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globeandmail: Reisman bans Mein Kampf from Chapters and Indigo
Excerpt: The CEO of Canada's Chapters and Indigo bookstore chains has pulled Mein Kampf from the shelves. The book is still widely available at other stores. "We consider it hate...

ap: Vermont Newspaper Photographer Is Taken Into Custody for Taking Pictures of Nuke Plant
Excerpt: A U.S. journalist was arrested on treason charges after taking photographs of a nuclear power station for a report on security. Prosecutors decided not to press charges and released him...

ips: Europe Moving to Criminalise Racist Internet Postings
Excerpt: The EU is working towards a uniform law banning the publication of "racist" or "xenophobic" material on the internet. Via Unknown News ( see unknownnews.net ) A draft 'Framework...

nytimes: Memo Adds to Suspicions of Immigrants on Interviews
Excerpt: The voluntary interviews of 5,000 Middle Eastern men requested by the FBI are intended to lead to detention without bond, according to the NY Times. The memorandum, dated Friday,...

abc: British House of Lords rejects anti-terrorism bill
Excerpt: The good news? The House of Lords rejected the new British anti-terrorism legislation. The bad news? They voted it down because they want to extend the new powers even further. The...

wired: DOJ's Already Monitoring Modems
Excerpt: The U.S. Department of Justice has already begun using its new search and wiretapping powers to monitor cable modem users, according to Wired. "We would not have been able to do...

wired: Copyright Law Foes Lose Big
Excerpt: Wired reports on two EFF court losses yesterday, defending 2600 magazine and opposing the DMCA on Ed Felten's behalf. In its decision on Wednesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals...

zks: Freedom websecure trial
Excerpt: Zero Knowledge has announced a new web anonymizing proxy service, with free trials until January 2002. They've only released a plugin for Internet Explorer, but an unofficial Linux version...

politech: Federal judge throws out EFF-Felten lawsuit challenging DMCA
Excerpt: A U.S. Federal judge has thrown out the EFF's DMCA challenge. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today represented a team led by Princeton Professor Ed Felten in the first...

wired: Routes of Least Surveillance
Excerpt: Wired reports on a new web site that maps New York's surveillance cameras. The interactive, Web-based map catalogs most of the 2,400 cameras filming public space in the city, including...

washingtonpost: Ex-FBI Officials Criticize Tactics On Terrorism
Excerpt: Eight former FBI officials have criticized Attorney General Ashcroft's strategy in the U.S. terrorism investigation. The executives, including a former FBI director, said the Ashcroft...

washingtonpost: Court Weighs Online Porn Law and Free Speech
Excerpt: The DoJ and ACLU have delivered their opening arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Child Online Protection Act appeal. Although the previous law that was struck down in 1997...

theregister: AV vendors split over FBI Trojan snoops
Excerpt: According to The Register, some anti-virus vendors have decided not to detect the FBI's proposed keystroke logging trojan, Magic Lantern. This comes just a day after McAfee strongly denied...

abc: A-G defends new anti-terrorism laws
Excerpt: The Australian Attorney General has defended his proposals for new anti-terrorism legislation in a recent interview. The new laws would give ASIO agents the power to arrest, and allow...

cnet: Net porn law heads to high court
Excerpt: The U.S. Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear arguments on the possible reinstatement of the Child Online Protection Act. The Justice Department is pressing the appeal. A federal...

eugeneweekly: Can a free press survive America's new war?
Excerpt: A summary piece from the Eugene Weekly reports on direct and indirect censorship in the U.S. terrorism investigation and bombing of Afghanistan. Via Unknown News ( see unknownnews.net )...

wired: Why Copyright Laws Hurt Culture
Excerpt: Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig speaks at a Dublin digital film festival on the effects of copyright and IP laws. Copyright has bloated from providing 14 years of protection a...

gilmore: cypherpunks@toad.com is going away
Excerpt: The original toad.com cypherpunks list is finally closing down. Other hosts still carry the list; subscription information is available here: ( see www.google.com ) The cypherpunks...

guardian: The other war on terrorism
Excerpt: The Guardian reports on Zimbabwe's co-opting of The War Against Terrorism as a means for silencing dissent and punishing opposition. It's a good thing such behaviour is limited to...

abc: Saudi man to sue over being labelled a terrorist
Excerpt: A Saudi man plans to sue media organisations after being incorrectly listed on an FBI list of terrorist suspects. He says linking his client to terrorism amounted to an act of...

