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They could just be adding bridge blast shields to encase sections of the suspension bridge's cables
Or they needed a few days access to set something up ....

cryptome has several mirrors. Here is one:
http://cryptome.quintessenz.org/mirror/cryptome-sh ut.htm

Quintessenz is located in Vienna. In the Museumsquartier to be precise. That's also where the q/gate "anonymous surveillance system" is installed. The stuff about blinding cctv by lasers was presented at the 22c3 last week in Berlin AFAICT.

I thought about the same issue myself. Then I remembered Carnivore.

I still haven't seen many arguments on the net for what happens when a city full of grandmas and newbs have 5+Mbps symmetrical connections and unpatched versions of (you name it) and become a bigass DDOS net.

The internet will handle that just fine I'm sure. Ask the folks in Tokyo where 40/12 Mbps was cheap a year ago. American "broadband" sucks. The American cable/telecom monopolies have been dragging their feet intentionally. They can afford to since they have no competition. Just look at what happened THE DAY AFTER the Supreme Court guaranteed cable companies continued monopoly status with the Brand X decision.

So to sum up, good for Louisiana. Screw the cable and telecom monopolies.

UK police and criminal intelligence people have wanted to ask for this for a very very long time. In fact this wish predates the madrid bombing and even 911!

Some time ago they wrote a position paper stating that it would be smart to force telecommunication providers (telephone & ISP`s) to store who telephones who, who e-mail`s who, who visites which sites and then some. They didn`t go into the details. The central point of these plans is that the internet is just like the phone system and therefore they should be able to request logs. The only dabate is for how long these log should be retained and how to keep within the european human right treaty which says every privacy invasion should be "proportional". But guess what, it wasn`t just the oppinion of some crazy bobbies (uk cops), it was a real plan

ignored are still

• The fact that telecommunications providers don`t have a clue who communicates with with who, they only know what phone or computer talks with which other phone or computer network and where the bill for all this goes. No biometric passport is required to make a phone call and the first thing many Europeans do when answering the phone is... say their name. Do you know who clicked the "send" button on that penis enhancement e-mail? Notice how your e-mail asks for " Radius or other IP address to user resolution logs" not for "ip addres to *acount* resolution logs"? How much do you wanna bet this person doesn`t know the slight difference? How much do you bet that a defense lawyer does know the difference once your logs end up in court as evidence? A terrorist might walk (can`t prove he was the one behind the computer) and you just invested a million in terabytes of storage space and sniffing/logging equipment....
• The fact that the cases where the billing details arent the personal details of whoever is communicating may quite heapon to be the very cases they claim to want to investigate, namely terrorism and serious crime. (Although "serious" has been stripped from recent proposals). Who is the last guy you saw use a public pay-phone on TV? I will give you a hint he was called Anthony and the show is called the Sopranos....
• the fact that on the Internet everyone is free to encode their application traffic anyway they want. Want to build an e-mail system that uses hyrogliphics for e-mail adresses? go ahead. Want to run you web traffic on port 666? Why not, dont forget to give your tcp packet a protocol type of 66 to ;-)

Telephone companies can expect normal and "lawfull interception" equipment ready to handle any new standardized signaling system for sending phone numbers around. Isp`s will have to hack their collection systems with every new way of evading capture and every new new Internet application protocol. Also isp`s will be collecting many gigabytes every minute, (and many times that on peek hours), which is tough. But what is really tough is that Internet traffic grows so much faster than telephone traffic. Isp`s will en up having to buy extra storrage every month. And what should a application level traffic data collection system do when it reaches storage or processing capacity limits? Signal core routers to throttle Internet traffic routing?

But wait, won`t the UK politicians dislike this plan even more than the ID card plan? Yes they very well might! If only there was some sort of commision of european justice a interior affairs ministers that could make laws without input from any pairlements.... Thank god we don`t yet have one of those, but there is the justice and home office comity of the European council. They answer only to the national pairlements but as the software patents showed, what national pairlement actually cares about what goes on ins Brussels? I mean, what hea

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Take this classic example -- left, August 7, 2004; right, August 21, 2004 -- of a missing safety sign from the RNC convention in NYC this summer. Cryptome republished public-domain maps of major high-pressure, high-volume gas distribution lines in manhattan. One went under the Hudson River, near West 75th Street. There was a huge sign posted for ships that went over this pipeline: "Warning: Do not anchor or dredge - Gas pipeline crossing". I wonder who's going to take responsibility when one of the zillion boats that cross this point drops its anchor onto the pipeline? I don't feel safer at all & consider this lack of signage a threat to public safety.

Here's the whole page that picture came from

Take this classic example -- left, August 7, 2004; right, August 21, 2004 -- of a missing safety sign from the RNC convention in NYC this summer. Cryptome republished public-domain maps of major high-pressure, high-volume gas distribution lines in manhattan. One went under the Hudson River, near West 75th Street. There was a huge sign posted for ships that went over this pipeline: "Warning: Do not anchor or dredge - Gas pipeline crossing". I wonder who's going to take responsibility when one of the zillion boats that cross this point drops its anchor onto the pipeline? I don't feel safer at all & consider this lack of signage a threat to public safety.

