Press release: FOR IMMEDIATE USE : 16th October 2001 EMERGENCY POWERS ALLOW MASS-SURVEILLANCE FOR NON-TERRORIST INVESTIGATIONS

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*) Home Office undecided whether ISP data retention to be voluntary or compulsory *) Data revealing who you talk to, what you read, where you are, collected for "national security" *) Data can be trawled for public order, minor crimes, tax, health and safety *) E-Commerce to bear open-ended storage and data-protection compliance costs

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As part of an emergency package of anti-terrorism measures, Home Secretary David Blunkett announced yesterday (Note 3) that Internet Service Providers would be "enabled" to retain logs detailing the online activity of their customers (but NOT the contents of communications). Data protection legislation (Note 4) currently protects electronic privacy by prohibiting blanket storage by ISPs of logs recording such details as websites browsed, To and From addresses of e-mails, and which 'newsgroup' articles are read by a subscriber. Other "communications data", such as the telephone number used to dial-up the Internet, may be kept so long as it is relevant to billing or fraud control. Although Mr.Blunkett's use of the word "enable" (rather than "require") implied that compliance will be at the ISP's discretion, the lead official told FIPR that retention may be made compulsory, enforced through civil law. The same source said a ministerial certificate will assert "national security" exemptions (Note 5) so that ISPs and telephone companies will not be in breach of European Directives. The government will only specify later exactly what data may be collected and for how long in a Code of Practice in consultation with ISPs. No new legislation is necessary for police and intelligence agencies to collect the data once it is recorded by ISPs and telephone companies. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act 2000 (Note 5) allows records to be obtained for broad purposes including tax, health and safety, public order offences and minor crime. Although "communications data" provides a complete map of private life, revealing who you talk to, what you read, and where you go, the authorities can rubber-stamp compilation and trawling of large and detailed databases. In contrast, inspection of the contents of a single e-mail requires a warrant from a Secretary of State, and a search for documents requires a court order. Bulk requests can be made on groups or the history of an individual and kept by police and intelligence agencies indefinitely under data protection exemptions. This includes the exact co-ordinates of your geographic location - which 3rd-generation mobiles produce continuously whilst the phone is switched on. Computerised 'traffic analysis' (tracing links between individuals) is a powerful new form of mass-surveillance, but is only efficient at keeping tabs on the law-abiding. Professional terrorists know how to cover their tracks - for example throw-away use of pre-paid mobile phones. Reports of the modus operandi of the September 11th terrorists indicate they used Web-based e-mail from public terminals. Clearly it is not persuasive to argue for privacy to be sacrificed in the name of fighting terrorism if the measures would not in fact be effective. A leaked report from the National Criminal Intelligence Servcie last year revealed that police and security agencies are nevertheless pressing for a mandatory data retention law to warehouse the traffic data of the entire population for several years (http://cryptome.org/ncis-carnivore.htm). Blunkett's proposals amount to blanket 'dataveillance' for non-terrorist investigations, using the the tragic events of Sep 11 as justification. Providers of e-commerce authentication services could be affected as well as ISPs and telcos. Anyone offering "provision of access to, and of facilities for making use of...the transmission of communications" [RIP S.22(4) & S.1 defs] could face extra costs of providing suitable storage devices and media, and full compliance with data protection legislation. Quotes Caspar Bowden, director of Internet think-tank FIPR (Foundation for Information Policy Research) commented: "Sensitive data revealing what you read, where you are, and who you talk to online could be collected in the name of national security. But Mr.Blunkett intends to allow access to this data for purposes nothing to do with fighting terrorism. Minor crimes, public order and tax offences, attendance at demonstrations, even 'health and safety' will be legitimate reasons to siphon sensitive details of private life into government databases to be retained indefinitely. This would be in flagrant breach of the first and second Data Protection Principles." Contact for enquiries: Caspar Bowden Foundation for Information Policy Research www.fipr.org cb@fipr.org +44(0)20 7354 2333 Notes for editors ----------------- 1. The Foundation for Information Policy Research (www.fipr.org), is a non-profit think-tank for Internet policy, governed by an independent Board of Trustees with an Advisory Council of experts. 2. FIPR's analysis of the RIP Act (www.fipr.org/rip) stimulated media debate, and led to amendments ensuring that people who lose decryption keys or forget passwords are presumed innocent until proven guilty, and prohibiting detailed surveillance of web browsing without a full warrant. 3. Home Office Press Release 15/10/2001: "BLUNKETT OUTLINES FURTHER ANTI-TERRORIST MEASURES" (http://wood.ccta.gov.uk/homeoffice/hopress.nsf/50e2456405b67f7d802566b3 006819dc/2a5fc6811dec4c7180256ae6004fa4d3?OpenDocument) 3. The Telecommunications Data Protection Directive 1996, implemented in UK law as SI 2093 (1999). The Office of the Information Commissioner (contact Iain Bourne) has stated that ISP blanket (i.e. for all subscribers) logging and retention of online Internet activity is prohibited. Logging of telephone numbers is permitted whilst relevant for billing or fraud control. 4. Section 32. of SI 2093 allows a certificate signed by a Minister of the Crown to over-ride the prohibition on blanket data retention for National Security purposes (http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1999/19992093.htm) 5. Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, Part.1 Chapter.2, Section 22 (http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--c.htm#22). This Part is not yet in force and the relevant Code of Practice is open for consultation until November 2nd (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/ripa/consultintro.htm) 6. Data Protection Act 1998, Schedule 1, (http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/80029--l.htm#sch1)

"In the week after the September 11 onslaught, the German avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, 73, was forced to apologise after describing the terrorists' actions as "the greatest work of art one can imagine". Four of his concerts were cancelled in the furore after his remarks." http://www.guardian.co.uk/

What if 100 people sent out 1000 dusted envelopes each?

Check it out: scrollbar on the left http://www.arabia.com/ No scrollbar not on the left, but this is the station with direct line to ObL http://www.aljazeera.net/

Lost & Fround Part 2: Found in a London street

re: WGET - This is because wget obeys robots.txt which was set to exclude all robots (to keep out search engines. I've changed it now so it should allow wget in. You might need need to use --user-agent=Wget if it still doesn't work. Other news: broadcast a lot of the moster music series over the weekend on Radio 4A - Brighton pirate, as well as doing two shows of my own. Not that I remembered to tell anyone here. I'm looking for collaborators for a game of radio consequences for the next broadcast if anyones interested. And now in all its cheapskate and geeky glory is my computer history. 1978? - saw my first computer, actually a keyboard and teletype printer connected via some incredibly sloow line to a main frame (and thence to another somewhere across the atlantic). Played star wars. 1978-80 - marginally involved in building various pre ZX81 homebrew boxes/kits -0 one of which came in a plywood case with a homemade keyboard arranged in alphabetical order because the owners couldn't type 1981? -TI-99A -uugh 1994/5 - got my first Unix account (and net access)- love at first sight! Actually preceded by a couple of months on an ancient VAX machine runnig openVMS. 1998 - given 386 with 4Mb of RAM - still running strong and in regular use today, it was actually in use as an intanet server running apache for a while. Teamed up with a 10" black and white monitor from a car boot sale - eventually replaced by a 16 colour grey scale monitor from a skip. Also set up my first production linux server for a cheap net access project that was employing me at the time. 2000 - 486 w/ 20Mb. Originally a donation to the net access project which was largely jerry-built out of bits of cheap and donated kit (including tyhe infamous giant bag o' random network cards that was the bane of my life for 6 months) but deemed too crap even for this. Needless to say this was a giant trechnological leap forward for me - still not powerful enough to run X-windows but then I've always had a bad case of terminal nostalgia. 2001 - finally moved into the world of colour when I found an SVGA monitor in the skip, and I 've even been vaguely promised a pentium machine. I also have root on 6 linux boxes and 3 sun boxes that don't belong to me so I'm very happy.

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Ich brauche einen taffy zu appease meine Unruhe!!!! and curious, has anyone else been getting bad packet pgp emails that won't decrypt? just wanting to know if this is rampant as i have gotten three this morning from different people. very curious.

just noiced that http://spammimic.com is offline. won't ping or resolve from ip. seems interesting considering the current situation, huh? and only homebrew pc's here. much cheaper that way.

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To everyone having IE slowdown problems, this is due to the colorchanging javascript connected to the new template; im going to try and modify the script so that it presents a choice of colors in the sidebar, but ummmm I dont know javascript!!!! If anyone can hack this up for us thatwouldbecool. Please email me if you can help and I will mail you the javascript in question.

