A M U S I N G Q U O T E S A N D G E N E R A L M E D I A W H O R I N G A . K . A . S H A M E L E S S S E L F - P R O M O T I O N * * G R A I N O F S A L T S O L D S E P A R A T E L Y * * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Digital Ids May Offer "false Sense Of; Security" By Drew Clark Nov. 14, 2000 - PM Edition National Journal's Technology Daily http://www.newhackcity.net/~macki/njtd.txt Macki, the webmaster for 2600, called the exercise a pointless effort doomed to failure. [...] Macki went further: "I find the whole idea of client-side security offensive," he said. "It is like selling someone a car and welding the hood shut" so they won't open it up and take a look inside. "What we are seeing now is a clash of cultures," Macki said. "You are creating laws and technology that are completely unenforceable," he said, much like the 1996 Communications Decency Act's attempt to restrict material that could be deemed "indecent." The U.S. Supreme Court struck the law down the next year on First Amendment grounds. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DMCA: In the Absence of Clarification ... By Karen Heyman Nov. 29, 2000 http://www.PlanetIT.com/docs/PIT20001129S0012 As "Macki," 2600's illustrious Webmaster, recently warned, you can now be fined or penalized "simply by playing with technology that you already own. Figuring out how to skip commercials on a DVD is now officially a crime." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Webnoize: Snapshots Of Day 1 By Tony Kontzer Nov. 14, 2000 http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20001114S0009 A panel on digital-rights management and anti-piracy efforts--the topic that's at the center of the industry's digital conundrum--digressed into sparring between Scott Moskowitz, CEO of Blue Spike, who sounded like a broken record as he insisted over and over that artists must be paid [...] and Macki (who offered no last name), 2600 Magazine's Webmaster and a staunch Kevin Mitnick supporter, who stressed the naive but refreshing notion that artists and music execs cannot expect to make money every time someone accesses a digital file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEBNOIZE 2000 Opponents Clash on Media Security, Licensing By Mark Lewis Nov. 14, 2000 http://news.webnoize.com/item.rs?ID=11054 http://www.webnoize.com/live/access.rs?ID=11373 [Video of Panel] The divisiveness of the debate -- and the extremely different business and public advocacy motives of the participants -- was best represented by an exchange between renewable-security advocate Moskowitz and client-side security critic Macki. "What's the appropriate security system for music?" challenged Moskowitz. "It's not my job to come up with your business model," replied Macki, a San Francisco computer science student who does not believe that security systems and the laws protecting them are enforceable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A CORPORATE INVITATION TO HACK On Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman Sep. 19, 2000 http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20000919.html http://stream.realimpact.net/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn20000919.ra&start="7:06.0" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOP Fertile Ground for Hackers By Declan McCullagh Aug. 5, 2000 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38044,00.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Free Speech Rights for Computer Code? By Amy Harmon July 31, 2000 http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/biztech/articles/31rite.html http://slashdot.org/yro/00/07/31/0532215.shtml Picture later removed from story: http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/biztech/articles/31rite.1.jpg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Suit Seeks to Get Copying Software Off Web Movie Companies Claim It Allows DVD Piracy By David Noack Dec. 29, 1999 http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/1999/12/29/dvd1229_01.html Macki, the Webmaster for the magazine site, said the case involves "compelling free speech and freedom of the press issues." "Once this information became public, it ceased to be a secret," Macki added. "As a journal of the hacking community, 2600 felt a strong duty to accurately report on these findings in their entirety. The fact that the motion-picture industry has sought to suppress this information through blatant intimidation has made taking a stand on this issue all the more important." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monitor This, Echelon By Chris Oakes Oct. 22, 1999 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32039,00.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mitnick Fans Await Denouement By Douglas Thomas July 13, 1999 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,20709-2,00.html For many hackers, the Mitnick case has been a civics lesson in how the system works. Biff Macki, a hacker who has followed the Mitnick case for some time thinks the lesson is pretty clear-cut. "If the government wants you, they'll get you, no matter what," he said. The problem, he says, is in the system itself. "[The US government has] millions of dollars to spend and it is impossible to organize an adequate defense on 15 minutes of collect calls a day from federal prison." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mitnick Demonstration By Iolande Bloxsom June 11, 1999 http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/news/story/0,23008,2272048,00.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pro-Mitnick Demos in US, Russia By Polly Sprenger June 5, 1999 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,20053,00.html "Just don't call him a 'celebrity cracker,'" growled Macki ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mitnick's friends in high places By Kevin Poulsen June 4, 1999 http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2270517,00.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------