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Use of Spy Cameras and Snooping Devices in India: A Victim’s
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(Revised: Wednesday, January 05, 2005)
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AFP. (
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/364282.cms
AMPP. Erosion of Individual Privacy.
http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/privacy.html
Associated Press. (
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,63594,00.html
Baird, Paul. Satellite Surveillance and Human
Experimentation.
http://www.greenpages.com.au/baird/default.htm
Baird, Paul. Personal Surveillance.
http://www.greenpages.com.au/baird/surveill.htm
Beauchamp, Paula.
(
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,7291546%255E421,00.html
Bhikkhu,
Thanissaro. (Translated from the Pali) (Revised:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/anguttara/an05-161.html
Bhikkhu,
Thanissaro. (Translated from the
Pali) (Revised:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/anguttara/an05-177.html
Bowman,
Lisa M. (
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-980964.html
Chowdary, T H. Phone Tapping, the Necessary Evil. phone-tapping.net.
http://www.phone-tapping.net/phone_tapping_articles20.html
Drummond,
Loren. Sexual
Addictions.
http://www.umkc.edu/sites/hsw/issues/sexaddict.html
German,
Jeff. (
http://www.phone-tapping.net/phone_tapping_articles109.html
Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer. (
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,1128,00.html
Grewal, Manraj. (
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=10606
Jak, Sable.
Lessons from a Bug. Absolute Write.
http://www.absolutewrite.com/freelance_writing/legal_voyeurism.htm
James, Frank.
(
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0302110306feb11,0,1363277.story
Johnson,
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/87863_voyeur20.shtml
Jowit, Juliette. (
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1011463,00.html
Kanda,
Sachie. (Trans.) (
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=shukan&id=152
Kaplan,
Drew. The Portable
Instant Spy Camera System with Monitor.
http://www.dak.com/Reviews/2033Story.cfm
Kemp, Sharon. (
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/21/1061434985332.html
Kenner,
Randy. (
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_1438232,00.html
Kornblum,
Janet. (
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Jul/01/tc/tc02a.html
http://www.lsj.com/news/business/030701_spycams_6c-7c.html
Lapin,
Lee. The Whole Spy Catalog PP024. Review.
http://www.undercoverpress.com/spy-catalog.html
Leinwand,
Donna. (
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/01/28/usat-drug(acov).htm
Levy, Steven. (
http://www.msnbc.com/news/976191.asp?vts=101920030357&cp1=1
Li,
Liu. (
http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2002-03-21/61903.html
http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/cn/2002-03-21/62021.html
Losi, Stephanie. (
http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/6938.html
McCullagh, Declan. (Monday, July 15, 2002) House OKs life sentences for hackers. USA: CNET Networks, Inc.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-944057.html
McCullagh, Declan. (Monday, August 05, 2002) Is privacy the next casualty? USA: CNET News.com.
http://news.com.com/2010-1071-948283.html?tag=rn
McCullagh, Declan. (Wednesday, November 13, 2002) Bill could jail hackers for life. USA: MSNBC News.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/834875.asp
McGrath, Neal. (February 1995) Corporate Cops and Robbers: Asian Companies need to beef up their
security. Asian Business.
http://members.aol.com/richpost/art6.html
McGuire, Russ. (Friday, August 01, 2003) Should I market my technology to
pornographers? USA: WorldNetDaily.com.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33860
Manktelow, Nicole. (Saturday, July 19, 2003) Every step you take. Australia: The Age.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/18/1058035190298.html
Marconi, David (1998) Taglines for Enemy of
the State (Movie).
http://us.imdb.com/Taglines?0120660
Mayor, Mike. (Thursday, January 18, 2001) GeoSpatial To Test Wireless Vehicle Tracking. www.WirelessNewsFactor.com
http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/6826.html
Mental
Help Net Staff. Sexual Disorders: Symptoms – Voyeurism.
http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&&id=602&&cn=98&&clnt%3Dclnt00001&&
Middleton, James. (Tuesday, July 16, 2002) Hackers face life imprisonment. UK: VNU Business Publications Ltd.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1133587
Mitchell, Mark. (Monday, April 01, 2002) Always on the Lookout Taipei, Taiwan: Time Asia Magazine. Vol. 159. No. 12.
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/top
Mukherjee, Sourav. (Wednesday, October 30, 2002) Lack of jobs driving women to world’s oldest profession. Ahmedabad, India: Times News Network.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/comp/articleshow?artid=26798388
Ofgang,
Kenneth. (Monday, July 07,
2003) C.A. Allows Doctor to Sue Over
Secret Taping by TV Station. USA: Metropolitan News-Enterprise.
http://www.metnews.com/articles/lieb070703.htm
Orland, Kevin. (Thursday, February 06, 2003) Stalker Victims Should Check For GPS. USA: CBS Broadcasting Inc.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/06/national/main539596.shtml
Pandey, Maneesh. (Tuesday, October 29, 2002) Camera leads to Peeping Tom. Delhi, India: Times News Network.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=26696955
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_702954.html?menu=news.technology.internetcrime
Pati, Parthsarathy. Cyber-Crime Hardships to Curb It. Legal Service India.com.
http://www.legalserviceindia.com/articles/article+4.htm
Raman, B. (Monday, March 19, 2001) Sting Operations. Paper no. 212. South Asia Analysis Group.
http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper212.htm
Rich, Frank. (Sunday, July 02, 2000) Voyeurism for the entire family. USA: New York Times News Service.
http://www.naplesnews.com/00/07/perspective/d440226a.htm
Roberts,
Penny Brown. (Sunday, June 01, 2003) Killer suspect arrested and released again and again.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA: The Advocate.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/060103/new_killer001.shtml
Scott, Tony. (Directed by), Marconi, David. (Written
by) (1998) Enemy of the State. (Movie).
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120660
Sharon, Meghdoot. (Saturday, November 18, 2000) Eve-teasers murder father for protecting daughters. Ahmedabad, India: Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/20001118/ina18007.html
Shiel, Fergus. (Friday, September 27, 2002) Cyber stalkers to be jailed for up to 10 years. Australia: The Age Company Ltd.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/26/1032734276334.html
Swami, Praveen. (Mar. 31 - Apr. 13, 2001) The Surveillance Scene. India: Frontline. Volume 18 - Issue 07.
http://www.flonnet.com/fl1807/18071340.htm
Taylor,
Charles. (Friday,
January 21, 2000) "Rear Window". salon.com.
http://dir.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2000/01/21/rear_window/index.html
http://dir.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2000/01/21/rear_window/index.html?pn=2
The
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Cyber
Crime - IT ACT, 2000. Chapter IX. Penalties and Adjudication. 43. Penalty for
damage to computer, computer system, etc. India.
Thera, Ñanamoli. (Translated from the Pali) (Revised: Thursday, May 17, 2001) Anguttara Nikaya V.161. Aghatapativinaya Sutta. Removing Annoyance.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/anguttara/an05-161a.html
Undercover
Press. Spying,
Espionage & Investigation.
http://www.undercoverpress.com/private.html
Undercover
Press. The
Whole Spy Catalog.
http://www.undercoverpress.com/spy-catalog.html
Walt, Vivienne. (Wednesday, May 20, 1998) Shelves of Snooping Aids Make Privacy Hard to Buy. USA: The New York Times Company.
http://216.87.7.9/press/snooping_aids_make_privacy_hard_to_buy.htm
Abnormal
Psychology: Sexual Disorders.
http://www.byu.edu/~psychweb/bnc/ab/ab-n18.htm
Adventures
in Cybersound - Bibliography : The Art, History and Science of Wired and Wireless
Communications
http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/phd8030.html
Bathroom spy camera court hearing. (Friday, March 16, 2001) UK: Ananova.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_244884.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
Boy's cell phone camera helps foil attempted abduction. (Friday, August 01, 2003) USA:
The Associated Press.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/105656p-95556c.html
CBI begins query into phone tapping; Tata Tea director Kidwai interrogated. phone-tapping.net.
http://www.phone-tapping.net/phone_tapping_articles17.html
CBI can tap at whim -- Agency has 6 bugging machines. (Tuesday, August 06, 1996) India: The Pioneer.
http://www.phone-tapping.net/phone_tapping_articles15.html
Cyber
Security Enhancement Act of 2001.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:HR03482:@@@D&summ2=0&
Cyber
Security Enhancement Act of 2002.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:HR03482:@@@L&summ2=m&
Eve-teasers turn killers, 60-yr-old man murdered. (Wednesday, February 06, 2002) New Delhi, India: The Pioneer.
http://www.edage.org/legal_news_feb2.htm
Eve-teasing Act to be made more stringent. (Wednesday, October 30, 2002) Chennai, India: Times News Network.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/comp/articleshow?artid=26791386
FBI bugging phones, scanning emails in Pakistan. (Tuesday, November 19, 2002) Japan: Japan Today.
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=7&id=239165
Hackers could face life in jail. (Tuesday, July 16, 2002) Science/Nature: BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2131773.stm
He lost his life for opposing eve-teasers. (Tuesday, October 29, 2002) Kochi, India: Times News Network.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/comp/articleshow?artid=26683610
Hidden bedroom cameras inspire video privacy bill. (Tuesday, April 16, 2002) USA: SiliconValley.com.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3077573.htm
Japan arrests 'secret porn movie makers'. (Friday, October 11, 2002) Japan, Asia-Pacific: BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2319411.stm
Landrieu: New Bill Makes “Video Voyeurism” A Federal Crime. (Tuesday, April 16, 2002) USA: State Government of Louisiana.
http://www.senate.gov/~landrieu/releases/02/2002417521.html
Man accused of installing software to monitor use of computer by estranged wife. (Thursday, September 06, 2001) USA: News Tribune Co.
http://newstribune.com/stories/090601/wor_0906010962.asp
Pentagon
system tracks every auto. (Wednesday, July 02, 2003)
USA: WorldNetDaily.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33371
Plot Summary for “Enemy of the State”. (Movie)(1998)
http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0120660
Surveillance
and Security - Personal and Corporate Espionage / Spying
Are
you being bugged ?
http://www.globalchange.com/bug.htm
The Date Rape Pill. USA: Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International and Real World Safety.
http://www.fullpower.org/Articles/rohypnol.html
US
Code Collection: Sec. 2511. - Interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or
electronic communications prohibited. USA.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2511.html
US Code Collection: Sec. 2512. - Manufacture, distribution, possession, and advertising of wire, oral, or electronic communication intercepting devices prohibited. USA.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2512.html
Voyeurism victim opens up on TV shows. (Friday, January 17, 2003) USA: The News-Star.
http://www.thenewsstar.com/html/133CF0A8-BD28-4DE7-AEC1-EE5D75B22565.shtml
What's the world thinking about? Sex, for one thing. (Friday, November 29, 2002)
Singapore: The Straits Times.
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/techscience/story/0,4386,157675,00.html?
Woman jailed for using sheriff's web address to sell porn. (Wednesday, November 06, 2002) Ananova.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_704092.html
Spy
Devices References
http://in.geocities.com/anindianyogi/spydevices.html
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Reference
AFP. (Wednesday, December 17, 2003) Cheers! Date-rape
detector now. India: The Times of India.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/364282.cms
THE TIMES OF INDIA WORLD: ASIA-PACIFIC POWERED BY
INDIATIMES
Cheers! Date-rape detector now
AFP [ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2003 02:20:09 PM ]
SINGAPORE: A credit card-sized detector for 'date rape'
drug has hit the Singapore market much to the cheer of party-going youngsters,
who can now test if the drink their 'friend' is offering is safe.
Drink Spike Detector, which is already on sale in the US
and Australia, comes in a kit comprising four tests and retails at a local
pharmacy chain for 7.65 Singapore dollars ($4.47) each.
To determine if the drink has been spiked, one or two
drops of alcohol has to be smeared onto the pink and green spots of the
detector card, the Straits Times said.
If the colour changes to dark blue, it means the drink
has been tampered with. The test takes just a few seconds.
The detector can identify the popular rave drug Ketamine,
also known as Special K, and gamma hydroxybutyrate, which has been banned in
many countries as it was used to sedate date rape victims.
The product was launched in Singapore this month and the
marketing campaign will begin this weekend with the hand out of flyers at
popular nightspots.
The Straits Times said that although there have been no reported cases of
drinks being spiked for date rape in Singapore, the island-state's Central
Narcotics Board welcomed the product's introduction.
WHAT ARE DATE RAPE DRUGS
Also called predators.
Found at parties, on campuses.
Common ones are Rohypnol (Roofies), Gamma Hydroxy
Butyrate (GHB) and Ketamine Hydrochloride (Special K).
Act instantly, undetectable.
Tasteless, odourless.
Render the victim unconscious but sexually responsive.
Copyright © 2003 Times Internet Limited.
(Reference: AFP. (Wednesday, December
17, 2003) Cheers! Date-rape detector now. India: The
Times of India.)
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Reference
AMPP. Erosion of Individual Privacy.
http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/privacy.html
``Without the ability to keep secrets, individuals lose
the capacity to distinguish themselves from others, to maintain independent
lives, to be complete and autonomous persons. . . . This does
not mean that a person actually has to keep secrets to be autonomous, just that
she must possess the ability to do so. The ability to keep secrets implies the
ability to disclose secrets selectively, and so the capacity for selective
disclosure at one's own discretion is important to individual autonomy as
well.''
-Kim L. Scheppele, Legal Secrets 302 (1988)
(Reference: AMPP. Erosion of Individual Privacy.)
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Reference
Associated Press. (Thursday, September 19, 2002) Internet Dealers of 'Date Rape' Drug Arrested. USA: FOX News Network.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,63594,00.html
Internet Dealers of 'Date Rape' Drug
Arrested
WASHINGTON — Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a
major crackdown on Internet drug traffickers Thursday, disclosing that 115
dealers of the "date rape" drug GHB had been arrested in 84 cities in
the United States and Canada.
"This takedown is a dose of harsh
reality for drug traffickers who seek to
exploit the vast markets and anonymity of cyberspace,"
Ashcroft said.
Drug Enforcement Administration chief
Asa Hutchinson said that Internet traffickers "can expect to face the same
justice the old-fashion drug dealers face."
"With
millions of people having quick and easy access to the Internet,
the buying and selling of deadly drugs and chemicals from
the Web should not, and will not, be as
simple as point-and-click," Hutchinson said.
