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IP: FCC To Propose Resolving Digital Wiretap Debate
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: FCC To Propose Resolving Digital Wiretap Debate Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 06:07:00 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Forwarded: --------------- Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 01:37:23 -0500 From: Kepi <kepi(a)netdoor.com> Subject: FCC To Propose Resolving Digital Wiretap Debate Source: Yahoo! News Friday October 16 3:00 PM EDT FCC To Propose Resolving Digital Wiretap Debate By Aaron Pressman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission next week will propose requiring telephone companies to make a series of changes to give law enforcement agencies additional wiretapping capabilities, people familiar with the plan said. The proposal, which will only be issued for comment and could be changed, seeks to resolve the long-running dispute between the telephone industry, privacy advocates and the FBI over terms of the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. The law was intended to preserve the FBI's ability to conduct wiretaps as telephone carriers introduced new digital technology making traditional alligator clip-and-wire approaches obsolete. But the law also sought to maintain the existing limits on wiretapping authority that protect the privacy of ordinary citizens. Much to the chagrin of privacy groups, the FCC's preliminary proposal would require wireless telephone carriers to turn over to law enforcers the location of a mobile phone user at the beginning and end of a tapped call, people familiar with the plan said. ``From a privacy protection perspective, the tracking question is tremendously important,'' said Jim Dempsey, senior staff counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit privacy group in Washington. ``Congress never would have passed this legislation if they thought they were turning cell phones into tracking devices,'' added Dempsey, who as a congressional staffer helped draft the law. But, heeding the call of privacy advocates, the FCC proposal will urge further study concerning the way digital calling information is turned over to law enforcers. Under current law, the police must give a judge evidence of probable cause of criminal activity to get permission to tap a call. But to get basic routing information, such as what numbers were called from a particular phone, the police need show only that the information might be relevant to an investigation, a much lower standard. In digital calling networks, however, a call is split up into tiny data packets that contain both the voice transmission and routing and signaling information. An industry proposal last year would have turned over to police entire packets of information, including both the routing data and the actual call itself, when just basic routing information was authorized. The FCC proposal will seek to determine if a more limited method of handing over just routing information would be feasible. The FBI has already rejected as inadequate the industry proposal that included the cell phone location and full packet disclosure provisions. The agency asked the FCC to require carriers to add another nine capabilities, such as the ability to continue listening to a conference call even if the caller being tapped hangs up. The FCC proposal recommends some but not all of the nine items should be added to phone networks, but also asked for further comments on all nine items. The industry fears refitting existing equipment to add those capabilities will cost billions of dollars. Their fears were confirmed in a recent letter from Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh to Congress, dated Oct. 6, and obtained by Reuters, that conceded the costs could reach $2 billion. Industry participants were pleased that the FCC was moving to address the issues, though. ``We have not seen the details yet but we're pleased the FCC is moving forward,'' Jeff Cohen, a spokesman for the Personal Communications Industry Association, said. Copyright © 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/tc/story.html?s=v/nm/19981016/tc/fcc_2. html **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: ISPI Clips 5.50: National ID postponed until 1999
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 5.50: National ID postponed until 1999 Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:03:08 -0700 To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> ISPI Clips 5.50: National ID postponed until 1999 News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Saturday October 17, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: WorldNetDaily, October 16, 1998 http://www.worldnetdaily.com National ID postponed until 1999 Moratorium in appropriations bill approved by Congress this week http://www.worldnetdaily.com/exclusiv/981016_bres_national_id_po.html By David M. Bresnahan Copyright 1998, WorldNetDaily.com Implementation of a National ID card will be automatically imposed on all states unless Congress takes action in 1999. More immediate efforts to impose the system, first exposed in WorldNetDaily, were derailed by a one-year moratorium on the National ID regulations included in the omnibus appropriations bill passed by Congress Thursday. It was a provision that was not without controversy. The moratorium was first included in the transportation appropriations bill, but Rep. Lamar Smith, R-TX, convinced Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-GA, to remove it before passage, according to House Transportation Committee sources. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-VA, chairman of the House Appropriations Transportation Subcommittee included the ban in the omnibus bill, according to a committee staff member. However, Smith continued to make efforts to kill the provision, according to Patrick Poole of the watchdog group Free Congress Foundation. "It was reported that Lamar Smith had obtained an agreement from Speaker Gingrich to eliminate this provision from the bill," reported Poole. The ban was back in the bill "after many House members openly complained to the speaker about Lamar Smith's seemingly religious devotion to the National ID idea and the American people's vehement opposition to being branded and tagged by the U.S. government." Numerous organizations opposed to the concept of a National ID rallied their members to send thousands of letters, faxes, and make phone calls to Congress for the past two weeks. Smith failed to return calls to WorldNetDaily.com, but he did publish a letter in the "Washington Times" on Tuesday because of the many calls his office received. "I do not support a National ID card and don't know anyone in Congress who