Subject: Effects of Nukes Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 09:47:43 -0600 From: bill payne <billp@nmol.com> To: gap@igc.apc.org, tom carpenter - halcyon <tomcgap@halcyon.com>, jeff debonis <76554.133@compuserve.com>, lawya@lucs-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk, senatorlott@lott.senate.gov, senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov, conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov, larry_craig@craig.senate.gov, senator@wyden.senate.gov, dpcintrn@osd.pentagon.mil, conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov, senator_gorton@gorton.senate.gov, senatorlott@lott.senate.gov, john_ashcroft@ashcroft.senate.gov, michigan@abraham.senate.gov, sam.brownback@.senate.gov, senator@dorgan.senate.gov, senator_stevens@stevens.senate.gov, senator@hutchison.senate.gov, olympia@snowe.senate.gov, senator@hollings.senate.gov, senator@inouye.senate.gov, wendell_ford@ford.senate.gov, senator@rockefeller.senate.gov, john_kerry@kerry.senate.gov, senator@breaux.senate.gov, senator@bryan.senate.gov, HERBERT.RICHARDSON@hq.doe.gov, BILL.RICHARDSON@HQ.DOE.GOV, pcassel@rt66.com, gregh@scene.com CC: senator@wellstone.senate.gov, jy@jya.com, senator_mccain@mccain.senate.gov, grassley <chuck_grassley@grassley.senate.gov>, cynthia mckinney <CYMCK@mail.house.gov>, c paul robinson <cprobin@sandia.gov>, art morales <armoral@sandia.gov>, cypherpunks@toad.com, ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk Monday 10/5/98 7:01 AM Tom Carpenter http://www.whistleblower.org/ I hope your week-end conference went well. I think I will in Pullman in a few weeks. And, therefore, almost a DOWNWINDER. When I was a prof at Washington State University 1966-79 we traveled to Spokane. I always wondered why I saw so many sick kids in Spokane. I think we all now know a possible reason. Albuquerque Journal Sunday 10/4/98 Heath Effects of Nuke Sites Targeted DOE's Richardson to Review Reports The Associated Press DENVER - U.S. Energy Secr- ary Bill Richardson says he will investigate reports of health prob- lems among people living near or working at federal nuclear weapons. plants and research facilities in 11 states. A total of 410 people told a news- per, The Tennessean, they are suffering from unexplained illness- including tremors, memory toss, fatigue and a variety of breathing, muscular and reproductive prob- lems. Their doctors cannot explain why they are sick. No direct link has been estab- lished between the illnesses and the "I want to be absolutety sure we're erring on the side of making sure there are no problems." U.S. ENERGY SECRETARY BILL RICHARDSON Department of Energy sites. But doctors, scientists and lawmakers say it's large enough to warrant a comprehensive study to try to find the cause. "My views we ought to get to the bottom of this," Richardson told the newspaper after meeting Friday with residents near the Rocky Flats nuclear site in Denver. "I want to be absolutely sure we're erring on the side of making sure there are no problems." Scientists have been concerned for decades about radiation from nuclear production and its link to cancer But no one has ever looked into noncancerous illnesses. During a 22-month investigation, the newspaper found ill people at 13 DOE sites in Tennessee, Colorado, South Carolina, New Mexico, Idaho, New York, California, Ohio, Ken- tucky, Texas and Washington. The Energy Department had ear- lier said it does not plan to take a comprehensive look at the issue. http://www.tennessean.com/special/oakridge/part3/index.shtml Here is some other relevant information about the U.S. goverment, Department of Energy, and nukes from Wierd History 101 by John Richard Stephens http://www.thegrid.net/fern.canyon/weird/contents.htm [A]nd then there are the legitimate concerns of terrorists using nuclear weapons. This risk is emphasized by the many incidents where the smugglers of nuclear components have been caught. But let's not get into that. Ever since the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, people have worried about having one of these horrors dropped on them. Since the demise of the Soviet Union, this threat has become more nebulous, making it a bit more difficult for people to focus their fears.16 As a result, their fears have diminished somewhat even though the threat has probably increased because of the increase in countries that have the 16 As of 1997, Russia and the United States still had about seven thousand strategic (or long rang) warheads each. Roughly half of these could be launched with a few minutes notice. bomb and the advances in technology that enable a bomb to be made from fissionable material the size of a beer can, while a bomb that can level a city can now be made to fit into a knapsack. But