From: m...@well.com (S.McC.) Subject: EFFector Online 10.07: Tell Sen. McCain you want your privacy Date: 1997/07/11 Message-ID: <5q4dvl$t2k$1@was.hooked.net> X-Deja-AN: 256120928 X-EFF_Membership_Queries_To: members...@eff.org Distribution: world Sender: edi...@eff.org Followup-To: comp.org.eff.talk Admin: b...@eff.org Summary: 1) Send Sen. John McCain an e-postcard opposing his anti-crypto bill Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation X-URL: http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector/ Keywords: Electronic Frontier Foundation,EFF,free speech,freedom of speech, free expression,freedom of expression,intellectual freedom,censorship,Constitution, constitutional,prior restraint,unconstitutional,privacy,crypto,encryption, cryptography,cryptology,ITAR,AECA,export,SAFE,ECPA2,ECPA-II,ECPA-2,Clipper, Clipper-3,Clipper3,Clipper-III,Clipper 3,Clipper 3.1.1,Clipper 3.1,Clipper 3.01, key escrow,key surrender,TTP,GAK,trusted third party,trusted third parties, escrow agent,escrow agents,government access to k Reply-To: edi...@eff.org Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.news,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.politics.datahighway, alt.censorship,misc.legal,misc.legal.computing,alt.activism,alt.activism.d, comp.org.cpsr.talk,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.society.civil-liberties, alt.bbs.allsysop,alt.society.resistance,talk.politics.crypto,alt.privacy.clipper, alt.privacy X-EFF_General_Info: i...@eff.org ________________ _______________ _______________ /_______________/\ /_______________\ /\______________\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/ ||||||||||||||||| / //////////////// \\\\\________/\ |||||________\ / /////______\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\/____ |||||||||||||| / ///////////// \\\\\___________/\ ||||| / //// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/ ||||| \//// e c t o r _________________________________________________________________________ EFFector Vol. 10, No. 07 July 9, 1997 edi...@eff.org A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424 IN THIS ISSUE: Send a Digital Postcard to Sen. McCain Opposing Anti-Crypto Bill [Upcoming Events skipped for this issue - no change from last issue] Quote of the Day What YOU Can Do Administrivia * See http://www.eff.org/hot.html for more information on current EFF activities and online activism alerts! * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Send a Digital Postcard to Sen. McCain Opposing Anti-Crypto Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please: 1) Visit http://www.crypto.com/postcard and send an e-postcard to Sen. McCain (and Adopt Your Legislator). 2) Grab a copy of the "Don't Make Me Hand Over My Privacy Keys" buttons from the EFF web page at http://www.eff.org, post it on your own site, and link it to http://www.crypto.com/postcard 3) If you like, check out the audio files of the radio spot EFF produced, now airing in DC, San Francisco, and several other major metropolitan areas. You can even put these sounds on your web site if you like. The sound files are at http://www.eff.org/sounds/crypto.html * Background On July 1, Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Bob Kerrey (D-NE) introduced the Secure Public Networks Act (S.909) - a bill which would for the first time impose domestic restrictions on the ability of American citizens to use encryption technologies to protect their privacy and security inside the United States. This bill was approved by the Senate Commerce Committee over the objections of Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT), principal sponsor of the Promotion of Commerce Online in the Digital Era Act (Pro-CODE) and 8 other senators. The McCain-Kerrey bill is now before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The legislation, which is also co-sponsored by Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC), would force the U.S. domestic market for encryption to adopt untested and vulnerable "key-recovery" encryption systems. While providing only token relief from current export controls, the bill would create strong incentives to force the entire domestic market towards untested, costly and potentially insecure third-party access to sensitive encryption keys. Analyses of the bill are available at: http://www.eff.org/effector/effect10.05 (the last issue of EFFector) http://www.cdt.org/crypto/legis_105/mccain_kerrey/ Full text of the Secure Public Networks Act (S.909) is available at: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:s.909: The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Voters' Telecommunications Watch and the Center for Democracy and Technology ask you to visit the web page at http://www.crypto.com/postcard, fill in the page there