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Computer underground Digest Wed Oct 25, 1995 Volume 7 : Issue 84
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ISSN 1004-042X
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Editors: Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2@MVS.CSO.NIU.EDU
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Archivist: Brendan Kehoe
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Shadow Master: Stanton McCandlish
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Field Agent Extraordinaire: David Smith
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Shadow-Archivists: Dan Carosone / Paul Southworth
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Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala
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Ian Dickinson
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Cu Digest Homepage: http://www.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest
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CONTENTS, #7.84 (Wed, Oct 25, 1995)
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File 1--CuD Goof "cancels" CuD 7.83 (e-oops)
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File 2--Retort to: Attention Spammer: The War Has Started
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File 3-- (VTW) BillWatch #22: Telecomm conference committee profile
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File 4--@Cybercop.org
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File 5--Cu Digest Header Info (unchanged since 18 Oct, 1995)
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CuD ADMINISTRATIVE, EDITORIAL, AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION APPEARS IN
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THE CONCLUDING FILE AT THE END OF EACH ISSUE.
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1994 22:51:01 CDT
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From: CuD Moderators <cudigest@mindvox.phantom.com>
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Subject: File 1--CuD Goof "cancels" CuD 7.83 (e-oops)
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A too-hasty return key deleted CuD 7.83 from Usenet Tuesday. Rather
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than re-send this close to #7.84, we simply point readers to the CuD
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http site at: http://www.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest
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Those receiving CuD on the mailing list were unaffected.
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The issue emphasized Spam artists, and detailed Telecom Digest
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editor Pat Townson's successful tracking down of spammeister "Spam
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King" and a few others. Pat did a great job, and we encourage
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readers to take a look at it.
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We apologize for the goof, and we will dock Etian Shrdlu's pay.
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Jim and Gordon
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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 23:09:42 -0500 (CDT)
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From: Ben Lindstrom <mouring@NETNET.NET>
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Subject: File 2--Retort to: Attention Spammer: The War Has Started
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I would like to retort Patrick Townson's comments. I don't believe
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methods are the best. Think about it. They are spamming the usenet.
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What do we do? We screw the bank account or leave messages on his
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voicemail. Are we being any better?
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Also you have to take a look at the legal issue. Ok..You have his bank
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account number. What are you going to do? Forge checks? That is a
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crime. Where are spamming the newgroups (contrary to popular oppion) is
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not a legal crime.
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Please, I know how much spamming bothers me, but lets not revert down to
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their level. E-mailing Admins expressing concern (when you know who did
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it.) is a good option. For those you don't know..LET the USENET admin
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deal with it. For ever spam that occurs on UseNet I swear there is at
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least 10% to 20% MORE bandwidth WASTED on flames and bitchings on
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UseNet itself. Unknown how much E-mail (if it's a valid address) are
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sent.
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To save yourself from hell and damnation of the law, don't even think about
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getting back at spammers via illegal actives (as the letter Mr. Townson
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presented).
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Ben Lindstrom
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mouring@netnet.net
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http://www.netnet.net/users/mouring/
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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 17:36:05 -0400 (EDT)
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From: "Shabbir J. Safdar, VTW" <shabbir@VTW.ORG>
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Subject: File 3-- (VTW) BillWatch #22: Telecomm conference committee profile
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VTW BillWatch #22
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VTW BillWatch: A weekly newsletter tracking US Federal legislation
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affecting civil liberties. BillWatch is published at the end of every
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week as long as Congress is in session. (Congress is in session)
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BillWatch is produced and published by the
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Voters Telecommunications Watch (vtw@vtw.org)
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(We're not the EFF :-)
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Issue #22, Date: Sat Oct 21 17:00:08 EDT 1995
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Do not remove this banner. See distribution instructions at the end.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Announcements
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Profile of the telecomm bill conference committee
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Businesses and Bulletin Boards signed onto the letter to Congress
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Letter to Hemispheres magazine from Mark Eckenwiler
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Subscription and Redistribution Information (changed 10/21/95)
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The "bill-monitoring" section of BillWatch will be omitted for the next
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few issues, since very little legislation related to VTW's issues seems
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to be moving through the process. The only exception is the Telecomm
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Deregulation Act, which is moving, but in conference committee. As you
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probably know, this is not a process which is easily monitored by the public,
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so there aren't the same sorts of checkpoints as one is used to with the
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standard committee-hearing-vote-chamber-debate-vote process.
