Re: Global Strike to protest Wassenaar
Richard.Bragg@ssa.co.uk wrote:
The idea would be to exchange nothing while make it appear to be exchanging information of real importance. OK so this will be just like any managment memo but you must get my drift.
There used to be a web site called "Throwing Sand into the All-Seeing Eye" which listed a long list of possible NSA-snooper keywords, such as military classifications and code words that could be sent for fun across the Internet for sole purpose of being flagged by the NSA.
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Mixmaster wrote:
There used to be a web site called "Throwing Sand into the All-Seeing Eye" which listed a long list of possible NSA-snooper keywords, such as military classifications and code words that could be sent for fun across the Internet for sole purpose of being flagged by the NSA.
I imagine they(tm) would have countermeasures for this kind of thing, given that once they catch a keyword, they know it's source, and have some idea of the kinds of patterns which are likely to be real communications. The Web site probably went straight into a junk filter, which would make it an ideal place to post your secrets from then on :-) - James.
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 12:39:32AM +1100, James Morris wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Mixmaster wrote:
There used to be a web site called "Throwing Sand into the All-Seeing Eye" which listed a long list of possible NSA-snooper keywords, such as military classifications and code words that could be sent for fun across the Internet for sole purpose of being flagged by the NSA.
I imagine they(tm) would have countermeasures for this kind of thing, given that once they catch a keyword, they know it's source, and have some idea of the kinds of patterns which are likely to be real communications.
The Web site probably went straight into a junk filter, which would make it an ideal place to post your secrets from then on :-)
Unless that's exactly what they want us to think! - d.
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 04:02:00AM -0800, Mixmaster wrote:
There used to be a web site called "Throwing Sand into the All-Seeing Eye" which listed a long list of possible NSA-snooper keywords, such as military classifications and code words that could be sent for fun across the Internet for sole purpose of being flagged by the NSA.
The All Seeing Eye What I propose, as a potential prank, is to include the following phrases in signature files on messages for a while. I'm sure the DoD will be annoyed. It's a bit long, so ignore if you want to. Chance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throwing sand in the All-Seeing Eye by Paul McGinnis (original article posted April 24, 1994) (this is an article about my plan to have fun with paranoid people in the US government) I've often wondered if various entities of the US government monitor the public messages in newsgroups such as this or monitor unencrypted electronic mail. I've worked in the communications industry since 1987 and I know how easy it is to monitor digital communications -- in fact, it is often necessary to monitor data communications to find problems in the hardware or software. There have been rumors that NSA can scan international links for keywords like "MX missile" or "Stealth bomber". It's very easy to set up this kind of filter program -- for instance, if you mention Kibo in a Usenet public message, he will respond. With that in mind, I'd like to propose an experiment (maybe prank is a better description...). The following is a list of phrases that are put at the beginning of classified files by the US government. They are taken from Department of Defense manual DOD 5220.22-M and Title 32, Section 2001 Code of Federal Regulations. Note: comments are placed between square brackets, i.e. [this is a comment]. My experiment is to see what happens if you start putting some of these at the beginning of your Internet messages... primary markings TOP SECRET (TS) [markings shown in parentheses are accepted abbreviations. For example, you could just put (TS) on a document, instead of TOP SECRET] SECRET (S) CONFIDENTIAL (C) additional markings SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION [very secret intelligence information] SCI DISSEMINATION AND EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION CONTROLLED BY ORIGINATOR [this marking, also written as ORCON, is used on information that clearly identifies a US intelligence source or method] ORCON WARNING NOTICE - INTELLIGENCE SOURCES OR METHODS INVOLVED [this marking is used on information that could identify an intelligence source or method] WNINTEL SINGLE INTEGRATED OPERATIONAL PLAN - EXTREMELY SENSITIVE INFORMATION [US nuclear war fighting plans] SIOP-ESI CRITICAL NUCLEAR WEAPON DESIGN INFORMATION CNWDI RESTRICTED DATA - This material contains RESTRICTED DATA as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Unauthorized disclosure subject to administrative and criminal sanctions. [used for nuclear secrets that are below CNWDI] FORMERLY RESTRICTED DATA - Unauthorized disclosure subject to administrative and criminal sanctions. Handle as RESTRICTED DATA in foreign dissemination. Section 144b, AEC 1954. [this label applies to nuclear secrets that have been transferred to a military agency from the Department of Energy or its predecessor, the Atomic Energy Commission] LIMITED DISSEMINATION [used on information in Special Access Programs] LIMDIS FOREIGN GOVERNMENT INFORMATION [classified material that originated with a US ally] FGI COSMIC TOP SECRET [NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) document that is classified TOP SECRET] NATO SECRET NATO CONFIDENTIAL NATO RESTRICTED ATOMAL [NATO nuclear secrets] NOT RELEASABLE TO CONTRACTORS/CONSULTANTS [this might be used if the powers-that-be are discussing cancelling a contract with an aerospace company...] NOCONTRACT CAUTION - PROPRIETARY INFORMATION INVOLVED [this marking is used on documents that would prove harmful to a company. For example, it could be marked on TRW documents that weren't supposed to go to Martin Marietta Co.] PROPIN REPRODUCTION REQUIRES APPROVAL OF ORIGINATOR OR HIGHER GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY. CLASSIFIED BY MULTIPLE SOURCES NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS [under no circumstances can this data be released, not even to a US ally] NOFORN [this is the dreaded NOFORN marking that Cliff Stoll jokingly said meant 'No Fornication' in his book "The Cuckoo's Egg"...]
