October 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Ridge is lying, spores are pro
by Khoder bin Hakkin 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

Consider these two reports: Bozo Ridge downplaying the weaponization of the spores, contradicted by another source; and the Feebs questioning NJ-mailbox-locals about knowing "chemists". Makes one think the Quality is Very High and Ridge is lying. We have always been at war with Oceania bin Laden. In Washington, Ridge told reporters the anthrax analyzed in the United States had not been ``weaponized,'' meaning it had not been manipulated to facilitate inhalation by potential victims. Even so, one participant in a conference call for lawmakers said Robert Gibbs, a Defense Department official, reported the anthrax was of ``relative high quality'' and that ``there is an effort to downplay and not promote the abilities of the people doing this.'' The participant spoke on condition of anonymity. Samantha Pae, 34, said she, her fiance, and her fiance's mother were interviewed by FBI officers, who asked them how long they had lived in the area and whether they had noticed any suspicious activity or observed vehicles with out-of-state plates. The agents also asked them to provide their Social Security numbers, she said. "They hit every house in the development area today," she said, adding that she had not seen any strange people or unusual behavior. Charlotte Kaplan Piepszak, who has lived in the neighborhood for 30 years, said FBI agents asked similar questions of her. "And then they asked if I knew any chemists," she said. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011020/ts/attacks_anthrax_95.html http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-102001anthrax.story

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Beefing up security at America's dams and reservoirs
by Nomen Nescio 21 Oct '01

21 Oct '01

National Public Radio (NPR) Morning Edition (11:00 AM AM ET) Thursday, Oct. 18, 2001 Beefing up security at America's dams and reservoirs BOB EDWARDS, host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Bob Edwards. Security is tight at many of the nation's 70,000 reservoirs and dams. There's concern about water contamination from chemical or biological agents, and about possible attempts to breach the dams. NPR's Howard Berkes reports. HOWARD BERKES reporting: All across the country now, guards are on patrol and checkpoints are in place in an attempt to keep terrorists away from dams. Hoover Dam, near Las Vegas, has a major regional highway straddling its crest, but roadblocks as far as 20 miles away hold trucks, buses and big RVs back. And floating patrols behind and below the dam keep boats away. Bob Walsh is spokesman for the US Bureau of Reclamation, which manages Hoover Dam. Mr. BOB WALSH (US Bureau of Reclamation): You don't want large vehicles carrying explosives,! for example, to be allowed across the dam. Gasoline tankers, for example, are prohibited from crossing the dam at this point as well; any type of a hazardous material. BERKES: The September 11th attacks prompted similar security at some of the bureau's 500 other dams in 17 Western states. John Keyes is the commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation. Commissioner JOHN KEYES (US Bureau of Reclamation): There is no specific threat against any of our specific facilities, let me put it that way. But potential for terrorist activity is being provided for. We are at a high level of security at all of our critical facilities, both to protect against damage to the facilities themselves and to the water supplies. BERKES: The risk at these facilities is enormous. And it's not just from flooding downstream if a dam is breached or fails. Sixty-one million people depend on the structures for water, including farmers producing 60 percent of the nation's vegetables. Bureau dams generate ! enough power for six million homes. They're a tempting target for terrorists, says Tim Brown, a senior analyst at globalsecurity.org. Mr. TIM BROWN (Senior Analyst, Globalsecurity.org) The entire economy in the Southwest is dependent upon the electricity and the irrigation that the dams afford. And the loss of any or all of the dams along the Colorado River Basin would cripple the economy of the Southwest for years to come, and could have potentially significant effects on the US economy in the long run. BERKES: That's also true for other regions and hundreds of communities in all parts of the country with critical links to the nation's 70,000 dams. Most were built long before terrorism was considered a strong domestic threat, notes Bill Bingham, a dam designer and engineer. Bingham is also president of the US Society on Dams, a national group focusing on engineering and safety. Mr. BILL BINGHAM (US Society of Dams): Our dams in the past have not been designed for severe! blast incidents like we would see with a truckload of explosives across the top a dam, or an aircraft loaded with fuel crashing into the downstream face of the dam. I don't think that design criteria encompasses those kinds of issues. BERKES: So it's unclear, Bingham says, whether dams can be breached by such attacks. He's calling for a national risk assessment to determine dam vulnerabilities and ways to protect them. Mr. BINGHAM: Making sure that you've got the properties as secure as you can make them; limiting access, and doing regular patrols and those types of things. And having a current emergency action plan in the event that there would be some kind of an attack on one of these facilities. BERKES: John Keyes of the US Bureau of Reclamations says he's already accessing the risk at bureau dams, while also bolstering security. Mr. KEYES: Terrorism is nothing new to the security for our facilities. We've deal with Earth Liberation Front and the ecoterrorism folks f! or several years. We have prepared for contingencies involving contamination of reservoir water. We have emergency preparedness plans for all of our facilities that deal with inundation downstream. We have a comprehensive dam safety program, as well as a general security program for protection of those vital infrastructures. Keyes acknowledges one problem. The bureau has only one armed security force at Hoover Dam. The rest of its dams depend on unarmed guards and voluntary help from state and local police who have limited authority on federal property. Congress is considering legislation to address that. Bill Bingham of the US Society of Dams, worries more about state, local and private structures. Mr. BINGHAM: There are many privately owned or even publicly owned--non-federal publicly owned dams that do not have emergency action plans, or security plans. BERKES: Bingham says some dam owners don't have the money or staff for more security, and he says states have inconsi! stent requirements for emergency action plans. Still, state, local and private dam managers say they're bolstering their security with state and local police. Howard Berkes, NPR News.

