Some interesting stuff in this one... ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:20:14 -0500 To: Cryptome Daily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Cryptome Daily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Cryptome Daily 9-10 March 2000 Cryptome Daily - 9/10 March 2000 (None 7/8 March) --------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. Intelligence and Investigative Net Domains, March 10, 2000 "This presents a collection of records on military and government Net domains gathered today for U.S. intelligence and investigative agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, Treasury Department, U.S. Courts, National Security Agency, National Reconnaissance Office and Defense Intelligence Agency. This provides recent information on which agencies are using machine addresses that overtly identify the operative agency and which do not. For example, Cryptome has never logged a machine overtly named cia.gov, fbi.gov, nsa.gov, nsa.mil, nro.gov, nro.mil or dia.mil, though there are machines logged with host addresses traceable to most of those agencies. In contrast, some other governmental machines are overtly identifiable by their addresses." http://cryptome.org/usiid.htm --------------------------------------------------------------- Bernstein Second Inquiry to BXA on Crypto Regs, March 10, 2000 http://cryptome.org/bernstein-bxa2.htm --------------------------------------------------------------- Alleged MI6 Officers in Qadahfi Murder Plot Revealed, March 10, 2000 "The report says that among British journalists in Lisbon there was a certain bad feeling towards Home Secretary Jack Straw because the British Official Secrets Act 'forbids them publishing the names of David Watson and Richard Bartlitt, alleged secret agents PT-16B and PT-16, from MI6, and probably responsible for the murder attempt on Gadafhy, revealed by interviews of David Shayler in Paris.' " http://cryptome.org/qadahfi-mi6.htm --------------------------------------------------------------- Espionage and Secrecy News, March 10, 2000 http://cryptome.org/esn031000.htm --------------------------------------------------------------- Orbit/FR Debarred for ITAR Violation, March 10, 2000 http://cryptome.org/dos031000.txt --------------------------------------------------------------- BXA Rule on Hi-Performance Computers, March 10, 2000 http://cryptome.org/bxa031000.txt --------------------------------------------------------------- MPAA Attacks DeCSS Down Under, March 10, 2000 "MPAA have sent us, an Australian organisation, the same letter with the same demands etc etc, presuming that we should be subject to US laws etc. I thought you'd be further interested to see this posting about the situation as it's developing down under (in short, there are no laws preventing DeCSS from being distributed/marketed/whatever in Australia and a set of upcoming changes to Copyright law which bring in a few provisions about reverse engineering through decompilation etc don't address the issue and the MPAA is sending people to Australia to pressure the Government into adding them despite the bill being quite close to passing in it's current form without provisions for circumvention devices etc)." http://cryptome.org/dvd-mpaa-au.htm --------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo on Secret Qadahfi Report, March 9, 2000 "Cryptome noted that there is an intense British investigation to learn how the Qadahfi document was offered on Geocities, and that a British person had been arrested recently as a result. And asked would he comment on whether Yahoo has been contacted for this investigation. Mr. Holtz said to comment on such matters would violate Yahoo's policy on customer privacy. Mr. Holtz said it is Yahoo policy to neither confirm nor deny the reasons for the offering or removal of content on its Geocities web sites. Yahoo does not examine the content before it is offered, and does not review it unless a complaint is made. If reviewed in response to a complaint, the content is evaluated only according to the terms of Yahoo's service contract. Yahoo will never remove content that is in compliance with its terms of service contract -- except by court order. Mr. Holtz said he could not comment on whether Yahoo received a court order to reveal information about the source of the the Qadahfi document or to remove it, nor comment on any other speculation for its offering or removal, for that would violate Yahoo's strict policy on the privacy of customers." http://cryptome.org/yahoo-qadahfi.htm --------------------------------------------------------------- Cylink Response, March 9, 2000 "In an e-mail to Cylink's CEO, you invited a response. This letter is that response. We see no reason to comment on the unsubstantiated, unsourced, unsigned and libelous allegations posted by you on your website. We assume you are aware that by electing to publish these comments on your site, you have made yourself legally responsible for their actionable content. We also note this is not the first time you have libeled Cylink, its officers and directors. My clients reserve all of their rights and remedies with respect to their claims against you, your site, your partners and all those who participated in this posting." http://cryptome.org/cylinked.htm --------------------------------------------------------------- Decrypting Cold War Espionage Codes, March 9, 2000 "In the course of getting various files from the government agencies, my attorney was given several cover letters dated 1947 involving an intra-agency transfer of various decrypts made at that time. As I was to learn from Mr. Benson of the NSA, the decrypts accompanying the cover