[107993] in Cypherpunks
COMPUTER-ENHANCED PORNOGRAPHY IS STILL ... PORNOGRAPHY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sun Jan 31 15:15:20 1999
Date: 31 Jan 1999 20:05:16 -0000
From: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>
COMPUTER-ENHANCED PORNOGRAPHY IS STILL ... PORNOGRAPHY
A federal appeals court in Maine has upheld a provision of the federal
Child
Pornography Protection Act of 1996 that makes it illegal to possess
computer
images of children engaging in sex even if the images are created by taking
an innocent picture of a child and using the computer to turn it into a
picture of a child engaged in a sexually explicit act. (AP/Washington Post
30 Jan 99)
"Mary had a crypto key,
she kept it in escrow,
and everything that Mary said,
the Feds were sure to know." -- Sam Simpson
...
"I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, without anyone knowing beforehand. If there still had been portable money, it would have been more difficult.
"It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time.
"Keep calm, they said on television. Everything is under control."
...
"That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on."
- Offred, _The Handmaid's Tale_
ISBN 0-449-21260-2
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL
@k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_
]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256;
&S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}
