E C H E L O N
T Bruce Tober
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A collection of fascinating (and in some cases, perhaps, conspiracy
theory stuff) information on the "intelligence agencies" and encryption
and privacy. If you don't find what you're reading interesting, just
cursor down to the next item. There's some good stuff in this.
In article <36C92B...@Oceanid.Idyia.net>, Jason and Medea
<Jasona...@Oceanid.Idyia.net> writes
>ECHELON ECHELON ECHELON ECHELON ECHELON
>
> IN THE LATE 1980S, IN A DECISION IT PROBABLY
> REGRETS, THE US PROMPTED NEW ZEALAND TO JOIN
> A NEW AND HIGHLY SECRET GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE
> SYSTEM. HAGER'S INVESTIGATION INTO IT AND HIS
> DISCOVERY OF THE ECHELON DICTIONARY HAS
> REVEALED ONE OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST, MOST
> CLOSELY HELD INTELLIGENCE PROJECTS. THE
> SYSTEM ALLOWS SPY AGENCIES TO MONITOR MOST
> OF THE WORLD'S TELEPHONE, E-MAIL, AND TELEX
> COMMUNICATIONS.
>
>
> by Nicky Hager
>
> from his book SECRET POWER
>
> For 40 years, New Zealand's largest
> intelligence agency, the Government
> Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) the
> nation's equivalent of the US National
> Security Agency (NSA) had been helping its
> Western allies to spy on countries
> throughout the Pacific region, without the
> knowledge of the New Zealand public or
> many of its highest elected officials. What
> the NSA did not know is that by the late
> 1980s, various intelligence staff had decided
> these activities had been too secret for too
> long, and were providing me with interviews
> and documents exposing New Zealand's intelligence
> activities.
> Eventually, more than 50 people
> who work or have worked in
> intelligence and related fields
> agreed to be interviewed.
> ...
> http://caq.com/CAQ/CAQ59GlobalSnoop.html
>
>
>ECHELON
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>http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/cm/cm0.html
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>
> An Indictment of the U.S. Government and U.S. Politics
>
>
> Cryptography Manifesto
> ----------------------
> By g...@panix.com
> 7/4/97-L version
>
> "The law does not allow me to testify on any aspect of the
> National Security Agency, even to the Senate Intelligence
> Committee" ---General Allen, Director of the NSA, 1975
>
>
><snip>
>***********************************************************
>
>This is about much more than just cryptography. It is also
>about everyone in the U.S.A. being fingerprinted for a
>defacto national ID card, about massive illegal domestic
>spying by the NSA, about the Military being in control of
>key politicians, about always being in a state of war, and
>about cybernetic control of society.
>
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>
><snip>
>
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>
>
> ECHELON is NSA's world-wide surveillance network and
> associated software.
>
> DICTIONARY - Keyword searching with exclusion logic
> software.
>
> ORATORY - Speech recognition. Think of it as speech-to-text
> software.
>
> Subject to DICTIONARY searches.
>
> CALEA - A 1994 law ("Communications Assistance to Law
> Enforcement Act") to force a massive reworking
> of the U.S. telephone infra-structure so that the
> government can intrinsically wiretap it.
> Also called the FBI Digital Telephony Act.
> It is a domestic extension of ECHELON.
>
> GAK - Government Access [to cryptographic] Keys. Any
> cryptography product with GAK has been compromised
> so the government can read it.
>
> SIGINT - Signals Intelligence = NSA = electronic snooping
>
> Key Recovery - See GAK.
>
> C-SPAN - Two cable channels dedicated to broadcasting both
> houses of Congress and other U.S. governmental
> functions.
>
> DEA - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
> DIA - U.S. Pentagon Defense Intelligence Agency
> DIA - U.S. Drug Interdiction Agency (older)
>
> FBI - U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
>
> BATF - U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
>
> UKUSA - pronounced 'you-koo-za' - a secret wartime treaty
> that says member nations can spy on each others
> population without warrants or limits, and that
> this can be shared with the spied-on country's
> SIGINT agency.
>
> PGP - Free and unbreakable encryption, available
> world-wide.
