December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: [RePol] BCC IN REMAILERS
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jay Stotzky wrote: > On 28 Nov 97 at 0:19, Denizen wrote: > <text snipped> > Whatever. Hope what you're doing doesn't backfire on any remailer > operators, Rich. That'd be a real shame. What I love most about self-righteous jackasses is that I can usually count on picking up a little extra beer money by betting that their last post to a thread where they have had their ass kicked, they will crawl out on their bellies with some lame, moralistic equivalent of, "Yeah, but when that single child (TM) dies, _you_ will be the one who is responsible for their death. (Pictures at 11!)" OR "Sure, light bulb jokes are funny...until someone burns a retina." Hay, Jay...why don't you shoot twenty 'innocent' citizens at random every time someone 'abuses' a remailer? Then you can point out how many needless deaths could be prevented by ratting out one's friends to the remailer Gestapo. (And be sure to make everyone aware that use of the letter, 'n', is 'abuse', in *your* definintion.) BIG FUCKING NEWS FLASH, JACK!!! In the universal scheme of things, there _is_no_ abuse! If you read the chapter on rights in "How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World" and thought Harry Browne was being 'cute' with his one-liner, "People have a right to do to you whatever you can't stop them from doing." then you might try reading it again without your hand down the front of your pants. HOW TO KNOW WHEN YOU'RE A FASCIST NAZI--TIP #7: "The only people who should use the word 'we' are kings, priests and people with tapeworms." Heigh, Jay...I may be a liar, an asshole and a forger, but at least I lead with my balls. When I take it upon myself to speak for all cypherpunks on the face of the earth, I try to do it as the "Chief CypherPunks SpokesPerson," and not by trying to slip the "Royal WE" up everyone's butt through the back door (redundant?). There ain't no 'we' when the Feds knock on a remailer's door, any more than there is a 'we' in Jim Bell's WorldWide Conspiracy. Someone posts a simple question to a remailer list asking which remailers support a certain function, and your reply is to try to shake them down to find out the 'purity' of their 'motives' in asking a technical question? Of course, you're not a Nazi, are you? "WE just want to ask you a few questions..." before revealing 'source code', in order to make certain that no one is going to make 'improper' use of any remailers, or encryption packages, or graphic images of fully clothed children, or... Becoming a remailer operator is one of the quickest ways I've found to ferret out 'Big Brother Inside' (TMTCM). I regard most remailer operators as everyday heros, but I have to laugh (or puke) when I see someone painting themselves, or remailer operators as a whole, as some kind of Hero/Savior/Saint. This is invariably followed by viewing themselves as part of some Holy Crusade to 'save' remailer recipients from spam, or one of the other Horsemen of the Remailer Apocalypse. Any technical limitations one imposes on the use of their remailer that is not due purely to considerations in regard to survival, is nothing more than using it as an ego-tool to play God/BigBrother. Even the process of trying to survive as a remailer operator leads to one needing to reevaluate their character, beliefs and values. e.g. - You may be able to survive by allowing Christian spamming, but not Satanist spamming. Do you allow one, but not the other, in order to keep from getting shut down? e.g. - You may be able to survive by allowing anonymous email to any .gov site except whitehouse.gov. Do you allow one, but not the other? Hey, Jay...I recognize your 'right' to answer technical questions about remailer use only after having the person asking the question fill out a 10-page form asking questions such as, "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?" I also recognize your right to be laughed at as a lame, Nazi fuck. TruthMonger#1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Business Security 5.8 Comment: "I Broke PGP!" iQEVAwUANH7LJj0zUlXoOfx5AQEFWggAiIZbdYSw4N9CCrlHl0nJt9yLnfB/xFb9 RrUEMPocsOdC2rRAMkyRpx8R6bPN0AHHUT0Bum9qc1YCJ63OGuMm6UNh51dBmzXl i3syr7UBCPg3aYTSAooIRUoFzHsuqvm0Y2Dk2xYRlZ+SKoMzWmG9Kkiaed2ryqbC tqZJKp6sHD7p+Dt3/IbEahJQqNNXVrOn85pM+xd4T71fPdH1HA0Iptef8kflCg2U gkXSuPIJHZOLDi5kPurJcd9ho2dr1ZYyh3GOpEkyfDyLUquOtJUQKsfrTSZlwUML Et7BKHLk6z+hXJpo/HOU7y2tlL5R620O03FmmNaEePjbm0+M5x67Mw== =JE3f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Naked Stealth
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The 26 November Guardian reports on the bungled case of the UK hacker who allegedly threatened US national security by hacking the Rome AFB system (and scaring the bejesus out of the North Koreans to boot) while searching for Area 51 info on aliens. The case was thrown out by the court as way overblown and unproveable, though the USG got a lot of mileage from it for "terrorist threats." It hoots at the USAF's crack cyber-security team in San Antonio who over-mobilized to trace the terrifying teenager by most sophisticated means, not knowing that the kid had already been nabbed by Scotland Yard thanks to a traditional-means informant. Now the officer who led the AF hunt is working the cyber-scare circuit peddling the top gun technology -- top secret of course, can't even be revealed by court order. http://jya.com/naked-gun.htm

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NSA
