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From: Nick Wedd on 18 Apr 2008 18:35 would do with the bill, when we Americans speak so many different accents and languages? Answer: Thirty years of fine tuning by the NSA, y'all. The Digital Telephony Act will allow them to legally - at full wiretapping capacity - dragnet-monitor the telephone network. Each line monitored will not require a warrant. And how did they get this CALEA legislation? * "Government Access", by Jim Warren * * At the administration's pleading, the [Democrat-controlled] Congress * rammed it through in less than two months, with no substantive hearings. * * Literally in the dark of night, without debate, it passed in the house * by voice vote and two nights later by unanimous consent in the Senate, * only minutes before adjourning to rush home for their important work: * campaigning for re-election. The NSA domestic watch-list is probably already stuffed full enough to use the complete CALEA capacity. You can select many more lines for monitoring than actually end up active at the same time. The effect is indistinguishable from a MUCH larger monitoring capacity. Even greater when the software programmatically decides (at the FBI end) which conversations to continue listening to. I'm sure law-enforcement will be able to dynamically configure their connection to the phone companies' networks. And probably cheat to use ECHELON to direct this programmatic control, yielding no effective monitoring limit for domestic law-enforcement, and domestic political control. Law enforcement has absolutely no need for the Digital Telephony Act except to give them their own access terminals and PRETEND there is a firewall between what the Military is doing versus what the FBI is doi
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 19:51 countries and subjects. They also include the known telex and phone numbers and Internet addresses of the individuals, businesses, organizations and government offices they may want to target. The agencies also specify combinations of these keywords to help sift out communications of interest. For example, they might search for diplomatic cables containing both the words 'Suva' and 'aid', or cables containing the word 'Suva' but NOT the word 'consul' (to avoid the masses of routine consular communications). It is these sets of words and numbers (and combinations of them), under a particular category, that are placed in the Dictionary computers. The whole system was developed by the NSA. P51- The only known public reference to the ECHELON system was made in relation to the Menwith Hill station. In July 1988, a United States newspaper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, published a story about electronic monitoring of phone calls of a Republican senator, Strom Thurmond. The alleged monitoring occurred at Menwith Hill. Margaret Newsham worked at Menwith Hill as a contract employee of Lockheed Space and Mis
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 19:08 do it without an * electronic system. * * In 1995, the Transit Authority lost $300 million in city, state and Federal * subsidies, and had to reduce and eliminate some bus and subway service, * along with some cleaning. Not counting the long-promised discounts, the * city is also offering free bus-subway transfers which will cost it another * $168 million. Wow. They are hurting for money, yet spent $700 million on it to offer discounts? They aren't expecting to monitor individual users, like in Singapore, are they? Let's see...they don't print them up in advance, so they can't be stolen. But each token booth has a video camera, which, if synchronized time-wise would yield a picture to associate with each card. They wouldn't use 'machine vision' to identify people, would they? They would never take our picture from a video camera and use it for a completely different surveillance purpose, would they? * "Police Use of Yearbooks Draws Protest From the Schools" * By Lawrence Van Gelder, The New York Times, March 28 1997 * * A storm of protest burst yesterday around a Police Department memo that * orders every detective squad in New York City to collect yearbooks from * the high schools and junior high schools in its precinct as an aid in * investigations. * * For mugshots. * * Lionel Oglesby, 15, of Brooklyn, a sophomore at Washington Irving High * School in Manhatten, said, "If I haven't done anything wrong, why should * my picture be taken? Just the thought of having my picture in the Police * Department makes me uncomfo
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 18:57 and Chuck Hagel have all endorsed the ban. # # America's proud tradition of CIVILIAN CONTROL [a distant memory!] of the # military gives the President responsibility for making the final decision. # # Mr. Clinton is shirking his responsibility. The Military are in control of ALL KEY POLITICIANS. They do so via Secrecy and Scary Stories and ECHELON. # "Covering Up Crimes", By Anthony Lewis, NYT, 5/5/97 # # A Government official becomes aware that secret information shows # corruption and criminality in a Federal agency. # # He wants to inform Congress, but he is forbidden to do so unless he first # gets the approval of the very agency involved. # # And Congress has no power to change to change those rules so it can get # the facts. # # That is the legal position---the extraordinary position---taken by the # Clinton Administration. It is as far-reaching an assertion of executive # power to keep secrets from Congress as any president has ever made: the # power to cover up crimes of the state. # # The Administration's position was set out last Nov. 26 in a legal # memorandum, from the Justice Department to the CIA saying anyone # disclosing classified information to a member of Congress would # be viola
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:42
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 society. But you can control society in a HIGHLY effective way using cybernetics, and do so COST EFFECTIVELY. That's one of the things CALEA is about, cost effectiveness of maintaining the spying infrastructure |