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From: tchow on 18 Apr 2008 19:59 domestic political protest. The Soviet Union and China we were told to fear. ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** Part 2: On Monitoring and Being Monitored ---- - -- ---------- --- ----- --------- o On Monitoring - Driver's Seat - Five Months Statistics - The FBI Investigations - I Can See What You Are Thinking - Why I Monitor o On Being Monitored If you are an ordinary citizen, you may not notice the INVISIBLE massive spy apparatus until it is too late. As has already happened repeatedly: the government will use this National Spying Apparatus to crush political protests, and monitor the politically incorrect. In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s... and the 1990s. Question: Why argue against something that would catch crime? Answer: ECHELON is so invasive we lose all privacy. It is infinitely abusable. It has been abused repeatedly. CALEA takes us into the abyss. Would monitoring really turn up that many violations? Meaning: is it really that effective a mechanism? ****************************************************************************** On Monitoring -- ---------- I am a traffic analysis person. Internet email. Company spook. Boo. The bad news: getting people fired. The good news: really great Internet humor is picked up too. From the land of "Put the shrimp on the barby, Marlene:" I was travelling on a tram the other day and in one seat there was an old d
From: bitsplit on 18 Apr 2008 22:23 law. * * "Liberty unrestrained is an invitation to anarchy," Justice Brown wrote. * * The defendants may not engage in any form of public association: "standing, * sitting, walking, driving, gathering or appearing anywhere in public view" * in the neighborhood, or face 6 months in jail. * * They further may not: "climb trees or fences, make loud noises, possess * wire cutters or marbles [What???], wear particular clothes, make certain * hand signs, or carry marking pens or pagers." The worst-case version of a National ID Card is a biometric-based one. Biometrics means that card is numbered with your fingerprint, or retina scan, or other unique physical characteristic. You would be enumerated. Numbered for all time. * CARROLLTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 1997--Sandia Imaging, a * majority-owned subsidiary of Lasertechnics, Inc. (Nasdaq: LASX) and a * leader in secure card technologies, will premiere the world's first * printer that can personalize, print and encode optical cards in a * single, on-line process, during CardTech/SecurTech '97 in Orlando, FL * from May 19 through 22. * * This new technology significantly streamlines the printing and encoding * process, making highly secure optical cards more efficient and less * costly for use as health care cards and in other industries. * * Developed jointly by Sandia Imaging and Canon USA, the VIVID 2
From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 19:34 within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return. *** end of 'Puzzle Palace' excerpts. Wow. No recap necessary. I'm feeling a bit sick at this point, how about you? ****************************************************************************** Those of you who supported any version of the FBI/NSA Digital Telephony Act sold us down the river, making use of this Orwellian Military technology fully legal domestically for the first time. The descent into the abyss, from which there is no return. : * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 : * : * [ Al Bayse was assistant director of the FBI's Technical Services : * Division, in charge of spending more than half a billion dollars : * for research, development and computer operations. ] : * : * "Sure", said Al Bayse of the FBI, "I believe there is an absolute : * right to privacy. But that doesn't mean you have the right to break : * the law in a serious way. Any private conversation that doesn't : *
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 20:50 personnel on a temporary basis", he had come too close to revealing : * the truth. : * : * The U.S. government told Kahn to hide the existence of British : * electronic spies from the American public. Kahn eventually agreed : * to delete a few of the most sensitive paragraphs describing the : * exchange of codes, techniques, and personnel with the British : * government : * : * His innocuous few sentences threatened to disclose a larger truth. : * : * By the 1960s the "temporary" British personnel at Fort Meade had : * become a permanent fixture. The British enjoyed continued access : * to the greatest listening post in the world. : * : * The NSA is a giant vacuum cleaner. It sucks in every form of : * electronic communication. from telephone calls to telegrams, : * across the United States. The presence of British personnel : * is essential for the American wiretappers to claim plausible : * deniability. : * : * Here is how the game is played. The British liaison officer at : * Fort Meade types the target list of "suspects" into the American : * computer. The NSA sorts through its wiretaps and gives the : * British officer the recording of any American citizen he wants. : * : * Since it is technically a *British* target of surveillance, no : * *American* search warrant is necessary. The British officer then : * simply hands the result
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 22:22
the brain as cocaine and heroin, and it causes the same withdrawal symptoms in the brain". Only MSNBC reported it this way: Brian Williams said, "A new preliminary study shows that cocaine, heroin, ALCOHOL and marijuana all cause similar changes in the brain over time." But the picture and thrust of the story was still focusing on marijuana. What was COMPLETELY MISSING was shown on C-SPAN the previous day, when Senator Byrd gave an EXTENSIVE presentation showing ALCOHOL WAS THE LEADING GATEWAY DRUG TO COCAINE AND HEROIN USAGE! * "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1 * * Tobacco smoking kills more people each year than AIDS, heroin, crack, * cocaine, alcohol, CAR ACCIDENTS, FIRE AND MURDER COMBINED. * * Cigarette smoking is as addictive as heroin, complete with withdrawal * symptoms, and the percentage of relapses (75%) is the same for "kicking" * cocaine and heroin users. * * It is far and away the number one cause of preventable death in the U.S. * today. Tobacco smokers have ten times the lun |