Sun Aug 25, 2002
Security Scrapbook - Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
To: Clients, colleagues and friends.
Subject: Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
=================================================== Kevin'sSecurity Scrapbook is published on an irregular
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SPECIAL SECTION -- World Spy News
SPECIAL SECTION -- Just The Fax
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SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
Beware the Google Ogle... The world largest search engine's toolbar could leave you vulnerable to malicious users. Prior to (and including) Google's version 1.1.58 of its toolbar, users are at risk from hackers who can execute the following tasks: control all visual configuration options; hijack the toolbar and reroute searches; execute arbitrary commands; read local files; tap to key presses in the toolbar's search box; enable features with privacy implications; clear the toolbar's history; uninstall the toolbar. ... The company who discovered the flaws, Israel's Grey Magic Software, detailed the vulnerabilities a malicious user may exploit... Google has responded to the suggestions of GreyMagic, and quickly furnished a fixed version, which began distributing on Wednesday using the auto-update feature in the Google toolbar. (Update your company's Google software.) http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/10792_1442611 http://sec.greymagic.com/adv/gm001-mc/ (exploit demo)
If it could happen to them, it could happen to you... (online files) Computer intruders have allegedly broken into the online files of a Florida company that provides surveillance technology to the U.S. military, federal agencies and local police forces, and posted confidential information, including the names and e-mail addresses of undercover police officers on a public Web site... Information was revealed when the data from Audio Intelligence Devices Inc.’s files was posted on the Internet. The Florida-based private company sells highly specialized video surveillance equipment and teaches spy courses to federal agencies and local police forces in the United States, and to some foreign governments. (This is preventable. Call us.) http://www.msnbc.com/news/796315.asp?pne=msn
If it could happen to them, it could happen to you... (laptops) Two laptop computers missing from Gen. Tommy Franks' headquarters were kept in an ultrasensitive locked and alarmed security room intended to safeguard some of the military's deepest secrets in the U.S. war on terrorism, officials said Wednesday. At least one of the laptops contained highly classified information, they said. The room is known in military shorthand as a SCIF, or Secure Compartmented Information Facility. The government uses them at installations worldwide and regulates their security features so closely that voluminous rules have been written on how they are to be built and protected. It sits deep inside the building that houses U.S. Central Command headquarters, which is running the war in Afghanistan and which is tightly guarded by troops armed with M-16s. The building stands inside the MacDill Air Force Base perimeter, which is well guarded, too. However, even cloaked in secrecy, the case sent waves all the way to Washington and was addressed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a Pentagon news conference. "The good news is [the laptops] were in a room ... where access is tightly controlled," said Myers. (Oh, glad to hear it. - This is preventable. Call us.) http://www.jihadunspun.net/newsarchive/article_internal.php
If it could happen to them, it could happen to you... (spy-friendly 'features') MacDill Air Force Base - Missing laptops, a highly classified war plan leaked to The New York Times: These weren't the first security problems to bedevil the U.S. Central Command, the headquarters here running America's war on terror. Four years ago, a Navy Reserve captain discovered that a number of telephone answering machines at CentCom had a feature that made some of the nation's most sensitive military secrets fair game for anybody with the right phone number. All anyone had to do was dial and listen in. "It was like having 100 open microphones during the time we were running Operation Desert Fox against Iraq," said Capt. Chris Koury, who served at CentCom from 1998 to 1999. (This is preventable. Call us.) http://news.tbo.com/news/MGAVVR1KX4D.html
SPECIAL SECTION -- World Spy News
"Abu was a perfectionist..." Iraq confirmed the death of feared terrorist leader Abu Nidal Tuesday, saying the Palestinian had committed suicide. ... but did not explain how he could have shot himself several times. http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/
"No problem. We just turn Andorra into a server farm..." The records of whom you contact via phone, web, fax or mobile could soon be stored for years under a proposal drafted by European governments. If passed, the law would force anyone providing communication services to keep records for at least a year of what customers have been doing. The records would be available to police forces across the European Union investigating almost any crime. Civil liberty campaigners fear that the European law will endanger long-held rights to privacy and could tempt law enforcement agencies to go on fishing expeditions for evidence of wrongdoing. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2204909.stm
Thank you...