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Re: used lab equiptment
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 21 Oct '01

21 Oct '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:01:40 +0200 (MET DST), Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl(a)lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: >On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 keyser-soze(a)hushmail.com wrote: > >> A specialized ultrasonic device is not required to produce micron fine >> aerosol powders. All one needs is a used and cleaned print head > >In fact not, pressure waves strong enough to aerosol liquid will also >cause cavitation, resulting in heating and destruction of material. At ultrasonic frequencies this can be a problem. At lower freq, generally not. When combined with the electrospray method which provides significant "pull" of the droplet from the nozzle reducing required piezo pressure and consequent cell wall damage. I've not tried it with anthrax but it can work well with ecoli. > >> assembly and its piezo pulse circuitry. Nozzle apertures are >> typically 25-50 micron and if the material is suspended, in weak > >Ever tried pushing a bacterial suspension through a printer head >(processivity set aside)? It will clog it up in no time. No, but I have through a micro pipette and if the suspension is dilute (as I noted) it works fine. > >> concentration, in a solution which quickly evaporates but doesn't harm >> the spores it should produce moderate quantities of fine powder >> quickly. > >Um, why don't we quit armchair microbiology, and stick to what we can >best: produce lots of uninformed speculations? Oh. Indeed. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.0 wmAEARECACAFAjvTbecZHGtleXNlci1zb3plQGh1c2htYWlsLmNvbQAKCRAg4ui5IoBV n2XIAJ9zhuCbM1ZXBxNb6veOqN6WpXX1AgCfdGBibYi4UZuqxhR4ueyhwi4sd8I= =4D6c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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21 Oct '01

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IP: Beyond Carnivore: FBI Eyes Packet Taps (fwd)
by Eugene Leitl 21 Oct '01

21 Oct '01

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 06:07:48 -0400 From: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> Reply-To: farber(a)cis.upenn.edu To: ip-sub-1(a)majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: Beyond Carnivore: FBI Eyes Packet Taps > >From: Monty Solomon <monty(a)roscom.com> >Subject: Beyond Carnivore: FBI Eyes Packet Taps > > >October 18, 2001 >Beyond Carnivore: FBI Eyes Packet Taps >By Max Smetannikov > >Expect the FBI to expand its Internet wiretapping program, says a >source familiar with the plan. > >Stewart Baker, a partner with law firm Steptoe & Johnson, is a former >general counsel to the National Security Agency. He says the FBI has >spent the last two years developing a new surveillance architecture >that would concentrate Internet traffic in several key locations >where all packets, not just e-mail, could be wiretapped. It is now >planning to begin implementing this architecture using the powers it >has under existing wiretapping laws. > >http://www.interactiveweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D605%2526a%253D16678,00.… For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/

