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An Indictment of the U.S. Government and U.S. Politics
Cryptography Manifesto
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By guy@panix.com
7/4/97-L 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
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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.
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Part 1: Massive Domestic Spying via NSA ECHELON
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Part 6: Louis Freeh & The Creeping Police State
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o Louis Freeh
o National ID Card
o Worldwide Banking and Phone Monitoring
o Cybernetic Control of Society
o Conclusions
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This is a U.S.-centric message, but keep reading even if you are not in the
U.S.; British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand citizens are also directly
affected.
This message is about ECHELON, which is an unbelievably huge world-wide
spying apparatus, including the domestic phone calls of many countries.
United States citizens' phone calls are being monitored in a dragnet
fashion not even George Orwell could have imagined.
This was all paid for by U.S. taxpayers.
Built in secret. Not debated.
The CALEA legislation is a shameful takes-us-into-the-abyss domestic spy bill.
It is for the FBI to simultaneously monitor HUGE amounts of our phone calls.
And when the judiciary found out about NSA monitoring U.S. citizens'
overseas telephone calls without a warrant: they approved the loss
of our Fourth Amendment rights.
Giving Presidential Directives the same force of law as the Constitution.
Congress has lost it too.
* The New York Times, undated
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* The House is not expected to vote on the search-and-seizure bill until
* at least Wednesday. But tonight the Republicans defeated a Democratic
* amendment that SIMPLY REITERATED THE WORDS OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT OF
* THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.
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* The vote was 303 to 121.
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* The Democrats were trying to portray the Republicans as wanting to
* eliminate the constitutional protection against unlawful searches.
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* Indeed, they cornered the Republicans into saying that the measure
* containing the Fourth Amendment would gut the seizure bill.
Just what is it going to take to restore the U.S. Constitution?
Unlimited unregulated cryptography legislation is a beginning baby-step.
Otherwise it might take another civil war. The NSA will not let go quietly.
Sound over-the-top? Wait until you understand the massive surveillance system
that our government has put in place, just how powerful it is, and how they've
used it repeatedly to control lawful peaceful political protest.
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