It's official: "Jedi Knight" is ON the list of religions for the 2001 UK census.

A campaign to get people to write the entry on their census forms has succeeded in the term being included on the list of religions, alongside Church of England, Roman Catholic, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu. Sufficient numbers of people wrote the entry in for it to be allocated its own code for the census processing team to use. But officials from the Office of National Statistics are keen to point out that just because Jedi Knight has been given its own code, that does not confer on it the status of official recognition. "We are not defining what a religion or a faith might be," a spokeswoman said. "We are recognising what some may have entered on their census form and ensuring that our coding framework will cater for it." Other religions which are included on the list, alongside the better known cases, are the Church of Free Love, Wiccan, Divine Lightmission, and Coleraine Christian Centre. Shortly before the census last April, an e-mail was circulated in the UK stating that if 10,000 people put Jedi on the census form, it would become a "fully recognised and legal religion". A similar thing had previously happened in New Zealand, when citizens were led to believe they needed 8,000 signatures to make Jedi an official religion. The list of religions - posted on the statistics office website, and available under "Internet links" - is simply the list of answers to the religion question. It is not yet clear how many people will have written Jedi on their form, as the counting process is still going on. Results are to be published in Autumn 2002. And even then, the information might not easy to obtain, as it will not be published separately in the official census reports released by the statistics office. Anyone wishing to find out the number would need to commission a special report to be produced. Also on the list Druidism, Satanism, Free thinker, Wicca, Celtic, Pagan. BBC Online

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Anonymous reports on a secret meeting of RIAA: http://cryptome.org/riaa-secret.htm Where they said: "Once we stem piracy, we will be able to raise prices in order to regain lost profits from piracy." Disney's Eisner stated, "Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives." "The new generation of rogue file sharing applications have set a disturbing precedent. The encryption technology used is clearly aimed at thwarting our anti-piracy operations. We must go after the parties involved, and force them to give up their encryption keys so our anti-piracy operations can begin reporting those who infringe upon our works to their internetservice providers".

Physicists Create New State Of Matter At Record Low Temperature Physicists in Boulder, Colo., have achieved a temperature far lower than has ever been produced before and created an entirely new state of matter predicted decades ago by Albert Einstein and Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose. Cooling rubidium atoms to less than 170 billionths of a degree above absolute zero caused the individual atoms to condense into a "superatom" behaving as a single entity, said Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman of JILA, a joint program of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Before photographing the superatom, the physicists cooled the atoms to 20 billionths of a degree above absolute zero, the lowest temperature ever achieved. "It really is a new state of matter," Wieman said. "It has completely different properties from any other kind of matter." "This state could never have existed naturally anywhere in the universe," added Cornell. "So the sample in our lab is the only chunk of this stuff in the universe, unless it is in a lab in some other solar system."

No one seems to be interested in the most incredible of events that has happened in the last 50 years.

SYRIA HAS BEEN GIVEN A SEAT ON THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL!!!!!!!

This means that anything immoral requiring a rubber stamp will now automatically be vetoed. It will now be impossible to keep hammering Iraq (or anyone else) with approval of the UN. This is so staggering, so important, and so unbelievable, that I almost fell off my chair when I heard it. The 21st century started not when the Twin Towers were bombed, but when Syria got a seat on the UN Security Council. Just you watch!

What could have been done instead of bombing Afghanistan? South Africa was forced to give up apartheid by the world refusing to have anything to do with them; they were shut off form the world, and this strangling action caused the regime to wither and die. The unthinkable happened, and Nelson Mandela became the president of the country. This was possible largely because the regime in South Africa had identical goals and aspirations to the people who were putting on the pressure. This approach may not work with people who have goals and aspirations that are different from the source of the pressure. A different approach is be needed. It is said that in Afghanistan women have no more rights than do animals. This means that they are for all intents and purposes, slaves. If the west opened its doors to people from Afghanistan (!) who wanted to leave that country, Afghanistan would quickly be bled dry of its most vital resource; its young people. No country could survive a mass exodus of its young people, and this would terminally cripple the country. Those women, who cannot escape for fear of death could be helped to leave by an "underground railroad", in the same way that opponents of slavery helped millions of slaves in the united states escape the south. The country would be so damaged by this process that it would be changed forever by virtue of the fact that everyone who had the chance to leave had left. The country would either flounder and collapse completely, or survive in a new form, attracting people who desire to live in a place that is run as Afghanistan is run. Either way, bombing is the ultimate expression of failure; failure to imagine different solutions, failure of will to carry them out and an absolute failure of the worldwide institutions that were created to put an end to war forever.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Angered at leaks from classified briefings, President Bush ordered key department heads last week to restrict their briefings of members of Congress to the four major leaders and the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, sources told CNN on Monday. He also called the four leaders to explain his decision and said he was furious that sensitive intelligence material that was shared with Congress was being repeated to the news media, two sources familiar with the calls told CNN. The top Democrats in Congress, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Missouri, expressed approval of the new policy. "The president told me about it, and I agree," Daschle said. "It's unfortunate, but there's no choice. Some people just can't resist talking." Now this "war" will be fought in secret, no one in opposition has access to the mass media, so the coalition can do whatever they want, wherever they want, and if anyone talks, its thier word against the president of the usa's word. Incredible!

We'll leave the last, chilling word to Sony Music Entertainment's Steve Heckler: "Once consumers can no longer get free music, they will have to buy the music in the formats we choose to put out." You have been warned. � How many times have I warned everybody about this!!!!!!!????? The upcoming release "M/Y" has copyright notification that explicity gives permission to individuals to "rip encode host and share" the recordings on the release. This is one of the ways that Irdial-Discs is putting its money where its mouth is. Everyone must also be acutely aware of exactly what equipment they are buying and what it can and cannot do. For example, recent Apple computers have been shipped with DVD drives that are not fully able to do what you would expect them to do, ie record what you want and do with it what you want. Be careful when you buy something; for example, when you buy a portable MP3 player, be sure that it REALLY IS an MP3 PLAYER. The SONY music stick (I think its called) only allows you to use crippled formats, and alows you to convert clean formats into crippled ones. Thats why you should not buy one of those pieces of crap. Consumers need to protect themselvs by buing what is good for them, like Irdial-Discs music, which sounds good, looks good, and doesnt infringe on your rights as a human being. How will we get paid?? Buy our t-shirs, hell, buy our CDs if youre into that. Send us cash (yes, people actually do that). Introduce our mailing list to your friends. If you want us to keep putting out music, thats all you have do do.

Tonight, I heard FOUR X6s, on 11.527 at 10:07 and 8053 at 10:18 and 7525 at 10:30 and 10.769 at 10:55. The first two had the same tone sequence, the third and forth ones different tone sequences. I have NEVER heard so many X6 transmissions ever in a single night. Hmmmmmmmmmm! Also heard two loud Lincolnshire Poachers, an E10(VLB2), 5 E10s in progress, an E5, Buzzer, and for the first time ever, I heard a Chinese language numbers station, which possibly was New Star Broadcasting, on 8300. This night has been totally UNREAL. I have re posted this post 10 times, as I keep hearing stations.

A mobile telephone user in Pakistan displays an anti-U.S. slogan, a depiction of the attack on New York's World Trade Center, and the Arabic phrase "God is Great" in the western Pakistani city of Quetta on October 7, 2001. Sentiment in much of Muslim Pakistan remains steadfast against the United States ahead of a likely attack on neighboring Afghanistan. REUTERS/Zahid Hussein

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Stego claims again. Note the graphic "A Nation United" http://abcnews.go.com/ And this popped up when the page opened.

One Gigabyte of files has already been leeched from the new Irdial A-212 Mirror; thanks to Paul M for prividing the pipe and the space!