theregister: US assumes global cyber-police authority
Excerpt: A SecurityFocus article at The Register analyses the computer and communication aspects of the new U.S. anti-terrorism laws. An amendment to the definition of a "protected computer"...

indyweek: The Poster Police
Excerpt: The Independent Weekly reports on a young student visited by the U.S. Secret Service after someone reported seeing an un-American poster on her living room wall. Brown got it at an...

chronicle: New Company Besieges Colleges With Notices About Copyright Violations
Excerpt: The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on NetPD, which automatically sends copyright infringement notices to users caught downloading MP3 files. Via Privacy Digest ( see...

australianit: Election delays net censorship report
Excerpt: Australian Communications Minister Richard Alston has delayed his report on internet censorship until next year, blaming the recent federal election. Communications Minister Richard...

internationalnews: All anti-govt printing presses may be shut
Excerpt: The Pakistani government has ordered the "closure" of printing presses which might be used to print subversive posters. Via Unknown News ( see unknownnews.net ) The CE Secretariat...

washingtonpost: Ashcroft Defends Not Naming Detainees
Excerpt: U.S. Attorney General has responded to criticism over his failure to name the 1,100 individuals detained in the anti-terrorism investigation. "The law properly prevents the department...

thisislondon: US jail hell for bomb joke
Excerpt: A British tourist spent a month in a U.S. jail after telling a flight attendant he didn't have a bomb. Loveland Adjei, from Borehamwood, made the comment on Kuwait Airways as he...

cnet: Anti-piracy feud bodes ill for Web music
Excerpt: CNet sees impending doom in the online music subscription business, as paid download services cut themselves off from customers with "digital rights management" measures. The...

ap: Senators to Hear Ashcroft Explain Anti-Terror Laws
Excerpt: U.S. senators still don't understand the anti-terrorism legislation they passed several weeks ago. In some cases voting was completed before copies of the bill were made available to...

bbc: Religious hatred law survives
Excerpt: Britain looks set to pass new laws banning the incitement of "religious hatred," despite resistance from some Labour MPs. Shadow home secretary Oliver Letwin warned the anti-hatred...

nytimes: Difficult suspect may face military tribunal
Excerpt: A French man may become the first person tried in a military tribunal on terrorism charges. Moussaoui was arrested in Minneapolis on August 17 on immigration charges after he sought...

ap: WWII Navajo Code Talkers Honored
Excerpt: Congressional Medals have finally been awarded to the Navajo Code Talkers, who worked during the second World War to render U.S. communications indecipherable to the Japanese. The...

abcnews: DOJ Won't Identify Sept. 11 Detainees
Excerpt: The U.S. Justice Department has refused a congressional request to identify the 1,100 people detained in the September 11 hijacking investigation. According to this report from late last...

telegraph: Naughty children to be registered as potential criminals
Excerpt: London police plan to establish a database of children they believe might commit crimes in the future. From 3 years of age any child thought to be a potential criminal will be secretly...

latimes: 3 Arrested in Columbine-Style Plot
Excerpt: Massachusetts police have arrested three students and seized knives, ammunition and bomb-making instructions after a letter was found outlining a plan to blow up a school. According to the...

guardian: Straw's anger at Mugabe threats
Excerpt: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has accused Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe of breaching human rights by threatening journalists with arrest under anti-terrorism laws. In an...

bbc: Zimbabwe heads for isolation
Excerpt: Zimbabwe's government has labelled six journalists "terrorists", leading Britain to threaten sanctions. A presidential spokesman was quoted in the government newspaper as calling...

washingtonpost: FBI Develops Eavesdropping Tools
Excerpt: According to this Washington Post article, McAfee plans to render its virus scanning software incapable of detecting Magic Lantern, the FBI's forthcoming eavesdropping trojan horse. This...

newscientist: "Mesh radio" can deliver super-fast internet for all
Excerpt: New Scientist has a quick blurb on a forthcoming trial of "mesh radio." Mesh radio achieves nearly 100 per cent cover by turning each home into a mini base station. A stubby unit on...

abc: British morals advocate dies
Excerpt: Public morals campaigner Mary Whitehouse has died, aged 91. For more than 30 years Mary Whitehouse fought to impose her public moral standards in the media, campaigning both in Britain...

