December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Robert Hettinga wrote: > At 2:32 AM -0500 on 4/2/98, David Honig wrote: > > http://braggbbs.bragg.army.mil/libs/utils.htm > > has a link to ftp://bbs.bragg.army.mil/library/utils/pgp262.zip > > This is really nothing new. My understanding is that when Kelly Goen posted > the original PGP to USENET, he set the distribution to US only, or at the > very least North America only. With a *.ca address, I'm wondering, in all situations do I follow the US guidelines? Or are some different? As for the "regulation" post, I was going to reply until I realized it was just so she could donate email addresses to her book. -confused cdn-

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Ex-spook tells 2 other countries their codes are toast
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpwh0j.htm Ex-CIA Worker Charged in Spy Case By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- A fired CIA covert operative was charged today with tipping off two foreign governments that the United States had broken their code systems. He was held without bond. Douglas Fred Groat also was charged with trying to extort $500,000 from the CIA in return for not disclosing its secrets. Groat, a 50-year-old bearded and burly man, worked for the CIA from May 1980 through October 1996 but spent the last three of those years on administrative leave. The grand jury charged that he gave secrets about U.S. code-breaking to two foreign governments, which were not named, in March and April of 1997. The grand jury said that Groat attempted to extort money from the CIA began before his alleged turncoat activities and continued after them. The grand jury said the attempted extortion lasted from May 1996 until February 1998. All four espionage counts allege that the spying took place between March 24, 1997 and some time in April 1997. A federal grand jury said in its indictment that Groat gave both foreign countries classified information concerning ``the targeting and compromise of the cryptographic systems of ... (the foreign country) by the United States with intent and reason to believe that said information would be used to the injury of the United States.'' Groat, who was arrested Wednesday night without incident by the FBI, entered a not guilty plea through his attorney, at federal courthouse here, to all five counts against him. Two of the counts carry a maximum penalty of death. Prosecutor Eric Dubelier persuaded U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson to continue holding the burly and bearded Groat without bail by calling him ``a risk of flight and a danger to the community.'' ``Based on his former employment with the CIA, he is trained in travel and false identity and deception,'' Dubelier said. ``He has no ties to the community and he possesses sensitive classified information'' that could be communicated to foreign nations if he were allowed to go free. Johnson said that a federal grand jury had returned a sealed indictment March 27 which included four counts of communicating secret defense information to a foreign government and one count of interference with commerce. Two of the counts of conveying secrets carry the death penalty. It was not immediately known which countries were involved. Federal officials requesting anonymity said there was more than one. Groat himself did not speak during the 10-minute initial appearance. Muscular and heavy-set with black hair and a mustache, he appeared in court wearing dark blue jail trousers and shirt. He held his hands clasped in front of him as he stood beside his attorney, public defender A.J. Kramer. The judge set a detention hearing for next Thursday. And Dubelier said the government would use the Classified Information Procedures Act to prevent secrets from being disclosed at trial. Groat was the third current or former CIA employee to be arrested for espionage in the last four years. He was fired from the CIA under circumstances that officials would not immediately disclose. They said he held a lower rank than two of the biggest spies ever caught inside the CIA -- Aldrich Ames, who headed counterintelligence against Moscow while secretly working for the Russians, and Harold Nicholson, who was a CIA station chief abroad while selling secrets to Moscow. Ames and Nicholson pleaded guilty in plea bargains with the government. An official familiar with the investigation said the probe into this former CIA employee ``does not rise to the level of the Aldrich Ames case'' in terms of the suspected damage to U.S. security. Ames was arrested in 1994 and was sentenced to life in prison without the chance for parole. Ames gave the Soviets the names of at least a dozen high-level moles inside the Soviet government who were providing information to the CIA. Many of them were arrested and executed based on Ames' information. Nicholson gave the Russians the names of new CIA recruits whom he helped train. Officials said that limited where they could serve later in their careers. The CIA employee in this case worked at the ageny's headquarters in Northern Virginia and it was not clear if he had ever served overseas. The FBI was not seeking any accomplices in the case, but officials would not say whether any foreign diplomats were being expelled from this country. The names of the countries involved with the CIA employee could not immediately be learned. The House and Senate intelligence committees were kept informed of the investigation into the spying charges as it proceeded, congressional officials said today, speaking on condition of anonymity. An official said Senators have been actively involved in following the investigation since its inception.'' AP-NY-04-03-98 1331EST ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu When exponentiation is outlawed, only outlaws will exponentiate.

