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From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 22:34 effects. : : As time went by that was indeed what the US did, and up to now with minor : success. : : Bertil Fortrie : Internet Security Review : == There it is yet again: "anytime, anywhere", and "UKUSA". There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that Netscape and other companies --- the U.S. is a world leading producer of software technology --- are having their products outlawed for world-wide distribution because of ECHELON. Ubiquitous full-strength crypto --- in all our email products and web browsers --- would immediately begin to lessen ECHELON's ability to spy in such a massive dragnet fashion. There is an ugly implication to ECHELON being the reason Netscape and company are being held hostage by the NSA. "Only with a court authorized warrant..." --- Louis Freeh, FBI Director Louis Freeh is lying. ****************************************************************************** Key Recovery Isn't Even Feasible --- -------- ----- ---- -------- http://www.epic.org Distinguished cryptographers and computer scientists have released a new report, "The Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow, and Trusted Third-Party En
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:08 " was "tempest-proof" (i.e. shielded to prevent emmisions that could lead to detection), small, virtually indestructible, and easy to repair: all you had to do was open the lid and replace the self-diagnosed defective component. [snip] In pursuit of plausible deniability, CSE, GCHQ, and NSA have used each others' personnel and resources to evade laws against domestic spying. [ an example given in which the NSA wanted to spy on someone within the US, even though they had no authorization for such an operation ] ...So, two Canadians were sent to conduct a counter-espionage operation on US soil at US taxpayer expense so that NSA could maintain deniability. In every way that counts, NSA broke US law and spied on its own citizens. [ A UK operation by CSE described next. Margaret Thatcher (then Prime Minister) thinks two of the ministers in her cabinet are not 'on side' ...so she wants to find out if they are... So GCHQ asked CSE operators to come to London to bug the ministers ] Increasingly though, both because it's possible and because it's desired, individuals are caught in th
From: David Bernier on 18 Apr 2008 21:56 *informs* those component chemicals * by means of a genetic blueprint. * * Life itself is a negentropy pump. The universe means more than a * collapsed energetic equation of 'x-heat = x-cold = nothing', because * information structures the balance. The result is the sun, moon and * stars... We have a lot of different kinds of cells in our bodies; hair, bone, eye, brain, toenail, teeth, lung, skin... And they all started from ONE CELL. And they all knew where to go and which type to become. And how to operate together in a large complex system. A single cell, in its DNA strands, holds a MASSIVE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION. Every cell in our body is structured by information, the DNA helix. This information structuring is why we don't just splash to the ground in a muddy puddle of our constituent chemicals. We are matter structured by information. "We are starshine" ---Woodstock ---- Whew! Cybernetics is VERY heavy-duty stuff. It can yield the ULTIMATE in control. It can be applied to controlling people in a society. Cybernetic control of society. The 'arousal filter' Stafford B
From: Marshall on 18 Apr 2008 22:23 don't like the sound of that... * http://hippo.mit.edu/projects/projects.html#sensor * * NEW TRAFFIC SENSOR TECHNOLOGY * * MIT was responsible for the concept, overall design, and testing of the * sensor. Travel time is measured by video license plate recognition or * radio transponders. Video recognition of the license plate if no transponder!!! DAMN. I hope the government doesn't have any massive deployment of this technology in mind. * SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION FEDERICO PENA * TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD * WASHINGTON, D.C. * January 10, 1996 * * * So, today I'm setting a national goal: To build an Intelligent * Transportation Infrastructure across the United States... * * I want 75 of our largest metropolitan areas outfitted with a complete * Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure in 10 years. And let us make a * similar commitment to upgrading technology in 450 other communitie
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 20:43
undertaking and would require a massive ! increase in computer power." Probably since noone believed that, they admitted it, and said why they needed to decrypt in real-time: # Encryption and Law Enforcement # # Dorothy E. Denning # Georgetown University # # February 21, 1994 # # To implement lawful interceptions of encrypted communications, they # need a real-time or near real-time decryption capability in order # to keep up with the traffic and prevent potential acts of violence. # Since there can be hundreds of calls a day on a tapped line, any # solution that imposes a high overhead per call is impractical. And if uncrackable crypto were in widespread use within the U.S., the FBI would demand that it be outlawed. For 'public safety and national security'. : * "Above the Law" : * ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 : * by David Burnham : * : * The suspicion that the government might one day try to outlaw any : * encryption device which did not provide easy government access was : * reinforced by comments made by FBI Director Freeh at a 1994 Washington : * conference on cryptography. "The objective for us is to get those : * conversations...wherever they are, whatever they are", he said in : * response to a question. : * : * Freeh indicated that if five years from now the FBI had solved the : * access problem but was only hearing encrypted messages, further : * legislation might be required. : * : * The obvious solution: a |