Australia would be involved in a United States attack on Iraq through communications and spy bases at Pine Gap and North West Cape even if no troops were involved, former Opposition leader Kim Beazley has said. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/
Civics Lesson #023 - Remember the 'checks and balance' system? It works. The secretive federal court that approves spying on terror suspects in the United States has refused to give the Justice Department broad new powers, saying the government had misused the law and misled the court dozens of times, according to an extraordinary legal ruling released yesterday ...the court that oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) alleges that Justice Department and FBI officials supplied erroneous information to the court in more than 75 applications for search warrants and wiretaps ... Stewart Baker, former general counsel of the National Security Agency, called the opinion a “a public rebuke. ... “How these misrepresentations occurred remains unexplained to the court,” the opinion said. ... Enacted in the wake of the domestic spying scandals of the Nixon era, the FISA statute created a secret process and secret court to review requests to wiretap phones and conduct searches aimed at spies, terrorists and other U.S. enemies. ... The FISA court approves about 1,000 a year. http://www.msnbc.com/news/798009.asp http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/fisa_opinion.pdf (Opinion text)
Apologize, then flip them the bird...
The South African government on Friday apologised to the Iranian government after a senior foreign affairs official accused Tehran of industrial espionage. The apology followed a formal protest by the Iranian embassy, saying Iran had "no clandestine activities in South Africa". The diplomatic incident follows Wednesday's briefing by John Sunde, the acting chief director of the Middle East directorate, to parliament's foreign affairs committee, which was reported in the media. ... Sunde told MPs "We have concerns for industrial espionage. We get a lot of Iranian technical missions that come here with video cameras. A classic example was when the Iranian deputy minister of agriculture and other officials visited South Africa a few years ago, accompanied by a technical team," said Sunde. "Until then Iran had no ostrich farming industry. They toured an ostrich farm in Oudtshoorn and were given a copy of its booklet." (Wow! If you're literate, you're tech-team material.) http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=6
Flying under the reader-radar and have a nice weekend... "The most important story of the year so far — at least if you care about preventing another Sept. 11-style event — came and went rather quietly in Saturday’s editions of The New York Times. Thanks to an old Washington trick — leaking information late on Friday to make sure it appears in the least-read edition of the week — news of Rumsfeld’s victory over CIA Director George Tenet, the man most likely to be ordained “czar” of the sprawling American intelligence community, went largely unnoticed." http://www.msnbc.com/news/790640.asp?0si=-?cp1=1 (opinion)
SPECIAL SECTION -- Just The Fax
There goes my dream vacation... The Federal Communications Commission said last week it slapped a $5.4 million fine on Fax.com for spewing unwanted advertisements into millions of fax machines in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The action is the largest fine ever levied under provisions of the TCPA, the 1992 law that attempted to reign in runaway telemarketing practices. http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/news/080802junkfax.html
...and my toner stockpile. A Silicon Valley entrepreneur and a nonprofit advocacy group Thursday filed twin lawsuits against Aliso Viejo-based Fax.com, each seeking class-action status and $2.2 trillion, alleging violations of a federal ban against unsolicited fax ads. http://www.junkfax.org/fax/news/
SPECIAL SECTION -- Weird, huh?
