Diplomacy Zine -- Chapter Eight EP #245

From: Eric_S_Klien@cup.portal.com

Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1991 22:29:41 +0000

Issue #245 of ELECTRONIC PROTOCOL:

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Chapter One contains:

BAGHDAD, AUSTERLITZ, BLITZKRIEG II, KING'S GAMBIT, PASSCHENDAELE,
DRAGONS, BLACK OCTOBER, OPERATION DESERT STORM, THE SOMME

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Chapter Two contains:

REPUBLIC, BORODINO, KHAN, SUTHERLAND

And is published by sinhaa@mcmaster.ca/Anand Sinha

Chapter Three contains:

SQUALANE, BRUSILOV OFFENSIVE II, CULLODEN, GANDALF'S REVENGE,
GOODBYE BLUE SKY, MASTERS OF DECEIT, PANDORA, NOW AND ZEN

And is published by mad-2@kub.nl/Constantijn Wekx

Chapter Four contains:

DEADLY DAGGERS, MONTREUIL-SUR-MER, FIRE WHEN READY, THUNDERDOME,
BEREZINA, FONTENOY

And is published by daguru@ucscb.ucsc.edu/Nicholas Jodar

Chapter Five contains:

YALTA, AJAX

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Chapter Six contains:

BERLIN WALL, HIROSHIMA, GENGHIS KHAN, SEA LION, VIOLENT PEACE, GIBRALTAR

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Chapter Seven contains:

TIBERIUS, BETELGEUSE, IRON CROSS, TEUNISGEK, RIYADH'S RECKONING

And is published by staats@ucscb.UCSC.EDU/Robert Staats.

Chapter Eight contains:

HELM'S DEEP, GROUND ZERO, TIBERIUS, BETELGEUSE, IRON CROSS
GUERNICA, TEUNISGEK, WOLF BLITZER

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Chapter Eight
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Table of Contents:

Northern Stalemate Positions
Letters from Mark Nelson
EFF News
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The following was scribed by quark@bucsf.bu.edu (Paul Fu)
(Three cheers for Paul the scribe!  Cheer!  Cheer!  Cheer!)

Northern Stalemate Positions
by Eric Verheiden
(c) 1975 by THE DIPLOMACY ASSOCIATION (all rights reserved)
(first published in Impassable #0)

((Note: I thank John Beshara for extending us the privilege of printing
Eric's fine article.  I have always welcomed Eric to write for Impassable,
and through Mr. Beshara, we again have Eric's fine writing gracing our
pages.))

During the past few years, a number of analyses of western
stalemate positions were published. See, for example, the articles by John
Beshara and Robert Lipton, and my own "Western Stalemate Positions" in
Graustark #313.  None of these, however, extended a certain fundamental
progression: Positions not requiring control of the Mid-Atlantic.

1. Armies: Bel, Bre, Den, Kie, Nwy, Par, Pic, Ruh, StP.
   Fleets: Eng, Iri, NAt
   Supply Centers: England, Low Countries, Scandinavia, Bre, Par, Kie,
StP. (12)

F Eng S A Bre, A Pi S A Par, A Bel S A Ruh, A Den S A Kie, A Nwy S A StP

Remove A Pic and A Bel.  Add A Bur and with support from Paris and Ruhr,
this new position requires only 11 units for 12 centers.  From here,
trade-in A Den for A Ber and F Bal.  By supporting Berlin with A Kie and F
Bal, there are now 12 units and 13 centers.  Notice in the last two
positions, St. Petersburg is expendable; the stalemate is effective with A
Swe S A Nwy.

(A slight reduction of this position appeared in John Beshara's
"Fundamental Stalemate Positions, IV" in Atlantis #73.)

2. Armies: Ber, Bre, Bur, Kie, Mun, Nwy, Par, Ruh, StP.
   Fleets: Bal, Eng, Iri, NAt
   Supply Centers: England, Germany, Low Countries, Scandinavia, Bre, Par,
StP (14)

F Eng S A Bre, A Par S A Bur, A Run S A Mun, A Kie S A Mun, F Bal S A
Ber, A Nwy S A StP

Extensions proceed in two directions:

First, heading towards Russia, add armies in Prussia and Livonia, remove
A Nwy and A Ruh.  A Ber and A Kie S A Mun, F Bal S A Pru, A StP S A Liv,
making the position solid.
   Next exchange F Bal for A Sil, to be supported from Berlin and Prussia.
A new A Mos supported from Livonia and St. Petersburg adds another center.
Alternatively, A War is controlled by support from Prussia and Livonia.  To
hold both Moscow and Warsaw, move A Liv - Mos.  Then A Pru S A War, A StP S
A Mos, owns 16 centers with 14 units.

