Re: [osint] Al Qaeda's Travel Network

[Major Variola (ret)]

>>Al Qaeda operatives rarely travel directly from Point A to Point B.
Instead, they jump from country to country, with each destination
having its own end use and with multiple stops between beginning and
end.<<

Hey, don't they know that onion-routing was patented by the Navy?
Or that the mix network has prior art?

If Alfred Queue has grokked traffic analysis, well its about time.

All your Paki Inet Cafes are belong to us.

Re: A Billion for Bin Laden

[Major Variola (ret)]

>>With the possibility of earning a $1 billion bounty, however,
professional Bin Laden hunting firms would form, allowing the U.S. to
enlist the efficiency and creativity of the free market in our fight
against Osama.<<

This is brilliant, worthy of being called channelling Tim M.  As it
relies entirely on free association and the rational marketplace.
Nevermind
that the reward is stolen from the sheeple.

What the DC future-corpses don't grok is that the Sheik's network
is not financially or career motivated, unlike themselves.
And xianity (or even amerikan patriotism which sometimes
substitutes) is too neutered to counter it.

Get your filthy hands off my desert, indeed, or else.

See you in Athens.

Re: Michael Moore in Cambridge (download speech)

[Howie Goodell]

Since I introduced the term referring to the Bush Administration -- a
poor attempt at irony, but what I had in mind was the sort of American
ideals embodied in our Declaration of Independence, preamble and
Constitution and Bill of Rights, along with the ways these ideals
worked in practice to help create a much more desirable society over
the past couple centuries than countries similarly blessed with
resources (Russia, Argentina.)

So a few examples.  More than any administration I can remember since
Nixon's, this administration has disregarded, actively opposed, or
perverted:

 Declaration of Independence:  equality, human rights.
 Preamble to the Constitution: "a more perfect Union", justice, liberty 
 Constitution -- torn down separation of powers, many others
 Bill of Rights -- read the list!

Mr. Moore's speech was a rallying cry to take back our government. 
Would John Kerry drag us into Iraq?  Would he run obscene deficits? 
(Hint: check his record from Graham Rudman on.)  Would he raid the
last of the Social Security surplus to line his friends' pockets?  He
may have voted for Patriot I (along with virtually the whole
Congress), but he's making restoring our rights a major issue.  I
think one of the philosophers said the key to knowledge is not seeing
similarities, but differences.

Howie Goodell


On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:08:29 +0200 (CEST), Thomas Shaddack
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Pete Capelli wrote:
> 
> > Being still currently undecided myself (although living in one of the
> > 32 or so 'pre-ordained' states) I found this speech to be "most
> > cynical, opportunistic, divisive, and un-American" ones I've listend
> > to in awhile.
> 
> Define "un-American", please?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> E3-I: This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by UML's 
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> 


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Re: Michael Moore in Cambridge (download speech)

[Pete Capelli]

> > Being still currently undecided myself (although living in one of the
> > 32 or so 'pre-ordained' states) I found this speech to be "most
> > cynical, opportunistic, divisive, and un-American" ones I've listend
> > to in awhile.
> 
> Define "un-American", please?

That was a direct quote from Howie Goodell's reply to me.  I found it
interesting that while the left continues to rail against everything
Bush does, they use many (if not all) of the same tactics.  Yet they
are blind to that fact (willfully so).

Neither side is willing to agree or concede on *any* point.  While not
a definition of 'un-american' in itself, is sure is a symptom.

Re: Michael Moore in Cambridge (download speech)

[Thomas Shaddack]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Pete Capelli wrote:

> Being still currently undecided myself (although living in one of the
> 32 or so 'pre-ordained' states) I found this speech to be "most
> cynical, opportunistic, divisive, and un-American" ones I've listend
> to in awhile.

Define "un-American", please?

Re: NSA Overcomes Fiber-Optic and Encryption

[Anonymous]

I can see fatherland securitat goons raiding a certain restaurant at
Stanford next weekend ... assume all keys are compromised due to RH attack.


