[infowarrior] - Yahoo kills TSCM-L group

[Richard Forno]

http://cryptome.org/yahoo-kills.htm

On January 10, 2006, Yahoo killed my TSCM-L mailing list, and they are
playing games with me about it. The last time this happened was during the
DNC when I posted details to the list about the really appalling bad
security that was being implemented during the DNC, and numerous government
employees and contractors applied pressure to Yahoo and they pulled the
list.. Eventually they reactivated the list (after the DNC), but pulled it
down during the RNC a few months later only a restore it a couple of days
later. You will recall that the government applied pressure to you about the
DNC (in)Security report and that you were able to determine that a
government contractor was behind the attempt to censor the data and squelch
me.

The curious thing is that on January 5, 2006, I had uploaded a series file
into a folder on the files section of my TSCM-L list titled bugs02a.icf,
bugs02b, etc.. which I suspect really upset some government types. The files
contained detailed programming instructions and data files that would be
used to command an inexpensive Icom scanner or receiver to hunt down bugs.
Each file contained roughly 900 to 1000 bug frequencies, and the technical
parameters of various bug bands which would allow a victim of eavesdropping
to purchase a scanner for a couple of hundred bugs and detect and locate the
majority of illegal bugs, government bugs, spyshop bugs, and bugs used by
intelligence agencies worldwide. In the file I included the frequencies of
FBI bugs, DHS bugs, military bugs, CIA bugs, MI5 bugs, RCMP, and related
agencies plus the "house frequencies" of all the major manufacturers of
eavesdropping devices. These files would give someone who is hunting for
bugs an enormous advantage over an eavesdropper. Early this morning several
people sent me Email that they had tried to download the file, but that it
was missing from the file area and that the folder in which it was located
had also been quietly deleted... then a few hours later Yahoo quietly
deleted the group altogether.

These files come at a most inopportune moment for the U.S. Government as
they have recently been caught performing illegal eavesdropping in violation
and naked defiance of U.S. law, and these files will make it easier for
victims to protect themselves and to expose illegal eavesdropping.

I suspect that it was actually this set of files that caused Yahoo to pull
the list. I am also a Yahoo shareholder, and plan to make my displeasure
over this censoring known to some people in senior positions. Yahoo should
not be pulling Groups, or deleting files merely because it embarrasses a
crooked government official or exposes a government contractor who gets
caught defecating on the Constitution.

Yahoo needs to restore this Group, and restore these files... shame on them
for this. 



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