Independent Media Center www.indymedia.org Pakistani paper's "exclusive" interview with Usamah Bin-Ladin (english) Monday 01 Oct 2001 author: Karachi Ummat in Urdu 28 Sep 01 pp1, 7 Ummat: You have been accused of involvement in the attacks in New York and Washington. What do you want to say about this? If you are not involved, who might be? Usamah: In the name of Allah, the most beneficent, the most merciful. Praise be to Allah, Who is the creator of the whole universe and Who made the earth as an abode for peace, for the whole mankind. Allah is the Sustainer, who sent Prophet Muhammad for our guidance. I am thankful to the Ummat Group of Publications, which gave me the opportunity to convey my viewpoint to the people, particularly the valiant and Momin [true Muslim] people of Pakistan who refused to believe in lie of the demon. I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children, and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children, and other people. Such a practice is forbidden ever in the course of a battle. It is the United States, which is perpetrating every maltreatment on women, children, and common people of other faiths, particularly the followers of Islam. All that is going on in Palestine for the last 11 months is sufficient to call the wrath of God upon the United States and Israel. There is also a warning for those Muslim countries, which witnessed all these as a silent spectator. What had earlier been done to the innocent people of Iraq, Chechnya, and Bosnia? Only one conclusion could be derived from the indifference of the United States and the West to these acts of terror and the patronage of the tyrants by these powers that America is an anti-Islamic power and it is patronizing the anti-Islamic forces. Its friendship with the Muslim countries is just a show, rather deceit. By enticing or intimidating these countries, the United States is forcing them to play a role of its choice. Put a glance all around and you will see that the slaves of the United States are either rulers or enemies [of Muslims]. The US has no friends, nor does it want to keep any because the prerequisite of friendship is to come to the level of the friend or consider him at par with you. America does not want to see anyone equal to it. It expects slavery from others. Therefore, other countries are either its slaves or subordinates. However, our case is different. We have pledged slavery to God Almighty alone and after this pledge there is no possibility to become the slave of someone else. If we do that, it will be disregardful to both our Sustainer and his fellow beings. Most of the world nations upholding their freedom are the religious ones, which are the enemies of United States, or the latter itself considers them as its enemies. Or the countries, which do not agree to become its slaves, such as China, Iran, Libya, Cuba, Syria, and the former Russia [as received]. Whoever committed the act of 11 September are not the friends of the American people. I have already said that we are against the American system, not against its people, whereas in these attacks, the common American people have been killed. According to my information, the death toll is much higher than what the US government has stated. But the Bush administration does not want the panic to spread. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; the people who are a part of the US system, but are dissenting against it. Or those who are working for some other system; persons who want to make the present century as a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity so that their own civilization, nation, country, or ideology could survive. They can be any one, from Russia to Israel and from India to Serbia. In the US itself, there are dozens of well-organized and well-equipped groups, which are capable of causing a large-scale destruction. Then you cannot forget the American Jews, who are annoyed with President Bush ever since the elections in Florida and want to avenge him. Then there are intelligence agencies in the US, which require billions of dollars worth of funds from the Congress and the government every year. This [funding issue] was not a big problem till the existence of the former Soviet Union but after that the budget of these agencies has been in danger. They needed an enemy. So, they first started propaganda against Usamah and Taleban and then this incident happened. You see, the Bush administration approved a budget of 40bn dollars. Where will this huge amount go? It will be provided to the same agencies, which need huge funds and want to exert their importance. Now they will spend the money for their expansion and for increasing their importance. I will give you an example. Drug smugglers from all over the world are in contact with the US secret agencies. These agencies do not want to eradicate narcotics cultivation and trafficking because their importance will be diminished. The people in the US Drug Enforcement Department are encouraging drug trade so that they could show performance and get millions of dollars worth of budget. General Noriega was made a drug baron by the CIA and, in need, he was made a scapegoat. In the same way, whether it is President Bush or any other US president, they cannot bring Israel to justice for its human rights abuses or to hold it accountable for such crimes. What is this? Is it not that there exists a government within the government in the United Sates? That secret government must be asked as to who made the attacks. Ummat: A number of world countries have joined the call of the United States for launching an attack on Afghanistan. These also include a number of Muslim countries. Will Al-Qa'idah declare a jihad against these countries as well? Usamah: I must say that my duty is just to awaken the Muslims; to tell them as to what is good for them and what is not. What does Islam says and what the enemies of Islam want? Al-Qa'idah was set up to wage a jihad against infidelity, particularly to encounter the onslaught of the infidel countries against the Islamic states. Jihad is the sixth undeclared element of Islam. [The first five being the basic holy words of Islam, prayers, fast, pilgrimage to Mecca, and giving alms] Every anti-Islamic person is afraid of it. Al-Qa'idah wants to keep this element alive and active and make it part of the daily life of the Muslims. It wants to give it the status of worship. We are not against any Islamic country nor we consider a war against an Islamic country as jihad. We are in favour of armed jihad only against those infidel countries, which are killing innocent Muslim men, women, and children just because they are Muslims. Supporting the US act is the need of some Muslim countries and the compulsion of others. However, they should think as to what will remain of their religious and moral position if they support the attack of the Christians and the Jews on a Muslim country like Afghanistan. The orders of Islamic shari'ah [jurisprudence] for such individuals, organizations, and countries are clear and all the scholars of the Muslim brotherhood are unanimous on them. We will do the same, which is being ordered by the Amir ol-Momenin [the commander of the faithful] Mola Omar and the Islamic scholars. The hearts of the people of Muslim countries are beating with the call of jihad. We are grateful to them. Ummat: The losses caused in the attacks in New York and Washington have proved that giving an economic blow to the US is not too difficult. US experts admit that a few more such attacks can bring down the American economy. Why is al-Qa'idah not targeting their economic pillars? Usamah: I have already said that we are not hostile to the United States. We are against the system, which makes other nations slaves of the United States, or forces them to mortgage their political and economic freedom. This system is totally in control of the American Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States. It is simply that the American people are themselves the slaves of the Jews and are forced to live according to the principles and laws laid by them. So, the punishment should reach Israel. In fact, it is Israel, which is giving a blood bath to innocent Muslims and the US is not uttering a single word. Ummat: Why is harm not caused to the enemies of Islam through other means, apart from the armed struggle? For instance, inciting the Muslims to boycott Western products, banks, shipping lines, and TV channels. Usamah: The first thing is that Western products could only be boycotted when the Muslim fraternity is fully awakened and organized. Secondly, the Muslim companies should become self-sufficient in producing goods equal to the products of Western companies. Economic boycott of the West is not possible unless economic self-sufficiency is attained and substitute products are brought out. You see that wealth is scattered all across the Muslim world but not a single TV channel has been acquired which can preach Islamic injunctions according to modern requirements and attain an international influence. Muslim traders and philanthropists should make it a point that if the weapon of public opinion is to be used, it is to be kept in the hand. Today's world is of public opinion and the fates of nations are determined through its pressure. Once the tools for building public opinion are obtained, everything that you asked for can be done. Ummat: The entire propaganda about your struggle has so far been made by the Western media. But no information is being received from your sources about the network of Al-Qa'idah and its jihadi successes. Would you comment? Usamah: In fact, the Western media is left with nothing else. It has no other theme to survive for a long time. Then we have many other things to do. The struggle for jihad and the successes are for the sake of Allah and not to annoy His bondsmen. Our silence is our real propaganda. Rejections, explanations, or corrigendum only waste your time and through them, the enemy wants you to engage in things which are not of use to you. These things are pulling you away from your cause. The Western media is unleashing such a baseless propaganda, which make us surprise but it reflects on what is in their hearts and gradually they themselves become captive of this propaganda. They become afraid of it and begin to cause harm to themselves. Terror is the most dreaded weapon in modern age and the Western media is mercilessly using it against its own people. It can add fear and helplessness in the psyche of the people of Europe and the United States. It means that what the enemies of the United States cannot do, its media is doing that. You can understand as to what will be the performance of the nation in a war, which suffers from fear and helplessness. Ummat: What will the impact of the freeze of al-Qa'idah accounts by the US? Usamah: God opens up ways for those who work for Him. Freezing of accounts will not make any difference for Al-Qa'idah or other jihad groups. With the grace of Allah, al-Qa'idah has more than three such alternative financial system, which are all separate and totally independent from each other. This system is operating under the patronage of those who love jihad. What to say of the United States, even the combined world cannot budge these people from their path. These people are not in hundreds but in thousands and millions. Al-Qa'idah comprises of such modern educated youths who are aware of the cracks inside the Western financial system as they are aware of the lines in their hands. These are the very flaws of the Western fiscal system, which are becoming a noose for it and this system could not recuperate in spite of the passage of so many days. Ummat: Are there other safe areas other than Afghanistan, where you can continue jihad? Usamah: There are areas in all parts of the world where strong jihadi forces are present, from Indonesia to Algeria, from Kabul to Chechnya, from Bosnia to Sudan, and from Burma to Kashmir. Then it is not the problem of my person. I am helpless fellowman of God, constantly in the fear of my accountability before God. It is not the question of Usamah but of Islam and, in Islam too, of jihad. Thanks to God, those waging a jihad can walk today with their heads raised. Jihad was still present when there was no Usamah and it will remain as such even when Usamah is no longer there. Allah opens up ways and creates loves in the hearts of people for those who walk on the path of Allah with their lives, property, and children. Believe it, through jihad, a man gets everything he desires. And the biggest desire of a Muslim is the after life. Martyrdom is the shortest way of attaining an eternal life. Ummat: What do you say about the Pakistan government policy on Afghanistan attack? Usamah: We are thankful to the Momin and valiant people of Pakistan who erected a blockade in front of the wrong forces and stood in the first file of battle. Pakistan is a great hope for the Islamic brotherhood. Its people are awakened, organized, and rich in the spirit of faith. They backed Afghanistan in its war against the Soviet Union and extended every help to the mojahedin and the Afghan people. Then these are very Pakistanis who are standing shoulder by shoulder with the Taleban. If such people emerge in just two countries, the domination of the West will diminish in a matter of days. Our hearts beat with Pakistan and, God forbid, if a difficult time comes we will protect it with our blood. Pakistan is sacred for us like a place of worship. We are the people of jihad and fighting for the defence of Pakistan is the best of all jihads to us. It does not matter for us as to who rules Pakistan. The important thing is that the spirit of jihad is alive and stronger in the hearts of the Pakistani people. Source: Karachi Ummat in Urdu 28 Sep 01

