Online Civil Liberties Activism Resource List, Ver. 5.3 ======================================================= A list of Usenet newsgroups, Internet mailing lists and other resources of use to the online activist. PART 3 An ACTION/EFF FAQ maintained by Stanton McCandlish VOLUNTEER MAINTAINER NEEDED! Administrative queries about this document should be sent to Stanton McCandlish . Updated: Jan. 21, 1997 Archived at: http://www.eff.org/pub/Activism/activ_resource.faq See also http://www.eff.org/pub/Activism/activ_groups.faq, the Online Activism Organizations List. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * can.infohighway * can.politics * clari.news.politics * clari.news.politics.people * comp.bbs.misc * comp.dcom.telecom * comp.internet.net-happenings = net-happenings@is.internic.net list * comp.org.cpsr.announce Moderated newsgroup for CPSR/EPIC releases. Also available as mailing list. (see issues of EPIC Alert for subscribe info). FTP: ftp.cpsr.org, /cpsr/alert/ Gopher: gopher.cpsr.org, 1/cpsr/alert WWW: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/alert/ * comp.org.cpsr.talk Unmoderated discussion of issues related to the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. Topics include privacy, the NII, telecommunications reform and social implications of technology. * comp.org.eff.news The Electronic Frontier Foundation's distribution for EFF newsletters and press releases and other items of note. This is a moderated newsgroup/list that does not allow posts from readers (such postings are redirected to comp.org.eff.talk). EFF-News is a low-traffic group/list, and features each issue of EFFector Online newsletter, as well as announcements, summaries of hearings and conferences, testimony transcripts, etc. General admin: editor@eff.org Technical admin: eff@eff.org EFF info: info@eff.org Subscribe: listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe comp-org-eff-news" FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/ ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector/ Gopher: gopher.eff.org gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/ http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector/ [For topic-sorted archives of news items, see Policy subdirectories; for newsletter backissues, see EFFector directory.] * comp.org.eff.talk The Electronic Frontier Foundation's general discussion forum - focuses on EFF policy, cyberspace legal issues, the "data superhighway", networking and activism, and computing futures and potential. comp.org eff.talk is also available as a mailing list, and, in some areas, a FidoNet echomail conference. EFF is a 501(c)(3) US non-profit organization devoted to civil liberties in computing and communications. As with comp.org.eff.news, this newsgroup/list is not archived in full, but important documents are placed in EFF's online library in the Policy (a.k.a. Issues) directory. See below for full paths and URLs. General admin: ask@eff.org Technical admin: eff@eff.org EFF Info: info@eff.org Subscribe: listserv@eff.org, message body: "subscribe comp-org-eff-talk" Usenet: comp.org.eff.talk FidoNet: Zone 1 - INET.EFF.TALK (not backboned; feed nodes unknown) FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/ Gopher: gopher.eff.org WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/ * comp.org.fidonet * comp.risks (RISKS Forum Digest) (See RISKS Forum Digest in mailing lists section for more info.) * comp.security.unix * comp.society * comp.society.cu-digest (CuD) (See Computer underground Digest in mailing lists section for more info.) * comp.society.futures * comp.society.privacy (PRIVACY Forum Digest) * misc.activism.progressive (ACTIV-L) * misc.consumers * misc.headlines * misc.legal * misc.legal.moderated * ne.politics * rec.video.desktop * sci.crypt Unmoderated technical discussion of encryption (cryptology and cryptography), codebreaking, and related topics. High traffic, but high content. Warning: this newsgroup should be used as an information source; the participants are NOT amenable to postings of political material, non-technical discussion, and the like. * sci.med.telemedicine * soc.politics * soc.rights.human * talk.politics.crypto Unmoderated newsgroup for discussion of govt. encryption policy and related topics. High traffic. * talk.politics.libertarian * talk.politics.medicine * talk.politics.misc * uk.org.community Unmoderated newsgroup for discussion of CommUnity, an EFF-like org. in Britain, and the issues the organization works on, incl. civil liberties and activism. * uk.politics Use a newsreader, such as nn, rn, trn, strn, nuntius, xrn, etc. to access Usenet newsgroups. Users of Delphi, CIS, and some other commercial online systems can also access Usenet via features built into such systems. BBS