Computer underground Digest Wed Feb 16, 1994 Volume 6 : Issue 16 ISSN 1004-042X Editors: Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2@NIU.BITNET) Archivist: Brendan Kehoe (Improving each day) Acting Archivist: Stanton McCandlish Shadow-Archivists: Dan Carosone / Paul Southworth Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala Ian Dickinson Cowpie Editor: Buffy A. Lowe CONTENTS, #6.16 (Feb 16, 1994) File 1--Japanese Magazine Solicits "non-Nerds" for Cover File 2--FAQs about Clipper (From CPSR) File 3--Response to Gore's Key Escrow Comments File 4--Big Brother Inside Logo File 5--Rep. Cantwell's Remarks on HR 3627 (From EFF ftp archives) File 6--Amateur Action BBS and Clipper File 7--Wireless Messaging Cu-Digest is a weekly electronic journal/newsletter. Subscriptions are available at no cost electronically. 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Readers are encouraged to submit reasoned articles relating to computer culture and communication. Articles are preferred to short responses. Please avoid quoting previous posts unless absolutely necessary. DISCLAIMER: The views represented herein do not necessarily represent the views of the moderators. Digest contributors assume all responsibility for ensuring that articles submitted do not violate copyright protections. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 17:52:43 CST From: Jim Thomas Subject: File 1--Japanese Magazine Solicits "non-Nerds" for Cover ((MODERATORS' NOTE: The following solicitation for "freaks" for the cover of a large Japanese computer magazine appeared in the "hackers" conference on The Well. We were sufficiently troubled by the dangers of continued negative media stereotyping that we include our response to the poster as well. Those wanting more information about the photo-op can contact rika@well.sf.ca.us)) "ASAhI Personal Computing", a personal computing magazine published in Japan, is about to publish a special issue of "computer culture in the US", which reports from adult CD-ROMs, tele-comuting, Internet, to HoHoCon (yeah, that was a COOL experience, thanks to Drunkfux). As the finale, we need people to be in the COVER picture. if you: 1)can bring your ANY equipment with you. More original is better. 2)have at least one of following -- nose ring or eyebrow pirce, long or no hair, hip-hop or grunge outfits, pink or green haircolor.... well, not necessary, but please BE ORIGINAL. Don't be an ordinary nerd. 3)can torelate the humiliation of being bumped out. In case too many people show up, we need to do "audition". 4)can spent about 2 hours without payment! 5)don't complain when you recieve the magazine to find yourself on the cover picture but can't read it. It is in Japanese. The shooting will be held on Feb 19, Sat, from 1PM in Buena Vist Park at Vista Ave. West @ Hight. Please respond and tell me how many friends you can bring. We wish we can have ar least 20 people. Sorry, again, we can't pay you for the modeling fee but one copy of that issue per person is garanteed. Also, the place and time is subject to change. So, please check it before you leave your place on Sat with any further notice. Oh, by the way, I'm a correspondent to that magazine based in SF. I signed on the WELL last week feding up with my Compuserve account loosing mails from Internet addresses. I am enjoying this conference VERY much. Thank You! Rika =========================================================== Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 16:51 CST To--Rika Kasahara From--TK0JUT2 Subject--Re: Request permission to reprint your Well post Conference Rika-- Thanks for your permission to reprint the ASAhI solicitation for the cover photo of your special issue on computer culture in the U.S. As you've read in my posts on The Well in "hackers," I'm quite uncomfortable with such over-dramatization of our computer culture as as your proposed cover suggests. By bringing in "freaks" for the cover, it only increases cultural misunderstanding by playing on extreme and generally negative stereotypes. In the U.S., some of us have worked hard for many years to reduce the stereotypes that you suggest will appear on the cover, because they reinforce media and public images of the wild and dangerous "hacker." This, in turn, has led to poorly written laws, bad policies, and to events like the "hacker crackdown" of 1990 and other incidents. Visual images are far more powerful than words, and a single stereotypical picture, as the one you describe in your post, can do more to demonize and stigmatize a group than a hundred cogent and thoughtful articles. We, and as I'm sure you know by now, and others hope you can avoid a picture that contributes to dangerous misconceptions of our culture. For some of us, the inaccurate stereotyping that you suggest in the proposed cover would be similar to doing a story on the African-American civil rights struggle and then soliciting the meanest looking "gangsta rap" fans and requesting that they bring Uzis and watermelon. Or, to run a story on Japanese business executives covered by a picture of old World War II U.S. propaganda stereotypes. Such negatively inaccurate images reinforce, rather than reduce, cultural barriers. Wouldn't a montage that depicts a broader and more accurate insight be both better art and more incisive journalism? 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