[IP] Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents (fwd from [EMAIL PROTECTED])
- Forwarded message from David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:35:49 -0500 To: Ip [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IP] Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Begin forwarded message: From: Richard Forno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 22, 2004 7:22:27 PM EST To: Dave Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents Not a new thing, but an FYI anyway. :) -rick Infowarrior.org Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=1093e=4u=/pcworld/ 20041122 /tc_pcworld/118664 Mon Nov 22, 4:00 AM ET Jason Tuohey, Medill News Service WASHINGTON--Next time you make a printout from your color laser printer, shine an LED flashlight beam on it and examine it closely with a magnifying glass. You might be able to see the small, scattered yellow dots printer there that could be used to trace the document back to you. According to experts, several printer companies quietly encode the serial number and the manufacturing code of their color laser printers and color copiers on every document those machines produce. Governments, including the United States, already use the hidden markings to track counterfeiters. Peter Crean, a senior research fellow at Xerox, says his company's laser printers, copiers and multifunction workstations, such as its WorkCentre Pro series, put the serial number of each machine coded in little yellow dots in every printout. The millimeter-sized dots appear about every inch on a page, nestled within the printed words and margins. It's a trail back to you, like a license plate, Crean says. The dots' minuscule size, covering less than one-thousandth of the page, along with their color combination of yellow on white, makes them invisible to the naked eye, Crean says. One way to determine if your color laser is applying this tracking process is to shine a blue LED light--say, from a keychain laser flashlight--on your page and use a magnifier. Crime Fighting vs. Privacy Laser-printing technology makes it incredibly easy to counterfeit money and documents, and Crean says the dots, in use in some printers for decades, allow law enforcement to identify and track down counterfeiters. However, they could also be employed to track a document back to any person or business that printed it. Although the technology has existed for a long time, printer companies have not been required to notify customers of the feature. Lorelei Pagano, a counterfeiting specialist with the U.S. Secret Service, stresses that the government uses the embedded serial numbers only when alerted to a forgery. The only time any information is gained from these documents is purely in [the case of] a criminal act, she says. John Morris, a lawyer for The Center for Democracy and Technology, says, That type of assurance doesn't really assure me at all, unless there's some type of statute. He adds, At a bare minimum, there needs to be a notice to consumers. If the practice disturbs you, don't bother trying to disable the encoding mechanism--you'll probably just break your printer. Crean describes the device as a chip located way in the machine, right near the laser that embeds the dots when the document is about 20 billionths of a second from printing. Standard mischief won't get you around it, Crean adds. Neither Crean nor Pagano has an estimate of how many laser printers, copiers, and multifunction devices track documents, but they say that the practice is commonplace among major printer companies. The industry absolutely has been extraordinarily helpful [to law enforcement], Pagano says. According to Pagano, counterfeiting cases are brought to the Secret Service, which checks the documents, determines the brand and serial number of the printer, and contacts the company. Some, like Xerox, have a customer database, and they share the information with the government. Crean says Xerox and the government have a good relationship. The U.S. government had been on board all along--they would actually come out to our labs, Crean says. History Unlike ink jet printers, laser printers, fax machines, and copiers fire a laser through a mirror and series of lenses to embed the document or image on a page. Such devices range from a little over $100 to more than $1000, and are designed for both home and office. Crean says Xerox pioneered this technology about 20 years ago, to assuage fears that their color copiers could easily be used to counterfeit bills. We developed the first (encoding mechanism) in house because several countries had expressed concern about allowing us to sell the printers in their country, Crean says. Since then, he says, many other companies have adopted the practice. The United
Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report
The current war against western civilization started in the 1920's, when Qutb started writing his Moslem triumphalist blather in reaction to the complete collapse of the Turkish Caliphate in the wake of World War I. Eh? OK, I wouldn't have expected you to have heard of Uthman dan Fodio and the Fulani Jihad, but you really ought to have some distant rumour of Muhammad Ahmad the so-called Mahdi, a generation or two earlier than the fall of the Turkish Empire. ()If only because it would be rather hard to make any sense of whats going on in North Africa without) It'll be finished when the residents of its modern equivalent has property rights and personal freedom. Sometimes I wonder if the would would be a better place if most Americans learned anything about history that happened east of New Bedford or west of the San Andreas fault. Or that hadn't been filtered through a right-wing journalese dumbing-down small-c-conservative small-l-liberal consensus. But some miracles are too much to hope for.
Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 11:13 AM + 11/23/04, ken reached out from his Birkbeck student digs to make September Forever once again on the cypherpunks list: Muhammad Ahmad the so-called Mahdi Sayyed Qtub is who every model of a modern major islamofascist likes to point to as his ideological source, so Qtub's good enough for, heh, government work. Qtub is the person whose various manifestoes were used to found Egypt's Islamic Brotherhood, for instance, and Al Qaeda is, ideologically, just a branch of that. At 11:13 AM + 11/23/04, ken wrote: Sometimes I wonder if the would would be a better place if most Americans learned anything about history that happened east of New Bedford or west of the San Andreas fault. Or that hadn't been filtered through a right-wing journalese dumbing-down small-c-conservative small-l-liberal consensus. Yawn... Yes, yes, War is God's way of teaching Americans about geography, to quote Ambrose Bierce. Meanwhile, consensus is the final rhetorical refuge for socialists who can't even get the mob to agree with him anymore... Apparently, understanding the recursive minutiae of the Levant, et al., the old-fashioned received, regurgitated, OxBridge way didn't help y'all too much when it came to Fabianizing yourselves back to the stone-age, either, since we're on the subject of neo-feudalist totalitarianism. It took a whole *bunch* of American right-wing journalese, plus the odd rescued City academic or two, filtered through a mere bourgeois shopkeeper's daughter to drag you lot, kicking and screaming, back to the 20th century. ;-) Cheers, RAH - -- - - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 1308 iQA/AwUBQaNDksPxH8jf3ohaEQLPXgCfaXE9A2lWr5C8iAbeHoq5XKPKxUcAn0Q4 GKol4ptORgONffTxzIAeGzry =g7Jz -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Froomkin joins EFF board
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Congrats to Michael Froomkin, AKA Vinnie The Pro Bono, an anonymous source of mine on cypherpunks back in the day, before he broke the ice himself, once he realized we weren't all going to be hitting him up for free legal advice. :-). Cheers, RAH - --- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/23/eff_griffin_froomkin/print.html The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT The Register Business Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/23/eff_griffin_froomkin/ Griffin, Froomkin join EFF board By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco (andrew.orlowski at theregister.co.uk) Published Tuesday 23rd November 2004 02:29 GMT The future of digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation looks faintly brighter today with the creation of an Advisory board, created to help the group form some effective long-term strategies. Amongst the 12 advisors named are the FSF's Eben Moglen, and Princeton professor Ed Felten. But we're pleased to see two names familiar to veteran Register readers, music entrepreneur Jim Griffin and lawyer Michael Froomkin [home page (http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/welcome.html) - blog (http://www.discourse.net/)] of the University of Miami's law school. Froomkin has devoted much of his time in recent years to examining how consensus is formed to provide a legitimate basis for online institutions, penning [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Toward a Critical Theory of Cyberspace (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=363840) and although he has used the word meme on his blog (tut, Michael, we think you mean theme or idea) he's proved himself a scrupulous and tenacious ICANN watchdog. Former Geffen CTO Jim Griffin, who co-runs the Pho mailing list, is probably the most passionate and articulate advocate of modernizing the compensation framework for the digital distribution of music. We interviewed (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/11/why_wireless_will_end_piracy/) Jim back in February, and your reporter drew heavily on Jim's persuasive arguments when giving this talk (http://www.theregister.com/2004/09/23/orlowski_interactive_keynote/) to the music industry earlier this Fall. All credit to the EFF for recognizing that fresh thinking is needed. The group's most notable successes have been on behalf of individuals who've falled foul of the rights' holders ugly use of litigation: such as DVD Jon Johansen and Dmitri Sklyarov. But the group has been outflanked at almost every turn by the better-funded copyright lobby. At times it's even managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory: for example in the case of Senator Orrin Hatch. Hatch was so disgusted by the way the recording industry treated artists he threatened to introduce flat fee licenses (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/26/hatch_induce_act/), but was wooed by persistent flattery from the RIAA. He's now one of the staunchest