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  • 3-eye  imagery consultants, info
  • BBC George W Bush personally stopped an inquiry into a controversial programme to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of Americans, a top official has said. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said internal investigators wanted to look at the role justice department lawyers had played in drafting the programme
  • CERT Coordination Center net security, info, response
  • Cnet Tech News First, search Carnivore
  • CICenter Counterintelligence, NGO, UK
  • CNN, Technology
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  • Earthdata International satellite images company
  • Freedom of Information Act
  • Global Security Foundation  Intelligence Resource 
  • History of the Internet  
  • Jurist University of Pittsburg, School of Law,   Primary sources. Global perspective 
  • Legal News Search search
  • LexisNexis  online legal, news and business info services
  • LexisOne  The Resource for Small Law Firms.
  • Mountbatten Centre for International Studies
  • National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information NCADI, info on alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs
  • National Cyber Security Alliance se
  • National Security Archive George Washington U. govt security research, FOI
  • Newsbits technews
  • Open Society Institute Internet policy, independent media, human rights
  • OS News Operating system news
  • PrivacyDigest privacy news
  • Privacy Marketing News UK, into privacy and relationship marketing.
  • Privacy & Security Law Report BNA
  • Project on Government Oversight exposing corruption, exploring solutions
  • Salaam.co.uk Big Brother in Britain, national id cards, high cost and hype. 
  • SearchSecurity news, consulting
  • Security Focus News Microsoft
  • Scientific Working Group on Friction Ridge Analysis fingerprinting, forensic id.
  • TechLawJournal news, analysis of legislation, litigation, regulation IT
  • Vera Institute of Justice prisoner rights, justice system innovation, links
  • Wikipedia  NSA National Security Agency, warrantless wiretapping, administrative subpoena, National Security letter.
  • Wired Magazine, search Poindexter, TIA, Total Information Awareness, IAO,
  • WMR Army spying on soldiers' blogs according to leaked Army regulation During a time when the morale of US Army personnel is at an all-time low from a protracted war in Iraq and a de facto draft in the guise of a stop-loss program that keeps soldiers on active duty after their commitments expire, the Army is also spying on the personal blogs of its personnel. This surveillance program has been revealed in a leaked Army Regulation on Operations Security (AR-580-1). ... The regulation was issued almost a year ago, on April 19, 2007. It prohibits the publication of "critical or sensitive" information, a wide-open caveat that could include anything not deemed to be "classified" national security information. The regulation also covers information that has already been disclosed, or "compromised" as stated in the regulation.
  • Yahoo, Spyware new
  • notes: Wayne Madsen Report ... cell phone  "The "echoing" is not limited to particular cell phone service providers or cell phone types. Customers of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile are reporting the same problem with phones from Nokia, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, and Ericsson.  ...  Technicians report that echos occur when there is not a complete connection or if there is a third party connection on the call. While echoing has been a minor problem in the past, the frequency of complaints is increasing and affecting journalists and political activists from Washington, DC to New York City and California to Texas.  ...  Government agencies are already able to remotely activate a cell phone and use the microphone to listen in on conversations. The only way to prevent this surveillance is to agree to "batteries out" conversations, something that is employed more and more among journalists while talking to sources as well as others concerned about high-tech snooping from "roving bugs." Similarly, removing the battery from a cell phone also disables the Global Positioning System and cell tower triangulation capabilities used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to track the location of the user, according to U.S. intelligence sources."

