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Security Scrapbook - Espionage & Privacy news of the week.
Sat, 27 Jan 2001


To: Clients, colleagues and friends.
Subject: - Espionage & Privacy news of the week.

=====================================================
Kevin's Security Scrapbook® is published on an irregular
basis for a select audience. Issues are archived at
http://www.spybusters.com/Security_Scrapbook.html
=====================================================
SPECIAL SECTION -- Vehicle Trackers
SPECIAL SECTION -- On the lawmakers plate...
SPECIAL SECTION -- Voyeur News of the Week
=====================================================


SPECIAL SECTION -- Vehicle Trackers

Security Alert...
Make sure the competition is not getting computerized reports and maps
showing where your executive, sales or delivery vehicles go.


A mini electronics package is available - via the Internet - which can
do just that. About the size of a deck of cards, it can be secreted in
any vehicle, and will provide detailed maps showing where these vehicles
were driven... including: all destinations, intermediate stops, dates,
times AND driving speeds.
http://www.advantrack.com/Maps/Default.htm

Recommendation...
Include executive, sales, and delivery vehicles in your electronic
eavesdropping audits. Competitors (and who knows who
else) are very interested in knowing the places these folks visit.
Excellent intelligence.


From the web sites...
"The Shadow Tracker™ Jr. is designed for small company fleets with basic
vehicle tracking needs, and for executives and independent contractors
who want an automatic record of trip mileage, time and travel records.
The Jr. provides an economical, entry level GPS vehicle tracking system
showing vehicle location, entire route traveled, stops made and speed of
the vehicle, just to mention a few. This particular Shadow Tracker™ is
designed for concealability..."
http://www.advantrack.com

"Ever wish you had a tool that could prove your suspicions were valid?
Next time you sense suspicious activity with your vehicle, make sure
TravelEyes2™ goes along for the ride. TravelEyes2™ can track a vehicle
to the nearest address, tell how long the vehicle remained at any given
destination and provide details of suspicious activities. Why pay a
fortune to hire a private investigator when you can be your own
"detective" with TravelEyes2™"
http://www.traveleyes.com

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SPECIAL SECTION -- On the lawmakers plate...

HR 5018: A bill to extend wiretapping bans to electronic communications
(Internet, wireless phones, and e-mail). Referred to the House Judiciary
Committee. No further action.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.05018:

HR 4987: A bill to update wiretapping laws to provide the Internet,
wireless phones and electronic mail with enhanced privacy protection.
Similar legislation (S 2326) was introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden). Referred
to the House Judiciary Committee. No further action.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.04987:

HR 4908: A bill to provide for the disclosure of electronic monitoring
of employee communications and computer usage in the workplace.
Employees of companies that violated the bill's provisions could seek
civil damages of up to $20,000. Referred to the House Judiciary
Committee. No further action.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.04908:

HRES 77: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 514) to amend the
Communications Act of 1934 to strengthen and clarify prohibitions on
electronic eavesdropping, and for other purposes.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c106:1:./temp/~c106zfqOXk::

S 2326: Wireless Eavesdropping Protection Act of 2000 (Introduced in the
Senate)
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c106:2:./temp/~c106zfqOXk::

HR 514: Wireless Privacy Enhancement Act of 1999 (Reported in the House)
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c106:3:./temp/~c106zfqOXk::

HR 3489: Sec. 5&6 Wireless Telecommunications Sourcing and Privacy Act /
Commerce in Electronic Eavesdropping Devices. / Unauthorized
Interception or Publication of Communications.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c106:7:./temp/~c106zfqOXk:e30170:

HR 1888: To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a mandatory
minimum prison sentence for certain wiretapping or electronic
surveillance offenses by Federal officers or employees. (Introduced in
the House)
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c106:1:./temp/~c106dXhgSe::

HR 3484: Child Sex Crimes Wiretapping Act of 2000 (Engrossed in House )
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide that certain sexual
crimes against children are predicate crimes for the interception of
communications, and for other purposes.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c106:3:./temp/~c106dXhgSe::

HR 3862: Aircraft Safety Act of 2000 (Introduced in the House)
Wiretapping predicate.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c106:11:./temp/~c106dXhgSe::