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The battle continues. Friday 11/28/97 6:27 AM John Young Morales and I could not find the word surreply in the dictionary. Microsoft Word spelling checker didnt recognize surreply either. Speculation is that if I showed up at the NM district federal court clerks office this morning with a surreply, the clerk would not file it for the reason that we did not have the leave of court. But, of course, we are not filing a surreply. We like the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure better than New Mexico local rules.. Had a great time at my former Ph.D. student Sobolewski's home last night. Voytek visited this summer from Poland. I met him Voytek brought Sobolewski some Chopin Polish vodka. And several other bottles of Polish vodka. One had grass in the bottle. Sobolewski was born in Cracow in 1939. Sobolewski even recalls as a youth seeing the freight trains going east. Loaded with people. Arbeit macht frei. Lets hope some people see the merits in prompt settlement before this matter gets worse. And get the American eagle flying right. Especially the legal eagle. Later bill UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO William H. Payne ) Arthur R. Morales ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v ) CIV NO 97 0266 ) SC/DJS ) Lieutenant General Kenneth A. Minihan, USAF ) Director, National Security Agency ) National Security Agency ) ) Defendant ) PLAINTIFFS' ANSWER TO DEFENDANT'S CROSS-CLAIM REPLY TO PLAINTIFFS' RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR PARTIAL DISMISSAL AND MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT 1 COMES NOW plaintiffs Payne [Payne] and Morales [Morales] [Plaintiffs], pro se litigants to exercise their rights guaranteed under the Local Civil Rules to respond to DEFENDANT'S REPLY TO PLAINTIFFS' RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR PARTIAL DISMISSAL AND MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT [REPLY] filed 97 NOV 14 by assistant US attorney Jan Mitchell. 2 Local Civil Rule 7.6 Timing of and Restrictions on Responses and Replies, (b) Surreply states The filing of a surreply requires leave of the Court. But this filing is NOT A SURREPLY. Rule 7 of the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure states (a) Pleadings. There shall be a complaint and an answer; a reply to a counterclaim denominated as such; an answer to a cross-claim, if the answer contains a cross-claim; a third-party complaint, if a person who was not an original party is summoned under the provision of Rule 14; and a third-party answer, if a third-party complaint is served. No other pleading shall be allowed, except that the court may order a reply to an answer or a third party answer. Mitchell makes a claim in her REPLY. Mitchell writes, It continues to be Defendant's position that Plaintiffs' Complaint for Injunctive Relief ("Complaint") filed February 28, 1997 must be dismissed. This ANSWER contains a cross-claim answer. Namely, give the public the documents legally requested under the FOIA. 3 Mitchell writes, Plaintiffs make the sweeping assertion that the "29 cases in Mitchell's MEMORANDUM ... do NOT APPLY to the facts in this case. However, they cite to absolutely no case law to support their position. No citations to case law are required for the reason that Plaintiffs EXHAUSTED THEIR ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES, as stated by NSA deputy director William P. Crowell. Plaintiffs support their position by FACTS in this matter. Mitchell attempts to force Plaintiffs to support the FACTS in this lawsuit with case law. Mitchell cited case law that applies ONLY when those seeking documents under the FOIA did NOT exhaust administrative remedies. Mitchell's case law DOES NOT APPLY to this lawsuit for the reason that Plaintiffs DID EXHAUST ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES. Lawyer Mitchell appears to attempt to apply the Nazi strategy If you tell a big enough lie often enough, people will begin to believe it. The lie Mitchell is attempting to convince readers of these documents of is that Plaintiffs DID NOT exhaust administrative remedies. Plaintiffs DID EXHAUST ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES. NSA deputy director and NSA FOIA/PA Appeals Authority William P. Crowell writes 31 December 1996 Because the process of your request has not progressed to a point where there have been any initial, substantive Agency determination of the release or withholding of responsive records, I can offer you no administrative remedy. 4 Mitchell writes, The legal authority relied upon I the Memorandum in Support of Defendant's Motion for Partial Dismissal and Motion for Summary Judgment (hereinafter referred to the "Memorandum"), provides clear legal basis for the Court to either dismiss Plaintiff's [sic] Complaint, or granting summary judgment to Defendant as a matter of law. Plaintiffs disagree. Mitchell cites no case law to support the above paragraph. Rather Plaintiffs lawfully requested documents, mostly of KNOWN EXISTENCE AND LOCATION, and, as the Court may be aware When an administrative appeal is denied, a requester has the right to appeal the denial in court. A FOIA appeal lawsuit can be filed in the U.S. District Court in the district where the requester lives. The requester can also file suit in the district where the documents are located or in the District of Columbia. When a requester goes to court, the burden of justifying the withholding of documents is on the government. This is a distinct advantage for the requester. Mitchell wrongly seeks to have Defendant withhold the requested documents for the reason that she CLAIMS Plaintiffs have failed to exhaust administrative remedies. Bur Plaintiffs HAVE EXHAUSTED ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES as NSA former deputy director Crowell told Payne IN WRITING. 