     
  • WMR  "January 30-February 1, 2009 -- Stellar Wind blows Democratic governors out of office  WMR has previously reported on the malfeasance of the U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois, Patrick Fitzgerald, in his investigation of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the outing of CIA covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson. In the case of the 1993 attack, Fitzgerald sat on critical signals intelligence (SIGINT) evidence that would have tied the bombing to Osama bin Laden in exile in Sudan. Bin Laden remained a U.S. intelligence asset at the time of the World Trade Center bombing so Fitzgerald, following orders from Langley, simply failed to enter into evidence wiretaps communications between the Sudanese Mission to the United Nations in New York and the Sudanese Foreign Ministry in Khartoum that contained references to Bin Laden. In the outing of Plame, Fitzgerald refused to enter as evidence tapped phone calls of Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and others that would have proven the severe damage of Libby's actions to the covert counter-proliferation operation involving Plame and her Brewster Jennings & Associates cover firm. Fitzgerald's actions in covering up the World Trade Center link to Sudan and Bin Laden was so significant that Libby's New York Times interlocutor, Judith Miller, once asked this editor for my sources on the Sudanese wiretap story. I told her that one was well known, the late ABC News reporter John McWethy had reported on the Sudan UN mission wiretaps by the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1993. The other, a confidential source in Khartoum, remains confidential. McWethy died in a February 2008 skiing accident in Colorado.   full story
  • WMR Bush / Clinton complicity in NSA illegal wiretapping.  A problem for Hillary? ...  1999 docs show NSA and Clinton White House hiding information about Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) compliance.  Illegal request for NSA wiretapping made in February 27, 2001 meeting ... Nacchio refused, then indicted for insider stock trading... 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, (they're all crooks?).  search terms: AT&T switching center, Folsom Street, San Francisco, 4ESS equipment, Mark Klein (whistleblower), see  HPSCI, Porter Goss, attorney client privilege, Executive Order 12333, all concerning hiding  documents referring to legality of NSA activities, ... and Wilma A. Lewis, Mark Nagle, Marina Utgoff Braswell, Electronic Privacy Information Center, (Civil No. 99-3197 PLF), information withheld from FOIA, domestic wiretapping  full story
  • WMR "... WMR has learned from government sources that the Bush administration has authorized massive surveillance of the Internet using as cover a cyber-security multi-billion dollar project called the "Einstein" program.  ...   Billed as a cyber-security intrusion detection system for federal computer systems and networks, WMR has been told that the actual intent of Einstein is to initially monitor the email and web surfing activities of federal employees and contractors and not in protecting government computer systems from intrusion by outsiders.   ...  In February 2008, President Bush signed a directive that designated the National Security Agency (NSA) as the central administrator for the federal government's computer and network security.   ...   Although Einstein is primarily a program under the aegis of the Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) of the National Cyber Security Division of the Homeland Security Department, WMR has learned that it has the personal support of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Mike McConnell, a former NSA director. Einstein is advertised as merely conducting traffic analysis within the dot (.) gov and dot (.) mil domains, including data packet lengths, protocols, source and destination IP addresses, source and destination ports, time stamp information, and autonomous system numbers. However, WMR has learned that Einstein will also bore down into the text of email and analyze message content. In fact, most of the classified budget allotted to Einstein is being used for collecting information from the text of messages and not the header data." full story ... more search terms: PINWHEEL, PINWALE, GCSB, New Zealand, private sector surveillance, black projects, .com, .edu, .int, .gov, .mil, FCC, black budgets, Vodaphone, cellular phone eavesdropping, Greece, locked field, trap door, sub system,
  • Economist "Security experts reckon the latest technology can detect hostile intentions before something bad happens. Unless it is perfect, though, that may be bad in itself   ...   MONITORING surveillance cameras is tedious work. Even if you are concentrating, identifying suspicious behaviour is hard. Suppose a nondescript man descends to a subway platform several times over the course of a few days without getting on a train. Is that suspicious? Possibly. Is the average security guard going to notice? Probably not. A good example, then—if a fictional one—of why many people would like to develop intelligent computerised surveillance systems.   ...   The perceived need for such systems is stimulating the development of devices that can both recognise people and objects and also detect suspicious behaviour. Much of this technology remains, for the moment, in laboratories. But Charles Cohen, the boss of Cybernet Systems, a firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which is working for America’s Army Research Laboratory, says behaviour-recognition systems are getting good, and are already deployed at some security checkpoints" 
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  • CDC Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • Dept of Health and Human Services.
  • PrivacyDigest privacy news
  • Softswitch.org  to develop universal communications solutions over packet-based voice, data and video.
  • Wikipedia  NSA National Security Agency, warrantless wiretapping, administrative subpoena, National Security letter.
 