S 899: 21st Century Justice Act of 1999 (Introduced in the Senate)
Wiretapping authority for sex tourism investigations.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c106:12:./temp/~c106dXhgSe:e786296:

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SPECIAL SECTION -- Voyeur News of the Week

Wireless Minicams Make Spying Simple...
A new generation of wireless gadgets promises to make home and small
business security, remote child care monitoring, and even the creation
of TV video productions affordable for just about anyone. Inconspicuous
mini-videocams let users monitor any location via the Internet.
http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com:80/perl/story/6938.html


"Just because you can,
doesn't mean you should"
-- your Mom

Doctor 'hid camera in nurses' bathroom'...
A hospital doctor was under suspension last night after nurses found a
camera hidden in a shampoo bottle overlooking their bath.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-74728,00.html


but... The King Can Do No Wrong...
A jury rejected a woman's claim that a Burger King worker spied through
a peephole as she and her 9-year-old daughter used a restaurant bathroom.
http://news.excite.com:80/news/ap/010125/06/brf-burger-king-suit


Kevin
--
©2001, Kevin D. Murray - CPP, CFE, BCFE
Murray Associates
Counterespionage Consultants
to Business & Government
Eavesdropping Detection Specialists
http://www.spybusters.com





Security Scrapbook - Espionage & Privacy news of the week.
Sun, 21 Jan 2001


To: Clients, colleagues and friends.
Subject: - Espionage & Privacy news of the week.

=====================================================
Kevin's Security Scrapbook® is published on an irregular
basis for a select audience. Issues are archived at
http://www.spybusters.com/Security_Scrapbook.html
=====================================================
SPECIAL SECTION -- Wiretapping
SPECIAL SECTION -- Washington Stuff
SPECIAL SECTION -- News from Down Under
SPECIAL SECTION -- The Spies Corner

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SPECIAL SECTION -- Wiretapping

Myth - "Tapping a digital telephone is difficult and expensive."
(Corporate security directors take note.)
The equipment for bridge tapping major digital phone systems - used by
corporations and government agencies - is being sold over the Internet,
to the public... for under $400. The installation diagrams and
instruction manuals are free.

My sincere recommendation...
Make sure you are conducting your quarterly eavesdropping detection
inspections. I hope you will use Murray Associates to do this, but use
someone (assuming they are qualified).
http://www.capturecalls.com/
http://www.mck.com


Now is the time on Sprockets that we tap dance...
Deutsche Telekom, which is majority owned by the German government, made
commitments to the U.S. Justice Department and Federal Bureau of
Investigation to ensure that U.S. authorities could conduct authorized
phone surveillance and that such surveillance would remain confidential.
http://www.iht.com:80/articles/8042.htm

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SPECIAL SECTION -- Washington Stuff

FBI Ends Los Alamos Spy Probe
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - An FBI investigation of two missing hard drives at
Los Alamos National Laboratory found no evidence of espionage...
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/breakingnews/US/
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/19/national/19ALAM.html


Linda Tripp Fired From Pentagon Job
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Linda Tripp, whose secret tape recordings led to
President Clinton's impeachment, was fired Friday by the Clinton
administration after she refused to resign like other political appointees.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Tripp-Fired.html
This just in... Tripp sues to keep job.
http://live.altavista.com/e?efi=467&ei=2363729&ern=y


A Clinton order that his successor should welcome ...
The new "CI-21" board created by Mr. Clinton's order will bring together
top CIA, FBI and Defense Department officials to pool information and
ensure, apparently for the first time, that the government's right hand
knows what the left hand is doing in anti-spy matters.
http://www.post-gazette.com:80/forum/20010116edspies2.asp


Ex-CIA chief Deutch negotiates misdemeanor plea
WASHINGTON - Former CIA director John M. Deutch is negotiating with the
Justice Department over the possibility that he might plead guilty to a
misdemeanor for keeping classified information on his home computers...
http://washingtonpost.com:80/wp-dyn/articles/A14761-2001Jan18.html
This just in... Deutch pardoned by Clinton
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/

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SPECIAL SECTION -- News from Down Under

Say U.N.C.L.E.
The annual protest against the Waihopai spy base near Blenheim (NZ) is
underway. ... Anti Base Campaigner and organiser of the protest Murray
Horton says the base should be closed down because it taps into the
public's private communications.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/irnstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=35719&newsection=