>
> CISPES - Committee in Solidarity with the People of
> El Salvador
>
>
> "Ultra-secret" agencies:
>
> NSA - U.S. National Security Agency
>
> GCHQ - British Government Communications Headquarters
>
> CSE - Canada's Communications Security Establishment
>
> DSD - Australian Defense Signals Directorate
>
> GCSB - New Zealand's Government Communications Security
> Bureau
>
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><snip>
>
>The "average" American has no idea why cryptography is
>important to them.
>
>It is the only way to begin preventing massive illegal
>domestic spying.
>
>Currently, there are no restrictions on domestic use of
>unlimited strength cryptography. That is not because the
>Government hasn't complained about child pornographers or
>terrorists or other criminals who might use it.
>
>No, that's the reason they are giving for why U.S.
>companies can't EXPORT products, such as web browsers,
>outside U.S. territory, without compromising it with
>Government "Key Recovery"; i.e. made stupider and breakable.
>
>Why such an indirect control on what they claim is a domestic
>problem?
>
>Because that is how 'The Creeping Police State' works.
>
>Slowly, bit-by-bit.
>
>Slowly, State-by-State everyone in the U.S. is being fingerprinted.
>
>The FBI is now advocating biometric capture of all newborns too.
>
>This is an interesting manifesto, please take the time to read it.
>
>Cryptography can be used to keep private: Internet traffic, such
>as email, and telephone conversations (PGP phone). A version of PGP
>phone that looks and works like a normal telephone --- but can't be
>spied upon --- would eventually become wide-spread.
>
>It begins to change the mind-set that the Police State is
>inevitable.
>
>
>----
>
>Major references...
>
>In the last several years intelligence operatives, specifically
>including SIGINT (signal intelligence) people, have started
>telling the story about the massive domestic use of computer
>monitoring software in the U.S.
>
>Including our domestic phone calls, Internet, fax, everything.
>
>I'm going to quote a number of articles and books; they involved
>talking to over 100 of these intelligence operatives.
>
>
>Buy this book: "Secret Power" by Nicky Hager, ISBN 0-908802-35-8.
>
>It describes in detail the ECHELON platform. It's one of the most
>important. New Zealand people are quite unhappy at their place
>within ECHELON.
>
>
>....<snip>
>
>Just what is it going to take to restore the U.S. Constitution?
>
>Unlimited unregulated cryptography legislation is a beginning
>baby-step.
>
>Otherwise it might take another civil war. The NSA will not let
>go quietly.
>
>Sound over-the-top? Wait until you understand the massive
>surveillance system that our government has put in place,
>just how powerful it is, and how they've used it repeatedly
>to control lawful peaceful political protest.
>....
> http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/cm/cm0.html
>
>ECHELON - 2
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>http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/cm/cm0.html
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>
>http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/cm/cm6.html
>
>* "The End of Ordinary Money, Part I", by J. Orlin Grabbe
>* http://www.aci.net/kalliste
>*
>* The GSA opposed CALEA [FBI code name: "Operation Root Canal"],
>stating:
>* "the proposed bill would have to have the FCC or other agency
> approve or reject equipment mainly on the basis of whether the
> FBI had the capacity to wiretap it. The GSA further stated this
> would weaken security." [40]
>
>The FBI and Military are EXEMPT from any Key Recovery crypto
>requirements, BECAUSE IT WOULD SERIOUSLY WEAKEN NATIONAL SECURITY.
>
>CALEA even directs cable TV companies to restructure themselves for
>spying.
>What??? Why does the government want to see traffic BEFORE it reaches
>the Internet or public telephone networks?
>
>CALEA will give the FBI "legal" domestic listening posts.
>
>: The Washington Post Magazine, June 23 1996
>: "Government surveillance, terrorism and the U.S. Constitution"
>: from Main Justice, by Jim McGee and Brian Duffy, 1996,
> ISBN 0-684-81135-9
>:
>: The FBI is growing in tandem with the NSA. With the help of the
> National Security Agency, the U.S. eavesdropping bureaucracy that
> spans the globe, the FBI operates a super-secret facility in New
> York code-named Megahut that is linked to the other FBI listening
> posts.
>:
>: After the OKC bombing, Janet Reno and Louis Freeh asked Congress
> to raise
>: to 3,000 the number of FBI agents working counter-intelligence and
> counter-terrorism.