5 Mitchell writes, In Paragraphs 1-6 of Plaintiffs' Response, Plaintiffs appear to be claiming the Defendant has misrepresented this facts concerning Plaintiff Payne's Freedom of Information Act/ Privacy Act("FOIA/PA") requests. It is true that Plaintiff Payne did file two FOIA request with the National Security Agency ('NSA/Agency") and that NSA did not respond with the statutory time limit. It is also true that Plaintiff Payne appealed with NSA the nonresponse to both requests and subsequently received a letter dated 31 December 1997, from William P. Crowell, the Freedom on Information AC/Privacy Act appeals Authority. Mr. Crowell stated, among other things that no administrative remedy could be offered at that time. Lawyer Mitchell's "at that time" appears to be an argument that Plaintiffs should wait indefinitely for NSA to produce requested documents. Plaintiffs exercise their rights and proceed to court as the law allows when administrative remedies have been exhausted. Mitchell UNSUCCESSFULLY ATTEMPTS to make a valid argument that Plaintiffs had to wait even longer AFTER ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES WERE EXHAUSTED before filing a FOIA lawsuit. 6 Mitchell writes, Attachment 4 to Exhibit A, the Winch Declaration attached to Defendant's Memorandum. NSA employee GARY W. WINCH [Winch], Director of Policy, made a false statement under oath in an unsuccessful attempt to reverse NSA deputy director Crowell's letter informing Payne that administrative remedies were exhausted. Winch's violation of the False Statement Act earned Winch a criminal complaint affidavit file with selected magistrate judge Antonin Scalia. 6 Mitchell writes, Despite the fact that Mr. Payne was clearly informed that he could treat the letter from William P. Crowell as a denial of his appeal and he could proceed under 5 U.S.C. section 552 to seek judicial review of the determination, Mr. Payne did not proceed to exercise his right to file a civil lawsuit in the United States at that time. Mitchell unsuccessfully attempts to make a valid argument that IMMEDIATELY UPON receiving Crowell's letter that Plaintiffs were REQUIRED to file a lawsuit. Mitchell cites no law to support her argument. The reason Mitchell cites no law is that the law does not specify WHEN a plaintiff must file a lawsuit. As the court may know 5 USC 552 states (B) On complaint, the district court of the United States in the district in which the complainant resides, or has his principal place of business, or in which the agency records are situated, or in the District of Columbia, has jurisdiction to enjoin the agency from withholding agency records and to order the production of any agency records improperly withheld from the complainant. In such a case the court shall determine the matter de novo, and may examine the contents of such agency records in camera to determine whether such records or any part thereof shall be withheld under any of the exemptions set forth in subsection (b) of this section, and the burden is on the agency to sustain its action. In addition to any other matters to which a court accords substantial weight, a court shall accord substantial weight to an affidavit of an agency concerning the agency's determination as to technical feasibility under paragraph (2)(C) and subsection (b) and reproducibility under paragraph (3)(B). (C) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the defendant shall serve an answer or otherwise plead to any complaint made under this subsection within thirty days after service upon the defendant of the pleading in which such complaint is made, unless the court otherwise directs for good cause shown. So Mitchell's argument that Plaintiffs were required to file this lawsuit within a specific time after receiving Crowell's letter must be dismissed as not supported by law. 7 Mitchell writes, In a letter dated 6 January 1997, Plaintiff Payne was advised that his request for a waiver of fees had been denied and informed him of the estimate of the cost to search for the records concerning the algorithms. NSA was clearly attempting to deny furnishing the requested documents by asking Payne for money for SEARCHING for the documents. Payne worked with NSA implementing NSA crypto algorithms for about ten years. Payne KNOWS WHO has documents and about WHERE the documents are located. NO SEARCH IS REQUIRED. Asking for fees to SEARCH is clearly a unintelligent ruse to deny furnishing the legally requested documents. 8 Mitchell writes Attachment 5 to Exhibit A, the Winch Declaration attached to Defendant's Memorandum. Once that letter was received, Mr. Payne was clearly on notice that NSA was continuing to process his FOIA request, and he was specifically notified that if he did not agree with the fee determination, he could appeal in writing with 60 days to the NSA/CSS Freedom of Information Act Appeals Authority. He chose not to appeal the denial of the fee waiver nor did he pay the estimated costs. Exhibit A, Winch Declaration, at 5, section 14. Payne is not required to appeal fee determination denial if Plaintiffs are NOT SUING OVER A FEE WAIVER DENIAL. Mitchell cites no law to show that Payne is required to appeal a FOIA fee denial before filing suit for legally requested documents. Winch wrote, The search cost estimate was $1,317.50, as computed in accordance with DOD regulations. Mr. Payne was informed that 2 hours of search would be conducted at no cost to him as required by the FOIA In accordance with its regulations, NSA requires advance payment of cost exceeding $250 prior to initiating a search. Mr. Payne was so informed in the Agency's 6 January letter and was requested to pay the $1,267.50 (the remainder of the estimated search costs) within 30 days. Winch CLEARLY attempts to scam Payne by asking for $1,317.50 for a SEARCH. No search is required. Filing a lawsuit permits Discovery WITHOUT LEAVE OF THE COURT. Discovery is used to located documents. Rule 26 (b)(1) Parties may obtain discovery regarding any mater, not privileged, which is relevant to the subject matter involved in the pending action, whether it relates to the claim or defense of the party seeking discovery or to the claim or defense of any other party, including the existence, description, nature, custody, condition, and LOCATION of any books documents, or other tangible thing and the identity and location of persons have knowledge of any discoverable matter. Economics of clearly wasting $1,317.50 or paying $125 for this public internationally Internet-viewed lawsuit clearly favored the latter approach to get the lawfully requested documents. 