Pancake sales are up...
A MELBOURNE nightclub is filming its patrons 24 hours a day and
broadcasting the footage live on the internet without their consent. ...
Similar initiatives in the US have been shut down after celebrities
cited privacy regulations to stop voyeurs observing their personal
lives. ... log on day or night to the Revolver site and spy on patrons
quaffing drinks, playing pool – or anything else.
http://theaustralian.com.au/common/story_page/


Stake out Revolver...
Police in New Zealand hope a man who steals security cameras could be
about to meet his downfall after being caught on film by them dozens of
times. ... "the man appears to be narrowing his targets to cameras which
were easy to install."
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_179800.html?menu=

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SPECIAL SECTION -- The Spies Corner

Thelma and... Louise and her spies.
When Procter & Gamble tried to produce a commercial during last year's
Screen Actors Guild strike against advertisers, spies said (Susan)
Sarandon successfully stymied P&G's effort to shoot it until the giant
company picked a place owned by friend of hers. "Every time they filed
for a permit to shoot, Susan would call up the place and threaten them
with pickets or tell them they would be banned from future commercials,"
one producer said. "SAG must have had spies in the filing office because
every time they filed, SAG had Susan call."
(Note to Permit Filing Department. Call us.)
http://www.tvguide.com:80/newsgossip/insider/010117d.asp


Tom v. Jerry
Fur flies as geeks neuter the CueCat shopping spy.
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/internetnews/story/


Eavesdropping on NFL football helmet radios - another opinion...
Conspiracy theory is debunked in Birds' playoff loss to Giants
http://inq.philly.com:80/content/inquirer/2001/01/18/sports/LYON18.htm


And, our spies tell us...
"A bit of history. Back in the early 60's, the Army's IMDO
(Intelligence Materiel Development Office) at Ft. Holabird installed a
Kel R-2 receiver in in a football helmet for the West Point Football
Team. Strictly one way commo. Sidelines to QB. Don't think this was
considered kosher way back then."


Kevin
--
©2001, Kevin D. Murray - CPP, CFE, BCFE
Murray Associates
Counterespionage Consultants
to Business & Government
Eavesdropping Detection Specialists
http://www.spybusters.com





Security Scrapbook - SUPERBOWL Eavesdropping
Wed, 17 Jan 2001


To: Clients, colleagues and friends.
Subject: - Espionage & Privacy news of the week.

=====================================================
Kevin's Security Scrapbook® is published on an irregular
basis for a select audience. Issues are archived at
http://www.spybusters.com/Security_Scrapbook.html
=====================================================


=====================================================
SPECIAL SECTION -- Has Eavesdropping Affected the SUPERBOWL?
=====================================================


TRANSMISSION TROUBLE?
The Toronto Globe and Mail reported yesterday that the Eagles and
Minnesota Vikings, who visited the New York Giants in playoff games the
last two weekends, accused the Giants of intercepting the transmissions
between the wireless headsets of the coaches and quarterbacks.
Then, the
report said, the Giants adjusted their defense by using hand signals.
That defense was dominant in both games, surrendering 10 points total,
including shutting out the combustible Vikings.

Andy Reid yesterday denied knowing of any such accusation and did not
complain of any irregularities during his team's 20-10 loss at Giants Stadium.
http://inq.philly.com/content/daily_news/2001/01/17/sports/EAGL17.htm
(Contributed by Joe Canone.)

---

There are serious suggestions in the National Football League that the
New York Giants have been cheating in the playoffs by intercepting
radio transmissions.

The matter was first brought to the attention of NFL commissioner Paul
Tagliabue after the Giants defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in their
playoff game two weekends ago.

The Eagles said they have reason to believe the Giants were able to
listen to the plays being sent via radio from coaches to their
quarterback, Donovan McNab. All NFL quarterbacks have helmets equipped
with special radios. Once the Giants heard the plays, the Eagles are
claiming, they were able to set up their defense accordingly with hand signals.

Yesterday, similar fears were being expressed by the Minnesota Vikings,
who were crushed 41-0 by the Giants in the National Football Conference
final on Sunday.

