Sircam's accidental spying considered hilarious
Saving the infected files as e.g., txt and viewing them makes for amusing accidental spying. God *damn* randoms are stupid. E.g., from _Comprimise_ [sic] " I don't see important [sic] that we have the right to go and buy a fully automatic high caliber gun. We need to have gun control to regulate this. We cannot discriminate [sic] who gets the right to bare [sic] arms because that is what this country is all about" At least The Bells in _Synchronized Swimming_ can spell. It would have been hilarious if John Deutsch's home machine had gotten the bug, eh? Free Dmitri, Recall DCMA, Behead those who voted for it,
Assasination Politics in the Middle East
Ok, the Subject line is a bit of a stretch, as there's no anon payment, but it is interesting nonetheless. Israel to look into Arafat murder ad Monday, 23 July 2001 12:32 (ET) Israel to look into Arafat murder ad By SAUD ABU RAMADAN GAZA, July 23 (UPI) -- Israel's attorney general on Monday said he would consider opening a criminal investigation into an advertisement that urged anyone who had the opportunity to murder Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Haaretz newspaper reported. The paper said that a leader of a group called Zo Artzeinu, Moshe Feiglin, and three movement colleagues signed the advertisement, published in the Makor Rishon newspaper by the right-wing group. The ad called on any Israeli to "point your rifle at his (Arafat's) plane when it flies over the Jewish settlement..." The ad also urged members of the Israeli secret service to "open fire immediately at Arafat's convoy whenever driving in the streets of Gaza and the West Bank." Legal officials said they doubted indictments could actually be submitted against either the Zo Artzeinu members or Makor Rishon's editors. Since a tougher anti-incitement law was recently defeated in the Knesset, said the paper, prosecutors lack the legal tools needed to indict the sponsors of the anti-Arafat message. But Member of Knesset Ran Cohen from Meretz Party urged Israel Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein to charge both the Zo Artzeinu members and Makor Rishon's editors. Rubinstein also ordered the Israeli army, the police and the Shin Bet security service to take firm, uncompromising action against "extremist Jewish settlers who harm innocent Arab civilians." Meanwhile, Rubinstein reportedly convened a secret meeting last week with top security officials to consider ways of clamping down on vigilante actions that harm Palestinian civilians, including women and children, said the paper. Officials at the meeting considered various legal steps against extremists, particularly in the Hebron area, such as banning their entry to flashpoints on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Ha'aretz said that no decision had been reached regarding the imposition of such restraining orders on Jewish militants. http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=204957
Former KKK Strongholds Ban Hoods in Public; ACLU Objects on Free-Speech Grounds
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGABWS1JIPC.html Title: Former KKK Strongholds Ban Hoods in Public; ACLU Objects on Free-Speech Grounds - from Tampa Bay Online News Weather Things to do Sports Traffic Classified Real Estate Employment Autos Relocation Multimedia On Demand Health Shopping Consumer Education Money Travel --- Sites: TBO.com Tampatrib.com WFLA.com WeatherCenter.com HighlandsToday.com HernandoToday.com --- Welcome • Make TBO your Home Page • Advertise with us • Web site feedback Former KKK Strongholds Ban Hoods in Public; ACLU Objects on Free-Speech Grounds By Bruce SchreinerAssociated Press Writer Published: Jul 23, 2001 MOUNT WASHINGTON, Ky. (AP) - In the 1970s, when Bullitt County was still a hotbed of Ku Klux Klan activity, Chester Porter's attempts to prosecute Klansmen were met with threats and a cross-burning outside his home. "It was a time to be cautious and be aware of your surroundings," said the former county attorney. A generation later, Porter said he knows of no Klan activity in the county. And Porter, who is white, has mixed feelings about the legal tactic that officials are now using to keep it that way: local ordinances that forbid demonstrators from wearing masks or hoods. Porter said government should not set up obstacles for groups wanting to peacefully express their views, no matter how extreme. Besides, he said, "as a kid growing up, I learned early on that it's not good to be spanking copperheads. It's better to be staying away from them. If they are silent, you be silent. That's my philosophy." He is not the only one troubled. The ACLU says the laws, while well-intended, may infringe on the Klan's free-speech rights. The City Council in Shepherdsville, a focal point of Klan activity in the 1970s, recently approved such an ordinance. The Mount Washington City Council was expected to adopt a similar one Monday night. In all, nearly 30 Kentucky cities or counties have such ordinances, some dating to the 1920s, according to the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights. "You can't stop them from marching, but you might be able to stop them if they have to uncover their faces," said Barry Armstrong, a banker and white Mount Washington councilman who suggested his town's proposed ordinance, which would carry a $100 fine, or up to 50 days in jail, or both. No one has been prosecuted under any of the recent ordinances. Armstrong said his proposal has been warmly received in a town not exactly known for racial diversity. Out of a population of 8,485, only 41 residents identified themselves in the latest census as black or part black. From his auto repair shop about a block from City Hall, Jimmy Breeden, who is white, said he likes the ordinance. People have a right to protest, he said, but hiding behind a hood or mask is "a show of cowardice." But Jeff Vessels, director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, said: "What is at stake here is a very important First Amendment principle of free speech, and it protects that speech regardless of how offensive people might find that speech." Vessels said the ACLU is keeping track of the recent anti-mask ordinances but has not been contacted by anyone wanting to challenge them. Such laws have been vulnerable. Louisville's ordinance was struck down by a federal judge in response to an ACLU lawsuit filed before a Klan rally in 1996. An anti-mask ordinance enacted in Goshen, Ind., in 1998 met a similar fate in federal court after being challenged by the KKK. However, more than a decade ago, a Klansman arrested in Georgia for wearing his hood in public lost a bid to overturn the law in the state Supreme Court. The justices said the 1951 law did not violate free-speech rights and was a legitimate attempt to prevent violence and intimidation. Jeffery Berry of Butler, Ind., national imperial wizard for the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, said anti-mask laws are an infringement on Klansmen's constitutional right to assemble. He said the hoods are not meant to intimidate. "That's part of our religious attire," he said. "It's for two reasons: One is a religious aspect, and the other is to conceal one's ident
Crypto waits for the next generation..