NETWORK CONFERENCES ----------------------- FidoNet: * AUST_LEGAL (FidoNet zone 3; = aus.legal newsgroup) * EFA (FidoNet zone 3; EF-Australia, = efa@iinet.com.au/aus.org.efa) * R_U_NEXT (FidoNet zone 3) * INET.EFF.TALK (FidoNet zone 1; non-backbone gate of comp.org.eff.talk) [many more need to be added] ONLINE SERVICES --------------- * Women's WIRE Online service focusing on women and women's issues. Hosts online resources of more than 15 women's-interest and other nonprofit groups, through the Organization Access feature, which offers direct access to nonprofit organizations and professional associations. Among the first groups to contribute to this electronic clearinghouse are The Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Alumnae Resources, Women's Cancer Resource Center, San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women, several chapters of the National Organization for Women, Students Organizing Students, National Education Center for Women in Business, and the Domestic Abuse Awareness Project. By entering the organizations' virtual doors, users gain access to up-to-date action aslerts, calendar, newsletters, resources and expert advice on health, politics, careers and more. WWIRE is a subscriber-only service. Listing here is not an endorsement or recommendation of the service, just a notice that activist-oriented resources may be located here. General: info@wwire.net Subscription: subscribe@wwire.net (mail here to get SprintNet numbers and a starter kit [Mac or Win3.1]) Telnet: wwire.net Voice: +1 415 615 8989 OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES ---------------------- ** Other Online Publications ** * Journal of Computer-Mediated Communications A new scholarly publication, JCMC is a joint project of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, and the Information Systems Division of the School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Editors are Margaret McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli. The journal seeks to publish original essays and research reports on such topics as interpersonal and group processes in communication networks, issues of privacy, economics and access raised by the developing information infrastructure, instructional communication in distance learning, computer-supported cooperative work, and organizational and social policy issues occasioned by the new medium. WWW: http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/annenberg/announce.html http://www.huji.ac.il/www_jcmc/announce.html ** Archive & Search Sites (FTP/Gopher/WWW) * CataLaw "The most efficient tool for finding law on the Internet." CATALAW is the catalog of catalogs of law on the Internet. It speeds research by arranging hundreds of legal and government indexes into a single, simple, intuitive metaindex. WWW: http://www.catalaw.com * Computer underground Digest E-Zine Archives Large collection of electronic publications on the computer underground, including hacking, security, and civil liberties online publications. FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Publications/CuD/ Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/Publications/CuD/ WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/CuD/ * Computers & Academic Freedom File Archives FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/CAF (ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/) Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/CAF WWW: http://www.eff.org/CAF/ http://www.eff.org/pub/CAF/ * Computers & Academic Freecom Civil Liberties Index A live index to "newsy" civil-liberties-related Net material http://www.eff.org/CAF/cl-index.html * Electronic Frontier Foundation E-Pub Archives Large collection of electronic publications on networking, telecommuniations regulation, online legal issues, privacy & security, civil liberties, and more. Includes books and articles as well as serial publications. FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Publications/ Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/Publications/ WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/ * MFJ Task Force Archives A joint telco lobbying group's archive of telecom regulatory material. Though an industry rather than public interest endeavour, the archive provides much timely, important, and hard to find legislative material, including hearing transcripts and testimony. FTP: bell.com Gopher: bell.com ** BBSs ** ** FTPMail & Files-by-Email Servers ** * InterNIC Directory and Database Services Mail Server This server provides access to information and services available from the InterNIC's Directory and Database Services. The server is used principally for access to the file archives, but other (free) services available from Directory