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Too many articles to put in this post.

In fact I haven't even read them all but softwar.net has been the most up-to-datE during the IPOTUS TERM

FYI

I'll second that. Great site not enough publicized.

U.S. Police and Intelligence Hit by Spy Network

Charles R. Smith

Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2001

Spies Tap Police and Government Phones

In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, the FBI has stumbled on the largest espionage ring ever discovered inside the United States. The U.S. Justice Department is now holding nearly 100 Israeli citizens with direct ties to foreign military, criminal and intelligence services.

The spy ring reportedly includes employees of two Israeli-owned companies that currently perform almost all the official wiretaps for U.S. local, state and federal law enforcement.

The U.S. law enforcement wiretaps, authorized by the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), appear to have been breached by organized crime units working inside Israel and the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad.

Both Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller were warned on Oct. 18 in a hand-delivered letter from local, state and federal law enforcement officials. The warning stated, "Law enforcement's current electronic surveillance capabilities are less effective today than they were at the time CALEA was enacted."

The spy ring enabled criminals to use reverse wiretaps against U.S. intelligence and law enforcement operations. The illegal monitoring may have resulted in the deaths of several informants and reportedly spoiled planned anti-drug raids on crime syndicates.

Global Spy and Crime Network

The penetration of the U.S. wiretap system has led to a giant spy hunt across the globe by American intelligence agencies. U.S. intelligence officials now suspect the spy ring shared and sold information to other nations.

"Why do you think Putin so nonchalantly and with such great fanfare announced the shutdown of the Lourdes listening post in Cuba?" noted Douglas Brown, president of Multilingual Data Solutions Inc. and program director at the Nathan Hale Institute.

Magic Lantern is also not perfect. Magic Lantern suffers from another flaw in that it is not designed to stop other popular computer encryption programs such as Softwar Pcypher and Mystx public key encryption systems.

These encryption software utilities do not use pass-phrase technology and are immune to Magic Lantern-type attacks. E-mail and data scrambling is done with the mouse using data keys that can be stored on offline diskettes, zip drives or CD disks.

So I guess the FBI hasnt figured out how to capture mouse input either. *snicker-snicker... BWAHHH HAHAHAA!

Well, heres how I would do it, you filter your system-wide application hook for the WM_MOUSEMOVE message, this message contains the XY coords of the mouse...*yawn*

But seriously, then all they have to do is 'hook your disk IO'.

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FR Recent Echelon

Bob Barr INVESTIGATE ECHELON

ECHELON: America's Secret Global Surveillance Network

Britain's spy posts accused of listening in on business

US Accused of 'Promis' Information Warfare (Echelon)

London Helps Washington Spy on Europe

Ex-NSA expert warns of concealed backdoors

Who's Reading Your Mail? Feds Have Their Eye on You

Operation Magic Lantern (FBI Now Targets Christian Defenders of Constitution)

A Dark Side to the FBI's Magic Lantern - The agency may be developing data-tracking software that can be slipped into a computer without warning -- or a search warrant

The FBI will let the American people know what's going on. Hahahaha. LOL! Click here Or better yet, click the photo:

FBI software cracks encryption wall - ‘Magic Lantern’ part of new ‘Enhanced Carnivore Project’

FBI's Secret Cyber-Monitor

The FBI is laughing, especially with the name.

FBI Is Building a 'Magic Lantern' Stop Carnivore

Alan McDonald, a senior executive with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, says that "extremist" positions on electronic encryption are a threat to normal law enforcement and are elitist and nondemocratic. Insisting that the United States had remained true to the Constitution and to a system of ordered liberties, McDonald says: "When people don't know much about electronic surveillance, they are fearful of it. But when they know Congress passed laws and the Supreme Court reviewed them and that there are numerous constraints and procedures, then it makes sense to them. It seems rational and balanced." (TechWire 25 Sep 97)

New FBI software aims to eavesdrop on high-tech messages - The FBI added that its research is "always mindful of constitutional, privacy and commercial equities,"

FBI software would allow Net eavesdropping

The FBI Hackers

FBI and "White Knight Hackers"

"Espionage: How Washington Booby-Trapped All the World's Computers"

FBI turns tables on Russian hackers - Agents break into overseas computers to gather evidence

In an August 1999 attack that has come to be known as “Moonlight Maze,” cyberwarriors from the Russian Academy of Sciences downloaded massive amounts of classified data from computer networks at the DOD and DOE, believed to include missile-guidance codes and nuclear-weapons data. The FBI continues to investigate the attack, says Debbie Wireman, a spokeswoman for the bureau’s National Critical Infrastructure Protection Center.

