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FILE LIST Last Updated: 03-04-1994 ID# FILE NAME ACC. T UPLOADED BY DATE --- -------------------- ---- - ----------------------------------- ---------- 38 Ecpa-1986.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Ecpa-1986 - Public Law 99-508--OCT 21, 1986, Electronic KEY: Ecpa-1986.sit KBytes: 25600 DESC: Communications Privacy Act of 1986.100 STAT. 1848 PUBLIC LAW DESC: 99-508--OCT. 21, 1986 PUBLIC LAW 99-508 99th Congress. This is a DESC: detailed document with all sorts of titles, sections and statutes DESC: pertaining to Electronic communications. This document is DESC: distributed by Electronic Frontier Foundation. DESC: 37 Eff-about.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Eff-about - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was founded in KEY: Eff-about.sit KBytes: 6144 DESC: July of 1990 to ensure that the principles embodied in the DESC: Constitution and the Bill of Rights are protected as new DESC: communications technologies emerge. From the beginning, EFF has DESC: worked to shape our nation's communications infrastructure and the DESC: policies that govern it in order to maintain and enhance First DESC: Amendment, privacy and other democratic values. We believe that our DESC: overriding public goal must be the creation of Electronic DESC: Democracy, so our work focuses on the establishment of many things. DESC: Read this article to find out more! 35 EFFector1.3.0.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 10-27-1993 DESC: EFF1.3.0 - EFFector1.0 ->3.00,the Online Journal of the Electronic KEY: EFFector1.3.0.sit KBytes: 759808 DESC: Frontier Foundation. Contains the EFF journal for 1.00 through 3.00. DESC: DESC: 34 EFFector3.02.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 10-27-1993 DESC: EFFector3.02 - EFFector3.02, 8/19/92, the Online Journal of the KEY: EFFector3.02.sit KBytes: 6144 DESC: Electronic Frontier Foundation. Contents: GETTING A HANDLE ON THE DESC: FUTURE OF NSFNET by Andrew Blau (blau@eff.org) A Report on the July DESC: 23 Meeting of the Communications Policy Forum in Washington, D.C. DESC: DESC: DESC: 33 EFFector3.03.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 10-27-1993 DESC: EFFector3.03 - EFFector3.03 8/24/92, the Online Journal of the KEY: EFFector3.03.sit KBytes: 14336 DESC: Electronic Frontier Foundation. Contents: THE EFF AND THE FBI: DESC: Two Letters; ONE BBSCON REPORTS; At Play in the Field of the DESC: Boards; Dueling BBSCONS. 32 Effector3.05.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 10-27-1993 DESC: EFFector 3.05 9/17/92 - the online journal of the Electronic KEY: Effector3.05.sit KBytes: 14336 DESC: Frontier Foundation. Contents: A Guide to EFF Legal Services; EFF DESC: Testimony on Digital Privacy as Given by David Farber; What EFF Did DESC: on Your Summer Vacation. 31 EFFector3.06.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 10-27-1993 DESC: EFFector 3.06 - The online journal of the Electronic Frontier KEY: EFFector3.06.sit KBytes: 12288 DESC: Foundation. A Guide to EFF Legal Services; EFF Testimony on Digital DESC: Privacy as Given by David Farber; What EFF Did on Your Summer DESC: Vacation. 30 Effector3.08.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 10-27-1993 DESC: Effector.3.08 - EFFector 3.08 11/4/02. The Online Journal of the KEY: Effector3.08.sit KBytes: 14336 DESC: Electronic Frontier Foundation. Contents - A TECHNOLOGY POLICY FOR DESC: AMERICA Six Broad Initiatives by Bill Clinton (September, 1991). DESC: This information may be coming to you post-election, but it's DESC: important to know what our President-elect is thinking. Write your DESC: Congressperson! Your opinions are valuable. DESC: 29 EFFector3.09.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 10-27-1993 DESC: EFFector.3.09 - EFFector 3.09, 11/9/92. The Online Journal of the KEY: EFFector3.09.sit KBytes: 11264 DESC: Electronic Frontier Foundation. Contents - Computer Spies by Mitch DESC: Kapor; Building Blocks as Stumbling Blocks:a Commentary on the 15th DESC: NCSC, by Rebecca Mercuri; This Old DOS. 28 Effector4.00.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector4.00 - ACCESSING THE NSA JOHN GILMORE FILES SUIT WITH THE KEY: Effector4.00.sit KBytes: 11264 DESC: NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY. At the beginning of July 1992, John DESC: Gilmore filed a FOIA request with NSA asking for access to parts of DESC: cryptologic treatises written by NSA personnel - Military DESC: Cryptanalysis, Parts III and IV, by William Friedman (WF-3/4); and DESC: Military Cryptanalytics, Parts III-VI, by William Friedman and DESC: Lambros Callimahos (LC3-6). Parts I and II of each of these DESC: treatises had already been declassified and published. At the time DESC: of the request, it was not definitely known whether the parts DESC: requested by Gilmore had been re-classified. This document, 27 Effector4.01.