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Computer underground Digest Sun Nov 26, 1995 Volume 7 : Issue 91
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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, #7.91 (Sun, Nov 26, 1995)
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File 1--Re: CyberAngels
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File 2--Guardian Angel NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER
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File 3--Re: CuD, #7.89 - Govt & Net Censorship
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File 4--French agreement to use Netscape Navigator
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File 5--ACLU Cyber-Liberties Update -- 11/22/95
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File 6--Cu Digest Header Info (unchanged since 5 Nov, 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: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 20:42 EDT
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From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@MBCL.RUTGERS.EDU>
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Subject: File 1--Re: CyberAngels
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Dear Sirs:
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While some proposed activities of the "CyberAngels" are
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difficult to object to, others are threats to violate the civil
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liberties of users of the Internet. These can be classified into
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two categories: violations of freedom of speech and press, and
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violations of the rights of interaction of consenting adults. The
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former would include their threatened actions regarding: allegedly
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obscene material; "indecent" materials that they feel are too
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available to persons under the age of 18; anonymous (and, one would
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suspect, pseudonymous) speech; allegedly harassing speech; and
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political ("hate") speech. Those regarding the activities of
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consenting adults would, according to their phrasing, include any
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actions illegal in the state or country in question, such as
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homosexual activity in many U.S. states. In addition, the record of
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the Guardian Angels suggests that they will step over even the
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bounds that they publicly set for themselves.
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I would like to make a suggestion to the readers of the
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Computer Underground Digest, and to other users of the Internet, as
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to the best way to deal with this organization. This idea is to use
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one problem (the "CyberAngels") to counter another (net-abuse such
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as spamming). Simply forward copies of spamming (done via email,
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USENET, or other means) to the "ganetwatch@aol.com" address, and
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ask them to deal with the problem. Some of it is definitely
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included under the "fraud" category in their statement (i.e.,
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pyramid schemes such as "MAKE MONEY FAST"), and others are at the
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minimum deprivation of service and possibly true harassment. I am
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hopeful that the volume of mail received on this count will be
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great enough that they will be unable to carry out any improper
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actions. If they fail to try to do anything about the spamming
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problem, then they can be exposed as frauds themselves. Other forms
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of net-abuse that may be emailed to them would include falsified
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rmgroup and cancel messages (if these were not committed by the
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CyberAngels themselves, of course).
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This suggestion may be combined with the "cyberspawn" cancel
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mechanism on Usenet, through a daemon at various sites
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automatically mailing the spam to "ganetwatch@aol.com" prior (if
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this is wanted) to cancellation. A form of it can also be used
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against any other organization seeking informants via computer
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networks.
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Sincerely Yours,
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-Allen Smith (EALLENSMITH@MBCL.RUTGERS.EDU)
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This message may be freely redistributed on the Internet, on other
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computer networks, and on BBSes if it is left completely intact and
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the distributor is not a Guardian Angel. I encourage doing so.
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 06:41:15 -0600
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From: bladex@BGA.COM(David Smith)
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Subject: File 2--Guardian Angel NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER
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This is somewhat long, but attached is the November newsletter of the
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Guardian Angels CyberAngels Internet Monitoring Project. I did not write any
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of this, but am forwarding it as an item of interest.
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Most notable is the allegation of contacting 50 separate sysadmins and
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providing them with evidence about individual users trading child pornagraphy.
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>From--GANetWatch@aol.com
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>Date--Tue, 14 Nov 1995 13:38:26 -0500
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>Subject--NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER
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>Apparently-To--<bladex@bga.com>
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>
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>CYBERANGELS
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>INTERNET MONITORING PROJECT
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>November 1995 Newsletter
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>********************
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>Hi! And a special welcome to the many of you who are new on our newsletter
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>mailing list this month. SECONDLY - if you are on this list by mistake...our
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>apologies. Our mailing list got damaged and we had to rebuild it from
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>scratch! Let us know (again!) if you wish to unsubscribe. Sorry!
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>
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>Firstly let me (Gabriel) introduce my colleague to you. His name is Patrik
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>Olterman, and he is originally from Sweden. Like me he is a veteran Guardian
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>Angel, and is now working with me coordinating the CyberAngels project. FYI
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>we are both based in Hollywood, CA. No, not the nice part :) Oh, and in the
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>Guardian Angels he has a nickname. We call him "Harlequin".
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>
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>The past month has been excellent for the project. Firstly all thanks to
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>SAFESURF - to Ray Soular and Wendy Simpson - for donating us a home page on
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>the www. This made our project global for the first time. Safesurf and
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>CyberAngels are working together as two concerned groups, to help protect
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>our cyberneighborhood. Ray and Wendy are truly are good people. THANKS you
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>guys! We encourage all our volunteers and newsletter members to check out
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>Safesurf's home pages and to subscribe to their newsletter. You can reach
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>them via hyperlink from the CyberAngels home page at
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>
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>http://www.safesurf.com/cyberangels/
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>or go directly to http://www.safesurf.com/wave/
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>
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>Read especially Safesurf's "Declaration of an Independent InterNet" We
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>support it 100% !
