----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Global News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 7:43 PM Subject: [globalnews] Microsoft Security Chief Jumps to White House
This could be the ultimate Microsoft coup. To become the key software platform for Net surveillance. To develop a really good friend at the White House. Business goal: To take over the Unix business of the US Government. Oh, my gawwwwwd. The ONLY way to pry their prized Unix boxes from Federal sysops has been with a crowbar applied to cold dead fingers, but now, the Federal government may have national security reasons to choose Microsoft software. Or perhaps, on the other hand, to AVOID Microsoft software, once it's retrofitted for surveillance. Curtis -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Farber Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 4:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IP: Re: Interesting Clarke interview in case you missed it >Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:50:33 -0800 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Jim Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>Howard Schmidt, Microsoft's chief security officer, is expected to leave >>>within the next month to join the Bush administration and work with White >>>House cyber-security adviser Richard Clarke, according to sources in the >>>computer-security industry. >>> >>>Mark Sachs, a U.S. Army major who is an operations analyst at the Joint >>>Task Force for Computer Network Operations, also expected to join Clarke's >>>team. The task force Sachs currently works for oversees the Pentagon's >>>global information systems, sources said. > >Given > >(1) the pervasive-net-surveillance and freedom-to-snoop-sans-court-orders >that Attorney General Ashcroft and Bush's federal agencies are pursuing so >eagerly and aggressively, against American residents and citizens alike; > >(2) the endless security holes in Microsoft's software and MSN-network, >that crackers and miscreants have exploited for years of virus and DDoS >attacks, and > >(3) the fact that "the Pentagon's global information systems" can as >easily refer to the military's *surveillance* systems, as to the DoD's MIS >systems ... > >... then, one cannot help but wonder: > >How much time will Microsoft's "security" officer and the Pentagon's >"global information" officer spend on improving government and/or >corporate/citizen computer security ... > >... versus ... > >How much time will they spend on expanding and deploying the >administration's long-existent Echelon >dragnet/fishing-expedition/communications-surveillance system, and the >FBI's recently-announced covert keystroke-grabbing software ... > >... into and onto all citizens' and organizations' computers? > > >After all, one of the Republican's last Attorneys General before Aschroft -- >Reagan's Ed Meese -- made their perspective clear for all to see. He >said, "If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect." (Of >course, he said that *before* criminal investigators began investigating >*him* around 1988.) > >And all the polls show that the public *supports* whatever it is that the >administration is doing, including demolition of [other people's] personal >privacy and civil liberties. > >All 'Right'-minded, properly-subservient citizens and business people >should applaud this! They're from the government; they're here to help us. > >--jim >Jim Warren; [EMAIL PROTECTED], technology & public policy columnist & advocate > >[self-inflating puffery: Playboy Foundation Hugh Hefner First-Amendment Award; >Soc.of Prof.Journalists-Nor.Calif. James Madison Freedom-of-Information Award; >founded InfoWorld, Dr.Dobb's Journal, and Computers, Freedom & Privacy Confs.; >Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award (in its first year), blah blah] > > >And if you think this is something new, remember the 1995 Republican >Congress' legislation to legalize use of evidence obtained by unauthorized >search -- as reported by Farber on his IP list at the time: > >So long, Fourth Amendment >From: David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 17:36:57 -0500 >... (Fri Jan 27), the House Judiciary Committee approved this abrogation >of the Fourth Amendment, on a 19-14 vote, after breaking it out of H.R.3, >"The Taking Back Our Streets Act of 1995": > > In General.--Chapter 223 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by > adding at the end the following: > "Sec. 3510. Admissibility of evidence obtained by search or seizure > "(a) Evidence Obtained by Objectively Reasonable Search or Seizure.-- > Evidence which is obtained as a result of a search or seizure shall not > be excluded in a proceeding in a court of the United States on the ground > that the search or seizure was in violation of the fourth amendment to > the Constitution of the United States, if the search or seizure was > carried out in circumstances justifying an objectively reasonable belief > that it was in conformity with the fourth amendment. The fact that > evidence was obtained pursuant to and within the scope of a warrant > constitutes prima facie evidence of the existence of such circumstances. > "(b) Evidence Not Excludable by Statute or Rule.--Evidence shall not be > excluded in a proceeding in a court of the United States on the ground > that it was obtained in violation of a statute, an administrative rule or > regulation, or a rule of procedure unless exclusion is expressly > authorized by statute or by a rule prescribed by the Supreme Court > pursuant to statutory authority. > > From S.3, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Improvement Act > of 1995 (still pending [in February, 1995] before the Senate Judiciary > Committee): > > "Sec. 3502A. Admissibility of evidence obtained by search or seizure > "(a) Evidence Obtained by Objectively Reasonable Search or Seizure.-- > Evidence obtained as a result of a search or seizure that is otherwise > admissible in a Federal criminal proceeding shall not be excluded in a > proceeding in a court of the United States on the ground that the search > or seizure was in violation of the fourth amendment to the Constitution. >"(b) Evidence Not Excludable by Statute or Rule.--Evidence shall not be >excluded in a proceeding in a court of the United States on the ground >that it was obtained in violation of a statute, an administrative rule, or >a rule of court procedure unless exclusion is expressly authorized by >statute or by a rule prescribed by the Supreme Court pursuant to chapter >131 of title 28. For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> See What You've Been Missing! 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