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector4.01 - MEGATRENDS OR MEGAMISTAKES? What Ever Happened to the KEY: Effector4.01.sit KBytes: 16384 DESC: Information Society? (Part 1 of 2 Parts). What-ever happened to the DESC: Information Society? Where is the Information Age? What, indeed, DESC: happened to the "workerless" factory, the "paperless" office and DESC: the "cashless" society? Why aren't we all living in the "electronic DESC: cottage," playing our part in the push-button "teledemocracy" - or DESC: simply relaxing in the "leisure society," while machines exhibiting DESC: "artificial intelligence" do all the work? This document, which DESC: discusses the Information Society, is distributed by Electronic DESC: Frontier Foundation. See Effector 4.02 for part 2. 26 Effector4.02.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector4.02 - MEGATRENDS OR MEGAMISTAKES? What Ever Happened to the KEY: Effector4.02.sit KBytes: 14336 DESC: Information Society? (Part 2 of 2 Parts.) Part 1 was published in DESC: EFFector Online 4.01). UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES, NEW SOCIAL DESC: VULNERABILITIES. The IT revolution has created a whole new range of DESC: problems for society - problems which were largely unexpected. Some DESC: arise from the propensity of computers to malfunction, others arise DESC: from their misuse by humans. As complex industrial societies become DESC: more dependent on computers, they become more vulnerable to DESC: technological failure because computers have often proved to be DESC: unreliable, insecure and unmanageable. This article is from the 25 Effector4.03.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector4.03 - In this Issue - THE NEW, STREAMLINED BILL O' RIGHTS KEY: Effector4.03.sit KBytes: 12288 DESC: by John Perry Barlow, CRACKER BREAKS INTO ATHENA at MIT-The DESC: Security Alert, EFF'S LEGISLATIVE WATCH by Shari Steele. This DESC: article is distributed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a DESC: foundation started to ensure that the principles embodied in the DESC: Constitution and the Bill of Rights are protected as new DESC: communications technologies emerge. This newsletter is printed on DESC: 100% recycled electrons. DESC: DESC: 24 Effector4.04.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector4.04 - CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. I heartily accept the motto, KEY: Effector4.04.sit KBytes: 24576 DESC: "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to DESC: see it acted up tomore rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it DESC: finally amounts to this, which also I believe--"That government is DESC: best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, DESC: that will be the kind of government which the will have. If you DESC: like what you've read so far, download and read more! This file is DESC: distributed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. DESC: DESC: 23 Effector4.05.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector4.05 - With this issue, EFFector Online will begin to KEY: Effector4.05.sit KBytes: 13312 DESC: examine the technical, social, moral, legal and political issues DESC: surrounding the uses of encryption in computer-based DESC: communications. While many in various online communities around the DESC: world are highly conversant with cryptography and encryption, many DESC: others are not. Because of this we begin our series with Larry DESC: Loen's superb primer on basic cryptography. This article originally DESC: appeared as a proto-FAQ in the Usenet group, sci.crypt. Our readers DESC: with an interest in learning about encryption on an ad-hoc basis DESC: are advised to read sci-crypt and to participate in it. 22 Effector5.01.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector5.01 - In this issue - Three perspectives of a two-day KEY: Effector5.01.sit KBytes: 13312 DESC: meeting in Atlanta between EFF and representatives of regional DESC: groups of grassroots networking activists. This past January 23rd DESC: and 24th, 11 members of the electronic community met in Atlanta with DESC: members of the staff and board of the Electronic Frontier DESC: Foundation. The meeting lasted a day and a half, with topics of DESC: discussion including EFF's recent organizational restructuring and DESC: how groupsserving the electronic community can work together to be DESC: more effective. By the end of the 2 days, meeting attendees had DESC: formed a group to organize and formulate guidelines for continuing 21 Effector5.02.