed Felten and researchers sue RIAA, DOJ over right to publish
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 10:01:08 -0400
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eu
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Subject: Re: Starium (was Re: article: german secure phone)
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAI
Yes, no, and it depends.
Even ardent libertarians will probably agree with the idea of some kind
of search warrants in some situations, so in those cases you don't have the
right to "hide stuff" (though you can try).
But those are exceptional conditions, or at least should be.
This is not a mea
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Subject: FC: Zenon Panoussis's letter to Kirkland: "I invite you to sue me"
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001
Privacy is many things, and Jim is pretty much on the wrong track on
all of them. I haven't seen such babble since undergraduate crit-lit
classes.
Privacy means different things to different people, societies, cultures.
It is analytically different when we're talking about privacy from police
sur
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From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FC: Movie studios, 2600 describe free speech impact of DVD case
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:04:14 -0400
X-URL: Politech is at http://www.pol
You have a valid concern. It strikes me that there are two points
worth considering:
* How likely is it that someone will stumble across this information?
I was there for every day of the Bell trial (except the first afternoon,
when I was sequestered and prevented from covering the trial -- a nic
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:36:28AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If it's illegal to circumvent a copy protection scheme,
> is it still illegal to do so if making a personal copy
> is legal?
Yes, says the MPAA, the Clinton and Bush administrations, and
at least one federal judge. That came up
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:46:55PM -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
> An equally interesting question is whether it is illegal for a consumer to
> copy already ripped DV material a friend may have. Since the person doing
> the copying did not circumvent the copy protection, not perhaps their
> frien
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Subject: FC: Politech photos: Lots of DeCSS, antitrust, protests, travel
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 02:13:46 -0400
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora V
7:33AM -0700, Tim McVeigh wrote:
> At 10:09 AM 5/23/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >You will be reimbursed and paid $20 or thereabouts per day for your
> >"witness fee."
> >
>
> Are you compensated for expenses (e.g., kennelling your dog)
> incurred as a re
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From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FC: Aschroft warns of online anonymity, tells firms to report attacks
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:49:32 -0400
X-URL: http://www.mccullag
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 04:17:21AM +, David E. Smith wrote:
>
> Having been on the business end of a couple of subpoenas, I believe I know
> what was being referred to. If the Federales want me to go to, oh, let's
> just say Tacoma, they can give me a cab to the airport and tickets and a
>
The justicefiles.org guy has long complained (at last when I interviewed
his attorney) about hacker attacks, some allegedly from official
computers.
Here's some background on the latest problems:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=kirkland
-Declan
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:36
So what's this Dept of HEW, and where's a real cite?
-Declan
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:53:12AM -0700, David Honig wrote:
> [1] From http://www.mind-trek.com/practicl/tl17b.htm
>
> However, one of the laws provision is not so well known or publicized.
> According to the department of Health Edu
2 PM -0400 5/18/01, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>>
>>You can see news coverage of Kirkland's legal threats here:
>>http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/165907.html
>>
>>The Politech article that is in danger of being taken down if
>>Kirkland wins an injunction:
>&
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From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FC: Kirkland police threaten Politech with lawsuit
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 20:15:23 -0400
X-URL:
Close, but not quite right. Some publications, especially political pubs,
are not profitable and subsidized by wealthy investors.
-Declan
At 09:59 PM 5/16/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
>On Wed, 16 May 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> > But even if I have permission, it al
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 06:09:24PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
>
> [ Declan: I give you permission to print this in one of your articles,
> you should also mention my "Constitutional Amendment Project" ]
Thank you, I guess. I normally would dismiss this with a snide remark
about fair use
Yeah. Of cpunx relevance, hypothetically:
* Laws in Uganda ban anonymous remailers. German operator runs one,
used to libel Ugandans, Ugandan sues and gets default judgement.
Under at least one interpretation of Hague convention, German operator
must pay. The U.S. State Department has already dra
My writeup is on Wired News, though I rather prefer Robin's style.