does," said Smith in his letter. He tried to label those voicing opposition as radicals when he added, "There are fringe groups that believe the United Nations is taking over Yellowstone National Park, that Congress is creating a National ID card or that they have been abducted by UFOs." Congress put the wheels in motion to create a National ID card in 1996 with the passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. One section of the act, which was largely unnoticed at the time, requires all states to make their driver's licenses comply with certain guidelines found in Section 656 (b) of the act. The law prohibits states from issuing driver's licenses unless they comply with the new requirements beginning Oct. 1, 2000. The new licenses must use the Social Security number as the driver's license number, for example. The act also calls for digitized biometric information to be a part of each license, or "smart card." The biometric information will include fingerprints, retina scans, DNA prints and other similar information. Responsibility for the design and implementation of the cards has been given to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the Department of Transportation. That agency has recently published the proposed "Driver's License/SSN/National Identification Document," which contains the guidelines which must be in force by Oct. 1, 2000. The "Notice of Proposed Rule Making" sets out the standards for each state to follow in the design of "identification documents." "These new National ID regulations violate every notion of federalism, because they force states to comply with regulations issued by the federal government without any constitutional authority to do so," said Poole recently. "Nor are federal agencies empowered to force states to gather detailed information on every person in order to comply with federal mandates. The net result of the DOT's regulations is to establish a National ID system, which has been opposed by almost every non-governmental sector for the past five decades." The moratorium is needed while efforts are made to repeal Section 656 (b) of the act. The moratorium will relieve states from spending money on unnecessary development costs. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-TX, Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX, and Rep. Bob Barr, R-GA, have been working on repeal legislation, but there was insufficient time to bring it to a vote during this session of Congress. "Speaker Gingrich did come dangerously close to selling us out on National IDs," said a congressional staffer. Numerous grass-roots organizations opposed to the National ID system were celebrating the inclusion of the moratorium in the omnibus bill just passed by Congress. The DOT solicited public comments on their plans for implementation of Section 656 (b) of the act earlier this year. The public comment period has just closed and many thousands of letters in opposition were received, according to a spokesman. Five states also expressed opposition to the plan, and only a "small number" of letters supporting the plan were known to the spokesman, who spoke on condition that his name would not be published. The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators also wrote to the DOT and recommended repeal of the law, even though they had once been in favor of such legislation. "Over the past 10 years, the AAMVA has vigorously pushed Congress and the various state motor vehicle directors to implement policies to require the submission of social security numbers as a condition for issuance of driver's licenses. This resounding defeat may spell the end of their ill-fated quest," said Scott McDonald, a grass-roots activist who operates the "Fight the Fingerprint" website. He is able to mobilize thousands of activists on a national basis using his e-mail notification system. "There is no satisfactory condition under which Social Security Numbers may be required as a condition for travel," said McDonald. "The victory's definitely not yet won. During these lull periods there's an opportunity for proponents of these issues to let opposition die down and all of a sudden, pop, it goes through without anyone even aware of it. "I don't see how the Department of Transportation could go forth with implementing the regulation with all that strong opposition to it. Even five states wrote letters of strong opposition to requiring Social Security numbers," said McDonald. "This National ID is not just isolated to America. This is going on all over the world. Every country has some form of it going on," explained Jackie Juntti, leader of the Washington Grassroots E-mail Network. Her group takes credit for defeating an earlier effort in 1997 to put fingerprints on driver's licenses in Washington state. "We're just people out here trying to remain free," she said. Juntti's "NoID Orange Ribbon Campaign," found on many Internet Web sites, began after she refused to produce a driver's license to board an airplane. She was searched thoroughly and then granted a seat on the plane. "For a year we're safe," said Lisa Dean of the Coalition for Constitutional Liberties, another organization that has been actively campaigning against the provisions of Section 656 (b). She agreed that the toughest part of her organization's challenge is in front of her. Rep. Smith, and other proponents of the measure have framed their issue around illegal immigration. Dean's organization has received many responses for and against a National ID. Many have voiced support for her efforts, but some have told her "what difference does it make? The government already has our information," according to Dean. Others also mention the need to control illegal immigration. Now that a moratorium is in place for a year, Dean expects repeal efforts will also include finding alternative ways to resolve the concerns about illegal immigrants, although no recommendations are in place as yet. David Bresnahan, a WorldNetDaily contributing editor, hosts "Talk USA Investigative Reports" and is the author of "Cover Up: The Art and Science of Political Deception." His email address is David(a)talkusa.com. © 1998 Western Journalism Center --------------------------------NOTICE:------------------------------ ISPI Clips are news & opinion articles on privacy issues from all points of view; they are clipped from local, national and international newspapers, journals and magazines, etc. Inclusion as an ISPI Clip does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of the content or opinion by ISPI. In compliance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed free without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISPI Clips is a FREE e-mail service from the "Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues" (ISPI). To