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Politech is the oldest Internet resource devoted to politics and technology. Launched in 1994 by Declan McCullagh, the mailing list has chronicled the growing intersection of culture, technology, politics, and law. Since 2000, so has the Politech web site.
[Well, postfix is pretty amazing: It's some ten times as fast as sendmail when delivering politech messages. It was an incredible pain to configure, and the only way I got it working securely was to disable the damnable Delivered-To: headers (offending many purists, I'm sure), but it seems to work. Enjoy. --Declan] ******** Photo of defendant: http://www.phila.gov/police/rnc/press_highbail.htm Background: http://www.politechbot.com/p-01310.html http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38044,00.html ******** http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38124,00.html Protesting Hacker Out on Bail by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com) 3:00 a.m. Aug. 9, 2000 PDT WASHINGTON -- A hacker-turned-activist arrested during the Republican National Convention last week has been released from jail. A Philadelphia judge reduced bail for "ShapeShifter" from $500,000 to $100,000 during a hearing Tuesday afternoon, clearing the way for the staff member of hacker-zine 2600 Magazine to walk free after nearly a week behind bars. The Philadelphia Police Department has accused ShapeShifter, otherwise known as Terrence McGuckin, of being one of the three or four "ringleaders" of last week's largely non-violent protests, which snarled downtown traffic and led to hundreds of arrests. In court Tuesday, prosecutors opposed the bail reduction and tried to link McGuckin to roving bands of left-wing activists who disrupted trade meetings in Washington and Seattle. But after a brief discussion of where McGuckin's legal residence was, Senior Common Pleas Court Judge Lisa Richette decided to lower the amount. [...]