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Guardian Unlimited Observer | International | Hacker cries foul over FBI snooping
by Jim Choate 21 Oct '01

21 Oct '01

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by Sholanda Maria Coleman 21 Oct '01

21 Oct '01

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Give this man a fake ID, and a 7-11
by Khoder bin Hakkin 21 Oct '01

21 Oct '01

Since his defection after the air strikes began, Mohammad, now in Pakistan, still fears for his life. ``I have so much more that I can tell you about the Taliban,'' he claimed. ``But first I need to feel safe, far away from Pakistan.'' http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/011021/nysu005a_1.html

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Re: IP: "U.S. On Verge of 'Electronic Martial Law' (fwd)
by auto301094＠hushmail.com 21 Oct '01

21 Oct '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Eugene wrote: >Brush painted a grim picture of "Internet martial law" being imposed in a >vain attempt to capture distributed terrorist groups. Terrorists' style of >"Net war," a term coined earlier by experts at the RAND policy think tank, >would prove elusive to counter by the lumbering centralized government, she >said. Actually the term of art is "NETWAR", one word, first used by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt in their essay, "Cyberwar is Coming!" available at www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR880/MR880.ch2.pdf . So what is netwar? "Netwar is an emerging mode of conflict in which the protagonists--ranging from terrorist and criminal organizations on the dark side, to militant social activists on the bright side--use network forms of organization, doctrine, strategy, and technology attuned to the information age. The practice of netwar is well ahead of theory, as both civil and uncivil society actors are increasingly engaging in this new way of fighting. We suggest how the theory of netwar may be improved by drawing on academic perspectives on networks, especially those about organizational network analysis. As for practice, strategists and policymakers in Washington and elsewhere have begun to discern the dark side of the network phenomenon--especially in the wake of the "attack on America" perpetrated apparently by Osama bin Laden's terror network. But they still have much work to do to begin harnessing the bright side, by formulating strategies that will enable state and civil-society actors to work together better." If you are interested in this topic, THE books (free online pdfs)to read are: Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy John Arquilla, David Ronfeldt (editors) http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/ Strategic Appraisal: The Changing Role of Information in Warfare Zalmay Khalilzad, John P. White, Andrew W. Marshall http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1016/ and... In Athena's Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, editors http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR880/ Hope that helps! ~F. *** Say what you know, do what you must, come what may. - --[Sofia Kovalevskaya, motto on her paper "On the Problem of the Rotation of a Solid Body about a Fixed Point."] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.0 wl8EARECAB8FAjvTLxkYHGF1dG8zMDEwOTRAaHVzaG1haWwuY29tAAoJEKadvsVlUK4P yKcAn2M00jjHu6+TvGN7eLi+NOpAT1U2AJ4v1iXr/Rc76pAc3UULT3CEUczbCg== =fDKb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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used lab equiptment
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 21 Oct '01

21 Oct '01

A specialized ultrasonic device is not required to produce micron fine aerosol powders. All one needs is a used and cleaned print head assembly and its piezo pulse circuitry. Nozzle apertures are typically 25-50 micron and if the material is suspended, in weak concentration, in a solution which quickly evaporates but doesn't harm the spores it should produce moderate quantities of fine powder quickly. If smaller sizes are desired a field ring charged to 1000-3000v DC can be placed around and in front of the nozzles. If operated in sync with the nozzle pulses it can cause a the emerging droplets to cascade to nanometer size via the electrospray effect (now becoming common in drug production). See http://www.essex.ac.uk/bs/staff/colbeck/index.htm#appas

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