From: A Grudko Date: Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:17am Subject: "Pro Hunter" A friend found a 'Pro Hunter - RF Signal Detector (Made in Taiwan)' keyring 'bug detector' being given away with an electronics magazine. It would be cool Xmas give-away with my co. logo on it but a google search found a gazillion 'Pro Hunters'. Anyone know who makes this little diode-detector? Andy Grudko (British), DPM, Grad IS (South Africa) Consulting Investigator, Est. 1981. PSIRA reg. No. 8642 www.grudko.com , andy@g... Pretoria (+27 12) 244 0255 - 244 0256 (Fax) Sandton (+27 11) 465 9673 - 465 1487 (Fax) Johannesburg (+27 11) 781 7206 - 781 7207(Fax) Cellular (+27) 82 778 6355 - ICQ 146498943 SACI(Pres) SASA, IPA, WAD, CALI, UKPIN, IWWA. "When you need it done right - first time" 8267 From: Michael Puchol Date: Sun Feb 22, 2004 8:09am Subject: Re: Yahoo privacy problems There is one way to protect yourself from HTML email messages, and that is to install a personal firewall (ZoneAlarm is nice-looking, I'd recomment Sygate's Pro version as the most feature-rich), and write a custom rule that forbids Outlook from accessing ANY ports other than 25 and 110 (POP3 and SMTP), thus preventing it from loading all the images that are linked to an external server. This is an example of what the firewall blocked while simply erasing the email messages (short sample, the amount of blocked traffic is huge): Date | Time | Remote host | Remote IP | Remote port | Local IP | Local port | Direction | Action | Program 02/21/2004 20:34:40 e-ticket-ads.com [208.254.20.196] 80 192.168.0.101 1602 Outgoing Blocked C:\Archivos de programa\Outlook Express\msimn.exe 02/22/2004 14:58:16 lanzadera2.ya.com [62.151.2.43] 80 192.168.0.101 3556 Outgoing Blocked C:\Archivos de programa\Outlook Express\msimn.exe 02/22/2004 14:58:19 us.i1.yimg.com [195.53.49.43] 80 192.168.0.101 3559 Outgoing Blocked C:\Archivos de programa\Outlook Express\msimn.exe Remember, as a general rule, you should specifically close down all ports that you don't absolutely need. Also, disabling HTML email is recommended. Best regards, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "cismic" To: Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:16 PM Subject: Re: [TSCM-L] Yahoo privacy problems > Hi Steve, > This technology has been around a long time. It used to be called spy-bots. > When you setup a web page most servers will log and acknowledge that you > have visited a web page. ie, *.gif, *.jpg, *.html, *.asp, *.php etc are some > of the common extentions that appear when you visit a web page in that web > servers log. > > So, now, when an email is created that has a link back to some web page via > a graphic in an html email. > http://www.somesite.com/emailopendpixel.gif then that will show up in the > web log that the email was either read or opened. I don't like all the > pretty email anyway. I mean formated html in email can allow virsuses to > enter your system because it is just html like visiting a web page and > scripting can be ran from email. I read all email as text that way the > graphics or "web beacons", won't appear in any log of sites whose email I > decide to read. > > I also completely clear out all cache every day. > > Joseph > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Uhrig" > To: > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:50 AM > Subject: [TSCM-L] Yahoo privacy problems > > > Yahoo is using 'Web Beacons' to track Yahoo Group users around the > net and see what they're doing and where they are going - much like > cookies. > > Yahoo's Privacy Statement has been updated: > > http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html > > In the section 'Outside the Yahoo! Network' (3rd bullet down), you'll > see a little 'click here' link that will let you opt-out of their new > method of snooping. I strongly recommend you do this. Once you have > clicked that link, you are opted out. > > Notice the 'Success' message the top the next page after you opt-out. > Be careful because on that page there is a 'Cancel Opt-out' button > that, if clicked, will *undo* the opt-out. Very misleading if you > don't read before clicking (or not clicking) > > This situation affects everyone reading this message. > > Steve > > > ******************************************************************* > Steve Uhrig, SWS Security, Maryland (USA) > Mfrs of electronic surveillance equip > mailto:Steve@s... website http://www.swssec.com > tel +1+410-879-4035, fax +1+410-836-1190 > "In God we trust, all others we monitor" > ******************************************************************* > > > > ======================================================== > TSCM-L Technical Security Mailing List > "In a multitude of counselors there is strength" > > To subscribe to the TSCM-L mailing list visit: > http://www.yahoogroups.com/community/TSCM-L > > It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. > It is by the juice of Star Bucks that thoughts acquire speed, > the hands acquire shaking, the shaking is a warning. > It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. > =================================================== TSKS > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > ======================================================== > TSCM-L Technical Security Mailing List > "In a multitude of counselors there is strength" > > To subscribe to the TSCM-L mailing list visit: > http://www.yahoogroups.com/community/TSCM-L > > It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. > It is by the juice of Star Bucks that thoughts acquire speed, > the hands acquire shaking, the shaking is a warning. > It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. > =================================================== TSKS > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > 8268 From: A Grudko Date: Mon Feb 23, 2004 3:56am Subject: Re: "Pro Hunter" Well, I found exactly what I was looking for.. Andy Grudko Pretoria, South Africa ----- Original Message ----- > Dear Sir, > > We're Taiwan's TSCM and for TSCM-L Yahoo mailing > message to known your looking for "Pro Hunter" RF > Signal Detector, we would be glad inform you Pro > Hunter information as below: > > Specifications: > Size: (L)79 x (W)28 x (T)15 (mm) > Weight: about 26g (included batteries) > Detecting range: 50MHz-3.0GHz > Power: 6V DC (CR2032 Lithium x 2) > Color: Silver, White > > Features: > -Catching all the peeping camera. > -The smallest detector, yet Sensitive. > -It will not mis-alarm by the nearby base stations. > -Dual strength indication: Sound and LED. > > We also provied and export various RF detector and > cellular jammer, please let us know if your interesting to > purchase, we shall revert to you for further discussion > upon receipt of your information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 8269 From: Date: Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:34am Subject: Re: "Pro Hunter" Your description sounds like what I purchased at Radio Shack for $20 US. Details are here: http://support.radioshack.com/support_radios/doc68/68876.pdf Cory Bys ******************* N O T I C E ******************* The information contained in this e-mail, and in any accompanying documents, may constitute confidential and/or legally privileged information. The information is intended only for use by the designated recipient. If you are not the intended recipient (or responsible for the delivery of the message to the intended recipient), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance on this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. *************************************************** 8270 From: Steve Weinert Date: Mon Feb 23, 2004 6:48am Subject: Re: Yahoo privacy problems This is one area where every little bit (or effort) helps. The ZoneAlarm or other Software Firewall log from just a couple hours on-line should be enough of a convincer. The Firewall alone may not be enough. Often an active scan for adware/spyware is needed. A typical machine that has run unprotected will have hundreds of "Pests" show up when scanned by a product like PestPatrol. A mix of hardware & software techniques can help the situation. On a budget constrained search for protection it seems that a simple router (even if it is the only computer hooked to it) with a hardware packet-to-packet firewall, a good software Firewall (I've been installing ZoneAlarm Pro), a scanning program (Zonelabs packages PestPatrol witch is decent) and using your ISP or Server level filters seems to go a long ways towards keeping things tidy. The anti-virus situation seems less clear-cut. With decent upstream protection and discipline as to locally loaded files any of the "name" programs seem to fare well. Using all the tools available seems to the route to go. Simply opt-out settings help, if only in a limited context. What have people found with Mac OS-X & other Linux systems? I wonder if at browser level if these are much different? Steve W > -----Original Message----- > Re: Yahoo privacy problems > From: "Michael Puchol" > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:09:44 +0100 > From: "Michael Puchol" <> > Subject: Re: Yahoo privacy problems > > There is one way to protect yourself from HTML email messages, and that is > to install a personal firewall (ZoneAlarm is nice-looking, I'd recomment > Sygate's Pro version as the most feature-rich), and write a > custom rule that > forbids Outlook from accessing ANY ports other than 25 and 110 (POP3 and > SMTP), thus preventing it from loading all the images that are > linked to an > external server. > > This is an example of what the firewall blocked while simply erasing the > email messages (short sample, the amount of blocked traffic is huge): > > Date | Time | Remote host | Remote IP | Remote port | Local IP | > Local port > | Direction | Action | Program > 02/21/2004 20:34:40 e-ticket-ads.com [208.254.20.196] 80 > 192.168.0.101 1602 > Outgoing Blocked C:\Archivos de programa\Outlook Express\msimn.exe > 02/22/2004 14:58:16 lanzadera2.ya.com [62.151.2.43] 80 192.168.0.101 3556 > Outgoing Blocked C:\Archivos de programa\Outlook Express\msimn.exe > 02/22/2004 14:58:19 us.i1.yimg.com [195.53.49.43] 80 192.168.0.101 3559 > Outgoing Blocked C:\Archivos de programa\Outlook Express\msimn.exe > > Remember, as a general rule, you should specifically close down all ports > that you don't absolutely need. Also, disabling HTML email is recommended. > > Best regards, > > Mike > 8271 From: Steve Uhrig Date: Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:05pm Subject: Spectrum analyzer FS ebay There seems to be a decent SA for sale on ebay. Price at this point is a steal. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2598645748 I don't know the seller, she doesn't know me, I don't know the product and suggest anyone interested poll the seller and get an assurance the thing works. And buy insurance through ebay or paypal or whatever if you are the high bidder. Top end is 26 gigs. Other specs are listed and appear respectable. Agilent. Use normal due diligence, but this may be a very good deal. Seller is brand new and may not know about minimums and reserves yet. See her other items FS too. Steve ******************************************************************* Steve Uhrig, SWS Security, Maryland (USA) Mfrs of electronic surveillance equip mailto:Steve@s... website http://www.swssec.com tel +1+410-879-4035, fax +1+410-836-1190 "In God we trust, all others we monitor" ******************************************************************* 8272 From: Date: Mon Feb 23, 2004 6:52pm Subject: Government Still Seeking High-Tech Spy Tools Government Still Seeking High-Tech Spy Tools Pentagon's Controversial Terrorism Research Lives On at Other Agencies By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, AP WASHINGTON (Feb. 22) - Despite an outcry over privacy implications, the government is pressing ahead with research to create powerful tools to mine millions of public and private records for information about terrorists. Congress eliminated a Pentagon office that had been developing this terrorist-tracking technology because of fears it might ensnare innocent Americans. Still, some projects from retired Adm. John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness effort were transferred to U.S. intelligence offices, congressional, federal and research officials told The Associated Press. In addition, Congress left undisturbed a separate but similar $64 million research program run by a little-known office called the Advanced Research and Development Activity, or ARDA, that has used some of the same researchers as Poindexter's program. ''The whole congressional action looks like a shell game,'' said Steve Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, which tracks work by U.S. intelligence agencies. ''There may be enough of a difference for them to claim TIA was terminated while for all practical purposes the identical work is continuing.'' Poindexter aimed to predict terrorist attacks by identifying telltale patterns of activity in arrests, passport applications, visas, work permits, driver's licenses, car rentals and airline ticket buys as well as credit transactions and education, medical and housing records. The research created a political uproar because such reviews of millions of transactions could put innocent Americans under suspicion. One of Poindexter's own researchers, David D. Jensen at the University of Massachusetts, acknowledged that ''high numbers of false positives can result.'' Disturbed by the privacy implications, Congress last fall closed Poindexter's office, part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and barred the agency from continuing most of his research. Poindexter quit the government and complained that his work had been misunderstood. The work, however, did not die. In killing Poindexter's office, Congress quietly agreed to continue paying to develop highly specialized software to gather foreign intelligence on terrorists. In a classified section summarized publicly, Congress added money for this software research to the ''National Foreign Intelligence Program,'' without identifying openly which intelligence agency would do the work. It said, for the time being, products of this research could only be used overseas or against non-U.S. citizens in this country, not against Americans on U.S. soil. Congressional officials would not say which Poindexter programs were killed and which were transferred. People with direct knowledge of the contracts told the AP that the surviving programs included some of 18 data-mining projects known in Poindexter's research as Evidence Extraction and Link Discovery. Poindexter's office described that research as ''technology not only for 'connecting the dots' that enable the U.S. to predict and pre-empt attacks but also for deciding which dots to connect.'' It was among the most contentious research programs. Ted Senator, who managed that research for Poindexter, told government contractors that mining data to identify terrorists ''is much harder than simply finding needles in a haystack.'' ''Our task is akin to finding dangerous groups of needles hidden in stacks of needle pieces,'' he said. ''We must track all the needle pieces all of the time.'' Among Senator's 18 projects, the work by researcher Jensen shows how flexible such powerful software can be. Jensen used two online databases, the Physics Preprint Archive and the Internet Movie Database, to develop tools that would identify authoritative physics authors and would predict whether a movie would gross more than $2 million its opening weekend. Jensen said in an interview that Poindexter's staff liked his research because the data involved ''people and organizations and events ... like the data in counterterrorism.'' At the University of Southern California, professor Craig Knoblauch said he developed software that automatically extracted information from travel Web sites and telephone books and tracked changes over time. Privacy advocates feared that if such powerful tools were developed without limits from Congress, government agents could use them on any database. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who fought to restrict Poindexter's office, is trying to force the executive branch to tell Congress about all its data-mining projects. He recently pleaded with a Pentagon advisory panel to propose rules on reviewing data that Congress could turn into laws. ARDA, the research and development office, sponsors corporate and university research on information technology for U.S. intelligence agencies. It is developing computer software that can extract information from databases as well as text, voices, other audio, video, graphs, images, maps, equations and chemical formulas. It calls its effort ''Novel Intelligence from Massive Data.'' The office said it has given researchers no government or private data and obeys privacy laws. The project is part of its effort ''to help the nation avoid strategic surprise ... events critical to national security ... such as those of Sept. 11, 2001,'' the office said. Poindexter had envisioned software that could quickly analyze ''multiple petabytes'' of data. The Library of Congress has space for 18 million books, and one petabyte of data would fill it more than 50 times. One petabyte could hold 40 pages of text for each of the world's more than 6.2 billion people. ARDA said its software would have to deal with ''typically a petabyte or more'' of data. It noted that some intelligence data sources ''grow at the rate of four petabytes per month.'' Experts said those probably are files with satellite surveillance images and electronic eavesdropping results. The Poindexter and ARDA projects are vastly more powerful than other data-mining projects such as the Homeland Security Department's CAPPS II program to classify air travelers or the six-state, Matrix anti-crime system financed by the Justice Department. In September 2002, ARDA awarded $64 million in contracts covering 3 1/2 years. The contracts went to more than a dozen companies and university researchers, including at least six who also had worked on Poindexter's program. Congress threw these researchers into turmoil. Doug Lenat, the president of Cycorp Corp. in Austin, Texas, will not discuss his work but said he had an ''enormous seven-figure deficit in our budget'' because Congress shut down Poindexter's office. Like many critics, James Dempsey of the Center for Democracy and Technology sees a role for properly regulated data-mining in evaluating the vast, underanalyzed data the government already collects. Expansions of data mining, however, increase ''the risk of an innocent person being in the wrong place at the wrong time, of having rented the wrong apartment ... or having a name similar to the name of some bad guy,'' he said. 02-22-04 15:31 EST [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 8273 From: Fernando Martins Date: Tue Feb 24, 2004 6:14am Subject: Re: Re: Yahoo privacy problems > What have people found with Mac OS-X & other Linux systems? I wonder if at > browser level if these are much different? For me MAC is still a mistery (in the practical point of view at least), but since is unix based, can't be so bad as some souls use to say ... actually I wasted some time yesterday reading stuff about latest MAC OS version, last MAC hardware, and some security related applications. It seems that the last OS version have a package of security features and applications that cover most, if not all, of the common security issues for a basic desktop computer. I still search for MAC solutions/applications for (physical) access control solutions (stuff at the same level of quality as GE Interlogix solutions). I only found once a java based software, but I didn't like it (and even forget it's the name or site ....). Regarding video surveillance, yesterday I found something that seems to be nice -http://guide.apple.com/redirect/benbird/securityspy_pdad.html - since it works with some known cctv stuff. I wonder if somebody here tested this? Regarding linux systems, well ... there are still people that think that at this level viruses don't exist and that netscape/mozzilla have no danger ... that I remember, at least since version 7.1 that suse have 'antivir' available in the pro package and in 9.0 still include lynx as default package. Novell think that they are cool, so better read what they say about it, then just my opinion about it ... Just as a side note, and still regarding the Novell/Suse issue, I hope that Microsoft now take some fresh ideas about 'Trees' and 'Active Directories' as they did in Windows 2000 ;> FM 8274 From: Keith Farnham Date: Tue Feb 24, 2004 4:28pm Subject: RE: Government Still Seeking High-Tech Spy Tools I can understand the ongoing quest for superior intelligence gathering. The history of the last three years has certainly shown the need. The methodologies of the past (recruiting nationals) have become less and less reliable; especially in the Middle East. (I'd hate to have been the handler of the "source" that gave the supposed location of Saddam that led to two failed airstrikes.) And there's no question that a computer-based snoop capability of the "carnivore" class would snare a few embezzlers, perverts and such. So what? In the final analysis, it comes down to a human being making an assessment. To borrow some gun advocate logic: Computers don't prosecute people, the judicial system does. I would submit that the human assessment is where the real problem lies. Regardless of the intelligence source, it seems we have great difficulty in this country with our agencies' ability to process information. Maybe we need to fix that problem first? >From: MACCFound@a... >To: TSCM-L@yahoogroups.com >Subject: [TSCM-L] Government Still Seeking High-Tech Spy Tools >Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:52:47 EST > > >Government Still Seeking High-Tech Spy Tools >Pentagon's Controversial Terrorism Research Lives On at Other Agencies >By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, AP > >WASHINGTON (Feb. 22) - Despite an outcry over privacy implications, the >government is pressing ahead with research to create powerful tools to mine >millions of public and private records for information about terrorists. > >Congress eliminated a Pentagon office that had been developing this >terrorist-tracking technology because of fears it might ensnare innocent >Americans. > >Still, some projects from retired Adm. John Poindexter's Total Information >Awareness effort were transferred to U.S. intelligence offices, >congressional, >federal and research officials told The Associated Press. > >In addition, Congress left undisturbed a separate but similar $64 million >research program run by a little-known office called the Advanced Research >and >Development Activity, or ARDA, that has used some of the same researchers >as >Poindexter's program. > >''The whole congressional action looks like a shell game,'' said Steve >Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, which tracks work by >U.S. >intelligence agencies. ''There may be enough of a difference for them to >claim TIA >was terminated while for all practical purposes the identical work is >continuing.'' > >Poindexter aimed to predict terrorist attacks by identifying telltale >patterns of activity in arrests, passport applications, visas, work >permits, driver's >licenses, car rentals and airline ticket buys as well as credit >transactions >and education, medical and housing records. > >The research created a political uproar because such reviews of millions of >transactions could put innocent Americans under suspicion. One of >Poindexter's >own researchers, David D. Jensen at the University of Massachusetts, >acknowledged that ''high numbers of false positives can result.'' > >Disturbed by the privacy implications, Congress last fall closed >Poindexter's >office, part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and barred >the >agency from continuing most of his research. Poindexter quit the government >and complained that his work had been misunderstood. > >The work, however, did not die. > >In killing Poindexter's office, Congress quietly agreed to continue paying >to >develop highly specialized software to gather foreign intelligence on >terrorists. > >In a classified section summarized publicly, Congress added money for this >software research to the ''National Foreign Intelligence Program,'' without >identifying openly which intelligence agency would do the work. > >It said, for the time being, products of this research could only be used >overseas or against non-U.S. citizens in this country, not against >Americans on >U.S. soil. > >Congressional officials would not say which Poindexter programs were killed >and which were transferred. People with direct knowledge of the contracts >told >the AP that the surviving programs included some of 18 data-mining projects >known in Poindexter's research as Evidence Extraction and Link Discovery. > >Poindexter's office described that research as ''technology not only for >'connecting the dots' that enable the U.S. to predict and pre-empt attacks >but >also for deciding which dots to connect.'' It was among the most >contentious >research programs. > >Ted Senator, who managed that research for Poindexter, told government >contractors that mining data to identify terrorists ''is much harder than >simply >finding needles in a haystack.'' > >''Our task is akin to finding dangerous groups of needles hidden in stacks >of >needle pieces,'' he said. ''We must track all the needle pieces all of the >time.'' > >Among Senator's 18 projects, the work by researcher Jensen shows how >flexible >such powerful software can be. Jensen used two online databases, the >Physics >Preprint Archive and the Internet Movie Database, to develop tools that >would >identify authoritative physics authors and would predict whether a movie >would >gross more than $2 million its opening weekend. > >Jensen said in an interview that Poindexter's staff liked his research >because the data involved ''people and organizations and events ... like >the data in >counterterrorism.'' > >At the University of Southern California, professor Craig Knoblauch said he >developed software that automatically extracted information from travel Web >sites and telephone books and tracked changes over time. > >Privacy advocates feared that if such powerful tools were developed without >limits from Congress, government agents could use them on any database. > >Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who fought to restrict Poindexter's office, is >trying >to force the executive branch to tell Congress about all its data-mining >projects. He recently pleaded with a Pentagon advisory panel to propose >rules on >reviewing data that Congress could turn into laws. > >ARDA, the research and development office, sponsors corporate and >university >research on information technology for U.S. intelligence agencies. It is >developing computer software that can extract information from databases as >well as >text, voices, other audio, video, graphs, images, maps, equations and >chemical formulas. It calls its effort ''Novel Intelligence from Massive >Data.'' > >The office said it has given researchers no government or private data and >obeys privacy laws. > >The project is part of its effort ''to help the nation avoid strategic >surprise ... events critical to national security ... such as those of >Sept. 11, >2001,'' the office said. > >Poindexter had envisioned software that could quickly analyze ''multiple >petabytes'' of data. The Library of Congress has space for 18 million >books, and >one petabyte of data would fill it more than 50 times. One petabyte could >hold >40 pages of text for each of the world's more than 6.2 billion people. > >ARDA said its software would have to deal with ''typically a petabyte or >more'' of data. It noted that some intelligence data sources ''grow at the >rate of >four petabytes per month.'' Experts said those probably are files with >satellite surveillance images and electronic eavesdropping results. > >The Poindexter and ARDA projects are vastly more powerful than other >data-mining projects such as the Homeland Security Department's CAPPS II >program to >classify air travelers or the six-state, Matrix anti-crime system financed >by >the Justice Department. > >In September 2002, ARDA awarded $64 million in contracts covering 3 1/2 >years. The contracts went to more than a dozen companies and university >researchers, including at least six who also had worked on Poindexter's >program. > >Congress threw these researchers into turmoil. Doug Lenat, the president of >Cycorp Corp. in Austin, Texas, will not discuss his work but said he had an >''enormous seven-figure deficit in our budget'' because Congress shut down >Poindexter's office. > >Like many critics, James Dempsey of the Center for Democracy and Technology >sees a role for properly regulated data-mining in evaluating the vast, >underanalyzed data the government already collects. > >Expansions of data mining, however, increase ''the risk of an innocent >person >being in the wrong place at the wrong time, of having rented the wrong >apartment ... or having a name similar to the name of some bad guy,'' he >said. > >02-22-04 15:31 EST > > > > > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > _________________________________________________________________ Stay informed on Election 2004 and the race to Super Tuesday. http://special.msn.com/msn/election2004.armx 8275 From: savanted1 Date: Tue Feb 24, 2004 3:17pm Subject: Australia: Gov't Moves to Make Interceptions Easier Australia: Gov't Moves to Make Interceptions Easier (19 February 2004) Citing recent advances in technology, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock maintains that new legislation is required to ensure that the protections afforded by the Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Bill 2004 extends to all forms of communication. If passed, the bill would give government spy agencies greater powers to intercept people's e-mail, allow recording of calls to the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) public lines, as well as change the definition of interception to ensure that protections given in the bill are able to keep up with technological developments. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8728745%5E15306%5E% 5Enbv%5E,00.html 8276 From: A Grudko Date: Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:42am Subject: FBI 'DROWNING' IN INFO FROM BUGS, WIRETAPS The Drudge Report VOICES INSIDE THEIR HEADS: FBI 'DROWNING' IN INFO FROM BUGS, WIRETAPS Tue Feb 24 2004 08:48:10 ET Thanks to the bundle of anti-terrorism measures known as the USA Patriot Act, the FBI is conducting a "record amount" of electronic surveillance, including the use of wiretaps and bugs, CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY reports on Tuesday. But the bureau can't keep up with all the information pouring in from those and other sources, CQ's Justin Rood reports. "We have a record amount of collection going on," said FBI spokesman Ed Cogswell in a telephone interview. The Justice Department's 2005 budget justification for the bureau backs Cogswell up. "Electronic Surveillance (ELSUR) collection volumes are expected to continue an upward trend for months and years ahead," the justification for the FBI reads. The document says the increases are the result of "statutory easements to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority (USA Patriot Act), a shift of FBI investigative resources to counterterrorism and counterintelligence programs heavily dependant [sic] upon ELSUR collection, and incremental growth in available ELSUR line capacity." Electronic Surveillance - ELSUR - refers to telephone wiretaps, hidden microphones, cameras placed in private areas, and other forms of surreptitious interception of oral, written or electronic communication. The 2001 Patriot Act (PL 107-56) included provisions making it easier for the FBI to obtain permission to spy on individuals as a part of counterterrorism investigations. "All systems are go," said Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 8277 From: Ocean Group Date: Wed Feb 25, 2004 7:34am Subject: At least for a laugh... http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=38169&lang=en 8278 From: waynemacdonald2002 Date: Wed Feb 25, 2004 8:14am Subject: TDR For Saale Near new Risor Bond 2901C Time Domain Reflectometer for sale, new battery a year ago. In excellent shape, hard shell travel case, all leads and operating manual, charger. $450.00 Call 1 902 582-3330 or email waynemacdonald@n... 