The DEA has documented 72 deaths from
the drug and its derivatives, which
are sold over the Internet to teenagers and young adults by dealers who operate
their own Web sites. The
drugs are delivered by mail.
Ashcroft and Hutchinson announced
that the wide-ranging Operation Web Slinger encompassed primary investigations
in St. Louis; Detroit and San Diego, Calif.; Mobile, Ala. and Sparta, Tenn.;
Buffalo, N.Y. and Quebec City, Canada.
At a news conference authorities
announced that as part of the probe, they had conducted enforcement operations
in over 80 U.S. cities with drug seizures that could have yielded more
than 25 million doses
of GHB and its derivatives.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service,
the Customs Service and the FBI also participated.
Education efforts by law enforcement
agencies and the government have been aimed at warning
women about predators who could spike
their drinks with the drug.
GHB is a mixture of common industrial
chemicals that Congress outlawed 2 years ago. The
drug and its derivatives GBL and 1,4 BD act as central nervous system
depressants and cause drowsiness, dizziness, nausea and loss of inhibition.
People who use GHB refer to it as
"G" and "Liquid X."
The substance also is abused as a
muscle growth hormone.
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Personal Review.
more than 25
million doses of GHB and its derivatives.
warning women
about predators who could spike their drinks with the drug.
We live in a world of immoral values. “Obsession with lust” can move a
man or woman to extreme limits to achieve his or her purpose.
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Reference (Key points)
Baird, Paul. Satellite
Surveillance and Human Experimentation.
http://www.greenpages.com.au/baird/default.htm
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Cross Reference
Patriot Vocals - Sage - Patriot Activism - Privacy
Issues: "Satellite Surveillance and Harassment Technologies".
http://www.patriotvocals.info/PatriotVocalsSagePatriotActivismPrivacyIssuesSatelliteTech.htm
This information comes from: http://www.greenpages.com.au/baird/
It is quite long but I think you will find it interesting. Whereas I don't know that
every word of it is true, I have been assured by a highly respected and
trustworthy patriot "in the know" that he has researched the patent
numbers on the devices listed toward the end and they do exist!
(Reference: Patriot Vocals - Sage
- Patriot Activism - Privacy Issues: "Satellite Surveillance
and Harassment Technologies".)
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The magnetic field around the
head is scanned as you are satellite tracked. The results are then fed back to
the relevant computers. Monitors then use the information to conduct a
"conversation" where audible neurophone input is "applied"
to the victim.
Human thought operates at 5,000
bits/sec but satellites and various forms of biotelemetry can deliver those
thoughts…
…
Usually the targets are aware their brain waves are
being monitored because of the accompanying neurophone feedback. In other
words, the computer repeats (echoes) your
own thoughts and then the human
monitors comment or respond verbally.
Both are facilitated by the neurophone.
NB Whilst the live/human comments are
individualistic and unrelated to the victims own thought processes oftentimes
the artificial intelligence involved will parrot standard phrases. These are
triggered by your thoughts while the human monitors remain silent or absent.
To comprehend how terrible such a thorough invasion of privacy
can be - imagine being quizzed on your past as you lie in bed. You eventually fall off to
sleep, having personal or "induced" dreams, only to wake to the
monitors commenting / ridiculing your subconscious thoughts (dreams).
If the ability to "brain scan" individuals expands from the million or so currently under scrutiny to include ALL
inhabitants of the planet (as per the Echelon surveillance system which already
monitors ALL private/commercial telecommunications) then no-one will ever be
able to even think about expressing an opinion contrary to those forced on us
by the New World Order. There will literally be
no intellectual property that cannot be stolen, no writing that cannot be
censored, no thought that cannot be suppressed (by the most oppressive/invasive
means).
(Reference: Baird, Paul.
Satellite Surveillance
and Human Experimentation.)
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Reference (Key points)
Baird, Paul. Personal Surveillance.
http://www.greenpages.com.au/baird/surveill.htm
Advice for victims
RE: AUDIO / VISUAL SURVEILLANCE
The best approach is to ignore
the feedback and lodge complaints with
the political unit of the relevant Federal Police department.
Unfortunately this sort of satellite monitoring is common
and nothing can be done to stop it BUT complaints ensure physical safety.
RE: NEUROPHONE HARASSMENT AND BRAIN WAVE MONITORING
Thinking on a "non-worded",
multi-functional level and keeping busy seem to help as they
reduce the effectiveness of the relevant computer equipment.
In other words, don't think too intently on any one topic or on spelling
etc because the computer's vocabulary is extensive and the equipment
feeds off specifics. Remember, it is "thought-activated".
Note:- The military have scanners which can detect
the monitoring/interference but, for "political
and legal reasons", they will not help. However, complaints can be lodged with Federal Police and the Head of State (or
Leader) of your country of residence.
…
…the common, but little
known practise of surveillance
feedback.
Under this oppressive system genuine details are spliced with the results of covert surveillance to harass those viewers who
challenge criminals in high places. The resulting coincidences are carefully
presented so as to avoid prosecution whilst targeting writers, lobbyists and so
on who oppose dishonesty and the suppression of information. These
whistleblowers and campaigners are alienated and discredited using secretive methods like surveillance
feedback. This is done effectively because those not vetted out of the
prominent ranks
deny that such things
happen,
so there are no decent,
powerful people to complain to. Accusations
are dismissed as paranoia.
…
OTHER CONTROLLED SCAMS
The use of satellite-based technologies
(such as the ones mentioned in the attached schedule), especially the
neurophone and brain-scanners, can facilitate countless deceptions. Psychic experiences involving
ghosts, religious encounters with God, personal psychic abilities, all of these
can
be faked using the available technologies. And the
person having the experience is just as likely to be the dupe as the deceiver. Not
surprisingly the targets are usually connected in some way to something or
someone "political" The effectiveness of the incident(s) being
similar to the earlier illustration. That is not to say
there are no legitimate "experiences" at all (just as there are
genuine schizophrenics) but MOST
are staged incidents or set-ups.
…
THE FUTURE
Computer/"human brain cell"
interfacing has already been taken to levels that few people appreciate. US
Military contractors are at
least twenty-five years ahead of academics and their publicly lauded
advances. Again, secrecy provisions etc. keep people in the dark. Today's
experiments in remotely controlling humans continue with the accompanying
crimes against humanity. You won't hear about these publicly for at
least thirty years, if at all. Cloning, single sex conception,
microchipped warriors, and its all possible right now. The
prospect of an army of clones, born from a nest of synthetic uteruses and
microchipped by Big Brother, to protect the ruling class from an increasingly
suspicious and oppressed world citizenry, looms as more than a sci-fi movie
scenario. In fact our storytellers are often using their inside information of
"Real" advances to present fantasies which are no more bizarre then
reality. For now, the targets remain the helpless
and those opposing criminal practices; whistleblowers, troublemakers, do-gooders
and the like. And they have no one to turn to for help.
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Cloning
The 6th Day (2000) starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Clone Army
Star Wars
Series
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
The Mummy Returns (2001) starring
Brendan Fraser
Single sex conception
Junior (1994) starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Microchipped warriors
Universal Soldier: The Return (1999) starring
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Consciousness transfer
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
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Also worth mentioning is the real concern
that if the ECHELON satellite system allows every telecommunication to be
monitored right now, how long before the brain scanning technologies can be
similarly applied? Remembering that the USA, Israel etc have super computers
with capabilities four million times that of a human mind. How many would they
need to monitor the entire world? Also, how long before every newborn child is
microchipped as suggested by NATO's John Alexander. With microchipping they
could control everyone as well? Microchipping for security, identification
purposes is only the trick to sell the idea. Think about the other
possibilities, the subliminals, the pain, the terminations etc.
Also, while reading the attached schedules
of patents ask yourself how different the world would be if just a few of the
simpler satellite-based surveillance technologies were made available to honest
law enforcers. Instead, dishonest politicians, agency officials and other
media/"business" contracts access all these technologies through
defence and other connections. They then use them against those who try (in
vain) to expose their crimes.
Ill conclude with a quote from Dr Jose
Delgado, ex-director of Neuropsychiatry, Yale University Medical School. "We
need a program of psychosurgery and political control of our society. The
purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be
mutilated. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. We must
electronically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be
controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain" (US Congressional
Recorder No.26 vol 118, 24/2/74) Such insanity speaks for itself.
Again, are your thoughts still
your own or have they already conditioned you? You may
consider that you're immune because you never speak out on any topic but if
those who try to speak up on your behalf are silenced (using technology) and if
your only sources of information are media/politically based you are still a
victim. So, PLEASE THINK FOR YOURSELF.
…
Method
of Changing a Person's Behaviour. US Patent #4,717,343. Alan Densky, January 5,
1988. A method of
conditioning a person's unconscious mind in order to effect a desired change in
the persons behaviour which does not require the services of a trained
therapist. The person to be
treated views a program of a video pictures appearing on a screen. The program
as viewed by the person's unconscious mind acts to condition the person's
thought patterns in a manner, which alters that person's behaviour.
…
Apparatus
for Inducing Frequency Reduction in Brain Wave. US Patent 34,834,701. Kazumi
Masaki, May 30, 1989. Frequency
reduction in human brain wave is inducible by allowing human brain to perceive
4-16 Hz beat sound.
Such beat sound can easily be produced with an apparatus, comprising at least
one sound source generating a set of low frequency signals different from each
other in frequency by 4-16 Hz. Electroencephalographic study revealed that the
beat sound is effective to reduce beta-rhythm into alpha-rhythm, as well as to
retain alpha-rhythm.
Ultrasonic
Speech Translator and Communication System. US Patent #5,539,705. M.A.Akerman,
Curtis Ayers, Howard Haynes. July 23, 1996. A wireless communication system
undetectable by radio frequency methods for converting audio signals, including
human voice, to electronic signals in the ultrasonic frequency range,
transmitting the ultrasonic signal by way of acoustical pressure waves across a
carrier medium, including gases, liquids, and solids, and reconverting the
ultrasonic acoustical pressure waves back to the original audio signal. This
invention was made with Government support under contract DE-AC05-840R21400
awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy to Martin Marietta Energy Systems,
Inc.
Non-Audible
Speech Generation Method and Apparatus. US Patent #4,821,326. Norman MacLeod,
April 11, 1989. A non-audible speech generation apparatus and method for
producing non-audible speech signals which includes an ultrasonic transducer or
vibrator for projecting a series of glottal shaped ultrasonic pulses to the
vocal track of a speaker.
…
Method
of and Apparatus for Inducing Desired States of Consciousness. US Patent #5,356,368. Robert Monroe.
October 18, 1994. Improved methods and apparatus for entraining human brain
patterns, employing frequency following response (FFR) techniques, facilitate
attainment of desired states of consciousness. In one embodiment, a plurality
of electroencephalogram (EEG) waveforms, characteristic of a given state of
consciousness are combined to yield an EEG waveform to which subjects may be
susceptible more readily. In another embodiment, sleep patterns are reproduced
based on observed brain patterns during portions of a sleep cycle; entrainment
principles are applied to induce sleep. In yet another embodiment, entrainment
principles are applied in the work environment to induce and maintain a desired level of
consciousness.
A portable device
also is described.
Method
of Inducing Mental, Emotional and Physical States of Consciousness Including
Specific Mental Activity in Human Beings. US Patent #5,213,562. Robert Monroe,
May 25, 1993. A method having applicability in replication of desired consciousness states; in the training of an individual to
replicate such a state of consciousness without further audio stimulation; and in the transferring of such states from the
one human being to another
through the imposition of one individuals EEG, superimposed on desired stereo
signals, on another individual, by inducement of a binaural beat phenomenon.
Device
for the Induction of Specific Brain Wave Patterns. US Patent #4,335,710. John
Williamson. June 22, 1982. Brain
wave patterns associated with relaxed
and meditative states in a subject are gradually induced without deleterious
chemical or neurologic side effects.
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Cross Reference
Rundle, Guy. (Saturday, July 12, 2003) The real deal on drugs. Australia: The Age.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/12/1057783338804.html
The gradual insertion of drugs into the broader spectrum
of everyday life looks paradoxical. In fact it is the rule rather than the
exception. The use of substances to alter consciousness is just about our
oldest cultural activity, predating agriculture, and as venerable as other
distinctively human practices, such as art and burying the dead.
…
Through the imposition of ritual, those peoples who found
themselves surrounded by such plants in relative abundance developed ways of controlling
usage - limiting it to special festivals or to use by the
priestly class. When European conquerers encountered this - after several
hundred years of a type of Christianity hostile to mass rituals of ecstacy - they saw only decadence and demonic possession. The effect of drugs
is only partly determined by their chemical nature, the cultural conditions and
expectations of what they will do.
(Reference: Rundle, Guy. (Saturday, July 12,
2003) The real deal on drugs.
Australia: The Age.)
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Apparatus
for Transforming Voice Using Networks. US Patent #5,425,130. David Morgan. June
13, 1995. An apparatus for transforming
a voice signal of a talker into a voice signal having characteristics of a
different person.
A
computer program to read your thoughts : Computer program to interpret EEG patterns that correspond to
words, developed by Dr
Donald York and Dr Thomas Jensen, University of Missouri.
Same
idea as above, originally developed in 1974 by Lawrence Pinneo at Stanford
Research Institute, California. See "Mind Reading Computer". TIME, July 1st, 1974. Pg67.
Same
idea as above, Dr. Richard Clark, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South
Australia, See GENESIS, Vol.8 #6, December 1991, Pg,1.
Apparatus
for the Treatment of Neuropsychic and Somatic Diseases with Heat, Light, Sound
and VHF Electromagnetic Radiation. US Patent #3,773,049. L.Y.Rabichev,
V.F.Vasiliev, A.S.Pultin, T.G.Ilina, P.V.Raku and L.P.Kennedy. November 20,
1973. Don't let the nice title fool you, this is the patent for LIDA, the infamous Soviet brainwashing
machine. The patient or
victim receives the four physical stimuli named in the title which are
calibrated such that he
"experiences psychical relaxation and gradual transference to sleep" and "The whole system of stimuli which
is addressed to the patient's organism makes use of the first signal system
channels.i.e. the receptor zones of the appropriate analysers so that the
second signal system channels (mind, intellect, psyche) are avoided, thereby
providing for a curative effect, no matter the patient's psychic condition or
his attitude towards the treatment procedure"
Non-Invasive
Method and Apparatus for Modulating Brain Signals through an External Magnetic
or Electric Field
to Reduce Pain. US Patent #4,889,526. Elizabeth Rauscher and William Van Bise.