At 08:25 AM 12/15/98 -0600, mib wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 04:02:00AM -0800, Mixmaster wrote: >> There used to be a web site called "Throwing Sand into the All-Seeing Eye" >> which listed a long list of possible NSA-snooper keywords, such as military >> classifications and code words that could be sent for fun across the >> Internet for sole purpose of being flagged by the NSA. > Here are some more suggestions (I didn't make this list; all of these supposedly were on watch actual lists of different types----"thanks" to the police & spook organizations for doing the research) > >Act Now; ACT-UP; Action for Animals; Adrian 17; African Students Org./S.F. >State; African Network; African >National Reparations Org.; African People's Socialist Party; African People's >Solidarity Comm.; African >Students Org.; Africans United for Progress; AFSCME Local 3218 (Vice Pres.); >AFSCME Local 3508; Alexandria >Assoc. of Human Rights Advocacy; All Peoples Congress; Alliance for Philippine >Concerns; Alliance to Stop First >Strike; Alliance to Stop Police Abuse; Allied Printing Trades Council; >Alternative Information Center; >Amer-I-Can; American Civil Liberties Union; American Indian Center; American >Indian Movement; American Indian >Student Org.; American Muslim Museum; Americans for Peace Now; Anarchist >Collective; ANC Meeting; _Ang >Katipuan_; Anti-Apartheid Comm./AFSCME; Anti-Militarism Comm.; Anti-Racist >Action; April 19th Comm. Against >Nazis; Arab Baath Socialist Party; Arab Lesbian Network; Armenian National >Comm.; Armenian Peoples Movement; >Arms Control Research Center; Artists and Videomakers Against the War; Artists >and Writers Out Loud; Artists >Television Access; Asian Law Caucus; Audio Archives; Author of Measure J; >Babylon Burning; Back Country Action >Network; Bad Cop/No Donut; Barricada Internacional; Bay Area Anti-Racist >Action; Bay Area Coalition for Our >Reproductive Rights; Bay Area Friends of the Christic Institute; Bay Area >Jewish Task Force on Cent. Am.; Bay >Area Natl. Conf. of Black Lawyers; Bay Area Peace Council; Bay Area Peace Navy; >Bay Area Reporter; Bay Area >Times; Bay Area Vets Against War in Mid. East; Beebee Memorial C.M.E. Temple; >Ben Linder Construction Brigade; >Big Mountain Native People's Support; Bir Zeit Univ. Instructor; Black >Consciousness Movement of Azania; Black >Freedom Fighters Coalition; Black Men United for Change; Black Studies >Department/S.F. State; Black United >Front; Boricuan Popular Army for Puerto Rican Independence; Boycott Coke; >Boycott Shell Comm.; Breakthrough; >Brigada Antonio Maceo; Brothers of African Descent; Bulletin in Defense of Marxism; >Calendar Magazine (Gay); California Voice; Campaign Against Apartheid; Campus >Peace Comm.; Canadians for >Justice in the Middle East; Capp Street Center; Capp Street Foundation; >Carpenters Local 22; Casa El Salvador; >Casa El Salvador Mailing List; Center for Constitutional Rights; Center for >Democratic Renewal; Center for >Investigative Reporting; Center for Middle East Studies; Center for the Study >of the Americas; Cent. Amer. >Research Institute; Chair: Chicano Studies (U.C. Berkeley); Chop >>Representative Government; Coalition of Black >Trade Unionists; Commission of Inquiry; Comm. Against Lockheed D-5; Comm. for >Academic Freedom in >Israeli-Occupied Territories; Comm. for Equality and Justice; Comm. for Freedom >in Argentina; Comm. for Peace >and Democracy in Iran; Comm. for Perm. Israeli-Palestinian Peace; CISPES; >Cistur; Committee to Free Geronimo >Pratt; Comm. to Support the Revolution in Peru; Communist Party U.S.A.; >Communist Workers Party; Communist >Youth Brigade; Community-Labor Coalition for Social & Econ. Justice; Community >United Against Violence; >Continuing the Peace Dialogue; Contra Watch Newsletter; Copwatch; Council for >the National Interest; Council on >Foreign Relations; CounterSpy; Covert Action Information Bulletin; Covert >Action; Cuba Resource Group; Cuba >Information Project; Delta Sigma Beta; Democratic Society of America; >Democratic Workers