>The NSA has also found a silver lining to the use of encrypted e-mail: 
>Even if a particular message cannot be read, the very use of encryption 
>can flag it for NSA's attention. By tracking the relatively few Internet 
>users in a certain country or region who take such security measures, NSA 
>analysts might be able to sketch a picture of a terrorist network.   
>...
>And cell phones - as handy for terrorist plotters as for everyone else - 
>provide not just an eavesdropping target but also a way to physically 
>track the user.

Re: NSA Overcomes Fiber-Optic and Encryption

[Thomas Shaddack]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, John Young wrote:

> Excerpt below from a Baltimore Sun article of August 8, 2004.
> Some of it could be true, but.
> http://cryptome.org/dirnsa-shift.htm

I think the correct title would be "sidesteps" instead of "overcomes".

It's a fundamentally different way (though the result is the same).

Re: stealth tempest wallpaper

[Bill Stewart]

What's interesting about the wallpaper is the ability to
block some frequency bands while passing others.
There's been good shielding wallpaper available for ~15 years,
but that's for blocking everything including cellphones and pagers.
At 12:20 PM 8/9/2004, Sunder wrote:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns6240
or http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns6240&lpos=home3
Stealth wallpaper keeps company secrets safe
10:00 08 August 04
Special Report from New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free 
issues.

A type of wallpaper that prevents Wi-Fi signals escaping from a building
without blocking mobile phone signals has been developed by a British
defence contractor. The technology is designed to stop outsiders gaining
access to a secure network by using Wi-Fi networks casually set up by
workers at the office.

[HUMOR] [TSCM-L] (ot) weapons of math instruction (fwd)

[J.A. Terranson]

-- Forwarded message --
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:08:14 -0700
From: Lawrence Dillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [TSCM-L] (ot) weapons of math instruction

At New York's Kennedy airport today, a high school teacher was arrested
trying to board a flight with a ruler, a protractor, a
setsquare, a slide rule and a calculator.
Attorney General John Ashcroft said he believes the man is a member of
the notorious al-gebra movement and is charged by the
FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.
"Al-gebra is a fearsome cult," Ashcroft said, "They desire average
solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on
tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like
'x' and 'y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns,' but we
have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of
medieval with coordinates in every country. Besides, the
Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say there are 3 sides to every
triangle," Ashcroft declared.
President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of
math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and
toes. "I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that it is
intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing
to disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Murky statisticians love to
inflict plane on every sphere of influence," the President said,
adding: "Under the circumferences, we must differentiate their root,
make our point, and draw the line."
President Bush warned, "These weapons of math instruction have the
potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalene
never before seen unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin
to factor-in random facts of vertex."
Ashcroft said, "As our Great Leader would say, read my ellipse. Here is
one principle he is uncertainty of: though they continue to
multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around
their necks."



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Re: The Turncoats on Niihau Island

[Thomas Shaddack]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote:

> The Turncoats on Niihau Island
> Michelle Malkin (back to web version) | Send
> ...
> The Haradas were neither radical nationalists nor professional spies. They
> were ordinary Japanese-Americans who betrayed America by putting their
> ethnic roots first. How many other Japanese-Americans-especially on the
> vulnerable West Coast-might be swayed by enemy appeals such as
> Nishikaichi's? How many more might be torn between allegiance for their
> country of birth and kinship with Imperial invaders?

The ethnicity or religion or political affiliation are not the only risk 
factors. What about something so plain and simple as money? Would the 
author advocate rounding up the needy and the greedy?

Have not enough money? You're a suspect. Have too much money? You're a 
suspect too. Now imagine the fun if these two categories would overlap...

Re: "...Hold still for the camera, Mehdi..."

[James A. Donald]

--
On 10 Aug 2004 at 17:49, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> 
>
> Al Sadr got himself a laminator. His goons, er, freedom
> fighters, have ID's now.
>
> Skip the arabic, notice the guy on the left in the first pic.