receive "ISPI Clips" on a regular bases (up to 3 - 8 clips per day) send the following message "Please enter [Your Name] into the ISPI Clips list: [Your e-mail address]" to: ISPIClips(a)ama-gi.com . The Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) is a small contributor-funded organization based in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada). ISPI operates on a not-for-profit basis, accepts no government funding and takes a global perspective. ISPI's mandate is to conduct & promote interdisciplinary research into electronic, personal and financial privacy with a view toward helping ordinary people understand the degree of privacy they have with respect to government, industry and each other and to likewise inform them about techniques to enhance their privacy. But, none of this can be accomplished without your kind and generous financial support. If you are concerned about the erosion of your privacy in general, won't you please help us continue this important work by becoming an "ISPI Supporter" or by taking out an institute Membership? We gratefully accept all contributions: Less than $60 ISPI Supporter $60 - $99 Primary ISPI Membership (1 year) $100 - $300 Senior ISPI Membership (2 years) More than $300 Executive Council Membership (life) Your ISPI "membership" contribution entitles you to receive "The ISPI Privacy Reporter" (our bi-monthly 12 page hard-copy newsletter in multi-contributor format) for the duration of your membership. For a contribution form with postal instructions please send the following message "ISPI Contribution Form" to ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com . We maintain a strict privacy policy. Any information you divulge to ISPI is kept in strict confidence. It will not be sold, lent or given away to any third party. **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: ISPI Clips 5.51: Your Online Profile--Where You Go, What You Buy--Is Vulnerable
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 5.51: Your Online Profile--Where You Go, What You Buy--Is Vulnerable Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:04:28 -0700 To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> ISPI Clips 5.51: Your Online Profile--Where You Go, What You Buy--Is Vulnerable News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Saturday October 17, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: TIME.com Magazine, OCTOBER 12, 1998 VOL. 152 NO. 15 http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/ Watch Your Tracks Your online profile--where you go, what you buy--is vulnerable. Here's how to protect it http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/981012/personal_time.your_ tech2a.html By MICHAEL KRANTZ TIME technology writer Run a search on your PC's hard drive for the phrase "User Profile," and you'll find a long list of items like this: "yahoo.comTRUE/FALSE 3262463 493 Y v=1&n=82iosk148jr9n." This gibberish is just one in a series of digital snapshots of my recent online travels: what websites I visited; what pages I viewed and for how long; what I bought, downloaded or printed. What's more, every site I visit can send programs called "cookies" down the phone line into my machine to snag this data and either use it to try to sell me something ("He spends time at E! Online? Let's spam him with that Titanic-for-$5 offer!") or sell my "profile" to some other marketer. Yikes. For years, of course, everyone from insurance adjusters to credit-card companies has made money swapping consumer profiles like baseball cards. But the Web is bringing this great American pastime to new levels of invasive splendor. Ironically, one of the most attractive features of the Net--its ability to customize content instantly--morphs smoothly into one of its most sinister: the ability to monitor who you are and what you're doing online, even as you do it. It's not just the embarrassment factor we're talking about here: the guy whose wife checks out his log and finds the porn sites he hit last night. Consider how much other personal data could become available as we conduct more and more of our lives in this (thus far) happily unregulated world--investing and paying our bills online, filling our prescriptions, etc. How forthright have websites been about telling users what data they're unwittingly providing? Not very. Last spring the Federal Trade Commission studied 1,400 sites and found that only 14% had posted privacy statements of any kind (though 71 of the 100 busiest sites did so). While a Senate committee last week approved legislation that would authorize the FTC to regulate the profiling of children, the agency seems willing to let the industry clean up its own act with regard to adults. Enter TRUSTe, a nonprofit group that has persuaded 270 of the Web's most popular sites to post and abide by statements telling what data they collect from visitors, how they use that data and how visitors can restrict that use. Web leaders such as America Online, Microsoft and Netscape plan an announcement this Wednesday to address privacy concerns. Some, though, are skeptical that a voluntary system will work. "If anybody's going to make money off your identity," says Fred Davis, chief executive officer of the software start-up Lumeria, based in Berkeley, Calif., "it should be you." And, of course, Fred Davis. Due in early 1999, Lumeria's software will, among other things, help you control your data, keeping nosy marketers from grabbing your profile unless you let them. In fact, Davis thinks companies will eventually pay for the privilege ("Hey, visitor No. 85834: we see you bought Titanic last week. We'll give you 500 frequent-flyer miles to tell us your name, age and income!"). For now, here's how you can keep those pesky cookies away. If you use Microsoft's Internet Explorer, choose Internet Options under your View menu, click the Advanced tab, scroll down to the Cookies subsection and choose "Disable all cookie use." If you use Netscape Navigator, go to Edit Preferences under the Edit menu and choose Advanced, then "Turn all cookies off." But be warned: many sites won't let you in if your browser rejects cookies, and others will harass you with dialogue boxes urging you to accept one. --------------------------------NOTICE:------------------------------ ISPI Clips are news & opinion articles on privacy issues from all points of view; they are clipped from local, national and international newspapers, journals and magazines, etc. Inclusion as an ISPI Clip does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of the content or opinion by ISPI. In compliance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed free without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISPI Clips is a FREE e-mail service from the "Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues" (ISPI). To receive "ISPI Clips" on a regular bases (up to 3 - 8 clips per day) send the following message "Please enter [Your Name] into the ISPI Clips list: [Your e-mail address]" to: ISPIClips(a)ama-gi.com . The Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) is a small contributor-funded organization based in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada). ISPI operates on a not-for-profit basis, accepts no government funding and takes a global perspective. ISPI's mandate is to conduct & promote interdisciplinary research into electronic, personal and financial privacy with a view toward helping ordinary people understand the degree of privacy they have with respect to government, industry and each other and to likewise inform them about techniques to enhance their privacy. But, none of this can be accomplished without your kind and generous financial support. If you are concerned about the erosion of your privacy in general, won't you please help us continue this important work by becoming an "ISPI Supporter" or by taking out an institute Membership? We gratefully accept all contributions: Less than $60 ISPI Supporter $60 - $99 Primary ISPI Membership (1 year) $100 - $300 Senior ISPI Membership (2 years) More than $300 Executive Council Membership (life) Your ISPI "membership" contribution entitles you to receive "The ISPI Privacy Reporter" (our bi-monthly 12 page hard-copy newsletter in multi-contributor format) for the duration of your membership. For a contribution form with postal instructions please send the following message "ISPI Contribution Form" to ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com . We maintain a strict privacy policy. Any information you divulge to ISPI is kept in strict confidence. It will not be sold, lent or given away to any third party. **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: FBI Says Some U.S. Cities Vulnerable To Attack
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: FBI Says Some U.S. Cities Vulnerable To Attack Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 17:56:32 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Fox News - Reuters FBI Says Some U.S. Cities Vulnerable To Attack 2.13 p.m. ET (1814 GMT) October 16, 1998 WASHINGTON Some U.S. cities are unprepared for an attack by weapons of mass destruction with biological agents a greater danger than nuclear or chemical weapons, an FBI official said Friday. "Some American communities are very unprepared. They certainly don't have the equipment and resources necessary to handle a major attack,'' Robert Blitzer, chief of the FBI's domestic terrorism section, said. "The real weakness that we have right now is the ability to detect and counter a (biological weapons attack) because it's much more insidious and much more difficult to detect,'' he said. The FBI official, who was unable to give numbers on how many cities were unprepared, said communities were better able to deal with chemical and nuclear weapons attacks. Many fire departments have units that deal with hazardous materials and are ready to handle chemical weapons, he said. "On the nuclear side, there's a pretty robust capability to handle those kinds of issues and has been for many years,'' Blitzer said. He appeared at the weekly Justice Department news conference with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, who announced a new office at the FBI to help state and local governments better respond to terrorist attacks with weapons of mass destruction. Reno said the office would help create training standards for local police, firefighters and rescue squads and would try to make sure they have the necessary equipment. "I want this new office to be a center for assistance and solutions, not a new bureaucracy,'' she said. "We are not interested in a top-down, one-size-fits-all solution.'' © Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: Tracking: Bar Codes/Elec.Tags for License Plates
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Tracking: Bar Codes/Elec.Tags for License Plates Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:28:20 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: London Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000150689433551&rtmo=Vu5wFmwx&atmo=99999 999&P4_FOLLOW_ON=/98/10/17/ntag17.html&pg=/et/98/10/17/ntag17.html Car tagging may help cut theft, says minister By Andrew Sparrow, Political Correspondent CAR number plates could be fitted with bar codes or electronic tags in a move to cut crime. Alun Michael, a Home Office minister, said it was "odd" that while consumer goods such as whisky bottles could be tagged, valuable items like cars were not dealt with in the same way. Tagging is being considered as one option that could help the Government hit its target of reducing car crime by 30 per cent over the next five years. Mr Michael said the Government's Vehicle Crime Reduction Action Team, which includes ministers, police officers and car manufacturers, was examining the practicalities of improving security features on cars. The Government would also improve security at car parks, where more than 30 per cent of all auto crime occurred. Cars left in car parks were 200 times more likely to be stolen or broken into than those garaged at home, Mr Michael told an Association of Chief Police Officers car crime conference. Yet car parks that had improved their security had seen break-ins fall by an average of 70 per cent. Mr Michael said the action team would also encourage owners of older cars to make them harder to steal. A car registered in 1985 was 14 times more likely to be taken than a new car. Manufacturers will be urged to make their products more theft-proof. Mr Michael said innovations that the Government would like to see introduced as standard included toughened glass windows to ward off opportunist thieves stealing stereos and handbags from vehicles. Delegates heard that commonly quoted statistics placing Britain at the head of the European vehicle theft league might be misleading. Elaine Hardy, of the International Car Distribution Programme, said that while figures showed vehicle theft in England and Wales to be roughly double the European average as a percentage of the number of vehicles on the roads, definitions of car theft varied enormously. For example, she said, in the Netherlands a vehicle was listed merely as "missing" until it had been gone for more than a month. In other countries, cars recovered within 90 days were wiped from the figures. The true story could be that domestic statistics were roughly comparable to others in Europe. © Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 1998. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: ATTN: Does Any Listee Have Eye-Witness Report???
