Security Scrapbook - Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
Sat, 28 Jul 2001
To: Clients, colleagues and friends.
Subject: Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
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Kevin's Security Scrapbook® is published on an irregular
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===================================================== SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
SPECIAL SECTION -- Extortionography Stories in the News
SPECIAL SECTION -- US Spy Update
SPECIAL SECTION -- World Spy Update
SPECIAL SECTION -- Sex & Spying & Money
SPECIAL SECTION -- My Peregrinations =====================================================
SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
"Trade secret" definition challenged - "unconstitutionally vague." (Happy ending.)
Defendant was indicted on one count of violating the Economic Espionage
Act (EEA), 18 U.S.C. § 1832(a)(2), by knowingly and without
authorization transmitting a trade secret to a competitor of the owner.
Defendant filed a motion to dismiss the indictment in the district court
on the grounds that the provision of the Act defining a "trade secret"
is unconstitutionally vague. ... we affirm the judgment of the district
court and hold that the EEA is not unconstitutionally vague as applied
to defendant. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&
What is a "Trade Secret?"...
The term "trade secret" means all forms and types of financial,
business, scientific, technical, economic, or engineering information,
including patterns, plans, compilations, program devices, formulas,
designs, prototypes, methods, techniques, processes, procedures,
programs, or codes, whether tangible or intangible, and whether or how
stored, compiled, or memorialized physically, electronically,
graphically, photographically, or in writing if -
(A) the owner thereof has taken reasonable measures to keep such
information secret; and
(B) the information derives independent economic value, actual or
potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily
ascertainable through proper means by, the public.
<<<Your tie-in? ... Murray Associates services are a key element of (A).>>>
SPECIAL SECTION -- Extortionography Stories in the News
Note to Lloyd's... Offer Extortionography insurance... or else. :)
An Old Mutual (insurance company) financial adviser claims he was lured
into a sex trap by a disgruntled client who secretly videotaped his nude
romp with a young woman. Then... threatened to show the tape to his wife
and family. The extortionographer was unhappy with how the Old Mutual
company handled his mother's life insurance policy when she died. http://www.suntimes.co.za/2001/07/22/news/news07.htm
"...no, no, no it ain't me babe, it ain't me your lookin' for..."
Jailed former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos has told an anti-corruption
judge that he followed direct orders from deposed Peruvian president
Alberto Fujimori when he allegedly bribed at least 10 lawmakers. ... a
leaked video showed Montesinos apparently handing a newly elected
opposition lawmaker a $15,000 bribe. The ensuing scandal ended
Fujimori's 10-year autocratic rule. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2001/07/21/fujimore_bribes.htm
And this does what for us? The U.S. House of Representatives passed a measure that would require
the FBI to report how it uses the controversial e-mail wiretap system
formerly known as Carnivore. The bill places no restrictions on how the
FBI could use its monitoring system... http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010723/pl/tech_carnivore_dc_1.html
Meanwhile, armchair anarchy...
A group of Internet activists hopes to bring attention to the
controversial U.S. - led communications spy network Echelon with a "Jam
Echelon Day." (October 21, 2001) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6687430.html?tag=mn_hd
Super Cyber Heroes Unite!
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Friday the federal
government will create nine new nationwide units to investigate and
prosecute computer-hacking cases. http://www.dailyreview-ang.com/S-ASP-BIN/REF/Index.ASP?
"Now it gets interesting." *
The Justice Department has hired consulting firm Arthur Anderson (sic)
LLP to conduct a management study at the FBI and recommend changes to
improve the troubled agency, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Friday.
(* Yes, I know. Just look for the deeper gag.) http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/072101/new_0721010008.html
Spy Plane News. (photo)
ALTUS, a single-turbo charged, high altitude remotely operated aircraft,
manufactured by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., has been
conducting signal intelligence and surveillance missions at Camp
Pendleton in support of the US Navy and Marine Corps. http://defence-data.com/current/page11519.htm
Donkey Kong...
A Japanese civilian worker at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in Tokyo is
suspected of stealing confidential documents from the base, Metropolitan
Police Department sources said Tuesday. ... According to police, the man
has admitted that he took the photocopies from the base with the
intention of passing them on to someone connected to the Russian Embassy. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20010725wo33.htm
Isn't XP an emoticon?