9 Mitchell writes Despite Plaintiffs unsupported protestation to the contrary, the law is absolutely clear that when a requester elects not to go to court immediately -in this case, immediately after receiving the letter dated 31 December 1996 and before receiving the letter dated 06 January 1997 - he must exhaust all administrative remedies within the agency. Mr. Payne must have administratively exhausted the decision on the fee waiver decision. Oglesby v. Department of the Army, 920 F2.d 57, 61 (D.D.Cir. 1990); McDonnell v. United States of America, 4 F.3d 1227, 1240 (3d Cir. 1993). He is not do so. Mitchell cites no law to support her statement that Plaintiffs are REQUIRED "to go to court immediately." In fact, appearance is that Mitchell has made another false statement under oath. The fee $1,317.50 Winch requested for a search for documents of known location, or whose location could be established with Discovery, did not have to be appealed to exhaust administrative remedies. Payne could have appealed the denial of waiver of fees but chose not to because this was clearly a ploy on Winch's part to cost Payne money. And Mitchell cannot, because their is no requirement, cite law to show that Payne is required to appeal a fee waiver denial if Plaintiffs are not using about fee waiver denial. If Plaintiff's WISHED, which they did not, to sue for fee waiver, then Payne would have had to appeal the denial of FEE WAIVER to exhaust administrative remedies. 5 USC 552 4(A) states about a fee waiver denial lawsuit (vii) In any action by a requester regarding the waiver of fees under this section, the court shall determine the matter de novo: Provided, That the court's review of the matter shall be limited to the record before the agency. But this lawsuit IS NOT ABOUT WAIVER OF FEES, it is about obtaining the lawfully requested documents. Mitchell again attempts, unsuccessfully, to distort the law by citing Oglesby and McDonnell where administrative remedies were NOT exhausted. This lawsuit is about obtaining documents. Plaintiffs DID NOT sue for fee waiver denial. Therefore, no appeal of FEE WAIVER DENIAL was required. 10 Mitchell writes Plaintiffs not attempt to excuse Plaintiff Payne's failure to exhaust the administrative appeal process, by claiming that the request for payment is a "ploy" to avoid providing the documents. Plaintiff Payne asserts that he knows where the records are located with NSA because of his association with the Agency during his employment with Sandia National Laboratory [sic] and, therefore, he maintains that no search is required. Plaintiffs' Response, at 4 section 9. Plaintiff Payne also asserts that even if he had paid the estimated costs, the Agency would not have produced the documents. Within the specified guiltiness, the FOIA allows an agency to assess fees for processing requests made under the Act and to require advance payment of estimated fees if it is determined that the fees will exceed $250. 5 U.S.C section 552(a)(4)(A)(i), (v). The obligation is to conduct a search, the scope of which is reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of responsive records. Under the law, there is no requirement that records actually be discovered in a search for which a requester pays. OMB Fee Guidelines, 52 Fed. Reg. 10,011, 10,018 (1987). Even if Mr. Payne did know the location of the records, (and Defendant certainly does not agree that he does), The Agency would still have an obligation under the law to conduct an adequate search. Further, even if the records are found, they may still be withheld under various FOIA exemptions. In fact, the letter from James P. Cavanaugh dated 06 January 1997, specifically informed Mr. Payne that if any responsive records were found, they would still have to be reviewed for releasibility and that the records of this type most likely would be classified or otherwise exempt from disclosure. Attachment F to Exhibit A to Defendant's Memorandum. Plaintiffs make an unsupported argument that because NSA did not respond to the FOIA requests within the allotted time, and because NSA failed to return the green return receipt cards, (Plaintiffs' Response, at 2 section 4),"[t]he law allows at requester to consider that his or her request has been denied . . . [t]his permits the requester to file an administrative appeal." Even if this statement were true, it has not bearing on the facts before the Court. Plaintiff Payne did not timely file in Federal court prior to receiving the January 1997 letter from NSA informing him of the fee determination. He may not pursue his action in Federal court because he has not exhausted administrative remedies. Mitchell again is incorrect. Two issues can come before the court. 