Clinton's Pager Hacked
Dave Wagner passed on a story about the hacking of the White House Communications Agency's pager system, with commentary on what was lifted and the possible consequences for crypto policy: http://jya.com/potus-hack.htm The full report on the hack is online at: http://www.inch.com/~esoteric/pam_suggestion/formal.html With links to the transcript. The big-time media are about to break the story worldwide according to Dave.
I got a copy of the transcript last week. We decided not to run with it. But someone on f-c posted that ABC News ran something last night. -Declan On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, John Young wrote:
Dave Wagner passed on a story about the hacking of the White House Communications Agency's pager system, with commentary on what was lifted and the possible consequences for crypto policy:
The full report on the hack is online at:
http://www.inch.com/~esoteric/pam_suggestion/formal.html
With links to the transcript. The big-time media are about to break the story worldwide according to Dave.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- intercepting the pager signals (effectively in the clear) is one thing: breach of personal security for POTUS. however, the real issue would be interferring (or even false messages) on a single channel system (not even spread spectrum) THIS is precisely why the government fears encrytion! They simply do not understand it; they do NOT want to understand it, and like all other problems of government, they want to make it illegal and sweep it under the carpet which will make it go away! yeah, right.... the secondary issue is organized government, elected or not, has its own agenda: to stay in power. any empowerment of the mass is a threat to their supremacy. or, as I like to think of it, government obsession with itself is like a self eating watermelon. -- "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." --Benjamin Franklin ______________________________________________________________________ "attila" 1024/C20B6905/23 D0 FA 7F 6A 8F 60 66 BC AF AE 56 98 C0 D7 B0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQCVAwUBNCNahr04kQrCC2kFAQE9uAP/cHibQf4B2m5AQgSs1Tu5M625rh4VkPSc ONWpYaFldKvbfCNqeVt6I3yG+41qqeig4alE6xWcfImkGFHWyiOgvw3WyTeV8b9r LxJ42dwAtc4Rkml+BeXsFnR0napRtYwSQ2nxdVsCk7dWtgvj+PGpB0aIsEA5tjYm V3ekzbYdVr0= =Ovc6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Attila T. Hun -
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