From declan at well.com  Thu Jun  1 00:07:48 2006
From: declan at well.com (Declan McCullagh)
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:07:48 -0700
Subject: [Politech] Mandatory data retention resurfaces;
 Gonzales, Mueller call for 2-year rule [priv]
Message-ID: <mailman.1776.1576007691.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

I've been busy at work writing a series of articles about what's going
on in terms of forcing Internet service providers to snoop on Americans.
Basically Attorney General Gonzales and FBI Director Mueller met with
Internet and telecom companies (including Microsoft, Google, Verizon,
and Comcast) last Friday and called on them to store data about users'
activities for two years:
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6077654.html

Until that meeting, Gonzales and the Justice Department had been saying
this would be useful for child porn fighting. Now they've realized (took
'em long enough) that (a) the stored data would be useful for terrorism
investigations and (b) it might be politically convenient to pitch it as
an anti-terrorism measure:
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6078229.html

Companies aren't very happy about this. And of course any such
know-your-user law would presumably apply to libraries, schools, and
coffee shops as well:
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6078689.html

Looking ahead a few years, assuming that data retention is adopted, it's
unclear that the Feds would stop there. Imagine a shocking horrible
tragedy could have been prevented if only even more expansive laws had
been adopted on top of data retention. The end game eventually could
involve (a) making it unlawful to offer Internet access without
verifying identities, effectively shutting down open WiFi nodes and (b)
restricting the use of encryption and anonymity services -- after all,
what good is a pile of retained data if it doesn't tell you very much?

This is sheer speculation, mind you. But then again a House of
Representatives committee once approved a bill that would make it
unlawful to sell encryption products without backdoors for the Feds. And
Sen. Judd Gregg talked about restricting encryption products soon after
9/11, so perhaps it's not _that_ unlikely either.

One other thing worth thinking about in terms of the Washington endgame.
The Internet providers I've talked to have been generally opposed to the
idea. But one of their primary complaints is the logical one of how much
it will cost. If the Feds decide to write them a fat check, their
complaints could evaporate and the legislation would instantly
experience far less opposition. Watch for this; it would follow what
happened with CALEA.

Here's Microsoft's statement on data retention:
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6078711.html

Or, if you prefer, CNN and USA Today coverage of the topic:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2006-05-31-internet-records
_x.htm
http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/30/technology/justice_internet/

-Declan
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From brett at lariat.org  Thu Jun  1 01:45:29 2006
From: brett at lariat.org (Brett Glass)
Date: June 1, 2006 1:45:29 PM EDT
Subject: US Attorney General demands ISPs snoop on customers to stop
Message-ID: <mailman.1777.1576007691.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

"terrorism"

Dave:

For IP, if you'd like. As an ISP, I can tell you that what the USDOJ
is demanding in the article below is not only an unprecedented, vast,
unwarranted intrusion that should have every citizen up in arms but
would be extremely costly and in many cases simply impossible.

For example, the article mentions that the DOJ wants ISPs to retain
lists of the IP addresses used by every user. But we, as an ISP, do
not give each user a unique IP address; we use network address
translation, or NAT. To abandon the use of NAT would not only
compromise users' safety (by making them more susceptible to Internet
worms and other attacks); it would also require us to spend thousands
of dollars to obtain more addresses from ARIN and to re-architect our
network. What's more, the imposition of such a requirement upon all
ISPs would instantly exhaust the remaining pool of IPV4 addresses at
a time when most equipment is not ready for IPV6.

The requirement that all VOIP calls be monitored is likewise absurd.
We don't provide VOIP ourselves; we merely provide the pipes. We
don't even know when a VOIP call is taking place on our network. We
would have no way to monitor and track every one on behalf of the
government, even if we were willing to (which we are not; we owe it
to our users never to participate in such blatantly unconstitutional
activity).

Note that the government first attempted to use kiddie porn as an
excuse to destroy our liberty, but seems to have decided that
terrorism is a more effective excuse -- despite the fact that there
have been no terrorist attacks on US soil since 9/11.

The belief that everything and everyone must be monitored in the hope
of preventing possible criminal activity is a hallmark of a police
state. Is this what the US is coming to? If so, the 9/11 terrorists
have won. By killing fewer people than died in the recent earthquake,
they have given an irresponsible government an excuse to destroy our
freedom, and have successfully cowed the populace into allowing it to
happen.

--Brett Glass

------------------

Terrorism invoked in ISP snooping proposal

By Declan McCullagh
http://news.com.com/Terrorism+invoked+in+ISP+snooping+proposal/
2100-1028_3-6078229.html

Story last modified Wed May 31 06:12:45 PDT 2006

In a radical departure from earlier statements, Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales has said that requiring Internet service providers
to save records of their customers' online activities is necessary in
the fight against terrorism, CNET News.com has learned.

Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller privately met with
representatives of AOL, Comcast, Google, Microsoft and Verizon last
week and said that Internet providers--and perhaps search engines--
must retain data for two years to aid in anti-terrorism prosecutions,
according to multiple sources familiar with the discussion who spoke
on condition of anonymity on Tuesday.

"We want this for terrorism," Gonzales said, according to one person
familiar with the discussion.

Gonzales' earlier position had only emphasized how mandatory data
retention would help thwart child exploitation.

In a speech last month at the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children, Gonzales said that Internet providers must retain
records to aid investigations of criminals "abusing kids and sending
images of the abuse around the world through the Internet."

If data retention becomes viewed primarily as an anti-terrorism
measure, recent legal and political spats could complicate the
Justice Department's efforts to make it standard practice.

Especially after recent reports that AT&T has opened its databases to
the National Security Agency, Internet and telecommunications
executives have become skittish about appearing to be cooperating too
closely with the federal government's surveillance efforts.

In addition, the positive publicity that Google received during its
legal dispute with the Justice Department over search terms has
demonstrated to Internet companies the benefits of objecting to
government requests on privacy grounds.

"A monumental data trove is a crazy thing from a privacy
perspective," said one person familiar with Friday's discussions.
"It's crazy that the U.S. government is going to retain more data
than the Chinese government does."

Comcast said in a statement that "we fully share the attorney
general's concern with the need to combat illegal use of the Internet
for child pornography, terrorism and other illegal activities. We
applaud the attorney general's initiative in convening an internal
task force on this issue and look forward to continuing to cooperate
with him and the FBI."

"The reasons for skepticism are growing," said Jim Harper, an analyst
at the free-market Cato Institute and member of the Department of
Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. He
predicted the reaction among Internet and telecom companies will be
"mildly unfavorable but people are not yet to the point where they'll
say the emperor has no clothes."

More at http://news.com.com/2102-1028_3-6078229.html?tag=st.util.print

Sidebar: ISP snooping time line

In events first reported by CNET News.com, Bush administration
officials have said Internet providers must keep track of what
Americans are doing online. Here's the time line:

June 2005: Justice Department officials quietly propose data
retention rules.

December 2005: European Parliament votes for data retention of up to
two years.

April 14, 2006: Data retention proposals surface in Colorado and the
U.S. Congress.

April 20, 2006: Attorney General Gonzales says data retention "must
be addressed."

April 28, 2006: Rep. DeGette proposes data retention amendment.

May 16, 2006: Rep. Sensenbrenner drafts data retention legislation,
but backs away from it two days later.

May 26, 2006: Gonzales and FBI Director Mueller meet with Internet
and telecommunications companies.

Details of the Justice Department's proposal remain murky. One
possibility is requiring Internet providers to record the Internet
addresses that their customers are temporarily assigned. A more
extensive mandate would require them to keep track of the identities
of Americans' e-mail and instant messaging correspondents and save
the logs of Internet phone calls.


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From coderman at gmail.com  Thu Jun  1 08:12:28 2006
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 08:12:28 -0700
Subject: Crashing the Wiretapper's Ball
Message-ID: <4ef5fec60606010812l407308fu39ce612b8712d318@mail.gmail.com>

amusing :)

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,71022-1.html
---begin-cut---
By Thomas Greene| Also by this reporter
02:00 AM Jun, 01, 2006

CRYSTAL CITY, Virginia -- The dingy hotel corridor was populated with
suits, milling about and radiating airs of defensive hostility. They
moved in close-knit groups, rounding a stranger or a rival group
conspicuously, the way cats do. They spoke in whispers. They glanced
nervously over their shoulders as they took calls on their cell
phones, then darted swiftly into alcoves.

They were government officials, telephone company honchos, military
officers, three-letter-agency spooks and cops, all brought together by
salesmen dealing in the modern equipment of surveillance. It was my
job to learn what they were up to.

They'd gathered for the ISS World Conference, a trade show featuring
the latest in mass communications intercept gear, held in the
Washington, D.C., suburb of Crystal City, Virginia. Situated
conveniently between Reagan National Airport and the Pentagon, Crystal
City is an artificial place dominated by conference centers and
hotels, set up to accommodate the endless, and often secret,
intercourse between the U.S. military and its myriad itinerant
contractors, lobbyists, consultants and trainers. They rotate in and
out, civilians using the airport, military personnel taking the subway
from the Pentagon, with Crystal City as the intersection in a
figure-eight circuit of constant activity.

Back in the narrow hotel corridor, vendors manned their booths,
exhibiting the latest gadgets for mass electronic surveillance:
machines capable of scouring the data streams of millions of
subscribers -- industrial-strength kits for packet interception and
analysis, RF interception, and voice and keyword recognition.
.
.
.
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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jun  1 01:33:29 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:33:29 +0200
Subject: [declan@well.com: [Politech] Mandatory data retention
  resurfaces; Gonzales, Mueller call for 2-year rule [priv]]
Message-ID: <20060601083329.GN28956@leitl.org>

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From: dave at farber.net (David Farber)
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:47:00 -0400
Subject: [IP] US Attorney General demands ISPs snoop on customers to stop
Message-ID: <mailman.1778.1576007691.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

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From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:10:24 +0200
Subject: [Victor.Duchovni@MorganStanley.com: Re: Status of opportunistic
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Message-ID: <20060601141023.GA28956@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jun  1 07:45:07 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:45:07 +0200
Subject: [dewayne@warpspeed.com: [Dewayne-Net] Can Tracking Phone Calls
  Ferret Out Terrorists?]
Message-ID: <20060601144507.GB28956@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jun  1 11:49:49 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:49:49 +0200
Subject: [dave@farber.net: [IP] US Attorney General demands ISPs snoop
  on customers to stop "terrorism"]
Message-ID: <20060601184949.GI28956@leitl.org>

----- Forwarded message from David Farber <dave at farber.net> -----


From rah at shipwright.com  Thu Jun  1 17:51:44 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:51:44 -0400
Subject: [Clips] Proposal to Implant Tracking Chips in Immigrants
Message-ID: <p06230905c0a53c0ad491@[68.167.57.91]>

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  Delivered-To: rah at shipwright.com
  Delivered-To: clips at philodox.com
  Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:50:36 -0400
  To: Philodox Clips List <clips at philodox.com>
  From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
  Subject: [Clips] Proposal to Implant Tracking Chips in Immigrants
  Reply-To: rah at philodox.com
  Sender: clips-bounces at philodox.com

  <http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/060531_rfid_chips.html>


  LiveScience.com

  Proposal to Implant Tracking Chips in Immigrants


  By Bill Christensen


  posted: 31 May 2006

  07:04 pm ET


  Scott Silverman, Chairman of the Board of VeriChip Corporation, has
  proposed implanting the company's RFID tracking tags in immigrant and guest
  workers. He made the statement on national television earlier this week.

  Silverman was being interviewed on "Fox & Friends." Responding to the Bush
  administration's call to know "who is in our country and why they are
  here," he proposed using VeriChip RFID implants to register workers at the
  border, and then verify their identities in the workplace. He added, "We
  have talked to many people in Washington about using it...."

  The VeriChip is a very small Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag
  about the size of a large grain of rice. It can be injected directly into
  the body; a special coating on the casing helps the VeriChip bond with
  living tissue and stay in place. A special RFID reader broadcasts a signal,
  and the antenna in the VeriChip draws power from the signal and sends its
  data. The VeriChip is a passive RFID tag; since it does not require a
  battery, it has a virtually unlimited life span.

  RFID tags have long been used to identify animals in a variety of settings;
  livestock, laboratory animals and pets have been "chipped" for decades.
  Privacy advocates have long expressed concerns about this technology being
  used in human beings.

  In a related story, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe allegedly remarked to
  visiting U.S. senators Jeff Sessions (Alabama) and Arlen Specter
  (Pennsylvania) that microchips could be used to track seasonal workers.
  "President Uribe said he would consider having Colombian workers have
  microchips implanted in their bodies before they are permitted to enter the
  U.S. for seasonal work," Specter told Congress on April 25.

  Implanting microchips in human beings for the purpose of monitoring is not
  exactly news for science fiction fans; Alfred Bester wrote about "skull
  bugs" in his 1974 novel The Computer Connection:

  "...you don't know what's going on in the crazy culture outside. It's a
  bugged and drugged world. Ninety percent of the bods have bugs implanted in
  their skulls in hospital when they're born. They're monitored constantly."

  (Read more about Alfred Bester's skull bugs)

  VeriChips are legal for implantation in people in the U.S.; see VeriChip
  RFID Tag Patient Implant Badges Now FDA Approved. See also a related story
  on a Proposed National Worker DNA Fingerprint Database. Read more at RFID
  implants for guest workers, Latin leader keen on ID chips and Chip implants
  for migrant workers?.

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  The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
  44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
  "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
  [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
  experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'




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Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 09:47:22 -0400
Subject: Internet monitoring sparked investigation into terror cell
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<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1149285034044&call_pageid=976163513378>



Toronto Star



How Internet monitoring sparked a CSIS investigation into a suspected
homegrown terror cell

Jun. 3, 2006. 01:00 AM

MICHELLE SHEPHARD

STAFF REPORTER

Last night's dramatic police raid and arrest of as many as a dozen men -
with more to come - marks the culmination of Canada's largest ever
terrorism investigation into an alleged homegrown cell.

The chain of events began two years ago, sparked by local teenagers roving
through Internet sites, reading and espousing anti-Western sentiments and
vowing to attack at home, in the name of oppressed Muslims here and abroad.

Their words were sometimes encrypted, the Internet sites where they
communicated allegedly restricted by passwords, but Canadian spies back in
2004 were reading them. And as the youths' words turned into actions, they
began watching them.

According to sources close to the investigation, the suspects are teenagers
and men in their 20s who had a relatively typical Canadian upbringing, but
- allegedly spurred on by images of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan and
angered by what they saw as the mistreatment of Muslims at home - became
increasingly violent.

Police say they acquired weapons, picked targets and made detailed plans.

They travelled north to a "training camp" and made propaganda videos
imitating jihadists who had battled in Afghanistan. At night, they washed
up at a Tim Hortons nearby.

One was a math and chemistry whiz from Scarborough who grew up to become a
22-year-old husband and father.

It's unclear why the authorities decided to act on their suspicions
yesterday. None of these allegations has been proven in court, where the
suspects are expected to appear for the first time this morning.

Sources say the arrests involve a "homegrown" terrorism cell - Western
youths who have never set foot in Afghanistan but allegedly were
radicalized here, and who are thought to be potentially as dangerous as the
cells that once took orders from Osama bin Laden. Western governments,
including Canada's, have repeatedly warned of this phenomenon and blamed
recent attacks, such as last July's bombings in London, as the work of such
groups.

The Canadian investigation involves a complicated web of connections, with
alleged ties to two men from Georgia who came to Toronto in March 2005 to
meet with "like-minded Islamic extremists," according to U.S. court
documents.

Details of the Canadian investigation will be officially released this
morning at a news conference.

For the spies who work on the 10th floor of a Front St. office building,
with the CN Tower looming above and a hub of Toronto's tourist district
buzzing below, this investigation was personal.

The group arrested yesterday allegedly had a list of targets, sources have
told the Star, and the Toronto headquarters of the Canadian Security
Intelligence Service was one of them.

So were the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa and a smattering of other
high-profile, heavily populated areas. But since most of the suspects lived
in the GTA, it was the potential threat to the spy service's office and the
chaos an attack would create in the heart of Toronto that concerned CSIS
most.

According to sources, the suspects allegedly planned to target the spy
service because many of them had encountered agents early in the
investigation, when they were interviewed and put under surveillance. They
also were allegedly angered by media reports accusing CSIS of racial
profiling of Muslims.

Many of the agents were known to members of the group only by aliases, but
the belief that the office had been targeted led to months of unease among
CSIS staff, sources said.

Some of the group's members had even been spotted taking notes around the
building, and at least one had reportedly visited the basement, one source
told the Star.

The investigation began back in 2004, when CSIS was monitoring Internet
sites and tracing the paths of Canadians believed to have ties to
international terrorist organizations. Local youths espousing
fundamentalist views drew special attention, sources say.

Since it was created 21 years ago, the spy service's mandate has been to
protect Canada's security. It is not a police force; its agents don't carry
weapons, have no power of arrest and traditionally have preferred to stay
out of public view.

But CSIS does have a relationship with the RCMP, albeit one traditionally
fraught with turf wars and communication problems, and the focus of
criticism and concern since 9/11.

The two federal agencies work independently, but when CSIS is monitoring
someone who could be prosecuted criminally, the spy service notifies the
Mounties in what's known as an "advisory letter."


`We are seeing phenomena in Canada such as the emergence of homegrown
second and third generation terrorists'

Jack Hooper, CSIS deputy director


That happened in this case on Nov. 17, 2004.

Four months after authorities began to fear that Canada might have its own
homegrown terrorist cell, two Americans entered the picture.

Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen of Bangladeshi descent
who had attended high school in Ontario, and Syed Haris Ahmed, 21, a
student at Georgia Tech, boarded a Greyhound bus in Atlanta on March 6,
2005, and travelled to Toronto to meet "like-minded Islamic extremists," a
U.S. court document alleges.

At the time the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force was watching the U.S.
pair, Sadequee, according to court documents, was already on a no-fly list.
But they crossed the border uneventfully and met three people associated
with the group the Canadian authorities were watching.

Ahmed later told authorities that the meetings were to discuss U.S.
locations suitable for a terrorist strike, including oil refineries and
military bases, court documents state. They also allegedly talked about how
to dismantle the Global Positioning System in an effort to disrupt military
and commercial communications and traffic, and their plans to go to
Pakistan to train at "terrorist-sponsored camps." (The FBI claims Ahmed
"later travelled to Pakistan in an attempt to receive just such training.")

Ahmed is now in U.S. custody, indicted in March for material support of
terrorism. He has pleaded not guilty.

Sadequee is accused of making false statements in connection with a
terrorism investigation. He was arrested in April in Bangladesh and handed
over to American authorities - a transfer his lawyer later characterized in
court as being closer to a kidnapping than an arrest. Sadequee was flown to
Alaska, according to U.S. news reports, and, having waived a preliminary
hearing, consented to being transferred to Brooklyn, N.Y. He has been
denied bail and is awaiting trial.

Fahim Ahmad, who was arrested as part of yesterday's sweep, was living with
his wife and children in a Scarborough apartment in August 2005, while
authorities were watching him closely. The 22-year-old allegedly rented a
car for two Toronto-area men to go to the U.S.

The licence plate was flagged so it could be pulled over upon its return to
Canada, sources told the Star and court documents confirm. On Aug. 13, at
5:30 a.m., a student working with the Canada Border Services Agency at the
Peace Bridge in Fort Erie pulled over the white Buick that Ahmad had
rented, which was being driven by Yasin Mohamed, 24, of Toronto, with Ali
Dirie, 22, whose last address was in Markham, as a passenger.

The car was targeted because its plate number came back with the warning:
"Look out, possible narcotic involvement," on a customs database, court
documents state.

After the two were briefly questioned, a superintendent was called over,
and Dirie and Mohamed were told to wait outside the car as it was searched.

"The customs inspector noticed that Mohamed seemed to fidgeting with his
hands in his pockets, and unable to stand still despite being told to keep
his hands where the officers could see them," states the summary that was
read into the court record during a hearing last October.

Both appeared nervous, frequently looking at each other. At one point
Mohamed tried to push his back away from the wall where he was placed, the
documents state. It was at that point that the customs officer discovered a
loaded Highpoint .380 calibre handgun that Mohamed had tucked inside his
waistband. Ammunition, some of which did not match the guns the men were
bringing in, fell out of his pockets as he was being handcuffed.

Officers later found two loaded handguns taped to Dirie's inner thighs - a
Millennium PT 19mm and a .380 Calibre Jennings. In his socks they found a
magazine for a semi-automatic handgun and "several rounds of ammunition,"
according to the court transcripts.

Both men, who are landed immigrants, had minor criminal records and told
the court they were buying the guns for their own "protection." They
pleaded guilty last October and were both given two-year sentences.

"Whether they were mules, whether they were going to use them for their own
protection, which is all we have right now, we have nothing to indicate
that they were going to be sold," St. Catharines Crown attorney Ron Brooks
told the court, according to a transcript of the October sentencing hearing.

"But the bottom line is - the mayor of Toronto indicated fairly recently in
an interview - is that there's only one thing that you can use weapons of
that nature for, and it's either to kill somebody or to give them to
somebody else to kill somebody."

Ahmad, who rented the car, was not charged in the incident.

As to laying such as charge, "I think the only thing we'd be looking at
there is if they aided in the commission of the substantial offence. Did
they send them on this mission with a rented car? To my knowledge there was
not any information that would support the laying of a criminal charge in
that case," Niagara police Insp. Brian Eckhardt said in an interview
earlier this year.

"I'm sure it was looked at at the time, which is what we always do."


`I do believe that when the time comes, a number of these people will
attempt to do something quite serious.'

Dale Neufeld, retired CSIS deputy director


The Star contacted Ahmad last March to discuss the incident, but he refused
to meet or answer questions about why he rented the car for the two men.

"I don't want to be discussing this," Ahmad said. When asked about the car
rental, he replied: "The police and whatnot, they know my side of the story
and that's all that matters."

Mohamed and Dirie both declined the Star's request to be interviewed.
Mohamed's brother also said his family did not want to comment.



Although there was no public acknowledgement of this investigation, by last
fall, officials were beginning to send out frequent warnings about a
homegrown threat.

In the only interview CSIS director Jim Judd has given since taking the
helm of the service, he told the Star in September that homegrown terrorism
was a pressing concern mainly because it's so difficult to detect.

Unconnected to the case, but being watched closely during this time by
Canadian authorities, was the Netherlands investigation into the
assassination of filmmaker Theo van Gogh and a young local extremist cell
dubbed the Hofstad Group.

Made up of mainly Dutch-born youths angered by van Gogh's critical
portrayal of Islam, Canadian authorities believed the group was eerily
similar to the Canadian group, sources say. They appeared to be
unsophisticated, disenfranchised youths, but the group became a growing
threat, killing van Gogh and forcing a number of political figures to go
into hiding or flee the country.

That the Canadian group shouldn't be underestimated was a message that hit
home.

Last winter, the investigation took a turn when some of the younger members
allegedly went north to what police were referring to as a "training camp."

By February this group was being viewed in police and intelligence circles
as Canada's greatest terrorism threat. Chiefs of Ontario police forces,
including Toronto's Bill Blair, met in Toronto for a high-level briefing.

While the public denials of any specific threat continued, hints were dropped.

During a Senate committee review of Canada's anti-terrorism legislation,
now-retired CSIS deputy director Dale Neufeld spoke at length about
Canadian-born radicalized youths.

"It's the second generation, the children of Muslims who are born in this
country. They have a very normal upbringing, according to our analysis, but
at some point in their teenage years or young 20s, they decide that radical
Islam is the path they want to take," Neufeld said.

"The other (concern) is young Canadians who are generally quite
disillusioned, which is again very disturbing because it's hard to detect
and hard to investigate. They're the kids who don't do well in high school,
but could do anything. They could become petty criminals. They could get
involved in the drug culture. They might join a motorcycle gang. We're now
seeing a number of examples where they decide to take up Islam in the
radical form.

"It's not just rhetoric. I do believe that when the time comes, a number of
these people will attempt to do something quite serious."

On Monday, as final preparations were being made for yesterday's arrests,
current CSIS deputy director Jack Hooper again spoke before senators of the
threat posed by young people radicalized at home.

"We are seeing phenomena in Canada such as the emergence of homegrown
second- and third-generation terrorists. These are people who may have
immigrated to Canada at an early age who become radicalized while in
Canada. They are virtually indistinguishable from other youth. They blend
into our society very well, they speak our language and they appear to be,
for all intents and purposes, well assimilated," Hooper said.

He talked about youths absorbing radical ideas from the Internet.

"You are satisfied from the information you have that the homegrown
terrorist is primarily looking at targets in Canada?" Senator Michael
Meighen asked.

The normally verbose Hooper answered with a curt, "Yes."

-- 
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  Delivered-To: rah at shipwright.com
  Delivered-To: clips at philodox.com
  Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:34:11 -0400
  To: Philodox Clips List <clips at philodox.com>
  From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
  Subject: [Clips] Great praise for elite team
  Reply-To: rah at philodox.com
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  <http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2006/06/03/pf-1613288.html>

  Calgary Sun

  June 3, 2006

  Great praise for elite team

  The elite team of police and intelligence experts whose months-long probe
  of a terrorist plot were praised for their courageous and dedicated job

  By CP

  The elite team of police and intelligence experts whose months-long probe
  of a terrorist plot against southern Ontario led to 17 arrests involved
  thousands of hours of work by some of the most dedicated investigators in
  the world, observers said Saturday.

  "These people are absolutely top-shelf investigators. You will not find
  better investigators on the planet," Chris Mathers, a former RCMP officer
  who now works as a security consultant in Toronto, said of the crack squad
  whose diligence led to the shocking detainment of suspected homegrown
  terrorists.

  "The Canadian people don't understand, perhaps, how committed these people
  are. As ideological as these terrorists are, the people pursuing them are
  equally as ideological."

  The RCMP led the investigation that resulted in Friday night arrests of
  suspects from Toronto, nearby Mississauga and the city of Kingston in
  eastern Ontario. But the investigation included significant co-operation
  with partners through an Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, or
  INSET, made up of RCMP, the CSIS spy organization, federal agencies and
  provincial and municipal police.

  INSET teams were created in April 2002 under a five-year, $64-million
  investment by the federal government.

  Their performance in the ongoing investigation announced Saturday could
  strengthen the reputation of Canada's ability to combat terrorist cells to
  the rest of the world, said Doug McArthur, a political science professor at
  B.C.'s Simon Fraser University.

  "What we're seeing is that our various security forces are getting their
  act together to deal with what we have to recognize is an increased
  potential for terrorist type activities," McArthur said of the
  investigative team created alongside other anti-terrorism legislation
  introduced months after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

  "This particular case 
 is a good sign of the ability of our forces to
  chase down these types of situations."

  Officials were tight-lipped on details about an investigation they say is
  still active.

  "Over 400 highly skilled resources have dedicated thousands of hours to
  diligently conduct this investigation using legislative and investigative
  tools available to the law enforcement and intelligence community," RCMP
  assistant commissioner Mike McDonell told a news conference.

  Observers say that uncovering a terrorist plot would have revealed multiple
  layers of involvement.

  At the bottom, there's those who buy cars and cellphones or rent apartments
  for those who might commit the acts. Above them are the middle men
  providing expertise and training on how to prepare explosive devices, or
  counter-surveillance techniques.

  At the top are those who organize the acts and secure followers to carry
  out the deeds.

  "They're just pawns - zealots that they've trained, usually young people,"
  Mathers said of those who essentially risk suicide in the name of a violent
  ideology.

  Mathers said an investigation of this magnitude by INSET would been an
  "accumulative effort" involving informants, electronic intercepts of
  communication, and "hours and hours and hours of surveillance - very boring
  surveillance too."

  But he said it's most likely human sources - acquaintances of those
  planning a terrorist attack, or people somehow linked to the plans
  themselves - who would have provided the most vital information that would
  provide enough evidence for arrests.

  "Electronic sources don't always provide you with enough timely
  information. You need human beings," he said.

  Mathers said that people involved in terrorist plots are also almost always
  involved in other criminal activity, making it quite possible that
  information was received from people arrested for unrelated crimes who were
  looking for reduced charges or sentences.

  "From time to time, they do get arrested for other crimes to support
  themselves or to support their terrorist group. Sometimes law enforcement
  are able to put a bit of pressure on someone who gets pinched 
 and in
  exchange for some consideration he agrees to co-operate on something more
  serious like a terrorist act."


  --
  -----------------
  R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah at ibuc.com>
  The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
  44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
  "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
  [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
  experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
  _______________________________________________
  Clips mailing list
  Clips at philodox.com
  http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips

--- end forwarded text


-- 
-----------------
R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah at ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'




From cabins at ackerley.com  Sun Jun  4 01:25:36 2006
From: cabins at ackerley.com (Ted Davison)
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:25:36 -0800
Subject: look new
Message-ID: <08359.$$.87702.Etrack@hotmail.com>

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From Fnxuxfptabsodum at rabun.net  Sat Jun  3 15:39:14 2006
From: Fnxuxfptabsodum at rabun.net (rlarlara)
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:39:14 +0200
Subject: j Hot Stock Talk s
Message-ID: <35122DD2.F99704B@rabun.net>

STR$NG BUY ALERT ISSUED

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Forecast for June, 2006

Company L INTL COMPUTERS INC.
Sym bol LITL.PK
Current 0.55 +20% this week!
Short Term 2.00
Str!ng Buy Recommendation
* 200%+ PROFIT POTENTIAL

RECENT NEWS HAS JUST BEEN RELEASED. YOU MUST READ NOW.

L Introduces the worlds first desktop replacement laptop with a 20"
Ultra-Speed High-Resolution Display!

DON'T PASS UP THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SUCCEED IN THE MARKET.

L International Computers Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary,
Liebermann Inc., a renowned manufacturer of high-performance computers and
personal technology, 
today announced the Olympus 20", the world's first desktop replacement
Professional notebook computer fitted with a 20" UltraSpeed High-Resolution
Display.

Founded in 2002, Liebermann Inc. produces, markets and distributes
high-performance, opulent PC/Windows© laptop, desktop, workstation and
server computers.
The Company also produces the largest and most spectacular personal &
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peripherals and technologies.


This pre ss release may contain for ward-looking stat ements which are
pursuant to the safe ha rbor prov isions of the Priva te Sec urities
Litigatio n Refo rm Act of 1995.
Inve stors are cauti oned that actual results may differ ma terially and
all forw ard-lo oking st atements inv olve risks and uncertainties
including, without limitation, risks
associ ated with the Company's financi al condition and prospects, risks
associated with market accept ance and technological changes, risks
associated with
depe ndence on third pa rty soft ware  provide rs,  risks relating to
internati onal operations, and risks associated wit h competition.


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delay in my response





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From brewster at ladyblue.net  Tue Jun  6 17:02:16 2006
From: brewster at ladyblue.net (Arline York)
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:02:16 -0600
Subject: Ratess approved
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From tiziano at gambacorta.com  Tue Jun  6 17:03:39 2006
From: tiziano at gambacorta.com (Denis Lim)
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:03:39 -0600
Subject: Last chance for lower rates
Message-ID: <438f153x.1940558@hotmail.com>

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From crazed at ihep.com  Tue Jun  6 17:08:48 2006
From: crazed at ihep.com (Kenneth Whitten)
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:08:48 -0600
Subject: Re-finance before rates skyrocket
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From adanvl82 at esmas.com  Tue Jun  6 18:13:36 2006
From: adanvl82 at esmas.com (Suzette Mims)
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:13:36 -0600
Subject: Ratess will skyrocket soon
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From russell_shute at l-housing.com  Tue Jun  6 19:29:25 2006
From: russell_shute at l-housing.com (Jarrett Sims)
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:29:25 -0600
Subject: Ratess will skyrocket soon
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From miles.nataleeoiwn at gmail.com  Tue Jun  6 16:40:37 2006
From: miles.nataleeoiwn at gmail.com (Jennifer Echols)
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 22:40:37 -0100
Subject: Good news for traders
Message-ID: <200606062039.k56Kdjv2010398@proton.jfet.org>

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F C Y I
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 05, 2006 (PRIME ZONE) --
As part of the commitment of Falcon Energy, Inc., a Nevada Corporation, to keep
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investor update.

Gas production continues steadily from Falcon Energy's Richmount
Westlock property
in Alberta, Canada. This opportunity has proven itself out as the property and
investment have benefited from the surge in natural gas prices since
the well was
first tied in May of 2005. The market price (NYMEX) for natural gas at that time
was approximately $6.50 per MMBTU but in the last year prices stayed
over 10.00 per
MMBTU for a 5 month period with several spikes above the $14.00 range.
The company
is pleased that the investment continues to provide consistent revenue
for the company
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addition of its mining
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the executive team
to assist in managing this new opportunity. Details will be forthcoming.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 17, 2006 (PRIME ZONE) -- F a l c o n   E n e r g y , Inc.
is pleased to announce that the granting of exploration licenses for
five mining properties
in Mongolia has been finalized. These licenses will be held for a
minimum of three years and
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licensed properties.

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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:15:39 -0800
Subject: To grow thinner, diminish your dinner
Message-ID: <2.3.5.2.9.45254521183244.812a2440@69.60.117.34>

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From cobb at abstract-engineer.com  Wed Jun  7 01:04:14 2006
From: cobb at abstract-engineer.com (Fernando Lee)
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:04:14 -0800
Subject: wut up low rates
Message-ID: <010261992953783.3014088@msn.com>

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From rodrigues at jtownchamber.com  Wed Jun  7 03:58:56 2006
From: rodrigues at jtownchamber.com (Tyree Pereira)
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 04:58:56 -0600
Subject: Re-finance before rates skyrocket
Message-ID: <42383355039418.dXOlDnDrRH@adequacy>

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Date: Wen, 7 Jun 2006 09:20:46 -0100
Subject: [3] ctxe.pk pay attention to the announcement 
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Subject: Tiffany, Handbags, Pens and more..
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From justin-cypherpunks at soze.net  Wed Jun  7 09:42:28 2006
From: justin-cypherpunks at soze.net (Justin)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:42:28 +0000
Subject: cpunks archive, 1992-09 to 1998-12
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Reasonably complete (aside from 4.5 missing months in spring-summer
1995) cpunks archive, mhonarc-to-mbox converted. (archive obtained from
venona)

Limited time only.

http://206.63.230.207/




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From edrigram at edri.org  Wed Jun  7 07:35:43 2006
From: edrigram at edri.org (EDRI-gram newsletter)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 17:35:43 +0300
Subject: EDRI-gram newsletter - Number 4.11, 7 June  2006
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            EDRI-gram

 biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe

    Number 4.11, 7 June 2006

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Contents
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1. EU-US agreement on passenger data transfer annulled
2. Frankfurt Appellate Court says online demonstration is not coercion
3. New Czech Police draft act allows taking DNA samples by force
4. Content flatrate is feasible according to French study
5. Campaign against censorship on the Internet
6. Journalistic protection for online journalists and bloggers
7. Dutch Gamer in US intelligence spotlight
8. Private copy system under scrutiny
9. Agenda
10. About

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1. EU-US agreement on passenger data transfer annulled
============================================================
The European Parliament obtained the annulment by the European Court of
Justice of the agreement between the European Community and the US
Government on the transfer of passenger name records (PNR) from foreign
carriers to the US with the view to combat terrorism and maintain national
security. In order to prevent problems the agreement will be still in force
until 30 September 2006. Until then the Member States have time to solve the
legal issues arising from the annulment within or outside the EU context.

After 11 September 2001 air carriers flying from Europe to the US were in a
dilemma. The US Government required to access personal data of travellers
contained in the databases of all foreign carriers. On the other hand, 1995
EU Directive on data protection restricts the transfer of personal data from
one jurisdiction to another unless there is adequate protection of that
data.

Following a series of negotiations to solve this dilemma during 2002 and
2003 on issues related to the amount of data transferred, the period of data
retention and data protection, an agreement between EU and US entered into
force in May 2004. The European Commission also decided that the US provided
adequate protection for the data transfer to take place.

The European Parliament however considered that data transfer should not
take place unless greater data protection measures were taken.It also found
that the European Commission had no legal jurisdiction to conclude such an
agreement and therefore decided to challenge the agreement at the European
Court of Justice.

The decision of the Court was taken considering the European Commission had
no legal authority to conclude such an agreement as the Directive does not
apply to this kind of data transfer.

The Commission disagreed and considered that the carriers process PNR data
within the Community jurisdiction and then make the transfer of these data
to US so these activities of private parties are related to public security
and therefore are regulated by the Directive.

The court considered that the transfer of PNR data to the US concerns public
security, and as private operators must operate
within a framework established by public authorities, the European
Commission was acting in the area of public security in which it has no
jurisdiction. The court concluded that both the agreement and the decision
on adequacy were based on the wrong legal base.

However, the court decided on the annulment of the agreement without
considering the other pleas from the Parliament related to the privacy and
human rights aspects of the agreement. This leaves open the possibility of
bi-lateral agreements between the US and each EU member state.

The decision of the Court therefore should not be considered as a real
victory of the European Parliament, which has no power of approval over such
treaties or the power to bring legal actions against them. There is also the
risk that such a separate treaty signed between a member state and the US
could be even worse than the original agreement from the point of view of
data protection standards.

Judgment of the Court of Justice - PNR case (30.05.2006)
http://curia.eu.int/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=EN&Submit=Rechercher$docrequi
re=alldocs&numaff=C-317/04&datefs=&datefe=&nomusuel=&domaine=&mots=&resmax=10
0

European Court of Justice press release (30.05.2006)
http://curia.eu.int/en/actu/communiques/cp06/aff/cp060046en.pdf

Courts annul EU-US air data deal (30.05.2006)
http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200605/e2bac420-d618-4608-94c0-59fd19aba6a5.
htm

EU-US passenger data transfer deal annulled by European Court (30.05.2006)
http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-537923

Statewatch's Observatory on the exchange of data on passengers (PNR)
http://www.statewatch.org/pnrobservatory.htm

Staying vigilant after EU-US PNR deal cancelation (French only, 31.05.2006)
http://www.iris.sgdg.org/info-debat/comm-cjcepnr0506.html

EDRI-gram : Advocate General European Court rejects PNR deal (5.12.2005)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number3.24/PNR

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2. Frankfurt Appellate Court says online demonstration is not coercion
============================================================
The collective blockade of a corporate website in the context of a
political event is not violence or coercion but legitimate free
expression, a German Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt decided on 22 May.

The decision came almost five years after the online demonstration took
place. The groups "Libertad" and "Kein Mensch ist illegal" (No Human is
Illegal) had called for an online blockade of Lufthansa's website to
protest against the company's participation in the deportation of
asylum-seekers. With a script- (client-) based distributed denial of
service attack, the Lufthansa web servers were supposed to be blocked
during the annual company's shareholders assembly on 20 June 2001. Though
Lufthansa was mostly able to adapt to the protest by renting more
bandwidth for that day, the event created significant public interest.
13000 people participated in the demonstration, the Federal Ministry of
Justice publicly questioned its legality, and others even spoke about
"computer sabotage". The online demonstration was accompanied by an
offline protest at the shareholders assembly venue. The organizers had
tried to register the online protest with the authorities beforehand like
a normal demonstration, but had been rejected.

While the organizers called the demonstration a modern form of non-violent
blockade and referred to their constitutional right to freedom of
assembly, Lufthansa and the Frankfurt public attorney saw in it a call to
coercion. The offices of Frankfurt-based group Libertad were searched and
computers seized, and the main official organizer, Andreas-Thomas Vogel,
was indicted. Investigations were led by the state security branch of the
police and the attorney's office. The Frankfurt district court convicted
Vogel to a fine in summer 2005, and ruled that the demonstration equalled
coercion against Lufthansa and other website visitors.

The first criminal chamber of the Frankfurt Appelate Court now dropped all
charges and ruled (No. 1 Ss 319/05) that the demonstration was
in fact no violence or coercion, but had been targeted at influencing
public opinion. Therefore it was legal. Libertad spokesman Hans-Peter
Kartenberg commented: "The Internet, in spite of its virtuality, is a real
public space. Where dirty deals are made, there you can and must also
protest against them." This ruling will be important in the future
development in this legal field, as this trial had been the first criminal
case about online demonstrations in Germany.

Decision by the Frankfurt Appellate Court (in German only, 22.05.2006)
http://www.libertad.de/service/downloads/pdf/olg220506.pdf

Statement by Libertad on the ruling (in German only, 1.06.2006)
http://www.libertad.de/inhalt/projekte/depclass/verfahren/libpe010606.shtml

Higher Regional Court says online demonstration is not force
In German (1.06.2006)
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/73755
In English (2.06.2006)
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/73827

(Contribution by Ralf Bendrath, EDRi-member Netzwerk Neue Medien, Germany)

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3. New Czech Police draft act allows taking DNA samples by force
============================================================
The Czech Senate, upper chamber of the Parliament, approved on 25 May 2006
the amendment of the Criminal Proceedings Code and Police Act, which
empowers police officers to take DNA samples and other identification
samples as fingerprints.

According to the draft police can take the DNA samples even by using force
in case of resistance. Currently, a person may refuse to provide the saliva
sample, which could result only in aprocedural fine of maximum 2800 Eur.

The new amendment foresees that the DNA samples can be taken from people
suspected, charged, accused, sentenced or in execution of protective
measures. The amendment also contains provisions authorizing massive DNA
sampling from all people that are imprisoned for wilful crimes. This
purposed measure will concern approximately 12 000 people.

Due to the necessary financial resources for processing the DNA samples into
DNA profile, there is going to be a substantial delay in this activity. It
means in fact, that the police will hold complete DNA's of thousands of
detainees  for an unknown period. There is a standard that requires the
destruction of the original sample, after the DNA has been processed into
the profile.

EDRi-member Iuridicum Remedium elaborated a paper with an overview of the
risks of the new law. The draft paper was disseminated and distributed to
the lawmakers. However, the bill was passed surprisingly easyly in both
Parliament chambers, after an intensive lobby of the Police Forensic
Institute, the institution that manages the National DNA Database.
Despite highlighting the human rights risks of the amendment, the bill was
supported by 43 of the 49 present senators. Only some senators expressed
their doubts about broadening police powers without appropriate safeguards
for the rights of the concerned persons.

The bill is waiting to be signed by the President of the Republic. In case
he does not sign it, the law will not enter into force, because the lower
chamber does not have the opportunity to take a vote on it, since it is
dissolved due to elections.

Legislative process of the amendment to the Police Act
http://www.psp.cz/sqw/historie.sqw?o=4&T=1024 (in Czech only)

Comments from Iuridicum Remedium on the draft act
http://www.iure.org/570359 (in Czech only, 15.05.2006)

Police will be able to forcibly take DNA sample from detained persons
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/vyhledavani/index_view.php?id=190180 (in Czech
only, 25.05 2006)

(Contribution by Helena Svatosova - EDRI-member Iuridicum Remedium - Czech
Republic)

============================================================
4.Content flatrate is feasible according to French study
============================================================
Nothing in the national law and international obligations prevents states
from permitting file-sharing as long as they subject it to a levy. This is
the conclusion of a legal feasibility study under the supervision of Prof.
Andri Lucas, the most renowned copyright scholar in France.

The study on the feasibility of compensation for peer-to-peer file-sharing,
first released in French in June 2005, has been translated into English for
wider accessibility. The translation has been conducted at the initiative of
the German advocacy group privatkopie.net with the support of BEUC, the
European Consumers's Organisation, and Stiftung Bridge.

The analysis concludes that downloading is covered by the private copying
exception, provided that the existing system of remuneration is adapted.
Internet service providers would have to pay a levy, just as the
manufacturers and importers of blank media do today.
For uploading, the authors envisage subjecting the so called making
available right to mandatory collective management. In short, "compulsory
collective management is not perceived as reversing the fundamental
principles of copyright, but instead 'reinforcing and (..) organising the
protection granted to authors against infringements of their fundamental
rights, as consecrated in French law since 1793".

L'Alliance Public-Artistes has supported its arguments for a Global Licence
by additional studies on the technical and economic feasibility. The latter
find that a levy of 5 Euros per month is economically justified. These
studies have thoroughly invalidated arguments that a flat rate compensation
for legal file-sharing is not compatible with national, European and
international copyright law and that it threatens the emerging online
market. Such arguments were brought forth, among others, by the German
Ministry of Justice.

With reference to the Lucas study, Members of French Parliament from both
the conservative ruling party as well as from the socialist party have
advanced amendments to the recent copyright law reform in France with the
aim of introducing a Global Licence. The National Assembly passed these
amendments on 22 December 2005.

