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From: S.C.Sprong on 18 Apr 2008 21:55 of Ordinary Money, Part I", by J. Orlin Grabbe * http://www.aci.net/kalliste * * The most important communications network for international financial * market transactions is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial * Telecommunication (SWIFT), a not-for-profit cooperative. * * This system for transferring foreign exchange deposits and loans began * actual operation in May 1977 and by 1990 had 1,812 members, and connected * 3,049 banks and securities industry participants in eight-four countries. * * In 1993 SWIFT began asking users of its messaging system to include a * purpose of payment in all messages, as well as payers, payees, and * intermediaries. This type of arrangement would allow NSA computers * to use keyword monitoring to scan for any names in which they were * interested. ! FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, Senate Judiciary Committee, June 4, 1997 ! ! NOT THAT LONG AGO, NO ONE PERCEIVED THAT TELEPHONE SYSTEMS COULD BECOME ! UNTAPPABLE, THE NECESSITY FOR STRONG PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN LOCAL, STATE, ! FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IS MORE URGENT. * Electronic Privacy Information Center, http://www.epic.org * * "As a means of espionage, writs of assistance and general warrants * are but puny instruments of tyranny and oppression when compared * with wiretapping." ---Mr. Justice Brandeis, 277 U.S. 438 (6/4/1928) * * * European Union and FBI launch a global surveillance system * -------- ----- --- --- ------ - ------ ------------ ------ * * The EU, in cooperation of the FB
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 22:53 are clearly costly and detrimental to Salomon Brothers. # # ##### # # # # ####### # # # ##### Brain himself says Salomon allows him to ####### # spend a lot of time on his business venture. # # # # # ####### date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:52:13 -0400 From: bob(a)tridenthead2 (Bob Brain nnn-nnnn) To: Trigger(a)ppllc.com (Tom Trigger) subject: Re: Kruger? Trigger> If BTO didn't let you spend a lot of time working on your Trigger> own business, I'd have said leave ASAP. What a lousy place. Could I keep getting 30%+ raises at other places? I should really turn consultant. Yeah, I have it real easy now, plenty of time to work on my own business during the day. Great benefits here! [snip] @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Real-time shenanigans between Republic National Bank, Salomon Brothers, and Bob Brain's WWW business site over the Internet! : date: Tue, 30 Apr
From: S.C.Sprong on 18 Apr 2008 23:52 Fred Hamburger : : EMERGING MARKETS DEBT LDC LOANS : SUPPORT PROCEDURES : : I. CONFIRMATION : Introduction : : Trades in LDC loans are recorded by Traders on trade logs contemporaneously : with the telephone conversations actually executing the transactions. During : the day, these trade logs are passed to data input personnel, who then enter : the trades into AAAA. (AAAA is designed to support direct on-line entry by : Traders, but is not used in this manner on the Emerging Markets Desk.) : AAAA feeds BBBB at the end of day which in turn feeds relevant downstream : Salomon systems. AAAA also feeds the CCCC system, which is maintained as : a stand-alone second level sub-ledger that provides functionality and : records data not otherwise available. The first level sub-ledger on this : Desk is DDDD. : : PROCESSING : ---------- : : All transactions in AAAA should be confirmed orally with counterparties by : the end of trade date by checking to AAAA. All trades where AAAA and EEEE : require [final snip]
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 23:00 users with no recourse will discourage use of the # system and is a tacit acceptance of unscrupulous government # behavior." # - Jim Hickstein - TERADYNE # # "Wiretap subjects must be notified within 30 days after the # operation is completed. If they are innocent, the government # buys them new equipment to replace that which was compromised # (per Lynn McNulty)... Nothing forces agents to 'forget' a key # and stop using it." # # "Placing all keys in a central location will invite foreign # intelligence services to either (a) impose similar requirements # in their own nations, and/or (b) seek access to keys held by # U.S. escrow agents, through legal or illegal means. American # business has well-publicized problems with industrial espionage # by other nations." # - Michael B. Packer, Managing Director - Bankers Trust Company o To Safeguard Your Privacy * "Clinton's Encryption Plan Fits Law and Market" * Letters to the Editor, Mickey Kantor, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 10/9/96 * * Users may need a "spare key" to recover information that is lost or * otherwise inaccessible, in much the same way that we give a trusted * neighbor a spare key to our house...and the U.S. will have that key. The government says in case you lose you own decryption key, they will be there to save the day with their LE key. (Key Recovery has a 'Law Enforcement' key, which is a SECOND key to decrypt the same traffic.) Without getting into a lot of technical detail, basically, the LE KEY = Your Key. So, because they have a separate but equivalent key, they are claiming to be your emergency backup key, like a key left with a neighbor. People who have no idea how computer systems work will think like that sounds like a reasonable thing. Li
From: Pubkeybreaker on 21 Apr 2008 21:19
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 digger (Australian soldier or ex soldier) reading his newspaper. Across from him was a juvenile with a spikey mohawk haircut coloured pink, green, ora |