December 26, 1989. This invention incorporates the discovery of new principles
which utilise magnetic and electric fields generated by time varying square
wave currents of precise repetition, width, shape, and magnitude to move
through coils and curtaneously applied conductive electrodes in order to
stimulate the nervous system and reduce pain in humans.
Nervous
System Excitation Device, later named the "Neurophone". US Patent
#3,393,279. Gills Patrick Flanagan. July 16, 1968. A method of transmitting audio information
via a radio frequency signal modulated with the audio info through electrodes
placed on the subject's skin causing the sensation of hearing the audio
information in the brain.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this patent is that Flanagan was only
14 years old when he invented it! Uses vacuum tubes.
Method
and System for Simplifying Speech Waveforms. US Patent #3,647,970. G.Patrick
Flanagan. March 7, 1972. A
complex speech waveform is simplified so that it can be transmitted directly
through earth or water as a waveform and understood directly or after amplification. An upgraded form of the above patent. Uses
transistors.
…
Those
Who Draw Special Attention
Because
of intercepted communications (especially lobbying) the following are very
closely monitored: Whistle-Blowers, Anti-nuclear activists, Anti-drugs campaigners,
outspoken
religious figures,
as well as organisations like Amnesty International, Greenpeace and The
International Red Cross. Some prominent public figures also feature in this
category.
Whether
they realise it or not, most of these are monitored around the clock on a real time audio/visual basis, courtesy
of satellite systems
developed by defence contractors in the US. Even handwritten material prepared indoors
can be immediately accessed under this system. There is NO PRIVACY.
…
Non-Public
figures can receive
subtle media feedback; referencing things said or done in
private in a "careful" manner. In these ways the mainstream media can oppress political targets. Much
of what they gather is never used publicly, only privately. It is this information which
gives them much of their power.
…
Example
1. The Neurophone (USPatent 3393279, 1968) This is a device that converts sound
to electrical impulses. A directional (satellite) laser or microwave aimed at
the body allows a signal to travel the targets nervous system directly to the
brain. Only the target
hears the voices, sound etc. The CIA and US Military intelligence are
the main faciliators of this
mode of torture
but others do have
access to it.
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Cross Reference
CIA to set up
anti-jihad cell. (Thursday, October 30, 2003) Ahead of News, NewsInsight.net
http://www.intelligenceonline.net/World.asp?recno=2396&id=3083019302113030&sub=top
CIA to set up anti-jihad cell
30 October 2003: The US Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) plans to set up an anti-jihad cell, a special anti-terrorism unit,
to monitor, analyse and conduct preventive action against radical Muslims who
target the United States and American interests around the world.
The CIA will analyse the reasons for
anti-Americanism among Muslim intellectuals and theologians and then try to
influence Muslim radicals who target the US using violence.
The CIA plans to conduct some two-hundred
seminars, conferences and interactive sessions among intellectuals outside the
US to have a fix on Muslim minds to ascertain the futuristic Muslim world.
“The CIA wants to know where the Muslim
world is headed and its geopolitical implications for the Western world,” a
Western diplomat said.
The CIA wants to promote liberal thinking
among Muslims to soften their views about the US and to pick up American
values which promote democracy and liberal principles.
At
the same time, the CIA is also planning to target radicals who provoke youths
into violence against America with special radiowaves that were first employed
with some success during the Cold War against Soviet and East German leaders.
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For
those aware of this technology
(such as ex government agents or knowledgeable whistle blowers) the constant torment of loud threats, noise
etc is bearable though very annoying. However, for others it's a confusing
journey towards being discredited and institutionalised. The symptoms mirror those of mental illness and one word to the wrong
medico or state police officer and you're committed. This is their goal. It is
called political psychiatry and it's their favourite method for silencing
people who know too much.
How
does it work? Well the 3D holographic sound of the neurophone can make the voices appear to be coming from any
direction the operator intends.
(Remember from the last section that the operative probably has an audio/visual feedback available in
real-time). So, some
are deceived into believing the sound comes from switched off TV's or radios. Others
hear it as "ghosts" or "voices from God" whilst some have had "encounters with
telepathic aliens" or "invisible" agents. Worse still some have
had been triggered to commit acts of violence by "Satan" or the
"laughter/comments" of strangers around them. More times than not, the victim is sane and
these deceptions are AGENCY TRICKS USING NEUROPHONE TECHNOLOGIES. But openly or
subliminally applied, assassinations, suicides etc. can be effected by using
these technologies on the unwary and susceptible.
In
the same manner, visual holograms, blurred vision and so on can be effected
using satellite lasers aimed at tracked human targets. Little wonder that this
valuable system of oppression and manipulation has been shrouded in secrecy for
over forty years, since its invention in 1958. They have ways to quieten
opponents aside from using the media and one day these methods may, like the ECHELON system, affect all of us.
(Reference: Baird, Paul. Personal
Surveillance.)
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Reference
Beauchamp,
Paula. (Tuesday, October 14, 2003) Cameras in toys spy on ex-partners. Australia: The Advertiser.
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,7291546%255E421,00.html
Cameras
in toys spy on ex-partners
By
Paula Beauchamp, social trends reporter
ESTRANGED
couples are using tiny spy cameras hidden in children's toys to watch each
other on custody visits.
Teddy
bear cams feature a pen-sized camera that peeks through the nose, eyes or a
button.
Victorian
Detective Service general manager Mark Grover said the soft-toy spy cams were
custom-made and cost up to $800.
Charles
Aaron Consulting private investigator Daniella Kostovski said clients were told camera toys could only be
used subject to the Surveillance Devices Act.
But
adolescent psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg warned parents the teddy cams
could be profoundly destructive.
"It's
a clear breach of trust,
a clear indication that there
is very little trust
between the parents,"
he said.
"There
is a big risk the child's loss and grief at their parents' separation could be
compounded."
Couples
are also hiring private detectives to watch each other during custody visits.
Local
investigators said women were driving the trend, but about 35 per cent of
clients were men.
Investigator
Charles Rahim, from Charles Aaron Consulting, said top firms received hundreds
of calls monthly.
"It is very, very common. Usually the ex-partners are not on good terms or one partner may be
afraid for the kids,"
he said.
Problem
parents uncovered by private detectives include:
A
MOTHER who left her child with a babysitter and was followed to a heroin deal
in Russell St.
A
WOMAN who left her baby in a car for three hours on a visit to a lover's home.
A
MALE musician who repeatedly dumped his kids with his parents and failed to
visit them during access weekends.
Mr
Grover said estranged
couples often wanted to use the information in court.
He
said grandparents paid
for about 50 per cent of the firm's custody surveillance work.
"Often
they want you to follow a person the night before access starts to check if
they've gone to the boozer or are using marijuana," he said. "People spend a lot domestically to
establish what the other partner is up to."
Mr
Grover said most
couples were young, with young children, and came from all walks of life.
"Our
role is purely to observe and report back fairly and honestly on the person's
activities," he said. "Often, you put people under surveillance and
find they are just decent humans doing the right thing."
Family
Court figures show the
court issues almost 30,000 residence and contact orders for children annually.
(Reference: Beauchamp, Paula. (Tuesday, October 14, 2003) Cameras in toys spy on ex-partners. Australia: The
Advertiser.)
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Reference
Bhikkhu, Thanissaro. (Translated from the
Pali) (Revised: Monday, September 10, 2001) Anguttara Nikaya
V.161.
Aghatapativinaya
Sutta. Subduing Hatred.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/anguttara/an05-161.html
Anguttara
Nikaya V.161
Aghatapativinaya
Sutta
Subduing
Hatred
For free distribution only.
Read an alternate translation by Ñanamoli Thera
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"These are five ways of subduing hatred by which, when
hatred arises in a monk, he should wipe it out completely. Which five?
"When one gives birth to hatred for an individual,
one should develop good will for that individual. Thus the hatred for
that individual should be subdued.
"When one gives birth to hatred for an individual,
one should develop compassion for that individual... equanimity toward that
individual... one should pay him no mind & pay him no attention... When one gives
birth to hatred for an individual, one should direct one's thoughts to the
fact of his being the product of his kamma: 'This venerable one is the doer of his
kamma, heir of his kamma, born of his kamma, related by his kamma, and is
dependent on his kamma. Whatever kamma he does, for good or for evil, to that
will he fall heir.' Thus the hatred for that individual should be subdued.
"These are five ways of subduing hatred by which, when hatred arises in a monk, he should wipe it out completely."
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Reference
Bhikkhu, Thanissaro. (Translated from the Pali) (Revised: Sunday,
May 20, 2001) Anguttara Nikaya V.177. Vanijja Sutta. Business (Wrong
Livelihood).
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/anguttara/an05-177.html
Anguttara
Nikaya V.177
Vanijja
Sutta
Business
(Wrong Livelihood)
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
For free distribution only.
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"Monks, a lay follower should not engage in five types of business. Which five? Business in weapons, business in living beings, business in meat, business in intoxicants, and business in poison.
"These are the five types of business that a lay
follower should not engage in."
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Personal Review.
…business in living beings,…
include
- Business of using women for prostitution and thereby earn a living.
- Self-business as a sex worker and thereby earn a living.
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Reference
Chowdary, T H. Phone Tapping, the Necessary Evil. phone-tapping.net.
http://www.phone-tapping.net/phone_tapping_articles20.html
Telecomment
Phone Tapping, the Necessary Evil
By T H Chowdary
The famous mathematician-physicist Carson investigated
the reason for noise in radio and concluded, "like the poor, noise will
always be with us." I recall this in the context of the famous Tata Tapes,
containing the conversations between personages like Ratan Tata, Nusli Wadia,
Keshab Mahindra etc., that were recorded by tapping the phones.
Listening into telephone conversations by third parties
is as old as telephony itself. Almond B. Strowger was an undertaker and had a
telephone in its early days, when calls were put through by operators. One of
the telephone operators was befriended by Strowger's business rival and calls
requiring a hearse and coffin, meant for Strowger, were being diverted by the
eavesdropping operator to Strowger's rival. It was this trouble and business
loss that spurred the intelligence of Strowger to invent the automatic
telephone switch which goes by his name (the Strowger automatic telephone
exchange). Some such are still in service in the DOT, 100 years after its
invention.
The automatic switch did away with operator's
eavesdropping, but the ingenuity of technicians in the exchanges continued
enabling them to listen and record the phone conversations rather
unobtrusively. Conversations can, however, be electronically encrypted so that
even if they are tapped, they cannot be easily deciphered and made
intelligible. In India, DOT does provide scrambling incorporating telephones
called secraphones or ultaphones. Conversations on pairs of similar secraphones
are ordinarily undecipherable up to a point. In mobile telephony, which is
digital and provides encoding and compression, conversations are not easily
decipherable but can be intelligible by appropriate monitoring equipment.
The Legal Aspect
The legal position is interesting. The Indian Telegraph
Act, which was enacted in 1885 when telephony was only local and limited, had
the telegraph messages (which by then were 30 years old in India) in view and
provides for their "interception", which meant non-delivery to the
addressee. The definition of telegraph includes telephony, facsimile, images
and even data (as in computers). Government can, therefore, intercept telephone
conversations also. Whether interception by government as authorised by the ITA
1885 is legal or not, has not been tested in any Court in India so far.
In the UK, there is a specific law which authorises
government to tap, overhear and even record telephone conversations. This was
contested in Courts in the famous case of a communist who, under cover of some
British outfit for international peace and nuclear disarmament, etc., was
suspected to be indulging in subversive activities. The case went in appeal to
the European Court, which upheld the right to privacy of citizens in the
European Community. The UK government had to resort to ingenious legal
legerdemain to eavesdrop on the telephone conversations of drug peddlers, arms
smugglers or terrorists.
In India, in 1992, Government appointed a high-powered
committee to suggest amendments to the ITA 1885. I was a member of that
Committee. Some of us passionately wanted to delete the section that authorises
government to "intercept" "telegraph" messages, because DOT
and its officers were being abused and held as accomplices of the political party
in power to fix up its opponents by monitoring their telephone conversations.
But then, the Committee was given a presentation by the concerned agencies of
the Government on the extensive, dangerous and subversive and terrorist
activities, often inspired and funded by our enemies and ill-wishers. We were
convinced that phone tapping is a necessary evil practice of the Government.
The legal position about private persons tapping
telephones is a different matter. It has to be dealt with under the right to
privacy of citizens. But who tapped, and how, cannot be easily established.
The
contents of the Tata tapes certainly concern the insurgency in the northeast
India. Whether disclosure is in public interest or not, is debatable.
So we see that telephone tapping, like the poor, will be
with us, always. Just as the poor are used for garnering votes by populist
promises of politicians, telephone tapping may also be misused by politicians,
as well as business rivals (as in case of Strowger, the undertaker) for private
benefit. Everybody condemns phone taps but none refrains from it when needed.
We have to recall the noted references--Nixon, R.K. Hegde, Rajiv Gandhi,
Chandra Sekhar and other politicians, who at one time or the other were
beneficiaries or victims of telephone tapping.
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Reference
Drummond, Loren. Sexual Addictions.
http://www.umkc.edu/sites/hsw/issues/sexaddict.html
I. What is Addiction?
addiction - "the act of devoting or giving up one's
self to a practice; the state of being devoted; devotion.
(Webster's Dictionary 1965, p.11)
devoted - "to give up wholly, or direct the
attention chiefly; to vow anything to a deity" (p. 237).
Addiction is a state of the total person.
A way of living marked by compulsiveness and/or
dependence.
Compulsiveness is driven to the point of a pathological
relationship to any mood-altering experience with a marked propensity to
culminating in life damaging consequences are the stuff of which addictions are
made (Bradshaw 1988 p.15). These life damaging consequences may, and will
include:
- familial problems,
- work or career problems,
- health problems,
- self esteem or approval
problems,
- financial problems - when the
addict either spends inordinate amounts of money chasing her
"high" or whenever work is missed due to this attempt at mood
alteration.
Peele, (p. 981, p. 24) suggests that addictions:
1. Tend to
eliminate psychological pain/reduce personal awareness of such when the
"addict" is acting out.
2. Causes
one to be less aware of, or pay less attention to problems in his/her life and
thus precludes their dealing with problems constructively.
