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Useful information by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-15 04:17 · Score: 0 · on Data Recovery for the Rest of Us?

Here is the Audio for a talk by someone who works in a data recovery company.

http://www.2600.org.au/seminars/archive.html

Here is the Audio for a talk by someone that works in a data recovery company.

sumary (from memory)
dd is the go
(but it will usally give up after a number of errors, there are versions to get around this)

In the US apparently they remove the platters and scan the drive using a mageneto force microscope ... but expect to pay big big money for this.

Try typing your old nic into Google... by DavidJA · 2001-10-06 14:13 · Score: 1 · on A Documentary About Bulletin Board Systems

After reading this artical I did a google search on my old Alias & a few other unique terms to the Melbourne group that I used to hang out with, and to my amazement came up with the following: (which was published in the Sydney Morning Herald, 5th April, 1993)

The names the hackers use are, as always, interesting. In a review by iNFiNiTY, a bulletin board management program, credit is given to Transvamp, Country Distortion, Death Wish, Bit Byter and others.

I actaully wrote the Infinity BBS software with a few other people in Turbo Pascal, which I was coding when I was around 14-16 years old, and my alias as one of the ones above.

The moral of this story, type your old Nic into google and see what you come up with!

2600.org.au response to the CyberCrime Bill by Dogcow · 2001-07-07 12:51 · Score: 1 · on Aussie Bill Would Ban Hacking Tools, Virus Code

http://www.2600.org.au/cybercrime-bill-response.tx t

There's also a Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee inquiry into the legislation, at:

http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte /cybercrimebill01/cybercrime.htm

2600 Australia will be making a submission to this committee. If you'd like to discuss this legislation prior to our submission (which must be lodged by the 20th of July), please join the 2600-law mailing list, by sending an empty email to 2600-law-subscribe@wiretapped.net. There are also public hearings in Sydney on 19th July and in Canberra on 9th August.

Re:Calm down people *please* by skware · 2001-07-06 17:54 · Score: 4 · on Aussie Bill Would Ban Hacking Tools, Virus Code

that link doesnt work, it's a search that has expired. Try this instead: http://search.aph.gov.au/search/ParlInfo.ASP?actio n=browse&Path=Legislation/Current+Bills+by+Title/C ybercrime+Bill+2001&Start=4&8cD#top
also there is some more stuff on http://www.2600.org.au/

Re:Anyone have a copy of the bill? by skware · 2001-07-06 17:26 · Score: 5 · on Aussie Bill Would Ban Hacking Tools, Virus Code

These are the 2600.org.au mirrors of the bill, they are probably available somewhere on http://www.austlii.edu.au/ Australia's awesome law resource with searchable case law and legislation, reportedly the best law site in the world.
http://www.2600.org.au/misc/cybercrime/cybercrime- bill-2001-firstreading.pdf
http://www.2600.org.au/misc/cybercrime/cybercrime- bill-2001-explanatory-memoranda.pdf

Re:Anyone have a copy of the bill? by skware · 2001-07-06 17:26 · Score: 5 · on Aussie Bill Would Ban Hacking Tools, Virus Code

These are the 2600.org.au mirrors of the bill, they are probably available somewhere on http://www.austlii.edu.au/ Australia's awesome law resource with searchable case law and legislation, reportedly the best law site in the world.
http://www.2600.org.au/misc/cybercrime/cybercrime- bill-2001-firstreading.pdf
http://www.2600.org.au/misc/cybercrime/cybercrime- bill-2001-explanatory-memoranda.pdf

More on this by skware · 2001-07-06 16:55 · Score: 2 · on Aussie Bill Would Ban Hacking Tools, Virus Code

The aussie 2600 site http://www.2600.org.au/ has more on this issue including a mirrored copy of the bill, as well as explanatory memoranda. It also has a response to some of the issues brought up in the bill such as the fact that many of the proposed new crimes are already covered in part by existing laws in the Crimes Act.

