December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Encryption Chip (details)
by Vortexia 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sorry to follow up my own post, but it was brought to my attention that there are a number of encryption chips available and I would need to be more specific to get any specific information. I am looking for a chip that can do DES, Triple DES and/or Blowfish for the purpose of secure communications. We want an IC instead of software because of the volume of information that will have to be processed in this project. If anyone has any information please drop me an email Thanks Andrew Alston

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RE: "They've started bombing Mars! I repeat, they're bombing Mars!"
by Harvey Rook (Exchange) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The scene from Babylon 5 is hardly original. The same thing happened in Vietnam, The Korean War, WW2, WW1.... This is war, and in war innocent people die to further the cause of the leaders. You just have to hope and pray that some good will come out of it. Harv. > -----Original Message----- > From: Anonymous [mailto:nobody@remailer.ch] > > "We just intercepted a coded transmission from Earth Force > Command. They've > started bombing Mars! I repeat, they're bombing Mars!" > > (scene of two fighters on approach to a biodome) > > Omega One: "Standing by. Weapons hot." > Radio: "Don't do it! We have women and children down here! > Don't do it!" > Radio2: "Omega One, you are clear for drop." > > (weapons fly, killing a few thousand innocent men, women, and > children.) > > It amazes me how much similarity Babylon 5 has to reality. Is > Clinton a fan > who fancies himself as President Clark? I'm starting to worry. >

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Re: Comrade Klinton at it again
by Jim Gillogly 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Somebody said: > As I recall, the name "Desert Fox" was a nickname held by a Nazi general. > Fitting, that. Fitting? I find the occasional anti-American hyperbole around here rather depressing. I'm reminded of 30-year-old engineers talking about the depression of the 80's! If you don't see the difference between the US and Nazi Germany, you need to do a lot more reading. While the anti-privacy activities of the administration and law enforcement are threatening and need to be resisted, they are by no means on a par with the excesses of the Nazi leadership. In any case, Gen. Erwin Rommel (the Desert Fox) was never a Nazi. -- Jim Gillogly Trewesday, 28 Foreyule S.R. 1998, 02:48 12.19.5.14.0, 6 Ahau 13 Mac, First Lord of Night

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[CTRL] Y2K Fear May Trigger Early Panic
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Lyn McCloskey <MCCLOSL(a)TOWERS.COM> Subject: [CTRL] Y2K Fear May Trigger Early Panic Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:50:58 -0500 To: CTRL(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM -Caveat Lector- Technology Headlines Monday December 14 10:18 AM ET Fear Of Year 2000 Computer Bug May Trigger Early Panic By Neil Winton, Science and Technology Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Even if the ``millennium bomb'' does not explode in the world's computers just over a year from now, 1999 is likely to see rising panic as people take precautions against computer failure triggered by the year 2000. Experts say the most vulnerable countries include Japan, France, Russia and Brazil and the most vulnerable sectors are utilities, especially power generation. ``Next year we will see periods of calm broken by occasional news stories predicting computer systems failures,'' said Ross Anderson of Cambridge University's Computer Security Research Center. ``My own feeling is that around August or September panic will start, with hoarding of food and bank notes. Then the whole thing becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.'' The time bomb has trivial origins. In the early days of computing, programs saved what was then precious space by abbreviating years to the last two digits. They knew this could cause problems at the turn of the century because computers would read ``00'' as ``1900'' rather than ``2000'' and crash or spew out flawed data. But they thought these programs would be history by then as technology raced ahead. They were wrong. Now the fear is that old data systems carrying the millennium bomb or bug could trigger disasters around the world in everything from defense, transport and telecommunications to energy and financial services. As 1999 progresses, early trigger dates are likely to provide sneak previews of the chaos that may hit as clocks strike midnight on Dec. 31. The first is Jan. 1, 1999. Programs used in some accounting systems operate a rolling year ahead as they set renewal dates for insurance premiums or bank loans and may crash when they reach out beyond Jan. 1, 2000. Margaret Joachim, Year 2000 coordinator at data processing services company Electronic Data Systems Corp. (NYSE:EDS - news), says there are other dates next year that might trigger computer failure. ``April 9, 1999, the 99th day of the year, and Sept. 9, 1999, which might be recorded as 9-9-99. This is because programmers often used nines as a cutoff for a program. A row of nines meant 'don't do this anymore,''' Joachim said. The world is in differing states of readiness. Information technology consultancy Gartner Group says the United States is best prepared, followed by Canada, Australia, South Africa, Israel and Britain. At the