Law&Disorder (fwd)

A friend sent this to me... MODERN TIMES is a good bookstore! They've got lots 'o tech stuff, like internet info... definitely worth checking out. Anyways, the firs tone (Feb) was "Navigating the Internet: a crash course" by Eric Theise. How-to email, gopher, etc. I didn't know about it in time. I think this could be a good crowd to bring up cypherpunk issues with a more social, less hardcore tech perspective... time to stop preaching to the choir! (It's taken a while to find the door leading out of the choir... :-) Tom Jennings

From jerod23@well.sf.ca.us Tue Feb 23 10:35:44 1993 Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 10:34:18 -0800 From: Jerod Pore Message-Id: <199302231834.AA12863@well.sf.ca.us> To: tomj@fido.wps.com Subject: Law&Disorder

Something closer, cheaper and probably more interesting than CFP

news.1174: Monthly cyberspace series begins at Modern Times

news.1174.39: fork: Not enough memory (estheise) Mon 22 Feb 93 15:44

Here's the press release for show number 2:

Jacking In: A Monthly Series on Cyberspace Literacy presents LAW AND DISORDER ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER

Computer and telecommunications technologies hold great promise for individuals and society. Increased access to information can enhance transborder commerce, informed political participation, community development, and public health, education, and safety.

But, between activities of questionable legality and the countermeasures taken by private parties and law enforcement officials, these technologies are raising fundamental questions about our notions of privacy, property, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly.

Join us for a evening of provocative readings and presentations by:

- Bruce Sterling, journalist, editor, and author of *The Hacker Crackdown*, *Islands in the Net*, *Schismatrix*, and co-author (with William Gibson) of *The Difference Engine* - Mike Godwin, General Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation, leading advocate for extending Constitutional protections to cyberspace - John Draper (a.k.a. Cap'n Crunch), wanted by the FBI for phone cracking in the '60s, working to promote data encryption in the '90s - Mitch Ratcliffe, Editor at Large, MacWEEK, and cofounder of This!Group, a northern California organization working to publicize the benefits and dangers of a highly-networked information society - Bruce Koball, General Chair, Third Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, being held March 9-12, San Francisco Airport Marriott

Sunday, March 7th, 7 pm $3-$5 sliding scale Modern Times Bookstore 888 Valencia (19th/20th) San Francisco, CA 94110 (415)282-9246

-- Tom Jennings / tomj@fido.wps.com / World Power Systems / San Francisco CA