Security Scrapbook - Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
Mon Jul 29, 2002
To: Clients, colleagues and friends.
Subject: Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
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SPECIAL SECTION -- FutureWatch
SPECIAL SECTION -- Other Stuff ===================================================
SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
Princeton Snoops on Yale
The head of admissions at Princeton University was suspended after his office was accused of improperly entering a Yale University website where applicants can find out whether they were accepted. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54140,00.html
Quote of the Week
"By that pseudo line of logic you could dispose of the whole Bill of Rights."
1953 - James Lawrence Fly (Federal Communications Commission Chairman (1939-1944) responding to a statement that an innocent person need not worry about being tapped. U.S. Senate, Wiretapping for National Security, 192.
Our Open Rolodex...
X-Ray Scanners, Weapons Detectors, Explosive Detectors.
Gary Korkola. Security Defense Systems. http://www.securitydefense.com/
Used explosives/narcotics sniffer available - bargain price - Call me.
Technical Advancement = Eavesdropping Advancement
AT&T Wireless Services Inc., introduced a digital picture service that will allow customers to use their mobile phone to take pictures and instantly send them to any e-mail address. http://industryclick.com/microsites/Newsarticle.asp?
SecuritySpy ...a new multi-camera video surveillance software product for the Macintosh.
- Works with any Macintosh compatible video input device
- View and capture from multiple cameras simultaneously
- Highly optimized motion detection
- Captures movies and/or images when motion is detected
- Configurable compression settings for movies and images
- Upload captured images to remote computers and web sites via FTP
- Pre-capture buffer feature to capture video before the time of motion
- Timestamp feature to add the image of a clock to each frame http://www.macdirectory.com/4u/wire.fm$retrieve?Serial=4007239
Olfactography
If your dog sniffs at a mole on your body, get it checked. BTW... work is being done to catch criminals and terrorists this way - the effluvia theory - nervous people may emit particular smells. http://exn.ca/dogs/nose.cfm
SPECIAL SECTION -- Other Stuff
Dumm-Da-Dum-Dum, Dum-Da-Dum-Dum-Dummmm... The Denver Police Department's "spy files" won't be destroyed, cops won't be punished and people will get to see their own files, Mayor Webb said Monday. Webb followed all but one of the recommendations made by a three-judge panel that investigated police intelligence gathering. The judges said files should be destroyed; Webb said a CD-ROM backup was made and is being held by the city attorney. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299
DIY - SPIES
Taiwanese are spying on each other with tiny video cameras, and the populace is getting paranoid... With his mop of frizzy hair, thick eyeglasses, and shiny, polka-dotted shirts, Lawrence Lee bears a striking resemblance to Austin Powers in The Spy Who Shagged Me. He prefers to think of himself as "the guy behind James Bond, 007." His ramshackle office in a low-rent district of Taipei is lined floor to ceiling with spy gadgetry: neckties fitted with lenses, cameras disguised as Bibles, infrared goggles. If you are lucky, he will show you his small library of Japanese manuals with detailed instructions on how to secretly film your neighbor's underpants... No one knows how many jealous spouses, paranoid business managers and run-of-the-mill perverts have rushed out to buy their own snooping devices. Miniaturization technology and cheaper electronics have enabled thousands of Taiwanese to become amateur Big Brothers, surreptitiously videotaping employees, friends and total strangers without regard for privacy or propriety. http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article
Cool Movie of the Week (watch it now!)
Gossip 1953
Quirky social guidance film on the negative effects of gossip.
Run time: 10:05 http://www.archive.org/movies/list_F-J.html
Security Scrapbook - Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
Sat, 20 Jul 2002
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 -- State of the Spy Art
SPECIAL SECTION -- Cool Tools
SPECIAL SECTION -- Radio Waves
SPECIAL SECTION -- Another Weird Week ===================================================
SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
How to Disable the Windows Media Player Spyware Did you know that your Windows Media Player is spying on you? That's
right! The default settings of the WMP allow it to communicate with the
Microsoft mothership and other Web sites and report on the songs you
play, those you don't play... If you're not interested in the WMP
reconnoitering your personal life, then turn off the Spyware!
