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IBM&Intel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives
Excerpt: >From John Gilmore on the c2.net cryptography list: "The Register has broken a story of the latest tragedy of copyright mania in the computer industry. Intel and IBM have invented and...

The Register: Stealth plan puts copy protection into every hard drive
Excerpt: "Hastening a rapid demise for the free copying of digital media, the next generation of hard disks is likely to come with copyright protection countermeasures built in. Technical...

SMH: Cyber rebels act up on the babysitters
Excerpt: The Sydney Morning Herald has a brief article on Peacefire. An interesting quote: `A NetAlert spokeswoman, Ms Helen Bassett, had not heard of Peacefire. "But we've always said filtering...

paper: Security Against Compelled Disclosure
Excerpt: Ben Laurie and Ian Brown have written a paper on compelled disclosure: "Various existing and pending legislation can be used to force individuals and organisations to disclose...

peacefire: universal censorware-bypass program
Excerpt: "A new program, "Peacefire", is available on our Web page that can disable all popular Windows blocking programs with the click of a button -- released just as Congress has passed the first...

New Scientist: Why seal envelopes if the police can see inside anyway?
Excerpt: "A SPRAY that makes unopened envelopes transparent--so the letters inside are as easy to read as postcards--has been developed by a company in the US. And the spray leaves no trace, says its...

Telegraph: Roadside DNA tests planned
Excerpt: "DRIVERS or other people stopped by police could be asked to supply on-the-spot hair or saliva samples to identify whether they are wanted criminals." ( see www.telegraph.co.uk )

peacefire: Amnesty Intercepted: Global human rights group blocked by
Excerpt: "Prompted by numerous student reports of being unable to access Amnesty International and other human-rights-related Web sites from school computers, Peacefire tested several popular blocking...

FC: Norway military and police preparing secret Carnivore system
Excerpt: Forwarded from the Politech list. --- From: "per christian k stokke" Subject: Norwegian Carnivore / surveillance controversy Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 16:26:42 +0100 Norwegian...

Cypherpunks: An Internet Bearer Bibliography
Excerpt: A useful bibliography on crypto, digital cash and the like from R. A. Hettinga. ( see www.inet-one.com )

The Register: Encryption tears holes in RIP
Excerpt: Nothing new here, but it's nice to see these ideas are reaching the press. --- A group of cryptographers think they have found a way to defeat the RIP Act, by making it impossible to...

[LINK] Andrews Committee Report on Copyright Enforcement (fwd)
Excerpt: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 12:24:08 +1100 From: Nick Smith To: "'link@www.anu.edu.au'" Subject: [LINK] Andrews Committee Report on Copyright Enforcement...

Wired: Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?
Excerpt: BERLIN -- To many parents, it may be a dream: A little gadget that can track where a child is at all times. To many kids, it may a fun thing: Their own cell phone, complete with a...

ABC News: Cell Phone Guns Discovered
Excerpt: More excuses for shooting unarmed people: “We find it very, very alarming,” says Wolfgang Dicke of the German Police union. “It means police will have to draw their weapons whenever a...

The Australian: Youth blase about net porn
Excerpt: A report by the University of Western Sydney and the Australian Broadcasting Authority suggests children in the 10- to 15-year-old bracket believe content filters are unnecessary....

The Inquirer: Scarfo case could test cyber-spying tactic
Excerpt: "Court records in the pending case indicate that Nicodemo S. Scarfo, 35, was the target of a sophisticated surveillance tool - a so-called keystroke-logging device - that allowed the FBI to...

The Register: Govt ministers distance themselves from email spy plan
Excerpt: Government ministers are distancing themselves from the Draconian surveillance measures proposed by NCIS deputy Roger Gaspar in a report to the Home Office. The report, asking for all...

SV: U.S. embraces European computer crime proposal
Excerpt: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has endorsed the gist of a controversial European drive to tighten cybercrime laws over the protests of privacy, civil liberties and human rights...

Wired: Porn a Thorn for Indian Portal
Excerpt: The directors of an Indian search engine have been charged with "giving access to pornographic material": --- The police report stated that the portal's search engine didn't create...

Comments on the Carnivore System Technical Review
Excerpt: Matt Blaze and Gene Spafford, amongst others, have released their comments on the Carnivore technical review. "Although the IITRI study appears to represent a good-faith effort at...

EPIC Comments on Carnivore Technical Review
Excerpt: EPIC has submitted some comments to the US Justice Department asking for full disclosure of the Carnivore source code: ( see www.epic.org )

Cryptome: NCIS Submission on Communications Data Retention Law
Excerpt: More details on the proposed UK phone logging laws: ( see cryptome.org )

BBC News: Spy plans 'threat to human rights'
Excerpt: More proposed human rights violations from the UK: "It has been reported that British intelligence services and the police are seeking powers to log all telephone calls, e-mails and...

The Register: CIA sacks four in secret chat room hack
Excerpt: "The CIA this week sacked four employees, suspended ten, and yanked the security clearances of nine contractors who had hacked the Agency's networks and set up a secret chat room in which...

Wired: Germany's Kampf Furor Renews
Excerpt: "BERLIN -- News this week that a Munich state prosecutor was investigating allegations that Yahoo Deutschland had sold copies of Mein Kampf could help build momentum in Germany for more...

Ben Laurie's retraction of statements on French Yahoo ruling
Excerpt: Ben Laurie has written "An Expert's Apology", clarifying and retracting some statements made as an expert witness during the French case against Yahoo allowing auctions of Nazi memorabilia....

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