http://www.vnunet.com/News/1125766 By James Middleton vnunet.com [02-10-2001] The impact of Code Red and related viruses such as Nimda has caused over 150,000 IIS-based websites on around 80,000 different machines to disappear from the internet. It has also resulted in the closure of one of the most visible proponents of Microsoft technology for mass hosting. According to the most recent Netcraft web server report, released this week, a significant number of sites running IIS fell off the web during the Code Red crisis. The number of IIS servers hooked up to the internet went down even more when Webjump, an IIS-based virtual hosting service, went under. At the time it died, Webjump hosted around 280,000 sites. Microsoft suffered a further blow on the back of this when analyst Gartner Group issued a strongly worded advisory recommending IIS users to evaluate alternative products. Only around 2000 of the 80,000 IP addresses running IIS that disappeared turned up running a competing web server, indicating that users have yet to react to Gartner's advice. Despite evidence to suggest that administrators have been securing their servers throughout a period of heightened worm activity, Netcraft's research "shows that numbers of vulnerable Microsoft IIS sites are actually starting to rise again, after the initial shock and disruption of Code Red prompted many sites to patch for the first time", said the company. Of those high profile sites seen to switch from Microsoft platforms to Linux, the most noticeable are search engine Infoseek, and the FBI, which is pushing the secure Linux bandwagon anyway. But the report did show that Microsoft still owns almost 50 per cent of the web server market, while Linux is in second place with almost 30 per cent. Next is Solaris and BSD with seven per cent and six per cent respectively. "The trend is of Linux steadily increasing, Windows maintaining a large share, and the others slowly losing share," said Netcraft. But while Microsoft may have the lion's share on a per machine basis, on a per site basis Apache is king. Because a great majority of the world's websites are located at hosting and co-location companies, and technically sophisticated hosting companies can run several thousand websites on a single computer, the result is more sites running Apache. On this level, Apache holds 60 per cent of the market, while Microsoft only manages to hang on to 30 per cent. Netcraft's September 2001 survey was based on data gathered from 32,398,046 websites and can be seen here. [http://www.netcraft.com/survey/ ]

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| A Cold Look at Chilled Speech
| By Mark Anderson
| 2:00 am  Oct 3, 2001 PDT
|
| When he finished his manuscript on copyright protections in the 
| digital age last Thanksgiving, Siva Vaidhyanathan knew some things 
| would change before its Oct 1 publication date.
|
| Then came a Tuesday in September.
|
| Questioning copyright policy may seem only a distraction with the 
| World Trade Center a heap of rubble. But if issues such as freedom are 
| truly at stake, what prouder freedom do Americans proclaim than that 
| of free speech?
|
| His book 
| <http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/authbook.msql?$string&book=0814788068>,
| Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How 
| It Threatens Creativity, presents a clear and historically based 
| argument against the push to transform American intellectual property 
| law into a new zone of zero tolerance.
|
| With Americans appearing to welcome Big Brother -- in some form -- if 
| it means better protection against terrorism, Vaidhyanathan's book 
| arrives at an interesting time.
|
| "It's hard to ask people to pay attention to the state of music in 
| America right now," Vaidhyanathan said. "However, the larger issue is 
| about the richness of our democratic culture."
|
| As more and more "speech" goes digital and as those digits get locked 
| down with increasingly stronger clickwrap -- copyright and copy 
| protection measures -- speech faces the very impediments the 
| Constitution's framers took pains to avoid, Vaidhyanathan says.
|
| "It's very clear that reckless copyright enforcement can chill 
| speech," he said. "The message of my book is that we've gone too far. 
| There are ways in which the copyright system becomes an engine for 
| democratic culture. But once you increase the protection to an absurd 
| level, you end up having a negative effect on this process."
|
| One day before the attacks, all systems were go 
|< http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46671,00.html >on the 
| souped-up revision to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- a bill 
| that proposed to outlaw any digital electronic device or PC that did 
| not have copy protection hardwired into it.
|
| After the attacks, a shift in priorities came that leaves the 
| "Security Systems Standard & Certification Act" (SSSCA) 
| <http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46655,00.html> in limbo. 
| Communications Daily now rates the chances that the SSSCA will even 
| show its face on Capitol Hill anytime this session as "unlikely."
|
| That suits Vaidhyanathan just fine.
|
| "The bill as written is so sweeping that it would outlaw Linux -- or 
| any sort of open-source activity," he said. "It would require us to 
| fundamentally change the nature of the personal computer.
|
| "It seems like a really short-sighted policy proposal, and I can't 
| imagine that the personal computer industry is going to stand by and 
| let this happen."
|
| Another development that appeared too late to make the book was the US 
| Supreme Court's decision on New York Times v Tasini 
| <http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44736,00.html>, a copyright 
| case that recognized print journalists' right to compensation when 
| their work is republished on the Web.
|
| Vaidhyanathan was "agnostic" about the ruling, especially concerning 
| Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's majority opinion 
| <http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-201.ZO.html>.
|
| "I really didn't like the fundamentalist tone of Justice Ginsburg's 
| opinion," he said. "She dismissed any appeal to a greater public good 
| in matters of copyright and she made it seem that copyright is only a 
| matter of private -- not public -- interest."
|
| On the other hand, Vaidhyanathan hopes the tone set in Justice John 
| Paul Stevens' dissent can carry forward into future rulings -- and 
| laws.
|
| "Justice Stevens actually wrote one of the most historically informed, 
| nuanced and reasonable opinions 
| <http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-201.ZD.html> I have ever 
| read about copyright," Vaidhyanathan said. "He basically said that 
| copyright is for the public, and we have to take the effects of our 
| decisions into account. It can't just be about the interests of the 
| copyright owners."
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"to the deapest part called the center of the earth by this wekend north east region will be destroyed new providance soon to fall apart." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2325-2001Oct3.html

I done stuck the irdial mp3's on the web. Theyr'e at http://193.130.125.110/irdial/ please don't link to here - the files may move, there should be something on the irdial site that you can point links to soon. Also please don't try and download 20 files at the same time bandwidth is limited and if you want the files to stay here you have to play nicely.

