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A large collection of documents related to communications interception (and its implementation), air line passenger data transfer, and related topics has made it to the web.

Ian Clarke -- founder of the Freenet project -- is planning to leave the US. GrepLaw serial interviewer Mikael Pawlo has talked to him.

The battle about the JAP anonymizing proxy continues: After a decision of the Lower District Court in Frankfurt to add surveillance features to the system had been suspended by the District court (details; code is law analysis), German federal police obtained a search warrant from the Lower District Court last Friday. The data captured while the surveillance measures were in place (a single record was collected) were turned over to police during a search conducted Saturday. The Lower District Court's decision to issue the search warrant is believed to be illegal, and will be taken to a higher court. In particular, there was no obligation to turn over the data until a final decision is reached on the legality of the original surveillance measures.

Press release: German / English

I just trackback-spammed another weblog, inadvertently: Movable Type believed the ping was unsuccessful when it had been successful, and trackback autodiscovery kept adding the URL to the list of sites to be pinged. I've now turned off track-back autodiscovery.

Feature wish for Movable Type: Dedupe trackback pings.

Mailing list discussion about the search against the JAP anonymizing proxy is taking off on FITUG's debate mailing list; a quickly-updated unofficial archive is here.

ALAC proudly presents: alac.info (aka: Blogging At Large), the committee weblog. The hope is that we can turn this into a place where you can regularly find first-hand notes from committee members on current topics.

Of course, alac.info has the blogging software's comment feature enabled, so please feel free to let us know your views.

(void *) (it's pronounced "elsewhere") is where I'm going to post those short little links without much of a comment. The main purpose of that blog is to make an RSS feed available which can be syndicated into the side bar of this one.

Writes Dave Wiener: After the recent email meltdown, I didn't send today's DaveNet out via email. He might have given up on e-mail -- but why force others who are able to cope with its problems to give up on it, too? RSS might be a good additional offer for making content available. But for many things, it can't replace e-mail.

Vittorio Bertola looks at the possible ways in which the ALAC could focus its work, and implicitly takes up some recent criticism.