Here's how:
- Open the Windows Media Player
- Click the Tools menu and then click the Options command
- Remove the checkmark from the Allow Internet Sites...
- Click Apply and then click OK
- Close the WMP and then open it again. http://www.winxpnews.com/
Where is Egil Krogh, Jr. when you need him? Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned senior military and civilian
officials at the Pentagon this week that classified information obtained
by the press is being used by Al Qaeda operatives to plan attacks on the
United States ...according to a memo obtained by The Times. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-na-leaks16jul16005042.story
"The anthrax-laced envelope, please." How fare the espionage agencies?
Who's hot and who's not?
Most agents and spymasters resolutely refuse to talk about their own
agencies, but cheerfully rat on each other's intelligence gathering,
evaluation and tradecraft. Time now for the Golden Cloak Dagger Awards,
based on professional assessments by a half-dozen of my spooky sources
around the world... http://www.iht.com/articles/64372.htm
"Whadayathinkthisis, Disneyland?" Spending billions of dollars more on espionage will not make any
difference to America's ability to defend itself unless there is a
revolutionary shift in intelligence thinking, a congressional inquiry
concluded yesterday. ... It said America's spies are woefully ignorant
of foreign languages, rely too heavily on intelligence from other
countries, and spend too much time in their offices rather than on the streets. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/07/18/wspy18
"Now's the time to say good-bye, To all The Company... M - I - C..." The research chief at Walt Disney is leaving the Hollywood lot for a top
post at the National Security Agency, Washington's high-tech spy agency.
Eric Haseltine, 50, worked for a decade heading Disney's secretive unit,
Walt Disney Imagineering... (...and bring in Audrey II's special effects-meister.) http://www.nypost.com/business/52765.htm
"Never mind. We'll do it ourselves." A new program that the government envisions as a tip service for
authorities concerned with terrorism is being assailed by critics as a
scheme to cast ordinary Americans as "peeping Toms." The focus of the
American Civil Liberties Union’s wrath is Operation TIPS - Terrorism
Information and Prevention System - in which rank-and-file citizens
would watch for suspicious activity and report it. http://www.msnbc.com/news/781714.asp?0si=-
SPECIAL SECTION -- Cool Tools
SWAT/ Tactical Ears Enhance your hearing by up to 20 dB. The SWAT ears allow you to hear a
whisper yet give automatic sound protection in high noise situations. http://www.telexlmr.com/milswatcovert.htm
"Be careful, his bowtie is really a camera." Slightly smaller than a credit card, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-U10 allows
it to be easily slipped into pockets or worn with a neck strap. http://netscape.com.com/2100-1103-945060.html?type=pt
Another satisfied customer... "I was sure there was no pornography on my PC, but I was surprised by
what I found." - Father Ireland. "You can accidentally pick up
objectionable PC files from the Internet! ContentAudit provides a way to
safely detect unwanted files." http://www.contentwatch.com/audit/
DIY PI - "Dude, where's my shipment?" The all-in-one package tracking site - 55+ carriers. http://www.packtrack.com/
Sneak Preview - The Ultimate Scanner - AR-ONE Monitor any frequency from 10 KHz to 3.3 GHz. List price: $3,995.00
Will be available August, 2002 http://www.aorusa.com/arone.html
"59372 98324 19043 78903 95320..." The mechanized female voice drones on and on... What have you stumbled
on to? Instructions to spies? Messages exchanged between drug dealers?
Deliberate attempts at deception and misinformation? Chances are, all
of the above! http://www.spynumbers.com/index.html
Congress votes to make interception of cell and cordless a felony...
What this does is change the penalty for the first offense of
intercepting an unscrambled and unencrypted radio communication that is
not supposed to be listened to (eg AMPS cellular calls, commercial
pagers, cordless phones, common carrier communications) for hobby
purposes (eg not a tortuous or illegal purpose or for direct or indirect
commercial advantage or private commercial gain) from a misdemeanor (one
year or less prison time) to a federal FELONY (5 years prison time). http://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks-moderated%40minder.net/
Dominate the Spectrum!