Microsoft was presented with a possible glitch in the launch of Windows
XP as consumer groups filed a complaint Thursday contending the
operating system violates the privacy of Internet users. http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010726/1/19ruh.html
History's Spy Mysteries... George W. Bush has presented Congressional Gold Medals to four Navajo
"code talkers" who baffled the Japanese during World War Two by sending
key coded messages in their native language. ... their service ...long
went unrecognized because it was classified as a military secret. The
U.S. Marine Corps, anxious to find a means of quick and secure
communications, recruited the first 29 code talkers in May of 1942 to
develop a code in their complex language. The Japanese never succeeded
in breaking the code. (Thanks, guys.) http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010726/80/bzl2s.html
And now, your moment of Zen...
"A hundred years from now, the notion of privacy may be seen to have
occupied only a fleeting moment in human history. The idea of a right to
privacy is unknown to scripture, and remained uninventable so long as
men and women lived in slavery or as serfs governed by feudal power. It
may become just as inconceivable in a future overwhelmed by
microminiature devices and sensors of remarkable intrinsic intelligence,
whose expected and thorough infiltration of our lives has been
christened "nanotechnology". Of history's great revolutions, only the
Americans brought forth a determination that the people should have the
right to private lives. It was described in their bill of rights as "the
right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and
effects against unreasonable searches and seizures". This, the fourth
amendment to the US constitution, was born of colonists' burning
resentment against the oppressive state that had gathered information on
whim, whenever and wherever Redcoats suspected that free American
dissent might be found." http://www.theage.com.au/news/state/2001/07/22/FFX2NMY9EPC.html
SPECIAL SECTION -- World Spy Update
Shoop Shoop 2001 - It's in the way he walks... Researchers at Sussex University have discovered how CCTV camera
controllers spot criminals by studying the way they walk. ... Car
thieves tended to walk erratically and look in directions irrelevant to
their path of travel. Before an act of violence culprits would walk
aggressively, their arms static by their sides, taking long purposeful
strides. http://observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,525656,00.html
and not to be outdone...
Singapore scientists have created new software which may beef up
surveillance efforts in the future by distinguishing between a person's
normal activities and suspicious behavior. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010727/tc/tech_singapore_software
Just a little fishing expedition... Secret State Department and U.S. Coast Guard programs to monitor Russian
merchant vessels have concluded that Moscow is continuing to use its
commercial fleet to spy on sensitive U.S. defense facilities, including
nuclear submarines. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010724-506297.htm
Inscrutable...
A U.S.-based scholar accused by China of espionage will go on trial next
week - just days before Secretary of State Colin Powell arrives in
Beijing for a visit aimed at improving strained relations. http://www.charlotte.com/observer/natwor/docs/scholar0721.htm
South Africa introduces an Eavesdropping Law...
The Bill aims to regulate the interception and monitoring of certain
communications; to provide for interception of postal articles and
communications and for the monitoring of communications in the case of a
serious offence or if the security or other compelling national
interests of the republic are threatened; to prohibit the provision of
certain telecommunication services which do not have the capacity to be
monitored; to regulate authorised telecommunications monitoring; and to
provide for matters connected therewith. http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/pr/2001/pr0718c.html
Another one for the good guys...
New Delhi - In a major breakthrough in a commercial espionage racket
haunting the Indian Air Force headquarters for last six months, the CBI
on Friday arrested eight people, including a retired air vice marshal,
under Official Secrets Act. http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/270701/dtLNAT56.asp
And yet another Spy Museum...
The Havana museum, little known outside of Cuba, commemorates 40 years
of Cuban intelligence work. The entrance fee is $2. The exhibit includes
James Bond-style poison pens the CIA allegedly used to try to kill
Castro, hollowed out rocks used by American diplomats to hide messages
to Cuban counter-revolutionaries, and firearms and explosives that the
Cubans claim were seized from saboteurs sent by Miami exile groups. http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/carib/cuba/digdocs/109992.htm
SPECIAL SECTION -- Sex & Spying & Money
Sex & Spying Australia - A judge has given the media until August 10 to show why the
trial of a spy and his prostitute girlfriend should not be held in secret.
