open letter to alt.hackers.groups.moderated readers
Ang...@alt.hackers.groups.moderated
#
# Currently housed at the National Security Agency, a working group of
# federal bureaucrats founded the Biometric Consortium in the early 1990s.
# Its 1995 charter promises to "promote the science and performance of
# biometrics for the government."
#
# Consortium mumbers include state welfare agencies, driver's license
# bureaus, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Social Security
# Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service.
If my attempts to show how bad a thing this is have been too rambling,
too abstract, here is a simple and accurate analogy:
* "Project L.U.C.I.D.", by Texe Marrs, 1996, ISBN 1-884302-02-5
*
* It was Martin Anderson who, in his book, Revolution, revealed that during
* the Reagan administration during the 1980s, several top cabinet officials
* were urging President Ronald Reagan to implement a computerized National
* I.D. Card.
*
* The rationale for the proposal was that such a system would help put a lid
* on illegal immigration. [Reagan had been Governor of California]
*
* But Anderson, who at the time was a domestic advisor to the President and
* sat in on this particular cabinet meeting, spoke up and gave the group
* something to think about.
*
* "I would like to suggest another way that I think is a lot better," he
* told them, serious in demeanor but clearly being facetious. "It's a lot
* cheaper, it can't be counterfeited. It's very lightweight, and it's
* impossible to lose. It's even waterproof."
*
* "All we have to do," Anderson continued, "is tattoo an identification
* number on t
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Exce...@alt.hackers.groups.moderated
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 result is the sun, moon and
* stars...
We have a lot of different kinds of cells in our bodies; hair, bone, eye,
brain, toenail, teeth, lung, skin... And they all started from ONE CELL.
And they all knew where to go and which type to become. And how to operate
together in a large complex system.
A single cell, in its DNA strands, holds a MASSIVE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION.
Every cell in our body is structured by information, the DNA helix.
This information structuring is why we don't just splash to the
ground in a muddy puddle of our constituent chemicals.
We are matter structured by information.
"We are starshine" ---Woodstock
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Whew!
Cybernetics is VERY heavy-duty stuff.
It can yield the ULTIMATE in control.
It can be applied to controlling people in a society.
Cybernetic control of society.
The 'arousal filter' Stafford Beer and his cyberneticians
set up was effectively keyword monitoring of traffic.
When you use keywords to either select or exclude traffic, each step
is a 'filter' step. If yo
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Jim...@alt.hackers.groups.moderated
nearly 1,000 people, mainly from the CIA and the U.S.
* National Reconnaissance Office.
*
* It is the ground station for a U.S. satellite network that intercepts
* telephone, radio, data 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 told so little [yea NSA]
and this raises the question of to whom those concerned saw themselves
ultimately responsible.
David Lange
Prime Minister of New Zealand 1984-89
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Another aspect of the Second World War that carried over in
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Pat...@alt.hackers.groups.moderated
programmed to block '900' number
calls, there is a hole in the programming logic that always lets '555'
exchange numbers through. ("Information wants to be free") Companies
that advertise 900 numbers take advantage of this.
For example, even though you can't dial most 900 numbers, you can
still call numbers like USA Today's 1-900-555-5555, which are
specifically chosen to get around the 900 programming restrictions.
Oh yeah: I remember another one that triggered firm-wide security
checks: 2600 described a hole in DOS that could allow others to
execute commands on your system by virtue of defining function
key contents (F1, F2..) on the fly AND THEN EXECUTING THEM.
]
> Cummings apologized to the court for his "odd curiosity" of the past,
> insisting that he merely collected books and information and never
> caused harm to anyone. His lawyer pleaded with the judge to allow
> Cummings to pick up the pieces of his life and not be subjected to
> any more inhumane treatment.
[
I feel sick upon reading he felt compelled to apologize for books.
]
> Judge Panella passed sentence: 6 to 24 months plus a $3,000 fine.
>
> We have also learned of a very similar case that took place in Kentucky
> late last year where a man was accused of the same offense that Cummings
> was. In this instance, however, he was accused of actually selling the
> black box that allowed cellular phones to be cloned.
>
> This was far more than Ed was ever accused of - h
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