Re:Some interesting things about this article: by goon · 2001-02-28 04:20 · Score: 4 · on Australia Is Getting Its Own DMCA

Scary stuff, Aussies. I assume there's a way you can still fight this bill?

nice little article on
2600 from Grant of the Australian chapter of 2600 who is...

"...removing DeCSS and other pieces of software that might put me personally in the position of breaking the Australian Copyright Act (Digital Agenda Bill), 2000..."

I guess you could fight this through the australian legal system but the article goes on to further state the following....

"...Bad juju, legally speaking, is something that I have neither the time, money nor resolve to take on personally. As 2600 Australia is neither a business nor a registered organisation we cannot fight this on legal grounds. 2600 Australia does not enjoy any form of protected speech such as that which 2600 in the USA is mounting a defence...

READ THIS by Anonymous Coward · 2001-02-25 08:55 · Score: 2 · on The DeCSS Haiku

Spreading decss.c is futile.

Newer dvds are altered so this algorithm will have NO EFFECT.

Download DeCSSPlus source to get a version that brute forces the disc. That way, as long as you can authenticate to the drive, you can decrypt a dvd. No more of the MPAA's lock-out bullshit.

Why not use the best tools for the job? by Dogcow · 2001-01-20 22:23 · Score: 1 · on Design A Standard For the Linux Standards Base

The restriction on Linux usage for the creation of the logo seems a bit nonsensical if you're wanting to use a plugin for something like Adobe Photoshop that (for whatever reason) isn't available on Linux and has no similar utility to create the same effect. I'd give the example of some of the Flaming Pear plugins for Photoshop on the Mac (They're located at: http://www.flamingpear.com/download.html). The one that makes planets, especially.

Although the comparison in this IRC quote isn't exactly along the lines of what's going on here with this nonsensical requirement, I think it sums up the point well enough:

<Saty> look at this way
<mobtek> saty is drunk
* mobtek grins
<Saty> openbsd is an organised army with fuhrer theo leading the reich
<Saty> linux is a band of trotskyites making sure every battle they commit to has the correct marxist implications

(Quotes from: http://www.2600.org.au/logs/quotes.txt)

We need more DIY recycling ala 2600 Australia by biftek · 2000-09-17 19:23 · Score: 2 · on Old Computers Vs. The Environment

Down here in Oz, 2600, the "hacker" group has a mailing list for old hardware (see 2600 Australia). Anyone with old hardware is encouraged to post, a reasonable amount of stuff goes through the list. Most is free, some is traded for a few beers etc.

What I'm wondering is, how can more businesses be encouraged to participate in this kind or recycling. Obviously they have the most disposable hardware, but its often hard to find it. They're probably prefer to give it away than have people take it from their dumpster......

Finally... a story where this is *not* offtopic... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-05-19 20:38 · Score: 5 · on Oxford Yanks Student Page Over Spoof DeCSS

and I'm asleep at the keyboard. Doh!

Oh well... here it is.
Add your own, and spread this far and wide:

This announcement brought to you by the DeCSS Polar Bear.

Time for Slashdot to take a stand... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-04-05 03:12 · Score: 4 · on MPAA Files Another Injunction Against 2600

The following is a list of all the mirrors from the 2600 site.

Re:Talk about a sense of humor by CyberPuppet · 2000-03-20 09:00 · Score: 1 · on DeCSS To Be Broadcast Over Oz TV

Ok, what your forgetting here, is that 2600 AUSTRALIA (of which i am proudly a member) is linked to 2600 America by name only. 2600 AU is located in Sydney, Australia. Visit the 2600 Australia site at http://www.2600.org.au for more information.

A little more info.... by Augury · 2000-03-20 07:38 · Score: 5 · on DeCSS To Be Broadcast Over Oz TV

From what I've heard from the Australian 2600 mailing list, the broadcast will be about 15 seconds long, and spaced such that each frame is easily captured on a standard video cassette, and can be re-viewed page by page using frame-by-frame advance.