bottom of the list is Brazil, the world's eighth largest economy and a big producer of industrial components, commodities and grains. Brazil is unlikely to be able to confine problems within its borders, according to a recent report by Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in New York. Japan's lack of action is also causing concern. The Japanese government said last month that important industries like finance, transport, energy, telecommunications and medicine were lagging in year 2000 preparation. Hong Kong's government has said 80 percent of its critical computer systems were ready for 2000 as of Sept. 30, 1998, but it is worried about small and medium-sized businesses. India does not expect much damage because of its small number of computers -- only around 2.3 million in a nation of about 950 million. But India's ``brain trust'' of software makers have bagged orders worth $1.5 billion to fix year 2000 problems around the world, said Dewang Mehta, executive director of the National Association of Software and Service Companies. In China, authorities have decreed that all government computer systems must be fixed by March and tests completed by September 1999. Cambridge University's Anderson said France was most at risk in Western Europe, with computer failures most likely in the public sector and especially public utilities. Any problems could quickly become a problem for neighbors such as Britain, which receives electric power from France. ``There is still quite a question mark over whether France sees the scale of the problem,'' said Chris Webster, head of year 2000 services at Cap Gemini. ``There's a real chance that there may be some loss of service from utilities. Who, when, where or why? Impossible to say. Will it be a complete loss of power, voltage fluctuations? And there is a remarkable lack of information from utilities as to what they are expecting to happen.'' JP Morgan's Year 2000 expert Patrick Ward says Eastern Europe's and Russia's utilities are a big concern, not least because Russia provides 40 percent of Germany's power. If some systems crashes are triggered early by the arrival of Jan. 1, 1999, it might be a blessing in disguise. ``This will involve accounting, planning and budgeting systems rather than operational executing systems, which carry out day-to-day business. It will give you some experience in spotting the errors and knowing how to deal with them,'' Webster said. But Anderson is taking no chances: ``Personally, I plan to have three months' food, a working well, three tons of calor (heating) gas and 400 liters of diesel come the dreadful day.'' DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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[CTRL] The Siege: PsyOps Movie Prepares U.S. for Martial Law
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: RoadsEnd(a)AOL.COM Subject: [CTRL] The Siege: PsyOps Movie Prepares U.S. for Martial Law Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 13:06:29 EST To: CTRL(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM -Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V2.42/pageone.html <A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V2.42/pageone.html">Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 2 Issue 42</A> The Laissez Faire City Times December 14, 1998 - Volume 2, Issue 42 Editor & Chief: Emile Zola ----- The Siege: PsyOps Movie Prepares U.S. for Martial Law by Uri Dowbenko The Siege is a slick commercial for the American Police State. Starting with actual newsclips intermixed with movie footage, a radical fundamentalist Muslim cleric is taken hostage. President Clinton -- out of context -- says "I am outraged by it," a speech he made after the Oklahoma City Bombing. Then he says, "Those who did it must not be allowed to go unpunished." That was the stump speech for his so-called Anti-Terrorism Bill, which didn't have a chance of passing before the Bombing. The mix of "real" newsclips intercut with movie footage -- a muezzin's calls to prayer and subsequent scenes of slaughter in the desert -- makes an unsubtle direct correlation between Muslims and terrorism. Cut to Manhattan. FBI man Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington) has to deal with a hostage crisis and a bus bomb which turns out to be a ruse. His partner is Lebanese, an Arab-American named Frank Haddad (Tony Shalhoub) who is gung-ho and acts as a translator -- until they grab his kid and put him in the New York Concentration Camp. Understandably that sours him on the FBI. Soon enough there's interagency rivalry with CIA woman Elise Kraft (Annette Bening). She tells the FBI man that "we're on the same team," but they both know it's a lie. He tells her "CIA has no charter to operate domestically." Yuck yuck -- as if that ever kept the CIA from engaging in criminal activities on US soil. The subtext of the movie, grounded in real-life history, is that CIA financed and trained indigenous "rebel" movements around the world, then unceremoniously betrayed them when US policy changed. The betrayed CIA "terrorists" then typically returned to US soil becoming pawns in elaborate spy agency games, which most recently resulted in the New York World Trade Center Bombing and the Oklahoma City Bombing. Later, in a flash of realization about her own culpability, the CIA woman says to Samir (Sami Bouajila), one of the suspected "terrorists": "Don't tell me we financed your operation?" He smiles disbelievingly at her naivete. Disinformation rules in The Siege. Here are the most obvious propaganda factoids. 