We have been saying over and over, that the problems in different parts of the world need to find thier own natural internal solutions, as water finds its own level in a natural water table. A perfect example of this is IRAN. This state, after having a religious revolution and being top of the list of pariah states, has, through its own internal processes, become a "moderate" state. So moderate is Iran, that many countries trade with it as a matter of policy (France) and now the UK is re-opening relations with it. This is the same Iran that had its embassy explosively raided and destroyed by the SAS in central London. The same Iran of Ayatollah Khomeni. The same Iran that took American hostages, and humiliated the Carter government. Now, all of that is forgotten. This moderate state, this Iran that is headed for unprecedented prosperity and fairness under Islamic law could not ever have come about if any outside state had interfered in its creation. The absence of outside influence is what gave the Iranians the chance to become a stable and moderate state, on their own terms, and there is no reason that the same will not happen in other parts of the world. The ten year war with Iraq was over, and it was only a matter of time before peace, reconciliation with Iraq was to follow. The Gulf war put pay to that, but it would have eventually happened, and probably will happen in the future. If we are to have lasting peace throughout the world, all countries need to come to a moderate state of government at their own pace and in their own time. This natural gravitation to order and stability can only be achieved if the system in question is left to find its own mode of operation. Everyone knows that a pendulum will only cease oscillation if it is left alone; all systems have a natural tendency to move toward stability. Every perturbance, interference, push, pull and breath does nothing but delay the arrival of the time when stability arrives. The wonderful thing about non-interference is that no one looses. Pushing a pendulum takes energy. Energy is expensive. Stop pushing, and you stop spending; you save money to use on your own infrastructure. Your enemies stop being your enemies. They start to buy from you. Everything and everyone calms down. For now, we can see the results of interference and perturbation. A small group of people, who were not the leaders of a country, not members of a normal army, who were totally unknown, have managed to put ONE MILLION PEOPLE OUT OF WORK with a single act. This should give everybody an indication how high the stakes are. The task now is to start to unwind the tension and reverse the behavior that is manufacturing these angry people. For certain, there is at least one more generation of angry young men to follow this one. That could be the last one, depending on what actions are taken today.

...Another problem with the 'logic' is that the rest of the world may not necessarily deploy technology in the way that we do. One example of this is the age-old underground banking system that is widespread in South Asia and among Chinese communities in East Asia [*]. No amount of escrowed keys and deployment of sigint will help in tracing the movement of cash through it. It allows money to be moved quickly across borders and leaves almost no paper trail. Known as "hundi" in Pakistan and "fei qian" in China it works as follows [*]: A client approaches an underground bank in a major Asian city, usually a travel agent or a goldsmith's shop. He deposits an amount in US dollars to be remitted to an associate in another country. The shop gives the sender a "receipt" or chit which might be something as simple as a specially marked ticket stub or a low-value currency note. The chit is mailed to the recipient in the other country who then presents it to an associated travel agent or goldsmith there. He receives in exchange the amount in local currency equivalent to the amount of US dollrs deposited by the sender of the chit. Creating a doubly ironic link to the cryptographic interests of this list, one analyst is quoted [*] as saying that the "Investigation into bin Laden and his finances will provide a modern Rosetta Stone on how to attack terrorists' financial networks". References [*] Far Eastern Economic Review, Oct 4, 2001, page 28.

Net surveillance 'fatally flawed' http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1569000/1569874.stm UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says campaigners against stronger internet surveillance laws have hurt the anti-terror fight. He suggested that with stronger powers, the security services might have detected some of the 11 suicide hijackers who are now known to have passed through the UK on their way to the US. But Caspar Bowden of the Foundation for Information Policy Research argues that the main methods suggested for dealing with criminal use of internet encryption are fatally flawed: ---****--- Following the terrible events of 11 September, Jack Straw has described opponents of the internet surveillance legislation he enacted last year as "na�ve". Both government and broadcasters have framed the debate as a platitudinous "balance" between civil liberties and public safety. But this was always a false dichotomy - the main thrust of criticism against the RIP Act is that it is completely ineffective. Four methods have been suggested for dealing with criminal use of encryption. Three are fatally flawed, but more importantly, they try to solve to wrong problem. The 'back-door' =============== All encryption would be prohibited except an officially sanctioned version which contains a secret weakness allowing all traffic to be broken. Flaw: If the secret of the backdoor is ever leaked, the security of the entire communications infrastructure would be blown wide open and could not be repaired or quickly replaced. 'Key escrow' ============ Everybody using encryption must deposit a copy of their key in a huge database. Any particular message could thus be unscrambled, under warrant. Flaw : An encrypted message is like a letter in an impregnable envelope, which can itself be enclosed in another envelope. Without opening the outer envelope, it is impossible to know whether a particular message has already been encrypted with an undeclared key, before it was encrypted with a registered key. Moreover, the vast majority of computer scientists believe that a global integrated system to escrow billions of keys is operationally infeasible. Power to demand decryption ========================== The RIP Act gives powers to demand decryption of any message or data, whether or not a person is suspected of any crime. Flaw: An encrypted message is totally opaque - nothing can be inferred about the contents which would help a court rationally separate the innocent from the guilty. Anybody could be jailed for two years on a false accusation, without a shred of evidence, merely for failing to prove they have forgotten something. And a terrorist is obviously not going to surrender a key to evidence which would lead to conviction on a much more serious charge. Attack the end-points ===================== If the device either sending or receiving the message can be identified, then if it can be "got at". Computers can be bugged in hardware, software, or possibly hacked remotely. Intelligence agencies and the military will not trust the police with these black arts, which will need unprecedentedly stringent supervision, since their use would corrupt the legal validity of any chain of evidence. Computer scientists and security specialists understand the seriousness of what is at stake, and have wrestled with these dilemmas for a decade with no breakthrough. Details of security policy are often necessarily secret, but the reasoning refuting three of the four options is unshakeable. None of these options can prevent hiding of information or steganography. Spies and terrorists have long used tradecraft such as chalk marks on a park bench, or everyday language with a veiled meaning. In cyberspace, these equate to an innocent phrase in a chat-room, or weaving the bits comprising a message into a sound or picture file so it cannot be detected. Without knowing who and what to look for, it is impossible to screen for every variation. Those who want a nostalgic return to the era of phone-tapping are either na�ve, or impervious to reason. If you want to stop terrorist cells communicating via the internet, dismantle it. Encryption is irrelevant.

HAMBURG, Germany (CNN) -- German intelligence services intercepted a phone call September 11 after the terrorist attacks on the United States in which two followers of Osama bin Laden applauded the deadly assaults, a German intelligence official said. One of the individuals in the phone call made a reference to having "sent 30," but it was unclear whether that was a reference to the number of people involved in the terrorist plot. There were 19 suspected hijackers who died with their victims. "What they were planning or whether others were still planning further attacks, or whether attacks could not be carried out remains open," the official said. The official said the phone call did not originate in Germany or any other European nation, but refused to identify the country or region. The official did not say what language was spoken in the phone conversation. The source said that German intelligence officials immediately alerted their U.S. counterparts and are working closely with American authorities on the matter.

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"The best of XXXX" is a TV show which looks at the events and music of a year, with comments from famous and not so famous people. During a recap of the career of Alanis Morisette (The best of 1995) it suddenly came to me in a bright flash of light:

"There are not enough bullets!"

http://www.bushfordummies.com

"Playing Area 51 was like playing a concrete bunker for people who were all identically dressed in mall clothes, who all watched MTV and didn't know about music unless they saw it on MTV," -tina weymouth

"ah physics" and yes iis is total crap. that new licensing scheme using the subscription platform truly makes me ill. are they trying to completely isolate every even slightly knowledgable user because i know alot of people who are really getting completely fed up with their greedy bullshit products. xp? give me a break. at last check pc world had the %market share use on the server side at ms- 40% and linux(all distributions)-29%. and that was pre xp. sometimes i wonder how smart they really are. 'i'm the operator of my pocket calculator'

Gartner: Dump IIS "From the mouths of the expert analysts, Microsoft has finally pushed them over the top. The leaky IIS security track record and lack of widespread attack threat on other web server software leads Gartner to recommend that companies look elsewhere. For what it's worth, I can't say that it's a bad idea. I run my own personal web site on IIS, but I certainly don't consider it to be critical. I run business websites on Apache and have no intention of changing that anytime soon. Apache is stable, secure, easy to manage, and generally doesn't require the babysitting that IIS has garnered. Not to mention that it's FREE!" The writing is on the wall...

ID Card FAQ An ID card, by definition, is a form of internal passport. Virtually all ID cards worldwide develop a broader usage over time, than was originally envisioned for them. This development of new and unintended purposes is becoming known as function creep.

Its increadible; there are countries in Europe that have legalized slavery, mandatory psychological evaluation, and NO ONE seems to think that this is wrong. The European declartation of human rights is a sham, devised to trick the people of eorope into thinking that they have some kind of ultimate protection under this fake document. Let me spell it out for you. It is WRONG and IMMORAL and a VIOLATION OF YOUR RIGHTS AS A HUMAN BEING to be compelled to serve in the army, FOR ANY PURPOSE. Such compulsory service is SLAVERY, and as such, should be ILLEGAL in al civilized nations. If a country needs to maintain an army, then it should be a VOLUNTEER ARMY ONLY. Volunteer armies are much stronger and more effective than ones made of unwilling conscripts; this is a well understood fact. What I cannot FOR THE LIFE OF ME understand, is why there has not been mass revolt about this situation, and why no one has challenged these barbaric and absurd laws in the European court of human rights.

