State Department over the publication of an encryption program called "Snuffle." As has been illustrated with the recent legal history of the PGP algorithm and the Clipper chip, the State Department currently classifies encryption software as a munition subject to tight export restrictions however, Bernstein feels the government is violating his First Amendment rights by preventing him from publishing his work.Ĭomputer privacy experts are taking the position that this suit could help define major issues surrounding encryption and privacy issues in the computer industry. Berkeley graduate student Daniel Bernstein, with the support of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, filed suit against the U.S. In the meantime, I recommend that you look at AOL's Info-Mac mirror for Internet files and issues of TidBITS in: Įncryption Lawsuit Filed - In late February, U.C. I'll post another note when the machine is back and functional again. Nor will you be able to retrieve TidBITS or any files from the Info-Mac mirror part of until the machine comes back up. The upshot of this is that none of the Anarchie bookmarks that ship with my book, The Internet Starter Kit will work, since they point at a directory on that machine. Northwest Nexus is working on getting a new machine up in its place, but they currently estimate a 10 to 12 day downtime. Zip Zapping Away - Lookups for the United Statesįtp. Down - For various reasons, the machine that runs died yesterday.Hayden Books, an imprint of Macmillan Computer PublishingĬopyright 1995 Adam & Tonya Engst.Makers of hard drives, tape drives, and neat SCSI accessories. This issue of TidBITS sponsored in part by:
Plus, important news on Harry Mangalam's new incarnation of the Info-Mac WAIS database, a new Federal lawsuit regarding encryption technology and electronic privacy, and reviews of ZipZAPP and ZipQuest Pro, two ZIP Code/Area Code databases for the United States. The thing is, knowing that the Netscape FTP went offline about 2004, if I remember correctly, maybe we could get all of the old Netscape installers into the database without issues.The Web gets stickier this week as we bring you news on updates to all the major World-Wide Web browsers and details on StarNine's announcement of Mac-based Web server products. There, I found out that it got its files from an http version of the old Netscape FTP.
Internet Archive has a couple of torrents with the full archive, but I thought there must be another way to get to that old FTP, until I decided to install Netscape 7 on a VM, a netinstall executable. Thing is, exploring the Wayback Machine, I couldn't get any kind of access to the Netscape FTP, where the old versions are stored, and some mirrors out there aren't complete. Particularly, I'm looking for the 4.x branch of the suite in Spanish. I've been testing Windows VMs so far, and trying to run some of the old software I used to see during those times.īut a thing I missed a lot it's the Netscape Communicator suite, which it seems rather incomplete here at WinWorld. First of all I'm new to the forums, but I've been browsing WinWorld for a while since I got into trying to recreate some of the environments I experienced when I was a child, when I started into computers.