open letter to alt.skinheads.moderated readers
Rob...@alt.skinheads.moderated
Like everyone
else you have a desktop computer. It is on the company network. The company
has an Internet connection. You can send/receive email over the Internet.
Ready?
Ready to keyword monitor roughly seven thousand people?
Driver's Seat
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Both sites started with a bang.
The smaller site had two security incidents within the first three hours.
Two different format (Microsoft Access DB, Excel spreadsheet) copies of
employee social security numbers and other personal personnel information
flew out of the smaller site's Internet connection.
Internet firewalls have no protection against file transfer via email.
Yet companies often disallow FTP, another command for transferring files.
ALL email is transferred as a file.
My two managers shook their heads at people being so stupid as to mail
company confidential information over the Internet in the clear.
Their security rule was "Don't send it out over the Internet unless it's
okay to read about in the next day's paper."
The transmissions included the managers' social security numbers too.
For non-U.S. people: a defacto key for accessing all of ones personal records.
And why did I create and turn on email monitoring at that site?
Well, those business magazines for the computer industry like to sell big
screaming "Internet Security: the Sky is Falling!!!" covers now and then.
So, one triggered the Chairman to start making strange noises about shutting
down the Internet connection for security reasons. Also said something about
having email printed out at the Internet system and hand-delivered.
Now THAT scared the hell out of the rest of us, from geeks to managers, so,
being the hired gun for doing Internet security, I created some capture code.
All email in and out of the firm was now being copied to a 'save' directory.
Each night I went over it - all email traffic - with the aid of my analytics:
keyword
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Qui...@alt.skinheads.moderated
Over months of time, one can accumulate an extended amount of information
about people by their traffic.
Very personal information.
In fact, you don't even have to send email to have personal items about you
disclosed. Just having an email address on your business card can do it.
Like when someone who sounded like a college girl who was a friend of their
family wrote to a very senior management person about a condition and whether
it was going to require surgery.
* P42 "Secret Power" by Nicky Hager
*
* The strange feeling of reading other people's private communications has
* long worn off and the contents are generally routine.
True, although some emails are hysterical. [The names are unchanged this time]
> This came from a 23-year-old stud in our ABC department. --guy
>
> I have a great NY story to tell you. This past Thursday "The Associate"
> starring Whoopi Goldberg premiered. Afterwards I went to the party where
> I met an okay looking girl with a smokin' body. To shorten the story, we
> go to her place at 60th St. between Park and Lex. All night she kept
> bugging me about not having any idea wh
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Cy...@alt.skinheads.moderated
that "might come into its possession during
* the course of its foreign intelligence activities".
*
* As a result, the NSA provided the FBI summaries
* of six overseas conversations of Mr. Jabara.
*
* In earlier court proceedings, the FBI acknowledged that it then
* disseminated the information to 17 other law-enforcement or intelligence
* agencies and three foreign governments.
* [snip]
*
* John Shattuck, Washington director of the ACLU, who represented Mr. Jabara
* said "It is difficult to imagine a more sweeping judicial approval of
* government action in violation of constitutional rights than the decision
* of the panel is this case. Taken to its logical conclusion, the decision
* authorizes the Federal Government to restructure its surveillance
* activities so that any Federal law-enforcement or intelligence
* investigation requiring the interception of private communications could
* be conducted WITHOUT A JUDICIAL WARRANT simply by turning to the NSA."
*
* Under current laws, if the FBI wants to eavesdrop legally on the conversation
* of a criminal it must obtain a warrant from a Federal judge. In those cases
* where the FBI wants to eavesdrop on a specific individual who it believes
* is an agent of a foreign government, it can apply for a warrant from a
* special SECRET PANEL of Federal judges established just for that purpose.
*
* The special missions and advanced technology of the NSA however, make its
* operations more difficult to control within the restrictions of the Federal
* wiretapping and surveillance laws.
*
* According to the 1975 report o
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Lin...@alt.skinheads.moderated
the rule of law. The Lahore News said, "any person
# who is sought by a foreign power, no matter what his crime, must have the
# right to expect normal extradition proceedings before being whisked away
# from his homeland."
#
# In the Kansi case, the government ignored a 1972 extradition law that
# requires a Pakistan citizen to be given a hearing before a magistrate
# and the chance to appeal to higher courts.
#
# A prominent Pakistani, Hamid Gul, a retired army general who is a former
# director of Pakistan's military intelligence agency, has said he will
# challenge the Government's action in the Pakistan Supreme Court.
#
# When Pakistan demanded that a Pakistani Air Force pilot seized in New York
# in April on heroin-smuggling charges be returned to face trial here,
# American officials insisted United States extradition laws be followed.
#
# Hamidullah Kansi said, "What is American law? Is it fair?
# Does American law say you go anywhere and pick up anybody?"
According to the U.S. Supreme Court: yep.
We don't have to respect other countries' laws.
We are the New World Order.
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And judges have agreed we should be ma
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Eve...@alt.skinheads.moderated
not urinate in the
: noisy crowded test site. She became ill at home and a doctor diagnosed
: her condition as "water intoxication." The lack of privacy inhibits
: 25 percent of people from urinating, surveys show [JAMA 1/2/91].
Drug testing doesn't even work. Could there be a
more important use for it than public safety?
It made no difference to the drunk and sleepy subway motorman in the
spectacular underground smash-up at the Union Square Station in NYC.
Even if he had a drug test before his shift, he still would have
had the accident. Non-invasive (eye-hand co-ordination and other)
tests would work better and not shockingly subject us to highly
intrusive poking.
It also doesn't work inasmuch as it has had no affect whatsoever on drugs.
* Main Justice, by Jim McGee and Brian Duffy, 1996, ISBN 0-684-81135-9
*
* The drug war never had a stronger supporter than President George Bush.
*
* He showered the nation's drug warriors with money---nearly tripling the
* overall anti-narcotics budget from $4.3 billion in 198
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