1 Demand for documents illegally withheld under the FOIA. 2 Demand for fee waiver. Text of both laws are reproduced in this ANSWER. The lawsuit is about 1. NOT 2. Administrative remedies were exhausted as Crowell stated. And Plaintiffs proceeded to court as permitted by law. Mitchell, as an officer of the court, has again violated the False Statement Act again by presenting to the Court and argument not relying on the facts of this case. Plaintiffs did, in fact, EXHAUST ALL ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES as required to proceed to court. 11 Michell states, The remainder of Plaintiffs Response, [Paragraphs 7-14] is filled with unrelated pieces of information from various sources, suppositions, assumptions, and accusations, all apparently designed to challenge the Agency's decision that to admit or deny the existence of the Iranian and Libyan messages and translations would reveal classified information. As discussed in some depth in Defendant's Memorandum, the Agency is accorded great deference in the area, and nothing Plaintiffs have presented rises to level of evidence to show "bad faith" by the Agency in it decision-making process. Halperin v. CIA, 629 F.2d 144, 148 (D.C. Cir. 1980). In addition, Plaintiffs appear to be claiming that information concerning records of Iranian message traffic and translations has been put into the public domain by both former President Reagan and various authors or books and newspapers. Plaintiffs bear the burden of "pointing to specific information in the public domain that appears to duplicate the information withheld." Afshar v. Department of State, 702 F2.d 1125, 1130 (D.D.C. 1989). With regard to classified material pertaining to national security concerns, court have held that unofficial leaks and public surmise can often be ignored by foreign governments that might perceive themselves to be harmed by disclosure; but official acknowledgment may for a government to retaliate. Afshar, 702 F.2d at 1131. Defendant submit that, in this case, all Plaintiffs have done is identify a mishmash of information from various public sources, including the Internet, and then claim that if it is published in some manner, it must be true. Such a conglomeration of information does nothing to satisfy Plaintiff's burden in this regard. Plaintiffs cannot point to any source which published the documentation which Plaintiffs asserts exists: NSA intercepted the Libyan message and translations between January 21, 1980 and June 19, 1996. In addition, generalized allegations that classified information has been leaked to the media or otherwise made available to the public will not defeat an Exemption 1 claim under the FOIA. Executive Order 12958 section 1.2 (c); Public Citizen v. Department of State, 11 F.3d 198, 201 (D.C. Cir. 1993). Michell's statement, Plaintiffs cannot point to any source which published the documentation which Plaintiffs asserts exists: NSA intercepted the Libyan message and translations between January 21, 1980 and June 19, 1996. is clearly false as the following Internet news story attests. NSA, Crypto AG, and the Iraq-Iran Conflict by J. Orlin Grabbe One of the dirty little secrets of the 1980s is that the U.S. regularly provided Iraq's Saddam Hussein with top-secret communication intercepts by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Consider the evidence. When in 1991 the government of Kuwait paid the public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton ten million dollars to drum up American war fever against the evil dictator Hussein, it brought about the end of a long legacy of cooperation between the U.S. and Iraq. Hill & Knowlton resurrected the World War I propaganda story about German soldiers roasting Belgian babies on bayonets, updated in the form of a confidential witness (actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S.) who told Congress a tearful story of Iraqi soldiers taking Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and leaving them on the cold floor to die. President George Bush then repeated this fabricated tale in speeches ten times over the next three days. What is remarkable about this staged turn of events is that, until then, Hussein had operated largely with U.S. approval. This cooperation had spanned three successive administrations, starting with Jimmy Carter. As noted by John R. MacArthur, "From 1980 to 1988, Hussein had shouldered the burdenof killing about 150,000 Iranians, in addition to at least thirteen thousand of his own citizens, including several thousand unarmed Kurdish civilians, and in the process won the admiration and support of elements of three successive U.S. Administrations" [1]. Hussein's artful slaughter of Iranians was aided by good military intelligence. The role of NSA in the conflict is an open secret in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Only in this country has there been a relative news blackout, despite the fact that it was the U.S. administration that let the crypto cat out of the bag. First, U.S. President Ronald Reagan informed the world on national television that the United States was reading Libyan communications. This admission was part of a speech justifying the retaliatory bombing of Libya for its alleged involvement in the La Belle discotheque bombing in Berlin's Schoeneberg district, where two U.S. soldiers and a Turkish woman were killed, and 200 others injured. Reagan wasn't talking about American monitoring of Libyan news broadcasts. Rather, his "direct, precise, and undeniable proof" referred to secret (encrypted) diplomatic communication between Tripoli and the Libyan embassy in East Berlin. Next, this leak was compound by the U.S. demonstration that it was also reading secret Iranian communications. As reported in Switzerland's Neue Zurcher Zeitung, the U.S. provided the contents of encrypted Iranian messages to France to assist in the conviction of Ali Vakili Rad and Massoud Hendi for the stabbing death in the Paris suburb of Suresnes of the former Iranian