The Global Licence was a reality in the proposals for a short period of
time. The rights industry only managed to get it rolled back by an
unprecedented campaign that Liberation called "total war on the Global
Licence". When the administration brought the draft copyright law up for
vote in the French National Assembly in January again, the provision on the
Global Licence was gone.

Privatkopie.net considers that collective rights management is ideally
suited for the individual mass medium Internet. It is legally, technically
and economically feasible. Privatkopie.net also expresses its hope in
increasing the rationality of the international copyright debate by
releasing an English translation of the Lucas study.

Peer-to-peer File Sharing and Literary and Artistic Property - A Feasibility
Study regarding a system of compensation for the exchange of works via the
Internet
English Version (03.2006)
http://privatkopie.net/files/Feasibility-Study-p2p-acs_Nantes.pdf
French Version  (05.2005)
http://alliance.bugiweb.com/usr/Documents/RapportUniversiteNantes-juin2005.pd
f

Study Shows : Content Flatrate is Feasible! (28.05.2006)
http://privatkopie.net/files/PM-060528.html

EDRI-gram : Update on French EUCD Transposition (29.03.2006)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number4.6/frencheucd

(Contribution by Volker Grassmuck , privatkopie.net)

============================================================
5.Campaign against censorship on the Internet
============================================================
Amnesty International together with The Observer and Soda Creative launched
a campaign called irrepressible.info against the increasing governmental
censorship of the internet. The campaign asks governments to stop censoring
websites, blocking emails or shutting down blogs and make an appeal to the
big corporations to stop supporting these actions.

The Irrepressible.info website set up for the campaign includes a badge with
parts of censored information and people are urged to send emails including
this badge. Thus the censored information can be transmitted all around the
globe. The website includes also a pledge that will be presented at the
Internet Governance Forum meeting in Athens in November 2006 where
governments and companies from all over the world will discuss the future of
the Internet. The pledge that has been signed by more than 20 000
individuals says: "I believe the Internet should be a force for political
freedom, not repression. People have the right to seek and receive
information and to express their peaceful beliefs online without fear or
interference."

Amnesty is urging people to petition governments to cease censoring the web.
It also urged technology companies not to facilitate such activities.
Information technology companies "have helped build the systems that enable
surveillance and censorship to take place", Amnesty claims.

In the campaign-launching article Kate Allen, UK director of Amnesty
International, criticised technology companies that allow censorship and
provide information to governments convicting political dissidents.
Irrepressible.info gives Yahoo, Microsoft and even Google as examples of
companies having provided confidential user information to the Chinese
authorities resulting in suppression of freedom of expression, and even
imprisonments.

The big companies defend their position and consider that entering
restricted countries such as China is for the good of the local population
because some information is better than none.

Amnesty - Irrepressible.info campaign
http://irrepressible.info/

Amnesty: we must free the internet (28.05.2006)
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1784625,00.html

Today, our chance to fight a new hi-tech tyranny (28.05.2006)
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1784643,00.html

Amnesty takes a strike against web censorship (30.05.2006)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/30/amnesty_anti_web_censorship/

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6.Journalistic protection for online journalists and bloggers
============================================================
The Californian appeal court decided on 26 May that online journalists and
bloggers have the same right to protect their sources as all other
journalists. The case was brought to court by Apple Computer demanding from
a number of news website operators to reveal the source of confidential
information posted about some of its products.

Initially the trial court had ruled in favour of Apple but the appeal court
changed this decision stating that the defendants were protected by
California's reporter's shield law, as well as the constitutional privilege
against disclosure of confidential sources.

A major point in the case was whether the writers involved deserved the
protection of the First Amendment and the sites involved could be considered
a "newspaper, magazine or other periodical publication" as it is expressed
by the law.

The Californian Court of Appeal's decision is considered as a major victory
for press freedom. "This is a victory for the rights of journalists, be they
online or offline journalists, and it's a victory for the public at large",
said Kurt Opsahl, the staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
the group that represented the journalists. "It protects
the free flow of information to the press and from the press to the public".

Reporters Without Borders added: "The Californian appeal court's decision is
historic because it gives a new legitimacy to bloggers. Even though they do
not have press cards, they will henceforth have right of place in the world
of news and information".

The case highlights the lack of precedents in the UK regarding the
journalistic protection. The Contempt of Court Act of 1981 is an equivalent
act protecting journalists and although the law does not provide absolute
protection for sources, the court is required to decide whether the request
for source identification is sufficiently in the public, justice or national
security interest to over-ride a general presumption of source protection.
Recent cases have tended to favour the journalist's right to protect his
sources.

John MacKenzie, a Solicitor Advocate and partner with Pinsent Masons law
firm suggested that the Contempt of Court Act is broad enough to cover
operators of Internet news wires, blogs or other new media content.

Decision in Apple v. Does (20.05.2006)
http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Apple_v_Does/H028579.pdf

Huge Win for Online Journalists' Source Protection (26.05.2006)
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_05.php#004698

Court ruling protecting bloggers' sources hailed as historic (30.05.2006)
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17850

UK bloggers also likely to be Apple-proof (01.06.2006)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/01/uk_bloggers_protected/

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7. Dutch Gamer in US intelligence spotlight
============================================================
A Dutch gamer has become subject of US intelligence and widespread
international media attention because of a self-made video-game movie.
The video consists of footage of the game Battlefield 2 spiced up
with different music and voiceovers. It was presented on 4 May 2006 at a
meeting of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence as evidence
of a militant campaign to recruit Muslim youth on the Internet.

Reuters reported on the video that was shown at the meeting and
stated that it was a user-modified version of best-selling game
Battlefield 2, a military simulation which features combat between
U.S. forces and those of the fictitious Middle East Coalition (MEC)
as well as the People's Republic of China. Reuters quoted a Pentagon
official, Dan Devlin, as saying: "What we have seen is that any video
game that comes out... (al Qaeda will) modify it and change the game
for their needs".

The video starts with the voice of a male narrator saying: "I was
just a boy when the infidels came to my village in Blackhawk helicopters.
The infidels fired at the oil fields and they lit up as the eyes of
Allah". This is in fact a very easy recognisable copy of a voice-over
from the movie "Team America: World Police", an American satire by the
makers of South Park. The video footage was not created with a
modified version of Battlefield 2 at all, but with standard game
footage from an add-on module, a retail product widely available in
the United States and elsewhere. The Dutch maker Samir published the
movie in the end of 2005 on a Battlefield 2 forum under the name
"Sonic Jihad", a reference to a rap-album by rapper Paris. He took
most of the sounds from the movie called "Lion of the Desert"
starring Anthony Quinn.

Devlin spoke before the Committee, at which contractors from Science
Applications International Corp (SAIC) gave lawmakers a presentation
that focused on Iraq as an engine for Islamic militant propaganda.
SAIC has a $7 million Defence Department contract to monitor 1,500
militant websites that provide Al Qaeda and other militant
organisations with a main venue for communications, fund-raising,
recruitment and training.

To present this material, that is completely build up from various
pieces of western media content, as terrorist propaganda seems rather
unconvincing. Various gamers have ridiculed it. Samir has explained
the context of the video in various interviews in which he stated
that the video shouldn't be taken seriously. The attention by US
intelligence officials is however enough reason for him, a 25-year
old quality manager in a hospital, to cancel his plans to visit New
York out of fear of interrogation at arrival.

US accuses militants of using video games in youth appeal (07.05.2006)
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5c05%5c07%5cstory_7-5-2006
_pg4_9

Was Congress misled by "Terrorist" game video? We talk to gamer who created
the footage (11.05.2006)
http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/285129.html?thread=23112137

Hearing on the Terrorist/Jihadist Use of the Internet for Strategic
Communications (04.05.2006)
http://intelligence.house.gov/Reports.aspx?Section=134

Transcript of the Committee hearing (04.05.2006)
http://www.watercoolergames.org/archives/committee_hearing_part_one.doc

The video
http://www.archive.org/download/Sonic_jihad/Sonic_Jihad12.wmv

(Contribution by Joris van Hoboken - EDRI-member Bits of Freedom -
Netherlands)

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8. Private copy system under scrutiny
============================================================
The issue of the private copy remuneration system is becoming a subject of
debate for interest groups from all over the world.  L'AEPO-ARTIS grouping
27 associations of artists of Europe, the International Federation of
Musicians and the International Federation of Actors took a stand in the
support of the present private copy levy system.

According to the artists associations, the present private copy system
"significantly supports the cultural domain" as "a flexible system combining
freedom for consumers and legitimate revenues for the copyright owners"
being "vital for interpreters in the exploitation of their interpretation".
Replacing the fees on private copy, which brought income to the artists,
with DRM, which allows copying only within a system approved by its
producer, is profitable only for the industry selling DRM systems and not to
the interpreters who should be able to be compensated for copies of their
work.

The Federation considers that technical protection measures against copying
applied to CDs, DVDs and online works are prejudicial both to consumers and
artists preventing the circulation of artistic creation and attacking
individual freedom.

The position of these associations comes at the moment when the topic of the
copyright levy reform is included in the European Commission Work Program
for 2006. The commission is concerned "that copyright levies are being
applied to digital equipment and media without due account being given to
the impact on new technologies and equipment especially the availability and
use of so called "digital rights management" technologies which can provide
alternative ways of compensating right-holders. Furthermore, there is a lack
of transparency about the application, collection and distribution of the
copyright levies to right-holders."

On the other side of the debate is an alliance called Copyright Levies
Reform Alliance (CLRA) that was formed by IT, telecoms, electronics and
digital industry associations, to lobby for removal of the levies.

The copy protection technologies are also criticized by a recent report of
the UK All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG). The DRM report from
APIG looked at how copy protection systems restrict digital movies and music
and made several recommendations on the labelling regulations that should
tell consumers what they will and will not be able to do with digital
content that they purchase or on the prices charged for the same digital
content in different countries.

AEPO-ARTIS, FIA and FIM express their deep concern and clear opposition to
any restrictions of the remuneration system for private copying (31.05.2006)
http://www.labellife.com/2006/05/31/aepoartis_fia_a.html#more

The artists all over the world defend private copy (in French) (1.06.2006)
http://www.ratiatum.com/news3151_Les_artistes_du_monde_entier_defendent_la_co
pie_privee.html

EC - Copyright levy reform
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/levy_reform/index_en.htm

Coalition seeks to reform EU copyright levies (6.04.2006)
http://www.out-law.com/page-6821

MPs in digital downloads warning (4.06.2006)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5041684.stm

"Digital Rights Management" - Report of an Inquiry by the All Party Internet
Group (06.2006)
http://www.apig.org.uk/index/APIG_DRM_Report-final.pdf

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9. Agenda
============================================================

14-18 June, Rathen, Germany
ICA-IAMCR Symposium on Internet Governance
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/icapreconf.html

17 June 2006, Berlin, Germany
Start: 14:00, Alexanderplatz
Demonstration "Freiheit statt Sicherheitswahn" (Freedom instead of
Security Delusion)
http://initiative.stoppt-die-vorratsdatenspeicherung.de

19-20 June 2006, Paris, France
New relations between creative individuals and communities, consumers and
citizens. Hosted by the TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD)
http://www.tacd.org/docs/?id=296

19-23 June, Singapore
Euro-Southeast Asia ICT Forum (EUSEA2006) (with the EU Commission as
co-host)
http://www.eusea2006.org

21 June 2006, Luxembourg
Safer Internet Forum 2006 Focus on two topics: "Children's use of new media"
and "Blocking access to illegal content: child sexual abuse images"
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/sip/si_forum/forum...

23 June 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark
Book Launch Human Rights in the Global Information Society.
Keynote on Privacy, terrorism and the new security agenda.
Organized by The Danish Human Rights Institute and The Danish WSIS network
Information about the book.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10872
Program and invitation: http://www.humanrights.dk / http://www.una.dk/wsis

26-27 June 2006, Berlin, Germany
The Rising Power of Search-Engines on the Internet: Impacts on Users, Media
Policy, and Media Business
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/journalistik/suma/home_e.html

26-30 June 2006 Geneva, Switzerland
Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development Agenda
(PCDA/2)
http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=9766

26-28 June 2006, Cambridge, UK
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possibly encountered by travellers in the EU.
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Wizards of OS 4 Information Freedom Rules
http://wizards-of-os.org/

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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 21:00:52 -0400
Subject: cpunks archive, 1992-09 to 1998-12
In-Reply-To: <20060607164228.GC16234@arion.hive>
References: <20060607164228.GC16234@arion.hive>
Message-ID: <p06230960c0ad2738bc4b@[68.167.57.91]>

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>spring-summer
>1995)

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Subject: Looking to ReFi or a Home Equity Loan?
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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:48:50 -0800
Subject: Agents compete for your refi!!
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From camera_lumina at hotmail.com  Thu Jun  8 10:21:44 2006
From: camera_lumina at hotmail.com (Tyler Durden)
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:21:44 -0400
Subject: "A million bucks in stolen calls"
Message-ID: <BAY116-F17267CD004B36D9000000B9B8B0@phx.gbl>

Wow. One guy and a hacker rerouted VoIP calls and in the process collected 
$1MM in fees. Lots of crypto & cypherpunkly implications here.

-TD

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71105-0.html?tw=wn_index_8




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Subject: this going to expolad
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From: sho at agouron.com (Gail Costa)
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:52:31 -0800
Subject: check it out
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From: halloas at mailAccount.com.jfet.org (Imogene Pickens)
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 02:04:36 -0800
Subject: Agents compete for your refi!!
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Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:51:41 -0500
Subject: Tiffany, Handbags, Pens and more..
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From coderman at gmail.com  Fri Jun  9 10:56:52 2006
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:56:52 -0700
Subject: "A million bucks in stolen calls"
In-Reply-To: <4ef5fec60606091056o1b442f0fy9106eb247c30deca@mail.gmail.com>
References: <BAY116-F17267CD004B36D9000000B9B8B0@phx.gbl> 	
  <5e01c29a0606082006w628a4dc0wedd0ec708fb8b8c4@mail.gmail.com> 	
  <5e01c29a0606082023v3ee00e1bhca0cb5c759ed11d6@mail.gmail.com> 	
  <4ef5fec60606091056o1b442f0fy9106eb247c30deca@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4ef5fec60606091056i76552eaagb85179b5d5ad8b2c@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/8/06, mikeiscool <michaelslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/9/06, Tyler Durden <camera_lumina at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Wow. One guy and a hacker rerouted VoIP calls and in the process collected
> > $1MM in fees. Lots of crypto & cypherpunkly implications here.
>
> Sorry to double-post, but does anyone think Tor + encryption use
> would've saved this guy?

it's hard to sheild income, hence the advice to inflate expenses when
fudging taxes rather than trying to hide incoming funds.

these guys were making too much money to stay covert for long, so i
don't think tor or encryption of comms or data would have helped.  it
might have delayed the inevitable a bit, but that's all.

"Authorities said that to hide profits from his scheme, which ran from
November 2004 to May 2006, Pena bought real estate, three luxury
vehicles and a 40-foot motorboat."
  -- that's not a good way to hide funds :)




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From: tkyper at gaiconsultants.com (Marissa Aguirre)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 11:53:35 -0060
Subject: 
Message-ID: <200606091154.k59BsJ74015718@proton.jfet.org>

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From yoakknc at telcomprice.com  Fri Jun  9 10:23:20 2006
From: yoakknc at telcomprice.com (Roxana)
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:23:20 -0500
Subject: Ephedra for you again
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From jlund at uk.bnsmc.com  Fri Jun  9 13:32:56 2006
From: jlund at uk.bnsmc.com ( Early)
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:32:56 -0800
Subject: Application approval #JL1284563794143948
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From michaelslists at gmail.com  Thu Jun  8 20:06:21 2006
From: michaelslists at gmail.com (mikeiscool)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:06:21 +1000
Subject: "A million bucks in stolen calls"
In-Reply-To: <BAY116-F17267CD004B36D9000000B9B8B0@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY116-F17267CD004B36D9000000B9B8B0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <5e01c29a0606082006w628a4dc0wedd0ec708fb8b8c4@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/9/06, Tyler Durden <camera_lumina at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Wow. One guy and a hacker rerouted VoIP calls and in the process collected
> $1MM in fees. Lots of crypto & cypherpunkly implications here.
>
> -TD
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71105-0.html?tw=wn_index_8


http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/publicaffairs/NJ_Press/files/pdffiles/moorecomplaint.pdf

"After vulnerable computer networks of Unsuspecting Intermediaries were
identified, Defendant Moore delivered to Pena's E-Mail Address
information pertaining to the
types of routers used, as well as corresponding usernames and
passwords, necessary to infiltrate their networks."

Damnit man, if you're sending illegal things by email, at least encrypt it!

-- mic




From emc at artifact.psychedelic.net  Fri Jun  9 13:08:03 2006
From: emc at artifact.psychedelic.net (Eric Cordian)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:08:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Gilmore's Last Stand
Message-ID: <200606092008.k59K83qo025591@artifact.psychedelic.net>

One of the first rules of being a courtroom lawyer, is to never ask a 
question you don't already know the answer to.

A corollary to this might be to never try and prove a point by publicly 
conducting an experiment that you don't already know the results of.

One therefore wonders what on earth could have been going through "Privacy 
Activist" John Gilmore's mind when he publicly challenged a DHS Advisor to 
try to fly home to Washington, DC from a committee meeting in San 
Francisco without using his ID.

The guy already had his ticket and boarding pass.  He got a little extra 
screening, and actually got through security faster than the long line of 
people waiting for the regular screening.

So of course this is all over the Net now, and headlines are proclaiming 
that "flying without a photo-ID is actually faster than flying with proper 
identification," and Gilmore is looking like a crackpot.

Show up at the ticket counter without ID, try and buy a ticket with cash, 
and try to get on the plane, and be Black.

Then see what happens.

-- 
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"




From michaelslists at gmail.com  Thu Jun  8 20:23:48 2006
From: michaelslists at gmail.com (mikeiscool)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:23:48 +1000
Subject: "A million bucks in stolen calls"
In-Reply-To: <5e01c29a0606082006w628a4dc0wedd0ec708fb8b8c4@mail.gmail.com>
References: <BAY116-F17267CD004B36D9000000B9B8B0@phx.gbl> 	
  <5e01c29a0606082006w628a4dc0wedd0ec708fb8b8c4@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5e01c29a0606082023v3ee00e1bhca0cb5c759ed11d6@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/9/06, Tyler Durden <camera_lumina at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Wow. One guy and a hacker rerouted VoIP calls and in the process collected
> $1MM in fees. Lots of crypto & cypherpunkly implications here.

Sorry to double-post, but does anyone think Tor + encryption use
would've saved this guy?

I think encryption of the emails + hard drives would certainly help;
but would he be "coerced" into giving up the key? Could be burn the
key and deny everything? Would the FBI attempt to crack the key? Can
the FBI find you on Tor?

very interesting ...

-- mic




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From camera_lumina at hotmail.com  Fri Jun  9 11:15:09 2006
From: camera_lumina at hotmail.com (Tyler Durden)
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:15:09 -0400
Subject: "A million bucks in stolen calls"...Details
In-Reply-To: <4ef5fec60606091056i76552eaagb85179b5d5ad8b2c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BAY116-F301AFE3C8D036F8EF9824E9B880@phx.gbl>

Here's some more details.

So...does this amount to trespassing or merely arresting two guys for 
running traffic you don't like?

This also implies that CALEA probably isn't even necessary in a lot of 
cases. NSA can probably surreptitiously copy and route traffic to themselves 
through intermediate networks.

Come to think of it, this may imply that something like CALEA is far easier 
in the packet world than it was in the circuit switched world.

One implication is that VoIP can't really be secure unless we can hide the 
routing and not just the pakcet contents, but of course this isn't a new 
problem as recent events a la NSAT&T prove.

Anyway...


Two Charged in VOIP Hacking Scandal

JUNE 9, 2006 | Federal authorities pressed charges Thursday against a second 
man who helped perpetrate a VOIP wholesale scheme that defrauded at least 15 
VOIP service providers.

Robert Moore of Spokane, Wash., also known as the "Spokane Hacker," was 
served papers Thursday but had not yet been taken into custody, according 
U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Michael Drewniak.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey had filed charges 
against Edwin Andres Pena, who they say set up the allegedly fraudulent 
wholesale business -- called Fortes Telecom Inc. -- in 2004. (See 'Free' 
Skype Could Be Costly.)

After charging his service provider customers cheap rates to route their 
calls, Pena's company secretly routed the calls over the IP networks of at 
least 15 VOIP providers, according to court documents.

This was done using a two-step process.

Step One. The men obscured the origin of the calls by sending them through 
an "intermediary." The feds believe Pena, with help from Moore, scanned the 
networks of companies all over the world looking for network ports to use 
for routing calls. The New Jersey U.S. Attorney's Office said it obtained 
records from AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T - message board) showing that, between June 
and October of last year, Moore ran more than 6 million scans for those 
susceptible ports.

The two eventually decided on routing calls through a router owned by an 
unnamed New Jersey-based hedge fund company. (See Ingate Secures VOIP.)

Step Two. With a "blind" established, Pena then needed to gain admittance 
for his customers' calls to be routed onto the networks of other VOIP 
providers.


VOIP providers tag their own calls with a unique identifier or "prefix" so 
they can be admitted to the network. Pena allegedly bombarded the VOIP 
providers' networks with test calls -- each carrying a different prefix -- 
until he found one that was admitted to the network. He then tagged all his 
fraudelent calls with the winning prefix.

Having penetrated the networks of VOIP telephone service providers, Pena 
programmed the third party's computer networks to use the illegally obtained 
proprietary prefix to route calls of customers of his companies, federal 
authorities say.

The Pena case will certainly revive the issue of security among VOIP 
providers. Many in the VOIP community are all too aware of the security 
perils of running calls over the Internet. "This hacker's approach is 
certainly not a surprise to those in the Internet community who follow these 
types of issues," says Brian Lustig, spokesman for VOIP provider SunRocket 
Inc. . "It is just another variation of fraud that can be perpetrated."

So what does the VOIP community intend to do to protect itself from hacking? 
"The industry as a whole -- including Sun Rocket -- is already hard at work 
on standards and security measures that can prevent this type of activity," 
Lustig says.

Pena was taken into custody today and was scheduled to appear in court 
Thursday. Moore will appear in court soon, Drewniak said.

 Mark Sullivan, Reporter, Light Reading




From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jun  9 06:00:05 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:00:05 +0200
Subject: Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites
Message-ID: <20060609130005.GR28956@leitl.org>

Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites

    * 09 June 2006
    * NewScientist.com news service
    * Paul Marks

"I AM continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post
online about themselves." So says Jon Callas, chief security officer at PGP, a
Silicon Valley-based maker of encryption software. He is far from alone in
noticing that fast-growing social networking websites such as MySpace and
Friendster are a snoop's dream.

New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which
specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the
mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social
networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically
the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation
W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as
banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive,
all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.

Americans are still reeling from last month's revelations that the NSA has
been logging phone calls since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. The
Congressional Research Service, which advises the US legislature, says phone
companies that surrendered call records may have acted illegally. However, the
White House insists that the terrorist threat makes existing wire-tapping
legislation out of date and is urging Congress not to investigate the NSA's
action.

Meanwhile, the NSA is pursuing its plans to tap the web, since phone logs have
limited scope. They can only be used to build a very basic picture of
someone's contact network, a process sometimes called "connecting the dots".
Clusters of people in highly connected groups become apparent, as do people
with few connections who appear to be the intermediaries between such groups.
The idea is to see by how many links or "degrees" separate people from, say, a
member of a blacklisted organisation.

By adding online social networking data to its phone analyses, the NSA could
connect people at deeper levels, through shared activities, such as taking
flying lessons. Typically, online social networking sites ask members to enter
details of their immediate and extended circles of friends, whose blogs they
might follow. People often list other facets of their personality including
political, sexual, entertainment, media and sporting preferences too. Some go
much further, and a few have lost their jobs by publicly describing drinking
and drug-taking exploits. Young people have even been barred from the orthodox
religious colleges that they are enrolled in for revealing online that they
are gay.

"You should always assume anything you write online is stapled to your resumi.
People don't realise you get Googled just to get a job interview these days,"
says Callas.

Other data the NSA could combine with social networking details includes
information on purchases, where we go (available from cellphone records, which
cite the base station a call came from) and what major financial transactions
we make, such as buying a house.

Right now this is difficult to do because today's web is stuffed with data in
incompatible formats. Enter the semantic web, which aims to iron out these
incompatibilities over the next few years via a common data structure called
the Resource Description Framework (RDF). W3C hopes that one day every website
will use RDF to give each type of data a unique, predefined, unambiguous tag.

"RDF turns the web into a kind of universal spreadsheet that is readable by
computers as well as people," says David de Roure at the University of
Southampton in the UK, who is an adviser to W3C. "It means that you will be
able to ask a website questions you couldn't ask before, or perform
calculations on the data it contains." In a health record, for instance, a
heart attack will have the same semantic tag as its more technical
description, a myocardial infarction. Previously, they would have looked like
separate medical conditions. Each piece of numerical data, such as the rate of
inflation or the number of people killed on the roads, will also get a tag.

The advantages for scientists, for instance, could be huge: they will have
unprecedented access to each other's experimental datasets and will be able to
perform their own analyses on them. Searching for products such as holidays
will become easier as price and availability dates will have smart tags,
allowing powerful searches across hundreds of sites.

On the downside, this ease of use will also make prying into people's lives a
breeze. No plan to mine social networks via the semantic web has been
announced by the NSA, but its interest in the technology is evident in a
funding footnote to a research paper delivered at the W3C's WWW2006 conference
in Edinburgh, UK, in late May.

That paper, entitled Semantic Analytics on Social Networks, by a research team
led by Amit Sheth of the University of Georgia in Athens and Anupam Joshi of
the University of Maryland in Baltimore reveals how data from online social
networks and other databases can be combined to uncover facts about people.
The footnote said the work was part-funded by an organisation called ARDA.

What is ARDA? It stands for Advanced Research Development Activity. According
to a report entitled Data Mining and Homeland Security, published by the
Congressional Research Service in January, ARDA's role is to spend NSA money
on research that can "solve some of the most critical problems facing the US
intelligence community". Chief among ARDA's aims is to make sense of the
massive amounts of data the NSA collects - some of its sources grow by around
4 million gigabytes a month.

The ever-growing online social networks are part of the flood of internet
information that could be mined: some of the top sites like MySpace now have
more than 80 million members (see Graph).

The research ARDA funded was designed to see if the semantic web could be
easily used to connect people. The research team chose to address a subject
close to their academic hearts: detecting conflicts of interest in scientific
peer review. Friends cannot peer review each other's research papers, nor can
people who have previously co-authored work together.

So the team developed software that combined data from the RDF tags of online
social network Friend of a Friend (www.foaf-project.org), where people simply
outline who is in their circle of friends, and a semantically tagged
commercial bibliographic database called DBLP, which lists the authors of
computer science papers.

Joshi says their system found conflicts between potential reviewers and
authors pitching papers for an internet conference. "It certainly made
relationship finding between people much easier," Joshi says. "It picked up
softer [non-obvious] conflicts we would not have seen before."

The technology will work in exactly the same way for intelligence and national
security agencies and for financial dealings, such as detecting insider
trading, the authors say. Linking "who knows who" with purchasing or bank
records could highlight groups of terrorists, money launderers or blacklisted
groups, says Sheth.

The NSA recently changed ARDA's name to the Disruptive Technology Office. The
DTO's interest in online social network analysis echoes the Pentagon's
controversial post 9/11 Total Information Awareness (TIA) initiative. That
programme, designed to collect, track and analyse online data trails, was
suspended after a public furore over privacy in 2002. But elements of the TIA
were incorporated into the Pentagon's classified programme in the September
2003 Defense Appropriations Act.

Privacy groups worry that "automated intelligence profiling" could sully
people's reputations or even lead to miscarriages of justice - especially
since the data from social networking sites may often be inaccurate, untrue or
incomplete, De Roure warns.

But Tim Finin, a colleague of Joshi's, thinks the spread of such technology is
unstoppable. "Information is getting easier to merge, fuse and draw inferences
from. There is money to be made and control to be gained in doing so. And I
don't see much that will stop it," he says.

Callas thinks people have to wise up to how much information about themselves
they should divulge on public websites. It may sound obvious, he says, but
being discreet is a big part of maintaining privacy. Time, perhaps, to hit the
delete button.
Related Articles

    * Software could add meaning to 'wiki' links
    * http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9295
    * 07 June 2006
    * Interview: Six clicks of separation
    * http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19025481.700
    * 26 April 2006

Weblinks

    * Electronic Frontier Foundation campaign against wiretaps
    *
https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?alertId=212&pg=makeACall&JServSessionIdr
002=dbq7ztr162.app8a
    * Disruptive Technologies Office, Wikipedia
    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_Technologies_Office
    * MySpace
    * http://www.myspace.com/



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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:35:21 -0060
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From titus at caltech.edu  Sat Jun 10 06:49:29 2006
From: titus at caltech.edu (Titus Brown)
Date: June 10, 2006 6:49:29 PM EDT
Subject: [IP] more on Who they're spying on
Message-ID: <mailman.1780.1576007692.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

-> Some members of this list seem more eager to engage in bitter
-> denunciation
-> of the present administration, than to offer ideas about how best to
-> reconcile the conflicting interests of freedom and security.

Dave -- for IP if you wish...

Mr. Bray and the others are talking past each other in an eerily
familiar way.

There's no doubt in my mind that there are people who would like
nothing more than to kill as many Americans as possible, e.g. by
setting off a nuclear weapon in the middle of New York City.  I'd
really like this not to happen.

There's also little doubt in my mind that the current administration
is using this kind of threat -- which is a real, rational threat -- to
justify the use of a sweeping set of surveillance tactics.  Some (or
even many) of these tactics, as currently employed, are probably
unconstitutional.  They're also prone to abuse, especially without
oversight.

So there are at least three items for discussion --

 1) what is the real nature of the threat to the US, both here and
    abroad?

 2) what is an effective way to prevent terrorist attacks that involve
    WMDs or large loss of life, both here and abroad?

 3) what is an effective way to safeguard civil liberties in the
process,
    and a good set of tradeoffs?

I bet Mr. Bray is tired of hearing *only* about #3 and not about #1 or
#2; I bet others are equally tired of hearing only about #2.  I don't
think it's possible to have a useful discussion that doesn't include
all three.

My reason for opposing pretty much everything Bush has done in the
"War on Terror" is that I don't think it's *effective*, and there
is clearly no *oversight* -- that is, it provides no solution to either
#2 or #3.

The war in Iraq has done nothing to make us safer; if anything, Iraq
is now an excellent training and recruiting ground for anti-American
terrorists.  I have no doubts that the NSA wiretapping is hideously
ineffective due to too many false positives.  Our DHS has become a
pork subsidy program.  Our interrogation tactics are not only against
the Geneva convention, but are brutal, inhumane, and violate the
"innocent until proven guilty" clause that is at the very heart of our
justice system.

And there's no oversight of any of it, and no evidence that it's
remotely effective or anything other than a colossal waste of money.

Even worse, the single biggest short-term threat (IMO) -- a
nuclear-armed terrorist, with nuclear material swiped from or donated
by Russia, NK, Pakistan, or Iran -- receives essentially no attention
from this administration.  Nuclear proliferation by (currently)
friendly countries is unopposed, and in some cases is even encouraged
(India).

Down the line, biological WMDs are going to become easy to manufacture
in the lab.  What should we do about that?

My challenge to Mr. Bray and like-minded Administration supporters is
this: do you have any positive evidence that this Administration has
been effective at preventing terrorism?  If not, why do you support
these efforts, especially if many smart people think that they are
technically flawed and unlikely to work?  And what is the appropriate
oversight structure that should be put in place, regardless?

My challenge to the rest of us (including me ;;): is there an
effective (and maybe even politically viable!) alternative that we
should think about and support?  I'd be very interested in pointers to
information that discusses or suggests answers to questions like:

 * how can we effectively stop nuclear proliferation?

 * how can we help to leave Iraq a stable country?

 * what is a *short-term* solution to the strong desire of many, many
   people in the Middle East and elsewhere to kill as many Americans
   as possible?

 * since most of us believe that technological eavesdropping is
generally
   ineffective, how can we educate our political servants about this?
   Heck, who's telling them that they're *effective*, anyway?  (Heck^2,
   maybe they actually *are* effective!)

I'd also be very interested in hearing a discussion -- here or
elsewhere -- about any of these issues.  The last one might even
be appropriate for this list ;).

cheers,
--titus

p.s. As an aside, I don't think the sort of motive-removal that
Mr. Fairlie supports is effective in the short term.  I agree
education and trade are the only plausible long-term strategies --
we're never going to kill every Islamic fundamentalist on the planet,
and conflict doesn't usually work well as a way to change people's
minds -- but we have to deal with issues here and now, as well.  Eyes
have been poked, and are not going to be "unpoked" anytime soon...


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From: camera_lumina at hotmail.com (Tyler Durden)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:38:36 -0400
Subject: Gilmore's Last Stand
In-Reply-To: <200606092008.k59K83qo025591@artifact.psychedelic.net>
Message-ID: <BAY116-F7E73FF4DF081995726A3B9B890@phx.gbl>

>So of course this is all over the Net now, and headlines are proclaiming
>that "flying without a photo-ID is actually faster than flying with proper
>identification," and Gilmore is looking like a crackpot.

Or is he?!!!

Nah... I know this was an accident, though I can't help wondering if someone 
phoned the airport in advance. I've noticed that the reporter (who was 
taking notes) was questioned: Would someone merely writing normally get 
noticed by security?

The silver lining here is that the TSA was forced to say that an ID isn't 
technically required, so that they have in theory relinquished the right to 
demand one. There have been worse mistakes.

Of course, I have little doubts about how this really works in practice.

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From dave at farber.net  Sun Jun 11 02:58:53 2006
From: dave at farber.net (David Farber)
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:58:53 -0400
Subject: [IP] more on Who they're spying on
Message-ID: <mailman.1781.1576007693.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>



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From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:46:05 +0200
Subject: [dave@farber.net: [IP] more on Who they're spying on]
Message-ID: <20060611104605.GZ28956@leitl.org>

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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:07:15 +0200
Subject: [lists@user-land.org: [p2p-hackers] USA Preparing the Takedown
  of P2P]
Message-ID: <20060612190715.GI28956@leitl.org>

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From camera_lumina at hotmail.com  Tue Jun 13 05:38:30 2006
From: camera_lumina at hotmail.com (Tyler Durden)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:38:30 -0400
Subject: [lists@user-land.org: [p2p-hackers] USA Preparing the
  Takedown of P2P]
In-Reply-To: <20060612190715.GI28956@leitl.org>
Message-ID: <BAY116-F28D94F633EF705DA7F57179B8C0@phx.gbl>

I dunno. I hear a lot of hyperbole about this. So far, I am not convinced.
I mean, do we really want live HD video to be given the same QoS as P2P?

I am also not QUITE as convinced that the telcos, ISPs and so on will start 
mangling content to the point where people stop using the internet. Seems to 
me we're way beyond that stage.

Is there a Cypherpunkly POV that can well defend net neutrality?

Don't get me wrong...I do see plenty of room for abuse. But on the other 
hand, QoS boils down to fairly simple business or, as RAHweh puts it, 
"Physics".

-TD


>From: Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>
>To: cypherpunks at jfet.org
>Subject: [lists at user-land.org: [p2p-hackers] USA Preparing the Takedown  of 
>P2P]
>Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:07:15 +0200
>
>----- Forwarded message from Philippe Landau <lists at user-land.org> -----
>
>From: Philippe Landau <lists at user-land.org>
>Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 14:03:12 +0200
>To: "Peer-to-peer development." <p2p-hackers at zgp.org>
>Subject: [p2p-hackers] USA Preparing the Takedown of P2P
>User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060420)
>Reply-To: "Peer-to-peer development." <p2p-hackers at zgp.org>
>
>US plans to 'fight the net' revealed (2006-01)
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
>
>From influencing public opinion through new media to designing
>"computer network attack" weapons, the US military is learning
>to fight an electronic war.
>The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap".
>
>Wrecking the Internet: Turning Gold into Lead (by Robert Storey 2006-05)
>http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060508#opinion
>
>The COPE Act would do away with the requirement for net neutrality, thus
>turning America's Internet into a "private network." This would permit
>ISPs and telecom companies to dish out Internet access to the highest
>bidder. Under such a regime, AOL could, for example, block access to
>MSN, or Verizon could throttle your Skype bandwidth because it competes
>with their own voice-over-IP service. Even worse, a wealthy political
>party could pay ISPs to block access to a rival party's web sites and
>blogs. Emailing lists could also be throttled. It's not hard to imagine
>proprietary software companies paying to block access to DistroWatch, or
>prevent you from downloading the latest Ubuntu or Fedora release. [...]
>
>Opposition to the COPE Act is being coordinated by Save the Internet.
>http://savetheinternet.com/
>
>The telecom/cable industry is pulling out all stops to polish this turd.
>Their "coalition" has the Orwellian title Hands Off the Internet - their
>thoroughly misleading web site can be found here.
>
>The telecoms have lots of cash, and are handing out campaign
>contributions (otherwise known as "bribes") by the bucketful in order to
>get the COPE Act passed. Geeks of the world - especially US-based geeks
>- need to put down their cups of espresso for a moment and get busy
>fighting this thing. [...]
>
>Kind regards     Philippe
>
>--
>
>http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060508#opinion
>
>Not everyone realizes that the USA invented the Internet. Even fewer
>people realize that the USA is on the verge of wrecking it. This is not
>an exaggeration. Some nasty new legislation currently under debate in
>the US Congress could make the Internet as bland as day-old yogurt.
>
>Those who do not live in the USA should not be smug. There is a famous
>old saying that when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches
>pneumonia. The USA has a history of exporting its bad laws. Most geeks
>are familiar with the notorious DMCA and software patents. Thanks to the
>DMCA, DVDs are region-coded and it's illegal to buy mod-chips for an
>Xbox. Thanks to software patents, most Linux distros do not have video
>codecs or an MP3 player. The fact that this execrable legislation
>originated in America did not prevent its rottenness from spreading
>around the world.
>
>To understand what is at stake, you should become familiar with the term
>net neutrality. The basic concept of net neutrality is that Internet
>content should be dished out in a non-discriminatory fashion. Thus, your
>ISP should not be preventing you from accessing DistroWatch, nor should
>your bandwidth be throttled when you try to use BitTorrent or Skype. In
>this sense, the network is neutral - it does not play favorites.
>
>All this would change (for USA residents) if the US Congress passes the
>Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement (COPE) Act of
>2006. This odious new law is the brainchild of telecom and cable TV
>companies. Chief ogres include Verizon, Comcast, BellSouth and AT&T.
>Their incentive for pushing this legal abomination is the opportunity to
>make a lot of money.
>
>The COPE Act would do away with the requirement for net neutrality, thus
>turning America's Internet into a "private network." This would permit
>ISPs and telecom companies to dish out Internet access to the highest
>bidder. Under such a regime, AOL could, for example, block access to
>MSN, or Verizon could throttle your Skype bandwidth because it competes
>with their own voice-over-IP service. Even worse, a wealthy political
>party could pay ISPs to block access to a rival party's web sites and
>blogs. Emailing lists could also be throttled. It's not hard to imagine
>proprietary software companies paying to block access to DistroWatch, or
>prevent you from downloading the latest Ubuntu or Fedora release.
>
>COPE
>
>"If we fail, the Internet will deteriorate to the point of near
>uselessness."
>
>If the COPE Act is passed, the USA - which likes to boast of being a
>"bastion of freedom" - could ironically wind up with an Internet
>befitting a Third World dictatorship. However, the damage would not be
>limited to residents of the USA. The fact is that about 50% of the
>content on the Internet originates in America, even more if you're
>talking only about English-language content. Do a Google search on
>almost any topic - from "motorcycle repair" to "allergies" - and see how
>much of the hits are American-based web sites. The web sites themselves
>could be hosted on servers outside the USA, but server location is not
>the issue. Rather, deprived of their US-readership or US-based
>advertising revenue, many sites would have to fold. Would the Internet
>be as useful to you if Wikipedia or Google folded? For that matter, it's
>hard to see how DistroWatch (which is not US-based) could survive if we
>lost our American audience and advertisers.
>
>There is a lot more I could write about on this topic, but there are
>others who have already done so (and do it better than me). Some
>excellent articles about this brewing fiasco appeared recently in The
>Nation, Raw Story and The Free Press. Sadly, I have seen nothing
>mentioned on the popular geek web sites that I visit everyday (which is
>why I'm writing this article).
>
>Can anything to done to prevent this disaster (especially since the COPE
>Act seems to have the support of the Bush administration)? Fortunately,
>in this case I believe there is hope, though it's going to be a bitter
>fight. Although we are up against powerful, well-moneyed lobbyists from
>the telecom industry, we also have some heavyweight supporters, among
>them Amazon and Google. Opposition to the COPE Act is being coordinated
>by Save the Internet. If you are a US resident, you should visit their
>web site and sign their petition. Even more important, they also have a
>neat little form for sending a message to your representatives and
>senators - just type in your message, zip code and address, and it will
>get sent to the proper person (you needn't even know who your
>representatives are). All such messages should be short and to the
>point. Basically, what I said in my message was:
>
>    1. I oppose the Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and
>Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006 in its present form.
>    2. I support the efforts to amend the act by Representatives Markey,
>Boucher, Eshoo and Inslee, and Senators Olympia Snowe and Byron Dorgan.
>    3. I am in favor of Net Neutrality.
>
>The telecom/cable industry is pulling out all stops to polish this turd.
>Their "coalition" has the Orwellian title Hands Off the Internet - their
>thoroughly misleading web site can be found here.
>
>The telecoms have lots of cash, and are handing out campaign
>contributions (otherwise known as "bribes") by the bucketful in order to
>get the COPE Act passed. Geeks of the world - especially US-based geeks
>- need to put down their cups of espresso for a moment and get busy
>fighting this thing. If we fail, the Internet will deteriorate to the
>point of near uselessness and we might as well put our computers in
>storage. In that case, we'll have to all find new hobbies. Possible
>candidates include knitting and flower arranging.
>
>_______________________________________________
>p2p-hackers mailing list
>p2p-hackers at zgp.org
>http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
>_______________________________________________
>Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences:
>http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences
>
>----- End forwarded message -----
>--
>Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org
>______________________________________________________________
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From susan.landau at sun.com  Tue Jun 13 10:35:37 2006
From: susan.landau at sun.com (Susan Landau)
Date: June 13, 2006 10:35:37 AM EDT
Subject: report on security risks of applying CALEA to VoIP
Message-ID: <mailman.1782.1576007693.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

				Tuesday  13 June 2006  at 10:35

Below you'll find an executive summary of "Security Implications of
Applying the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act to Voice
over IP," by Steve Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Ernie Brickell, Clint Brooks,
Vint
Cerf, Whit Diffie, Susan Landau, Jon Peterson, John Treichler.

The full report is at:
http://www.itaa.org/news/docs/CALEAVOIPreport.pdf.

Susan



Security Implications of Applying the Communications Assistance to Law
Enforcement Act to Voice over IP

  Steven Bellovin, Columbia University
  Matt Blaze,  University of Pennsylvania
  Ernest Brickell, Intel Corporation
  Clinton Brooks, NSA (retired)
  Vinton Cerf, Google
  Whitfield Diffie, Sun Microsystems
  Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems
  Jon Peterson, NeuStar
  John Treichler, Applied Signal Technology


Executive Summary

For many people, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) looks like a nimble
way of using a computer to make phone calls.  Download the software,
pick
an identifier and then wherever there is an Internet connection, you can
make a phone call.  From this perspective, it makes perfect sense that
anything that can be done with a telephone, including the graceful
accommodation of wiretapping, should be able to be done readily with
VoIP
as well.

The FCC has issued an order for all ``interconnected'' and all broadband
access VoIP services to comply with Communications Assistance for Law
Enforcement Act (CALEA) --- without specific regulations on what
compliance
would mean.  The FBI has suggested that CALEA should apply to all forms
of
VoIP, regardless of the technology involved in the VoIP implementation.