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: ATTN: Does Any Listee Have Eye-Witness Report??? Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 17:04:45 -0500 To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com --------------------- NOTE: This is an anecdotal report, UNCONFIRMED at the present time. If anyone on the list is an eyewitness to this event, please report in ASAP with additional details. Thank you! -- Michele --------------------- Forwarded: --------------------- >Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:57:00 -0500 >From: "Shonda P. Wigington" <texnat57(a)gateway.net> >Subject: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Helicopter Harassment > > >>Freedom-Lovers International >>Shonda P. Wigington, President >>5308 Robinsdale Lane >>Austin, Texas 78723 >>512-933-1950 >> >> OCTOBER 13, 1998--AUSTIN, TEXAS--On October 10, 1998, around noon, a >>yellow and black helicopter flew around a South Austin neighborhood where >>Alex Jones' mother lives. Carol Jones reported that she did not pay >>attention initially, but that it stayed in the area for about an hour. She >>observed the helicopter hovering over her property. She said that the >>words "Travis County" were printed on the side of the helicopter and that >>the helicopter looked new. Someone was leaning out of the door of the >>helicopter which she said was low enough for her to see that there was a >>big lense camera pointed at her. >> When she returned into her home, she called her husband, Dr. David >>Jones, who then called the Austin Aviation Department where he left a >>message. Simeon Tolgol returned the elder Mr. Jones' call the next >>morning, explaining that the Travis County Sheriff's Department had logged >>a four hour surveillance mission. >> Around 2:00 AM that night, Alex Jones' girlfriend called Steve Lane of >>"The Freedom Report" because of a helicopter shining spotlights into her >>windows. He stated to the Commissioners during Citizens Communication on >>October 13, that the helicopter was so low that he could hear the noise >>through the phone as he spoke to her. She was frightened and crying. >> Jones' producer, Mike Hanson got film footage of the helicopter as it >>moved over his home, shined the spotlight, turned it off, passed over, came >>back, shined the light again several times. >> "I was spotlighted by the helicopter very early saturday morning," Lane >>said, "I believe it was about 1:30 to 2:00 am saturday morning. (The) >>helicopter flew over, again, well under 800 feet above ground level, in >>direct violation of the Federal Aviation Regulations, did not have a >>spotlight on until it came to the house that I was at. The spotlight was >>turned on, I have a video of it, and I'll be glad to give ya'll copies >>because I would like for ya'll to look into this..." Lane described the >>incident as "unnerving". >> Mike Hanson called all of the County Commissioners for information >>regarding the incident. All of the Commissioners returned his call, that >>is all accept Judge Bill Aleshire. >> Karen Sunleitner (Precinct 2 Commissioner) stated, "It was not the >>Travis County Sheriff's office, it was the Austin Police Department. The >>Austin Police Department was piggy-backing on an existing flight that was >>going on that particular day during the hours that Mr. Jones talked >>about...were undergoing pilot training for the brand new helicopter. They >>piggy-backed on that. They are doing ariel video footage of several >>locations pertinent to ongoing homicide investigations." >> Several months ago Travis County Commissioners voted to buy the >>helicopters at taxpayer expense, supposedly for Starflight assistance >>during emergency situations. But these particular helicopters were also >>equipped with infrared "FLARE" technology that could easily be used for >>surveillance. >> The Texas Media Alliance was concerned that this technology could be >>abused. The different organizations that make up the Alliance voiced their >>concerns to the commissioners, who adamently denied any such agenda for the >>new helicopters. >> "They spoke to me like a child," Rusty Fields of Common Sense said, "and >>they assured me that they would not use the helicopters for surveillance." >>He looked around and gestured at the number of people in the room and said, >>"This is what happens when they get caught lying." >> Alex Jones informed the commissioners that day that he was "conducting >>an investigation." >>He claims the county conducted a surveillance mission last week, denying >>the county commissioners' claim that it was done by the city. >> "You are all a pack of liars!" Jones stated, "Pure harassment. It's >>SABER 1. You see, they passed it (the bill) under Starflight so everybody >>can laugh and call it Starflight." Starflight being the term to use for >>emergency pick-up missions by the local EMS. >>Jones said he obtained the I-D of the people doing it through the Aviation >>logues. >> "Flying over Alex's mothers house, I'm not buying that it was a homicide >>investigation," said Mike Runyan, who had been there when the county >>commissioners assured him by likening the use of the new helicopters to >>"searching for lost children in the greenbelts." Runyan commented that he >>was not real happy about the video footage of the incident over Hanson's >>house. >> "Ya'll keep doing it," he warned, "and you're libel to provoke somebody. >> It's just the natural progression of things." >> Mike Hanson played a tape-recorded interview of Mrs. Jones by Alex Jones >>on his radio show, "The Real Spin," heard on KJFK 98.9FM (Austin). >> "I really still didn't know, or become paranoid or anything," she said, >>"but these people made about eight passes over my place, maybe more, but >>let's just say conservatively eight." >>She stated that they were passing and "taking pictures." >> "I don't know what is more disturbing, that they would do this because, >>like, I'm your mother," she