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You can find it at http://www.martykaiser.com/fbi1~1.htm Thanks for reading it. Marty [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 8281 From: James M. Atkinson Date: Thu Feb 26, 2004 10:53pm Subject: Short Snit Fit Slams Brit Bugs at U.N. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3491534.stm Last Updated: Friday, 27 February, 2004, 00:04 GMT Short hits back over UN spy claim http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39863000/jpg/_39863086_short_pa203.jpg Ms Short says she expects there are transcripts of calls to Mr Annan Former cabinet minister Clare Short has denied putting the UK or its security services at risk by claiming UN chief Kofi Annan's phone calls were bugged. After Tony Blair branded the claims "deeply irresponsible" Ms Short hit back by accusing the prime minister of using "pompous" distraction tactics. She told BBC Two's Newsnight there was no national interest that justified spying on the UN secretary general. The UN has said if the claims were true the UK had undermined Mr Annan's work. Chief spokesman Fred Eckhard said any bugging would be illegal and should be stopped. No comment At his monthly news conference, the prime minister insisted the UK security services acted in accordance with domestic and international law and in their country's best interests. Mr Blair did not directly deny the bugging operation took place, but did say: "I'm not going to comment on the work of our security services - do not take that as an indication that the allegations made by Clare Short are true. "I really do regard what Clare Short has said this morning as totally irresponsible, and entirely consistent." Asked whether she should be prosecuted or face Labour Party discipline Mr Blair said he would "have to reflect upon" her comments. In an interview with Newsnight later on Thursday, Ms Short dismissed the prime minister's attack on her as a distraction. "What's he going to say? He either says 'yes, it's true' or he has to say 'no, it's not true', then he would be telling a lie. So he's got to say something else, so he can have a go at me. She said it was "pompous" of Mr Blair to claim she had threatened national security or the security services. "There is no national interest here, there is absolutely no threat to the security services from me making this public," she said. Ms Short says she saw transcripts of Mr Annan's phone conversations. "The UK in this time was also getting spies on Kofi Annan's office and getting reports from him about what was going on." Clare Short http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/audio/39859000/rm/_39859206_spying08_short26_long.ram Listen to the full Today programme interview Asked if it was possible the UN had taped the conversations itself, she replied: "I don't think this matters. Someone is improperly distributing transcripts." She said she had thought for a long time that it was wrong, and had considered telling Mr Annan directly, but believed by bringing it into the public domain it would stop. The former minister also said she had seen no evidence of spying operations against other UN diplomatic missions. Earlier, she had said in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the UK, in the run-up to war against Iraq, had been "getting spies on Kofi Annan's office and getting reports from him about what was going on". The British ambassador to the UN phoned Mr Annan about the claims on Thursday. But UN communications director, Edward Mortimer, said he did not think Mr Annan had received assurances the bugging had not happened or would not happen again. 'Dangerous situation' Ms Short's comments came the day after the collapse of the trial of Katharine Gun, a whistle-blower at the government surveillance and communications organisation GCHQ. She had been accused of leaking a secret e-mail from US spies apparently requesting British help in bugging UN delegates ahead of the Iraq invasion. The government says it will review whether changes are needed to the Official Secrets Act in the wake of the case. "I have had conversations with Kofi in the run up to the war thinking 'oh dear, there will be a transcript of this and people will see what he and I are saying." Clare Short Ex-Cabinet minister There has been speculation ministers were worried about the disclosure of secret documents during the trial, particularly the advice from Attorney General Lord Goldsmith about the legality of war. But Lord Goldsmith said told the House of Lords on Wednesday the decision was "on solely legal grounds ... and free from any political interference". However, Mr Blair reflected government concern at the impact on the Official Secrets Act by warning it would be a "very dangerous situation" if people thought they could just "spill out allegations, whether false or true... and get away with it". Conservative leader Michael Howard said the situation was "a complete mess" and urged Mr Blair to "get a grip on it". Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy urged Mr Blair to "come clean", arguing it was not good enough for him to say he could not comment. ============================ Transcript of Clare Short interview http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3489372.stm Ex-Cabinet minister Clare Short was asked about the decision to drop charges against sacked GCHQ translator Katharine Gun. Mrs Gun admitted leaking a memo apparently requesting UK help in bugging UN officials in the run-up to the Iraq war. What follows is a full transcript of the interview on Radio 4's Today. Presenter John Humphrys asked Ms Short why she thought the prosecution decided it lacked evidence for a prosecution. Clare Short: Well I think this centres on the attorney-general's advice that war was legal under Resolution 1441, which was published as a matter of fact, but was very, very odd. The more I think about it the more fishy I feel it was. It came very, very late. He came to the Cabinet the day Robin Cook resigned and sat in Robin's seat. Two sides of A4, no discussion permitted. We know already that the Foreign Office legal advisers had disagreed and one of them had said there was no authority for war. The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war. There's a question of whether the exaggeration of the threat and the immediacy of the threat from any possible biological and chemical weapons in Iraq was part of the brief for the attorney-general so that he would give the legal authority. So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal. Q: What this memo showed - the secret memo that Katharine Gunn disclosed - what it showed was pressure by the United States on other countries to get support for a second united resolution and spying indeed on those countries. Do you believe that Britain - that our government - might have been involved in that with the United States? CS: Well there was enormous for [inaudible] a second resolution and then of course it is clear now there was a date for war so they didn't need Blix to do his job and then come to a second resolution if need be. But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it. I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal. Q: A view - was it being suggested then? CS: There was worry about her brief and making sure that there was no such suggestion because it would have been a breach of the law... Q: But can I question you on that for a second - did somebody suggest that that might have been the right strategy? CS: We were worried that that was going to be done and went to some trouble to make sure her briefing made it clear that that could not legally be done. I mean the UK in this time was also getting - spying on Kofi Annan's office and getting reports from him about what was going on. The US was pressing Chile, Mexico - enormous pressures were brought to bear. What's remarkable is that these countries didn't break. And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know. Chirac said we'd veto now because Blix needs his time but if Blix failed then of course we would vote with others to organise military action. Q: But pressure is one thing - you expect that I suppose, spinning is another thing, you expect that I suppose. Spying is something quite different - spying in the United Nations is something quite different isn't it? CS: Well indeed. But these things are done and in the case of Kofi's office it's been done for some time. Q: Indeed again, let me repeat the question then - do you believe Britain's been involved in it? CS: Well I know - I've seen transcripts of Kofi Annan's conversations. In fact I've had conversations with Kofi in the run up to war, thinking 'oh dear there will be a transcript of this and people will see what he and I are saying'. Q: So in other words, British spies - let's be very clear about this in case I'm misunderstanding you - British spies have been instructed to carry out operations within the United Nations on people like Kofi Annan? CS: Yes absolutely. Q: Did you know about this when you were in government? CS: Absolutely, I read some of the transcripts of the accounts of his conversations. Q: Is this legal? CS: I don't know - I presume so. It's odd but I don't know about the legalities. But the major issue here is the legal authority for war and whether the attorney-general had to be persuaded, at the last minute, against the advice of one of the Foreign Office legal advisers, who then resigned, that he could give authority for war and whether there had to be an exaggeration of the threat of the use of chemical and biological weapons to persuade him that there was legal authority - that's the big question. Q: And what should happen now? CS: I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out. Q: How? There's been a lot of it and a lot of people now are beginning to say and indeed have already said - well look we've heard it all, we've had the war, it's all over, let's put it behind us. Tony Blair certainly wants to put it behind us. CS: Yes but the tragedy is Iraq is a disastrous mess; 10,000 Iraqis have died, American troops are dying, some of our troops have died. The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it? ============================ Profile of Clare Short http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3488642.stm By Nick Assinder BBC News Online political correspondent Clare Short has lobbed another grenade into the government with her claim that British spooks routinely bugged UN officials. Ever since she quit the government over the Iraq war, she has maintained her fierce criticism of the prime minister for his role in taking the country into that conflict - even going so far as to demand his resignation. It is not the first time she has turned her anger onto her own party leader. She has resigned from the Labour Party frontbench three times - twice over the Gulf Wars and once over prevention of terrorism laws. And along with former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, she