Intercept against a VoIP call made from a fixed location with a fixed IP
address directly to a big internet provider's access router is
equivalent
to wiretapping a normal phone call, and classical PSTN-style CALEA
concepts
can be applied directly. In fact, these intercept capabilities can be
exactly the same in the VoIP case if the ISP properly secures its
infrastructure and wiretap control process as the PSTN's central offices
are assumed to do.

However, the network architectures of the Internet and the Public
Switched
Telephone Network (PSTN) are substantially different, and these
differences
lead to security risks in applying the CALEA to VoIP.  VoIP, like most
Internet communications, are communications for a mobile environment.
The
feasibility of applying CALEA to more decentralized VoIP services is
quite
problematic.  Neither the manageability of such a wiretapping regime nor
whether it can be made secure against subversion seem clear.  The real
danger is that a CALEA-type regimen is likely to introduce serious
vulnerabilities through its ``architected security breach.''

Potential problems include the difficulty of determining where the
traffic
is coming from (the VoIP provider enables the connection but may not
provide the services for the actual conversation), the difficulty of
ensuring safe transport of the signals to the law-enforcement facility,
the
risk of introducing new vulnerabilities into Internet communications,
and
the difficulty of ensuring proper minimization.  VOIP implementations
vary
substantially across the Internet making it impossible to implement
CALEA
uniformly.  Mobility and the ease of creating new identities on the
Internet exacerbate the problem.

Building a comprehensive VoIP intercept capability into the Internet
appears to require the cooperation of a very large portion of the
routing
infrastructure, and the fact that packets are carrying voice is largely
irrelevant.  Indeed, most of the provisions of the wiretap law do not
distinguish among different types of electronic communications.
Currently
the FBI is focused on applying CALEA's design mandates to VoIP, but
there
is nothing in wiretapping law that would argue against the extension of
intercept design mandates to all types of Internet communications.
Indeed,
the changes necessary to meet CALEA requirements for VoIP would likely
have
to be implemented in a way that covered all forms of Internet
communication.

In order to extend authorized interception much beyond the easy
scenario,
it is necessary either to eliminate the flexibility that Internet
communications allow, or else introduce serious security risks to
domestic
VoIP implementations.  The former would have significant negative
effects
on U.S. ability to innovate, while the latter is simply dangerous.  The
current FBI and FCC direction on CALEA applied to VoIP carries great
risks.



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From coderman at gmail.com  Tue Jun 13 10:50:10 2006
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:50:10 -0700
Subject: [lists@user-land.org: [p2p-hackers] USA Preparing the
  Takedown of P2P]
In-Reply-To: <BAY116-F28D94F633EF705DA7F57179B8C0@phx.gbl>
References: <20060612190715.GI28956@leitl.org> 	
  <BAY116-F28D94F633EF705DA7F57179B8C0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <4ef5fec60606131050q65746c51p511755fa7ae14e08@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/13/06, Tyler Durden <camera_lumina at hotmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> Is there a Cypherpunkly POV that can well defend net neutrality?

let users shape at the endpoints (where it is most effective anyway)
and let the telco's carry blackened traffic.

end of problem. :)




From monty at roscom.com  Tue Jun 13 11:51:34 2006
From: monty at roscom.com (Monty Solomon)
Date: June 13, 2006 11:51:34 PM EDT
Subject: Death by DMCA
Message-ID: <mailman.1783.1576007693.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>


Death by DMCA

By:  Fred von Lohmann and Wendy Seltzer
IEEE Spectrum
June 2006

A flood of legislation released by the passage of the  Digital
Millennium Copyright Act threatens to drown whole  classes of
consumer electronics

In 1998, U.S.  entertainment companies persuaded  Congress to make
dramatic changes in its copyright code  by passing the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act. The  DMCA gave  copyright holders new
rights to control the way people  use copyrighted material and new
protection for  technologies designed to restrict access or copying.
The  movie and record companies argued they needed these new
restrictions to fight increased piracy threats in the  digital era.

In the eight years since the DMCA's passage, however,  piracy has not
decreased, and hurdles to lawful uses of  media have risen. The
Motion Picture Association (MPA),  the international arm of the
Motion Picture Association  of America (MPAA), estimated worldwide
losses because of  piracy to be US $2.2 billion in 1997 and $3.5
billion  annually in 2002, 2003, and 2004.

Meanwhile, entire consumer electronics categories have  been wiped
from retail shelves. If three or four years  ago you didn't buy a
digital video recorder that  automatically skips commercials, you're
out of luck;  that feature is not in such products today. Television
executives brought litigation that bankrupted the  company offering
DVRs with these user-friendly features,  because skipping commercials
potentially undermines  their ability to sell commercial time.

You're likewise out of luck if you're looking to buy  software that
lets you copy a DVD onto your laptop's  hard drive; it's no longer
for sale, at least not in the  United States. Even if you want to put
the movie you  bought onto a pocket-size video and game console, such
as Sony's PlayStation Portable, which allows users to  watch video
stored on flash memory or a miniature hard  drive, you can't legally
do so, because you'd have to  "rip," or decode, it to make the
transfer-and the studios claim that this action violates the DMCA.
When  you rip a CD, be it to an audiotape or an MP3 file,  you're not
breaking any laws. But to rip a DVD you need  to somehow get around
the encryption technology built  into a standard disc, and since such
circumvention is  forbidden by the DMCA, if you rip a DVD, you are
breaking a law. Under the DMCA, legality doesn't depend  on how the
copy will be used but rather on the means by  which the digital
content is copied.

Now, in an even more vexing situation, U.S.  entertainment companies
are successfully spreading the  copyright code changes established by
the DMCA around  the world. Laws similar to the DMCA now exist in
Japan,  Australia, and much of Europe. At least nine additional
countries, including Chile, Guatemala, and Singapore  have also been
pressured to enact DMCA-like laws as part  of a devil's bargain with
U.S. trade negotiators, who  say the copyright change is necessary to
secure free  trade pacts with the United States that would govern all
sorts of commerce. And in Europe, the body charged with  defining the
European digital television standards is  mixing in
content-protection obligations, responding yet  again to pressure
from major U.S. movie studios.

Emboldened by their successes, U.S. entertainment  companies are
pushing for another wave of even more  restrictive legislation.
"Broadcast flag" legislation  could require that all consumer
electronics devices  recognize protected television broadcasts and
potentially refuse to copy them; a so-called "radio  flag" bill would
prevent or restrict the manufacture of  hard disk recorders for
digital radio; and an "analog  hole" closure would restrict the
connections new digital  devices can make with analog devices.

As the entertainment industry expands copyright law,  the rising tide
threatens to completely wash away many  types of innovative gadgets.

...

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun06/3673




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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:32:13 +0800
Subject: Diet Pill Breakthrough!
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From rah at shipwright.com  Tue Jun 13 12:54:26 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:54:26 -0400
Subject: [Clips] U.S. Attorney Opens RSA Options Probe
Message-ID: <p06230997c0b4c82f4928@[68.167.57.91]>

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  Delivered-To: rah at shipwright.com
  Delivered-To: clips at philodox.com
  Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:38:20 -0400
  To: Philodox Clips List <clips at philodox.com>
  From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
  Subject: [Clips] U.S. Attorney Opens RSA Options Probe
  Reply-To: rah at philodox.com
  Sender: clips-bounces at philodox.com

  <http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB115021311199479010.html>

  The Wall Street Journal


  U.S. Attorney Opens RSA Options Probe

  A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE NEWS ROUNDUP

  June 13, 2006 1:56 p.m.

  Internet-security company RSA Security Inc. faced more questions related to
  its stock-options grants, as the Justice Department opened an inquiry that
  comes on the heels of a Securities and Exchange Commission probe announced
  last month.

  The Bedford, Mass., company said it received a document subpoena from the
  U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York requesting records from
  1996 to the present relating to its stock-option grants.

  Last month, the company announced a probe by the SEC relating to its
  options grants. The SEC staff told the company that its inquiry shouldn't
  be construed as an indication "that any violation of law has occurred," RSA
  said. The company has declared that it will cooperate with both
  investigations.

  RSA was among 32 companies spotlighted in a report by an
  accounting-research firm, the Center for Financial Research and Analysis.
  The study looked at options grant dates for the 100 companies that issued
  options heavily before changes in reporting requirements in 2002 made
  backdating more difficult.

  CFRA, analyzing trading patterns, said RSA was among 17 companies with a
  high risk of "having backdated options," but cautioned that the analysis
  doesn't prove backdating took place.

  The CFRA report highlighted options granted to top executives by RSA in
  1997, 1999 and 2000 that each preceded major run-ups in the company's share
  price.

  RSA is one of more than 40 companies that have disclosed internal or
  external inquiries into their options practices in the past few months.
  Investigators are trying to determine whether companies awarded options and
  then backdated them to a period when stock prices were low in order to make
  them more valuable.

  Options give holders the right to buy a stock at a strike price, typically
  the market value on the day of the award. The options are supposed to give
  executives incentive to boost the company's stock price so that they will
  benefit along with other shareholders. But if companies choose dates before
  the award date when the stock was particularly low, it undermines the
  incentive because the executives' options are already profitable. Moreover,
  backdated options affect the tax and accounting treatment of the options,
  and if they weren't disclosed, they raise the potential for criminal fraud
  charges.


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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
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From tercasa at prodigy.net.mx  Tue Jun 13 17:02:41 2006
From: tercasa at prodigy.net.mx (pat hache)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:02:41 -0500
Subject: report on security risks of applying CALEA to VoIP
Message-ID: <mailman.1784.1576007693.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

just received from IP
cheers


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From dudchenko at 1system.ru  Tue Jun 13 22:10:27 2006
From: dudchenko at 1system.ru (Galechka B.)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:10:27 +0300
Subject: Hello from Galechka B.
Message-ID: <005501c68f70$d3d99900$7613000a@201.20.200.156.corp.ajato.com.br>

Hallo	

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I think that you will agree with me if the answer will be "NO WAY". Love is the most beautiful and exciting thing
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One very famous writer said: "The beauty will rescue the world" i agree with his words but still i would add :
" LOVE and Beauty will rescure the world". 

I hope you agree with me that Love is a big notion.
There's love to  God, to Mother, to a child to the country where you were born, and there's love that joins a man
and woman for all their life. That is the LOVE i'm looking for! And i'm seeking for the man who is also eager to have
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see you later

Galina B.





From matej.kovacic at owca.info  Tue Jun 13 23:42:24 2006
From: matej.kovacic at owca.info (Matej Kovacic)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:42:24 +0200
Subject: Iran exit point
Message-ID: <mailman.1785.1576007693.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Hi,

> Of  course  of course... But in a country like Iran where ALL internet
access  are  hardly monitored and filtered, where clients have to show their
ID  to  enter an internet cafe and where all their data will be recorded, I
would like to understand how a TOR node can be run, unless it receives the
clearance of the administration!
>
> Any explaination?

I was living in former Socialistic Republic of Yugoslavia. We had a rule
that every user of a modem (for dial-up) should be registered by the
national telecom. The official reason was that there are some technical
issues which require registration. But it was a question of totalitarian
control, of course.

I have never registered and never had any problems - and the same was
with anybody I knew. I have heard similar stories with users using
strong encryption in France (which was prohibited).

So my explanation is that the control is probalby not so strict. And
sometimes it is possible to get a clearance routinely - officials
usually do not understand technical details and you just say something
that seems reasonably and get clearance.

But on the other side Iran could be sniffing Tor exit traffic to steal
some valuable information (industrial espionage for instance), or to
just annoy west governments (ok, less likely, but you never know).

However, I would say that internet communications in Iran are much more
monitored by the NSA than by Iranian government... :-))

bye, Matej

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From eugen at leitl.org  Wed Jun 14 00:07:06 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:07:06 +0200
Subject: [matej.kovacic@owca.info: Iran exit point]
Message-ID: <20060614070706.GI28956@leitl.org>

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From: akmad at aaanet.ru (Galinochka)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:23:43 +0300
Subject: How do you do       
Message-ID: <00c701c68f94$31cba800$a513000a@CUMm>

Ave :)	

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though I realize much time has passed since then...
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Maybe you could tell me a little about yourself since I lost our early letters, 
your appearance,age , hobbies, and are you still in the search?
If it was you I wrote to and you are interested to get to know me better, I have 
a profile at :
http://uAin.im-waiting-4you.com/

Don't really know what else to say for now I hope this is the right address
Let me know if you are interested, And I hope
you won't run when you see my picture :-)

Yourth faithfully,

Galinochka





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From hornsby at fsip.com  Wed Jun 14 16:39:14 2006
From: hornsby at fsip.com (Tomas Byers)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:39:14 -0600
Subject: Pre-approved Application #jodvkaL02975
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From kerr at arpac.com  Wed Jun 14 17:28:56 2006
From: kerr at arpac.com (Elisa Sanford)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:28:56 -0600
Subject: Lowest rate approved
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From eugen at leitl.org  Wed Jun 14 09:42:19 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:42:19 +0200
Subject: [tercasa@prodigy.net.mx: Re: report on security risks of
  applying CALEA to VoIP]
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From n.r.jones at btinternet.com  Wed Jun 14 22:13:28 2006
From: n.r.jones at btinternet.com (Mike Hart)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:13:28 -0600
Subject: Pre-approved Application #alserL354546
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:56:50 -0600
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:13:23 -0800
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From dave at farber.net  Thu Jun 15 04:09:14 2006
From: dave at farber.net (David Farber)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:09:14 -0400
Subject: [IP] Death by DMCA
Message-ID: <mailman.1786.1576007693.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>



Begin forwarded message:


From tkreckler at pan-energy.com  Thu Jun 15 12:13:12 2006
From: tkreckler at pan-energy.com (Refugio Mcallister)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:53:12 -0480
Subject: 
Message-ID: <200606151353.k5FDquoC003050@proton.jfet.org>

C7R
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From bill.stewart at pobox.com  Thu Jun 15 14:15:02 2006
From: bill.stewart at pobox.com (Bill Stewart)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:15:02 -0700
Subject: RuBee RFID alternative penetrates tinfoil hats
Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.0.20060615141105.031197a0@pop.idiom.com>

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/rubee-protocol-overcomes-rfid-shortcomings/
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1974931,00.asp
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32369

RuBee is a new tagging standard that mostly uses magnetic rather
than radio signals, making it better at penetrating metal and liquids
which are common in warehouse environments where RFID would be useful.
Range is about 10-50 feet.  Frequencies are below 450 MHz.
The main drawback compared to RFID is that it's slower,
about 10 reads per second instead of 100-200.




From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jun 15 08:37:55 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:37:55 +0200
Subject: [dave@farber.net: [IP] Death by DMCA]
Message-ID: <20060615153755.GT28956@leitl.org>

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From tknopp at mccauley.textron.com  Fri Jun 16 12:35:28 2006
From: tknopp at mccauley.textron.com (Nikki Slaughter)
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:55:28 -0540
Subject: 
Message-ID: <200606151355.k5FDtRGX003170@proton.jfet.org>

W21
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From cpicard at wombat.eng.sun.com  Fri Jun 16 10:25:42 2006
From: cpicard at wombat.eng.sun.com (Silas Sharp)
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:25:42 -0060
Subject: Good news for AMSN good
Message-ID: <200609162224.k8GMOnlF021673@proton.jfet.org>

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From coderman at gmail.com  Sat Jun 17 05:21:29 2006
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 05:21:29 -0700
Subject: user centric network endpoint based session
  authentication/privacy
Message-ID: <4ef5fec60606170521p5c3ccbax47fde9b998fe52fa@mail.gmail.com>

trying to get some feedback for working documentation / design before
our next published iteration expected on july 4th.

please feel free to provide public comments or suggest related
projects/research/code to me directly or on list.


throwing down the gauntlet:
---
using various authentication and key management methods at the TCP
session level associated with a specific IP/port endpoint pair for
access to network services[1][2][3][4][5]* is a relic from decades
past and is not only inefficient and inflexible but actively
detrimental to good usable security due to the baggage and complexity
inherent in these methods.[6][7][8]

access to network services should be provided on top of a network
endpoint local to the two domains requesting and providing services
respectively, with user centric authentication for initialization of
the secure IPv4/IPv6 tunnel session to which services are bound and
revocation performed by terminating this session and the ability to
reestablish it.

revocable delegation is implemented by proxy of traffic between peers
to the delegated domain and irrevocable delegation implemented by
sharing authentication credentials for the desired endpoint service(s)
with the trusted peer for direct communication without proxy.
---

* i listed three distributed capability based protocols not as a
slight, but to point out that a capability / POLA / least privilege
approach to building and providing services at the OS and application
layers is the only way truly good security can be realized.  i would
like to see the implementation / protocol specific parts of
communication privacy pulled out of such projects so they can focus on
and implement what they are designed for and most effective at. this
is a long term vision as the effort to transition to wide scale
capability based security is significant.[9]

in a sense this is simply a way to exchange "the capability to
communicate with me privately" and then utilize the services made
available to your peers when this capability is exercised.


FAQ
-------
Q: why delegate authentication and privacy to a network IPv4/IPv6
endpoint layer?
- this allows a flexible and intuitive method for implementing privacy
and authentication of digital communication between peers.  the
existing tools and concepts associated with Virtual Private Networks
can be employed in a decentralized and user centric manner while
existing applications and services can use the strong authentication
and session management available by binding to the desired endpoint
address.

"sharing the authentication and privacy bootstrap" makes sense for
everyone. more reasons?

- it allows you to limit any unauthenticated attacks against
application / private services to the VPN layer itself (OpenVPN port,
IPsec stack, etc), thus keeping applications more vulnerable to attack
(rich web services, new apps, etc) inside an authenticated boundary.
NOTE: this should not be interpreted as the usual "perimeter security"
model which is flawed.  when each peer communicates directly you have
effectively deperimeterized the hosts on the network.

- it meshes well with a virtual machine approach to isolating domains
where each VM instance can have it's own network endpoint tied to
distinct authenticated sessions.

- it allows pet names to be given to distinct addresses bound to peer
identity (using the SHA2-256 digest of peer public key to generate a
feed::/8 address for example, which can be given a petname[10] in
/etc/hosts like feed:7ba3:c779:e5f5:cc1a:8bc7:5fe1:ed08
public.peertech.org or 172.16.27.53 devwiki)

- traffic shaping, bandwidth monitoring, IDS and other techniques can
be applied to distinct authenticated sessions using the desired IP
address in a straightforward manner.  this can be particularly
difficult to do when an application uses ephemeral / dynamic ports but
is simple with distinct endpoints.


Q: what about passwords?
- it is assumed that this style of security would utilize full disk
encryption or a key manager (like the browser site login remember
feature) to manage strong authentication material associated with a
user's identity.  passwords are too weak for good network
authentication.


Q: what would the key distribution for this kind of identity
management look like?
- some examples:
A. Strongly authenticated propinquitous capability exchange:
  First two peers exchange public keys (self signed OpenVPN
certificates) and endpoint locators in person.
  Second they both connect over wireless / LAN directly using OpenVPN
to establish an authenticated and private network between them.

B. Strongly authenticated transitive introduction:
  Using a secure session pair created via strong auth, send the public
key of each peer to be introduced to each other.
  Each peer attempts directly connecting using the endpoint
identifiers for each other obtained from the mutually trusted peer.

C. Opportunistically authenticated capability exchange:
  Petition public / untrusted introducer with nickname or other
identifier for endpoint discovery (coderman.dyndns.org for example).
  Connect to peer and exchange and save keys (openssh style).
  Keys may be verified in the future or reset if problems are encountered.


Q: This sounds way too complicated; what can support this kind of connectivity:
- while difficult this is feasible and straightforward.  existing
tools like OpenVPN, OpenSSH 3.4+, IPsec, PPTP, and others can all be
integrated in a suitable fashion using everything from UDP, TCP to
ICMP and even covert DNS tunnels or 802.11 injection for transport.

the key will be making key management and user interaction simple
enough for the appropriate threat models.



references:
1. "HTTPS protocol"
  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https

2. "STARTTLS protocols"
  - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2595.txt

3. "Lessons from E-speak"
  -  http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Alan_Karp/espeak/espeak_articles/lessons.pdf

4. "httpsy protocol"
  - http://www.waterken.com/dev/YURL/httpsy/

5. "CapTP protocol"
  - http://www.erights.org/elib/distrib/captp/index.html

6. "Security: Problem Solved?"
  - http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=311&page=4

7. "Why johnny can't encrypt"
  - http://www.google.com/search?q=%22why+johnny+can%27t+encrypt%22

8. "Why Phishing Works"
  - http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Why+Phishing+Works%22

9. "Capability Myths Demolished"
  - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/miller03capability.html

10. "Introduction to Petname Systems"
  - http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNames.html




From coderman at gmail.com  Sat Jun 17 06:53:54 2006
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 06:53:54 -0700
Subject: [Clips] How Britain Beat Hooliganism
In-Reply-To: <p0623092fc0b9b323605f@68.167.57.91>
References: <p0623092fc0b9b323605f@68.167.57.91>
Message-ID: <4ef5fec60606170653g46db5837sd1f4086fdeecf11e@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/17/06, R.A. Hettinga <rah at shipwright.com> wrote:
> ...
>   A NUMBER OF countries have grappled with soccer-related violence, but one
>   has significantly reduced hooliganism with some unusual steps that would
>   startle most American sports fans.

well, no one said the Panopticon wasn't effective; just too invasive
and prone to unacceptable abuses (either potential or currently
realized for varying frequency and atrocity)


>   The country is England, and measures range from deciding who can buy
>   tickets to telling fans where they can sit. For matches with entrenched
>   animosity between the teams, some clubs will sell only to people with a
>   ticket-buying history, meaning a tourist or casual fan can't simply buy an
>   available seat. To minimize taunting, fans of visiting teams must enter
>   stadiums through separate doors marked "visitors," and then must sit
>   together.
> ...
>   While no one in the British police or government considers the hooliganism
>   problem solved, hooligans have been pushed away from the stadiums. Some 59%
>   of the arrests in the 2004-05 season took place away from stadium grounds,
>   and a police spokesman said the measures have forced some hooligans to use
>   the Internet or cellphones to arrange fights.

if you get past the initial "fuck big brother" reaction there are
actually some interesting insights to be gleaned here concerning
reputation between peers in public and private spaces, the nature of
gauging your personal risk in large groups, and so forth.

techniques certainly applicable to cypherpunk and privacy advocate goals.

the rest is left as an exercise for the reader...
*grin*




From rah at shipwright.com  Sat Jun 17 06:25:03 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:25:03 -0400
Subject: [Clips] How Britain Beat Hooliganism
Message-ID: <p0623092fc0b9b323605f@[68.167.57.91]>

--- begin forwarded text


  Delivered-To: rah at shipwright.com
  Delivered-To: clips at philodox.com
  Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:24:11 -0400
  To: Philodox Clips List <clips at philodox.com>
  From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
  Subject: [Clips] How Britain Beat Hooliganism
  Reply-To: rah at philodox.com
  Sender: clips-bounces at philodox.com

  <http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB115049661838582842.html>

  The Wall Street Journal


  How Britain Beat Hooliganism

  By CHUCK CULPEPPER

  June 17, 2006; Page P3

  A NUMBER OF countries have grappled with soccer-related violence, but one
  has significantly reduced hooliganism with some unusual steps that would
  startle most American sports fans.

  The country is England, and measures range from deciding who can buy
  tickets to telling fans where they can sit. For matches with entrenched
  animosity between the teams, some clubs will sell only to people with a
  ticket-buying history, meaning a tourist or casual fan can't simply buy an
  available seat. To minimize taunting, fans of visiting teams must enter
  stadiums through separate doors marked "visitors," and then must sit
  together.


  Beyond that, tickets often bear the name of the purchaser, so in case of a
  problem, police may track down the responsible parties and soccer clubs may
  suspend privileges. Closed-circuit cameras blanket stadiums and help
  prosecutors in soccer-violence cases.

  With soccer venues purged of the rowdy standing room-only terraces of the
  1980s, and fans have become "much less anonymous in the stadium," says John
  Williams of the University of Leicester's Sir Norman Chester Centre for
  Football Research. "Now we have a very controlled spectator space." Beer
  drinking, too, is tightly regulated, and is limited to concession areas.

  Domestic soccer-related arrests plummeted to about 2,725 in the 2004-05
  season from some 8,000 a year in the 1980s. More recently, English
  authorities have tackled problems with their fans at overseas soccer
  matches. In the run-up to the World Cup, British authorities required some
  3,300 known hooligans to turn in their passports to local police,
  preventing them from traveling to Germany. More than 90% complied, and
  airport agents have ensnared a smattering of others who tried to leave the
  country.


  Additionally, Britain sent 40 police officers to Germany to help prevent
  outbreaks, and four prosecutors to gather evidence for any potential court
  cases.

  It's a big change from the '80s, when most big-city matches in England had
  some hooligan incident or element. The crisis peaked in May 1985, when 39
  Italian and Belgian fans died in Belgium when a wall collapsed after
  Liverpool fans charged toward the fans of an Italian team, Juventus. That
  led the European soccer federation to ban Britain's soccer teams from
  competition for five years.

  While no one in the British police or government considers the hooliganism
  problem solved, hooligans have been pushed away from the stadiums. Some 59%
  of the arrests in the 2004-05 season took place away from stadium grounds,
  and a police spokesman said the measures have forced some hooligans to use
  the Internet or cellphones to arrange fights. On the World Cup's first
  weekend, about 20 hooligans started a fight that left 16 people injured,
  but it took place at a big-screen viewing of the England-Paraguay match in
  East London.

  Bigger incidents occurred in other European countries this past season,
  particularly Poland, where a riot after a league championship in Warsaw
  last month led to the arrest of 231 people and the hospitalization of 50
  police officers. In March, a 21-year-old fan was stabbed to death in
  Krakow. At the World Cup earlier this week, ahead of the Germany-Poland
  match, police arrested 40 Polish fans and found knives on four of them.

  In Britain, annual fan surveys by Leicester University show that
  hooliganism now "figures very little into their perception of football,"
  Mr. Williams says. While fan bases remain predominately young and male,
  research shows steady increases in both elderly and women attendees.
  Perhaps the most telling statistic: About 30% of all professional soccer
  matches in England don't have any police on scene at all, according to
  government's United Kingdom Football Policing Unit.

  An estimated 60,000 English fans traveled to Nuremberg for the country's
  second World Cup game, against Trinidad and Tobago. Some 28 people were
  arrested, but largely for scalping, public drunkenness and trying to hop
  the stadium fence.

  --
  -----------------
  R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah at ibuc.com>
  The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
  44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
  "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
  [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
  experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'




From coderman at gmail.com  Sat Jun 17 12:18:11 2006
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:18:11 -0700
Subject: zeroisation of storage
Message-ID: <4ef5fec60606171218i4680d55bx65d0a581151ff203@mail.gmail.com>

not too accurate in parts (this was a priority long before the spy
plane drama but usually associated with key material); still
interesting:

---
http://www.physorg.com/news69416938.html
"Fail-Safe Techniques Erase Magnetic Storage Media"
...
"This is a very challenging problem," said Michael Knotts, a research
scientist in the GTRI's Signature Technology Laboratory. "We had to
verify that the data would be beyond all possible recovery even with
unlimited budget and unlimited time. Commercial devices on the market
for data erasure just couldn't fill the bill, because they were
magnetically too weak, they were physically too large and heavy, or
they didn't meet stringent air safety standards."
...
Producing a magnetic field sufficient to destroy data patterns
required the use of neodymium iron-boron magnets custom-designed for
the project and special pole pieces made of esoteric cobalt alloys.
The magnets, which weigh as much as 125 pounds, had to produce fields
sufficient to penetrate metallic housings that surround some drives.

"We developed models for magnetic circuits that we could run through
optimization codes to design the best shape to get the field that we
needed," Knotts said. "It takes quite a magnetic field to get through
the steel enclosures on some of the drives. We are producing magnetic
fields comparable to those used in magnetic resonance imaging
equipment, so these are not your ordinary refrigerator magnets."
...
"This was certainly an unusual project," he said. "It's not often that
we get paid to crush equipment in presses, blow things up and set off
fires in microwave ovens."
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i occasionally use one of those noisy AC powered degauss'ers on hard
disks but have wondered if it would pass the "unlimited budget and
unlimited time" test.  i wonder what it would take to restrain a disk
through an MRI machine without it impaling itself into the coils...
(some of those horror stories are pretty wild)

initializing a disk with entropy afterwards is also annoyingly time
consuming for big disks.  i'm concerned about just how usable you can
make this process, perhaps turning it into a background batch process
requiring multiple disks so one can be used for the live system while
an empty disk is being wiped and randomized.

i wonder when Peter Gutmann's article on hard disk encryption is going
to be published (if not already?)

:P




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From rah at shipwright.com  Sat Jun 17 11:27:41 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:27:41 -0400
Subject: [Clips] A Longer Wait For Faster Lines
Message-ID: <p0623094ec0b9fa140150@[68.167.57.91]>

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  Delivered-To: rah at shipwright.com
  Delivered-To: clips at philodox.com
  Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:26:35 -0400
  To: Philodox Clips List <clips at philodox.com>
  From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
  Subject: [Clips] A Longer Wait For Faster Lines
  Reply-To: rah at philodox.com
  Sender: clips-bounces at philodox.com

  <http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB115048587097082633.html>

  The Wall Street Journal



  June 17, 2006


  THE WEEK AHEAD

  Air Security
  A Longer Wait
  For Faster Lines

  By LAURA MECKLER

  June 17, 2006; Page A2

  The idea was simple. But putting it into practice has been tough.

  On Tuesday, the original target date will come -- and pass -- for the
  national launch of the "Registered Traveler" program, which is meant to
  create special, speedier airport-security lines for people willing to pay
  an annual fee and undergo background checks.

  Yet so far, the program is operational at just one airport -- Orlando
  International in Florida -- where it was pilot-tested. In April, the
  federal Transportation Security Administration said that the deadline would
  slip and that it hoped to roll the program out at 10 to 20 airports in the
  second half of the year.

  If looking for a terrorist in an airport of innocents is like hunting a
  needle in a haystack, Registered Traveler is intended to make the stack
  smaller. Prescreened travelers would be diverted to a speedy line, where
  they would show an identification card with biometric data embedded to
  prove they are who they say they are.

  Business travelers love the idea, as do many members of Congress. A handful
  of companies have expressed interest in contracts to run the special lines,
  seeing an opportunity to market tie-ins to credit cards, hotel chains,
  travel Web sites and other airport concessionaires. Some have talked of
  setting up special lounges for members.

  Yet now, like so many TSA programs, this one is behind schedule. The TSA
  has yet to announce any additional airports and hasn't published the
  information about privacy protections required before people can sign up.
  Most crucially, it hasn't approved new technology to make the program work.

  Companies interested in the program worry that fewer people are likely to
  sign up if all they get is their own line at airport security. They think
  the program has to offer something else, like not forcing passengers to
  take off their shoes and jackets and remove laptops from their cases. The
  TSA has said it will lift those rules only if lines are equipped with
  technology aimed at improving screening, such as a new machine that can
  scan shoes while they are still on a passenger's feet and analyze the touch
  of a finger for explosive residue. But the TSA hasn't certified those
  machines, so they can't be used in airports.

  So, many travelers are stuck clamoring for the speedier lines, particularly
  those who will be able to expense the fee to their employers. In Orlando,
  where more than 25,000 people have signed up, the fee is $79.95 a year,
  which covers all airports that add the lines. Among airports, which
  sometimes share in the profits, some are enthusiastic about the program.
  Though airlines, which don't want to make flying any more expensive than it
  already is, are decidedly not.

  Hawking the program aggressively is Steven Brill, onetime journalist and
  founder of Court TV. Mr. Brill is founder and chief executive of Verified
  Identity Pass Inc., an identity-card maker that is working to sign up
  airports, and he still thinks the program could be up and running in more
  airports this summer. "I'm always optimistic," he says.

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  [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
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44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'




From ghicks at well.com  Sat Jun 17 19:20:48 2006
From: ghicks at well.com (Gregory Hicks)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 19:20:48 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: prove it isn't ...
Message-ID: <200606180220.k5I2Km8N027634@mailhub.Cadence.COM>

> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:53:46 +1000
> From: mikeiscool <michaelslists at gmail.com>
> To: cypherpunks at jfet.org
> Subject: prove it isn't ...
> 
> hello,
> 
>  i was just wondering ... has anyone considered a time where the
> governments will declare all encrypted blocks to contain messages
> about illegal activities. that is to say, if you encrypt your
> emails/communications, and the government wants to know the contents,
> or use it against you, they will declare it to contain whatever they
> want. it will then be up to you to prove it _doesn't_ contain this.
> 
>  how can we defend against this? deniable encryption? pretend the
> block isn't encrypted at all, but that it is random data, or some
> other type of content (data for a maths project, etc)?
> 
>  is it forseable that this will happen (in any given country)? i think
> so. i think it already happens in some forms elsewhere. i.e. illegal
> money. "prove this money came from valid resources, otherwise it's
> illegal". i know that happens in australia already.

Damn!  The cat's out of the bag.

> 
> -- mic

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From michaelslists at gmail.com  Sat Jun 17 18:53:46 2006
From: michaelslists at gmail.com (mikeiscool)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:53:46 +1000
Subject: prove it isn't ...
Message-ID: <5e01c29a0606171853n604a67a0j8adbf876aaf0f746@mail.gmail.com>

hello,

 i was just wondering ... has anyone considered a time where the
governments will declare all encrypted blocks to contain messages
about illegal activities. that is to say, if you encrypt your
emails/communications, and the government wants to know the contents,
or use it against you, they will declare it to contain whatever they
want. it will then be up to you to prove it _doesn't_ contain this.

 how can we defend against this? deniable encryption? pretend the
block isn't encrypted at all, but that it is random data, or some
other type of content (data for a maths project, etc)?

 is it forseable that this will happen (in any given country)? i think
so. i think it already happens in some forms elsewhere. i.e. illegal
money. "prove this money came from valid resources, otherwise it's
illegal". i know that happens in australia already.

-- mic




From rvh40 at insightbb.com  Sun Jun 18 12:36:21 2006
From: rvh40 at insightbb.com (Randall)
Date: June 18, 2006 12:36:21 PM EDT
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <mailman.1787.1576007694.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

<dewayne at warpspeed.com>
Subject: Data mining that protects privacy?

http://htdaw.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=349601

Sunday, June 18, 2006 at 12:34 PM EDT
 Research explores data mining, privacy

By BRIAN BERGSTEINSat Jun 17, 10:50 PM ET

As new disclosures mount about government surveillance programs,
computer science researchers hope to wade into the fray by enabling data
mining that also protects individual privacy.

Largely by employing the head-spinning principles of cryptography, the
researchers say they can ensure that law enforcement, intelligence
agencies and private companies can sift through huge databases without
seeing names and identifying details in the records.

For example, manifests of airplane passengers could be compared with
terrorist watch lists b without airline staff or government agents
seeing the actual names on the other side's list. Only if a match were
made would a computer alert each side to uncloak the record and probe
further.

"If it's possible to anonymize data and produce ... the same results as
clear text, why not?" John Bliss, a privacy lawyer in IBM Corp.'s
"entity analytics" unit, told a recent workshop on the subject at
Harvard University.

The concept of encrypting or hiding identifying details in sensitive
databases is not new. Exploration has gone on for years, and researchers
say some government agencies already deploy such technologies b though
protecting classified information rather than individual privacy is a
main goal.

Even the data-mining project that perhaps drew more scorn than any other
in recent years, the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness research
program, funded at least two efforts to anonymize database scans. Those
anonymizing systems were dropped when Congress shuttered TIA, even while
the data-mining aspects of the project lived on in intelligence
agencies.

Still, anonymizing technologies have been endorsed repeatedly by panels
appointed to examine the implications of data mining. And intriguing
progress appears to have been made at designing information-retrieval
systems with record anonymization, user audit logs b which can confirm
that no one looked at records beyond the approved scope of an
investigation b and other privacy mechanisms "baked in."

The trick is to do more than simply strip names from records. Latanya
Sweeney of Carnegie Mellon University b a leading privacy technologist
who once had a project funded under TIA b has shown that 87 percent of
Americans could be identified by records listing solely their birthdate,
gender and ZIP code.

Sweeney had this challenge in mind as she developed a way for the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development to anonymously track the
homeless.

The system became necessary to meet the conflicting demands of two laws
b one that requires homeless shelters to tally the people they take in,
and another that prohibits victims of domestic violence from being
identified by agencies that help them.

Sweeney's solution deploys a "hash function," which cryptographically
converts information to a random-appearing code of numbers and letters.
The function can't be reversed to reveal the original data.

When homeless shelters had to submit their records to regional HUD
offices for counting how many people used the facilities, each shelter
would send only hashed data.

A key detail here is that each homeless shelter would have its own
computational process, known as an algorithm, for hashing data. That
way, one person's name wouldn't always translate into the same code b a
method that could be abused by a corrupt insider or savvy stalker who
gained access to the records.

However, if the same name generated different codes at different
shelters, it would be impossible to tell whether one person had been to
two centers and was being double-counted. So Sweeney's system adds a
second step: Each shelter's hashed records are sent to all other
facilities covered by the HUD regional office, then hashed again and
sent back to HUD as a new code.

It might be hard to wrap your mind around this, but it's a fact of the
cryptography involved: If one person had been to two different shelters
b and so their anonymized data got hashed twice, once by each of the
shelters applying its own formula b then the codes HUD received in this
second phase would indicate as much. That would aid an accurate count.

Even if HUD decides not to adopt the system, Sweeney hopes it finds use
in other settings, such as letting private companies and law enforcement
anonymously compare whether customer records and watch lists have names
in common.

A University of California, Los Angeles professor, Rafail Ostrovsky,
said the CIA and the National Security Agency are evaluating a program
of his that would let intelligence analysts search huge batches of
intercepted communications for keywords and other criteria, while
discarding messages that don't apply.

Ostrovsky and co-creator William Skeith believe the system would keep
innocent files away from snoops' eyes while also extending their reach:
Because the program would encrypt its search terms and the results, it
could be placed on machines all over the Internet, not just computers in
classified settings.

"Technologically it is possible" to bolster security and privacy,
Ostrovsky said. "You can kind of have your cake and eat it too."

That may be the case, but creating such technologies is just part of the
battle.

One problem is getting potential users to change how they deal with
information.

Rebecca Wright, a Stevens Institute of Technology professor who is part
of a five-year National Science Foundation-funded effort to build
privacy protections into data-mining systems, illustrates that issue
with the following example.

The Computing Research Association annually analyzes the pay earned by
university computer faculty. Some schools provide anonymous lists of
salaries; more protective ones send just their minimum, maximum and
average pay.

Researchers affiliated with Wright's project, known as Portia, offered a
way to calculate the figures with better accuracy and privacy. Instead
of having universities send their salary figures for the computer
association to crunch, Portia's system can perform calculations on data
without ever storing it in unencrypted fashion. With such secrecy, the
researchers argued, every school could safely send full salary lists.

But the software remains unadopted. One large reason, Wright said, was
that universities questioned whether encryption gave them legal standing
to provide full salary lists when they previously could not b even
though the new lists never would leave the university in unencrypted
form.

Even if data-miners were eager to adopt privacy enhancements, Wright and
other researchers worry that the programs' obscure details might be
difficult for the public to trust.

Steven Aftergood, who heads the Federation of American Scientists'
project on government secrecy, suggested that public confidence could be
raised by subjecting government data-mining projects to external privacy
reviews.

But that seems somewhat unrealistic, he said, given that intelligence
agencies have been slow to share surveillance details with Congress even
on a classified basis.

"That part of the problem may be harder to solve than the technical
part," Aftergood said. "And in turn, that may mean that the problem may
not have a solution."

___

On the Net:

Portia: http://crypto.stanford.edu/portia

Sweeney: http://lab.privacy.cs.cmu.edu/people

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/data_mining_privacy;_ylt=AsYnPYpeRWoPlHcna.
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From dave at farber.net  Sun Jun 18 10:23:46 2006
From: dave at farber.net (David Farber)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:23:46 -0400
Subject: [IP] Data mining that protects privacy?
Message-ID: <mailman.1788.1576007694.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>



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From rah at shipwright.com  Sun Jun 18 12:46:06 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:46:06 -0400
Subject: [Clips] Fake IDs are rife at state job sites
Message-ID: <p06230920c0bb5df46ba0@[68.167.57.91]>

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  Delivered-To: rah at shipwright.com
  Delivered-To: clips at philodox.com
  Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:40:00 -0400
  To: Philodox Clips List <clips at philodox.com>
  From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
  Subject: [Clips] Fake IDs are rife at state job sites
  Reply-To: rah at philodox.com
  Sender: clips-bounces at philodox.com


<http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/06/18/fake_ids_are_rife_at_state_job_sites?mode=PF>

  The Boston Globe


  Fake IDs are rife at state job sites

  Mass. contractors hire the undocumented

  By Jonathan Saltzman and Yvonne Abraham, Globe Staff  |  June 18, 2006

  While Republican lawmakers in Massachusetts have called for a crackdown on
  companies that hire undocumented workers, the state has provided millions
  of dollars to contractors who employed those workers, records indicate.

  A Globe analysis of nine recent public works projects -- from dormitory
  construction at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth to the
  building of the new Middlesex County Jail -- revealed that of 242 workers
  on weekly payroll lists, more than a third appeared to lack legitimate
  Social Security numbers.

  On one of the payrolls reviewed, for masonry work on the UMass dormitory
  project, nearly two-thirds of the contractor's 87 workers had bogus or
  questionable Social Security numbers.

  The numbers used by the workers in many cases appeared obviously
  fraudulent. One laborer who helped build the new jail in Billerica
  submitted a number that should have immediately raised eyebrows:
  666-66-6666.

  Some numbers belonged to people who were long-deceased, the Globe found.
  Others were matched to people who live out of state and had no idea their
  numbers had been appropriated.

  The findings, though a small snapshot of the vast number of public projects
  undertaken throughout the state, suggest how the use of undocumented
  workers has extended into almost every corner of the economy. Republicans
  in Massachusetts trumpeted plans last month to stiffen fines on companies
  that knowingly hire undocumented immigrants, which is illegal under state
  law. But there is no requirement that employers, including those receiving
  public funds, demonstrate that their workers are legal, and undocumented
  workers employed on the projects say that contractors are all too happy to
  look the other way.

  Overall, the bulk of the money for the projects examined by the Globe came
  from state appropriations or state-backed bonds, though some of the
  contracts were awarded by local municipalities.

  Told of the Globe's findings, Senator Richard R. Tisei , a Wakefield
  Republican, said public money should be given only to those companies who
  hire legal residents.

  ``There should be a big hue and cry about this across the state," Tisei
  said. ``This is taxpayers' money, and taxpayers' money should be used in
  legal ways."

  Obtaining an authentic-looking Social Security card with a made-up or
  stolen number is easy, according to undocumented workers, who said they
  purchased them outside T stations or from friends. In the age of laser
  printers and graphics software, fake cards can be had for as little as $80.

  The Globe obtained weekly payroll reports filed with state and local
  authorities on the nine public projects examined. Reporters and a Globe
  researcher ran the workers' Social Security numbers through three on line
  personal information databases that compile valid Social Security numbers.
  Many yielded no matches in those databases, or they matched other people ,
  including deceased ones . In other instances, the names of the workers came
  up, but so did the names of other people, making those numbers questionable.

  In addition, workers and construction industry specialists said that hiring
  of immigrants who are here illegally was common on the public projects
  reviewed.

  In interviews with state, local, and county government officials and
  managers of companies that received contracts, a clear pattern emerged:
  none of them considered it their responsibility to verify that workers on
  the public projects were here legally.

  The state and municipal officials said they take no steps to check on the
  workers' status, saying that duty lies with the contractors. Contractors,
  in turn, said they obey federal laws that call for them to ask for
  employees' documentation, but do not require them to inquire further.

  Under federal law, employers must complete a so-called I-9 document after
  hiring an employee. The employer must examine sets of documents that
  establish the employee's identity and eligibility to work in the country.
  Some identification cards are sufficient to ful fill both requirements,
  such as a green card or a certificate of US citizenship. Other times,
  employees rely on a state or locally issued photo ID card, such as a
  driver's license, to establish their identity, and a Social Security card
  for their work eligibility.

  Federal immigration guidelines only require that the documents ``appear to
  be genuine" and stress to employers that they are not expected to be
  ``document experts." Raymond W. Houle Jr. town administrator in the small
  town of Blackstone on the Rhode Island border, said he was ``quite
  surprised" to learn payroll records show that six of the eight workers for
  M K Painting of Michigan, which painted a million-gallon steel water
  storage tank in his town, had bogus or questionable Social Security
  numbers. But he said he expected the contractor would have checked.