Fractal Theory - Incident #747 In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings. But the cause wasn't terrorism — it was to be a simulated accident. Officials at the Chantilly, Va.-based National Reconnaissance Office had scheduled an exercise that morning in which a small corporate jet would crash into one of the four towers at the agency's headquarters building after experiencing a mechanical failure. http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/national/ap_simulat08212002.htm
Come on... Just call Vince McMahon and WWF it out... A group of Saudis plan to sue the U.S. government and media organizations for the alleged psychological and financial damage they suffered in the aftermath of September 11, their lawyer said on Wednesday. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=564&ncid ...and in this corner... Some 600 relatives of Sept. 11 victims filed a lawsuit seeking more than 100 trillion ($su) from the Sudanese government and Saudi officials, banks and charities, charging they financed Osama bin Laden's network and the attacks on America. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story
"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped,
indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered" - #6 TOKYO -- Ever since a nationwide computerized identification system switched on earlier this week, the usually obedient Japanese have been anything but that--defying the stereotype by dropping out in droves from what many resent as a "Big Brother" monitoring of the people. The dozens of protest groups that have popped up are planning a rally next Monday in front of a ministry office, where demonstrators will tear up in symbolic outrage the papers now being sent by the government to assign every citizen an 11-digit number. http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020809S0011
FutureWatch - Flirty Qwerty Eyes...
Computer scientists have devised a method of "typing" without a keyboard using clever software that creates words and sentences using eye movements alone. Two Cambridge University researchers have shown that their invention does not result in eye-strain, is just as fast as conventional typing and results in fewer mistakes. David Ward and David MacKay, physicists in the university's Cavendish Laboratory, are making the software freely available in the hope that computer firms will use the idea... http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/
The 2003 'must have' SUV option... An electric "force field" for armored vehicles that vaporizes anti-tank grenades and shells on impact has been developed by scientists at Britain's Ministry of Defense. The "electric armor" has been developed in an attempt to make tanks and other armored vehicles lighter and less vulnerable to grenade launchers... http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020820-86081662.htm
SpyCam News - Next time penny loafers... A Japanese man is accused of secretly filming up a woman's dress using a camera attached to his shoelaces. The 34-year-old, from Aomori, was arrested in Hyogo Prefectural on charges of creating a public nuisance. He was reportedly caught filming up the woman's skirt on a train by a fellow passenger. Police say the camera's lens was attached to his shoelaces and a wire that ran up his trouser leg to a digital camera stuck on his belt. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_654614.html
SpyCam News - The French have a word for it. ...voyeur... Police in France have discovered a real life Big Brother house - except the lodgers did not know about the cameras. A 50-year-old man has been arrested and charged with invasion of privacy after 17 cameras were uncovered in a flat they let out to young seasonal workers in Banyuls-sur-Mer. The four lodgers, three men and a girl, were allegedly being filmed throughout the apartment, including in the shower and the toilet. At the landlord's home, police say they found boxes full of videos of past and present tenants going about their daily lives. One of the lodgers stumbled upon the secret when he slipped in the shower and knocked a clock off the wall - discovering one of the filming devices behind it. A search of the house revealed another camera tucked away in the air duct in the toilet whilst a third was hidden behind a mirror in one of the bedrooms. The owner says the cameras were installed after a previous tenant stole floor tiles and that they also had a lodger with Alzheimer's disease who needed constant surveillance. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_649111.html?
Still using that old film camera?
Movie of the week... One Hour Photo
Robin Williams plays a lonely photo technician at the local SavMart one-hour photo counter who develops an unsettling obsession with long time customers. (See you at the computer store after the show!) http://www.apple.com/trailers/
Sat Aug 17, 2002
Security Scrapbook - Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
To: Clients, colleagues and friends.
Subject: Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
=================================================== Kevin'sSecurity 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 -- The FutureWatch File
SPECIAL SECTION -- Weird, huh? ===================================================
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SpyBuster Inquiry #631 - Phonespionage "My company suspects an unknown employee is selling information to the competition. They want to know how to analyze our phone bills for clues. Can this be done?"
The home-brew solution...
Import the numbers into a database - like FileMaker - which already has the database of target numbers (area code and exchange) in it. If an incoming number matches, then it pops up an alert for further investigation. This can be done in-house. Alternatively, just load in the entire database... http://www.nanpa.com/number_resource_info/
The "but" part...
Their desire to analyze phone bills shows the company's concern. They want to rectify the situation.
Unfortunately, this is not enough of a response.
