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From: S.C.Sprong on 21 Apr 2008 22:59 crimes. * * The review process to prevent legal and factual errors is virtually * non-existent. * * And the FISA system's courtroom advocacy is monumentally one-sided. * * The court has never formally rejected an application. Not once. * * For the first time in modern U.S. history, the Congress had * institutionalized a process for physical searches outside of * Fourth Amendment standards. * * Not even Congress' intelligence oversight committees review these * special cases on a regular basis. Mini-recap: o Congress voted into existence a court that bypasses our normal Fourth Amendment constitutional rights. Poof they're gone. o Congressional oversite is weak. Such a special court should be subject to the highest standard of continual scrutiny: it is not. ! The New York Times, December 29, 19??, by David Burnham ! ! Because the National Security Agency is actively involved in the ! design [of Key Recovery cryptography], the agency will have the ! technical ability to decipher the messages. ! ! Walter G. Deeley, NSA deputy director for communications security ! said, "Another important safeguard to the privacy of communications ! was the continuous review of NSA's activities by the Senate and House ! intelligence committees." Congressional oversite in real-time was non-existent. Remember Ronald "I am a Contra" Reagan? # U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, March 13, 1987
From: Pubkeybreaker on 21 Apr 2008 22:08 Why I Monitor --- - ------- Why do I feel companies should monitor their Internet traffic, but the Government shouldn't monitor me and everyone else? > Salomon is a "computer-based" firm. > > Any connections between Salomon's internal network and the outside world > exposes Salomon to a potential number of problems. > > One of the largest data pipelines in and out of Salomon are its Internet > connections. > > Therefore it is also a large security problem, which must be managed. > [snip] > > The terminology "email monitoring" has a Big-Brother ring to it. > > But monitor it we must - there is no choice. > > It connects all of our inside systems to all of outside. > > And it is the Internet ("public wire") traffic going in/out of Salomon > we are checking - not internal email. > > The security rule for Internet traffic is "don't send anything you > wouldn't want to read about in tomorrow's newspaper". I think it's pretty obvious why company traffic involving company systems is monitored. After all, companies aren't democracies. Finally, I should point out that all the people at both sites were told repeatedly that Internet email was being monitored; this includes all traffi
From: Pubkeybreaker on 21 Apr 2008 22:10 data pipelines in and out of Salomon are its Internet > connections. > > Therefore it is also a large security problem, which must be managed. > [snip] > > The terminology "email monitoring" has a Big-Brother ring to it. > > But monitor it we must - there is no choice. > > It connects all of our inside systems to all of outside. > > And it is the Internet ("public wire") traffic going in/out of Salomon > we are checking - not internal email. > > The security rule for Internet traffic is "don't send anything you > wouldn't want to read about in tomorrow's newspaper". I think it's pretty obvious why company traffic involving company systems is monitored. After all, companies aren't democracies. Finally, I should point out that all the people at both sites were told repeatedly that Internet email was being monitored; this includes all traffic picked up by my JobTalk analytic: > Salomon site. > > All sites start out with the employment contract stating unequivocally > that the systems are the company's and are to be used only for work > purposes. And that they are subject to inspection. You signed it. > > Salomon's goes further by stating the firm's computer systems may be > audited and that they have the right to do so even if you have put > personal information on the system. > > After the first couple of months of security incidents at Salomon, > they began issuing global email broadcasts saying that a new security > package "Internet Risk Ma
From: Pubkeybreaker on 21 Apr 2008 21:18 that could be implemented with a social security number. It's for our best interests... * "Suffolk Medical Examiner Urges Fingerprinting Law" * By John T. McQuiston, The New York Times, 8/20/1996 * * Putting motorists' fingerprints on NY driver's licenses, as is done in * California, would help identify disaster victims, the Suffolk Medical * Examiner told a committee of the County Legislature about his work on * the crash of TWA Flight 800. * * "The victims from California were the fastest and easiest to identify," * the Medical Examiner, Dr. Charles V. Wetli, said, "because the fingerprint * of their right thumb was on their driver's license." * * "It was a nightmare for the other families to wait for identification." ---- Just how much does the government want to track us, by issuing tracking devices? Metrocard is a re-writeable magnetic card. It's new to us New Yorkers. They are individually serial-numbered. * "Metrocards to Replace School Transit Passes" * By John Sullivan, The New York Times, 8/26/1996 * * About 500,000 students will now have their bus and subway usage tracked by * Metrocards, in an effort to save money. Unlike current passes, which * students can use anytime between 6 A.M. and 7 P.M. on weekdays, the * Metrocard pass can be programmed to restrict the students to a set number * of trips a day. * * Ms. Gonzalez-Light, a spokeswoman for the Board of Education, said they * would work with the Transit Authority to individualize the number of * trips per student to adjust for extra-curricular activities. Then you could track each individual student? Decide if they might be truant including if they didn't use it, or went the wrong way? * "Last Clink for Token-Only Turnst
From: Pubkeybreaker on 21 Apr 2008 22:59
* The Washington Post * * Due to their new 'Mexicanization policy': * Mexico became the main gateway into the United States for illegal * narcotics, with the amount of cocaine making the journey climbing to * an estimated 210 tons last year. * * Mexico's drug arrests plunged nearly 65 percent, from 27,369 the year * before the policy changes to 9,728 last year, according to data that * the Mexican government supplied to the State Department. * * Cocaine seizures in Mexico were cut in half, dropping from more than * 50 tons in 1993 to slightly more than 24 tons in each of the last two * years -- the smallest amounts since 1988, Mexican government figures * show. * * The GAO report charges that Mexico's greatest problem is, in * fact, the "widespread, endemic corruption" throughout its law * enforcement agencies. Earlier this month, in an indictment of his own * department, Attorney General Lozano fired 737 members of his federal * police force -- 17 percent of his entire corps -- saying they did not * have "the ethical profile" required for the job. In a recent meeting * with foreign reporters, Lozano said it could take 15 years to clean up * the force. * * In November 1993, President Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive * No. 14, shifting U.S. anti-drug efforts away from intercepting cocaine as * it passed through Mexico and the Caribbean, and, instead, attacking the * drug supply at its sources in Colombia, Bolivia and Peru. The Presiden |