and Database services include the Directory and Database Services X.500 server, which provides information on an institution or person; Internet document databases; the Directory and Database Services whois server, and much more. This valuable information is only an email message away. General: admin@ds.internic.net Server: mailserv@ds.internic.net, message body: "HELP" * Patent Titles Email Server A project of Greg Aharonian's Internet Patent News Service, the PTES is similar to an FTPmail system, "where people can retrieve lists of patent titles dating back to 1970 for any USPTO class/subclass, and patent numbers for additional patents dating back to the 1800's. The Patent Titles email server is the first step in our efforts to make the entire USPTO APS patent text database system accessible over the Internet. Approximately one gigabyte of data has been prepared and attached to the Internet. General: srctran@world.std.com Server: search@world.std.com, message body: "SENDTO " and "SEND HELP" [each command on separate line.] * Red Rock Eater Archives (RRE) RRE mailing list's supplemental file archive, mostly material related to the social and political aspects of computing and networking. Archive site for TNO back issues (see The Network Observer, separate entry; cf. Red Rock Eater News Service entry.) Also available via WWW. Admin: rre-maintainters@weber.ucsd.edu FTPMail Server: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu, subject line: "archive help" WWW: http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/rre.html ** Misc. Online Resources ** [no entries] HARDCOPY PUBLICATIONS --------------------- * 2600 Magazine: The Hacker Quarterly Inside technical information on telephone and computer network operations. Published quarterly. [For 2600 discussion forum info, see mailing list and Usenet sections of this document.] Email: 2600@well.sf.ca.us Editor: Emmanuel Goldstein Cost: US$21/year. Snail: P.O. Box 752 Middle Island NY 11953 USA * Applied Cryptography Book; technical introduction to encryption. Read _The_Codebreakers_ first. Note: The diskettes intended to accompany this book are the subject of quite a bit of (unwanted) US government attention. See ftp.eff.org, /pub/Legal/Cases/Karn_Schneier_export. Bruce Schneier, John Wiley & Sons Press, New York, 1994. * The Big Chill: Censorship and the Law Book; Edward De Grazia, Aperture Press, 1990. Available from Loompanics (see Loompanics entry in this section). * The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing Book; excellent and accessible history of cryptography for the non- mathematician; David Kahn, Macmillan Press, New York, 1967 [Somewhat outdated - does not cover the public key crypto revolution, nor the US government's attempts to subvert the crypto market. See also the _Applied_Cryptography_ entry in this section.] * Educational Technology Research and Development Quarterly published by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Washington DC. [No other info available at present.] * Electronic Public Information Newsletter (EPIN) [See under mailing lists section] * Full Disclosure A monthly newspaper on surveillance and civil liberties issues. Editor: Glen Roberts. Cost: US$29.95/year. Snail: Box 734 Antioch IL 60002 USA Voice: +1 708 395 6200 * International Privacy Bulletin Published quarterly by Privacy International & EPIC. The IPB covers international trends and new technologies. Each issue also includes reports from different countries and reviews of new publications. Editor: Dave Banisar Cost: US$50/year (individual) US$200/year (organizational) Snail: 666 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Suite 301 Washington DC 20003 USA * Journal of Broadcasting Broadcast Education Association's quarterly; no other info available. * Journal of Communication Anneberg School Press quarterly, Philadelphia PA. No other info available. * Journal of Hypermedia and Multimedia Studies: HyperNEXUS International Society for Technology in Education quarterly; Eugene, OR No other info available. * Journal of Media Literacy: Telemedium National Telemedia Council quarterly; Madison, WI. No other info available. * Loompanics Catalog Large catalog of unusual books, including many on privacy, censorship and activism (mostly of the civil disobedience variety, but some more thoughtful items are also available.) Voice: +1 206 385 2230 Fax: +1 206 385 7785 Snail: Loompanics Unlimited P.O. Box 1197 Port Townsend WA 98368 USA * Media and Values National Sisters Communication Service quarterly; Los Angeles, Calif. No other info available. * Media, Culture and Society Journal of the School of Communication, Polytechnic of Central, London, UK. No other info available. * Media Education Journal Biannual of the Scottish