The NFL is desperately is trying to keep the issue quiet, what with the
Giants having qualified for the Super Bowl. But, rest assured, you'll
hear more about this sinister stuff in the next few weeks.
http://archives.theglobeandmail.com/

---

Background Information...
One of the most amazing new devices being used in the NFL is the
radio-equipped helmet. Quarterbacks used to wear helmets just to protect
their heads. Not anymore! Now quarterbacks also use helmets to get plays
from their coaches.

The radio-equipped helmets let coaches give plays to quarterbacks much
faster than they could when they used hand signals or brought plays in
through substitute players. To talk to a quarterback, a coach on the
sidelines presses a button on a box strapped to his waist. The button
activates a radio transmitter, which is something like a walkie-talkie.
When the coach speaks into his microphone, the transmitter sends the
message. A device in the quarterback's helmet picks up the signal.

Are the two teams picking up each other's radio signals and stealing
plays? Nope—because each radio signal is scrambled, or encrypted, using
a secret electronic code. The quarterback's radio receiver unscrambles
the signal, so he can understand it. But if anyone else tried to listen
to the signal, all he or she would get is a high-pitched noise that
sounds like a bunch of squawking geese! -- Amin Bey (Weekly Reader)

---

RADIOS IN HELMETS -- History 101

April 7, 1943 - The NFL made the wearing of helmets mandatory.

October 18, 1956 - Football commissioner Bert Bell turned thumbs down on
the use of radio-equipped helmets by NFL quarterbacks. Bell had
received, um, a lot of static about the devices which were quite popular
with coach Paul Brown of Cleveland. Word was that severe whiplash was
possible with the long antennas used.

1995 - Quarterbacks may now receive communication from the bench via a
small radio transmitter in their helmets. This proposal was originally
run on a test basis last year during the pre-season, but was scrapped.

The systems, provided by Control Dynamics Corp. of Ivyland, Pa., consist
of small circuit boards encased in silicon. The
device is about 2.5 inches by 1.25 inches. It allows the quarterback
only to hear signals, not to talk back to the sideline.

1998 - The NFL went wireless with Telex equipment.

1999 - Motorola became the NFL official Wireless Communications Sponsor.

June 2, 2000 - The NFL is considering a plan to let its broadcasters put
miniature cameras inside helmets and wire its players with microphones
during exhibition games. Another possibility might be putting cameras on
the umpire. No final decision as yet. However... the World Wrestling
Federation announced that its new football league, the XFL, was planning
to use miniature cameras in helmets of some players and microphones in
huddles and on the sidelines. NBC plans to televise the XFL games, which
are to begin in February.

2000 - Trakus Inc., an MIT-affiliated technology company, hopes to put
radio tags in the helmets of every NFL player starting in the 2001
season. The information received from these tags would be processed into
information that could completely change the way we watch TV sports and
could possibly revolutionize the sports themselves.
http://exn.ca/Stories/2000/01/21/53.cfm

---

We don't know how this eavesdropping story will develop. It is our
understanding that the transmissions are encrypted. We will be looking
into this further.


Kevin
--
©2001, Kevin D. Murray - CPP, CFE, BCFE
Murray Associates
Counterespionage Consultants
to Business & Government
Eavesdropping Detection Specialists
http://www.spybusters.com





Security Scrapbook - Espionage & Privacy news of the week.
Sat, 13 Jan 2001


To: Clients, colleagues and friends.
Subject: - Espionage & Privacy news of the week.

=====================================================
Kevin's Security Scrapbook® is published on an irregular
basis for a select audience. Issues are archived at
http://www.spybusters.com/Security_Scrapbook.html
=====================================================
SPECIAL SECTION -- New Tracking Technologies
SPECIAL SECTION -- Osama bin Laden
=====================================================


FBI completes rollout of corporate cybercrime program
THE FBI LAST week officially announced the formation of its InfraGard
program, a cybercrime security initiative designed to improve
cooperation between federal law enforcement officials and the private sector.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/01/08/010108hninfragard.xml

From Time to Life, but not available in any store...
They are the "Soprano" tapes - hours of video and audio tapes revealing
the inner workings of a New Jersey-based crime family that sees itself
as the inspiration for one of TV's hottest shows.
http://www.nydailynews.com/1999-12-16

Light years away from your desk... but getting closer.
(Until then, keep calling us.)
The device is being heralded... ...will render any signal invulnerable
to snooping. A communications system using a single photon would be
effectively immune to eavesdropping.
Any interception and attempt to
decode the signal would disrupt the signal and alert the receiver to the
interference.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/16005.html