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In this issue we bring you three offerings:
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-a profile of the conference committee that has Internet regulation in front
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of it,
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-a letter to the editor of Hemispheres, an airline magazine, and
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-the final tally of companies and bulletin boards signed onto the business
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and BBS "letter to Congress opposing net censorship"
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Note that the bill status section will be back soon, as soon as we have
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compressed it to cram the most information into the fewest characters
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possible. At BillWatch, our aim is to be as compact as possible while
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being your most informative source of legislative and policy information.
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Shabbir J. Safdar
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PROFILE OF THE TELECOMM BILL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE (NET FREE SPEECH FOCUS)
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It's been a busy year. First Amendment advocates have seen four different
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pieces of legislation regulating free speech on public networks attach
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themselves to the Telecommunications bill and proceed into the conference
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committee. They are:
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HR1978: "Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act" (Cox/Wyden) This
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bill takes the approach of encouraging industry to provide parents with
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tools to restrict their childrens' access to the net. It contains no
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new criminal provisions. This approach was affirmed by the House
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421-4 on August 4, 1995. (Yes, that's a landslide)
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S314: "The Communications Decency Act" (Exon/Coats) This bill makes
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many types of constitutionally-protected speech (including lewd,
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lascivious, and indecent speech) criminal when used through a
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telecommunications device. This provision was affirmed by the Senate
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84-16 on June 14, 1995.
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House amendment to HR1555: "Child Protection, User Empowerment, and
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Free Expression in Interactive Media Study Act" (Klink/Leahy) This bill
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directs the Department of Justice to study and see if there are places
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in current law where existing obscenity laws are unenforcible on computer
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networks. This approach was affirmed by a committee voice vote on May 24,
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1995.
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House amendment to HR1555: <unnamed> This amendment was submitted at
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the last minute through the Manager's Mark, a collection of several
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amendments to HR1555 that were voted on as a block on Aug 4, 1995. This
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amendment takes constitutionally-protected speech and criminalizes it when
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it is expressed online. Most legislators had no idea that they voted on
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this last amendment; the summary of the Manager's Mark did not mention
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these new criminal provisions. There was no applicable House vote on
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*just this* provision.
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Once into conference, free speech activists began to examine who would
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end up on the conference committee. Several draft lists have been
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circulated previously in other publications. Here is the latest list
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that was read on the House floor. We have included below a tally of how
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each member voted, if they were a co-sponsor of the Cox/Wyden bill, and
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if they spoke on net censorship during the Telecomm bill debate. Most
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of this information was gleaned from a previous issue of BillWatch,
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BillWatch #13 (http://www.vtw.org/billwatch/issue.13).
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Y = voted or spoke in support of free speech on the net (HR1978)
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N = voted or spoke in opposition to free speech on the net (HR1978)
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A = did not vote or chose not to speak on the issue
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(a blank implies an A)
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House Vote on HR1978 Spoke at
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Rep Name HR1978 sponsor? debate?
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Barr (R-GA) Y
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Barton (R-TX) Y Y
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Berman (R-CA) Y
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Bliley (R-VA) Y
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Boucher (D-VA) Y
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Brown (D-OH) Y
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Bryant (D-TX) Y
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Buyer (R-IN) Y
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Conyers (D-MI) Y
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Dingell (D-MI) Y
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Eshoo (D-CA) Y
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Fields (R-TX) Y Y
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Flanagan (R-IL) Y
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Frisa (R-NY) Y
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Gallegly (R-CA) Y
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Goodlatte (R-VA) Y Y
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House Vote on HR1978 Spoke at
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Gordon (D-TN) Y
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Hastert (R-IL) Y
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Hoke (R-OH) Y
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Hyde (R-IL) Y
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Jackson-Lee (D-TX) Y
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Klug (R-WI) Y
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Lincoln (D-AR) Y
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Markey (D-MA) Y Y
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Moorhead (R-CA) Y
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Oxley (R-OH) Y
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Paxon (R-NY) Y
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Rush (D-IL) Y
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Schaefer (R-CO) Y
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Schroeder (D-CO) Y
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Scott (D-VA) Y
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Stearns (R-FL) Y
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33 Representatives on the Conference Committee
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33 of them voted in favor of the Cox/Wyden Internet Freedom bill in a
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recorded vote
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1 Representative who sponsored the Cox/Wyden bill - White (R-WA)
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5 Representatives who stood up and spoke in favor of the Cox/Wyden bill
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during the floor debate on the Telecomm bill
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These are encouraging numbers. Note that I checked for cosponsors of
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other free-speech related bills, or floor debates where one of these members
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might have spoken up on the issue either for or against, and found nothing
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relevant.
