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****************************************************************** ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// /// /// /// /////// /////// /////// /// /// /// ////////////// /// /// ****************************************************************** EFFector Online Volume 5 No. 16 9/3/1993 editors@eff.org A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424 -==--==--==-<>-==--==--==- In this issue: Changes to EFFector Online 5.15 Outline of Testimony Before NIST Advisory Board Telecommunications Radio Project Returns Coming Soon: Commercial Version of PGP! O'Reilly Announces the Global Network Navigator ASIS 1994 Mid Year Call for Papers Yet *Another* Job Opening at EFF! Donate Your Old Computers -==--==--==-<>-==--==--==- ******************************* Changes to EFFector Online 5.15 ******************************* Please note the following changes from EFFector Online 5.15. Professor Spafford's address for the CFP'94 student paper competition is (e-mail and phone were correct): Professor Eugene Spafford Department of Computer Sciences 1398 Computer Science Building Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-1398 _____ EFF t-shirts are $10 with a $3 charge for shipping and handling. The shirts are only currently available in extra large. _____ The ASCII version of the Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet has already been updated. The updated version is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.eff.org. The location is still *********************************************** Outline of Testimony Before NIST Advisory Board *********************************************** On September 2, 1993, Jerry Berman and Bruce Heiman of the Digital Privacy and Security Working Group, a coalition of over 50 telecommunications, computer and public interest organizations chaired by EFF, testified before the Computer System Security and Privacy Advisory Board to NIST on the Administration's Clipper/Skipjack proposal. Here is an outline of the testimony. _____ Before the COMPUTER SYSTEM SECURITY AND PRIVACY ADVISORY BOARD Baltimore, MD Comments of the DIGITAL PRIVACY AND SECURITY WORKING GROUP September 2, 1993 The Digital Privacy and Security Working Group has been meeting for almost half a year discussing options for a new policy on cryptography, privacy, and security. These comments represent a summary of the Working Group's progress and will be presented in more complete form in a report to be made public early in the fall. GOALS A. The Digital Privacy & Security Working Group shares the Clinton Administration's goal of promoting the development of the National and International Information Infrastructure B. Critical attributes of the emerging information infrastructure are: o Interoperability across a network of networks o Adherence to national and international standards o Security o Privacy C. DPSWG conclusions regarding security and privacy policy o Strong encryption must be widely available in the market for the NII and the III to succeed as new pathways for commerce and communication. o Encryption used must be TRUSTED and must accommodate FLEXIBLE IMPLEMENTATIONS. o Encryption policy must assure compliance with constitutional privacy guarantees while meeting the legitimate needs of law enforcement and national security. A PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA We are aware that the Clinton Administration is in the process of completing a comprehensive policy review in this area. Based on our common goal of developing the National Information Infrastructure, we are hopeful that we can reach agreement with the Administration on the following principles as a framework for a new public policy on cryptography, privacy, and security. A. The private sector could accept Clipper/Slipjack as one of many cryptographic systems, provided its use remains truly voluntary. The user market must be allowed to pick the most appropriate cryptographic tools, without undue interference of government purchasing power or domestic legal barriers. B. In order to promote the use and development of strong encryption critical to the NII, the Administration should act swiftly to relax current export controls on cryptography. A critical indication of the voluntariness of Slipjack will be the willingness of the Administration to relax export controls. C. Even if a truly voluntary escrow system is proposed, many questions must be answered by the Administration before any escrow system could be accepted. o Who will act as escrow agents? o What public policy mechanism will guaranty that key escrow remains a voluntary option? o What public policy mechanism will guarantee the privacy and security of escrowed keys? o Who will be liable in the event of a security breach? D. Before making a final decision on Clipper/Skipjack, a more complete evaluation of law enforcement concerns must be presented publicly. o No quantitative, cost-benefit analysis has yet been presented. o No explanation of how a voluntary escrow system solves law enforcement problems, given the continued availability of other non-escrowed cryptography systems, has been offered. o No public consideration of alternatives to escrow systems has been undertaken. E. Digital Telephony o Documented problems have been rectified. o There is a general willingness to establish a more formal government-private sector consultation process to resolve any other identifiable problems now or in the future. o No justification for legislation exists at this time. CONCLUSION **************************************** Telecommunications Radio Project Returns **************************************** The Telecommunications Radio Project at KPFA-FM in Berkeley is delighted to announce the returen of our award-winning series "The Communications Revolution." Your support and participation with last year's series was fundamental to its success both as it aired and afterwards as listeners called to request tapes, transcripts, and resource guides in unprecedented numbers. I hope that you will help us once again by sharing information about "The Communications Revolution" with your friends, colleagues, members, etc. Following please find a list of this year's programs: November 3, 1993 9am PST Technophobia: The Social Disease of the '90s Who invents these gadgets that come with a fifty page operator's manual? Why is it that "user friendly" usaully isn't? Why do I need an engineering degree to operate my VCR? And why aren't humane, environmentally conscious values considered in the R&D of telecommunications? November 10, 1993 9am PST The New Sweatshops: The Glamour-less Electronics Industry The popular image of hi-tech jobs doesn't include the