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector5.02 - In this issue - Update on the Steve Jackson Games KEY: Effector5.02.sit KBytes: 7168 DESC: Case, Contact information for Local and Regional Groups Supporting DESC: the Online Community. March 1st marks the three-year anniversary of DESC: the Secret Service raid on Steve Jackson Games. As we await Judge DESC: Sam Sparks's decision in this precedent-setting case, EFF would DESC: like to remind everyone of what has happened so far. On March 1, DESC: 1990, the United States Secret Service nearly destroyed Steve DESC: Jackson Games (SJG), an award-winning publishing business in DESC: Austin, Texas. For more info, download! Distributed by the DESC: Electronic Frontier Foundation. 20 Effector5.03.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector5.03 - In this issue - Representative Markey Speaks on Tech KEY: Effector5.03.sit KBytes: 7168 DESC: Policy, Announcement of Midwest Rural Datafication Meeting, DESC: EFFFunding, Coverage of Representative Markey's Speech to Computer, DESC: Execs on Technology Policy. This publication is distributed by EFF; DESC: The Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded in July of 1990 to DESC: ensure that the principles embodied in the Constitution and the Bill DESC: of Rights are protected as new communications technologies emerge. 19 Effector5.04.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector5.04 - In this issue - Victory in the Steve Jackson Games KEY: Effector5.04.sit KBytes: 9216 DESC: Case, EFF Pioneer Award, Winners for 1993, Issues for K-12 Access to DESC: the Internet. This publication is distributed by EFF; The DESC: Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded in July of 1990 to DESC: ensure that the principles embodied in the Constitution and the DESC: Bill of Rights are protected as new communications technologies DESC: emerge. 18 Effector5.05.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector5.05 - In this issue - Keys to Privacy in the Digital KEY: Effector5.05.sit KBytes: 12288 DESC: Information Age, and What's Important About the Medphone Libel DESC: Case? Communication carried on paper through the mail system, or DESC: over the wire-based public telephone network, is relatively secure DESC: from random intrusion by others. But the same communication DESC: carried, for example, over a cellular or other wireless DESC: communication system is vulnerable to being intercepted by anyone DESC: who has very inexpensive, easy-to-obtain, scanning technology. Find DESC: out more! This publication is distributed by EFF; The Electronic DESC: Frontier Foundation. 17 Effector5.06.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector5.06 - In this issue - Initial EFF Analysis of Clinton KEY: Effector5.06.sit KBytes: 10240 DESC: Privacy and Security Proposal; Society for Electronic Access - A New DESC: York City-based grassroots online activist group; Updated Contact DESC: List for Regional Online Activist Groups. This publication is DESC: distributed by EFF; The Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded DESC: in July of 1990 to ensure that the principles embodied in the DESC: Constitution and the Bill of Rights are protected as new DESC: communications technologies emerge. DESC: DESC: 16 Effector5.07.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector5.07 - In this issue - Congressman Boucher Introduces NREN KEY: Effector5.07.sit KBytes: 9216 DESC: Applications Bill; "Future of Computing" Program in Palo Alto, CA. DESC: This publication is distributed by EFF; The Electronic Frontier DESC: Foundation was founded in July of 1990 to ensure that the DESC: principles embodied in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are DESC: protected as new communications technologies emerge. DESC: 15 Effector5.08.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector5.08 - In this issue - Clipper Chip-Related Excerpts from - KEY: Effector5.08.sit KBytes: 12288 DESC: A Letter from the Digital Privacy and Security Working Group to DESC: President Clinton; A Selection of Questions Submitted by the DESC: Working Group Sent to President Clinton; Whit Diffie's Testimony DESC: Before the House Subcommittee on Science; A Request for Public DESC: Comment by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. This DESC: publication is distributed by EFF; The Electronic Frontier DESC: Foundation was founded in July of 1990 to ensure that the DESC: principles embodied in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are DESC: protected as new communications technologies emerge. 