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Y = voted or spoke in favor of censorship (S314)
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N = voted or spoke in opposition to censorship (S314)
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A = did not vote or chose not to speak on the issue
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(a blank implies an A)
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Vote S314 Spoke at
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Burns (R) Y
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Exon (D) Y Y Y
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Ford (D) Y
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Gorton (R) Y Y
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Hollings (D) Y
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Inouye (D) Y
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Lott (R) Y
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McCain (R) Y
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Pressler (R) Y
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Rockefeller (D) Y
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11 Senators on the Conference Committee
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11 Senators voted in favor of the Exon/Gorton Internet Censorship bill (S314)
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2 Senators who sponsored the Exon/Gorton bill - Exon (D-NE), Gorton (R-WA)
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1 Senator who stood up and spoke in favor of the Exon/Gorton bill
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during the floor debate
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As you can see, these numbers for the Senate are not so encouraging. There
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are two things that you need to know when looking at this chart. First,
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not all members of Congress are allowed to work on all parts of the bill.
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The section which contains the net censorship language may be weighted
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evenly with Representatives and Senators, which would make those that oppose
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net censorship evenly matched (11 to 11) with those that previously voted
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in favor.
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Secondly, support in the Senate for the Exon/Gorton bill is weak. There was
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a perceivable amount of rumbling about the bill after the vote, so
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it wouldn't be surprising to see some of the Senators that previously voted
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in favor of the Exon bill to change their position once in the confines of the
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conference committee.
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On the House side, support for the Cox/Wyden bill was strong and is not
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expected to wane at all. Although Reps. Cox and Wyden are not on the
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conference committee, there is one cosponsor and five supportors present.
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It is likely that at least one of these people will choose to continue to
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support this issue once the committee begins its deliberations.
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VTW will continue to monitor the conference committee process and bring
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you news as soon as we get it.
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_________
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BUSINESSES AND BULLETIN BOARDS SIGNED ONTO THE LETTER TO CONGRESS
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Unless you've been out of touch for the last few weeks, you know that
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VTW and many volunteers from states around the US have been collecting
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signons from businesses and bulletin boards to a letter urging Congress
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not to pass legislation that censors the Internet. These small businesses
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and bulletin boards have spoken up not only for their own survival, but for
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the free speech rights of everyone. They deserve your business and your
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kudos.
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If you signed up to the letter, but your business does not appear below,
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please contact VTW IMMEDIATELY. We're putting together press releases,
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ads, and other supporting material and must hear from you soon or your
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name will not be included.
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The names of the businesses and bulletin boards signed on are:
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APK Net, Ltd. * ARACNET.COM * Aladdin Enterprises * Anarchist Dreams
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formerly, AfterFive * Artists' Digital Access * BBT Software * Big
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QUEUE BBS * Blythe Systems & NY Transfer News * Cahoots Coffee Bar *
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Calyx Internet Access and Riot Graphics * Center for Accessible
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Technology * Clepsydra Systems Incorporated * Cloud 9 Consulting, Inc.