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>
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>By the way, if you have already visited our homepage, VISIT IT AGAIN! :) We
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>will be changing and developing it, and adding more links, as we develop our
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>project. We would certainly welcome your suggestions as to how we can
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>improve things.
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>
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>Oh, before I forget...we wished everyone a Happy Halloween...but that message
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>was written by Harlequin, who is Swedish, and he spelled it wrong! :( He
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>wrote "Haloween". I guess he was thinking of Angels :)
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>********************
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>INTERNET AND COMPUTER EXPO IN FLORIDA
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>
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>We will be down in Florida for the 1,2 and 3 December, with a booth at the
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>InterNet and Computer Expo '95. This is thanks to a donation (worth $1000!)
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>of space there by Frank Rocco, one of the organizers. Thanks Frank! FYI
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>CyberAngels is an all volunteer project, coordinated from a Macintosh
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>Powerbook 150 (honest!), and we do not have many resources. But we need to
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>spread the message, so help us in any way you can! You can contact the I & C
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>Expo on 1 305 941 2400, or 1-800-330-1900, or email to
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>expos@InterNetmarketing.com. The expo by the way will be at Broward County
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>Convention Centre, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. We hope to meet some of
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>you there!
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>********************
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>CYBERANGELS REACH AUSTRALIA
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>
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>One of the results of our global reach for volunteers, after Safesurf's www
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>homepage donation, was that we started receiving volunteers from Australia.
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> There also followed 6 radio shows all over Australia, and an article in the
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>Sydney Morning Herald, explaining our work. Child Pornography on the
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>InterNet seems to be very much an issue of the day in Australia. And so it
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>should be - everywhere. Welcome to all our new friends from Down Under!
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>Check out especially: http://www.australia-today.com
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>
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>One of our new volunteers is running it :) Hi Hans! Hans is very much
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>involved in DOING something positive. He wrote as follows (and Im quoting
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>you Hans because this letter was public - hope thats ok):
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>>I am no wowser, adult material does not faze me, but when I >see detailled
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>instructions on how to rape a four year old, >together with photographs of
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>the actual event, even I feel >that something needs to be done. Not to
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>mention how to make >bombs, break into houses and cars and how to kill
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>someone >efficiently with a knife.
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>>I am not making this up - it's all there.
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>>From your responses I know that many of you have seen this >material also.
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>>Please keep in touch, we need concerned people like you to >keep these kind
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>of excesses in check. Censorship is not the >answer. History shows this has
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>never worked. Let us try to at >least shield our children from this sort of
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>material, they'll >grow up soon enough.
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>>Together we can make a difference, let's do it.
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>>Hans von Lieven, editor Australia Today.
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>
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>Please, everyone, visit Hans' website and write letters of support to him.
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> Let him know how much we appreciate his standing up and making a commitment
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>to a safe Internet.
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>********************
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>INTERNET PATROLS LAST MONTH
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>
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>We have been DELUGED with information and education about what is happening
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>all over the Net in the past month. Special mention must go to one of our
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>CyberAngels, whose userid is Techphob. Tech has been patrolling all KINDS of
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>dark alleys and dangerous cyberhoods, and the information he is accumulating
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>earns him a special mention as our CYBERANGEL OF THE MONTH. Not only has he
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>been assembling huge lists of the red light area of the InterNet, and
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>painstakingly researching them, which is not a pleasant task. TECHPHOB, when
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>you die you will go to CYBERHEAVEN. :) Keep up the excellent work. And if
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>one person can do so much, think what we can ALL do if we work together.
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>
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>We have reported a number of Child Pornographers (50) to Sysadmins this
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>month. This was done only after we received from them graphic images
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>(unsolicited) of child pornography. We forwarded the email, including the
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>attached files, to respective ISPs with the question "Is this a violation of
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>your TOS? And if it is, what disciplinary steps will you take?" Letters we
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>have received back all share our concern and promise stern action.
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>
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>Child pornographers are claiming "freedom of speech / expression" to justify
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>their evil trade. Well we are claiming "freedom of speech / expression" to
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>try and stop it! Thank you to all our volunteers who did NOT look the other
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>way but stood up and said NO. Remember, each electronic image represents a
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>real life destroyed.
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>
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>Many people are unsure when they find things whether to contact ISPs
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>(InterNet Service Providers) themselves, by writing to relevant System
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>Administrators, or to forward the information to us at CyberAngels Central -
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>well do both! We can not possibly investigate everything that you all find,
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>so take the step and speak up if you feel there is a TOS (Terms of Service)
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>violation. Write to the ISP and explain the situation and ask the question
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>"Is this a violation of your TOS?". Remember, we will not report anything
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>we do not investigate ourselves. We do not operate on hearsay. So if you
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>find something, give us full information as to how we may find it.