Arabs removed from flights; airlines investigate

"Your turn now ol' buddy!"

ah physics! "The next Pearl Harbor will not announce itself with a searing flash of nuclear light"-yeah let's hope not. all of those 20 megaton weapons sitting there gathering dust.....and don't forget about tzar bomba! 80 mt straight to the dome piece. but is trench warfare any better? frankly i would welcome an ebomb. it might get us to rethink what the f*ck we are doing to the planet. i don't really need these computers i have here. just to make money. and why do i need the money? please please ebomb me...please. self sustinance is the only solution as far as i see it. but it's a little hard in the 8x8 polluted garden we have out back here. cities ah....it's all fucked up. it's all fucked up completely. what is it to be human? poof.....

E-BOMB

BY JIM WILSON September 2001 In the blink of an eye, electromagnetic bombs could throw civilization back 200 years. And terrorists can build them for $400. The next Pearl Harbor will not announce itself with a searing flash of nuclear light or with the plaintive wails of those dying of Ebola or its genetically engineered twin. You will hear a sharp crack in the distance. By the time you mistakenly identify this sound as an innocent clap of thunder, the civilized world will have become unhinged. Fluorescent lights and television sets will glow eerily bright, despite being turned off. The aroma of ozone mixed with smoldering plastic will seep from outlet covers as electric wires arc and telephone lines melt. Your Palm Pilot and MP3 player will feel warm to the touch, their batteries overloaded. Your computer, and every bit of data on it, will be toast. And then you will notice that the world sounds different too. The background music of civilization, the whirl of internal-combustion engines, will have stopped. Save a few diesels, engines will never start again. You, however, will remain unharmed, as you find yourself thrust backward 200 years, to a time when electricity meant a lightning bolt fracturing the night sky. This is not a hypothetical, son-of-Y2K scenario. It is a realistic assessment of the damage the Pentagon believes could be inflicted by a new generation of weapons--E-bombs. The first major test of an American electromagnetic bomb is scheduled for next year. Ultimately, the Army hopes to use E-bomb technology to explode artillery shells in midflight. The Navy wants to use the E-bomb's high-power microwave pulses to neutralize antiship missiles. And, the Air Force plans to equip its bombers, strike fighters, cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles with E-bomb capabilities. When fielded, these will be among the most technologically sophisticated weapons the U.S. military establishment has ever built. There is, however, another part to the E-bomb story, one that military planners are reluctant to discuss. While American versions of these weapons are based on advanced technologies, terrorists could use a less expensive, low-tech approach to create the same destructive power. "Any nation with even a 1940s technology base could make them," says Carlo Kopp, an Australian-based expert on high-tech warfare. "The threat of E-bomb proliferation is very real." POPULAR MECHANICS estimates a basic weapon could be built for $400. An Old Idea Made New The theory behind the E-bomb was proposed in 1925 by physicist Arthur H. Compton--not to build weapons, but to study atoms. Compton demonstrated that firing a stream of highly energetic photons into atoms that have a low atomic number causes them to eject a stream of electrons. Physics students know this phenomenon as the Compton Effect. It became a key tool in unlocking the secrets of the atom. Ironically, this nuclear research led to an unexpected demonstration of the power of the Compton Effect, and spawned a new type of weapon. In 1958, nuclear weapons designers ignited hydrogen bombs high over the Pacific Ocean. The detonations created bursts of gamma rays that, upon striking the oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere, released a tsunami of electrons that spread for hundreds of miles. Street lights were blown out in Hawaii and radio navigation was disrupted for 18 hours, as far away as Australia. The United States set out to learn how to "harden" electronics against this electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and develop EMP weapons. America has remained at the forefront of EMP weapons development. Although much of this work is classified, it's believed that current efforts are based on using high-temperature superconductors to create intense magnetic fields. What worries terrorism experts is an idea the United States studied but discarded--the Flux Compression Generator (FCG). A Poor Man's E-Bomb An FCG is an astoundingly simple weapon. It consists of an explosives-packed tube placed inside a slightly larger copper coil, as shown below. The instant before the chemical explosive is detonated, the coil is energized by a bank of capacitors, creating a magnetic field. The explosive charge detonates from the rear forward. As the tube flares outward it touches the edge of the coil, thereby creating a moving short circuit. "The propagating short has the effect of compressing the magnetic field while reducing the inductance of the stator [coil]," says Kopp. "The result is that FCGs will produce a ramping current pulse, which breaks before the final disintegration of the device. Published results suggest ramp times of tens of hundreds of microseconds and peak currents of tens of millions of amps." The pulse that emerges makes a lightning bolt seem like a flashbulb by comparison. An Air Force spokesman, who describes this effect as similar to a lightning strike, points out that electronics systems can be protected by placing them in metal enclosures called Faraday Cages that divert any impinging electromagnetic energy directly to the ground. Foreign military analysts say this reassuring explanation is incomplete. The India Connection The Indian military has studied FCG devices in detail because it fears that Pakistan, with which it has ongoing conflicts, might use E-bombs against the city of Bangalore, a sort of Indian Silicon Valley. An Indian Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis study of E-bombs points to two problems that have been largely overlooked by the West. The first is that very-high-frequency pulses, in the microwave range, can worm their way around vents in Faraday Cages. The second concern is known as the "late-time EMP effect," and may be the most worrisome aspect of FCG devices. It occurs in the 15 minutes after detonation. During this period, the EMP that surged through electrical systems creates localized magnetic fields. When these magnetic fields collapse, they cause electric surges to travel through the power and telecommunication infrastructure. This string-of-firecrackers effect means that terrorists would not have to drop their homemade E-bombs directly on the targets they wish to destroy. Heavily guarded sites, such as telephone switching centers and electronic funds-transfer exchanges, could be attacked through their electric and telecommunication connections. Knock out electric power, computers and telecommunication and you've destroyed the foundation of modern society. In the age of Third World-sponsored terrorism, the E-bomb is the great equalizer. http://popularmechanics.com/science/military/2001/9/e-bomb/print.phtml

indeed!

Received in email: "try this one on for size... Open a new word Doc, type in capitals Q33NY, the number of the flight that crashed in New York. Then change font size to 26. Then change font to Wingdings. See what happens ..."

From "The Guardian" letters pages: Dr. Johnson 1749 "Wealth heaped on wealth nor truth nor safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise." Voltaire "It is lamentable that to be a good patriot we must become the enemy of the rest of mankind." Rudyard Kipling 1892 "when you're wounded and left on Afganistans plains, and the women come out to cut up the remains, gest roll to your rifle, and blow out your brains, an go to your gawd like a soldier." http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/extra

