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From: Matthew T. Russotto on 18 Apr 2008 19:40 whole life. One big evil eye of Mordor. The Russian State we were told to fear. ****************************************************************************** No wonder there are militias. It gets worse. Much worse. ****************************************************************************** Wild Conspiracy Theory ---- ---------- ------ This is an expanded version of a posting I made promoting unregulated (free from government-has-the-key) cryptography. Attorney John Loftus is the author of four histories of intelligence operations. As a former prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department's Nazi-hunting unit, he had unprecedented access to top-secret CIA and NATO archives. Mark Aarons is an investigative reporter and author of several books on intelligence related issues. One day I was flipping channels, and came across "The Leon Charney Show". Attorney Charney was interviewing Attorney Loftus, who has many many connections in the intelligence world. Mr. Loftus described a room in NSA's Fort Meade that was actually British soil (diplomatic territory), with a British guard posted outside... : From: guy(a)panix.com [updated here 5/25/97] : Subject: Re: Thr
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 18:56 by the Constitution. Senator Edward M. Kennedy tried year after year to pass legislation to require the NSA to submit to judicial review. Finally, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] was signed into law by president Carter on October 25, 1978. The key to the legislation could only have been dreamed up by Franz Kafka: the establishment of a supersecret federal court. The legislation established a complex authorization procedure and added a strict "minimization" requirement to prohibit the use and distribution of communications involving Americans inadvertently picked up during the intercept operations. These requirements constitute the most important parts of the FISA law, and were included to prevent the watch-listing of American citizens, which took place during the 1960s and 1970s. The Supreme Court Chief Justice picks which federal judges serve in the Star Chamber. P466-467: The FISA court judge rules that black-bag jobs of "nonresidential premises under the direction or control of a foreign power" ne
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 22:18 third observation is that telecommunications organizations - including the telephone companies - are not blameless in all of this. These companies, to which people pay their monthly bills believing that the phone calls they make and the faxes they send are secure, should well be aware of the wholesale interception of 'private' communications that has been occurring for decades. Yet they neither invest in encryption technology nor insist that organizations such as the Washington-based Intelsat Corporation provide encryption. They do not let their customers know that their international communications are open to continuous interception. Wittingly or unwittingly, this lack of action assists large-scale spying against the individuals, businesses and government and private organizations that innocently entrust their communications to these companies. ECHELON is a staggeringly comprehensive and highly secret global spying system. Around the world there are networks of spy stations and spy satellites which can intercept communications anywhere on the planet. P18 Over the last 10 years a lot has been heard in New Zealand about the dangers of 'bureaucratic capture', about senior officials controlling their ministers rather than the other way around. The area of government activity described in this book is the ultimate example of bureaucratic capture. Politicians, whom the public has presumed will be monitoring the intelligence organizations on their behalf, have been systematically denied the information required to do that job. If a democratic society wants to
From: Gerry Myerson on 18 Apr 2008 22:14 anything wrong, why should * my picture be taken? Just the thought of having my picture in the Police * Department makes me uncomfortable. * * Another student [NBC TV] said "They've ruined my high school memories that * the yearbook represented. When I see my yearbook now, that's all I think * about." * * Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a former Federal Prosecutor, said the yearbooks * had no constitutional protection. "Too bad. It's not illegal," he said * at a City Hall news conference on NY1 TV. What is this? * "E-Z Pass Living Up To Its Name", By Jane Gross, NYT, 3/25/1997 * * 570,000 people have decided to use the new E-Z Pass system for commuting * tolls. Lanes are being switched over to accept only the E-Z Pass. * * Under a five-state, 10-agency consortium agreement, E-Z Pass will work * from Buffalo to Baltimore. [NY, NJ, PA, MD, DE] * * Users receive a minutely itemized statement each month on their trips. * * The E-Z Pass is a transponder people put in their windshield. * * Concerns about privacy were met with assurances that information about * commuters' whereabouts would be released only under court subpoena. People are buying the transponders because they eliminated the regular discount tokens and moved the discount availability to E-Z Pass. Wow. It does have a kind-of Singapore feel to it...being able to track cars. Well, it's not like they're going to go nutcake and install a monitoring grid over the entire metropolis. They wouldn't do that, right? : "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 : :
From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 20:35
community believes to : be its sole and exclusive territory. In fact the Europeans were not at all : pleased with the US view points of controlling ALL crypto. Germany and : France vigorously refused to work with the US on this issue. : : The Clipper initiative (at the time not readily developed) was completely : banned, except for the Australian and UK views that felt some obligation : from the 1947 UKUSA treaty (dealing with interchange of intelligence). : : With a vast majority the US was cornered completely, and had to accept : the international views. And actually adopted those as well. EFF, EPIC and : other US organizations were delighted to see the formal US views barred, : but expressed their concern on the development of alternate political : pressure that would cause the same 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 --- --- |