told her son during the interview, "or that >>they would just do it to somebody who's just sitting there, because this >>person either has film of me or got really good pictures of just someone >>looking straight up at him." >> "Are there any federal funds involved in these helicopters?" asked John >>P. Roberts, when it came his turn to speak. >> "No, sir," Sunleitner stated. >> "There are no federal funds?" Roberts asked again, "So technically you >>are not tied to them in any way if they want to come and 'borrow' them for >>any reason?" >> "That is purchased by the taxpayers of Travis County," Sunleitner >>assured him. >> Roberts closed his remarks with, "Common sense tells you you don't >>harass the people that pay you." >> "The people will be informed," stated Shonda P. Wigington of >>Freedom-Lovers International, "and if it (the harassment) doesn't stop, we >>WILL strive for a class-action lawsuit against Travis County." >> During Citizens Communication that day, Darwin Mckees (Commissioner of >>Precint 1) called in the Sheriff's Department as a result of a sit-in >>attempt made by Free Press International's Greg Ericson in protest to the >>three minute limit forced upon the people who came to speak that day. >>Ericson left before the deputies arrived, and other than the Commissioners >>trying to quieten Alex Jones's exclamations of what "liars" they are, there >>were no other incidents. >> **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: ISPI Clips 5.49: More on The FBI's New Wiretap Authority
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 5.49: More on The FBI's New Wiretap Authority Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:01:14 -0700 To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> ISPI Clips 5.49: More on The FBI's New Wiretap Authority News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Saturday October 17, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: ABC News.com, October 13, 1998 http://www.abcnews.com Taps For Privacy? Investigators Can Follow Suspects From Phone To Phone http://www.abcnews.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/wirelaw981013.html By Chris Stamper ABCNEWS.com Buried deep inside the Intelligence Authorization Act of 1999 is a provision that will change the way the FBI and other law enforcement agencies can listen to suspects phone calls. The new rule opens the doors for more roving wiretaps, which listen to all the phones a suspect uses rather than just a single line. Supporters say this will help the cops keep up with cell-phone wielding crooks. Critics contend that it opens the door for ever more invasions of privacy. The bill passed the House and Senate last week; President Clinton is expected to sign it soon. A similar change was voted down in 1996 as part of an anti-terrorism measure. An Invitation to Abuse? To bug a suspect, investigators must first obtain a court order. Current federal wiretapping law allows multiple taps only if law enforcement can convince a judge that a suspect is trying to avoid being overheard. The new bill, introduced by Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.), requires only that investigators show probable cause that the persons actions could have the effect of thwarting interception. Supporters maintain that such a change is necessary to keep up with exploding technology. Suspects whose lines are tapped can easily switch to a pay phone or cell phone and avoid detection. But Leslie Hagin, legislative director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, echoes the sentiments of many criminal defense attorneys and civil libertarians who feel that the expansion of powers is an invitation to abuse: Its not a power the government needs. Defense attorneys such as Gregory Nicolaysen, founder of the Association of Federal Defense Attorneys, complain that too many judges rubber-stamp wiretapping requests and that the new law will only make that situation worse: The assumption is that those who are being wiretapped are criminals anyway. Its not being confined to drug dealers and organized crime, Nicolaysen argues. It tends to be a knee-jerk reaction instead of an investigative tool of last resort. The Phones Have Ears According to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, federal and state judges approved 1,186 wiretap applications in 1997 and 1,094 bugs were planted. No requests were denied last year. Judges have rejected only 28 of over 20,000 applications since wiretapping was legalized in 1968. Authorities arrested 3,086 people in 1997 with the help of phone taps, which are typically placed in homes. The American Civil Liberties Union says that for every wiretap placed, nearly a thousand innocent conversations are intercepted by law enforcement. According to ACLU legislative counsel Greg Nojeim, the new bill will mean that the phones of a suspects friends, family and business colleagues can all be tapped by law enforcement: It means more wiretaps, more lines tapped and additional thousands of intercepted innocent conversations. The FBI says snoops have to ignore conversations that arent relevant to their investigations. Under existing wiretap statutes, says special agent Barry Smith, law enforcement is only authorized to listen to those conversations that are related to criminal activity. Nojeim argues that since roving wiretaps will be easier to obtain, citizens Fourth Amendment rights protecting against illegal searches will erode. When the government wants to search a place, it has to specify the place it wants to search, he says. Now for electronic surveillance the specificity requirement is done away with. Smith says a hefty increase in roving wiretaps is unlikely, since such an operation requires a team of surveillance experts who must coordinate their efforts with several different phone companies: Its still a technological and logistical nightmare. Whether one believes that the new bill represents an invasion of privacy, it