bbc: US shuts down Somalia internet
Excerpt: The U.S. has forced Somalia's only internet service provider to close. International phone services have also been limited as AT&T and British Telecom shut down the international...

washingtontimes: Justice probe finds all hijackers entered U.S. legally
Excerpt: All 19 of the September 11 hijackers arrived in the U.S. legally, according the Justice Department. Three of the air pirates had overstayed their one-year visas, according to the...

washingtonpost: 50 Countries Detain 360 Suspects at CIA's Behest
Excerpt: According to this Washington Post report, the CIA has been "urging" foreign intelligence services and police to detain terrorism suspects on their behalf. The growing number of...

bbc: Zimbabwe to get tough on ID cards
Excerpt: The Zimbabwean government plans to introduce fines and jail terms for people who move about without identity cards. The projected legislation, reported by the official Herald...

sptimes: New video labels warn of terrorism
Excerpt: Blockbuster has begun placing warning stickers on videos which include scenes involving terrorism. She had settled on Swordfish when she noticed the bright yellow sticker at the...

guardian: How smart was this bomb?
Excerpt: The Guardian quotes growing accusations that the US bombing of Al-Jazerra's Kabul headquarters was deliberate. Gowing demanded that the Pentagon be called to account for the...

ap: China shuts 17,000 Internet bars
Excerpt: 17,000 Chinese internet cafes have been closed down, and another 28,000 ordered to install censoring and monitoring software, according to this report. Only about half the nation's...

nytimes: In Utah, a Government Hater Sells a Germ-Warfare Book
Excerpt: The NY Times reports on an agricultrual chemist from Utah who publishes books on improvised biological weapons. Next to the Indian handicraft booth, Timothy W. Tobiason was selling...

newscientist: FBI's "Trojan horse" program to grab passwords
Excerpt: New Scientist responds to MSNBC's sensationalist article yesterday about an FBI "virus" capable of stealing encryption keys ( see www.msnbc.com ) The "Trojan horse" program, known as...

smh: MP calls for documentary not to be aired
Excerpt: An Australian MP has called on the ABC to cancel a documentary which features two young girls speaking about their sexual experiences. De-Anne Kelly, National Party MP for Dawson, said...

washingtonpost: In War, It's Power to the President
Excerpt: The Washington Post reports on recent moves by the Bush administration to grant itself additional powers. On a wide variety of fronts, the administration has moved to seize power that...

latimes: Bush Defends Trying Terror Suspects in Secret Military Tribunals
Excerpt: U.S. President Bush has defended his decision to try suspected terrorists in military tribunals for the first time since signing the executive order. He said that "those who don't...

freepress: Congress Ignores Money Laundering By Biggest Bankers
Excerpt: According to this article, the money laundering provisions in the USA Patriot Act are being used only to give the impression of halting terrorists' funds, rather than risk punishing large...

latimes: CIA-Funded Web Privacy Firm Shuts Down
Excerpt: Safeweb ( see www.safeweb.com ) has indefinitely stopped its anonymous web browsing service. "For the time being, we have decided to turn off the free privacy service. In the future,...

pakistaninternational: Stunned by FBI raid, Pakistani talks to the news media
Excerpt: A Pakistani man living in the U.S. was interrogated and his home searched after neighbours reported seeing him disposing dishwater. The details of the search are interesting: secret...

nytimes: Companies Compete to Provide Saudi Internet Veil
Excerpt: The NY Times reports on censorware companies competing to win the next contract for Saudi Arabia's internet censorship regime. Pornographic sites, the biggest Internet business in...

cryptome: A Cryptanalysis of the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection System
Excerpt: Scott Crosby of CMU and Ian Goldberg of ZKS, amongst others, have published proof of a complete break of Intel's HDCP copy protection scheme. I show that with the public and private...

straitstimes: Man allegedly 'encouraged law-breaking on Web'
Excerpt: A Singapore man may face 3 years in jail after posting "inflammatory" articles on a political web site. Five days later, the police found out about the articles on the Singaporeans...

latimes: High Tech, Low Effort at INS
Excerpt: The LA Times reports on the failure of ID procedures within the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. The article points out administrative and economic failures, but neglects to...

bbc: Anti-terror bill clears first hurdle
Excerpt: Despite hesitation over restricting civil liberties, British MPs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the proposed new anti-terrorism laws. The proposals were given a second reading...

