Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1245-990407880-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 20 May 2001 18:20:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6125 invoked by uid 510); 21 May 2001 00:19:37 -0000 Received: from c3.egroups.com (208.50.99.225) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 21 May 2001 00:19:37 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1245-990407880-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by c3.egroups.com with NNFMP; 21 May 2001 01:18:00 -0000 X-Sender: fc@all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 21 May 2001 01:17:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 31627 invoked from network); 21 May 2001 01:17:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 May 2001 01:17:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 21 May 2001 01:17:57 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id SAA18088 for iwar@onelist.com; Sun, 20 May 2001 18:17:57 -0700 Message-Id: <200105210117.SAA18088@all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 18:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] news Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Journalist Fights For Right To Publish SSN's The operator of a popular politically oriented e-mail list said today that he would resist threats from Kirkland, Wash., city officials who want him to remove a Web site posting that lists the social security numbers of several Kirkland employees. Attorneys for Kirkland earlier this month sent a cease-and-desist letter to Declan McCullagh, a reporter for Wired.com and the longtime operator of the "Politech" e-mail list. The letter warns that if McCullagh fails to remove the Social Security numbers from the Politech Web site, the city will "pursue all appropriate legal remedies" against him. McCullagh said today that he does not intend to comply with the letter. "I'm prepared to defend my First Amendment rights to publish, because I think this is a case that clearly affects other journalists," he said. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/165907.html Defense officials wary of computer security threats The Defense Department is stepping up efforts to protect its computer networks from hackers and terrorists, but it also must defend its systems from insiders, lawmakers were told Thursday. The Department is increasingly dependent on a "global information environment" over which it has little control, said Linton Wells, an acting assistant defense secretary. That dependence increases U.S. vulnerability to threats externally =97 and internally. "Increasingly, we see that we have to be able to guard against the inside =97 the Ameses and the Hanssens," he said, referring to veteran intelligence agents accused of espionage. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-05-17-defense-computer-threats.htm Europe moves to monitor all Internet traffic Under a draft proposal from the European Commission, backed by police, all emails and other Internet traffic would be logged and kept for up to seven years. European Home Office officials are supporting demands from law enforcement authorities for logs of all Internet traffic to be stored for up to seven years, a move that would increase police powers to intercept communications data. The initiative is contained in a draft proposal from the European Commission on the processing of personal data in the electronic communications sector. If adopted, it would increase the data retention responsibilities of network operators and service providers. Ministers involved in the European Council have agreed to back the police on the issue. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,s2086599,00.html How the government will track you down We've all seen films where someone tags bears with radio transmitters. Or slaps beepers under cars to follow them without being spotted. Or inserts gizmos through Arnold Schwarzenegger's nose or Keanu Reeves's belly button in sci-fi flicks so the bad guys can track every movement the hero makes. Well get ready, because they're about to make a real movie like this, and you're the star. Over 300 million people worldwide carry cell phones. Most of these devices are always on to receive calls. Service providers today can use triangulation or RF multipath "fingerprinting" techniques to locate you within "a few thousand square feet, or up to six square miles in rural areas," according to Bell Labs. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2761968,00.html Security outfit targets cDc anonymity app 'Peekabooty' The press has been blissfully buzzing lately with rumors and long-shot speculation about a privacy/ anonymity application called Peekabooty, which white hat group Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) is developing for roll-out at this year's Defcon convention in Las Vegas this July. It certainly didn't take long for UK-based security/censorware outfit Baltimore Technologies to try to parlay the rumors into a fast buck by selling protection from Peekabooty -- which it warns will shelter criminals and pedophiles and lead to all sorts of crippling liabilities for corporate network operators -- with its product MIMEsweeper. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19067.html Can computer hackers alter vote results? CBCP's Arch. Antonio Quevedo of Cotabato, rightfully condemned Erap's treatment by the government authorities. No fair-minded person can dispute - that the manner Erap was subjected to fingerprinting and photograph mug shots, and given a cell with a doorless toilet and uncurtained windows - had no other purpose than to humiliate him. I don't know of a similar sadistic treatment ever given to a head of another democratic country. Note that Arch. Quevedo's criticism was published before the elections. Was this to avoid generating more sympathetic voters for the opposition? http://www.mb.com.ph/OPED/Elbin/2001/jm010518.asp ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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