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The anti-SSSCA movement is building steam rapidly this week [edit- article is one month old] as an online petition directed at lawmakers garners over 7,000 signatures in a little over three weeks. "I'm hoping Congress will understand that the average person thinks the government forcing policeware on their computers is un-American and downright wrong, and that supporting the SSSCA will hurt them when they run for re-election," says Don Pavlish, the mastermind behind the petition and a new Web site called StopPoliceWare.org. The potential SSSCA (Security Systems Standards and Certification Act) legislation is a serious threat to Open Source operating ...

Editor's Desk By Steve Litt As I write this article, I savor what might be the very temporary luxury of writing it on a Linux box. If Microsoft has their way it will soon be illegal for me to do so, because of a law called SSSCA. What does the banning of Linux mean to Linux advocates? What does it mean to Windows users? What does it mean to America? How could a free country like America ban an operating system? Republicans pride themselves in minimal government intervention in business. How could the Republicans allow a law that would ...

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The House of Representatives has approved a provision that would require the intelligence agencies to jointly provide Congress with a detailed analysis of the legal standards they apply when conducting signals intelligence, including electronic surveillance. The requirement grows out of the controversy surrounding Project ECHELON, a global surveillance network coordinated by the National Security Agency. The reporting requirement is contained in the final version of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, which is expected to be approved by the Senate. The report must be submitted in both classified and unclassified form to the Intelligence and Judiciary committees of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Defying an ultra-secret spy network believed to be scanning overseas e-mails for subversive messages, Internet protesters tried to overwhelm U.S. government eavesdroppers by flooding the system with fabricated messages about terrorist plots and bombs. But even supporters of Thursday's electronic civil disobedience campaign acknowledged that the effort likely caused ``a lot of laughter,'' not consternation, at America's super-secret National Security Agency. Organizers urged Internet users on dozens of Web sites and in discussion groups to send millions of e-mails with subversive-sounding language. ``Give the (NSA) their keywords!'' one person wrote. The intent was clear: Flood the powerful ...

U.S. Accused of 'Promis' Information Warfare Program An Aspect of Echelon [Interview with Fabrizio Calvi and Thierry Pfister, authors of book L'Oeil de Washington (The Eye of Washington), by Denis Jeambar and Yves Stavrides; place and date not given: "Espionage: How Washington Booby-Trapped All the World's Computers"] [Translated from the French] How far can a government go? Democracies have settled that issue of the desire for power in principle: The state of law, situated at the heart of their institutional mechanisms, forms their boundaries. But that framework is in fact more virtual than real, and laws or treaties are very ...

First-Time 'Proof' Of Echelon Discovered In NSA Documents Reference: Wired News By Chris Oakes References to a project Echelon have been found for the first time in declassified National Security Agency documents, says the researcher who found them. After combing through declassified National Security Agency documents, Jeffrey Richelson, a researcher for the National Security Archives, has concluded that Echelon -- the purported name of the alleged international project for intercepting all forms of electronic communication -- does exist. (The National Security Archive is an independent, non-governmental research institute and library at George Washington University, according to its Web site, and ...

NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters) - A Canadian agent spied on two British cabinet ministers for former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1983 under the auspices of the Echelon surveillance network, former Canadian agent Mike Frost told the CBS-TV program "60 Minutes," according to excerpts released on Thursday. Frost's allegation came in the same week that a European Parliament report said Echelon, a series of listening posts around the world run by the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, was used for industrial espionage. The British government denied on Wednesday that it used Echelon for industrial spying in ...

Sweden investigates US Industrial Espionage via Echelon U.S. Industrial Espionage Is Confronted By Göran Andersson The Swedish government will investigate if the U.S. uses signals intelligence, meant for national security purposes, in a way that is a disadvantage for Swedish corporations. A highly controversial report about signals intelligence was given to the European Parliament, and has now reached the Sweden's Ministry for Foreign Affairs. [Text of image of the front-page of the EuroParl report.] In a report written for the European Parliament it is claimed that information from United States military signals intelligence is used to benefit American corporations. The ...