Party; Dennis Banks >Defense Comm.; Diablo Valley Peace Center; Direct Action Against Racism; >Doghouse Newsletter; Downside Records; >Dykes and Gay Emergency Response; Earth Island Institute; East Bay Women for >Peace; El Centro de la Raza; El >Tecolote; Emergency Coalit. for Palestinian Rights; Emergency Coalition to End >War; Emergency Comm. to Stop >Flag Amendment; Endorser of Proposition W; Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; >Fighting Back; Filipino East Bay >Network; Filipino Organization Comm.; FMLN-FDR West Coast Representative; Food >First; Food Not Bombs; Free S.A. >Labor Comm.; Freedom for S.A. Refugees Campaign; Freedom for S.A. Refugees >Center; Freedom Rising Africa >Solidarity Comm.; Freedom Road Socialist Org.; Freedom Socialist Party; Friends >of Nicaragua; Friends of Yesh >Gvul; Frontline; Frontline Managing Editor; Gay American Indians; Gay and >Lesbian Labor Alliance; Global >Exchange; Global Options; Green Giant Frozen Food Workers Comm.; Greenpeace; >Group for the Critical Study of >Colonialism; Guardian; Guatemala News and Information Bureau; Harvey Milk Club; >Hotel and Restaurant Employees >Local 2; ILWU Local 6, President; ILWU Local 10; INCAR; In These Times; >Independent Grocers Assn.; Info. >Network Against War and Fascism; Information Services on Latin America; >Instituto del Pueblo; Interfaith Center >on Corporate Accountability; Interfaith Task Force on Cent. Amer.; >Inter-Hemispheric Education Resource Ctr.; >Intl. Campaign to Free Geronimo Pratt; Internatl. Comm. Against Racism; >Internatl. Indian Treaty Council; >Internatl. Jewish Peace Union; Internatl. League for Human Rights/N. Amer. >Chapter; Internatl. Socialist Org.; >Internationalist Workers Party; Irish National Aid; Irish Northern Aid; Irish >Republican Socialist Comm.; >Israeli Foreign Affairs; Israelis Against Occupation; Japanese-American >Citizens League; Jewish Comm. on the >Middle East; John Brown Anti-Klan Comm.; KPOO Radio; KQED-TV Board of Directors; KUNA; >Labor Comm. on the Middle East; Labor for Peace; Labor Video; LAGAL; La Raza >Coalition of Berkeley; La Raza >Unida; Latin American Support Comm.; Lavender Mafia; Lawyers Comm. on Cent. >Amer.; League of Filipino Students; >Leonard Peltier Alliance Group; Lesbian Agenda for Action; Lesbians and Gays >Against Intervention; Liberation >Support Movement; Libros Sin Fronteras; Line Of March; L.A. Coalition Against >Intervention in the Middle East; >L.A. Observer; L.A. Student Coalition; >MADRE; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; Mandela Reception Comm.; Maoist >Internationalist Movement; Marazul >Tours; Mariposa Peace Network; Marxist-Leninist Party; Media Review; Middle >East Children's Alliance; Middle >East Comm. for National Conference of Black Lawyers; Middle East Peace Network; >Midwest Labor Institute; >Mobilization Support Group; Modern Times Bookstore; Mother Jones; Movimiento de >Agrupacion Popular; Movimiento >Estudiantil Chicano; >NABET Local 51/Executive Board; NALC Local 14; National Alliance of Third World >Journalists; NAACP; National >Call to Action; Natl. Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays; Natl. Comm. Against >Repressive Legislation; >National Conference of Black Lawyers; National Forum of S.A.; National Midweek; >National Org. of African >Students in N. Am.; National Rainbow Coalition; National Response Comm./NBAU; >National Student Cent. Am. Action >Network; National Student Lobby; National Union of Farmers; Network of >Arab-American Students; Network in >Solidarity with Chile; New Afrikan Peoples Org.; New Alliance Newspaper; New >Alliance Party; New Americas >Press; New Jewish Agenda; New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican >Independentistas; Nicaragua Cultural >Center; Nicaragua Information Center; Nicaragua Information Center Bulletin; >Nicaragua Interfaith Comm. Action; >Nicaragua Network News; No Apologies/No Regrets; No Business As Usual; No >Justice, No Peace; North Bay >Anti-Racist Action; North Star; Northern California Ecumenical Council; Now >Magazine, Toronto (Canada); >Nuremberg Action; Oakland Education Association; O.C. Coalition for Peace in >the Middle East; OCAW; OCAW Local >8149; October 6 Justice Project; Oregon Philippines Concerns Comm.; Out of >Control Comm.; Outrage; >Pacifica Foundation; Pakistan Democratic Comm.; Pan African Movement of the >U.S.; Partido Socialista Chileno; >Partido Socialista Puertorriqueno; Partisan Defense Comm.; Patrice Lumumba >Coalition; Paul Robeson Friendship >Society; Peace and Conflict Studies; Peace and Freedom Comm.; Peace and Freedom >Party; Peace and Justice Comm. >- School Board; Peace and Solidarity Alliance; Peace and Solidarity Comm.; >Peace Cafe; Peace Research Center; >People Against Racist Terror; Peoples Anti-War Mobilization; Peoples >Architecture Collective; Peoples Law >Office; Peoples Park; Peoples Video; Peoples World; Pershing Plowshares; >Philippine Organizing Comm.; >Philippine Resource Center; Philippines Human Rights Lobby; Pledge of >Resistance; Plumbers and Fitters Local >393; Portland Cent. Am. Solidarity Comm.; Prison News Service; Project Impact; >Project National Interest; >Public Eye; >Queer Nation; Quinn Defense; Radical Film Collective; Radical Women; Rainbow >Coalition; Rainbow Lobby; Refuse >and Resist; Republic of New Afrika; Revolutionary Books; Revolutionary >Communist Party; Revolutionary Communist >Youth Brigade; Revolutionary Worker; Revolutionary Workers League; Richmond >Education Assn.; Roots Against War; >San Fernando Valley Peace Coalition; San Francisco Bay Guardian; S.F. Coalition >of Labor Union Women; S.F. >Labor Council/AFL-CIO; San Francisco Sentinel; S.F. Univ. Labor Studies; San >Francisco Weekly; S.F. Women for >Peace; SANE/FREEZE; Sardaraba; Science for Nicaragua; SEIU Local 535; SEIU >Local 616; Serbian Unity Congress; >Shell Boycott Comm.; Simon Wiesenthal Center; Sister City Assn; Socialist >Action; Socialist Party Political >Org.; Socialist Workers Party; Society of In'Ash El-U.S.A.; SOHRI Study Group >(U.C. Berkeley); Solidarity; S.A. >Forum; S.A. Freedom Through Education Foundation; S.A. Internatl. Student >Congress; South African Workers Org.; >South Bay Nicaragua Solidarity Comm.; So. African Liberation Support Comm.; >Southern African Media Center; >Spartacus Youth League; Spartacist League; Stevens, Hinds & White, Attorneys; >Stop the U.S. War Machine Action >Network; Student Cltn. Against Apartheid and Racism; Student Pugwash; Students >Against Intervention; Students >Against Intervention in Cent. Am.; Students for Peace in the Persian Gulf; >SWAPO; SWAPO Meeting; >Tass News Agency; Teamsters Local 921, S.F. Teamsters for a Democratic Union; >Technica; The Black Scholar; The >Data Center; The Dazen-I Foundation; The Irishman; The Nuclear Resister; Third >World Resources; Toronto >Anti-Intervention Coalition; Trustee, IAM Local 565 (Sunnyvale); >Ubiquitous; Unified Against Genocide; Union del Barrio; Union of Democratic >Filipinos; Union Publications; >United Auto Workers; United Auto Workers, Local 119; United Colors; United Farm >Workers; United Front Against >Fascism; U.S. Anti-Apartheid Newsletter; U.S. China Review; U.S. Comm. for >Friendship with the GDR; U.S.-Cuba >Labor Exchange; U.S.-Grenada Friendship Society; U.S. Out of S.A. Network; U.S. >Peace Council; U.S.-USSR >Friendship Society of S.F.; U.S.A. Movement Banning Apartheid; Univ. of Calif., >Berkeley; UTU Local 1730; >Vanguard Public Foundation; Venceremos Brigade; Vietnam Veterans Action; >Vietnam News Agency; Villa Zapata >Workers Comm.; Voice of the Uprising; >Washington Office on Africa; WBAI-FM (Pacifica Foundation) New York; Weatherman >Underground; Witness for S.A.; >Woman, Inc.; Women Against U.S. Intervention; Women in Black; Women of Color >Coalition Center; Women of Color >Resource Project; Women's Intl. League for Peace and Freedom; Workers World Party; >Yes on W Comm.; Young Koreans United; Young Koreans United of S.F. >Arab-American Democratic Club; Arab Book Center; Arab People's Coalition; Arab >Relief Fund of Lebanon; Arab >Studies Quarterly/Middle East Research and Information