>:
>: With the new legislation, the funding for just the FBI's
> counter-intelli-gence/terror goals is now ONE BILLION DOLLARS
> a year, and their activities will rise to a LEVEL HIGHER THAN
> AT ANY TIME DURING THE COLD WAR.
>
>1984 means a constant State of War.
>
>
>Here's a new war: "cyberwar".
>
># "Head of CIA Plans Center To Protect Federal Computers"
># By Tim Weiner, The New York Times, 6/26/96
>#
># John Deutch, Director of the CIA, is building a "cyberwar"
> center in the NSA.
>#
># Mr. Deutch said cyberwar could become a 21st-century national
> security threat
># second only to nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
>#
># "The electron," Mr. Deutch warned, "is the ultimate
> precision-guided weapon."
>
><snip>
>
>----
>
>
>http://www.epic.org...Louis Freeh, banging the Drums of War:
>
>
> Prepared Statement of
> Director Louis J. Freeh
> Federal Bureau of Investigation
> Before the Senate Judiciary Committee
>
> June 4, 1997
>
> THE ISSUES YOU AND THE OTHER MEMBERS RAISE ARE CRITICAL
> AND IMMEDIATE.
> MANY GO TO THE CORE OF THE FBI AND OUR ABILITY TO PROTECT
> THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
> TO ADDRESS THESE VITAL ISSUES --- SERIOUS CRIME, TERRORISM
> AND ESPIONAGE --- THE FBI MUST BE AND IS A DYNAMIC INSTITUTION
> ANTICIPATING OR REACTING TO NEW TECHNOLOGY. PERHAPS UNLIKE ANY
> TIME IN OUR HISTORY, THE NATURE OF CRIME AND TERRORISM IS
> EVOLVING AT AN UNPRECEDENTED PACE. TERRORISM, BOTH INTERNATIONAL
> AND DOMESTIC THREATENS US LIKE NEVER BEFORE.
>
>* "The End of Ordinary Money, Part I", by J. Orlin Grabbe
>*
>* Ironically, the World Trade Center was subsequently bombed by
> a group that was already under FBI surveillance.
>
><snip>
>
> LAW ENFORCEMENT IS IN UNANIMOUS AGREEMENT THAT THE WIDESPREAD
> USE OF ROBUST NON-KEY RECOVERY ENCRYPTION ULTIMATELY WILL
> DEVASTATE OUR ABILITY TO FIGHT CRIME AND PREVENT TERRORISM.
>
> UNCRACKABLE ENCRYPTION WILL ALLOW DRUG LORDS, TERRORISTS, AND EVEN
> VIOLENT GANGS [Secret Service to Ed Cummings: "We are the biggest
> gang in town"] TO COMMUNICATE WITH IMPUNITY. OTHER THAN SOME KIND
> OF KEY RECOVERY SYSTEM, THERE IS NO TECHNICAL SOLUTION.
>
>As if real terrorists or drug lords would use Key Recovery crypto!
>
>Furthermore, Freeh is arguing BOTH SIDES of the issue when he
>complains "DRUG LORDS ARE NOW SUPPORTED BY THE BEST TECHNOLOGY
>MONEY CAN BUY", AND THEN SAYS we need Key Recovery so we can read
>their traffic!
>
>Even the NSA is talking Doublethink at us:
>
>* NYT: Stuart A. Baker, General Counsel for the NSA, explained
> why crooks and terrorists who are smart enough to use data
> encryption would be stupid enough to choose the U.S. Government's
> compromised data encryption standard:
>*
>* "You shouldn't overestimate the I.Q. of crooks."
>
>....which is also apparently their view of the American public.
>....
> http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/cm/cm0.html
>
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> WE ARE NOW AT AN HISTORICAL CROSSROAD ON THE ENCRYPTION ISSUE.
>
> IF PUBLIC POLICY MAKERS ACT WISELY, THE SAFETY OF ALL AMERICANS
> WILL BE ENHANCED FOR DECADES TO COME.
>
> [1984 Newspeak:] BUT IF NARROW INTERESTS PREVAIL, LAW ENFORCEMENT
> WILL BE UNABLE TO PROVIDE THE LEVEL OF PROTECTION THAT PEOPLE IN A
> DEMOCRACY PROPERLY EXPECT AND DESERVE. ANY SOLUTION THAT IGNORES
> THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS RISK GRAVE HARM
> TO BOTH.