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>
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>An educational story to finish this section. One of our CyberAngels drew our
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>attention last month to a very nasty posting in alt.teens on the Usenet. We
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>checked itout and then wrote to the Sysadmin. It was a posting from a 16
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>year old girl and was extremely nasty (obscene). Not only that but the
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>userid indicated that the server was at a girls school in England. I wrote
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>to the Sysadmin and asked the question "Are you aware that one of your girls
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>is posting this kind of material to this newsgroup?" He investigated the
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>matter, and it turned out apparently that the postings came not from a 16
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>year old girl at all, but from an older, MALE, member of the teaching staff.
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>********************
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>FLAMES
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>
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>With global exposure, and an increasing number of online and offline
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>magazines featuring CyberAngels, comes flames. And we would like to take
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>this opportunity to thank everyone who flamed us in the past month. Some of
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>your flames were extremely educational and helped us ENORMOUSLY. We try to
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>reply to all our flames (no matter how rude they are), because we find it a
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>very educational activity.
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>
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>A copy of our FAQ was sent to CUDigest (an online magazine), and it started
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>some serious debates via email. We have so far received an equal number of
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>flames and volunteers. :)
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>
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>Special mention must go to an ongoing debate about anonymous remailers, which
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>was an area where we were less informed. Thanks to an154280@anon.penet.fi
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> for lots of very helpful suggestions. For those of you interested in the
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>debate about anonymity we have two suggestions: firstly we have a HUGE FAQ
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>on "Identity, Privacy and Anonymity on the InterNet", written by L.Detweiler,
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>and if any of you want it, please write to us and ask for it (WARNING it is
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>138k!) Secondly you can write to help@anon.penet.fi for their FAQ on their
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>anonymous service, which is also very educational.
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>********************
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>AN INTERACTIVE SECTION
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>
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>We need to learn more about "kill files". Who knows about them and who is
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>willing to share? We will print whatever info we get in the next newsletter.
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>
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>Secondly, if any of you have ANYTHING relevant you would like to see printed
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>in our next newsletter, then please submit it to us. Let us know if you want
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>your name on it or not. Let's start sharing information and stories among
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>our members. Do you really want to listen to Gabriel month after month? ;)
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>
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>Send us press articles etc, especially translations from countries where
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>english is not spoken, about the InterNet and what is happening. Let's hear
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>some good news about all the excellent organizations working for a safer
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>InterNet!
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>
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>Another question - what is X-Band? We think it is a game playing BBS, but we
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>are not sure. Anyway, no one on X-Band can receive email longer than 5
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>lines. So does anyone out there know what it is? We have received several
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>letters from X-Band inhabitants, and we are very interested in
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>it...Someone...educate us!
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>********************
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>USEFUL INTERNET ORGANIZATIONS
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>
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>For those of you who want to learn more about the issues and arguments of
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>cyberspace and censorship/regulation, we would refer you to the following
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>groups (in addition to ourselves and Safesurf ) :
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>
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>1) Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), describes itself as "a non-profit
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>civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect
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>privacy, free expression and access to online resources and information"
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> They are at http://www.eff.org
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>
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>2) InterNet Society, at http://www.isoc.org
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>
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>For those of you interested in US legislation, you can obtain a list from the
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>ACLU of recent government legislation relating to the Net (Thanks CyberAngel
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>Anndell!).
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>For a synopsis of all the online censorship bills passed or considered by
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>American states this year, send a message to infoaclu@aclu.org with "Update
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>of State Bills" in the subject line of the message.
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>
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>For those of you outside the USA, please send us similar information from
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>your countries!
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>********************
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>CYBERANGELS MOVING EMAIL ADDRESS SOON!
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>
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>We are busy right now setting up an account with Wavenet.com in Los Angeles,
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>so will soon have a different email address (although we will maintain
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>ganetwatch@aol.com). From the 20th November you can email us at
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>angels@wavenet.com
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>
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>and this is the email address we would prefer you to use. Thanks!
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>********************
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>Below is an article many of you will not have read.
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>
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>CYBERANGELS
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>In "Wanted" Magazine
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>
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>"I'm looking for pictures of girls 11 to 14. Let's trade." Starts the man
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>the other men know only as Flesh.
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>"Hey everyone trade with me". Matt follows up. "I always return hard to
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>find, controversial pictures!"
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>A guy known as Pedoman spoke next. "Let's trade pictures I have ton's of
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>hard ones".
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>"If you got girls 11 - 14 I'm for trading".
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>"I want 1 - 5".
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>"Yum yum give me some".
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>"Any good girl-girl action (under 16)? Adds a new party.
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>"If people send me pics I'll return a movie".
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>"I have some Preteen pics to trade" This from Pedoman.
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>"Tell me how young, and send me one first. I'll get you what you want".
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>
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>This is a real conversation that occurred on August 5th 1995 over computer
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>phone lines in a live talk area of America On Line, (one of the most popular
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>computer servers in the Nation). The Guardian Angels recorded it as part of
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>a new program to expose computer criminals, help the police keep an eye on
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>cyber sickies and close down their deviant electronic town meeting/support
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>group/strategy session.
