1995-09-28 Sender: •••@••.••• (Richard L. Emery) > >This one snippet certainly weighs lightly against the evidence that > >deregulation provides the best choice at the best price for the consumer. > > What does high-school economics have to do with the real world? > Deregulation has nothing to do with enabling competitive free-market > forces, … Read more…
1995-09-28 Sender: •••@••.••• (Jerome Thorel) Andy said : >I have to thank Jerome Thorel for this information, as well as for the >following posting that fills in some details. I realize that a lot is >left unclear, such as who has authority to approve and actually put >the Council of Europe’s proposal into law. More … Read more…
1995-09-28 Sender: “Steve Eppley” <•••@••.•••> I was told yesterday that InterNIC will now be charging $50 per year per domain name. I just attempted to learn more at their website, but it timed out. Oh, the joys of privatization and monopolization. —Steve (Steve Eppley •••@••.•••) ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by — Andrew Oram — •••@••.••• — Cambridge, … Read more…
1995-09-28 Sender: •••@••.••• (Don Porter) Re all of the attention being paid recently to child pornography & pedophelia and the supposed relationship of the Internet in promoting it, I caught a promo announcement yesterday for an upcoming show on the Fox TV network that folks might want to watch out for and respond accordingly. According … Read more…
1995-09-28 Sender: Karl Long <•••@••.•••> >>Short of reformatting the drive, there is no way to actually >>erase a file from disk. >This is false. Anybody can use the same commonly-available disk utilities >(such as _Norton_) to *really* delete their files. If you want your >deleted data to be safe from los Federales and from your … Read more…
1995-09-28 Sender: •••@••.••• (Allen L Marshall) I’d like to pose a question and offer a statement to the readers of the Cyber-Rights list. 1. The question: How effective do you think government measures against encryption (The Clipper Chip, the EuroCouncil’s recent legislation, etc.) will be against encrypted messages. The Internet seems to teach one thing: … Read more…
1995-09-28 Sender: “Michael R. Widner” <•••@••.•••> I’ll try to make this brief. Last March I was expelled from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business for reasons that were only specified as ‘computing abuse’. I was found guilty of vaguely defined crimes though a judicial process in which I was not allowed to hear … Read more…
1995-09-26 Henry Huang —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– On Sep 25, 3:37, OLmaniac wrote: > With this post, I will show my ignorance, but humor me, please. Say in the > future, most nations outlaw any encryption system which cannot be cracked by > government officials. How would they know you are encrypting your > communications … Read more…
1995-09-25 Introduction from moderator: The following message contains more background about the Council of Europe’s recommendation regarding cryptography. It comes from a posting to other lists and is reprinted by permission from Ross Anderson. Andy @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ According to an article in `Communications Week International’, the 34-nation Council of Europe has agreed to outlaw strong encryption … Read more…
1995-09-25 Pointer from moderator: For readers in that part of the world, or readers elsewhere who want to compare their own country’s methods of promoting competition with those taken elsewhere, a fairly readable paper on New Zealand’s government policy appears at http://www.govt.nz/ps/min/com/telecom/ under the name “Telecommunications, Broadcasting and Postal Policy.” Andy ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by — … Read more…