-Declan
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:21:34PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> http://slashdot.org/articles/01/05/15/2138208.shtml
> --
>
>
> God was
Yeah, pretty goddamn amazing. The WashPost had coverage of this last week.
-Declan
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:41:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,24717,00.html
> #
> #Ex-Doobie Brother is Missile Defense Ace
> #
> #Monday, May 14, 2001
> #
May 8, 2001
Senate Appropriations Committee
Terrorism
Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary Subcommittee hearing to examine
United States Federal Government capabilities with respect to terrorism.
Witnesses: Defense Department witness, TBA; John Gordon, administrator,
National Nuclear Secu
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 04:59:29PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> > For automated photolasers, mount a slave flash beside your plate.
> > When the camera goes off, its flash will trigger yours, again dazzling
> > the camera.
>
> Provided the camera isn't very fast. The responce time of your system a
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:48:04PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
> Note that these devices are 100% passive, which would avoid FCC
> problems (though not neccesarily LEA ones).
See also:
http://www.interdiscountmall.com/interdiscountmall/phazradjam.html
-Declan
Fox News reports it authenticated the letter, sent to one of their
correspondents:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,17500,00.html
-Declan
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:49:58PM -0400, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
> If these were the actual words of Tim McVeigh how come he uses the
> British spelling o
8. Congress calls for higher federal pay raise By Brian Friel
Federal workers should get a 4.6 percent average pay raise next year rather
than President Bush's proposed 3.6 percent raise, lawmakers said late
Thursday night. House and Senate negotiators released a fiscal 2002 budget
resolution
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From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anonymity researchers present new ways to cloak your identity
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:21:45 -0400
X-URL: http://www.mccullagh.org/
User
I think this may be one idea for which you don't want credit.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:39:31AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> Gee, I wonder if he'll give me credit for working on this the last 8
> years...
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43216,00.html
>
>
> --
> __
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:36:00PM -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
> It's unfortunate that the majority of the Amicus briefs filed in this case
> seem to be from conservative groups and quasi-governmental puppet
> organizations.
It gets worse. One of the conservative groups reportedly filed on
behal
At 05:44 PM 4/21/01 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
>Gakkk.. That's ~27 megabits/second, over half a T3.
>I remember when I could *read* all of Usenet,
I remember (circa 1988) when I could read about 30 newsgroups. I'm afraid
you predate me by a few years. :)
Another sysadmin (in town for the NORML
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 03:56:44PM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
> I'm a bit confused by Tim's use of the nym John Doe,
> since in cases like that, the John Doe isn't the sysop,
> John Doe is/are the unknown-to-the-court person or persons
> who made the allegedly libelous comments,
> and the court is
Or if he would have set up irswatch.com and called himself an
investigative reporter.
-Declan
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:03:42PM +, Steve Thompson wrote:
> Quoting John Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Jim scribbled "SHAM" on a notepad and displayed it
> > to the courtroom.
>
> Jim would be
"formerly available only to high level government agencies"
>Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:58:59 -0400
>From: Terry Lowe-Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>X-Sender: "Terry Lowe-Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-CCK-MCD 030999-BAH (Win98; U)
>X-Accept-Language: en
>To: [EMAIL PR
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From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Humorless FBI agents interrogate publisher of Columbine satire
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:07:52 -0400
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,43158,00.html
Intelligenesis Faces Dim Future
By Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
2:00 a.m. Apr. 19, 2001 PDT
A pioneering New York company that once hoped to develop the first
artificial intelligence is preparing to declare
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:51:06AM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
> But the opposite will also get you in trouble -
> if you allow certain plants to grow on your property,
> numerous federal agencies will _also_ be very, very angry :-)
> And if you try to argue that *you're* not growing the plants,
>
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:09:38PM -0700, David Honig wrote:
> Untraceables without persistance are useful mostly for email.
> Persistent & untraceable, that's part of the Realization.
