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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 00:09:27 PST
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From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (qnatrebhf unpxre mvar)
To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
Subject: [surfpunk-0063] DIGEST: SJG, PGP poem, comp lit, nikita, flame, jail
| Please unsubscribe me from this list.
| Due to the label "dangerous hacker zine" I was under the
| impression that this list concerned serious hacking info. I
| didn't realize that it was so comedy oriented.
I had hoped for a more substantive write up on the SJG trial ... anyone
got one? In the meantime, we're including the brief writeup by Paco.
(If CuD publishes a better one first, I probably won't duplicate it here.)
I'm glad to see Paco thinks this so positive; I was concerned that
$50K doesn't nearly compensate for wreking Steve Jackson's business. --strick
-- Subject: Justice for Steve jackson Games!
-- PGP or not PGP (from Hamlet Act III Scene I)
-- FREE EVENTS AT COMPUTER LITERACY BOOKSHOPS: 10 DAYS THAT SHOOK S. VALLEY
-- femme nikita
-- Yet another flame about security
-- ASCII Jail
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 01:31 GMT
From: Don Webb <0004200716@mcimail.com>
To: surfpunk <surfpunk@osc.osc.com>
Subject: Justice for Steve jackson Games!
Dear Surfpunks,
(and others)
You may have already heard this. Sorry about crosspostings.
The following files may be of interest to those who
may come under government scrutiny.
Some of you may remember when the Secret Service stole
a great deal of property from Steve Jackson Games for files
allegedly owned at one time by an employee. I pass along the good news
that you can sue the government and win in as little as three years.
Maat has not totally died, let's see if can get the old gal
and running again!
Don Webb
0004200716@mcimail.com
The Secret of magic is to transform the magician!
@#@$#@@#@@#$@#$@#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#$#@$#@$#@$
Date: Mon Mar 15, 1993 5:13 pm EST
From: Paco Xander Nathan
EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414
MBX: wixer!wixer.cactus.org!pacoid@cactus.org
TO: * Don Webb / MCI ID: 420-0716
Subject: COMMUN - We have a verdict. (fwd)
Sent from the cyberdeck of: pacoid@wixer.cactus.org (Paco Xander Nathan)
For Lists That Care About Computer Privacy:
In case you didn't catch this elsewheres.. I've been covering the
SJG vs. SS trial for certain magazines. Hopefully you'll be able
to read soon an in-depth, first hand account of the fiasco our paid
officials attempted to conduct during the SS trial.
The bueno news is that individuals and small companies can actually
sue the US Fed govt for privacy violations, and win.
Judge Sparks didn't give a whole lot of airplay to the *damages*
sustained, but this is an important step forward. The flood
gates are opened..
pxn.
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Forwarded message:
> From cs.utexas.edu!tic.com!sjackson@cactus.org Sun Mar 14 16:25:06 1993
> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 93 15:05:19 -0600
> From: tic.com!sjackson@cactus.org (Steve Jackson)
> Message-Id: <9303142105.AA17568@aahsa.tic.com>
> To: ...
> Subject: We have a verdict.
>
> We won.
>
> Pete Kennedy, our attorney at George, Donaldson & Ford, called me
> with the news about 3:30 today. Apparently the decision came in late
> Friday while Pete was at the CFP.
>
> The judge ruled for us on both the PPA and ECPA, though he says that
> taking the computer out the door was not an "interception." (I have not
> read the decision yet, so no quotes here.)
>
> He awarded damages of $1,000 per plaintiff under the ECPA.
>
> Under the PPA, he awarded SJ Games $42,259 for lost profits in 1990, and
> out of pocket costs of $8,781.
>
> Our attorneys are also entitled to submit a request for their costs.
>
> No word on appeal yet.
>
> Look for a more complete and coherent account after we all read
> the decision.
>
> Please copy this announcement to all electronic and other media.
>
> Thanks for your support through all this!
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To: rms@ai.mit.edu
Subject: crypto poem
From: pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 93 15:17:29 -0800
Subject: And now for something completely different...