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>
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>The Program is called Cyber Angels and like the Guardian Angel street patrols
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>it's on the cutting edge. Cyber Angels has a huge potential because it draws
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>on an untapped source for it's members; ordinary Internet surfers. It trains
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>them to be observant while they "surf", looking for criminal or abusive uses
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>of the computer network. Hate crimes, pedophile networks, sexual harassment
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>(stalking) and credit card fraud are just some of the crimes flourishing on
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>the under secured Internet and fair game for the Cyber Angels.
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>
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>More than just an enforcement group the Cyber Angels will train Users to help
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>look out for their own community; the computer community. Why shouldn't the
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>same laws of human decency and respect for others apply to the Internet as
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>well as any street in the U.S.?
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>
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>Strangely thousands of educated, non pedophiles are opposed to us trying to
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>do this.
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>
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>4 million people already belong to America on Line's (A.O.L.) computer clan.
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> Hundreds more join every day as people succumb to the super glut of
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>propaganda about the Information Superhighway and rush to find out what they
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>are missing. A huge family all right however so far it seems nobody wants to
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>do anything about dirty Uncle Fester who's up in the attic panting and
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>drooling over an X-rated picture of the "Little Rascals".
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>
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>In fact, based on the recorded conversation above, not only does the family
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>turn a blind eye to Uncle Fester they also let him use the den for a weekly
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>game of poker with like minded friends using a deck of cards with a "kids and
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>their loving pets" theme.
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>
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>Even worse, Mom and Dad sometimes let Uncle F. baby-sit the kids.
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>
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>Authorities have made sporadic attempts to lock up these computer pedophiles
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>but the successes of these campaigns have just gone to show how blatant and
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>widespread the problem is. Like an exterminator who crushes a hundred
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>cockroaches just by walking across the kitchen floor.
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>
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>Last year U.S. federal authorities served warrants on 35 men who had
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>contacted a Danish computer service that provided pictures that were illegal
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>in the U.S., of young kids having sex. Out of the 35 men who were
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>questioned and had their houses searched, 10 readily admitted to having
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>molested children.
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>
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>Yet despite these successes the family continues to shelter Uncle Fester.
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>When we tried to follow-up after we gave America On Line (A.O.L.) the
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>recording of the conversation above, they informed us that not only were the
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>identities of the conversants confidential, so was any details about any
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>disciplinary action A.O.L. had or hadn't taken against them. A.O.L. admits
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>that there are many more cases of children being targeted for crimes and
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>abuse through the computer that are unrecorded, still it refuses to
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>reconsider it's promotional policy of providing any new user with 10 free
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>hours. This promotional tactic allows anyone to sign on with a fake credit
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>card and have ten hours using or abusing the Internet with complete
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>anonymity. Because A.O.L. sends out discs through the mail and distributes
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>them through selected magazines there is no limit to the number of free 10
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>hour trials computer abusers can get.
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>
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>But the Administrators of A.O.L. aren't the only obstacle. It seems the
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>Internet has it's own freedom fighters. A fearless band of well meaning
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>defenders who take a good idea to it's absurd extreme. Like environmental
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>granola terrorists who will injure loggers or bomb hunting retreats to save
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>the spotted owl, these Champions of Cyber feel that freedom of speech as
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>proposed by the founding fathers was intended to allow child rapists to hold
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>public gab sessions, discuss their disgusting deeds and depraved desires and
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>just generally work themselves up into a pedophilic lather. Personally, I
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>prefer a little preventative medicine, a little stitch in time that saves
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>sending out the blood hounds to try and locate a snatched 5 year old before
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>she ends up in a garbage bag in a dumpster.
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>
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>A private investigator who was upset by the use of the world wide computer
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>network of computer pedophile predators assumed the identity of a teenage
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>girl to show how simple it was to draw out the computer predators. A Nevada
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>man quickly fell into the trap not only sending explicit sexual messages to
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>what he thought was a 14 year old girl but traveling to a Milwaukee motel
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>room for an arranged sexual liaison where he was met and charged by federal
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>authorities.
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>
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>At our own Web Site the Cyber Angels will act as public advocates, posting
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>information about Users who commit cyber crimes or try to arrange physical
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>rendezvous with children. Just like Megan's law in New Jersey and similar
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>laws in other states allow us to warn parents who and what to watch for if
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>they want to keep their kids safe.
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>
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>Users who have witnessed or discovered some abuse of the 'Net can also visit
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>our Web Site to find out what they should do with their concern. Should they
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>pass their information on to the Federal authorities? Post it on our
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>bulletin board? And how about some instruction in how not to react? On the
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>street you can get shot for trying to get in the last insult of an argument,
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>on the 'Net you don't run the risk of death but you are only motivating some
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>hate nutcase if you do anything more than lodge your disgust and then ignore
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>them. Then there will be the Chicken Little cases that we need to reach;
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>maybe someone enters a chat room where a discussion is being held between
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>some gay men and nobody has ever told this guy that there is a difference
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>between homosexual and child molester . Well then our Web Site can let him
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>know that the sky is not falling.