Is that part of the Singularity? :)
-Declan
A brief data point to add to Bill's interesting post:
I had dinner with someone from alt.net during my not-exactly-voluntary
visit to the Seattle area recently. He told me (this is from memory)
that Usenet is now on the order of 300 GB/day and they get a full feed.
90 percent is binaries.
-Decla
Protection racket? Nah. More like "I won't buy a lamp that's not
UL-certified" or "I won't buy a novel that Oprah doesn't recommend."
Kosher rating systems are a wonderful example of private reputation
systems. There are hundreds of rating agencies; they seem to generally
coexist -- folks who are
This Choatian post is even more useless than the normal one-liner.
In the time it took (apparently) the ssz node to redistribute the
message, the article has been replaced with one about sex attacks in
London. (that may be more interesting, but that's not the point.)
The moral of this story is b
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:45:03PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> Yes, you did. You specificaly said that posts through the CDR were
> implicitly usable for commercial use (ie your using them in a article)
> without permission or other contact to the author. You also compared it to
No, I said there w
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:23:15AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> if it's not a sports team it's emotional coercion via a SO. If it's not
> that then it's self-imposed psychological 'benchmarks' we all pick up and
> try to measure ourselves against. If it's not one thing, it's another.
This badly mis
That was a particularly eloquent statement.
-Declan
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 06:01:23AM -, Kenneth Sigafoose wrote:
Maybe that's what you meant to have said. But you don't seem to have a clue
about your ability to force, say, news organizations to bend to your
view of what's "commercial use" of a cypherpunks posting.
We tend to view it sas "fair use."
-Declan
Who has a job in the 'press'
On Mon, Apr 16, 200
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:08:57AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> Yep, let's bitch about how stupid I am and how I don't get it. And at the
> same time hope nobody notices you're doing nothing but waving your hands.
> Your forte is clearly the ad hominim.
Hardly. But let's assume arguendo that you ac
Installed under court order, according to testimony.
-Declan
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 10:03:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> David Honig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> #
> #If you think you *are* being followed in a car, I'd suggest
> #you read Tomlinson's _The Big Breach_ (availa
I have a pair of their preproduction units they sent me in December. --Declan
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 02:01:10AM -, Dr. Evil wrote:
> Does anyone know if Starium is ever going to release anything? I
> noticed on their News section that they have engaged an M&A
> specialist. That's probably
I was thinking of taking some photos, acting the photojournalist
instead of the writingjournalist, but they never used the public
entrance.
-Declan
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:19:15PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> BTW, if anyone has pictures of The Gordon, please email
> them to me. I'll
Right. There was some discussion of "military uses this device"
during direct exam, but the prosecutor was tech-clueless and so was the
witness, beyond standard drudge insert-device-here skills, so I wouldn't
rely on them. See my Wired article, easily ref'd at cluebot.com, for
exact quotes.
My so
To answer my own question, in part:
http://www.publius.net/rlist.html
-Declan
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:09:15PM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> Hmm. Anyone know what are some extant web-to-email remailers,
> and what Type I remailers exist?
>
> -Declan
>
>
> On Wed,
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:46:06PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> IANAL...
A nomination for "understatement of the year" award.
-Declan
and them speaks for itself.
-Declan
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:56:37PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> > Okay, Jim, let's test your tortured interpretation of the law.
> >
> > I'll take one of your posts that's
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:25:33PM -0400, brainteaser wrote:
> Thats one thing I don't get about what (many) people post on this list.
> There is a lot of shit about the government did this and federal agents
> are doing that, but very little about what corporations do. Partly this
> is probably b
Okay, Jim, let's test your tortured interpretation of the law.
I'll take one of your posts that's 201 lines long and post it on my
website, properly attributed. You sue me, and we'll watch what
happens. Ready?
-Declan
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:42:16PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr
At 04:18 PM 4/12/01 -0400, Sunder wrote:
>Um, yes, this is precisely what I've just said.
No, this is a more accurate retelling of copyright law than what you just
said. Though you weren't *that* far off.