Defence Intelligence Organisation analyst Simon Lappas, 26, will stand
trial in November for allegedly stealing top-secret documents and
passing them to prostitute Sherryl Dowling, also 26. http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/
"Is that your new phone vibrating, or are you just glad to see me?" Taiwanese manufacturers have launched a special mobile phone they claim
can be used to spy on an unfaithful spouse. A local supplier said it has
received hundreds of calls enquiring about its so-called 'spy phone'.
He said the spy phone had a special chip that could pick up sounds and
voices in the vicinity of the phone. The wife of a man carrying the 'spy
phone' could eavesdrop on him by simply dialing a special code to
activate the chip. http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,59002,00.html
SPECIAL SECTION -- My Peregrinations
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In my path recently... Boring company name, clever product.
They make 'press ready' papers that carry a 9% background tint. The
originals look great! Copier and desktop scanners copies look like...
Ask them for their FREE sample package...
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800-328-7311 or blanks-usa@worldnet.att.net
Now do you think journalists toke...
"...you'll start suspecting everyone you know of spying. But fear not:
after reading the firm's Top 10 spybusting tips, you'll be scouring your
home and office for bugs and wiretaps with all the skill of James Bond
in a swank hotel room." http://www.canadianbusiness.com/technology/article.jsp?content=32223
Faba-daba-zap...
Austin Richards - an old acquaintance of mine - turned up again this
week. If you think what I do is cool... please allow me to introduce you
to... Dr. Mega Volt.
(WARNING - Do not try this at home.) http://www.drmegavolt.com/
Security Scrapbook - Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
Sat, 21 Jul 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. HTML versions are archived at http://www.spybusters.com/Security_Scrapbook.html
===================================================== SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
SPECIAL SECTION -- Extortionography
SPECIAL SECTION -- SpyCam Stories of the Week
SPECIAL SECTION -- Spy Plane News
SPECIAL SECTION -- World Spy News Wrap-up =====================================================
SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
Security Director Budget Booster Story #423 What if the owner of a "stolen" laptop is the culprit? Never crossed
your mind? Some people out there think there is no harm in reporting
their company-issued laptop stolen, then sending their kid off to
college with it, or selling it to their neighbor. z-Trace Gold traces
where a laptop connects to the Internet and offers a recovery-assistance service. http://www.ztrace.com/
New Information Security Video...
The National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX) latest
counterintelligence awareness video is, "Insider Betrayal: Protecting
Industry Trade Secrets." Running time: 17 minutes. Highlights the Avery
Dennison/Four Pillars case. $13.85 http://www.nacic.gov/pubs/video_insider.html
FBI Most Wanted List... Number One - Ourstuffback.
An internal FBI review has turned up hundreds of stolen or missing
firearms, including submachine guns, and laptop computers, including at
least one containing classified information, the Justice Department
announced Tuesday. http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/07/17/FBI.computers/index.html
(So, uh... how are things at your place?)
SPECIAL SECTION -- Extortionography
Get ready for more Extortionography... A New Jersey appellate court refused to unmask an anonymous Internet
speaker and provided free speech-friendly guidelines for courts faced
with subpoenas served to expose anonymous speakers. http://www.rcfp.org/news/2001/0711dendri.html
Does Extortionography apply to monks monkeying around too?
The editor-in-chief of Al Nabaa newspaper denied that the security
services gave his weekly a video that caused Egypt's minority Christians
to riot after he published excerpts allegedly showing a monk in a sexual
affair. Mamdouh Mahran, who is on trial in the case, told fellow
reporters here: "Rumors that the security services gave the video to the
paper are totally false and without basis. The video was sold freely in
all the stores in Asyut."
SpyCam Stories of the Week
"Air Conditioning" "Free Color TV cameras aimed at you!"