3. When not
participating in the addiction, mental pain is experienced upon thinking about
his/her life.
4. Reduced
self regard, personal disapproval and lowered self-esteem generate further
practice of the addictive behavior.
5. The cycle
is repeated - returns to phase one of cycle.
Addictions are thus comprised of these elements:
• Devotion,
to the point of compulsiveness, to a mood-altering experience;
• a
cyclical preoccupation with achieving the desired effects in spite of life
damaging consequences.
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Reference
Fox, Barry. (Monday, May 19, 2003) Wireless cameras
raise privacy fears. UK: The New Scientist.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993725
Wireless cameras raise privacy fears
09:30 19 May 03
A merger of cellphone technology with digital cameras
means CCTV is going wireless, ending the need to wrestle with spaghetti-like
cabling when setting up a system.
Cellphone maker Nokia is launching a camera in May that
can snap a high-resolution picture and send it to a picture-messaging phone or
PC when prompted by a text message. It sounds harmless enough.
But data protection experts say that the sudden proliferation
of wireless surveillance cameras may put some people on the wrong side of the
law, and that hackers could intercept the pictures. In addition, civil
liberties groups are concerned that people will now be able to hide
intrusive cameras just about anywhere.
The camera can be bolted unobtrusively to a wall or sat
on a stand, watching and waiting until someone in its field of view moves.
Alternatively, it can be triggered by sending it a text message from anywhere
in the world. The camera then snaps a picture and sends it to a
picture-messaging phone or email address.
Infrared imaging lets the camera see in the dark, and a
microphone can even eavesdrop on speech. The camera works on all the GSM
frequency bands and can be used in most countries around the world.
Unlike the grainy pictures taken by today's picture
phones, the £300 Nokia Observation Camera snaps high-resolution images of 640
by 480 pixels. This means it rates as a surveillance system under British and
European law, so people buying one will have to register with the data
protection authorities as a CCTV user, says Britain's Office of the Information
Commissioner.
"If this device captures an identifiable image, it
will be classed as a CCTV device," says the office's compliance manager Fay
Spencer. "Anyone who is not exempt will have to register as a CCTV
user." Under the act, anyone can ask a registered user to see
what they have recorded.
Watching your car in your drive or on the street outside
your home would be exempt. But watching other people, their homes or cars would not.
"The guiding principle is transparency and fairness, telling people how
the camera is being used and why. That's why shops have notices warning
customers that they are on camera," says Spencer.
"So far CCTV has been used mainly by governments and
companies. They are controlled by the data protection laws and have to respect
public opinion. But with devices like this anyone will be able to put a camera
wherever they like," says Ian Brown, director of the pressure group the
Foundation for Information Policy Research. "The security had better be
good. We don't want hackers getting the pictures. This is going to
become one of the new big issues and we need to open it up for public debate."
Barry Fox
(Reference: Fox, Barry. (Monday, May 19,
2003) Wireless cameras raise privacy fears.
UK: The New Scientist.)
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Reference
German, Jeff. (Tuesday, December 17, 1996) Ex-exec: Frontier tapped own lines; Patton says eavesdropping sparked by paranoia. USA: Las Vegas Sun.
http://www.phone-tapping.net/phone_tapping_articles109.html
December 17, 1996
Ex-exec: Frontier tapped own lines
Patton says eavesdropping sparked by paranoia
By Jeff German
LAS VEGAS SUN
The Frontier hotel-casino secretly wiretapped its own
phone lines amid a wave of "paranoia" over a bitter strike, the
resort's former personnel director charges.
John Patton, who left the resort in June 1993, alleged in
a sworn court deposition that Frontier co-owner John Elardi directed the
eavesdropping, which was aimed at the hotel's management and employees.
The latest allegations follow disclosures last week that
Elardi also oversaw a secret spy squad that was used against striking Culinary
Union workers during the five-year-old labor dispute.
Wayne Legare, the unit's former head, alleged the squad
engaged in dirty tricks, such as spraying strikers with a water cannon, placing
manure where they ate and stealing the signals from their hand-held radios.
Legare said spying on the picket line was coordinated at
a second-floor command center, dubbed the "900 Room," which
controlled a series of high-tech video cameras and listening devices planted
around the hotel.
The reported wiretapping was confirmed by two ranking
ex-Frontier employees who saw the recording devices in the hotel's basement
phone room.
One of those sources, who asked to remain anonymous, said
the Frontier had equipment to secretly monitor numerous telephone lines at a
time.
"It was there, and it was being used," said the
other source, who also asked not to be identified.
Nevada law prohibits anyone from recording telephone
conversations without the consent of one of the parties.
Patton, a 63-year-old former police officer who's
battling cancer, declined comment.
He said he was forbidden to talk about the Frontier because
of a recent confidentiality agreement settling his court case against the
resort over his 1993 departure. Patton contended in the suit he was forced out
after falling into disfavor with the Elardi family.
In an August 22 deposition in another court case against
the Frontier, Patton alleged the wiretapping was done by John Horton, an Elardi
confidante and electronics expert.
"The place became very paranoid," Patton said.
"John Horton was supposed to have been tapping the phone lines in all the
offices.
"All the department heads were upset. They were
afraid their offices were being bugged. And if we wanted to talk to anybody, we
had to go to a secure office, because we were afraid John Elardi and his friends
were listening."
When pressed further, Patton added: "They had the
equipment. I know that. And I know that they -- at one time anyway -- were
wiretapping my phone and Mike Klug's phone. That was John Elardi and his
gang."
Klug, the Frontier's former director of operations,
refused comment, and Horton could not be reached.
Elardi, his brother, Frontier General Manager Tom Elardi,
and longtime Frontier attorney, Steve Cohen, did not return phone calls.
Tom Elardi last week denied the hotel had engaged in
wrongdoing.
Legare, meanwhile, gave credence Monday to the alleged
wiretapping, saying Horton once informed him about it.
"I knew there was some stuff going on in the phone
room," Legare said. "John Horton told me they were attempting to
'clarify' some situations."
But Legare, who left the hotel in October 1995, said he
never physically saw the wiretapping because he rarely went to the phone room.
Legare said his activities were confined to the 900 Room,
which among other things, secretly monitored the conversations of Metro Police
officers while they viewed videotapes of the strike line inside the Frontier.
He said his unit also recorded phone conversations with
police every time officers were asked to come to the strike line.
While at the hotel, Legare added, police were constantly
videotaped by hotel surveillance cameras.
"We had orders to record everything whenever Metro
came on the property in case we came up with something we could use against
them," Legare said.
He explained that he once put a tape together for John
Elardi showing embarrassing conduct by police, but Elardi never used it.
Footage was compiled of a Metro officer giving a female
striker the keys to his patrol car and other officers outside the nearby
Fashion Show mall beating up someone they had stopped, Legare said.
Patton, meanwhile, described more of the Frontier's
reported paranoia in another deposition he gave in his own court case against the hotel on July 11.
He said Horton once set up a camera outside the
personnel office that with the help of a computer could capture a person's aura
on film.
Patton's former top assistant, Gary Ayers, described the
camera in an interview.
Ayers said the Elardis wanted all of their employees to
be photographed by the sophisticated camera, which purportedly
captured the energy fields around a person.
The special equipment allowed for a positive
identification of someone along the lines of a finger print, he said.
Patton said in his deposition the Elardis were hoping to
use the camera to help single out strike sympathizers on the picket line.
But employees soon became irate over it -- one even
threatened to go to the FBI -- and the camera was taken down the next day, he
said.
A letter later was circulated apologizing for putting it
up, he added.
Things got so bad for him at the Frontier, Patton
testified in the other court case, that he once received a death threat.
He said word came back to him that one of John Elardi's
bodyguards had gotten "high on something" and was telling people he
was going to kill Patton and his wife.
Patton said he took his concerns to Tom Elardi and was
told he couldn't do anything about it because the bodyguard was "John's
boy."
Another time, Patton said, someone had defecated under
his secretary's desk. The secretary discovered it while stepping in it when she
came to work in the morning.
Patton said he ultimately felt pressured to leave the
Frontier.
On Monday, Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa finally
addressed the spy squad revelations, saying she doesn't plan an investigation.
She said it would be "inappropriate" to comment
on the allegations because her office represents the State Gaming Control
Board, which has been asked to investigate the Frontier.
Control Board Chairman Bill Bible has suggested criminal
laws may have been broken and that "appropriate" law enforcement
authorities should look into the case.
Top labor leaders and state lawmakers have echoed his
words.
Legare has alleged that Frontier employees were asked to
lie in court proceedings involving the strike.
But Sheriff Jerry Keller and District Attorney Stewart
Bell have shown little interest in pursuing a probe.
Keller said he won't act unless someone files a complaint
against the Frontier.
Culinary Union leaders, however, said they have gone to
police before with complaints on the picket line and nothing was done about
them.
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Reference
Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer. (Friday, December 20, 1996) India's High Court Pulls Plug on Wiretapping. USA: Wired.com.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,1128,00.html
India's High Court Pulls Plug on Wiretapping
By Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
Page 1 of 1
08:00 PM Dec. 20, 1996 PT
The Indian Supreme Court ruled this week that
wiretapping
is a "serious invasion of an individual's privacy" and called for the
government to update the century-old Indian Telegraph Act's clause on
interception.
The high court ruled that an order for
wiretapping can only be issued by the Federal Home Secretary - the most senior
official in India's equivalent to the US Department of Justice. In
"urgent" cases, this power can be delegated to slightly lower-level
officials.
Wiretaps can be used only if no "other reasonable
means" are available, the court said. Wiretapping in India is used by the
Intelligence Bureau, which claims to be the longest-existing intelligence
service in the world. Most often, interception is illegally targeted on
opponents of the ruling party.
The Supreme Court was ruling on a public-interest suit
brought by the People's Union for Civil Liberties. The court did not rule on
what exactly is in the public interest and what justifies interception.
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Grewal, Manraj. (Thursday, October 03, 2002) Anonymity starring Richard Gere and Goldie Hawn. Mcleodganj, Himachal Pradesh, India: Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=10606
Anonymity starring Richard Gere and Goldie Hawn
Life goes on in Dharamshala: Nobel Laureate, filmstars
discuss Nature of Life
Manraj Grewal
Mcleodganj, HP,
October 2: The subject was the star, the stars mere observers. But when talk
centres on the Nature of Matter, the Nature of Life, and the presiding deity is
none other than His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the celeb quotient
does cease to exist.
So Hollywood heart-throbs Richard Gere, dashing in an
olive T-shirt, and Goldie Hawn, floating around in a sheer golden cape, occupied the
humble position of mere observer.
So, too, did Dan Goleman, author of The Emotional
Intelligence, while Nobel laureate physicist Steven Chu and Eric Lander, a leading genome
expert, were pegged a rung higher as participants here today.
A gathering with enough star power to generate mass
hysteria elsewhere but here at McLeodganj, where life flowed at its placid
pace. No heads turned when Gere and Goldie decided to walk to the Chonor
guesthouse, a good 10 minutes from the Dalai Lama’s residence, after the
morning session on Day 3.
Only a group of urchins showed any interest, but their
sights were trained on the Rs 500 notes Boston Russel, Hawn’s 19-year-old son,
was distributing with the best karma.
Back in the office of the Dalai Lama, his man Friday, the
Venerable
Lhakdor, tried to put things into perspective. ‘‘It’s the
dialogue that should be your focus, not the people.’’ Adam Engle, the brains
behind the US-based organisers Mind and Life Institute, nodded vigorously.
So did Gere, every bit as good-looking in real life in the reel.
Unhappiness, he said, was what had propelled him towards
Buddhism aeons ago. But wasn’t he rich, handsome and super-successful, all that
was required to be happy? ‘‘You know better’’, he said, waving a hand. His goal
is that of Everyman: to attain happiness and cultivate compassion.
Which is why he finds no difference between McLeodganj
and Hollywood. ‘‘People are the same everywhere, with the same emotions.’’
Yes, he admitted, Dharamshala could do with a clean
sweep. Two years ago, his foundation tried to do it, but to no avail. ‘‘I
thought things would change, we would have one-way road, covered sewers, but
nothing has changed, nothing except the DC, health officer...’’
Which is when you realise that Gere isn’t your ordinary
tourist, he knows the town’s babudom inside out. Also the people. Hence, the
knowledge that they alone could help themselves. ‘‘I don’t have
that kind of time’’, he shrugged, trotting back to the conference hall.
Goleman had a few moments, just enough to tell you that
the last such dialogue in March 2000 gave him the staple for his book
Destructive Emotions, due for release next January. It also gave an impetus to
research on meditation at Harvard, which proved that people who meditate
have much higher positive emotions than the normal.
Goldie Hawn, who’d taken a short break for tea, vouched
for it. A self-confessed Indophile — ‘‘I feel happy, and at home here’’ — she
called meditation her daily fix. ‘‘It helps me marshal my mind, choose the
right from wrong, become a more compassionate person.’’
Later, sitting in the tankha-covered room, soaking in the
sage dialogue, you realise it’s this C-word that binds these scientists, actors
and monks together. Chu, a professor of physics at Stanford and a believer in
no religion with a name, put it into words when he said: ‘‘All of us agree with
the Dalai Lama’s belief that we should develop compassion for the world around us, for
doing good is good for us as well.’’
But it was His Holiness who had the last word: No action, he declared, was good or bad,
it’s the motivation that counts. Using that as the yardstick, the gathering, with the
monks on the one hand and the scientists on the other, discovered that there was really no
dichotomy between science and religion. None at all, if both were used for the
human good. That is the bottom line.
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Personal Review.
Which is why he finds no difference between McLeodganj
and Hollywood. ‘‘People are the same everywhere, with the same emotions.’’
So it is only a matter of having access to the right technology, devices, internet etc, for a criminal to evolve into similar lines to that in the US. It also shows the urgent requirement to implement similar criminal laws in India also. Technology, access to information, was what that hindered the evolution. Now the internet, internet shopping etc nullifies the evolution barrier into a high-tech criminal.
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Reference
Jak,
Sable. Lessons from a Bug. Absolute
Write.
http://www.absolutewrite.com/freelance_writing/legal_voyeurism.htm
People
always ask me where I find my characters. I tell them I'm a voyeur. If they get
a little huffy, I remind them that there's a
bit of the voyeur in all of us. If there
wasn't, people watching wouldn't be such
a popular past time.