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(Cloud9.Net) * Coast Broker's Service * CollecTech, Inc. * CompuMentor
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* Cyberspace Development, Inc. * Cyclic Software * Data Wire * David
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Coher Publishing * Deltos Fleet Computing * Don Skolnik Consulting
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Services * Drafting Contractors * EZNets, Inc. * Echo Communications
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Group, Inc. * Fat Earth Society * Filz & Associates * Gary Bowen,
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Editorial Services * HAL 9000 BBS * Hitech Systems, Inc. * Holistic
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Insanity BBS * HotWired Ventures LLC * Human Interface * ISC
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Consultants Inc. * Intangible Assets Manufacturing * Internet Cafe NYC
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* Jean J. Rearick, President * LaUNChpad, UNC's experimental BBS *
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LazerType Print Production Management * Leaping Lizard Software, Inc. *
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Lumberyard BBS Community Network * MagNet, Inc. * MarketSpace, Inc. *
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Metropolitan Data Networks Ltd. * Metropolitan Informations Systems *
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Michael Graves Consulting, Inc. * Mnematics, Incorporated *
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Mountainview Computer Technology * NLP Rock River BBS * Nancy Cedeno *
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Nordevald Software * Obelesk Books/Triangle Titles * OfficeCom *
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OmniMedia * Online Consulting, Inc. * Outernet Inc. (Bway.Net) *
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PHAT!, Inc. * Parallax Systems Inc. * ParentsPlace.com, The Parenting
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Resource Center on the Web * Pensee Corporation * Pilgrim Press *
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Plover Consulting * Poet Information Disseminators * Postmodern
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Communications, Inc. * ProNotes, Inc. * ResNova Software, Inc. *
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SOFTWAR * Serial Tree Board (stb) * Shadow Magic BBS * Sportsman's
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Paradise * Stager Consulting * Starfire * Sylvan Associates * Tangent
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BBS * The American Boyz * The BATWING BOARD * The Computer Laboratory
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Underground 'puternet BBS (puternet) * The CyberStation * The Dorsai
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Embassy * The Internet Connection Corp. * The Libertarian Marketplace *
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The Mindspeak Society * The River Project * The Toxic Press * The
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Umbrella Graveyard BBS * Thomas D. Barringer Consulting * Trost
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Computing * Uncomyn Gifts * UpTown Station * Wired Magazine, Wired
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Ventures Ltd. * Worldesign Inc. * gofast.net Incorporated (gofast.net)
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* nVision Corporation * realitycheckBBS
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LETTER TO HEMISPHERES MAGAZINE FROM MARK ECKENWILER
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VTW has long been a fan of Mark Eckenwiler's work. Apparently Mark's
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flying a lot these days, and was irked by an editorial in United Airlines'
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airborne print totem, Hemispheres.
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VTW encourages you to write a letter to the editor whenever you see
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incorrect information about the Internet being portrayed. If you do,
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send a copy to vtw@vtw.org and we'll publish the best ones.
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Thanks Mark, for letting us publish your letter, and for setting United
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Airlines straight on the status of speech on the Internet.
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Letters
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Hemispheres
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1301 Carolina St.
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Greensboro, NC 27401
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hmsphrlet@aol.com
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To the Editor:
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In "Surf's Up" (Oct. 1995), Montieth Illingworth glibly
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endorses proposed federal legislation to regulate pornography on
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the Internet by saying that "some loss of liberty is . . . the
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price to pay for protecting those who can't protect themselves
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[i.e., children]." Mr. Illingworth is wrong for three reasons.
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First, there are already federal and state laws barring the
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transmission of obscene materials. (Bear in mind, however, that
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the First Amendment protects even pornography so long as it is not
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legally obscene.)
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Second, the legislation now before Congress would not merely
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impose "some loss of liberty"; on the contrary, it would reduce the
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Internet to a children's library. As the U.S. Supreme Court said
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so colorfully forty years ago in striking down a similar law,
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banning all adult materials to protect children would be "burning
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the house to roast the pig."
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Finally, Mr. Illingworth mistakenly implies that the only way
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to protect children is by passing laws. As the father of two young
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boys, I suggest that he consult the word "parent" in his
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dictionary; it is a verb as well as a noun.
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Sincerely,
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Mark Eckenwiler
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eck@panix.com
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------------------------------
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Date: 11 Oct 95 23:23:46 EDT
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From: Kevin Manson <70521.2003@COMPUSERVE.COM>
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Subject: File 4--@Cybercop.org
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((MODERATORS' NOTE: We received the following article in
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html format. Rather than edit it, we thought we'd try leaving
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it in to allow those who want to cut-and-paste such things
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to their own homepages to do it more easily)).
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Forwarded by Kevin Manson, Webmaster @Cybercop.org
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kfarrand@well.com
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October 8, 1995
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To my Net friends and neighbors . . . .