pigopolist advocates. And earlier this year much of the organization's outstanding work on privacy was undone by Brad Templeton 'Google isn't so spooky' (http://www.templetons.com/brad/gmail.html) analysis of GMail, which kindly overlooked the implications of Google's defense of the service: that only machines read your email. As former DoJ cybercrime czar Mark Rausch pointed out here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/15/gmail_spook_heaven/), that's an invitation for the the FBI to point its machines at your email too, and make the same defense. Ah, what problems, what confusion these techno utopians create for themselves! So not all of the EFF's ineffectiveness can be explained by a lack of resources, or its location: 2,300 miles further from Congress than its rival lobby groups. The organization was born out of the popular technical ethos of libertarianism, in which compromise is distrusted and direct political engagement is shunned for a faith in market forces. And being lawyers, they like to fight cases, naturally. They like to lose - they feed on the indignation, thunders one reader, who characterizes the EFF as a bumbling third-rate ACLU with high-tech airs. They're mucking about with some important cases, and every time they lose, we lose. Ouch. While there are welcome signs that the EFF is shedding some of its previously ideologically-hamstrung positions - such as advertising in Rolling Stone, and sending a blogger to the WIPO discussions - there's some way to go yet. The decision to advocate a voluntary collective license is going to go safely nowhere, to the contentment of the recording rights holders - as it's a compact that everyone in the world can sign up to except the people who matter. (The rights holders themselves) Still, the new appointments are a welcome sign that new tactics may be deployed. At every turn the tech lobby has been outsmarted and outfought, losing almost every important case it's engaged in, and we now practically have to beg Congress not to detonate our computers. It's going to be a long haul
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[ISN] Hackers Pocket W16 Billion in Cyber Cash
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 05:24:09 -0600 (CST) From: InfoSec News [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ISN] Hackers Pocket W16 Billion in Cyber Cash Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200411/kt2004112315444353460.htm By Chung Ah-young Staff Reporter 11-23-2004 The state prosecution on Tuesday indicted two computer hackers and one of their accomplices on charges of stealing cyber money worth 16.4 billion won ($15.3 million) by infiltrating one of the largest online game firms. The Seoul Central District Public Prosecutors Office said the suspects pocketed the largest amount of cyber money ever obtained in hacking crimes. Investigators said the suspects allegedly broke into the online game site to steal cyber cash, which can be exchanged for real money, and sold it to cyber brokers on Sept. 24-27. Prosecutors said that suspects plotted the crime beforehand through closely reviewing the companys electronic payment system and conducted practice runs beforehand. They found that the Web site run by the major game company has a loophole that enabled them to manipulate file contents. Before committing the crime, the suspects did a mock hacking via the service and stole cyber cash worth 27 million won in March and June. Prosecutors said they connected to the companys information network system 227 times during the Chusok holiday in September. They illegally charged mileage points worth 164.7 billion won through 152 identification numbers that they set up beforehand. The suspects then allegedly traded stolen cyber cash at 750 million won to a broker, identified as Kim, who also raked in a total of 168 million won by selling it to other brokers through e-mails or identification numbers. Prosecutors said the companys damages have been minimized because it immediately shut down the use of the identification numbers right after the crime occurred. However, prosecutors did not exclude the possibility that more damages are expected because game mileage is vulnerable to illegal trading and is circulated through the black market between cyber traders. The amount of cyber money they stole, estimated at mileage points worth 164.7 billion won, is equivalent to the amount only after users have spent 16.4 billion won in buying items or using services the company provides. _ Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) Everything is Vulnerable - http://www.osvdb.org/ - --- end forwarded text - -- - - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 1308 iQA/AwUBQaNZbMPxH8jf3ohaEQKEMgCg6TxKkxhn/8P1WfjGq3+wD8olfP0AnRcQ G0KREwbqVESINy5ooxPQsctk =6IT1 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Nonce Stamp: SRI International Receives Security