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Golden Portfolio and Ca$h
by rdonnovan＠hotmail.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Ex-CIA Officer Charged with Spying (fwd)
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

nikst wrote: > From nikst(a)glasnet.ru Fri Apr 3 22:08:12 1998 > Message-Id: <m0yLKBy-001A7jN(a)mail.glas.apc.org> > X-SMTP-Spy: Real message sender is nikst(a)glasnet.ru via ppp1575.glas.apc.org > From: "nikst" <nikst(a)glasnet.ru> > Subject: Ex-CIA Officer Charged with Spying > > Friday April 3 5:01 PM EST > > Ex-CIA Officer Charged with Spying > > By James Vicini > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A disgruntled former CIA officer has been arrested on > spy charges > alleging he passed secrets to two foreign nations about how the agency > eavesdropped on their > coded communications, U.S. officials said Friday. > > Douglas Groat, 50, who worked at the Central Intelligence Agency for 16 years > until being fired > in 1996, also was charged with trying to extort more than $500,000 from the spy > agency in return > for not revealing secrets to foreign governments. > > During a brief court hearing, a lawyer for Groat entered a not guilty plea to > the five charges, two > of which carry a possible death penalty. The case was the latest spy scandal to > rock the CIA in > recent years. > > U.S. Attorney Wilma Lewis said after the hearing that Groat participated during > his CIA career > in classified covert operations aimed at the penetration of cryptographic > systems of foreign > governments. > > He allegedly disclosed national defense information concerning the targeting > and compromise of > the cryptographic systems of two unidentified foreign governments to those > governments, she > told reporters outside the courthouse. > > The indictment alleged that he handed over the secrets to representatives of > the foreign nation > "with intent and reason to believe that said information would be used to the > injury of the United > States and to the advantage of a foreign nation." > > "The alleged unauthorized disclosure of these activities could have a > significant impact on the > national security of the United States," said Lewis, whose office will > prosecute the case. > > "This case involves highly sensitive classified information that could have a > serious impact on > the national security of the United States. In short this is a serious > espionage case," she said. > > The alleged espionage took place in late March and April 1997 while the alleged > extortion > scheme began in May 1996 and lasted until February 1998, the officials said. > Groat was > arrested by FBI agents without incident on Thursday. > > After prosecutors warned that Groat may try to flee the country, Chief U.S. > District Judge Norma > Holloway Johnson ordered Groat held without bond until next Thursday, when > there will be > another hearing. > > Prosecutor Eric Dubelier told the judge that Groat had been trained by the CIA > "in traveling in > false identification and deception." > > He said Groat possessed sensitive intelligence information which could cause > "grave damage" > to national security if disclosed. > > Groat, who was dressed in dark-blue prison clothing, stood before the judge > during the hearing > with his hands behind his back. Groat once conferred with his court-appointed > lawyers, but > never said anything during the proceeding held under unusually heavy security. > > George Tenet, the head of the CIA, said in a statement the full extent of any > damage to national > security has yet to be determined. > > "The charges against Mr Groat are extremely serious," Tenet said. "His arrest > demonstrates that > the U.S. government will not rest in our efforts against those who would commit > espionage ... > nor will we be intimidated by threats of blackmail." > > Groat worked as a technical officer in the CIA's Directorate for Science and > Technology. He > last had access to classified information in 1993, when he has placed on > administrative leave. > > Officials said it will be up to Attorney General Janet Reno to decide whether > to seek the death > penalty in the case. They said the year-old investigation would continue. > > The case is the latest in a series of embarrassing spy cases involving the CIA. > > > CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames was arrested in 1994 and has pleaded guilty to > betraying at least 11 > Soviet and East European agents working for the United States in one of the > most damaging > espionage cases in U.S. history. > > Ames, a career officer who spent much of his 31 years in the CIA in > counterintelligence, is > serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison. > > Confessed double-agent Harold Nicholson pleaded guilty last year to spying for > Moscow, > becoming the highest-ranking CIA officer convicted in a spy case. > > Nicholson, a 16-year CIA veteran who uncloaked students he helped train for > undercover > missions, admitted collecting $300,000 from the Russians. > > ********** > > - Igor.