latimes: Rising Fears That What We Do Know Can Hurt Us
Excerpt: According to this LA Times article, the U.S. Government Printing Office has ordered libraries to destroy copies of a geological survey CD-ROM. Via Rotten News ( see www.rotten.com )...

nytimes: Despite Some Concerns, Civil Liberties Are Taking a Back Seat
Excerpt: A long piece from the New York Times contrasts wartime erosion of civil liberties at various points in history, suggesting a common attitude favouring safety over liberty - even amongst...

dailyrotten: Taliban Thwarted by Irreproducible Result
Excerpt: According to this Daily Rotten article, the "nuclear bomb plans" discovered in al-Qaeda's abandoned Kabul headquarters are from a parody article published in 1979 in a humourous scientific...

efa: New NSW law would criminalise Internet material unsuitable for children
Excerpt: Electronic Frontiers Australia has released an alert on proposed NSW legislation which would force internet publishers to censor material which might be classified unsuitable for...

keepandbeararms: "Public Servants" Going After "Constitutional Terrorists"?
Excerpt: Keepandbeararms quotes from what appears to be an FBI flyer urging readers to turn in "defenders of the US Constitution" as potential domestic terrorists. In addition to right-wing...

nytimes: Seizing Dictatorial Power
Excerpt: An opinion piece from William Safire on Bush's military tribunal executive order. His kangaroo court can conceal evidence by citing national security, make up its own rules, find a...

washingtonpost: Bush Plan for Terrorism Trials Defended
Excerpt: The U.S. Attorney General and Vice President defend the decision to prosecute terrorists in military trials. This comes despite Ashcroft's own warnings last month against allowing...

ap: Civil Liberties Weighed In Terror War
Excerpt: Another round-up from AP on the tension between law enforcement and civil liberties. Wiretap rules have been relaxed. Detentions are being kept secret. FBI checks are slowing the visa...

smh: Ryan wants your face and DNA on computer
Excerpt: NSW police commissioner Peter Ryan wants all Australians DNA tested, issued with ID cards, and checked at state borders. He apparently stopped short of tattooing babies. If Mr Ryan...

guardian: Anti-terror bill damned for catch-all powers
Excerpt: The Guardian reports on growing opposition to the new British anti-terrorism bill which was published yestderday. Via /dev/null ( see dev.null.org ) Publication of the bill yesterday...

njnews: Airport news censorship angers many travelers
Excerpt: Angry passengers cry censorship after airport officials turn off televisions showing news of Monday's American Airlines crash in New York. At Newark, passengers returning to Terminal...

washingtonpost: Military May Try Terrorism Cases
Excerpt: A U.S. Presidential order allows non-U.S. citizens to be tried in military tribunals. The presidential directive, signed by Bush as commander in chief, applies to non-U.S. citizens...

abc: Police to ensure anthrax hoaxer makes amends
Excerpt: The case itself is uninteresting, but the name of the charge is utterly astounding: an Australian anthrax hoaxer is charged with "creating a false belief". Clearly, this little known...

washingtonpost: Passenger Prompts Landing At Dulles
Excerpt: U.S. "sky marshals" handcuffed a man at gunpoint and diverted a flight after he attempted to go to the bathroom while the seatbelt sign was lit. Possibly a good example of the difference...

guardian: Blunkett plays down fears over anti-terror bill
Excerpt: British Home Secretary David Blunkett moves to assure the public his new anti-terrorism laws will only be used to violate other people's civil liberties, not theirs. But Mr Blunkett...

guardian: Al-Jazeera's Kabul office destroyed
Excerpt: The Guardian reports on an apparent U.S. missile strike which destroyed the Kabul offices of al-Jazeera, the Arab satellite TV broadcaster. AP and BBC offices were also damanged in the...

wired: ICANN: To Serve and Protect
Excerpt: Wired reports on ICANN's recent posturing towards becoming a part of the war on terrorism. They also prompted the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to toss...

wired: FullAudio to Offer Subscriptions
Excerpt: Another dead-on-arrival music subscription service is launched, this time from FullAudio. Backing comes from Clear Channel, a major radio station conglomerate, rather than directly from...

reuters: Security Trumps Privacy, Online and Off
Excerpt: Reuters reports on the balance between privacy and security. "The new type of privacy issues are actually turning out to the same old concerns against unreasonable search-and-seizure...

cnet: Legislator keeps eye on domain sales
Excerpt: A U.S. lawmaker wants to force domain name registrars to verify customer identity before registering new domains. Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., said domain-name sellers had an...