and send a digital postcard to Sen. McCain urging him to reconsider his position. For your conveniece, a copy of the e-postcard's text is appended below: Dear Senator McCain, S.909 is a grave threat to my privacy and security in the Information Age. It authorizes the government to obtain private keys and other highly sensitive decryption information without a court order and without notice to me when my privacy is being compromised. It does not merely preserve current levels of government access, but rather seeks to create a complex and burdensome system that would deprive me of my current privacy rights in the Information Age. I urge you to reconsider your position on this bill and write me back with a response on this issue. Sincerely, [you!] You can also participate in the Encryption Policy Resource Page's "Adopt Your Legislator" program when you send the e-postcard, and receive future alerts on Internet issues. ------------------------------ Subject: Quote of the Day ------------------------- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." - Hume Find yourself wondering if your privacy and freedom of speech are safe when bills to censor the Internet are swimming about in a sea of of surveillance legislation and anti-terrorism hysteria? Worried that in the rush to make us secure from ourselves that our government representatives may deprive us of our essential civil liberties? Concerned that legislative efforts nominally to "protect children" will actually censor all communications down to only content suitable for the playground? Alarmed by commercial and religious organizations abusing the judicial and legislative processes to stifle satire, dissent and criticism? Join EFF! http://www.eff.org/join (or send any message to i...@eff.org). You *know* privacy, freedom of speech and ability to make your voice heard in government are important. You have probably participated in our online campaigns and forums. Have you become a member of EFF yet? The best way to protect your online rights is to be fully informed and to make your opinions heard. EFF members are informed and are making a difference. Join EFF today! Even if you don't live in the U.S., the anti-Internet hysteria will soon be visiting a legislative body near you. If it hasn't already. ------------------------------ Subject: What YOU Can Do ------------------------ * Keep an eye on your local legislature/parliament! All kinds of wacky censorious legislation is turning up at the US state and non-US national levels. Don't let it sneak by you - or by the online activism community. Without locals on the look out, it's very difficult for the Net civil liberties community to keep track of what's happening locally as well as globally. * Inform your corporate government affairs person or staff counsel if you have one. Keep them up to speed on developments you learn of, and let your company's management know if you spot an issue that warrants your company's involvement. * Find out who your legislators are Writing letters to, faxing, and phoning your representatives in Congress is one very important strategy of activism, and an essential way of making sure YOUR voice is heard on vital issues. If you are having difficulty determining who your US legislators are, try contacting your local League of Women Voters, who maintain a great deal of legislator information, or consult the free ZIPPER service that matches ZIP Codes to Congressional districts with about 85% accuracy at: http://www.voxpop.org/zipper/ This can be double-checked with the House's own lookup service, at: http://www.house.gov/writerep/ Computer Currents Interactive has provided Congress contact info, sorted by who voted for and against the Communications Decency Act: http://www.currents.net/congress.html (NB: Some of these folks have, fortunately, been voted out of office.) We are not presently aware of servers that provide contact info for US state-level legislators, or non-US lawmakers. ------------------------------ Administrivia ============= EFFector is published by: The Electronic Frontier Foundation 1550 Bryant St., Suite 725 San Francisco CA 94103 USA +1 415 436 9333 (voice) +1 415 436 9993 (fax) Membership & donations: members...@eff.org Legal services: sste...@eff.org General EFF, legal, policy or online resources queries: a...@eff.org Editor: Stanton McCandlish, Program Director/Webmaster (m...@eff.org) This newsletter is printed on 100% recycled electrons. Reproduction of this publication in electronic media is encouraged. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of EFF. To reproduce signed articles individually, please contact the authors for their express permission. Press releases and EFF announcements may be reproduced individ- ually at will. 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