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Reference
James, Frank.
(Tuesday, February 11, 2003) GPS grows as tool to spy at home, work. USA: Chicago
Tribune.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0302110306feb11,0,1363277.story
GPS grows as tool
to spy at home, work
By Frank James
Washington Bureau
Published
WASHINGTON --
While GPS technology that uses satellites has been a boon to millions who don't
want to get lost, others are increasingly turning to the same technology to
track people and keep an eye on them.
Spouses who
believe mates are having affairs, employers who suspect workers are misusing
company vehicles and parents who wonder whether their children are where they
are supposed to be are among those using devices tied to the global positioning
system.
At Washington's
WJLA-TV, employees say station officials have abused the technology. Last year,
management installed tracking devices in station-owned cars and trucks that
news crew members are permitted to take home.
Officials at the
station, an ABC affiliate, have said the devices are meant to let editors know
where vehicles are for news-gathering purposes so the closest crew can be
dispatched.
But employees
said the devices have been used to monitor them. As one photographer drove
along a highway, a manager phoned to tell him to stop driving so fast.
"You have
managers who call you and say, `Why have you stopped here? Why did you stop
there?' said a photographer who asked not to be identified. "You're like,
`I had to go to the bathroom' or `I had to get something to eat.'"
The station's
general manager, Chris Pike, did not return several calls for comment.
While such GPS
tracking is legal, the trend has contributed to the looming sense that the
United States is increasingly a surveillance society, especially in the wake of
stepped-up terrorism-related security.
The tracking also
has created a backlash, with some subjects seeking to thwart the technology.
"Location
tracking can be a considerably significant invasion of privacy," said Lee
Tien, senior counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San
Francisco-based organization concerned with civil liberties and technology
issues.
"Who has
access to that information?" he asked. "Under what circumstances? A
lot of people don't think about what it means for your employer to be able to
know where you go throughout your day. Or an insurance company."
The satellite
technology used for tracking relies on the same network widely used for
navigation. GPS navigation is what allows U.S. cruise missiles to explode on,
or within feet of, selected targets. Recovery workers are marking the location
of debris from the space shuttle Columbia with GPS devices. Many rental cars
come with GPS displays that help customers find unfamiliar places.
Oregon is studying
the feasibility of installing GPS technology in the cars of its residents as it
considers imposing taxes based on fuel efficiency. Miles driven would be
compared to fuel purchases.
Role in sniper
case?
GPS may have even
figured in one of the more notorious crime sprees in recent U.S. history. Last
year, when the Washington-area sniper suspects were arrested, a GPS device was
among the items found in their possession. Investigators speculate that it
might have helped them evade police dragnets by taking side streets instead of
major roads.
A network of 24
satellites broadcasts signals received by GPS devices. Using triangulation, the
satellites help the devices gain a fix on their location anywhere on Earth.
While the
navigational functions of GPS have caused little or no clamor, tracking has
caused a stir. The devices can indicate not only direction but the speed at
which a vehicle or person is moving and the precise address they have visited.
Some tracking is
meant to protect the vulnerable. Wherify Wireless Inc., for example, makes a
bracelet containing a GPS device and a tiny wireless phone that can be placed
on the wrists of children or Alzheimer's patients to help find them if they
become lost. Some companies offer technology to the anxious parents of teenage
drivers so they can know not only where their children are going but how fast
they were driving. The devices cost about $400 to $500.
"If you look
at our [tracking] technology, it way overweighs the bad that people can do with
it," said Timothy Neher, founder and president of the company. Neher got
the idea for the devices after a scary moment during a zoo visit when he was
momentarily separated from two young relatives in his care.
Trucking
companies have used GPS tracking for years to keep tabs on their drivers and
shipments. But concerns about potential use of the data for discipline purposes
caused the Teamsters to include language prohibiting such use in the contract
it reached with United Parcel Service in August.
Used-car dealer Bruce
Mattingly of Louisville said installing GPS tracking devices in the past year
has reduced his need to repossess cars for non-payment. His salesmen tell
customers about the devices and have them sign releases. GPS tracking also has
raised his percentage of customers who pay their bills to 80 percent compared
with the industry average of 60 percent.
Businesses that
sell the tracking devices say many units are purchased by spouses seeking to
confirm suspicions about their mates' fidelity.
"I never
ask, but a lot of people will volunteer: `Yeah, I've got to catch my
wife,'" said Greg Shields, who sells the devices on his Web site. "A
lot of times people will say, `I hate to have to do this, but it's really
cheaper than hiring a private investigator.'"
Shields also
sells to employers who want to check to see if workers are using company trucks
to do side jobs. He, like others, also does a thriving trade with private
investigators.
Stalking cases
arise
Some cases of GPS
stalking have cropped up. A Wisconsin man was indicted recently on felony
stalking charges alleging he shadowed an ex-girlfriend. According to the
charges, he would pull up by her at traffic lights, once nearly running her off
the road, and visited a bar where she was on a date. Unbeknownst to her, he had
planted a tracking device in her car.
Another man was
convicted in Colorado for using a similar device to track his ex-wife.
A small but
growing revolt against GPS tracking has begun. Rental car companies in Connecticut
and Arizona have been sued by customers and state officials for using the
devices to fine renters for speeding or traveling outside certain boundaries.
Also, the hacker
Web site Phrack recently posted an article on how a technologically savvy person
could make a device to jam GPS signals for about $50 in materials.
"It's spy
versus spy," said Stephen Keating, executive director of the Privacy
Foundation, which tracks the impact of technology on privacy. "Every time
there's an advance in surveillance, there's an advance in
countersurveillance."
Copyright © 2003,
Chicago Tribune
(Reference: James, Frank. (Tuesday,
February 11, 2003) GPS
grows as tool to spy at home, work. USA: Chicago Tribune.)
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Reference
Johnson, Tracy. (Friday, September 20, 2002) Filming up women's skirts is ruled legal. Seattle, USA: Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/87863_voyeur20.shtml
Filming
up women's skirts is ruled legal
Law
doesn't ban voyeurism in public, Supreme Court says
Tracy
Johnson
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer Reporter
Jolene
Jang was standing at an ice-cream booth at the Bite of Seattle festival two
summers ago, unaware that a man had secretly lowered his video camera so he
could film up her dress.
When
she found out, she felt violated and hoped he'd go to prison.
She became more leery of others. Now she's appalled that Richard Sorrells, the
man found guilty of voyeurism for doing it, is no longer guilty of anything.
On
Thursday, the state Supreme Court ruled that filming up women's skirts, though
"disgusting and reprehensible,"
isn't actually against the law.
"I
think that's ridiculous," said Jang, now 28, who lives in the Seattle
area. "I feel a little bit vulnerable about it being known that it's OK."
The
high court unanimously agreed the state's
voyeurism law "does not apply to actions taken in purely public places."
It
overturned the convictions of Sorrells and another man, Sean Glas, who was
accused of taking photographs under women's skirts at a Yakima County shopping
mall.
Sorrells
already served his two-month sentence in King County Jail. He was court-ordered to undergo treatment for sexual deviancy and "intends to remain in treatment" even
though it's no longer required of him, according to his attorney, Ken Sharaga.
Sharaga
said the court's decision was correct -- it was what he argued last year, when
he unsuccessfully tried to get the case dismissed.
"A citizen has to be warned by clear language in a statute
that particular conduct is a crime in order to be punished as a criminal," he said. "Something
can be wrong and offensive and still not be a crime."
The
state's voyeurism law protects people who are in a place where they "would
have a reasonable expectation of privacy" -- meaning the person could
expect to be able to undress in seclusion or "be safe from hostile
intrusion or surveillance."
But
the court found the law doesn't apply to
filming people in a public place, even if it's underneath their clothes.
"It
is the physical location of the person that is ultimately at issue, not the
part of the person's body," Judge Bobbe Bridge wrote.
The
court, which also upheld Washington's
voyeurism law as constitutional, noted that other states have had similar frustrations.
Two
years ago, California changed its law to include a broader range of voyeuristic
behavior.
In
Washington state, Sen. Jeri Costa, D-Marysville, has for two years pushed a bill that would make it illegal to secretly film
someone "under or through the clothing."
She said yesterday that she hoped the court's decision would be "an
impetus to make this a higher priority."
Sen.
Adam Kline, D-Seattle, said he now plans to introduce a bill "unabashedly
plagiarizing" California's law. He expects it to pass easily.
"Allowing that behavior to go unpunished is not what anyone
in the Legislature has in mind," he
said.
King
County Prosecutor's Office spokesman Dan Donohoe agreed that Sorrells' behavior
was "conduct that should be
covered" by the voyeurism statute.
Sorrells
was arrested in July 2000 after Jang told police she caught him reaching into
her purse at the Bite of Seattle. Jang said she and others chased him, and her
boyfriend tackled him.
Sorrells
wanted police to know he wasn't a pickpocket.
"I
did not have my hand in her purse. I was holding my camera so I could videotape
up her dress," he told them. "I'm
not a thief -- I'm a peeping Tom."
Investigators
say they later examined the tape from the man's camera and found numerous
images of women and girls at the crowded Seattle festival. Many were pictures
of underwear shot while the camera was on the ground.
In
the other case decided yesterday, Glas was arrested for taking pictures up the
skirts of two women at a Union Gap mall in April 1999, according to court
documents. The women -- one working at Sears, the other at a cart in the mall
-- caught him crouching next to them as hee snapped photographs using a flash.
Police
said Glas planned to sell the pictures to an
Internet Web site that focuses on fetishes.
But
the Supreme Court ruled that the mall, too,
is a public place where "the voyeurism statute, as written, does not prohibit
'upskirt' photography."
P-I
reporter Tracy Johnson can be reached at 206-467-5942 or [email protected]
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Vocabulary.
Leery adj. Suspicious or distrustful; wary: was leery
of aggressive salespeople.
Reprehensible
adj. Deserving rebuke or censure; blameworthy.
Fetish
n. Something, such as a material object or
a nonsexual part of the body, that
arouses
sexual desire and may become necessary for sexual gratification.
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Reference
Jowit, Juliette. (Sunday, August 03, 2003) Black box in car to trap speed drivers. UK: The Observer.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1011463,00.html
Black box in car to trap speed drivers
Juliette Jowit, transport editor
The Observer
Drivers face automatic speeding fines without being caught by the
police or roadside cameras under a proposal being studied by the Government to
fit all cars with satellite tracking devices for road tolls.
Under the anti-congestion tolling plan being examined by the Department
for Transport, all vehicles would be fitted with a 'black box' to charge
drivers according to the type of road they are using and when they are driving.
But transport experts believe the equipment will pave the way for
24-hour monitoring of drivers to see if they break the speed limit. It could
also be used to determine whether drivers were speeding before an accident.
The Government is backing trials of an advanced system which would tell
the black box when it entered a speed limit and prevent the vehicle going
faster. The equipment could also find drivers who have not paid vehicle duty or
insurance.
The system would use global positioning systems and computer
technology. It would be easy to catch speeders and there are no legal obstacles
- tachographs in lorries, which record speeed and length of time behind the
wheel, are already examined after accidents.
'It [the equipment] probably will be used for speeding,' said Tony
Grayling, associate director of the centre-left Institute for Public Policy
Research think-tank. 'It's an offence to break the limit and it's appropriate
that evidence is generated to demonstrate the law has been broken.'
Much of the technology that would be used for the tolling devices is
already in lorry tachographs, and in commercial satellite navigation devices.
The prototype planned for UK car drivers should be introduced for lorries in
Germany this year and in the UK in 2006. However, a compulsory extension to
every vehicle would be a big political risk.
Leading German motoring journalist Wolfgang König believes the lorry toll
is a Trojan horse for all vehicles - for tolling and speeding. 'Speeders could
be easily identified and electronically charged. Any place, any time,' König
said last week.
In Britain, the Freight Transport Association went further. It believes
the equipment will be used to put speed limiters on every car. 'You won't be
able to go faster than the limit, no matter how hard you press the pedal,' said
Gavin Scott, the association's policy manager.
The company behind the technology said the only problems were
political. Nick Rendell, managing director of the UK subsidiary of Siemens,
which is making the black boxes in Germany, said politicians would only be
concerned about winning votes. But with speeding being the biggest single cause
of death on the roads, there would also be pressure to introduce it, he added.
Speeding is blamed for a third of the 3,600 annual deaths on Britain's
roads. The Department for Transport acknowledges research that has shown how
automatic speed limiters could cut fatal accidents by a fifth. 'Clearly if
people wanted to save lots of life on the roads they could reduce the speeding
of vehicles,' Rendell said.
Opposing attempts to crack down on speeding is a sensitive issue as no
one wants to be seen as supporting something dangerous and against the law. The
latest government figures showed that more than half of drivers broke the limit
in 30mph zones and more than a quarter in 40mph areas.
However, motoring organisations have warned of a possible backlash
against the whole tolling system and that the plans were a step too far. Edmund
King, director of the RAC Foundation, said drivers were right to be concerned.
'There's no doubt the technology is there already... it's just a question of
how it's used. In some areas, being able to track vehicles could have very
positive consequences, [but] do we in this society want all our movements to be
monitored 24 hours a day?' King said.
Launching his national consultation, Transport Secretary Alistair
Darling repeated the Government's promise not to introduce national tolling
before 2010. But advisers believe a national system could be in place in a
decade. The RAC said the Government should promote benefits of the black boxes
to win support.
Possible additions could include satellite navigation and congestion
warnings and help in finding parking spaces and automatic payment. Private
companies could offer location-based services, such as searching for cheap
hotels.
The AA Motoring Trust, the policy arm of the organisation, wants
Ministers to set up a board representing motorists, which would monitor how
information was used.
A Department for Transport official said it was too soon to discuss
black boxes for cars.
(Reference: Jowit, Juliette. (Sunday, August 03, 2003) Black
box in car to trap speed drivers. UK:
The Observer.)
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Kanda, Sachie. (Trans.) (Friday, November 15, 2002) TBS anchorwomen dread the psycho peepers. Japan: Japan Today.
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=shukan&id=152
TBS
anchorwomen dread the psycho peepers
Being
a television anchorwoman carries a lot of
perks. It also carries a lot of hassles, especially
at the TBS network.
