FC: Microsoft allies reply to dead-people-writing-letters story

2001-08-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
Previous Politech article: http://www.politechbot.com/p-02425.html FYI, Citizens Against Government Waste and Citizens for a Sound Economy are groups that have been around since the 1980s and are Republican/free-market leaning. They receive money from Microsoft. -Declan ** Subject: M

FC: DMCA restricts police forensics tools, cryptanalysis research?

2001-08-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
The below message is from today's RISKS Digest (http://www.csl.sri.com/users/risko/risksinfo.html). The DMCA (sec. 1201) says in part "no person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic" in anything that "is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of

FC: Judge sentences Jim Bell to 10 years in federal prison

2001-08-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=01/08/25/1849248 Jim Bell Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison posted by admin on Saturday August 25, @01:37PM from the do-not-taunt-happy-fun-federal-agent dept. Internet essayist Jim Bell has been sentenced

FC: Former MI6 agent pleads guilty to child porn on police computer

2001-08-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
TUESDAY AUGUST 21 2001 Ex-MI6 agent put porn on police computer http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001290847,00.html BY JOANNA BALE A FORMER MI6 agent is facing prison after he admitted yesterday downloading pornographic images of children on to his office computer while working at a pol

FC: U.S. Attorney replies to "Good Samaritan" outcry with statement

2001-08-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
I and other folks who communicated with the DOJ received the below statement yesterday evening. It seems as though U.S. Attorney Sheldon Sperling is feeling some pressure. Sperling's direct phone number and contact info have disappeared from a University of Tulsa law school alum site: http://w

FC: PETA gets control of parody peta.org domain, says appeals court

2001-08-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46313,00.html Ethical Treatment of PETA Domain By Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2:00 a.m. Aug. 25, 2001 PDT WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court has ruled that a website titled "People Eating Tasty Animals" is not only a bad