during the Cold War, the threat seemed much more immediate. Partly in response to these fears, the govern- ment implemented programs to teach people how they could protect themselves in the event of a nuclear attack. Early efforts downplayed the risks. One amazing example of this is the pamphlet Survival Under Atomic Attack. Published by the U.S. government in 1950, this official booklet proclaims, "You can SURVIVE. You can live through an atom bomb raid and you won't have to have a Geiger counter, protective clothing, or spe- cial training in order to do it." And then it goes on to give such advice as, 'After an air burst, wait a few minutes then go help to fight fires. After other kinds of bursts wait at least 1 hour to give lingering radiation some chance to die down." Discussing the role of the IRS in a nuclear attack, the Internal Revenue Service Handbook (1976) says, "During a state of national emergency resulting from enemy attack, the essential functions of the Service will be as follows: (1) assessing, collecting, and recording taxes. . .” Where is the Best Place to Go? If you live in a State where there is danger from sudden storms like cyclones or hurricanes, you may have a "cyclone cellar" or something similar. If so, you have a shelter that will give excellent protection against atomic bombs. [People soon realized this wasn't quite true, and they began building bomb shelters.] "All you have to do to protect yourself from radiation is go down to the bottom of your swimming pool and hold your breath." -David Miller Department of Energy spokesperson [S]o there you have it. You're now prepared to survive nuclear warfare. Think you can handle it? Actually, it's very hard to believe that, after five years of intensively studying the effects of atomic bombs and radiation at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and various tests involving military personnel as human guinea pigs, the government didn't have a better idea of the dangers. “My fellow Americans. I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." -President Ronald Reagan during a sound check for a live radio show, 1984 [I]n one of the tests in 1953, U.S. soldiers were placed near the explosion to test how well they could function after a blast. Sergeant Reason Warehime was one of fifty soldiers who were in a trench two miles from ground zero. They wore no protective gear. “The first thing I saw" he later reported, “was a real bright light like a flashbulb going off in my face, but it stayed on. It was so bright that even with sunglasses on, my hands over my eyes, and my eyes closed, I could actually see the bones in my hands. I felt as if someone was hugging me really tight, and my whole body was being compressed. All of a sudden, I heard an awful noise and felt an intensely hot wind blowing and the ground rocking like an earthquake. The dust was so thick I could not see the man right next to me. The air was so hot that it was difficult to breathe. . . . Since the fireball was directly over our heads, there is no doubt in my mind that we were in the 'stem' of the mushroom cloud." A voice over a loudspeaker ordered them to advance toward ground zero. The sandbags along the top of their trench were on fire. On reaching a bunker that was just over a mile from ground zero, they found eight men. "Those guys were sick as dogs and heaving their guts out," he said. Soon they began finding spots where the sand had melted into glass. After reaching the crater, they turned back and eventually were picked up by two radiation specialists in full protective gear. On the way back, Warehime and some of his companions started throwing up. A few months later; all of his hair fell out, his teeth began to rot, and he was diagnosed as sterile. Eventually, he developed cataracts, lung cancer; his bones became brittle, and he had to use crutches to get around. Even though radiation is known to cause these things, in the 1980s, the Veterans Administration insisted his problems weren't caused by this bomb and denied disability to him and many others like him. An estimated 250,000 military personnel were exposed to radiation in experiments between 1946 and the 1970s. Many additional civilians were also used as guinea pigs in radiation tests. Very few have ever received any compensation for or assistance with the perma- nent damage caused to them. Warehime was exposed to a forty-three- kiloton (not megaton) bomb. It turned out to be almost twice as powerful as the physicists had calculated it would be and was about twice as powerful as those used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Its radiation cloud spread across the nation from Nevada, fogging undeveloped film as far away as New Jersey. Morales and I are in the planning stage to put up a web site. John Young has been encouraging us to do this. Reason is that we are going after the judges and clerks in the Tenth circuit who awarded our court wins to Sandia we, in fact, we won. Now that John Young got the docket for us. Also I will be doing a Privacy Act violation defamation lawsuit against Sandia, DOE, EEOC, Lockheed Martin, AT&T, and named defendants. We will have several FORUMS. 