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########## | Volume I October 18 ,1991 Number 12 |
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### | EFFECTOR ONLINE |
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####### | eff.org |
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####### | "Serving Cyberspace since 1990" |
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########## | The Electronic Newsletter of |
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########## | Phone:(617)864-0665 FAX:(617)864-0866 |
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####### | Gerard Van der Leun (van@eff.org) |
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### | David Gans (tnf@well.sf.ca.us) |
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### |Chris Davis (ckd@eff.org) Helen Rose (hrose@eff.org)|
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########## | John Perry Barlow (barlow@eff.org) |
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effector:n, Computer Sci. A device for producing a desired change.
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In This Issue:
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THE EFF IN WASHINGTON
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EDITORIAL: AMENDMENTS WOULD UNDO DAMAGE OF MORRIS DECISION
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MEANWHILE, BACK AT EFF.ORG
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THE FIRST TWO AMENDMENTS OF THE CYBERSPACE BILL OF RIGHTS
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ON THE ROAD WITH DAVID FARBER
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MITCHELL KAPOR JOINS BOARD OF THE COMMERCIAL INTERNET EXCHANGE
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TOP TEN QUOTES FROM LISA V
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TELECOMMUTING
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NEW GROUP MEMBERSHIP RATE FOR EFF
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THE EFF IN WASHINGTON
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Our Washington liaison, Jerry Berman, reports that we are very close to
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an agreement with key congressional committees on a final draft of the
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NREN bill. This draft will then be sent to the floor of congress for what
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we believe will be a swift passage. Passage of this bill establishes a
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high-speed research and education network that will be superimposed upon
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the current Internet. The NREN will continue all the current functions of
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the Internet as well as being a testbed for various high speed
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experiments. In addition, it will allow for commercial transactions as
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well an enabling wider and more open access for millions of present and
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future users. If all goes as planned, we will have a bill that will
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create a viable network that will be a true precursor on the National
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Public Network.
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Berman also noted that, with things returning to normal in Washington,
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Congress will begin a series of hearings on the future of the
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telecommunications infrastructure. In part, this is in response to the
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advent of the Baby Bells as information providers. In order to help
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ensure that the EFFs goals of open, fair, and easy access to networks are
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always part of the discussions, we will be giving formal testimony before
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the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance on October 24..
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In a related development, the EFF, People for the American Way, and the
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ACLU have been in communication with key congressmen and staff on recent
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incidents involving telephone companies and 900 numbers. It has come to
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our attention that there has been an unhealthy trend on the part of
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various telephone companies to restrict the ability of various groups to
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use 900 numbers based on the political content of their proposed 900
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line. This is antithetical to the charter of telephone companies as
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common carriers, as well as an affront to First Amendment rights. As
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such, we have decided to oppose this "policy" wherever it arises.
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EDITORIAL:
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AMENDMENTS WOULD UNDO DAMAGE OF MORRIS DECISION
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by Mike Godwin
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The Supreme Court's decision this month not to review Robert Morris's
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conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was a disappointment to
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those who believe, as we do, that the Act should distinguish between
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defendants who intentionally cause damage and defendants who do so
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accidentally. Still, there is a good chance that the damage done by the
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decisions of the lower courts in the Morris case will be undone by
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Congress.
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The Senate has recently passed amendments to the Computer Fraud and Abuse
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Act (18 USC 1030), both as part of the omnibus crime bill and as a
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stand-alone statute. We at EFF urge the House to approve the amendments,
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since they correct the damage done by the Morris decision, and since they
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add a requirement that the government report to Congress its prosecutions
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under 18 USC 1030(a)(5) (the section under which Morris was prosecuted).
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The Morris Decision
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Readers may recall that the effect of the courts' interpretation of 18
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USC 1030(a)(5) in the Morris case was to make the intent *to access* the
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only intent required to be criminally liable. As currently construed, the
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law makes no distinction between cases in which the damage is
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intentionally caused (the hypothetical computer saboteur) and cases in
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which the damage is unintentionally caused (such as the Robert Morris
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case).
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It was precisely this issue that we hoped the Supreme Court would address
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in the Morris case.