The guy who's setting it up has actually put a fair amount of thought into it, and the DeCSS won't be the only thing that is broadcast. From what I remember, he intends to broadcast a number of other 'supressed' images or texts in the 15 second slot.

Also from memory, he's organising a local mob to do a little music to run over it, and he'll be flashing the 2600 web address at the end.

For all of those who are already asking 'but isn't this pointless, everyone already has DeCSS?', the point is not to distribute DeCSS, but to demonstrate that censorship of items such as DeCSS leads only to more and more widespread distribution, even to the point of datacasting it across Australian television at 3am.

Oh, and he got the slot for free ;)

B.

New Article from 2600 -- Contiued Bullying by MPAA by Anonymous Coward · 2000-03-14 02:25 · Score: 1 · on Part Two: Who Owns Ideas?

Over the past week the Motion Picture Association of America has intensified its efforts to bully and harass individual Internet users by sending out a new series of email threats. Using little more than bluff and bluster they've also managed in recent weeks to shut down countless websites, convince employers to fire employees, and get schools to take disciplinary actions against students for doing little more than taking part in an act of solidarity on their private homepages.

John Young, who maintains the Cryptome, is one of the hundreds of John Doe defendants in the California DVD case. In addition to a copy of DeCSS, Young published a copy of the now-infamous Hoy Declaration, in which the DVD Copy Control Association inadvertently included a copy of the very information they were trying to suppress in public court filings. He was among the first to bear the brunt of a wave of cease and desist letters for posting the source code to DeCSS. The letter reads in part:

The Superior Court of Santa Clara County, California also recently granted a preliminary Injunction against the Internet posting of DeCSS.
If you are bound by an injunction, maintaining the DeCSS utility on your system or network violates the above injunction[s] and risks court sanctions for contempt.

Never mind the fact that the MPAA knows full well that Young, located in New York, is outside the jurisdiction of the California court, nor is he covered by the Southern District of New York's injunction. They neglect to quote the portion of the injunction that specifies just who is covered and who isn't.

Over the past week, we have received numerous reports of this threatening letter being sent to web site owners worldwide. It appears the MPAA is simply going down the list of mirrored sites and sending a letter to everybody.

Geography and national sovereignty are clearly foreign concepts to this multinational corporation. The effects of globalization seem to have impaired their faculties more than previously thought. They proceeded to send similar letters to people all over the world. Tom Vogt, also named as a defendant in the California case, resides in Germany. The letter the MPAA sent him insisting that he comply with the California injunction, refers to the preliminary draft of an unratified convention. That's right, the best they could do was threaten him with an unsigned treaty.

Earlier this month Grant Bayley received a cease and desist letter for hosting DeCSS on his webpage for the Australian 2600 meeting. Both Bayley and the server are located in Australia. As expressed in the meeting guidelines, 2600 meetings are organized on their own, anyone can start one, and they are pretty much autonomous. According to an Australian journalist who spoke with the chief counsel for the MPAA, 2600 Australia is being singled out simply because of its name. Presumably this is also why they chose to go after A.Sleep, operator of the Connecticut 2600 meeting's webpage in his very own federal lawsuit. One can only imagine what the MPAA must be thinking.

In an age where anyone is capable of exercising free speech to mass audiences via the Internet, there is a disturbing trend that this freedom is limited not by the strength of one's convictions nor one's access to technology. Rather it is dependant on the will and resources of one's Internet Service Provider. It is common for ISPs to cancel accounts or remove content at the first hints of any controversy. It didn't take long for big business to figure this out and they've been exploiting lawsuit-fearing ISPs ever since. One can hardly blame the average ISP for bowing to such impressive cease and desist letters. Often they're barely breaking even as it is, and nuking one $10 a month webpage is a simple business decision when being threatened with a million dollar lawsuit.

