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Enclosed Is the Header; the Next Three Posts Contain the 517K Flat-Text of the Enclosed is the header; the next three posts contain the 517K flat-text of the "1984" polemic. For hardcore details on ECHELON, see Part 1 from 'Wild Conspiracy Theory' through the end of Part 1. ---guy ****************************************************************************** An Indictment of the U.S. Government and U.S. Politics Cryptography Manifesto ---------------------- By [email protected] 7/4/97-M version "The law does not allow me to testify on any aspect of the National Security Agency, even to the Senate Intelligence Committee" ---General Allen, Director of the NSA, 1975 "You bastards!" ---guy ****************************************************************************** This is about much more than just cryptography. It is also about everyone in the U.S.A. being fingerprinted for a defacto national ID card, about massive illegal domestic spying by the NSA, about the Military being in control of key politicians, about always being in a state of war, and about cybernetic control of society. ****************************************************************************** Part 1: Massive Domestic Spying via NSA ECHELON ---- - ------- -------- ------ --- --- ------- o The NSA Admits o Secret Court o Wild Conspiracy Theory o Over the Top o BAM-BAM-BAM o Australian ECHELON Spotted o New Zealand: Unhappy Campers Part 2: On Monitoring and Being Monitored ---- - -- ---------- --- ----- --------- o On Monitoring - Driver's Seat - Five Months Statistics - The FBI Investigations - I Can See What You Are Thinking - Why I Monitor o On Being Monitored Part 3: 1984 Means a Constant State of War ---- - ---- ----- - -------- ----- -- --- War #1 - Drugs War #2 - Guns War #3 - Child Pornography War #4 - Terrorism War #5 - Hackers Part 4: Why unlimited cryptography must be legislated NOW ---- - --- --------- ------------ ---- -- ---------- --- o Key Recovery Means No Cryptography o Key Recovery Isn't Even Feasible o Government Steamroller o Feds' Wacky Pro-GAK Logic - Business Will Demand It - To Safeguard Your Privacy Part 5: There is no part five ---- - ----- -- -- ---- ---- Part 6: Louis Freeh & The Creeping Police State ---- - ----- ----- --- -------- ------ ----- o Louis Freeh o National ID Card o Worldwide Banking and Phone Monitoring o Cybernetic Control of Society o Conclusions ****************************************************************************** ECHELON is NSA's world-wide surveillance network and associated software. DICTIONARY - Keyword searching with exclusion logic software. ORATORY - Speech recognition. Think of it as speech-to-text software. Subject to DICTIONARY searches. CALEA - A 1994 law ("Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act") to force a massive reworking of the U.S. telephone infra- structure so that the government can intrinsically wiretap it. Also called the FBI Digital Telephony Act. It is a domestic extension of ECHELON. GAK - Government Access [to cryptographic] Keys. Any cryptography product with GAK has been compromised so the government can read it. SIGINT - Signals Intelligence = NSA = electronic snooping Key Recovery - See GAK. C-SPAN - Two cable channels dedicated to broadcasting both houses of Congress and other U.S. governmental functions. DEA - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration DIA - U.S. Pentagon Defense Intelligence Agency DIA - U.S. Drug Interdiction Agency (older) FBI - U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation BATF - U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms UKUSA - pronounced 'you-koo-za' - a secret wartime treaty that says member nations can spy on each others population without warrants or limits, and that this can be shared with the spied-on country's SIGINT agency. PGP - Free and unbreakable encryption, available world-wide. CISPES - Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador "Ultra-secret" agencies: NSA - U.S. National Security Agency GCHQ - British Government Communications Headquarters CSE - Canada's Communications Security Establishment DSD - Australian Defense Signals Directorate GCSB - New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau ****************************************************************************** Main() ---- Using mainly publicly available material, here is my documentation of: o Part 1: Massive Domestic Spying via NSA ECHELON This is highly detailed documentation of NSA spying. This spying is illegal, massive, and domestic. The documentation is comprehensive, especially since it is now brought together in this one section. o Part 2: On Monitoring and Being Monitored In this section, I describe the capabilities of ECHELON keyword monitoring. A detailed example --- how to use keywords to pick out conversations of interest --- is given. I