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From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 21:57 Zealand as second parties. P391: ...quite likely the most secret agreement ever entered into by the English-speaking world. Signed in 1947 and known as the UKUSA Agreement, it brought together under a single umbrella the SIGINT organizations of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The UKUSA Agreement's existence has never been officially acknowledged by any country even today. P271: Sharing seats alongside the NSA operators, at least in some areas, are SIGINT specialists from Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). According to a former Menwith Hill official, the two groups work very closely together. P229: David Watters, a telecommunications engineer once attached to the CIA's communications research and development branch, pulls out a microwave routing map of the greater Washington area and jabs his index finger at a small circle with several lines entering it and the letters NSA. "There's your smoking pistol right here." Watters says it is tied into the local telephone company circuits, which are interconnected with the national microwave telephone system owned by AT&T. Other specialists testified to the same thing: purely domestic intercepts. P223: "Technical know-how" for microwave communications intercept was aided by William Baker, head of AT&T's Bell Laboratories and at the same time an important member of the very secret NSA Scientific Advisory Board. After all, it was Bell Labs under Baker that, to a great extent, developed and perfected the very system that the NSA hoped to penetrate. [ "The Rise of the Computer State", David Burnham, 1984, ISBN 0-394-72375-9 "A Chilling Account of the Computer's Threat to Society" FYI note: this document's opening quote is from this book. P122: For the last three decades the NSA has been a frequent and secret participant in regulatory matters before the Federal Communications Commission, where important decisions are made t
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 18:59 : (210) 925-1281 * 203 Norton Street : sysop(a)afnews.pa.af.mil * Kelly AFB, TX 78241-6105 : ftp.pa.af.mil * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Read car's license plates at night? Phillips's Lasers and Imaging Directorate? What is this? * http://www.rockwell.com/te/itsinca.html * * TraffiCam Vehicle Detection Sensor * * Rockwell is working with a variety of state and local authorities, * including several in California, for the introduction of a new, advanced * technology sensor called TraffiCam. The sensor uses machine vision * technology to detect vehicles. The capabilities of the sensor make it * useful for a variety of applications, including freeway surveillance Ugh oh, 'machine vision', I don't like the sound of that... * http://hippo.mit.edu/projects/projects.html#sensor * * NEW TRAFFIC SENSOR TECHNOLOGY * * MIT was responsible for the concept, overall design, and testing of the * sensor. Travel time is measured by vi
From: Chip Eastham on 18 Apr 2008 18:36 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 to * management. Mathematical precision was necessary, and operations * research promised to supply that precision. [snip] * * It had not jumped from the management of particular, limited areas of * warfare to the structuring of entire campaigns and wars. Operations * research had not penetrated to the very marrow of conventional warfare, * that is, not until an attempt was made in 1961 to revolutionize the idea * of war. This was done by an industrialist named Robert McNamara, who had * been president at Ford Motor Company. Stafford Beer is a British cybernetician, and a 'research philosopher'. In 1970, a Dr. Salvador Allende became president of Chile. He was a democratically elected Marxist, with 37% of the vote. Allende i
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 22:16 * statistical filtration for all homeostatic loops at all levels * of recursion, and provide alerts via an 'arousal filter'. * * Checo, the model of the Chilean economy, with simulation capacity. * * Opsroom, a new environment for decision, and dependent for its * existence on the existence of the other three. * * Cybernet was a system whereby every single factory in the country, * contained within the nationalized social economy, could be in * communication with a computer. * * The intention of Cybernet was to make computer power available to the * workers' committees in every factory. * * How could this be done? * * The basic idea was that crucial indices of performance in every plant * should be transmitted daily to the computers, where they would be * processed and examined for any kind of important signal that they * contained. If there was any sort of warning implied by these data, * then an alerting signal would be sent back to the managers of the * plant concerned. What are 'arousal filter' and 'homeostatic loops'? The scope of Cybernetics is, in a word, awesome. A cyberneticist can talk from atoms to cells to nervous systems, to management of a company, country, world, solar system. Whether an organism is mechanical, biological or social, it requires a feedback mechanism to survive. Your nervous system does some amazing things to fight off infections. It creates custom anti-bodies to attack foreign microbes. Custom living cells created through a system of feedback to spot that there was a problem, analysis of the problem, action on the problem. This is a life-sustaining feedback 'homeostatic' loop. [bracket comments are mine] When Stafford Beer says Cyberstride needed to filter 'homeostatic loops': * "The Human Use of Human Beings - Cybernetics and Society" * by Norbert Wiener, 1954, pre-ISBN * * The process [such as that employed by our nervous system]
From: tchow on 18 Apr 2008 18:24
to celebrities to ordinary citizens involved in protest against their government. Included were such well-known figures as Jane Fonda, Joan Baez, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverand Ralph Abernathy, Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, and Chicago Seven defendants Abbie Hoffman and David T. Dellinger. A frightening side effect of the watch list program was the tendency 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 Co |