  ``The town did not hire these people," Houle said. ``The town hired the
  contractor."

  John Bethell, superintendent of M K Painting, said he was unaware his
  company had hired workers who lacked valid Social Security numbers.

  ``We ask them for their documents, and they give us their documents," said
  Bethell, whose company brought workers to Blackstone from Texas and the
  Midwest. ``We're not private eyes."

  Romeo D'Agostino, an owner of D'Agostino Associates Inc. of Newton, which
  had 19 instances of workers with bogus or questionable Social Security
  numbers on public school projects in Littleton and North Easton, said he
  received about a dozen letters from the Social Security Administration last
  year informing him that the agency found various workers' numbers did not
  match any of their records. Occasionally, when a worker's Social Security
  number does not match the name on tax documents, the SSA sends out such
  letters asking the worker to resolve the discrepancy.

  D'Agostino said the law requires him only to pass the letters on to the
  employees, which he did. Some of those workers still are employed by him,
  he said.

  ``I can only do so much," D'Agostino said. ``I follow the letter of the law."

  In a brief tele phone interview, Paul M. Alves, president of Lighthouse
  Masonry of New Bedford, said he knew nothing about undocumented workers at
  his business.

  ``I don't know what you're talking about," he said, and hung up.

  At UMass-Dartmouth, Lighthouse Masonry got a $9.8 million contract to help
  build six dormitories in 2004. Of the 87 workers on the payroll reviewed,
  55 had questionable or bogus Social Security numbers.

  A university spokesman said the school is not equipped to enforce
  immigration laws.

  ``The university concerns itself with getting the job done," said John Hoey
  , a spokesman for UMass-Dartmouth.

  Specialists on both sides of the immigration debate agree the federal
  government has done a dismal job of enforcing immigration laws, and that
  that is why so many undocumented workers -- and the companies that employ
  them -- thrive. The workers are attractive to some construction firms
  because they will typically work for lower wages and are less likely to
  complain to authorities about labor violations.

  An immigration overhaul measure recently passed by the Senate would make it
  mandatory for employers to verify Social Security numbers with Homeland
  Security.

  In interviews, two undocumented immigrants who worked on public
  construction projects said it was easy to obtain the Social Security
  numbers and get on the contractors' payroll.

  An immigrant from Brazil who said he worked from 2001 to 2005 for
  D'Agostino and then Lighthouse Masonry said that he bought his bogus Social
  Security card from a friend of a friend for $80. The 24-year-old, who
  overstayed his visa after it expired in 2001, said his friend encouraged
  him to make up a 9-digit number for the card, so he used part of his
  mother's phone number in Brazil.

  ``You have to remember the number, and that's a number I can remember,"
  said the masonry worker, who lives in Burlington and insisted on anonymity
  to avoid detection by authorities.

  The number he made up belongs to a Quincy woman, according to the Globe
  search .

  He said he felt guilty using the made-up number -- ``I'm a Christian," he
  explained -- but felt he had no choice.

  Federal authorities have stepped up their attempts to ferret out phony
  Social Security numbers over the last few years. Earlier this month,
  Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced proposals designed
  to allow employers to act more quickly on mismatches, but most of those are
  not in place.

  No state in the country mandates that employers substantiate their workers
  are legal, according to the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington,
  D.C. Georgia recently passed a measure that would do so as of July 1, 2007.

  A spokesman for Governor Mitt Romney said it was unsurprising state money
  was used to pay undocumented immigrants.

  ``The governor is not surprised that our current immigration laws are a
  mess," said Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom. ``We expect employers to
  abide by the laws of the nation, but that is difficult to do when we have a
  lax system of enforcement, and a situation where anyone can acquire a
  forged Social Security card."

  But immigration specialists say public officials simply lack the will to
  take on the problem.

  ``If a newspaper can run the numbers and find out whether they're good, the
  fact that the government isn't doing it is a clear indication of how
  successive administrations have chosen not to enforce the law," said Steven
  A. Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies.
  ``The fact that it's so easy to do and we don't require it is absurd."

  --
  -----------------
  R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah at ibuc.com>
  The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
  44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
  "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
  [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
  experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
  _______________________________________________
  Clips mailing list
  Clips at philodox.com
  http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips

--- end forwarded text


-- 
-----------------
R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah at ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'




From nguyenc at gluckmanmayner.com  Mon Jun 19 04:11:56 2006
From: nguyenc at gluckmanmayner.com (Katharine Jefferson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 05:11:56 -0600
Subject: Lowest rate approved
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From t86ma at ameritrade.com  Mon Jun 19 04:41:43 2006
From: t86ma at ameritrade.com (Emile Vinson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 05:41:43 -0600
Subject: Low mortagge ratee approvall
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From moyet at jerseyeveningpost.com  Mon Jun 19 07:54:24 2006
From: moyet at jerseyeveningpost.com (Romeo Goldman)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:54:24 -0600
Subject: Re-finance at the lowestt ratess
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From rosietunstall_970 at jdluke.com  Mon Jun 19 08:15:25 2006
From: rosietunstall_970 at jdluke.com (Ida Pickens)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:15:25 -0600
Subject: Ratess will skyrocket soon
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From eugen at leitl.org  Mon Jun 19 03:08:42 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:08:42 +0200
Subject: /. [Police Launch Drones Over LA]
Message-ID: <20060619100842.GB28956@leitl.org>

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/17/2318245
Posted by: ScuttleMonkey, on 2006-06-17 23:41:00

   An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that law
   enforcement officials have launched a new form of drone aircraft to
   [1]patrol the skies above Los Angeles. From the article: 'Police say
   the drone, called the SkySeer, will be able to accomplish tasks too
   dangerous for officers and free up helicopters for other missions.
   "This technology could be used to find missing children, search for
   lost hikers, or survey a fire zone," said Commander Sid Heal, head of
   the Technology Exploration Project of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
   Department. "The ideal outcome for us is when this technology becomes
   instrumental in saving lives."'"

References

   1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060617/lf_afp/uspolicedrone_060617210138

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From eugen at leitl.org  Mon Jun 19 06:03:42 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:03:42 +0200
Subject: [dave@farber.net: [IP] Data mining that protects privacy?]
Message-ID: <20060619130342.GU28956@leitl.org>

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Subject: Open something new for your self 
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From shscmlvmypy at ameralinx.net  Tue Jun 20 11:51:48 2006
From: shscmlvmypy at ameralinx.net (Makenna)
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:51:48 -0500
Subject: Your family will love this gift
Message-ID: <6.1.7.6.2.57757365655475.910a7953@69.60.117.34>

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From kbzmnqpghddy at ipaccessamerica.com  Tue Jun 20 12:08:28 2006
From: kbzmnqpghddy at ipaccessamerica.com (Taylor Balch)
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:08:28 -0500
Subject: Someone Tells me what is Ephedra?
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From m.orlov at falcon-systems.com  Tue Jun 20 06:07:13 2006
From: m.orlov at falcon-systems.com (Mihail Orlov)
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:07:13 +0400
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From smb at cs.columbia.edu  Wed Jun 21 02:42:08 2006
From: smb at cs.columbia.edu (Steven M. Bellovin)
Date: June 21, 2006 2:42:08 PM EDT
Subject: Greek cellular wiretapping scandal
Message-ID: <mailman.1789.1576007694.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

The Greek cellular wiretapping scandal was the subject of a front-page
article in today's Wall Street Journal.  (It's
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115085571895085969.html?
mod=hps_us_pageone
for subscribers.)  The broad outlines of the story are familiar to
anyone
who has been following the story -- a Lawful Intercept mechanism was
abused to send copies of certain calls to prepaid cell phone numbers --
but the details are interesting.

>From a non-technical perspective, at least one death may be linked
>to the
incident.  A communications expert who was working on the switch
apparently
commited suicide, but this has been questioned by some.  He

	told his fiancie not long before he died that it had become "a
	matter of life or death" that he leave [Vodafone]

The problem was discovered when some people had problems sending text
messages; the link between the two issues is unclear.

The bug itself wasn't simply a matter of turning on Lawful Intercept.
That software did exist in the switch, but everyone says it wasn't
activated and Ericsson wasn't paid for it. (Aside: Greece does have a
CALEA-like law, which means it should have been enabled.)  Vodafone
denies
even knowing about such software, which strikes me as improbable.  In
addition, the attack required some other software that activated the
Lawful Intercept but hid its existence. In other words, it was a rootkit
running on a phone switch.  I have more than a passing aquaintance with
the complexity of phone switch software; doing that was *hard* for
anyone,
especially anyone not a switch developer.  Installing the rogue software
quite likely involved "authorized access to Vodafone's networks".

Most suspicious, the prepaid phones that could pick up the calls

	were in contact via phone calls and text messages with various
	overseas destinations, namely the U.S., including Laurel, Md., the
	U.K., Sweden and Australia, according to the ADAE preliminary
	report. Some of these calls and messages were initiated and
	received directly from the 14 interceptor phones and some were
	relayed via a second group of at least three other prepaid phones
	that also were in contact with the 14 interceptor phones.

Guess what's just to the east of Laurel, MD...  On the other hand,
exposing links like that is clumsy -- could it be disinformation?
And one
of the phones monitored was from the American embassy in Athens -- or is
that the disinformation?  Or is NSA spying on the embassy?  You are in a
maze of twisty little spooks, all different.

The attack was very sophisticated, and required a great deal of arcane
knowledge.  Whoever did it had detailed knowledge of Ericsson switches,
and probably a test lab with the proper Ericsson gear.  It strongly
suggests that Ericsson and/or Vodafone insiders were involved -- my
guess
is both.  But who did it, and why, remains obscure.


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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From chris45067 at %ANYDOMAIN[122.208.176.83].jfet.org  Wed Jun 21 08:50:23 2006
From: chris45067 at %ANYDOMAIN[122.208.176.83].jfet.org (Morgan Stanley)
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:50:23 -0600
Subject: CTXE has been on fire latley (up %161 in last 63 Days!)
Message-ID: <200606211450.k5LEoOYD001661@proton.jfet.org>

Hot Sectors! TRADING ALERT!
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Symbol: CTXE
COMPANY: Cantex Energey Corporation
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And it will go all week so it would be best to get in NOW.

Company Profile

Cantex Energy Corporation is an independent, managed risk, oil and gas 
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Antonio, Texas. 

Recent News

Cantex Energy Corp. (CTXE - News) is pleased to announce that Dr. Tom 
Morgan and Mr. James C. (Jim) Mannatt Jr. have joined the Board of 
Directors effective immediately. Dr. Morgan is Consulting Geophysicist with 
Providence Technologies and the Big Canyon 2D Swath. Mr. Mannatt is the 
well-published owner of Providence Technologies Inc., the technology 
Company that has licensed its unique and proven technology to Cantex and 
its working interest partners on the Big Canyon Prospect.

The Company is also pleased to report that the first of three lines has 
now been completed and data is being processed. The second line is 
underway and the entire project continues to be ahead of schedule.

Trace Maurin, President of Cantex Energy Corp., stated, "We have always 
believed that our geophysical experts at Providence Technologies have 
the capability and expertise to provide us the necessary advantages in 
proving up the estimated tcf of gas in the Big Canyon prospect. To have 
the owner of Providence join our board speaks volumes for the future of 
our shareholders."

Other news: As May 31, 2006 was the annual year end, the Company has 
retained its lawyers to prepare and file, as soon as possible, a Form 10 
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posted on the Company's web site on or before the end of June.

Our Opinion is, you haven't seen nothing yet!
Don't get caught in the dust.  Start watching Monday as this company has been known to release news at any time that could move the stock up 
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Sincerely,
Wesley Hannah
Chief Executive Officer
Charles Schwab




From coderman at gmail.com  Wed Jun 21 18:47:24 2006
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:47:24 -0700
Subject: Fwd: Some legal trouble with TOR in France
In-Reply-To: <20060621193705.E35895@ubzr.zsa.bet>
References: <20060516031147.GE1898@arion.hive> 	
  <BAY116-F18077223F88EFEAE07F7C29BA00@phx.gbl> 	
  <6.2.1.2.0.20060516134451.034fed88@pop.idiom.com> 	
  <20060621193705.E35895@ubzr.zsa.bet>
Message-ID: <4ef5fec60606211847t5e8f4e9etd523339926009254@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/21/06, J.A. Terranson <measl at mfn.org> wrote:
> ...
> WTF was the actual _point_ of this in the first place?  What would the
> possible payoff be?

clearly you haven't seen the n3td3v threads in full-disclosure.  keep
those lip^H^H^Hkeyboards flapping over flippant falafel, a resource
consumption attack.  pwned! lolz...

on a more serious note i am sure there is tor tampering where
possible.  the reason i had to kill the original peertech node (was
this this first non-roger public node or is my dementia/schizophrenia
progressing?) is related to this subject, though i'll let dead dogs
decompose where they lay(lie?) and avoid another tangent into
"apparent paranoia".

physical security is a necessary element of trust, along with all the
other realms of cypherpunk voodoo (infosec, emsec, trannysecx, etc).
i know good security when i see it (hah); the truth shall set you free
[or make you crazy]. opportunistic may be popular but active eve waits
for the unprepared.

http://public.peertech.org/tmp/tapd-01.jpg
http://public.peertech.org/tmp/tapd-02.jpg (hey, why you hiding fucker?)

a better fed chick this year please,
love coderman - your clinically classified canary.




From coderman at gmail.com  Wed Jun 21 19:26:54 2006
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:26:54 -0700
Subject: How The Telcos And The Government Are About To Boost The
  Encryption Market
Message-ID: <4ef5fec60606211926x3b477f81sf8b4e3d6219936d5@mail.gmail.com>

what say ye?  a stirring amidst the complacent masses?

http://techdirt.com/articles/20060621/1251235.shtml
"""
here's lots of news today about the (not particularly surprising)
revelations that AT&T may have helped monitor internet traffic for the
NSA. It's interesting to note, with this news, the side story that
AT&T also just revamped their privacy policy, allowing them to more
freely share whatever data they collect with government officials.
However, rather than discuss those two issues (which are being
discussed widely), a more interesting question is whether or not this,
along with the ongoing debates around net neutrality, will actually
lead more people to simply encrypt their internet traffic. It
certainly could open up quite the business opportunity for firms
providing encrypted VPN systems that basically scramble all your data
so your ISP can't snoop and can't prioritize (or downgrade) the
traffic.
"""

poor chumps who buy the proprietary snake oil; true security requires
visibility, and alas there's not a big market for decentralized open
source security/privacy infrastructure (a paying market that is).

[sometimes virtue is its own reward.  and sometimes it at least gets
you beers and whiskey.]




From measl at mfn.org  Wed Jun 21 17:50:12 2006
From: measl at mfn.org (J.A. Terranson)
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:50:12 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Fwd: Some legal trouble with TOR in France
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20060516134451.034fed88@pop.idiom.com>
References: <20060516031147.GE1898@arion.hive>  
  <BAY116-F18077223F88EFEAE07F7C29BA00@phx.gbl> 
  <6.2.1.2.0.20060516134451.034fed88@pop.idiom.com>
Message-ID: <20060621193705.E35895@ubzr.zsa.bet>

As usual, i'm late to the party.

> Hey, if you're going to feed the trolls, might as well feed them something
> interesting...
> Does it bare investigation, or bear it :-) ?

I vote to bar the quesion. :-/

> And of course there's no need for government FUD in a cypherpunks environment,
> since there has always been plenty of volunteer work by the private sector.

Which is a great intro to a few of the first random thoughts I had while
reading this missive from the Sooper Sekrit [French] Gub'mint Agent:

How convenient that Frog is the example used, as Frog is well known for
it's [successful] attack against the system.  What better way to get the
locals to start nodding their heads than to use this well known and long
identified broken node", while implicitly maintaining that 'Le Author"
does't know anything about that.

"About TOR now: I MAY not say all what I know, as the case is currently
investigated by our services and I don't want to get into trouble!"

Yet s/he chooses a "safe" remailer like service to "hide" behind? Wait - I
thought we just learned that _all_  remailers and their relatives were
under hostile control?

"About 4 years ago (I don't remember exactly, and I am at home now, I
haven't my documents with me), we visited the operator of the
remailers FROG and AZERTY."

Since when would an agent have the files from a four year old (assumedly
Black) "operation" easily at hand?

The rest of this latter is just well known crap smooshed together with a
Secret-Club Handshake and a warning to 'be careful' - no duh!

WTF was the actual _point_ of this in the first place?  What would the
possible payoff be?  The writer is for sure no secret agent, nor likely
even playing one in her garage: does he merely get off by posting stupid
shit on a public list?  Nobody truly familiar with any annonymizing
service is going to pay that thing any attention, but newbies *might*
(depending on their naivete and gullibility).  Even so, standing by
itself, it's not even a howl in the wind, it's a whisper on a
subway...inaudible, unintelligible, and a waste of oxygen.

Like this reply...

-- 
Yours,

J.A. Terranson
sysadmin at mfn.org
0xBD4A95BF


'The right of self defence is the first law of nature: in most governments
it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest
limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of
the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext
whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the
brink of destruction.'

St. George Tucker




From tkrebsbach at inscapepublishing.com  Wed Jun 21 13:38:35 2006
From: tkrebsbach at inscapepublishing.com (Efrain Trent)
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:38:35 0000
Subject: 
Message-ID: <200606211945.k5LJjBeo012184@proton.jfet.org>

4V
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From eugen at leitl.org  Wed Jun 21 11:58:19 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:58:19 +0200
Subject: [edrigram@edri.org: EDRI-gram newsletter - Number 4.12, 21 June
   2006]
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From edrigram at edri.org  Wed Jun 21 11:51:52 2006
From: edrigram at edri.org (EDRI-gram newsletter)
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:51:52 +0300
Subject: EDRI-gram newsletter - Number 4.12, 21 June  2006
Message-ID: <mailman.1790.1576007694.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

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            EDRI-gram

 biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe

    Number 4.12, 21 June 2006

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Contents
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1. The European Commission dribbles the Parliament again in the PNR deal
2. German Parliament rejects motion against data retention
3. Swedish torrent website Pirate Bay returns back home
4. Betting websites are blocked in Italy
5. EU proposes accessibility standards in public procurement
6. Court rules Dutch mp3 search engine unlawful
7. EC supports its online broadcasting proposal
8. Former German ruling on liability of forum operators reviewed
9. UK DNA database shared with other countries
10. iTunes service considered illegal in Norway
11. Open letter for supporting the private copy in Italy
12. Recommended action
13. Agenda
15. About

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1. The European Commission dribbles the Parliament again in the PNR deal
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The European Commission is moving ahead in its efforts to comply with the
annulment by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) of the agreement between
the European Community and the US Government on the transfer of passenger
name records (PNR).

The Commission adopted on 19 June 2006 two initiatives in order to comply
with the ECJ decision. The first initiative is to recommend to the Council
to terminate the Agreement with the US by the end of this month, since under
the international law, the agreement remains in force for a period of 90
days after it is denounced by either party.

The second initiative is to ask the Council to give an authorisation to open
negotiations for a new Agreement with the Unites States on the basis of
Article 38, Title VI of the Treaty on European Union. The Commission
considers that Title VI (3rd Pillar) is the correct legal basis for an
International Agreement for matters dealing with public security and
criminal law matters. It also emphasises that "the content of the current
Agreement has not been criticised by the Court and should therefore continue
to offer the same level of safeguards regarding the legal certainty for air
carriers, the respect of human rights and the purposes for which PNR data
may be used."

In practice, this will mean a defeat of the European Parliament, which
challenged before the ECJ the substance of the agreement as well. According
to a Commission spokesman regarding the new proposed agreement: "There is no
formal role for the Parliament to play."

Supporting the Parliament's position, Peter Hustinx, the European Data
Protection Supervisor considered that "the judgment seems to have created a
loophole in the protection of European citizens whereby their data are used
for law enforcement purposes."

The Commission hopes the member states will accept a new deal to be set
up by the beginning of July and that they will not conclude in separate
deals with the United States.

The Commission adopts two initiatives to comply with the Ruling of the
European Court of Justice on the transfer of PNR to the United States of
America (19.06.2006)
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/800&format=
HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

MEPs to be sidelined in revived airline data deal (19.06.2006)
http://euobserver.com/9/21904

PNR: EDPS first reaction to the Court of Justice judgment (30.05.2006)
http://www.edps.eu.int/Press/EDPS-2006-8-EN_PNR.pdf

EDRI-gram : EU-US agreement on passenger data transfer annulled (7.06.2006)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number4.11/pnr

Letters sent by President Borrell of the European Parliament on the
consequences of the Court case of 30 May on passenger name records
(09.06.2006)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/eu-usa-pnr-borrell-letter2.pdf

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2. German Parliament rejects motion against data retention
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On 20 June the German Parliament rejected a resolution that would have
requested the federal government to join the action for annulment of the
EU telecommunications data retention directive at the European Court of
Justice (ECJ). The text had been introduced by the opposition parties
Greens, Liberals and Left Party and was supported by 133 parliamentarians.
But the grand coalition of the governing parties voted against it, with
one abstention from the Conservatives. The authors of the resolution argued
that the data retention decision should have been made in the "Third Pillar"
of the European Union structure in the form of a framework directive, which
would have required an unanimous vote in the Council of Ministers.

The governments of Ireland and Slovakia who voted against the
Directive during the final decision in February have already started a case
at the ECJ. Their chances are good, as the court's recent decision
on the transfer of passenger data to the United States was taken on the
same grounds. The German opposition also asked to postpone
the transposition of the Directive into the federal law until this case is
decided, because even if the Directive is annulled, national laws would
still be valid. The EU Directive mandates the retention of all
telecommunications traffic data within the EU for 6 to 24 months for law
enforcement and national security purposes.

Parliamentarian Jerzy Montag from the Greens, who had drafted the
resolution, reminded his colleagues that the German Parliament and
Government had always asked for a framework decision, last time in a
February 2006 resolution. Therefore he criticized : "Commission and
Council have changed the horses during the action, while the cart stayed
the same". Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries claimed that the
government had "enforcedly accepted" the change of the legal grounds for
data retention in order not to endanger the substantial outcome.

The majority of the parliamentarians was unimpressed by several
last-minute attempts from non-governmental organizations to support the
opposition's motion. On 17 June, around 250 citizens followed the call
by a broad coalition of 15 civil liberties and other groups for a
demonstration "Freedom instead of Security Delusion" in Berlin. It was
mainly organized by the Working Party on Data Retention, an informal
network set up in December 2005 with the help of German EDRi members
Netzwerk Neue Medien (NNM) , FoeBuD, and  Forum InformatikerInnen f|r
Frieden und gesellschaftliche  Verantwortung (FIfF). The demonstration was
the first attempt in years to bring anti-surveillance protest to the streets
and, considering the short preparation time of less than three weeks, it was
seen by the organisers as a success to build on.

The Forum Human Rights, a coalition of 45 German human rights organizations,
also published a position paper on data retention on 16 June and
formally submitted it to the Parliament before the vote. The paper
criticizes data retention as "totally disproportionate and an attack on
the foundation of a free and democratic society".

The Forum Human Rights joined others in their analysis that any law on
mandatory data retention would be in violation of both the European
Convention on Human Rights and the German Constitution. If the Directive is
transposed into German law, several civil liberties groups are already
preparing to challenge it at the Constitutional Court. These legal and
political activities, seen together with the demonstration that sparked a
number of creative activities, are an indication that anti-surveillance
activities are getting more momentum in Germany.

German Parliament rejected the Resolution "Reviewing the Directive on Data
Retention by the European Court of Justice" (in German only, 20.06.2006)
http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/16/016/1601622.pdf

Working Party on Data Retention (in German only)
http://initiative.stoppt-die-vorratsdatenspeicherung.de

Protest march "Freedom rather than obsession with security" (17.06.2006)
In English
http://web125.nice-host.de/VDS/html/VDS/index.php/Announcement
In German, with after-action information
http://web125.nice-host.de/VDS/html/VDS/index.php/Aufruf

Pictures from the demonstration (17.06.2006)
http://su2.info/d/ak-vorrat/photos/stephan/
http://www.apkk.de/doku/Demo_Datenwahn/

Forum Human Rights Position Paper "Data retention violates fundamental
rights and undermines a free society" (in German only, 16.06.2006)
http://www.forum-menschenrechte.de/docs/FMR-2006-06-20_lang.pdf

(Contribution by Ralf Bendrath, German EDRi member Netzwerk Neue Medien)

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3. Swedish torrent website Pirate Bay returns back home
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At the end of May, the Swedish Police raided the location where the
PirateBay.org website was located and shut down the site seizing several
servers. However, after less than 1 month, the site, which is considered the
world's biggest BitTorrent tracker being visited by 10 million to 15 million
daily users, resumes its activity from Sweden.

The Motion Picture Association of America quickly reacted after the Police
raid considering  that: "The actions today taken in Sweden serve as a
reminder to pirates all over the world that there are no safe harbours for
Internet copyright thieves."

After just a couple of days from the raid, PirateBay.org was back online,
hosted somewhere in Netherlands. The operators of the website fought back
considering that their actions were not illegal as The Pirate Bay only
provided links and not the actual downloads.

A recently formed party called the Pirate Party that is supporting more
open and consumer friendly copyright laws has been very active in
criticizing the police actions. The Pirate Party that will run in the 2006
elections has supported public meetings in Stockholm and Goteborg where some
hundreds of protestors with pirate flags asked for the return of the servers
to the Pirate Bay owners and the closing of the investigation. It is
estimated that in Sweden there are one million file-sharers out of the nine
million inhabitants.

There have been rumours that the action has been required by the United
States. According to Washington Post, in April 2006, officials from the US
Government met with the officials from the Swedish Ministry of Justice and
said that the Pirate Bay was one of the world's largest sources of pirated
films and music. At the end of May, the police acted against PirateBay, even
though, according to some sources, the Swedish prosecutors considered they
didn't have a strong case against it.

The Police has also other problems since ten Swedish companies are now
asking for damages for disruption of their businesses. During the raid on
the PirateBay website the Police confiscated 200 servers, some of them owned
by companies not affiliated with that website. The companies now request
damages from 1 000 EUR up to 20 000 EUR.

At the middle of June, the website was back home with an increased
popularity in Sweden but also worldwide. However, its operators considers
splitting the operations between several countries in order to avoid closing
it down.

Swedish police scupper Piratebay (31.05.2006)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/31/piratebay_raid/

File-sharing crackdown and backlash in Sweden (4.06.2006)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/04/business/pirate.php

Pirate Bay resurfaces, while protesters walk the street (5.06.2006)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/05/pirate_bay_reemerges/

Swedish IT companies demand damages after file-sharing crackdown
(15.06.2006)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14826812.htm

Piratebay sails back to Sweden (15.06.2006)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/15/piratebay_back_sweden/

US government pressured Sweden over Pirate Bay (19.06.2006)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/19/us_pushes_sweden/

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4. Betting websites are blocked in Italy
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Following a fierce battle between an authority of the Italian State and
private european online betting companies over their activity in Italy, a
big number of betting websites are officialy blocked for Italian Internet
users.

Everything began with the 2006 financial law (Law 266/2005) voted by the
Parliament under the outgoing Berlusconi government. The law included four
provisions - namely paragraph 535-58 of art.1 - which gave the
Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato  (AAMS or Autonomous
Administration of State Monopolies, a part of the Ministry of Economy and
Finances) the power to bring to the attention of:
(a) providers of Internet services, or
(b) providers of other data or telecommunication networks, or
(c) entities that offer networks or telecommunication services in
relationship to (a) or (b), all those instances in which someone offers
games or bets where money can be lost or won without having the proper
authorization that is usually granted by AAMS itself.

Upon receiving such communication from the AAMS, the subjects from (a)
to (c) have the legal obligation to inhibit usage of the networks that they
manage or for which they provide betting and gaming services "by adopting
appropriate technical measures to this end".

The AAMS proceeded on 13 February 2006 to compile and publish a first
list of websites that should not be accessed from Italian networks.
Compliant ISPs generally implemented the restriction by "hijacking" DNS
communication and redirecting it to the DNS server of the AAMS. The end
result is that users trying to access such websites are instead getting a
notice saying that "pursuant to the decree of the AAMS of 7 February 2006
the requested website is not accessible because it does not have the
necessary authorizations for collecting bets in Italy".

Of course, reactions flocked in by all sides. Several betting companies,
including UK-based William Hill (which is included on the list of blocked
websites) announced they would recur to the European Court of Justice for
what they claim is blatant violation of the basic principles of the
European internal market.

The Remote Gambling Association immediately started to negotiate a
compromise with the Italian government, but until now no agreement seems to
have been reached.

Moreover, several Italian commentators noticed how poor the employed
system is from a technical point of view.  It is in fact sufficient in
most cases to remove the leading "www" prefix to access the blocked
websites. Other strategies, including the usage of web proxies, are
also possible.

The Italian chapter of ISOC (Internet Society) took a
firm technical position, considering that the proposed measures were
ineffective and in any case were far away from the "best practices" in the
sector - while at the same time noticing that the outcries of "censorship"
seemed misplaced because of the subject matter under discussion.

While ISOC explicitly chose to avoid the "censorship" argument, other
commentators argued that by blocking entire websites the proposed solution
ment in fact severely limiting the right of all Italian citizens to access
information, as granted by the Italian Constitution and several
international instruments. If the goal was to impede the act of gambling
then any measure should have been proportionate to this
specific goal. Impeding Italian citizens to access a website and the
information contained therein arguably is not.

One company, Malta-based Astrabet Bookmaker Ltd., went further and requested
the Second Section of the Civil Tribunal of Rome to declare the measure
illegitimate, insofar as it cut off Astrabet's website from the Italian
network.

On 10 April 2006 Judge Lorenzo Pontecorvo issued a writ by which it ordered
AAMS to immediately remove Astrabet from the "blacklist". In his reasoning,
Judge Pontecorvo touched on a number of interesting and potential
far-reaching issues, including how AAMS' right to grant licenses only
applies to the Italian territory, while Astrabet is established in and
operates from Malta and that the contract between users and Astrabet,
according to the facts and the law, is performed in Malta.
He also pointed out that according to the European jurisprudence, blocking
or limiting the activities of Astrabet constitutes a violation of the
"freedom to provide services" principle as enshrined in the EU Treaty and
that the claims by AAMS and others, according to which Astrabet was guilty
of "unfair competition" by "diverting customers" to its website, is
completely unfounded, since Astrabet is simply providing services through
the Net, "a reality which cannot be ignored anymore".

AAMS counter-attacked by appealing the decision and refusing - for technical
reasons - to remove Astrabet from the blacklist. In an official press
release of 12 May 2006, AAMS wrote that the Astrabet issue is "an isolated
case" and that the Maltese company had "engaged in non-ritual activities
with the sole goal to obtain undeserved privileges and behaviours which
would be discriminatory towards other subjects that are legally operating in
Italy".

Although technically avoidable, the blacklist is apparently still applied by
Italian ISPs.

Italian Financial Law 266/2005 (in Italian only, 23.12.2005)
http://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/guri/attocompleto?dataGazzetta=2005-12-29&red
azione=005G0293&service=0&ConNote=2

AAMS list of websites to be blocked from 13 February 2006 (7.02.2006)
http://www.aams.it/site.php?page=20060213093814964&op=download

ISOC Italia position regarding the filtering of websites that offer online
gambling (in Italian only, 15.03.2006)
http://www.isoc.it/documenti/20060315_com_gambling.pdf

Civil Tribunal of Rome, Second Section, Ordinance (in Italian only,
10.04.2006)
http://www.ictlex.net/wp-content/TrRM060410.zip

Clarifications of AAMS on the AstraBet case (in Italian only, 12.05.2006)
http://www.aams.it/site.php?page=20060512175347713&op=download

(Contribution by Andrea Glorioso, consultant on digital policies - Italy)

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5. EU proposes accessibility standards in public procurement
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In a ministerial meeting that took place in Riga on 12 June 2006, ministers
from European countries have signed a declaration to diminish the gap in
Internet usage for groups at risk of exclusion, but also to increase
broadband coverage.

The Riga Ministerial Declaration was signed by ministers of 34 European
countries from EU Member States, accession and candidate countries, and
EFTA/EEA countries. The declaration shows the commitment of the countries to
an "Internet for all" action plan that should allow the disadvantaged
groups to access the Internet.

One of the conclusions of the meeting was the necessity to assess the need
for legislative measures in the field of e-Accessibility, and to take into
account accessibility requirements in the review of the electronic
communications regulatory framework beginning in June 2006. Another
suggestion was to make recommendations, by 2007, on accessibility standards
and common approaches, which could become mandatory in public procurement by
2010.

Data from the European Commission have shown that only about 3% of public
web sites fully comply with minimum web accessibility standards - a real
problem for the 15% of the EU population with disabilities. According to a
recent research by Disability Rights Commission (DRC), 81% of
web sites in the UK are inaccessible to disabled people.

Ministers in Riga also supported the European Commission's intention to
prepare for the European e-inclusion initiative announced for 2008 in the
"i2010" strategy, the digital economy component of the EU's renewed "Lisbon"
agenda for jobs and growth.

Internet for all: EU ministers commit to an inclusive and barrier-free
information society (12.06.2006)
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/769&format=
HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

EU may make accessibility a legal requirement (15.06.2006)
http://uk.builder.com/webdevelopment/design/0,39026630,39317017,00.htm

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6. Court rules Dutch mp3 search engine unlawful
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The Dutch Court of Appeals in Amsterdam has ruled that search engine
zoekmp3.nl is unlawful. This search engine provided links to
mp3-files on the World Wide Web. The court chose not to answer the
question whether linking itself to unauthorised mp3-files is an
infringement of copyright law. The lower court had found that this
was not the case. The Court of Appeals based the unlawfulness on
Dutch tort law, and the specific circumstances of the case. The Court
stated that in principal search engines are free to make money from
providing search results to mp3-files, even if these files are known
to be unauthorised. Only in particular circumstances will the search
engine be liable for damage to copyright holders.

The specific circumstances the court found relevant to conclude the
unlawfulness were that the search engine was specifically aimed at
providing links to unauthorised files (charts). The court also found
that the search engine knew that most of its visitors were looking
primarily for unauthorised copies. Therefore, according to the Dutch
court a warning on this matter to its visitors could not be an
excuse. Further more, it found relevant that the search engine had
advertisement and information that was linked to the unauthorised
content, such as ring-tones of the  popular songs. In general, the
court came to the conclusion that the search engine was making its
money by structurally exploiting the availability of unauthorised
mp3-files on the World Wide Web, evidently without taking into
account the interests of copyright holders. Acting as such, the
search engine breached its general duty of care towards them.

Dutch copyright organisation Brein had appealed the verdict of the
lower court of 12 May 2004, that had concluded there was no liability
for the search engine, but a duty to react if it was notified of
links to unauthorised copies. Most importantly, the lower court had
ruled that a link to unauthorised mp3-files was not in breach of
Dutch copyright law, because a link couldn't be considered as an act
of making public a copyrighted work. In spite of this positive
verdict, the owner of the search engine, Techno Design, decided to
stop the search engine's activity. It also decided not to defend
itself at the Court of Appeals. This had considerable effect on the
verdict since some facts stated by Brein were proven mainly because
of the absence of a defence.

On 23 June 2006, the trial starts against four suspects in the case
of download sites Releases4u.com and Shareconnector.com. The
prosecution is charging them with professional infringement of Dutch
copyright law, in the context of a criminal organisation. The
download sites provided a selection of links to illegal software,
films, music and games on p2p-program eDonkey. As the first criminal
prosecution for this practice, the trial is a test case for Dutch
law. One of the defence lawyers already stated that the linking
itself is not a criminal offence, nor a copyright infringement, and
therefore his client should not be convicted. Civil law action
against the sites by Brein was unsuccesful.

Dutch site linking to MP3 files loses court case (19.06.2006)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/19062006/80-91/dutch-site-linking-mp3-files-loses-co
urt-case.html

(Contribution by Joris van Hoboken - EDRI-member Bits of Freedom -
Netherlands)

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7. EC supports its online broadcasting proposal
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In an Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) event held in Brussels on
14 June, Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media,
expressed again  her position to support the EC proposal to revise the
Television Without Frontiers (TVWF) Directive.

"There will be no regulation of the Internet," Mrs. Reding told ZDNet UK
stating that the extension of the Directive is supposed to provide basic
rules to protect minors online, and to prevent incitement to hatred and
over-repeated advertising.

The Commissioner also said that the proposed provisions are only basic tier
rules and self-regulation can be supported better by a legal framework. The
Government would intervene only when self-regulation does not work.

While the Commissioner considers the Directive will be beneficial to the
Internet business, the industry and the Internet community expressed concern
that the Directive would lead to the regulation of the content on the
Internet.

The Confederation of British Industry thinks that the Directive will "stifle
economic growth, inhibit job creation and hamper the development of digital
content and services across the EU". Other representatives of the Industry
such as Microsoft, Google or Verizon expressed concerns regarding the scope
of the legislation and the problem of jurisdiction and enforcement. They
believe the already existing legislation is enough and efficient in
protecting children and consumers and that self-regulation is the right
solution.

Professor Michael Rotert, president of the European Internet Service
Providers Association (EuroISPA), considers the Directive as a regulation of
the Internet "through the backdoor" and thinks: "Regulated self-regulation
will be misused immediately, when it comes into practice".

Europe defends online broadcasting plans (15.06.2006)
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39275180,00.htm

FAQ: EC Proposes to Modernise 'Television Without Frontiers' Directive
(22.05.2006)
http://uk.ihs.com/news-06Q2/eu-en-modern-tv.jsp

EDRI-gram Draft Audiovisual Media Services Directive under criticism
(24.05.2006)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number4.10/audiovisual

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8. Former German ruling on liability of forum operators reviewed
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A previous ruling of the Hamburg court that made moderators of internet
forums liable for content posted on their sites is now contradicted by the
Intermediate Court of Appeals in Dusseldorf which has ruled that forum
operators are obligated to delete illegal comments made by their users only
in case they know about them.

The ruling of the German Supreme Court of 2004 obliged the forum operators
to prevent illegal content posted by their users but did not bind them to
review all comments before being placed online. However, in the Heise
Zeitschriften Verlag case, the Hamburg court ruled against Heise, asking
from the publisher to monitor the content before it appeared online.

The Hamburg court had required the operator to "either increase its funding
or limit [...] its operations" in order to review all postings before
publishing them online.

In the case of a person having been repeatedly insulted on a forum who filed
a temporary restraining order, the appeal court of Dusseldorf overruled the
decision of the first-instance court to issue the order, considered that
monitoring all postings would have required unreasonable efforts from the
forum operator from the financial as well as human resources point of view.

It is not expected from the operators to actively look for breaches of the
law or to monitor all postings. However, they have the obligation to delete
or block comments about which complaints have been made.

Also the Dusseldorf judges believed that the technical filtering solutions
were not effective in blocking illegal contents."While a search for certain
key words might be simple from the technical point of view and would even
help combat violations of trademark, in light of the almost infinite number
of ways that people can formulate insults such filters would not be very
practical in the prosecution of violations of personal rights."

First-instance district court of Hamburg says forum operators are liable for
comments (18.04.2006)
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/72085

German court rules moderators liable for forum comments (21.04.2006)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/21/moderator_liable_for_comments/

Court rules that prior review of forum comments is unreasonable (15.06.2006)
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/74320

EDRi-gram : Hamburg court rules against forum providers (26.04.2006)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number4.8/forum

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9. UK DNA database shared with other countries
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The UK Home Office has admitted that DNA stored in the UK National DNA
Database has been shared with other countries.

UK has today one of the largest law enforcement DNA database with profiles
from 3.5 million people, including 500 000 children under 16 years old. The
database was established in 1995.

Privacy concerns regarding the database have been expressed, especially when
the database was revealed to contained more than 50 000 DNA profiles of
children who have never been charged with any offence.

Recently, the UK Home Office Minister Joan Ryan has answered a question from
the Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokeswoman Lynne Featherstone regarding
the access of foreign law enforcement authorities to the database content.
Ryan said that there have been 519 requests for details from the database
since 2004, but no records are available before that year.

Featherstone considered that "There are no real safeguards in place to
control this huge database which leaves it open for misuse - and now we find
out it's not only being misused in our country but also internationally."
She also supported the idea of an independent watchdog to monitor the access
of foreign law enforcement authorities to the UK DNA Database.

On the other hand, the representative of the Home Office declared that: "
The increasing ease of travel and communication between EU member-states has
also resulted in a higher risk of criminal activity crossing the borders of
EU member-states." He also added that the data were provided only when
serious crimes were investigated.

DNA database is shared overseas (7.06.2006)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5056450.stm

UK Home Office defends sharing DNA database (8.06.2006)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/08/ndnad_sharing/

News and updates on the UK DNA Database
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/orgwiki/index.php/DNA_database

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10. iTunes service considered illegal in Norway
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Following a complaint made by the Norwegian Consumer Council in January this
year, Bjorn Erik Thon, the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman has ruled that the
Apple iTunes service breaks section 9a of the Norwegian Marketing Control
Act.

The Consumer Ombudsman considers as unreasonable that the agreement the
consumer must accept is regulated by the foreign law and that iTunes
disclaims any liability for a possible damage the software may cause.

He also thinks that just like Apple requires an iPod for songs via iTunes,
other companies producing music, book or film could restrict their products
to specific players as well and believes that this could be an infringement
of rights.

"You will have a difficult situation for the consumer ... the consumer has
to have four or five gadgets to have the availability of the content that he
wants," stated Thon considering a consumer should have the right to use a
product on any device he chooses.

Senior advisor Torgeir Waterhouse of the Consumer Council stated that
contract terms, technical blocks or other types of legal protection show a
tendency to restrict the consumer rights as well as their access to cultural
material.

"The digital rights of consumers have been dictated by the industry for a
long time. This decision marks the start of a struggle to recover them,"
said Waterhouse.

The decision of the Ombudsman brings Norway closer to the position of other
countries in this matter such as France and the UK. It seems Denmark and
Sweden will follow this position in requiring iTunes to be modified in order
to do business in their countries.

Apple representatives expressed their hope that they would not have to pull
out of Norway and their wish to find a solution to this issue.

According to the experts, this will not be an easy matter as Apple, in case
it did not create its DRM system only to force the use of a certain device,
may be bound by license agreements with the music industry and thus is not
in the position to just cancel its DRM policies and open its content.

iTunes must change the terms and conditions of their agreements in order to
comply with the Norwegian law by 1 August, an extension from 21 June, or
face fines.

iTunes guilty of breaking Norwegian law (7.06.2006)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/07/norway_rules_itunes_unfair/

The Consumer Council of Norway is on track to win case against iTunes
(6.06.2006)
http://forbrukerportalen.no/Artikler/2006/1149587055.44

Norwegian ombudsman says Apple's iTunes DRM is illegal (7.06.2006)
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/07/norwegian_ombudsman_.html

Can Europe Force Apple To Rework iTunes? (16.06.2006)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=2085110

European officials cautious on iTunes antitrust (16.06.2006)
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6084688.html

============================================================
11. Open letter for supporting the private copy in Italy
============================================================

A new public campaign has been launched in Italy: its goal is to
change Italy's copyright law to ensure that end-users have a
full-fledged right to create a private copy of works they legally
acquired.

The campaign, promoted by Scarichiamoli!, an Italian informal group of
activists whose main goal is permitting the free circulation of
knowledge, is aimed at revising Italian Legislative Decree 68/2003,
that implements the European Directive 2001/29/CE on the harmonization
of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information
society.

In particular, the suggested revision would change art.9 of the Decree by
making sure that a private copy of a legally acquired work
can always be made, even bypassing technical protection measures
(TPMs), irrespective of whether such a copy is digital or analogue.

Currently, it is possible for a user to bypass TPMs in order to make a
private copy of a legally acquired work. Or rather, it is compulsory
for a copyright owner to make sure that the user can perform such an
act. However, the law states the copyright owners' obligation only extends
to analogue copies of a work. There is currently no obligation for them to
allow users to make a digital private copy of a legally acquired work.

Secondly, the suggested modifications aim at making sure that the
possibility to create a private copy cannot be contractually negotiated.

Scarichiamoli! published on 9 June an open letter to Italian MP Titti
De Simone (PRC) who had shown a special interest in this subject back
during the discussions on the Italian implementation of the EUCD. The
letter has already been signed by many Internet users, webmasters or
other experts.

