Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 20:24:15 -0400
From: freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Seattle Cypherpunks, 5/12 JusticeFiles.org
To: freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)


Announcing the May meeting of Cypherpunks-Seattle.

When:  May 12, 2001 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Where:  Cedars Restaurant on Brooklyn
        ( http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile/10781258/ )
        4759 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, near UW (free parking available)
        Space is limited, please RSVP to seacyphepunks@ix.netcom.com


Agenda -

        Introductions and Open Discussion

        Keeping a Controversial Site Up and Running

                JusticeFiles.org has garnered a lot of attention 
lately from both
Seattle and national media organizations--as well as local law
enforcement agencies--when the site published the names and addresses
of local law enforcement individuals.

        The site publishes only publicly-available information in an effort
to hold law enforcement accountable for their actions against
individuals and their communities.  Despite the fact that
justicefiles.org uses only public information, the site has endured
massive attacks in an obvious effort to bring it down, its owners
have been harassed in various venues, and its ISPs heavily pressured
to get rid of the site.

        In addition, the web site owners are also being sued by a number of
cities who take exception to publishing readily-available public
information.

        William Sheehan and Aaron Rosenstine, founders of justicefiles.org,
will discuss the problems that they've encountered and detail some of
the approaches that they've already taken to deal with them.

        Potential discussion topics concerning this de-facto censorship
attempt and others like it may include such cypherpunkish topics as:

        electronic and legal countermeasures

        mirroring and duplication of the site, including eternity services,
offshore servers, freenet-style capabilities and the like

        other technical suggestions and assistance.



        For further information on justicefiles.org:

        http://www.justicefiles.org/
                (If not available, use http://216.9.7.36/ or 
http://216.9.7.44/ )

        http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/story/html/49330

        http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/di 
splay?slug=privacy03m&date=20010503

        http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/di 
splay?slug=website03m&date=20010403



        For further information on Eternity and Freenet:

        http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/eternity/eternity.html

        http://freenet.sourceforge.net/



The cypherpunks meeting is an Open Meeting on US Soil and it is
free for anyone to attend.


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