>
>And what was a critical public safety and national security
>item the FBI insisted on in the first version of CALEA?
>
>They wanted all cellular phones to continually monitor
>the location of the owner, EVEN WHEN NOT IN USE.
>
>Every cellular phone would become a location
>tracking monitor for the government.
>
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>
><snip>
>
>Louis Freeh: "The polls prove people are fed up with crime"
>This book contains a DEVASTATING accounting of the manipulation
>of people's perception of crime rates. [not shown!]
>Fear, loathing, and somehow the public clamoring for a Police State.
>
><snip>
>
>* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
>* "Keeping Track of the American People: The Unblinking Eye and
> Giant Ear"
>*
>* About six times a week, fifty-two weeks a year, a team of highly
> trained
>* FBI agents secretly breaks into a house, office, or warehouse
>somewhere in the United States.
>*
>* The agents are members of the bureau's Surreptitious Entry
> Program, and their usual mission is to plant a hidden microphone
> or camera without tipping off the people who occupy the targeted
> structure.
>*
>* FBI officials refuse to discuss, even in the most general way, the
>* operations of these clandestine hit squads.
>*
>* Use of break-ins has increased six-fold in the last several years.
>*
>* Furthermore, the FBI has blamed the security industry for making
> locks and alarms more difficult to defeat.
>*
>* That was the central justification offered by the FBI when a
> couple of years ago it asked the White House for $27 million
> in public funds to pay the engineering whizzes at the Sandia
> and Los Alamos National Laboratories and several other government
> research facilities to develop ways to defeat "any locking system
> whether it be mechanical or electronic, or computer supplemented."
>
>[snip]
>*
>* The FBI's Rapid Prototyping Facility (RPF) is a laboratory and
> factory dedicated to the design and manufacture of "unique
> miniaturized devices in direct support of various investigative
> efforts" of the "FBI and other members of the U.S. law enforcement
> community."
>*
>* Operated jointly by the FBI and the Pentagon's Defense
> Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, creators of the
> Internet), the FBI facility was created to allow the bureau
> "to use computer-aided design, engineering and manufacturing
> of tools and equipment (software and firmware respectively) to
> design, simulate, and fabricate integrated circuits, printed
> circuit boards, electronic components, packages, systems and
> concealments in a quick turnaround cost-effective manner."
>*
>* Among the facilities advantages are speed "through the use of
> laser restructuring, high-density interconnect, and reverse
> milling capability," and a capability "to produce an integrated
> microphone ('microphone on a chip') in a single design/fabrication
> process."
>*
>* For many years, the FBI had been placing secret microphones on
> street-lamps, telephone poles, parking meters and empty
> automobiles parked near locations where its targets sometimes
> strolled. Such an outdoor array of surveillance devices planted
> near the Mulberry Street headquarters of John Gotti, for example,
> was an important weapon on the FBI's long and eventually
> successful investigation of one of New York City's most arrogant
> Mafia bosses.
>
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>
><snip>
> National ID Card
> -------- -- ----
>
>* C-SPAN Congressional Television: outside coming down the Senate
>building's steps, Senator Biden with Senator Simpson in tow
> proclaims: "What's wrong with a National ID Card? It's the same
> tired old arguments against it."
>
> As if sane people shouldn't be paranoid about a National ID Card.
>
>* "New Rules Mean Job-Hunters Need Proof of Identity",
> The New York Times
>*
>* Passports, driver's licenses, Social Security cards or birth
> certificates will be allowed to serve as identity papers.
>*
>* A 1982 proposal to catch illegal aliens by giving American workers
>* "counterfeit-proof" identity cards was hooted off the boards as a
>* threat to individual liberty.
>
>How bad would a National ID Card be?
>
>Bad. Real bad.
>
>You would be required to carry it at all times.
>
>It's all about surveillance and control.
>
>This section is about the National ID Card, plus deployment of a
>mix of surveillance and control techniques for tracking people.
>
>In California a few years back the police kept hassling a black man
>who liked to walk around at night to think. Unfortunately, he wasn't
>white, but liked to walk around white neighborhoods. [Anyone with
>detailed info email me.]
