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From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 20:42 team of highly trained * FBI agents secretly breaks into a house, office, or warehouse somewhere in * the United States. * * The agents are members of the bureau's Surreptitious Entry Program, and * their usual mission is to plant a hidden microphone or camera without * tipping off the people who occupy the targeted structure. * * FBI officials refuse to discuss, even in the most general way, the * operations of these clandestine hit squads. * * Use of break-ins has increased six-fold in the last several years. * * Furthermore, the FBI has blamed the security industry for making locks * and alarms more difficult to defeat. * * That was the central justification offered by the FBI when a couple of * years ago it asked the White House for $27 million in public funds to * pay the engineering whizzes at the Sandia and Los Alamos National * Laboratories and several other government research facilities to develop * ways to defeat "any locking system whether it be mechanical or electronic, * or computer supplemented." [snip] * * The FBI's Rapid Prot
From: Dik T. Winter on 18 Apr 2008 18:59 and keyword excluding software. I had never heard of ECHELON or DICTIONARY or anything like it. It was just obvious what to do from trying to check all (each and every one) email personally at first. There was way too much of it for me to do that. All the analytics I set up, including what I call the daily 'radar' file, depended entirely on keyword monitoring. Items selected for review met a series of include/exclude keyword matches. Everything. ********** begin excerpt from 'Corruption at Salomon Brothers' ********** Ope's movie "Apollo 13" starring Tom Hanks had just come out: > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 13:03:43 EST > From: guy > To: <someone> > Subject: HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM > Cc: <someone> <someone> > > > Out bound from Salomon: From "Howie Windows" <how(a)sbi89> > In bound to Silicon Graphics: To: hojerk(a)sgi.com > Subject: sar source code > > internet:root 543> wc -l *.[ch] > 129 sa.h > 626 sadc.c > 532 saga.c > 496 sagb.c > 45 saghdr.h > 1463 sar.c > 220 timex.c > 3511 total > > 3500 lines of source, across seven sources, each clearly labelled: > > /* Copyright (c) 1984 AT&T */ > /* All Rights Reserved */ > > /* THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T */ > /* The copyright notice above does not evidence any */ > /* actual or intended publication of such source code. */ > > ...followed by ano
From: Gerry Myerson on 18 Apr 2008 19:23 and denounced his parents to the Thought Police. # "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1 # # The Police-taught DARE program encourages students to turn in # friends and family by becoming a police informant. : Real life: a child in school answers the friendly and inquiring police : officer teaching about drug dangers that yes their parents have some : of the displayed paraphernalia. : : A search warrant is issued, the parents are arrested, and : the child is put into custody of Child Welfare workers. # "The Feds Under Our Beds", By James Bovard, The New York Times, 9/6/1995 # # The Justice Department confiscated the home of an elderly Cuban-American # couple in Miami after the couple was arrested for playing host to a weekly # poker game for family and friends. * "Nynex Mistake Brings Scholarship Offer", NYT, 4/26/1995 * * Walter Ray Hill, 18, was arrested and jailed for two days based solely on * his phone number being used for a hoax bomb threat. * * Nynex eventually realized one of its employees transposed a number when * tracing the call. [Ever see Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil?] * * A Nynex spokesman said today
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 18:52 gathering and military force are two sides of the same coin. Both are used by countries and groups within countries to advance their interests, often at the expense of others. To influence or defeat an opponent, knowledge can be more useful than military force. The type of intelligence described in this book, signals intelligence (SIGINT), is the largest, most secret and most expensive source of secret intelligence in the world today. P-5655 Like the British examples, and Mike Frost's Canadian examples, these stories will only be the tip of the iceberg. There is no evidence of a UKUSA code of ethics or a tradition of respect for Parliament or civil liberties in their home countries. The opposite seems to be true: that anything goes as long as you do not get caught. Secrecy not only permits but encourages questionable operations. Three observations need to be made about the immense spying capability provided by the ECHELON system. The first is that the magnitude of the global network is a product of decades of intense Cold War activity. Yet with the end of the Cold War it has not been demobilized and budgets have not been significantly cut. Ind
From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 19:04
And, as documented in the books I've been referencing, when the director of the NSA knows about it and testifies before Congress, UKUSA not only lies about their activities, they also do so with impunity. A Secret Government? : The Puzzle Palace, Author James Bamford, 1983 revision, p206 : : Bypassing not only the Joint Chiefs but even the secretaries of the : branches of the armed forces, the NSCID devolves incredible authority : and responsibility on the NSA director, giving him, at least where : SIGINT is concerned, his own Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force. Let's just say lots of secrecy, Military power, Military and civilian personnel, MANY BILLIONS of dollars of funding per year and no accountability. Called UKUSA. * "A Spy Agency Admits Accumulating $4 Billion in Secret Money" * By Tim Weiner, The New York Times, May 16, 1996 * * In a complete collapse of accountability, NRO, the Government agency that * builds spy satellites, accumulated about $4 billion in uncounted secret * money. [First they said it was $1 billion, then $2 billion...] * * The new head of the agency, John Nelson, said that the secret agency had * undergone "a fundamental financial meltdown." * * The agency's secrecy made Congressional oversite next to impossible, * intelligence officials said. * * Just two years previously, the NRO constructed a "stealth building". * It was a $300 million new headquarters. The agency had explained that * happened because they treated the construction of the |