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From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:27 Jones neither uses drugs nor buys nor sells * them. He is a gardening contractor who bought an airplane ticket. Who lost * his hard-earned money to the cops." After a long legal battle and a lot of * publicity, Jones got his money back. * [snip] * * Paolo Alvarez: "I believe in God, but the government's seizure of all my * savings was really horrible. I felt trapped and I almost flipped out." * * Alvarez was a landscape contractor, cautious and frugal, who saved his * money. Several years ago, however, Alvarez began listening to the * speeches of Ross Perot, especially Perot's exaggerated [beat the drum * of fear] warnings that the nation's savings and loan institutions * were about to collapse. As a reult of mounting anxiety generated by * the Texas businessman, Alvarez decided to move the nest egg from his * savings and loan. * * He placed some of the money in a regular bank and hid the balance in * small caches around the house. * * When the sky did not fall, when Ross Perot's predictions did not come * true, Alvarez began slowly moving the cash in his house back into a * bank. Partly because of his fear of a possible robbery, he chose to * redeposit his money in relatively small amounts, $5000 or so at a time. * * While Alvarez had come to know Perot's gloomy predictions were off the * mark, he did not know that the federal international government, in its * hysteria about drugs, had persuaded Congress to greatly expand the * government's civil and criminal powers to seize assets of individuals * it felt might be up to some illicit business. The government's concern * was so overwhelming that in 1986 Congress was prevailed upon to add a * provision to the seizure law forbidding any "structu
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 19:28 An Indictment of the U.S. Government and U.S. Politics Cryptography Manifesto ---------------------- By guy(a)panix.com 7/4/97-L version "The law does not allow me to testify on any aspect of the National Security Agency, even to the Senate Intelligence Committee" ---General Allen, Director of the NSA, 1975 "You bastards!" ---guy ****************************************************************************** This is about much more than just cryptography. It is also about everyone in the U.S.A. being fingerprinted for a defacto national ID card, about massive illegal domestic spying by the NSA, about the Military being in control of key politicians, about always being in a state of war, and about cybernetic control of society. ****************************************************************************** Part 1: Massive Domestic Spying via NSA ECHELON ---- - ------- -------- ------ --- --- ------- o The NSA Admits o Secret Court o Wild Conspiracy Theory o Over the Top o BAM-BAM-BAM o Australian ECHELON Spotted o New Zealand: Unhappy Campers Part 2: On Monitoring and Be
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 19:16 of complaints * in their personnel file. Police chiefs oppose the legislations because it * could undermine early warning systems for spotting bad officers. * * In some states, police unions have begun filing libel suits against those * who file police complaints. * * The police officers assert that paper trails on complaints can ruin * law-enforcement careers. Police are the same bunch of law enforcement personnel who keep extensive non-criminal notes and allegations on citizenry. In fact, NYC Police have TWICE been caught using a form marked "for unofficial notes, not to be kept with the normal records". In other words, when the defendant tries to use discovery to get details of the police case against them, so they can analyze what happened, these "offline" notes are how the police withhold the information. You know, like Geronimo Pratt's primary prosecution witness was a paid government informer. And the FBI won't delete the file of the kid who aspires to be in our Foreign Service, but made the mistake of writing to foreign embassies in grade school. Poor schmuck. The FBI wants to keep "suspect" information on anyone in its NCIC 2000 system. ---- Some people feel the smart card will quickly give away to implantable biometric transponders. Once everyone is fingerprinted, you
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 19:54 to encounter the true use of the 'cyber' prefix. Cybernetics is a cross-disciplinary science. The name was coined by Norbert Wiener [pron. whiner], who was a professor of mathematics at MIT, and did radar and firing-feedback mechanisms for the U.S. in World War II. Cybernetics describes the complex of sciences dealing with communication and control in the living organism AND in the machine. Its application is sometimes called operations research. I personally rank Norbert Wiener above Albert Einstein. Operations research is a difficult discipline --- I certainly don't understand it --- but when it was desperately needed during World War II, the U.S. Dept. of War went for it gung-ho, rightfully. Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is the first step...the NSA grew out of these wartime operations research efforts. To seek out information from noise, then act on the information. Target accuracy for precision high altitude bombing requires a complex feedback mechanism to control deployment (pre-GPS WW II). * My dad: * * Norden bombsights revolutionized aerial bombing. * * They were so accurate we stopped putting explosives * in the bombs and just aimed for people. Communications, Command and Control. The above wasn't really the best example of OR, but I did get to quote my dad again. ;-) * "The Future of War - Power, Technology, and American World Dominance in * the 21st Century", by George & Meredith Friedman, 1996, ISBN 0-517-70403-X * * A discipline named operations research had begun to develop prior to World * War II that aspired to use quantitative methodologies to develop a science * of management. [snip] * * For the physicists and mathematicians of the Rand Corporation, the * intuitions of common sense were utterly insufficient as a guide
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:14
the school library, on the night of Jan 28. * At about 8:30 a large man, 6 feet tall, came up and shoved a paper in * front of me. It said 'subpoena' and had my name on it. He flashed what * looked like a badge and said 'We want you to come with us.' * * He had a gun in a holster at his waist. * * He took my left arm and handcuffed me to his right arm. * * Another man --- he also showed a gun --- came over and grabbed me * roughly by the right arm. They took me out to a dark burgundy car, * cuffed my hands in front of me and shoved me into the back seat. * * We drove for some time when they made me face backwards. In a * residential area we drove into a garage and I was taken into the * house, into a big bare room with a cement floor. There was a big * metal desk. * * The room also had a metal pole set in the cement floor. It had a * hook at the top, sort of like a tether ball pole. * * I was thrown into a gray metal chair, still handcuffed. The room * was dimly lit, but with a bright fluorescent light coming at my * face. They threw a picture down on the desk. It was a picture of * me, my husband and a Palistinian friend of ours whom they had * arrested. They slapped it and said 'Who is this man, identify * him.' I refused and said what they were doing to me was |