1. Demonizing the Militia. Continuing the mainstream-media propaganda, Denzel Washington asks his fellow feds in the FBI office, "You think it's militia?" "Not their style," they answer, as if most militas were capable of "terrorism" without the active participation by undercover CIA, FBI, or BATF agent provocateurs. 2. Demonizing the Internet. "Everybody on the Internet knows explosives," says Washington, spreading the lie about how the Internet is a tool of subversion and therefore must be controlled. Department of Justice has lobbied long and hard for anti-internet, anti-cryptography legislation. 3. Demonizing Cash. "Where does a guy like you come up with ten thousand dollars?" the FBI man berates the Arab suspect, implying that cash anywhere is immediately suspect. According to US State Propaganda, only "terrorists" or "money launderers" use cash. This reinforces the suspicion in moviegoers' minds that only "criminals" would have any concerns about privacy. General Devereaux (Bruce Willis) takes over when a state of emergency and martial law is declared in Manhattan. There's a couple of throwaway lines -- complete with requisite handwringing -- about Posse Comitatus -- the law which mandates that US troops can not be used against US citizens -- and how President Lincoln suspended habeus corpus, an unchallenged precedent for martial law. Willis says "We can't go in until the president invokes the War Powers Act." Does that mean the country is still operating under war and emergency powers? Dr. Eugene Schroeder's controversial book Constitution: Fact or Fiction (Buffalo Creek Press, PO BOx 2424, Cleburne, Texas 76033) explains this provocative thesis. He says that the reason why the US has gone downhill, becoming in essence an unconstitutional dictatorship, is because "since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared National Emergency," according to Senate Report 93-549. The Siege is really a turf war -- not between gangs -- but between Feds. It's FBI vs. CIA vs. National Security Council vs. America. The civil rights context -- Is martial law justified? Under what circumstances? -- is merely window dressing for the real question -- How will the Feds split up the country? The movie shows that escalating acts of "terrorism" in America are eerily similar to the Reichstag Fire in pre-WWII Germany, a rationale for a totalitarian-state power grab. In America, it would simply be the pretext for dispensing with that pesky US Constitution altogether. Willis finally says, "I am declaring a state of martial law." US soldiers invade Brooklyn. Lines of camo-clad grunts march across the Brooklyn Bridge, while Humvees patrol Wall Street. After capturing an Arab suspect, Willis says, "The time has come for one man to suffer to save hundreds." That's his rationale for torture. The FBI man says, "Bend the law. Shred the Constitution. If we torture him, everything we fought for is over," implying speciously that the "terrorists" will win. As if... as if New York Police brutality has never been committed. As if CIA atrocities were never done. As if FBI criminal behavior was never covered up. Reinforcing the bogus cover story of a "truck bomb" blowing up the Oklahoma City Federal Building, there's -- you guessed it -- a truck bomb in The Siege which destroys One Federal Plaza in New York. David Hoffman's indispensable book The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror (Feral House, 2532 Lincoln Blvd., Suite 359, Venice, CA 90291, 800-788-6246; $18.95) demolishes this fraudulent theory and dissects the elements of another US Government covert ops gone bad. In his ground-breaking 509-page book, Hoffman describes the the stewpot of CIA, FBI, BATF, Neo-Nazi, Arab, Israeli, and German intelligence operatives, as well as the US Government's ludicrous "Single Bomb Theory." Like Arlen Spector's infamous "Single Bullet Theory" about the bullet which made a U-Turn inside President Kennedy's body, this "fertilizer bomb theory" is just as dopey. Fertilizer - - as in BS -- is the theory's primary ingredient. Director Ed Zwick specializes in making Establishment-propaganda movies. Glory was about African-Americans brainwashed to fight the Civil War. Courage Under Fire was about all kinds of Americans brainwashed to fight in the Gulf War. Denzel Washington's a veteran; he's been in both movies. In The Siege, Zwick cranks up the xenophobia. Despite its pretensions as a politically-correct parable for "tolerance," The Siege demonizes both Arabs and Muslims. Zwick and film producer Lynda Obst have made a movie which is state-of- the-art PsyOps for the masses. Psychological Operations (PsyOps) is a military term for non-lethal warfare. It's just masquerading as "entertainment." -30- from The Laissez Faire City Times, Vol. 2, No. 42, Dec. 14, 1998 ----- The Laissez Faire City Times is a private newspaper. Although it is published by a corporation domiciled within the sovereign domain of Laissez Faire City, it is not an "official organ" of the city or its founding trust. Just as the New York Times is unaffiliated with the city of New York, the City Times is only one of what may be several news publications located in, or domiciled at, Laissez Faire City proper. For information about LFC, please contact CityClerk(a)LFCity.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Published by Laissez Faire City Netcasting Group, Inc. Copyright 1998 - Trademark Registered with LFC Public Registrar All Rights Reserved ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM Om

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[CTRL] Polygamous Paradise!