What's far more troubling is the ease in which traditional safe havens for free expression, like universities and other academic institutions, are willing to sell out their students. Zach Karpinski stands out as one such victim. A student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Zach was summarily fired from his job of two and a half years at Student Technology Services, an organization he helped build. The letters he and his school received accusing him of using school servers for illegal activities were enough to trample this student's rights and reputation in favor of some perverse idea of political "damage control." They should be more concerned with controlling the damage done to their student's academic freedom and civil liberties than satisfying the whims of Jack Valenti and the MPAA. Sadly, Zach is not alone. A student from California State University at Fresno wrote in to report that he had to take down his school-hosted DeCSS mirror and that the MPAA requested that he be fired from his school employment. (Fortunately, he wasn't fired).

We first took a stand in the DVD battle back in November, when the first cease and desist letters were being sent out. We joined in the mirroring campaign to lend our support to those who had been subjected to hollow threats and harassment from the DVD industry, but were forced into compliance due to circumstances beyond their control. They knew they were right, they knew they could win, but they lacked the resources to stand up for their convictions. As evidenced above, that fight is ongoing. Our modest mirror list has grown substantially and continues to grow, despite mirrors being removed from time to time. The success of the DeCSS mirroring campaign demonstrates the futility of attempts to suppress free speech on the Internet. It is distributed hosting at its most basic and a proven defense from censorship. Make no mistake, DeCSS is out there, it can never be eradicated. Not only will DeCSS be preserved regardless of whether there are any mirrors, the tyrannical actions of the MPAA have ensured that it will live on forever in history, law books, and all the communities it has effected.

[Local copy of letter sent by the MPAA]

New Article from 2600 -- Contiued Bullying by MPAA by Anonymous Coward · 2000-03-14 02:25 · Score: 1 · on Part Two: Who Owns Ideas?

Over the past week the Motion Picture Association of America has intensified its efforts to bully and harass individual Internet users by sending out a new series of email threats. Using little more than bluff and bluster they've also managed in recent weeks to shut down countless websites, convince employers to fire employees, and get schools to take disciplinary actions against students for doing little more than taking part in an act of solidarity on their private homepages.

John Young, who maintains the Cryptome, is one of the hundreds of John Doe defendants in the California DVD case. In addition to a copy of DeCSS, Young published a copy of the now-infamous Hoy Declaration, in which the DVD Copy Control Association inadvertently included a copy of the very information they were trying to suppress in public court filings. He was among the first to bear the brunt of a wave of cease and desist letters for posting the source code to DeCSS. The letter reads in part:

The Superior Court of Santa Clara County, California also recently granted a preliminary Injunction against the Internet posting of DeCSS.
If you are bound by an injunction, maintaining the DeCSS utility on your system or network violates the above injunction[s] and risks court sanctions for contempt.

Never mind the fact that the MPAA knows full well that Young, located in New York, is outside the jurisdiction of the California court, nor is he covered by the Southern District of New York's injunction. They neglect to quote the portion of the injunction that specifies just who is covered and who isn't.

Over the past week, we have received numerous reports of this threatening letter being sent to web site owners worldwide. It appears the MPAA is simply going down the list of mirrored sites and sending a letter to everybody.

Geography and national sovereignty are clearly foreign concepts to this multinational corporation. The effects of globalization seem to have impaired their faculties more than previously thought. They proceeded to send similar letters to people all over the world. Tom Vogt, also named as a defendant in the California case, resides in Germany. The letter the MPAA sent him insisting that he comply with the California injunction, refers to the preliminary draft of an unratified convention. That's right, the best they could do was threaten him with an unsigned treaty.

Earlier this month Grant Bayley received a cease and desist letter for hosting DeCSS on his webpage for the Australian 2600 meeting. Both Bayley and the server are located in Australia. As expressed in the meeting guidelines, 2600 meetings are organized on their own, anyone can start one, and they are pretty much autonomous. According to an Australian journalist who spoke with the chief counsel for the MPAA, 2600 Australia is being singled out simply because of its name. Presumably this is also why they chose to go after A.Sleep, operator of the Connecticut 2600 meeting's webpage in his very own federal lawsuit. One can only imagine what the MPAA must be thinking.