What they are sensing is a subtle warning sign that they are going to be attacked. Intelligence collection always precedes the corporate coup de grace. (September 11th is the political version of this.) The company is lucky they picked up on this. Most people don't, or - like a noise under the hood of the car - ignore it hoping it will "go away."
In addition to leaking information via phone calls, consider that faxes and emails are tools they will use as well. Further, the enemy will gather printed materials, sensitive wastepaper, and engage in ...electronic eavesdropping.
Now is your chance to fight back and win. In a 'death of a thousand cuts,' one doesn't get any stronger as time goes on.
We can help you with all of this.
This is what we do. - Kevin
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Cautionary Tale #482 - LAN Sharks "A few seconds later, I was listening in on all of the wireless traffic in the Admiral's Club network. I detected three users on the network. One was actively reading his email using POP. I intercepted his incoming and outgoing messages, and because POP sends passwords in the clear, I also captured his login username and password. The second user wasn't using the Web actively, but his laptop was checking his office every five minutes for new mail. I soon had his login information as well. The third user was browsing the Web. I could see the address and content of each of the Web pages he accessed, along with all of his cookies and the contents of the online forms he submitted. Because the second computer user wasn't actively working on the network, I borrowed his connection for a while. I noted the IP address of his laptop and assigned it to my own machine. Seconds later, I had full Internet access." http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2445/na0902h/index.html
SpyBuster Inquiry #632 - NoCopi Paper & Tricks of Spy Craft "I need to give a very sensitive document to a non-trusted person, and I want to know if that person makes a photocopy. My ultimate solution would be to print the document on a photosensitive paper that would turn black if exposed to the bright lighting of a photocopier, thus revealing the unauthorized copying when the document is returned to me. My second choice would be if the document had a watermark that allows reading the original with the naked eye, but makes a photocopy illegible. Are there any such countermeasures out there, or is it just a pipe dream?"
No, you're not dreaming. There are products (Copi Alert) like what you are describing. My issue with the papers that "turn" is that there are simple ways to copy them without this happening (regular photography, for one). If you use this technique make sure the person does not know the paper is rigged. Printing your information on a paper that is resistant to photocopying (Copi Scrambler) is a slightly better approach.
If you have to distribute copies to several people... Have each one sign a non-disclosure agreement with penalties. Then, give each person a slightly different copy (leave out or add certain punctuation marks, use a different word with the same meaning here and there, etc.) Keep a carefully documented log of who gets what copy. If an unauthorized copy pops up, you'll know (and be able to prove) who leaked it. Hope that helps. Thanks for stopping by. - Kevin
Compression Tool Offers Easy Encryption If you've been looking for a way to secure files, either during storage or transmission, the use of updated compression software might offer some help. We recently got hold of PKWare's new PKZIP 5.0 compression software, which gives users the ability to encrypt and authenticate the files they're compressing. It offers users a great way to secure files they want to send, whether they place the files on a disk or send them over the Internet. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,103385,00.asp
SPECIAL SECTION -- World Spy News
"...and we'll take care of you for the rest of your life." MOSCOW - Edward Lee Howard, a former CIA officer who defected to the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s in a daring Cold War spy adventure, has died at his home outside Moscow, a former KGB officer said Tuesday. He was 50. Howard's defection was the first by someone known to have worked for the CIA. Author David Wise, who once interviewed Howard and wrote "The Spy Who Got Away" about him, said Howard died from a fall down a flight of stairs. But Igor Prelin (an official with an association of retired Soviet foreign intelligence officers in Moscow, who had known Howard since 1988.) said: "As to the cause of death, I don't know. There is talk that there was an accident or a car crash. There's lots of contradicting information." http://www.russiajournal.com/news/index.html?nd=14280#n14280
"...or, maybe a nice apartment in Moscow." The death penalty is an appropriate punishment for U.S. citizens who commit espionage against their country and should be used in the case of spy suspect Brian P. Regan, federal prosecutors said in court papers. Regan, 39, of Bowie, was arrested last August at Dulles International Airport with satellite surveillance information that he was trying to sell to Iraq, prosecutors say. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?