American Telecommunications Companies     top
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  • Jurist University of Pittsburg, School of Law,   Primary sources. Global perspective 
  • Wikipedia  NSA National Security Agency, warrantless wiretapping, administrative subpoena, National Security letter.
  • Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.  The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB "thumb drive  Seattle Times  The device contains 150 commands that can dramatically cut the time it takes to gather digital evidence, which is becoming more important in real-world crime, as well as cybercrime. It can decrypt passwords and analyze a computer's Internet activity, as well as data stored in the computer. 
Biosurveillance, Biowatch     top
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  • CDC Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • Dept of Health and Human Services.
  • PrivacyDigest privacy news
 
CALEA Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act    top
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  • Jurist University of Pittsburg, School of Law,   Primary sources. Global perspective 
  • ZD Net  search: Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.
  • VOIP wiretapping
  • Wired  Fed step up push to tap internet phone calls
  • Wikipedia  NSA National Security Agency, warrantless wiretapping, administrative subpoena, National Security letter.
 
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  • Cnet Tech News First, search Carnivore
  • PrivacyDigest privacy news
  • Wikipedia  NSA National Security Agency, warrantless wiretapping, administrative subpoena, National Security letter.
 
Carnivore, DCS 1000, EtherPeek       top
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  • Cnet Tech News First, search Carnivore
  • PrivacyDigest privacy news
  • Jurist University of Pittsburg, School of Law,   Primary sources. Global perspective 
  • Wikipedia  NSA National Security Agency, warrantless wiretapping, administrative subpoena, National Security letter.
 
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  • WMR The Drug Enforcement Agency says it does track prescriptions of so-called controlled substances — including some mood-altering medications — but not all prescriptions made in the United States." The issue is to what extent does the DEA track prescription drug users and what prompted the government to check on records pertaining to Cho Seung-hui, who was reported to have been treated for mental problems in the past? The Psychotropic Substances Act of 1978 added mind-altering drugs to the list of official Controlled Substances. Prescriptions for these controlled substances have a "DEA Number" used for tracking controlled substances. The Cho incident and the comments and quick retractions by "senior federal officials" indicate that there is a secret federal government capability to track controlled drug users.
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There is a connection between NSA phone records database , Amdocs and 9/11.
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and also see Totse Suspicious Activities Involving Israeli Art Students at DEA Facilities by DEA Remember FBI wiretaps of Martin Luther King, 

What are connections between Amdocs, Narus (Semantic Traffic Analysis) and NSA phone records database?  Tony Snow, Carl Cameron, FoxNews report on Israeli art students removed?  Why?

