From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 09:17:22 MST
Mike Lorrey:
>I would caution against making such a judgement. The ACLU is notorious
>for putting an excessively left wing spin on any document they publish,
>and they cherry pick which 'civil liberties' they choose to protect.
This comes via the cypherpunks.
Amara
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http://www.politechbot.com/p-04428.html
DOJ quietly drafts USA Patriot II, includes anti-crypto section
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 21:53:58 -0500
To: politech@politechbot.com
Subject: FC: DOJ quietly drafts USA Patriot II, includes anti-crypto section
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Thanks to Joe for being the first one to submit this... Here's a duplicate
URL if the original is too slow:
http://www.privacy.org/patriot2draft.pdf
Note the draft legislation creates a new federal felony of willfully using
encryption in the commission of a felony. "No more than five years" in
prison plus a hefty fine. This seems at first glance to be remarkably
similar to what was in the SAFE bill years ago. Here's a Politech message
from 1998, before the politechbot.com archives:
http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.98.05.11-98.05.17/msg00046.html
Question: When encryption is omnipresent in everything from wireless
networks to hard drives to SSH clients, might the basic effect of such a
law be to boost potential maximum prison terms by five years?
Second question: Peer-to-peer piracy is arguably a federal felony under the
NET Act. If a future peer-to-peer network uses encryption (as it should),
does that mean that copyright-infringing users would be guilty of a double
felony?
That's just one section of a 120-page bill. The rest is worth reading.
-Declan
--- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 14:10:51 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall@astron.Berkeley.EDU> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: Justice Department Drafts Sweeping Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Act (fwd) did you see this? Joe ---------- Forwarded message ---------- New on The Public i: Justice Department Drafts Sweeping Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Act Center Publishes Secret Draft of 'Patriot II' Legislation The Bush Administration is preparing a bold, comprehensive sequel to the USA Patriot Act that will give the government broad, sweeping new powers to increase domestic intelligence-gathering, surveillance and law enforcement prerogatives, and simultaneously decrease judicial review and public access to information. The Center for Public Integrity has obtained a draft, dated January 9, 2003, of this previously undisclosed legislation and is making it available in full text. The bill, drafted by the staff of Attorney General John Ashcroft and entitled the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, has not been officially released by the Department of Justice, although rumors of its development have circulated around the Capitol. To read the full report and documents, visit http://www.public-i.org M. Asif Ismail Production Editor Center for Public Integrity http://www.publicintegrity.org (202) 466-1300, ext: 124 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ******************************************************************** Amara Graps, PhD email: amara@amara.com Computational Physics vita: ftp://ftp.amara.com/pub/resume.txt Multiplex Answers URL: http://www.amara.com/ ******************************************************************** "Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?" --Calvin
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