prime minister Shahpour Bakhtiar and his personal secretary Katibeh Fallouch. [2] What these two countries had in common was they had both purchased cryptographic communication equipment from the Swiss firm Crypto AG. Crypto AG was founded in 1952 by the (Russian-born) Swedish cryptographer Boris Hagelin who located his company in Zug. Boris had created the "Hagelin-machine", a encryption device similar to the German "Enigma". The Hagelin machine was used on the side of the Allies in World War II. Crypto AG was an old and venerable firm, and Switzerland was a neutral country. So Crypto AG's enciphering devices for voice communication and digital data networks were popular, and customers came from 130 countries. These included the Vatican, as well the governments of Iraq, Iran, and Libya. Such countries were naturally skeptical of cryptographic devices sold in many NATO countries, so turned to relatively neutral Switzerland for communication security. Iran demonstrated its suspicion about the source of the leaks, when it arrested Hans Buehler, a top salesman for Crypto AG, in Teheran on March 18, 1992. During his nine and a half months of solitary confinement in Evin prison in Teheran, Buehler was questioned again and again whether he had leaked Teheran's codes or Libya's keys to Western powers. Luckily Buehler didn't know anything. He in fact believed in his own sales pitch that Crypto AG was a neutral company and its equipment was the best. They were Swiss, after all. [3] Crypto AG eventually paid one million dollars for Buehler's release in January 1993, then promptly fired him once they had reassured themselves that he hadn't revealed anything important under interrogation, and because Buehler had begun to ask some embarrassing questions. Then reports appeared on Swiss television, Swiss Radio International, all the major Swiss papers, and in German magazines like Der Spiegel. Had Crypto AG's equipment been spiked by Western intelligence services? the media wanted to know. The answer was Yes [4]. Swiss television traced the ownership of Crypto AG to a company in Liechtenstein, and from there back to a trust company in Munich. A witness appearing on Swiss television explained the real owner was the German government--the Federal Estates Administration. [5] According to Der Spiegel, all but 6 of the 6000 shares of Crypto AG were at one time owned by Eugen Freiberger, who resided in Munich and was head of the Crypto AG managing board in 1982. Another German, Josef Bauer, an authorized tax agent of the Muenchner Treuhandgesellschaft KPMG, and who was elected to the managing board in 1970, stated that his mandate had come from the German company Siemens. Other members of Crypto AG's management had also worked at Siemens. Was the German secret service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), hiding behind the Siemens' connection? So it would seem. Der Spiegel reported that in October 1970, a secret meeting of the BND had discussed how the Swiss company Graettner could be guided into closer cooperation with Crypto AG, or could even merged with it. The BND additionally considered how "the Swedish company Ericsson could be influenced through Siemens to terminate its own cryptographic business." [6] A former employee of Crypto AG reported that he had to coordinate his developments with "people from Bad Godesberg". This was the location of the "central office for encryption affairs" of the BND, and the service instructed Crypto AG what algorithms to use to create the codes. The employee also remembers an American "watcher", who strongly demanded the use of certain encryption methods. Representatives from NSA visited Crypto AG often. A memorandum of a secret workshop at Crypto AG in August 1975, where a new prototype of an encryption device was demonstrated, mentions the participation of Nora L. Mackebee, an NSA cryptographer. Motorola engineer Bob Newman says that Mackebee was introduced to him as a "consultant". Motorola cooperated with Crypto AG in the seventies in developing a new generation of electronic encryption machines. The Americans "knew Zug very well and gave travel tips to the Motorola people for the visit at Crypto AG," Newman told Der Spiegel. Knowledgeable sources indicate that the Crypto AG enciphering process, developed in cooperation with the NSA and the German company Siemans, involved secretly embedding the decryption key in the cipher text. Those who knew where to look could monitor the encrypted communication, then extract the decryption key that was also part of the transmission, and recover the plain text message. Decryption of a message by a knowledgeable third party was not any more difficult than it was for the intended receiver. (More than one method was used. Sometimes the algorithm was simply deficient, with built-in exploitable weaknesses.) Crypto AG denies all this, of course, saying such reports are "pure invention". What information was provided to Saddam Hussein exactly? Answers to this question are currently being sought in a lawsuit against NSA in New Mexico, which has asked to see "all Iranian messages and translations between January 1, 1980 and June 10, 1996". [7] The passage of top-secret communications intelligence to someone like Saddam Hussein brings up other questions. Which dictator is the U.S. passing top secret messages to currently? Jiang Zemin? Boris Yeltsin? Will Saddam Hussein again become a recipient of NSA largess if he returns to the mass slaughter of Iranians? What exactly is the purpose of NSA anyway? One more question: Who is reading the Pope's communications? Bibliography [1] John R. MacArthur, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War, Hill and Wang, New York, 1992. [2] Some of the background of this