led the backbench critics of the war. But unlike Mr Cook who quit on the eve of the war, the way she went severely damaged her standing with her previous supporters. Rather than quitting before the war she publicly agonised over the rights and wrongs of the conflict - and only decided to quit her post as International Development Secretary once the main hostilities ended. That bemused many of her traditional allies in the Labour left - and her latest revelation is likely to raise the question of why, if she had been concerned by the intelligence services' behaviour, she did not resign at the time. On the wane Clare Short built her political career on her reputation as a principled straight talker and is a formidable figure in the Commons who can be emotional and occasionally savage. Ms Short's passionate beliefs developed early in her life. She was born and bred in Birmingham, the second of seven children of Irish parents. Her father, a teacher, came from Crossmaglen and she was once strident in her call for British troops to leave Northern Ireland. With a degree in political science, Clare Short had no notion of entering Parliament until she worked as a private secretary to a Conservative Home Office minister, Mark Carlisle, and found many MPs decidedly "unimpressive" at their jobs. She thought "I could do that" and in 1983 became the member for Birmingham, Ladywood. Secret son An early target was The Sun's Page Three girl and similar newspaper photographs. The failure of her bill to ban them was inevitable. After calling for the legalisation of cannabis and suggesting that perhaps people like herself could afford to pay more tax, she strained Tony Blair's patience when she refrained from backing his line in a TV interview about tube strikes. Later she stunned Westminster by introducing her secret son, Toby, to the public, 31 years after she had given him up for adoption. Her recent rebellions include stands over the sale of an expensive military air traffic system to Tanzania and government plans for top-up fees for students. Ms Short was also the first cabinet minister to condemn Labour's acceptance of a donation from soft porn publisher Richard Desmond. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We Expertly Hunt Real Spies, Real Eavesdroppers, and Real Wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 Web: http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 Email: mailto:jmatk@t... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- World Class, Professional, Ethical, and Competent Bug Sweeps, and Wiretap Detection using Sophisticated Laboratory Grade Test Equipment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8282 From: James M. Atkinson Date: Thu Feb 26, 2004 11:13pm Subject: Kofi Annan' needs to bring in better TSCM people Sorry Folks, but this foolishness about Kofi Annan's phones and his being bugged by the Brits, is quite amusing. You can't get within 1500 feet of the U.N. Headquarters without picking up on at least a dozen different bugging device in a mater of seconds. -jma http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=97BFB4C8-9585-40BF-AFAD641C2B0F5C3F&title=UN%3A%20%20Spying%20on%20Annan%20Would%20Be%20Violation%20of%20International%20Law&catOID=45C9C78C-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C&categoryname=Europe Europe UN: Spying on Annan Would Be Violation of International Law Peter Heinlein United Nations 26 Feb 2004, 23:14 UTC A U.N. spokesman says any bugging of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's phones, if it happened, would be a violation of international law. Spokesman Fred Eckhard says the secretary-general was disappointed to hear allegations that British intelligence had spied on him. "Such activity would undermine the integrity and confidential nature of diplomatic exchanges," he said. "Those who speak to the secretary-general are entitled to assume their exchanges are confidential." Mr. Eckhard's comments came after former British Cabinet member Clare Short said intelligence agents listened in on Secretary-General Annan's phone conversations in the days before the war in Iraq. Ms. Short made the allegation in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation. U.N. spokesman Eckhard said, if true, such activities would constitute violations of at least three international conventions, and would compromise the secretary-general's effectiveness as an international diplomat. "We're reaffirming the principle that these premises are inviolable under international law, and we expect all member states to respect their commitments under this legal instrument," he said. Mr. Eckhard emphasized that U.N. security personnel do not know when or if the secretary-general's phone has been bugged. He said efforts to detect spying had been intensified, but would not specify what that might mean. He told reporters "We're throwing down a red flag, and saying, if this is true, please stop it." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We Expertly Hunt Real Spies, Real Eavesdroppers, and Real Wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. 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Atkinson Date: Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:53pm Subject: The world's second oldest profession Business is good.... ;-) The third oldest profession is that of catching spies, -jma http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3490120.stm The world's second oldest profession By Paul Reynolds BBC News Online world affairs correspondent Whatever the truth of Clare Short's claim that Britain was spying on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan during the run-up to the Iraq war, the tradition of spying on your friends as well as your enemies is a long established one. A rather bulky old telephone bugging device http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39861000/jpg/_39861166_device_newsstill_300.jpg It is also one which leads to scandals when revealed. We certainly know that the United States was interested in eavesdropping on members of the Security Council. The British whistleblower Katherine Gun, against whom charges were dropped on Wednesday, leaked a memo from Frank Koza of the US electronic intelligence gathering body, the National Security Agency, asking for help in targeting the communications of Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria, Guinea and Pakistan. Mr Koza's request points to one of the most recent revelations about how all this is done. In this case he would probably have been asking to tap into the network called Echelon. The existence of Echelon was made known some years ago and was the subject of a report in July 2001 by the European Parliament worried at the civil liberties implications and that Echelon might be for commercial advantage. Basically five English-speaking countries - the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - are said to have divided up the electronic world between them so that they can intercept communications across much of the globe. They use ground stations to tap into satellite transmissions mainly to listen into telephone calls, e-mails and faxes. Quite often, their computers are programmed to spot certain words and pick up certain dialled numbers and addresses. Joshua's example That spying is the second oldest profession is indicated by the Old Testament no less. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39565000/jpg/_39565843_gchqdoughnut203.jpg GCHQ is the home of Britain's intelligence-gathering operations When the children of Israel were about to enter the Promised Land, the Bible says, their leader took the precaution of trying to get intelligence about what lay ahead. "Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly with orders to reconnoitre the country. The two men came to Jericho and went to the house of a prostitute named Rahab..." Rahab, of course, was engaged in the oldest profession. Joshua's example has been followed ever since. In our time, the bugging of embassies has been especially popular. That is partly because diplomatic codes are so hard to break. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39861000/jpg/_39861198_wright_ap203body.jpg Wright said bugging was rife in London in the 1950s and 60s And that does not mean just the embassies of your enemies, though that has gone on a lot. I remember being called out by Russian diplomats on a Saturday afternoon towards the end of the Cold War. They displayed rather ancient looking microphones they had found embedded in plasterwork in one of their residences. The shocked look they put on was a joy to behold. Last year it was reported that Britain had bugged the High Commission (embassy) of Pakistan after the 11 September attacks. It was said that devices were put in under cover of building work. The British said nothing. The Pakistanis had their suspicions. French bugged A former MI5 agent, Peter Wright, revealed in his book Spycatcher, which the British Government tried to have banned, that in the 1950s and 60s "we bugged and burgled our way across London at the state's behest, while pompous bowler-hatted civil servants in Whitehall pretended to look the other way". Gentlemen do not read each other's mail Henry L Stimson Former US secretary of state He said that Lancaster House, the venue for many a diplomatic discussion including the Rhodesia talks, had been wired for sound so that MI5 could listen into delegations in their private rooms. Mr Wright also said that the communications of the French Embassy in London had been intercepted when Britain was trying to join the Common Market. Secret unit The most sensational revelations, though, came in a book published in 1931. It was called The American Black Chamber and it was written by a brilliant and flamboyant American cryptographer named Herbert Yardley. Mr Yardley had led a secret unit by this name which decoded diplomatic traffic from just after World War I until 1928 - when New York lawyer Henry L Stimson became secretary of state and was horrified to discover where a lot of his information was coming from. He closed the Black Chamber down with the words: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." Unfortunately, this put Mr Yardley out of a job, so to make some money he wrote his book. It revealed that the US had broken Japanese ciphers and had, for example, found out what the Japanese bottom line was in a important naval conference in 1921, enabling the US to press an advantage. But Mr Yardley also cheerfully spoke about attacking the British codes and accepted that the British were doing the same. He ruefully reflected in the book about the dim prospects for American negotiators at future meetings: "How would America fare in the conference room without the Black Chamber? The Department of State still used its 16th century codes. "I could see the rush of excitement in the British Admiralty cipher Bureau, as their skilful, experienced cryptographers prepared for the phalanx of American code clerks and their antiquated codes. I rather envied the British cryptographers." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We Expertly Hunt Real Spies, Real Eavesdroppers, and Real Wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. 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Cries Foul Thu Feb 26, 2004 01:05 PM ET By Mike Peacock LONDON (Reuters) - Britain spied on U.N. chief Kofi Annan before the Iraq war, former minister Clare Short said on Thursday, threatening a fresh crisis for Prime Minister Tony Blair and drawing an angry response from the United Nations. Blair declined to address the claim, beyond saying British security services acted within domestic and international law. But the U.N. declared any such operation would be illegal. "We want this action to stop if indeed it has been carried out," U.N. chief spokesman Fred Eckhard told reporters. "It undermines the secretary-general's conduct of business with other leaders. It is therefore not good for the United Nations' work and it is illegal." Britain's U.N. ambassador talked to Annan on Blair's behalf. Short's allegation comes a day after Britain dropped charges against a translator who admitted leaking a top-secret U.S. document seeking London's help in bugging United Nations members in the run-up to the war. The former aid minister, who resigned after the war but was in government during the period when London and Washington sought U.N. authorization for military action, said Secretary-General Annan's office had been specifically targeted. "In the case of Kofi's office, it was being done for some time," Short told BBC Radio. "I read some of the transcripts of the accounts of his conversations." Blair reacted angrily to his now frequent critic, saying she was undermining the intelligence services and British security as it faced a real threat from ruthless Islamic militants. "The fact that those allegations were made...is deeply irresponsible," he told a news conference in his Downing Street home. "We are going to be in a very dangerous situation as a country if people feel they can simply spill out secrets or details of security operations, whether false or true." BLAIR CAN'T SHAKE IRAQ Iraq has become a political nightmare for Blair. Ten months after Saddam Hussein was toppled, none of the banned weapons Blair claimed Iraq had primed for use has been found. The premier's public trust ratings have slumped and many in his Labour Party feel betrayed to the point of mutiny. Bob Worcester of pollsters MORI said Blair remains favorite to win a third term at next year's election but with a majority of 60-80 in the 659-seat parliament, down from 161 now. That could leave him at the mercy of a hardcore of Labour MPs so opposed to the war they will now fight him on any front. "Until the boil of the truth about Iraq is lanced, the prime minister can never put this behind him," Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn told Reuters. On Wednesday, state prosecutors said they had insufficient evidence to prove 29-year-old translator Katharine Gun broke the Official Secrets Act although she freely admitted leaking a memo which she said revealed a U.S. plot to spy on U.N. missions. At the time of the memo, Britain and the U.S. were desperately trying to persuade wavering members of the Security Council to back war. Blair's opponents believe the government's top lawyer, Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith, killed the case for fear that questions about the war's legality would be raised. Goldsmith denied the case was dropped for political reasons, or that he took the decision. "At the time we started military action it was my own considered...view that military action was lawful," he told parliament. "I believe today it was the correct legal position." Blair's spokesman said the government would review the Official Secrets Act to see if it needed amending. Gun, who worked at surveillance center GCHQ, said she had exposed "illegality and wrongdoing on the part of the U.S. government, who attempted to subvert our own security services." The Observer newspaper said the leaked memo showed America asked for Britain's help to bug the offices of Security Council members -- Chile, Mexico, Cameroon, Angola, Guinea and Pakistan. Some diplomats were philosophical. Spain's U.N. ambassador Innocencio Arias said: "Everybody spies on everybody." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We Expertly Hunt Real Spies, Real Eavesdroppers, and Real Wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. 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They were sold from January 1, 2002, to October 17, 2003, to independent dealers who installed them in commercial buildings. The security cameras sold for approximately $1000 to $1700. Manufactured in: United Kingdom Remedy: Contact Honeywell Video Systems to arrange for free repair of the security cameras mounting assembly. Consumer Contact: Call Honeywell at (800) 573-0154 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET (Monday through Friday). 8286 From: James M. Atkinson Date: Fri Feb 27, 2004 9:22am Subject: What's the etiquette for spying on friends? http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Feb/27/op/op03a.html Posted on: Friday, February 27, 2004 EDITORIAL What's the etiquette for spying on friends? What's odd about this week's drama in London is how little reverberation it's causing in Washington. Katharine Gun, a translator at Britain's secret eavesdropping agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), had been facing two years in prison on a charge of violating the Official Secrets Act. But the moment she entered her innocent plea Wednesday, the government dropped its case. Gun's case may be only the beginning of a larger scandal. A former British Cabinet minister now says that British spies have regularly bugged the office of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. Last year, as the United States and Britain prepared to invade Iraq, Gun came across an e-mail from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), asking GCHQ to mount a "surge" of spying against members of the U.N. Security Council whose votes would be crucial to passing a second resolution authorizing war. Gun was outraged at what she considered an attempt to subvert the U.N. So she leaked the memo to the Observer newspaper, which then reported that the NSA stepped up eavesdropping on officials from Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria, Guinea and Pakistan, all members of the Security Council at the time. Gun was not about to go quietly. She claimed a defense of "necessity" - that her leak was required to prevent an illegal war. What puzzles us is why there isn't even a slight hint of embarrassment in Washington. Perhaps it's naive to be surprised that we've been spying on friendly diplomats. But when we're caught red-handed, shouldn't we at least act a bit sheepish? More to the point, Gun correctly saw that such bugging operations are contrary to international law and conventions, and a threat to the very legality that is the basis, in and between our Western democracies, of trust and justice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We Expertly Hunt Real Spies, Real Eavesdroppers, and Real Wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. 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The tapping of phone lines and the planting of microphones in U.N. offices are common enough that the organization employs a team of debuggers, headed by a former New York police officer, to routinely sweep offices and respond to requests from nations that suspect their officials are being monitored. "In my opinion everybody spies on everybody, and when there's a crisis, big countries spy a lot," said Inocencio F. Arias, Spain's ambassador to the United Nations. "I wouldn't be surprised if this secretary general and other secretary generals have been listened to by a handful of big powers, and not only the ones you are thinking." An ambassador of a Security Council member nation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said it would almost be an insult to be spared the attention of foreign intelligence agencies. "It used to be a shame; now it's a matter of status. If your mission is not bugged, then you are really worth nothing." President Franklin D. Roosevelt "fought hard for the United States to host the opening session" of the United Nations" in April 1945, says James Bamford in his book about the National Security Agency, "Body of Secrets." "It seemed like a magnanimous gesture to most of the delegates. But the real reason was to better enable the United States to eavesdrop on its guests," according to Bamford. "They're doing it today," said Stephen C. Schlesinger, author of "Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations." "States always will be using spying to further their own national security interests." Regardless of how common spying is, it is not common to get caught, as the NSA apparently was last March when a British translator gave the Observer newspaper copies of an agency memo requesting a "surge" in eavesdropping on Security Council members during the debate on authorizing the use of force against Iraq. Yesterday, a former British cabinet member told BBC radio that she had seen transcripts of Secretary General Kofi Annan's surreptitiously recorded conversations. Experts say it would be highly unusual if the United States did not know about the Annan eavesdropping. Under a secret pact between Britain, Canada, Australia and the United States, Washington has responsibility for surveilling and sharing information on targets within the United States, NSA experts said. No wiretapping is allowed in the United States without a court order. When the eavesdropping involves foreign officials, the FBI or the NSA must obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act order, although classified executive orders permit surveillance of specific targets. Besides U.S. law, U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said, three treaties -- the 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, the 1947 agreement between the United Nations and the United States regarding the headquarters of the United Nations, and the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations -- affirm the inviolability of U.N. premises. "The premises of the United Nations shall be inviolable," states the 1947 agreement, signed by Britain and the United States. It adds that the United Nations' "property and assets . . . shall be immune" from any form of "interference, whether by executive, administrative, judicial or legislative action." At the same time, most diplomats acknowledge spying as a fact of life. It was at its height during the Cold War, when U.S. and Soviet agents competed for secret information, and the two rival countries filled their U.N. delegations with CIA and KGB officers. Still, it is a subject few diplomats discuss openly. "I take it as something that could take place," Sergey Lavrov, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, said of the recent allegations. "I think it is illegal, but this shows that the British intelligence service at least technically are very professional." Lavrov said Russian intelligence would not engage in the same activity. "Never, never," he said. "I don't think you could find any even suspicion that the secretary general's office was bugged by the Russian intelligence service." Another Security Council member nation's ambassador reacted with incredulity. "On the record, if Lavrov says so, I have to believe Lavrov," the diplomat said. "Off the record: Is he joking?" "The U.N. spends millions a year on anti-bugging equipment," said James Atkinson, president of the Granite Island Group, a firm that provides debugging services to governments and private firms. Atkinson recently drove into New York for fun, passing by many foreign missions to the United Nations. "My equipment picked up so many bugs that it nearly tipped over." "The secretariat routinely takes technical measures to guard against such invasions of privacy," Eckhard said, "and those efforts will now be intensified." Lynch reported from the United Nations. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We Expertly Hunt Real Spies, Real Eavesdroppers, and Real Wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. 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Tyler, New York Times LONDON -- A former member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Cabinet asserted Thurs-day that British intelligence services conducted electronic surveillance of the U.N. secretary-general, Kofi Annan, in the run-up to the Iraq war. The former minister, Clare Short, who is still a member of Parliament, received a harsh rebuke from Blair, who told a news conference that Short had endangered Britain's national security with her "totally irresponsible" remarks. He would not comment on any allegations about espionage operations. At the United Nations in New York, Annan's spokesman, Fred Eckhard, said at a news conference that it would be illegal to conduct electronic spying at the United Nations and that Annan would be disappointed if Britain had bugged his conversations. Eckhard said efforts were under way to ensure the security of Annan's confidential conversations. He refused to say whether any listening devices had been found in Annan's office. "We're throwing down a red flag and saying that if this is true, please stop it," Eckhard said. The U.N. news conference added to the diplomatic embarrassment for Blair, who was said to be outraged that a member of his own Labor Party had spoken publicly about one of the most sensitive types of espionage. Michael Howard, the Tory opposition leader, called Thursday's developments "a complete mess" for Britain. The diplomatic tempest began when Short, who initially supported the war but later resigned from the Cabinet after the fall of Baghdad, told a BBC radio interviewer on Thursday morning that transcripts of Annan's private conversations were circulated last year among Blair's Cabinet members. "I read some of the transcripts of the accounts of his conversations," she said, asserting that Annan's office was bugged. "These things are done, and in the case of Kofi's office, it's been done for some time." She said she was so certain of the surveillance that she recalled "having conversations with Kofi in the run-up to war, thinking: 'Oh dear, there will be a transcript of this, and people see what he and I are saying.'" Short's remarks reflected the continued hemorrhaging of secrets related to espionage conducted during the bare-knuckled political debate at the United Nations in March 2003, as the Bush administration and Blair's government sought to overcome resistance from France, Germany, Russia and a number of smaller states that were opposed to a resolution that would authorize the Iraq war. Short's blunt disclosure -- which a number of experts said appeared to be a violation of the Official Secrets Act -- underscored the unpopularity of the war in Britain and the bitterness that has developed between Blair and a sizable contingent of rebels within his own party. The revelation of targeted espionage in the executive suites of the United Nations came a day after Blair's government declined to prosecute a 29-year-old government linguist, Katharine Gun, who admitted leaking details of another bugging operation, also aimed at the United Nations, during the war debate last year. Gun worked for the intelligence agency known as General Communications Headquarters, which intercepts and decodes communications. She said she was "shocked" when she received a copy of a top secret message from the U.S. National Security Agency, requesting British assistance in conducting electronic surveillance against the diplomats of "swing" nations -- Angola, Cameroon, Guinea, Chile, Mexico and Pakistan -- whose votes were critical to passing a war resolution. She leaked the message to the British Sunday newspaper The Observer and turned herself in for arrest. Gun's lawyers were preparing a defense that she felt it was necessary to expose what she believed was espionage activity that fell outside international law. As part of her defense, her lawyers were going to insist on seeing the full private assessment of Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general, on whether Britain could go to war without specific authorization from the Security Council. The British government's reaction to the two disclosures sharply contrasted with the era of the Cold War, when significant breaches of secrecy like Gun's and Short's most often resulted in immediate censure and prosecution, a move that was regarded as necessary in the face of serious threats to national security. Blair said Thursday that major threats still exist, but he offered no coherent explanation on the change in policy, except to say that the Official Secrets Act perhaps needed to be reviewed. He said the episodes involving Gun and Short showed "that we are going to be in a very dangerous situation as a country if people feel that they can simply spill out secrets or details of secret operations." But when pressed on why British prosecutors had declined to bring Gun to trial, Blair said the case was dropped because of the "interplay between evidentiary issues and the legal framework." He said he could go no further and insisted that he had played no role in the decision to drop the case. A number of political analysts pointed out that the prosecution of Gun, who said she had acted out of conscience, would have re-ignited the debate over the war in Iraq at a time when Blair was trying to move on to a new domestic agenda. But Short's intervention on Thursday demonstrated how difficult it is for Blair to get beyond the war. The prime minister accused his critics on Thursday of using "conspiracy" theories, allegations of government lying and wrongdoing as "cover for people who want to have a debate about the rightness or wrongness of the conflict and we should have that." "It is actually a debate on, 'Was it right to remove Saddam Hussein the way you did or should you have waited and given the inspectors more time,'" Blair said, adding, "That is the heart of the debate." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We Expertly Hunt Real Spies, Real Eavesdroppers, and Real Wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. 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Blair reacted angrily when his former international development secretary, Clare Short, claimed Thursday that Britain had eavesdropped on Annan's conversations, and that she had seen the transcripts. The row escalated when former UN chief weapons inspector Richard Butler, in Australia, revealed that at least four countries bugged his conversations as he was conducting delicate negotiations in the late 1990s on disarming Iraq. Blair, who was to speak Friday at a Labour Party gathering in the Scottish highlands, called Short's allegation "deeply irresponsible" and insisted that British intelligence always acted within the law. In New York, Annan's spokesman Fred Eckhard said that eavesdropping on the secretary general would be illegal. "We would be disappointed if this were true," he said. "Such activities would undermine the integrity and confidential nature of diplomatic exchanges." But the leader of the opposition Liberal Democratic party, Charles Kennedy, said that Blair had to go further and issue a unequivocal denial. "The issue at stake here is whether we as a country somehow or other we complicit in the bugging of the secretary general of the United Nations," said Kennedy on BBC radio. "That surely is a matter to which we should be given an adequate reply," he said. "The prime minister must come clean, and he must not use the intelligence services as a means to protect his own personal political interests." Short, who quit Blair's cabinet last May over the Iraq war, dropped her bombshell a day after government prosecutors abandoned a secrecy case against British intelligence translator Katharine Gun. She has admitted leaking a top-secret memo from the US National Security Agency, dated January 31 last year, soliticing Britain's help in spying on six UN Security Council member states. The appeal from Washington was issued when US President George W. Bush and Blair was trying -- unsuccessfully, it turned out -- to get a green light from the United Nations to invade Iraq, which they did on March 20. In Washington, US Secretary of State Colin Powell refused to comment on Short's allegation, let alone whether the United States was eavesdropping at UN headquarters in New York. "I have nothing to say with respect to the activities of the United Kingdom," Powell said. "We never talk about intelligence matters of that nature in public." One-time foreign secretary Robin Cook, who also quit Blair's cabinet in protest against the Iraq war, and who had enjoyed the same senior ministerial rank as Short, cast doubt on his former colleague's claim. "I would be surprised if it were true that, in the run-up to the war on Iraq, we intercepted the calls of Kofi Annan," wrote Cook in the Independent newspaper. But in Australia, Butler -- the chief UN arms inspector in 1997 to 1999 -- said he was "well aware" that he was being bugged during his time at the United Nations. He alleged that Britain, France, Russia and the United States all listened in on his conversation. The four, with China, are all permanent members of the UN Security Council. "How did I know? Because those who did it would come to me and show me the recordings that they had made on others to help me do my job disarming Iraq," Butler said on Australia's ABC radio. "They would say 'We're just here to help you' and they would never show me any recordings they had made on me." - AFP ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We Expertly Hunt Real Spies, Real Eavesdroppers, and Real Wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. 