Monteria, LLC provides hardware, software, systems and training
solutions for the signals intelligence, law enforcement, executive
protection and security communities. http://www.monteriallc.com/products.htm
SPECIAL SECTION -- Another Weird Week
...not to mention the olfactory danger. In New York City jails, the Department of Correction forbids prisoners
to wear Nike Air or similar sneakers. Why? Enterprising prisoners have
hollowed out the sole and used the Air chamber for the storage of
contraband, including razor blades and significant quantities of drugs. http://sneakers.pair.com/offlabel.htm
We'll get back to you... or, your heirs and assigns. Switzerland formally applied for membership in the United Nations today,
ending centuries of apprehension about joining the world body and other
international organizations. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=2098305
...with their 34 compatriots. Three men dressed as clowns have fled from police after carrying out an
armed raid on a city centre wine bar. They fled with a small amount of
money and drove off in a white Transit van. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_629709.html?
"Dude, where's my car?" A New Jersey man allegedly stole a car to get to court where he was to
be sentenced for car theft. The 27-year-old made it to court in Union
City where he was jailed for six months for the previous offense. Police
say an informer told them the man had planned to leave the car with the
keys in the ignition in case anyone else wanted to use it. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_629431.html?
"Let them eat cake." Martha Stewart's birthday is coming up on August 3rd and eMac Daily
asked John how SaveMartha.com planned to celebrate the event. "We plan
to ask everyone in America to bake a cake and give it to someone they
care about ... call it 'Cakes Across America.'" (Don't swallow the file..) http://www.macdirectory.com/4u/wire.fm$retrieve?Serial=4007223
Security Scrapbook - Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
Mon, 15 Jul 2002
To: Clients, colleagues and friends.
Subject: Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
===================================================
Kevin's Security Scrapbook® is published on an irregular
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=================================================== SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
SPECIAL SECTION -- Spy Potpourri
SPECIAL SECTION -- Still Can't Fly A Model Airplane
SPECIAL SECTION -- NYPD Blues
SPECIAL SECTION -- Summertime Blues
SPECIAL SECTION -- The Infamous Mister Softee Blues ===================================================
SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
IF YOU ONLY READ ONE THING THIS WEEK... READ THIS.
Security Department Budget Booster # 743 - The FBI says... "Corporate espionage is worse than most companies think, or will admit,
and it's only going to accelerate."
...Although only 5% of companies reported intellectual-property theft,
FBI special agent Dave Drab, who investigates economic espionage and
threats to national security, has a warning for U.S. businesses: Don't
drop your guard. Corporate espionage is worse than most companies think,
or will admit, and it's only going to accelerate. Virtually any company
could be a target, particularly those with valuable intellectual
property such as the aerospace, automotive, chemical, entertainment,
food, and pharmaceutical industries. "Pharmaceuticals may be targeted
for their R&D, which represents billions of dollars worth of income for
various illnesses," Drab says. "They're targeting customer lists, sales
forecasts, and trade secrets." Private businesses and foreign
governments are behind the corporate espionage, he says. Such cases
rarely come to public attention, because companies and governments are
eager to keep breaches quiet. http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020703S0020
...and guns don't kill people, and scissors don't cut paper, and... Every new technology gives birth to new security and privacy fears. ...
In the end, though, corporate and consumer users alike may find that
wireless security technology is better than they think, and the biggest
threat to the safety of their personal and professional data is their
own behavior. http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/18488.html
Frankensteining security... "It's allowed!!!" Memorizing passwords is out. Laying your finger on a sensor or peering
into a webcam can suffice to gain you immediate access to a system.
There is the danger, however, that this new ease might be bought at the
expense of security. How well do biometric access controls prevent
unauthorized access? We have tested eleven products for you... http://www.heise.de/ct/english/02/11/114/
Cautionary Tale # 334 - If it could happen to them...
