open letter to alt.journalism.moderated readers
Rox...@alt.journalism.moderated
wall of privacy and
: autonomy free citizens are guaranteed in a free society."
Is President Clinton being honest?
He supports Clipper III and ECHELON's legal domestic extension CALEA.
The Washington Post, July 7, 1996: the Clinton Administration has sharply
increased use of Federal telephone wiretaps and other electronic surveillance
and officials estimate it will continue to grow.
What do you think?
Whitfield Diffie, Distinguished Engineer---Security at Sun Microsystems:
"An essential element of freedom is the right to privacy, a right that
cannot be expected to stand against an unremitting technological attack."
One cannot come up with a more 'unremitting technological attack'
than what is happening now.
That's worth saying again:
A more 'unremitting technological attack' could not be described!
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Cybernetic control of society
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Kri...@alt.journalism.moderated
jam-packed into the computers. Even though NSA's specialized supercomputers
have enormous storage capacities, the tremendous number of targets forces
the Agency to squeeze the watch lists together as tightly as possible.
P462-465: Its power to eavesdrop, the NSA had always insisted, came under no
earthly laws but rather emanated from some celestial "inherent presidential
authority" reposed in the chief executive by the Constitution.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy tried year after year to pass legislation to
require the NSA to submit to judicial review.
Finally, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] was signed into
law by president Carter on October 25, 1978.
The key to the legislation could only have been dreamed up by Franz Kafka:
the establishment of a supersecret federal court.
The legislation established a complex authorization procedure and added a
strict "minimization" requirement to prohibit the use and distribution of
communications involving Americans inadvertently picked up during the
intercept operations.
These requirements constitute the most important parts of the FISA law, and
were included to prevent the watch-listing of American citizens, which took
place during the 1960s and 1970s.
The Supreme Court Chief Justice picks which federal judges serve in the
Star Chamber.
P466-467: The FISA court judge rules that black-bag jobs of "nonresidential
premises under the direction or control of a foreign power" need no court
approval. The FISA legislation also exempts from judicial review communica-
tions of these sites, including embassies. P464: A final judicial
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Mar...@alt.journalism.moderated
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 element of the ECHELON system are facilities that tap directly into
land-based telecommunications systems, completing a near total coverage of
the world's communications.
The microwave networks are made up of chains of microwave towers relaying
messages from hilltop to hilltop (always within line of sight) across the
countryside. These networks shunt large quantities of communications across
a country. Intercepting them gives access to international underseas
communications (once they surface) and to international communication trunk
lines across continents.
They are also an obvious target for large-scale interception of domestic
communications. Of course, when the microwave route is across one of the
UKUSA countries' territory it is much easier to arrange interception.
P41
The ECHELON system has created an awesome spying capacity for the United
States, allowing it to monitor continuously most of the world's communications.
It is an important component of its power and influence in the post-Cold War
world order, and advances in computer processing technology continue to
increase this capacity.
The NSA pushed for the creation of this system and has the supreme position
within it. It has subsidized the allies by providing the sophisticated
computer programs used in the system, it undertakes the bulk of the
interception operations and, in return, it can be assumed to have full
access to the allies' capabilities.
On December 2 1987, when Prime Minister David Lange announced plans to build
a new spy station, he issued a press statement explaining that the station
would provide greater independence in intelligence matters: "For years there
has been concern about our dependence on others and all that implies. This
gover
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Dia...@alt.journalism.moderated
of changing my job. I'm interviewing with
: Morgan Stanley soon.
: [snip]
: miss you,
: Mary
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: rcpt <Cathy lastname>
: Subject: re: ?
: You're doing fine I'll bet. Myself: I am going to switch jobs again.
: A better offer was given to me by Morgan Stanley, and I'm contemplating
: it. Currently, I've been moved in with my boss. It sucks.
Person #2
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: rcpt <dig...@compuserve.com>
: Subject: Contracts
: Hello,
: This mail address was given to me by Fred McChat who has started work
: at Swift. I'm sending my friend's CV in addition to my own.
: Please give me a call to talk about this on 0171 555 1212 or
: 0171 555 1213 after work hours.
: Thank you,
: Bob XXX
: the following is an attached file item from cc:mail. it contains
: information which had to be encoded to insure successful transmission
: through various mail systems. to decode the file use the uudecode
: program.
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: rcpt <Dick@outside>
: Subject: la la la la la
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: Update on my job search: I have a second interview with Fidelity on
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Kath...@alt.journalism.moderated
" (EFTS). ALL financial transactions
* for the banks pass through there via subsidiary company, "Funds
* Transfers Services Pty Ltd." (FTS)
* The New York Times INTERNATIONAL Wednesday, May 21, 1997
* by Clyde H. Farnsworth, Woomera, Australia.
*
* As Darth Vader's Death Star is blown to bits in the newly remastered "Star
* Wars" at the local theater, the audience of Australian and American Air
* Force personnel, and squadrons of their children, lets out a whoop. As the
* lights go on, everyone is beaming.
* [snip]
*
* Pine Gap employs 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 examp
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