Project; Arab- American >Univ. Graduates; Arabic Book >Center; Bethlehem Assn.; Black Muslims; Comm. for a Democratic Palestine; Comm. >of Correspondence; Council of >Arab-American Orgs.; Dem. Front for the Liberation of Palestine; Democratic >Palestinian Youth; Department of >Near Eastern Studies; El Fatah; Family Sponsorship Project; General Union of >Palestinian Students; >Inst. of African-American Studies; Iranian Students Assn.; Iraqi Intelligence >Officer; Islamic Jihad; Islamic >Society of Orange County; Israeli Civil Right Assn.; JIFNA Association; >Khilafah; Law in the Service of Man; >Masjid Al-Islam; Masqid Al-Saff Mosque; Middle East Justice Network; Muslim >Mutadhakkirun Assn.; Muslim >Students Assn.; Muslim Students Union; Nation of Islam; National Assn. of >Arab-Americans; National Lawyers >Guild; November 29th Comm.; Occupied Land Fund; Palestine American Youth; >Palestine Arab Club; Palestine Arab >Fund; Palestine Democratic Youth Org.; Palestine Human Rights Campaign; >Palestine Solidarity Comm.; Palestine >Women's Org.; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; Progressive Muslim >Alliance; Sacred House of >Islam; Union of Palestinian Women's Association; ANC A Movement Banning >Apartheid; African National Congress; >All African Peoples Revolutionary Party; All-African Student Conference; >Alternative Education (RSA) (SACHED); >Anglican Church Bd. of Social Responsibility; Anti-Apartheid Comm.; Anti- >Apartheid L.A.; Apartheid Boycott >Campaign; Art Against Apartheid; Artists Against Apartheid; Bay Area Free S.A. >Movement; Berkeley >Anti-Apartheid Network; Canicor Research/S.A. Forum; Democratic Socialists of >America; Dennis Brutus Defense >Comm.; Evangelical Lutheran Church/S.A.; Free Moses Mayekiso Committee; >Journalist LA Times (in S.A.); >National Namibia Concerns; Pan African Congress; Pan Africanist Congress; >Pan-Africa Congress of Azania; >Prairie Fire Organizing Comm.; S.A. Ecumenical Task Force; S.F. Anti-Apartheid >Comm.; South African Student >Congress; Southern Africa Media Center; Univ. of Calif. Divestment Coalition Here's some keywords to get you started: Act Now; ACT-UP; Action for Animals; Adrian 17; African Students Org./S.F. State; African Network; African National Reparations Org.; African People's Socialist Party; African People's Solidarity Comm.; African Students Org.; Africans United for Progress; AFSCME Local 3218 (Vice Pres.); AFSCME Local 3508; Alexandria Assoc. of Human Rights Advocacy; All Peoples Congress; Alliance for Philippine Concerns; Alliance to Stop First Strike; Alliance to Stop Police Abuse; Allied Printing Trades Council; Alternative Information Center; Amer-I-Can; American Civil Liberties Union; American Indian Center; American Indian Movement; American Indian Student Org.; American Muslim Museum; Americans for Peace Now; Anarchist Collective; ANC Meeting; _Ang Katipuan_; Anti-Apartheid Comm./AFSCME; Anti-Militarism Comm.; Anti-Racist Action; April 19th Comm. Against Nazis; Arab Baath Socialist Party; Arab Lesbian Network; Armenian National Comm.; Armenian Peoples Movement; Arms Control Research Center; Artists and Videomakers Against the War; Artists and Writers Out Loud; Artists Television Access; Asian Law Caucus; Audio Archives; Author of Measure J; Babylon Burning; Back Country Action Network; Bad Cop/No Donut; Barricada Internacional; Bay Area Anti-Racist Action; Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights; Bay Area Friends of the Christic Institute; Bay Area Jewish Task Force on Cent. Am.; Bay Area Natl. Conf. of Black Lawyers; Bay Area Peace Council; Bay Area Peace Navy; Bay Area Reporter; Bay Area Times; Bay Area Vets Against War in Mid. East; Beebee Memorial C.M.E. Temple; Ben Linder Construction Brigade; Big Mountain Native People's Support; Bir Zeit Univ. Instructor; Black Consciousness Movement of Azania; Black Freedom Fighters Coalition; Black Men United for Change; Black Studies Department/S.F. State; Black United Front; Boricuan Popular Army for Puerto Rican Independence; Boycott Coke; Boycott Shell