December 2005 - cypherpunks-legacy

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23 Dec '05

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[dave@farber.net: [IP] Our Domestic Intelligence Crisis]
by Eugen Leitl 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

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Re: [Clips] US CODE: Title 50,1811. Authorization during time of war
by John Young 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

NSA may claim to use AES256 for classified material but we don't really know if that is true for all material or only for selected parts not needing the best protection the agency has. NSA has never been a proponent, at least not a practictioner, of open testing of crypto to assure security. They read those results, file them away and keep quiet about secret inventions. No intel agency has ever disclosed its best stuff, and that is true of most commercially valuable inventions. What you can get is a retail version and a lot of hokum about how good it is and how bad is that of the competition. You don't what's true until a rogue employee breaks away to set a new shop or to get a new paymaster to spread FUD. Reverse engineering is a double-edged sword when you don't know if the purloined product you're investigating was deliberately lofted your way for "independent product testing" in order to assay your own capabilities and stupidities. The open competition for AES had a taint of that, and maybe a couple of hundred cryptographers knew WTF was going on and half of those were blinded by vanity and ignorance of "independence." The NDAs of participants sucked of "trust us." But no official crypto system has ever been free of the odor of suspicion so common are cracks and betrayals as David Kahn amply describes. Multiple layers of protection are presumably used along with obscurity about what they are. Relying on a single crypto system for protection is surely insufficient -- but it does nicely ID itself for scrutiny. End to end is singularly noticeable. Indeed, it should be assumed that any openly discussed infosec system is subject to attacks not made public, particular those which are successful, which no doubt is why NSA does not openly discuss its prowess beyond a few public utterances that are hardly revealing even to infosec connoisseurs. Like the vapidities General Hayden is oozing these days to dull the perceptions of journalists and snoozers on the Hill. To be sure it is likely Hayden knows not much more than he is briefed to know by the crypto and cracking wizards who have always danced circles around DIRNSAs bemedaled up the kazoo to flummox the fleecers. Bobby Ray Inman may have got a little inside the dark box, but none of the others knew any more than they were allowed to know, and much less after the Church hearings. Anybody heard a peep about the current NSA dustup from cpunk's old crypto control nemesis, ex-NSA Counsel Stewart Baker? His predecessor was quoted but not him, and once he couldn't get enough face time. Nearly all infosec standards for military use recommend and/or require the use of tokens or other mechanical gadgets to backup passwords and biometrics which are known to be vulnerable to human weaknesses for sex, drugs, boss hatred and venality. We finally shelled out a few bucks to buy the PGP version which provides a token as a backup for passphrases. Haven't used it yet but the regular alarms about crackability of passphrases suggests there should be more than your too smart by half, too lazy by whole, brain for protection. Settle down, Hettinga, this is only directed at you, you running dog commie bastard.

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[dave@farber.net: [IP] worth reading -- loophole in FISA?]
by Eugen Leitl 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

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[dave@farber.net: [IP] more on Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts]
by Eugen Leitl 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

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[dave@farber.net: [IP] Summarized -- Download Piaf, Go To Jail]
by Eugen Leitl 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

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[checker@panix.com: [>Htech] Independent: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey]
by Eugen Leitl 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Germany will trail U.K. only by a few years, at best. The infrastructure is already all there. ----- Forwarded message from Premise Checker <checker(a)panix.com> -----

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[dave@farber.net: [IP] Surveillance UK: why this revolution is only the start]
by Eugen Leitl 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

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[post2wm@freenet.de: [rael-science] Pentagon spying on anti-war groups - Report]
by Eugen Leitl 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Source: Al Jazeera http://aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?servic… ID=10263 Pentagon spying on anti-war groups - Report 12/17/2005 A Pentagon document shows that the U.S. army is monitoring and collecting information on anti-war activists across the United States, NBC reported. The network obtained a classified Pentagon document which lists four dozen anti-war meetings or demonstrations that took place in the U.S. over a 10-month period. The document also included anti-nuclear protests staged in Nebraska on the 50th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bombing of Nagasaki. The Pentagon describes all of these events as threats, says William Arkin, the former Army intelligence officer, who obtained the secret documents. According to NBC, the document says that the U.S. military is even monitoring Internet traffic. The network quoted one Pentagon briefing document, stamped "secret", as saying: "We have noted increased communication and encouragement between protest groups using the Internet." Correspondents say the revelation shows how Washington stepped up intelligence collection since the September 11, 2001 attacks. American citizens have been wary of any monitoring of anti-war groups since the Vietnam war when the Pentagon spied on anti-war and civil rights organizations. In the 1970s, the Congress recommended tough restrictions on military spying inside the United States. Following the NBC report, the Pentagon said it ordered a review of the military intelligence program, indicating, but not admitting, that some of the gathered information had been handled improperly. A Pentagon spokesman said that "the Department of Defense uses counterintelligence and law enforcement information properly collected by law enforcement agencies. "The use of this information is subject to strict limitations, particularly the information must be related to missions relating to protection of DoD installations, interests and personnel," he said, according to Reuters. The Pentagon has already acknowledged the existence of a counterintelligence program known as the "Threat and Local Observation Notice" (TALON) reporting system, which the military says is aimed at gathering "non-validated threat information and security anomalies indicative of possible terrorist pre-attack activity." * "Psychological war" USAToday reported that the Pentagon has a $400 million psychological warfare campaign that includes plans to plant pro-American stories in global media outlets. One of the army officials involved in the program was quoted as saying that the operation is aimed at altering foreign audiences' perceptions to back American policies. The program, run by psychological warfare experts at the U.S. Special Operations Command, would operate throughout the world, the report said. According to Reuters, one of the three firms handling the campaign include the Lincoln Group, a company under investigation by the Pentagon for paying Iraqi newspapers to run pro-American stories. Pentagon officials involved in the program say that they don't plan to secretly plant false stories in foreign media outlets. But Mike Furlong, deputy director of the Joint Psychological Operations Support Element, told USAToday that the army would not always reveal its role in distributing pro-American messages. "While the product may not carry the label, 'Made in the USA,' we will respond truthfully if asked" by reporters, he said. USAToday said Furlong refused to give examples of specific products, which he said would include articles, advertisements and public service announcements. Copyright 2005 Al Jazeera Publishing Limited ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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