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EFFector Online 4.03 12/23/1992 editors@eff.org
A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-424
IN THIS ISSUE:
THE NEW, STREAMLINED BILL O' RIGHTS by John Perry Barlow
CRACKER BREAKS INTO ATHENA @ MIT: The Security Alert
EFF'S LEGISLATIVE WATCH by Shari Steele
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The New, Streamlined
BILL O' RIGHTS
(As amended by the recent federal & state decisions)
Amendment 1
Congress shall encourage the practice of Judeo-Christian religion by
its own public exercise thereof and shall make no laws abridging the
freedom of responsible speech, unless such speech contains material
which is copyrighted, sexually arousing, or deeply offensive to
non-Europeans, non-males, differently-abled or alternatively
preferenced persons; or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, unless such assembly is taking place on corporate or
military property or within an electronic environment, or to make
petitions to the Government for a redress of grievances, unless those
grievances relate to national security.
Amendment 2
A well-regulated Militia having become irrelevant to the security of
the State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms against one
another shall nevertheless remain uninfringed.
Amendment 3
No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house,
without the consent of the owner, unless that house is thought to
have been used for the distribution of illegal substances.
Amendment 4
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers. and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, may
be suspended to protect public welfare, and no Warrants need be
issued, but upon the unsupported suspicion of law enforcement
officials, any place or conveyance shall be subject to immediate
search and such places or conveyances and any property within
them may be permanently confiscated without further judicial proceeding.
Amendment 5
Any person may be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise
infamous crime involving illicit substances, terrorism, or child pornography,
or upon any suspicion whatever; and may be subject for the same
offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb, once by the
State courts and again by the Federal Judiciary; and may be
compelled by various means, including interrogation or the forced submission of
breath samples, bodily fluids, or encryption keys, to be a witness
against himself, refusal to do so constituting an admission of guilt;
and may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without further
legal delay; and any property thereby forfeited shall be dedicated
to the discretionary use of law enforcement agents.
Amendment 6
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a
speedy and private plea bargaining session before pleading guilty.
He is entitled to the Assistance of underpaid and incompetent
Counsel to negotiate his sentence, except where such sentence falls under
federal mandatory sentencing requirements.
Amendment 7
In Suits at common law, where the contesting parties have nearly
unlimited resources to spend on legal fees, the right of trial by
jury shall be preserved.
Amendment 8
Sufficient bail may be required to ensure that dangerous criminals
will remain in custody, where cruel punishments are usually
inflicted.
Amendment 9
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others which may be asserted by the
Government as required to preserve public order, family values, or
national security.
Amendment 10
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
shall be reserved to the United States Departments of Justice and
Treasury, except that the States shall have the right to ban
abortions.
Derived by J. P .Barlow
New York, New York
December 21, 1992
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Our Farflung Correspondents
From: Roland H. Pesch <pesch@cygnus.com>
To: junk@cygnus.com
Subject: 20 years of progress in Scotts Valley, CA
A front-page story (headlined "High tech, high crimes") in today's
Santa Cruz Sentinel features a fascinating quote from the Chief of
Police of Scotts Valley:
"It's all new", says Scotts Valley Police Chief Steve Walpole.
"Twenty years ago, who would have thought you could arrest
someone for what's in his head?"
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MIT Discovers Athena Security Breech
Recently, the MIT Information Systems staff discovered that one of
the Institute's Athena dialup servers had been compromised through an
unauthorized modification of the machine's system software.
If you have used the Athena dialup service during the last
two months to telnet to other machines, read on. Your
accounts on other machines may have been compromised.
Specifically, each time the telnet command was executed on this
Athena dialup machine the userid, password, and name of the system to
which the Athena user was connecting were evidently captured by an
unauthorized user. This individual is now in a position to use the
captured information to gain access to other systems. Our official
system logs indicate that during the time the modified version of the
telnet program was in place, over 4000 individuals used this particular
dialup server. Those individuals who executed the telnet command from
this machine within the past two months may have had their accounts on
other machines compromised.
Check your username
To determine whether you are among the 4000 individuals most at
risk, you can use a command called checkmyid located in the Athena info
locker. From your Athena account, at the athena% prompt, type:
attach info
/mit/info/checkmyid
Change your password
We recommend that all Athena users change their passwords frequently -
once a semester is recommended. If checkmyid verifies that you are
one of the 4000 people who used this specific dialup server during the
last two months, we STRONGLY recommend that you change your
passwords immediately on ALL systems, including Athena, to which you may
have telneted. You must assume that all accounts you may have reached
using telnet are compromised.
Your new Athena password should be at least 6 characters long, and can
contain any combination of UPPER- and lower-case letters, numbers,
or other symbols that appear on the computer keyboard. For further
information on choosing a secure password, see Athena's On-Line
Help Service.
Alert others
In addition please inform the system manager of any machines -
including Athena workstations in faculty offices - to which you may
have connected, since it is possible that the intruder may have used your
account to compromise those machines as well.
The individual who compromised our system used a pattern of attack
identical to one used by an individual operating from outside the
MIT community to attack a number of systems across the country during
the past year. In all likelihood, if you are among those whose accounts
were compromised, you will probably not find any damage to your
files.
This individual's mode of operation is believed to be limited to
breaking into accounts for the sole purpose of discovering any
userids and passwords stored there to enable him to break into additional
systems.
We sincerely apologize for