Comm.; Breakthrough; Brigada Antonio Maceo; Brothers of African Descent; Bulletin in Defense of Marxism; Calendar Magazine (Gay); California Voice; Campaign Against Apartheid; Campus Peace Comm.; Canadians for Justice in the Middle East; Capp Street Center; Capp Street Foundation; Carpenters Local 22; Casa El Salvador; Casa El Salvador Mailing List; Center for Constitutional Rights; Center for Democratic Renewal; Center for Investigative Reporting; Center for Middle East Studies; Center for the Study of the Americas; Cent. Amer. Research Institute; Chair: Chicano Studies (U.C. Berkeley); Chop >Representative Government; Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; Commission of Inquiry; Comm. Against Lockheed D-5; Comm. for Academic Freedom in Israeli-Occupied Territories; Comm. for Equality and Justice; Comm. for Freedom in Argentina; Comm. for Peace and Democracy in Iran; Comm. for Perm. Israeli-Palestinian Peace; CISPES; Cistur; Committee to Free Geronimo Pratt; Comm. to Support the Revolution in Peru; Communist Party U.S.A.; Communist Workers Party; Communist Youth Brigade; Community-Labor Coalition for Social & Econ. Justice; Community United Against Violence; Continuing the Peace Dialogue; Contra Watch Newsletter; Copwatch; Council for the National Interest; Council on Foreign Relations; CounterSpy; Covert Action Information Bulletin; Covert Action; Cuba Resource Group; Cuba Information Project; Delta Sigma Beta; Democratic Society of America; Democratic Workers Party; Dennis Banks Defense Comm.; Diablo Valley Peace Center; Direct Action Against Racism; Doghouse Newsletter; Downside Records; Dykes and Gay Emergency Response; Earth Island Institute; East Bay Women for Peace; El Centro de la Raza; El Tecolote; Emergency Coalit. for Palestinian Rights; Emergency Coalition to End War; Emergency Comm. to Stop Flag Amendment; Endorser of Proposition W; Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; Fighting Back; Filipino East Bay Network; Filipino Organization Comm.; FMLN-FDR West Coast Representative; Food First; Food Not Bombs; Free S.A. Labor Comm.; Freedom for S.A. Refugees Campaign; Freedom for S.A. Refugees Center; Freedom Rising Africa Solidarity Comm.; Freedom Road Socialist Org.; Freedom Socialist Party; Friends of Nicaragua; Friends of Yesh Gvul; Frontline; Frontline Managing Editor; Gay American Indians; Gay and Lesbian Labor Alliance; Global Exchange; Global Options; Green Giant Frozen Food Workers Comm.; Greenpeace; Group for the Critical Study of Colonialism; Guardian; Guatemala News and Information Bureau; Harvey Milk Club; Hotel and Restaurant Employees Local 2; ILWU Local 6, President; ILWU Local 10; INCAR; In These Times; Independent Grocers Assn.; Info. Network Against War and Fascism; Information Services on Latin America; Instituto del Pueblo; Interfaith Center on Corporate Accountability; Interfaith Task Force on Cent. Amer.; Inter-Hemispheric Education Resource Ctr.; Intl. Campaign to Free Geronimo Pratt; Internatl. Comm. Against Racism; Internatl. Indian Treaty Council; Internatl. Jewish Peace Union; Internatl. League for Human Rights/N. Amer. Chapter; Internatl. Socialist Org.; Internationalist Workers Party; Irish National Aid; Irish Northern Aid; Irish Republican Socialist Comm.; Israeli Foreign Affairs; Israelis Against Occupation; Japanese-American Citizens League; Jewish Comm. on the Middle East; John Brown Anti-Klan Comm.; KPOO Radio; KQED-TV Board of Directors; KUNA; Labor Comm. on the Middle East; Labor for Peace; Labor Video; LAGAL; La Raza Coalition of Berkeley; La Raza Unida; Latin American Support Comm.; Lavender Mafia; Lawyers Comm. on Cent. Amer.; League of Filipino Students; Leonard Peltier Alliance Group; Lesbian Agenda for Action; Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention; Liberation Support Movement; Libros Sin Fronteras; Line Of March; L.A. Coalition Against Intervention in the Middle East; L.A. Observer; L.A. Student Coalition; MADRE; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; Mandela Reception Comm.; Maoist Internationalist Movement; Marazul Tours; Mariposa Peace Network; Marxist-Leninist Party; Media Review; Middle East Children's Alliance; Middle East Comm. for National Conference of Black Lawyers; Middle East Peace Network; Midwest Labor Institute; Mobilization Support Group; Modern Times Bookstore; Mother Jones; Movimiento de Agrupacion Popular; Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano; NABET Local 51/Executive Board; NALC Local 14; National Alliance of Third World Journalists; NAACP; National Call to Action; Natl. Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays; Natl. Comm. Against Repressive Legislation; National Conference of Black Lawyers; National Forum of S.A.; National Midweek; National Org. of African Students in N. Am.; National Rainbow Coalition; National Response Comm./NBAU; National Student Cent. Am. Action Network; National Student Lobby; National Union of Farmers; Network of Arab-American Students; Network in Solidarity with Chile; New Afrikan Peoples Org.; New Alliance Newspaper; New Alliance Party; New Americas Press; New Jewish Agenda; New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independentistas; Nicaragua Cultural Center; Nicaragua Information Center; Nicaragua Information Center Bulletin; Nicaragua Interfaith Comm. Action; Nicaragua Network News; No Apologies/No Regrets; No Business As Usual; No Justice, No Peace; North Bay Anti-Racist Action; North Star; Northern California Ecumenical Council; Now Magazine, Toronto (Canada); Nuremberg Action; Oakland Education Association; O.C. Coalition for Peace in the Middle East; OCAW; OCAW Local 8149; October 6 Justice Project; Oregon Philippines Concerns Comm.; Out of Control Comm.; Outrage; Pacifica Foundation; Pakistan Democratic Comm.; Pan African Movement of the U.S.; Partido Socialista Chileno; Partido Socialista Puertorriqueno; Partisan Defense Comm.; Patrice Lumumba Coalition; Paul Robeson Friendship Society; Peace and Conflict Studies; Peace and Freedom Comm.; Peace and Freedom Party; Peace and Justice Comm. - School Board; Peace and Solidarity Alliance; Peace and Solidarity Comm.; Peace Cafe; Peace Research Center; People Against Racist Terror; Peoples Anti-War Mobilization; Peoples Architecture Collective; Peoples Law Office; Peoples Park; Peoples Video; Peoples World; Pershing Plowshares; Philippine Organizing Comm.; Philippine Resource Center; Philippines Human Rights Lobby; Pledge of Resistance; Plumbers and Fitters Local 393; Portland Cent. Am. Solidarity Comm.; Prison News Service; Project Impact; Project National Interest; Public Eye; Queer Nation; Quinn Defense; Radical Film Collective; Radical Women; Rainbow Coalition; Rainbow Lobby; Refuse and Resist; Republic of New Afrika; Revolutionary Books; Revolutionary Communist Party; Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade; Revolutionary Worker; Revolutionary Workers League; Richmond Education Assn.; Roots Against War; San Fernando Valley Peace Coalition; San Francisco Bay Guardian; S.F. Coalition of Labor Union Women; S.F. Labor Council/AFL-CIO; San Francisco Sentinel; S.F. Univ. Labor Studies; San Francisco Weekly; S.F. Women for Peace; SANE/FREEZE; Sardaraba; Science for Nicaragua; SEIU Local 535; SEIU Local 616; Serbian Unity Congress; Shell Boycott Comm.; Simon Wiesenthal Center; Sister City Assn; Socialist Action; Socialist Party Political Org.; Socialist Workers Party; Society of In'Ash El-U.S.A.; SOHRI Study Group (U.C. Berkeley); Solidarity; S.A. Forum; S.A. Freedom Through Education Foundation; S.A. Internatl. Student Congress; South African Workers Org.; South Bay Nicaragua Solidarity Comm.; So. African Liberation Support Comm.; Southern African Media Center; Spartacus Youth League; Spartacist League; Stevens, Hinds & White, Attorneys; Stop the U.S. War Machine Action Network; Student Cltn. Against Apartheid and Racism; Student Pugwash; Students Against Intervention; Students Against Intervention in Cent. Am.; Students for Peace in the Persian Gulf; SWAPO; SWAPO Meeting; Tass News Agency; Teamsters Local 921, S.F. 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Jay Holovacs wrote:
At 08:25 AM 12/15/98 -0600, mib wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 04:02:00AM -0800, Mixmaster wrote:
There used to be a web site called "Throwing Sand into the All-Seeing Eye" which listed a long list of possible NSA-snooper keywords, such as
military
classifications and code words that could be sent for fun across the Internet for sole purpose of being flagged by the NSA.
Here are some more suggestions (I didn't make this list; all of these supposedly were on watch actual lists of different types----"thanks" to the police & spook organizations for doing the research)
One of the things to consider in order to be successful in this at any level is that we need to automate some of the features of including such keywords in emails. I'm sure the NSA has lovely filtering capabilities in Echelon to remove the chaff emails. (Think of the way spam gets filtered based on keywords.) Certainly if we use the same tag in every email, they can filter us out by the email address. This does have a nice unexpected side effect: being labeled a kook makes for the NSA not wanting to watch your posts, and then you would have a bit more privacy, however, don't count on this: far more likely is that they do archive everything and then use a smart search engine. We could rotate the tags around, but if we send too many of these, they can throw you into the above category. You could post them anonymously, which makes it much harder for them catalog, so they will be forced to look at the traffic, when and if, they need to search it. You could have some program randomly alter your email address, but patterns would be found to filter you out that way. We could also use remailers to create lots of cover traffic going to /dev/null. This would be far more interesting, especially if we add some sort of poetry writer that spits out spook talk and update it occasionally with current event keywords. Then again, they could filter the messages that go to /dev/null, or find patterns in the spook poetry generators... We are of course talking about doing something as evil as spamming in that it does generate lots of traffic and eats up lots of bandwidth. This has the side effect of wasting lots of our resources and little of the NSA's. There is the obvious problem of how many people are willing to do such a thing. If say, ten or twenty of us start running such spookbots, it will eat lots of our resources, but few of theirs. If lots and lots of us run spookbots, it might create a small dent in Echelon which they'll simply address by adding more hardware. (Keep in mind that the figure of their yearly budget is several billion, for which you pay for in the form of taxes. Comparatively to one person, they have what approaches infinitely greater funds. Comparatively to the entire country, they don't, but the entire country won't join such an effort.) Unless there is a large scale effort, we'd be doing nothing more than the WASSENAAR protest. Sure, some would say, we'd be calling undue attention to ourselves, but if you're on this list, or receiving it, you're already calling undue attention to yourself. If Echelon is indeed as large as it is reported to be, the mere reading of Cypherpunks is enough to flag you. Anyway, anyone have any ideas to further build on this? -- ---------------------------- Kaos Keraunos Kybernetos ------------------- + ^ + Sunder "The real aim of current policy is to /|\ \|/ sunder@sunder.net ensure the continued effectiveness of /\|/\ <--*--> ALLOW FREE EXPORT OF US information warfare assets against \/|\/ /|\ STRONG CRYPTOGRAPHY! individuals,businesses and governments \|/ + v + PROTEST WASSENAAR!!! in Europe and elsewhere" -- Ross Anderson ------------------------------ http://www.sunder.net ---------------------- RESTRICTED DATA - This material contains RESTRICTED DATA as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Unauthorized disclosure subject to administrative and criminal sanctions. NOFORN ORCON WNINTEL SIOP-ESI CNWDI
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