Presumably the IDs do not display true names, but Sadr
presumably has a database linking true names to ID tags.

Of course, should that database fall into US hands, his entire
organization is screwed.


--digsig
 James A. Donald
 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG
 coAqlKplZQKw8k99OLGi4iC3tOe5nfoJXWb5ZXw1
 4QGY4ri/TnUJjaPX8H30E7LUk0rLUXRrhVVIcT1D+

"...Hold still for the camera, Mehdi..."

[R. A. Hettinga]

>From Tyler's Iraq SLO-expat S-ISP CTO blog
():



Al Sadr got himself a laminator. His goons, er, freedom fighters, have ID's
now.

Skip the arabic, notice the guy on the left in the first pic.

BWAHAHAHAHA!


Cheers,
RAH


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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

Re: "...Hold still for the camera, Mehdi..."

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 7:49 PM -0700 8/10/04, James A. Donald wrote:
>Presumably the IDs do not display true names

I would bet you're stretching the bounds of presumption, myself.

Cheers,
RAH

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Re: SF Bay Area Cypherpunks August 2004 Physical Meeting Announcement

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 9:33 PM -0400 8/10/04, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>--- begin forwarded text
>
>
>Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:56:44 -0700
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

doh!

I meant to send it to perrypunks.

One more time. You won't even notice...

:-)

Cheers,
RAH

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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

SF Bay Area Cypherpunks August 2004 Physical Meeting Announcement

[Bill Stewart]

Rick Moen suggested we have a Cypherpunks meeting in August, so:
SF Bay Area Cypherpunks August 2004 Physical Meeting Announcement
General Info:
DATE: Saturday 14 August 2004
TIME: 12:00 - 5:00 PM (Pacific Time)
PLACE:   Stanford University Campus - Tressider Union courtyard
Agenda: "Our agenda is a widely-held secret."  (This will be our first
meeting since April 2003, so the agenda is somewhat up for grabs.
Among upcoming events to note is the 7th annual Information Security
Conference, aka ISC04, Sept. 27-29 at Xerox PARC, http://isc04.uncc.edu/ .
Also of note:  Our friendly Federalistas seem to be imposing
unprecedented visa restrictions on visiting foreign cryptographers.
Is it time for all international cryptography conferences to move
off-shore?  See:  http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0407.html#3 )
As usual, this is an "Open Meeting on US Soil", and the public is invited.
Location Info:
   The meeting location will be familiar to those who've been to our outdoor
   meetings before, but for those who haven't been, it's on the Stanford
   University campus, at the tables outside Tressider Union, at the end of
   Santa Theresa, just west of Dinkelspiel Auditorium.
   We meet at the tables on the west side of the building, inside the
   horseshoe "U" formed by Tresidder. Ask anyone on campus where Tressider
   is and they'll help you find it.
   Food and beverages are available at the cafe inside Tresidder.
Location Maps:
   Stanford Campus (overview; Tressider is dead-center).
http://campus-map.stanford.edu/campus_map/bldg.jsp?cx=344&cy=471&zoomto=50&zoomfrom=30&bldgID=02-300
   Tressider Union (zoomed detail view).
http://campus-map.stanford.edu/campus_map/results.jsp?bldg=Tresidder
   Printable Stanford Map (407k).
http://www.stanford.edu/home/visitors/campus_map.pdf
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Re: Michael Moore in Cambridge (download speech)

[Howie Goodell]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:35:08 -0400, Pete Capelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > The file will be available for download a short period of time.
> > Michael shows us what the upcoming election is all about.
> 
> It's all about a promotion tour for his movie?

Yeah, and Paul Revere rode to Lexington to promote his silversmithing
business.  "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and
the value of nothing."  Mr. Moore speaks eloquently for the Left, the
Center, and even former right-wing folks like me to join forces to get
rid of the most cynical, opportunistic, divisive, and un-American
administration since Richard Nixon's.  Don't whine next year about the
terrible Administration if you don't take your chance this year to
replace it with a much more reasonable one.

