Links for

Computers, Crime and Privacy Seminar

[Students are encouraged to suggest more]

Richard Epstein of Chicago and Kathleen Sullivan of Stanford have some comments on the DOJ position on encryption. They go through many of the constitutional and practical issues we have discussed.

The proposed revision to UCB 2B has been attacked as­among other things­an expansion of contract law that ought to be preempted by copyright law. Boalt is holding a conference on the subject the weekend of April 25th.

Ron Rivest, the "R" in RSA, has a new approach to the problem of keeping messages secret--and one that may not be covered by current export law.

An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control: Consultation version of working document prepared for European Parliament by its Directorate General for Research Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (STOA)

An interview with a former NSA director on the subject of encryption. Best quote: "99% of the American public has no idea what crypto is."

Hacker culture is alive and well--boasts and all--CNN on teens hacking the pentagon.

FBI warnings of the dangers of pedophiles on the Internet. Out of 23 "children" in an internet chat room, 22 were pedophiles and one was an FBI agent.

First conviction for sending hate EMail

Proposed legislation to require libraries using federal money to connect to the internet to provide filtering software to protect children.

Dorothy Denning co-authored an article looking at cases where encryption interfered with a criminal investigation. A summary, the list of cases, some commentary, and part of an online discussion involving Denning, are all webbed.

• A brief history of the Internet.

• Americans for Computer Privacy is a new organization for computer privacy, with an interesting home page.
• Softwar provides the internet with the benefit of the Freedom of Information Act--lots of dirt about government, crypto, industry etc. Some of it might be true.
• CyberWire Dispatches is a good place to keep up to date on Cyberspace issues.
• The homepage of the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
• EFF Archive of lots of interesting stuff.
• Archives (and current issue) of the EFFector, the EFF newsletter.
• The home page of the National Research Council's Committee to Study National Cryptography Policy.
• Computers and academic freedom archive, including computer porn faq.
• WIRED magazine index of Privacy Resources. Lots of stuff, information on legislation, articles from Wired, responses from people involved in the debate. Homepage of Lance Hoffman, author of that book you're using. He is apparently the chair of George Washington University's Institute for Computer and Telecommunication Systems.

• The text of the book The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling.
• Bruce Sterling's texts on the net, includes articles, The Hacker Crackdown, Speeches, etc.
• Also his afterward to the Hacker Crackdown.
• A summary of the Steve Jackson case, written by one of his attorneys.
• The Privacy Protection Act under which Steve Jackson Games won damages from the U.S. Secret Service.
• The Electronic Communications and Privacy Act, under which several people won damages from the U.S. Secret Service for reading their EMail stored on one of SJG's computers.

• The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, with tips and information for the public on technological threats to personal privacy.
• Glass Houses on the Information Highway. Has an excellent list of documents and organizations related to Privacy.
• Electronic Privacy Information Center. (may be currently down) .
• An article on Right to Privacy in the Age of Telecommunication
• An interesting page on "Counterintelligence and Technical Security."

• Legislative attempts to regulate encryption currently center around the SAFE bill.
  • The original version, by Representative Goodlatte, eliminated export controls and restricted future regulation.
  • The amendments by the National Security Committee keep the export controls.
  • The amended version from the Intelligence committee reverses the bill, requiring all encrypted material to be immediately decryptable by law enforcement agents with proper authority.
• A draft of my article on strong privacy.
• The new version of the regulations restricting the export of encryption software, now under the Commerce Department (EAR) rather than the State Department (ITAR).There is also a hypertext version.
• The Metaphor is the Key: Cryptography, the Clipper Chip, and the Constitution is a detailed and interesting law review article about the Clipper Chip by Michael Froomkin.
• Answers to frequently asked questions about Cryptography.
• RSA Data Security, Inc.'s homepage.
• An archive of the Cypherpunks mailing list.
• Cryptography and the National Resource Council: The Role of Private Groups in Public Policy, by Kenneth W. Dam
• Verisign's project to provide the world with digital signatures is at this link.

