Posted on 10/16/2001 3:13:33 PM PDT by artios
Foxnews, Carl Cameron just reported - Spy Hansen sold software to Russinas who sold it to Bin Laden. Promis allows him to monitor all the opeartions against him including financial. Listed some countries that have stopped using it. May have missed some details - searched and saw no post. Know that Promis is a big deal and also involved with Koresh at WACO. Al-Qeada youths are as aware of cracks in the worlds financial.... as they are of the lines in their hands.. Bin Laden being in a cave is not the issue - others in his network can log in and monitor.
The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro
"On July 12, 1993 Inslaw submitted a 90-page rebuttal of the Bua report to Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell. The rebuttal offered evidence that the Bua report was false. What Inslaw probably did not know at time, however, was that Webster Hubbell's and White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster apparently were linked to both Iran-Contra and Inslaw through two Arkansas companies called Park-on-Meter and Systematics.
On July 20, 1993 Vince Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy Park. Three days later, attorney Paul Wilcher, allegedly investigating "The Octopus" was found dead."
From here.
And now Bin Laden... other articles point out that there's possibly hooks in this software to reverse spy on those who use it. Kinda a hack the hackers sort of thing. I imagine the Russkies disabled this?
This could be huge - Bin Laden's intellegence network possibly knows WAY too much about what our gov't is doing.
Maybe that lawn mower was 40 years ahead of its time.
I guess the key is: The government put a trap door in it and then sold it cheap to foreign governments... so the US could spy on the databases of those entities. Sounds brilliant! Too bad the trap door key got dispersed. Now every hacker in the world can read the same info.
Lawnmowers don't automatically update...
By May 99, PROMIS will automatically update the software to the most current version. This eliminates the need to have LAN administrators refresh individual computers every time WES improves the software.
"In September 1993, CIA Director R. James Woolsey told INSLAW counsel Elliot L. Richardson that the CIA is using a PROMIS software system that it acquired from the NSA and that is identical to the PROMIS software that NSA uses internally and that is described on page 80 of the Bua Report. The application domain of the NSA's PROMIS is the mission critical application of tracking the intelligence information it produces. The NSA's PROMIS operates on an IBM mainframe computer. This latest CIA disclosure underscores the difficulty the CIA has had in accounting for its PROMIS. The CIA initially told the House Judiciary Committee in writing that it had been unable to locate internally any PROMIS software. Approximately one year later, the CIA wrote again to the House Judiciary Committee, stating that components of the CIA were operating a software system called PROMIS but that it had purchased its PROMIS from a company in Massachusetts. That PROMIS operates on a personal computer with project management as the application domain. In both written reports, the CIA inexplicably failed to mention the PROMIS that operates on an IBM mainframe computer at the CIA and that is critical to the CIA's primary mission of producing intelligence information."
Other than that it's not a terribly important SW package...
Nah, wouldn't happen....
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