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From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 20:24 were in widespread use within the U.S., the FBI would demand that it be outlawed. For 'public safety and national security'. : * "Above the Law" : * ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 : * by David Burnham : * : * The suspicion that the government might one day try to outlaw any : * encryption device which did not provide easy government access was : * reinforced by comments made by FBI Director Freeh at a 1994 Washington : * conference on cryptography. "The objective for us is to get those : * conversations...wherever they are, whatever they are", he said in : * response to a question. : * : * Freeh indicated that if five years from now the FBI had solved the : * access problem but was only hearing encrypted messages, further : * legislation might be required. : * : * The obvious solution: a federal law prohibiting the use of any : * cryptographic device that did not provide government access. : * : * Freeh's hints that the government might have to outlaw certain kinds : * of coding devices gradually became more explicit. "The drug cartels : * are buying sophisticated communications equipment", he told Congress. : * "Unless the encryption issue is RESOLVED soon, criminal conversations : * over the telephone and other communications devices will become : * indecipherable by law enforcement. This, as much as any issue, : * jeopardizes the public safety and national security of this country." Louis Freeh, banging the Drums of War. It's official: * http://epic.org/crypto/ban/fbi_dox/impact_text.gif * * SECRET FBI report * * NEED FOR A NATIONAL POLICY * * A national policy embodied in legislation is needed which insures * that cryptography use in the United States should be forced to be * crackable by law enforcement, so such communications can be monitored * with real-time decryption. * * Al
From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 20:31 to track cars. Well, it's not like they're going to go nutcake and install a monitoring grid over the entire metropolis. They wouldn't do that, right? : "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 : : In New York City, the FBI spent millions of dollars to install a permanent : "fully-functional real-time physical tracking network." : : It should come as no surprise that the FBI did not announce this addition : to its investigative bag of tricks: a citywide network of hidden sensing : devices that pick up signals from a moving vehicle and immediately project : the precise location on a large illuminated map located in the FBI's New : York command post. : : When the FBI's technology head was asked how the new tracking system was : working, he looked surprised, and didn't answer the question. "How did you : know about that?" he asked. : : The FBI denied a request for a tour of its Manhatten command post, where : the output from its instantaneous tracking system is displayed for the : brass. : : In 1993, however, the FBI allowed a reporter who was working on what the : bureau expected would be a friendly article to visit the inner sanctum. : : The command center, she later wrote, "looks not unlike the Starship : Enterprise, of 'Star Trek.' On the rear wall of the room are three giant : screens on which neighborhood maps, live field surveillance, and graphs : charting the progress of a manhunt can be projected. : : Law enforcement officials, at sta
From: Matthew T. Russotto on 18 Apr 2008 20:56 IS NOT SUSPECTED OF COMMITTING ANY CRIME. * * The FISA court operates outside the normal constitutional standards for * searches and seizures. Non-government personnel are not allowed. * The courts files cannot be publicly reviewed. * * The average U.S. citizen might reasonably assume use of this court * is at the least: unusual. * * It is not. In fact, in the United States today it is increasingly * common. In 1994, federal courts authorized more wiretaps for * intelligence-gathering and national security purposes than they * did to investigate ordinary federal 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
From: S.C.Sprong on 18 Apr 2008 21:24 Justice O'Connor, together with the Chief Justice, said CDA will be legal as soon as: "it becomes technologically feasible...to check a person's [Internet] driver's license...the prospects for the eventual zoning of the Internet appear promising..." My WebTV has a slot for reading a smart card! Well, noone would ever put up with a Universal Biometric Card in the U.S.! Right? * Recent agreements announced by Sandia include contracts for the * issuance of national ID cards for the People's Republic of China over * the next five years; approximately 10 million fraud-resistant alien ID * cards for the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service over * the next three years; 5 million driving licenses for the State of * Alabama and 7.5 million for the State of New South Wales, Australia. 5 million driving licenses for the State of Alabama!!! What did the announcement look like? * November 7, 1996- SANDIA IMAGING SYSTEMS WINS CONTRACT TO PRODUCE * DRIVERS' LICENSES FOR STATE OF ALABAMA. Carrollton, TX (Business Wire). * * Sandia Imaging Systems, a majority owned subsidiary of Lasertechnics, * Inc.(NASDAQ:LASX), today announced that it will supply its digital card * printers to the State of Alabama as part of a major upgrade of the * state's drivers' license program. * * Jean-Pierre
From: Rotwang on 18 Apr 2008 20:40
be logically hooked together with machines the definition of 'cyborg'? * "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1 * * A new billboard has appeared in Ventura, California, promoting the * "Zero Tolerance" campaign. It says: "Help a friend, send him to jail." $ "Gingrich Suggests Tough Drug Measure", NYT, August 27, 1995 $ $ Speaker Gingrich said he would ask Congress to enact legislation imposing $ the death penalty on drug smugglers, and suggested MASS EXECUTIONS of $ people convicted under the law might prove an effective deterrent. $ $ Mr. Gingrich told about 1,500 people at a youth football and cheerleading $ jamboree, "And they'd have only one chance to appeal, then we'd kill them $ within 18 months." On January 7, 1997, Gingrich introduced H.R. 41, "Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1997", which "mandates that a person convicted of bringing into the United States '100 usual dosage amounts' of several illicit substances -- including two ounces of marijuana -- be sentenced to federal prison for life without parole; a second offense brings the death penalty." # "Dole Calls for Wider Military Role in Fighting Drugs" # By Katherine Q. Seelye, The New York Times, August 26, 1996 # # "I want the Military to expand its use of technology, including # reconnaissance and satellites and area surveillance and listening # posts...and call the National Guard to move in," said Presidential # candidate Bob Dole. # # "In the Dole Administration, we're going to return to what works. We're # going to replace the President's inattention to dangerous drugs with a # clea |