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The Senate Amendments to the Act
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These amendments, which have already passed the Senate both as a
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stand-alone bill and as part of the omnibus crime bill, modify 18 USC
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(a)(5) in the following ways:
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1) For a *felony* conviction under (a)(5), the defendant must have
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knowingly "cause[d] the transmission of a program, information, code,or
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command to a computer or computer system," *and* the defendant must
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*intend* that the program cause damage or the denial of services." (Note
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that the mushy concept of "access" has been changed to a more precise
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notion of "transmission.")
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2) For a *misdemeanor* conviction under (a)(5), the defendant may have
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knowingly "cause[d] the transmission of a program, information, code, or
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command to a computer or computer system," *and* the defendant must have
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caused this transmission *with reckless disregard* as to whether the
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transmission had a risk of causing damage or the denial of services.
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In short, where the current law has only one intent requirement
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(intentional access), the amended law would have two intent requirements
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each for the felony and the misdemeanor offenses.
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Under the facts of the Internet Worm case, Robert Morris, who was
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convicted under the old (a)(5) and could have received up to 27 months in
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prison, would have been convicted of a misdemeanor under the new (a)(5),
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and could have received no more than one year. (As it happens, the
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uniqueness of Morris's offense led the sentencing judge to depart from
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the Sentencing Guidelines and sentence Morris to public service and
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probation.)
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EFF's position is that the underlying conduct in the Morris case ought to
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be punishable, but not as a felony. Moreover, criminal laws addressing
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computer offenses should, like the majority of criminal laws, require
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proof of intent of the key elements of a crime, and not just the single
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element of access. The Senate amendments, if passed, achieve both goals.
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This is not to say that the amendments perfect the Computer Fraud and
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Abuse Act--the amendments' drafters could have decided not to replace the
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"federal interest computer" jurisdictional language with the possibly
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broader "interstate commerce" jurisdictional language that so often gives
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near-unlimited scope to federal criminal statutes. And they could have
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raised the damage threshold for felony liability--as Marc Rotenberg of
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Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility has observed, "$1,000
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for a felony act is extraordinarily low."
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Nevertheless, the amendments have the overall effect of turning a badly
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drafted statute into a better one, and we urge Congress to approve them.
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MEANWHILE, BACK AT EFF.ORG
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Here in the Boston office, the daily work of the staff continues apace....
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Mike Godwin comes in fairly early, leaves fairly late and spends a lot of
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his day fielding fly balls and hot grounders that come in over the net
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and the telephone. Recently, he heard from a member of EFF who had had
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his account pulled when a system administrator discovered copies of
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Phrack in the user's home directory. Godwin was able to convince the
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sysadmin that merely having copies of this publication was a) fully
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protected under the Constitution, b) not the same as "having a
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burglar's tool kit", and c) certainly not grounds for suspending a user's
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account.
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Rita Rouvalis handles a host of administrative chores, manages the
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membership base and members questions that come in from all over the net.
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Recently, she's taken a more active role in the various topics that
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emerge on our Usenet group, comp.org.eff.talk. One of the most pressing
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topics has been the growth of the discussion regarding local chapters. In
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order to focus this discussion, Rouvalis has started a mailing list,
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which she announced in eff.talk:
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New moderated mailing list chapters-discuss@eff.org.
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Many of you have been persistent, hopeful, eager, and impatient about
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the prospect of whether or not EFF is going to set up local chapters
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-- especially since the formation of the Austin Chapter. Since these
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Chapters would be primarily for and by you, our members, we think you
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should determine how they will be set up and run. That's right; we're
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leaving the thinking up to you on this one.
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If you are interested in discussing the issues surrounding local
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chapters, send e-mail to chapters-discuss@eff.org to join a moderated
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mailing list dedicated to talking about chapters. All the members of
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the Austin Board of Directors are on the list to answer questions and
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offer their input.
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On the technical side of things, our tireless system administrators,
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Chris Davis and Helen Rose, are continually seek new and better tweaks
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and upgrades for our technology. When asked to tell everyone exactly what
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they were up to, Helen Rose wrote the following:
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EFF's overworked Sun
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eff.org, our overworked Sun 4/110, sits in an almost-enclosed corner
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of "Tech Central", the area at EFF World Headquarters where most of
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the dirty technical work is done. When this machine isn't sitting,
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panting, in the corner, it usually means the machine is down for
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backups, maintenance, or something along those lines. Hopefully, EFF
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will be getting a grant from Sun in the near future, allowing us to
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retire the current eff.org and replace it with a modern, fast, Sun
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SparcStation 2.