SPECIAL SECTION -- New Tracking Technologies

Next device... a penny for your thoughts.
...a microchip ... worn close to the body ...will receive signals from
GPS satellites ... location of the chip can be derived from these
signals ... antenna also communicates with ground stations. All these
components will be combined into a unit the size of a dime.
http://www.digitalangel.net/index.htm
The story behind this story...
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.10/spam.html

Locate a cellular phone to within 250 feet.
Ask your phone where the nearest ATM,
Quick Burger, gas station, etc. is.
http://www.sigma-1.com/index_flash.htm

Every Step You Take …
Memo to American workers: Many big employers admit they are watching you
with cameras, reading your e-mails or listening in on your phone calls.
And now a growing number have gone a step further.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/WorldNewsTonight/


"You want to use a $30 million dollar satellite for what?"

Spy satellites to track Monarch of Glen...

Red deer stags have been fitted with hi-tech collars costing around
£5,000 each so that scientists can discover more about their behaviour.
The light-weight collars send signals to an orbiting satellite.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010108/17/av1y5.html

Spy satellites used to track rats in Bradford.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_170331.html?menu=


SPECIAL SECTION -- Osama bin Laden

He's famous; his days are numbered, and you still don't know him.
Sound really smart on capture day. Stoke your sound bite file now...


CIA Biography - Osama bin Laden - "the cave-dwelling lunatic suspected
of ordering the August bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania..." (and USS Cole)
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/binladen1.html

Meanwhile... on an Arab satellite channel...
Osama bin Laden appeared happy and smiling at his son's wedding...
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010110/wl/bin_laden_wedding_4.html

But... nobody likes mingy...
"...a Saudi millionaire ... is tight with cash... says a former employee..."
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010112/wl/canada_bin_laden_1.html


In other news...

They should have known...
The Supreme Court today refused to revive a lawsuit in which 16 former
employees of a California psychic hotline accused ABC television of
unlawfully using a hidden camera to videotape them at work. ... argument
that they should be allowed to sue ABC under a federal eavesdropping law.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/scotus000118.html#psychic

We might have known...
From the New York Times comes a report that NFL players have been spying
on the Eagles' cheerleaders as they dress. ... the spying has been going
on for perhaps as long as the last 10 years.
http://dailynews.philly.com:80/content/daily_news/2001/01/09/


Kevin
--
©2001, Kevin D. Murray - CPP, CFE, BCFE
Murray Associates
Counterespionage Consultants
to Business & Government
Eavesdropping Detection Specialists
http://www.spybusters.com





Security Scrapbook - Espionage & Privacy news of the week.
Sun, 07 Jan 2001


To: Clients, colleagues and friends.
Subject: Espionage & Privacy news of the week.

=====================================================
Kevin's Security Scrapbook® is published on an irregular
basis for a select audience. Issues are archived at
http://www.spybusters.com/Security_Scrapbook.html
=====================================================
Clients:
Get on the calendar... lock in your dates for the year.
It's easy. Get it out of the way. Please call me today.
=====================================================


"So, uh, why do ya think they call me 'Bugs', Doc?"
Animator accuses Hollywood of spying...
A new and bizarre form of industrial spy has emerged - the animation
infiltrator. He must be obsessive, devious and very patient - memorising
the most tortuously detailed techniques in the movie business. The
latest victim is the Bristol-based maker of the international hit film
Chicken Run. In a development which could form the plot of a future
movie, Hollywood spies are said to have infiltrated the studios of
Aardman Animations to find out the secrets of its success. The company,
which was also responsible for the award-winning Wallace and Gromit,
admitted yesterday that it had suffered industrial espionage.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Media/2001-01/animation030101.html


NSA coughs up secret TEMPEST specs...
The first of several documents related to the US government's TEMPEST
programme, obtained by Cryptome.org's John Young under a Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) request, have been posted on his web site
http://cryptome.org/nstissi-7000.htm. No one is quite sure what TEMPEST
stands for... but what it means is quite simple: electromagnetic and
acoustic signals which can be remotely detected and interpreted by a
spy.
... enabling a spy to read over your shoulder, so to speak.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15743.html