On 14 June 2006, Titti de Simone replied by confirming her interest in
the subject and inviting the proponents of the campaign to an informal
hearing at the Culture Commission of the Italian Parliament.

An argument to the Italian campaign could be the position taken these
days in UK by the British Phonographic Industry stating that consumers would
be pursued only if they make copies for other people and not for their
personal use - although the Italian campaign aims at making sure that such
an activity is a legally-stipulated right and not a gentle concession by a
private party.

Private copy, the Italian campaign has begun (only in Italian, 9.06.2006)
http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?id=1517037&r=PI

Open Letter to Titti De Simone (only in Italian, 9.06.2006)
http://www.scarichiamoli.org/main.php?page=lettere/de_simone

UK fans can copy music for private use (7.06.2006)
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2157746/uk-fans-copy-music

Report on the Italian implementation of the EUCD
http://www.fipr.org/copyright/guide/italy.htm

============================================================
12. Recommended Action
============================================================

Hearing on future EU patent policy
The European Commission will hold a public hearing on future EU patent
policy on 12 July 2006. This is the second step of the public consultation
launched in January 2006 with the aim of collecting stakeholders' views on
the patent system in Europe and seeking views on what measures could be
taken in the near future to improve this system.
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/796&type=HTML&a
ged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

Commission consultation on copyright levies
The questionnaire on "Copyright levies in a converging world" is submitted
for public consultation to ensure that later Commission proposals are
technically viable, practically workable and based on a bottom-up approach.
Stakeholders and Member States already provided valuable input in the
process and this additional follow-up consultation serves the dual purpose
to help to further improve the quality of the policy outcome and at the same
time enhancing the involvement of interested parties and the public at
large. This additional follow-up consultation period will run from 6 June
through 14 July 2006.
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/levy_reform/index_en.htm#060607

============================================================
13. Agenda
============================================================

21 June 2006, Luxembourg
Safer Internet Forum 2006 Focus on two topics: "Children's use of new media"
and "Blocking access to illegal content: child sexual abuse images"
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/sip/si_forum/forum_june_2
006/index_en.htm

22-23 June 2006, Barcelona, Spain
The 3rd International GPLv3 Conference
http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/europe-gplv3-conference

23 June 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark
Book Launch - Human Rights in the Global Information Society.
Keynote on Privacy, terrorism and the new security agenda.
Organized by The Danish Human Rights Institute and The Danish WSIS network
Information about the book.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10872
Program and invitation:
http://www.humanrights.dk / http://www.una.dk/wsis

26-27 June 2006, Berlin, Germany
The Rising Power of Search-Engines on the Internet: Impacts on Users, Media
Policy, and Media Business
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/journalistik/suma/home_e.html

26-30 June 2006 Geneva, Switzerland
Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development Agenda
(PCDA/2)
http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=9766

26-28 June 2006, Cambridge, UK
Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2006)
http://weis2006.econinfosec.org/

28-30 June 2006, Cambridge, UK
Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
http://petworkshop.org/2006/

3-5 July, Cambridge, UK
Privacy Laws & Business, 19th Annual International Conference
"Privacy Crisis Ahead? Investing enough in data protection to strengthen
and defend your reputation"
http://www.privacylaws.com/conferences.annual.html

7 July 2006, Zurich, Switzerland
Free cultures - a Free Internet. Internet Governance and Switzerland
Who is supposed to govern the internet? A symposium on the "Internet
Governance Forum" will be looking for the answers.
http://www.igf-06.ch

16 - 28 July 2006, Oxford, UK
Annenberg/Oxford Summer Institute: Global Media Policy: Technology and New
Themes in Media Regulation
http://www.pgcs.asc.upenn.edu/events/ox06/index.php

2-4 August 2006, Bregenz, Austria
2nd International Workshop on Electronic Voting 2006 Students may apply for
funds to attend the workshop until 30 June 2006.
http://www.e-voting.cc/stories/1246056/

3 August 2006 , Prague, Czech Republic
Travelers privacy and EU
One day seminar organized by Iuridicum Remedium, providing a space for
privacy experts to meet Czech officials to discuss  passports,
biometrics, RFID, PNR deal and other issues related to privacy risks
possibly encountered by travellers in the EU.
http://www.bigbrotherawards.cz/en/index.html

14-16 September 2006, Berlin, Germany
Wizards of OS 4 Information Freedom Rules
http://wizards-of-os.org/

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jun 22 05:32:24 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:32:24 +0200
Subject: How The Telcos And The Government Are About To Boost The
  Encryption Market
In-Reply-To: <4ef5fec60606211926x3b477f81sf8b4e3d6219936d5@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4ef5fec60606211926x3b477f81sf8b4e3d6219936d5@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20060622123224.GZ28956@leitl.org>

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:26:54PM -0700, coderman wrote:


> lead more people to simply encrypt their internet traffic. It

Ah, if it only would be "simply". Interoperability requires
the same method on both ends, and session setup latency better
be invisible. No such animal yet.

> certainly could open up quite the business opportunity for firms
> providing encrypted VPN systems that basically scramble all your data
> so your ISP can't snoop and can't prioritize (or downgrade) the
> traffic.

That's precisely what I'm gearing up to do. Server-side embedding
shared secret into OpenVPN, connecting to customer's own vserver.

What I don't yet know (but need to find out) whether by being
mediator I'm technically an ISP, or not. If I am, I've got the
data retention liability albatross around my neck.

> poor chumps who buy the proprietary snake oil; true security requires
> visibility, and alas there's not a big market for decentralized open
> source security/privacy infrastructure (a paying market that is).
>
> [sometimes virtue is its own reward.  and sometimes it at least gets
> you beers and whiskey.]
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From coderman at gmail.com  Thu Jun 22 14:52:48 2006
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:52:48 -0700
Subject: coderman off his meds / physical security / sneak n peak
  [was: Some legal trouble with TOR in France]
Message-ID: <4ef5fec60606221452w66e1d736w2ae109631c5fc969@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/21/06, coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> physical security is a necessary element of trust...
> http://public.peertech.org/tmp/tapd-01.jpg

   [AnonymousHeckler] Silly punk, they don't send a van for a sneak and peak.

it's hard to sneak when you've got remote surveillance of the
perimeter.  unfortunately hiding in plain sight didn't work too well
either. (of course i'll never know the details, which is part of the
point. FOIPA has been neutered; though another try can't hurt...)

visible cams are cheap and easy (my recent favorite: "Cams from the
TPB bust" http://youtube.com/watch?v=30HF-m_I6yY ) and i like the
deterrent they provide.  wireless makes a good backup path (in
addition to primary broadband) for critical signalling and remote feed
archival; recording locally doesn't make much sense, right? :)

rcovert and wifitap style wireless transport is a great secondary path
with an amplified injector (unidirectional).  i'd love to try this at
1Mbps encoding on 700mW 900Mhz (SR9 radio) but the 2.4Ghz works well
enough at 30dBm.  don't forget those UPS's...
[i dream of a day the 802.11 MAC is dead. flawed assumptions at the
base of this stack leads to vulnerability up
transport/session/application layers too. cognitive software radios++]

regarding critical signalling: always fail safe to zeroisation upon
DoS or detection.  good key management means a false positive is easy
to recovery from.

concealed/covert cameras would be fun but difficult.  anyone have
suggestions / experience?

regards,
   coderman - with a significantly lower B.A.C. today...




From coderman at gmail.com  Thu Jun 22 15:18:08 2006
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:18:08 -0700
Subject: How The Telcos And The Government Are About To Boost The
  Encryption Market
In-Reply-To: <20060622123224.GZ28956@leitl.org>
References: <4ef5fec60606211926x3b477f81sf8b4e3d6219936d5@mail.gmail.com>
  	 <20060622123224.GZ28956@leitl.org>
Message-ID: <4ef5fec60606221518i45a587b2paad6441605cdc109@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/22/06, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> ... Server-side embedding
> shared secret into OpenVPN, connecting to customer's own vserver.
>
> What I don't yet know (but need to find out) whether by being
> mediator I'm technically an ISP, or not. If I am, I've got the
> data retention liability albatross around my neck.

is there a way to offload the critical (key secrecy) parts to a
trusted third party / external location so that retention would be
effectively pointless?
(that is to say, within the jurisdiction of data retention let them
archive all the blackened traffic they want until the heat death of
the universe...)




From coderman at gmail.com  Thu Jun 22 21:15:54 2006
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:15:54 -0700
Subject: Bank Data Sifted in Secret by U.S. to Block Terror
Message-ID: <4ef5fec60606222115h7d15ff0eq91f3f3dbdf040a6e@mail.gmail.com>

ho hum, who didn't see this coming?

:P

"How long can this go on?" indeed...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/washington/23intel.html
---selective-cuts---
Bank Data Sifted in Secret by U.S. to Block Terror

By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN

WASHINGTON, June 22  Under a secret Bush administration program
initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials
have gained access to financial records from a vast international
database and examined banking transactions involving thousands of
Americans and others in the United States, according to government and
industry officials.

The program is limited, government officials say, to tracing
transactions of people suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda by
reviewing records from the nerve center of the global banking
industry, a Belgian cooperative that routes about $6 trillion daily
between banks, brokerages, stock exchanges and other institutions. The
records mostly involve wire transfers and other methods of moving
money overseas and into and out of the United States. Most routine
financial transactions confined to this country are not in the
database.
...
"The capability here is awesome or, depending on where you're sitting,
troubling," said one former senior counterterrorism official who
considers the program valuable. While tight controls are in place, the
official added, "the potential for abuse is enormous."
...
Officials described the Swift program as the biggest and most
far-reaching of several secret efforts to trace terrorist financing.
Much more limited agreements with other companies have provided access
to A.T.M. transactions, credit card purchases and Western Union wire
payments, the officials said.
...
Treasury officials said Swift was exempt from American laws
restricting government access to private financial records because the
cooperative was considered a messaging service, not a bank or
financial institution. [ED: heheh]
...
Several people familiar with the Swift program said they believed that
they were exploiting a "gray area" in the law and that a case could be
made for restricting the government's access to the records on Fourth
Amendment and statutory grounds.
...
In terrorism prosecutions, intelligence officials have been careful to
"sanitize," or hide the origins of evidence collected through the
program to keep it secret, officials said.
...
Quietly, counterterrorism officials sought to expand the information
they were getting from financial institutions. Treasury officials, for
instance, spoke with credit card companies about devising an alert if
someone tried to buy fertilizer and timing devices that could be used
for a bomb, but they were told the idea was not logistically possible,
a lawyer in the discussions said.
...
Intelligence officials were so eager to use the Swift data that they
discussed having the C.I.A. covertly gain access to the system,
several officials involved in the talks said. But Treasury officials
resisted, the officials said, and favored going to Swift directly.
[ED: wow, that would have been fun. crash an international banking
network by accident? oops!]
...
Within weeks of 9/11, Swift began turning over records that allowed
American analysts to look for evidence of terrorist financing.
Initially, there appear to have been few formal limits on the
searches.

"At first, they got everything  the entire Swift database," one
person close to the operation said.
...
Officials realized the potential for abuse, and narrowed the program's
targets and put in more safeguards. Among them were the auditing firm,
an electronic record of every search and a requirement that analysts
involved in the operation document the intelligence that justified
each data search. Mr. Levey said the program was used only to examine
records of individuals or entities, not for broader data searches.

Despite the controls, Swift executives became increasingly worried
about their secret involvement with the American government, the
officials said. By 2003, the cooperative's officials were discussing
pulling out because of their concerns about legal and financial risks
if the program were revealed, one government official said.

"How long can this go on?" a Swift executive asked, according to the official.

Even some American officials began to question the open-ended
arrangement. "I thought there was a limited shelf life and that this
was going to go away," the former senior official said.
---end-cuts---




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From rforno at infowarrior.org  Fri Jun 23 08:18:22 2006
From: rforno at infowarrior.org (Richard Forno)
Date: June 23, 2006 8:18:22 AM EDT
Subject: Secret U.S. Program Tracks Global Bank Transfers
Message-ID: <mailman.1791.1576007694.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-
swift23jun23,0,6482687.
story?coll=la-home-headlines
>From the Los Angeles Times
Secret U.S. Program Tracks Global Bank Transfers
The Treasury Dept. program, begun after the Sept. 11 attacks,
attempts to
monitor terrorist financing but raises privacy concerns.
By Josh Meyer and Greg Miller
Times Staff Writers

June 23, 2006

WASHINGTON b The U.S. government, without the knowledge of many banks
and
their customers, has engaged for years in a secret effort to track
terrorist
financing by accessing a vast database of confidential information on
transfers of money between banks worldwide.

The program, run by the Treasury Department, is considered a potent
weapon
in the war on terrorism because of its ability to clandestinely monitor
financial transactions and map terrorist webs.

It is part of an arsenal of aggressive measures the government has
adopted
since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that yield new intelligence, but
also
circumvent traditional safeguards against abuse and raise concerns about
intrusions on privacy.

Under this effort, Treasury routinely acquires information about bank
transfers from the world's largest financial communication network,
which is
run by a consortium of financial institutions called the Society for
Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT.

The SWIFT network carries up to 12.7 million messages a day containing
instructions on many of the international transfers of money between
banks.
The messages typically include the names and account numbers of bank
customers b from U.S. citizens to major corporations b who are
sending or
receiving funds.

Through the program, Treasury has built an enormous b and ever-growing b
repository of financial records drawn from what is essentially the
central
nervous system of international banking.

In a major departure from traditional methods of obtaining financial
records, the Treasury Department uses a little-known power b
administrative
subpoenas b to collect data from the SWIFT network, which has
operations in
the U.S., including a main computer hub in Manassas, Va. The
subpoenas are
secret and not reviewed by judges or grand juries, as are most criminal
subpoenas.

"It's hard to overstate the value of this information," Treasury
Secretary
John W. Snow said Thursday in a statement he issued after The Times and
other media outlets reported the existence of the Terrorist Finance
Tracking
Program.

SWIFT acknowledged Thursday in response to questions from The Times
that it
has provided data under subpoena since shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, a
striking leap in cooperation from international bankers, who long
resisted
such law enforcement intrusions into the confidentiality of their
communications.

But SWIFT said in a statement that it has worked with U.S. officials to
restrict the use of the data to terrorism investigations.

The program is part of the Bush administration's dramatic expansion of
intelligence-gathering capabilities, which includes warrantless
eavesdropping on the international phone calls of some U.S. residents.
Critics complain that these efforts are not subject to independent
governmental reviews designed to prevent abuse, and charge that they
collide
with privacy and consumer protection laws in the United States.

Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the
Federation of American Scientists, said the SWIFT program raises similar
issues. "It boils down to a question of oversight, both internal and
external. And in the current circumstances, it is hard to have
confidence in
the efficacy of their oversight," he said. "Their policy is, 'Trust
us,' and
that may not be good enough anymore."

A former senior Treasury official expressed concern that the SWIFT
program
allows access to vast quantities of sensitive data that could be abused
without safeguards. The official, who said he did not have independent
knowledge of the program, questioned what becomes of the data, some
of it
presumably related to innocent banking customers.

"How do you separate the wheat from the chaff?" the former official
said.
"And what do you do with the chaff?"

More than a dozen current and former U.S. officials discussed the
program on
condition of anonymity, citing its sensitive nature.

The effort runs counter to the expectations of privacy and security
that are
sacrosanct in the worldwide banking community. SWIFT promotes its
services
largely by touting the network's security, and most of its customers are
unaware that the U.S. government has such extensive access to their
private
financial information.

U.S. officials, some of whom expressed surprise the program had not
previously been revealed by critics, acknowledged it would be
controversial
in the financial community. "It is certainly not going to sit well in
the
world marketplace," said a former counterterrorism official. "It
could very
likely undermine the integrity of SWIFT."

Bush administration officials asked The Times not to publish information
about the program, contending that disclosure could damage its
effectiveness
and that sufficient safeguards are in place to protect the public.

Dean Baquet, editor of The Times, said: "We weighed the government's
arguments carefully, but in the end we determined that it was in the
public
interest to publish information about the extraordinary reach of this
program. It is part of the continuing national debate over the
aggressive
measures employed by the government."

Under the program, Treasury issues a new subpoena once a month, and
SWIFT
turns over huge amounts of electronic financial data, according to
Stuart
Levey, the department's undersecretary for terrorism and financial
intelligence. The administrative subpoenas are issued under authority
granted in the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

The SWIFT information is added to a massive database that officials have
been constructing since shortly after Sept. 11. Levey noted that
SWIFT did
not have the ability to search its own records. "We can, because we
built
the capability to do that," he said.

Treasury shares the data with the CIA, the FBI and analysts from other
agencies, who can run queries on specific individuals and accounts
believed
to have terrorist connections, Levey said Thursday in an interview
with The
Times.

Levey said that "tens of thousands" of searches of the database have
been
done over the last five years.

The program was initially a closely guarded secret, but it has recently
become known to a wider circle of government officials, former
officials,
banking executives and outside experts.

Current and former U.S. officials said the effort has been only
marginally
successful against Al Qaeda, which long ago began transferring money
through
other means, including the highly informal banking system common in
Islamic
countries.

The value of the program, Levey and others said, has been in tracking
lower-
and mid-level terrorist operatives and financiers who believe they
have not
been detected, and militant groups, such as Hezbollah, Hamas and
Palestinian
Islamic Jihad, that also operate political and social welfare
organizations.



It's no secret that the Treasury Department tries to track terrorist
financing, or that those efforts ramped up significantly after the
Sept. 11
terrorist attacks. But the SWIFT program goes far beyond what has been
publicly disclosed about that effort in terms of the amount of financial
data that U.S. intelligence agencies can access.

The program also represents a major tactical shift. U.S.
investigators long
have been able to subpoena records on specific accounts or
transactions when
they could show cause b a painstaking process designed mainly for
gathering
evidence. But access to SWIFT enables them to follow suspicious
financial
trails around the globe, identifying new suspects without having to seek
assistance from foreign banks.

SWIFT is a consortium founded in 1973 to replace telex messages. It has
almost 7,900 participating institutions in more than 200 countries b
including Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Citibank and Credit
Suisse.
The network handled 2.5 billion financial messages in 2005, including
many
originating in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the
United Arab
Emirates that the United States scrutinizes closely for terrorist
activity.

The system does not execute the actual transfer of funds between
banks; that
is carried out by the Federal Reserve and its international
counterparts.
Rather, banks use the network to transmit instructions about such
transfers.
For that reason, SWIFT's data is extremely valuable to intelligence
services
seeking to uncover terrorist webs.

CIA operatives trying to track Osama bin Laden's money in the late 1990s
figured out clandestine ways to access the SWIFT network. But a
former CIA
official said Treasury officials blocked the effort because they did not
want to anger the banking community.

Historically, "there was always a line of contention" inside the
government,
said Paul Pillar, former deputy director of the CIA's counterterrorism
center. "The Treasury position was placing a high priority on the
integrity
of the banking system. There was considerable concern from that side
about
anything that could be seen as compromising the integrity of
international
banking."

Before Sept. 11, a former senior SWIFT executive said, providing
access to
its sensitive data would have been anathema to the Belgium-based
consortium.
But the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon led to a new
mind-set in many industries, including telecommunications.

SWIFT said the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control
sent
the first subpoena shortly after Sept. 11, seeking "limited sets of
data" to
learn about how Al Qaeda financed the attacks.

Unlike telephone lines and e-mail communications, the SWIFT network
cannot
be easily tapped. It uses secure log-ins and state-of-the-art encryption
technology to prevent intercepted messages from being deciphered. "It is
arguably the most secure network on the planet," said the former SWIFT
executive who spoke on condition of anonymity. "This thing is locked
down
like Fort Knox."

SWIFT said it was responding to compulsory subpoenas and negotiated with
U.S. officials to narrow them and to establish protections for the
privacy
of its customers. SWIFT also said it has never given U.S. authorities
direct
access to its network.

"Our fundamental principle has been to preserve the confidentiality
of our
users' data while complying with the lawful obligations in countries
where
we operate," SWIFT said in its statement.



Current and former U.S. officials familiar with the SWIFT program
described
it as one of the most valuable weapons in the financial war on
terrorism,
but declined to provide even anecdotal evidence of its successes.

A former high-ranking CIA officer said it has been a success, and
another
official said it has allowed U.S. counterterrorism officials to follow a
tremendous number of leads. CIA officials pursue leads overseas, and
the FBI
and other agencies pursue leads in the United States, where the CIA is
prohibited from operating.

Officials said the program is relied upon especially heavily when
intelligence chatter from phone and e-mail intercepts suggested an
imminent
attack, conveying real-time intelligence for counterterrorism
operations.

The former SWIFT executive said much can be learned from network
messages,
which require an actual name and address of both the sender and
recipient,
unlike phone calls and e-mails, in which terrorist operatives can easily
disguise their identities.

"There is a good deal of detail in there," he said.

As the global war on terrorism has succeeded in taking out some senior
terrorists and their financiers, particularly within Al Qaeda, the
organization and its many affiliates have sought to move to hidden
locations
and to transfer their money through proxies such as charities, aid
organizations and corporate fronts.

The officials said the SWIFT information can be used in "link analysis."
That technique allows analysts to identify any person with whom a
suspected
terrorist had financial dealings b even those with no connection to
terrorism. That information is then mapped and analyzed to detect
patterns,
shifts in strategy, specific "hotspot" accounts, and locations that have
become new havens for terrorist activity.



The SWIFT program is just one of the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11
initiatives to collect intelligence that could include information on
U.S.
residents.

The National Security Agency, which can intercept communications
around the
world, is eavesdropping on the telephone calls and e-mails of some U.S.
residents without obtaining warrants. And it has been accused of asking
telecommunications companies to help create a database of the phone-call
records of almost all Americans.

The Justice Department also has asked Internet companies to keep
records of
the websites customers visit and the people they e-mail for two years,
rather than days or weeks, which would greatly expand the government's
ability to track online activity.

Numerous lawsuits have been filed against the government and phone
companies, challenging the NSA efforts. The government has asked
courts to
throw them out, invoking the "state secrets" privilege and arguing that
trials would compromise national security. The NSA's interception of
telephone calls also has been criticized for lacking an independent
review
process to ensure that the information is not abused.

The SWIFT program raises similar concerns, some critics say.

Privacy advocates have questioned "link analysis" because it can drag in
innocent people who have routine financial dealings with terrorist
suspects.

And no outside governmental oversight body, such as the Foreign
Intelligence
Surveillance Court or a grand jury, monitors the subpoenas served on
SWIFT.

Levey said the program is subject to "robust" checks and balances
designed
to prevent misuse of the data. He noted that requests to access the
data are
reviewed by Treasury's assistant secretary for intelligence; that
analysts
can only access the data for terrorism-related searches; and that
records
are kept of each search and are reviewed by an outside auditor for
compliance.

Levey said there had been one instance of abuse in which an analyst had
conducted a search that did not meet the terrorist-related criteria. The
analyst was subsequently denied access to the database, he said.

During the last five years, SWIFT officials have raised concerns
about the
scope of the program, particularly at the outset, when it was handing
over
virtually its entire database. The amount of data handed over each
month has
been winnowed down.

"The safeguards were not all there in September 2001," Levey
acknowledged.
"We started narrowing it from the beginning."

New safeguards have been added, he said, noting that SWIFT officials
are now
allowed to be present when analysts search the data and to raise
objections
with top officials.

Officials from other government agencies have raised the issue of
accessing
the records for other investigative purposes, but Levey said such
proposals
have been rejected b largely out of concern that doing so might erode
support for the program.

Asked what would prevent the data from being used for other purposes
in the
future, Levey said doing so would likely trigger objections from
SWIFT and
the outside auditor.

A SWIFT representative said that Booz Allen Hamilton, an international
consulting firm, is the auditor but provided no further details on
how the
oversight process works.

Although the searches focus on suspected terrorist activity overseas,
U.S.
officials acknowledged that they do delve into the financial
activities of
Americans, noting that privacy laws don't protect individuals
believed to be
acting as a "foreign terrorist agent."

Officials said the administration has briefed congressional intelligence
committees on the SWIFT program. In contrast, information on the NSA
wiretapping was shared only with key lawmakers. One senior congressional
aide said the committees have "a good handle on what the executive
branch is
doing to track terrorist financing" and are generally supportive of
those
efforts.

But the operation seems to have been kept secret from key segments of
the
banking industry, including senior executives in the United States and
overseas.

John McKessy, chairman of the SWIFT user group in the United States,
said he
was unaware of any such program. McKessy represents companies and
institutions that are not members of the SWIFT cooperative but use its
messaging system.

SWIFT noted that its published policies clearly indicate that it
cooperates
with law enforcement authorities and that the subpoenas were "discussed
carefully within the board," made up of members from 25 major banks.
SWIFT
said it has also kept informed an oversight committee drawn from the
central
banks of the major industrial countries.



The SWIFT program plugs a gap in global efforts to track terrorism
financing.

In the United States, law enforcement authorities can access bank
records if
they get permission through the legal process. The FBI also has various
legal ways to get almost instantaneous access to financial records.
And U.S.
banking laws require financial institutions to file Suspicious Activity
Reports, but authorities believe Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups
know
how to evade the activities that trigger such red flags.

U.S. officials, however, long have complained that they cannot get
access to
financial records overseas and that some requests for cooperation from
foreign governments and financial institutions took months, while others
were rebuffed.

"The sort of 18th century notions on this stuff drive me nuts," said one
senior U.S. counterterrorism official. "Somebody can move money with the
click of a mouse, but it takes me six months to find it. If that is the
world in which we live, you have to understand the costs involved with
that."

The Sept. 11 commission urged the government in its July 2004 report
on the
U.S. intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks to put
more
emphasis on tracking the flow of funds, rather than seeking to
disrupt them,
to learn how terrorist networks are organized.

Lee Hamilton, a former congressman and co-chairman of the commission who
said he has been briefed on the SWIFT program, said U.S. intelligence
agencies have made significant progress in recent years, but are still
falling short. "I still cannot point to specific successes of our
efforts
here on terrorist financing," he said.




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From runaway at 52.ru  Thu Jun 22 22:33:37 2006
From: runaway at 52.ru (Galechka)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:33:37 +0300
Subject: Aloha
Message-ID: <002101c69686$87840c80$7505000a@219.135.56.114>

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From dave at farber.net  Fri Jun 23 05:34:54 2006
From: dave at farber.net (David Farber)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:34:54 -0400
Subject: [IP] Secret U.S. Program Tracks Global Bank Transfers
Message-ID: <mailman.1792.1576007694.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>



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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jun 22 23:51:39 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:51:39 +0200
Subject: How The Telcos And The Government Are About To Boost The
  Encryption Market
In-Reply-To: <4ef5fec60606221518i45a587b2paad6441605cdc109@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4ef5fec60606211926x3b477f81sf8b4e3d6219936d5@mail.gmail.com>
  <20060622123224.GZ28956@leitl.org>
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 03:18:08PM -0700, coderman wrote:

> is there a way to offload the critical (key secrecy) parts to a
> trusted third party / external location so that retention would be
> effectively pointless?

Excellent idea, thanks. Outsourcing secret management to a different
organisation sounds just the ticket.

> (that is to say, within the jurisdiction of data retention let them
> archive all the blackened traffic they want until the heat death of
> the universe...)

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From dewayne at warpspeed.com  Fri Jun 23 10:09:14 2006
From: dewayne at warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:09:14 -0700
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Is the NSA spying on U.S. Internet traffic?
Message-ID: <mailman.1793.1576007694.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Is the NSA spying on U.S. Internet traffic?

Salon exclusive: Two former AT&T employees say the telecom giant has
maintained a secret, highly secure room in St. Louis since 2002.
Intelligence experts say it bears the earmarks of a National Security
Agency operation.

By Kim Zetter

<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/21/att_nsa/index.html?
source=salon.rss>

June 21, 2006 | In a pivotal network operations center in
metropolitan St. Louis, AT&T has maintained a secret, highly secured
room since 2002 where government work is being conducted, according
to two former AT&T workers once employed at the center.

In interviews with Salon, the former AT&T workers said that only
government officials or AT&T employees with top-secret security
clearance are admitted to the room, located inside AT&T's facility in
Bridgeton. The room's tight security includes a biometric "mantrap"
or highly sophisticated double door, secured with retinal and
fingerprint scanners. The former workers say company supervisors told
them that employees working inside the room were "monitoring network
traffic" and that the room was being used by "a government agency."

The details provided by the two former workers about the Bridgeton
room bear the distinctive earmarks of an operation run by the
National Security Agency, according to two intelligence experts with
extensive knowledge of the NSA and its operations. In addition to the
room's high-tech security, those intelligence experts told Salon, the
exhaustive vetting process AT&T workers were put through before being
granted top-secret security clearance points to the NSA, an agency
known as much for its intense secrecy as its technological
sophistication.

"It was very hush-hush," said one of the former AT&T workers. "We
were told there was going to be some government personnel working in
that room. We were told, 'Do not try to speak to them. Do not hamper
their work. Do not impede anything that they're doing.'"

[snip]

Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com>

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Subject: Ave
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From rah at shipwright.com  Fri Jun 23 08:54:13 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:54:13 -0400
Subject: [Clips] New Furor Erupts as Spying Secret Is Compromised
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  <http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=34950>


  The New York Sun

  June 23, 2006 Edition > Section: National > Printer-Friendly Version

  New Furor Erupts as Spying Secret Is Compromised

  BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
  June 23, 2006

  A fresh barrage of criticism is erupting over the decision of The New York
  Times to disclose last night another classified surveillance program aimed
  at gathering information about terrorist plots.

  "The president is concerned that, once again, the New York Times has chosen
  to expose a classified program that is protecting the American people," a
  White House spokeswoman, Dana Perino, said last night. "We know that
  terrorists look for any clue about the weapons we're using to fight them
  and now, with this exposure, they have more information and it increases
  the challenge for our law enforcement and intelligence officials."

  The Times report, which appears in today's editions and was posted last
  evening on the paper's Web site, details the federal government's use of
  subpoenas to gather large troves of data from a Belgium-based consortium
  that handles international bank transfers, the Society for Worldwide
  Interbank Financial Telecommunication, known as Swift.

  The Times quoted an unnamed former government official describing Swift as
  "the mother lode, the Rosetta stone" of data on global banking operations.

  The newspaper said the surveillance effort helped lead to the capture in
  Thailand in 2003 of a top Al Qaeda op erative, Riduan Isamuddin, who also
  went by the name Hambali.

  The Times reported that it decided to report publicly on the program
  despite requests by administration officials that the newspaper not publish
  the story. The officials argued that the disclosure could reduce the
  effort's effectiveness, the newspaper said.

  The executive editor of the Times, Bill Keller, said the newspaper was not
  persuaded. "We have listened closely to the administration's arguments for
  withholding this information, and given them the most serious and
  respectful consideration," Mr. Keller said. "We remain convinced that the
  administration's extraordinary access to this vast repository of
  international financial data, however carefully targeted use of it may be,
  is a matter of public interest."

  The Times was already facing calls for its criminal prosecution in
  connection with a December report on a classified National Security Agency
  program for warrantless surveillance of telephone calls between America and
  abroad that are thought to involve people affiliated with terrorism. In
  that instance, President Bush reportedly summoned Mr. Keller and the
  publisher of the Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., to the Oval Office to ask
  that the story be killed.

  The disclosure led to a series of lawsuits by civil liberties advocates.
  Some lawmakers also have denounced the program as unlawful and an
  impermissible expansion of executive authority.

  A conservative magazine editor who is one of the leading advocates of
  prosecuting the Times for its December story, Gabriel Schoenfeld, told The
  New York Sun last night that the newspaper's latest move could increase
  their legal jeopardy.

  "They're courting prosecution. ... They're increasingly behaving like if we
  were in the middle of World War II and they learned of plans to invade
  Normandy. Because they decided it's a matter of public interest, they'd
  publish it," Mr. Schoenfeld said. "I think this is reckless and likely to
  encourage Attorney General Gonzales to prosecute them, if not for this
  story, for some of the other things they've done."

  Mr. Schoenfeld said that the latest disclosure by the Times about the
  financial surveillance was less clear cut as a legal violation because it
  did not appear to involve communications intelligence, which is specially
  protected under federal law.

  Mr. Schoenfeld said the new report would increase anger against the paper.
  "They really are testing the limits of congressional and executive branch
  patience. There's a lot of displeasure with what they're doing," said Mr.
  Schoenfeld, who edits Commentary magazine and writes a weekly column on
  chess for the Sun.

  However, the editor said he still considered a prosecution unlikely, on
  balance. "I'm not sure the Bush administration has a stomach for a fight
  with the media of that magnitude, but it's become more and more clear that
  it's necessary," Mr. Schoenfeld said.

  Reports about the financial surveillance program appeared yesterday on the
  Web sites of the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street
  Journal. The latter two seem to have learned of the Times's reporting,
  which has been under way for some time.

  The Treasury Department confirmed the existence of the program.


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From rah at shipwright.com  Fri Jun 23 09:48:18 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:48:18 -0400
Subject: [Clips] Blaze at offshore military fort
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  <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/england/5110244.stm>

  The BBC



  Friday, 23 June 2006, 14:11 GMT 15:11 UK

  Blaze at offshore military fort


  A man was airlifted to hospital after a fire broke out on an old sea fort
  off the coast of East Anglia.

  The blaze started on Friday at Sealand, an inhabited former military
  platform, which is about seven miles east of the Suffolk-Essex coastline.

  Thames Coastguard said the platform was surrounded in thick black smoke.

  A coastguard spokesman said it was believed a generator caught fire. The
  one person on board was airlifted to Ipswich Hospital.

  Harwich lifeboat were also called to the scene.

  'Territorial waters'

  Britain built the anti-aircraft platform during World War II.

  It remained derelict until the 1960s when a retired Army major, Paddy Roy
  Bates, took over the 10,000 sq ft platform and declared it the independent
  nation of Sealand.

  At the time, the platform was beyond the then three-mile limit of British
  territorial waters.

  All this changed in 1987, when the UK extended its territorial waters from
  three to 12 miles.

  The British Government does not recognise the sovereignty of Sealand.


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From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:52:30 +0200
Subject: [dave@farber.net: [IP] Secret U.S. Program Tracks Global Bank
  Transfers]
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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jun 23 07:58:50 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:58:50 +0200
Subject: Bank Data Secretly Reviewed by U.S. to Fight Terror
Message-ID: <20060623145850.GI28956@leitl.org>

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/washington/22cnd-intel.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=3653468f88851bcd&hp=&ex=1151035200&oref=slogin&partner=homepage&pagewanted=all

Bank Data Secretly Reviewed by U.S. to Fight Terror

By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN
Published: June 22, 2006

Stuart Levey, an undersecretary at the Treasury Department, in a file photo. He said the program "has provided us with a unique and powerful window into the operations of terrorist networks."
Graphic: A Money Transfer
Related Site: Swift - Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication

Data provided by the program helped identify Uzair Paracha, a Brooklyn man who was convicted on terrorism-related charges in 2005, officials said.
Associated Press

Among the program's successes was the capture of an Al Qaeda operative known as Hambali, believed to be the mastermind of the 2002 bombing of a Bali resort, several officials said.
WASHINGTON, June 22 - Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving thousands of Americans and others in the United States, according to government and industry officials.

The program is limited, government officials say, to tracing transactions of people suspected of ties to Al Qaeda by reviewing records from the nerve center of the global banking industry, a Belgian cooperative that routes about $6 trillion daily between banks, brokerages, stock exchanges and other institutions. The records mostly involve wire transfers and other methods of moving money overseas or into and out of the United States. Most routine financial transactions confined to this country are not in the database.

Viewed by the Bush administration as a vital tool, the program has played a hidden role in domestic and foreign terrorism investigations since 2001 and helped in the capture of the most wanted Qaeda figure in Southeast Asia, the officials said. The program, run out of the Central Intelligence Agency and overseen by the Treasury Department, "has provided us with a unique and powerful window into the operations of terrorist networks and is, without doubt, a legal and proper use of our authorities," Stuart Levey, an undersecretary at the Treasury Department, said in an interview Thursday. The program is grounded in part on the president's emergency economic powers, Mr. Levey said, and multiple safeguards have been imposed to protect against any unwarranted searches of Americans' records.

The program, however, is a significant departure from typical practice in how the government acquires Americans' financial records. Treasury officials did not seek individual court-approved warrants or subpoenas to examine specific transactions, instead relying on broad administrative subpoenas for millions of records from the cooperative, known as Swift.

That access to large amounts of sensitive data was highly unusual, several officials said, and stirred concerns inside the administration about legal and privacy issues.

"The capability here is awesome or, depending on where you're sitting, troubling," said one former senior counterterrorism official who considers the program valuable. While tight controls are in place, the official added, "The potential for abuse is enormous."

The program is separate from the National Security Agency's efforts to eavesdrop without warrants and collect domestic phone records, operations that have provoked fierce public debate and spurred lawsuits against the government and telecommunications companies. But all the programs grew out of the Bush administration's desire to exploit technological tools to prevent another terrorist strike, and all reflect attempts to break down longstanding legal or institutional barriers to the government's access to private information about Americans and others inside the United States.

Officials described the Swift program as the biggest and most far-reaching of several secret efforts to trace terrorist financing. Much more limited agreements with other companies have provided access to A.T.M. transactions, credit card purchases and Western Union wire payments, the officials said.

Nearly 20 current and former government officials and industry executives discussed aspects of the Swift operation with The New York Times on condition of anonymity because the program remains classified. Some of those officials expressed reservations about the program, saying that what they viewed as an urgent, temporary measure had become permanent nearly five years later without specific Congressional approval or formal authorization.

Data from the Brussels-based banking consortium, formally known as the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, has allowed officials from the C.I.A., the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies to examine "tens of thousands" of financial transactions, Mr. Levey said.

While many of those transactions have occurred entirely on foreign soil, officials have also been keenly interested in international transfers of money by individuals, businesses, charities and other organizations under suspicion inside the United States, officials said. A small fraction of Swift's records involve transactions entirely within this country, but Treasury officials said they were uncertain whether any had been examined.

Swift executives have been uneasy at times about their secret role, the government and industry officials said. By 2003, the executives told American officials they were considering pulling out of the arrangement, which began as an emergency response to the Sept. 11 attacks, the officials said. Worried about potential legal liability, the Swift executives agreed to continue providing the data only after top officials, including Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the Federal Reserve, intervened. At the same time, new controls were introduced.

Among the program's safeguards, government officials said, is an outside auditing firm that verifies that the data searches are based on a link to terrorism intelligence. Swift and Treasury officials said they were aware of no abuses. But Mr. Levey, the Treasury official, said one person had been removed from the operation for conducting a search considered inappropriate.

"We are not on a fishing expedition," Mr. Levey said. "We're not just turning on a vacuum cleaner and sucking in all the information that we can."

Treasury officials said Swift was exempt from American laws restricting government access to private financial records because the cooperative was considered a messaging service, not a bank or financial institution.

But at the outset of the operation, Treasury and Justice Department lawyers debated whether the program had to comply with such laws before concluding that it did not, people with knowledge of the debate said. Several outside banking experts, however, say that financial privacy laws are murky and sometimes contradictory and that the program raises difficult legal and public policy questions.

The Bush administration has made no secret of its campaign to disrupt terrorist financing, and President Bush, Treasury officials and others have spoken publicly about those efforts. Administration officials, however, asked The New York Times not to publish this article, saying that disclosure of the Swift program could jeopardize its effectiveness. They also enlisted several current and former officials, both Democrat and Republican, to vouch for its value.

Bill Keller, the newspaper's executive editor, said: "We have listened closely to the administration's arguments for withholding this information, and given them the most serious and respectful consideration. We remain convinced that the administration's extraordinary access to this vast repository of international financial data, however carefully targeted use of it may be, is a matter of public interest."

Swift declined to discuss details of the program but defended its role in written responses to questions. "Swift has fully complied with all applicable laws," the consortium said. The organization said it insisted that the data be used only for terrorism investigations and had narrowed the scope of the information provided to American officials over time.

A Crucial Gatekeeper

Swift's database provides a rich hunting ground for government investigators. Swift is a crucial gatekeeper, providing electronic instructions on how to transfer money between 7,800 financial institutions worldwide. The cooperative is owned by more than 2,200 organizations, and virtually every major commercial bank, as well as brokerage houses, fund managers and stock exchanges, uses its services. Swift routes more than 11 million transactions each day, most of them across borders.

The cooperative's message traffic allows investigators, for example, to track money from the Saudi bank account of a suspected terrorist to a mosque in New York. Using intelligence tips about specific targets, agents search the database in what one official described as a "24-7" operation. Customers' names, bank account numbers and other identifying information, can be retrieved, the officials said.

The data does not allow the government to track routine financial activity, like A.T.M. withdrawals, confined to this country, or to see bank balances, Treasury officials said. And the information is not provided in real time - Swift generally turns it over several weeks later. Because of privacy concerns and the potential for abuse, the government sought the data only for terrorism investigations and prohibited its use for tax fraud, drug trafficking or other inquiries, the officials said.

The Treasury Department was charged by President Bush, in a September 2001 executive order, with taking the lead role in efforts to disrupt terrorist financing. Mr. Bush has been briefed on the program and Vice President Dick Cheney has attended C.I.A. demonstrations, the officials said. The National Security Agency has provided some technical assistance.

While the banking program is a closely held secret, administration officials have conducted classified briefings to some members of Congress and the Sept. 11 Commission, the officials said. More lawmakers were briefed in recent weeks, after the administration learned The Times was making inquiries for this article. Swift's 25-member board of directors, made up of representatives from financial institutions around the world, was previously told of the program, but it is not clear if other participants know that American intelligence officials can examine their message traffic.

Because Swift is based overseas and has offices in the United States, it is governed both by European and American laws. Several international regulations and policies impose privacy restrictions on companies that are generally regarded as more stringent than those in this country. United States law establishes some protections for the privacy of Americans' financial data, but they are not ironclad. A 1978 measure, the Right to Financial Privacy Act, has a limited scope and a number of exceptions, and its role in national security cases remains largely untested.

Several people familiar with the Swift program said they believed they were exploiting a "gray area" in the law and that a case could be made for restricting the government's access to the records on Fourth Amendment and statutory grounds. They also worried about the impact on Swift if the program were disclosed.

"There was always concern about this program," a former official said.

One person involved in the Swift program estimated that analysts have reviewed international transfers involving "many thousands" of people or groups in the United States. Two other officials also placed the figure in the thousands. Mr. Levey said he could not estimate the number.

The Swift data has provided clues to terror money trails and ties between possible terrorists and organizations financing them, the officials said. In some instances, they said, the program has pointed them to new suspects, while in others it has buttressed cases already under investigation.

Among the successes was the capture of a Qaeda operative, Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, believed to be the mastermind of the 2002 bombing of a Bali resort, several officials said. The Swift data identified a previously unknown figure in Southeast Asia who had financial dealings with a person suspected of being a member of Al Qaeda; that link helped locate Hambali in Thailand in 2003, they said.

In the United States, the program has provided financial data in investigations into possible domestic terrorist cells as well as inquiries of Islamic charities with suspected of having links to extremists, the officials said.

The data also helped identify a Brooklyn man who was convicted on terrorism-related charges last year, the officials said. The man, Uzair Paracha, who worked at a New York import business, aided a Qaeda operative in Pakistan by agreeing to launder $200,000 through a Karachi bank, prosecutors said.

In terrorism prosecutions, intelligence officials have been careful to "sanitize," or hide the origins of evidence collected through the program to keep it secret, officials said.

The Bush administration has pursued steps that may provide some enhanced legal standing for the Swift program. In late 2004, Congress authorized the Treasury Department to develop regulations requiring American banks to turn over records of international wire transfers. Officials say a preliminary version of those rules may be ready soon. One official described the regulations as an attempt to "formalize" access to the kind of information secretly provided by Swift, though other officials said the initiative was unrelated to the program.

The Scramble for New Tools

Like other counterterrorism measures carried out by the Bush administration, the Swift program began in the hectic days after the Sept. 11 attacks, as officials scrambled to identify new tools to head off further strikes.

One priority was to cut off the flow of money to Al Qaeda. The Sept. 11 hijackers had helped finance their plot by moving money through banks. Nine of the hijackers, for instance, funneled money from Europe and the Middle East to SunTrust bank accounts in Florida. Some of the $130,000 they received was wired by people overseas with known links to Al Qaeda.