Next time you check into a hotel, you may want to consider asking if
there are any hidden cameras in your assigned room. There could be
cameras hidden in mirrors, television sets, lamps and even the radio
alarm clock on your nightstand. Fox News reports that at least two
hotels have bought that kind of security equipment. More than that may
be involved. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/7/20/171557.html
A DIY expert drilled spy holes through the bedroom ceiling of a teenage
girl living next door, it was revealed today. Would-be Peeping Tom,
Scott Johnson, who works at a B&Q superstore, clambered into his attic
and crawled into the space above Gillian Fegan's room to bore the two
holes. Gillian, 17, told today how she discovered the spy holes when she
spotted dust on her duvet and looked up. (some expert) http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/content.cfm?story=113428
"Eavesdropping laws do not apply to me. I am a voyeur! I lay tile!" Maryland - The case arose from last year's conviction of Thomas Paul
Deibler, a Laurel tile installer who admitted that on June 19, 1999, he
hid a video camera in a family friend's Edgewater bathroom so that he
could tape a woman showering there. Deibler said what he did was wrong
but maintained that it was not against the law because he did not know
that it was illegal and, as a voyeur, he did not intend to record sound.
But he had plugged a separate audio wire into the video recorder. http://www.sunspot.net/news/printedition/bal-ar.deibler18jul18.story? http://www.courts.state.md.us/opinions/coa/2001/125a00.pdf (court opinion)
What evidence proved that Thomas Paul Deibler installed the camera? ...
He videotaped himself during the installation.
What ever happened to water pistols? Gun-toting child captured on CCTV. Two of the boys began chatting to the
33-year-old female cashier when the gun-boy approached the counter and
aimed a black revolver into her face. http://www.itn.co.uk/news/20010719/britain/14gunboy.html
Canada Dry... Security cameras ruled illegal. Theoretically, a robber could demand
privacy. Big Brother may want to watch you, but you are legally entitled
to flick the off switch. That is the implication of the Personal
Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPED), which makes
it illegal for any private company to collect personal information on an
individual without their expressed consent or a warrant. http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010717/5007180.html http://www.vancouversun.com/newsite/news/010717/5008618.html
"You're only a stranger here once... maybe."
The Tampa City Council took a fully-informed look at Ybor City's
controversial high-tech face-scanning software. When the dust settled,
the council split down the middle with a 3-3 vote on whether or not to
do away with the face-scanning software. The deciding vote will be cast
by Tampa Mayor, Dick Greco, who has said he favors the controversial
surveillance system. Greco is on vacation...
Look out Tampa. Big Brother is watching...
A troubling expansion in the way technology is being used in the
surveillance of ordinary Americans has come to light. In response, we
are today joining together to call on all state and local governments to
stop using these dangerous technologies... Tampa, Florida drew attention
to the importance of these issues with its highly publicized use of
facial recognition technology ... Virginia Beach announced this week
that it will seek state funding to install similar facial-recognition
cameras in its oceanfront areas.
Joint Statement of House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-TX, And The
American Civil Liberties Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Wednesday, July 11, 2001
Opt out and you'll really be under suspicion... Don't you want 911 service?
A bill introduced in the Senate is intended to protect cell phone users
from what some are calling the next "Big Brother." The bill, introduced
by Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., would allow consumers who use mobile
communication devices, such as cell phones, pagers, Palm Pilots and
global positioning systems, to choose whether they want their location
to be monitored. http://www2.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B47CD5797%
Article 1. Sub-section A. -- Just do it!
UK - After a heated debate over the law surrounding employers' rights to
monitor company emails, hosted last month by the International
Commissioner's Office (ICO), a final draft code is now being penned in a
bid to simplify employers' positions. ... The draft code stresses
employees should be notified if they are being snooped on. http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/print_news.cfm?NewsID=1341
History's Spy Mysteries... "The FBI's surveillance tapes of Martin Luther King Jr., sealed until
the year 2027, are stored at the National Archives under conditions that
will not aid their preservation, according to internal documents
released by NARA."
-- Michael Ravnitzky http://www.nara.gov/ (National Archives and Records Administration)
SPECIAL SECTION -- Spy Plane News
Think of it as a down payment on the Olympics...
China has said it is "resolutely opposed" to a US House of
Representatives vote against paying $1m compensation for costs incurred
during the bitter spy plane row. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid
Now everyone wants a Spy Plane... UK - POLICE are to mount a campaign to convince people that spending £3m
on a ‘‘spy plane’’ is a good idea. The plane will be able to carry
sophisticated surveillance equipment capable of eavesdropping, unseen
and unheard, on criminals. http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/content.cfm?story=112809
SPECIAL SECTION -- World Spy News Wrap-up
The Times They Are A-Changin'... Captured ex-spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos has asked forgiveness from
ousted President Alberto Fujimori's former wife, who said Friday she was
wary of the gesture. http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/breakingnews/International
Learn Hebrew, of course!!!
The Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, has made an employment
advertisement inviting interested people to work with the organization
worldwide. In the ad, a sentence had been written in Hebrew, and the
readers were told they would be accepted by Mossad if they had
understood the sentence.
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. HTML versions are archived at http://www.spybusters.com/Security_Scrapbook.html
===================================================== SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
SPECIAL SECTION -- Murray's FutureWatch
SPECIAL SECTION -- World Spy News Wrap-up
SPECIAL SECTION -- Spy Diaries
SPECIAL SECTION -- Tampa Motto Contest Results
SPECIAL SECTION -- The Usual Nonsense =====================================================
SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
Another Extortionography...
One prominent antiabortion Web site features photos of women walking
into abortion clinics... Visitors can click on a list of 17 states,
including California, to monitor the comings and goings at local
clinics. The site promises streaming video soon. http://latimes.com/news/la-000055584jul06.story
BANK BUGGED...
The Reserve Bank (South Africa) has been a victim of industrial
espionage. Governor Tito Mboweni called in SA's top spy-busters after an
important Bank directive was leaked to a London financial institution
... "Bugs were found," says Mboweni cryptically. ... the fact remains
that industrial espionage, a growing scourge of executive boardrooms and
offices around the world, has penetrated the hallowed heights of SA's
most august financial institution, whose decisions can move millions, or
even billions, of rand. ... Investigators found a number of listening
devices ... Further investigation pointed to a transmission dish,
situated on top of a building a block away from the bank. It was facing
the 30th floor. Before the NIA could get to the dish, though, it
mysteriously disappeared. http://www.fm.co.za/01/0713/cover/coverstory.htm
Encoding driver's licenses and other numbers... http://www.d.umn.edu/~jgallian/fapp5
To decode, contact "the foremost authority on how driver's license
numbers are encoded" - Joseph Gallian, professor of math at the
University of Minnesota, Duluth (jgallian@d.umn.edu)
SPECIAL SECTION -- Murray's FutureWatch
First micro cameras. Next... high-quality stick-on video monitors.
...a paper-thin plastic display that can be wrapped around curved
surfaces or rolled up and stored like a movie or video projection screen. http://www.informationweek.com/thisweek/story/IWK20010706S0022
SPECIAL SECTION -- World Spy News Wrap-up
Preparing for a spy trial is an Olympian feat around here...
Chinese prosecutors said Friday it would take at least a month to
prepare the spying trials of two Chinese-American spies, dampening hopes
of an imminent release. http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/breakingnews/International/
OK, we got the Olympics! Let the trials begin...
An American business professor was convicted Saturday of spying for
Taiwan in a case that strained relations with Washington and spread
unease among China scholars. The trial began at 9:15 a.m., recessed at
1:35 p.m., and the court issued its verdict at 2 p.m. ... the convicted spy
was then ordered to be deported. (See, we're not so bad.) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010714/
Oh, Canada
A Bulgarian mathematician who taught at a British Columbia college and
served as his country's ambassador to Canada until 1999 has been
identified by a parliamentary commission as a former communist spy. ...
The list of former spies was compiled under a new law providing public
access to the secret police archives. No action will be taken against
the former spies except to make public their co-operation with the
communist regime. http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/
Electric cucarachas zapped...
The Mexican government said Saturday it had uncovered an espionage
network in the capital that spied on public officials through phone
taps, hidden cameras and bugs. http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/breakingnews/International/
SPECIAL SECTION -- Spy Diaries
Dear Corporate Spy Diary...
-- In 1998, National Institute of Justice study reported that 48 percent
of 150 research and development companies surveyed had been victims of
trade theft.
-- In May, indictment of a University of Kansas School of Medicine
researcher on charges of violating the 1996 Economic Espionage Act
points to the growing threat of industrial spying and trade-secret theft.
-- In May, federal prosecutors in Newark, N.J., charged two Chinese
nationals working at Lucent Technologies Inc. with conspiracy to steal
source code and software...
