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From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 22:01 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 results over to his American liaison officer. : * : * Of course, the Americans provide the same service to the British : * in return. All international and domestic telephone calls in Great : * Britain are run through the NSA's station in the British Government : * Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) at Menwith Hill, which allows : * the American liaison officer to spy on any British citizen without : * a warrant. : * : * According to our sources, this duplicitous, reciprocal arrangement : * disguises the most massive, and illegal, domestic espionage apparatus : * in the world. Not even the Soviets could touch the U.K.-U.S. intercept : * technology. : * : * Through this charade, the intelligence services of each country can : * claim they are not targeting their own citizens. This targeting is : * done by an authorized foreign
From: Phil Carmody on 18 Apr 2008 21:48 says Kerrey was : misunderstood. "In the briefing afterwards, I found : out he didn't mean that at all. He meant import : controls, but more regulation than restriction. The : same way they wouldn't let a car with faulty : steering controls in the country. He meant more : quality control," Franklin says. (I don't know : about you, but I'm not convinced.) [ What a bunch of hooey. ] : : Kerrey's sudden interest in cryptologic arcana : likely stems from a recent addition to his staff: : policy aide Chris McLean. : : McLean is hardly a friend of the Net. While in : former Sen. Jim Exon's (D-Neb.) office, McLean : drafted the notorious Communications Decency : Act and went on to prompt Exon to derail : "Pro-CODE" pro-encryption legislation last fall. : Then, not long after McLean moved to his current : job, his new boss stood up on the Senate floor : and bashed Pro-CODE in favor of the White : House party line: "The President has put forward : a plan which in good faith attempts to balance : our nation's interests in commerce, security, and : law enforcement." Kerrey has since introduced a bill that parrots the Clinton administration's philosophy: * http://www.cdt.org/crypto/legis_105/mccain_kerrey/analysis.html * * Comparison: Major Features of the Administration and McCain-Kerrey Bills * * Administration Draft* * McCain-Kerrey** [w. section#] * Federal licensing of certificate * authorities(CA) and key recovery * agents * Yes. Yes. [401-404] * * Linkage of CA's and key recovery: * Encryption public key certificates onl
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 22:47 matter of politics over matter when the government's Drug War elevates marijuana above its true pharmacological controlled substances classification; it's a matter of hysteria to escalate it to the same top category as heroin and LSD, 'Schedule I Substances'. Even cocaine is only Schedule II. Late 1996 / early 1997, several states, including California, passed laws via citizen initiative ballots that legalized marijuana if a doctor prescribes it. Usually for nausea or weight loss from chemotherapy or AIDS. A massive Federal and State Drug War hysteria campaign failed to stop people approving it. * The New York Times, Oct 3, 1996, San Francisco * "Skirmish in Anti-Drug War: California vs. 'Doonesbury'", by Tim Golden * * There a drug wars, and there are drug wars... * * Marching bravely into the cultural swamp where Dan Quayle once bogged * down in combat with the television single mother Murphy Brown, * California's Attorney General, Dan Lungren, has taken his fight * against the medical use of marijuana to Zonker Harris, the laid-back * hero of the comic strip 'Doonesbury'. Like the former Vice President, * Mr. Lungren appears to have underestimated his adversari
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 20:25 about marijuana on MTV. * * The plan will likely require federal legislation, probably making highway * funds contingent upon a state's implementation of the plan. * * About three million teenagers will seek driver's licenses each year and * therefore be tested for drugs. At a rate of one-percent false positives, * 30,000 completely clean kids will fail their drug tests. They will be * denied driver's licenses. How will their parents react? Many kids are * likely to be emotionally scarred by the false accusations of drug use, * and some may even attempt suicide out of their shame. Thank you very much Free World Leaders for that intelligent discourse on marijuana. What would we do without you? We love being your lemmings. Keep beating the Drums so we can march into your ocean of insanity. "Zero Tolerance" is an extremely dangerous attitude to have regarding crime. Zero Tolerance by definition means excessive vigilancy. # "War on Drugs Runs Up Against the 4th Amendment" # By Tony Mauro, USA Today # # J. LeWayne Kelly went to
From: S.C.Sprong on 18 Apr 2008 21:05
then provide portable verification * of cardholders' personalized information by bringing smart-card stored * photos, text and graphics up on a screen. # With the Universal Biometric Card, motorists in Chinese provinces will be # required to carry the smart cards like a personal driver's license. When # being stopped for a traffic violation, the driver would have to forward # the smart card to the traffic cop who would use a card reader/writer to # access information stored in the card, issue an electronic ticket right on # the spot with the fines and other information embedded into the smart card # chip itself. When the driver goes to the bank to pay his/her fines, the # penalty will be deducted from the memory chip. Our Military contractors are making money issuing China citizens a National ID Card??? Our we thinking of what the Communists will do with it??? * "China Tells Internet Users To Register With Police" * The New York Times, 2/15/1996 * * China ordered all users of the Internet to register with the police, as * part of an effort to tighten control over information. * * The order came from the Ministry of Public Security. * * Network users have been warned not to harm national security, or to * disseminate pornography. Well, there's a new way to control Internet users: require them to identify |