3. Armies: Ber, Bre, Bur, Kie, Mos, Mun, Par, Sil, Ukr, War.
   Fleets: Eng, Iri, NAt
   Supply Centers: England, Germany, Low Countries, Scandinavia, Bre, Mos,
Par, StP, War. (16)

F Eng S A Bre, A Par S A Bur, A Kie S A Mun, A Ber S A Sil, A War S A
Ukr, A Mos S A Ukr.

This position of 16 centers with 13 units allow certain reductions
without sacrificing the stalemate:

Remove A Par, add A Pic, A Bel, A Ruh.  To retain this stalemate, F Eng
and A Pic S A Bre, A Bel and A Ruh S A Bur, needing all the the units of
the 15 centers.

By removing A Bre, A Bur, A Pic and replacing them with A Hel and F Nth,
we arrive at a position Robert Lipton previously published:

4. Armies: Bel, Ber, Hol, Kie, Mos, Mun, Ruh, Sil, Ukr, War.
   Fleets: Eng, Iri, Nth.
   Supply Centers: England, Germany, Low Countries, Scandinavia, Mos, StP,
War. (14)

F Iri S F Eng, F Nth S F Eng, A Hol S A Bel, A Ruh S A Mun, A Kie S A
Mun, A Ber S A Sil, A War S A Ukr, A Mos S A Ukr.

Returning to position 2 again and heading towards Iberia instead of
Russia, we see that by moving A Par - Gas and then ordering A Bre and A
Bur S A Gas, we're again solid.  From here, build A Mid, supporting with
all three fleets in the coastal waters off England.  A Bre becomes
superfluous.

With either of the above positions, Marseilles is held by A Bur and A
Gas reaching the last basic position:

5. Armies: Ber, Bur, Gas, Kie, Mar, Mun, Nwy, Ruh, StP.
   Fleets: Bal, Eng, Iri, Mid, NAt.
   Supply Centers: England, France, Germany, Low Countries, Scandinavia,
StP (15)

F NAt S F Mid, F Iri S F Mid, F Eng S F Mid, A Gas S A Mar, A Bur S A
Mar, A Ruh S A Mun, A Kie S A Mun, F Bal S A Ber, A Nwy S A StP

All positions described herein assume unopposed dominance of the northerners
by the stalemating power or alliance.  Combinations of progressions
proceeding in the two directions from position 2 are generally viable and
sufficiently obvious so as not to require delineation.

From: AMT5MAN@cms1.ucs.leeds.ac.uk/Mark Nelson

> There has been a census. I believe it listed 700 players for North
> America.  I have about half that in my zine.  Obviously the other
> census missed a lot of people.  I will break down my players by
> country later this year.

It would be interesting to get a hold of this.  Do you know if anyone
distributes this?

> "I find this mass of indecision to be...dissappointing."
>
> Actually, Bush did have a plan.  To do nothing.  But public opinion
> forced him to deviate from his plan.  This was not too surprising.
> But the Kuwaiti government's lack of a plan for rebuilding their
> country was surprising.  Not allowing fire fighting supplies to enter
> the country until they pass through a week-long custom wait?
> Amazing.

Yes, the Kuwaiti Goverment does not strike one as being a
well-organized Goverment...if it wasn't for the oil I'd have been happy
to see them go under.  I've been suprised that the allies did not make
reprisals for the Iraqii distruction of the oil-wells.  I'd have liked
to have seen us take their oil-wells and hold them for a number of years
...the income derrived would serve as some kind of repayment.

>
> "OK, so in this particular case I know who it is;"
>
> Who was it?

Well the zine was TYG (The Yorkshire Gallant=my own zine) and I
remember printing Andrew's article some years ago (must have been one
of the zines you got from Francois).  BUT I'd really like to see the
scribes given full details and not leaving out small (but mportant)
pieces of information.

