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[Zanziba]

This is an advert for my 1996 1.8 ST Celica. It is on eBay at the
moment, follow the link below (Or cut and paste it into your browser)
to view it (And hopefully bid).

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4508131415&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

The pictures will impress any true Celica enthusiast.

No reserve on this

Good luck

Zzzanziba

[Pete M]

In news:bd7a3b21.0411281431.f88ef71@posting.google.com,
Zanziba <zanziba@flaming.force9.co.uk> decided to enlighten our sheltered
souls with a rant as follows

[Mike G]

"Pete M" <pete.murray@blue-nopressedmeat-yonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:30v6hbF34hp1rU1@uni-berlin.de...

[Pete M]

In news:30vfk0F3537inU1@uni-berlin.de,
Mike G <mikgibbs@tiscali.co.uk> decided to enlighten our sheltered souls
with a rant as follows

[HachiRoku]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 03:48:08 +0000, Pete M wrote:

[HachiRoku]

that David Koresh had left the complex many
times while under the surveillance of as many as eight A.T.F. agents.

o The F.B.I. cut off all utilities and sanitation. Government loudspeakers
blared nonstop with such sounds as jet planes, and the cries of rabbits
being slaughtered. [I have three loving bunnies who have free roam
inside my apartment: the Feds are sick puppies. What would the public
have thought if it were dying cats or dogs?] Tanks fired percussion
grenades. Stadium lights kept the house illuminated around the clock.

Helicopters flew overhead. This does not contribute to trust in the
government negotiators, nor does it help the Koreshians make rational
decisions. Like walking out unarmed before a Federal army, using tanks
from the U.S. Defense Dept. [It should still be called the War Dept.]

o C.S. gas is never supposed to be used inside a building. Used inside,
it can create fires, and it can produce cyanide, w

[HachiRoku]

spotting software with keyword spotting exclusion logic.

I call this software: the Internet Risk Management Analytics.

The NSA calls theirs DICTIONARY.

The results of monitoring were stunning.

Absolutely stunning.


If you would like a full copy of the tail, email me with Subject line "Request
Monitoring Tale". It is in the form of a complaint against Salomon Brothers.

I went public with it after the five attempts to handle the problem internal
to Salomon failed, and then the SEC failed to even contact me about the
complaint.

Anyway, I take advantage of the screwed up situation to explain to you what
it means to be monitored by powerful keyword monitoring software.

All company names are real.

All people's names in security incident reports are changed, as are any
proprietary data/numbers.

Any personal-personal traffic (the person's own words with outside friends)
is changed so it is not the actual traffic that went across, but it will have
the same visceral-word impact as the original.

Picture yourself inside a company. You are an office worker. Like everyone
else you ha

[Zanziba]

(post.office MTA v1.9.3 ID# 0-13592) with SMTP id AAA322
: for <firewalls@GreatCircle.COM>; Wed, 14 May 1997 12:56:13 -0400
: Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 12:58:46 -0400
: To: firewalls@GreatCircle.COM
: From: research@isr.net (Research Unit I)
: Subject: Re: Encryption Outside US
:
:
: I was part of that OECD Expert Group, and believe I may shine at least
: some light on what exactly was said and happened at the meetings.
:
: The main conflict during all sessions was the demand of the US to be
: able to decrypt anything, anywhere at any time versus the European
: focus: we want to have the choice - with an open end - to maintain
: own surveillance. The US demand would have caused an immediate
: ability to tap into what the European intelligence community believes to
: be its sole and exclusive territory. In fact the Europeans were not at all
: pleased with the US view points of controlling ALL crypto. Germany and
: France vigorously refused to work with the US on this issue.
:
: The Clipper initiative (at the time not readily developed) was completely
: banned, e

[Pete M]

a lot of
* publicity, Jones got his money back.
* [snip]
*
* Paolo Alvarez: "I believe in God, but the government's seizure of all my
* savings was really horrible. I felt trapped and I almost flipped out."
*
* Alvarez was a landscape contractor, cautious and frugal, who saved his
* money. Several years ago, however, Alvarez began listening to the
* speeches of Ross Perot, especially Perot's exaggerated [beat the drum
* of fear] warnings that the nation's savings and loan institutions
* were about to collapse. As a reult of mounting anxiety generated by
* the Texas businessman, Alvarez decided to move the nest egg from his
* savings and loan.
*
* He placed some of the money in a regular bank and hid the balance in
* small caches around the house.
*
* When the sky did not fall, when Ross Perot's predictions did not come
* true, Alvarez began slowly moving the cash in his house back into a
* bank. Partly because of his fear of a possible robbery, he chose to
* redeposit his money in relatively small amounts, $5000 or so at a time.
*
* While Alvarez had come to know Perot's gloomy predictions were off the
* mark, he did not know that the federal international government, in its
* hysteria about drugs, had persuaded Congress to greatly expand the
* government's civil and criminal powers to seize assets of individuals
* it felt might be up to some illicit business. The government's concern
* was so overwhelming that in 1986 Congress was prevailed upon to add a
* provision to the seizure law forbidding any "structuring" of financial
* transactions in a way so as to evade and existing requirement that cash
* transfers of more than $10,000 had to be reported to the government.