seems clear that crooks wont be able to escape to their cell phones much longer without fear of being overheard. Copyright (c)1998 ABCNEWS --------------------------------NOTICE:------------------------------ ISPI Clips are news & opinion articles on privacy issues from all points of view; they are clipped from local, national and international newspapers, journals and magazines, etc. Inclusion as an ISPI Clip does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of the content or opinion by ISPI. In compliance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed free without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISPI Clips is a FREE e-mail service from the "Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues" (ISPI). To receive "ISPI Clips" on a regular bases (up to 3 - 8 clips per day) send the following message "Please enter [Your Name] into the ISPI Clips list: [Your e-mail address]" to: ISPIClips(a)ama-gi.com . 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We gratefully accept all contributions: Less than $60 ISPI Clips Supporter $60 - $99 Primary ISPI Membership (1 year) $100 - $300 Senior ISPI Membership (2 years) More than $300 Executive Council Membership (life) Your ISPI "membership" contribution entitles you to receive "The ISPI Privacy Reporter" (our bi-monthly 12 page hard-copy newsletter in multi-contributor format) for the duration of your membership. For a contribution form with postal instructions please send the following message "ISPI Contribution Form" to ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com . We maintain a strict privacy policy. Any information you divulge to ISPI is kept in strict confidence. 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IP: One-Stop Shopping for Anti-Terrorism Aid
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: One-Stop Shopping for Anti-Terrorism Aid Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 17:55:09 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Fox News - AP Reno offers one-stop federal anti-terrorist aid 3.37 p.m. ET (1938 GMT) October 16, 1998 By Michael J. Sniffen, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) Attorney General Janet Reno trumpeted a new FBI office Friday that will offer local police, fire and rescue workers one-stop shopping for federal training and equipment to respond to chemical, biological or nuclear attacks by terrorists. The FBI's new National Domestic Preparedness Office, staffed by officials from a variety of federal agencies, "will assume overall responsibility for coordinating the government's efforts to prepare America's communities for terrorist incidents involving weapons of mass destruction,'' Reno told her weekly news conference. After an attack, "the first few minutes are very critical,'' Reno said. Usually, the first to arrive at the chaotic and dangerous scene are local rescue squads, firefighters and police. "For many victims, what these first responders do in those first few minutes can mean the difference between life and death.'' State and local officials responsible for these efforts have complained in recent years that federal aid either training or equipment is hard to find and inadequate and that some federal agencies duplicate the work of others while gaps remain. The new program "is trying to address the issues that first responders have raised and create a two-way street so that we hear from them, that we provide one central place where they can go, knowing that they will get the best information, both from the FBI, Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Public Health Service, and that they will get the latest information with respect to equipment,'' Reno said. Under a new interagency agreement, Justice and the FBI will take over from the Defense Department as the coordinator, funded by $49 million from the Pentagon in the coming fiscal year. The program will train state and local workers, distribute money to buy equipment, set up joint federal-state-local practice exercises and work with state and local officials to draft contingency plans unique to each local situation, Reno said. "State and local governments (will be) a full partner in the planning effort, since they know what they need there at the front line.'' The FBI has been investigating a rising number of suspected biological, chemical or nuclear-radiological incidents 68 in 1997 and 86 in 1998. But Bob Blitzer, chief of the FBI's domestic terrorism unit, said, "the vast majority of these are hoaxes.'' He said the bureau believed it had averted four or five potential attacks in the last couple years. Many fire department have good hazardous materials units to deal with chemical attacks, and for many years there has been "a pretty robust capability to handle'' nuclear-radiological attacks, Blitzer said. "The real weakness that we have right now is the ability to detect and counter a (biological attack), because it's much more insidious and much more difficult to detect,'' Blitzer added. "There's certainly less protection, particularly on the medical side.'' © 1998 Associated Press. All rights reserved. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IMPORTANT! Fwd: Social Engineering & C68