BUSH TO NAME MUELLER AS FBI HEAD

The media's double standard is glaringly evident in their reaction to the discovery that the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York was authorized to subpoena the home phone records of Associated Press reporter John Solomon for six days last May. The Justice Department was trying to find out who had leaked information to Solomon about a two-year-old wiretap on Senator Robert Torricelli, D- N.J., who is under investigation. Journalists' phone records can only be subpoenaed with the approval of the attorney general. In Solomon's case, the approval was given by Robert S. Mueller III, who acted in place of Attorney General Ashcroft, who had recused himself. Mr. Mueller has since been confirmed as the new director of the FBI.

Judge Demands Documents on FBI Computer Spy System

FBI runs Trojan horse
"The discovery comes only weeks after the Bureau made a motion to suppress evidence about the use of similar technology in the recent US versus Nicodemo Scarfo case. The FBI claimed that releasing information about the technology would jeopardise current as well as future investigations."

FBI wants to keep technology secret
"The FBI is trying to keep secret technical details of a keystroke-logging program it used to catch a Mob loan shark. A mandate from a New Jersey judge calling for a report "detailing how the key logger device functions", by 31 August, has been claimed by the US government to be so sensitive that if revealed, "national security" could be at risk.

The FBI is now seeking to invoke the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), so that details are not supplied." CIPA

Govt. Invokes National Security Law In Mob Hacking Case

FBI keeps its bugging secrets

When invoked, CIPA permits federal prosecutors to take extraordinary steps to protect classified information, including barring observers from the courtroom, withholding documents from the defense attorneys and moving the trial to "the facilities of another United States government agency" if the courthouse is not secure enough.

National Homeland Security Initiated Two Years Ago

EXECUTIVE ORDER 13083 - Effective Date May 14, 1998
eo13083
EXECUTIVE                                                                                                EO 13083
ORDER                                                                      Effective Date May 14, 1998
_______________________________________________________________________

Responsible Office: Z\ Office of Policy and Plans

Subject: Federalism

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to guarantee the division of governmental responsibilities, embodied in the Constitution, between the Federal Government and the States that was intended by the Framers and application of those principles by the Executive departments and agencies in the formulation and implementation of policies, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Definitions. For purposes of this order:

        (a) ìStateî or ìStatesî refer to the States of the United States of America, individually or
collectively, and, where relevant, to State governments, including units of local government and other political subdivisions established by the States.

        (b) ìPolicies that have federalism implicationsî refers to Federal regulations, proposed
legislation, and other policy statements or actions that have substantial, direct effects on the States or on the relationship, or the distribution of power and responsibilities, between the Federal Government and the States.

        (c) ìAgencyî means any authority of the United States that is an ìagencyî under 44 U.S.C.
3502(l), other than those considered to be independent regulatory agencies, as defined in 44
U.S.C. 3502(5).

Sec. 2. Fundamental Federalism Participles In formulating and implementing policies that have federalism implications, agencies shall be guided by the following fundamental federalism principles:

        (a) The structure of government established by the Constitution is premised upon a system
of checks and balances.

        (b) The Constitution created a Federal Government of supreme, but limited, powers. The
sovereign powers not granted to the Federal Government are reserved to the people or to the
States, unless prohibited to the States by the Constitution.

        (c) Federalism reflects the principle that dividing power between the Federal Government
and the States serves to protect individual liberty. Preserving State authority provides an essential balance to the power of the Federal Government, while preserving the supremacy of Federal law provides an essential balance to the power of the States.

        (d) The people of the States are at liberty, subject only to the limitations in the Constitution
itself or in Federal law, to define the moral, political, and legal character of their lives.

        (e) Our constitutional system encourages a healthy diversity in the public policies adopted
by the people of the several States according to their own conditions, needs, and desires. States and local governments are often uniquely situated to discern the sentiments of the people and to govern accordingly.

        (f) Effective public policy is often achieved when there is competition among the several
States in the fashioning of different approaches to public policy issues. The search for enlightened public policy is often furthered when individual States and local governments are free to experiment with a variety of approaches to public issues. Uniform, national approaches to public policy problems can inhibit the creation of effective solutions to those problems.