Audio Intelligence Devices, a super-secret Coral Springs, Fla., company
that sells surveillance equipment and operates secret agent training
courses to law enforcement agencies worldwide -- including the FBI, CIA,
Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service -- has
gone to court claiming it's a victim of corporate espionage. In two
civil cases, one of which recently was sealed by a judge, Audio
Intelligence accuses former company executives who now work for
competitors of swiping highly sensitive corporate trade secrets on their
way out the door. (5/15/00) http://www.floridabiz.com/news.html?news_id=15555&hl=spy
SPECIAL SECTION -- Spy Potpourri
They can't tap, but they can sure sing and dance... Deadlines aren't easy to meet, especially when they involve complicated
wiretapping requests and costly equipment upgrades. In the days leading
up to the June 30 deadline to comply with the Communications Assistance
for Law Enforcement Act, which gives law enforcement authorities
wiretapping capabilities, several wireless carriers asked the FCC for
more time to meet the mandate. http://www.wirelessweek.com/index.asp?layout=story&articleId
SpyCam Snitches On PINs... Brazilian police say two men have been cloning bank cards and filming
people using their PIN numbers at ATMs. Police in Santos, Sao Paulo have
arrested an IT specialist and an electrician on suspicion of fraud.
...allegedly installed a digital video camera on the ATM to film
customers tapping in their PIN numbers. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_625485.html?
"Whoa, you want confidentiality too! That'll be extra." South Africa - The Mail & Guardian learnt this week that a private
investigating firm ... had chanced on damning evidence ... while the
firm was doing de-bugging work... Leonard Knipe, formerly a police
detective head and now a partner, this week said: "... we looked for
bugs at the premises and the office complex..." In the process, Knipe
said: "I might have become privy to certain information which was
conveyed to the relevant authorities." http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.jsp?a=59&o=5882
Skip the shrimp, throw him on the barbie...
A Sydney man accused of being an al-Qaida terrorist was once asked to be
a spy for Australia, his lawyer said today. Stephen Hopper, lawyer for
Mamdouh Habib, also admitted that his client had been in contact with
two men involved in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing. Mr Habib was
arrested in Pakistan in October for allegedly training with terrorists
accused of plotting the September 11 attacks against America. http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/2002/07/12/FFXZJVSYI3D.html
SPECIAL SECTION -- Still Can't Fly A Model Airplane
No, give it more gas... Fishermen from of the Adriatic port of Herceg Novi in Montenegro dredged
up a NATO reconnaissance drone at the weekend, according to the Belgrade
daily Vecernje Novosti. "We catch all kinds of things in these waters, I
tell you," it quoted fisherman Mico Vujovic as saying. http://my.netscape.com/corewidgets/news/story.psp?cat=50900
Damn. I still can't fly model airplanes.
Officially confirmed / documented NATO UAV losses
United States: 17 (3 Predators, 9 Hunters, 4 Pioneers, 1 UAV of
undetermined type)
Germany: 7 (presumably all CL-289 turbojet drones)
France: 5 (3 Crecerelle, 2 CL-289)
Britain: 14 (14 Phoenix)
four UAVs of undetermined origin (possibly US, German, or Italian) http://www.aeronautics.ru/official/lostuavs.htm
SPECIAL SECTION -- NYPD Blues
NYPD says U.N.C.L.E. The Police Department is planning to put cops in at least five foreign
countries in the most ambitious move yet in the NYPD's global approach
to protecting New York City from terrorists. ... Officially, police
brass would confirm only that the idea has been discussed. "This is one
of the ideas that is under consideration," said Michael O'Looney, a
police spokesman. (Time to bring back 'Car 54 Where Are You?') http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-07-14/News_and_Views
Meanwhile, Uptown... They are not saying UNCLE to NYPD. There is a video surveillance camera on top of a light post in Harlem at
141st Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard. It is meant to deter bad
people from doing bad things. The trouble is, most people who spend time
at the corner resent the mechanical snooping. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/nyregion/14BARS.html?tntemail0
SPECIAL SECTION -- Summertime Blues
FutureWatch - Home, home on the LAN... With the speed and capacity that comes with 802.11a, wires behind the
entertainment center could become a thing of the past. A DVD player
would be able to send a digital video image to a TV in one room -- or to
TVs in three other rooms -- using radio frequency (RF). Other appliances
could be linked to a central server in the home, as well. http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/18474.html
Mon animè... A Japanese woman has been arrested for allegedly calling an acquaintance
and her husband 50,000 times in two years. Shoko Tanaka, 31, has been
accused of dealing physical and mental harm by making a total of 50,000
crank calls to the home where the 36-year-old woman and her husband
lived. Police raided Tanaka's home last month and seized 31 mobile
phones and a stack of prepaid phone cards, the official said. Using the
phone cards, Tanaka prevented the couple from tracing her calls, he said. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_625665.html?