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>
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>We want to pressure computer system operators to better police their own
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>service users. A.O.L. needs to learn that it is partially responsible for
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>what goes on in it's "house". Hey, call me cynical but it's hard to have
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>trust in A.O.L.'s integrity and humanity when they assign their well paid
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>corporate lawyers to answer our concerns about the 'Net.
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>
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>Less lawyers and more law. So the Cyber Angel program will filter all the
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>information that it receives from patrolling members and concerned Users and
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>pass the useful information on to the authorities to act on. Then we
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>publicize the arrests because just building the reputation of the 'Net as a
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>protected environment where the law applies just like everywhere else will go
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>a long way in discouraging some guy with a new swastika tattoo from
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>terrorizing some other User.
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>
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>Right now the Internet has a reputation. A noticeable absence of Police and
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>thousands of young potential victims or recruits left to wander by themselves
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>by their parents. Users and Abusers can operate with complete anonymity, is
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>it any wonder that pedophiles, racists and other criminals have approached
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> the computer era with clammy hand rubbing glee?
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>
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>These Abusers with their Hitler salutes and baby oil got the computer jump on
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>everybody but Bill Gates and now they are entrenched. Cyber space is
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>infested with "Aliens" who are lurking in not so dark corners, waiting for a
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>victim to happen by and training the fledgling "Aliens" how to hunt. The
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>Cyber Angels are just recruiting the Sigourney Weavers.
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>
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>We have already attracted over two hundred recruits to our Cyber Angel
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>program. Like the original Guardian Angel program it has the power of
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>algebra on it's side. Basically there are more law abiding Users on the
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>Internet then law breaking Abusers, it's just a matter of the good guys
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>working as hard as the bad and the ugly.
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>
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>So should we bother? Should we act on our disgust at the black polyester
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>sock, pant and drool crowd that are soiling their fruit of the looms over
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>traded photos of 8 year old children? Or is this the kind of free speech the
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>founding fathers meant to protect with the first amendment? Should I be
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>angry and try to stop the distribution of a video game where the object is to
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>cram the most Jewish prisoners into my crematorium and win the "game"?
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> Should anyone even be offended that the same "champions of the people", who
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>brought you the Time magazine article on Cyberporn have now written their own
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>get rich quick computer manual called "The Pornographers Handbook: How To
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>Exploit Women, Dupe Men & Make Lots of Money."?
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>
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>Only if our principles have gotten lazy. Just by definition we should be
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>interested in anything that interests Pedophiles as much as the Internet.
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> Where ever the sexually criminal play there should be watchdogs following
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>them. people should be vigilant so they can not befriend and then attack
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>their little victim. Hate mongers must have their twisted lies refuted and
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>exposed to ensure that potential recruits get both sides of the story before
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>they get sucked down that whirlpool of biased sewage.
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>
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>Maybe just as important, Users that "play" at crime on the Internet need a
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>wake-up call. The future of the 'Net is in their hands also. They may be
|
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>young and adventurous now but are they going to want their future children to
|
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>encounter the kinds of "harmless" harassment, "fun and games" fraud and "it
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>was just a joke until someone loses an eye" mail box bombing or computer
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>virus campaigns?
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>
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>The Guardian Angels have adopted an old saying "All that is required for the
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>triumph of evil, is that good men and women remain silent and do nothing".
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> That's as true today on the internet as it ever was anywhere else.
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>
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>Sebastian Metz
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>********************
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>HELP US! WE NEED YOUR DONATIONS TO EXPAND OUR PROJECT!
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>
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>Listen...thanks to YOU this InterNet monitoring project has really taken off,
|
|
>and we are getting more volunteers every day. That means more and more
|
|
>people around the world are taking the PROACTIVE step of patrolling your part
|
|
>of cyberspace and assuming a greater responsibility for the quality of your
|
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>cyberhood. That means WE ARE ALL MAKING A DIFFERENCE! We are helping many
|
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>people, especially kids, enjoy the wonderful creation that is the InterNet,
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>in greater safety and security.
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>
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>NOW...we need to expand our resources. There are now two of us working as
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>fulltime volunteers to coordinate the project, and WE NEED YOUR HELP.
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>
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>Firstly we need two big fast applemacs with 28.8 modems. If we can't find a
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>donor, we will need to buy them. If you can help us with these resources in
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>any way, please email us.
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>
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>Secondly, we are a volunteer organization and we need money to help us to
|
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>cover our increasing online bills, not to mention to develop our WWW home
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>pages. The great strength of our work together is that it is a team effort.
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>E.g. if everyone on our mailing list sent us *$10.00*, this would enable us
|
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>to expand the project to a higher level for 1996. Please send any donations
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>as checks or money orders (payable to "CyberAngels") to: CyberAngels, PO Box
|
|
>1102, Hollywood, CA 90078, USA. Thank you in advance for that particular
|
|
>help. We really need it!