Howie Goodell

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RE: The Turncoats on Niihau Island

[Tyler Durden]

Wow. What a dumb fuck this columnist is. No wait...this guy's got a gig and 
fuck the truth.

I wonder how many of the Japanese in internment camps owned a Zero?
And, if a Saudi citizen on our shores gets rowdy, should we round up 
Morrocans? (ie, Japan is a country and a nationality...Islam is neither.)

-TD

From: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Turncoats on Niihau Island
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:09:02 -0400

Townhall.com
The Turncoats on Niihau Island
Michelle Malkin (back to web version) | Send
August 10, 2004
The following is an exclusive excerpt from Michelle Malkin's new book, In
Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and
the War on Terror (Regnery).
The Turncoats on Niihau Island
"Are you a Japanese?"
Those were the first English words spoken by downed Japanese fighter pilot
Shigenori Nishikaichi on tiny Niihau Island, located about one hundred
miles northwest of Honolulu. It was December 7, 1941. Nishikaichi had had a
busy, bloody morning at Pearl Harbor. Now, with the aid and comfort of a
Japanese-American couple, Nishikaichi was about to make the lives of the
Niihau residents a living hell.
Around 7:00 a.m., Nishikaichi boarded his Zero single-seat fighter plane
and took off from the carrier Hiryu in the Pacific. An hour and a half
later, the young Japanese pilot strafed planes, trucks, and personnel on
Oahu. Headed back to his carrier, Nishikaichi and some fellow pilots
encountered a group of American P36 fighter planes.  During the air battle,
Nishikaichi's plane took several hits. One punctured the Zero's gas tank.
Nishikaichi steered the crippled plane toward the westernmost Hawaiian
island: Niihau. Fewer than 200 Hawaiians plus three laborers of Japanese
descent called Niihau home. Japan planned to use the island as a submarine
pickup point for stranded pilots.
Nishikaichi crash-landed the plane in a field near one of the ranch homes.
The first to reach him was Hawila "Howard" Kaleohano, a burly Hawaiian. The
island had no telephones. On that tranquil, late Sunday morning, none of
the inhabitants was yet aware of the death and destruction that had just
rained down on Pearl Harbor.
Nonetheless, Kaleohano wisely confiscated the dazed Nishikaichi's gun and
papers. Kaleohano, perhaps the most educated Hawaiian on Niihau, had been
keeping tabs on world affairs through newspapers supplied by ranch owner
Aylmer Robinson (who paid weekly visits to the island and lived twenty
miles away on Kauai). Wary but warm, Kaleohano brought the enemy pilot to
his home. Along the way, Nishikaichi asked Kaleohano if he was "a
Japanese." The answer was an emphatic "No."
After sharing a meal and cigarettes, Nishikaichi demanded that Kaleohano
return his papers, which included maps, radio codes, and Pearl Harbor
attack plans. Kaleohano refused. To make their communication easier,
Kaleohano asked his neighbors to summon one of the island's three residents
of Japanese descent to translate for Nishikaichi. They first brought a
Japanese-born immigrant, Ishimatsu Shintani, to the house. He reluctantly
exchanged a few words with the pilot in Japanese, but left in a
hurry-apparently sensing trouble.
The islanders then turned to Yoshio Harada and his wife Irene, both U.S.
citizens, born in Hawaii to Japanese immigrants. Harada had moved from
Kauai to California as a young man and lived there for seven years before
relocating to Niihau with his wife in 1939. Instantly at ease with the
Japanese-American couple, Nishikaichi dropped the bombshell news about the
attack on Pearl Harbor. The Haradas did not inform their neighbors.
That night, the hospitable Niihau residents learned about the Pearl Harbor
attack on the radio. They decided to confine the pilot in the Haradas' home
until help arrived.
Exploiting their common ethnic ties and urging loyalty to the emperor,
Nishikaichi won over the Haradas. They enlisted the other resident of
Japanese descent-the skittish Shintani-in a conspiracy to retrieve
Nishikaichi's papers from Kaleohano. On the afternoon of December 12, a
reluctant Shintani visited Kaleohano and asked for the enemy pilot's
papers. He offered his neighbor a wad of cash. Kaleohano refused. Shintani
desperately told him to burn the papers. It was a matter of life and death,
Shintani pleaded with Kaleohano. Kaleohano again refused.
An hour later, Nishikaichi and the Haradas launched a campaign of terror
against the islanders. They overtook the guard on duty and locked him in a
warehouse. Mrs. Harada cranked up a phonograph to drown out the commotion.
Yoshio Harada and Nishikaichi retrieved a shotgun from the warehouse and
headed to Kaleohano's home. Kaleohano, who was in the outhouse, saw them
coming and hid while Nishikaichi and his collaborators unsuccessfully
searched for the pilot's papers. They recovered Nishikaichi's pistol and
headed toward his grounded plane. Harad