insight: Police State
Excerpt: Insight quotes Ron Paul of Texas, one of the few representatives to vote against the USA Patriot Act, as saying the text of the bill was not available until after it was passed. Paul...

hush: Hush Communications Delivers its First Secure Messaging Solution for Microsoft Outlook 2000
Excerpt: Hushmail have released a new encryption plugin for Outlook 2000. Customers around the world can now easily architect a secure infrastructure in a Windows 2000 environment using Hush's...

observer: Now the talk is about bringing back torture
Excerpt: A U.K. Observer article reports on the disturbingly uncritical discussion of torture in the U.S. press. A round-up of these speculations in the New York Times made plain that torture...

bbc: Bin Laden 'has nuclear weapons'
Excerpt: Reports that Osama Bin Laden has threatened the use of nuclear weapons are false, according to this BBC article. The widely reported English translation clearly states he has access to...

theregister: MS throttles research to conceal SW bugs
Excerpt: Microsoft gears up its efforts to suppress information about security vulnerabilities in its products, outlining a new set of requirements for "compliant" security vendors. The rest of...

nytimes: Newspapers and TV Paint U.S. Action as a Kind of Terrorism
Excerpt: The New York Times discovers an alternate viewpoint on the bombing of Afghanistan, reporting on the Arab media's condemnation of both Bin Laden and the U.S. The dominant images in...

bbc: Britons accused of spying in Greece
Excerpt: A group of British plane spotters have been arrested on espionage charges after an air show in Greece. British diplomats say they understand the group did have a written invitation to...

telegraph: New 'wartime' court to jail terror suspects
Excerpt: The U.K. announces new laws allowing judges to sentence people in secret without a jury, and hold them indefinitely until they can prove themselves innocent. A High Court judge will...

nationalpost: Ottawa approach akin to Nazis, judge charges
Excerpt: Representatives of British Columbian law societies have challenged a new Canadian law which requires lawyers and other professionals to secretly inform on clients about possible money...

spectrum: Security, Fear, and National ID Cards
Excerpt: IEEE's Spectrum Online tests physical security in New York City. For US $20 and about 15 minutes of conversation about the relative merits of DSL and cable modems (the youth of New...

nytimes: Europe Moving Toward Ban on Internet Hate Speech
Excerpt: A side agreement to the EU Council cybercrime convention would add "hate speech" to the list of online crimes. The protocol would add racist Web page content and hate speech over...

theregister: Natalie Imbruglia wins CD protection race
Excerpt: The Register reports on the first copy-protected CD released in the UK. It only works on Windows, crashes some computers, and has already been cracked and pirated. Needless to say,...

denverpost: Return of the king
Excerpt: The Denver Post questions the new powers granted to the U.S. Attorney General under the USA Patriot Act. Under this legislation, a French citizen vacationing in New York could be...

coderpunks: nfo folio hash algorithm (DRM)
Excerpt: A poster to the coderpunks list claims to have broken the "Folio" Digital Rights Management software. The message includes source code in C. nfohash checks the integrity of folio 4.x...

ap: Sedition Law Used to Hold Suspects
Excerpt: U.S. prosecutors bring back sedition laws in an attempt to indict "associates" of terrorists. The government suggested its approach in a perjury indictment last week. The federal...

cambridge: Extracting a 3DES key from an IBM 4758
Excerpt: Here's some technical detail on the IBM 4758 crack mentioned previously (vigilant.tv, bbc: Security hole in cash machines ) We are able, by a mixture of sleight-of-hand and raw...

bbc: Security hole in cash machines
Excerpt: According to this BBC article, two researches from the University of Cambridge have broken the encryption used by banks to protect ATM transactions. Technical details are sketchy but it...

ap: Government Proposes to Eavesdrop on Phone Calls Between Lawyers and Clients in Terrorist Probe
Excerpt: U.S. prisons are now able to monitor private conversations between detainees and their lawyers. A rule published Oct. 31 in the Federal Register says the monitoring can take place...

cnet: Bush adviser: Terror a real threat to tech
Excerpt: U.S. Special Advisor on "cyberspace security" Richard Clarke casts doubt on the need for a national ID card. Note that he still seems in favour of credential-based security, but steers...