assassination can be found in "The Tehran Connection," Time Magazine, March 21, 1994. [3] The Buehler case is detailed in Res Strehle, Verschleusselt: der Fall Hans Beuhler, Werd Verlag, Zurich, 1994. [4] "For years, NSA secretly rigged Crypto AG machines so that U.S. eavesdroppers could easily break their codes, according to former company employees whose story is supported by company documents," "No Such Agency, Part 4: Rigging the Game," The Baltimore Sun, December 4, 1995. [5] Reported in programs about the Buehler case that were broadcast on Swiss Radio International on May 15, 1994 and July 18, 1994. [6] "Wer ist der befugte Vierte?": Geheimdienste unterwandern den Schutz von Verschlusselungsgeraten," Der Spiegel 36, 1996. [7] U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, William H. Payne, Arthur R. Morales, Plaintiffs, v. Lieutenant General Kenneth A. Minihan, USAF, Director of National Security Agency, National Security Agency, Defendant, CIV NO 97 0266 SC/DJS. November 2, 1997 Web Page: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Michell attempts to make a valid argument that withholding of intercepted message is proper because they are classified. Mitchell references EO 12958 1.2, c) Classified information shall not be declassified automatically as a result of any unauthorized disclosure of identical or similar information. Plaintiffs continue to believe, classification abuse aside, that NSA should come clean about it bungled spy sting on Iran and settle with its victims. And US courts should not help NSA hide. Clearly NSA getting caught in, according the Baltimore Sun, the most "audacious" spy sting in its history, spiking crypto units so that the crypto key is transmitted with cipher text falls under EO 12958, Sec. 1.8. Classification Prohibitions and Limitations. (a) In no case shall information be classified in order to: (1) conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error; (2) prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency; (3) restrain competition; or (4) prevent or delay the release of information that does not require protection in the interest of national security. ... Not section 1.2. Clearly, NSA getting caught is one of the greatest blunders in intelligence history fall under 1.8 (1) and (2). And also may account for the greatest number of dead victims. But this is one part of this of this lawsuit. To get a help get a count of the dead and maimed. 12 Mitchell writes Plaintiffs' allegation in the Response at Paragraph 9, at 4, that sanctions under the discovery rules might finally cause the Agency to produce some of the requested records is fallacious. This is a FOIA action; the purpose is to determine whether or not the Plaintiffs are properly in Federal Court, and whether or not the documents requested have been properly withheld under FOIA law. It is not appropriate to use the discovery rules contained in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to bypass the requirements of the FOIA. Mitchell is incorrect in her statement, " This is a FOIA action ..." This is a LAWSUIT which WILL BE conducted under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Even in New Mexico. Mitchell attempts to inject the rules of the FOIA into the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Plaintiffs will continue to object. The Plaintiffs have EXHAUSTED ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES and are in court to obtain documents illegally withheld. Plaintiffs will use the tools available, including Discovery, under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to locate and get the documents. Plaintiffs ARE NOT in court to sue about waiver of fees. 13 Mitchell concludes Plaintiffs' Response contains no legal support for their contention that they are entitled to the requested information. Contrary to their assertion, the legal citations contained Defendant's Memorandum ARE most certainly relevant, because they contain the legal basis on which this Court must base it decision. Plaintiffs' Complaint must be dismissed, or in the alternative, summary judgment must be granted to defendant. Mitchell cites no legal support for her arguments. Rather Mitchell has UNSUCCESSFULLY ATTEMPTED to make Plaintiffs' lawsuit into a fee waiver denial lawsuit. This is not a fee waiver lawsuit. This is a lawsuit to obtain lawfully requested documents. CONCLUSIONS 1 Replace judges Svet and Campos because these judges have demonstrated, IN WRITING, they do not follow the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 2 Remove lawyer Mitchell from the lawsuit for criminal violation of the False Statement Act. And violation of the lawyers Rules of Professional Conduct. Specifically Mitchell's violated in her REPLY In all professional functions a lawyer should be competent, prompt, and diligent. A lawyer should use the law's procedures only for legitimate purposes and not to harass or intimidate other. [i]t is also a lawyer's duty to uphold the legal process. Failure to comply with an obligation or prohibition imposed by rule is a basis for invoking the disciplinary process. A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert and issue therein, unless there is a basis for doing so that is not frivolous, which includes a good faith argument for an extension, modification or reversal of existing law. A lawyer shall not knowingly: (1) make a false statement of material fact of law to a tribunal. (4) offer evidence that the lawyer knows to be false. A. make a false statement of material fact or law to a third person; ... 