>The odds of him winning a lawsuit based on a single message posted in
>its entirety is so
ion is.
>
> While he can't really enforce what people do with the emails that they
> receive from him, if he sees his posts printed in full in the next issue
> of WIRED, he could sue.
>
>
>
> Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >
> > The problem with Choate's ar
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 06:43:10PM -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> The best name (cypherpunks) seems to be taken. Hmm. I will
> have to consider. The naming of things is a ticklish business.
nympunks? nonpunks? anonpunks?
-Declan
At 04:52 PM 4/11/01 -0800, Daniel J. Boone wrote:
>Declan wrote:
>
> > Tim's point is on-target. Read up on freedom to contract.
>
>Been there, done that, have the law degree on my wall to prove it. My
>views on
>contract law could conceivably be incorrect, but they are not uninformed.
Dan,
You
Tim's point is on-target. Read up on freedom to contract.
See also examples like Yahoo-Geocities a few years back, claiming
IP rights in posts to its site (then abandoned, but that was due to
PR outcry, not to lack of enforceable contract).
-Declan
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:29:03AM -0800, Dan
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42962,00.html
Bell Trial: Victim as Prosecutor
by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
10:35 a.m. Apr. 10, 2001 PDT
TACOMA, Washington -- The government's prosecution of an Internet
essayist accused of stalking federal agents r
se cc:'s bounced. Did you enjoy it?
>
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> > Old motto: "Cypherpunks write code"
> > New motto: "Cypherpunks lobby in state capitols, craft
> > 'appropriate' policy responses, and iden
0.html
>
> > Jim Bell's Strange Day in Court
> > by Declan McCullagh
>
> > Bell's lawyer, Robert Leen, twice asked U.S. District Judge Jack
> > Tanner to halt the proceedings because his client had a "major mental
> > disorder."
>
The jury convicted Jim Bell on two counts of stalking cypherpunk Jeff
Gordon, and hung 11-1 on the three other counts, which the judge dismissed
without prejudice. See my Wired article soon.
-Declan
Old motto: "Cypherpunks write code"
New motto: "Cypherpunks lobby in state capitols, craft
'appropriate' policy responses, and identify
'key players' for 'maximum bang for the buck'"
Old cypherpunk: Hacker, programmer, coder, sysadmin, engineer
New cypherpunk: IRS underco
But I'm not
> holding my breath
>
> -- Daniel
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Daniel J. Boone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 9:19 PM
> Subject: Re: P
She wasn't a lawyer; your PR clone suspicion is correct.
She was not a technologist. Her function was only to testify that
an IP address matched an account.
Bell's lawyer on cross-examination never raised the point that a message
posted to cpunx goes through multiple servers (including the maj
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42895,00.html
ATF Admits Tracking Jim Bell
by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
10:20 a.m. Apr. 6, 2001 PDT
TACOMA, Washington -- The government revealed Thursday that it
implanted a satellite-tracking device in a suspect&#
- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Judge in Jim Bell trial says media may not quote public documents
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 12:11:33 -0400
X-URL: http://www.mccullagh.org
See:
http://www.cluebot.com/search.pl?topic=ap-politics
Cute, but inaccurate. I never have questioned the ability of list
owners to set their own list policies (I am a member of a number of
mailing lists with do-not-forward policies).
Cypherpunks, on the other hand, is just a little different than a
private, invite-only mailing list that's run by one
I'm still getting "disk full" bounces. --Declan
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 07:36:28AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> Is it back?
>
>
>
>To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is
>(x+1)-ecrable.
>
You would have a valid point if the Beasty Boys were in the habit of
sending MP3s of their latest hits to cypherpunks.
-Declan
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:33:37AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
>
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> > Private property != intellecut
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 12:07:02AM -0400, John Young wrote:
> At one of the rump sessions Robb London said he was
> going to demand affidavits of everyone about what was
> being discussed. He was ignored except by a woman who
The rest I can't vouch for, but this is true. London likes
to make
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