"Just how many empty apartments do you think we have?" Russia jails man who claimed to be UK spy... The 26-year-old man, apprehended on the Azerbaijan-Dagestan border last November, originally told authorities his name was John Benini and that he was a spy for the British government and a British citizen. But on the first day of his trial in Makhachkala, the capital of the Russian province of Dagestan, he changed his story and said he was an Algerian citizen, Yusuf Said Saltai, who had lived in London for 15 years. http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,761551,00.html
...and economic interests, as in business class airplane seats. A French judge has ordered 12 people, including a top aide to former Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, to stand trial for allegedly wiretapping leading lawyers, politicians and journalists two decades ago, judicial officials said Friday. ... A 1991 French law stipulates that wiretapping may be carried out only in cases involving national security, the safeguarding of information considered essential to France's scientific and economic interests and the prevention of terrorism and organized crime. http://www.courttv.com/trials/news/0802/02_wiretap_ap.html
"We don't need no stinkin' proof." A Pakistani tribesman has been shot dead by an Afghan who accused him of spying for US forces based in eastern Afghanistan, local officials said on Wednesday. http://www.afgha.com/article.php?sid=15681
Who knew the Machiguenga's had trained pterodactyls? Brazil has launched a $1.4bn radar system to spy on illegal loggers, miners and drug runners in the Amazon rainforest. President Fernando Henrique Cardoso flew to the jungle city of Manaus to inaugurate the System for the Vigilance of the Amazon (SIVAM), as the project is called. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2151222.stm
German Espionage Chief Wessel Dies
Gerhard Wessel, a former official in Hitler's anti-Soviet spy operation who became chief of the West German intelligence agency, has died. He was 88. Wessel died Sunday at his home in the Bavarian town of Pullach in southern Germany, a spokesman for the Federal Intelligence Service said. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1918674,00.html
"...but first I am going to review The Manchurian Candidate." Three veterans of the war in Afghanistan and a fourth soldier have killed their wives in the Fort Bragg area in the last six weeks, the Army said today as it announced a re-evaluation of the base's family counseling program. "It's mind-boggling," said Henry Berry, manager of family advocacy programs at Fort Bragg. "We're going to look at these cases to prevent them from happening in the future." (What?!?!) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/27/national/27BRAG.html http://www.filmsite.org/manc.html
SPECIAL SECTION -- The FutureWatch File
Communications convenience, privacy boon, or LEO nightmare? Throwaway cellphones are set to make their debut on U.S. convenience store shelves, down the aisle from plastic razors, beef jerky and disposable cameras they seek to emulate as spur-of-the-moment consumer purchases. Hop-On, a small company based in Garden Grove, California, said this week it had won U.S. regulatory approval to sell its first phones, clearing the way for a nationwide introduction of a no-frills recyclable phone for prepaid mobile calling. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story http://www.hop-on.com
"For 'tis the sport to have the enginer / Hoist with his owne petar" People who intercept e-mails to catch their spouses cheating over the Internet in many cases are violating federal and state laws, warn the nation's top divorce attorneys. "Spouses are increasingly obtaining 'proof' of the other spouse's infidelity by reading electronic mail and retrieving records and conversations from Internet and cybersex chat rooms," says J. Lindsey Short, Jr., president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. The improper retrieval of electronic information may specifically constitute a violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 and The Wiretap Act and Stored Communications Act, both passed in 1996. The latter two laws amended the earlier act to extend anti-wiretapping provisions to e-mails, chat rooms and electronic storage of information and communications. Persons violating the law can face both federal and state criminal penalties of up to five years in jail as well as civil penalties, fines, damages, including punitive damages, and legal fees. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl? http://www.alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxhoistw.html
CounterespionageWatch - Mini Voice Recorders
Voice activated. Download and email sound files. Records up to 150 hours. http://www.telesys-market.com/
FutureWatch - 12-Mile-High Cell Tower From a position over the island of Kauai, Hawaii, Pathfinder-Plus transmitted several hours of next-generation mobile voice, data and video services to multiple handheld devices on the ground, SkyTower said. The airborne platform was described as the equivalent of a 12-mile-tall cell or broadcast tower. http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/18738.html
FutureWatch - Swarming (Think of the security implications.) At the University of St. Andrews, where he studies art history, the royal hottie Prince William can't even go out for drinks with friends without being tracked electronically by a pack of wired women. A quite sophisticated text messaging network has sprung up. If William is spotted anywhere in the town then messages are sent out on his admirers' cell phones. It starts off quite small. The first messages are then forwarded to more girls and so on. It just has a snowball effect. Informing 100 girls of his movements takes just seconds. ... Chalk up another life changed by "swarming," a behavior that is transforming social, work, military and even political lives worldwide, especially among the young. It is the unintended consequence of people, cell phones in hand, learning that they can coordinate instantly and leaderlessly. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A23395-2002Jul30?
