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Computer Underground Digest--Fri Aug 23, 1991 (Vol #3.31)
Moderators: Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2@NIU.BITNET)
CONTENTS, #3.31 (AUGUST 23, 1991)
File 1--Moderators' Corner: Blurbs
File 2--Request info on suggestions for a class
File 3--New BBS for CuD back issues and other services
File 4--Moderators' Corner: Blurbs
File 5--BOARDWATCH Magazine
File 6--NREN Boondoggle?
File 7--Inslaw Death Investigation Continues (NEWSBYTES REPRINT)
File 8--Memes, Gurus, and Viruses
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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 1991 10:00:00 CDT
From: "Jim Thomas" <tk0jut2@mvs.cso.niu.edu>
Subject: File 1--Moderators' Corner: Blurbs
The address for contacting INTERTEK disappeared from our review of it.
You can email steve steinberg at steve@cs.ucsb.edu (he's quite good
about answering mail) or
Steve Steinberg
325 Ellwood Beach, #3
Goleta, CA 93117 (805) 685-6557 is the phone)
Subs are $8 a year.
+++++++++
NIA #72 is out and it's available in the CuD ftp archives. The latest
EFFector is also available there.
+++++++
Because of conferences, the start of school, and other craziness, CuD
editors will take a week off, over labor day. We'll be back in about
two weeks with a special issue of _Cyberpunk_ by Katie Hafner and John
Markoff.
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 91 17:15 EDT
From: I'm hunting wabbits! - Elmer Fudd <ATKINSON@VCUVAX.BITNET>
Subject: File 2--Request info on suggestions for a class
It looks like I may be teaching an introductory course in information
systems this fall. What I would like to do, is point out and discuss
as many issues as possible. Two big ones are in the areas of computer
crime, and the issues of Right to Privacy, and such that are being
discussed in CU digest these days.
I would like to ask the readership for their favorite top 10 articles,
magazines, books, excerpts, etc. in some form of bibliographic format
so that I can compile a suggested reading list for the class.
I will happily summarize, remove duplicates, alphabetize, etc. and
re-post back to the list.
Would prefer that replies be sent directly to me.
Thanks,
Luther
Atkinson@vcuvax (bitnet)
Atkinson@gems.vcu.edu (other)
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1991 00:20:30 -0400
From: Mike Neuliep <mike@CS.WIDENER.EDU>
Subject: File 3--New BBS for CuD back issues and other services
Mike Neuliep recently put up a new BBS which will be a distribution
site for CuD as well as for other online publications. When he saves
up enough money for another harddrive it will be a mirror of the
widener ftp site. The number is 708-672-5426 and the location is Crete
Illinois which is about 35 miles due south of Chicago. To download
back issues users must exit from the user-friendly menu to c-shell and
then cd to /hd20/cu/cud which is where all the files are archived.
The software is Pro-Line running on an apple //e it is running a
single user unix-like shell but is also somewhat networked
(pro-mopar.cs.widener.edu on the internet). The name of the BBS is The
World Trade Center. Users can store files in their home directories
like on chi-net, and other services are also available. It's worth a
look, especially for those in the 708/312 area.
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Date: Mon, 20 Aug, 1991 04:18:31 EDT
From: "Anonymous" <deleted@by.request.etc>
Subject: File 4--Federal abuses of Seizure Law
The complaints against Federal agents for their abuses in seizing
equipment and not returning it pale against the seizure of property in
drug busts. The Chicago Tribune ran a story (August 11, 1991, p. 1,
13, "Drug Law Leaves Trail of Innocents: In 80% of Seizures, no
Charges by Andrew Schnieder and Mary Pat Flaherty of The Pittsburgh
Press) that illustrates the abuses of Federal seizure law and
practices. Excerpts include:
"Thousands of ordinary Americans are being victimized each year
by the federal seizure law, which was meant to curb drugs by
causing financial hardship to dealers.
A 10-month study by The Pittsburgh Press shows that 80 percent of
the people who lost property to the federal government were never
charged with a crime. And most of the seized items weren't the
luxurious playthings of drug barons, but modest homes and simple
cars and hard-earned savings.
Those goods generated $2 billion for the police departments that
took them.
Said Eric Sterling, who helped write the law a decade ago as a
lawyer on a congressional committee: "The innocent-until-proven
guilty concept is gone out the window."
Under the government's seizure law, police can seize cash and
belongings if a person fits a vague description of a drug runner,
which is heavily weighted against minorities; or if a person has
cash tainted by drugs, which is true of almost all U.S. currency,
or if someone has property used in the commission of a crime,
even if that person was not involved in the crime. To try to get
it back,owners have to hire an attorney and sue the federal
government. Cases usualy takes (sic) months or years, and there's
no guarantee of success.
The article lists several outrageous horror stories of people
(mostly Black) detained for how the looked or for other
"suspicious" but innocent acts. They broke no law, but their
money or property was confiscated.
Seizure laws originally intended to curb organized crime and
substance abuse has had virtually no success in curtailing either
drug use or the violence and other crimes associated with it.
Yet, the laws have been expanded, and give the government what
amounts to the power of totalitarian dictatorships in seizing
property. This is a throwback to the dark ages where "might makes
right," and it is a power that is expanding and being used
less discriminately.
The story concludes:
((One victim's)) lawyer, Jenny Cooke, calls the
seizure "extortion."
She said: "There is no difference between what the police did to
((her client)) or what Al Capone did in Chicago when he walked in
and said, 'This is a nice little bar and it's mine.' The only
difference is today they call this civil forfeiture."
The confiscation of computer equipment is part of a larger trend
toward "punishment without trial," and punishment allotted all too
often to those who have committed no crime. The computer community is
as apathetic to many of these issues--and some actually laud them--as
the general public, but injustice in the name of justice is as
criminal as any act of hackers.
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Date: Sat, 24 Aug 199