"Priluck's first law: Don't go looking for permission to express your liberty and freedom. Freedom has always been a struggle and it always will be: it is something you have to claim, not something which can be granted to you. That is why this is 'The land of the free *and* the home of the brave.' I don't believe you can have one without the other." -- Jon Priluck , misc.entrepreneurs.moderated, 1/31/95.

Net activists from many organizations have been organizing to fight Senate Bill 314, the Communications Decency Act introduced by Senator Exon. See or for info. [TidBITS, 3/6/95.]

Police have confiscated data from an "anonymous server" in Finland, trying to determine who may have stolen files from the Church of Scientology in 1/95. Distribution of stolen information is a crime in Finland. [St. Petersburg Times, 3/6/95, p. 9. EDUPAGE.]

The "Cryptography, PGP, and Your Privacy" Web page links to many privacy-related Web resources. . [The Scout Report, 3/3/95. net-hap.]

For days of male fantasy fun, send for the "high-tech security gear" catalog from The Edge Company, P.O. Box 826, Brattleboro, VT 05302; 1-800-732-9976. Bugs and bug sweepers, radar detectors and spoofers, surveillance cameras, caller ID, voice changers, hotel door alarms, stun guns, sprays, night vision scopes, lock picks, survival gear, and blowguns -- but mostly knives, swords, throwing stars, and batons of every design. Also laser pointers, rubber band guns, BB and pellet guns, model cars, MIG clocks, fake tattoos, Chinese hand spheres, and a telephone in the shape of the Enterprise. No sales to minors, and many of the concealed weapons are illegal in California. [KIL, 3/22/95.]