Who's watching the watchers?

2002-11-22 Thread Elyn Wollensky
Who's watching the watchers? By Derrick Z. Jackson 11/22/2002 THIS WEEK the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended the Total Information Awareness project from mounting criticism from civil libertarians. The project is intended to research a system that could give police and intel

Who's watching the watchers?

2002-11-22 Thread Elyn Wollensky
Who's watching the watchers? By Derrick Z. Jackson 11/22/2002 THIS WEEK the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended the Total Information Awareness project from mounting criticism from civil libertarians. The project is intended to research a system that could give police and intel

slightly more in-depth article on the Wiretap ruling

2002-11-18 Thread Elyn Wollensky
Here's a more in-depth article on the new ruling. This just gets scarier and scarier ... ;~/ e Justice Department Wins Wiretap Ruling By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 18, 2002; 2:41 PM A secretive appeals court ruled today that antiterrorism legislation approved last ye

Re: eJazeera?

2002-11-11 Thread Elyn Wollensky
> As always, standards are driven by the mass-market and the mass market > is already speaking on this one. In 18 months time there will be no > difference between mobile phones & cheap digital cameras - all but the > cheapest phones will come with built-in cameras. hate to bud in but ... it is t

EPIC Letter on P2P Monitoring

2002-11-06 Thread Elyn Wollensky
The full text of the letter is pasted below, and is online at http://www.epic.org/privacy/student/p2pletter.html November 6, 2002 Dear College or University President, We are writing in regard to a series of letters you recently received on issues of copyright infringement and peer-to-peer (P2P

Microsoft marries RSA Security to Windows

2002-10-08 Thread Elyn Wollensky
Microsoft marries RSA Security to Windows http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/27499.html Microsoft has signed a wide-ranging deal to incorporate RSA encryption technology into its applications and services. The agreement, announced today (without financial details, is pitched as a key compo

385-3 vote: House OKs life sentences for hackers

2002-07-16 Thread Elyn Wollensky
seems the cyber-terrorist FUD is starting to hit the fan ... ;~( e House OKs life sentences for hackers But time may run out for computer crime bill in Senate http://www.msnbc.com/news/780923.asp WASHINGTON, July 15 - The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Monday to create a new punis

Software encryption patent incites controversy ...

2002-04-02 Thread Elyn Wollensky
Sorry this is so long (I don't have a link) - but this is definitely worth a read-through when you have a few minutes. -elyn --- WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA., April 2, 2002 - A company that in February 2001 obtained a patent to encryption technologies is now harassing other publishers of security

Re: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-16 Thread Elyn Wollensky
> > Julius Ceasar was one of the principles in the Roman Civil War. In > > 49 BC he and his army crossed the Rubicon, a river outside of Rome. > > This is regarded as the tipping point at which he showed himself > > to be fully committed to seizing power. After you cross the Rubicon, > > there i

Re: enumeration

2001-11-06 Thread Elyn Wollensky
> All this talk about "government", "USG", "TLAs" etc is rather > unprecise, vague and general. > > Can we compile a list of 100-200 persons that ARE the US government, > maybe then we can examine the issues more scientifically ? > > 1. George mini-Bush > 2. Collin Powel > 3. Ashcroft, whatever th

Stew Baker: Fox News goes overboard

2001-10-29 Thread Elyn Wollensky
For those who haven't seen the Baker rebuttal, that Declan mentioned, here it is- elyn > >Fox News recently reported that the FBI has a plan to change the >architecture of the Internet, centralizing it and providing "a technical

Re: Muslims and Christians Stand United

2001-09-26 Thread Elyn Wollensky
WTF is this? - Original Message - From: CJ Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Cipher SmartAss Punks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 7:01 AM Subject: Muslims and Christians Stand United > We can't think about the deaths at the WTC in NYC with

Re: What's going on? World Trade Center, Pentagon, Old Executive Office Bldg

2001-09-11 Thread Elyn Wollensky
OK, here's what's going on ... in NYC: two separate planes collided into each of the WTC towers @8:30 this morning. Each tower eventually collapsed. Seems very few people made it out from the top 40 floors of each building. It turned out that the planes where hijacked ... in DC: a plane crashed i