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>
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>We have designed a special CyberAngels T-shirt, and are offering it to our
|
|
>supporters for the sum of $25.00. This is of course a donation to the work,
|
|
>but in this case you will receive an excellent T-shirt that you could not buy
|
|
>anywhere! Details of this will soon be up on our Web page. If you are
|
|
>interested, send that $25.00 to the above snail address. :)
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>
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>By the way, anyone sending in a donation of $50.00 or more will be listed on
|
|
>our home pages in our CyberAngels Supporters Hall of Fame. Dig deep!
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>
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>BTW, anyone with a WWW site - you can help us enormously by putting a link
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>from your page to ours...This way we spread the word faster!
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>********************
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>AND FINALLY
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>
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>>From Harlequin and myself (Gabriel), that's all until our next newsletter.
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> We have a wonderful project going on here, that is really helping to change
|
|
>the InterNet. Don't ever think that the Net is too big to change. All it
|
|
>takes is individuals coming together with determination. We thank you all.
|
|
> And keep those patrols going on! And spread the word! Get your friends
|
|
>involved too, and build this work! Remember:
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>
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>CYBERSPACE NEEDS CYBERANGELS!
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>
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>Gabriel & Harlequin
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>
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David Smith * "We truly believe that even though we live in an
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|
evil
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|
bladex@bga.com * world, if you can stand up with a stronger
|
|
will, then you
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|
President, EFF-Austin * can't be beaten down. This is the true spirit
|
|
of the
|
|
Board of Directors, CTCLU * EFF-Austin member" -- John Woo
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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 23:59:03 +0100
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From: Patrick C. Ernzer <ernzer@paranoid.pfalz.de>
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Subject: File 3--Re: CuD, #7.89 - Govt & Net Censorship
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just some thoughts that crossed my mind, and wich I thought I would
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share with you.
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there was a time when the US where great and wonderful to me (this was
|
|
when I was young and easily impressed by things as Silicon Valley and
|
|
the NASA). Then came the time to keep up with news and such, and
|
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gradually the US became in my view a place where the best, the worst
|
|
and especially the most silly things were possible (e.g. the sexual
|
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harassment laws of the US, wich are laughably extreme in the views of
|
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most Europeans). But now it has finally happened, a very powerful
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group (The Religious Right) has clearly gone too far.
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I don't mean to insult the US in general, but if the bill, the
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Religious Right wants to pass, does pass, then the US risk to be left
|
|
out from the international community. IMHO (untill Europe imitates the
|
|
US, as always 10 years or so later) the US will simply left out from
|
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the internet. Rather than risking having bigots laws on one's back and
|
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being sued all the way to the end of the known galaxy, people will
|
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IMHO just avoid the US.
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|
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Are those who want to pass the bill aware of this? I doubt it. I would
|
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really miss all the people I am in contact with in the US, but then
|
|
again I don't want to get in trouble just because if my language or my
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general moral views. (No, I'm not a child abuser, but the sense of
|
|
humor I inherited by living in France for many years will probably be
|
|
enough to get me into trouble. Just imagine telling a sick baby joke
|
|
with a sexual conotation to sb residing in the US will get me and my
|
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ISP or university in deep trouble instead of just generating a "bah,
|
|
that was not really funny, you know.")
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What will happen to the US if all major firms relocate to other
|
|
coutries because of the legislation being just laughably strict? I
|
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don't want to paint gloomy end-of-world-scenes regarding the US, but
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IMHO there is a danger of this.
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From: JeanBernard_Condat@EMAIL.FRANCENET.FR(JeanBernard Condat)
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Subject: File 4--French agreement to use Netscape Navigator
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Date: 21 Nov 1995 08:49:06 GMT
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Bonjour,
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|
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All over the French newgroups, you can read the uncredibled news this
|
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morning: the secret SCSSI (Service Central de la Securite des Systemes
|
|
d'Information) from the Premier Ministre' desk in Paris have given the
|
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complete
|
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agreement to use Netscape Navigator. The document is like that:
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Titre: "Autorisation de fourniture et d'utilisation generale de moyens
|
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de cryptologie No. 2500"
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Signe: 7 Novembre 1995
|
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Par: Jacques VINCENT-CARREFOUR pour la DISSI
|
|
Reference: 509/DISSI dossier numero 950038
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|
|
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L'autorisation est fournie aux seuls produits Netscape Navigator suivants:
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N. DOS WINDOWS CD ROM
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N. DOS WINDOWS KX 23
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N. MACINTOSH CD ROM
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N. MACINTOSH RX23
|
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N. NT/INTEL CD ROM
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N. NT/INTEL RX23
|
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N. NT/ALPHA
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N. X-WINDOWS
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N. WIN/95 16 BIT CD ROM
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N. WIN/95 16 BIT RX 23
|
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N. WIN/95 32 BIT CD ROM
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N. WIN/95 32 BIT RX 23
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|
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Elle est egalement fournie aux distributeurs de la liste suivante et a
|
|
eux seuls:
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Sun Microsystems Computers
|
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Digital Equipment
|
|
Silicon Graphics
|
|
Novell
|
|
Siemens Nixdorf
|
|
Olivetti
|
|
Bull
|
|
Zenith Data Systems
|
|
Apple Computers
|
|
Hewlett Packard
|
|
Compaq
|
|
Azlan
|
|
Softway
|
|
France Telecom
|
|
Grolier Interactive Europe
|
|
General Games
|
|
|
|
Some remarks can be do: it's no "s" to X-Window in the list of authorized
|
|
products. This
|
|
agreement "is good until 1st October 1997 for selling and use in France
|
|
only." This autho-
|
|
rization will be late to be given because of some discussions with other
|
|
hurge software
|
|
publishers that don't have receive the same paper.