-- In March, a contract food worker at MasterCard International's
headquarters was charged with offering to sell proprietary information
he allegedly stole from MasterCard to Visa International.
-- In January, a Taiwanese company was fined $5 million and two of its
former executives were sentenced for stealing trade secrets from
competitor Avery Dennison Corp.
To address the problem, the FBI has created Awareness of National
Security Issues and Response, or ANSIR. The program provides information
to U.S. corporations on the techniques used by foreign intelligence
services to collect proprietary economic information. http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/business.pat,business/
Dear American Spy Diary...
-- Aldrich H. Ames, a CIA counterintelligence official, and his wife,
Rosario, pleaded guilty in 1994 to spying for the Soviet Union in the
most damaging espionage case in U.S. history.
-- Foreign Service officer Felix Bloch was suspended in 1989 by the State
Department after reportedly being monitored by video camera passing a
suitcase to a Soviet agent in Paris.
-- Jonathan Jay Pollard, a civilian Navy intelligence analyst, pleaded
guilty in 1986 to spying for Israel.
-- Former National Security Agency employee Ronald W. Pelton was convicted
in 1986 of selling top-secret signals intelligence to the Soviet Union.
-- CIA translator Larry Wu-Tai Chin was convicted in 1986 of having spied
for China since 1952.
-- Former CIA officer Edward Lee Howard fled the country in 1985 as the
FBI investigated him for spying for the Soviet Union.
-- Former CIA clerk Sharon Scranage pleaded guilty in 1985 to disclosing
the names of U.S. agents to her Ghanaian boyfriend.
-Retired Navy Warrant Officer John A. Walker Jr. pleaded guilty in 1985
along with his son, Navy Seaman Michael L. Walker, to charges of spying
for the Soviet Union.
-Walker's brother, Arthur Walker, a retired Navy lieutenant commander,
was convicted in 1985, and Jerry A. Whitworth, a Navy chief petty
officer, was convicted in 1986.
-Former CIA agent David H. Barnett pleaded guilty in 1980 to spying for
the Soviet Union. Barnett admitted exposing the identities of 30 U.S.
agents.
SPECIAL SECTION -- Tampa Motto Contest Results
"Ybor City - Where you'll know if you're welcome."
"Gone but not forgotten."
"You oughtta be in pictures!"
"Smile - your on Tampa's cameras."
"Biometrics, Tampa and You - Perfect Together."
"You're only a stranger here once!"
We'll let Tampa decide the winner. In the meantime... everyone gets a virtual Brass Figligee (encrusted with bronze oak leaf palm) for their stellar efforts. Thank you!
SPECIAL SECTION -- The Usual Nonsense
Good spy plane jokes come along only twice a century.
(Et tu U2.) ...and they don't die quietly. BBC News Online looks at the words used by each side in the stand-off
over the detention of the American spy plane and crew after a mid-air
collision with a Chinese fighter jet. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1270000/1270365.stm However... we think a good joke is worth beating to death!
Just when you thought we walked the last smile out of spy planes...
A Marine lets go of a tightly stretched bungee cord, shooting a 4-pound
experimental spy plane high above the scrubby hills of Camp Pendleton.
Blending James Bond gadgetry and Huck Finn ingenuity, the 45-inch-wide
plane can be snapped together like a kid's model. Two Marines then launch
the $5,000 battery-powered UAV into the air using an oversize slingshot. http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com:80/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/
So...
what does a real James Bond spy babe look like?
ASIS had a "License to Kill" too?!?!?
Ian Fleming's fictional hero James Bond, an agent of MI6, the British
government agency that provided the model for the Australian Secret
Intelligence Service, supposedly had a license to kill. According to the
Intelligence Services Bill now before Federal Parliament, Australia's
spies have no such thing. Or do they?...
(Oh, that ASIS.) http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/2001/07/05/FFX347HZPOC.html
... because everyone has a twin in this world. Motorists race to court to challenge red-light cameras. Photos called
privacy threat. ... They say that using pictures to convict motorists is
an ''Orwellian'' threat to privacy. They challenge the theory that the
cameras are infallible. http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010706/3462035s.htm
Night of the Living Scuds...