Cuban Spy Stressed Out By Espionage Duties...
The pay was low, the pressure high. His job cost him one marriage,
prevented another, and sent him into bouts of depression. To cope, he
turned to singing lessons. "Lorient," Guerrero's code name, struggled
for money, filed meticulous intelligence reports and worked multiple
jobs, all the while estranged from his son and deceiving his girlfriend.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/


The Top 10 Privacy Stories of 2000...
1. Workplace Surveillance Heats Up: "Employees are Toast"
2. Patient Privacy Rules
3. Carnivore Attacked
4. DoubleClick Unplugged
5. Rise of the CPO
6. Amazon.com Surveys the Data Mine
7. The Urge to Merge Financial Information
8. Wireless Privacy Battles Loom
9. Microsoft Crumbles on Cookie-Blocking
10. A New Kind of Public Record
http://www.privacyfoundation.org/release/top10.html#workplace


NSA abandons wondrous stuff...
Astronomers who took over an abandoned spy base find remarkable,
expensive and often incomprehensible stuff at every turn. ... a place
shrouded in secrets and denials, the source of local lore that seems
right out of "X-Files."
http://www.sunspot.net/cgi-bin/editorial/printversion.cgi?storyid=1150520223288
Tour the site...
http://www.pari.edu/MainHomePage.htm


"Bugging" witness a no-show
Philippines - Last Thursday, Senate President Aquilino Pimentel Jr.
informed the impeachment court that a police officer is willing to
testify that the senators had been placed under surveillance and that
their telephones had been bugged.

http://www.philstar.com/philstar/news200101060417030.htm


Judge gets video in home privacy case...
... (defendant) is accused of secretly videotaping his wife and
stepdaughter, is charged with 10 counts of eavesdropping.
He faces up to
2 years in prison and a $2,000 fine on each count, if convicted. Oakland
County Assistant Prosecutor Kathryn Steiner said that the nine scenes
she gave Judge Marvin Frankel ... are strong enough to convict John
Brown, 33, of eavesdropping.
http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/zpriv_20010105.htm


Prima facie sophists shingled...
(Drunken roofers caught on surveillance TV)
TWO drunken yobs out on a festive pub crawl were caught on CCTV
attacking a cyclist... At one point, Newell, ... was lying in the middle
of the road and then urinated in the engine compartment of a parked bus,
said Angela Sassoli, prosecuting.
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/newsarticle5.html


Kevin
--
©2001, Kevin D. Murray - CPP, CFE, BCFE
Murray Associates
Counterespionage Consultants
to Business & Government
Eavesdropping Detection Specialists
http://www.spybusters.com





Security Scrapbook - Espionage News of the week
Mon, 01 Jan 2001

To: Clients, colleagues and friends.
Subject: Espionage News of the week

=====================================================
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--- Cautionary Tale / Security Budget Booster #564 ---
LEAKED MONSANTO REPORT -- (Full text at
http://www.genewatch.org/News/MonsRpt.htm)
A confidential internal report leaked to GeneWatch UK reveals that
Monsanto is involved in a global campaign to promote GM foods by
influencing which experts get on international scientific committees,
promoting their views through supposedly independent scientists and
gaining influence with key decision makers in government departments in
developing countries.

Monsanto's ten page internal report, headed 'company confidential',
summarises the activities of its Regulatory Affairs and Scientific
Outreach teams for May and June 2000.


--- Cautionary Tale / Security Budget Booster #565 ---
Pero, tudo vai melhor com Coca-Cola...
Coca-Cola makers investigated in Brazil... alleged industrial espionage.
Two companies that make and bottle Coca-Cola in Brazil were under
government investigation Wednesday after rival Pepsi accused them of
corporate espionage. ... Azambuja reportedly claimed to have helped
transcribe four tapes that contained secretly recorded conversations
of top Baesa officials discussing sales strategy.
http://www.canoe.ca/MoneyNews/dec27_cokebrazil-ap.html


and now the news...