14 Effector5.09.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector5.09 - In this issue - EFF Comments to NIST; Computers, KEY: Effector5.09.sit KBytes: 11264 DESC: Freedom and Privacy Conference 1994; Summary of Rural Datafications DESC: Conference. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) commends the DESC: Computer System Security and Privacy Advisory Board for offering DESC: the public the opportunity to comment on developments in DESC: cryptography and communications privacy policy. Recent DESC: Administration proposals, including use of the Clipper Chip and DESC: establishment of a government-controlled key escrow system, raise DESC: questions that cut to the core of privacy protection in the age of DESC: digital communication technology. Find out more! 13 Effector5.10.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector5.10 - In this issue - Accessing the Federal Government. KEY: Effector5.10.sit KBytes: 14336 DESC: Over the past two weeks, the White House and the U.S. House of DESC: Representatives each announced that they had set up systems for DESC: receiving electronic mail through the Internet. These official DESC: announcements, as well as other reference materials for accessing DESC: federal government information online, are included in this issue DESC: of EFFector Online. E-MAIL TO THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT. DESC: LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT IN ANNOUNCEMENT OF DESC: WHITE HOUSE ELECTRONIC MAIL ACCESS. Interested? Check it out! DESC: 12 Effector5.11.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector5.11 - In this issue - EFF Is Moving; NREN Applications Bill KEY: Effector5.11.sit KBytes: 11264 DESC: Update; Interval Research Conference on Online Communities. In an DESC: earlier issue of EFFector (5.07), we described legislation DESC: introduced by Congressman Rick Boucher to stimulate Internet DESC: applications in health care, education, libraries, and for access to DESC: government information. On June 17, the bill, H.R. 1757, was DESC: marked-up by the Science Subcommittee, which Mr. Boucher chairs. DESC: ("Mark up" is the process by which a committee or subcommittee DESC: reviews a bill, adds amendments, and if passed, sends it on to the DESC: next stage in the legislative process.) Want more? Download it. 11 Effector5.12.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector5.12 - In this issue - EFF Has Moved; Online Congressional KEY: Effector5.12.sit KBytes: 9216 DESC: Hearing; To Be at Liberty, by John Perry Barlow; Announcement of DESC: Group Meeting; Request for Help from Canadian Readers; Job Openings DESC: at EFF. On July 26 at 9:30AM EDT, the Subcommittee on DESC: Telecommunications and Finance of the U.S. House of Representatives DESC: will hold the first Congressional Hearing ever held over a computer DESC: network. The oversight hearing on "The Role of Government in DESC: Cyberspace" will take place in the Grand Ballroom of the National DESC: Press Club at 14th and F Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. The DESC: hearing is open to the public. An open house will be held from 3-5PM 10 Effector5.13.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Effector5.13 - In this issue - Online Congressional Hearings KEY: Effector5.13.sit KBytes: 14336 DESC: Postponed; Summary of New Infrastructure Bill; EFF Joins DESC: Telecommunications Policy Roundtable. The Senate Communications DESC: Subcommittee is now in the process of considering legislation that DESC: would eliminate the legal monopoly that local telephone companies DESC: have on local phone service, allow any communications provider to DESC: offer local phone service, and allow local telephone companies to DESC: compete fully in the cable television market. The legislation's goal DESC: is to promote increased investment in the nation's DESC: telecommunications infrastructure. Exciting? Read more. 9 EFFector6.08.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 01-26-1994 DESC: EFFector6.08 - A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. KEY: EFFector6.08.sit KBytes: 10240 DESC: In This Issue. Gore Endorses EFF's Open Platform Approach, EFF DESC: Announces Call for Nominations, 3rd Annual Pioneer Awards, NCO High DESC: Performance Computing & Communications NII Gopher/Web Server, Smart DESC: Valley CommerceNet Consortium Wins Superhighway Grant and What You DESC: Can Do. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a nonprofit, DESC: 501(c)(3) organization supported by contributions from individual DESC: members, corporations and private foundations. Donations are DESC: tax-deductible. DESC: 8 EFFector7.01.