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From: Gerry Myerson on 18 Apr 2008 18:45 alliance did mount massive operations against the Soviet Union and other 'communists', but other elements of the worldwide system, such as the interception of Intelsat communications, microwave networks and many regional satellites, were not aimed primarily at the Russians, the Iraqis or the North Koreans. Then, and now, they are targeting groups which do not pose any physical threat to the UKUSA allies at all. But they are ideal to use against political opponents, economic competitors, countries where the allies may want to gain some advantage (especially access to cheap resources) and administrations (like Nicaragua's Sandinista government) which do not fit an American-dominated world order. The 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 acti
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 18:29 # # The Police-taught DARE program encourages students to turn in # friends and family by becoming a police informant. : Real life: a child in school answers the friendly and inquiring police : officer teaching about drug dangers that yes their parents have some : of the displayed paraphernalia. : : A search warrant is issued, the parents are arrested, and : the child is put into custody of Child Welfare workers. # "The Feds Under Our Beds", By James Bovard, The New York Times, 9/6/1995 # # The Justice Department confiscated the home of an elderly Cuban-American # couple in Miami after the couple was arrested for playing host to a weekly # poker game for family and friends. * "Nynex Mistake Brings Scholarship Offer", NYT, 4/26/1995 * * Walter Ray Hill, 18, was arrested and jailed for two days based solely on * his phone number being used for a hoax bomb threat. * * Nynex eventually realized one of its employees transposed a number when * tracing the call. [Ever see Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil?] * * A Nynex spokesman said today that they were offering to pay his complete * four-year tutition bill, and that the offer was unconditional. In Washington, D.C., police aggressively hassle motorists to give them permission to search their vehicles. On C-SPAN, U.S. Attorney Eric Holder further states that if a member of the car makes "furtive gestures" the police may search the car. Question: If sweating at the airport can get you a deep probing anal search by a manly security guard, what "furtive gesture" will get your car searched when the police stop you and shine a flashlight in your face? Answer: Blinking. Point: They are almost not bothering to pretend. Law enforcement hysteria. T
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 20:48 Thanks, > Roger The first one is where an ex-worker ("Dumb") asks a current employee for something proprietary, in this case written by the ex-co-worker, and the current employee ("Dumber") gives it to them. It happened again and again and again at all sites I've monitored. They fired her. One of the more unusual Dumb-and-Dumber incidents was when a new hiree who was quite happy with her new job - told all her friends in email - then sent an email "Subject: For your eyes only" into dttus.com, with an Excel spreadsheet attached. It contained detailed compensation numbers for an entire trading desk. Technically it wasn't a Dumb-and-Dumber, more like a Dumber-to-Luckless, because the recipient didn't request it. Anyway, they fired her. And Deloitte & Touche fired the recipient!!! I guess they hold their people to very high standards: if you receive something proprietary of another company's, you'd better report it to management yourself. No, Deloitte & Touche didn't spot the transfer. We had to ask for our email "back". ********** end excerpt from 'Corruption at Salomon Brothers' *
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 17:37 of intelligence described in this book, signals intelligence (SIGINT), is the largest, most secret and most expensive source of secret intelligence in the world today. P-5655 Like the British examples, and Mike Frost's Canadian examples, these stories will only be the tip of the iceberg. There is no evidence of a UKUSA code of ethics or a tradition of respect for Parliament or civil liberties in their home countries. The opposite seems to be true: that anything goes as long as you do not get caught. Secrecy not only permits but encourages questionable operations. Three observations need to be made about the immense spying capability provided by the ECHELON system. The first is that the magnitude of the global network is a product of decades of intense Cold War activity. Yet with the end of the Cold War it has not been demobilized and budgets have not been significantly cut. Indeed the network has grown in power and reach. Yet the public justifications, for example that 'economic intelligence is now more important', do not even begin to explain why this huge spy system should be maintained. In the early 1980s the Cold War rhetoric was extreme and global war was seriously discussed and planned for. In the 1990s, the threat of global war has all but disappeared and none of the allies faces the remotest serious military threat. The second point about the ECHELON capabilities is that large parts of the system, while hiding behind the Cold War for their justification, were never primarily about the Cold War at all. The UKUSA alliance did mount massive operations against the Soviet Union and other 'communists', but other elements of the worldwide system, such as the interception of Intelsat communications, microwave networks and many regional satellites, were n
From: tchow on 18 Apr 2008 18:08
just surveillance: * Main Justice, by Jim McGee and Brian Duffy, 1996, ISBN 0-684-81135-9 * * The FBI had been spying on members of the civil rights movement * to discredit Martin Luther King and destroy the civil rights * movement, government files showed. There had been burglaries * and illegal wiretapping on a grand scale. Even after FISA legislation, with its strict "minimization" requirement, CISPES & Co. happened. Sometimes their suspicion of terrorist/foreign agent activity is laughable. * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996, short version * * It was just before April Fool's day, and Virginia Bernard thought the * caller was one of her friends pulling a practical joke. Her husband, an * ex-IRS official got on the phone, and after a brief discussion was * convinced the man really was an FBI agent. * * Agent Emmett arrived: The seventy-three-year-old part-time teacher was * asked: "why did you subscribe to 'Soviet Life' and why did you write to * the Soviet embassy?" * * "I need to clear this up. It's in the interest of national security." * * With the invocation of the sacred words "national security," one of * the most powerful mantras of the long-lived Cold War, Mrs. Bernard's * seventy-nine-year-old husband burst out laughing. At any time, it * would h |