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Connected to eff.org are three SCSI disks of various sizes, and an
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Exabyte tape drive, for backups. We are currently waiting for
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delivery of a fourth SCSI drive to allow us to expand our WAIS and
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FTP archives further. The Sun 4/110, although old, looks brand new
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when compared to the DECWriter III we have hooked up to it, for
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logging purposes. We also have a modem group attached, for remote
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users to dial up, and for UUCP connections.
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Priorities for the future include replacing eff.org (as mentioned
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above); adding additional modems to allow more remote users to dialup
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simultaneously; increasing the available disk space, and possibly
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adding an archie server. For the latter, we would need to upgrade our
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leased-line (currently 56Kb, we'd need to go to a T1 -- 1.544Mb/Sec.
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This is already being researched.) and dedicate a machine just for
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archie**, since the archie server is known for not being "generous"
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about CPU cycles. The software is being tested to explore the
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feasibility of this project. At the present time, guest accounts or
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even a guest machine have been thought of, but put off as being
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"impractical" due to resource limitations.
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*** What is 'archie'? -- taken directly from the Archie Documentation
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written by Alan Emtage
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'archie' is a database system which retrieves and maintains the
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file directory listings of several hundred archive sites accross the
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Internet. Users of the Internet may log onto a host running the
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'archie' system and query the database as to the location,
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modification times and size of any program or document that they may
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be searching for, stored on an anonymous FTP site somewhere on the
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network. Alternatively, 'archie' provides an email interface to the
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database which allows those users not directly connected to the
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network to contact it.
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The 'archie' system actually consists of a number of distinct
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components, which perform such things as the retrieval of the site
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listings, the updates to the database and the interactive and
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electronic mail interfaces.
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Besides storing site listings, 'archie' also maintains a text
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database known as the Software Description Database, whose purpose is
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to provide users of the network with a short description of the
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thousands of various software packages and documents avaliable on the
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anonymous FTP sites.
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To access an 'archie' server, connect to any of the following
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hosts with the login of "archie":
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archie.mcgill.ca
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archie.sura.net
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nic.funet.fi
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archie.au
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Mitch Kapor continues with his tightly-packed schedule of speaking-
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engagements, Washington activities, article preparation, vast email
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correspondence and the day-to-day management of the EFF. Highlights of
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the last few weeks have included a three-day stint of seminars and BOF
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sessions at Interop in San Jose, conducted jointly with EFF co-founder
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John Perry Barlow, speeches and presentations at MIT, becoming a member
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of the board of the Commercial Internet Exchange (see below), an EFF
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Board meeting in San Francisco and numerous meetings with key legislators
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and special interest groups in Washington, DC.
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ON THE ROAD WITH DAVID FARBER
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[David Farber, a new member of the Board of EFF, travels widely both in
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and out of Cyberspace. Here are a few of his notes from last week's
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whirlwind tour through Europe.]
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A Day At Telecom '91 Felix Closs of IBM Zurich was my host (and a great
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one). Telecom is a spectacular exposition of the kind that we no longer
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see in the US. For example, IBM's booth was a huge four-story affair
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complete with a private office for at the very top.
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Hot items at the show were:
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- endless video conference "telephones" operating on a basic ISDN
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network
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working at the show. Quality of the picture and the "telephones" were
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exceptional. Most if not all were Japanese. Oki was the leader. Alcatel
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also was in it.
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- semi-endless ATM switches. Everyone was demoing and/or PRing 150
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megabit and up ATM switches many using the 2.4 gigabit optical ring
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approach to the "internal" architecture. ATM was the HOT word.
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- A GREAT stereo display plastic lenticular technology with a glass
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cover. No glasses required! VERY impressive. Should take two basic ISDN
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lines.
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- OKI has lots of very high speed chips on display at the 2.4 gigabit
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range and beam splitters, optical 8x8 and wavelength division parts. I
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assume they were workable. It had impressive data sheets.
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- every one had radio computers. IBM showed their 80186 "ruggedized"
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radio computer which operates over two way radio and/or cellular. Toshiba
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showed their modem for pager input (and soon two way). Lots of pager mail
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messaging shown.