The (UK) Government is to tighten security at the US spy base at Menwith
Hill, outside Harrogate, after more than 100 Greenpeace supporters
stormed the site this week. http://thisisleeds.co.uk/scripts/editorial2.cgi?cid=2&aid=391480
Our local spies tell us...
"With regard to the Menwith Hill incident. The protesters had cunningly
disguised themselves as 8 foot missiles. I'm sure the police officers at
this high security secret base thought it was a military exercise. And
must have thought that 8 foot black foam missiles with legs were a new
top secret weapon with a surreptitious green propulsion method! It's a
simple mistake to make! ;-)"
"All The News That Fits, We'll Print" -- Pravda
...Probably the most sinister aspect of satellite surveillance,
certainly its most stunning, is mind-reading... http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/07/11/9825.html
Security Scrapbook - Espionage & Privacy news of the week.
Sat, 07 Jul 2001
To: Clients, colleagues and friends.
Subject: Espionage & Privacy news of the week.
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===================================================== SPECIAL SECTION -- Spy Plane Saga won't die...
SPECIAL SECTION -- World spy news...
SPECIAL SECTION -- Summer Attraction
SPECIAL SECTION -- The story behind one eavesdropping story...
SPECIAL SECTION -- SpyCam Story of the Week
SPECIAL SECTION -- CONTEST!!! Tampa needs a motto... =====================================================
Why is this man laughing?
The other Hanssen sings... Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen pleaded
guilty today to spying for Moscow, after striking a plea deal that will
spare him a possible death sentence and prevent national security
secrets from being spilled in court. http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/us/DailyNews/hanssen010706.html
Quote of the week... "Not only must contractors protect sensitive information from global
espionage, but corporate espionage has also become a concern."
-- Frost & Sullivan Senior Analyst Brooks Lieske http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,,3_795731,00.html
Last week, a problem...
Digitally signed e-mails have a well-known flaw that could allow the
message to be surreptitiously forwarded to another person.
This week, a solution from a fellow reader...
"... an email security product that is server based...
Basically the software processes email traffic, using a rule based
policy system which filters the emails, it encrypts and signs outgoing
mail and authenticates, decrypts and removes the signature from the
incoming email before passing it on to the recipient unsigned. The
software also logs the events and archives all outgoing mail, providing
a complete audit trail."
Further details... contact Mark Barrett mailto:mb@disccom.com
SPECIAL SECTION -- Spy Plane Saga that won't die...
We know why this man is laughing...
China has billed the Bush administration $1 million to cover board and
lodging for 24 Americans who were held for 11 days on Hainan island, as
well as costs associated with cutting up their surveillance plane after
Beijing refused to let it be flown home. The U.S. says it has no
intention of paying that amount. "It proves the Chinese still have a
sense of humor," said a senior State Department official. http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com:80/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/
I had a flight from Newark to Logan like that once...
A cargo plane carrying the fuselage and other salvageable parts of a
Navy spy plane arrived at Dobbins Air Reserve Base on Thursday, more
than three months after the surveillance plane made an emergency landing
on China's Hainan island. http://www.bergen.com:80/morenews/spypln620010706.htm
Now, about our airplane bill...
The trials of two U.S.-based scholars being detained in China will begin
in "approximately one week " ... Li Shaomin, a U.S. citizen, and Gao
Zhan, a permanent U.S. resident, both charged with espionage. http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/07/06/china.scholars/
We didn't want it anyway...
The Pentagon on Tuesday left open the possibility of junking the Navy
surveillance plane which is being flown home in pieces three months
after colliding with a Chinese fighter jet. http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/breakingnews/US/
Don't even tap them on the shoulder...
British officials in the United Arab Emirates have made contact with
eight Britons arrested over the alleged possession of illegal bugging
devices. The seven men and one woman are being held in Dubai after
police raided four businesses on alleged complaints from ruling clans
about the tactics and equipment used by some British expatriates who
work as private investigators. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/
Eight Britons arrested for allegedly using illegal surveillance
equipment have been released on bail. http://www.sky.com/skynews/storytemplate/storytoppic/0,,30200-1022181,00.html
Save the emails...