Mark Nelson

My response:

"It would be interesting to get a hold of this.  Do you know if anyone
distributes this?"

I think John Caruso did the last census.

"   Yes, the Kuwaiti Goverment does not strike one as being a
well-organized Goverment..."

True, but this surprised me.  Remember that the Kuwait government
has a larger per capita surplus than the U.S. has a deficit.  No
other country has pulled this off.

"I'd have liked to have seen us take their oil-wells and hold them
for a number of years ...the income derrived would serve as some kind
of repayment."

All of the Iraqi wells will be taxed by the U.N. for decades to come.

Eric Klien
From: AMT5MAN@UK.AC.LEEDS.CMS1/Mark Nelson:

Dear Eric,
Not suprisingly I don't follow the ins and outs of the
American budget crisis.  For one thing it is like a Marvel
cross-over story, with threads to be followed all over the place and
all over time; and secondly the mismanagement of the US Economy is
not of much intrinsic interest to me (I'm not an economist nor do
I have an interest in economics).

If the two house system is the strength of American Politics, it is
also its weakness; the need to pass reform bills throug two sets of
political houses full of politicians needing to look after themselves
reduces the ability of President to really tackle the economy.  I
don't believe in the a priori benefits of consensus politics, experience
in the UK over the last 15 years suggests that radical reforms are
required; and radicalism is often not a shorty-term winner.

The inability to cut the budget stems from a desire not to be seen
to be cutting either (a) Popular fields or (b) Fields effecting your
own local economy (re-election chances).

SOme comments on the search to program a computer.  I recall reading
in a British fanzine that there is a reserch group in Israel who already
have designed a program that not only orders units but supposedly
conducts the diplomatic side of the game.

The diplomatic side of the game should be stripped away from the
current programming discussion, as it is a matter which can be dealt
with seperately.  The use of 'book-openings' should be common to
provide a sound start for any computer in a game.  The emphasis should
be on a code which will order efficiently in the mid and end game.

Instead of one all encompassing code it seems sensible to split
this up into smaller codes.  The aims of endgame and midgame play
ARE different, so let's recognize that fact.

In most diplomacy positions it is difficult to look forward into
the game.   Perhapes programs should be designed to consider the best
possible set of moves in the current season with some weighting given
to the ideal line-up next season.  If an attack on a sc can't work
this season but could next season if an extra unit was brought to
bare then that extra unit should be sent where it is needed.

Yours,

MARK

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AND NOW THE NEWS

The following press release was Faxcast to over 1,500 media
organizations and interested parties this afternoon:

EXTENDING THE CONSTITUTION TO AMERICAN CYBERSPACE:

TO ESTABLISH CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION FOR ELECTRONIC MEDIA AND TO
OBTAIN REDRESS FOR AN UNLAWFUL SEARCH, SEIZURE, AND PRIOR RESTRAINT
ON PUBLICATION, STEVE JACKSON GAMES AND THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER
FOUNDATION TODAY FILED A CIVIL SUIT AGAINST THE UNITED STATES SECRET
SERVICE AND OTHERS.

On March 1, 1990, the United States Secret Service nearly
destroyed Steve Jackson Games (SJG), an award-winning publishing
business in Austin, Texas.
	In an early morning raid with an unlawful and
unconstitutional warrant, agents of the Secret Service conducted a
search of the SJG office.  When they left they took a manuscript
being prepared for publication, private electronic mail, and several
computers, including the hardware and software of the SJG Computer
Bulletin Board System.  Yet Jackson and his business were not only
innocent of any crime, but never suspects in the first place.  The
raid had been staged on the unfounded suspicion that somewhere in
Jackson's office there "might be" a document compromising the
security of the 911 telephone system.
	In the months that followed,
Jackson saw the business he had built up over many years dragged to
the edge of bankruptcy. SJG was a successful and prestigious
publisher of books and other materials used in adventure role-playing
games.  Jackson also operated a computer bulletin board system (BBS)
to communicate with his customers and writers and obtain feedback and
suggestions on new gaming ideas.  The bulletin board was also the
repository of private electronic mail belonging to several of its
users.  This private mail was seized in the raid.  Despite repeated
requests for the return of his manuscripts and equipment, the Secret
Service has refused to comply fully.
	Today, more than a year after that raid, The Electronic
Frontier Foundation, acting with SJG owner Steve Jackson, has filed
a precedent setting civil suit against the
United States Secret Service, Secret Service Agents Timothy Foley and
Barbara Golden, Assistant United States Attorney William Cook, and
Henry Kluepfel.
	"This is the most important case brought to date,"
said EFF general counsel Mike Godwin, "to vindicate the
Constitutional rights of the users of computer-based communications
technology.  It will establish the Constitutional dimension of
electronic expression.  It also will be one of the first cases that
invokes the Electronic Communications and Privacy Act as a shield and
not as a sword -- an act that guarantees users of this digital
medium the same privacy protections enjoyed by those who use the
telephone and the U.S. Mail."
	Commenting on the overall role of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation in this case and other matters, EFFs
president Mitch Kapor said, "We have been acting as an organization
interested in defending the wrongly accused. But the Electronic
Frontier Foundation is also going to be active in establishing
broader principles.  We begin with this case, where the issues are
clear.  But behind this specific action, the EFF also believes that
it is vital that government, private entities, and individuals who
have violated the Constitutional rights of individuals be held
accountable for their actions. We also hope this case will help
demystify the world of computer users to the general public and
inform them about the potential of computer communities."