Here's the whole page that picture came from

There are some nice photos of the Hanford site which show the containers and the river.

From the interview:

I have a TiVo set. I truly enjoy it.

Seems to have changed eir tune since the 1982 Betamax testimony:

You are sitting in your home in your easy chair and here comes the commercial and it is right in the middle of a Clint Eastwood film and you don't want to be interrupted. So, what do you do? You pop this beta scan and a 1-minute commercial disappears in 2 seconds... If you are watching a Clint Eastwood film it is the most cheerful thing you can do. However, if you are an advertiser who has paid $280,000 a minute to advertise, he feels a very large pain in his stomach as well as in his checkbook because it destroys the reason for free television, the erasure, the blotting out, the fast forwarding, the visual searching, the variable beta scans. The technology is there and I am one who has a belief that before the next few years the Japanese will have built into their machines an automatic situation that kills the commercial... I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.

An official cryptome mirror carries the story cryptome doesn`t have ads to pay the bandwith bill. Few want their ads there apparantly and it would mess with the "cryptome keeps no logs" policy. Dont take this policy to seriously though, Neil young mentioned the increase in NYPD and fbi visits in the run up to the republican convention and how hard it is to find a host that allows for wiping of logs.

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The first proof of work application I learned about was in anonymous remailers. To avoid spammers using sending their messages though remailers some remailers require a proof of work token. So to send an e-mail you have to run a program that slurps some CPU power. It then genarates a token you include in your mail. The remailer can quickly verify you spend some CPU power (thus time) on your message and relay the mail. That way spamming would require insane amounts of CPU (or time).

If you do business with verint, do realize you are doing business with a very very scary company. They are the last company on earth you want to go to for closed source crypto if you are doing more then entertainment over that video multicast session.

EU via interpol desires, and us's NSA/NRO both desire various entrypoints.

If any EU agency want acces it would have infiltrated the standard proces behind the protocols used in this device and forced either a crypto algorithm with problems or a wrong implementation of the crypto. Both heaponed with GSM years ago. The information system of interpol is impressive. From open sources it would seem it is a big IBM database accesible through VPN from most police station in the western world (possibly by a browser). But interpol doesn`t go around buggin phones, member police forces do that. Also for now interpol is the exciting group to watch, but it will by no means be the only one. The EU has its own european counterpart, Europol (and eurojust) and has worked (even more?) since the Madrid train bombings to have inteligence agencies working together.

Ofcourse a backdoor is only needed in the event the EU wide mandatory traffic data retention laws fail (How many europeans would vote with these in mind this week, how many will vote period??), *and* the standard telephone tapping won`t work in getting the evidence wanted *and* your not in the netherlands which has internet tapping infrastructure more advanced then most of the telephone stuff worldwide. It was forced onto ISP`s by law, which is intented as an european standard practice soon, ask the ITU. And for the NSA, do the even need backdoors? Rumour has it their spending has tripled recently eventhough the people they are supposed to be watching (Iran) are still are using crypto broken for years. The NRO may only desire backdoor acces to the downlink stations of comercial image/weather sats just to save money. But which agancy saves money? Other then israeli ones which succesfully privatised its listening in to foreign phones by having the goverments of the world pay for having their equipment listen to calls. I guess the comverse to verint name change came with a firmware update to go to superduperuberuser version 2.0 ;-). Ofcourse having a goverment fund the people behind the backdoor is not the most smart and common practice. BTW, others (CIA/DOD/Office of strategic influence or whatever they call it this week) would want backdoor or cracked acces to sat downlink stations to block people from finding out stuff. Even weather sats reveal lots of stuff and the people operating them can`t always be asked to not release photos or weather data becouse it not always technicly war. Putting a lame default password in plain text (?) in consumer firmware is not gonna further any of their goals.

Ofcourse the NSA may just be be looking for a real challange, imagene updating/buidling SIGINT sats to be able to focus on those very low power single 802.11 wifi nets and running airsnort. That would need this kind of funding but it beats airborne wardriving and if you can simultanously convince everyone you are coming in through a landline with a well known plaintext backdoor people will feel safe ;-)

Here is an official cryptome mirror It has one of these files as zip It is also a place to search old cryptome stuff, which is usefull.

Here is an official cryptome mirror It has one of these files as zip It is also a place to search old cryptome stuff, which is usefull.

Quoted from Cryptome:

The Federal Government has approved 66.5 million dollars to fund a proposed expansion of the existing Rocky Mountain Laboratory for biodefense and emerging infectious diseases research. The proposed expansion includes a new suite of laboratories designed and constructed to the maximum biosafety level, Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4).