router (security) configurations

o 42,000 lines of OASYS data

o router and bridge passwords

o Hostname/username/password for unmonitored outbound ISDN access from Salomon

o RadioMail: spotted that all the big cheeses who use it have all their highly
sensitive email going out over the unprotected Internet, because we were too
cheap to buy a transmitter, and so are forwarding all the email over the
Internet to RadioMail's transmitter!!!

o The key to one's financial life: Social Security numbers of Salomon
retirees transmitted in/out the Internet. Names, birth dates, sex,
life insurance amount, date of spouse's birth...

o caught our proprietary infrastructure code running at JP Morgan

********** end excerpt from 'Corruption at Salomon Brothers' **********

So...how have I done, to indicate how powerful keyword monitoring is?

NSA employees would go to jail for ten years for describing the effectiveness
of DICTIONARY's keyword monitoring.

I am not an NSA employee.

I wrote it myself.

bookstaber@sbi Wed Jun 19 03:27:55 1996
* Date: Wed, 19 Jun 96 03:27:40 EDT
* To: guy@doppelganger
* Subject: Re: Risk Mgmt Report?
* From: bookstaber@sbi (Richard Bookstaber)
*
* This is proprietary risk/position information.
* Please let me know the circumstances -- who was sending it to whom.
*
* Is it intrafirm, or was it going to someone outside of the firm?
*
* I am in London now, but will check my e-mail.

So, that's spotting one email due to one
word out of say 200,000,000 characters.

Set it up, push a button, check search results.

I picked up so many people in 'resume condition' at Salomon, they ended
up saying they didn't need that report: "We know current conditions."

and organizations already on the lists.

Because of the NSA's vacuum cleaner approach to intelligence collection ---
whereby it sucks into its system the maximum amount of telecommunications and
then filters it through an enormous screen of "trigger words" --- analysts end
up reviewing telephone calls, telegrams, and telex messages to and from
thousands of innocent persons having little or nothing to do with the actual
focus of the effort.

And when a person made the
watch list, any conversations

EVEN MENTIONING

that person are scooped up.

P333: By now, the names of U.S. citizens on NSA's many watch lists for
fighting the drug war had grown from the hundreds into the thousands.

Even when Noel Gayler took over as Director of the NSA in August 1969,
NSA personnel waited a year or so before briefing even him on the NSA
watch list program.

he personally forwarded GCHQ transcripts
of intercepted communications about Lonrho to Mrs. Thatcher's office.

P9
Intelligence is not just neutral information; it can be powerful and
dangerous. Intelligence gathering and military force are two sides of
the same coin. Both are used by countries and groups within countries to
advance their interests, often at the expense of others. To influence or
defeat an opponent, knowledge can be more useful than military force.

The type of intelligence described in this book, signals intelligence
(SIGINT), is the largest, most secret and most expensive source of secret
intelligence in the world today.

P-5655
Like the British examples, and Mike Frost's Canadian examples, these stories
will only be the tip of the iceberg.

There is no evidence of a UKUSA code of ethics or a tradition of respect
for Parliament or civil liberties in their home countries.

The opposite seems to be true: that anything goes as long as you do not
get caught. Secrecy not only permits but encourages questionable operations.

most widespread crimes of violence. These are terrifying events that
* legitimately generate serious public concern about both personal safety
* and the overall quality of life in the United States.
*
* In 1992, the most recent comparable year that is available from the
* Census Bureau, has a startling comparison to twenty years before.
*
* Regarding rape, robbery and felonious assault:
*
* In 1992, 15.6 out of every 1000 Americans had been a crime victim.
* In 1973, 17.8 out of every 1000 Americans had been a crime victim.
*
* Thus, during two thirds of the period discussed by Freeh in his
* terrifying speech about the nation's soaring crime rates, the
* American people themselves were telling the story of a declining
* number of violent criminal attacks.
*
* Also, while there is no question that *reports of crime* increased
* during these three decades, it was due to changes in police practices
* and public attitudes and not *actual criminal events*. [This chapter ...

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.

Buy this book: "Spyworld: Inside the Canadian and American Intelligence
Establishments" By Mike Frost [NSA trained sigint person] and Michel
Gratton, Toronto Doubleday 1994.

Mr. Frost describes missions in the U.S. where he was trained by the NSA
to handle domestic jobs that would be illegal for the NSA.

These books are quite damning, in a heavily documented way.

This is an AMAZINGLY COMPREHENSIVE BOOK: buy it!

"Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996

Buy this book: "The Secret War Against the Jews", Authors: John Loftus and
Mark Aarons, ISBN 0-312-11057-X, 1994. Don't let the title throw you: the
authors spoke with a great many intelligence people, and cleverly probed
NSA/CIA/FBI by submitting items for publication approval, and when they
censored something... Bingo.

the White House, CIA and Pentagon argued that revealing the
* secret budget would cause GRAVE DAMAGE to the NATIONAL SECURITY of
* the United States.
*
* $3.1 billion for the CIA
* $10.4 billion for the Army, Navy, Air Force
* and Marines special-operations units
* $13.2 billion for the NSA/NRO/DIA
*
* The only damage done so far is to the
* credibility of those who opposed the measure.

There is no constitutional basis for this
massive loss of Fourth Amendment rights.

It sounds like some wild conspiracy theory, doesn't it?

Yet it exists.

******************************************************************************

Secret Court
------ -----

The L.U.C.I.D. article gives numerous examples of non-criminal
* information the system will register against everyones Universal
* Biometrics Card...it will control the entire gamut of human activity,
* from jobs and licenses of all kinds to court hearings and indictments,
* custody of children, and permits to own and/or carry a firearm. Massive
* quantities of information will be acquired and made available on demand.
*
* The L.U.C.I.D. authors state it will "support, search, and update data
* ...from the networks of federal, state and local government agencies;
* public and private organizations;" and so on.

What's left to monitor?

Nothing.

Not a damn thing.

Cybernetic control of society.

Some people have taken a stand. They are fighting back.

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

# Why, there are still SICK PEOPLE everywhere you look!
#
# Wanda: And why don't we shut down the POLICE DEPARTMENT as well --
# since there are STILL CRIMINALS!
# For that matter, why have any laws at all?
# People still BREAK them ALL THE TIME.
#
# Biff: Look, it made sense when Rush said it.
#
# Wanda: I'm sure it did, sweetheart.
# Say, shouldn't his show be cancelled?
# After all -- there are STILL LIBERALS...