Curriculum Development Centre, Moray House College of Education; Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. No other info available. * Media Information Australia Australian Film & TV School quarterly; North Ryde, Australia. No other info available. * Media Studies Journal Freedom Forum Media Studies Center quarterly; New York City, NY. No other info available. * Mediaweek A/S/M Communications weekly; Brewster, New York. No other info available. * Lean & Mean: Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility Book; Bennett Harrison, Basic Books, New York, 1994. "A terrific guide to the meaning of 'flexibility' in the global economy. Computer networks and other means of global coordination are not weakening the largest firms. Quite the contrary...Harrison has a definite thesis and point of view, but he is also admirably clear about the difficulties of deriving reliable conclusions from the available data, and he discusses several competing theories in generous detail." [Review excerpted from _The_Network_Observer_ #1.12] * LITA Newsletter [See LITA Newsletter under mailing lists section] * Low Profile Asset protection and financial privacy. Published monthly. Editor: Mark Nestman Cost: US$149/year. Snail: P.O. Box 84910 Phoenix AZ 85701 USA Voice: +1 702 333 5942 * NSF Network News [See NSF Network News, under mailing lists section] * Politics on the Net: Surfing the World of Internet Politics Book; Bill Mann; A very comprehensive overview of US politics and and political resources online. Though not geared toward any particular kind of activism, anyone more active than a couch potato will find this to be of use. Pros: Covers the Libertarian and other parties as well as "the Big Two"; topical arrangement, clearly written by someone who actually knows what he's doing and talking about, detailed reviews of resources, besides pointers; introductory info for the beginning online grassroots activist; good indexing. Cons: appendices with govt. and NGO server lists would have been nice (but are, after all, available elsewhere already); focuses primarily on the US; has a slight bias against right-wing politics (for many readers this will of course be a big plus, but neutrality can be a virtue); and, like any work of this sort, it will age quickly - one hopes it will be reissued with updates every year or so. All in all, no serious flaws, and highly recommendable. 382 pages of pretty solid info. Que/Macmillan, Indianapolis, 1995; ISBN: 0-7897-0286-x. Cost: US$24.99 (less from discount booksellers) Email: 72410.2077@compuserve.com (Que), wpmann@ix.netcom.com (author) Snail: Que Corporation 201 W. 103rd St. Indianapolis IN 46290 USA Voice: 1 800 428 5331 (Que sales; US-only). * Privacy and American Business Published bi-monthly. A new publication, PAB provides the industry perspective on privacy. Bimonthly with special issues. Editor: Bob Belair. Cost: US$395/year. Snail: 2 University Plaza, Suite 414, Hackensack NJ 07601 USA Voice: +1 201 996 1154 * Privacy and Security 2001 Technical aspects of privacy and security. Focuses on electronic surveillance and counter-measures with recent assaults on privacy highlighted. 10/year. Editor: Jim Ross. Cost: US$35/year Snail: 504 Shaw Road, Suite 222 Sterling VA 20166 USA Voice: +1 703 318 8600. * Privacy Journal A monthly journal on mainly US privacy, now in its 20th year of publication. The PJ also publishes numerous books and compendia on privacy including its excellent yearly _Compilation_of_State_and_ _Federal_Laws_. Editor: Robert Ellis Smith. Cost: US$109/year Snail: P.O. Box 28577, Providence RI 02908 USA Voice: +1 401 274 7861 * Privacy Law and Policy Reporter A well written, law-oriented overview of privacy developments in NZ and Australia. 10 issues/year. Cost: AU$345/year Snail: Level 11, Carlton Centre 55-63 Elizabeth Street Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia Voice: +61 2 221 6199 * Privacy Laws and Business A quarterly comprehensive overview of privacy issues in Europe. Focuses mainly on regulatory and data protection from a business perspective. Editor: Stewart Dresner. Cost: UK#240/year Snail: 3 Central Ave. Pinner, Middlesex HA5 5BT UK Voice: +44 81 866 8641 * Privacy Times Biweekly newsletter on information law. Each issue covers developments related to privacy and information access, including summaries of court decisions on the Freedom of Information Act and other relevant statutes. Editor: Evan Hendricks. Cost: US$250/year Snail: P.O. Box 21501 Washington DC 21501 USA Voice: +1 202 829 3660 * Transnational Data and Communications Report Bimonthly international overview of privacy, data protection, telecommunications and information access. Editor: Russell Pipe Cost: US$280/year. Snail: P.O. Box 10528 Burke VA 22009-0528