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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jamie@mccarthy.org">jamie</A> on Thursday September 28, @07:55PM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the slumlessor-of-two-evils dept.</B></FONT><BR>
The NYT tells us about
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/28/politics/28ADBO.html">Gore's latest campaign commercial</a>,
which tells us that Gore will "fight violence and pornography on the
Internet, helping parents block out what children shouldn't see."
<A HREF="mailto:zhensel@att.net">zhensel</A> comments:
<i>"I was aware of Lieberman's previous efforts at censoring, but this
seems a little bit ridiculous. Should we expect a government provided
net filter for families? A government requirement that sites rate
their content? I don't see how a president could accomplish
this."</I> There are many ways; the problem is that most parents don't
need censorware, and they especially don't need the government pushing
it on them. The NYT today has an above-the-fold, front-page story in
which parents say censorship of films, music, and the internet is
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/28/national/28PARE.html">Their Job,
Not Politicians'</a>.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jellicle@inch.com">michael</A> on Thursday September 28, @04:14AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the got-your-back,-man----waaaaay-back dept.</B></FONT><BR>
<A HREF="http://www.thecrimson.com">harvardian</A> writes: <I>"Just thought I'd mention that Harvard joined the ranks of universities refusing to ban Napster. The story from our campus newspaper is <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/news/article.asp?ref=8922">here</a>."</I>
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jellicle@inch.com">michael</A> on Wednesday September 27, @07:29AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the numbers-game dept.</B></FONT><BR>
Anonymous Coward writes: <I>"It appears by reading <a href="http://www.counterpane.com/rijndael.html">here</a> that the Rijndael encryption algorithm has had more organized cryptanalysis performed against it and might not have fared too terribly well even using up to 9 rounds."</I> Rijndael is one of the candidates for the U.S. Government's next-generation encryption standard.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="http://hemos.net">Hemos</A> on Tuesday September 26, @06:16PM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the better-do-a-good-job dept.</B></FONT><BR>
sconeu writes: <I>"<A HREF="http://www.foxnews.com">Fox News</A> is reporting that <A HREF="http://www.foxnews.com/national/092600/carnivore.sml">the Illinois Institute of Technology will review Carnivore</A>. Fox further reports that 'The Justice Department said in a written statement that it received 11 proposals from various organizations, including the University of California—Davis, and the National Software Testing Laboratory.'"</I> Representatives from a law school (
<HREF="http://www.kentlaw.edu">Chicago-Kent College of Law</a>, not Kent State as previously stated; thanks to <A HREF="mailto:corprew+filter.incoming@cuneiverse.com">corprew</A> for the correction -- tl) will be looking at it as well, and it's slated to start in December.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="http://hemos.net">Hemos</A> on Tuesday September 26, @05:35PM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the this-is-really-bad dept.</B></FONT><BR>
Nightspore writes: <I>"Yes, while you slept last night another supra-governmental body was hard at work readying a shiny new set of chains for you. Read <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/zd/zd7.htm">more</a> on how the US and EU are putting the finishing touches on their international cybercrimes treaty. The treaty will force all signatories (i.e. your government) to make illegal the 'import and distribution of devices used for hacking.' Signatories also would be required to 'provide law enforcement authorities with the ability to conduct computer searches and seize computer data.'
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jamie@mccarthy.org">jamie</A> on Tuesday September 26, @10:35AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the unlikely-confusion dept.</B></FONT><BR>
<A HREF="mailto:kgryczan@n21mail.com">cecil36</A> writes <I>"Visitors to <a href = "http://www.f---edcompany.com">F*cked Company (FC)</a> were greeted with a cease and desist letter from
<a href="http://www.idealab.com/">Idealab!</a>.
Apparently, Idealab! is suing FC over the use of the logos of the companies that they own. FC is countering with fair use, stating that these companies have a bad financial record, and FC is making humor out of their situation."</I>
Whatever. Wake me when this one is over. Oh, and a caution to sensitive readers: click any nearby links and you will be forced to read the
<a href="http://www.capalert.com/capreports/southpark.htm">most foul</a>
of the
<a href="http://isbn.nu/0679764275/price">foul words</a>
(you can't tell what I'm talking about, can you?, because I have cleverly inserted an asterisk to disguise the actual word).
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jellicle@inch.com">michael</A> on Tuesday September 26, @10:11AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the right-think dept.</B></FONT><BR>
pbf writes: <I>"This <A HREF="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D91">article</A> from <A HREF="http://www.securityfocus.com/">securityfocus.com</A> has an interesting view on what RIAA-funded site <A HREF="http://www.cybercitizenship.org/">Cybercitizenship.org</A> believes is legal or not on the Internet, as well as how you should educate your kids for that matter. This is quite interesting and the conclusion indicates fairly accurately the tone of the article: </I>"When did federal prosecutors and hi-tech industry moguls became regarded as authorities on cyber ethics or effective parenting?"<I>&nbsp;&nbsp; Indeed... So are you <A HREF="http://www.cybercitizenship.org/">surfing like a hero or are surfing like a zero</A> ?"</I>
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jellicle@inch.com">michael</A> on Tuesday September 26, @09:08AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the perl-for-fun-and-profit dept.</B></FONT><BR>
<A HREF="mailto:remco@KILLSPAMxgov.net">rbb</A> writes <I>"The <a href="http://www.mpaa.org">MPAA</a> is sending out new cease-and-desist letters to people who apparently did not remove DeCSS from their site. The (obviously script-powered) <a href="http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/mpaa.shtml">letter they sent out</a> is hilarious!"</I> Wording appears to be stronger than previous letters.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jellicle@inch.com">michael</A> on Tuesday September 26, @08:01AM</B><BR>
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<A HREF="http://mrmagoo at mrmagoo dot dhs dot org">mrmag00</A> writes: <I>"When I first read this article, I figured that Sega was doing the right thing. However, after reading it again I found that it fits perfectly into Your Rights Online. If I am not wrong, in the U.S. we have freedom of speech, yet Sega is threatening to sue a news site for posting news on releases of illegal Dreamcast games. <a href="http://www.isonews.com">iSONEWS</a> announced that it has <a href="http://www.isonews.com/announcement-dc.php3">closed</a> its Dreamcast section because of several threatening letters from Sega's attorney. Is this limiting freedom of speech, or is it suggesting illegal activity? There are no actual illegal files on the Web site, just information on when releases of these things start showing up. They are definitely not seeing all of these releases; how does iSONEWS even know if these are being released?"</I> The correspondence makes for good reading.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jellicle@inch.com">michael</A> on Tuesday September 19, @01:02PM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the workaround dept.</B></FONT><BR>
ctucker writes <I>"According to <A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com/news/462847.asp">this</a> article at <A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com/">MSNBC</A>, students working on school newspapers are using the internet to publish stories that are too uncomfortable for their school administrators to allow to appear in the paper."</I> I'm skeptical of these claims. There's a big difference between being able to put up a webpage which some students might see sometime and being able to publish something in a paper distributed in school. One is not really a direct substitute for the other. Plus I've seen plenty of students get "in trouble" at school for things done entirely on their own time.
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