open letter to sci.space.moderated readers
Ed...@sci.space.moderated
but denied computers had that capability. [What???]
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And how many conversations does the government listen to?
For when they took the time to get a court authorization:
* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* ...in 1993, it appears in that year alone the government agents
* listened to something like 810,000 conversations.
Of course, the NSA has stated it needs no warrants and doesn't even consider
the legality of purely domestic wiretaps.
* The Puzzle Palace, Author James Bamford, 1983 revision
*
* P229: "There's your smoking pistol right here." Watters says it is tied
* into the local telephone company circuits, which are interconnected with
* the national microwave telephone system owned by AT&T. Other specialists
* testified to the same thing: purely domestic intercepts.
I would say a MINIMUM of 100 million purely domestic U.S. conversations
are run through NSA keyword monitoring each year.
And who is listening to all our court authorized conversations?
* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* Under a little-noticed section of a 1986 law, Congress dropped the
* requirement that only
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Ne...@sci.space.moderated
* And this false diagnosis is on purpose.
*
* When Louis Freeh told the National Press Club that homicides have almost
* tripled since 1960, his audience had to have been disturbed. Freeh's
* picture of a grim, seemingly inevitable upward surge in what has always
* been considered among the most heinous crimes is indeed a frightening
* prospect.
*
* But once again, like a car salesman trying to make his monthly quota,
* Freeh pushes too hard. First of all, his claim that there are now
* nearly three times more homicides than in 1960 ignored the important
* fact that the nation's population grew substantially during that period.
*
* When this factor is taken into account, the picture still looks bad, but
* not quite as bad as Freeh suggested. While the *numbers* of murders did
* indeed almost triple, the murder *rate* barely doubled:
*
* In 1992, 10.4 murders per 100,000 people
* In 1960, 4.7 murders per 100,000 people
*
* Amazing as it may seem that a leading law enforcement official might
* try to buttress his cases through the selective use of statistics, that
* was hardly the end of it.
*
* When the FBI director selected the years to illuminate his thesis for the
* National Press Club, he compared a year when the nation's homicide rate
* was at one of its *all-time lowest* points to that of a year when the rate
* was near its *all-time high*. [extended discussion of homicides followed]
*
* Such selective use of statistics is dishonest.
*
* It is impossible to know what was going through Louis Freeh's mind as he
* delivered his distorted, exaggerated and fundamentally flawed cr
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Zebe...@sci.space.moderated
Date: N/NN/NN
: from <Mary lastname>
: rcpt <Cathy lastname>
: Subject: re: fw: humor -forwarded -reply
: Hey Cathy-
: Okay so far. I'm thinking of changing my job. I'm interviewing with
: Morgan Stanley soon.
: [snip]
: miss you,
: Mary
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: File: <snip> Size: 1,968 Date: N/NN/NN
: from <Mary lastname>
: 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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: File: <snip> Size: 45,214 Date: N/NN/NN
: from <Bob@company>
: 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 e
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Deb...@sci.space.moderated
be charged in
this fashion. Cummings was portrayed by the Secret Service as
a potential terrorist because of some of the books found in
his library.
Ed Cummings was not a terrorist, yet was
portrayed as such by the Secret Service.
CALEA gave them the power.
******************************************************************************
The Abyss has already begun swallowing American citizens.
It's not a pretty sight, is it?
******************************************************************************
Secret Service: Harassment of Steve Jackson Games
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Another BIZARRE hacker witch-hunt.
See http://www.2600.com for this story.
******************************************************************************
There are other wars too.
Against pornography.
* "Judge Says Military Bases Can Sell Sex Material"
* By John Sullivan, The New York Times, January 23, 1997
*
* A Federal judge struck down the Military Honor and Decency Act o
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Mar...@sci.space.moderated
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." ---Mr. Justice Brandeis, 277 U.S. 438 (6/4/1928)
*
*
* European Union and FBI launch a global surveillance system
* -------- ----- --- -
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Nor...@sci.space.moderated
* The New York Times, June 15 1997
*
* "Washington Kidnaps Dick and Jane - See How Washington Uses Dick and Jane"
*
* These days much of the nation's political debate focuses on children - or
* on the needs and interests of children as defined by politicians.
*
* Mr. Horn, who was chief of the Childrens Bureau in the Bush Administration
* added, "A cynic would say that children are being used as props or proxies."
Color me cynical.
It should be noted, of course, that uncrackable encryption called PGP is
available worldwide for free for all common platforms of computers, that
McCain's bill would do NOTHING to address that (not possible anyway), and
so his argument WAS A TOTAL SHAM.
No newspaper in the country will explain that in their coverage.
The sole purpose of the McCain bill was to protect ECHELON.
# "The McCain Mutiny", By Todd Lappin, Wired Magazine, June 1997
#
# Question: How will we break the stalemate between the interests of
# industry and law enforcement in setting cryptographic policy?
#
# McCain: It's pretty clear that the administration's crypto proposals
# will have a harmful effect upon the industry. But we can't completely
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