In an age where anyone is capable of exercising free speech to mass audiences via the Internet, there is a disturbing trend that this freedom is limited not by the strength of one's convictions nor one's access to technology. Rather it is dependant on the will and resources of one's Internet Service Provider. It is common for ISPs to cancel accounts or remove content at the first hints of any controversy. It didn't take long for big business to figure this out and they've been exploiting lawsuit-fearing ISPs ever since. One can hardly blame the average ISP for bowing to such impressive cease and desist letters. Often they're barely breaking even as it is, and nuking one $10 a month webpage is a simple business decision when being threatened with a million dollar lawsuit.

What's far more troubling is the ease in which traditional safe havens for free expression, like universities and other academic institutions, are willing to sell out their students. Zach Karpinski stands out as one such victim. A student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Zach was summarily fired from his job of two and a half years at Student Technology Services, an organization he helped build. The letters he and his school received accusing him of using school servers for illegal activities were enough to trample this student's rights and reputation in favor of some perverse idea of political "damage control." They should be more concerned with controlling the damage done to their student's academic freedom and civil liberties than satisfying the whims of Jack Valenti and the MPAA. Sadly, Zach is not alone. A student from California State University at Fresno wrote in to report that he had to take down his school-hosted DeCSS mirror and that the MPAA requested that he be fired from his school employment. (Fortunately, he wasn't fired).

We first took a stand in the DVD battle back in November, when the first cease and desist letters were being sent out. We joined in the mirroring campaign to lend our support to those who had been subjected to hollow threats and harassment from the DVD industry, but were forced into compliance due to circumstances beyond their control. They knew they were right, they knew they could win, but they lacked the resources to stand up for their convictions. As evidenced above, that fight is ongoing. Our modest mirror list has grown substantially and continues to grow, despite mirrors being removed from time to time. The success of the DeCSS mirroring campaign demonstrates the futility of attempts to suppress free speech on the Internet. It is distributed hosting at its most basic and a proven defense from censorship. Make no mistake, DeCSS is out there, it can never be eradicated. Not only will DeCSS be preserved regardless of whether there are any mirrors, the tyrannical actions of the MPAA have ensured that it will live on forever in history, law books, and all the communities it has effected.

[Local copy of letter sent by the MPAA]

Censorship Bypassing Information by retep · 1999-12-11 00:44 · Score: 3 · on Australian Gov't Censors Censored

As has been said multiple times, it is impossible to censor the internet and block someone who knows what
he's doing. I'd expect the ISPs to comply, but anybody with basic technical expertise would probably get an
offshore shell account and run a proxy there. It might actually be an incentive for the young to learn about
tunneling technologies that would allow them to bypass censorship. What do you think ? Will people even
bother to learn, or will we see Australian-Censorship-Bypass-HOWTO along with a full range of new
software to help in the process ?

Censorship bypassing information is available at 2600 Australia

Re:Fight censorship with technology by dj-nix · 1999-11-02 19:13 · Score: 3 · on Australia - Censorship Overload

Visit 2600 Australia for our white (black) paper on Censorship Evasion in Australia.
We are the most vocal Anti-Censorship Group in Australia and have been getting more press/radio coverage than all the other goups combined.
If you're and Aussie, you WILL be affected by this law, join our mailing list and help us speak out.

Re:Fight censorship with technology by dj-nix · 1999-11-02 19:13 · Score: 3 · on Australia - Censorship Overload

Visit 2600 Australia for our white (black) paper on Censorship Evasion in Australia.
We are the most vocal Anti-Censorship Group in Australia and have been getting more press/radio coverage than all the other goups combined.
If you're and Aussie, you WILL be affected by this law, join our mailing list and help us speak out.

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