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<-------------------------------------------------->
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An invitation from Bruce Sterling to visit the @
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Cybercop.org Web site
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<----------- from austin.eff Newsgroup-------------->
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From--bruces@well.sf.ca.us (Bruce Sterling)
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Newsgroups--austin.eff
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Subject--Police Web Page
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Date--9 May 1995 11:22:48 -0500
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People interested in police liaison work should make it
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their business to aid and abet Kevin Manson, an instructor
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at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. Here is
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the intro to his brand-new Web page. . . .
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<--------------------------------------------------->
|
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[*Current* @Cybercop.org Web page in html format. Load
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and launch this file in your favorite browser and give us
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a visit - Please leave us mail - we want to hear from you.]
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-----------------------------------------------------
|
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<H1>@CYBERCOP.ORG</H1>
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<HR>
|
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Welcome to the Cybercop Home Page on the WELL.<P>
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My name is Kevin Manson. Professionally, I teach cybercops
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to obey the law as they enforce it. Personally, I am a Net
|
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traveller and explorer who calls a number of 'places' on the
|
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Matrix, like the WELL, home. I'm a converted Mac user,
|
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member of the Internet Society and EFF. In the "real
|
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world" I drive a 10 year old Toyota, in the virtual world
|
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|
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I cruise about in the latest model of Netscape.<P>
|
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|
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|
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Two years ago I developed the first BBS and pioneered
|
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Internet training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training
|
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Center (FLETC), where I serve as a Senior Instructor in
|
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|
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the Legal Division. FLETC is located 70 miles north of
|
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Jacksonville, Florida on the Georgia coast.<P>
|
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|
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|
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Bruce Sterling wrote about FLETC in his cyber-classic
|
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|
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"The Hacker Crackdown...Law and Disorder on the Electronic
|
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|
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Frontier" and the Center was featured in a January 23,
|
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1995 cover story in US News & World Report written by
|
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Senior Editor Vic Sussman.<P>
|
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|
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|
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As we WELLbeings know, this community typically "polices"
|
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|
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itself, so I've set up a "community relations" cybercop
|
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|
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substation where defining issues regarding "policing
|
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|
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cyberspace" can be disseminated and links can be made
|
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|
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to other significant Internet sites where cyberlaw issues
|
|||
|
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are catalogued.<P>
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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We're the Cyber-Dunkin' Doughnuts in this little community
|
|||
|
|
on the Net. Come on in, grab a cup of Hot Java, pick up that
|
|||
|
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rumpled-up 'zine' in the booth next to you, and catch up on
|
|||
|
|
some cyberlaw news.<P>
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
If you are not familiar with the eclectic community that
|
|||
|
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resides here on the WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), you
|
|||
|
|
owe it to yourself to stroll about a bit on the WELL gopher
|
|||
|
|
or check out <A HREF = "http://www.well.com/user/hlr/">
|
|||
|
|
Howard Rheingold's home page</A> for a run down on this
|
|||
|
|
small town on the Net that has garnered so much attention.
|
|||
|
|
<P>
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
"The Hacker Crackdown" serves as a paradigm for this Web
|
|||
|
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Site. Bruce Sterling mailed me my first issue of <A
|
|||
|
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HREF="http://www.hotwired.com/Signal/Surf//">WIRED
|
|||
|
|
magazine</A> two years ago (WIRED'S premier issue) and
|
|||
|
|
cyberspace hasn't looked the same since.<P>
|
|||
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|
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|
|
Yes, you'll find Netcop views here, but in the context of
|
|||
|
|
the diverse views of civil libertarians, hackers,
|
|||
|
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journalists, academicians and industry leaders. Vic
|
|||
|
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Sussman's critically acclaimed January 23rd <A HREF =
|
|||
|
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"http://www.well.com:80:/user/kfarrand/usnews1.htm">
|
|||
|
|
US News & World Report cover story</A> on "Policing
|
|||
|
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Cyberspace", which provides a compact overview of the
|
|||
|
|
many complex issues surrounding law on the digital
|
|||
|
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frontier that will be covered here.<P>
|
|||
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|
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|
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I'm fortunate that WELLhelpers like David Gans, Matisse
|
|||
|
|
Enzor and many other WELL volunteers have generously
|
|||
|
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shared their extensive knowledge about navigating about
|
|||
|
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on the WELL and I'd like to thank them for their on-line
|
|||
|
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help. The WELL community service of live on-line help
|
|||
|
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from WELL volunteers is one of the amenities of 'living'
|
|||
|
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in this community.<P>
|
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|
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One interesting site is found on <A HREF = "http://
|
|||
|
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www.phantom.com:80/">Mindvox</A>. Started
|
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|
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by Kim Clancy, the "Round Table" Forum brings together
|
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|
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journalists, law enforcement, civil libertarians, and
|
|||
|
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many others who are interested in issues related to
|
|||
|
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freedom, security and privacy in cyberspace. Check out
|
|||
|
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Mindvox for a Gotham slant on the Net. You'll need to
|
|||
|
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join the 'Vox' to get on the Round Table.<P>
|
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|
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|
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Dorothy Denning, professor of Computer Science at
|
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Georgetown, has written extensively on crypto subjects.