Recently,
underground web sites have sprung up, created by and for crazy fans looking for
a bit of titillation. On these sites, fans are exchanging pictures of
anchorwomen, many of which are "panchira"
shots — chance
moments caught on film of anchorwomen's underwear thanks to a gust of wind or a strategically placed camera
at the bottom of the stairs. Other photos were obviously taken by hidden
cameras.
Women
at TBS are expecting more trouble after the news division moves to a different
floor. Said one TBS staffer: "The news division is moving down to the 5th
floor from the 7th floor in order to improve their efficiency with
the production department. However, all anchorwomen are strictly against it.
"Right
now their security is very tight but once they move to the 5th
floor, it will be lax. For example, they
will have to share the toilets with more people. Anchorwomen are worried that
will simply increase the chances of getting photographed by hidden cameras.
As it is now, a lot of them have had personal items
stolen this year."
The
anxiety of anchorwomen at TBS is no exaggeration. About three years ago, a TBS
reporter was arrested for frequent peeping in anchorwomen's toilets. He was
also taking pictures of them with a hidden camera.
A
worker in the news division says TBS doesn't give popular anchorwomen special
treatment. "They commute by train like the rest of us. As a result, some
of the most popular ones have been stalked.
There have been cases of fans show up in the middle of a dark street on their way
home and trying
to hug the women."
Having
long complained that the station does nothing to protect them, the anchorwomen
are understandably incensed over the proposed floor move. "TBS is doing
nothing to protect us from all these creeps," said one,
adding they are now thinking about a signature collecting campaign against the
move. (Translated by Sachie Kanda)
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Kaplan, Drew. The Portable Instant Spy Camera System with Monitor. USA: DAK Industries.
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Reference
Kemp, Sharon. (Friday, August 22, 2003) Australia, FBI probe scam bid on banks. Australia: The Age Company Ltd.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/21/1061434985332.html
Australia, FBI probe scam bid on banks
By Sharon Kemp
Australian Federal Police and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation
are investigating a scam that attempts to lure bank customers into disclosing
their bank account numbers and online passwords.
St George yesterday warned customers to delete any emails that asked
for personal information and seemed to be from the bank.
Customers who believed their details had been compromised were asked to
change their password.
Last week, Westpac fell victim to a ghost website and passed on
information to the Federal Police and the FBI.
The bank uses the symbol of a locked padlock on its website pages that
allows customers to authenticate the site.
The scam works when an unsuspecting customer clicks on a link to a
website that looks like a genuine bank website, then divulges confidential
information that provides the fraudulent operator access to bank accounts.
The hoax email attempts to convince the customer it is real by carrying
the relevant bank logo.
All of Australia's big banks have fallen victim to the scam in the past
year, but they have failed to prevent repetition of the hoax.
Privately, the banks are convinced the scam comes from the one source
in the US but none will speak on the record.
It is believed many Australian banks are examining what legal action
they can take against the US operator, or operators, should they ever be
caught.
In the meantime, banks are trying to shut down the hoax as soon as it
arises.
Increased awareness of the scam means customers are alerting their bank
more quickly about delivery of a fraudulent email than in the past.
The bank then shuts down the website.
However this is regarded as reactive.
Internal bank fraud programs aim to identify and investigate
transactions that could be fraudulent.
It is believed the only way an outside party can access funds in a bank
account is through an account with another bank.
There are daily limits on the amount of money that can be accessed in
such third-party transactions.
(Reference: Kemp, Sharon. (Friday, August 22, 2003) Australia,
FBI probe scam bid on banks. Australia: The Age
Company Ltd.)
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Kenner, Randy. (Wednesday, September 25, 2002) Ohio man files $1.5M suit against Marriott. Knoxville, USA: Knoxville News-Sentinel Co.
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_1438232,00.html
Ohio
man files $1.5M suit against Marriott
Hidden
camera found in bathroom
By
Randy Kenner, News-Sentinel staff writer
An
Ohio man filed a $1.5 million lawsuit Tuesday against the Knoxville Marriott hotel after finding a hidden camera in a bathroom light fixture in July.
Bryan
Brewer discovered the small video camera
after noticing a tiny black spot - which he thought was an insect but turned
out to be a hole - in the fixture, according
to the lawsuit.
At
the time Brewer, the vice president of a California company, was staying at the
Marriott while on business.
His
attorney, K.O. Herston, filed the lawsuit in Knox County Circuit Court. Named
as defendants are Marriott International
Inc. and Columbia Sussex Corp., a Fort
Mitchell, Ky., corporation that operated at least 28 Marriotts with more than 8,500 rooms.
"The
allegations have been turned over to the proper authorities, who we are
cooperating with fully," said Doug Allen, the general manager of the
downtown Marriott.
Allen
declined to comment any further, citing an ongoing investigation by the Knox
County Sheriff's Department. Brewer, contacted Tuesday, declined comment.
According
to the lawsuit, Brewer, 27, discovered the camera on the morning of July 11.
"Thinking
it might be an insect, Mr. Brewer swatted at the black spot, thereby
inadvertently breaking the plastic cover on the light fixture," Herston wrote in the lawsuit. "He called the front desk, apologized and offered to
pay for the fixture."
But
while he was waiting for someone to fix the damage, Brewer noticed wires and
discovered a small video camera.
A
further look by security personnel confirmed that it was an elaborate, self-contained, video recording system.
"The
video camera was connected to the bathroom light switch such that the camera
would begin recording when the bathroom light was turned on and would stop
recording when (it) was turned off,"
the lawsuit states.
Herston
said that the equipment had a film of dust
on it indicating that it had been there for some time. It also had a piece of
tape on it indicating the room number, Room 253.
Herston
said that Marriott employees let Brewer view
the tape in their presence but refused to
give it to him.
The
tape and video equipment have been turned over to the Sheriff's Department.
The
Sheriff's Department also has refused to give him the tape, Herston said.
He
also said he's not sure why the Sheriff's Department is investigating the case
since the Knoxville Police Department is next door to the Marriott.
Herston
said the detective handling the case told him, "'All I know is that I was
called to the scene and I responded to the call.'"
Marriott
officials said they have inspected other
rooms at the hotel but have refused to say what, if anything, was found, Herston said.
"There
are a lot of questions and we need some answers," Herston said before
adding, "How many other people were
taped?"
Martha
Dooley, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff's Department, said the reason the tape isn't being turned over is because,
"It is an ongoing investigation."
As
for the office handling the case, Dooley said, "We routinely answer calls
from businesses and residences in the city as well as the county."
Someone
from the hotel apparently called the Sheriff's Department directly.
KPD
spokesman Darrell DeBusk said that KPD did not receive a call from the hotel.
The
lawsuit contends that Brewer has suffered
harm as a result of the discovery.
"In
Mr. Brewer's case, he has become paranoid," Herston indicated. "He hates to travel now
and that has caused tension at work since his job requires so much travel. When he does travel, he spends a lot of time going over
every inch of his hotel room to make sure it is safe.
"This
has really affected his career and well-being."
In
addition to the $1.5 million in damages, Brewer also seeks the return of all
copies of the videotaped recording of him.
Brewer
has not been back in Knoxville since the incident.
"If
he comes back, he certainly won't stay at the Marriott," Herston said.
Randy
Kenner may be reached at 865-342-6305 or [email protected]
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Reference
Kornblum, Janet. (Tuesday, July 01, 2003) I spy: Americans embrace surveillance gear.
USA: USA Today.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Jul/01/tc/tc02a.html
http://www.lsj.com/news/business/030701_spycams_6c-7c.html
Next time you go out for a walk, don't forget to smile for the camera.
In these times of heightened security and rapidly falling technology costs,
it's no longer just banks and grocery stores that are using hidden surveillance
cameras.
A growing number of Americans are installing them, as well as using
secret "nanny cams" in their homes and even carrying tiny cameras in cell phones and other devices.
It once was just Big Brother that privacy-minded people had to worry
about. Now "it's Little
Brother," says Howard
Rheingold, a technology watcher and author of "Smart Mobs: The Next Social
Revolution."
"It used
to be that you thought only the state had the power and technology to do
surveillance. But now
that's democratized. It could
be your neighbor, your relative."
These days, miniature spycams are so small and inexpensive that they
could be anywhere: someone pointing a cell phone or a pen at you might have
one; the devices can even be hidden in sunglasses. Tiny cameras can be purchased in stores or
over the Internet for as little as $100.
Cell-phone cameras, still somewhat of a novelty in the United States,
have become so popular elsewhere that gyms in Australia and Hong Kong are
reportedly banning them from pools and locker rooms for fear of secret pictures being taken and transmitted
to anyone on the planet.
While privacy experts are still more concerned about government
surveillance, personal surveillance poses some challenges. Though law enforcement officials have to
safeguard the public's constitutional rights, private companies and individuals
can focus their cameras in public spaces without the same worries, says David Sobel of the Electronic Privacy
Information Center.
Whether you can use legal means to stop somebody from taking pictures
of you depends on the circumstances. But "when you're in public and in plain view — particularly when
the person taking the picture is a private person — there's not a lot of
recourse," he says.
Rheingold says: "You
can't assume any place you go is private, because the means of surveillance are
becoming so affordable and so invisible."
It is the classic trade-off: security vs. privacy, says
James Katz, a professor of communications at Rutgers University in New
Brunswick, N.J. Right now, security is winning.
"The good that comes from safety and security outweighs the losses
to freedom of speech and freedom of association that tend to be dampened when
people are monitored," Katz says.
Ever since British au pair Louise Woodward was convicted in 1997 of
killing her 8-month-old charge, parents have been snapping up nanny cams.
Many systems are simply there to catch a thief. Even churches have
security cameras, says Rich Maurer of New York security firm Kroll Inc.
Kent, Wash.,-based X10 Wireless says more than 1 million of its cameras
are in circulation. (Intended
for home security use, the cameras also can be used to spy.)
Not everybody says this will necessarily make society safer.
"Rather than make us more secure, this is going to pander to our
security obsession," says Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future in
Like it or not, cameras will stay. Maurer estimates that in a 10-mile
stretch in any major city, your image will be captured on 30 to 40 private
security cameras, not including those in homes.
"We're being spied on all the time," Saffo says. "Not only are we spying on each other, we're spying on ourselves.
And we're all going to discover that we've all become unwitting stars of our
own really boring reality TV program."
(Reference: Kornblum, Janet. (Tuesday, July 01, 2003) I
spy: Americans embrace surveillance gear. USA:
USA Today.)
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Reference
Lapin,
Lee. The Whole Spy Catalog PP024. Review. USA: Undercover Press.
http://www.undercoverpress.com/spy-catalog.html
…
acquiring intelligence (as defined by Dr. Adda Bozeman in Strategic
Intelligence and Statecraft) "stands for the human being's inborn capacity
to come to terms with life by engaging in thought, and acquiring, developing
and investing knowledge." It's my personal opinion, for whatever that's
worth, that one can never have too much knowledge.
Ms.
Bozeman goes on to define strategic intelligence as that, "which is a
component of statecraft that centers on the needs of one politically unified
community to have reliable information, knowledge, or intelligence about other
societies in its environment."
…we
are all in one or more "politically unified groups," be they
families, companies, clubs, organizations or countries. And, as we will soon
see, there are amazing in-place resources to help you in your quest for either
tactical or strategic intelligence.
As
our world changes, information, intelligence, knowledge, or at least the
ability to procure it becomes more and more important. Intelligence is the hard
currency of the decade.
Not
only has the amount of available information increased Logarithmically, access
methods have exploded. Everything from on-line database searching to electronic
surveillance can be, and is, used to collect and correlate intelligence in
order to give people advantages in situations ranging from getting a job
promotion to checking whether the spouse is making waves in someone else's
waterbed.
If
you don't know what is out there and how it is stored you will soon find
yourself watching daytime television and responding to those ads where little
old ladies say, "Functionally illiterate? Can't access databases? Trouble
finding the right CD-ROM? Don't know what competitor intelligence is? Dial
1-800-555-~XXXX for a list of programs offered by your local library that will
help bring you into the 20th century and get a better job."
Or
you're going to be responding to the ones that promise a "high paying
career in bartending", 'cause there just ain't going to be much left that
doesn't depend on information procurement in one form or another.
Oddly
enough, spies (real spies) and librarians now share many common collecting and
retrieval methods. Knowledge acquisition has become dependent on planning and
research skills instead of shady deals done in the smoke filled back rooms of
Casbahs.
So
did Gary Powers get shot down in vain? No. But the next prisoner exchange
between one of the final communist holdout regimes and us will be that of two
research librarians.
(Reference: Lapin, Lee. The Whole Spy Catalog
PP024. Review. USA:
Undercover Press.)
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Reference
Leinwand,
Donna. (Monday,
January 28, 2002) Use of 'date rape' drug surges. USA: USA
Today.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/01/28/usat-drug(acov).htm
01/28/2002
- Updated 07:47 PM ET
Use
of 'date rape' drug surges
By
Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY
Photo
By
Bob Riha, Jr., AP
Kevin
Newell, 22, used GHB for 18 months because he liked the sense of mellow
euphoria it gave him.
GHB, the highly addictive
"date rape" drug outlawed by Congress two years ago, is becoming increasingly popular on college campuses and at
raves even though it can trigger potentially
fatal comas.
The
emergence of GHB as a recreational drug comes as law enforcement officials are
focusing on Ecstasy, a more widely used club drug. GHB's surge has surprised police and health officials,
who for years have treated the mixture of common industrial chemicals as
something that few people would consume by choice.
Unlike
Ecstasy or cocaine, GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate) gives users no sense of
euphoria. The
slightly bitter liquid puts users in a dreamy stupor, or worse, a coma that can
kill them. Government
and law enforcement education efforts regarding GHB have dealt largely with
warning women about predators who could spike their drinks with the drug, rather than the risks of taking it for fun.
"Something
that puts you into a coma is not something (most people) voluntarily do," says Alan Leshner, a former executive director of the
National Institute on Drug Abuse in Bethesda, Md. "Normal people don't say, 'I'm looking forward to my
next coma.' "
But
now drug abuse agencies nationwide are placing more emphasis on the dangers of
GHB, which also is known as "G,"
"Liquid X" and "Easy Lay" among teenagers and young adults
who use it.
Emergency
room admissions involving GHB nearly quadrupled nationwide from 1998 to 2000,
when 4,969 cases were reported, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration says. U.S. officials do not keep statistics on how many people
use particular drugs, but they say survey
data and anecdotal evidence — such as drug seizures and activity by drug
traffickers — indicate that Ecstasy easily remains the most popular club drug.