16-804. Misconduct C. engage in conduct involving dishonest, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation; B. commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects. 3 Have replacement judges ORDER Defendant to immediately produce documents in machine-readable format for publication on Internet. In preparation for settlement of this unfortunate bungled spy sting. And analysis of 'deficient' NSA cryptographic algorithm work designed to get the US government out of the cryptography business. Respectfully submitted, _________________________ William H. Payne 13015 Calle de Sandias NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Telephone approval Morales in New Orleans _________________________ Arthur R. Morales 1024 Los Arboles NW Albuquerque, NM 87107 Pro se litigants CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that a copy of the foregoing memorandum was mailed to Lieutenant General Kenneth A. Minihan, USAF, Director, National Security Agency, National Security Agency, 9800 Savage Road, Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-6000 and hand delivered to Jan E Mitchell, Assistant US Attorney, 525 Silver SW, ABQ, NM 87102 this Friday November 28, 1997. 18

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Re: [RePol] Denizen
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ralph Hotmail wrote: > > In a moment of boredom, I took the opportunity to check into "Denizen". > I also read his posts under a number of names to the critical mass > mailing list and their replies. > In saner moments, Beckjord runs the UFO and Bigfoot Museum. > > This is the person who wants to use BCC from an anonymous remailer to > get his opinion to the subscribers of the Critical Mass list. The > message is simple - if you help him out,you can kiss your remailer > goodbye. Perhaps Ralph could help the anonymous remailer 'cause' by providing remailer operators with a list of the 'bad' people who should not be allowed to use remailers to promote their 'wrong' views. Maybe Mr. Hotmail could also provide a list of 'bad' words and 'bad' subjects that should be blocked, as well. I suggest blocking Ralphie 'Kiss Your Remailer Goodbye' Hotmail. Of course, I'm a Nazi fuck... NaziFuckMonger

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Hat3 gr0ups
by goddesshera＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

could any kind soul please repost the message on hate groups and how mentioning the founding fathers constitutes a hateg roup. thanks This message was automatically remailed. The sender is unknown, unlogged, and nonreplyable. Send complaints and blocking requests to <goddesshera(a)juno.com>.

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Re: PGP 5.0 ConsensuS?? -- is it usable?
by nobody＠nsm.htp.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 17:06 97/11/28 GMT, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote: > * Anonymous Remailer wrote: > >Do you think that it is a good idea to migrate from pgp 2.6.3 to > >pgp 5.0 now? > > No. Yes.

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Re: How to spot a hate group [was Re: Update On Jim Bell]
by Jonathan Wienke 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

- -----Original Message----- From: Brad Dolan <bdolan(a)usit.net> [snip] >Professor Joyce Malcolm of Bentley College in Massachusetts >was the chair of the panel on which I sat. She showed me >something quite disturbing from another presentation that >she had attended. The paper attempted to determine if the >Montana Militia could be considered a "hate group" or >not. Among the methods by which they determined this was >examination of the phrases and concerned in Montana Militia >literature. Among the phrases or subjects that would >classify a group as a "hate group" were: > >1. Discussion of the Bill of Rights, especially the >Second Amendment. > >2. Discussion of military oppression, in the U.S. or >elsewhere. > >3. Discussion of the Framers of our government. > >She showed me a copy of the criteria used by the criminologists >in question, and these were among the criteria. I guess >the ACLU and Amnesty International are hate groups also. >Very disturbing. No wonder the EPA and every other bureaucrat is stocking up on weaponry of all kinds...Almost everyone in America is an anti-government extremist hate group member. Here is some "hate speech" from a Dead White Guy to ponder: "They tell us we are weak-unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies have bound us hand and foot? We are not weak if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature has placed in our power. Millions of people armed in the hold cause of Liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible. Besides, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Many cry 'Peace, peace'-but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! Why stand we here idle? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me Liberty or give me death!" -- Patrick Henry Jonathan Wienke PGP Key Fingerprints: 7484 2FB7 7588 ACD1 3A8F 778A 7407 2928 3312 6597 8258 9A9E D9FA 4878 C245 D245 EAA7 0DCC "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams "Stupidity is the one arena of human achievement where most people fulfill their potential." -- Jonathan Wienke Never sign a contract that contains the phrase "first-born child." Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't. RSA export-o-matic: print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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17 Dec '03

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Continuing coverage of Internet gaming
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Will Roulette Wheel Land on 'Ban' or 'Tax'? http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/8479.html Net Gaming Operator Wins Court Round http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/8807.html

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