FC: Dmitry Sklyarov, spamware author? Elcomsoft sells email harvester

2001-08-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shakib Otaqui) Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 18:23:39 +0100 (BST) Declan: You may be interested in a letter I wrote to John Naughton, _The [London] Oberver's_ technology writer, about a column in which he berated the prosecution of Sklyarov: I

FC: Why Dmitry Sklyarov belongs in jail, by inside.com's R. Parloff (resend)

2001-08-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
[The inside.com link I sent out last week has since moved behind the subscription firewall. Roger and inside.com have graciously allowed me to redistribute his article in full. --Declan] --- Free Dmitry? Spare Me.: Why the FBI Was Right to Arrest the Internet's Latest Martyr Civil liberties ad

FC: German minister plans U.S. lobbying tour to censor "hate sites"

2001-08-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168726.html German Official Seeks Help To Shut U.S.-Based Hate Sites By Ned Stafford, Newsbytes BERLIN, GERMANY, 06 Aug 2001, 3:09 PM CST Otto Schily, Germany's interior minister, plans to visit the U.S. this fall in attempt to shut down right-wing, hate Web s

FC: Where have all the good names gone? Dupont grabs science.info

2001-08-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
[Preregistration ("sunrise period") lets trademark holders snatch up domain names before the general public. Of course only firms that actually own trademarks are supposed to be participating. I'll forward any response from DuPont. --Declan] *** From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (admin) To: <[EMAIL

FC: Researchers find flaws in 802.11 wireless security standard

2001-08-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
Also see: Risks of Microsoft Passport We all know the risks of trusting DNS and the fact that users click OK when presented with certificate warnings in their browser. So what happens when you build a single sign-on model for e-commerce that leverages these technologies? You end up with some risk

FC: Feds say keystroke logger details are covered by "national security"

2001-08-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
The FBI's Kerr has been named the CIA's next deputy director for science and technology: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30341-2001Aug3.html EPIC has placed the documents online: http://www.epic.org/crypto/scarfo.html --- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45851,00.html