England -- Two police officers were injured and several people arrested
as the Menwith Hill spy base was invaded by more than 100 peace
protesters. Police raced to the top secret site near Harrogate at 5am as
Greenpeace activists stormed through the main gates and climbed over
security fences. http://thisisleeds.co.uk/scripts/editorial2.cgi?cid=2&aid=390877
Haghi did it for a fraction of that...
Germany's telecoms companies and Internet services providers fear that
they will face additional costs running into billions of D-Marks if the
government realizes its plans to introduce full surveillance of Internet
traffic. ... unlike the United States, Germany will, under the new law,
expect its companies to bear all costs. http://www2.handelsblatt.com/hbiwwwangebot/fn/relhbi/sfn/buildhbee/ http://members.aol.com/MG4273/lang.htm#Spies (Haghi)
Not quite... Mrs. Montesinos' yellow Papas a la Huancaina is irresistible.
Ex-spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos has ended a hunger strike after
officials agreed to allow his family to provide his food. http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/breakingnews/International/
SPECIAL SECTION -- Summer Attraction
Right next to the Communications Roach Motel...
Hidden along Route 32, in a drab beige building that looks every bit the
cheap motel it once was, is America's official museum of secrets. The
sign outside says, National Cryptologic Museum. It's run by the federal
government, but it's a far cry from the Smithsonian Institution.
(Winner of the coveted Spybusters' * * * * rating.) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10615-2001Jul2.html
...and always in view of ACME Rent-A-Car in New Haven, CT...
A rental car company used satellites to catch customers speeding and
automatically charged fines to their credit cards, spurring a complaint
Monday from the state Department of Consumer Protection. http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/07/03/rental.car.tracking.ap/index.html
SPECIAL SECTION -- The story behind one eavesdropping story...
Kenneth Dossey set up a wiretapping and taping system at his convenience
store to record and listen to employees. He was convicted Feb. 28 in
U.S. District Court in Kentucky of wiretapping and mail fraud.
There's more...
He is legally blind and "is receiving an $80,000 annual salary from the
Internal Revenue Service, despite doing no work for the agency for the
past three years."
But wait, there's more...
"He worked on a variety of projects, including a major IRS computer
overhaul, but sued the agency in 1996, contending it wouldn't provide
the equipment his disability requires to do the assigned job. Under a
1998 settlement (with the IRS), Dossey was paid $265,000, promoted and
granted restored vacation and sick leave."
But wait, there's still more...
"He was supposed to begin a new job then in information systems at IRS
headquarters in Washington but was placed on a 60- to 90-day leave so
that the equipment he needed could be put in place. While on leave,
Dossey began operating the D&L One Stop in Hiseville, KY, partly to be
near his aging mother. (tear) He said he has been waiting ever since for
the IRS to call him back to work." (For three years?!?!?) http://www.courttv.com:80/national/2001/0706/irs_ap.html
SPECIAL SECTION -- SpyCam Story of the Week
"COPS SAY SICKO SUPER PLANTED PEEPING CAMS"
New York City -- The super of a posh Fifth Avenue office building has
been busted for installing hidden cameras in two women's bathrooms.
Zdenko Ceselka, 34, of Iselin, N.J., hooked the cameras to a
closed-circuit television system in the Scribner Building at 597 Fifth
Ave. to spy on women, cops said. The monitors for the system were
allegedly in the boiler room basement of 3 East 48th St., which Ceselka
also managed. Police discovered the two hidden cameras Monday when an
unidentified female employee at Screen Vision Cinema spotted something
sticking out of a ceiling vent above one of the stalls in their 7th
Floor ladies bathroom. The frantic woman called 911 and detectives
discovered the camera. A search of the building uncovered another hidden
camera above one of the stalls in the 6th Floor women's bathroom.
Because he didn't record the women, Ceselka could only be charged with
unlawfully installing or maintaining a viewing device. If convicted, he
faces a maximum 15 days behind bars and a $300 fine. http://pqarchiver.nypost.com/nypost/main/abstract.html?
I searched the records... can't find the official motto of Tampa.
The time is right for a new one anyway.
How about... "You're only a stranger here once!"
Official motto of the Homebase Lounge, 6231 S. Dale Mabry, Tampa, FL. http://cometotampabay.com/business/directory/bars/tampa/index.html
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Why is this man laughing?