Chinese Espionage Handbook Details Ease of Swiping Secrets...
China's government is engaged in large-scale science and technology
spying targeted primarily on gaining U.S. defense secrets for military
use, according to a translated Chinese government manual. Regarding
clandestine spying, the report states: "It is also necessary to stress
that there is still 20 percent or less of our intelligence that must
come through the collection of information using special means, such as
reconnaissance satellites, electronic eavesdropping and the
activities of special agents purchasing or stealing, etc."
http://washingtontimes.com/national/default-20001226232548.htm
Book Review...
http://www.nacic.gov/cind/2000/jun00.html Part 1
http://www.nacic.gov/cind/2000/sep00.html Part 2


Workplace Surveillance Is the Top Privacy Story of 2000
Looking ahead, the Privacy Foundation expects that some companies,
particularly those in need of highly skilled, high tech workers, will
tout "spy-free workplaces" as a fringe benefit.
http://news.excite.com/news/pr/001228/co-privacy-foundation


Email spies 'in breach of' human rights.
(UK) Lawyers warn of staff backlash against employers ...
Employers who monitor their staff's emails and record their phone calls
- practices common in the financial services industry - could be
breaking the law, according to a group of senior lawyers.

...the Institute of Employment Rights - have joined the growing number
of groups attacking the ability of companies to spy on workers. They
warn employers not to assume they can snoop without restriction.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Update/2000-12/


Spies eye Canada's high-tech secrets
Covert networks, front companies used to throw off police, intelligence agencies.
http://www.globeandmail.ca/gam/National/20001228/USPYSN.html


Hacking... the next step
...You'll have to admit, the exploits of hackers who merely spread
viruses and took down servers was getting stale. Vandalism is a low form
of antisocial behavior. Eavesdropping and theft of secrets are of a
higher order.
That's about the most positive spin that can be put on
this development.
http://news.excite.com:80/news/zd/001228/10/hacking-its-a


What? Yougottaproblem wit dat.
In 1999, 125,000 "spy" cameras were sold in New York alone, more than
triple the year before. ... "I don't think the general public has any
idea about the pervasiveness, and that certainly plays into the
calculation of what is an expectation of privacy," says Leslie Reis,
interim director of the Center for Information Technology and Privacy
Law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/12/22/fp1s3-csm.html


Must See TV...
If you ever wanted to be James Bond, or one of Charlie's Angels,
Bellevue-based ICOM America Inc. has recently released the kind of
gadget that you can't live without. With a 2-inch color display, the
IC-R3 is small enough to fit in any pocket, yet capable of receiving
both wide-band radio and video signals.
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/business/icom23.html



SPECIAL SECTION -- Off Beat

He's back...
Cuddly little Furby, the fuzzy, wide-eyed toy that coos, just lost his
innocence. A Canadian engineer peeled back the creature's thick hide to
find that he could make Furby fully programmable. Now, the engineer is
selling a ''hack Furby'' kit, giving proud owners the power to jack into
the Furby brain and direct the sweet thing to sing show tunes,
slam-dance, or swear like a mean old drunk.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/358/nation/Hackers_in_toyland+.html


Missile-toe?
LANGLEY, Virginia -- The hottest holiday party at CIA headquarters is
put on by the masters of spy gadgetry who use Christmas ornaments to
display the latest technology.

It's not cameras in cigarette lighters anymore, but the tree at the
Office of Technical Service party this year would thrill even fans of
the fictional "Q" who produced pens that could fire bullets and cars
that could swim for British agent James Bond.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40796,00.html


Spy Museum in Washington, DC...
Fans of the spy game will be stirred, not shaken by the news: A
Cleveland-based company said yesterday it intends to open "the largest
permanent exhibit dedicated to the history of espionage" in downtown
Washington by the spring of 2002.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34486-2000Dec20.html

... will rock ...
Milton Maltz, a developer of Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
intends to open the International Spy Museum near the National
Portrait Gallery in downtown Washington by the spring of 2002.
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=148141


Spy Cameras to the Moral Rescue...
Brothel clients may be shamed on the net...
Activists have swung into action after Cairns and Townsville this month
became the first councils to approve development applications for legal
brothels... Calling themselves the League of Citizens Opposed to Legal
Brothels, they plan to set up spy cameras outside brothels.
http://theaustralian.com.au/common/story_page


What Women Want... (Mel Gibson is next.)
Classified British Government documents allegedly show that
Australian-born Hollywood star Errol Flynn spied for Britain and the
Allies during World War II.
http://www.abc.net.au:80/news/newslink/weekly/


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