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|
|
|
It's the first time in France that an US specific software will be accepted
|
|
in the cryptographic
|
|
field by our Government. Bravo -:>]
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|
|
-- Jean-bernard Condat
|
|
Computer Security Expert (Paris, France)
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|
|
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 18:01:45 -0500
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From: ACLUNATL@AOL.COM
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Subject: File 5--ACLU Cyber-Liberties Update -- 11/22/95
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November 22, 1995
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ACLU CYBER-LIBERTIES UPDATE
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A bi-weekly e-zine on cyber-liberties cases and controversies
|
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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* New York Civil Liberties Union Opposes Discipline of Cornell Students
|
|
for Offensive Online Speech
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|
|
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* Seattle Negotiates New Franchise Agreement with Cable Network to Offer
|
|
Internet Access; ACLU of Washington Gives Testimony on Privacy Implications
|
|
|
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* Watch Out for Cyber-Liberties Infringements in Counter-Terrorism
|
|
Legislation; House May Consider Bill in Early December
|
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|
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* Update and ACTION ALERT on Federal Online Indecency Legislation
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* Online Discussion Groups on Electronic Access Issues
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STATE PAGE (Legislation/Agency/Court Cases)
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* New York Civil Liberties Union Opposes Discipline of Cornell Students for
|
|
Offensive Online Speech
|
|
|
|
The latest controversy over appropriate use of the Internet at universities
|
|
erupted last week after four Cornell students made a list of "75 reasons why
|
|
women should not have freedom of speech" and the list got loose on the
|
|
Internet. Responding to e-mail and phone complaints about the message,
|
|
Cornell considered disciplinary action against the students.
|
|
|
|
The NYCLU wrote a letter to Cornell on Thursday, November 16th, urging
|
|
Cornell not to proceed with disciplinary action. The letter said, "Freedom
|
|
of expression, especially in the academic forum, is designed to encourage
|
|
truth-seeking by protecting the challenge and response of intellectual
|
|
discourse. . . . It is understandable that university officials should be
|
|
concerned about the increase in the use of sexist language. . . . However,
|
|
no matter how troubling or offensive the message is, the administration of
|
|
Cornell University should not depart from principles of freedom of expression
|
|
when addressing the issues surrounding this dispute." The letter went on to
|
|
note that "the marketplace theory of free expression appears to be in full
|
|
swing as the wrong-minded e-mail message has apparently already provoked
|
|
thousands of angry messages' both to Cornell and to the particular four
|
|
students."
|
|
|
|
On Thursday afternoon, Cornell announced that it would not pursue any
|
|
disciplinary action against the students.
|
|
|
|
For a copy of the letter that NYCLU sent to Cornell, send a message to
|
|
infoaclu@aclu.org with "NYCLU Letter to Cornell" in the subject line. For
|
|
more information, contact Beth Haroules, Staff Attorney, NYCLU, at
|
|
212-382-0557.
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* Seattle Negotiates New Franchise Agreement with Cable Network to Offer
|
|
Internet Access; ACLU of Washington Testifies at Hearing on Privacy
|
|
Implications
|
|
|
|
Cities across the country are beginning to renegotiate franchise agreements
|
|
with cable networks who want to get into the Internet access business. Civil
|
|
libertarians must work to ensure that strong privacy protections are included
|
|
in these agreements.
|
|
|
|
The City of Seattle is currently negotiating a new franchise agreement with
|
|
TCI of Seattle, Inc., and the ACLU of Washington urged the city to include
|
|
provisions to protect consumer privacy. In a letter dated November 9th,
|
|
ACLU-W said that "franchisees should be prohibited from collecting any data
|
|
on individual use of the cable network, including Internet access, except
|
|
that data minimally needed for billing purposes. . . . [T]he franchisee
|
|
should be precluded from collecting information about which other Internet
|
|
sites are accessed through the cable network, which newsgroups are read,
|
|
which real-time interactive forums are participated in, or any other
|
|
information that could be used to compile a data profile of the subscriber."
|
|
The letter also urged the city to require technological protections, like
|
|
encryption, to guard against unauthorized tapping.
|
|
|
|
For a copy of the letter, send a message to infoaclu@aclu.org with "cable
|
|
franchise agreement" in the subject line. For more information, contact Doug
|
|
Klunder, ACLU-W Information Technology Committee, dougk@eskimo.com.