Representing Steve Jackson and The Electronic Frontier
Foundation in this suit is James George,Jr. of Graves, Dougherty,
Hearon & Moody of Austin, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky &
Liberman of New York,and Harvey A. Silverglate and Sharon L. Beckman
of Silverglate & Good of Boston .
	Copies of the complaint, the unlawful search warrant,
statements by Steve Jackson and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a
legal fact sheet and other pertinent materials are available by
request from the EFF.

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Also made available to members of the press and electronic media on
request were the following statementby Mitchell Kapor and a legal
fact sheet prepared by Sharon Beckman and Harvey Silverglate of
Silverglate & Good, the law firm central to the filing of this
lawsuit.

WHY THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION IS BRINGING SUIT ON BEHALF OF
STEVE JACKSON.

With this case, the Electronic Frontier Foundation begins a new
phase of affirmative legal action. We intend to fight for broad
Constitutional protection for operators and users of computer
bulletin boards.

It is essential to establish the principle that computer bulletin
boards  and computer conferencing systems are entitled to the same
First Amendment rights enjoyed by other media.  It is also critical
to establish that operators of bulletin boards JQJ whether
individuals or businesses JQJ are not subject to unconstitutional,
overbroad searches and seizures of any of the contents of their
systems, including electronic mail.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation also believes that
it is vital to hold government, private entities, and individuals
who have violated the Constitutional rights of others accountable
for their actions.

Mitchell Kapor,
           President, The Electronic Frontier Foundation

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LEGAL FACT SHEET: STEVE JACKSON GAMES V.  UNITED STATES SECRET
SERVICE, ET AL

This lawsuit seeks to vindicate the rights of a small, successful
entrepreneur/publisher to conduct its entirely lawful business, free
of unjustified governmental interference.  It is also the goal of
this litigation to firmly establish the principle that lawful
activities carried out with the aid of computer technology, including
computer communications and publishing, are entitled to the same
constitutional protections that have long been accorded to the print
medium. Computers and modems, no less than printing presses,
typewriters, the mail, and telephones -being the methods selected by
Americans to communicate with one another -- are all protected by our
constitutional rights.

Factual Background and Parties:

Steve Jackson, of Austin, Texas, is a successful small businessman.
His company, Steve Jackson Games, is an award- winning publisher of
adventure games and related books and magazines.  In addition to its
books and magazines, SJG operates an electronic bulletin board system
(the Illuminati BBS) for its customers and for others interested in
adventure games and related literary genres.

Also named as plaintiffs are various users of the Illuminati BBS.
The professional interests of these users range from writing to
computer technology.

Although neither Jackson nor
his company were suspected of any criminal activity, the company was
rendered a near fatal blow on March 1, 1990, when agents of the
United States Secret Service, aided by other law enforcement
officials, raided its office, seizing computer equipment necessary to
the operation of its publishing business.  The government seized the
Illuminati BBS and all of the communications stored on it, including
private electronic mail, shutting down the BBS for over a month.  The
Secret Service also seized publications protected by the First
Amendment, including drafts of the about-to-be-released role playing
game book GURPS Cyberpunk.  The publication of the book was
substantially delayed while SJG employees rewrote it from older
drafts.  This fantasy game book, which one agent preposterously
called "a handbook for computer crime," has since sold over 16,000
copies and been nominated for a prestigious game industry award.  No
evidence of criminal activity was found.