Disconnect the Dots

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41015-2001Sep16.html By Joel Garreau Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 17, 2001; Page C01 The essence of this first war of the 21st century is that it's not like the old ones. That's why, as $40 billion is voted for the new war on terrorism, 35,000 reservists are called up and two aircraft carrier battle groups hover near Afghanistan, some warriors and analysts have questions: In the Information Age, they ask, how do you attack, degrade or destroy a small, shadowy, globally distributed, stateless network of intensely loyal partisans with few fixed assets or addresses? If bombers are not the right hammer for this nail, what is? Bombers worked well in wars in which one Industrial Age military threw steel at another. World War II, for instance, was a matchup of roughly symmetrical forces. This is not true today. That's why people who think about these things call this new conflict "asymmetric warfare." The terrorist side is different: different organization, different methods of attack -- and of defense. "It takes a tank to fight a tank. It takes a network to fight a network," says John Arquilla, senior consultant to the international security group Rand and co-author of the forthcoming "Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime and Militancy." He asks: "How do you attack a trust structure -- which is what a network is? You're not going to do this with Tomahawk missiles or strategic bombardment." "It's a whole new playing field. You're not attacking a nation, but a network," says Karen Stephenson, who studies everything from corporations to the U.S. Navy as if they were tribes. Trained as a chemist and anthropologist, she now teaches at Harvard and the University of London. "You have to understand what holds those networks in place, what makes them strong and where the leverage points are. They're not random connections," she says. Human networks are distinct from electronic ones. They are not the Internet. They are political and emotional connections among people who must trust each other in order to function, like Colombian drug cartels and Basque separatists and the Irish Republican Army. Not to mention high-seas pirates, smugglers of illegal immigrants, and rogue brokers of weapons of mass destruction. But how to establish a target list in a network? The good news is that in the last decade we have developed a whole new set of weapons to figure that out. An industry has arisen to help corporations build new networks and junk old hierarchical bureaucracies in the age of merging and emerging companies, says Kathleen Carley, director of the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. New tools have been developed that analyze how an organization interacts, yielding a kind of X-ray that shows where the key links are. There is a general set of principles to any network, says Stephenson, whose company, NetForm, has developed software that mathematically analyzes networks. She points out that typically a network is made up of different kinds of nodes -- pivotal people. The critical ones are "hubs," "gatekeepers" and "pulsetakers," she believes. Hubs are the people who are directly connected to the most people; they know where the best resources are and they act as clearinghouses of information and ideas, although they often are not aware of their own importance. Gatekeepers are those connected to the "right" people. They are the powers around the throne, and often they know their own importance. Pulsetakers are indirectly connected to a lot of people who know the right people. They are "friends of a friend" to vast numbers of people across widely divergent groups and interests. The classic example of how to use this analysis is "finding the critical employee in the company -- the lone expert who knows how to fix the machine," Carley says. Ironically, without network analysis, managers frequently don't recognize who that is and the nature of his importance. "But there's no reason it can't be turned around in the opposite way," she says. There's no reason organizational glitches, screw-ups, jealousies and distrust that slow and degrade performance can't be intentionally introduced." A network's ability to adapt to new challenges can be degraded. Carley says: "One of the things that leads to the ability to adapt is who knows who and who knows what. The higher that is, the better the group's flexibility. But you can reduce the number of times the group can communicate or congregate. Or you can rotate personnel rapidly." And in war, this may have to be done by capturing or killing them. "You can also segregate the things people are doing, so they learn only on a need-to-know basis. The more isolated the tasks are, the more you inhibit their ability to function as a team. "Imagine in your office if you knew who went to whom for advice," Carley says. "If you found a set of people who gave out more advice than anyone else and then removed them from the network, so they can't communicate with others, you would infringe on the ability of the network to operate." In the case of terror networks, people are linked by family ties, marriage ties and shared principles, interests and goals. They thus can be all of one mind, even though they are dispersed and devoted to different tasks. They "know what they have to do" without needing a single-central leadership, command or headquarters. There is no precise heart or head that can be targeted, Arquilla says. Even if you take out an Osama bin Laden, his organization, al Qaeda ("The Base"), still has the resilience of a classic human network. Bin Laden's, for instance, is made up of an estimated two dozen separate militant Islamic groups in the Philippines, Lebanon, Egypt, Kashmir, Algeria, Indonesia and elsewhere, with hundreds of cells, some of them located in Western Europe and even the United States, as we've discovered in the past week. On the other hand, depending on the structure of the network, removing a few key nodes can sometimes do a lot of good, says Frank Fukuyama, author of the seminal work "Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity" and now a professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. "Some are so tightly bound to each other that they are not embedded in other networks. Kill a few nodes, and the whole thing collapses. Take the case of the Sendero Luminoso [Shining Path] in Peru. It couldn't have been that hierarchical. It was designed for the mountains of Peru. It couldn't have been terribly centralized. It had a scattered cell structure. It was hard to infiltrate. It was dispersed. And yet when you got [Shining Path founder and leader Abimael] Guzman and a few top aides, the entire thing fell apart. "The idea that there is no end of terorrists, no way to stamp them all out, that if you kill a hundred, another hundred will spring up -- I would be very careful of that assumption. The network of people who are willing to blow themselves up has to be limited. Sure, there are sympathizers and bagmen and drivers. But the actual core network of suicide bombers is probably a much smaller population. It is also tightknit and hard to infiltrate. But it is limited. It is not obvious to me that there is an endless supply." Another tactic: advancing the cause of the weakest link. "Suppose I've got a really powerful pulsetaker," says Stephenson, "vying for a position of dominance. But I also know that a member of the blood kin group is moving forward who is weaker. If you arrange an accident to eliminate the pulsetaker, and let the weaker family member come in, you've helped corrupt the network." The beauty of seeding weakness into an organization is that you can degrade its effectiveness while still monitoring it, and not causing a new and potentially more efficient organization to replace it. "You don't want to blow away the organization. You want to keep some fraudulent activity going on so you can monitor it. If you blow them away, you lose your leads," says Stephenson. "Better the devil you know. Like [Moammar] Gaddafi. Keep him alive, because you know him. Who knows what sort of clever mastermind might replace him." Intelligence is crucial to analyze the network's weak links so you can destroy it. "You're talking about what amounts to a clan or a tribe or brotherhood of blood and spilled blood. That is really tough to crack. Trying to infiltrate it -- we're talking years," says David Ronfeldt, a senior social scientist at Rand. However, from outside the network you can also look for patterns that stand out from the norm, like who talks to whom, e-mail exchanges, telephone records, bank records and who uses whose credit card, says Ronfeldt. "I would attack on the basis of their trust in the command and control structures by which they operate," says Arquilla. "If they believe they are being listened to, they will be inhibited. If we were to reduce their trust in their infrastructure, it would drive them to non-technical means -- force them to keep their heads down more. A courier carrying a disk has a hell of a long way to go to communicate worldwide. If you slow them down, interception is more likely." Human networks are distinct from electronic networks. But technology is the sea in which they swim. "What made nets vulnerable historically is their inability to coordinate their purpose," says Manuel Castells, author of "The Rise of the Network Society," the first volume of his trilogy, "The Information Age." "But at this point," he says, "they have this ability to be both decentralized and highly focused. That's what's new. And that's technology. Not just electronic. It's their ability to travel everywhere. Their ability to be informed everywhere. Their ability to receive money from everywhere." This is why Arquilla is dubious about some traditional intelligence-gathering techniques, and enthusiastic about new ones. For instance: You can talk about turning one of the network members over to your side, but "that's problematic," he says. "You don't know if they're playing you as a double agent or are simply psychotic." He is also dubious about the value of satellite reconnaissance in determining what we need to know about these networks. However, Arquilla likes the idea of understanding how the network works by using clandestine technical collection. For instance, he says, when any computer user surfs on the Web -- looking for travel tickets, say -- more often than not a piece of software, called a cookie, is transmitted to his computer. The device monitors his every move and reports back to some database what he's done. Now, Arquilla says, "think of something much more powerful than cookies." They exist, he says. One way to use them is by creating "honey pots." This involves identifying Web sites used by activists or setting up a Web site that will attract them, and seeding them with these intelligent software agents. When the activists check in, they can't leave without taking with them a piece of software that allows you to backtrack, getting into at least one part of the enemy network. "That likely gives you his/her all-channel connections, and maybe even some hints about hubs or the direction of some links," says Arquilla. There are other possibilities. "You know those little cameras that some people have on top of their monitors? Let me just say that it is entirely possible to activate those and operate them and look through them without the machine being turned on," he says. Software also exists that "allows you to reconstruct every single keystroke. One after the other. Why is that important? If you do find the right machine, you can reconstruct everything that happens. Even with unbreakable encryption, you have all the keystrokes." Much of this is hardly new, of course. Divide and conquer has worked for a long time. Whenever the police got a Mafia wiseguy -- Joe Valachi, for instance -- to betray the others, no Mafiosi could trust another one as much anymore. Machiavelli, in "The Prince" of 1505, wrote about the strategic deployment of betrayal to undermine trust. What's different is our technological ability to track groups in real time and see patterns that may be invisible on the surface. "Our technology is sufficient that you can now handle realistic-ized groups. We can deal with 30 to several thousand," says Carley. "You couldn't do that before." In 1996, Arquilla and Ronfeldt wrote a slim but highly prescient volume called "The Advent of Netwar" for the National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the defense agencies. It predicts that in a war between human networks, the side with superior intelligence wins. It also makes some tactical suggestions about countering human networks with counter-networks that actually have been used to combat computer hackers. They include: * Find a member of the enemy group who is clearly a harmless idiot; treat him as if he were the most important figure and the only one worthy of being taken seriously. * Single out competent and genuinely dangerous figures; write them off or call their loyalty to the cause into question. * Control the stories people tell each other to define their reason for living and acting as they do. The terrorist story, says Ronfeldt, "gives these people common cause -- us versus them. Right now the U.S. would seem to have the edge at the worldwide level. But within the region, there was the dancing in the streets in Palestine. Part of the story is that America's evil, and that America's presence is to blame for so many of the problems in the Middle East. We have to attack that part." * Find the list of demands extorted by the network; grant some that make no sense and/or disturb and divide their political aims. * Paint the enemy with PR ugly paint so that they seem beyond the pale, ridiculous, alien, maniacal, inexplicable. * Destroy their social support networks by using "helpful" but differently valued groups that are not perceived as aggressive. * Divide and conquer; identify parts of the network that can be pacified and play them against former allies. * Intensify the human counter-networks in one's own civil society. Adds Manuel Castells: "We should be organizing our own networks, posing as Islamic terrorist networks. We should then demand to join one of these networks and then destroy the trust structures. Only way to infiltrate. Oldest technique in the world." Few of these ideas involve flattening Kabul, all of these analysts note. Stephenson worries that massing the Navy near Afghanistan is "a symbolic show of old-fashioned strength. It's not about that anymore. This whole playing ground has shifted." "In order to do anything, you cannot be blind," says Castells. "The most extraordinary vulnerability of the American military is it looks like they do not have many informants inside Afghanistan. It also looks like the majority of the components of this network do not relate directly or essentially to nation-states. That is new. Unless we have a fundamental rethinking of strategic matters, it's going to be literally, literally exhausting and impossible. It will be desperate missile attacks at the wrong targets with a lot of suffering. Massive bombardments turn around the opinion in many ways." "Basically," says Ronfeldt, "you have to find somebody to wipe out."