Financial company executives, many of whom had lost friends at the World Trade Center, were eager to help federal officials trace terrorist money. "They saw 9/11 not just as an attack on the United States, but on the financial industry as a whole," said one former government official.

Quietly, counterterrorism officials sought to expand the information they were getting from financial institutions. Treasury officials, for instance, spoke with credit card companies about devising an alert if someone tried to buy fertilizer and timing devices that could be used for a bomb, but they were told the idea was not logistically possible, a lawyer in the discussions said.

The F.B.I. began acquiring financial records from Western Union and its parent company, First Data Corporation. The programs were alluded to in Congressional testimony by the F.B.I. in 2003 and described in more detail in a book released this week, "The One Percent Doctrine," by Ron Suskind. Using what officials described as individual, narrowly framed subpoenas and warrants, the F.B.I. has obtained records from First Data, which processes credit and debit card transactions, to track financial activity and try to locate suspects.

Similar subpoenas for the Western Union data allowed the F.B.I. to trace wire transfers, mainly outside the United States, and to help Israel trace the financing of about a half-dozen possible terrorist plots there, an official said.

The idea for the Swift program, several officials recalled, grew out of a suggestion by a Wall Street executive, who told a senior Bush administration official about Swift's database. Few government officials knew much about the consortium, which is led by a Brooklyn native, Leonard H. Schrank, but they quickly discovered it offered unparalleled access to international transactions.

Swift, a former government official said, was "the mother lode, the Rosetta stone" for financial data.

Intelligence officials were so eager to exploit the Swift data that they discussed having the C.I.A. covertly gain access to the system, several officials involved in the talks said. But Treasury officials resisted, the officials said, and favored going to Swift directly.

At the same time, lawyers in the Treasury Department and the Justice Department were considering possible legal obstacles to the arrangement, the officials said.

In 1976, the Supreme Court ruled that Americans had no constitutional right to privacy for their records held by banks or other financial institutions. In response, Congress passed the Right to Financial Privacy Act two years later, restricting government access to Americans' banking records. In considering the Swift program, some government lawyers were particularly concerned about whether the law prohibited officials from gaining access to records without a warrant or subpoena based on some level of suspicion about each target.

For many years, law enforcement officials have relied on grand-jury subpoenas or court-approved warrants for such financial data. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the F.B.I. has turned more frequently to an administrative subpoena, known as a national security letter, to demand such records.

After an initial debate, Treasury Department lawyers, consulting with the Justice Department, concluded that the privacy laws applied to banks, not to a banking cooperative like Swift. They also said the law protected individual customers and small companies, not the major institutions that route money through Swift on behalf of their customers.

Other state, federal and international regulations place different and sometimes conflicting restrictions on the government's access to financial records. Some put greater burdens on the company disclosing the information than on the government officials demanding it.

Among their considerations, American officials saw Swift as a willing partner in the operation. But Swift said its participation was never voluntary. "Swift has made clear that it could provide data only in response to a valid subpoena," according to its written statement.

Indeed, the cooperative's executives voiced early concerns about legal and corporate liability, officials said, and the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control began issuing broad subpoenas for the cooperative's records related to terrorism. One official said the subpoenas were intended to give Swift some legal protection.

Underlying the government's legal analysis was the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which Mr. Bush invoked after the Sept. 11 attacks. The law gives the president what legal experts say is broad authority to "investigate, regulate or prohibit" foreign transactions in responding to "an unusual and extraordinary threat."

But L. Richard Fischer, a Washington lawyer who wrote a book on banking privacy and is regarded as a leading expert in the field, said he was troubled that the Treasury Department would use broad subpoenas to demand large volumes of financial records for analysis. Such a program, he said, appears to do an end run around bank-privacy laws that generally require the government to show that the records of a particular person or group are relevant to an investigation.

"There has to be some due process," Mr. Fischer said. "At an absolute minimum, it strikes me as inappropriate."

Several former officials said they had lingering concerns about the legal underpinnings of the Swift operation. The program "arguably complies with the letter of the law, if not the spirit," one official said.

Another official said: "This was creative stuff. Nothing was clear cut, because we had never gone after information this way before."

Treasury officials would not say whether a formal legal opinion was prepared in authorizing the program, but they said they considered the government's authority to subpoena the Swift records to be clear. "People do not have a privacy interest in their international wire transactions," Mr. Levey, the Treasury under secretary, said.

Tighter Controls Sought

Within weeks of the Sept. 11 attacks, Swift began turning over records that allowed American analysts to look for evidence of terrorist financing. Initially, there appear to have been few formal limits on the searches.

"At first, they got everything - the entire Swift database," one person close to the operation said.

Intelligence officials paid particular attention to transfers to or from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates because most of the Sept. 11 hijackers were from those countries.

The volume of data, particularly at the outset, was often overwhelming, officials said. "We were turning on every spigot we could find and seeing what water would come out," one former administration official said. "Sometimes there were hits, but a lot of times there weren't."

Officials realized the potential for abuse, and soon narrowed the program's targets and put in more safeguards. Among them were the auditing firm, an electronic record of every search and a form documenting the intelligence that justified each data search. Mr. Levey said the program was used only to search the records of individuals or entities, not for broader data searches.

Despite the controls, Swift executives became increasingly worried about their secret involvement with the American government, the officials said. By 2003, the cooperative's officials were discussing pulling out because of their concerns about legal and financial risks if the program were revealed, one government official said.

"How long can this go on?" a Swift executive asked, according to the official.

Even some American officials began to question the open-ended arrangement. "I thought there was a limited shelf life and that this was going to go away," the former senior official said.

In 2003, administration officials asked Swift executives and some board members to come to Washington. They met with Mr. Greenspan, Robert S. Mueller III, the F.B.I. director, and Treasury officials, among others, in what one official described as "a full-court press."

The executives agreed to continue supplying records after the Americans pledged to impose tighter controls. Swift representatives would be stationed alongside intelligence officials and could block any searches considered inappropriate, several officials said. The procedural change provoked some opposition at the C.I.A. because "the agency was chomping at the bit to have unfettered access to the information," a senior counterterrorism official said. But the Treasury Department saw it as a necessary compromise, the official said, to "save the program."

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From dave at farber.net  Sat Jun 24 04:09:03 2006
From: dave at farber.net (David Farber)
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 07:09:03 -0400
Subject: [IP] Greek cellular wiretapping scandal
Message-ID: <mailman.1794.1576007694.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>



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From emc at artifact.psychedelic.net  Sat Jun 24 09:31:38 2006
From: emc at artifact.psychedelic.net (Eric Cordian)
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:31:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Search Filtering at Ask.Com
Message-ID: <200606241631.k5OGVco7009139@artifact.psychedelic.net>

"This query does not comply with Ask.com Terms of Service"

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060623-090957

Amusingly, you can't search for "pedophilia", but "paedophilia" works 
fine.  Apparently sexualizing European children isn't as filthy as 
sexualizing American children.

You can't search for "naked children", but the first hit on "lolita," 
which you can search for, is an advertisement for pictures of naked 
children.

"Preventing child pornography" is a no-no. "Sex offenders" works.  
"Protecting kids from sex offenders" doesn't.

"Bestiality" is blocked.  But "sodomized by a horse" returns all sorts of 
hits, including one about a man who died of massive internal injuries 
while tresspassing at a stud farm.

Am I the only one who thinks ask.com is being silly here?  For every 
blocked term, there is an nearly identical unblocked term you can search 
for.

-- 
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"




From alex_crypto_newsletters at noemax.com  Sat Jun 24 01:26:38 2006
From: alex_crypto_newsletters at noemax.com (Alexander Philippou)
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:26:38 +0300
Subject: Greek cellular wiretapping scandal
Message-ID: <mailman.1795.1576007694.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

> From a non-technical perspective, at least one death may be
> linked to the incident.  A communications expert who was working on the
> switch apparently commited suicide, but this has been
> questioned by some.

It was recently concluded that there was no foul play involved in his tragic
death. The arguments are convincing enough. However, it has not been
concluded yet if he was somehow involved in or had knowledge about the
wiretapping, and whether this might have been a factor in his suicide.

>             were in contact via phone calls and text messages with various
>             overseas destinations, namely the U.S., including Laurel, Md.,
the
<snip>
> Guess what's just to the east of Laurel, MD...  On the other
> hand, exposing links like that is clumsy -- could it be
> disinformation?

Yes, it might have been clumsy operation-wise. Clumsiness was involved in
last year's incident in Italy: "it was a trail of casual cellphone use that
tripped up the 19 purported CIA operatives wanted by Italian authorities in
the alleged kidnapping of a radical Muslim cleric".
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/28/cia.phonetrail.ap/. On the other
hand, no publicly available information has linked the locations of the
phones involved in the Greek wiretapping with foreign agencies. Various
opinions have been voiced on who might be behind this affair, but no
accusations have been made against the US or any other government.

>  And one of the phones monitored was from the
> American embassy in Athens -- or is that the disinformation?
> Or is NSA spying on the embassy?  You are in a maze of twisty
> little spooks, all different.

"One telephone was listed to an inconspicuous Greek-American at the US
Embassy. Journalists learned the phone had been lent to the embassy's Greek
police security detail." http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060320/kiesling

> The attack was very sophisticated, and required a great deal
> of arcane knowledge.  Whoever did it had detailed knowledge
> of Ericsson switches, and probably a test lab with the proper
> Ericsson gear.  It strongly suggests that Ericsson and/or
> Vodafone insiders were involved -- my guess is both.  But who
> did it, and why, remains obscure.

The investigation is still ongoing. It will be interesting to read the final
report.

Alexander Philippou


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From omjeoeyr at surfbest.net  Sat Jun 24 16:05:27 2006
From: omjeoeyr at surfbest.net (Ofer)
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:05:27 -0500
Subject: Gifts for the whole family
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From coderman at gmail.com  Sat Jun 24 18:25:13 2006
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:25:13 -0700
Subject: missing info on "special collections service"
Message-ID: <4ef5fec60606241825t4b1c5432g59630f1d61f323ab@mail.gmail.com>

pages discussing the "special collections service" run by CIA/NSA
appear to be 404'ing (with exception of cryptome archives perhaps).

anyone have archives of the FAS docs, cetin.net.cn pages, etc?

additional relevant details?

"those who talk don't know, those who know don't talk"...




From coderman at gmail.com  Sat Jun 24 22:04:55 2006
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:04:55 -0700
Subject: Scott Marcus Declaration on ATT/NSA Spying
Message-ID: <4ef5fec60606242204w5f445fc1oa488a0cf0834308@mail.gmail.com>

thanks JYA,

http://cryptome.org/scott-marcus.pdf

some interesting tidbits:

'Klein Exhibit C speaks of a private tap? backbone network, which
appears to be partitioned from AT&T's main Internet backbone, the
CBB.[15]  This suggests the presence of a private network.  The most
plausible inference is that this was a covert network that was used to
ship data of interest to one or more central locations for still more
intensive analysis.  I return to the capabilities of the Tap?
Configurations later in this Declaration, under "Capabilities of the
Tap? Configuration."'

words with a '?' are my guess as to the censored content.

funny tidbit, they forgot to blank out "Narus" in "the Narus system"
in one spot, can you find it? :)

[let's play a game of fill in the blanks!]

interesting that on-network links were not tapped, as seems to be
inferred.  also interesting that AT&T began selling "internet protect"
that uses similar methods (profile/anomaly based).




From jya at pipeline.com  Sat Jun 24 22:29:16 2006
From: jya at pipeline.com (John Young)
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:29:16 -0700
Subject: missing info on "special collections service"
In-Reply-To: <4ef5fec60606241825t4b1c5432g59630f1d61f323ab@mail.gmail.co
   m>
Message-ID: <E1FuKOT-00062e-00@pop06.mail.atl.earthlink.net>

The FAS file on SCS and the Jason Vest article from the 
Village Voice, archived in May 2002:

  http://cryptome.org/fas-scsfac.zip (240KB)

Three eyeballs of SCS:

  http://eyeball-series.org/scs-eyeball.htm

  http://eyeball-series.org/scsbig-eyeball.htm

  http://eyeball-series.org/scs-birdseye.htm

Anything new you turn would be welcomed. According
to Ron Susskind's new book SCS-type operations have
greatly increased in number and type of invasion since 
9/11, and may be the principal action against freedom 
fighters and their supporters. DoD is doing the black
jobs now also with its own special operations units.

Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC)
delivers the undercover teams -- CIA and special forces 
from all the military branches -- worldwide and provides 
protection as well as operates the murderous UAVs. A 
few hi-rez photos on the AFSOC website showing the 
UAVs being maintained and armed by contractors.

Teams are reportedly in Iran, North Korea, China,
Syria and some contentious parts of the former Soviet 
Union -- bases are located in the various central
Asia 'stans, Taiwan, Japan. Some working on North
Korea are coming from China with that government's
okay, but others are working parts of China without
an okay.

Venezuela is doomed, the ninjas cackle.




From rah at shipwright.com  Sat Jun 24 20:37:11 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:37:11 -0400
Subject: [Clips] U.S. Is Moving on Several Fronts To Police Financial  
  Transactions
Message-ID: <p062309b6c0c3b560f343@[68.167.57.91]>

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  Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:34:16 -0400
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  From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
  Subject: [Clips] U.S. Is Moving on Several Fronts To Police Financial
  	Transactions
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  <http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB115107967824388905.html>

  The Wall Street Journal


  U.S. Is Moving on Several Fronts
  To Police Financial Transactions

  By GLENN R. SIMPSON

  June 24, 2006

  The Treasury Department's newly disclosed program to track suspected
  terrorists by examining records of international financial transactions is
  just one component of an expanding effort by American security officials to
  more closely monitor suspect financial dealings.

  U.S. officials also are privately asking the banking industry to change the
  ways that banks record international transactions so the data are more
  complete and more accurate, several executives and industry officials said.
  Regulators are concerned that banks in some cases aren't producing records
  that disclose all information about senders and recipients of wire
  transfers, prompting regulators from the Federal Reserve and other agencies
  to raise questions about record-keeping practices in recent examinations.

  Officials are also weighing new regulations to make U.S. banks disclose
  details of all cross-border transfers to law-enforcement agencies. At the
  moment, American banks aren't required to report when they make financial
  transfers less than $3,000 between the U.S. and other countries.

  These new steps come on the heels of a variety of new reporting
  requirements put into place by U.S. regulators shortly after the Sept. 11,
  2001, terrorist attacks. While many are aimed at thwarting terrorists and
  their supporters, U.S. officials also have other goals. They aim to use
  cross-border transaction data to enforce U.S. economic sanctions and to
  apply U.S. tax laws to American citizens who move money offshore.

  The initiatives rely on a patchwork of existing laws that allow the
  government to take these steps, and their legality generally isn't
  disputed. Still, the government's financial-surveillance activities may
  face new scrutiny following the disclosure this past week of the Treasury
  Department's secret Terrorist Finance Tracking Program. Using it on behalf
  of American intelligence and law-enforcement officials, the Treasury seeks
  information from a database of international wire transactions maintained
  by a Belgian firm known as Swift, an industry cooperative that serves as a
  clearinghouse for the majority of overseas transactions on behalf of banks
  and financial institutions. The Treasury program's existence was
  acknowledged on the record by U.S. officials for the first time on Thursday.

  "I am particularly proud of our Terrorist Finance Tracking Program which,
  based on intelligence leads, carefully targets financial transactions of
  suspected foreign terrorists," Treasury Secretary John Snow said at a news
  conference Friday.

  Some congressional Democrats and some civil-liberties activists criticized
  the program as a privacy threat, but most law-enforcement and
  banking-industry officials, and many political leaders, joined the Bush
  administration in defending it as appropriate. "Financial institutions are
  seeking to cooperate with law enforcement in this very critical fight
  against terrorist financing," said Lawrence Uhlick of the Institute for
  International Bankers. "I think this is a pretty clear case of the right
  kind of cooperation within the legal process." David Caruso, a former
  Secret Service agent and banking consultant, called the program "an
  aggressive but pretty wise use of power."

  Swift, which stands for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
  Telecommunication, processes the millions of electronic messages sent daily
  by banks and brokerages to coordinate international transactions. While
  law-enforcement officials have traditionally subpoenaed individual banks
  when seeking information, the newly disclosed program involves broad
  government subpoenas to Swift for data on specific terrorists.

  While the reaction to disclosure of the program was generally muted, some
  banking executives say they still are concerned that the government's
  broader campaign to scoop up wire-transfer data from Swift and others could
  trigger a backlash. That might even weaken the dollar if institutions
  decide transactions made in dollars are more likely to attract the
  attention of American investigators.

  For now, U.S. officials remain interested in extracting more detail on
  international transactions that could involve criminal activity or suspect
  individuals. Most cross-border wire transfers contain sets of instructions
  in one of two standard Swift formats, and officials are concerned that in
  some cases people and groups are using a format that allows them to
  improperly hide their identities, several people with direct knowledge of
  the matter said.

  The issue arose after Treasury discovered that ABN Amro of the Netherlands
  improperly used a Swift form designed for large bank-to-bank transfers to
  deliberately hide transactions with Iran, a longtime target of U.S.
  economic sanctions.

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From rah at shipwright.com  Sat Jun 24 20:37:26 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:37:26 -0400
Subject: [Clips] American Executive in Brussels Aided Terrorist-Tracking
    Program
Message-ID: <p062309b5c0c3b560f331@[68.167.57.91]>

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  Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:35:54 -0400
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  From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
  Subject: [Clips] American Executive in Brussels Aided Terrorist-Tracking
  	Program
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  <http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB115110975872789608.html>

  The Wall Street Journal


  American Executive in Brussels
  Aided Terrorist-Tracking Program

  By GLENN R. SIMPSON

  June 24, 2006

  The Treasury Department's secret terrorist-tracking program depended in
  part on the cooperation of Leonard "Lenny" Schrank, an American executive
  who heads the Belgium-based banking cooperative known as Swift.

  A gregarious technology whiz who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute
  of Technology, the Brooklyn-born Mr. Schrank ended up working closely with
  U.S. intelligence officials on the project when Swift received subpoenas
  from the Treasury Department following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, people
  familiar with the program said.

  Mr. Schrank, who described Swift's general operations in a meeting with a
  Wall Street Journal reporter last year, declined Friday to be interviewed
  regarding the terrorist-tracking program. Swift stands for the Society for
  Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. The firm, based in the
  Brussels suburb of La Hulpe, was founded in 1973 to promote "a common
  language for international financial transactions," according to the Swift
  Web site.

  Within the banking industry, Mr. Schrank is credited with developing the
  financial-telecommunications cooperative into a vital if obscure cog in the
  globalization of financial services since becoming chief executive in 1992.
  An expert in information technology who has degrees in computer science and
  electrical engineering, Mr. Schrank has been involved in the technology
  business since founding a software company in the 1970s. At Swift, he
  implemented a reliable, secure and high-capacity messaging network that has
  enabled banks and brokerages to move money around the globe almost
  effortlessly.

  Under Mr. Schrank, a fan of the U.S. space program, Swift adopted the
  Apollo mission motto, "Failure Is Not an Option." Last year, Swift brought
  Apollo 13 astronaut Alan Bean to speak at its headquarters to help promote
  its "culture of commitment to provide services of the highest security,
  reliability and resilience," according to Swift's most recent annual report.

  Mr. Schrank is one of the best-known American businessmen in Brussels,
  where he also serves as president of the American Chamber of Commerce in
  Belgium. He is planning to retire next year.

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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
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From rah at shipwright.com  Sat Jun 24 21:40:13 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:40:13 -0400
Subject: [Clips] Sealand in ruins after blaze
Message-ID: <p062309cac0c3c41565c9@[68.167.57.91]>

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  Subject: [Clips] Sealand in ruins after blaze
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<http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=news&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=zNews&itemid=IPED24%20Jun%202006%2009%3A12%3A24%3A070>



  EADT -

  05:28 > Sunday 25th June 2006


  Sealand in ruins after blaze

  24 June 2006 | 09:21




  CRAIG ROBINSON

  A FORMER wartime fortress which is now a self-proclaimed independent state
  has been left devastated after a fierce blaze tore through the structure.

  The so-called Principality of Sealand, seven miles off the coast of
  Felixstowe and Harwich, was evacuated at lunchtime yesterdayafter a
  generator caught fire.

  Thames Coastguard, Harwich RNLI lifeboat, Felixstowe Coastguard rescue
  teams, firefighting tug Brightwell, the RAF rescue helicopter from
  Wattisham and 15 Suffolk based firefighters from the National Maritime
  Incident Response Group (MIRG) were all called into action to tackle the
  blaze.

  One man, believed to be a security guard, was airlifted from the scene and
  taken to Ipswich Hospital with smoke inhalation but no one else was on the
  Second World War gun emplacement.

  Emergency services were first alerted to the drama just after midday when
  eyewitnesses noticed huge clouds of black smoke billowing out of the
  concrete structure, which is owned by self-styled King Roy Bates.

  Brian Ironman, who was fishing just off Sealand along with his dog Rosie,
  said he noticed something was wrong around 11.30am.

  "I'd been fishing nearby since 7am for smoothhound and tope and just before
  lunchtime I noticed there was a lot of smoke coming from the back end of
  the tower," he said.

  "I immediately thought something was wrong and called the coastguard
  straight away. They were here fairly quickly and there were about five or
  six extinguishers trying to put the fire out.

  "The helicopter also arrived and I think it picked up one person who was on
  the platform."

  Andrew Beal, a council worker from Trimley who watched events unfold from
  his beach hut at Brackenbury, said: "There was thick black smoke billowing
  out of the gun emplacement. Air sea rescue was heading out at high speed
  and hovered over the platform and appeared to be taking someone off.

  "There were several other vessels heading out, including a lifeboat, and
  there was a boat out there hosing it down. The smoke was hundreds of feet
  high in the air."

  Rod Markham, who runs angling trips out of Felixstowe Ferry in his boat
  Tracy Jane, was able to see the excitement from his house.

  "At first I just thought they were stoking up the generators because there
  is always a bit of smoke - I never realised it was on fire," he said.

  "But when I looked back after I'd messed about a bit in the garden I saw
  there was a big deluge of black and that's when I saw the lifeboat and tug
  were there."

  Firefighting tug Brightwell from the port of Felixstowe was despatched to
  the scene and doused the flames with vast amounts of water.

  A team of 15 off-shore firefighters from the National Maritime Incident
  Response Group (MIRG) were also assembled but after a reconnaissance of the
  area from the air it was decided it was too dangerous to land.

  Keith Churchman, of Harwich Royal National Lifeboat Institution, said: "The
  damage is very extensive. The fire started in a generator and spread
  quickly to the accommodation.

  "There have been a number of explosions on board as the fire has engulfed
  gas bottles and batteries. Only one person was on Sealand at the time, whom
  we understand to be a watchman whose job was to maintain the generators and
  equipment.

  "A team of firefighters was flown to the scene but because of the damage to
  the structure they decided not to go on board.

  "A firefighting tug sprayed the whole structure with water in the hope this
  would eventually cool the fire and starve it of oxygen."

  A spokesperson for Suffolk Fire Service confirmed the fire was left to burn
  itself out and was under control by 3.10pm.


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From coderman at gmail.com  Sun Jun 25 18:37:34 2006
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:37:34 -0700
Subject: [dave@farber.net: [IP] Greek cellular wiretapping scandal]
In-Reply-To: <20060625201705.GL28956@leitl.org>
References: <20060625201705.GL28956@leitl.org>
Message-ID: <4ef5fec60606251837l53179714gdb25a2d8abfce663@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/25/06, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> ...
> The problem was discovered when some people had problems sending text
> messages; the link between the two issues is unclear.

all circuits busy!  oops.  the problem with one way conferences like
this is that you tie up significant switch resources (a "conference
resource" or other such name, in addition to the outbound spans
required for covert relay to destination).  the problems with text
messages probably occurred during peak usage periods when contention
for finite switch resources (provisioned _without_ clandestine
circuits in use :) hits service affecting limits.


> The bug itself wasn't simply a matter of turning on Lawful Intercept
> That software did exist in the switch, but everyone says it wasn't
> activated and Ericsson wasn't paid for it. (Aside: Greece does have a
> CALEA-like law, which means it should have been enabled.)

we are so familiar with license codes to activate functionality in
enterprise software i don't see why this is much of a point.  of
course there is CALEA like functionality.  the focus on CALEA is more
a bureaucratic aspect; the technical implementation of a one way
conference is trivial, the proper controls and administration for
CALEA implementation using such a technique is probably 10x to 100x
more effort to satisfy all the legal requirements and user friendly
feature richness.


>  ... In
> addition, the attack required some other software that activated the
> Lawful Intercept but hid its existence. In other words, it was a rootkit
> running on a phone switch.

bingo.  a very practical approach assuming you have the insider access
to implement.  maybe even hired a grey/black hat to code it (as SMB
mentioned the free reign hackers have enjoyed on telco neworks in the
past).


> I have more than a passing aquaintance with
> the complexity of phone switch software; doing that was *hard* for
> anyone, especially anyone not a switch developer.

it definitely appears to be the work of an Ericson telco coder working
in conjunction with the Vodafone tech to get the configuration and
deployment of the eavesdropping implemented.

the basic prerequisites:
- one telco coder who knows the API / state machine of the soft switch
to code to, either at an API level (sounds like it, as this was a
process working with the legitimate soft switch programs on a unix
host) but could be done at a network level (process monitoring and
injecting call process commands directly to switch hardware at a low
level - harder to do, but can be more stealthy)

- one technician who can supply the current switch configuration
(spans from towers / carriers, their signalling characteristics, etc)

- telco test configuration (a softswitch configuration as close to
target configuration as possible, a tsunami or other bulk call
generator / call test harness)

- time and money.

work out the proper configuration for identifying incoming calls of
interest, bridge to available one way conference, connect conference
outbound to pool of relay/destination cell phones.


>  Installing the rogue software
> quite likely involved "authorized access to Vodafone's networks".

that suicide looks really suspicious, doesn't it?


> ... the prepaid phones that could pick up the calls
>  were in contact via phone calls and text messages with various
>  overseas destinations, namely the U.S., including Laurel, Md.,

LOL, ROFFLE, etc.


> the U.K., Sweden and Australia, according to the ADAE preliminary
>  report. Some of these calls and messages were initiated and
>  received directly from the 14 interceptor phones and some were
>  relayed via a second group of at least three other prepaid phones
>  that also were in contact with the 14 interceptor phones.

the nature of this relay would be interesting to discover.  was this a
forwarded type relay (i.e. handset not active, forward to this
number?) or a store and forward, like voicemail, or what?


> Guess what's just to the east of Laurel, MD...  On the other hand,
> exposing links like that is clumsy -- could it be disinformation?

it was intentional, there's no way that was an accident.  perhaps it
was intentional so they could say of course we didn't do it because
we're not that stupid?  or perhaps it's all an elaborate ruse to make
us think in that direction, and clearly i shouldn't choose the cup in
front of me! ..  er,  back to the story:


> And one
> of the phones monitored was from the American embassy in Athens -- or is
> that the disinformation?  Or is NSA spying on the embassy?  You are in a
> maze of twisty little spooks, all different.

mission accomplished, too many contradictions and potential deceits
and distractions.  need to talk to someone with knowledge of the
activity (oh wait, that problem is neatly resolved by convenient
suicide)

oh well, speculation is more fun anyway...


> The attack was very sophisticated, and required a great deal of arcane
> knowledge.

not arcane, just highly specialized and complicated.  people do this
all the time all over the world for a living.  ho hum, soft switching
hasn't been rocket science since the 1990's :P


> Whoever did it had detailed knowledge of Ericsson switches,
> and probably a test lab with the proper Ericsson gear.  It strongly
> suggests that Ericsson and/or Vodafone insiders were involved -- my
> guess
> is both.

yup, agreed on all counts.  since the Vodafone insider is "expired"
perhaps the Ericsson / telco coder will surface with a additional
digging.  i'd bet on powerball before that outcome though...




From rah at shipwright.com  Sun Jun 25 18:41:47 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:41:47 -0400
Subject: [Clips] Iraq soldiers' phones hacked
Message-ID: <p06230996c0c4ebd3b7cb@[68.167.57.91]>

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  <http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/print/0,20285,19585039-5001027,00.html>


  The Daily Telegraph

  Iraq soldiers' phones hacked

  June 26, 2006

  MOBILE phone calls home made by British soldiers in Iraq may have been
  intercepted by insurgents, it was reported yesterday.

  Soldiers have been warned of the danger of insurgents using electronic
  equipment to intercept their calls and obtain the numbers of their family
  in the UK.

  The Ministry of Defence confirmed there was concern over reports of
  "nuisance calls" to servicemen's families.

  It played down suggestions that the calls had included death threats.

  A Territorial Army document warned that insurgents in southern Iraq had
  managed to obtain the home telephone numbers of British soldiers using
  electronic intercept devices.

  It said there had been "many instances in the last weeks of relatives and
  friends of personnel serving abroad on operations getting nuisance phone
  calls".

  The newspaper report suggested that the calls had included claims that a
  father or son serving in Iraq is dead or will soon be killed, as well as
  verbal abuse or silence.

  The Ministry of Defence said: "There have been reports of nuisance calls to
  the families of service personnel. To our knowledge, nuisance calls have
  been just that - nuisance calls.

  "We are not currently aware of any reports of anything more sinister."


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From eugen at leitl.org  Sun Jun 25 12:51:24 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:51:24 +0200
Subject: [dewayne@warpspeed.com: [Dewayne-Net] Is the NSA spying on U.S.
  Internet traffic?]
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From eugen at leitl.org  Sun Jun 25 13:17:05 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:17:05 +0200
Subject: [dave@farber.net: [IP] Greek cellular wiretapping scandal]
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From jstyre at jstyre.com  Mon Jun 26 08:44:23 2006
From: jstyre at jstyre.com (James S. Tyre)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:44:23 -0700
Subject: Salon article on AT&T network monitoring
Message-ID: <mailman.1796.1576007694.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

At 10:45 AM 6/26/2006 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>Quoting:
>
>   In a pivotal network operations center in metropolitan St. Louis, AT&T
>   has maintained a secret, highly secured room since 2002 where
>   government work is being conducted, according to two former AT&T
>   workers once employed at the center.
>
>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/21/att_nsa/index_np.html


By coincidence, the day after that article appeared, we released the
(partially redacted) Declaration of J. Scott Marcus, our expert in
EFF's case against AT&T,
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/marcus-decl-redact.pdf.  The Salon
reporter then followed with this piece,
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/23/internet_expert/index_np.html

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Is the NSA spying on U.S. Internet traffic?
Salon exclusive: Two former AT&T employees say the telecom giant has
maintained a secret, highly secure room in St. Louis since 2002. Intelligence
experts say it bears the earmarks of a National Security Agency operation.

By Kim Zetter

Jun. 21, 2006 | In a pivotal network operations center in metropolitan St.
Louis, AT&T has maintained a secret, highly secured room since 2002 where
government work is being conducted, according to two former AT&T workers once
employed at the center.

In interviews with Salon, the former AT&T workers said that only government
officials or AT&T employees with top-secret security clearance are admitted to
the room, located inside AT&T's facility in Bridgeton. The room's tight
security includes a biometric "mantrap" or highly sophisticated double door,
secured with retinal and fingerprint scanners. The former workers say company
supervisors told them that employees working inside the room were "monitoring
network traffic" and that the room was being used by "a government agency."

The details provided by the two former workers about the Bridgeton room bear
the distinctive earmarks of an operation run by the National Security Agency,
according to two intelligence experts with extensive knowledge of the NSA and
its operations. In addition to the room's high-tech security, those
intelligence experts told Salon, the exhaustive vetting process AT&T workers
were put through before being granted top-secret security clearance points to
the NSA, an agency known as much for its intense secrecy as its technological
sophistication.

"It was very hush-hush," said one of the former AT&T workers. "We were told
there was going to be some government personnel working in that room. We were
told, 'Do not try to speak to them. Do not hamper their work. Do not impede
anything that they're doing.'"

The importance of the Bridgeton facility is its role in managing the "common
backbone" for all of AT&T's Internet operations. According to one of the
former workers, Bridgeton serves as the technical command center from which
the company manages all the routers and circuits carrying the company's
domestic and international Internet traffic. Therefore, Bridgeton could be
instrumental for conducting surveillance or collecting data.

If the NSA is using the secret room, it would appear to bolster recent
allegations that the agency has been conducting broad and possibly illegal
domestic surveillance and data collection operations authorized by the Bush
administration after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. AT&T's Bridgeton
location would give the NSA potential access to an enormous amount of Internet
data -- currently, the telecom giant controls approximately one-third of all
bandwidth carrying Internet traffic to homes and businesses across the United
States.

The nature of the government operation using the Bridgeton room remains
unknown, and could be legal. Aside from surveillance or data collection, the
room could conceivably house a federal law enforcement operation, a classified
research project, or some other unknown government operation.

The former workers, both of whom were approached by and spoke separately to
Salon, asked to remain anonymous because they still work in the
telecommunications industry. They both left the company in good standing.
Neither worked inside the secured room or has access to classified
information. One worked in AT&T's broadband division until 2003. The other
asked to be identified only as a network technician, and worked at Bridgeton
for about three years.

The disclosure of the room in Bridgeton follows assertions made earlier this
year by a former AT&T worker in California, Mark Klein, who revealed that the
company had installed a secret room in a San Francisco facility and
reconfigured its circuits, allegedly to help collect data for use by the
government. In detailed documents he provided to the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, Klein also alleged there were other secret rooms at AT&T
facilities in other U.S. cities.

NSA expert Matthew Aid, who has spent the last decade researching a
forthcoming three-volume history of the agency, said of the Bridgeton room:
"I'm not a betting man, but if I had to plunk $100 down, I'd say it's safe
that it's NSA." Aid told Salon he believes the secret room is likely part of
"what is obviously a much larger operation, or series of interrelated
operations" combining foreign intelligence gathering with domestic
eavesdropping and data collection.

"You're talking about a backbone for computer communications, and that's NSA,"
Russ Tice, a former high-level NSA intelligence officer, told Salon. Tice, a
20-year veteran of multiple U.S. intelligence agencies, worked for the NSA
until spring 2005. "Whatever is happening there with the security you're
talking about is a whole lot more closely held than what's going on with the
Klein case" in San Francisco, he said. (The San Francisco room is secured only
by a special combination lock, according to the Klein documents.)

Tice added that for an operation requiring access to routers and gateways,
"the obvious place to do it is right at the source."

In a statement provided to Salon, NSA spokesman Don Weber said: "Given the
nature of the work we do, it would be irresponsible to comment on actual or
alleged operational issues as it would give those wishing to do harm to the
United States insight that could potentially place Americans in danger;
therefore, we have no information to provide. However, it is important to note
that NSA takes its legal responsibilities seriously and operates within the
law."

Since last December, news reports have asserted that the NSA has conducted
warrantless spying on the phone and e-mail communications of thousands of
people inside the U.S., and has been secretly collecting the phone call
records of millions of Americans, using data provided by major
telecommunications companies, including AT&T. Such operations would represent
a fundamental shift in the NSA's secretive mission, which over the last three
decades is widely understood to have focused exclusively on collecting signals
intelligence from abroad.

The reported operations have sparked fierce protest by lawmakers and civil
liberties advocates, and have raised fundamental questions about the legality
of Bush administration policies, including their consequences for the privacy
rights of Americans. The Bush administration has acknowledged the use of
domestic surveillance operations since Sept. 11, 2001, but maintains they are
conducted within the legal authority of the presidency. Several cases
challenging the legality of the alleged spying operations are now pending in
federal court, including suits against the federal government, and AT&T, among
other telecom companies.

In a statement provided to Salon, AT&T spokesman Walt Sharp said: "If and when
AT&T is asked by government agencies for help, we do so strictly within the
law and under the most stringent conditions. Beyond that, we can't comment on
matters of national security."

According to the two former AT&T workers and the Klein documents, the room in
the pivotal Bridgeton facility was set up several months before the room in
San Francisco. According to the Klein documents, the work order for the San
Francisco room came from Bridgeton, suggesting that Bridgeton has a more
integral role in operations using the secured rooms.

The company's Bridgeton network operations center, where approximately 100
people work, is located inside a one-story brick building with a small
two-story addition connected to it. The building shares a parking lot with a
commercial business and is near an interstate highway.

According to the two former workers, the secret room is an internal structure
measuring roughly 20 feet by 40 feet, and was previously used by employees of
the company's WorldNet division. In spring 2002, they said, the company moved
WorldNet employees to a different part of the building and sealed up the room,
plastering over the window openings and installing steel double doors with no
handles for moving equipment in and out of the room. The company then
installed the high-tech mantrap, which has opaque Plexiglas-like doors that
prevent anyone outside the room from seeing clearly into the mantrap chamber,
or the room beyond it. Both former workers say the mantrap drew attention from
employees for being so high-tech.

Telecom companies commonly use mantraps to secure data storage facilities, but
they are typically less sophisticated, requiring only a swipe card to pass
through. The high-tech mantrap in Bridgeton seems unusual because it is
located in an otherwise low-key, small office building. Tice said it indicates
"something going on that's very important, because you're talking about an
awful lot of money" to pay for such security measures.

The vetting process for AT&T workers granted access to the room also points to
the NSA, according to Tice and Aid.

The former network technician said he knows at least three AT&T employees who
have been working in the room since 2002. "It took them six months to get the
top-security clearance for the guys," the network technician said. "Although
they work for AT&T, they're actually doing a job for the government." He said
that each of them underwent extensive background checks before starting their
jobs in the room. The vetting process included multiple polygraph tests,
employment history reviews, and interviews with neighbors and school
instructors, going as far back as elementary school.

Aid said that type of vetting is precisely the kind NSA personnel who receive
top-secret SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Information) clearance go through.
"Everybody who works at NSA has an SCI clearance," said Aid.

It's possible the Bridgeton room is being used for a federal law enforcement
operation. According to the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
of 1994, telecom companies are required to assist law enforcement officials
who have legal authorization to conduct electronic surveillance, either in
pursuit of criminal suspects or for the protection of national security. The
companies must design or modify their systems to make such surveillance
possible, essentially by making them wiretap-ready.

The FBI is the primary federal agency that tracks and apprehends terrorist
suspects within the U.S. Yet, there are several indications that the Bridgeton
room does not involve the FBI.

"The FBI, which is probably the least technical agency in the U.S. government,
doesn't use mantraps," Aid said. "But virtually every area of the NSA's
buildings that contain sensitive operations require you to go through a
mantrap with retinal and fingerprint scanners. All of the sensitive offices in
NSA buildings have them." The description of the opaque Plexiglas-like doors
in Bridgeton, Aid said, indicates that the doors are likely infused with
Kevlar for bulletproofing -- another signature measure that he said is used to
secure NSA facilities: "You could be inside and you can't kick your way out.
You can't shoot your way out. Even if you put plastique explosives, all you
could do is blow a very small hole in that opaque glass."

Jameel Jaffer, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union's
national security program, said it is unlikely that the FBI would set up an
ongoing technical operation -- in this case, for several years running --
inside a room of a telecommunications company. The Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act, passed by Congress in 1978, requires law enforcement
officials to obtain warrants from a secret federal court for domestic
surveillance operations involving the protection of national security. If the
FBI (or another federal agency) wanted data, it would more likely be targeting
a specific individual or set of individuals suspected of engaging in criminal
or terrorist activities. The agency would obtain a warrant and then call AT&T,
or show up in person with the warrant and ask for the wiretap to be engaged.
According to Jaffer, the FBI, NSA or any other federal agency could also
legally tap into communications data under federal guidelines using technical
means that would not require technical assistance of a telecom company.

In an e-mail statement to Salon, FBI spokesperson Paul Bresson said: "The FBI
does not confirm whether or not we are involved in an alleged ongoing
operational activity. In all cases, FBI operations are conducted in strict
accordance with established Department of Justice guidelines, FBI policy, and
the law."

Rather than specifically targeted surveillance, it is also possible that the
Bridgeton room is being used for a classified government project, such as data
mining, with which the Pentagon has experimented in the past. Data mining uses
automated methods to search through large volumes of data, looking for
patterns that might help identify terrorist suspects, for example. According
to Tice, private sector employees who work on classified government projects
for the NSA are required to undergo the same kind of top-secret security
clearance that AT&T workers in the Bridgeton room underwent.

According to the former network technician, all three AT&T employees he knows
who work inside the room have network technician and administration
backgrounds -- not research backgrounds -- suggesting that those workers are
only conducting maintenance or technical operations inside the room.

Furthermore, Tice said it is much more likely that any classified project
using data collected via a corporate facility would take place in separate
facilities: "The information that you garner from something like a room
siphoning information and filtering it would be sent to some place where you'd
have people thinking about what to do with that data," he said.

Dave Farber, a respected computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and
former chief technologist for the Federal Communications Commission, also said
it is likely that data collected in a facility like the Bridgeton center would
be used elsewhere, once the facility is set up to divert the data. "If I own
the routers, I can put code in there to have them monitor for certain data.
That's not a particularly difficult job," said Farber, who is considered one
of the pioneers of Internet architecture. Farber said that "packets" of data
can essentially be copied and then sent to some other location for use. "Most
of the problems would have to do with keeping your staff from knowing too much
about it."

According to the former network technician, workers at Bridgeton, at the
direction of government officials, could conceivably collect data using any
AT&T router around the country, which he says number between 1,500 and 2,000.
To do so, the company would need to install a wiretap-like device at select
locations for "sniffing" the desired data. That could explain the purpose of
the San Francisco room divulged by Klein, as well as the secret rooms he
alleged existed at AT&T facilities in other U.S. cities.

"The network sniffer with the right software can capture anything," the former
network technician said. "You can get people's e-mail, VoIP phone calls,
[calls made over the Internet] -- even passwords and credit card transactions
-- as long as you have the right software to decrypt that."

In theory, surveillance involving Internet communications can be executed
legally under federal law. "But with most of these things," Farber said, "the
problem is that it just takes one small step to make it illegal."


New light on NSA spying
A former Internet expert for the FCC concludes that a secret AT&T installation
was most likely used for government surveillance.

By Kim Zetter

Jun. 23, 2006 | A federal court in California released a previously sealed
40-page document on Thursday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit
against AT&T, which bolsters allegations that the telecommunications giant
built secret rooms to allow the National Security Agency to conduct widespread
surveillance of Internet traffic. The document also paints a detailed scenario
of how the NSA may be conducting the top-secret operation, which closely
matches information given to Salon by a former AT&T employee who worked at the
company's network operations center in Bridgeton, Mo.

The document, a statement by J. Scott Marcus, a former senior advisor for
Internet technology to the Federal Communications Commission, was filed under
seal on April 5 on behalf of the EFF to support its class-action suit against
AT&T, which alleges that the company violated a number of federal laws in
aiding the government's domestic spying operation against AT&T customers. The
court sealed the document because it contained proprietary AT&T information,
then ordered AT&T and EFF to work together to produce a redacted version to
place in the public record, which they did on Thursday.

EFF asked Marcus to examine records from a former AT&T technician in
California named Mark Klein that describe how AT&T reconfigured its network in
San Francisco and installed special computer systems in a secret room,
allegedly to divert and collect Internet traffic to help the NSA conduct
warrantless surveillance. Were the records authentic and was it feasible that
they described a government surveillance program, or could the reconfiguration
and systems have been put in place for more innocuous uses?

Marcus concludes in his statement that the documents are authentic and, after
considering a number of possible reasons for the reconfiguration -- such as
legitimate network monitoring and maintenance -- writes that the system AT&T
installed in a secret San Francisco room, and likely other cities, was
"exceptionally well suited to a massive, distributed surveillance activity"
and that "no other application provides as good an explanation for the
combination of engineering choices that were made."

He considered that the system might be set up to accommodate lawful traffic
intercepts under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, but
deemed this not a credible scenario, since there are far simpler and less
expensive solutions for meeting CALEA, which required Internet service
providers to make their networks wiretap-ready. He also concludes that given
how cash strapped AT&T was in 2002 and 2003 when the expensive changes and
additions to the system were made, it is "exceedingly unlikely" that AT&T
financed the project on its own. "I therefore conclude that it is highly
probable that funding came from an outside source, and consider the U.S.
Government to be the most likely source," he writes in the document.

