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Quarantines, hospital seizures: Powergrab 2001
by Khoder bin Hakkin 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

Tuesday October 30 3:35 PM ET Proposed New Bioterrorism Law Prepares for Worst By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A model bioterrorism law being distributed to U.S. states and territories would help them prepare for the worst by clearing up a confusing mass of antiquated rules and powers, legal experts said on Tuesday. Drafted at the behest of the Department of Health and Human Services (news - web sites) and with the help of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites), the new law proposes ways to legally quarantine people, confiscate hospitals and get quick information to doctors in case of a bioterror attack. States are being urged to use the law, published on the Internet at http://www.publichealthlaw.net, either as a template or to patch holes in their own measures. <snip> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011030/sc/attack_anthrax_law_dc_1.html

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NOTAM: GA prohibited w/in 10 miles of nuke plants
by Anonymous 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

>Sounds like the feds are treating the current "credible threat" as broad >and shutting down all options. Anyone care to posit a scenario in which >GA could threaten a nuke? The GA plane has a smoke machine and draws special doodles in the sky, which are seen by the plant operator and she gets hypnotised into disabling the cooling subsystem. This is not a joke, this has been leaked from the top secret anti-terrorist docs.

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Re: FBI MAS
by Faustine 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John wrote: >Anybody have information about this FBI operation, >which siphoned about 1/5 of Cryptome this AM: Monitoring Automated Systems http://www.monauto.com/default1.asp "MAS develops and integrates security monitoring and business software for sophisticated IT solutions used in the world's leading security firms, call centers, financial institutions, public agencies and utilities." Ugh. If it's new, maybe it was triggered by one of your recent documents. Who knows. Good luck... ~F. *** The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. William O Douglas, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBO+BOXvg5Tuca7bfvEQJ7FQCfYyO/xCVHpvbyTyjDQUJzXDD2iWwAn1Lc MDS9O2auZhX0DA2ZZn5OqpT1 =f51U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: FBI MAS
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

OK. Yer an equal opportunity provider. Bandwidth costs money, yes? Ask the botniks to register and send them automated tgz update packages monthly, weekly, whatever. Paid protection might be cheaper than being robbed. Do you accept anonymous donations?

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Re: FBI MAS
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

Any sense in blacklisting IP ranges and refusing connections?

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fully transparent systems: Linux on Altera
by Khoder bin Hakkin 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

>From Core to Kit by Mike Esch How the Nios, a RISC processor on an FPGA, came to support Linux and the GNU development tools. alas not online at http://embedded.linuxjournal.com/magazine/issue06/ Basically he boots Linux on a soft cpu ("NIOS") which is implemented on a reprogrammable logic device (Altera's). First the Altera gets configured as a NIOS (plus whatever else you want to put on there..) then the NIOS boots a Linux build. NIOS is a SPARC-like 16 or 32-bit RISC w/out a MMU that Altera sells for their chips. Of interest here because if you can't read it you can't trust it; now you can use GNUtools on a CPU you can read. Also for embedded crypto system developers in general. ---- #include <brownpowder.fffg>

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Re: NOTAM: GA prohibited w/in 10 miles of nuke plants
by Khoder bin Hakkin 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

Quoth John Young: >>Sure. Don't go for the hard-headed containment structure, knock out the soft-shelled control facility which regulates cooling pumps. The reactor will do the rest just as effectively as planes weakened the towers so they would self-destruct. ... Nuclear power plants are likely a feint as well, with so many soft-shells ready to eat<< The reactors have such a nice chewy center that its worth it to try to breach the crunchy shell. Whacking the cooling or control will take out the power generation[1] but will not spread the spicy isotopes on the happy fun people. [1] Creating a power deficit which might not be picked up by the Grid, and so felt e.g., by Californians during certain seasons. ------- my cat has a box of bentonite. should I turn him in?

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FBI MAS
by John Young 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

Anybody have information about this FBI operation, which siphoned about 1/5 of Cryptome this AM: IP address: 65.207.53.168 MAS (NETBLK-UU-65-207-53) 935 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20535 US Netname: UU-65-207-53 Netblock: 65.207.53.0 - 65.207.53.255 Coordinator: Dastur, Brian (BD680-ARIN) bdastur(a)fbi.gov 202-324-6124 Record last updated on 17-Aug-2001. Database last updated on 31-Oct-2001 02:58:21 EDT. The siphon drained the site non-stop from 4:01 AM to 4:23 AM EST.

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NYT DOS'd
by Khoder bin Hakkin 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

Tuesday October 30 7:21 PM ET NY Times Computers Shut Down by Apparent Attack NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet connections at the New York Times Co (NYSE:NYT - news) were interrupted for several hours on Tuesday afternoon after the paper's computers were flooded with bogus information in an apparent attack. ``We don't know that it was malicious, but there seems to be no innocent explanation,'' wrote network administrator Terry Schwadron in an e-mail to newsroom employees. The Times computers ``started receiving a huge amount of electronic transmission that flooded the machinery that protects the paper from hacker attacks,'' according to Schwadron's e-mail, in what he called ``denial of service activity.'' In a denial of service attack, thousands of fake messages are sent to server computers, tying up the recipient's network. The main White House Web site (http://www.whitehouse.gov) was hit with a similar attack in May. The New York Times Web site (http://www.nytimes.com) was online as of Tuesday evening. A spokeswoman for the company, reading a statement, said: ''Some New York Times employees are experiencing difficulty accessing the Internet through their computers. Our technical staff is trying to determine the reason for this. At this time, we do not know the cause.'' The spokeswoman did confirm the contents of Schwadron's e-mail. The New York Times has gone through two anthrax scares since Oct. 12, but tests came up negative for the bacteria. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20011030/wr/media_newyorktimes_computers_…

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Re: Quarantines, hospital seizures: Powergrab 2001
by Greg Broiles 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

At 01:13 PM 10/30/2001 -0800, Khoder bin Hakkin wrote: > Drafted at the behest of the Department of Health and Human >Services (news - web > sites) and with the help of the Centers for Disease Control and >Prevention (news - > web sites), the new law proposes ways to legally quarantine >people, confiscate > hospitals and get quick information to doctors in case of a >bioterror attack. Oh, it goes far beyond that - it creates a system where, upon a governor's declaration of a public health emergency, the public health authorities get control of all food, guns, medicine, fuel, clothing, medical facilities, doctors, and human beings within the affected area - they're entitled to immediate possession of whatever useful private property they want, which can be redistributed, held, or destroyed as they see fit - and they're empowered to use public safety agencies to force doctors perform examinations, tests or vaccinate/immunize similarly uncooperative individuals, and to create quarantine or exclusion areas as they consider useful. It's pretty much a police state implementation act. -- Greg Broiles -- gbroiles(a)parrhesia.com -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961 5000 dead in NYC? National tragedy. 1000 detained incommunicado without trial, expanded surveillance? National disgrace.

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