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U.S. to Close Eavesdropping Post [ECHELON] 'Echelon' Station Closing After Consultations With Bavarian Government June 1 - The U.S. military is withdrawing its communications eavesdropping station from Bad Aibling, Germany, following consultations with the regional Baviarian government, officials tell ABCNEWS.com. Operations at the facility ? the subject of some controversy in Germany over concerns of U.S. spying ? will end in September 2002, allowing the base to be returned to the German government. Some German politicians have been calling for the base's closure. The Bad Aibling station is one of a handful of major U.S.-run listening posts around the world ...

Part I Surveillance Society I -- A Russian spy made headlines last week after he was found listening in on conversations through a bug planted at the U.S. State Department, and there are renewed concerns about Chinese spying. But the government is using methods that are far more sophisticated -- and far more secret -- to capture everything from phone calls to e-mails to faxes. And there's growing evidence that they may be using it, not just on terrorists, but on you. "I think that people need to understand that we’re entering an age of a new America, and we’re ...

Tuesday, November 2, 1999 Published at 18:01 GMT World Global spy network revealed By Andrew Bomford of BBC Radio 4's PM programme Imagine a global spying network that can eavesdrop on every single phone call, fax or e-mail, anywhere on the planet. It sounds like science fiction, but it's true. Two of the chief protagonists - Britain and America - officially deny its existence. But the BBC has confirmation from the Australian Government that such a network really does exist and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are calling for an inquiry. On the North Yorkshire moors above ...

Did Echelon Overlook Terrorist Threat? September 14, 2001 07:45 CDT The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) engaged the so-called Echelon communications monitoring network, following on warnings of possible terrorist attacks, as long as three months ago, a German publication has reported. Western and Middle East intelligence services received warnings more than six months ago that terrorists were planning attacks using hijacked airplanes against "prominent symbols of American and Israeli culture" in the United States and elsewhere, IDG News cites Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) as saying in its Wednesday edition, citing "information available to this newspaper." According to IDG, the report says ...

NSA memos suggest ECHELON existsBy: Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 28/06/2000 at 09:25 GMT Two confidential and one secret memo from the US National Security Agency (NSA) recently obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) imply that the Agency does gather an enormous amount of data, an observation which in turn suggests that the global surveillance network known as ECHELON really does exist. The memos offer guidance to NSA staff for reporting on intercepted signals in which US persons are mentioned. In one, dealing with former US President Jimmy Carter's 1994 trip to Bosnia, staff are warned that ...

  BRITAIN Those perfidious Anglo spies Allegations that Britain helps America and others spy on its European allies have annoyed some across the Channel “THIS is an Anglo-Saxon Protestant conspiracy. So much for Britain’s commitment to European solidarity; its real union is with America.” So complained Jean-Claude Martinez, a French member of the European Parliament after a debate on eavesdropping by Britain and other English-speaking countries. Is electronic snooping in danger of driving a further wedge between Britain and its European allies? The spy system Mr Martinez decried, dubbed Echelon, has long been a target of conspiracy theorists and campaigners ...

British-US espionage net illegal, says EUBy Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels  Development of surveillance technology and risk of abuse of economic information [Oct '99 downloadable pdf file] - European Parliament  Europarl [web server of the European Parliament]  THE European Union condemned Britain's role in an Anglo-American espionage network as illegal yesterday, vowing to confront the Government over the controversy at the next EU justice ministers' meeting. Fernando Gomez, the Portuguese Interior Minister, on behalf of EU governments, said: "The Council cannot accept the existence of this kind of system, which does not respect the legal requirements of the member states." European ...

CIA patching ECHELON shortcomings By: Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 06/03/2001 at 07:47 GMT A core objection to paranoid rants regarding the US National Security Agency (NSA) electronic eavesdropping apparatus called ECHELON is the simple observation that spooks trying to use it are literally buried in an avalanche of white noise from which it's quite difficult to extract anything pertinent. But now the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), no doubt with some assistance and guidance from NSA, is making strides towards cracking that little inconvenience. The CIA's Office of Advanced Information Technology is developing a number of data-mining ...

QUESTION: Do you have anything to say about this hoo-haw that has erupted in Europe over - especially in France about the Echelon program? MR. RUBIN: Yes, I do have something I would like to say about that, to the surprise of some of you. Although we never comment on actual or alleged - hold on - on actual or alleged intelligence activities, we have taken note that the European Union is looking at a report which deals with this topic. Although we cannot comment on the substance of the report, I can say that the National Security Agency is ...