Toad Hall

John Gilmore's home page

John's Supreme Court petition against a secret law: the federal requirement that people show ID to travel. (Gilmore v. Gonzales).

John's Court of Appeals lawsuit against the federal requirement that people show ID to travel inside the US (Gilmore v. Ashcroft/Gonzales).

John's earlier District Court lawsuit against the same ID-or-no-travel requirement (Gilmore v. Ashcroft).

Freedom of Speech in Software (Phil Salin's Patent Office submission re software patents)

Freedom of Speech in Software (ApacheCon speech by John)

1970s Recording of NSA/NBS/Stanford DES cracking meeting

Paul Baran's 1964 papers on a design very very much like the Internet

System Administration tips

Sun User Group free software tape from 1987

Sun User Group free software tape from 1989. (The 1989 tape image also includes the 1985 and 1987 tapes.)

USENIX FaceSaver images - the early Unix community

Early USENIX newsletters -- UNIX NEWS and ;login: from 1975-1978

Drug Policy Reform resources

A miserable failure of a President

Early pictures from the Iraq war that the US tried to censor so that Americans could not see them.

Linux FreeS/WAN Project to implement IP Security (IPSEC)

Grokmail, a mail reader's prioritizer (and a long-term cure for spam).

Domain Name System Security

Gzipped Binhex QuickTime movie of Frank Zappa in Prague (25MB)

Digital photos from John and his friends

Verio was censoring John Gilmore's email under anti-spam pressure (until he got a new ISP)

NYC World Trade Center photos, mirrored from Cryptome.

Gracenote/CDDB lawsuit filings