Iowa Deploys Cell-Phone GPS location-tracking for 911

[Bill Stewart]

Iowa's deploying cell-phone location-trackers for 911,
and for whatever other purposes the cellphones support.
http://www.WQAD.com/Global/story.asp?s=2150225
Des Moines, IA
New technology will allow better response to 911 cell callers
08/09/04 10:35 AM
DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) -- Cell phone users in Iowa are getting a 911 upgrade.
The state is among the first in the nation to use the new technology that 
will help dispatchers pinpoint the emergency caller.
Iowa 911 Program Manager John Benson says it's already being tested in Des 
Moines, and the end of the year, about half of the state's 125 dispatch 
centers will have the upgrade.
About half of Iowa's 911 calls are placed by cell phones. That's about 
50,000 a month.
Current technology allows dispatchers to locate a cell phone 911 caller by 
the nearest cell tower, often miles away. The new global-positioning 
technology provides the latitude and longitude of the caller, which can be 
electronically displayed on a map.

Copyright 2004, Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material cannot 
be published, broadcast, rewritten, or distributed.

(looks like Fair Use to me...) 

Re: Michael Moore in Cambridge (download speech)

[Pete Capelli]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:06:39 -0400, Howie Goodell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Yeah, and Paul Revere rode to Lexington to promote his silversmithing
> business.  "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and
> the value of nothing."  Mr. Moore speaks eloquently for the Left, the
> Center, and even former right-wing folks like me to join forces to get
> rid of the most cynical, opportunistic, divisive, and un-American
> administration since Richard Nixon's.  Don't whine next year about the
> terrible Administration if you don't take your chance this year to
> replace it with a much more reasonable one.

Is there a viable third party candidate that I am unaware of?  Other
than Badnarik, that is.

Being still currently undecided myself (although living in one of the
32 or so 'pre-ordained' states) I found this speech to be "most
cynical, opportunistic, divisive, and un-American" ones I've listend
to in awhile.  (At least since the ones in Boston last week).  I don't
expect any better from the ones in NYC the fisrt week of september,
either.

I hope you're right, and that a Kerry administration would be more
reasonable.  From what he's said, however, I *am* cynical.  In a
nutshell, he would;

-Continue the war in Iraq (Which he voted for as senator)
-Continue the Patriot Act (Which he voted for as senator)
-Raise taxes and increase spending
-Increase entitlements
-Prostrate the US to the UN and Europe

Of other important policy decisions, he can't be pinned down to a
specific answer.

So now I can vote for Jack Johnson (Yale grad, skull & bones member,
rich due to inheritance) or John Jackson (ditto).  Pardon me for
failing to see a difference.  There is no more Democratic Party, or a
Republican Party.  There is only the Bureaocratic Party, beholden to
themselves, worried only about their own perks and power.  If you
believe otherwise, then you've drank the Kool-aid too.