segregated workplace of immigrant workers in low pay, high stress, repetitive and hazardous labor--all the ones who create the new gadgets and gizmos of the computer age. November 17, 1993 9am PST Nintendo Over Baghdad: The Future of War Will new hi-tech weaponry make the unthinkable thinkable? Can war now be presented to the American public as a clean, sanitary affair, causing minimal (and therefore acceptable) "collateral damage"? How are telecommunications technologies contributing to a new mass psychology regarding war? November 24, 1993 When Your Health History Becomes Public Record The federal government is talking about creating a centralized national database for all our health records. They're already available to your future employer, landlord, neighbor. What is your right to privacy concerning your personal health history? December 1, 1993 Art and Music through the Nets: The Death of Individual Creativity? Interactive technologies increase accessibility to original art and music. Will we see the end of copyrights? Who owns culture and what is intellectual property in the age of electronic collaboration? December 8, 1993 The New National Information Infostructure: What's in it for Me? Internet, NREN, whatever you want to call it, an electronic interlink between government, education, and business organizations is rapidly taking shape. How are the big players jockeying for a piece of the action, and will the average citizen be left out of the game? December 15, 1993 Electronic Porn and Computer Network Censorship Cyberpunk culture dabbles in pornography and we have Playboy on CD-ROM. Does anyone have a right to regulate or censor this material? What are the issues surrounding the debate between civil liberties and the protection of the public? December 22, 1993 Occupational Hazards with Telecommunications Tools Why is it that after years of repetitive motion on typewriters, carpal tunnel syndrome is only now becoming widespread with the use of computers? Is it something about the keyboards? What's the latest on electromagnetic fields? VDT radiation? December 29, 1993 Technology in the Classroom: No Substitute for Teachers? Distance learning allows students from K through college access to programs and materials not in their schools. A new global village is being created in which kids learn from each other across continents. Are these glitzy gadgets for the few or an answer to our national crisis in education? January 5, 1994 Update on Competition since Divestiture: Who Wins and Who Loses? The phone companies are getting ready to compete for regional toll calls, offer new services such as multiple TV channels and interactive television. But some groups, such as rural residents, may be left out. Basic and Lifeline rates may go up. What will be the status of consumer protections with the new telecom technologies? January 12, 1994 The Death of Privacy--and Forget About Anonymity too Some workplaces now require that you carry a "smart card" so that you can be located anytime. City employees in one western city were asked to resign when the mayor read their e-mail messages--which were all about him! What are our rights to privacy and anonymity in the computer age? January 19, 1994 Can Instant Global Telecommunications be a Tool for Social Change? The environmental movement uses computer networks, fax, and other telecom tools for organizing. But how effective are they really? And how are conservative organizations networking in the '90s via computer databases, fax, and modem? January 26, 1994 Future Media: Instant News for Instant Views Editorial control over content of news and increasing pressure on news rooms to offer "infotainment" to the public is made easier by new telecommunications news gathering tools. How is all this working and what will be its effect on informing the public? All shows will air at 9 am PST. For more information about the series or for a list of stations carrying the show, please contact me at: Kim Lau Telecommunications Radio Project KPFA-FM 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way Berkeley CA 94704 510-848-6767 ext. 264 510-883-0311 (fax) *************************************** Coming Soon: Commercial Version of PGP *************************************** Philip Zimmermann has signed an agreement with ViaCrypt, a division of Lemcom Systems, Inc., to sell a commercial version of PGP. ViaCrypt is a company in Phoenix, Arizona, that already has an RSA license from Public Key Partners to sell products that use the RSA algorithm. The freeware version of PGP will still be available and will be maintained as well as the commercial version. Most corporations were not willing to use PGP because it was not licensed by PKP or RSA Data Security. With this commercial version of PGP, it will be possible for PGP to enter commercial environments for the first time and compete with other products such as PEM. This is expected to enhance PGP's viability as a de facto standard in the long run. ViaCrypt PGP will be available in the USA and Canada, for an introductory price of $100 for a single user, with quantity discounts available. For details, call ViaCrypt at (602) 944-0773, or contact Philip Zimmermann at prz@acm.org. ********************************** ASIS 1994 Mid Year Call for Papers ********************************** Call For Participation 1994 Mid-Year Meeting, American Society for Information Science Navigating the Networks May 22 - 25, 1994 Red Lion Hotel, Columbia River Portland, Oregon With amazing speed electronic networking systems have grown up around us; once simple roads leading directly to our destination have become a complex of interchanges and intersections, whether seen or not. Networking has experienced a phenomenal rate of growth (11,000 networks currently); the need for road maps, directional signs and directories is painfully clear and the implementation of wireless communications has barely begun. What will the interfaces be in the future? Will there be "smart highways" guiding drivers speed, direction, etc. and determining the best routing? Will knowbots become the search vehicle of choice? Who, if anyone, will be the electronic traffic cops and can we rely on either the legislatures or the courts to determine our future? Will there be toll roads? Can the electronic highways as we now know them (public networks) support both individual users (passenger cars) and commercial users (the tractor trailers of the digital highways)? What changes will take place in publishing, both scholarly and commercial? While online communicating via networks was once predominantly academic/research, the corporate world is the fastest growing sector (over 500,000 users) of national and international network