Over several pages that are redacted at key points, Marcus discusses technical
details in the Klein documents that have previously been unavailable. (The
Klein documents are under seal, and although some of them have made it to the
Internet, others, judging by details revealed by Marcus, have never been made
public.) According to Marcus, the Klein documents refer to a "private ...
backbone network, which appears to partition from AT&T's main Internet
backbone." This suggests the presence of a private network, Marcus writes,
whose existence is "not consistent with normal AT&T practice."

"The most plausible inference is that this was a covert network that was used
to ship data of interest to one or more central locations for still more
intensive analysis," Marcus writes.

The most interesting aspect of the Marcus statement is the clear, though
speculative, scenario he provides for how the National Security Agency is
likely conducting its surveillance and data collection through that network.
Marcus, currently a consultant with WIK-Consult GmbH in Bad Honnef, Germany,
was unavailable for comment. But in the statement, he suggests that the secret
San Francisco room is connected to two separate networks -- the regular
commercial network on which e-mail, Web surfing and voice-over Internet
Protocol traffic runs, and the second private, covert network that is
partitioned off from the regular network and is used to divert traffic that
has been copied and sent back to a central collection place. He suggests that
massive amounts of data are collected at 15 to 20 locations around the
country, where it is automatically screened and winnowed down to only "data of
interest" by a special system installed in San Francisco (and likely
elsewhere) before it is shipped off to one or two central collection points,
where it is processed by powerful computers and analyzed by skilled staff.

This agrees with what several sources told Salon this week. A former AT&T
network technician who is well acquainted with AT&T's common backbone and
asked to remain anonymous, told Salon about a secret, heavily secured room
located in AT&T's Bridgeton facility, where the company runs its technical
command center from which it manages all of its backbone. From that facility,
the company could send commands to any of its 1,500 to 2,000 routers around
the country to filter and divert traffic from those locations. To do that, the
technician said, AT&T would need to physically place network "sniffers" at key
points in the company's backbone. "There are 10 or 15 data centers located in
major cities around the country," he said. "So they would need to stick [a
sniffer] in each of those data centers to capture all the information." Then
the company could easily send commands from the Bridgeton room to the routers
in those locations. The commands would indicate what data to collect and where
to divert it afterward.

Marcus writes that although the configuration in San Francisco was deployed in
early 2003, given AT&T processes, the planning for it was probably underway
six to 12 months earlier. This coincides with the timing of the Bridgeton
Network Operation Center, which was put in place about eight months before the
San Francisco room was configured and was the place from which the work order
for the secret room in San Francisco originated.

The Bridgeton room, guarded with a high-tech mantrap with retinal and
fingerprint scanners, is restricted to government workers and AT&T employees
with top-secret security clearances and is likely just used for remotely
monitoring and maintaining the secret rooms around the country and sending
commands. Russ Tice, a former NSA officer and senior analyst until last year,
told Salon that the data once collected is probably not sent to Bridgeton but
instead is diverted to an NSA facility where powerful processing equipment can
analyze it.

As for the kind of data collected, Marcus infers from the Klein documents that
the configuration in place in San Francisco would enable surveillance of "both
overseas and purely domestic traffic." But the Klein evidence suggests that
only "off net" traffic was being collected in San Francisco at the time the
documents were written. "Off net" refers to traffic sent between AT&T
customers and customers of other ISPs; "on net" traffic is sent strictly
between one AT&T customer and another AT&T customer.

Still, this amounts to a lot of data, Marcus says. It would mean that any
traffic that passed through AT&T's network from another ISP or network would
be intercepted. He suggests the possibility, however, that authorities could
conceivably weed out domestic traffic to collect only international traffic
exchanged between an AT&T customer and noncustomer, given that software
programs exist that can help distinguish domestic Internet traffic from
traffic that travels from outside the United States. But he writes that even
with such weeding, some purely domestic traffic would likely slip through the
filter.

A hearing on the EFF lawsuit against AT&T is being held in San Francisco
Friday to determine whether the case should be thrown out. The Department of
Justice has interfered in the case, calling on the court to dismiss it on
grounds that national security secrets would be exposed if a trial were to
proceed.


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From eugen at leitl.org  Mon Jun 26 03:43:38 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:43:38 +0200
Subject: [alex_crypto_newsletters@noemax.com: RE: Greek cellular
  wiretapping scandal]
Message-ID: <20060626104338.GE28956@leitl.org>

----- Forwarded message from Alexander Philippou
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From coderman at gmail.com  Mon Jun 26 14:04:22 2006
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:04:22 -0700
Subject: Scott Marcus Declaration
In-Reply-To: <E1Fuxhj-0004us-00@pop04.mail.atl.earthlink.net>
References: <20060626160445.GU28956@leitl.org> 	
  <E1Fuxhj-0004us-00@pop04.mail.atl.earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <4ef5fec60606261404u1e3e426dseb8d67754a85c92a@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/26/06, John Young <jya at pipeline.com> wrote:
> A fair amount of the redactions of the Scott Marcus declaration
> can be restored by using the various Klein statements, releases
> and declarations, the ATT filing which had liftable redactions,
> Wired's releases, and the recent Salon article.
>
> For example, Coderman guessed here a 3-letter redaction  could
> be "tap," while it is actually "SG3," the acronym for "Study Group 3."

doh, mea culpa

(i realized this later yesterday when trying to correlate the titles
of redacted exhibits with the names of the exhibits that were relased
previously...)


> ...
> We're restoring others and will share or put on Cryptome. Help
> welcomed.

what kind of help would be useful (sending in one-off edits as
discovered, or is there a group collaborating elsewhere)?

is there a running archive of all the relevant docs / articles or at
least pointers to them? (to appease the copyright cartels)




From jya at pipeline.com  Mon Jun 26 16:27:45 2006
From: jya at pipeline.com (John Young)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:27:45 -0700
Subject: Scott Marcus Declaration
In-Reply-To: <20060626160445.GU28956@leitl.org>
Message-ID: <E1Fuxhj-0004us-00@pop04.mail.atl.earthlink.net>

A fair amount of the redactions of the Scott Marcus declaration
can be restored by using the various Klein statements, releases 
and declarations, the ATT filing which had liftable redactions,
Wired's releases, and the recent Salon article.

For example, Coderman guessed here a 3-letter redaction  could 
be "tap," while it is actually "SG3," the acronym for "Study Group 3." 

This is disclosed in the ATT filing which had a liftable redaction 
referring to a redacted sentence in the Marcus declaration.

"Study Group 3" is also one of the common redactions in the
Marcus doc.

We're restoring others and will share or put on Cryptome. Help
welcomed.




From bemieyiusujn at netzero.net  Mon Jun 26 15:19:52 2006
From: bemieyiusujn at netzero.net (Melchior Proulx)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:19:52 -0500
Subject: Tiffany, Handbags, Pens and more..
Message-ID: <186h907x.0564274@awnline.net>

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From jya at pipeline.com  Mon Jun 26 17:39:28 2006
From: jya at pipeline.com (John Young)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:39:28 -0700
Subject: Scott Marcus Declaration
In-Reply-To: <4ef5fec60606261404u1e3e426dseb8d67754a85c92a@mail.gmail.co
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References: <E1Fuxhj-0004us-00@pop04.mail.atl.earthlink.net> 
  <20060626160445.GU28956@leitl.org> 
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Message-ID: <E1Fuyp8-0006xj-00@pop04.mail.atl.earthlink.net>

I don't know who else may be working on restoring redactions.

Just pick a heavily redacted paragraph or page and post it here,
retaining the paragraph number. We're moving very slowly on it.

Exhibit A is not identifiable.

Based on references by Marcus:

Klein Exhibit B appears to be Wired's release of Klein's 
"Study Group 3, LGX/Splitter Wiring, San Francisco, 
Issue 1, 12/20/2002." This 4-page excerpt appears to be 
taken from a longer, 40-page document referred to by Marcus.

Klein Exhibit C appears to be Wired's release of Klein's
"SIMS, Splitter Cut-In and Test Procedures, Issue 2,
01/13/03." This is a 4-page document.

Most of the Klein and ATT documents are in this file:

  http://cryptome.org/klein-decl.htm

Or linked,  where we made an earlier stab at restoring Klein's 
redactions

Or the Exhibits B and C can be downloaded at Wired, Ryan 
Singel's blog.

The recent Scott Marcus declaration, as noted earlier, is here:

  http://cryptome.org/scott-marcus.pdf

Klein's statement released through his lawyer is in the 
Cryptome file as well, or can be downloaded from Wired,
Ryan Singel's blog.

A lot of the Marcus redactions concern "SG3" and "LGX,"
with SG3 customarily used with "Configuration." LGX
usually refers to the "LGX room" or "LGX/Splitter" project.

As Marcus notes, LGX is short for LGX/Splitter.

After chewing the bone, it looks as though most of the stuff
can be recovered or PG guessed.




From eugen at leitl.org  Mon Jun 26 09:04:46 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:04:46 +0200
Subject: [jstyre@jstyre.com: Re: Salon article on AT&T network
  monitoring]
Message-ID: <20060626160445.GU28956@leitl.org>

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From itvetbmzahoi at cet.com  Mon Jun 26 16:07:40 2006
From: itvetbmzahoi at cet.com (Ainsley)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:07:40 -0500
Subject: Ephedra for your body
Message-ID: <347k920k.5965422@theritz.us>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Mon Jun 26 09:18:55 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:18:55 +0200
Subject: Los Angeles Sheriff's UAV Runs Headfirst Into the FAA
Message-ID: <20060626161855.GV28956@leitl.org>

http://lemonodor.com/archives/001405.html

The Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept. has been working for several years with a
defense contractor, Ocatron, to develop a specialized UAV for police work.
Last week they gave reporters a demo.

    The stealth quality of the SkySeer is a big advantage, according to
police.

    b
The plane is virtually silent and invisible,b
 said Heal. b
It will
give us a vertical perspective that we have never had.b


    The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department operates a fleet of 18 helicopters,
priced between three and five million dollars each. The SkySeer will cost
between 25,000 and 30,000 dollars.

    b
We never have enough helicopters,b
 said Heal. The police helicopters
are in near-constant use, and the SkySeer would alleviate some of this
pressure.

    Unmanned surveillance crafts may become the norm in urban policing, says
Heal.

I think he's completely correct and UAVs will probably become standard, even
ubiquitous pieces of equipment for police. Especially as the industry picks up
and prices fall way below the $20-30K estimate for the SkySeer. The only
possible obstacle seems to be a regulatory one, and I don't mean any kind of
protection of privacy.

It turns out that the FAA is upset with the Sheriff's dept. for not getting
clearance for the flight, even though it was just a demonstration for
reporters.

    b
I wouldn't want to term us as peeved, but we were definitely
surprised,b
 FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said. Sheriff's officials were told
"that we were more than willing to sit down and talk about a certificate b
but that was before their first flight.b


    The FAA is now investigating Friday's demonstration to determine whether
the Sheriff's Department should face disciplinary action.

    b
A private citizen can go to the store and buy one of those model
airplanes and fly them around. But because we're doing it as a public service,
we have to deal with the FAA?b
 said Sheriff's Cmdr. Sid Heal. Once they
b
take a deep breath and realize there was no malice intended, it will get
back on track.b


>From what I understand, it's true that if a hobbyist flies a drone (and lots
of people are already flying homebrew drones) below 500', the FAA generally
doesn't care. But the hobbyists have their own regulatory worriesbthe
Academy of Model Aeronautics has its own rules for members, and they're very
worried about the FAA's reaction to widespread hobbyist UAVs. Therefore the
AMA prohibits models with autonomous navigation, and requires operators of
remotely piloted vehicles to b
maintain un-enhanced visual contact with the
aircraft throughout the entire flight.b


>From an article about a possible new FAA classification scheme for UAVs:

    The new classifications would also include a category being referred to as
b
lightly restrictedb
 to cover aircraft currently restricted to flight
within visual sight as the primary basis of risk mitigation. This category
includes radio-controlled model aircraft, particularly model helicopters
adapted for commercial use in aerial photography; small blimps used for
advertising; and agricultural UAVs.

    The b
lightly restrictedb
 classification represents systems that b
are
giving us a good deal of problems right now and we are really wrestling, on a
daily basis, with this particular groupb
, says Steve Swartz, from the
FAAbs recently established unmanned aircraft programme office.

I think even the regulatory issues involved in the integration of autonomous
vehicles into our society are completely fascinating.

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______________________________________________________________
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From s.schear at comcast.net  Mon Jun 26 22:56:39 2006
From: s.schear at comcast.net (Steve Schear)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:56:39 -0700
Subject: Los Angeles Sheriff's UAV Runs Headfirst Into the FAA
In-Reply-To: <20060626161855.GV28956@leitl.org>
References: <20060626161855.GV28956@leitl.org>
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20060626213838.04a89978@mail.comcast.net>

At 09:18 AM 6/26/2006, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> From what I understand, it's true that if a hobbyist flies a drone (and lots
>of people are already flying homebrew drones) below 500', the FAA generally
>doesn't care.

That's great.  So, if John Wiseman's understanding is correct it should be 
OK to have low altitude, terrain avoiding, citizen owned and operated 
cruise missile contests.

Steve 




From mctylr at gmail.com  Tue Jun 27 07:21:16 2006
From: mctylr at gmail.com (michael taylor)
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:21:16 -0400
Subject: Canada's high-tech spies (CSE) leave (commissioner) Lamer in the
Message-ID: <mailman.1797.1576007694.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

dark

<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060626.wcse0626/BNStory
/National/home>
Canada's high-tech spies leave Lamer in the dark
JIM BRONSKILL
Canadian Press
[The Globe and Mail, June 27, 2006]

Ottawa b The watchdog over Canada's eavesdropping agency says he's not
getting the detailed information he needs to be sure the secretive spy
outfit is obeying the rules.

In his annual report, Antonio Lamer laments a "lack of clarity" in the
information the Communications Security Establishment provides when
seeking ministerial permission for sensitive operations.

The disagreement raises questions about whether Mr. Lamer, as CSE
commissioner, can provide full assurances that the spy agency is
meeting all legal requirements.

The Ottawa-based CSE, an ultra-secret wing of the Defence Department,
monitors foreign radio, telephone, fax, satellite and computer traffic
for information of interest to Canada. The intelligence is used in
support of Canadian crime-fighting, defence and trade policies.

Military listening posts assist the agency's efforts to intercept the
communications of foreign states and organizations, as well as the
phone calls and messages of suspected terrorists, drug traffickers and
smugglers.

The CSE has long been prohibited from directing its surveillance at
Canadians or anybody in Canada.

However, the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001 gave the CSE authority to tap
into conversations and messages even if those communications begin or
end in Canada.

For instance, the CSE could now intercept a phone call from a member
of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network somewhere in Asia to a residence
in Montreal.

Various safeguards, including the need for the defence minister's
approval, were built into the practice.

Mr. Lamer, a former Supreme Court chief justice, recently concluded
his term as CSE commissioner, an independent watchdog who scrutinizes
the spy agency's activities to ensure compliance with the law.

In his final report, he says there should be a clear linkage between
the government's intelligence priorities, the targets chosen and the
activities for which ministerial approval is needed.

But supporting documentation provided by the CSE as part of its
requests for authorization address foreign intelligence requirements
"only in general terms."

The dispute stems from differing legal interpretations held by Mr.
Lamer's independent counsel and the deputy minister of Justice, whose
department provides legal direction to the CSE.

"The lack of clarity in this regard has made it difficult for my staff
to assess compliance with certain of the conditions that the
legislation requires to be satisfied before a ministerial
authorization is given."

Mr. Lamer says he has "offered specific recommendations" to the
defence minister and CSE to iron out "ambiguities" in the legislation
governing the CSE.

As a result, Mr. Lamer qualifies his finding that CSE activities
2005-06 complied with the law "as it is currently interpreted by the
Department of Justice."

CSE spokesman Adrian Simpson said Monday that, as a government agency,
the organization "must follow the interpretation" of the Justice
Department.

Mr. Simpson added that the CSE "takes great pains to comply with all
of the laws of Canada."

Mr. Lamer says his one regret is leaving the post "without a
resolution of the legal interpretation issues that have bedevilled
this office since December 2001."

"I wish my successor well in bringing this matter to a satisfactory
conclusion for all concerned."

Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor's office had no immediate comment.

A spokesman for Mr. Lamer was unavailable.

Mr. Lamer's concerns emerge as the CSE's American counterpart, the
National Security Agency, faces the glare of controversy.

In December, the New York Times disclosed that U.S. President George
W. Bush had authorized the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans and others
inside the United States without court-approved warrants, as has been
the recognized practice there.

Despite pointed criticism from privacy advocates, U.S. officials have
defended the program.

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From rah at shipwright.com  Tue Jun 27 08:26:30 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:26:30 -0400
Subject: [Clips] Montana mother fights al-Qa'eda from her sitting room
Message-ID: <p062309e5c0c6fe6a1585@[68.167.57.91]>

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  Delivered-To: rah at shipwright.com
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  Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:12:37 -0400
  To: Philodox Clips List <clips at philodox.com>
  From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
  Subject: [Clips] Montana mother who is fighting al-Qa'eda from her sitting
  	room
  Reply-To: clips-chat at philodox.com
  Sender: clips-bounces at philodox.com


<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/26/wross26.xml&site=5&page=0>

  The Telegraph

  Montana mother who is fighting al-Qa'eda from her sitting room
  By Francis Harris in Helena
  (Filed: 26/06/2006)


  Radical Islamists may not know it but their global jihad has more to fear
  from Shannen Rossmiller, an American mother-of-three, than from a squadron
  of F16s.

  The former cheerleader doesn't phrase it quite like that. That isn't her
style.


  Shannen Rossmiller turned freelance spy after 9/11

  Yet a summary of case histories and transcripts seen by The Daily Telegraph
  reveals that she has uncovered the whereabouts of al-Qa'eda fighters in the
  lawless highlands of Pakistan, shopped groups of would-be terrorists from
  Liverpool to Lebanon, tracked down an Islamist designing a nuclear device
  and much, much more.

  For four years, she has alternated her day jobs of mother and magistrate in
  the mountain state of Montana with a night-time role as a hunter of
  terrorists. Mrs Rossmiller first turned freelance spy after September 11.

  Donning a range of virtual disguises, she uses her functional, self-taught
  Arabic, and customised software that masks her true identity and
  whereabouts, to navigate into radical internet chat rooms frequented by
  real terrorists or any fanatic with a computer and a grudge.

  In her first interview with a British newspaper, the 37-year-old said that
  at first she kept her nocturnal sleuthing secret: "I didn't want my family
  to know because they'd call me crazy and this was just too damn
  interesting."

  Now she finds it hard to escape the world she has entered. Asked whether
  she seeks a way out, she said: "I've tried a couple of times to back off,
  but it just hasn't been the right time.

  "I remember the time I screamed 'Can't these guys take a weekend off?' But
  humanity is such a precious thing that you don't want to see [terrorist
  attacks] happen to anybody, to any country, any people."

  She has proved increasingly useful to the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
  which now supplies her with handlers, Arabic translators and security, in
  case the terrorists seek revenge.

  They have reason to be angry: in America alone, the authorities have made
  several arrests based on Mrs Rossmiller's work.

  In her best known case, she secured a life sentence for a treacherous
  soldier, Pte Ryan Anderson, who was trying to transmit the weaknesses of
  the M1 Abrams tank to al-Qa'eda. It was when she was called to give
  evidence in that case that her cover was blown. "I didn't have the choice
  of remaining anonymous," she said, despite earlier pledges from the
  authorities that her name would never be made public.

  On many occasions she has encountered terrorists overseas. Three times she
  has lured young British Islamists into unmasking themselves, including one
  group in Liverpool. The FBI passed the material to British intelligence,
  after which she heard nothing more.

  She brushes off the possible threat to her and her family from terrorist
  reprisal. She pointed out that in Montana's little towns, strangers stick
  out and the locals are armed. "There have to be risks taken, otherwise you
  can't get anything done."

  The FBI refuses to comment on her work and she has not been offered public
  thanks by members of the Bush administration. Behind-the-scenes however,
  intelligence staffers acknowledge her role.

  One American newspaper reported that "federal intelligence sources
  confirmed that for several years she has provided the FBI and the CIA with
  useful information". Another was told "she's legitimate" by an unnamed FBI
  agent.

  That has helped to make Mrs Rossmiller a star of Right-wing internet sites,
  but she disavowed any political motivation beyond plain patriotism. "I'm
  not a Republican, I'll tell you that right now. But at the same time you
  get tired of seeing your government looking like a bunch of walking idiots."

  Mrs Rossmiller is understandably discreet about her current operations, but
  said that as the years have passed she has become more ambitious and made
  "her" fictional Islamists more senior.

  But when things get sticky she can be ruthless. "I kill off certain
  identities, make them martyrs, so [the radicals] think 'so-and-so is dead'.
  When I've had an idea that's worked well for some time but things are
  getting fishy, I'll move him into Ramadi or Basra and have him martyred."


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  44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
  "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
  [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
  experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'




From rah at shipwright.com  Tue Jun 27 09:08:46 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:08:46 -0400
Subject: [Clips] That's Your Cue
Message-ID: <p062309f0c0c70882732f@[68.167.57.91]>

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  Delivered-To: rah at shipwright.com
  Delivered-To: clips at philodox.com
  Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:02:08 -0400
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  From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
  Subject: [Clips] That's Your Cue
  Reply-To: clips-chat at philodox.com
  Sender: clips-bounces at philodox.com

  <http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=062706C>

  TCS Daily -


  That's Your Cue


  By Arnold Kling : BIO| 27 Jun 2006

  "These sacred truths are unverifiable, and unfalsifiable, but the faithful
  nevertheless accept them to be unquestionable. In doing so, like assemblies
  of the faithful since the dawn of language, they bind themselves together
  for protection or common action against unbelievers and their lies."
  --Nicholas Wade, Before the Dawn, p. 165-166

  When people in business meet for the first time to discuss a transaction,
  they often exchange what I call "trust cues" in order to reduce mutual
  suspicion. For example, they may recite empty phrases from popular business
  books, such as "win-win," "synergy," "principles," "customer-driven," or
  "raising the bar."

  Nicholas Wade provides a readable, wide-ranging survey of the impact of
  recent advances in genetics on anthropology. In one chapter, he argues that
  the origins of what I observe in business behavior can be found in early
  religious rituals. Religions produce trust cues. Trust cues are necessary
  for large societies and trade among strangers to emerge. They serve to
  protect people from cheaters and liars.

  What I am going to suggest in this essay is that political beliefs can
  serve the function of trust cues. Political beliefs may have at best a
  tenuous empirical basis, but they function to demonstrate one's membership
  in a trusted group.

  Wade says that the evolutionary value of trust cues is that they facilitate
  peaceful interactions among strangers. When I offer a trust cue, I am
  saying that even though we do not know one another, I am a member of a
  trustworthy group. I value my membership in that group, and I know that
  lying to or cheating another member of that group could cause me to be
  excommunicated from the group. Since you are also a member of the group,
  you can trust me not to lie to you or to cheat you.

  The most trustworthy groups are groups where membership is valuable and
  excommunication is costly. They are groups that monitor the behavior of
  their members closely.

  The most trustworthy individuals are individuals who regularly show a
  willingness to sacrifice for the group. Attending religious worship every
  week, paying a tithe, and participating in ritual fasts are examples of
  demonstrating religious loyalty. These sorts of sacrifices are indicators
  that the individual values membership in the group, and they show that the
  individual would fear excommunication from the group.

  The best trust cues are those that can be presented at low cost by members
  of the group but would be costly to fake for non-members. Thus, odd
  dialects and unusual phrases can serve as trust cues.

  Empiricism

  Empiricism is a rigorous approach to the subject of truth. Frederick Crews,
  author of Follies of the Wise, a book that attacks Freudian psychology and
  other weak intellectual fads, describes empiricism as "the ethic of
  respecting what is known, acknowledging what is still unknown, and acting
  as if one cared about the difference."(p. 305)

  In modern philosophy, the empiricist tradition is often traced to John
  Locke and David Hume. Hume argued that truths are either matters of logic
  (such as mathematical theorems) or matters of observation (such as the law
  of gravity). Beliefs that cannot be verified by examining data or by
  reference to logic constitute dogma.

  Although empiricism has become a standard philosophy in the West, dogma
  persists. I believe that the main reason that non-verifiable ideas survive
  is that they serve as trust cues. People still need to demonstrate their
  commitment to membership in groups, and recitation of dogma is a low-cost
  method of doing so.

  Political Trust Cues

  Wade writes,

  "Modern states now accomplish by other means many of the early roles
  performed by religion, which is why religion has become of less relevance
  in some societies. But because the propensity for religious belief is still
  wired into the human mind, religion continues to be a potent force in
  societies that still struggle for cohesion." (p. 164)

  This raises the possibility that political beliefs serve primarily as trust
  cues. For example, those who favor an increase in the minimum wage are
  sending trust cues to people on the Left, and those who oppose an increase
  in the minimum wage are sending trust cues to people on the Right.

  The actual consequences of raising the minimum wage are rarely discussed.
  In other words, political debates often ignore what I call Type C arguments
  (from empiricism) and turn instead to type M arguments, which accuse one's
  opponent of belonging to an outcast group. The reason for this is that
  people are not trying to persuade each other rationally. Instead, they are
  using trust cues to indicate that failure to agree implies excommunication
  from the group.

  Academic Trust Cues

  An empirical argument attempts to convince you using logic and observation.
  A trust cue threatens you with loss of membership in a valuable group
  unless you take a given position. One might hope that colleges and
  universities might espouse empiricism rather than excommunicate those who
  question dogma. However, the Lawrence Summers case offers a dramatic
  counter-example. His discussion of women in tenured positions in science
  seems reasonable from an empiricist standpoint. However, from the
  standpoint of trust cues, it was out of bounds.

  Both Crews and Wade cite examples of widespread use of trust cues rather
  than empiricism in academia. Crews describes the failure of the American
  Psychological Association to hold to empirical standards the practice of
  psychoanalysis as well as such fads as "recovered memory." On another
  topic, describing trends in humanities departments, Crews mentions

  "Marxism and psychoanalysis that acquired survival value from the passions
  they aroused and from the pliability of their concepts and propositions.
  Each has constituted what Michael Polanyi once termed a dynamo-objective
  coupling -- that is, a doctrine whose normative claims can always be
  invoked when its scientific claims appear threatened, and vice versa." (p.
  300)

  Perhaps another example of dynamo-objective coupling is the statement "I
  believe that humans cause global warming." It serves both as an apparent
  empirical statement and a trust cue. The fact that opinions on global
  warming tend to align with political beliefs suggests that trust cues are
  playing a larger role than empirical research at this stage of the debate.

  Wade writes,

  "According to the American Sociological Association, race apparently does
  not even have a biological foundation, since it is a 'social construct.'
  The association's official statement on race warns that 'Although racial
  categories are legitimate subjects of empirical sociological investigation,
  it is important to recognize the danger of contributing to the popular
  conception of race as biological.'" (p. 191)

  "But," Wade continues, "people can now be objectively assigned to their
  continent of origin, in other words to their race, by genetic markers."
  However, because the scientific observation conflicts with an important
  trust cue, major academic disciplines choose to ignore the evidence.

  What is odd is that an association of academics should find it productive
  to take an "official position" on anything. I do not need an "official
  position" of physicists to convince me of the law of gravity. I do not
  believe in the laws of supply and demand because they are the "official
  position" of the American Economic Association (to my knowledge, the AEA
  has never stated an official position in favor of them). A book or article
  that reports observations and analysis is a scientific statement. An
  "official position" is a trust cue.

  In economics, the use of mathematical language has become a trust cue.
  Modern economists complain, rightly, that in the old days of "literary
  economics," a lot of muddled gibberish found its ways into economics
  journals. Today, journals publish muddled gibberish dressed up with
  mathematical symbols.

  I believe that societies need trust cues. I cannot imagine being able to
  get along without them. However, we also need empiricism. Progress comes
  from accepting empirical observations when they conflict with trust cues,
  while finding other ways to preserve social cohesion.

  Arnold Kling is a TCS contributing editor and adjunct scholar with the Cato
  Institute.

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  The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
  44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
  "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
  [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
  experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
  _______________________________________________
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
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From rah at shipwright.com  Tue Jun 27 19:09:36 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:09:36 -0400
Subject: [Clips] Google Gets Ready to Test GBuy, A New Online-Payment 
  Option
Message-ID: <p06230928c0c7955775b0@[68.167.57.91]>

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  Delivered-To: rah at shipwright.com
  Delivered-To: clips at philodox.com
  Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:59:41 -0400
  To: Philodox Clips List <clips at philodox.com>
  From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
  Subject: [Clips] Google Gets Ready to Test GBuy, A New Online-Payment Option
  Reply-To: clips-chat at philodox.com
  Sender: clips-bounces at philodox.com

  <http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB115136840690491346.html>

  The Wall Street Journal

  Google Gets Ready to Test GBuy,
  A New Online-Payment Option

  By MYLENE MANGALINDAN

  June 27, 2006; Page D3

  For years, consumers who didn't want to give Web merchants their
  credit-card information faced limited options when it came to making
  purchases online. This week, consumers could get access to another
  electronic-payment option -- and one that offers a mail-in rebate incentive
  to boot.

  Web-search giant Google Inc. is set to introduce a test version of its GBuy
  online-payment service as early as this week, according to people briefed
  on the situation. The service, which would challenge eBay Inc.'s PayPal
  online-payment service and others, has been expected for several months. To
  attract consumers, Google plans to offer an unspecified rebate to people
  who complete online purchases using GBuy, according to one person briefed
  on the company's plans.

  Here is how the service will work: Consumers who search for items like
  "shoes" or "strollers" on Google's search site will see text ads with a
  symbol or icon designating advertisers that accept GBuy payments. Shoppers
  normally would have clicked on an ad and been linked to that merchant's Web
  site. Now, while they will still be linked to the merchant's site, they
  will go through a different checkout process integrated with Google if they
  choose GBuy for their transaction. Details of the service could still
  change before Google's official GBuy announcement.


  The expected arrival of GBuy presages a shake-up in the online-payments
  market. Until now, consumers have only had payment options such as PayPal,
  which lets consumers pay using their credit card or a bank-account transfer
  without disclosing their account information to the merchant or individual
  receiving the payment. Consumers have also been able to use online checks
  and online credit options, such as Bill Me Later. Bill Me Later allows
  consumers to pay for purchases without disclosing their credit-card number,
  instead disclosing pieces of personal information that lets the company
  match up the person's identity with their credit information.

  Chris Mario, a Damascus, Md., resident, says he "would 100% use Google
  payments" because he likes the company's technology. He says he uses PayPal
  now but would prefer using an independent third-party payment service when
  making some online purchases, as opposed to the PayPal unit of eBay, which
  runs auction and other e-commerce Web sites.

  Though PayPal has more than 100 million users, it faces maturing growth and
  is now trying to expand its market from its payments business related to
  eBay purchases. A PayPal spokeswoman says the company doesn't comment on
  rivals' services and has managed to thrive despite strong competition.

  At the same time, Google's new payment service will be a test as to whether
  the company can be hugely successful outside its core search-technology
  market.

  A Google spokesman notes that billing and payments have been part of the
  company's services for some time and can be used in conjunction with
  several products now.

  Google plans to charge merchants a 2.2% commission on a sale, plus 30 cents
  per transaction using its payment service, according to people briefed on
  Google's pricing. That is higher than Pay-Pal's lowest published rate of a
  1.9% commission plus 30 cents per transaction.

  Google's rate doesn't include the discount pricing that the company will
  give to merchants participating in its AdWords advertising program,
  according to these people. Merchants who spend money on Google's ad program
  could get the cost of payment processing through Google dropped to nothing,
  these people said.


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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'




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From greening at bigtribe.com  Thu Jun 29 03:39:17 2006
From: greening at bigtribe.com (Dan R. Greening)
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:39:17 -0700
Subject: [Geowanking] On geo privacy policies
Message-ID: <mailman.1798.1576007694.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Just a comment on advance policy work on geoprivacy, like Geopriv:  I
think developing privacy laws and policies in a vacuum is a recipe
for disaster.  Europe adopted some seemingly harmless geoprivacy laws
back in 2002 (OK I howled about it then, including to the EU privacy
czar, but no one cared).  When last I checked, EU law precludes
things like geography-based personalization, like the stuff Nathan
Eagle does, because you cannot store location-tracking information
with user-identification in the EU ... like EVER... even if you
inform the consumer.  A whole class of applications is now verboten
there.

Rather I think we should adopt the "agile" methods: being reasonable
about privacy as companies, describing company privacy policies
explicitly on web sites and so forth, testing applications and
policies out in the market, and refining.  Sue the companies if they
fail to implement the policies they claim they have.

There are many reasons for doing it this way, but one reason is that
people and society adapt to technology; it isn't just technology
having to adapt to "the way people will always think".

For example, I am on the middle-aged side and I have watched society
adapt to the "privacy invasion" that I think is almost inevitable
with the Internet.  While I myself am a "transparent society" type,
thinking it is fine if everyone knows my personal life (as long the
behavior of authorities is also transparent), I am still amazed at
how open my younger peers are as a whole class of people.  From
Facebook to MySpace, there is plenty of evidence that people are
revealing more personal aspects of themselves in a more public way
than ever before, fearlessly.  I think this openness provides for a
more rational and human-diversity respecting society, and celebrate
it.  And yet, when I reveal information about myself in this same
way, it just feels a little weird.

Don't get me wrong; I think people should be able to choose to turn
location-tracking on and off whenever they want.  It's just that when
you try to develop laws or broadly-applied policies in advance of
technology, you often fail.

I guess a great example is P3P "Platform for Privacy Preferences",
which is the "encoded privacy policy" system standardized by W3C and
embedded in IE.  It is largely ignored today, and the consumer
doesn't even know it is there.  I mean the consumer can turn on-and-
off access to different web sites based on the encoded policy, but
who actually does this?  I think about the vast effort put behind
this P3P technology in the late 90s and think it was just a huge waste.

Dan R. Greening, Ph.D.,  CEO BigTribe Corporation,  http://
dan.greening.name/contact.htm


On Jun 28, 2006, at 8:00 PM, Andrew Turner wrote:

>>At the same time, the sociotechnical problems that have long been
>>expected
>>from these systemsbprivacy invasion, privacy confusion, LBSpam,
>>data-quality
>>control issuesbare not yet real on a large scale, however well-
>>characterized
>>they may be. This is partly because LBS developers have adopted
>>successful
>>design patterns from other "read/write web" contexts, but also
>>because the
>>user base is just not that large or diverse yet.
>
>THis seems like just the time to start developing standards that make
>sense and look to the future. Lets not design another static HTML,
>that then has to wait 10 years for Javascript to make it dynamic
>(without flash). There isn't "lock-in" yet, so we can develop GeoPriv,
>anti-map-spam, etc.


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From s.schear at comcast.net  Thu Jun 29 07:52:33 2006
From: s.schear at comcast.net (Steve Schear)
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:52:33 -0700
Subject: Swedish pirates provide RIAA insurance
In-Reply-To: <20060629105557.GH12291@leitl.org>
References: <20060629105557.GH12291@leitl.org>
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20060629074839.051f1cd8@mail.comcast.net>

 From /. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/28/2316236

An anonymous reader writes "A new insurance company in Sweden is offering a 
new policy to protect you from the RIAA. For a mere 140 SEK ($19 USD) per 
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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jun 29 00:00:39 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:00:39 +0200
Subject: /. [ACLU Files for Info on New Brain-Scan Tech]
Message-ID: <20060629070039.GM12291@leitl.org>

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/28/1946217
Posted by: ScuttleMonkey, on 2006-06-28 21:11:00

   An anonymous reader writes "According to their website, the ACLU has
   filed a FOIA request seeking information on the new [1]Functional
   Magnetic Resonance Imaging service being made available to the
   government for use on suspected terrorists which can produce 'live,
   real-time images of people's brains as they answer questions, view
   images, listen to sounds, and respond to other stimuli. [...] These
   brain-scanning technologies are far from ready for forensic uses and
   if deployed will inevitably be misused and misunderstood.", said Barry
   Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Project.
   "This technology must not be deployed until it is proven effective --
   and we are a long way away from that point, according to scientists in
   the field,"'"

References

   1. http://www.aclu.org/privacy/medical/26035prs20060628.html

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From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:55:57 +0200
Subject: [greening@bigtribe.com: [Geowanking] On geo privacy policies]
Message-ID: <20060629105557.GH12291@leitl.org>

----- Forwarded message from "Dan R. Greening" <greening at bigtribe.com> -----


From James.Hughes at trincoll.edu  Thu Jun 29 14:03:47 2006
From: James.Hughes at trincoll.edu (Hughes, James J.)
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:03:47 -0400
Subject: [technoliberation] Vernor Vinge on computers, freedom and privacy
Message-ID: <mailman.1799.1576007694.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1807882,00.html

Big Brother takes a controlling interest in chips

A chilling novel details how everyday technologies could gradually lead
to a far more invasive society than even Orwell dreamed of

Wendy Grossman
Thursday June 29, 2006
The Guardian

Science fiction writers love to ask "What if?" What if a
super-intelligent alien race had planted a pair of devices to boost our
development at key moments? What if new technologies such as television
and electronics become pervasive? George Orwell's answer to the latter,
in 1948's 1984, was to show the apparently perfect, controlled society
they could enable.

But one thing usually missing is the "how?" At the Computers, Freedom,
and Privacy (CFP) conference, held in Washington, DC, last month, Vernor
Vinge, a retired computer scientist and the author of Rainbows End,
provided a compelling explanation of how developing technology and
powerful interests could create a society far more invasive and
controlled than anything Orwell dreamed of.

The scenario he describes is the background he researched for Rainbows
End. Set in 2025, the characters are surrounded by logical extensions of
today's developing technology. Wearable computing is commonplace.
Tagging and ubiquitous networked sensors mean you can look at the
landscape with your choice of overlay and detail. People send each other
silent messages and Google for information within conversations with
participants who may be physically present or might be remote
projections. One character's projection is hijacked and becomes the
front for three people. The owner of another remote intelligence is
unknown. Several continents' top intelligence operatives try to solve a
smart biological attack that infects a test population with the
willingness to obey orders.

Assumptions

Vinge makes two opening assumptions: no grand physical disaster occurs,
and today's computing and communications trends continue.

He added a third trend: "The great conspiracy against human freedom." As
novelist Doris Lessing has observed, barons on opposite sides of the
river don't need to be in cahoots if their interests coincide. In our
case, defence, homeland security, financial crime enforcement, police,
tax collectors and intellectual property rights holders offer reasons to
want to control the hardware we use. Then there are geeks, who can be
tempted to forget the consequences if the technology is cool enough.
Vinge quotes the most famous line from the comic strip Pogo: "We have
met the enemy, and he is us."

Vinge's technology to satisfy these groups' dreams is the Secure
Hardware Environment (She), which dedicates some bandwidth and a small
portion of every semiconductor for regulatory use. Deployment is
progressive, as standards are implemented. Built into new chips, She
will spread inevitably through its predecessors' obsolescence.

This part is terribly plausible. It sounds much like the Trusted
Computing Platform, implemented in Intel chips and built into machines
from Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens and others. Most people don't realise their
new computer contains a chip designed to block the operation of any
software not certified by the group. Now enhance that and build it into
RFID chips, networked embedded systems, shrink and distribute as "smart
dust". All are current trends or works in progress.

Geeks are willing to fight Trusted Computing on the grounds that it
could be used to block open-source software or to enforce draconian
digital rights management. But what if accepting it meant less visible
security, less bureaucracy, even slight profit? She automatically sends
taxes, enables much less noticeable surveillance and gets you through
security checkpoints with no waiting. There's less crime, because
legislative reality can be enforced on physical reality. Fewer false
convictions. Make regulation automatic, and it seems to go away. New
laws can be downloaded as a regulatory upgrade.

"She," Vinge concluded at the conference, "fits the trajectory that
economics and technical progress are following. The infrastructure for
such control will probably arrive in any case." He also calls his
scenario optimistic.

This is, however, one of the paths to Technological Singularity, which
Vinge wrote up in a 1993 essay. It's the moment superhuman intelligence
is achieved, either through systems we build or human augmentation. The
Singularity changes everything; nothing after it is predictable. In the
world of Rainbows End, he thinks, they are either on the verge of
Singularity or it is happening. This caused its own singularity in
science fiction. Charlie Stross, whose novel Accelerando attempts to
depict living through the Singularity, has called it "the turd in the
punchbowl of near-future SF - you may politely pretend it isn't there,
but everyone has to deal with it."

Author Ken MacLeod places the Singularity in the context of post-2001
hopelessness. "When human beings feel they can't change the future, they
begin to imagine that maybe superhuman beings can: gods, angels, aliens
- and now artificial intelligences (AI). The idea of the Singularity is
just a sophisticated version of this ancient ... superstition, that
human history is or soon will be made by something other and better than
human beings."

Way to believe

Vinge doesn't dispute the notion that humans look for a way to believe
things will be better. Year 2000 software remediation is an example:
"Prudent apprehension caused an awful lot of money to be spent ... and
was one reason there were no significant problems."

Most people assume the cause of the Singularity, if it happens, will be
the effect of Moore's Law (that the number of transistors that can fit
in a given space on a semiconductor doubles every 18 months). It's also
usually connected to AI. In his essay, however, Vinge suggested four or
five paths to the Singularity, only one of which was unitary AI.

But here is where Vinge's thinking gets optimistic (unlike the CFP
conference, which saw surveillant databases everywhere). The road to
technological Gaia is full of frictional costs that could stop it.

"It's not going to work very well," he says, "but it will be attempted,
both by the state and by civil special interest petitioners." The drug
laws provide a perfect illustration: "The ideal job to have in
government is something everybody is convinced is essential to be done
successfully that cannot be done successfully and the government is the
only entity that can do it. Every time you fail, you say, 'The problem
is much larger than we imagined, give us some more money.'"

"The leaders of most powerful countries are coming to realise that the
most important natural resources are not factories or the size of
armies. Economic power is in the size of the population that is
well-educated, creative and generally happy enough to be optimistic
enough to want to do something creative."

"The illusion of freedom becomes a strange thing when a government is
dealing with ... thousands of people who are as bright as the smartest
people running the government. Together, they outclass the people
running the show. The turning point is the notion that to provide this
illusion of freedom for such a group would wind up being more like real
freedom than anything in human history." Or, as he thinks Pogo might say
for the 21st century, "We have met what's going to save our ass and it
is us."


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From rah at shipwright.com  Thu Jun 29 20:00:18 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:00:18 -0400
Subject: [Clips] EMC to Acquire RSA Security For About $2.3 Billion
Message-ID: <p0623099fc0ca440ac140@[68.167.57.91]>

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  Delivered-To: rah at shipwright.com
  Delivered-To: clips at philodox.com
  Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:57:16 -0400
  To: Philodox Clips List <clips at philodox.com>
  From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
  Subject: [Clips] EMC to Acquire RSA Security For About $2.3 Billion
  Reply-To: clips-chat at philodox.com
  Sender: clips-bounces at philodox.com

  <http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB115161481971894610.html>

  The Wall Street Journal


  EMC to Acquire RSA Security
  For About $2.3 Billion

  By CHARLES FORELLE

  June 30, 2006

  EMC Corp. won a bidding war for RSA Security Inc., buying the
  computer-security company for about $2.3 billion.

  EMC, once primarily a vendor of data-storage hardware to big corporations,
  has taken steps to broaden its scope because prices are tumbling for
  big-business tech gear.

  Security has become a critical area for corporations, worried about
  hackers, viruses and information theft. EMC of Hopkinton, Mass., said it
  makes sense to sell both storage equipment and security for the data that
  go on it.

  RSA of Bedford, Mass., is the maker of the SecurID tokens used to
  authenticate users on corporate networks.

  RSA licensed 4.7 million of the credentials last year, when it had $310
  million in revenue. Sales have been fairly stagnant; in 2005 the company's
  revenue edged up just 1%. Revenue in 2005 was just 10% higher than in 2001.

  In 4 p.m. composite trading yesterday on the Nasdaq Stock Market, RSA
  shares jumped $3.52, or 18%, to $22.88 after the New York Times reported
  that RSA was being pursued by suitors, which the company confirmed
  yesterday morning.

  That made RSA costly. EMC agreed to pay $28 a share, a premium of 22% to
  Thursday's 4 p.m. price and 45% to Wednesday's 4 p.m. price, before news of
  a potential deal.