Technology Patent for Paper-based Transactions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_viewnewsId=20041123005187newsLang=en November 23, 2004 08:01 AM US Eastern Timezone SRI International Receives Security Technology Patent for Paper-based Transactions MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 23, 2004-- Nonce Stamp Offers Many Applications, Including Electronically Downloaded Airline Tickets, Travelers Checks, Passports, Postage, Legal Documents, and Event and Movie Tickets SRI International, a leading independent, nonprofit research institute known for its pioneering innovations, today announced that it has been issued a fundamental U.S. patent for its nonce stamp technology, which can secure and authenticate paper documents against fraudulent creation and use. U.S. Patent No. 6,820,201 covers SRI's information-based indicia technology for securing and authenticating paper documents. The SRI technology addresses the security issues inherent in today's popular print-at-home documents, such as postage and movie tickets, which can be readily counterfeited. The recently awarded patent and related pending SRI patents cover an innovative use of a nonce (an element used to protect electronic cryptography systems from being cracked) to protect paper-based documents. The nonce is a unique number preprinted on a forgery-resistant material. When the user wishes to print an article of value, such as a postage stamp, the value of the nonce is combined with other information (e.g., the value of the postage) and a digital certificate is created. The digital certificate, in electronic or printed form, together with the nonce stamp, provides cryptographically secure proof of the uniqueness and authenticity of the certificate. The inventors are laboratory director Patrick D. Lincoln, Ph.D., and staff scientist Natarajan Shankar, Ph.D., of SRI's Computer Science Laboratory. Most paper currency and other documents that have monetary value include security features to prevent fraud. SRI saw the need to also secure today's popular print-at-home documents to eliminate forgery and counterfeiting, said Dr. Lincoln. Nonce stamps are a way of creating unique physical representations of digital certificates that are easily authenticated and that cannot be forged. About SRI International Silicon Valley-based SRI International (www.sri.com) is one of the world's leading independent research and technology development organizations. Founded as Stanford Research Institute in 1946, SRI has been meeting the strategic needs of clients for almost 60 years. The nonprofit research institute performs contract research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses and nonprofit foundations. In addition to conducting contract RD, SRI licenses its technologies, forms strategic partnerships and creates spin-off companies. Contacts SRI International Ellie Javadi, 650-859-4874 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- - - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 1308 iQA/AwUBQaNa38PxH8jf3ohaEQJ7fgCeNCYOxu71aVO/mcYxlc4xUJM8cY4AniMB OlniEOrpGN76Go+Qg+ZK65Lu =M9EY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report
From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Nov 22, 2004 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report ... I'm pretty heretical about this. I think if we had decapitated Iraq, went after our military objectives, like securing what was a threat to us, including Iraq's senior military and political leadership and their weapons stockpiles, and left political order to emerge there on its own, like we did in Afghanistan, we could have done it with Rumsfeld's original 50,000 troop estimate. It seems like there would have to have been someone to take over in a fairly clean way, or we'd have wound up setting off a civil war. Note that in the Kurdish parts of Iraq, there was someone to take over, and those parts are generally not a problem for us. (Once it's not our people getting shot at, we probably don't care that much if it's a pain for someone else to police.) But I think the parts of Iraq that Saddam was still ruling had few high-profile leaders with forces that could have taken over quickly--he wasn't especially fond of potential rivals. Maybe we could have cut a deal with some local strongmen and gotten something stable together with minimal US involvement if we'd done it early, I'm not sure. ... Cheers, RAH --John
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Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report
R.A. Hettinga wrote: Apparently, understanding the recursive minutiae of the Levant, et al., the old-fashioned received, regurgitated, OxBridge way didn't help y'all too much when it came to Fabianizing yourselves back to the stone-age, either, since we're on the subject of neo-feudalist totalitarianism. So that's why you guys are behaving exactly like we used to?