users. Commercial growth, however, has been slowed by security concerns. How will legitimate U.S. and corporate security concerns and individual privacy fears be ameliorated in the new high speed data highway system? Will commercial traffic fundamentally alter the education/research sense of community that has grown up with Internet? Will "sneaker nets," LANs and WANs, be replaced by wireless networks, groupware and collaborative computer- supported work. What changes will result in how we work and what we do? Will decisions inexorably become more democratic but slower as has been predicted? Will the horns and shouts of inner city traffic be a metaphor for the "white noise" of computer lists and discussion groups? What tools exist for filtering out "noise" and what impact will that have on our work? Invitation The 1994 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, "Navigating the Networks" has as its focus the human side of networks, the psychology and sociology of using networks. What has been and will be the impact of networking technology on the individual and on organizations, their structure and goals? Original contributed papers are solicited on all aspects of networking use in information management. Panel discussions exploring legal and philosophical questions of use, quality, distribution, control, and ownership are welcome. Presentations of new technologies or applications to solve our information management problems are welcome. We invite submissions of papers, panels, tutorials, demonstrations and original ideas for programs on networking. Types of Submissions Contributed Papers The initial intent to submit should include the title and an extended outline or draft paper. Papers should address one or more of the issues outlined above. Presenters of accepted papers will be allowed 15-25 minutes for delivery. All papers will be refereed. All intents to submit papers must be received by September 1, 1993. Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 1, 1993; camera ready papers will be due by February 1, 1994. Panel, Special Interest Group, and Other Presentations Individual contributions and panel discussions are welcome. All intents to organize sessions should include a description of 250 words indicating the topic and proposed speakers to address the topic, with contact information for all speakers. A form for proposing panel sessions is attached. All intents to organize panel presentations and other program suggestions must be received by September 30, 1993. Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 1, 1993; a final list of speakers, with complete contact information, and camera ready copy (full length if desired, or abstract) will be due by February 1, 1994. Two copies of your proposal and abstracts are required. A paper copy or electronic copy (encouraged, e-mail or ASCII) should be sent to the addresses below. You will receive instructions for submission of final copy upon acceptance. Pat Molholt Asst. V.P. & Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources Columbia University Health Sciences Office of Scholarly Resources 701 West 168th Street, Room 201 New York, NY 10032 asis94my@columbia.edu ASIS 1994 Mid-Year Meeting 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 rhill@cni.org In order to maintain the quality of ASIS meetings and to be sure that meeting attendees can determine which presentations are most appropriate for the individual needs, ASIS requires that all submissions/proposals include the following information: Name, job title, company and full address of each presenter. Telephone, E-Mail, and fax number (if available) of each presenter. A biographical sketch of each presenter (50 words max.). The amount of time requested for the presentation (in 15 min. increments). A session description that can appear in promotional materials. Submissions without the above items will be returned for completion. ******************************** Yet *Another* Job Opening at EFF ******************************** Position Announcement The Electronic Frontier Foundation DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS The Electronic Frontier Foundation, based in Washington, DC, is a public interest organization that brings together legal, technical, and policy expertise to address the democratic potential and social impact of new computer and communications technologies. EFF has rapidly expanded its influence in the national public policy arena, helping to find common ground among the concerns of government, industry, and the public interest. EFF promotes the broad social and economic benefits offered by new information and communication technology while safeguarding principles of freedom, openness, competitiveness, and the civil liberties of individual citizens. EFF is seeking an experienced Director of Communications to articulate and communicate EFF's messages to a range of audiences. The Director of Communications will work closely with the Membership Coordinator, who will implement plans for membership development, and an Online Activist, who will be responsible for getting EFF 's message out on electronic networks. We're looking for an experienced wordsmith and ideasmith who can write and edit a range of policy, press and promotional materials, help develop a communication and membership strategy, define audiences, and develop themes that speak to those audiences through the electronic, broadcast, and print media. You must be an energetic, hands-on, team member who loves to write on a range of topics with style, depth, and political sensibility, and you should be comfortable with public speaking. Knowledge of public policy, technology issues, and experience in a public interest setting preferred. Applicants should be computer literate and have experience managing multiple projects, deadlines, and collaborations. Minimum B.S./B.A. plus 5 years professional experience in a related field such as journalism, politics, advertising, business communications, news or public relations. A sense of humor is required. Excellent salary and benefits, and lively, committed coworkers. This position is in Washington, DC. No phone calls, please. To apply, send resume, brief writing sample, cover letter and salary requirements by September 27 to our recruiter: Lisa Breit & Associates 54 Rich Valley Road Wayland, MA 01778 You may apply by e-mail (ASCII only please). Address to: lbreit@eff.org The Electronic Frontier Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. ************************* Donate Your Old Computers ************************* The Institute of Diplomacy and International Relations in Nairobi is in the process of establishing a computer center. 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