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From: David Bernier on 18 Apr 2008 20:53 done anything wrong, why should * my picture be taken? Just the thought of having my picture in the Police * Department makes me uncomfortable. * * Another student [NBC TV] said "They've ruined my high school memories that * the yearbook represented. When I see my yearbook now, that's all I think * about." * * Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a former Federal Prosecutor, said the yearbooks * had no constitutional protection. "Too bad. It's not illegal," he said * at a City Hall news conference on NY1 TV. What is this? * "E-Z Pass Living Up To Its Name", By Jane Gross, NYT, 3/25/1997 * * 570,000 people have decided to use the new E-Z Pass system for commuting * tolls. Lanes are being switched over to accept only the E-Z Pass. * * Under a five-state, 10-agency consortium agreement, E-Z Pass will work * from Buffalo to Baltimore. [NY, NJ, PA, MD, DE] * * Users receive a minutely itemized statement each month on their trips. * * The E-Z Pass is a transponder people put in their windshield. * * Concerns about privacy were met with assurances that information about * commuters' whereabouts would be released only under court subpoena. People are buying the transponders because they eliminated the regular discount tokens and moved the discount availability to E-Z Pass. Wow. It does have a kind-of Singapore feel to it...being able 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
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 19:30 matter by agreeing to a 50 percent * forfeiture, or the money will be returned to the IRS, who might keep * it. Alvarez's lawyer called his bluff and got the money back after * a full year had elapsed. Loss of a full year's interest and $5000 in * legal fees were the result. * * The government's abrupt assault shocked Paolo Alvarez to his core, * leaving him with powerful feelings of fearful despair and isolation. * * While the fear was obviously justified, the feeling of isolation was * way off the mark. He has lots of company. [snip] * * The federal government seized the home of an elderly couple under the * Drug War's "facilitation" provision. The judge was so embarrassed he * gave the couple half the cash value of their house back. The drugs had * belonged to the teenaged-grandson. "The whole program is a nightmare," * said their lawyer, "If it keeps up, the Justice Department is going to * be the largest property owner in Connecticut." [snip] * * Between 1985 and 1993, as a result of more than 200,000 forfeitures, the * Justice Department Asset Forfeiture Fund took in over $3.2 billion. * * In 1993 alone the department took in $556 million, twenty times more * than it did when the program began in 1985. And what were some of the reasons of the dramatic increase in forfeitures between 1985 and 1993? What caused it to increase by more than a MAGNITUDE? * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 * * In June 1989, the Deputy Attorney General ordered the nation's U.S. * attorneys to "take all possible actions" on forfeitures, even if it meant * dropping other matters. "You will be expected to divert personnel from * other activities." * * One year later, the Attorney General himself warned the U.S. attorneys * that the Justice Department had fallen far behind its budget projection * in the collection of assets. "We must significantly increase production * to r
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:04 of the more than 130 countries that were Crypto * A.G. customers. Initially, the NSA tried to say they couldn't decrypt Key Recovery impaired traffic on the fly: ! The New York Times, December 29, 19??, by David Burnham ! "Vast Coding of Data is Urged to Hamper Electronic Spies" ! ! 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, "It is technically possible for the Government to read such ! messages, but it would be insane for it to do so. It would be an ! extraordinarily expensive undertaking and would require a massive ! increase in computer power." Probably since noone believed that, they admitted it, and said why they needed to decrypt in real-time: # Encryption and Law Enforcement # # Dorothy E. Denning # Georgetown University # # February 21, 1994 # # To implement lawful interceptions of encrypted communications, they # need a real-time or near real-time decryption capability in order # to keep up with the traffic and prevent potential acts of violence. # Since there can be hundreds of calls a day on a tapped line, any # solution that imposes a high overhead per call is impractical. And if uncrackable crypto were in widespread use within the U.S., the FBI would demand that it be outl
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 19:47 loudspeakers blared nonstop with such sounds as jet planes, and the cries of rabbits being slaughtered. [I have three loving bunnies who have free roam inside my apartment: the Feds are sick puppies. What would the public have thought if it were dying cats or dogs?] Tanks fired percussion grenades. Stadium lights kept the house illuminated around the clock. Helicopters flew overhead. This does not contribute to trust in the government negotiators, nor does it help the Koreshians make rational decisions. Like walking out unarmed before a Federal army, using tanks from the U.S. Defense Dept. [It should still be called the War Dept.] o C.S. gas is never supposed to be used inside a building. Used inside, it can create fires, and it can produce cyanide, which can immobilize and kill. The manufacturer of C.S. gas, Aldridge Chemicals emphasized that this product was intended for outdoor riot control only; it was not supposed to be a weapon. In fact, the company says it stopped selling C.S. to Israel in 1988
From: Nick Wedd on 18 Apr 2008 19:36
They can insidiously enter your life: Qubilah Shabazz was seduced. Like Bill Murray elaborately seducing Andie MacDowell in 'Groundhog Day' they can enter your life in an almost unconscious manner. Informants manage to connect to criminals by running into them in the right place, saying the right things. It's the 1990s now: Only, as we have seen, informants connecting to criminals means the FBI targeting Randy Weaver WHO HAD NO CRIMINAL RECORD for blackmail. Anyone can be made a criminal in the monitoring net. Or seduced into a "crime", like Qubilah Shabazz. Without you realizing it, the person you met was taking advantage of knowing all your most passionate likes and dislikes. It is INSANE to design our systems for government monitoring. CONGRESS WAKE UP NOW FOR CHRIS'SAKES!!! * "Dispute Arises Over Proposal for Wiretaps" * By John Markoff, The New York Times, February 15 1997 * * The telephone companies, after meeting with the FBI, said they wanted to * be able to monitor tens of thousands of conversations simultaneously in * metropolitan areas, much more than their stated intention of simply * trying to transfer its current surveillance capabilities into the * digital era. * * And the Cellular Telephone Industry Association said the FBI wanted to * monitor 103,190 cellular calls simultaneously nationwide. * * Lawyers for AT&T Wireless Services said, "The numbers alone are astounding." * * "This is kind of scary," said Tom Wheeler, CTIA president. "What does * the FBI know about our future that we don't?" ---- You cannot assign people one-to-one to control everyone in a so |