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Re: V-Chip Reruns...
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A member of the Clinton/Gates ratpack wrote: :While this was a parody, I did recently see a TV news segment :discussing ratings regulations on TV and the Internet. :They interviewed one parent who was quite concerned - :her daughter had her own TV in her bedroom, and there :was no way to know what she might be watching, what with :cable tv carrying all sorts of things..... Sounds like we need some federal, state, county, municipal and local legislation passed in regard to these concerns. I think it should involve felony convictions for both the parent and the child. When criminal records are outlawed, only outlaws will have criminal records...I think... ~~~~ Toto <toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca> ~~~~ "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://www.clas.net/~dave/public/xenix "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs" http://www.clas.net/~dave/public/webworld "InfoWar -- The Digital Revolution" http://www.clas.net/~dave/public/infowar3 "Space Aliens Hide My Drugs" http://www.clas.net/~dave/public/sahmd

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ROTFL!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Do any of you cocksuckers know where the following comes from? URL? A shit-eating grin spread across Dr. Vulis' face as he realized that, this time, he had been caught for doing something he wouldn't be punished for. Rewarded, perhaps? Cautiously, Dr. Vulis asked Igor, "So can I have more medication? All of the others in treatment here are getting better drugs than me, because they are patients being treated by doctors. Why am I the only doctor being treated by a patient?" "Now Dimitri," Igor shook his head, negatively, "you are exaggerating again. You know that John Young and Robert Hettinga are the only two here who are getting better drugs than you, and it is only occasionally, when they share a room, and then only in order to increase their pleasure when they engage inuuhhhCypherPunk activities." Dimitri got angry, as Igor knew would result from feeding his fantasies, "I know what you're talking about!" Dimitri always gotuuhhh'excited', when this subject came up. "They're sucking each other's cocks! This place is full of cocksuckers, and the biggest one of all is cocksucker John <spit> Gilmore <fart>!"

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Re: V-Chip Reruns...
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 4/4/98 8:04 AM, Toto (toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca) passed this wisdom: >A member of the Clinton/Gates ratpack wrote: > >:While this was a parody, I did recently see a TV news segment >:discussing ratings regulations on TV and the Internet. >:They interviewed one parent who was quite concerned - >:her daughter had her own TV in her bedroom, and there >:was no way to know what she might be watching, what with >:cable tv carrying all sorts of things..... > Not to sound like a first amendment basher, but if these parents are worried about what their daughter is viewing on her own TV in the bedroom, why don't they take it the hell out of there and have her watch TV in the family room. The implication is that she is young enough for them to be concerned about her impressionability. If she is that young, isn't that simply good parenting? Seems to me like a no brainer ... but then again, what the hell do I know .. I raised four kids (youngest 16) who all seem to have their heads on reasonably straight and have yet to be named in any indictments. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEUAwUBNSZpqj7r4fUXwraZAQFzswf3Q/qvIBVtGf935EiVL2QMPOucfx1WiOAv 3X1j1d5J58hFoLjdOEtCXCkMj0EecugXd9gL47bAW+HTBAD5h2rNKvyvoWCwksn2 EcYPj/1GMweMUUrfHwQ/TNVdkMRF0zTN3zVItwDlrIWqdpLSfzoWea/kWOuI2mNz g8zwBz8L/AfEPeqJVhTpPtLnDsxaHuYioSliPdGc8Vwt2k+56axScqgXhysivjpI SOhStm9LiJrkkTo2h15MwbSJWlWMt+HTs9Rmt+QGq72cba+sXIcsNoYn0NpG0mVJ QIM3ZS93vCJuH7W4FxoirmZrwoG1NZtFLGmlMZMTfKxhI0Ca7kU9 =anJu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." - Gildor (_The Lord of the Rings_, by J.R.R. Tolkien)

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HIRF/EMI Source
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The USAF's 22-volume 1996 investigation of the Ron Brown plane crash supposedly offers in Volume 2 one of the best unclassified recent accounts of High Intensity Radio Frequency (HIRF) and electromagnetic interference (EMI). We've been told that the report's available only in hardcopy from the Air Force -- a few copies were publically released in June 1996 at a Pentagon press conference. We'd like to get a copy of Volume 2 to scan the HIRF and EMI parts but cannot locate the proper office for a request -- www.af.mil does not appear to offer the report. We'd appreciate hearing from anyone who might have access to Volume 2 and would be willing to loan or know how we can get it. ----- State's Jamie Rubin yesterday confirmed Russia's SIGINT operation at Lourdes, Cuba but declined comment on the US counterpart. Dave Emery wrote about this awhile back: http://jya.com/rusigint.htm Someday we might learn what the US military knows about EMI attacks on critical infrastructure, planes, ships, trains and limos -- theirs and ours.

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