1 Pro se litigation against the U.S. Federal government 2 Microsoft Assembler mixed-language programming 3 80C32 hardware, Forth high-level and assembler programming. at least. John Young started 3. http://jya.com/f86/whpf86.htm 1 and 2 may be compatible. Microsoft distributes buggy software while Gates, Paul Allen, and Balmer become some of the richest men in the world. Perhaps, with some legal encouragement, the above three should spend some of their money getting the bugs out of their software. To kick-off 1 and 2 I am thinking of posting a complaint against Microsoft for having scammed me by not included a 32 bit linker with MASM 6.11 I just bought. If we don’t settle, of course. I will check e-mail in a few minutes to see how progress to get the 32 bit linker is coming. Microsoft appears to want me to buy a C compiler or Windows NT SDK [software development kit] to get the 32 bit linker. With all this scary stuff of effects of nukes, let’s hope Rep. McKinney and Senator Grassley are making progress to help get NSA to post the requested documents. http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm And, too, let’s ALL hope for settlement so that we can move on to other constructive projects. Before things GET WORSE. Later bill Subject: one-time pad Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 17:06:53 -0600 From: bill payne <billp@nmol.com> To: j orlin grabbe <kalliste@aci.net>, conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov, senator_gorton@gorton.senate.gov, senatorlott@lott.senate.gov, john_ashcroft@ashcroft.senate.gov, michigan@abraham.senate.gov, sam.brownback@.senate.gov, senator@dorgan.senate.gov, senator@wyden.senate.gov, senator_stevens@stevens.senate.gov, senator@hutchison.senate.gov, olympia@snowe.senate.gov, senator@hollings.senate.gov, senator@inouye.senate.gov, wendell_ford@ford.senate.gov, senator@rockefeller.senate.gov, john_kerry@kerry.senate.gov, senator@breaux.senate.gov, senator@bryan.senate.gov, nmir@usa.net, Info@IranOnline.com, info@jebhe.org, Mehrdad@Mehrdad.org, cypherpunks@toad.com, ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk, wpi@wpiran.org, abd@CDT.ORG, merata@pearl.sums.ac.ir, dpcintrn@osd.pentagon.mil, abumujahid@taliban.com, schneier@counterpane.com CC: jy@jya.com, john gilmore <gnu@toad.com>, Emile Zola <ezola@lfcity.com>, lennon@email.nist.gov, itl-bulletin@nist.gov Orlin http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ and, of course,http://www.aci.net/kalliste/bw1.htm I got a big kick reading http://www.jya.com/tristrata.htm Especially, While a one-time pad is, in fact, theoretically unbreakable when used properly, the details of using it properly make it entirely unusable in any modern commercial or military setting. And This kind of system was used for the U.S.-Soviet teletype "hot line" and it is occasionally used for paper ciphers and spies, but that's it. Codes and Cryptography by Dominic Welsh references on page 126 Sandia's Gus Simmons as the source of the above. (And if users can exchange these keys, why can't they just exchange the messages?) I think the reason is that the users want to exchange keys for messages to be sent at a later time, perhaps electronically. But we have to stick to the position. Does the algorithm pass the Black and White test or not? No buts. Let's all hope for settlement of this UNFORTUNATE matter before it gets WORSE. bill --- laszlo http://www.qainfo.se/~lb/crypto_ag.htm Sayonara 1 crypto ag 2 wiegand wires There are some good business opportunities. If we live that long. WE believe that the OTHER SIDE is NOT happy about what happened. NSA Hoe Cryptogate /JI October 5, 1998 http://www.jya.com/crypto.htm --- False Security William H. Payne Abstract "Why 130 million Wiegand cards are in use throughout the world . The most secure of all access card technologies. HID Wiegand cards are virtually impossible to counterfeit... any attempt to alter them destroys them! ... Since no direct contact with the card is required, they are totally enclosed, making them absolutely immune to the elements and a frustration of vandals. ... The secrets to the security of an HID Wiegand card are those little enclosed wire strips. Once corrupted, they won't work." Access Control & SECURITY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION, September 1998 www.prox.com http/www.securitysolutions.com http://www.securitysolutions.com/ *** Bullshit.