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi! My name is Jean-Francois Avon. Almost all of you who will read this message know me personnally. I forward this message to you for I believe that it is of *great* importance. The message discuss things that *will* affect your life in one way or another. PLEASE take the time to read it. The implications of what is discussed in this document will affect *everybody*. PLEASE! DO READ IT COMPLETELY! Jean-Francois Avon ==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 10:37:30 -0700 >From: Dan MacInnis <dan.louise(a)sympatico.ca> >Reply-To: dan.louise(a)sympatico.ca >To: cdn-firearms-digest(a)broadway.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca >CC: mkhughe(a)north.nsis.com, jf_avon(a)citenet.net >Subject: Social Engineering & C68 Let me begin by commenting I know this is not a 'chat' digest, but the question was raised here about Quebec/Maritime involvement if fighting C68 [the new firearms registration bill]. To be fair, there is quite a bit of work being done by individuals, but government is mute down there, and for ecomonic reasons, must be. The reluctance or simply because the populance had no personal arms of men and women to fight back when their wives, children, possessions etc. were being taken away is however, as in Nazi Germany and Kosovo today, is, I suggest, a major plank in Social Engineering of a Society. >From this point I will probably be branded as a "radical'. So be it. I am educated in Engineering and Philosophy, the former teaches system and the latter teaches thinking on, I would argue, another scale. The new so called 'Global' economy will, and already has, caused major social upheaval. People who were middle class a few short years ago are now on the streets or almost there due to the relocaction of work to countries with a lower wage scale. Mexico, India, two of which I have first hand knowledge, the wages are less than %10 of North American rates. Workers and management both were'are being 'let go', out of a source of income. The stock market was inundated with large sums of cash, the source was the money paid to let go people, their severance package. Hence, the inflated price of shares, which the market is just now correcting, to the detriment of retirement payouts from Mutual Fund to these laid off workers. Their future is bleak, to put it mildly. Farmers must be, by international trade laws, cut off from government support and assistannce, to give an example, hog and milk subsidies. So they face a bleak future in Canada. Quebec fought hard for Free Trade, until the dairy and hog farmers read the fine print. Now we had a milk strike, annd as I write, the hog farmers in Quebec are raising Hale. Jean Francois Avon wrote in response to my earlier diatribe on Jews/Kosovians(I hope he copied this Digest) that Quebec Separatists would be afraid of an armed populace. I suggest he is correct. So too are the federal and eastern Canadian provincial governments afraid of guns in the hands of civilians. They see them as weapons which could be used against them and the establishment as the economy changes and more and more middle class people, farmers, fishermen and former managers reach the lower ranks of income and living conditions. In Canada, we rank social standing by job/income/education to do a job. We rated fur trappers at the bottom, because it payed poorly and required little formal education to perform. Tie in to Bill C68? Well, Allan Rock let the cat out of the bag. When he was briefed after becoming Minister of Justice, it was explained to him that the program to disarm civilians began when Free Trade/Global Economy talks were in their early stages, was running behind shedule. In his jubulance, determined to 'get the job done', where Mulroney had slowed down after an aggressive start, he blurted out the program on live TV. 'Only police and the military should have guns'. In the opinion of the various goverments, including Quebec, Ottawa and some provinces, the program must be complete, and must be completed soon. Farmers, as they lose their farms to financial institutions, fishermen, as they lose thier boats, certain interests in Quebec as they lose everything due to separation, may fight back. It is therefore critical that they do not have access to arms, as a means of defence or aggression. The War Measures act is gone, replaced. A legal means had to be manufactured to remove guns from the people. Hence, C68 is a good beginning. It allows confiscation of any firearms so deemed by the incumbent government later on. No, my friends, Ottawa is not stupid, this is a well thought out plan, and appears to be working, as they use mass media on the population, to change public opinion to their side, i.e., guns are dangerous especially to women and children. In fact, firearms in the hands of civilians are dangerous, but to repressive governments from a displaced populace. As more and more Canadians find everything they worked for threatened, some MIGHT fight back, and shoot the Bailiff's from the Banks and the police sent to protect them when they re-possess their property and throw them, literally, on the streets, on into their relatives homes. Registration? Use of the harsh Criminal Code, jail, for non-compliance?? Necessary, in Ottawa's view. Get the job begun earlier finished, then they can go on the the greater plan, more relaxed when people have no means of defence or rebellion. When you live on the streets, there is no place to hide a gun. Not to sound trite, but this will test 'unsafe storage' laws to the limit. If the Supreme Court judges have been properly briefed on the Social Engineering aspects of C68, we do not have a chance in Hell in the courts. Then, we will have a search and seizure, after 2003, to actively find and confiscate unregistered and illegal (by now) guns on farms, in houses, examples made in the Press of a few, and the game is over. Is this gloom and doom from me, or a realistic analysis of the situation? You decide, but at least think about it from a broader angle than simply telling Ottawa how many, the serial number and storage place of your firearms today. We need only to look at the history of Scotland to see Quebec today and the ROC tomorrow. And C68 plays a huge role in this. ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== Jean-Francois Avon, B.Sc. Physics, Montreal, Canada DePompadour, Société d'Importation Ltée Limoges fine porcelain and french crystal JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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test1
by Igor Chudov 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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