And
yet, more people are overdosing on GHB than Ecstasy. In 2000, 2,482 GHB users
visited the emergency room for an overdose compared with 1,742 Ecstasy users.
Health officials say that's an indication that GHB
is more dangerous and gaining in popularity.
The
Drug Enforcement Administration says that 73 people have died from taking GHB
since 1995. There were 27 Ecstasy-related
deaths from 1994 to 1998, according to the most recent figures available from
U.S. officials.
The
federal Drug Abuse Warning Network reports that GHB is appearing most often in
Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, New Orleans and San Francisco. Of the GHB users who showed up in emergency rooms in
1999, 56% said they had used the drug with alcohol; 15% had used it with
Ecstasy.
One
of GHB's recent victims was Alexander Klochkoff, a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Maryland
who was found facedown in a beanbag chair at
his fraternity house Sept. 5. Klochkoff's
death led officials at the College Park campus to issue new warnings to
students about the risks of taking GHB.
Despite
the risks, some youths continue to take the drug.
Some
point out that it gives them an alcohol-like buzz-known as a "G-ber
daze" — without their having to down several expensive cocktails. Unlike alcohol, GHB has no telltale odor that parents or
police might detect. It also is cheap ($5 to $10 for a shot-glass dose) and
easy to mix, using recipes that are available on the Internet.
Although
Congress made GHB illegal in 2000 and authorities have arrested dozens of
suppliers, the ingredients to make the drug
are available many places where industrial cleaning solvents are sold. They can
be obtained through foreign outlets, Internet sites and hardware stores.
"If
people are motivated to get it, it's relatively easy to get," says Jim Hall of the Up Front Drug Information Center in
Miami.
Michael
Scrimo, 20, who lives in a suburb of New York City, says he first came across
GHB three years ago in nightclubs where Ecstasy, cocaine and the veterinary
anesthetic ketamine (known as "Special
K") were widely available.
Scrimo
says he was looking to buy some Ecstasy pills when a friend offered him GHB. At
the time, Scrimo's personal life had taken a plunge. He had blown his chances
of getting a college athletic scholarship and had been kicked out of his high
school because he was arrested for dealing drugs on campus. He wanted something that would help him zone out and forget his problems.
He
tried GHB and liked it.
"I
felt like really numb, all five senses. I couldn't walk straight, I couldn't
hear, I couldn't see," says Scrimo, who
wound up being addicted to GHB and other drugs and recently spent time in a
drug rehabilitation program in Long Island, N.Y., run by Phoenix House.
Scrimo
says he usually took GHB in gel caps. He says he would
"take two or three or four at a time, and have a black-out night." Since then, he says, "I've
heard that people have died on GHB. I could have died so many times."
Bodybuilders
were first victims
Much
of the nation first took notice of GHB in the mid-1990s, when dozens of women
across the USA reported waking up naked, bruised and with no memory of what had
happened the night before. Police learned
that men had spiked their drinks with GHB and then raped the women after they
lost consciousness.
At
the time, GHB solutions of varying potency were legal and were displayed in
health food stores and gyms, marketed under names such as "Enliven,"
"Renewtrient" and "Blue Nitro." Health supplement
distributors touted them as natural formulas to promote sleep, slow the aging
process and build muscle.
There
is little scientific data to suggest that GHB affects aging or muscle-building,
but that didn't stop bodybuilders from snapping up GHB products. Muscle men in San Francisco and Miami were the first to
overdose on the substance, in 1990. Their deaths signaled to authorities that manufactured
GHB could be highly addictive.
A
form of GHB occurs naturally in the body,
doctors say. The brain uses minute
quantities of it to shut off one function so that another can begin. Many GHB users assume
incorrectly that increasing GHB levels in the body is either harmless or
beneficial, Leshner says. But the brain's delicate chemical balance is upset easily, he says, and too
much GHB can depress breathing and nervous system functions to the point that
users are unable to roll over in their sleep.
Those
who die after taking GHB usually "fall on their faces and smother, or they
aspirate (on their own vomit) into their lungs and suffocate," Leshner says.
When
GHB users combine the drug with a shot of caffeine and ephedrine, the chemical
found in many cold remedies and diet pills, the users feel disembodied, says Trinka Porrata, a drug consultant and former
narcotics officer for the Los Angeles Police Department. "At first, it's an anti-depressant," Porrata says. "In
four to eight months, it takes over your body and soul. It owns you."
Gamma
hydroxybutyrate's precursors are cleaning solvents called gamma butylactone and
1,4 butanediol — chemical cousins that the body converts to GHB.
GHB
and the chemicals used to make it are tightly controlled and are illegal for
human consumption. But anyone with Internet access can order ingredient kits
from Web sites where they are advertised as natural formulas for cleaning
printer ink jet cartridges and weight belts.
Drinks containing GHB are still sold on
Japanese, Greek and other foreign Web sites.
Last
June, police in Santa Clara County, Calif., arrested a 26-year-old man who had
ordered gamma butylactone and 1,4 butanediol over the Internet, says Robert
Mecir, who commands an investigative team for the California Department of
Justice. The man, who was charged with possession of GHB, told police he had
taken six doses a day for the past three years, says Mecir, who adds that he
has seen use of the drug in his area jump recently.
Like
Leshner, many doctors and health officials
who study trends in drug use continue to be puzzled by GHB's appeal.
"As
a physician, I can't say if you take it you're going to fall over dead, but I
can say you are playing Russian roulette," says Westley
Clark, director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment in Rockville, Md.,
a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "Do you feel lucky, as Clint Eastwood would
say?"
Scrimo
and other recovering GHB addicts say that one
of the scariest things about the drug is that the potency of doses can vary
widely, depending on how the ingredients are mixed.
'Tons
of people buying it'
Jen,
19, who grew up in a Philadelphia suburb and recently was treated for drug
addiction at the Caron Foundation in Wernersville, Pa., says her boyfriend used to mix GHB in the kitchen. She says he measured
the chemicals, heated them to make a potent-smelling base and then threw in ice
to cool and dilute the base. Then they poured the finished GHB solution into empty Gatorade
bottles and sold quarts for as much as $200.
"There
were tons of people buying it," says
Jen, who asked that her last name not be
used. The
chemicals were "so cheap and it was a great way to get screwed up."
Jen
says she often used GHB to try to mellow out while coming off a cocaine high.
She says she last drank GHB about a year ago. "If
you take too much, it'll make you go into a G-ber daze," Jen says. "You
start to sweat. You're not conscious at all. You won't remember. You twitch.
It's scary."
The
ratio of water to chemicals determines the potency of a batch of GHB, putting users at the mercy of kitchen
chemists.
Kevin
Newell, 22, of Lake Forest, Calif., says he never knew how much GHB was in the
cupfuls he used to swig. Newell, 18 at the time, also used heroin and speed,
but says that GHB was cheaper and easier to
find. He is now in court-ordered drug
treatment at Phoenix House in
Treatment
centers across the USA are reporting jumps in GHB cases. In 1999, the Hazelden Foundation facilities in Center
City, Minn., and Chicago treated five people who had used GHB. In 2000, they
treated 39, says Carol Falkowski, director of research communications at
Hazelden.
Many
who have observed the drug scene for years say that hospital and treatment
center data underestimate the GHB problem
because many doctors don't think to ask
patients about the drug.
"There's
always a learning curve," Falkowski
says. "Most of the drug abuse surveys
(given to teenagers, adult drug users and medical personnel) do not even
include a question about GHB."
Doctors
are still trying to set protocols to treat GHB addiction and ease the excruciating withdrawal that addicts face. Those being treated for addiction generally become anxious and can't sleep. Some become
delirious. Treatment
centers report that addicts trying to withdraw from GHB often attempt suicide.
Tyler
Johnson, 27, of Beebe, Ark., shot himself in the head on July 16, 2000, after
quitting GHB cold turkey, says his father,
David Johnson. Tyler had just graduated from the University of Arkansas at
Little Rock with a degree in criminal
justice and had been accepted at a law
school in Oklahoma City.
He
had been a bodybuilder for about 10 years in 1999 when he began taking a supplement made from 1,4 butanediol, which converted to
GHB in the body. Eventually, Tyler became addicted and took a dose every four hours. He went
through an $80 bottle every few days, his
father says. Tyler continued to take the supplement even after March 13, 2000,
when the U.S. government banned sales of GHB supplements.
"It
was marketed as a healthy thing, all natural," David Johnson says. "That
misinformation cost Tyler his life."
Johnson says he plans to sue the manufacturer and distributor of the supplement
after a criminal case against the distributor is resolved.
Johnson
can't forget the image of Tyler struggling
to get off GHB.
"It's
a terrible ordeal," Johnson says. "Hallucinations, heart palpitations. The night before he
shot himself, I was with him from 7 p.m. until about 3 a.m., researching (GHB) on the Internet. He was uncomfortable
and twitchy, but
I didn't realize it was that serious. Three hours later, he
put the gun in his mouth."
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Reference
Levy, Steven. (Monday, October 20, 2003) Can Snooping Stop Terrorism? USA: Newsweek.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/976191.asp?vts=101920030357&cp1=1
“We have to be vigilant,” says
Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon. “Balancing the need to protect security with privacy
intact is a 21st-century teeter-totter.” Stopping all government security
efforts that push the bounds of privacy will take lots of vigilance. There is
the controversial CAPPS II (which data-mines airline travelers’ records), the
snoop-friendly Patriot Act II and persistent pressure for universal ID cards. Meanwhile, the private sector churns out
endless innovations affecting privacy: radio-frequency ID that broadcasts your purchases, cell phones with
cameras, Internet spyware that tracks Web surfing and disk storage so cheap
that all personal details can be retained.
By banning the use of high-tech tools for
domestic antiterrorism—and failing to control their rampant increase
otherwise—there’s a danger that we might wind up with the worst of both worlds.
No privacy. And not much more security.
(Reference: Levy, Steven. (Monday, October 20, 2003) Can
Snooping Stop Terrorism? USA: Newsweek.)
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Reference
Li, Liu. (Thursday, March 21, 2002) Eye spy: mini video cameras used to pry. China: China Daily.
http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2002-03-21/61903.html
http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/cn/2002-03-21/62021.html
Eye
spy: mini video cameras used to pry
(LIU
LI)
GUANGZHOU:
Matters of privacy are in the spotlight following fears that a proliferation of
micro video cameras are violating people's personal rights.
These
cameras, which can be hidden from the eye easily, are selling like hot cakes in
Guangzhou and Shenzhen of South China's Guangdong Province.
But
members of the public and officials alike are concerned that the cameras could
be used intrusively to spy on people's daily lives and expose their
peccadilloes.
Micro
video cameras gained notoriety after they were used clandestinely to film the
affairs of female politician Qu Meifeng in Taiwan Province in December.
This
video was then reproduced on to optical disks and sold in China, other Asian
countries and even Europe.
At
the Taojie electrical appliance shop at Jiangjundong in Guangzhou, at least 10
stalls are selling different types of micro-cameras from 100 yuan (US$12) to
3,000 yuan (US$360), without any special
permission needed.
"I
wholesaled more than 400 micro-cameras last month," a dealer told China
Daily. He said his clients were not only local people, but also came from Hong
Kong, Macao and mainland provinces.
"Most
of the micro-cameras were bought by factories, shopping centres and
supermarkets as precautions against theft," said another vendor surnamed
Wang.
"But
now many families also buy them and install them at their homes for the same
purpose, as the price of pinhole cameras dropped from several thousand yuan to 100 yuan (US$12)
in the latter half of last year," Wang said.
The
seller admitted some people buy the cameras to supervise on their spouse's
activities or for other reasons.
The
dealer recommended a wireless camera which
is able to receive signals within 1
kilometre.
The cameras
were produced in Shenzhen using chips from Taiwan.
Micro-cameras
were also found on sale at Guangzhou Haiyin Electrical Appliance Shop, where
they were sold comparatively secretly, as well as
the Saige, Huaqiang and Zhongdian markets in Shenzhen.
"There
are still no relevant laws to supervise the
sale of surveillance equipment," said
Xin Guanghui, director of the economic inspection department under the
provincial bureau of industry and commerce.
During
the Fifth Session of the Ninth National People's Congress which ended last week
in Beijing, deputy Weng Weiquan raised a motion which appealled for State legislation on secret filming to prevent violations
of privacy.
"Residents feel unsafe as this method has been used to expose aspects of people's private lives," Weng noted.
According
to Wu Yaoguang, an official with the Guangzhou
Intermediate People's Court, the victim is able to claim for compensation according to prescription on the rights of fame and
portrait included in the country's civil laws.
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Personal
Review.
“Urge”.
Urge to eat. Urge to drink. Urge to look. Urge to masturbate. Urge to touch.
Urge…
If
only that urge can be controlled! The “don’t want” state. The opposite. Why not
try that opposite condition? “Don’t want”. In other words, dispassion.
Vairagya.
The
seller admitted some people buy the cameras to supervise on their spouse's
activities or for other reasons.
Residents
feel unsafe as this method has been used to
expose aspects of people's private lives
Refer the combined review given
after article by Mitchell,
Mark.
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Reference
Losi, Stephanie. (Wednesday, January
24, 2001) Wireless Minicams Make Spying
Simple. www.WirelessNewsFactor.com
http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/6938.html
A new generation of wireless gadgets promises to make home and small business security,
remote child care monitoring, and even the creation of TV video productions affordable for just about anyone.
Inconspicuous mini-videocams let users
monitor any location via the Internet. You
can see who's ringing your front doorbell, who's minding the store, or what
little Johnny is having for lunch -- whether you're in your office upstairs or sitting in an airport halfway around the world.
But while
new technology can bring peace of mind, it also puts privacy on the endangered
list. Balancing safety and invasion of
privacy means walking a very fine line.
And some of the newest, coolest cameras are
making that balancing act even trickier.
Bargain Basement Surveillance
While surveillance technology has been
available for years to those with the money and time to spare, low-cost
products aimed at mainstream consumers are just starting to enter the
marketplace.
For example, the XCam2 from X10.com -- which
is smaller than a golf ball -- combines a US$79.99 price tag with the ability to transmit live
color video and audio within 100 feet. The device includes a
color analog video camera, a microphone and a
2.4-GHz transmitter (which means it's fairly hard to detect).
