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From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 20:49 major items: o Passage of ProCode/SAFE legislation, allowing U.S. companies to export unlimited strength cryptography, free from "Key Recovery". Key Recovery means messages are no longer a secret, because the Government has screwed around with it. o Killing the CALEA legislation, which orders all communications equipment be DESIGNED so the Government can spy on it. o Dismantling domestic ECHELON, the Government listening in on our domestic phone calls. o A Cabinet-level U.S. Privacy Commission, with teeth. ---- The "average" American has no idea why cryptography is important to them. It is the only way to begin preventing massive illegal domestic spying. Currently, there are no restrictions on domestic use of unlimited strength cryptography. That is not because the Government hasn't complained about child pornographers or terrorists or other criminals who might use it. No, that's the reason they are giving for why U.S. companies can't EXPORT products, such as web browsers, outside U.S. territory, without compromising it with Government "Key Recovery"; i.e. made stupider and breakable. Why such an indirect control on what they claim is a domestic problem? Because that is how 'The Creeping Police State' works. Slowly, bit-by-bit. Slowly, State-by-State everyone in the U.S. is being fingerprinted. The FBI is now advocating biometric capture of all newborns too. This is an interesting manifesto, please take the time to read it. Cryptography can be used to keep private: Internet traffic, such as email, and telephone conversations (PGP phone). A version of PGP phone that looks and works like a normal telephone --- but can't be spied
From: Christian Siebert on 18 Apr 2008 18:52 life-giver. Causing matter to become more complex: simple atoms transformed to more complex molecules. On purpose, to sustain life. Ground zero, a soup-of-life mixture zapped with energy: Scientists have absolutely no problem creating amino acids - the building blocks of all life - from constituent chemicals. It takes a Darwinian amount of time to get higher-evolved life forms, but it eventually happens. This property of matter to spontaneously become more complex is called negentropy (negative entropy), and it means 'matter formatted by information'. * "Platform for Change", by Stafford Beer, 1978, ISBN 0 471 06189 1 * * We human beings mean more than the few-pence-worth of our chemical * constituents, because information *informs* those component chemicals * by means of a genetic blueprint. * * Life itself is a negentropy pump. The universe means more than a * collapsed energetic equation of 'x-heat = x-cold = nothing', because * information structures the balance. The
From: Chip Eastham on 18 Apr 2008 20:55 silly thing for them to assert. * "Clinton's Encryption Plan Fits Law and Market" * Letters to the Editor, Mickey Kantor, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 10/9/96 * * Many companies are eager to market Key Recovery [compromised] products. Exact same deal: Here are the actual comments on Key Recovery's predecessor, Key Escrow: : Charles R. Smith, master of FOIA, SOFTWAR, http://www.us.net/softwar : # "It is essential that the end-user's rights to and expectations # of personal privacy be met by this technology. Multi-national # companies are faced with strong privacy laws in many countries, # some of which are far stricter than U.S. policy. Conversely, # many countries blatantly disregard personal privacy, and might # not respect our personal rights and business needs. Because of # this, foreign governments must not be allowed access to the # escrow key." # - George Fisher - Chairman and CEO Motorola # # "The NIST proposal states that the escrow agents will provide # the key components to a government agency that 'properly # demonstrates legal authorization to conduct electronic # surveillance of communications which are encrypted.' The term # 'legal authorization' leaves open the possibility that court # issued warrants may not be required in some circumstances." # - Robert H. Follett - Program Director IBM # # "If people choose to deposit their keys with the government or # any other escrow agent, they must have some legal recourse in # the event that those keys are improperly rele
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 20:00 But could that be true? Could such a massive disregard for the Constitution have taken place under the cheesy logic said to be used by the Military? NSA is Military, headed by a uniformed officer. Could it possibly be true? It's some over-the-top conspiracy theory, right? ****************************************************************************** Over the Top ---- --- --- I haven't received the "Spyworld: Inside the Canadian and American Intelligence Establishments" book by Mike Frost yet. So for now I'll quote from his article in CAQ, an issue entitled "The New Age of Surveillance". Covert Action Quarterly, Winter 1996-97, Number 59 1500 Massachusetts Ave. NW #732 Washington, DC 20005 202/331-9763, caq(a)igc.org, http://mediafilter.org/caq Article: "Second Thoughts from the Second Oldest Profession. Inside the US-Canada Spyworld." By Mike Frost [ Pictured is him on two of his Canadian security IDs ] I was a spy. For almost two decades, I spied for Canada's Communications Security
From: Phil Carmody on 18 Apr 2008 18:44
* * The FBI has a tendency to worry people unnecessarily, even when it has * good news. For example, last year the FBI announced that 53 percent of * all homicides were by strangers, and that for the first time all Americans * had a "realistic" chance of being murdered. * * But to arrive at these troubling figures, the FBI considered ALL UNSOLVED * HOMICIDES, including drug-related killings, as homicides committed by * strangers, thus creating the impression that murder was becoming * increasingly random. "Three Strikes" laws also skew the statistics. ---- http://www.epic.org...Louis Freeh, banging the Drums of War: Prepared Statement of Director Louis J. Freeh Federal Bureau of Investigation Before the Senate Judiciary Committee June 4, 1997 THE ISSUES YOU AND THE OTHER MEMBERS RAISE ARE CRITICAL AND IMMEDIATE. MANY GO TO THE CORE OF THE FBI AND OUR ABILITY TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. TO ADDRESS THESE VITAL ISSUES --- SERIOUS CRIME, TERRORISM AND ESPIONAGE --- THE FBI MUST BE AND IS A DYNAMIC INSTITUTION ANTICIPATING OR REACTING TO NEW TECHNOLOGY. PERHAPS UNLIKE ANY TIME IN OUR HISTORY, THE NATURE OF CRIME AND TERRORISM IS EVOLVING AT AN UNPRECEDENTED PACE. TERRORISM, BOTH INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC THREATENS US LIKE NEVER BEFORE. * "The End of Ordinary Money, Part I", by J. Orlin Grabbe * * Ironically, the World Trade Center was subsequently bombed by a group * that was already under FBI surveillance. Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War THE MARVELS OF THE INTERNET CAN BE USED FOR EVIL AGAINST CH |