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Lyn McCloskey <MCCLOSL(a)TOWERS.COM> Subject: [CTRL] Polygamous Paradise! Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:35:12 -0500 To: CTRL(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM -Caveat Lector- Take a number... http://www.tabloid.net/1998/12/09/island_981209.html NEW UTOPIA RISES FROM THE SEA Prince Lazarus Promises to Save Citizens from Death, Taxes MATT WELCH reports [Dec. 9, 1998] -- Don't worry, people: Despite delays caused by Hurricane Mitch, New Utopia will still rise from the waters of the sea in time to beat the millennial apocalypse. Lazarus Long, a wealthy 67-year-old Oklahoman whose name was Howard Turney until three years ago, says his longtime dream of constructing a libertarian island paradise on top of three shallow Caribbean reefs has been only slightly postponed by the hurricane's effects on New Utopia's neighbors. "We were in the process of negotiating a trade treaty with the Honduran government officials," New Utopia Information Officer Grace Caswell wrote on the island's website. "Prince Lazarus had gone to Washington to meet with the Honduran ambassador to the U.S. He, in turn, was to present it to President Flores on November 1st. That is the day that the hurricane 'Mitch' struck their country." "Honduras claims a 200-mile exclusive economic zone, so without recognition of New Utopia as a sovereign nation we can't begin construction without risk of being annexed by Honduras at some future date." If it sounds like these people are talking about building their own country on a fake island in the sea -- well, that's because they are. Once an agreement with Honduras is reached, the founders say, the reefs will be fitted with steel girders and gigantic platforms of pre-fabricated concrete. Construction of air and sea ports will commence, followed by housing, a university, an anti-aging clinic, offshore banks and a casino. Citizens will live in a tax-free constitutional monarchy not too far off the coasts of Mexico and Honduras. Marijuana will be legal and polygamy tolerated. The Ageless Sovereign His Royal Highness Prince Lazarus Long wants it known that he is not joking. As Howard Turney, he had a long and successful career as a maverick businessman after initial stints as a cowboy and soldier. He was in the restaurant biz, marketed groceries, farmed shrimp and sold used generators, before having his life changed by the human growth hormone, London's Independent reported. In 1990, at the age of 59, Turney was a badly aging mess, with a 44-inch waist and shaky hands, the paper reported. After reading a report about the magic of the then-illegal human growth hormone, Long got a connection in Monterey, Mexico and began mainlining the stuff. Now, without exercising seriously, he's lost the shakes, has rock-hard muscles and a 32-inch waist, the paper said. "I'm 66 going on 40," he told the Independent. "And I've not had any negative side effects at all." Moved, Turney founded a network of anti-aging clinics administering the wonder drug, and made a bundle. It was then that he really began identifying with one of the signature heroes of the novels of libertarian sci-fi scribbler Robert A. Heinlein -- Lazarus Long. In "Methuselah's Children," and especially "Time Enough for Love," Heinlein's Long holds forth as an ageless man of wisdom and sex, hurtling through the centuries with fabulous naked babes on his arm, and dispensing philosophical tidbits with wit and humor. At age 64, Howard Turney became Lazarus Long; soon after he declared himself prince of the New Utopia. As a dispenser of his own wisdom, Long echoes many modern-day followers of objectivist Ayn Rand when they try to talk about foreign affairs: "The United States used to prosper because it was relatively free in an unfree world," he writes on the website. "Now, without changing much itself, the U.S. is relatively unfree in a much freer world. This creates a competitive condition, which tends to favor an enclave like Hong Kong, which practices true free market capitalism, rather than a welfare state like the U.S., which is committed to burdensome taxes, which penalize success." Long tries his hand at a sort of poetry: "Excellence can be attained if you care more than others think is wise Risk more than others think is safe Dream more than others think is practical Expect more than others think is possible." A Tropical Venice New Utopia already has a constitution, a board of governors and more than 500 citizens, the website says. Prospective residents need only to buy a $1,500 five-year bond, payable at 9.5% compound annual interest. The projected price tag on creating an island where there is now only water is $216 billion, which will be financed by Long, citizens, prospective businesses and old-fashioned real estate developers. Offshore finance, tourism, medicine and education are targeted as the main sectors of New Utopia's economy, and Long plans on building a stimulating environment for the super-citizens. Utopians will enjoy "classical architecture, immaculate public parks, a comparable governing body, and a stable political structure, with the same freedom from crime and taxation," the site says. "Resident citizens and visitors will experience it more as a tropical 'Venice,' complete with waterways and gondolas." Free from messy bureaucracy like property taxes, welfare rolls and industry regulation, residents will serve as guinea pigs for the newest drugs and surgical techniques. "There are things on the horizon that people today can only dream about," Long told the Independent. "We are not that far from being able to live multiples of what we look at now as the maximum lifespan. ... [There are] things I can't tell you about because they were told me in confidence. ... Tests and studies are going on. ... Turn your tape recorder off." For now, New Utopia planners will continue processing immigration requests from their office in East Tulsa, Oklahoma. The first concrete platform is now scheduled for January, though the date has now been pushed back at least six different times. And the pesky Hondurans, currently distracted by the brutal wreckage of Hurricane Mitch, still need to recognize New Utopia's sovereignty. Still, "We are steadfast in our date of December 1, 1999 as the celebration of our birth as a nation. Even if all the desired infrastructure is not in place, it will be in the construction phase, the airport will be finished and the government will be in office." ----------------- Get in line at the official website: http://www.new-utopia.com/ DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! 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[CTRL] Fwd: DNA Sample with Every Arrest