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Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 4:41 PM + 11/23/04, ken wrote: So that's why you guys are behaving exactly like we used to? Yup, since you can't anymore, having dropped the ball, a long, long, time ago. Monopolarity is a bitch. See Churchill, below... ;-) Cheers, RAH - -- - - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ...our claim to be left in the unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less reasonable to others than to us. -- Winston Churchill, January 1914 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 1308 iQA/AwUBQaNwrMPxH8jf3ohaEQKhbwCeJfWxYVxqOZceIldNF/uDxOtQ4tQAn0Vb kn2P1ZqGByUw54RQmr+NzxP6 =VwfI -END PGP SIGNATURE-
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Cybersleuth paints forgers into corner
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storyprint.cfm?storyID=3613252 New Zealand Herald Online - Newspaper Wednesday November 24, 2004 Cybersleuth paints forgers into corner 24.11.2004 - By STEVE CONNOR Scientists have created a computer that can tell the mathematical difference between a genuine work of art and a forgery by analysing features invisible to the human eye, paving the way to a new method of art fraud detection. The computer can also distinguish between the contributions of apprentices who collaborated on a well-known masterpiece officially attributed to a single artist. Scientists said the technique meant academics could better understand the hidden contributions of lesser-known artists. The researchers used a mathematical approach, analysing the statistical likelihood that a particular brush or pen stroke was performed by the artist. A similar mathematical approach powered by computer has been used to analyse the words in famous texts to see whether they were the sole creation of a well-known author. Henry Farid, associate professor of computer science at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, said the technique could be applied to fine art thanks to the widespread use of high-resolution digital imagery that collects up to 2400 points of light in a single square inch of canvas. We have been able to mathematically capture subtle characteristics of an artist that are not necessarily visible to the human eye, he said. We expect this technique, in collaboration with existing physical authentication, to play an important role in the field of art authentication. Similar methods have been used to analyse works of literature. We can find things in art work that are unique to the artist, such as the subtle choice of words or phrasing and cadence that are characteristic of a certain writer. Scientists program the computer with an artist's personal style of painting or drawing, using digital images of masterpieces known to be the work of the same painter. The machine can then decide whether a new work it subsequently analyses is likely to be a forgery. Professor Farid and his colleagues analysed 13 drawings that had been attributed - at least at some time - to Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The computer successfully distinguished between eight paintings known to be by the artist and five famous imitations by contemporary artists, including some by artists who intended to commit a forgery. A second part of the research, reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, analysed digital images of the Madonna with Child by Italian Renaissance artist Perugino, who became famous for his altar pieces. The faces of three figures on the left of the painting were found to be the work of one artist, and the three on the right were different enough to be the work of different artists, probably Perugino's apprentices, a common practice in Renaissance art. The researchers say analysing brush and pen strokes mathematically will be combined with other techniques, such as x-rays to see underneath a coat of paint, in verifying a painting's authenticity. -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report
-- R.A. Hettinga I think if we had decapitated Iraq, went after our military objectives, like securing what was a threat to us, including Iraq's senior military and political leadership and their weapons stockpiles, and left political order to emerge there on its own, like we did in Afghanistan, we could have done it with Rumsfeld's original 50,000 troop estimate. On 23 Nov 2004 at 7:47, John Kelsey wrote: It seems like there would have to have been someone to take over in a fairly clean way, or we'd have wound up setting off a civil war. And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG x5H8AGNAFwoPy8fyvCAHj64dIL55pbnwnQFgENLL 4PH/mFu1yrhhrF9zduNJT5lUkHHJFlT99/IhXMPeT
Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report
The current war against western civilization started in the 1920's, when Qutb started writing his Moslem triumphalist blather in reaction to the complete collapse of the Turkish Caliphate in the wake of World War I. Eh? OK, I wouldn't have expected you to have heard of Uthman dan Fodio and the Fulani Jihad, but you really ought to have some distant rumour of Muhammad Ahmad the so-called Mahdi, a generation or two earlier than the fall of the Turkish Empire. ()If only because it would be rather hard to make any sense of whats going on in North Africa without) It'll be finished when the residents of its modern equivalent has property rights and personal freedom. Sometimes I wonder if the would would be a better place if most Americans learned anything about history that happened east of New Bedford or west of the San Andreas fault. Or that hadn't been filtered through a right-wing journalese dumbing-down small-c-conservative small-l-liberal consensus. But some miracles are too much to hope for.
Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report
R.A. Hettinga wrote: Apparently, understanding the recursive minutiae of the Levant, et al., the old-fashioned received, regurgitated, OxBridge way didn't help y'all too much when it came to Fabianizing yourselves back to the stone-age, either, since we're on the subject of neo-feudalist totalitarianism. So that's why you guys are behaving exactly like we used to?
Froomkin joins EFF board
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Congrats to Michael Froomkin, AKA Vinnie The Pro Bono, an anonymous source of mine on cypherpunks back in the day, before he broke the ice himself, once he realized we weren't all going to be hitting him up for free legal advice. :-). Cheers, RAH - --- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/23/eff_griffin_froomkin/print.html The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT The Register Business Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/23/eff_griffin_froomkin/ Griffin, Froomkin join EFF board By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco (andrew.orlowski at theregister.co.uk) Published Tuesday 23rd November 2004 02:29 GMT The future of digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation looks faintly brighter today with the creation of an Advisory board, created to help the group form some effective long-term strategies. Amongst the 12 advisors named are the FSF's Eben Moglen, and Princeton professor Ed Felten. But we're pleased to see two names familiar to veteran Register readers, music entrepreneur Jim Griffin and lawyer Michael Froomkin [home page (http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/welcome.html) - blog (http://www.discourse.net/)] of the University of Miami's law school. Froomkin has devoted much of his time in recent years to examining how consensus is formed to provide a legitimate basis for online institutions, penning [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Toward a Critical Theory of Cyberspace (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=363840) and although he has used the word meme on his blog (tut, Michael, we think you mean theme or idea) he's proved himself a scrupulous and tenacious ICANN watchdog. Former Geffen CTO Jim Griffin, who co-runs the Pho mailing list, is probably the most passionate and articulate advocate of modernizing the compensation framework for the digital distribution of music. We interviewed (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/11/why_wireless_will_end_piracy/) Jim back in February, and your reporter drew heavily on Jim's persuasive arguments when giving this talk (http://www.theregister.com/2004/09/23/orlowski_interactive_keynote/) to the music industry earlier this Fall. All credit to the EFF for recognizing that fresh thinking is needed. The group's most notable successes have been on behalf of individuals who've falled foul of the rights' holders ugly use of litigation: such as DVD Jon Johansen and Dmitri Sklyarov. But the group has been outflanked at almost every turn by the better-funded copyright lobby. At times it's even managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory: for example in the case of Senator Orrin Hatch. Hatch was so disgusted by the way the recording industry treated artists he threatened to introduce flat fee licenses (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/26/hatch_induce_act/), but was wooed by persistent flattery from the RIAA. He's now one of the staunchest pigopolist advocates. And earlier this year much of the organization's outstanding work on privacy was undone by Brad Templeton 'Google isn't so spooky' (http://www.templetons.com/brad/gmail.html) analysis of GMail, which kindly overlooked the implications of Google's defense of the service: that only machines read your email. As former DoJ cybercrime czar Mark Rausch pointed out here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/15/gmail_spook_heaven/), that's an invitation for the the FBI to point