Posted on 11/24/2001 8:32:51 PM PST by OKCSubmariner
The FBI is developing a kind of trojan horse software that they can use to intercept voice-over-net communications. Presently, they can tap phones, and they can capture computer keystrokes, but they can't listen in to voice communications over the net. Enter the "Magic Lantern".
It's part of a wider FBI project called "Cyber Knight." Cyber Knight would allow investigators to secretly install over the Internet powerful eavesdropping software that records every keystroke on a person's computer, according to people familiar with the effort. Magic Lantern would let them listen in to voice over data communications.
Magic Lantern could be installed over the Internet by tricking a person into double-clicking an e-mail attachment or by exploiting some of the same weaknesses in popular commercial software that allow hackers to break into computers. That is what a "Trojan Horse" is.
Criminals, Terrorists and Foreign Spies
At least one antivirus software company, McAfee Corp., contacted the FBI on Wednesday to ensure its software wouldn't inadvertently detect the bureau's snooping software and alert a criminal suspect. The FBI software could be used with a court order against criminals, terrorists or foreign spies.
Who would qualify? According to a flyer issued by the FBI, someone who fits a terrorist profile would include "Doomsday Cult-Type Groups".
Fitting The Profile
The FBI identifies what it calls "Super Patriots" and describes as "'defenders' of the US Constitution against federal government and UN" as being among those who fit the terrorist profile. That is where this gets scary. I fit the profile. I am a fundamentalist. I believe we are living in the last days. I am a patriot who believes in the Constitution. I believe the UN is the forerunner of the global government of antichrist.
It Couldn't Happen Here
The Apostle John describes the government under antichrist. He says it will be global. [Rev 13:8] It will derive its power from control of a global economy. [Rev 13:17] It will slaughter all those who believe in Jesus. [Rev 13:7]. It will practice a form of counterfeit Christianity [Rev 13:11] that Paul describes as 'having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof' [2 Timothy 3:5].
The United States is not the whole world. It is actually only a tiny part of it, representing less than 5% of the global population. But America has always served as a benchmark for individual liberty and a restrainer of those who would steal that liberty.
A Christian Nation, Despite the Naysayers
Despite what the liberals say, America is and has always been a nation that functions under Christian principles, even when called by a different name. Less now than at its foundation, but still, America remains the most Christian nation on the face of the earth.
Even if it falls far short of what it could be, it is still head and shoulders above any other on that score. Most Americans reading John's description of one world under antichrist dismiss it as something that 'can't happen here'. And it couldn't, even a decade ago.
What It All Means
America has steadily been eroding those elements of our freedoms that would have presented a stumbling block to the antichrist. The reasons sound noble enough. Eliminating terror and terror networks worldwide is a noble cause. It seems right. "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death," wrote Solomon under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in Proverbs 14:12. And that same Spirit felt that one fact important enough to repeat in Proverbs 16:25.
The Evolution of America
This is America -- still the freest nation the world has ever known. But it is evolving, forced into compromising those freedoms by circumstances beyond its control. That evolution is embodied by such things as the Operation CyberKnight, Operation Magic Lantern, Project Echelon, Project Carnivore, the Inslaw Project and others.
A Tracked Society
Those projects are transforming us into a tracked society. A society in which membership in the 'wrong' group, adherence to the 'wrong' values, belief in the 'wrong' theology can mean social death. How close is it? Consider what would happen if your social security account was closed. Without a Social Security number, you couldn't work, have a bank account, get a mortgage, or even rent an apartment. You couldn't earn a living. In short, you would be socially dead.
The Specter of Social Death
Membership in the wrong group today -- in America! -- can easily result in social death. Under antichrist, John says membership in the wrong group -- those who do not join his system symbolized by accepting a "mark" become socially dead. "And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." [Rev 13:17]. It couldn't happen here only a decade ago. For 1900 years it couldn't happen anywhere.
John was writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God Who knew it would happen everywhere, one day, in a single generation, somewhere in time. This generation. It isn't here yet. But it is fast approaching. You'd have to be blind to not see it coming. If it is this close, the Rapture of the Church is even closer. Where do you stand with Jesus? Time is running out. Click on the Salvation? link at the bottom of the page to find out more.
If you think of yourself as a "Christian Defender of the Constitution" I suggest you spend a little more time with your Bible. The title of the book is "The Revelation [singular] of St John the Divine".
First of all to the kid from Kansas--Hal Lindsey has never claimed to be a prophet, and therefore, cannot be a false prophet. He has speculated on future scenarios and world players, but always with the caveat that this is his opinion. I am acquainted with Hal and have personally challenged him about some of his licentious behavior, I cannot fault his Christian doctrine nor the expanse of his intellect. He's a great teacher, and more like the watchman on the wall, sounding the alarm as he sees "signs of the times." So kid, get off his back and do your heretic hunting elsewhere. I know you can't prove that he said, thus and so is going to occur, and then it didn't. That just never happened! Let me encourage you to quit looking so intensely at the faults in man, but rather look to the Faultless Man. Then you won't be so dissappointed.
Malador--re: the subject at hand. Of course, we are being persecuted for our faith and it will only intensify. It comes with the territory. If we could twist our head all the way around, we could see the big red target that got printed on our backs when we accepted Jesus. I am comforted when I remind myself that "greater is He that is in me, than He that is in the world!"
Disappointed in Ashcroft and Bush? You bet! Bush is a baby Christian, but Ashcroft should know better. After all, he is a Assemblies of God minister. Romans 13, however, does say that if you're not doing anything bad, you should not be afraid of law enforcement. That was written to a people under the tyranny of Roman dictators who had no constitution to protect them. So I'm not afraid. Let them listen to what I have to say in public or in private--they will soon get bored or get saved. I agree that the Bible does say that we are to obey God, rather than man. That verse assumes that the laws of the two entities are in direct conflict. Then we must choose God's law. I submit to you that, in my opinion, that the only time we can refuse to obey the law of man is when ordered to take the life of another (except in war or capital punishment) or when ordered to renounce my faith in God. Even the U.S. Penal Code provides the defense of duress for most other crimes, unless you put your safety above another's.
What I'm not saying is to surrender to Big Brother policies. Squack loudly and clearly and freep away. Isn't it grand that we can still do this on November 25, 2001, in the good old US of A?
Maybe the "Standard OS" put the back door in for themselves and the Gooverment in a Faustian deal.. I worry when I watch the OS being looked at from an download site at to see what you have and update it.. :(.
I never enable Javascript and always check my Cookies and Certificates.. I never use a Browser mailer. I watch my modem lights for weird stuf going on. My OS and hardware are not the ""STD"" one and I am a good person always anyway.. :)..
Any thing I'm missing??..
Never before would they put it into writing.
Never before would they put it into writing.
Never before would they put it into writing.
I agree that it is scary. Have you a citation on this FBI profile method? What's the source? And why not just include the pro-lifers in the group, as our prior Administration would have done???
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