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From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:54 and at the U.S. Strategic Air Command. * * Fingerscan, an Identix company, provides biometric identification in * the form of a three dimensional scan of a fingerprint, captured when a * finger is held against a Fingerscan device, a self-contained terminal * that stores finger records, keeps a log of transactions and interacts * with other devices. * * The terminal works by mapping, recording and storing data contained in * a 3-D scan of various dimensions of the entire finger - including skin * patterns and reflections and blood flow - for subsequent comparison. Oh my gawd, a Universal Biometric Card! What losers are getting one? * Sandia and Coms21, currently engaged in an agreement to support the * People's Republic of China's driver license and national ID card * program, have partnered to create a fraud-proof solution for on-the-spot * positive identification of card bearers. * * This combination features Sandia's personalization printing and encoding * technologies that add photos and encode chips onto smart ID cards. * * Coms21's hand-held smart card readers then provide portable verification * of cardholders' personalized information by bringing smart-card stored * photos, text and graphics up on a screen. # With the Universal Biometric Card, motorists in Chinese provinces will be # required to carry the smart cards like a personal driver's license. When # being stopped for a traffic violation, the driver would have to forward # the smart card to the traffic cop who would use a card reader/writer to # access information stored in the card, issue an electronic ticket right on # the spot with the fines and other information embedded into the smart card # chip itself. When the driver goes to the bank to pay his/her fines, the # penalty will be deducted from the memory chip. Our Military contractors are making money issuing China citizens a National ID Card??? Our we thinking of what t
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 20:36 of most lists to grow, expanding far beyond their original intent. This multiplier effect was caused by the inclusion of names of people who came in contact with those persons and organizations already on the lists. Because of the NSA's vacuum cleaner approach to intelligence collection --- whereby it sucks into its system the maximum amount of telecommunications and then filters it through an enormous screen of "trigger words" --- analysts end up reviewing telephone calls, telegrams, and telex messages to and from thousands of innocent persons having little or nothing to do with the actual focus of the effort. And when a person made the watch list, any conversations EVEN MENTIONING that person are scooped up. P333: By now, the names of U.S. citizens on NSA's many watch lists for fighting the drug war had grown from the hundreds into the thousands. Even when Noel Gayler took over as Director of the NSA in August 1969, NSA personnel waited a year or so before briefing even him on the NSA watch list program. P381-382: NSA Director General Allen testified to Congress that there is no statute that prevents the NSA from interception of domestic communications. Asked whether he was concerned about the legality of expandin
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 19:07 -1 # # 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?] * *
From: Phil Carmody on 18 Apr 2008 20:33 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. The Miranda ruling by the 1966 Supreme Court requires the police inform criminal suspects of their legal rights before questioning them. It is classical poetry, even when recited by Dragnet's Joe Friday. * Justice Department report: "Excerpt From the Report to Meese", NYT, 1/22/87 * * The Miranda decision reflects a willful disregard of the authoritative * sources of law. The decision flies in the face of the principals of * constitutional government and impairs the ability of government to * safeguard citizens from crime. * * It is difficult to conceive of a legislature enacting it into law, either. * * It has caused specific evils and is a discredited attempt at criminal * jurisprudence. Overturning it would be the MOST IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENT * THIS OR ANY OTHER ADMINISTRATION COULD ACCOMPLISH TO PROTECT UNITED * STATES CITIZENS FROM CRIME. A
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 19:59
printed circuit boards, electronic components, packages, systems and * concealments in a quick turnaround cost-effective manner." * * Among the facilities advantages are speed "through the use of laser * restructuring, high-density interconnect, and reverse milling capability," * and a capability "to produce an integrated microphone ('microphone on a * chip') in a single design/fabrication process." * * For many years, the FBI had been placing secret microphones on street- * lamps, telephone poles, parking meters and empty automobiles parked near * locations where its targets sometimes strolled. Such an outdoor array * of surveillance devices planted near the Mulberry Street headquarters * of John Gotti, for example, was an important weapon on the FBI's long * and eventually successful investigation of one of New York City's most * arrogant Mafia bosses. Jeez, that sounds like plenty of electronic surveillance spy-power to me! How about you? The FBI has since come up with a briefcase with a 'targetable array of microphones' to pick up conversations outside at a long distance. * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 * * The leading lobbyist for CALEA was Louis Freeh, the aggressive new * director of the FBI. The government's most important investigative * tool, Freeh said, was "wiretapping, court-authorized wiretapping." * * Unless remedial steps were taken, he continued, "the country will * be unable to protect itself from terrorism, violent crime, drug * trafficking, espionage, kidnapping and other grave crimes." * * But is Freeh's frightening vision true? * * In fact, at the same time the FBI was telling Congress and the public * that the new technologies were already preventing them from conducting * essential wiretaps, senior FBI officials from cities across the United * States were telling FBI headquarters in Washington THE EXACT OPPOSITE. * We know this because...[ |