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  • RipoffReport Certifion   Certifion Corporation - Locate America ripoff company made additional charges of $60+ to my credit card without my permission Internet *Editor's Suggestions on how to get your money back into your bank account!
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  • Certifion
  • Entersect a subsidiary of Certifion,
  • LocatePlus  claims it maintains 12 billion records about 98 percent of Americans.
  • Washington Post
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  • WayneMadsenReport An April 2, 2008 article in The Washington Post by Robert O'Harrow that reported on the expansion of intelligence "fusion centers" around the country that are compiling personal information on Americans from a CIA database called "Proton," the FBI, police departments, and private data mining firms referred to a little-known private data company called Entersect, which is routinely tapped by Maryland law enforcement and homeland security entities.  ...  The Post article stated that Entersect has 12 billion files on 98 percent of Americans. Entersect is headquartered in Santa Ana, California and is a subsidiary of Certifion Corporation, which is, in turn, a wholly-owned subsidiary of LocatePlus Holdings Corporation. LocatePlus' other subsidiaries are LocatePlus Corp., Dataphant, Inc. (which acquired Voice Power Technology, Inc.), and Metrigenics, Inc., a biometrics firm.
NSA setting up secret 'Perfect Citizen' spy system 'This is Big Brother', says corporate insider
The Register  NSA setting up secret 'Perfect Citizen' spy system 'This is Big Brother', says corporate insider ....   By Lewis Page • , 8th July 2010 09:20 GMT    ...   The US National Security Agency (NSA) is embarking on a secret domestic surveillance project dubbed "Perfect Citizen", intended to monitor and protect important national infrastructure such as power grids and transport systems.    ...   The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed government and industry sources, says that the NSA has awarded a "black" (classified) $100m contract to defence contractor Raytheon which will see secret monitoring equipment installed within US networks deemed to be of national importance.    ...   According to the WSJ, Perfect Citizen has caused some disquiet among those in the know. It could be seen as the NSA - a military combat support agency whose focus is supposed to be on external threats - carrying out massive automated surveillance of American companies and citizens. The paper quotes an internal Raytheon email as saying that "Perfect Citizen is Big Brother".    ...   The stated purpose of the project is to get a clear idea of the level of threat facing American infrastructure IT. Many older systems, designed in the pre-network world, have since been hooked up to the internet for ease of use and maintenance. It is feared by some in the US intelligence / defence community that unfriendly powers and organizations are already engaged in probing these systems with a view to learning how to attack them.    ...   The NSA's Perfect Citizen equipment would be designed to flag up unusual network events indicating an impending cyber attack, according to the WSJ's sources.    ...   "You've got to instrument the network to know what's going on, so you have situational awareness to take action," an unnamed military source told the paper.    ...   Many of the networks that the NSA would wish to place Perfect Citizen equipment on are privately owned, however, and some could also potentially carry information offering scope for "mission creep" outside an infrastructure-security context. For instance, full access to power company systems might allow the NSA to work out whether anyone was at home at a given address. Transport and telecoms information would also make for a potential bonanza for intrusive monitoring.    ...   The full scope of the project remains to be determined, according to the WSJ report, with no certainty as yet on which companies or types of companies would be asked to cooperate - or how much information the NSA would get access to.    ...   The NSA - whose boss has now also been confirmed as head of the Pentagon's uniformed Cyber Command - apparently got the job by default, as it is considered the only US agency with enough network and cyber savvy to take the task on.    ... The Reg has contacted Raytheon and the NSA for comment on Perfect Citizen, but thus far has not received any reply. ®
Electronic Frontier Foundation  
AP SAN FRANCISCO - The Justice Department said Friday it was moving to dismiss a federal lawsuit challenging the Bush administration's secretive domestic wiretapping program.   The lawsuit, brought by the Internet privacy group, Electronic Frontier Foundation, does not include the government.  Instead, it names AT&T, which the San Francisco-based group accuses of colluding with the National Security Agency to make communications on AT&T networks available to the spy agency without warrants.

The government, in a filing here late Friday, said the lawsuit threatens to expose government and military secrets and therefore should be tossed. The administration added that its bid to intervene in the case should not be viewed as a concession that the allegations are true.  As part of its case, the EFF said it obtained documents from a former AT&T technician showing that the NSA is capable of monitoring all communications on AT&T's network, and those documents are under seal. The former technician said the documents detail secret NSA spying rooms and electronic surveillance equipment in AT&T facilities.

Next month, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker will hold a hearing on whether they should be divulged publicly.  President Bush confirmed in December that the NSA has been conducting the surveillance when calls and e-mails, in which at least one party is outside the United States, are thought to involve al-Qaida terrorists.  In congressional hearings earlier this month, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales suggested the president could order the NSA to listen in on purely domestic calls without first obtaining a warrant from a secret court established nearly 30 years ago to consider such issues.

Gonzales said the administration, assuming the conversation related to al-Qaida, would have to determine if the surveillance were crucial to the nation's fight against terrorism, as authorized by Congress following the Sept. 11 attacks.  The EFF lawsuit, alleging AT&T violated U.S. law and its customers' privacy, seeks to stop the surveillance program.  The San Antonio-based telecommunications giant said it follows all applicable laws.

 

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