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 01-26-1994 DESC: EFFector7.01 - A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. KEY: EFFector7.01.sit KBytes: 12288 DESC: In ThisIssue - EFF Board's Kapor and Dyson Appointed to NII DESC: Advisory Council, EFF Helps to Eliminate Outrageous Sentences for DESC: Computer Crimes, An Arts and Humanities Policy Symposium for the DESC: NII (Boston, 1994), Commerce Dept. BBS Update, New Outposts on the DESC: Electronic Frontier and What You Can Do. The Electronic Frontier DESC: Foundation is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization supported by DESC: contributions from individual members, corporations and private DESC: foundations. Donations are tax-deductible. DESC: 7 FBI Report.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: FBI Report - AN ANALYSIS OF THE FBI DIGITAL TELEPHONY PROPOSAL. KEY: FBI Report.sit KBytes: 11264 DESC: Although the FBI has characterized its proposed “Digital Telephony” DESC: legislation as relating to the preservation of government’s ability DESC: to engage inauthorized wiretapping, the proposal actually requires DESC: that all communications and computer systems be designed to DESC: facilitate interception of private messages, on a concurrent and DESC: remote basis — thus imposing new engineering standards that go far DESC: beyond any existing law. As currently drafted, the proposal would DESC: impose substantial costs and create significant uncertainties, DESC: despite the absence of any clear showing that the proposed measures 5 N&P1.1.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: N&P1.1 - EFF Networks & Policy; A Quarterly Publication of the KEY: N&P1.1.sit KBytes: 19456 DESC: Electronic Frontier Foundation Volume 1, Issue 1. In This Issue - DESC: Open Platform Update, Congressional Review, From the Director, DESC: Available Documents, CPF (Communications Policy Forum), FBI DESC: Proposal Blocked, Steve Jackson Games, EFF Calendar. The 103rd DESC: Congress and the Clinton Administration are currently focusing DESC: major political attention on the modernization of the nation's DESC: telecommunications infrastructure, and EFF's Open Platform Proposal DESC: is at the center of this debate. Learn more about this. DESC: 4 N&P1.2.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: N&P1.2 - NETWORKS & POLICY; A Quarterly Publication of the KEY: N&P1.2.sit KBytes: 25600 DESC: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Volume I, Issue I. In This Issue - DESC: Clipper Chip, NREN Applications, From the Director, Communications DESC: Policy Forum, Members Only Legal Servics, Staff Update, Pioneer DESC: Awards, Congressional Review and EFF Calendar. On April 16, 1993, DESC: the Clinton Administration announced a proposal for a new national DESC: cryptography policy. Under this proposed policy, a voice encryption DESC: standard using a Clipper Chip would be adopted, and two escrow DESC: agents would each hold half of a code key that could be used DESC: todecrypt messages encrypted by a particular Clipper Chip. Find out 2 Puzzle Palace.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: Puzzle Palace - Decrypting the Puzzle Palace. Over a year ago, in a KEY: Puzzle Palace.sit KBytes: 16384 DESC: condition of giddier innocence than I enjoy today, I wrote the DESC: following about the discovery of Cyberspace - "Imagine discovering DESC: a continent so vast that it may have no other side. Imagine a new DESC: world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, DESC: more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to DESC: exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate which expands with DESC: development." One less felicitous feature of this terrain which I DESC: hadn't noticed then is what seems to be a long-encamped and immense DESC: army of occupation. Read on. 1 SJG-decision.sit 0 B AMUG BBS in a Box 12-07-1993 DESC: SJG-decision - UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF KEY: SJG-decision.sit KBytes: 16384 DESC: TEXAS AUSTIN DIVISION. STEVE JACKSON GAMES INCORPORATED, et al., DESC: Plaintiffs, vs. UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE, UNITED STATES OF DESC: AMERICA, et al., Defendants. Steve Jackson was both the owner and DESC: employee of Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated, and authored many of DESC: its publications; he used both Illuminati's public and private DESC: programs for electronic mail and his use ranged from business DESC: records of the corporation, contracts with his writers, DESC: communication with his writers regarding articles which were DESC: intended to be published by the corporation, to private