Mon ennui... A Florida man has been charged with making more than 1,100 bogus calls
to the US 911 emergency number, tying up lines for two days.
Twenty-year-old Michael Holmes placed the calls saying he was bored, an
Alachua County Sheriff's Office spokesman said. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_623523.html?
SPECIAL SECTION -- The Infamous Mister Softee Blues
The song alone is grounds for temporary insanity. Case dismissed! An ice cream van driver is facing assault and breach of the peace
charges for allegedly attacking a Connecticut man campaigning against
noisy jingles. Luis Amaro, a part-time Mister Softee driver, is accused
of swinging a baseball bat at Wilbur Troutman who has repeatedly
complained to police about the vans. (Mister Softee has approximately
600 trucks in 15 states.) http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_621549.html? http://www.mistersoftee.com/music.asp (The Mister Softee lyrics) http://www.chumps.net/features/article.php?c=100 (The evil "jingle music.")
(c. 1963) My Mister Softee driver told jokes, and was always on time.
He also single-handedly drove the truck, pumped the ice cream, and
made change fast... (he only had one arm). Yes, he was The Man
...and like junkies everywhere - we loved him.
Security Scrapbook - Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
Fri, 05 Jul 2002
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 -- World Spy News
SPECIAL SECTION -- Circus of Spies
SPECIAL SECTION -- DIY PI
SPECIAL SECTION -- Did You Know... ===================================================
SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
People try to put us d-down... Several boxes containing confidential student records were apparently
discarded on a street outside a Manhattan high school on Friday night. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/education/30RECO.html
Just because we get around... Have executives calling board meetings while on vacation cruises?
Security from eavesdropping is relative so consider renting them an
IRIDIUM cell phone. If they have to use the shipboard phone make sure
the connection is digital to a satellite via the IRIDIUM or IMARSAT
system. Keep in mind path the between the ship's phone and satellite
transmitter is subject to interception / quality control monitoring by
the ship's radio officer - just like a regular telephone. If the
important call will take place while in port, the simplest, least
costly, and least attention-getting thing to do is have the executives
use their own digital cell phones.
Here are a few choices for sat phones. http://www.rentcell.com/rent-satellite-phone.htm http://shop.infosat.com/phones/ http://www.satellite-phone-rental.com/satellite-phone-rental.html
Things they do look awful c-c-cold...
Rosum is trying to bring to market a positioning technology that, for
many users, could be much better than the current satellite-based Global
Positioning System (GPS). Instead of using GPS satellites as beacon
platforms, Rosum uses existing, land-based broadcast television
antennas. This makes GCR signals easier to pick out deep inside
buildings, and these signals also yield more accurate position data. http://www.rosum.com/ http://www.catchoday.com/archives/39006.html
I hope I die before I get old... A group of Japanese security enthusiasts has developed a little tool
called IE'en which exposes traffic between an IE user and any server
he's contacting, including logins and passwords over HTTPS. ... What's
interesting here is the ability to capture packets between the client
and server by exploiting DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) http://online.securityfocus.com/news/508
Why don't you all f-fade away, And don't try to dig what we all s-s-say...
A New Jersey federal court has sentenced Nicodemo Scarfo to 33 months in
prison at the end of a case that tested the legality of law enforcement
surveillance techniques. Government agents placed a keystroke-logging
device on Scarfo's computer and a key point in the case was reached when
US District Court Judge Joel Pisano ruled in December that evidence from
the device was admissible. (Yes, we check for these too.) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25971.html
I'm not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation... Extortionography in the news - Grammy winning R&B star R. Kelly
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that a 26-minute, 39-second videotape that
was sent anonymously to the newspaper last week allegedly shows R.
Kelly, a native of Chicago's South Side, performing various sex acts
with an underage girl. http://www.bet.com/articles/0,,c3gb1697-2362,00.html http://www.spybusters.com/Extortionography.html
News of the discovery and investigation of additional tapes in the R.