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- IBM Zurich showed their 1 gigabit LAN. Worked like a charm between
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the conference center and Cern and then onto via the 34 megabit system to
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Stugart. It was a neat piece of gear. Rainbow was also shown and so was a
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connection via the T1 to the US at Cornell showing visualization.
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I have piles of literature and took photos. After Geneva it was on to
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Paris for a presentation at the OECD. That went well. I caught the
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standard Paris cold (I am home sneezing),but I ate like one can only eat
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in Paris.
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MITCHELL KAPOR JOINS THE BOARD
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OF THE COMMERCIAL INTERNET EXCHANGE
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Falls Church, Virginia, October 4, 1991 -- The Commercial Internet
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Exchange Association (CIX) today announced that Mr. Mitchell Kapor has
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joined its Board of Directors.
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Susan Estrada, President of CIX Association and also Executive Director
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of CERFnet, said "it is a pleasure to have Mitch join us in helping to
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encourage the growth of the Commercial Internet and establish a
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non-restrictive, open and and competitive public data internetworking
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marketplace internationally".
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Kapor said "I am very excited about the prospect of joining the CIX
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Board. The CIX is a voluntary, cooperative association which embodies the
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best approach to providing an open platform for commercial
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internetworking."
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Kapor has been active in public-interest work involving the social impact
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of computer and communications technologies.
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The other members of the CIX Board include Estrada, Martin L.
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Schoffstall, Chief Technology Officer for Performance Systems
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International, Inc. and Rick Adams, President & CEO of UUNET
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Technologies, Inc.
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The CIX Association is actively working to broaden the base of national
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and international cooperation and coordination among existing and
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emerging networking service providers. The organization provides a
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neutral forum for decision making as the global Internet migrates toward
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commercialization.
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Kapor is also President and Co-Founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation
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(EFF), is a Board member of On Technologies, Inc. and is the Founder of
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Lotus, Inc.
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TRUTH IN PACKAGING
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From:Thad Floryan (thad@btr.com)
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All this talk of cryptographic export restrictions CANNOT compare to the
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following short anecdote:
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One product I designed uses Motorola's DES implementation, the MC6859
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Data Encryption Chip.
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With each shipment of chips is enclosed a stern warning (paraphrased,
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since I'm posting this from home):
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``Products using this device are subject to export restrictions
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by the Office of Munitions Control of the Department of State...''
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These are real pretty chips with a purple ceramic substrate carrier,
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shiny gold cap over the silicon, and 24 gold IC pins.
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Turning the chip belly up, boldly emblazoned in white DAY-GLO lettering
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is:
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``MALAYSIA''
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Hoo boy! Motorola fabricates the silicon in Texas, then ships them OUT of
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the country for entombing, IMPORTS them back into the USA for resale, and
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now they cannot export the finished product.
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And DON'T tell me only the package is fabricated in Malaysia. I had a
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*LOT* of problem with some Western Digital chips that I needed to enclose
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in a product going to Canada regarding the Free Trade Agreement (FTA); I
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finally called the Canadian consulate for advice, spoke with a
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representative in their Technology Import/Export Office, and he simply
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asked "What is the country name on the underside of the chip?". I said
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"SINGAPORE", and he said, "Sorry, that means the product was not 50% or
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more manufactured in the USA and thus is subject to import tariffs"
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(contrasted with NO tariffs under the USA/Canada FTA).
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Thus, Canada believes the name on the underside of chips is the country
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of origin ( and now so do I).
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Go figure (the situation with the MC6859 DES chip! :-)
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TOP TEN QUOTES FROM LISA V
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From: arensb@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Andrew Arensburger)
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[Okay, so there aren't ten of them, but they are all quotes from the
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recent Usenix/LISA conference in San Diego. All quotes, as well as
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authors' names, are used with permission. -AA]
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"We have the most [thorough] test guy in the world... [I showed him
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this program and he asked,] 'but Rob, what if time runs backward?'"
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- Rob Kolstad (kolstad@sun.com)
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"Those Macintoshes aren't the cute little boxes you think they are."
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- Elizabeth Zwicky (zwicky@erg.sri.com)
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"I will not be presenting this talk in rap."