>
>He didn't carry id with him: the police arrested him on suspicion of
>being a burglar or somesuch. The California Supreme Court threw out
>the arrest. Not carrying ID was a primary part of the police
>complaint.
>
>It is impossible for the government to issue a National ID Card
>without its use eventually becoming required. That is simply how
>it goes with new tools for the government.
>
>See how the uses of the Social Security number have grown, wildly
>beyond what the government ever said it would be used for?
>
>....
> http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/cm/cm0.html
>_____________________________________
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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> e-mail: pin...@washpost.com
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Rain
>
> Well.... does it?
An important question, deserving of existence in the humanoid's
mentations when surfacing from inner silence and extrapolating
analogously... (will get back to you on that -- maybe).
> - - - --===|zzzsnipt!
>
> Ride the Chunnel...
>
> ...The Endless Chunnel...
>
> ...The Chunnnel is Loooooooong.....
>
> England=============(({c h u n n e l}))============France
>
> Par-a-noi-a-will-dee-stroy-yaaa...and it goes like this:
>
> - - - --===|zzzsnipt!
>
> JOIN!! http://www.odci.gov/cia/employment/ciaeindex.htm JOIN!!
> JOIN!! http://www.fbi.gov/employment/employ.htm JOIN!!
> JOIN!! http://www.nsa.gov:8080/ JOIN!!
> http://www.gchq.gov.uk/
>
> - - - --===|zzzsnipt!
>
> ECHELON is NSA's world-wide surveillance network and
> associated software.
>
> UKUSA - pronounced 'you-koo-za' - a secret wartime treaty
> that says member nations can spy on each others
> population without warrants or limits, and that
> this can be shared with the spied-on country's
> SIGINT agency.
>
> GCHQ - British Government Communications Headquarters
>
> CSE - Canada's Communications Security Establishment
>
> DSD - Australian Defense Signals Directorate
>
> GCSB - New Zealand's Government Communications Security
> Bureau
>
> **************************************************************
>
>
> BBC Television Centre,
> London W12 7RJ.
> Tel: 0181-743-8000
> London production bases:
> BBC White City, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS
> 0181-752-5252
"When referring to relationships between nations - in the case of
the United Kingdom - one does not say 'England' (capital'E')
one should say - 'The United Kingdom' since the British
Government represents all four (4) sections of the U.K."
Of The Welsh
Irish
Scottish
English
Which is wise?
Holmes
--
http://elint.server101.com/
ELINT : News with Intelligence
Rain <ra...@rain.net> wrote in message 36CA93...@rain.net...
>> > > Does a tree have free will?
>>
>> Well.... does it?
>
>An important question, deserving of existence in the humanoid's
>mentations when surfacing from inner silence and extrapolating
>analogously... (will get back to you on that -- maybe).
>
>> - - - --===|zzzsnipt!
>>
>> Ride the Chunnel...
>>
>> ...The Endless Chunnel...
>>
>> ...The Chunnnel is Loooooooong.....
>>
>> England=============(({c h u n n e l}))============France
>>
>> Par-a-noi-a-will-dee-stroy-yaaa...and it goes like this:
>>
>> - - - --===|zzzsnipt!
>>
>> JOIN!! http://www.odci.gov/cia/employment/ciaeindex.htm JOIN!!
>> JOIN!! http://www.fbi.gov/employment/employ.htm JOIN!!
>> JOIN!! http://www.nsa.gov:8080/ JOIN!!
>> http://www.gchq.gov.uk/
>>
>> - - - --===|zzzsnipt!
>>
>> ECHELON is NSA's world-wide surveillance network and
>> associated software.
>.....
>>
>> UKUSA - pronounced 'you-koo-za' - a secret wartime treaty
>> that says member nations can spy on each others
>> population without warrants or limits, and that
>> this can be shared with the spied-on country's
>> SIGINT agency.
>.....
>>
>> GCHQ - British Government Communications Headquarters
>>
>> CSE - Canada's Communications Security Establishment
>>
>> DSD - Australian Defense Signals Directorate
>>
>> GCSB - New Zealand's Government Communications Security
>> Bureau
>>
>> **************************************************************