PGP or not PGP (from Hamlet Act III Scene I)
--------------
PGP or not PGP - that is the question
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous patents,
Or to take arms against a sea of lawyers,
And by encrypting end them? To crypt, to sign
No more; and by a program to say we end
The patents and the export restrictions
That RSA is heir to - 'tis a consummation.
Devoutly to be wish'd. To crypt, to sign.
To crypt - perchance to pem-code: aye, there's the rub!
For in that test of wills what lawyers may come
When we have shuffled off this PGP business,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
that makes calamity of such legal restrictions.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of Leavenworth
Th'patent systems wrong, the export laws worse,
The pangs of despis'd lawyers, the NSA's delay,
The insolence of Sternlight, and the spurns
That patient usage of PGP takes
When he himself might his quietus make
with PEM? Who would this program bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary system,
But that the dread of something after PEM
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourne
No cryptographer returns -- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
- Apologies to Bill Shakespeare
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Subject: CLB EVENT NOTICE
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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1993 17:53:02 EST
From: SUN_ANVIL <palma%TRBOUN.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com
Subject: RE: [surfpunk-0061] FAQ: SURFPUNK Fequently Asked Questions v0.0
femme nikita is someone about whom an american remake should NOT
be made....
a
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From: norit@attmail.com
Date: 31 Dec 69 23:59:59 GMT
To: surfpunk@osc.osc.com
Subject: Yet another flame about security
The following message was sent by me to obs@world with cc surfpunk.
I got surfpunk's address wrong and it bounced.
meanwhile flame cooled a bit and obs sent me reply saying (more or less):
1) There are ways to cancel a rip-off charge (if you're alert)
2) You're free to do as you want, but why do you trust a waiter with your card
and not the internet.
I replied, maybe they'll reply and ad-infinitum until we become close friends
(and I don't think long chats between friends are important to our overloaded
community). Anyway, here's the original message. I still think it's important
since people don't suspect the capability of total strangers in sites you've
never headr of to tap your mail (I wonder if obs gave it a thought).
---------cut/paste (don't swallow/inhale)------------------------
*flame on*
I got an order form from "The Online Bookstore" (obs) saying:
"Fill in credit card details, etc." Absentmindedly I almost filled it.
Luckily, I was shaken back to reality by the rest of the message:
> ... Please be advised that we cannot guarantee the security
> of your charge card number when it's transferred over the net,
> though we process orders immediately and delete the file at that time.
Now I KNOW obs are GOOD people. And if I was dumb enough to almost
send my company's card details on the wild blue internet, I don't
blame obs for unintentionally "setting the trap" for me. Both me
and obs proved some degree of gulibility.
So once again brothers & sisters of the Internet:
1) Don't send Credit-card E-mail order forms
(Even if you're honest! Even if it contains a warning!)
2) Never fill one. It's a tough matrix out there. Somebode ELSE can lift
your number.
3) Write to your congressman, E-mail your president, do anything
you can do as citizens of your respective countries in order
to set-up a legaly recognized encryption/authentication system.
*flame off*
Virtually yours,
Nimrod Kerrett (Abu Zeresh)
17 Rue du Lac
Geneve 1207
Switzerland
norit@attmail.com
Presmission given to repost (including name & details)
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From: norit@attmail.com
Date: 31 Dec 69 23:59:59 GMT
To: surfpunk@osc.osc.com
Subject: ASCII Jail
Hi,
Enclosed is my proposal for the campain for MIME.
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$ "$o"$$$$$"$$o$$$$o$o$"o"o$oo$o$ $$o"$$o"o$$$o$$$$"$$o"$$$$o$ $"o$
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Break out of the ASCII jail
Get a MIME reader
Can you tell me more about about MIME?
Do you have a PC reader/packer, Unix source code? doc describing standard?
Does it support Jpeg? (we AT&T dudes pay almost $0.50/K transitted).
[ If you ask archie about "metamail", he'll lead you to some software.
The standard is in internet Request For Comment (RFC) number 1341:
1341 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Mechanisms for Specifying
and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies
Try something like ftp://ftp.uu.net/inet/rfc/rfc1341. -- strick
]
Also: can you mail me back-Issues 57, 49, 24?
Thanx
Abu-Zeresh
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