also put forth a case of what it means to be monitored heavily by the government. o Part 3: 1984 Means a Constant State of War The politics of war, and the Orwellian tactics employed by by the U.S. Government to control its citizens. o Part 4: Why unlimited cryptography must be legislated NOW In additional to the reasons given in the previous sections, the 'debate' reasons constantly given by the government are reviewed and debunked. And our nation's experts say it will hurt security. The GAO says the same thing. o Part 5: There is no part five. o Part 6: Louis Freeh & The Creeping Police State Basically, Louis Freeh is the anti-Christ leading us to Hell. National ID cards are effectively being implemented without needing to issue cards. The U.S. Government is trying to monitor all phone calls and banking transactions, and have all equipment worldwide designed for their monitoring. They are bent on controlling the world to the point of there being no crime left on the planet. Of course, democracy destroyed is the direct result. ---- This publication advocates five major items: o Passage of ProCode/SAFE legislation, allowing U.S. companies to export unlimited strength cryptography, free from "Key Recovery". Key Recovery means messages are no longer a secret, because the Government has screwed around with it. o Killing the CALEA legislation, which orders all communications equipment be DESIGNED so the Government can spy on it. o Dismantling domestic ECHELON, the Government listening in on our domestic phone calls. o A Cabinet-level U.S. Privacy Commission, with teeth. ---- The "average" American has no idea why cryptography is important to them. It is the only way to begin preventing massive illegal domestic spying. Currently, there are no restrictions on domestic use of unlimited strength cryptography. That is not because the Government hasn't complained about child pornographers or terrorists or other criminals who might use it. No, that's the reason they are giving for why U.S. companies can't EXPORT products, such as web browsers, outside U.S. territory, without compromising it with Government "Key Recovery"; i.e. made stupider and breakable. Why such an indirect control on what they claim is a domestic problem? Because that is how 'The Creeping Police State' works. Slowly, bit-by-bit. Slowly, State-by-State everyone in the U.S. is being fingerprinted. The FBI is now advocating biometric capture of all newborns too. This is an interesting manifesto, please take the time to read it. Cryptography can be used to keep private: Internet traffic, such as email, and telephone conversations (PGP phone). A version of PGP phone that looks and works like a normal telephone --- but can't be spied upon --- would eventually become wide-spread. It begins to change the mind-set that the Police State is inevitable. ---- Major references... In the last several years intelligence operatives, specifically including SIGINT (signal intelligence) people, have started telling the story about the massive domestic use of computer monitoring software in the U.S. Including our domestic phone calls, Internet, fax, everything. I'm going to quote a number of articles and books; they involved talking to over 100 of these intelligence operatives. Buy this book: "Secret Power" by Nicky Hager, ISBN 0-908802-35-8. It describes in detail the ECHELON platform. It's one of the most important. New Zealand people are quite unhappy at their place within ECHELON. Buy this book: "Spyworld: Inside the Canadian and American Intelligence Establishments" By Mike Frost [NSA trained sigint person] and Michel Gratton, Toronto Doubleday 1994. Mr. Frost describes missions in the U.S. where he was trained by the NSA to handle domestic jobs that would be illegal for the NSA. These books are quite damning, in a heavily documented way. This is an AMAZINGLY COMPREHENSIVE BOOK: buy it! "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 Buy this book: "The Secret War Against the Jews", Authors: John Loftus and Mark Aarons, ISBN 0-312-11057-X, 1994. Don't let the title throw you: the authors spoke with a great many intelligence people, and cleverly probed NSA/CIA/FBI by submitting items for publication approval, and when they censored something... Bingo. Because of the Catch-22 situation, the NSA gave up trying to censor many books, since it can be used to confirm questions they would otherwise have refused to answer. The other books referenced within are also suggested reading. I have sometimes edited for brevity the excerpts, especially my newspaper clippings of stories flying by. If I have any news story specifics wrong or if you have more details, please email me. Later versions of this document can be searched for at dejanews.com. Or, you can email me, Subject: Requesting Cryptography Manifesto. ---- ---- Here comes a large 'reasoned
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