Re: OT: Anyone know what's become of picobotics.com?
Gordon McComb
If you strip us naked you will detect more crime, but also, you strip
individuals naked without specific individuals being suspected of a crime.
Dragnet monitoring should not be the American way.
Unrestricted cryptography must be made legal now,
so we are no longer naked to ECHELON monitoring.
It will be a beginning.
: Privacy Journal's War Stories (75 pages, $21.50) is available from
: PRIVACY JOURNAL, P.O. Box 28577, Providence RI 02908, 401/274-7861,
: electronic mail: 510...@mcimail.com.
:
: Beverly Folmsbee of Pittsfield Massachusetts, who was not suspected
: of any drug use, left her job after declining to take a "degrading"
: urinalysis test at her company, then known as Tech Tool Grinding &
: Supply Inc.
:
: It required disrobing, donning a hospital gown, and submitting to
: bodily inspection by a medical staff person.
:
: But the highest court in the state said that the testing was legitimate.
: Source: Folmsbee v.Tech Tool Grinding & Supply Inc., 417 Mass. 338, 630
: N.E. 2d 586 (1994).
It is totally urinating what the politicians and
courts have allowed in the name of the Drug War.
: Privacy Journal's War Stories, By Attorney Robert Ellis Smith
:
: Burlingame, CA, 1990: A flight attendant suffered medical complications
: because of Federal requirements that compel drug-monitors to have
: employees drink water until they can provide a urine sample. The 40-year-
: old woman was unable to urinate in a random drug test. She drank three
: quarts of water and even vomited some of it but could not urinate in the
: noisy crowded test site. She became ill at home and a doctor diagnosed
:
Gordon McComb
messages and other electronic communications that its computers have been
pre-programmed to select for all the allies and automatically send this
intelligence to them.
This means that New Zealand stations are being used by the overseas agencies
for their automatic collecting - while New Zealand does not even know what
is being intercepted from the New Zealand sites for the allies. In return,
New Zealand gets tightly controlled access to a few parts of the system.
The GCSB computers, the stations, the headquarter operations and, indeed,
GCSB itself function almost entirely as components of this integrated system.
Each station in the network - not just the satellite stations - has Dictionary
computers that report to the ECHELON system
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United States spy satellites, designed to intercept communications from orbit
above the earth, are also likely to be connected into the ECHELON system.
These satellites either move in orbits that criss-cross the earth or, like
the Intelsats, sit above the Equator in geostationary orbit.
They have antennae that can scoop up very large quantities of radio
communications from the areas below.
A final