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: RoadsEnd(a)AOL.COM Subject: [CTRL] Fwd: DNA Sample with Every Arrest Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:51:31 EST To: CTRL(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM -Caveat Lector- This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_913783891_boundary Content-ID: <0_913783891(a)inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII --part0_913783891_boundary Content-ID: <0_913783891(a)inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: DasGOAT(a)aol.com Return-path: <DasGOAT(a)aol.com> To: RoadsEnd(a)aol.com Cc: Robalini(a)aol.com, nessie(a)sfbg.com Subject: DNA Sample with Every Arrest Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:57:15 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit "Michael Meyers of the New York Civil Rights Coalition said citizens nationwide are experiencing a crackdown on civil rights. ``I think this is the official ushering in of a George Orwellian society. We will all be suspects in a matter of years.'' . NYC Wants DNA in All Arrests NEW YORK (AP) -- Angering civil libertarians who fear ``1984''-style tactics, Police Commissioner Howard Safir is suggesting that police take a DNA sample along with the fingerprints of everyone arrested. ``The innocent have nothing to fear,'' Safir said Monday. ``Only if you are guilty should you worry about DNA testing.'' But civil rights leaders said even the innocent should worry about the plan, which some contend amounts to an unreasonable search and seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The proposal would need approval from the state Legislature to become reality. ``I think this is the official ushering in of a George Orwellian society in New York City,'' said Michael Meyers, executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration has come under fire recently for cutting City Hall off from virtually all public access and for installing more security cameras to monitor streets. Norman Siegel, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said the DNA proposal is the latest effort by the Giuliani administration to erode civil rights. ``If someone wants to march and doesn't have a permit, or if someone goes to the steps of City Hall to read a proclamation, he or she will get arrested,'' Siegel said. ``Under Safir's DNA proposal, the government will obtain their DNA, and that's a frightening prospect. Why should the government have that information on that individual?'' Giuliani called opponents of the plan captives of ``old left-wing thinking.'' ``The taking of DNA evidence -- from the point of view of anyone but the most excessive knee-jerk ideologues -- is a very, very helpful thing, it's a good thing,'' he said. ``DNA can help prove who actually committed violent crime; it can help prove paternity.'' Under Safir's plan, which he described Monday to students at the Bronx High School of Science, police would take a swabbing from inside a suspect's cheek -- a standard method of collecting DNA -- and put test results into a database for future reference against repeat offenders. DNA, the unique genetic blueprint of each person, is considered by legal and forensics experts to be as reliable as fingerprints and far more useful in identifying culprits of certain crimes. Safir said a suspect's DNA sample would be destroyed if he were acquitted or cleared. Many states allow DNA testing of certain convicts, New York among them. Only in Louisiana does the testing apply to people under arrest. Meyers said citizens nationwide are experiencing a crackdown on civil rights. ``We will all be suspects in a matter of years,'' he said. --part0_913783891_boundary-- DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM Om

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[CTRL] NSA Charter from Wiretap
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "Shane A. Saylor, Eccentric Bard" <shane(a)CAIS.COM> Subject: [CTRL] NSA Charter from Wiretap Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 21:41:47 -0500 To: CTRL(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM -Caveat Lector- From: telecom(a)eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: FOIA Jewel: Original Charter of the National Security Agency Message-ID: <3748(a)accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 11 Feb 90 18:15:00 GMT Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 322 X-Telecom-Digest: Special Edition: Birth of NSA {{ This is a special edition of TELECOM Digest sent to the mailing }} {{ list this date. Although not strictly telecom-related, I thought }} {{ Usenet comp.dcom.telecom readers would enjoy seeing it. PT }} TELECOM Digest Sun, 11 Feb 90 11:35:18 CST Special: Birth of NSA Today's Topics: Moderator: Patrick Townson FOIA Jewel: Original Charter of the National Security Agency ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 90 00:03 EST From: CJS(a)cwru.bitnet Subject: FOIA Jewel: Original Charter of the National Security Agency At 12:01 ON the morning of November 4, 1952, a new federal agency was born. Unlike other such bureaucratic births, however, this one arrived in silence. No news coverage, no congressional debate, no press announcement, not even the whisper of a rumor. Nor could any mention of the new organization be found in the Government Organization Manual of the Federal Register or the Congressional Record. Equally invisible were the new agency's director, its numerous buildings, and its ten thousand employees. Eleven days earlier, on October 24, President Harry S Truman scratched his signature on the bottom of a seven-page presidential memorandum addressed to secretary of State Dean G. Acheson and Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett. Classified top secret and stamped with a code word that was itself classified, the order directed the establishment of an agency to be known as the National Security Agency. It was the birth certificate for America's newest and most secret agency, so secret in fact that only a handful in the government would be permitted to know of its existence. -James Bamford, The Puzzle Palace (1982) at 15. ***************************************************************** A 20707 5/4/54/OSO NSA TS CONTL. NO 73-00405 COPY: D321 Oct 24 1952 MEMORANDUM FOR: The Secretary of State The Secretary of Defense SUBJECT: Communications Intelligence Activities The communications intelligence (COMINT) activities of the United States are a national responsibility. They must be so organized and managed as to exploit to the maximum the available resources in all participating departments and agencies and to satisfy the legitimate intelligence requirements of all such departments and agencies. I therefore designate the Secretaries of State and Defense as a Special Committee of the National Security Council for COMINT, which Committee shall, with the assistance of the Director of Central Intelligence, establish policies governing COMINT activities. and keep me advised of such policies through the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council. I further designate the Department of Defense as executive agent of the Government, for the production of COMINT information. I direct this Special Committee to prepare and issue directives which shall include the provisions set forth below and such other provisions as the Special Committee may determine to be necessary. 1. A directive to the United States Communication Intelligence Board (USCIB). This directive will replace the National Security Council Intelligence Directive No. 9, and shall prescribe USCIB's new composition, responsibilities and procedures in the COMINT fields. This directive shall include the following provisions. a. USCIB shall be reconstituted as a body acting for and under the Special Committee, and shall operate in accordance with the provisions of the new directive. Only those departments or agencies represented in USCIB are authorized to engage in COMINT activities. b. The Board shall be composed of the following members: (1) The Director of Central Intelligence, who shall be the Chairman of the Board. (2) A representative of the Secretary of State. (3) A representative of the Secretary of Defense (4) A representative of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (5) The Director of the National Security Agency. (6) A representative of the Department of the Army. (7) A representative of the Department of the Navy. (8) A representative of the Department of the Air Force. (9) A representative of the Central Intelligence Agency. c. The Board shall have a staff headed by an executive secretary who shall be appointed by the Chairman with the approval of the majority of the Board. d. It shall be the duty of the Board to advise and make recommendations to the Secretary of Defense, in accordance with the following procedure, with respect to any matter relating to communications intelligence which falls within the jurisdiction of the Director of the NSA. (1) The Board shall reach its decision by majority vote. Each member of the Board shall have one vote except the representatives of the Secretary of State and of the Central Intelligence Agency who shall each have two votes. The Director of Central Intelligence, as Chairman, will have no vote. In the event that the Board votes and reaches a decision, any dissenting member of the Board may appeal from such decision within 7 days of the Special Committee. In the event that the Board votes but fails to reach a decision, any member of the Board may appeal within 7 days to the Special Committee. In either event the Special Committee shall review the matter, and its determination thereon shall be final. Appeals by the Director of NSA and/or the representatives of the Military Departments shall only be filed with the approval of the Secretary of Defense. (2) If any matter is voted on by the Board but - (a) no decision is reached and any member files an appeal; (b) a decision is reached in which the representative of the Secretary of Defense does not concur and files an appeal; no action shall be taken with respect to the subject matter until the appeal is decided, provided that, if the Secretary of Defense determines, after consultation with the Secretary of State, that the subject matter presents a problem of an emergency nature and requires immediate action, his decision shall govern, pending the result of the appeal. In such an emergency situation the appeal may be taken directly to the President. (3) Recommendations of the Board adopted in accordance with the foregoing procedures shall be binding on the Secretary of Defense. Except on matter which have been voted on by the Board, the Director of NSA shall discharge his responsibilities in accordance with his own judgment, subject to the direction of the Secretary of Defense. (4) The Director of NSA shall make such reports and furnish such information from time to time to the Board, either orally or in writing, as the Board my request, and shall bring to the attention of the Board either in such reports or otherwise any major policies or programs in advance of their adoption by him. e. It shall also be the duty of the Board as to matters not falling within the jurisdiction of NSA; (1) To coordinate the communications intelligence activities among all departments and agencies authorized by the President to participate therein; (2) To initiate, to formulate policies concerning, and subject to the provision of NSCID No. 5, to supervise all arrangements with foreign governments in the field of communications intelligence; and (3) to consider and make recommendations concerning policies relating to communications intelligence of common interest to the departments and agencies, including security standards and practices, and, for this purpose, to investigate and study the standards and practices of such departments and agencies in utilizing and protecting COMINT information. f. Any recommendation of the Board with respect to the matters described in paragraph e above shall be binding on all departments or agencies of the Government if it is adopted by the unanimous vote of the members of the Board. Recommendations approved by the majority, but not all, of the members of the Board shall be transmitted by it to the Special Committee for such action as the Special Committee may see fit to take. g. The Board will meet monthly, or oftener at the call of the Chairman or any member, and shall determine its own procedures. 