The warrant application,
which remained sealed at the government's request for seven months,
reveals that the agents were investigating an employee of the company
whom they believed to be engaged in activity they found questionable
at his home and on his own time.  The warrant application further
reveals not only that the Secret Service had no reason to think any
evidence of criminal activity would be found at SJG, but also that
the government omitted telling the Magistrate who issued the warrant
that SJG was a publisher and that the contemplated raid would cause a
prior restraint on constitutionally protected speech, publication,
and association.

The defendants in this case are the United States
Secret Service and the individuals who, by planning and carrying out
this grossly illegal search and seizure, abused the power conferred
upon them by the federal government. Those individuals include
Assistant United States Attorney William J. Cook, Secret Service
Agents Timothy M. Foley and Barbara Golden, as well Henry M. Kluepfel
of Bellcore, who actively participated in the unlawful activities as
an agent of the federal government.

These defendants are the same
individuals and entities responsible for the prosecution last year of
electronic publisher Craig Neidorf.  The government in that case
charged that Neidorf's publication of materials concerning the
enhanced 911 system constituted interstate transportation of stolen
property.  The prosecution was resolved in Neidorf's favor in July of
1990 when Neidorf demonstrated that materials he published were
generally available to the public.

Legal Significance:

This case is about the constitutional and statutory rights of
publishers who conduct their activities in electronic media rather
than in the traditional print and hard copy media, as well as the
rights of individuals and companies that use computer technology to
communicate as well as to conduct personal and business affairs
generally.

The government's wholly unjustified raid on SJG, and
seizure of its books, magazines, and BBS, violated clearly
established statutory and constitutional law, including:

.    The Privacy Protection Act of 1980, which generally prohibits
the government from searching the offices of publishers for work
product and other documents, including materials that are
electronically stored;

.    The First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, which guarantees
freedom of speech, of the press and of association, and which
prohibits the government from censoring publications, whether in
printed or electronic media.

.    The Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable governmental
searches and seizures, including both general searches and searches
conducted without probable cause to believe that specific evidence of
criminal activity will be found at the location searched.

.    The Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Federal
Wiretap statute, which together prohibit the government from seizing
electronic communications without justification and proper
authorization.

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For more information, contact Gerard Van der Leun at 617-864-1550.

Subject: EFFector Online 1.07: S.266 Loses First Round

SENATE ANTI-ENCRYPTION BILL WITHDRAWN
            WILL BE REPLACED BY A NEW OMNIBUS CRIME BILL -- S.1241
          SENSE OF CONGRESS LANGUAGE RESTRICTING ENCRYPTION REMOVED

When Senate Bill 266 was proposed, some of its provisions would have
restricted the rights of individuals to secure online communications
through the use of encryption programs. The specific language was:

"It is the sense of Congress that providers of
           electronic communications services and manufacturers
           of electronic communications service equipment shall
           ensure that communications systems permit the
           government to obtain the plain text contents of voice,
           data, and other communications when appropriately
           authorized by law."

Let stand, this language would have a chilling effect on encryption.
It would inevitably compromise individual privacy in telecommunications.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and several other groups determined
to oppose this provision.

In the last issue of EFFector Online, we reported we would register
our opposition to this clause. In this case, Senator Patrick Leahy (D.
Vermont), who chairs the sub-committee on Technology and the Law --a
sub-set of the Senate Judiciary Committee-- was the key to this issue.

This week the EFF met with Leahy's staff to present our reasons for
the removal of the language dealing with encryption. Today, we were
informed that the encryption clause has been eliminated from the new
crime bill which replaced the bill originally known as S.266. In
addition, Leahy's sub-committee on Technology and the Law has undertaken
to study the issues of encryption and telecommunications technology.

To continue this dialogue, Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and RSA will be
holding an invitational workshop on privacy and encryption in Washington
later this month.  Following the workshop, a press conference will be
held to announce a set of policy recommendations on cryptography.

The conference will take place on Monday at 2:00 at the National
Press Club (14th & Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.).  All interested parties
are invited to attend.

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