|
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When Dorothy was with Digital Equipment Corporation
|
|||
|
|
she wrote an interesting <A HREF = "http://
|
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|
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www.cosc.georgetown.edu/~denning/hackers/
|
|||
|
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Hackers-NCSC.txt/">piece on the need to open a dialog
|
|||
|
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with hackers.</A>Dorothy mailed me the June 11, 1995
|
|||
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<A HREF = "http://www.cosc.georgetown.edu/~denning/
|
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hackers/Hackers-Postscript.txt/">"postscript"</A>
|
|||
|
|
to this three year old piece - with a different "take"
|
|||
|
|
on the subject. Dorothy maintains a home crypto page
|
|||
|
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at <A HREF = "http://www.cosc.georgetown.edu/~denning
|
|||
|
|
/crypto/">ttp://www.cosc.georgetown.edu/~denning/
|
|||
|
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crypto/Crime-and-Crypto.txt</A> (Article on Crime &
|
|||
|
|
Crypto on the Information Superhighway) The term
|
|||
|
|
"hacker" has gathered much baggage and deserves its
|
|||
|
|
own serious discussion here in the near future.<P>
|
|||
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|
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Public cryptography has become the proverbial "two
|
|||
|
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edged sword" that concurrently serves as a talisman
|
|||
|
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of freedom, anarchy, security, privacy and anonymity.
|
|||
|
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Cryptography has become a defining "boundary issue"
|
|||
|
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separating the hacker, civil libertarian and law
|
|||
|
|
enforcement communities. Phil Zimmerman, has
|
|||
|
|
become the point man (or lightening rod, depending
|
|||
|
|
on one's perspective) of public key cryptography which
|
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|
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aids the public citizen and terrorist with equal facility.
|
|||
|
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I met Phil at the FLETC where he gave a presentation
|
|||
|
|
earlier this year. Mike Godwin has also trekked to our
|
|||
|
|
training facility to present the views of the "loyal
|
|||
|
|
opposition" to cybercops in training.<P>
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Secure transmission of data on the Net is only part
|
|||
|
|
of the challenge presented to commerce as that data
|
|||
|
|
becomes a vessel for the fuel of commerce. Digital
|
|||
|
|
cash is now a reality. As Bruce Sterling penned in a
|
|||
|
|
message to me
|
|||
|
|
<A HREF = "http://www.well.com:80/user/kfarrand/digicash">
|
|||
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|
"Oh dear--call IRS"</A><P>
|
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|
|||
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Without robust debate and communications about
|
|||
|
|
these issues across a round table, the essential
|
|||
|
|
element of trust of a community in its agents tasked
|
|||
|
|
with preserving security cannot be created or
|
|||
|
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maintained. To that end I have dedicated this Web
|
|||
|
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site.<P>
|
|||
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|
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|
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The concept of scenario planning, so successfully
|
|||
|
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practiced by the digital heavy hitter futurists of
|
|||
|
|
the Global Business Network (who have an address
|
|||
|
|
here on the WELL), challenges us to manage change
|
|||
|
|
rather than being passively swept up by it.<P>
|
|||
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|
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|
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Respected police futurist, Bill Tafoya, was instrumental
|
|||
|
|
in bringing investigations like the UNABOMB case to the
|
|||
|
|
public's attention on the Net. Larry Coutorie, who is
|
|||
|
|
with the University of Texas System and the HTCIA,
|
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|
|
has produced a
|
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|
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<A HREF = "http://www.well.com:80/user/kfarrand/COUTORIE.TXT">
|
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|
|
Delphi Study</A> of High Tech Crime that "attempts to
|
|||
|
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forecast the future nature of high-technology crime"<P>
|
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|
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The administration's cut on the future government
|
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involvement in this red-shift technology target is found
|
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in its recent "
|
|||
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<A HREF = "http://www.well.com:80/user/kfarrand/FEDROLE.TXT">
|
|||
|
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NII Security: The Federal Role</A>"<P>
|
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|
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|
|
Protecting children from "adult content" on the Internet
|
|||
|
|
is one of the most important challenges for our nation
|
|||
|
|
and the Net community. Will a workable solution come
|
|||
|
|
from the Federal Government via legislative fiat or
|
|||
|
|
from empowered families? Take a look at a very
|
|||
|
|
interesting product from SurfWatch (www.surfwatch.