FutureWatch - Snitch-Bots A hi-tech surveillance device, which could aid in the war against global terrorism and drug smuggling, is being developed in West Wales. Ledwood Mechanical Engineering, based in Pembroke Dock, is working with experts from Pembrokeshire College to fabricate a prototype offshore marine surveillance buoy to be used across a wide range of sectors including customs and excise. http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0800business
SPECIAL SECTION -- Weird, huh?
Golden Age Television Installed last year as a security measure, Channel 13, an unusual closed-circuit TV system, has become a "must see" reality show for the residents of a senior-housing project. While women check out "Biscuit," the dancing octogenarian, the men have spotted drug dealers or prostitutes coming into the building after hours. Result: a kaffeeklatsch of gossip and voyeurism. http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0722/p01s02-ussc.html
"...and we split 50/50. Hey, if I'm lyin', I'm..." The first complete audio record known to exist of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center provides a chilling slice of life. The tape is a recording of an FBI wire worn by an undercover informant who was meeting a suspect in probe of city tax assessors. http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/07/sept.11.tape/index.html
Ya know... both shows are very successful. You could do worse. In a development bordering on what the American Civil Liberties Union called surreal," the on-line magazine Salon.com today revealed that the Department of Justice is forwarding incoming Operation TIPS calls to the Fox-owned "America's Most Wanted" television series. "This is like retaining Arthur Andersen to do all of the SEC's accounting," said Rachel King, an ACLU Legislative Counsel. "It's a completely inappropriate and frightening intermingling of government power and the private sector. What's next - the government hires Candid Camera to do its video surveillance?" http://www.aclu.org/news/2002/n080602a.html
"As day is night and night is day, make the E's lower bar go away." Witches are threatening spells in revenge for being banned from TV by laws demanded as part of Romania's integration into the EU. The regulation bans any direct or indirect promotion through radio or television of occult practices. It's aimed at protecting impressionable young audiences. The country's National Witches Association claims it discriminates against white witches and should only apply to black magic. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_641762.html
Next stop... the AM Band. For many years Pirate Short Wave broadcasting stations (stations without license) have been operating on 7415 kHz until too much interference from licensed stations caused them to move. The next "standard" operating frequencies for the pirate stations was 6950 - 6955 kHz. Now the FCC has stated that it may begin authorizing licensed U.S. stations to use 6955. The pirates aren't taking this lying down, they have found a new home on 6850 kHz. http://www.flash.net/~av8tor/radios/piratescorner.htm
Broadcasting from high atop the new Hotel Lightningrodforterrorists... It looks like a new 2,000-foot broadcast tower to replace the one destroyed on Sept. 11 is going to be built in New Jersey. The facility would replace the tower that was on top of 2 World Trade Center. The most likely location is the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City. That city has already passed a zoning ordinance encouraging construction of a tower. The $200 million project would be the tallest freestanding structure in the world and would overlook the city skyline. The tower would probably have television studios on top, but is unlikely to be open to the public because of security concerns. http://www.crainsny.com/news.cms?newsId=3856
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