2. A directive to the Secretary of Defense. This directive shall include the following provisions: a. Subject to the specific provisions of this directive, the Secretary of Defense may delegate in whole of in part authority over the Director of NSA within his department as he sees fit. b. The COMINT mission of the National Security Agency (NSA) shall be to provide an effective, unified organization and control of the communications intelligence activities of the United States conducted against foreign governments, to provide for integrated operational policies and procedures pertaining thereto. As used in this directive, the terms "communications intelligence" or "COMINT" shall be construed to mean all procedures and methods used in the interception of communications other than foreign press and propaganda broadcasts and the obtaining of information from such communications by other than intended recipients, but shall exclude censorship and the production and dissemination of finished intelligence. c. NSA shall be administered by a Director, designated by the Secretary of Defense after consultation with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who shall serve for a minimum term of 4 years and who shall be eligible for reappointment. The Director shall be a career commissioned officer of the armed services on active or reactivated status, and shall enjoy at least 3-star rank during the period of his incumbency. d. Under the Secretary of Defense, and in accordance with approved policies of USCIB, the Director of NSA shall be responsible for accomplishing the mission of NSA. For this purpose all COMINT collection and production resources of the United States are placed under his operational and technical control. When action by the Chiefs of the operating agencies of the Services or civilian departments or agencies is required, the Director shall normally issue instruction pertaining to COMINT operations through them. However, due to the unique technical character of COMINT operations, the Director is authorized to issue direct to any operating elements under his operational control task assignments and pertinent instructions which are within the capacity of such elements to accomplish. He shall also have direct access to, and direct communication with, any elements of the Service or civilian COMINT agencies on any other matters of operational and technical control as may be necessary, and he is authorized to obtain such information and intelligence material from them as he may require. All instruction issued by the Director under the authority provided in this paragraph shall be mandatory, subject only to appeal to the Secretary of Defense by the Chief of Service or head of civilian department of agency concerned. e. Specific responsibilities of the Director of NSA include the following: (1) Formulating necessary operational plans and policies for the conduct of the U.S. COMINT activities. (2) Conducting COMINT activities, including research and development, as required to meet the needs of the departments and agencies which are authorized to receive the products of COMINT. (3) Determining, and submitting to appropriate authorities, requirements for logistic support for the conduct of COMINT activities, together with specific recommendations as to what each of the responsible departments and agencies of the Government should supply. (4) Within NSA's field of authorized operations prescribing requisite security regulations covering operating practices, including the transmission, handling and distribution of COMINT material within and among the COMINT elements under his operations or technical control; and exercising the necessary monitoring and supervisory control, including inspections if necessary, to ensure compliance with the regulations. (5) Subject to the authorities granted the Director Central Intelligence under NSCID No. 5, conducting all liaison on COMINT matters with foreign governmental communications intelligence agencies. f. To the extent he deems feasible and in consonance with the aims of maximum over-all efficiency, economy, and effectiveness, the Director shall centralize or consolidate the performance of COMINT functions for which he is responsible. It is recognized that in certain circumstances elements of the Armed Forces and other agencies being served will require close COMINT support. Where necessary for this close support, direct operational control of specified COMINT facilities and resources will be delegated by the Director, during such periods and for such tasks as are determined by him, to military commanders or to the Chiefs of other agencies supported. g. The Director shall exercise such administrative control over COMINT activities as he deems necessary to the effective performance of his mission. Otherwise, administrative control of personnel and facilities will remain with the departments and agencies providing them. h. The Director shall make provision for participation by representatives of each of the departments and agencies eligible to receive COMINT products in those offices of NSA where priorities of intercept and processing are finally planned. i. The Director shall have a civilian deputy whose primary responsibility shall be to ensure the mobilization and effective employment of the best available human and scientific resources in the field of cryptographic research and development. j. Nothing in this directive shall contravene the responsibilities of the individual departments and agencies for the final evaluation of COMINT information, its synthesis with information from other sources, and the dissemination of finished intelligence to users. 3. The special nature of COMINT actives requires that they be treated in all respects as being outside the framework of other or general intelligence activities. Order, directives, policies, or recommendations of any authority of the Executive Branch relating to the collection, production, security, handling, dissemination, or utilization of intelligence, and/or classified material, shall not be applicable to COMINT actives, unless specifically so stated and issued by competent departmental of agency authority represented on the Board. Other National Security Council Intelligence Directive to the Director of Central Intelligence and related implementing directives issued by the Director of Central Intelligence shall be construed as non-applicable to COMINT activities, unless the National Security Council has made its directive specifically applicable to COMINT. /s/ HARRY S TRUMAN ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest Special: Birth of NSA ***************************** -- A person is like a religion; one face, many aspects --Shane A. 