[
The New York Times, April 13, 1997

U.S. Under Secretary Raymond W.

[Pete M]

foreign governments must not be allowed access to the
# escrow key."
# - George Fisher - Chairman and CEO Motorola
#
# "The NIST proposal states that the escrow agents will provide
# the key components to a government agency that 'properly
# demonstrates legal authorization to conduct electronic
# surveillance of communications which are encrypted.' The term
# 'legal authorization' leaves open the possibility that court
# issued warrants may not be required in some circumstances."
# - Robert H. Follett - Program Director IBM
#
# "If people choose to deposit their keys with the government or
# any other escrow agent, they must have some legal recourse in
# the event that those keys are improperly released. The most
# recent draft of the escrow procedures specifically states,
# however:
#
# 'These procedures do not create, and are not intended to
# create, any substantive rights for individuals intercepted
# through electronic surveillance, and noncompliance with these
# procedures shall not provide the basis for any motion to
# suppress or other objection to the introduction of electronic
# surveillance evidence lawfully acquired.'
#
# "Leaving users with no recourse will discourage use of the
# system and is a tacit acceptance

[Mike G]

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

o Key Recovery Means No Cryptography
o Key Recovery Isn't Even Feasible
o Government Steamroller
o Feds' Wacky Pro-GAK Logic
- Business Will Demand It
- To Safeguard Your Privacy


Part 5: There is no part five
---- - ----- -- -- ---- ----

Part 6: Louis Freeh & The Creeping Police State
---- - ----- ----- --- -------- ------ -----

o Louis Freeh
o National ID Card
o Worldwide Banking and Phone Monitoring
o Cybernetic Control of Society
o Conclusions


******************************************************************************


ECHELON is NSA's world-wide surveillance network and associated software.

DICTIONARY - Keyword searching with exclusion logic software.

ORATORY - Speech recognition. Think of it as speech-to-text software.
Subject to DICTIONARY searches.

CALEA - A 1994 law ("Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act")
to force a massive reworking of the U.S. telephone infra-
structure so that the government can intrinsically wiretap it.
Also called the FBI Digital Telephony Act. It is a domestic
extension of ECHELON.

GAK - Government Access [to cryptographic] Keys. Any cryptography
product with GAK has been compromised so the government can
read it.

SIGINT - Signals Intelligence = NSA = electronic snooping

Key Recovery - See GAK.

C-SPAN - Two cable channels dedicated to broadcasting both houses of
Congress and other U.S. governmental functions.

[Mike G]

the NSA gave up trying to censor many
books, since it can be used to confirm questions they would otherwise have
refused to answer.


The other books referenced within are also suggested reading.
I have sometimes edited for brevity the excerpts, especially
my newspaper clippings of stories flying by.

If I have any news story specifics wrong or if you have more details,
please email me.

Later versions of this document can be searched for at dejanews.com.
Or, you can email me, Subject: Requesting Cryptography Manifesto.


----
---- Here comes a large 'reasoned polemic':
----


This is a U.S.-centric message, but keep reading even if you are not in the
U.S.; British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand citizens are also directly
affected.

This message is about ECHELON, which is an unbelievably huge world-wide
spying apparatus, including the domestic phone calls of many countries.

United States citizens' phone calls are being monitored in a dragnet
fashion not even George Orwell could have imagined.

This was all paid for by U.S. taxpayers.

Built in secret. Not debated.

The CALEA legislation is a shameful takes-us-into-the-abyss domestic spy bill.
It is for the FBI to simulta

[Pete M]

They exist, and aren't that big:

* http://www.radioamerica.com/relevance/11-94.html
*
* Martin Anderson, former senior member of Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy
* Advisory Board fears that the advancing technology may soon end with,
* "all of us tagged like so many fish." Writing in the October 11th, 1993
* Washington Times he confirmed the drift toward human applications of the
* chip:
*
* You see there is an identification system made by
* the Hughes Aircraft Company that you can't lose.
*
* It's the syringe implantable transponder.
*
* According to promotional literature it is an
* "ingenious, safe, inexpensive, foolproof and
* permanent method of identification using radio
* waves. A tiny microchip, the size of a grain of
* rice, is simply placed under the skin. It is so
* designed as to be injected simultaneously with a
* vaccination or alone."
*
*
* When government technocrats want Americans to accept the unacceptable,
* they move slowly. In the case of reaching the ultimate goal of a universal
* system of personal identification, this introduction is likely to begin
* with the smartcard, and progress to non-implantable, bio-chips attached to
* the clothing or worn in bracelets.
*
* In Europe, this system has already been used at track and field events
* where the competitors wear the device attached to their jersey. This
* provides their coordinates during each event and can be used for the
* timing of races.
*
* Widespread use among sports figures could go a long
* way toward popularizing the chip among the young.
*
* According to microchip researcher Terry Cook, U.S. military recruits are
* also being intro