        (g) Policies of the Federal Government should recognize the responsibility of-and should
encourage opportunities for-States, local governments, private associations, neighborhoods,
families, and individuals to achieve personal, social, environmental, and economic objectives
through cooperative effort.

Sec. 3. Federalism Policymaking Criteria. In addition to adhering to the fundamental federalism principles set forth in section 2 of this order, agencies shall adhere, to the extent permitted by law, to the following criteria when formulating and implementing policies that have federalism implications:

        (a) There should be strict adherence to constitutional principles. Agencies should closely
examine the constitutional and statutory authority supporting any Federal action that would limit
the policymaking discretion of States and local governments, and should carefully assess the
necessity for such action.

        (b) Agencies may limit the policymaking discretion of States and local governments only
after determining that there is constitutional and legal authority for the action.

        (c) With respect to Federal statutes and regulations administered by States and local
governments, the Federal Government should grant States and local governments the maximum administrative discretion Possible. Any Federal oversight of such State and local administration should not unnecessarily intrude on State and local discretion.

        (d) It is important to recognize the distinction between matters of national or multi-state
scope (which may justify Federal action) and matters that are merely common to the States (which may not justify Federal action because individual States, acting individually or together, may effectively deal with them). Matters of national or multi-state scope that justify Federal action may arise in a variety of circumstances, including.

        (1) When the matter to be addressed by Federal action occurs interstate as opposed to being contained within one Stateís boundaries.

        (2) When the source of the matter to be addressed occurs in a State different from the State (or States) where a significant amount of the harm occurs.

        (3) When there is a need for uniform national standards.

        (4) When decentralization increases the costs of government thus imposing additional
burdens on the taxpayer.

        (5) When States have not adequately protected individual rights and liberties.

        (6) When States would be reluctant to impose necessary regulations because of fears that
regulated business activity will relocate to other States.

        (7) When placing regulatory authority at the State or local level would undermine regulatory
goals because high costs or demands for specialized expertise will effectively place the regulatory matter beyond the resources of State authorities.

        (8) When the matter relates to Federally owned or managed property or natural resources,
trust obligations, or international obligations.

        (9) When the matter to be regulated significantly or uniquely affects Indian tribal
governments.

Sec. 4. Consultation. (a) Each agency shall have an effective process to permit elected officials and other representatives of State and local governments to provide meaningful and timely input in the development of regulatory policies that have federalism implications.

        (b) To the extent practicable and permitted by law, no agency shall promulgate any
regulation that is not required by statute, that has federalism implications, and that imposes
substantial direct compliance costs on States and local governments, unless:

        (1) funds necessary to pay the direct costs incurred by the State or local government in
complying with the regulation are provided by the Federal Government; or

        (2) the agency, prior to the formal promulgation of the regulation,

        (A) in a separately identified portion of the preamble to the regulation as it is to be issued in
the Federal Register, provides to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget a
description of the extent of the agencyís prior consultation with representatives of affected States and local governments, a summary of the nature of their concerns, and the agencyís position supporting the need to issue the regulation; and

        (B) makes available to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget any written
communications submitted to the agency by States or local governments.

Sec. 5. Increasing Flexibility for State and Local Waivers. (a) Agencies shall review the
processes under which States and local governments apply for waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements and take appropriate steps to streamline those processes.

        (b) Each agency shall, to the extent practicable and permitted by law, consider any
application by a State or local government for a waiver of statutory or regulatory requirements in connection with any program administered by that agency with a general view toward increasing opportunities for utilizing flexible policy approaches at the State or local level in cases in which the proposed waiver is consistent with applicable Federal policy objectives and is otherwise appropriate.

        (c) Each agency shall, to the extent practicable and permitted by law, render a decision upon a complete application for a waiver within 120 days of receipt of such application by the agency. If the application for a waiver is not granted, the agency shall provide the applicant with timely written notice of the decision and the reasons therefor.

        (d) This section applies only to statutory or regulatory requirements that are discretionary
and subject to waiver by the agency.

Sec. 6. Independent Agencies. Independent regulatory agencies are encouraged to comply with the provisions of this order.

Sec. 7. General Provisions. (a) This order is intended only to improve the internal management of the executive branch and is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or equity by a party against the United States, its agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or employees, or any other person.