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Atkinson Date: Fri Feb 27, 2004 9:24am Subject: UN weapons inspector 'well aware' of spying http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040227.wweapons/BNStory/Front/ UN weapons inspector 'well aware' of spying Associated Press Sydney - Former United Nations chief weapons inspector Richard Butler said he was "well aware" that his telephone calls were being monitored during his tenure, as he weighed into the debate surrounding allegations Britain spied on the UN before the Iraq war. Mr. Butler said Friday that while he was in charge of investigating Iraq's weapons programs he was forced to go for walks in New York's Central Park for confidential discussions with his contacts, because the phones in his office at the UN headquarters were bugged. "Of course I was (bugged)," he told Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) radio. "I was well aware of it. How did I know? Because those who did it would come to me and show me the recordings that they had made on others to help me do my job disarming Iraq." Butler, the UN's chief weapons inspector in Iraq from 1997 to 1999, said at least four permanent members of the UN Security Council monitored his calls - the United States, Britain, France and Russia. His comments came after an Australian intelligence analyst told the ABC that the phone of the UN's most recent weapons inspector, Hans Blix, was tapped whenever he was in Iraq hunting for banned weapons and the information was shared between the United States, Britain and its allies. The revelations were prompted by accusations on Thursday by former British cabinet minister Clare Short that Britain spied on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in the build up to the Iraq war. She said she had read transcripts of Mr. Annan's conversations while she was a member of the government. The UN said any bugging of Mr. Annan's office would be illegal and should end immediately. ABC radio cited an unnamed intelligence source at the Australian intelligence agency, the Office of National Assessments, who claimed that Mr. Blix's cellphone was monitored and his conversations recorded while he was in Iraq prior to the war last year. "That's what I'm told, specifically each time he entered Iraq, his phone was targeted and recorded and the transcripts were then made available to the United States, Australia, Canada, the U.K. and also New Zealand," ABC investigative reporter Andrew Fowler said, citing his intelligence contacts. He did not say who tapped Mr. Blix's phone. Australia is a close ally of Britain and the United States and the three countries shared intelligence in the lead-up to last year's invasion of Iraq. Canberra also dispatched troops to take part in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Steve Ingram, a spokesman for Attorney General Philip Ruddock, who is ultimately responsible for security and intelligence matters, refused comment. "We don't make it a practice of commenting on what we might and might not have seen in relation to intelligence matters," he told The Associated Press. Mr. Blix, 75, who headed the UN inspectors from 2000 to mid-2003, was in Iraq for months before the war looking for evidence that Saddam Hussein was developing a weapons program. No weapons of mass destruction have been found. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We Expertly Hunt Real Spies, Real Eavesdroppers, and Real Wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. 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If you are not the addressee it may be unlawful for you to read, copy, distribute, disclose or otherwise use the information in this e-mail. If you are not the intended recipient please notify us immediately. -----Original Message----- From: martykaiser [mailto:martykaiser@p...] Sent: February 27, 2004 15:44 To: TSCM-L Subject: [TSCM-L] NLJD Hey... If anyone is looking for a good and inexpensive NLJD try http://www.nelk.ru ...that's right, Russian. Sells for about US$4,000.00. Marty [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ======================================================== TSCM-L Technical Security Mailing List "In a multitude of counselors there is strength" To subscribe to the TSCM-L mailing list visit: http://www.yahoogroups.com/community/TSCM-L It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Star Bucks that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking is a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. =================================================== TSKS Yahoo! Groups Links 8294 From: G P Date: Fri Feb 27, 2004 10:45am Subject: Re: FBI story Very interesting story Marty - just goes to show what can happen to you if you go against the grain of the "old guard" network out there in D.C. Keep talking about it and publish what you know, that's the only way you will affect a change. It's not the federal government that is the problem, it's the shadow network that likes to manipulate and distort intelligence information that is at fault. I went through a similar episode out in D.C. in 2000/2001, hired a few "international business development" fellows from the Center for Strategic and International Studies and subsequently had my entire company (then valued at $19 million) taken over by them, had my reputation trashed by a continuing stream of false and anonymous information that was continually leaked to every 3-letter agency in D.C., and lost everything but the shirt on my back at the end of it. Most of those guys are now presidential advisers for the current W. Bush administration: Bill Stokes - Chairman of the Washington Network Group and EndeavorConnect, covert operative and psychological operations guy for the State Department, personal friends with Bush Sr., Kissinger etc. I hired 'Billy' and his gang to help out with international marketing, I had no clue who or what they were about until it was all over. Billy likes to play games with the cognitive sciences (such as NLP and Ericksonian hypnotherapy), has access to LSD-25 derived psychoactive chemicals that were banned by the Kerry Commission, and is on a first name basis with the who's who in the intelligence community. Frank Cilluffo - Credited with coining the term "Homeland Security", Franky Boy is a presidential adviser to W. Bush and is behind most of the WMD hogwash being peddled in D.C. Last I heard Franky was an exec over at DHS, Franky also likes to goof around with cognitive sciences research from the MK days, if you cross Franky he'll label you a terrorist so enjoy the perennial FBI/CIA investigation that ensues as a result. Michael Palashak - Covert operative for the State Department, personal friends with Bush Sr. and W. Bush, also helps peddle WMD hogwash with Franky Cilluffo. Protege for Stokes, with bad teeth to boot. Gore Friedrichs - The lead "investor" that introduced all of those fine fellows; Friedrichs is also a member of the establishment out there in D.C., his father used to be the Chairman of the NASD, lackey for Stokes and Cilluffo and psyop neophyte. Michael Bednardczyk - Covert operative for the State Department, "professional services" lead for Blackhat / Defcon, would sell his own mother for a quarter if he thought it would make him more popular. Spewer of false information to the intelligentsia, poor fatboy could never quite figure out the basics of technology so handling other computer security kiddies is his forte. Michael is adept at one thing, which is taking credit for other people's work. Keep talking about it Marty, exposing their darkness is the only defense. Mark 4:22 - "For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad." Greg martykaiser wrote: Hi Gang I have just updated my FBI story. You can find it at http://www.martykaiser.com/fbi1~1.htm Thanks for reading it. Marty [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ======================================================== TSCM-L Technical Security Mailing List "In a multitude of counselors there is strength" To subscribe to the TSCM-L mailing list visit: http://www.yahoogroups.com/community/TSCM-L It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Star Bucks that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking is a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. =================================================== TSKS Yahoo! Groups Links --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 8295 From: James M. Atkinson Date: Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:58pm Subject: UK accused of doing Washington's dirty work [The first rule of diplomacy, it not to trust the other diplomats. -jma] http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/98/387/12167_Blair.html UK accused of doing Washington's dirty work 02/27/2004 16:40 Ex-Minister claimed UK spies bugged UN after request from US. The Britain of Tony Blair is Washington's lap-dog, to order to heel, to use and to abuse. The latest revelations that Washington asked London to bug the UN Secretary-General's office and the representatives of the UNSC will come as no surprise in today's world, where Washington and London prefer to lie, forge documents and kill than to use discussion, debate, dialogue and diplomacy. Claire Short, the former Cabinet Minister for Overseas Development, who resigned over the ilegality of the war against Iraq, claimed yesterday that British spies bugged the office of Kofi Annan in the period before the war, giving as proof the fact that she had read transcripts of such conversations. Another source, Katherine Gun, was dismissed from her job at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) for leaking the contents of a memo, dated January 2003, which referred to eavesdropping activities on the representatives of UN Security Council members from Angola, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chile, Guinea Conakri and Pakistan, who had their telephones tapped. Why? To try to find something to be used later to blackmail or cajole these representatives to support Washington and London in their attack against Iraq, because Washington and London knew and know that the attack was illegal without the support of the UNSC. This is the diplomacy followed by the Bush regime in Washington and the Blair regime in London, sanctioned by a handful of cowards such as Portugal's Jose Barroso, Spain's Jose Maria Aznar and Italy's Silvio Berlusconi. How much lower can this gallery of rogues sink? Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We Expertly Hunt Real Spies, Real Eavesdroppers, and Real Wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. 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