As widely discussed here, Joe Sixpack just doesn't use crypto enough. But as Joe spies on his kids, his kids will learn the value of spending a little time to learn the tech. Private diaries, correspondence, browsing. Even non-deliquent teens crave privacy. And Joe *does* spy on his kids, as this irritating article shows: ... http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19PARE.html July 19, 2001 Looking For Clues In Junior's Keystrokes By LISA GUERNSEY T was in the spring of last year when a divorced mother of two teenagers in Livingston, N.J., realized that her 14-year-old son's online habits called for drastic steps. For months he had been glued to the family computer at all hours, getting into online quarrels. His grades were sinking, and letters from America Online were piling up, citing violations of its policy against vulgar language in its forums. His mother tried parental-control software, but he circumvented it within minutes. She tried closing the family's America Online account several times; feigning her voice, he had it reopened. She installed hardware requiring a password to be entered to start the computer; he reconfigured the circuitry to get back in. One night, in desperation, she slept with the power cord under her pillow. So the mother who asked not to be identified for this article out of concern that her son's activities could affect custody arrangements took the computer away. For seven months she hid the computer tower in the trunk of her car, covered with blankets. In August, she said, "he got it back, with the explicit understanding that I have the passwords to all his screen names." Since then she has been vigilant in inspecting the cache of Web sites he has visited, checking the Recycle Bin for signs of trouble. "He certainly improved my computer skills," she said. Teenagers, the moment you have been dreading has arrived: Parents are starting to get a clue about the Internet, and they are more and more determined to gain control of where you go, what you read, whom you talk to and how you behave online. The Internet age is ushering in a new mode of parental oversight, one in which Mom and Dad draw Web-based boundaries, issue computer curfews and worry about whether their hack-happy youngsters are making trouble. Granted, many parents would still not know a motherboard from Mother Hubbard, but that doesn't mean they are not trying. In a recent survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a nonprofit research center, more than 60 percent of parents reported that they checked to see which Web sites their teenagers had visited. About 60 percent of the 754 parents surveyed also said that they had set time limits for Internet use. In a survey of 774 parents conducted for Disney Online, 71 percent said they had set rules about what kinds of content their children could see online, and 88 percent said they had forbidden Internet access in the bedroom (a rule that the mother in Livingston swears by). In interviews for this article, some parents said they had no qualms about reading their children's e-mail by logging in under their screen names. Others reported that they had learned to distinguish between the pause-laden typing patterns that signal that their children are doing homework and the frenetic tap-tap-tap of instant messaging. It is the modern equivalent of listening furtively at the bathroom door after the teenager drags the phone in there for a private conversation. Roni Murillo, a mother in Syosset, N.Y., said she has "sneak-in times" when she tries to read the instant messages sent and received by her 15-year-old son, who once received a citation from AOL for posting a note containing profanity in a professional- wrestling forum. "I have to do it," she said, though abashedly. "I've seen other kids answer him with all these curses. There is no way to monitor that unless you are right there." The snooping, needless to say, does not sit well with those snooped upon. Checking e- mail In boxes is considered the most flagrant priv
thoughtcrime, doublestandards, mandatory youth education centers
Murder Essay Homework Upsets Parent SPRINGFIELD, Pa. (AP) -- A high school student's father is calling for disciplinary action against a teacher who assigned his son's summer-school class to write a fictional first-person account of an armed robbery and murder. Students in the class were given two essay options, one of which was to write a 300-word essay on the following topic: ''We only meant to rob the store; we didn't want to kill him.'' ''I think the teacher should be suspended for three days and get some counseling,'' Tom Moore said. ''If they found that my son had written something like this on his own, that's what would happen to him.'' snip http://www.newsday.com/ap/text/national/ap554.htm