*** False! - in the EDITED edition, of course Fumble, Bumble and Inept Funds Electronic Lock Breaking at Sandia National Laboratories. Zola http://zolatimes.com/ Would this be worth some bucks? Want another FUN article? http://www.zolatimes.com/v2.29/bw1.html http://www.aci.net/kalliste/bw1 I would need a BRILLIANT EDITOR to help polish the ms. http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Counterfeiting Wiegand Wire Access Credentials Bill Payne October 16,1996 Abstract Wiegand wire access credentials are easy and inexpensive to counterfeit. Access Control & Security Systems Integration magazine, October 1996 [http://www/securitysolutions.com] published the article, Wiegand technology stands the test of time by PAUL J. BODELL, page 12 Many card and reader manufacturers offer Wiegand (pronounced wee-gand) output. However, only three companies in the world make Wiegand readers. Sensor Engineering of Hamden Conn., holds the patent for Wiegand, and Sensor has licensed Cardkey of Simi Valley, Calif., and Doduco of Pforzheim, Germany, to manufacture Wiegand cards and readers. ... A Wiegand output reader is not the same thing as a Wiegand reader, and it is important to understand the differences. In brief, Wiegand reader use the Wiegand effect to translate card information around the patented Wiegand effect in which a segment of a specially treated wire generates an electronic pulse when subjected to a specific magnetic field. If the pulse is generated when the wire is near a pick-up coil, the pulse can be detected by a circuit. Lining up several rows of wires and passing them by a cold would generate a series of pulses. Lining up two rows of wires - calling on row "zero bits" and the other "one bits" - and passing them by two different coils would generate two series of pulses, or data bits. These data bits can then be interpreted as binary data and used to control other devices. If you seal the coils in a rugged housing with properly placed magnets, and LED and some simple circuitry, you have a Wiegand reader. Carefully laminate the special wires in vinyl, and artwork, and hot-stamp a number on the vinyl, and you have a Wiegand card. IN THE BEGINNING Wiegand was first to introduce to the access control market in the late 1970s. It was immediately successful because it filled the need for durable, secure card and reader technology. Embedded in the cards, Wiegand wires cannot be altered or duplicated. ... Bodell's Last statement is incorrect. Tasks for EASILY counterfeiting Wiegand wire cards are 1 Locate the wires inside the card to read the 0s and 1s. 2 Build an ACCEPTABLE copy of the card. Bodell's clear explanation of the working of a Wiegand card can be visualized zero row | | | one row | | binary 0 1 0 0 1 representation Solutions to Task 1 A X-ray the card B MAGNI VIEW FILM, Mylar film reads magnetic fields ... Edmunds Scientific Company, catalog 16N1, page 205, C33,447 $11.75 is placed over the top of the Wiegand card. COW MAGNET, Cow magnetics allow farmers to trap metal in the stomachs of their cows. Edmunds, page 204, C31,101 $10.75 is placed under the card. Location of the wires is easily seen on the green film. Mark the position of the wires with a pen. Next chop the card vertically using a shear into about 80/1000s paper-match-sized strips. Don't worry about cutting a wire or two. Note that a 0 has the pen mark to the top. A 1 has the pen mark at the bottom. Take a business card and layout the "paper match"-like strips to counterfeit the card number desired. Don't worry about spacing. Wiegand output is self-clocking! Tape the "paper-match - like" strips to the business card. Only the FUNCTION of the card needs to be reproduced! History Breaking electronic locks was done as "work for others" at Sandia National Laboratories beginning in 1992 funded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation/Engineering Research Facility, Quantico, VA. The FBI opined that this work was SECRET/NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION. Details of the consequences of this work are covered in Fired Worker File Lawsuit Against Sandia Specialist Says He Balked When Lab Sought Electronic Picklock Software, Albuquer Journal, Sunday April 25, 1993 State-sanctioned paranoia, EE Times, January 22, 1996 One man's battle, EE Times, March 22, 1994 Damn the torpedoes, EE Times, June 6, 1994 Protecting properly classified info, EE Times, April 11, 1994 DOE to scrutinize fairness in old whistle-blower cases, Albuquerque Tribune, Nov 7 1995 DOE boss accelerates whistle-blower protection, Albuquerque Tribune, March 27, 1996 DOE doesn't plan to compensate 'old' whistle-blowers with money, Albuquerque Tribune September 27, 199