its machines at your email too, and make the same defense. Ah, what problems, what confusion these techno utopians create for themselves! So not all of the EFF's ineffectiveness can be explained by a lack of resources, or its location: 2,300 miles further from Congress than its rival lobby groups. The organization was born out of the popular technical ethos of libertarianism, in which compromise is distrusted and direct political engagement is shunned for a faith in market forces. And being lawyers, they like to fight cases, naturally. They like to lose - they feed on the indignation, thunders one reader, who characterizes the EFF as a bumbling third-rate ACLU with high-tech airs. They're mucking about with some important cases, and every time they lose, we lose. Ouch. While there are welcome signs that the EFF is shedding some of its previously ideologically-hamstrung positions - such as advertising in Rolling Stone, and sending a blogger to the WIPO discussions - there's some way to go yet. The decision to advocate a voluntary collective license is going to go safely nowhere, to the contentment of the recording rights holders - as it's a compact that everyone in the world can sign up to except the people who matter. (The rights holders themselves) Still, the new appointments are a welcome sign that new tactics may be deployed. At every turn the tech lobby has been outsmarted and outfought, losing almost every important case it's engaged in, and we now practically have to beg Congress not to detonate our computers. It's going to be a long haul
Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 11:13 AM + 11/23/04, ken reached out from his Birkbeck student digs to make September Forever once again on the cypherpunks list: Muhammad Ahmad the so-called Mahdi Sayyed Qtub is who every model of a modern major islamofascist likes to point to as his ideological source, so Qtub's good enough for, heh, government work. Qtub is the person whose various manifestoes were used to found Egypt's Islamic Brotherhood, for instance, and Al Qaeda is, ideologically, just a branch of that. At 11:13 AM + 11/23/04, ken wrote: Sometimes I wonder if the would would be a better place if most Americans learned anything about history that happened east of New Bedford or west of the San Andreas fault. Or that hadn't been filtered through a right-wing journalese dumbing-down small-c-conservative small-l-liberal consensus. Yawn... Yes, yes, War is God's way of teaching Americans about geography, to quote Ambrose Bierce. Meanwhile, consensus is the final rhetorical refuge for socialists who can't even get the mob to agree with him anymore... Apparently, understanding the recursive minutiae of the Levant, et al., the old-fashioned received, regurgitated, OxBridge way didn't help y'all too much when it came to Fabianizing yourselves back to the stone-age, either, since we're on the subject of neo-feudalist totalitarianism. It took a whole *bunch* of American right-wing journalese, plus the odd rescued City academic or two, filtered through a mere bourgeois shopkeeper's daughter to drag you lot, kicking and screaming, back to the 20th century. ;-) Cheers, RAH - -- - - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 1308 iQA/AwUBQaNDksPxH8jf3ohaEQLPXgCfaXE9A2lWr5C8iAbeHoq5XKPKxUcAn0Q4 GKol4ptORgONffTxzIAeGzry =g7Jz -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 4:41 PM + 11/23/04, ken wrote: So that's why you guys are behaving exactly like we used to? Yup, since you can't anymore, having dropped the ball, a long, long, time ago. Monopolarity is a bitch. See Churchill, below... ;-) Cheers, RAH - -- - - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ...our claim to be left in the unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less reasonable to others than to us. -- Winston Churchill, January 1914 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 1308 iQA/AwUBQaNwrMPxH8jf3ohaEQKhbwCeJfWxYVxqOZceIldNF/uDxOtQ4tQAn0Vb kn2P1ZqGByUw54RQmr+NzxP6 =VwfI -END PGP SIGNATURE-