  Investors appeared worried about the price, knocking EMC shares down 45
  cents, or 4%, to $10.80 in after-hours trading. EMC shares haven't traded
  below $11 since 2004. On a conference call with company managers, several
  analysts pointedly questioned EMC Chief Executive Joe Tucci about the price.

  Mr. Tucci said the company and the space are "incredibly hot. There were
  other companies that noticed this." He added that it was "a very
  competitive situation."

  He said security and storage "dominate the top" of the list of priorities
  for corporate-technology managers. He added that EMC's relationships with
  high-level technology managers could spur sales of the RSA devices.

  Storage and security outfits have combined before. Last year security and
  antivirus vendor Symantec Corp. of Cupertino, Calif., bought Veritas
  Software, a Mountain View, Calif., maker of data-backup technologies.

  RSA's chief executive, Art Coviello, will become an executive vice
  president of EMC.


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  44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
  "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
  [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
  experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
  _______________________________________________
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44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'




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From: jbartas at speakeasy.net (John Bartas)
Date: June 30, 2006 3:38:22 AM EDT
Subject: The Newbie's Guide to Detecting the NSA
Message-ID: <mailman.1800.1576007694.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Dave,

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--------------------------------------------------------
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ae-23-56.car3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.68.123.173] 9 18 ms 16 ms 16 ms
192.205.33.17 10 88 ms 92 ms 91 ms tbr2-p012201.sffca.ip.att.net
[12.123.13.186] 11 88 ms 90 ms 88 ms tbr1-cl2.sl9mo.ip.att.net
[12.122.10.41] 12 89 ms 97 ms 89 ms tbr1-cl4.wswdc.ip.att.net
[12.122.10.29] 13 89 ms 88 ms 88 ms ar2-a3120s6.wswdc.ip.att.net
[12.123.8.65] 14 102 ms 93 ms 112 ms 12.127.209.214 15 94 ms 94 ms 93
ms 12.110.110.13 16 * * * 17 * * * 18 * * In the above example, my
traffic is jumping from Level 3 Communications to AT&T's network in
San Francisco, presumably over the OC-48 circuit that AT&T tapped on
February 20th, 2003, according to the Klein docs. The magic string
you're looking for is sffca.ip.att.net. If it's present immediately
above or below a non-att.net entry, then -- by Klein's allegations --
your packets are being copied into room 641A, and from there,
illegally, to the NSA. Of course, if Marcus is correct and AT&T has
installed these secret rooms all around the country, then any att.net
entry in your route is a bad sign.

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From rah at shipwright.com  Fri Jun 30 02:46:58 2006
From: rah at shipwright.com (R.A. Hettinga)
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:46:58 -0400
Subject: [Clips] Google Aims to Speed the Online Checkout Line
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<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/technology/29google.html?ei=5065&en=71f83a648568396d&ex=1152244800&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print>

  The New York Times

  June 29, 2006

  Google Aims to Speed the Online Checkout Line

  By SAUL HANSELL

  In its quest to "organize the world's information," Google now wants to
  keep track of your credit card number and where you live.

  The company is introducing Google Checkout today, a service that will allow
  users to make purchases from online stores using payment and shipping
  information they keep on file with Google.

  Google's aim, said Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive, is to make it
  easier and faster for people to buy products advertised on Google - thus
  attracting more advertisers.

  "The goal here is to make it be one nanosecond from the time the customer
  decides to buy to the time the transaction is complete and the product is
  on the way," Mr. Schmidt said.

  For consumers, this sort of service, often referred to as an online wallet,
  is hardly new. Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo have offered similar wallets, which
  proved to have limited appeal. While the PayPal service of eBay has
  attracted widespread use, it offers additional features like the ability to
  transfer money from checking accounts.

  But for merchants, the service comes with a twist: Google will waive some
  or all of the transaction fees for companies that buy advertising from it.
  That may give the service a leg up on competitors like PayPal and several
  smaller companies that help online merchants accept credit cards.

  It will also add another entry to the list of businesses that have been
  shaken up by Google's innovations, a list that already includes publishing,
  advertising and desktop software.

  Google is charging merchants 20 cents plus 2 percent of the purchase price
  to process card transactions, less than most businesses pay for credit card
  processing. Banking industry executives say that credit card processors
  typically pay MasterCard and Visa a fee of 30 cents and 1.95 percent for
  every purchase, so Google will be subsidizing many transactions.

  What is more, for every $1 a company spends on search advertising, Google
  will waive the fees on $10 worth of purchases. Factoring in the 2 percent
  fee, that represents a rebate of at least 20 percent of advertising
  spending.

  Mr. Schmidt said the company was willing to lose money on transaction fees
  because it felt the package would increase advertising spending.

  "The math works because we can have lower prices and higher volume," he said.

  Google's decision to give free transaction processing to advertisers has
  the potential to disrupt its carefully cultivated electronic auction for ad
  placement. Google has worked hard to ensure that the auction treats all
  advertisers equally, sometimes to the dismay of big companies that are used
  to discounts for major purchases. It has not offered commissions to
  advertising agencies, as most media companies do.

  Online merchants that do not want to use Google Checkout "might be a little
  peeved," said Kevin Lee, chief executive of Did-it.com, a search
  advertising agency. "They might say if you give that credit to some people
  for credit card processing, give it to me for something else."

  Mr. Schmidt said Google had not considered this issue.

  While Google's tactics may be seen as aggressive competition, the company
  is unlikely to run afoul of antitrust laws because it does not have a
  monopoly in the market.

  Yahoo, the other main seller of advertising on search results, recently
  announced an alliance with eBay that among other things will encourage
  Yahoo advertisers to use PayPal for payment processing. PayPal will also be
  promoted as the online wallet for use on Yahoo services. Both companies
  declined to give financial details of the deal.

  Google expects that most sites that use Google Checkout will also continue
  to use their existing method of processing credit cards and may accept
  PayPal as well.

  Advertisements on Google.com from companies that accept Google Checkout
  will display a small image of a shopping cart. Clicking on the ad will take
  customers to the advertiser's Web site, as it does now. When customers
  decide to buy something, they will be offered the option to sign into
  Google Checkout and use the credit card and address information on file
  there. Customers that do not have accounts with Google will be encouraged
  to set them up.

  Google may get several additional benefits from the checkout service. It
  will encourage more users to register and give it personal data, allowing
  Google to display advertising based on specific attributes of the viewer.
  More broadly, the data the company gets from transactions could help it
  improve the way it chooses which advertising to show to which users. Google
  says it does not currently plan to use transaction data in this way.

  For merchants, one concern is whether Google's system, which is unfamiliar
  to users, will reduce the number of people who complete purchases on their
  sites, a measure known as the conversion rate.

  "You have people in your most valuable area and suddenly you are switching
  them off your site to something no one has ever done before," said John
  Bresee, the president of Backcountry.com, an online seller of sporting
  goods that has been testing Google Checkout. "The cost will be stunningly
  high, if they are not great at what they do."

  Mr. Bresee said Backcountry would have people watching the performance of
  Google Checkout around the clock.

  "If they convert at the same rate, and the fees are lower, we will put up
  the biggest Google Checkout button you have ever seen," he said.



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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jun 29 23:33:17 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:33:17 +0200
Subject: [selected.by.rael@rael-science.org: [rael-science] Blair laid
  bare: the article that may get you arrested]
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Source:  http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1129827.ece

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In the shadow of Winston Churchill's statue opposite the House of Commons, a
rather odd ritual has developed on Sunday afternoons. A small group of people
-
mostly young and dressed outlandishly - hold a tea party on the grass of
Parliament Square. A woman looking very much like Mary Poppins passes plates
of
frosted cakes and cookies, while other members of the party flourish blank
placards or, as they did on the afternoon I was there, attempt a game of
cricket.
Sometimes the police move in and arrest the picnickers, but on this occasion
the officers stood at a distance, presumably consulting on the question of
whether this was a demonstration or a non-demonstration. It is all rather
silly
and yet in Blair's Britain there is a kind of nobility in the amateurishness
and persistence of the gesture. This collection of oddballs, looking for all
the world as if they had stepped out of the Michelangelo Antonioni film Blow-
Up, are challenging a new law which says that no one may demonstrate within a
kilometre, or a little more than half a mile, of Parliament Square if they
have
not first acquired written permission from the Commissioner of the
Metropolitan
Police. This effectively places the entire centre of British government,
Whitehall and Trafalgar Square, off-limits to the protesters and marchers who
have traditionally brought their grievances to those in power without ever
having to ask a policeman's permission.
The non-demo demo, or tea party, is a legalistic response to the law. If
anything is written on the placards, or if someone makes a speech, then he or
she is immediately deemed to be in breach of the law and is arrested. The
device doesn't always work. After drinking tea in the square, a man named
Mark
Barrett was recently convicted of demonstrating. Two other protesters, Milan
Rai and Maya Evans, were charged after reading out the names of dead Iraqi
civilians at the Cenotaph, Britain's national war memorial, in Whitehall, a
few
hundred yards away.
On that dank spring afternoon I looked up at Churchill and reflected that he
almost certainly would have approved of these people insisting on their right
to demonstrate in front of his beloved Parliament. "If you will not fight for
the right," he once growled, "when you can easily win without bloodshed, if
you
will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come
to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and
only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may
have
to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish
than to live as slaves."
Churchill lived in far more testing times than ours, but he always revered
the
ancient tradition of Britain's "unwritten constitution". I imagined him
becoming flesh again and walking purposefully toward Downing Street - without
security, of course - there to address Tony Blair and his aides on their
sacred
duty as the guardians of Britain's Parliament and the people's rights.
For Blair, that youthful baby-boomer who came to power nine years ago as the
embodiment of democratic liberalism as well as the new spirit of optimism in
Britain, turns out to have an authoritarian streak that respects neither
those
rights nor, it seems, the independence of the elected representatives in
Parliament. And what is remarkable - in fact almost a historic phenomenon -
is
the harm his government has done to the unwritten British constitution in
those
nine years, without anyone really noticing, without the press objecting or
the
public mounting mass protests. At the inception of Cool Britannia, British
democracy became subject to a silent takeover.
Last year - rather late in the day, I must admit - I started to notice trends
in Blair's legislation which seemed to attack individual rights and freedoms,
to favour ministers (politicians appointed by the Prime Minister to run
departments of government) over the scrutiny of Parliament, and to put in
place
all the necessary laws for total surveillance of society.
There was nothing else to do but to go back and read the Acts - at least 15
of
them - and to write about them in my weekly column in The Observer. After
about
eight weeks, the Prime Minister privately let it be known that he was
displeased at being called authoritarian by me. Very soon I found myself in
the
odd position of conducting a formal e-mail exchange with him on the rule of
law, I sitting in my London home with nothing but Google and a stack of
legislation, the Prime Minister in No 10 with all the resources of government
at his disposal. Incidentally, I was assured that he had taken time out of
his
schedule so that he himself could compose the thunderous responses calling
for
action against terrorism, crime, and antisocial behaviour.
The day after the exchange was published, the grudging truce between the
Government and me was broken. Blair gave a press conference, in which he
attacked media exaggeration, and the then Home Secretary, Charles Clarke,
weighed in with a speech at the London School of Economics naming me and two
other journalists and complaining about "the pernicious and even dangerous
poison" in the media.
So, I guess this column comes with a health warning from the British
Government, but please don't pay it any mind. When governments attack the
media, it is often a sign that the media have for once gotten something
right.
I might add that this column also comes with the more serious warning that,
if
rights have been eroded in the land once called "the Mother of Parliaments",
it
can happen in any country where a government actively promotes the fear of
terrorism and crime and uses it to persuade people that they must exchange
their freedom for security.
Blair's campaign against rights contained in the Rule of Law - that is, that
ancient amalgam of common law, convention, and the opinion of experts, which
makes up one half of the British constitution - is often well concealed. Many
of the measures have been slipped through under legislation that appears to
address problems the public is concerned about. For instance, the law banning
people from demonstrating within one kilometre of Parliament is contained in
the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act of 2005. The right to protest
freely
has been affected by the Terrorism Act of 2000, which allows police to stop
and
search people in a designated area - which can be anywhere - and by
antisocial
behaviour laws, which allow police to issue an order banning someone from a
particular activity, waving a banner, for instance. If a person breaks that
order, he or she risks a prison sentence of up to five years. Likewise, the
Protection from Harassment Act of 1997 - designed to combat stalkers and
campaigns of intimidation - is being used to control protest. A woman who
sent
two e-mails to a pharmaceutical company politely asking a member of the staff
not to work with a company that did testing on animals was prosecuted for
"repeated conduct" in sending an e-mail twice, which the Act defines as
harassment.
There is a demonic versatility to Blair's laws. Kenneth Clarke, a former
Conservative chancellor of the exchequer and home secretary, despairs at the
way they are being used. "What is assured as being harmless when it is
introduced gets used more and more in a way which is sometimes alarming," he
says. His colleague David Davis, the shadow Home Secretary, is astonished by
Blair's Labour Party: "If I had gone on the radio 15 years ago and said that
a
Labour government would limit your right to trial by jury, would limit - in
some cases eradicate - habeas corpus, constrain your right of freedom of
speech, they would have locked me up."
Indeed they would. But there's more, so much in fact that it is difficult to
grasp the scope of the campaign against British freedoms. But here goes. The
right to a jury trial is removed in complicated fraud cases and where there
is
a fear of jury tampering. The right not to be tried twice for the same
offence
- the law of double jeopardy - no longer exists. The presumption of innocence
is compromised, especially in antisocial behaviour legislation, which also
makes hearsay admissible as evidence. The right not to be punished unless a
court decides that the law has been broken is removed in the system of
control
orders by which a terrorist suspect is prevented from moving about freely and
using the phone and internet, without at any stage being allowed to hear the
evidence against him - house arrest in all but name.
Freedom of speech is attacked by Section Five of the Criminal Justice and
Public Order Act, which preceded Blair's Government, but which is now being
used to patrol opinion. In Oxford last year a 21-year-old graduate of Balliol
College named Sam Brown drunkenly shouted in the direction of two mounted
police officers, "Mate, you know your horse is gay. I hope you don't have a
problem with that." He was given one of the new, on-the-spot fines - #80 -
which he refused to pay, with the result that he was taken to court. Some 10
months later the Crown Prosecution Service dropped its case that he had made
homophobic remarks likely to cause disorder.
There are other people the police have investigated but failed to prosecute:
the columnist Cristina Odone, who made a barely disparaging aside about Welsh
people on TV (she referred to them as "little Welshies"); and the head of the
Muslim Council of Great Britain, Sir Iqbal Sacranie, who said that homosexual
practices were "not acceptable" and civil partnerships between gays were
"harmful".
The remarks may be a little inappropriate, but I find myself regretting that
my
countrymen's opinions - their bloody-mindedness, their truculence in the face
of authority, their love of insult and robust debate - are being edged out by
this fussy, hairsplitting, second-guessing, politically correct state that
Blair is trying to build with what he calls his "respect agenda".
Do these tiny cuts to British freedom amount to much more than a few people
being told to be more considerate? Shami Chakrabarti, the petite whirlwind
who
runs Liberty believes that "the small measures of increasing ferocity add up
over time to a society of a completely different flavour". That is exactly
the
phrase I was looking for. Britain is not a police state - the fact that Tony
Blair felt it necessary to answer me by e-mail proves that - but it is
becoming
a very different place under his rule, and all sides of the House of Commons
agree. The Liberal Democrats' spokesman on human rights and civil liberties,
David Heath, is sceptical about Blair's use of the terrorist threat. "The
age-
old technique of any authoritarian or repressive government has always been
to
exaggerate the terrorist threat to justify their actions," he says. "I am not
one to underestimate the threat of terrorism, but I think it has been used to
justify measures which have no relevance to attacking terrorism effectively."
And Bob Marshall-Andrews - a Labour MP who, like quite a number of others on
Blair's side of the House of Commons, is deeply worried about the tone of
government - says of his boss, "Underneath, there is an unstable
authoritarianism which has seeped into the [Labour] Party."
Chakrabarti, who once worked as a lawyer in the Home Office, explains: "If
you
throw live frogs into a pan of boiling water, they will sensibly jump out and
save themselves. If you put them in a pan of cold water and gently apply heat
until the water boils they will lie in the pan and boil to death. It's like
that." In Blair you see the champion frog boiler of modern times. He is also
a
lawyer who suffers acute impatience with the processes of the law. In one of
his e-mails to me he painted a lurid - and often true - picture of the
delinquency in some of Britain's poorer areas, as well as the helplessness of
the victims. His response to the problem of societal breakdown was to invent
a
new category of restraint called the antisocial behaviour order, or Asbo.
"Please speak to the victims of this menace," he wrote. "They are people
whose
lives have been turned into a daily hell. Suppose they live next door to
someone whose kids are out of control: who play their music loud until 2 am;
who vilify anyone who asks them to stop; who are often into drugs or alcohol?
Or visit a park where children can't play because of needles, used condoms,
and
hooligans hanging around.
"It is true that, in theory, each of these acts is a crime for which the
police
could prosecute. In practice, they don't. It would involve in each case a
disproportionate amount of time, money and commitment for what would be, for
any single act, a low-level sentence. Instead, they can now use an Asbo or a
parenting order or other measures that attack not an offence but behaviour
that
causes harm and distress to people, and impose restrictions on the person
doing
it, breach of which would mean they go to prison."
How the Asbo works is that a complaint is lodged with a magistrates' court
which names an individual or parent of a child who is said to be the source
of
antisocial behaviour. The actions which cause the trouble do not have to be
illegal in themselves before an Asbo is granted and the court insists on the
cessation of that behaviour - which may be nothing more than walking a dog,
playing music, or shouting in the street. It is important to understand that
the standards of evidence are much lower here than in a normal court hearing
because hearsay - that is, rumour and gossip - is admissible. If a person is
found to have broken an Asbo, he or she is liable to a maximum of five years
in
prison, regardless of whether the act is in itself illegal. So, in effect,
the
person is being punished for disobedience to the state.
Blair is untroubled by the precedent that this law might offer a real live
despot, or by the fact that Asbos are being used to stifle legitimate
protest,
and indeed, in his exchange with me, he seemed to suggest that he was
considering a kind of super-Asbo for more serious criminals to "harry, hassle
and hound them until they give up or leave the country". It was significant
that nowhere in this rant did he mention the process of law or a court.
He offers something new: not a police state but a controlled state, in which
he
seeks to alter radically the political and philosophical context of the
criminal-justice system. "I believe we require a profound rebalancing of the
civil liberties debate," he said in a speech in May. "The issue is not
whether
we care about civil liberties but what that means in the early 21st century."
He now wants legislation to limit powers of British courts to interpret the
Human Rights Act. The Act, imported from the European Convention on Human
Rights, was originally inspired by Winston Churchill, who had suggested it as
a
means to entrench certain rights in Europe after the war.
Blair says that this thinking springs from the instincts of his generation,
which is "hard on behaviour and soft on lifestyle." Actually, I was born six
weeks before Blair, 53 years ago, and I can categorically say that he does
not
speak for all my generation. But I agree with his other self-description, in
which he claims to be a moderniser, because he tends to deny the importance
of
history and tradition, particularly when it comes to Parliament, whose powers
of scrutiny have suffered dreadfully under his government.
There can be few duller documents than the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004 or
the Inquiries Act of 2005, which is perhaps just as well for the Government,
for both vastly extend the arbitrary powers of ministers while making them
less
answerable to Parliament. The Civil Contingencies Act, for instance, allows a
minister to declare a state of emergency in which assets can be seized
without
compensation, courts may be set up, assemblies may be banned, and people may
be
moved from, or held in, particular areas, all on the belief that an emergency
might be about to occur. Only after seven days does Parliament get the chance
to assess the situation. If the minister is wrong, or has acted in bad faith,
he cannot be punished.
One response might be to look into his actions by holding a government
investigation under the Inquiries Act, but then the minister may set its
terms,
suppress evidence, close the hearing to the public, and terminate it without
explanation. Under this Act, the reports of government inquiries are
presented
to ministers, not, as they once were, to Parliament. This fits very well into
a
pattern where the executive branch demands more and more unfettered power, as
does Charles Clarke's suggestion that the press should be subject to
statutory
regulation.
I realise that it would be testing your patience to go too deeply into the
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, which the Government has been trying
to
smuggle through Parliament this year, but let me just say that its original
draft would have allowed ministers to make laws without reference to elected
representatives.
Imagine the President of the United States trying to neuter the Congress in
this manner, so flagrantly robbing it of its power. Yet until recently all
this
has occurred in Britain with barely a whisper of coverage in the British
media.
Blair is the lowest he has ever been in the polls, but he is still
energetically fighting off his rival, Gordon Brown, with a cabinet reshuffle
and a stout defence of his record. In an e-mail to me, Blair denied that he
was
trying to abolish parliamentary democracy, then swiftly moved to say how out
of
touch the political and legal establishments were, which is perhaps the way
that he justifies these actions to himself. It was striking how he got one of
his own pieces of legislation wrong when discussing control orders - or house
arrest - for terrorist suspects in relation to the European Convention on
Human
Rights, which is incorporated into British law under the Human Rights Act.
"The
point about the Human Rights Act," he declared, "is that it does allow the
courts to strike down the act of our 'sovereign Parliament'." As Marcel
Berlins, the legal columnist of The Guardian, remarked, "It does no such
thing."
How can the Prime Minister get such a fundamentally important principle
concerning human rights so utterly wrong, especially when it so exercised
both
sides of the House of Commons? The answer is that he is probably not a man
for
detail, but Charles Moore, the former editor of The Daily Telegraph, now a
columnist and the official biographer of Margaret Thatcher, believes that New
Labour contains strands of rather sinister political DNA.
"My theory is that the Blairites are Marxist in process, though not in
ideology
- well, actually it is more Leninist." It is true that several senior
ministers
had socialist periods. Charles Clarke, John Reid, recently anointed Home
Secretary, and Jack Straw, the former foreign secretary, were all on the
extreme left, if not self-declared Leninists. Moore's implication is that the
sacred Blair project of modernising Britain has become a kind of ersatz
ideology and that this is more important to Blair than any of the country's
political or legal institutions. "He's very shallow," says Moore. "He's got a
few things he wants to do and he rather impressively pursues them."
One of these is the national ID card scheme, opposition to which brings
together such disparate figures as the Earl of Onslow, a Conservative peer of
the realm; Commander George Churchill-Coleman, the famous head of New
Scotland
Yard's anti-terrorist unit during the worst years of IRA bombings; and Neil
Tennant, one half of the hugely successful pop group Pet Shop Boys.
The idea of the ID card seems sensible in the age of terrorism, identity
theft,
and illegal immigration until you realise that the centralised database - the
National Identity Register - will log and store details of every important
action in a person's life. When the ID card is swiped as someone identifies
himself at, say, a bank, hospital, pharmacy, or insurance company, those
details are retained and may be inspected by, among others, the police, tax
authorities, customs, and MI5, the domestic intelligence service. The system
will locate and track the entire adult population. If you put it together
with
the national system of licence-plate-recognition cameras, which is about to
go
live on British highways and in town centres, and understand that the ID
card,
under a new regulation, will also carry details of a person's medical
records,
you realise that the state will be able to keep tabs on anyone it chooses and
find out about the most private parts of a person's life.
Despite the cost of the ID card system - estimated by the Government as being
about #5.8bn and by the London School of Economics as being between #10bn and
#19bn - few think that it will attack the problems of terrorism and ID theft.
George Churchill-Coleman described it to me as an absolute waste of time.
"You
and I will carry them because we are upright citizens. But a terrorist isn't
going to carry [his own]. He will be carrying yours."
Neil Tennant, a former Labour donor who has stopped giving money to and
voting
for Labour because of ID cards, says: "My specific fear is that we are going
to
create a society where a policeman stops me on the way to Waitrose on the
King's Road and says, 'Can I see your identity card?' I don't see why I
should
have to do that." Tennant says he may leave the country if a compulsory ID
card
comes into force. "We can't live in a total-surveillance society," he adds.
"It
is to disrespect us."
Defending myself against claims of paranoia and the attacks of Labour's
former
home secretary, I have simply referred people to the statute book of British
law, where the evidence of what I have been saying is there for all to see.
But
two other factors in this silent takeover are not so visible. The first is a
profound change in the relationship between the individual and the state.
Nothing demonstrates the sense of the state's entitlement over the average
citizen more than the new laws that came in at the beginning of the year and
allow anyone to be arrested for any crime - even dropping litter. And here's
the crucial point. Once a person is arrested he or she may be fingerprinted
and
photographed by the police and have a DNA sample removed with an oral swab -
by
force if necessary. And this is before that person has been found guilty of
any
crime, whether it be dropping litter or shooting someone.
So much for the presumption of innocence, but there again we have no reason
to
be surprised. Last year, in his annual Labour Party conference speech, Blair
said this: "The whole of our system starts from the proposition that its duty
is to protect the innocent from being wrongly convicted. Don't misunderstand
me. That must be the duty of any criminal justice system. But surely our
primary duty should be to allow law-abiding people to live in safety. It
means
a complete change of thinking. It doesn't mean abandoning human rights. It
means deciding whose come first." The point of human rights, as Churchill
noted, is that they treat the innocent, the suspect, and the convict equally:
"These are the symbols, in the treatment of crime and criminals, which mark
and
measure the stored-up strength of a nation, and are a sign and proof of the
living virtue in it."
The DNA database is part of this presumption of guilt. Naturally the police
support it, because it has obvious benefits in solving crimes, but it should
be
pointed out to any country considering the compulsory retention of the DNA of
innocent people that in Britain 38 per cent of all black men are represented
on
the database, while just 10 percent of white men are. There will be an
inbuilt
racism in the system until - heaven forbid - we all have our DNA taken and
recorded on our ID cards.
Baroness Kennedy, a lawyer and Labour peer, is one of the most vocal critics
of
Blair's new laws. In the annual James Cameron Memorial Lecture at the City
University, London, in April she gave a devastating account of her own
party's
waywardness. She accused government ministers of seeing themselves as the
embodiment of the state, rather than, as I would put it, the servants of the
state.
"The common law is built on moral wisdom," she said, "grounded in the
experience of ages, acknowledging that governments can abuse power and when a
person is on trial the burden of proof must be on the state and no one's
liberty should be removed without evidence of the highest standard. By
removing
trial by jury and seeking to detain people on civil Asbo orders as a pre-
emptive strike, by introducing ID cards, the Government is creating new
paradigms of state power. Being required to produce your papers to show who
you
are is a public manifestation of who is in control. What we seem to have
forgotten is that the state is there courtesy of us and we are not here
courtesy the state."
The second invisible change that has occurred in Britain is best expressed by
Simon Davies, a fellow at the London School of Economics, who did pioneering
work on the ID card scheme and then suffered a wounding onslaught from the
Government when it did not agree with his findings. The worrying thing, he
suggests, is that the instinctive sense of personal liberty has been lost in
the British people. "We have reached that stage now where we have gone almost
as far as it is possible to go in establishing the infrastructures of control
and surveillance within an open and free environment," he says. "That
architecture only has to work and the citizens only have to become compliant
for the Government to have control.
"That compliance is what scares me the most. People are resigned to their
fate.
They've bought the Government's arguments for the public good. There is a
generational failure of memory about individual rights. Whenever Government
says that some intrusion is necessary in the public interest, an entire
generation has no clue how to respond, not even intuitively And that is the
great lesson that other countries must learn. The US must never lose sight of
its traditions of individual freedom."
Those who understand what has gone on in Britain have the sense of being in
one
of those nightmares where you are crying out to warn someone of impending
danger, but they cannot hear you. And yet I do take some hope from the
picnickers of Parliament Square. May the numbers of these young eccentrics
swell and swell over the coming months, for their actions are a sign that the
spirit of liberty and dogged defiance are not yet dead in Britain.
This article is taken from the current issue of Vanity Fair
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In another example of the Government's draconian stance on political protest,
Steven Jago, 36, a management accountant, yesterday became the latest person
to
be charged under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act.
On 18 June, Mr Jago carried a placard in Whitehall bearing the George Orwell
quote: "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary
act." In his possession, he had several copies of an article in the American
magazine Vanity Fair headlined "Blair's Big Brother Legacy", which were
confiscated by the police. "The implication that I read from this statement
at
the time was that I was being accused of handing out subversive material,"
said
Mr Jago. Yesterday, the author, Henry Porter, the magazine's London editor,
wrote to Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, expressing
concern that the freedom of the press would be severely curtailed if such
articles were used in evidence under the Act.
Mr Porter said: "The police told Mr Jago this was 'politically motivated'
material, and suggested it was evidence of his desire to break the law. I
therefore seek your assurance that possession of Vanity Fair within a
designated area is not regarded as 'politically motivated' and evidence of
conscious law-breaking."
Scotland Yard has declined to comment.
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The chef was arrested at the Cenotaph in Whitehall reading out the names of
97
British soldiers killed in Iraq. She was the first person to be convicted
under
section 132 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act, which requires
protesters to obtain police permission before demonstrating within one
kilometre of Parliament.
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The Greenham Common veterans were arrested in April by Ministry of Defence
police after walking 15ft across the sentry line at the US military base at
Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire. Protesters who breach any one of 10 military
bases across Britain can be jailed for a year or fined #5,000.
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Mr Haw has become a fixture in Parliament Square with placards berating Tony
Blair and President Bush. The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 was
designed mainly with his vigil in mind. After being arrested, he refused to
enter a plea. However, Bow Street magistrates' court entered a not guilty
plea
on his behalf in May.
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The octogenarian heckled Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, during his speech
to the Labour Party conference. He shouted "That's a lie" as Mr Straw
justified
keeping British troops in Iraq. He was manhandled by stewards and ejected
from
the Brighton Centre. He was briefly detained under Section 44 of the 2000
Terrorism Act.
In the shadow of Winston Churchill's statue opposite the House of Commons, a
rather odd ritual has developed on Sunday afternoons. A small group of people
-
mostly young and dressed outlandishly - hold a tea party on the grass of
Parliament Square. A woman looking very much like Mary Poppins passes plates
of
frosted cakes and cookies, while other members of the party flourish blank
placards or, as they did on the afternoon I was there, attempt a game of
cricket.
Sometimes the police move in and arrest the picnickers, but on this occasion
the officers stood at a distance, presumably consulting on the question of
whether this was a demonstration or a non-demonstration. It is all rather
silly
and yet in Blair's Britain there is a kind of nobility in the amateurishness
and persistence of the gesture. This collection of oddballs, looking for all
the world as if they had stepped out of the Michelangelo Antonioni film Blow-
Up, are challenging a new law which says that no one may demonstrate within a
kilometre, or a little more than half a mile, of Parliament Square if they
have
not first acquired written permission from the Commissioner of the
Metropolitan
Police. This effectively places the entire centre of British government,
Whitehall and Trafalgar Square, off-limits to the protesters and marchers who
have traditionally brought their grievances to those in power without ever
having to ask a policeman's permission.
The non-demo demo, or tea party, is a legalistic response to the law. If
anything is written on the placards, or if someone makes a speech, then he or
she is immediately deemed to be in breach of the law and is arrested. The
device doesn't always work. After drinking tea in the square, a man named
Mark
Barrett was recently convicted of demonstrating. Two other protesters, Milan
Rai and Maya Evans, were charged after reading out the names of dead Iraqi
civilians at the Cenotaph, Britain's national war memorial, in Whitehall, a
few
hundred yards away.
On that dank spring afternoon I looked up at Churchill and reflected that he
almost certainly would have approved of these people insisting on their right
to demonstrate in front of his beloved Parliament. "If you will not fight for
the right," he once growled, "when you can easily win without bloodshed, if
you
will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come
to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and
only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may
have
to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish
than to live as slaves."
Churchill lived in far more testing times than ours, but he always revered
the
ancient tradition of Britain's "unwritten constitution". I imagined him
becoming flesh again and walking purposefully toward Downing Street - without
security, of course - there to address Tony Blair and his aides on their
sacred
duty as the guardians of Britain's Parliament and the people's rights.
For Blair, that youthful baby-boomer who came to power nine years ago as the
embodiment of democratic liberalism as well as the new spirit of optimism in
Britain, turns out to have an authoritarian streak that respects neither
those
rights nor, it seems, the independence of the elected representatives in
Parliament. And what is remarkable - in fact almost a historic phenomenon -
is
the harm his government has done to the unwritten British constitution in
those
nine years, without anyone really noticing, without the press objecting or
the
public mounting mass protests. At the inception of Cool Britannia, British
democracy became subject to a silent takeover.
Last year - rather late in the day, I must admit - I started to notice trends
in Blair's legislation which seemed to attack individual rights and freedoms,
to favour ministers (politicians appointed by the Prime Minister to run
departments of government) over the scrutiny of Parliament, and to put in
place
all the necessary laws for total surveillance of society.
There was nothing else to do but to go back and read the Acts - at least 15
of
them - and to write about them in my weekly column in The Observer. After
about
eight weeks, the Prime Minister privately let it be known that he was
displeased at being called authoritarian by me. Very soon I found myself in
the
odd position of conducting a formal e-mail exchange with him on the rule of
law, I sitting in my London home with nothing but Google and a stack of
legislation, the Prime Minister in No 10 with all the resources of government
at his disposal. Incidentally, I was assured that he had taken time out of
his
schedule so that he himself could compose the thunderous responses calling
for
action against terrorism, crime, and antisocial behaviour.
The day after the exchange was published, the grudging truce between the
Government and me was broken. Blair gave a press conference, in which he
attacked media exaggeration, and the then Home Secretary, Charles Clarke,
weighed in with a speech at the London School of Economics naming me and two
other journalists and complaining about "the pernicious and even dangerous
poison" in the media.
So, I guess this column comes with a health warning from the British
Government, but please don't pay it any mind. When governments attack the
media, it is often a sign that the media have for once gotten something
right.
I might add that this column also comes with the more serious warning that,
if
rights have been eroded in the land once called "the Mother of Parliaments",
it
can happen in any country where a government actively promotes the fear of
terrorism and crime and uses it to persuade people that they must exchange
their freedom for security.
Blair's campaign against rights contained in the Rule of Law - that is, that
ancient amalgam of common law, convention, and the opinion of experts, which
makes up one half of the British constitution - is often well concealed. Many
of the measures have been slipped through under legislation that appears to
address problems the public is concerned about. For instance, the law banning
people from demonstrating within one kilometre of Parliament is contained in
the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act of 2005. The right to protest
freely
has been affected by the Terrorism Act of 2000, which allows police to stop
and
search people in a designated area - which can be anywhere - and by
antisocial
behaviour laws, which allow police to issue an order banning someone from a
particular activity, waving a banner, for instance. If a person breaks that
order, he or she risks a prison sentence of up to five years. Likewise, the
Protection from Harassment Act of 1997 - designed to combat stalkers and
campaigns of intimidation - is being used to control protest. A woman who
sent
two e-mails to a pharmaceutical company politely asking a member of the staff
not to work with a company that did testing on animals was prosecuted for
"repeated conduct" in sending an e-mail twice, which the Act defines as
harassment.
There is a demonic versatility to Blair's laws. Kenneth Clarke, a former
Conservative chancellor of the exchequer and home secretary, despairs at the
way they are being used. "What is assured as being harmless when it is
introduced gets used more and more in a way which is sometimes alarming," he
says. His colleague David Davis, the shadow Home Secretary, is astonished by
Blair's Labour Party: "If I had gone on the radio 15 years ago and said that
a
Labour government would limit your right to trial by jury, would limit - in
some cases eradicate - habeas corpus, constrain your right of freedom of
speech, they would have locked me up."
Indeed they would. But there's more, so much in fact that it is difficult to
grasp the scope of the campaign against British freedoms. But here goes. The
right to a jury trial is removed in complicated fraud cases and where there
is
a fear of jury tampering. The right not to be tried twice for the same
offence
- the law of double jeopardy - no longer exists. The presumption of innocence
is compromised, especially in antisocial behaviour legislation, which also
makes hearsay admissible as evidence. The right not to be punished unless a
court decides that the law has been broken is removed in the system of
control
orders by which a terrorist suspect is prevented from moving about freely and
using the phone and internet, without at any stage being allowed to hear the
evidence against him - house arrest in all but name.
Freedom of speech is attacked by Section Five of the Criminal Justice and
Public Order Act, which preceded Blair's Government, but which is now being
used to patrol opinion. In Oxford last year a 21-year-old graduate of Balliol
College named Sam Brown drunkenly shouted in the direction of two mounted
police officers, "Mate, you know your horse is gay. I hope you don't have a
problem with that." He was given one of the new, on-the-spot fines - #80 -
which he refused to pay, with the result that he was taken to court. Some 10
months later the Crown Prosecution Service dropped its case that he had made
homophobic remarks likely to cause disorder.
There are other people the police have investigated but failed to prosecute:
the columnist Cristina Odone, who made a barely disparaging aside about Welsh
people on TV (she referred to them as "little Welshies"); and the head of the
Muslim Council of Great Britain, Sir Iqbal Sacranie, who said that homosexual
practices were "not acceptable" and civil partnerships between gays were
"harmful".
The remarks may be a little inappropriate, but I find myself regretting that
my
countrymen's opinions - their bloody-mindedness, their truculence in the face
of authority, their love of insult and robust debate - are being edged out by
this fussy, hairsplitting, second-guessing, politically correct state that
Blair is trying to build with what he calls his "respect agenda".
Do these tiny cuts to British freedom amount to much more than a few people
being told to be more considerate? Shami Chakrabarti, the petite whirlwind
who
runs Liberty believes that "the small measures of increasing ferocity add up
over time to a society of a completely different flavour". That is exactly
the
phrase I was looking for. Britain is not a police state - the fact that Tony
Blair felt it necessary to answer me by e-mail proves that - but it is
becoming
a very different place under his rule, and all sides of the House of Commons
agree. The Liberal Democrats' spokesman on human rights and civil liberties,
David Heath, is sceptical about Blair's use of the terrorist threat. "The
age-
old technique of any authoritarian or repressive government has always been
to
exaggerate the terrorist threat to justify their actions," he says. "I am not
one to underestimate the threat of terrorism, but I think it has been used to
justify measures which have no relevance to attacking terrorism effectively."
And Bob Marshall-Andrews - a Labour MP who, like quite a number of others on
Blair's side of the House of Commons, is deeply worried about the tone of
government - says of his boss, "Underneath, there is an unstable
authoritarianism which has seeped into the [Labour] Party."
Chakrabarti, who once worked as a lawyer in the Home Office, explains: "If
you
throw live frogs into a pan of boiling water, they will sensibly jump out and
save themselves. If you put them in a pan of cold water and gently apply heat
until the water boils they will lie in the pan and boil to death. It's like
that." In Blair you see the champion frog boiler of modern times. He is also
a
lawyer who suffers acute impatience with the processes of the law. In one of
his e-mails to me he painted a lurid - and often true - picture of the
delinquency in some of Britain's poorer areas, as well as the helplessness of
the victims. His response to the problem of societal breakdown was to invent
a
new category of restraint called the antisocial behaviour order, or Asbo.
"Please speak to the victims of this menace," he wrote. "They are people
whose
lives have been turned into a daily hell. Suppose they live next door to
someone whose kids are out of control: who play their music loud until 2 am;
who vilify anyone who asks them to stop; who are often into drugs or alcohol?
Or visit a park where children can't play because of needles, used condoms,
and
hooligans hanging around.
"It is true that, in theory, each of these acts is a crime for which the
police
could prosecute. In practice, they don't. It would involve in each case a
disproportionate amount of time, money and commitment for what would be, for
any single act, a low-level sentence. Instead, they can now use an Asbo or a
parenting order or other measures that attack not an offence but behaviour
that
causes harm and distress to people, and impose restrictions on the person
doing
it, breach of which would mean they go to prison."
How the Asbo works is that a complaint is lodged with a magistrates' court
which names an individual or parent of a child who is said to be the source
of
antisocial behaviour. The actions which cause the trouble do not have to be
illegal in themselves before an Asbo is granted and the court insists on the
cessation of that behaviour - which may be nothing more than walking a dog,
playing music, or shouting in the street. It is important to understand that
the standards of evidence are much lower here than in a normal court hearing
because hearsay - that is, rumour and gossip - is admissible. If a person is
found to have broken an Asbo, he or she is liable to a maximum of five years
in
prison, regardless of whether the act is in itself illegal. So, in effect,
the
person is being punished for disobedience to the state.
Blair is untroubled by the precedent that this law might offer a real live
despot, or by the fact that Asbos are being used to stifle legitimate
protest,
and indeed, in his exchange with me, he seemed to suggest that he was
considering a kind of super-Asbo for more serious criminals to "harry, hassle
and hound them until they give up or leave the country". It was significant
that nowhere in this rant did he mention the process of law or a court.
He offers something new: not a police state but a controlled state, in which
he
seeks to alter radically the political and philosophical context of the
criminal-justice system. "I believe we require a profound rebalancing of the
civil liberties debate," he said in a speech in May. "The issue is not
whether
we care about civil liberties but what that means in the early 21st century."
He now wants legislation to limit powers of British courts to interpret the
Human Rights Act. The Act, imported from the European Convention on Human
Rights, was originally inspired by Winston Churchill, who had suggested it as
a
means to entrench certain rights in Europe after the war.
Blair says that this thinking springs from the instincts of his generation,
which is "hard on behaviour and soft on lifestyle." Actually, I was born six
weeks before Blair, 53 years ago, and I can categorically say that he does
not
speak for all my generation. But I agree with his other self-description, in
which he claims to be a moderniser, because he tends to deny the importance
of
history and tradition, particularly when it comes to Parliament, whose powers
of scrutiny have suffered dreadfully under his government.



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From dave at farber.net  Fri Jun 30 05:40:08 2006
From: dave at farber.net (David Farber)
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:40:08 -0400
Subject: [IP] The Newbie's Guide to Detecting the NSA
Message-ID: <mailman.1801.1576007694.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>



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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jun 29 23:46:31 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:46:31 +0200
Subject: [James.Hughes@trincoll.edu: [technoliberation] Vernor Vinge on
  computers, freedom and privacy]
Message-ID: <20060630064631.GX26630@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jun 30 01:40:33 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:40:33 +0200
Subject: /. [NH Man Arrested for Videotaping Police]
Message-ID: <20060630084033.GZ26630@leitl.org>

Not so very reversible, the panopticon, eh, Brin?

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/29/188221
Posted by: Zonk, on 2006-06-29 19:27:00

   macinrack writes to mention a story about a New Hampshire man who was
   [1]arrested for videotaping police on his doorstep, using a fairly
   standard security camera system. He was officially charged with 'two
   felony counts of violating state eavesdropping and wiretap law by
   using an electronic device.' From the article: "The security cameras
   record sound and audio directly to a videocassette recorder inside the
   house, and the Gannons posted warnings about the system, Janet Gannon
   said. On Tuesday night, Michael Gannon brought a videocassette to the
   police department, and asked to speak with someone in 'public
   relations,' his wife said and police reported. Gannon wanted to lodge
   a complaint against Karlis, who had come to the family's house while
   investigating their sons, Janet Gannon said. She said Karlis showed up
   late at night, was rude, and refused to leave when they asked him."

References

   1.
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060629/NEWS01/106
290121

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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jun 30 05:48:09 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:48:09 +0200
Subject: [dave@farber.net: [IP] The Newbie's Guide to Detecting the NSA]
Message-ID: <20060630124809.GQ26630@leitl.org>

Which idiot would assume his specific location is excluded? Especially,
if it's a long-distance (transcontinental) link?

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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jun 30 09:45:05 2006
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:45:05 +0200
Subject: /. [Congress May Add Record Requirements to MySpace]
Message-ID: <20060630164505.GI26630@leitl.org>

Whee!

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/30/1336243
Posted by: Zonk, on 2006-06-30 14:26:00

   An anonymous reader writes "CNet is reporting that Congress may be
   working to [1]extend the record retention requirements they're already
   working on for ISPs to social networking sites. Sites such as MySpace
   or FaceBook would be required to hold onto content access records for
   an unspecified length of time." From the article: "In those meetings,
   Justice Department representatives went beyond the argument that data
   retention was necessary to protect children--and claimed it would aid
   in terrorism investigations as well. During Wednesday's hearing,
   politicians also claimed that social-networking sites were not doing
   enough to verify that their users who claimed to be a certain age were
   telling the truth. (Recent news reports have said that sex predators
   are using MySpace and similar sites to meet up with teens.)"

References

   1.
http://news.com.com/Congress+targets+social-networking+sites/2100-1028-608957
4.html?part=dht&tag=nl.e433

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