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- Arch Mott (amott@mips.com)
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"I like having a machine called 'elvis' on the network because
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that way, I can say 'ping elvis' and have it come back with 'elvis is
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alive'."
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- Carl Shipley (carl@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov)
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"Could I have optimized [this script] for legibility? Yes, but then
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I would have had to use more slides."
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- Tom Christiansen (tchrist@convex.com)
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"I don't know why I didn't use an underbar here. Maybe it would have
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made my line wrap or something."
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- Tom Christiansen (tchrist@convex.com)
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"You know, we really ought to do accounting on the Unix boxes. It
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should be a ten-minute hack..."
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- Former group head, 1987, quoted by John
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Simonson (gort@cc.rochester.edu)
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TELECOMMUTING
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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
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One interesting consequence of telecommuting which may result in attempts
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at legislation is the interaction with the social democrat's view of
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equal pay for work of equal value.
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One big advantage for the employer of telecommuters is that some areas of
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the country, and indeed the world, are far cheaper to live in, and the
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average salaries of various professions, including programmer and tech
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writer, are quite varied.
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The programmer that costs $80,000 in San Francisco might cost $40,000 in
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rural Indiana. Of course the houses in SFO cost 5 times as much as
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Indiana, too.
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Will employers push to hire cheap telecommuters? What if they go further,
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to China where the programmer costs $10,000 or less?
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Will people consider it fair for companies to pay equivalently skilled
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people vastly different sums based on where they live? Will the concept
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of expensive locations vanish in the telecommuting professions?
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THE FIRST TWO AMENDMENTS OF THE CYBERSPACE BILL OF RIGHTS
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1st Amendment
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
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a system, or prohibiting the free access to thereof; or abridging
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the freedom of posting, or of the user; or the right of the
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userbase peaceably to connect, and to email the government for
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a redress of grievances.
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2nd Amendment
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A well-informed userbase, being necessary to the security of a
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free system, the right of the people to keep,access and secure
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information shall not be infringed.
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NEW CORPORATE/ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP AVAILABLE AT EFF
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After a number of requests and much discussion, we have created a new
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membership category for EFF. This membership allows organizations to
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join. This membership fee is $100.00 annually. The sponsoring
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organization can, if it wishes designate up to five individuals as active
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members in the organization. Five copies of EFFECTOR and all other
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materials produced by or made available by the EFF will be sent to the
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organization or the designated members.
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DOUBLE YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO EFF
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Many major corporations, such as Digital Equipment Corporation
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and Microsoft, offer matching grant programs for their employees.
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These programs generally will match all or part of any donation made
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by an employee to certain charitable (501(c)3) organizations. If your
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company has such a program, doubling your contribution to EFF could be
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as easy as enclosing the necessary paperwork with your membership
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application.
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MEMBERSHIP IN THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION
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In order to continue the work already begun and to expand our efforts
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and activities into other realms of the electronic frontier, we need the
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financial support of individuals and organizations.
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If you support our goals and our work, you can show that support by
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becoming a member now. Members receive our quarterly newsletter,
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EFFECTOR, our bi-weekly electronic newsletter, EFFector Online (if you
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have an electronic address that can be reached through the Net), and
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special releases and other notices on our activities. But because we
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believe that support should be freely given, you can receive these
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things even if you do not elect to become a member.
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Your membership/donation is fully tax deductible.
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Our memberships are $20.00 per year for students, $40.00 per year for
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regular members. You may, of course, donate more if you wish.
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Our privacy policy: The Electronic Frontier Foundation will never, under
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any circumstances, sell any part of its membership list. We will, from
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time to time, share this list with other non-profit organizations whose
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work we determine to be in line with our goals. But with us, member
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privacy is the default. This means that you must actively grant us
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permission to share your name with other groups. If you do not grant
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explicit permission, we assume that you do not wish your membership
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disclosed to any group for any reason.
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>>>---------------- EFF@eff.org MEMBERSHIP FORM ---------------<<<
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Mail to: The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc.
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155 Second St. #12
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Cambridge, MA 02141
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I wish to become a member of the EFF I enclose:$__________
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$20.00 (student or low income membership)
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This allows any organization to
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become a member of EFF. It allows
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such an organization, if it wishes
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to designate up to five individuals
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within the organization as members.)
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