open letter to alt.games.final-fantasy.moderated readers
Ron...@alt.games.final-fantasy.moderated
links and other communications around the world.
Worldwide telephone interception.
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New Zealand: Unhappy Campers
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You'd be unhappy too if French terrorists - er - French intelligence agency
operatives sank a ship (GreenPeace!) on the shores of your country, and the
USA controlled ECHELON system failed to warn you.
Here comes the usual - GROAN: "the usual" -
PLUS a description of the basic mechanisms.
Spy tools, come 'n' get yer spy tools...a comprehensive look at ECHELON
DICTIONARY. A look at the Beast in your phone. This is the big one.
In the section after this, 'On Monitoring', I give detailed examples of
the capability of ECHELON DICTIONARY to seek out information from noise.
To pick out conversations from a massive dragnet. I even give the keyword
monitoring logic for spotting conversations of people actively searching
to leave their current job for another employer. First read this section.
*** "Secret Power" by Nicky Hager, 1996, ISBN 0-908802-35-8
GCSB is New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau.
P8-9
It was with some apprehension that I learned Nicky Hager was researching the
activity of our intelligence community. He has long been a pain in the
establishment's neck.
There are many things in the book with which I am familiar. I couldn't tell
him which was which. Nor can I tell you.
But it is an outrage that I and other ministers were
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Fred...@alt.games.final-fantasy.moderated
described the stunned reaction of those present, "There were
* several gasps around the table. A couple cabinet members looked as if they
* had been slapped. No one said anything for a long time."
*
* Ronald Reagan, a consummately wise politician who professed a belief in
* Bible prophecy, caught the implication [about The Mark of the Devil].
*
* He then hushed the cabinet and efficiently dismissed the National ID Card
* proposal by sardonically remarking, "Maybe we should just brand all babies."
"Those that give up essential liberty for a little
security, deserve neither liberty nor security."
- Ben Franklin
"When ID's are mandatory, it is time to leave the planet."
- Robert Heinlein
* "Project L.U.C.I.D.", by Texe Marrs, 1996, ISBN 1-884302-02-5
*
* In the November 1994 publication of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,
* the FBI advocated BIOMETRIC CAPTURE FOR ALL NEWBORN BABIES AND
* SIMULTANEOUSLY THEIR MOTHERS.
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Worldwide Banking and Phone Monitoring
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Newspeak: "It's never been abused, and we are doing this to protect you."
* Dorothy "DoubleThink" Denning, "Encryption and Law Enforcement", 2/21/1994
*
* Although there is no evidence of widespread abuse of wiretaps by law
* enforcement officials, Key Escrow will effectively thwart any
* potential abuse, thereby providing greater protection from illegal
* government wiretaps than currently exists.
It is astonishing the extent the U.S. government feels its citizens and
the world's population must by spied upon.
The U.S. Government wants all communication systems in the world to
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Alej...@alt.games.final-fantasy.moderated
frugal, who saved his
* money. Several years ago, however, Alvarez began listening to the
* speeches of Ross Perot, especially Perot's exaggerated [beat the drum
* of fear] warnings that the nation's savings and loan institutions
* were about to collapse. As a reult of mounting anxiety generated by
* the Texas businessman, Alvarez decided to move the nest egg from his
* savings and loan.
*
* He placed some of the money in a regular bank and hid the balance in
* small caches around the house.
*
* When the sky did not fall, when Ross Perot's predictions did not come
* true, Alvarez began slowly moving the cash in his house back into a
* bank. Partly because of his fear of a possible robbery, he chose to
* redeposit his money in relatively small amounts, $5000 or so at a time.
*
* While Alvarez had come to know Perot's gloomy predictions were off the
* mark, he did not know that the federal international government, in its
* hysteria about drugs, had persuaded Congress to greatly expand the
* government's civil and criminal powers to seize assets of individuals
* it felt might be up to some illicit business. The government's concern
* was so overwhelming that in 1986 Congress was prevailed upon to add a
* provision to the seizure law forbidding any "structuring" of financial
* transactions in a way so as to evade and existing requirement that cash
* transfers of more than $10,000 had to be reported to the government.
[
The New York Times, April 13, 1997
U.S. Under Secretary Raymond W. Kelly signed an order on Aug 7th requiring
New York businesses transmitting cash to report all transactions over
$750. The order was not publicly announced. It is par
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Gi...@alt.games.final-fantasy.moderated
: success.
:
: Bertil Fortrie
: Internet Security Review
: ==
There it is yet again: "anytime, anywhere", and "UKUSA".
There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that Netscape and other companies
--- the U.S. is a world leading producer of software technology --- are
having their products outlawed for world-wide distribution because of
ECHELON.
Ubiquitous full-strength crypto --- in all our email products and web
browsers --- would immediately begin to lessen ECHELON's ability to
spy in such a massive dragnet fashion.
There is an ugly implication to ECHELON being the reason Netscape and company
are being held hostage by the NSA.
"Only with a court authorized warrant..." --- Louis Freeh, FBI Director
Louis Freeh is lying.
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Key Recovery Isn't Even Feasible
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http://www.epic.org
Distinguished cryptographers and computer scientists have released a new
report, "The Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow, and Trusted Third-Party
Encryption."
The report follows an earlier recommendation of the OECD that the risks of
key escrow encryption be considered before key escrow infrastructures are
established. The report concludes "The deployment of a global key-recovery-
based encryption infrastructure to meet law
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Fr...@alt.games.final-fantasy.moderated
Pty Ltd." (FTS)
*
* All Australian EFT transactions are on record at Fort Meade.
* "The End of Ordinary Money, Part I", by J. Orlin Grabbe
* http://www.aci.net/kalliste
*
* The most important communications network for international financial
* market transactions is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
* Telecommunication (SWIFT), a not-for-profit cooperative.
*
* This system for transferring foreign exchange deposits and loans began
* actual operation in May 1977 and by 1990 had 1,812 members, and connected
* 3,049 banks and securities industry participants in eight-four countries.
*
* In 1993 SWIFT began asking users of its messaging system to include a
* purpose of payment in all messages, as well as payers, payees, and
* intermediaries. This type of arrangement would allow NSA computers
* to use keyword monitoring to scan for any names in which they were
* interested.
! FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, Senate Judiciary Committee, June 4, 1997
!
! NOT THAT LONG AGO, NO ONE PERCEIVED THAT TELEPHONE SYSTEMS COULD BECOME
! UNTAPPABLE, THE NECESSITY FOR STRONG PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN LOCAL, STATE,
! FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IS MORE URGENT.
* Electronic Privacy Information Center, http://www.epic.org
*
* "As a means of espionage, writs of assistance and general warrants
* are but puny instruments of tyranny and oppression when compared
* with wiretapping.
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