Kelly child pornography case was given to the press in order to
prejudice the jury pool in the singer's upcoming criminal trial, R.
Kelly's camp said. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1455876/20020701/story.jhtml
I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-g-generation... A new fad in London is taking the Internet community by storm: chalking
runes on pavements and walls to indicate the presence of a wireless
networking node. Seventy years ago, during the Depression in the US,
hobos drew signs to indicate to each other where they could get a meal.
Now, across the Atlantic in London, geeks are talking about using a
similar system of chalk symbols to signal where they can get a decent
wireless Internet connection. Warchalking, as the practice has been
coined by founder Matt Jones, entails simply drawing a chalk symbol on a
wall or pavement to indicate the presence of a wireless networking node.
If you see one of these symbols, you should -- in theory at least -- be
able to whip out your notebook computer equipped with an 802.11 wireless
networking card, and log on to the Net. (We won't check the walk for chalks,
but we do check to see if your WLAN is feeding the e-hobos and spies.) http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2118000,00.html
Of course, there is now a world-wide chalking movement... http://www.warchalking.org/
This is my generation, baby... FireWire is about to go wireless. The Wireless Working Group at the 1394
Trade Association, the organization that creates the standard for
FireWire-based peripherals, is hard at work at coding a layer that adds
1394 compatibility to the 802.11 wireless standard used by periphs like
the AirPort. http://www.macdirectory.com/4u/wire.fm$retrieve?Serial=4006982
SPECIAL SECTION -- World Spy News
Happy Jack wasn't old, but he was a man... Vladimiro Montesinos, once one of Peru's most feared men, was convicted
Monday of usurping office -- the first of more than 70 criminal charges
ranging from arms smuggling to homicide that the ex-spymaster faces.
Montesinos, accused of orchestrating a vast network of corruption during
former President Alberto Fujimori's rule, was sentenced to nine years in
prison for seizing control of the National Intelligence Service while
serving as an adviser to the agency. http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/americas/07/02/peru.montesinos
He lived in the sand at the Isle of Man... Germany has approved changes to a law governing the former East German
spy agency's archives. Politicians have overturned legislation prompted
by former chancellor Helmut Kohl's successful fight to keep his file
sealed. It means the law on records kept by East Germany's Stasi on
public figures will be made available for researchers. Last April, Mr.
Kohl won a court victory that allowed him to keep communist-era wiretaps
of his conversations secret. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_622473.html?menu=
The kids would all sing, he would take the wrong key... US tracing devices hidden inside a backpack and a boat helped Filipino
troops hunt down Muslim rebels in two bloody operations last month,
Philippine military officials said. http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,130106,00.html
So they rode on his head on their furry donkey... A Lebanese Jew who immigrated to Israel 10 years ago, has been arrested
and charged with providing critical information to Hezbollah. http://ummahnews.com/viewarticle.php?sid=3684
The kids couldn't hurt Jack...
An Israeli citizen was charged yesterday with spying for the militant
Islamic group Hezbollah in Lebanon, an organisation dedicated to the
destruction of Israel. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-340097,00.html
They tried and tried and tried...
Lebanese resistance guerrilla group Hezbollah, or Party of God, on
Sunday denied any tie with an arrested Lebanese in Israel charged with
spying, the Oriental radio reported. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-06/30/content_463564.htm
They dropped things on his back... The security establishment is concerned about Hezbollah espionage
efforts in Israel and the territories. Over the last few days, two cases
of alleged Hezbollah spying efforts have been uncovered - one in Israel
and the other in the West Bank... http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=181031
And lied and lied and lied and lied and lied... President Jacques Chirac's new government sacked the head of France's
counter-intelligence service on Wednesday, weeks after a media report
that Chirac suspected Jean-Jacques Pascal of probing his past for sleaze. http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters07-03-121526.asp?
But they couldn't stop Jack, or the waters lapping... The director of central intelligence, George Tenet, has ordered U.S. spy
outfits to turn commercial satellite images into the mainstay of
government mapping, rather than spy satellites. The policy, a shot in
the arm for the fledgling U.S. remote-sensing industry, would leave the
government's own high-resolution satellites free for spookier work. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/07/01/spy.satellites.reut/index.html
And they couldn't prevent Jack from feeling happy...