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by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* Intel's new chipset -> death of open source security? [ http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19981214S0008 ] * "[T]he Clinton administration announced further relaxation of U.S. export limits on encryption technologies." [ Mobile Computing and Communications (Jan. 99 issue, pp. 26+) ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel plans to include security features in upcoming chipsets, including copy protection, certificate management, and -- get this -- random number generation. This will be implemented in firmware, and, given that it is supposed to perform copy protection functions, there is a significant possibility that the code would be inaccessible, maybe (heaven forbid) within a tamper-resistant shell. Suggested response: Make negative noise about it -- of course -- and, upon the release of the specs, write software which interoperates with it, allowing software written to use the chips to use open-source routines. In the best case, you would be able to correct everything but the copy protection; in the worst case, software-inaccessible key material would be necessary to impersonate any function of the security chips -- possibly for the stated purpose of preventing hostile code from overriding the security functions -- and it's necessary to either get trusted keys out of the chip or patch the chip-using software, assuming that isn't made impossible, too. Although I have no idea how one would go about lobbying Intel to make a software-extensible design, it would be a Good Thing if they allowed a mechanism for software to override the chip without risking losing the security to a virus. It could be as simple as tweaking the relevant specs so that developers would "naturally" make a program which would use a non-Intel-trusted software fill-in for security functions when one is available, but know that software was being used and who has signed it. That is, the protocols not only make it possible for software to fill in for hardware but let programs that work with the hardware work with the software fill-ins without modification. Wouldn't affect the (deeply misguided) copy protection features, because software seeking copy protection could refuse to accept an answer that wasn't authenticated as being from the trusted hardware. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pretty much self-explanatory: those opposing crypto regs present examples demonstrating why crypto should be deregulated; the examples are deregulated and the point is ignored. Far too many people are complacent. A specific example: Mobile Computing and Communications (Jan. 99 issue, pp. 26+). It's an article saying that the Clinton administration has loosened regulations and, denying those who oppose the administration's position the fair shake given to even the most patently useless palmtop, states in the fifth sentence that "[t]he main issues are privacy and security, and with this policy it seems a delicate balance has been met." The same magazine (in fact, the same author in the same issue) referenced single-DES as "advanced encryption" with no mention of the fact that it had repeatedly been broken or that most cryptographers agreed that use of DES was to be avoided. Rather than simply whine or rant about it, I suggest that at least some attempt to respond be made. A letter to the editor may seem like a trite way to respond to these non-crypto-savvy articles, but unless there are plans to hold demonstrations outside the offices or just ignore it all... [Begin sample letter to MC&C] A recent report in Mobile Computing and Communications applauded the Clinton administration's loosening of cryptography when used in electronic commerce and certain other applications. I loved the article, but it gave little attention to what is probably, in the long term, the more important facet of cryptography: everything else -- that is, the applications of cryptography that are still regulated. Because intelligence agencies and some law enforcement organizations are afraid that unregulated cryptography will lead to a privacy-powered wave of terror, most of the vast potential of this technology is being squandered. For example, a worldwide network of computers running "anonymous remailer" software (which is powered by strong cryptography) could use mathematics to provide something which lawyers and legislators have worked to provide for hundreds of years: a virtual guarantee of freedom of speech. The construction of such a network, though, is adversely affected by the controls placed on the cryptographic software involved. It's obvious that this particular application is not highly relevant to businesses, but it's equally obvious to any professional cryptographer that there is a myriad of other potential applications -- for companies and individuals -- using software and hardware that is restricted by the current set of regulations. But the solution is not to follow the current trend, which has been to loosen regulations where there are complaints -- first banking, then medicine and insurance, and maybe anonymity in the future -- while tightening them in other fields through political maneuvers such as the Wassenar Arrangement. The solution I support, and the one supported by many others inside and outside the field of cryptography, is to keep our fears about cryptography reined in by our hopes for it, and to deregulate it so that this growing technology's full potential can be realised. [End sample letter to MC&C] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: .....
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Intel plans to include security features in upcoming chipsets, including copy > protection, certificate management, and -- get this -- random number > generation. This will be implemented in firmware, and, given that it is > supposed to perform copy protection functions, there is a significant > possibility that the code would be inaccessible, maybe (heaven forbid) within a > tamper-resistant shell. To clarify exactly why this is a problem: although it obviously won't affect the security of existing apps, it's likely that many newer apps will be dependent on this possibly-secret firmware for security, and we all know the evils of depending on a design not subject to intense public scrutiny. Worse yet, it seems possible that a certificate-based system could be used to ensure that neither non-Intel chips nor software fill-ins would be accepted by applications using the firmware. And, of course, except for what was mentioned in the TechWeb article itself, this is all conjecture based almost entirely on Murphy's Law.

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