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FEDERAL PAGE (Congress/Agency/Court Cases)
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* Watch Out for Cyber-Liberties Infringements in Counter-Terrorism
|
|
Legislation; House May Consider Bill in Early December
|
|
|
|
The House of Representatives is scheduled to debate a broad counter-terrorism
|
|
bill in early December. (The Senate passed a similar bill in June 1995.)
|
|
While the counter-terrorism bill contains many unconstitutional provisions,
|
|
the net community should be particularly alert to the following:
|
|
|
|
1. The pending House counter-terrorism bill contains a funding mechanism for
|
|
vastly expanded wiretap capabilities for federal law enforcement (authorized
|
|
by the Digital Telephony law passed by Congress last year). The FBI's scheme
|
|
would give government an unprecedented ability to intrude on privacy through
|
|
increased wiretaps. The net community should oppose this and any other
|
|
funding scheme for the FBI's wiretap proposal. (See our 11/8 issue of the
|
|
Cyber-Liberties Update for an ACLU statement and action alert on the federal
|
|
wiretap proposal.)
|
|
|
|
2. The version of counter-terrorism legislation already passed by the Senate
|
|
contains a revised Feinstein Amendment, which makes it a felony "to
|
|
distribute by any means information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the
|
|
manufacture of explosive materials, if the person intends, or knows that such
|
|
explosive materials or information will likely be used for" criminal
|
|
purposes. While the legislation applies to all media, it grew out of Senator
|
|
Feinstein's vilification of the Internet at the Senate's May 11th
|
|
counter-terrorism hearings. The House version of counter-terrorism
|
|
legislation does not currently contain language like the Feinstein Amendment,
|
|
but the online community should stand ready to oppose any effort to include
|
|
such unconstitutional provisions in the final House bill.
|
|
|
|
For a copy of the ACLU's letter to the Senate in opposition to the original
|
|
Feinstein Amendment, send a message to infoaclu@aclu.org with "Feinstein
|
|
Amendment" in the subject line.
|
|
|
|
For further information on the ACLU's opposition to counter-terrorism
|
|
legislation (which would also expand the FBI's powers in electronic
|
|
surveillance and other areas), visit the ACLU's Constitution Hall on America
|
|
Online, at keyword ACLU.
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|
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* Update and ACTION ALERT on Federal Online Indecency Legislation
|
|
|
|
The Conference Committee on the telecommunications bill is currently
|
|
considering whether to remove provisions that would make "indecency" and
|
|
other speech a crime in cyberspace. The Christian Coalition and other
|
|
anti-free-speech groups continue to heavily lobby the Conferees to make the
|
|
new speech crimes even stricter than the Exon Amendment. To counter this
|
|
backlash, the online community must overwhelm the Conference Committee with a
|
|
loud and clear message -- that parental empowerment tools and not big
|
|
government censorship are the only effective means to address children's
|
|
access to online content.
|
|
|
|
While the Conference Committee is home for Thanksgiving, we urge you to call
|
|
the Conferees in your state. To find a list of the home office phone numbers
|
|
for the Conferees, see the current ACTION ALERT at http://www.vtw.org/
|
|
|
|
The ACLU continues to prepare for a constitutional challenge to the online
|
|
censorship provisions if they become law. Please contact Ann Beeson,
|
|
beeson@aclu.org, if your organization is interested in being a plaintiff in
|
|
this ground-breaking litigation that will define First Amendment rights in
|
|
cyberspace.
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Online Discussion Groups on Electronic Access Issues
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|
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|
|
The following discussion groups are actively debating government information
|
|
and access issues:
|
|
|
|
GOVPUB -- issues related to publishing local and state government information
|
|
online
|
|
Subscribe: listserv@vm1.nodak.edu
|
|
Message: subscribe govpub
|
|
|
|
GOVACCESS -- citizen access to government information
|
|
Subscribe: majordomo@well.dom
|
|
Message: subscribe govaccess
|
|
|
|
PUBPOL-D -- substantive discussion of public policy issues
|
|
Subscribe: listserv@vm1.spcs.umn.edu
|
|
Message: subscribe pubpol-d [your name]
|
|
|
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COMMUNET -- issues related to community and civic networks
|
|
Subscribe: listserv@uvmvm.uvm.edu
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Message: subscribe communet [your name]
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|
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|
|
Stay tuned for news on the ACLU's world wide web site, under construction at
|
|
http://www.aclu.org. America Online users should check out our live chats,
|
|
auditorium events, *very* active message boards, and complete news on civil
|
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liberties, at keyword ACLU.
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ACLU Cyber-Liberties Update
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Editor: Ann Beeson (beeson@aclu.org)
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Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 22:51:01 CDT
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From: CuD Moderators <cudigest@sun.soci.niu.edu>
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Subject: File 6--Cu Digest Header Info (unchanged since 5 Nov, 1995)
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