We've all heard about spy planes and satellite surveillance as the
United States fights the war on terrorism. But in some parts of the
world, the results of those efforts are available on the Web for anyone
to see... http://www.freep.com/money/tech/fave30_20020630.htm
Movies of military spy flights. ...if nothing else, demonstrate the
amazing detail possible through advanced aerial surveillance technology. http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=193&L1=10&L2=10
The United States and NATO say they're working on better encryption.
I know you've deceived me... John Ashcroft's decision to unshackle the FBI's domestic surveillance
powers seem perfectly reasonable... if you forget why the bureau was
shackled in the first place. ... The old FBI guidelines emerged in the
wake of Watergate-era revelations that the bureau had engaged in
extensive surveillance of political and religious groups for unlawful
purposes. ... Under programs like the FBI's COINTELPRO, the bureau had
not only engaged in surveillance of political groups -- agents attended
political rallies and maintained dossiers on leaders like Rev. Martin
Luther King, Jr. -- but they went beyond this and actively disrupting
the lives and careers of those it considered to be disloyal to America.
What is important to note is that these activities were all done without
any reason to believe that any of these groups or individuals were
engaged in any activity that violated any law. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2002/tc20020627
I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes... U.S. Congress has decided to postpone a reorganization of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
until the establishment of a Department of Homeland Security, the
Washington Post quoted Bush administration and congressional sources as
saying Tuesday. The decision will delay any significant revamping of the
intelligence system until at least next year, the report said. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-07/03/content_467231.htm
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles... An Australian spy plane flew over the area where there were asylum
seekers clinging to debris from their sinking ship but apparently never
saw them, according to a newspaper report. http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/2002/06/29/FFXCQI2E03D.html
SPECIAL SECTION -- Circus of Spies
Out here in the fields, I fight for my meals, I get my back into my living... Why would the head of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey hire a former top
CIA honcho to torment a hapless freelance writer for eight years? ...
The paper trail of crime and punishment in Washington usually begins in
the basement of Superior Court for the District of Columbia, where the
clerk's office is. When I request civil case number 99-008068, the clerk
rolls out a cart piled with 15 bulging volumes, about 7,500 pages in
all. ... In stomach-turning detail, the documents describe how Ken Feld,
Charles Smith, Claire George and a mysterious cabal of still-unknown
dirty tricksters with close connections to the CIA were deployed to act
as Jan Pottker's personal gremlins, without her ever having a clue about
why so many things in her life were going wrong. ... http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/08/30/circus/index.html
I don't need to fight, To prove I'm right, I don't need to be forgiven...
The world's largest circus, Ringling Brothers, is playing in Pittsburgh
this week. But a Team 4 investigation has uncovered a secret side to the
circus. It's a story of spy vs. spy. The following is Team 4
investigator Jim Parsons' report... http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/1064804/detail.html
Put out the fire, Don't look past my shoulder, The exodus is here... A woman who made travel arrangements for executives with Ringling
Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus has been awarded $500,000 in damages
by a jury that determined the company and one of its former top
officials illegally wiretapped her telephones. Shan Sparshott, 53, won
the verdict Monday after an eight-day trial in U.S. District Court. She
alleged that the wiretapping was orchestrated by Charles F. Smith, an
ex-boyfriend who then was executive vice president of Feld Entertainment. http://nl12.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WP&
Let's get together, Before we get much older...