|
|||
|
|
com/index.html/) regarding the latter approach, and
|
|||
|
|
<A HREF = "http://www.cdt.org/">The Communications
|
|||
|
|
Decency Act</A> as to the former. The fear of parents
|
|||
|
|
is real and new software solutions are appearing on
|
|||
|
|
the horizon. Solid Oak Software of Santa Barbara
|
|||
|
|
recently released its CYBERsitter that blocks on-line
|
|||
|
|
and disk access. I would imagine it's only a matter of
|
|||
|
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ime before some enterprising programmer will reverse
|
|||
|
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engineer a product that will hone in on the very content
|
|||
|
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these products are seeking to block.<P>
|
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|
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Thanks for the lurk, and while you're here, hit that
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button at the top of your screen to add us to your
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bookmark or hotlist so you're only a click away from
|
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the CYBERCOP.<P>
|
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|
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If you know of any sites on the Net that will raise
|
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|
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the bar in the dialogue surrounding the role of the
|
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|
|
CYBERCOP in the real and virtual world, let me
|
|||
|
|
know.Kevin Manson <a href=mailto:kfarrand@well.
|
|||
|
|
sf.ca.us>(kfarrand@well.
|
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|
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sf.ca.us)</a><P>
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Webmaster<P>
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|
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Ubiquitous Disclamer: "I own my own words" The
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views expressed here are my own, not those of
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Congress)</A>
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Hacker_Crackdown//">The Hacker Crackdown</A>, Law
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and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier"<P><LI> <A HREF =
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"http://www.eff.org/">Electronic Frontier Foundation</A>
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High Technology Crime Investigation Association</A>
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</A> <LI> <A HREF = "http://www.cpsr.org/home/">
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Computer
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Professionals for Social Respossibility</A>
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<LI> <A HREF = "http://copnet.uwyo.edu//">"COPNET"</A>
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<LI> <A HREF = "http://www.stpt.usf.edu/~greek/cj.html/">
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<LI> <A HREF = "http://www.ustreas.gov/treasury/bureaus/
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fincen/fincen.html/">FINCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement
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Network)</A>
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<LI> <A HREF = "http://www.eff.org/~mnemonic/">Mike
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Godwin (Mnemonic) at EFF</A>
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<LI> <A HREF = "http://www.well.com:80/user/kfarrand/
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lud.htm">Article about Steve Jackson Games - "Digital
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Lessons Learned" from the "Legal Update" a newsletter
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from the Legal Division of the Office of General Training
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at the Federal law Enforcement training Center</A>
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Supreme Court Decisions</A><p>
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If you are looking for another site that is not listed here
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- give Infoseek a try right here on the CYBERCOP home
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page. You can go directly to Infoseek below:<P>
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<H<P>
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<A HREF="http://www2.infoseek.com">
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<B>InfoSeek Net Search </B>
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</A><BR>
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InfoSeek Net Search is the most powerful and
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popular way to search the Web. Just type your question
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in plain English or enter words and phrases. <A
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HREF="http://www2.infoseek.com/doc/help/Tips.html">
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Helpful Tips</A><FORM METHOD="GET" ACTION="http://www2.
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infoseek.com/Titles">
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<INPUT NAME="qt" SIZE=45 VALUE="">
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<INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Search">
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<INPUT TYPE=reset VALUE="Clear">
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</FORM>
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<LI> Training Schedule for the Financial Fraud
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Institute at the Federal Law Enforcement Training
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Center for fiscal year 1996 ( Oct. 1996 - Sept. 1997)
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