        (b) This order shall supplement but not supersede the requirements contained in Executive
Order 12866 (ìRegulatory Planning and Reviewî), Executive Order 12988 (ìCivil justice
Reformî), and OMB Circular A-19.

        (c) Executive Order 12612 of October 26, 1987, and Executive Order 12875 of October 26,
1993, are revoked.

        (d) The consultation and waiver provisions in sections 4 and 5 of this order shall
complement the Executive order entitled, ìConsultation and Coordination with Indian Tribal
Governments,î being issued on this day.

        (e) This order shall be effective 90 days after the date of this order.

                                                              William J. Clinton
                                                                           /s/
THE WHITE HOUSE,
May 14, 1998.

Presidential Decision Directive #62 'COMBATING TERRORISM' - (PDD 62)

Presidential Decision Directive #63 - 'Critical Infrastructure Protection' - (PDD 63

Side-by-side Comparison: Reagan EO 12612 / Clinton EO 13083

George W. Bush Is "Moving On."

Memo

"We are the only ones who know what is good for the country, and we are the only ones who can do anything about it."
FBI Special Agent Joseph G. Deegan in 1977 - Source

Notice also, that the FBI is too stupid to know that this is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, not a Democracy. Actually, we both know that's not true. They are highly skilled, and "purposely" destroying the CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, helping to facilitate a DEMOCRACY(mob rule), to usher in the One World Government to kill, steal and destroy. Isn't it enlightening knowing that there are mobs of people on this site that have never been happier thinking that "things" have never been better? LOL! Wait until the boot catches up with them. They think they'll have to be doing something wrong to feel the boot. LOL!

They Know Not What They Do
"In a democracy in general, we can't have the police everywhere," said Michael Vatis, director of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, which guards against computer attacks by terrorists, foreign agents and teen hackers."

Republics and Democracies

"A Republic, If You Can Keep It"

"to provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and trials of democracy...."
Edmund Randolph - May 31, 1787

"The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want [that is, do not lack] virtue; but are the dupes of pretended patriots."
Elbridge Gerry - 1787

"It had been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience had proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity."
Alexander Hamilton - June 21, 1788

"We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy."
Alexander Hamilton

"Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself! There never was a democracy that ‘did not commit suicide.’"
Samuel Adams

"… democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
James Madison

Madison and Hamilton and Jay and their compatriots of the convention prepared and adopted a constitution in which they nowhere even mentioned the word democracy, not because they were not familiar with such a form of government, but because they were. The word democracy had not occurred in the Declaration of Independence, and does not appear in the constitution of a single one of our fifty states — which constitutions are derived mainly from the thinking of the Founding Fathers of the Republic — for the same reason. They knew all about democracies, and if they had wanted one for themselves and their posterity, they would have founded one.

15 percent on the right are so glued into their ideology that rational thought is impossible. These are the people who will make any excuse to avoid seeing Bill Clinton for the corrupting presence that he is, and these are the people who will support George W. Bush no matter what he does

National ID Card Gaining Support - By Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Jonathan Krim - Washington Post Staff Writers -Monday, December 17, 2001; Page A01

Executive Order 13083 And Our Freedom - Both Parties Were Going To Finish You Off
"Worse yet, one of the until-now secret justifications for this action by the governors was to push through a plan for the institution of a national identification card,"

Speaker Hastert Considering National ID Card

National ID Cards weighed by Congress

How the Republicans implemented the Democrats' National ID Plan

National ID

Here's a "Cover Story" so they won't be hung in town square

Amerika, Amerika

Thanks but no thanks, Larry Ellison
Note: Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp. CEO, introduced Clinton as a courageous leader

Sample of Larry Ellison's new National ID Card

Human ID implant to be unveiled soon

Big Blue's Big Brother Lab

U.S. law subsection 666 "dead beat dads" prototype for the National I.D. System

What I Have Learned From The Twentieth Century

National ID - Our Line in the Sand

"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
Samuel Adams (1780)

"We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country,"
FBI Director Louis Freeh - testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime on June 5, 1997

Preparing for the Terrorist Threat - "October 2000"

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... boy do we have the paranoid preaching to the psychotic on this thread ... and all, no doubt, speaking with the authority as if they have actually worked in industry ...

AND how many of you paranoics actually use something like the freely-available PGP software package?

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