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals contends in a lawsuit that
top officials of the company that owns Ringling Bros. and Barnum &
Bailey Circus paid a former top CIA operative to spy on the
organization. PETA, the nation's largest animal-rights group, claims
that Feld Entertainment used "former top government spies," including
former CIA deputy director Clair E. George to tap its phones, steal
documents and infiltrate PETA and similar groups. http://www.msnbc.com/local/RTROA/M189930.asp?cp1=1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1777763,00.html http://www.peta.org/feat/rbsuit/complaint.html (Complaint)
No one knows what it's like, To be the bad man... Many customers of the nation's small telephone companies may be deprived
of better phone service thanks to the cost of implementing a 1994
federal wiretapping law, the companies say. Government officials say
hundreds of phone companies have asked for extensions for a June 30
deadline to make their networks technologically accessible to FBI wiretaps. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102447,00.asp
To be the sad man, Behind blue eyes... President Roosevelt personally ordered covert surveillance on the Duke
and Duchess of Windsor during the Second World War after receiving
intelligence that the duchess had been passing secrets to a top Nazi
with whom she was alleged to have had a tempestuous affair, according to
documents released to the Guardian by the FBI. http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/humanities/story/0,9850
No one knows what it's like, To be hated, To be fated, To telling only lies... Revelations that the FBI spied on the Duchess of Windsor as a suspected
Nazi spy provoked outrage last night from royal supporters. Files
released by the FBI prove that the agency kept the duke and duchess
under surveillance during the Second World War after claims that Wallis
Simpson was having an affair with a top Nazi and passing on secrets. http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/uk.cfm?id=707822002
But my dreams, They aren't as empty... The first camera phone from Nokia is now available in Finland and a few
other countries... The color-screen Nokia 7650 features a built-in
digital camera and MMS (multimedia messaging service) capability... A
separate model will become available in the U.S. later this year. About
$750. (USD) http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/18418.html
As my conscience seems to be... Illicit files erased from computers can be resurrected, accounting
investigators say... Want to delete data from your computer? Here's the
Farwell approach: "You take the drive out and you hit it with a
sledgehammer — and then you shred it." Anything less, and he's going to
resurrect some of that data. http://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar
When I smile, tell me some bad news, Before I laugh and act like a fool... Phantom cell phone calls are still being mistaken for eavesdropping
attacks. Remind employees that the auto-dial feature on their phones -
when a button is accidentally pressed - will call the last number
dialed, or one of the first ten numbers in the speed dial list of many
pocket cell phones. Known perps... Nokia 5165, Motorola Z120. There are
others. Check your phone too, and use the keypad lock feature to prevent
an embarrassing moment.
If I swallow anything evil, Put your finger down my throat... Last week, two British inventors introduced the prototype of a
"telephone tooth" - a device that would allow you to receive calls and
listen to music via an implant in your tooth. If this device were to hit
the market, would you consider getting the cell phone tooth implant?
Yes 10% => 1408 votes
No 82% => 11271 votes
I'm not sure 6% => 836 votes
I don't care 1% => 165 votes
Current vote tally: 13680 http://poll.excite.com/poll/results.jsp?cat_id=1&poll_id=3
Play the tape machine, Make the toast and tea, When I'm mobile... Philips Electronics NV is trying to squeeze the size of a CD drive and
fit it into portable devices such as mobile phones, PDAs (personal
digital assistants) and digital still cameras. Using blue laser
technology, the company has managed to miniaturize a drive for a
3-centimeter-in-diameter optical disc that can store up to a gigabyte of data http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=700978
When I'm drivin' free, the world's my home, When I'm mobile... A team of Japanese engineers has come up with a way of blocking mobile
phone signals using wood panels containing magnetic material. The panels
would be useful in cinemas, theatres, or anywhere where ringing mobile
phones cause exasperation. They work by sandwiching a layer of
nickel-zinc ferrite between thin slices of wood, New Scientist magazine
reports. The magnetic ferrite absorbs much of the energy of the radio
signal, cutting the phone dead in most cases. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2067000/2067672.stm
Watch the police and the tax man miss me, I'm mobile... July 4, 2002 - NYC - Confirmed theft of an ambulance. (white with blue stripes)
Keep me groovin', Just a hippie gypsy... Imagine a crime-free world where privacy doesn't exist; where
governments and advertisers know everything about everyone. This is the
world 50 years from now, according to Steven Spielberg's new film,
Minority Report, where people are willing to pass on masses of personal
information in return for a crime-free society. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/top_story.html?
"We are deeply saddened to report the death of John Alec Entwistle, and
our deepest sympathies go out to his friends and family, and all of his
fans. 'The Ox' was found dead of an apparent heart attack on June 27th
in Las Vegas where The Who were preparing to begin their tour the next day." http://www.thewho.net/ http://www.johnentwistle.com/
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