westaustralian: Indefinite jail, fines for refusing to answer
Excerpt: New anti-gang laws in West Australia allow indefinite jail terms for refusing to answer questions asked by a "special commissioner." Via Unknown News ( see unknownnews.net ) PEOPLE...

newsbytes: U.S. Anti-Terrorism Sweep Nails Net, Phone Companies
Excerpt: According to newsbytes, a number of communications companies have been raided as part of the terrorism investigation. It's unclear as to what laws they are accused of breaking....

forbes: Welcome the E-Police
Excerpt: Forbes calls for a police state, cunningly disguised as, well, a police state. But they say it's not a police state, so it's not a police state, right? Most Web traffic flows through...

reuters: U.S. Judge Says Yahoo Not Bound by French Nazi Ban
Excerpt: A U.S. District Court Judge has ruled Yahoo is not required to comply with French laws banning web sites featuring Nazi memorabilia. "Judge Fogel's ruling holds that if you have a...

orlandoweekly: Speak No Evil
Excerpt: Via Unknown News ( see unknownnews.net ) this opinion piece details the backlash against those in the media and politics who have dared to question the war on terrorism. And sadly,...

ap: Many Detainees Freed in Hijack Case
Excerpt: Despite releasing an unspecified number of people detained in the U.S. terrorism investigation, the Justice Department is still refusing to release information on who has been arrested and...

sealand: Sealand offers assistance to US
Excerpt: The Principality of Sealand has released a statement condemning terrorism and offering its assistance to the U.S. There's no word yet as to how this could affect HavenCo's hosting...

guardian: Police get sweeping access to net data
Excerpt: British Home Secretary has backed down on earlier claims that expanded wiretapping and data collection activities would be limited to terrorism investigations. The Guardian has...

cnet: File-swapping case may break new ground
Excerpt: The EFF has agreed to defend MusicCity against copyright infringement charges by the RIAA and MPAA. On its face, this lawsuit resembles the one that has silenced Napster since July....

reuters: International Cyber-Sleuths Demand New Powers
Excerpt: Reuters gives an overview of some of the new "cybercrime" laws in the U.S. and Europe. The suspects had downloaded a "significant amount of information" about crop dusting, U.S....

ap: FTC, FDA target bioterrorism Web sites
Excerpt: The U.S. FTC and FDA have been cracking down on web sites advertising antibiotics, gas masks and other "bioterrorism" defences. It's unclear as to how the FDA was able to shut down foreign...

law.com: Torture by Proxy
Excerpt: law.com weighs in on the legality of torture and forced interrogation, suggesting that under current U.S. law torturers may face execution. The use of pressure tactics, including...

nytimes: Torture Seeps Into Discussion by News Media
Excerpt: The New York Times reports on the recent discussion of torture in the news media, and the subsequent public reaction. Mr. Alter said he was surprised that his column did not provoke...

washingtonpost: A Deliberate Strategy of Disruption
Excerpt: The Washington Post digs further into the secretive detention of material witnesses in the FBI terrorism investigation. Thanks to Alex 4.0 for the link. The operation is being...

stltoday: U.S. now might have to consider what once was unthinkable, Dershowitz says
Excerpt: Self-proclaimed civil libertarian and celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz has suggested judges be allowed to issue "torture warrants". Via politech ( see politechbot.com ) Americans...

onlinejournal: Watch out for jackboots
Excerpt: Online Journal reports rumours of the forthcoming Office of Homeland Security. Via Unknown News ( see unknownnews.net ) According to an inside source, the "Office of Homeland...

wired: Victory for DVD Code Cracking
Excerpt: Wired reports on the California DeCSS appeals court decision. "This is a great decision -- the court recognized that the First Amendment prevails even when people claim trade secret...

slashdot: DeCSS injunction Reversed In CA Case
Excerpt: According to Slashdot, an appeals court has overturned an earlier injunction in the California DeCSS case. For those of you following the California DeCSS case, a court of appeal just...

ap: Justice Tells Prosecutors How to Make Use of New Anti-Terror Laws
Excerpt: As per Attorney General Ashcroft's directions, the U.S. Department of Justice appears to be taking advantage of their new anti-terrorism powers. Critics said that perhaps most...

zdnet: Hackers bypass Microsoft copy protection
Excerpt: According to this ZDNet article, "hackers" are already using Beale Screamer's FreeMe utility (vigilant.tv, cryptome: Microsoft's Digital Rights Management Scheme - Technical Details ) to...

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