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From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 18:50 took this action in the closing weeks of the presidential race * after Bob Dole attacks his joking comments 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 the Austin, Texas, airport two months ago. # # But because he's black, dressed casually and wore expensive cowboy boots, # he soon was surrounded by strangers---police who suspected him of being # a drug courier. # # Mr. Kelly had gone to the airport only TO PICK UP A FRIEND. # # He
From: Gerry Myerson on 18 Apr 2008 17:59 "final solution" to gun * control and other "crime" issues---a National Identification Center--- * is not just a proposal, but a looming reality, was proven by this startling * admission: * * We have invested $392 million so far in such a Center, about a four * hour drive from Washington, D.C., and we hope to have it completed * and equipped in about two years... We hope all states will be in the * system by 1998 and will supply information on a continuing basis... * * Meanwhile, we will continue to establish the National Identification * Center for this AND OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT PURPOSES. * * It should be noted that, since my revelations in 1994, Congressman Neal * Smith and his office refuse to answer inquiries about the National * Identification Center. * * However, in a recent article in Federal Computer Week, a Washington, D.C. * magazine for federal employees, basically admitted the existence of this * Center and its activities. * * In his article, "Federal Agencies Link, Share Databases," John Monroe said: * * Law enforcement agencies across the federal government have poured * money into information technology programs. According to the Government * Market Services Division, federal agencies will spend 5.5 billion * dollars on law enforcement technology between 1995 and 1999... * * The common link between in these programs is to build an information * substructure: A WEB OF CONNECTED DATABASES AND HIGH SPEED NETWORKS * THAT WILL MAKE DATA INSTANTLY AVAILABLE TO FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL * LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS. * * The federal government's goal is to BRING RANDOM PIECES OF DATA * TOGETHER TO GET A MORE COMPLETE PICTURE---WHAT SOME CALL INTELLIGENCE. Wow. All federal agencies will be linked together in a vast intelligence network
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 18:39 would start out small...maybe for curfew control. # "Round up the Teenagers", The Washington Post editorial, 6/2/96 # # Once again quickly echoing his Republican opponent Senator Bob Dole, who # endorsed the idea of teenage curfews in a California speech, President # Clinton took the same line in New Orleans on Thursday. # # President Clinton recommended to state and city officials a recently # released Justice Department report on how these programs can be set up # to pass court review and work effectively. # # The risk of selective enforcement is high, and it's not hard to predict # which neighborhoods will be the focus of police attention, and which # will be ignored. Get a load of this: * "Police Applaud Ruling to Allow Restrictions on Gang Suspects" * By Tim Golden, The New York Times, February 1, 1997 * * Law enforcement officials in California today praised a State Supreme * Court decision that allows cities to prohibit SUSPECTED gang members * from standing together on street corners, climbing trees, wearing beepers * and doing any number of other things that are legal for ordinary citizens. * * The ruling was in a case for the city of San Jose to prevent 38 Hispanic * men and women suspected of membership in a street gang from frequenting * a four-block neighborhood that the police said the gang had terrorized. * * "We're thrilled," said Los Angelos County Attorney Gil Garcetti. * * State and local law enforcement officials predicted that the court ruling * would prompt a wave of similar legislation across California. * * Because the San Jose City Attorney's offic
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 19:59 there is a single centralized infrastruc- ture, many decentralized infrastructures, or a collection of different approaches. All key-recovery systems require the existence of a highly sensitive and highly-available secret key or collection of keys that must be maintained in a secure manner over an extended time period. These systems must make decryption information quickly accessible to law enforcement agencies without notice to the key owners. These basic requirements make the problem of general key recovery difficult and expensive - and potentially too insecure and too costly for many applications and many users. Attempts to force the widespread adoption of key-recovery encryption through export controls, import or domestic use regulations, or international standards should be considered in light of these factors. The public must carefully consider the costs and benefits of embracing government-access key recovery before imposing the new security risks and spending the huge investment required (potentially many billions of dollars, in direct and indirect costs) to deploy a global key recovery infrastructure. ****************************************************************************** Government Steamroller ---------- ----------- Force anyone receiving government money to use crackable crypto? Import restrictions in the U.S.? Outlaw all non-go
From: bitsplit on 18 Apr 2008 20:35
social security numbers and other personal personnel information flew out of the smaller site's Internet connection. Internet firewalls have no protection against file transfer via email. Yet companies often disallow FTP, another command for transferring files. ALL email is transferred as a file. My two managers shook their heads at people being so stupid as to mail company confidential information over the Internet in the clear. Their security rule was "Don't send it out over the Internet unless it's okay to read about in the next day's paper." The transmissions included the managers' social security numbers too. For non-U.S. people: a defacto key for accessing all of ones personal records. And why did I create and turn on email monitoring at that site? Well, those business magazines for the computer industry like to sell big screaming "Internet Security: the Sky is Falling!!!" covers now and then. So, one triggered the Chairman to start making strange noises about shutting down the Internet connection for security reasons. Also said something about having email printed out at the Internet system and hand-delivered. Now THAT scared the hell out of the rest of us, from geeks to managers, so, being the hired gun for doing Internet security, I created some capture code. All emai |