• The home page of an MIT class 6.805/STS085: Readings on Computer Communications and Freedom of Expression
• Margaret Radin at Stanford has a Legal Issues in Cyberspace home page for her class.
• As evidence that papers sometimes take on a life of their own, here is a webbed article on the interstate transportation of stolen property issue by one of my Chicago students.
• The homepage of Michael Froomkin
• The Cornell censorship case

• A database of all Supreme Court cases since 1937.
• A search page for US Case Law.
• A new online computer law journal is at this link
• The Internet Legal Practice Newsletter is a free Internet-based Newsletter covering issues of concern to lawyers using the Internet.

CDA and Porn on the Net

• Cybersitter says it provides software to keep children from reading obscenity online. It has been the target of criticism as "censorware" by peacefire, a teen run organization supporting online free speech, and a recent charge of mailbombing someone who sent its president a critical EMail.
• Cybersitter is using legal threats to try to keep secret the list of sites that it bans. Some of the threats are aimed at an 18 year old college student and his web page.
• The Loudoun Country, Virginia, library system is under fire for using filtering software to control patrons' access to the internet.
• Material on the case of Jake Baker, who was arrested for posting a sexually explicit story whose victim had the name of one of his female classmates.
• Loving v Boren is a case upholding the Universityof Oklahoma's restrictions on access to certain newsgroups.
• An extensive debate on the Rimm Study of online pornography--which, according to whom you believe, was or was not a scam.
• Some information on the legal status of the communications decency act--which was arguably a result of the Rimm Study.
• Federal Communications Law Journal should have: The Legislative History of Senator Exon's Communications Decency Act: Regulating Barbarians on the Information Superhighway
• The full text of the government's Supreme Court brief in defense of the CDA.
• The Computer Decency Act and a recent constitutional challenge to it.
• A brief in support of the CDA.
• The ACLU's brief in Reno v ACLU.
• A Reno v. ACLU amicus brief filed by NY attorney Jamie Stecher on behalf of Jon Lebkowsky and Site Specific Inc.
• An amicus brief filed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
• The final Department of Justice Brief in ACLU v Reno--the CDA case.
• The oral arguments in ACLU v Reno.
• Sex, Laws and Cyberspace.

Links to Computer Crime Info

• An archive of computer crime info from CPSR
• A recent news story on Internet Frauds.
• A Microsoft page on computer security on the Internet.
• A recent news story on the use of the Internet to find missing kids.
• A story on malicious code from the Chaos Computer Club of West Germany, and Microsoft's reaction.
• The exploder control and Microsoft's authenticode--digital signatures in action.
• "Your Clickstream is Showing" is an article on on-line privacy.
• Lots of security holes brought you courtesy of LOpht.
• How to steal money with ActiveXbrought you courtesy of the Chaos Computer Club of Hamburg.
• How to read other people's EMail from your web page--a brand new security loophole.
• The Shockwave loophole, applied to you.Go to this site to see a demonstration of a web site reading your directory.
• Fortune describes Randal Schwartz as a contractor that Intel had "arrested before he did any damage." A lot of people on the net think Intel was the villain of the case. Possible paper topic.
• Virus Hoaxes

Miscellaneous

• A lengthy discussion of Scientology and the net, from a Dutch perspective.
• A news story on FBI efforts against software piracy.
• A site that lets you surf the web anonymously, along with discussions of web privacy issues.
• The inner circle site discusses issues of privacy, piracy, et. al. with something of an outlaw attitude.
• The Phil Karn case on exporting encryption software.
• The Bernstein case on exporting encryption software.
• Georgia anonymity case. Some additional material on it.
• Compuserve v. Cyber Promotions.
• The FCC has just come out with a paper arguing against regulation of the net.
• The NY state legislature is considering a bill to regulate EMail Spam.

The Year Before Last's Current Interest links:

• A good summary of the final version of the digital wiretap bill can be found at this link.
• For Yahoo's index of material on security and encryption issues, go to this link.
• The case for Clipper is at: this link.
• Minnesota sets out to police the Internet -- all of it. Read about it at this link.
• A new online computer law journal is at this link.
• Verisign's project to provide the world with digital signatures is at this link.

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Frivolous Links

Annoy.com (which in addition to being frivolous is suing Janet Reno to challenge the constitutionality of the CDA).

Among these images is a print of Manet's "Olympia" When this now famous nude was unveiled in 1863, it caused an outrage because of its blatant sexuality. (From Carl Kadie's FAQ on school policies re internet pornography). (Unfortunately, all you get is a small greyscale version).

Dilbert on shrink-wrap licenses.

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