letters were not copies of the originals, but were later decrypts, made after the FBI had entered the Venona project. Interestingly, the FBI helps shed some light on this very question in a memorandum dated February 1956, on the possible use of Venona for prosecutions: 'The messages . . . are, for the most part, very fragmentary and full of gaps'; it concludes, 'It is for such reasons that has indicated that almost anything included in a translation of one of these decrypted messages may in the future be radically revised.' Viz: The switch from Weichbrod to Rosenberg. If this is so it would certainly be interesting to see what these earlier decrypts looked like. It is one thing to decrypt coded messages cold, and quite another to decrypt when one has 'leads.' How much tailoring there was, to fit the 'leads.' remains to be seen. Mr. Benson said he would look into getting me those earlier decrypts, which were supposed to have been sent to my attorney in the first place. But then it turned out that they were not available. The NSA makes the claim that 'The preservation of NSA's ability to use specific cryptanalytic techniques and the resulting success or failure at exploitation using those techniques must be kept in greatest secrecy.' As I wrote them in my Notice of Appeal, 'To protect the NSA's pre-computer cryptanalytic methodology because it might have some bearing on today's methodology . . . is nothing less than a joke.' " -- Morton Sobell http://cryptome.org/nsa-sobell.htm --------------------------------------------------------------- Cryptome spoke with Morton Sobell this morning. He said he is one of the first to critique the easy-to-spot FBI bias of the Venona-decrypt interpretations and that the lack of other such critiques is peculiar. We discussed why narrative text is often more beguiling to writers than code, and why the FBI and historians want compelling stories without gaps, not the indecipherable shards which cryptanalysts ponder for years in search of elusive accuracy. We said it is noteworthy that The Wall Street Journal had featured his letter, that perhaps it is due to Journal's recognition of the importance of cryptography for electronic commerce since the Cold War. Mr. Sobell agreed; and said The New York Times had refused to publish a similar letter five weeks ago. He has additional information and views on this matter and welcomes inquiries, especially from those with an interest in how the NSA, FBI and historians have creatively interpreted the Venona decrypts to fit intentions. The NSA's refusal to release outdated decrypt material is a challenge for which Mr. Sobell solicits support and advice from the cryptographic community. He may be reached at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; tel: 415-826-2075. --------------------------------------------------------------- Symantec Threatens Legal Action Over I-Gear Report, March 9, 2000 "Peacefire has never altered any content on our Web site as a result of legal threats. Our report on I-Gear will stay up, and we will post updates to our Web site regarding the legal situation." -- Bennett Haselton, http://cryptome.org/igear-fire.htm --------------------------------------------------------------- Combatting Terrorism: Chemical and Biological Medical Supplies Are Poorly Managed, March 8, 2000 "The Office of Emergency Preparedness (OEP), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the Marine Corps Chemical and Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) did not have basic internal controls to help them manage their stockpiles. As a result, the inventory we conducted identified a number of items, such as antidotes and antibiotics, that were stocked below required levels or had expired, as well as excesses of other items like sterile gloves. In one location, for example, we found 1,000 fewer diazepam injectors than required. This drug, commonly known as valium, would be administered to calm victims and control their convulsions. Although VA contends that it stockpiled a substitute, it could not provide written documentation of OEP�s approval at the time of the substitution. At another location, the entire supply of 2,000 vials of amyl nitrate - an antidote for cyanide poisoning - had expired. We also found incorrectly recorded expiration dates and lot numbers, which are necessary to keep supplies current and respond to potential manufacturer recalls. At one location, for example, this information was wrong for 250 doxycycline tablets and 100 ciprofloxacin tablets; these antibiotics would be administered to prevent the onset of symptoms in people exposed to anthrax." -- Cynthia A. Bascetta, GAO http://cryptome.org/h100059t.htm --------------------------------------------------------------- O f f s i t e Echelon Information Site http://echelon.tsx.org UK computer crime plans attacked http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_669000/669381.stm UK RIP for basic liberties http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,144046,00.html" UK House of Commons Research paper on RIP http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2000/rp00-025.pdf UK Seconding Reading debate in House of Commons http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199900/cmhansrd/cm000306/debtext/ 00306-06.htm#00306-06_head1 UK Scrambling for Safety 2000 http://www.fipr.org/sfs2000 --------------------------------------------------------------- Cryptome Daily by E-mail Sub: Blank e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: Blank e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cryptome.org --------------------------------------------------------------- ------- End of forwarded message -------