"when does editorial content become propaganda?" -cbc host "well i'm just being honest with my feelings. now is the time for laughter....i mean with all that is happenning. when we print a cartoon of bin laden walking thru a metal detector with a box cutter we are just providing a vehicle for people to blow off steam." -a.w.s editor maclean's magazine

"We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists."

Last Tuesday's terrors were so calamitous that they threaten to shake us loose from our constitutional mooring. A civil liberties catastrophe looms as citizens surrender to fear, fury and frustration and as lawmakers throw money and shards of the Bill of Rights at the specter of terrorism. Some of our elected leaders predict a gloomy future for freedom. "We're in a new world where we have to rebalance freedom and security," said House Democratic Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt, D-Mo. "We're not going to have all the openness and freedom we have had." Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., repeated the warning: "When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently." Even staunch First Amendment advocates, haunted by the suffering and devastation in New York City, near Washington, D.C., and the Pennsylvania countryside, are tempted to temporize in the face of insistent calls to suspend or re-examine our commitment to civil liberties. The First Amendment fallout commenced within hours of the airplanes crashing into their targets. Tuesday afternoon, FBI agents fanned out to persuade Internet firms and service providers to hook up e-mail sniffing software to monitor private citizens' e-mail. While the desire to marshal all resources in such circumstances is understandable, there are serious consequences for private speech and public discourse when ordinary citizens fear that law enforcement officials with broad powers to investigate and detain are listening in. Expressive activity was curtailed in a variety of places. A high school official reprimanded a student who distributed a flier asking her classmates to pray. Officials at the Baltimore Museum of Art took down a Christopher Wool painting containing the word "Terrorist" (later, they promised to provide "new interpretation" for the painting when it is reinstalled). New York police and members of the National Guard confiscated film from journalists and tourists. If only that were the worst of it. Government officials and policymakers immediately called for measures that would chill public discourse, disrupt reporting by the press, and interrupt the flow of information to the public. They want an expansion of law enforcement powers to spy on telephone and Internet traffic, to restrict the use of Internet encryption products that thwart online monitoring of private email, to slow down and divert funds from the declassification of secrets, and to force public libraries to reveal information about patrons' use of their computers. In Congress, prospects brightened for several troubling measures, including:

The Cyber Security Information Act, which among other things would blow a gaping hole in the Freedom of Information Act.

Anti-leaks legislation, dubbed the "official secrets acts" by those who are deeply concerned about its impact on speech and the press and the flow of critical information to the public.

The Flag Desecration Act, which would for the first time in the history of our nation amend the First Amendment to prohibit burning the flag as a form of political dissent.

To compound the threat, there are disturbing examples of private or self-imposed restrictions on expression. Web pages shut down or removed content, a radio network circulated a list of songs that would be problematic to play, an employer confiscated American flags from the desks of workers, and a wire service withheld news footage after Palestinian threats against a photographer. It would be foolish to dismiss such events � public or private � as mere nibbling at the edges of our rights. In fact, each nibble diminishes our commitment to freedom and the principles that distinguish our way of life from all others. In such an atmosphere, voices of dissent grow silent, probing questions by the press are viewed as unpatriotic and subversive, and whistleblowers inside government with vital information are quieted. In such an atmosphere, propaganda, rumor and paranoia fester and infect. In such an atmosphere, citizens are denied their place as full partners in their own governance. By suspending some of our most precious principles, the risk becomes not just terrorists whose hearts have grown rancid with hate but also a citizenry whose hearts are filled with fear. There are things we can and should be doing rather than joining the stampede to ditch our rights. As columnist Thomas Friedman put it: "We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists." First, we must remember that we've gone down this road too many times before. We have suspended freedom of speech, press and assembly during wartime and other crises, to the point of sending prominent Americans to jail for long terms for uttering unpatriotic words. And always we've looked back in wonderment that we could have been so stupid, that we could have so easily cast aside our democratic heritage. We must demand of ourselves that a distinction is made � in public discourse as well as public policy � between what is merely inconvenient and what strikes at the heart of our most important freedoms. We must demand of those proposing a degradation of our freedom that they provide an immediate and convincing argument that such an approach represents a real solution rather than a false hope. Finally, before we begin to contemplate forfeiture of any of our essential liberties, we must thoroughly examine the lapses in public policy and operations that have become so cruelly evident in the wake of the disaster. Lapses in intelligence collection and analysis; in basic security measures at airports; in granting and monitoring of visas; in national, state and local emergency preparedness. As much as we wish to be safe forever from the horrors of last week, we simply cannot protect freedom by forsaking freedom. As much as we want relief from this time of national duress, we simply cannot make ourselves more secure by making fundamental freedoms less secure. The words of Samuel Adams, in a different time and context, present a challenge to our natural impulse to sacrifice freedom in the face of terrorism: "Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, What should be the reward of such sacrifices? - If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom - go from us in peace. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you." What an affront to the courage and heroism shown by those who gave their lives in rescue efforts or in forcing hijackers into a crash if we give in easily to fear or panic. Fire from the skies and hatred from afar last Tuesday caused human carnage and suffering at an unthinkable level. They dealt terrifying blows to our financial institutions, our transportation and communications systems, our political and military nerve centers, and to a nation's sense of self and security. Do we really want to add constitutional freedoms to that sorrowful list of casualties? From Freedom Forum

Like I said before, cameras and ID cards will do nothing to stop people carrying out these acts. One of these "terrorists" actually had "International Terrorist" as his occupation on his official identity card. Some of the pilots who flew the planes were caught on CCTV at ATMs and in the Airport just before they got on the plane. CCTV does not stop crime. ID cards will hurt the millions of people who will be compelled to carry them and use them in transactions. What these governments want is TOTAL CONTROL of ORDINARY people; they dont give a toss about "terrorists" this is just a pretext to bring an Orwellian Jackboot state into existance, and they will get ZERO resistance from the sheeple because they all believe that these measures will protect them. And dont look to human rights legislation to help you UK citizens, because all the sheeple in Europe ALREADY CARRY ID CARDS BY LAW. It is ILLEGAL to leave your house without your ID in Belgium for example. I have discussed this with Belgian friends before, and they dont have any problem whatsoever with this legislation. Game Over.

i'm going to go watch dr. mabuse again. that is totally fucking unbelievable.

"The hijackers did not use encryption techniques", the official said. or.................................it dosen't matter. if it needs to be read then we'll get it for you, um sir "and they used it well" -dosen't look like it....does it?

The most revolting, stupid and irresponsible edition of the Daily Mail was distributed today, with the following cartoon on page 17: Not since Nazi era racial propaganda has the world seen a cartoon like this printed in a national newspaper. Its quite a development. The people responsible for it are no different to the people who made the postcards that you can see on this page, and this one. The whole world has gone totally INSANE!

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| In Washington, DC, an FBI official told reporters the hijackers and their
| known associates used public computers, such as those in libraries, as
| well as their own personal computers to communicate. 
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| said of the e-mails of the hijackers and their associates. The FBI has
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| hundreds of communications, and the e-mails were not just limited to the
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