Consumers can combine XCam2 devices to monitor multiple locations at once and transmit a feed wirelessly to TVs, VCRs and Web TV
Plus. Users then can "scan"
between cameras as if they were changing
channels on the TV.
X10 also lets customers download its free
XRay Vision software, which the company said lets users view live video on
their PCs or have images e-mailed at timed intervals from their home PC to a
remote PC that does not have XRay software installed.
Pretty nifty -- but keep in mind that consumers
on Epinions.com said while the price is
right and the device is easy to set up, picture quality is somewhat lacking.
Product Snapshots
The X10 isn't the only game in town. But if you want better resolution, you'll have to pay up. The Advanced Intelligence Spy Shop offers several
surveillance cameras, including the Smoke Alarm Video Camera -- a
black-and-white camera hidden inside a smoke alarm -- that transmits video and audio to a VCR or monitor and costs $260. The Lamp Video Camera costs $590 and includes a 900-MHz transmitter to stream video and audio
to a monitor.
Spystores.com listed, among other devices,
the $799.95 Wireless Nanny Camera, a black-and-white camera hidden inside a
fully functional boom box. It includes a 2.4-GHz transmitter, 380 lines of
resolution and 0.1 Lux for low-light conditions.
If you're not quite up to spending $800,
Thespystore.com offers a $199 weatherproof
wireless setup that transmits black-and-white video and audio at line-of-sight
distances up to 300 feet using a 2.4-GHz transmitter.
Device Detection
Just as every action has an equal and
opposite reaction, every surveillance device has a countersurveillance
counterpart. One such gadget is the Wireless
Video Camera Detector, available from the Spy Exchange & Security Center
for $295.
According to the manufacturer's
specification, the device will detect
wireless video cameras transmitting at frequencies between 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz
from 4 to 12 feet away. Built-in filtering lets the unit ignore out-of-band signals
and zero in on hidden cameras.
Blurred Lines
While the picture may be a bit blurry, the
message is clear: With lower-cost products
entering the mainstream, consumers soon will have the ability to keep tabs on
others at will.
Such capabilities will make life easier in
many ways. If you need to get work done but
your kids want to play, you can watch them frolic outside from the comfort of
your home office. Or if you're not sure about the new babysitter, you can
install a camera in the den and watch her interact with your kids.
Or why not watch how hard your housekeeper
works when you're not looking? While you're at it, why not hook up a camera and
find out who's been stealing your pens at work, or whether your cubicle
neighbor spends all his time scribbling on spreadsheets or surfing the Web?
Why not, indeed? The line between legitimate concern and privacy invasion
can seem like a mirage -- so how can you know when you've crossed it? The answer is
different for each person, but one way to find it is simply to picture yourself on
the other end of the transmission.
(Reference: Losi, Stephanie. (Wednesday, January
24, 2001) Wireless Minicams Make
Spying Simple. www.WirelessNewsFactor.com.)
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Reference
McCullagh, Declan. (Monday, July 15, 2002) House OKs life sentences for hackers. USA: CNET Networks, Inc.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-944057.html
House
OKs life sentences for hackers
Staff
Writer
July
15, 2002,
WASHINGTON--The
House of Representatives on Monday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would
allow for life prison sentences for
malicious computer hackers.
By a
385-3 vote, the House approved a computer crime bill that also expands police
ability to conduct Internet or telephone eavesdropping without first obtaining
a court order.
The
Bush administration had asked Congress to approve the Cyber Security
Enhancement Act (CSEA) as a way of responding to electronic intrusions, denial
of service attacks and the threat of "cyber-terrorism." The CSEA had
been written before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks last year, but the events
spurred legislators toward Monday evening's near-unanimous vote.
CSEA,
the most wide-ranging computer crime bill to make its way through Congress in
years, now heads to the Senate. It's not expected to encounter any serious
opposition, although there's not much time for senators to consider the measure
because they take August off and are expected to head home for the year around
Oct. 1.
"Until
we secure our cyber infrastructure, a few keystrokes and an Internet connection
is all one needs to disable the economy and endanger lives," sponsor Lamar Smith, R-Tex., said earlier this year. "A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a
bomb."
Smith
heads a subcommittee on crime, which held hearings that drew endorsements of
CSEA from a top Justice Department official and executives from Microsoft and
WorldCom. Citing privacy concerns, civil liberties groups have objected to
portions of CSEA.
At
the urging of the Justice Department, Smith's subcommittee voted in February to
rewrite CSEA. It now promises life terms for
computer intrusions that "recklessly" put others' lives at risk.
A
committee report accompanying the legislation predicts: "A terrorist or criminal cyber attack could further
harm our economy and critical infrastructure. It is imperative that the
penalties and law enforcement capabilities are adequate to prevent and deter
such attacks."
By
rewriting wiretap laws, CSEA would allow
limited surveillance without a court order when there is an "ongoing
attack" on an Internet-connected computer or
"an immediate threat to a national security interest." That kind of surveillance
would, however, be limited to obtaining a suspect's telephone number, IP
address, URLs or e-mail header information--not the contents of online
communications or telephone calls.
Under
federal law, such taps can take place when there's a threat of "serious
bodily injury to any person" or activity involving organized crime.
Another
section of CSEA would permit Internet
providers to disclose the contents of e-mail messages and other electronic
records to police in cases involving serious crimes.
Currently
it's illegal for an Internet provider to "knowingly divulge" what
users do except in some specific circumstances,
such as when it's troubleshooting glitches, receiving a court order or tipping
off police that a crime is in progress. CSEA expands that list to include when
"an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury to any
person requires disclosure of the information without delay."
Clint
Smith, the president of the U.S. Internet Service Providers Association,
endorsed the concept earlier this year.
Smith
testified that CSEA builds on the controversial USA Patriot act, which Congress
enacted last fall. He said that this portion of CSEA "will reduce
impediments to ISP cooperation with law enforcement."
The
Free Congress Foundation, which opposes CSEA, criticized Monday evening's vote.
"Congress
should stop chipping away at our civil liberties," said Brad Jansen, an
analyst at the conservative group. "A good place to start would be to
substantially revise (CSEA) to increase, not diminish, oversight and
accountability by the government."
If
the Senate also approves CSEA, the new law would also:
• Require the U.S. Sentencing Commission to revise sentencing guidelines for computer crimes. The commission would consider whether the offense involved a government computer, the "level of sophistication" shown and whether the person acted maliciously.
•
Formalize the existence of the National Infrastructure Protection Center. The
center, which investigates and responds to both physical and virtual threats
and attacks on America's critical infrastructure, was created in 1998 by the
Department of Justice, but has not been authorized by an act of Congress. The
original version of CSEA set aside $57.5 million for the NIPC; the final
version increases the NIPC's funding to $125 million for the 2003 fiscal year.
•
Specify that an existing ban on the "advertisement" of any device that is
used primarily for surreptitious electronic
surveillance applies to online ads. The
prohibition now covers only a "newspaper, magazine, handbill or other
publication."
Most
industry associations, including the Business Software Alliance, the
Association for Competitive Technology, the Information Technology Association
of America, and the Information Technology Industry Council, have endorsed most
portions of CSEA.
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Reference
McCullagh, Declan. (Monday, August 5, 2002) Is privacy the next casualty? USA: CNET News.com.
http://news.com.com/2010-1071-948283.html?tag=rn
Is
privacy the next casualty?
By
Declan McCullagh
August
5, 2002,
WASHINGTON--Sen.
Mike DeWine is crusading to hand the FBI new powers to eavesdrop on immigrants
and other non-citizens living in America.
The
Ohio Republican, a former county prosecutor, is proposing that police need only have a "suspicion" that
someone has links to terrorism before being able to spy on that person or snoop
through their home.
DeWine's
bill does not authorize the Feds to target American citizens or green card
holders. But it does mean that the mere
"suspicion" of illicit activities
would be enough to wiretap the phones and bug the e-mail communications of
tourists or legal immigrants who hold H-1B, B-2, TN-1, or student visas.
"We
must give our intelligence community the tools they need to closely monitor
non-United States persons who want to harm Americans," DeWine asserts.
"I believe these changes are necessary for our government to protect
Americans."
What
DeWine's proposal seeks to do is unleash the full power of the mighty Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) against immigrants, tourists and visitors
to the United States who are suspects in terrorism investigations. Currently,
it's difficult for federal police to use FISA against non-Americans; DeWine's
bill and a related bill introduced by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., would make it
far easier.
As
part of its post-Watergate reforms, Congress enacted FISA in 1978. Because the purpose of the law was to target foreign
intelligence agents, the law granted police vast powers. An example: FISA permits the FBI to conduct warrantless
physical searches and electronic surveillance against non-Americans--no court
order required.
FISA
even states that the attorney general may "may authorize physical searches
without a court order...for periods of up to one year."
FISA isn't limited to traditional phone wiretapping. There's an entire section devoted to electronic surveillance, permitting "the installation or use of an electronic, mechanical or other surveillance device." That's a flexible definition that stretches to include the FBI's Carnivore Net-surveillance system, keystroke loggers and remotely-installed surveillance systems like the FBI's Magic Lantern spyware.
But
up until now, FBI agents have had to claim that they had "probable
cause" to believe that a non-American was connected with a crime and was
also a member of an international terrorist group. If DeWine and Schumer get
their way, mere "suspicion" of any terrorist link is good enough.
Their
proposals go too far. For much of the last decade, Congress has been handing
more and more power to federal law enforcement. And since the attacks of Sept.
11, politicians have steadfastly dismissed privacy concerns in an attempt to
bolster security by any means possible. It's reasonable to take steps to
increase security, of course, but unreasonable to ignore the costs of the new rules on privacy and America's
long-standing concept of limited government.
Take the USA Patriot Act, which Congress overwhelmingly approved last fall. It permits police to obtain court orders to conduct secret searches of Americans' homes and offices and browse medical and financial records without first showing evidence of a crime.
It's
not even clear that more powers handed to the FBI would do any good. The most recent issue of the Los Angeles Weekly reports
that an FBI agent has accused the agency of shutting down his 1998 criminal
probe into alleged terrorist-training camps inside the United States. If that
agent, Robert Wright, is telling the truth, the real problem at the FBI may
be lack of common sense--not lack of surveillance
authority.
This
spring, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced new FBI guidelines permitting
agents to conduct more "data
mining" and Web browsing without reasonable suspicion of a crime first. What's more, Ashcroft's rules apply not just to
terrorism, but to drug and copyright
infringement investigations too.
At
least nowadays, Ashcroft is hardly one of the most vocal civil libertarians in
town. He memorably informed Congress last December that criticism of the Justice Department's power grab would
"only aid terrorists."
But
even Ashcroft still seems to realize when a proposed law violates the Fourth
Amendment's prohibition on "unreasonable
searches and seizures."
During
a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee last week, a Justice
Department official expressed strong reservations about DeWine's plan to permit
surveillance upon mere "suspicion" of wrongdoing.
James
Baker, Justice Department counsel for intelligence policy, told the
committee--DeWine is a member--that the Bush administration "is not
prepared to support" the bill.
"What
is at stake, namely, (is) our ability to conduct investigations that are vital
to protecting national security," Baker said. "If we err in our analysis and courts were
ultimately to find a 'reasonable suspicion' standard unconstitutional, we could
potentially put at risk ongoing investigations and prosecutions."
At
the same hearing, incidentally, the FBI's deputy general counsel began fretting
about the Internet. "Muslim extremists
have found the Internet to be a convenient tool for spreading propaganda and helpful hints for
their followers around the world," the
FBI's Marion Bowman said. "Web sites calling for jihad, or holy war, against
the West are not uncommon."
It's
not clear what the future of the DeWine and Schumer bills will be. Without an
unambiguous endorsement from the Bush administration, they may languish in
committee and stand a slender chance of being enacted before Congress adjourns
this fall.
But
DeWine's aides insist that the DOJ's concerns are misplaced. "Even if the
court said reasonable suspicion was unconstitutional, what you'd lose was that
case," an aide said Friday. "You
wouldn't nullify the rest of the statute."
Translation:
Watch out if you're in the United States and you're
not a citizen and don't hold a green card. In the war on terrorism, your
privacy could be the next casualty.
Declan
McCullagh is the Washington correspondent for CNET News.com, chronicling the
ever-busier intersection between technology and politics. Before that, he
worked for several years as Washington bureau chief for Wired News. He has also
worked as a reporter for The Netly News, Time magazine and HotWired.
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Reference
McCullagh, Declan. (Wednesday, November 13, 2002) Bill could jail hackers for life. USA: MSNBC News.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/834875.asp
Bill
could jail hackers for life
Cybersecurity
bill inserted into homeland security legislation
Nov.
13 — A last-minute addition to a proposal for a Department of Homeland Security
bill would punish malicious computer hackers with life in prison. The U.S.
House of Representatives on Wednesday evening voted 299 to 121 to approve the
bill, which would reshape large portions of the federal bureaucracy into a new
department combining parts of 22 existing federal agencies, including the
Secret Service, the Coast Guard, and the FBI’s National Infrastructure
Protection Center.
DURING CLOSED-DOOR NEGOTIATIONS before
the debate began, the House Republican leadership inserted the 16-page Cyber
Security Enhancement Act (CSEA) into the Homeland Security bill. CSEA expands
the ability of police to conduct Internet or telephone eavesdropping without
first obtaining a court order, and offers Internet providers more latitude to
disclose information to police.
In July, the full House approved CSEA by
a 385-to-3 vote, but it died in the Senate. By inserting CSEA into the Homeland
Security bill, the measure’s backers are hoping for a second chance before
Congress adjourns for the holidays.
“Defending against terrorists who can
strike any time with any method requires a change in our approach to the
problem,” CSEA sponsor Rep. Lamar Smith said in a statement. “We need a new
government structure with a clear focus and clear mission to protect Americans
and increase public safety. The new Department of Homeland Security will
fulfill that vital role.”
Earlier this year, Smith said: “Until we
secure our cyberinfrastructure, a few keystrokes and an Internet connection is
all one needs to disable the economy and endanger lives. A mouse can be just as
dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.” Smith heads a subcommittee on crime, which
held hearings that drew endorsements of CSEA from a top Justice Department
official and executives from Microsoft and WorldCom.
Citing privacy concerns, civil
liberties groups have objected to portions of CSEA.
“There are a lot of different things to
be concerned about, but preserving Fourth Amendment and wiretap standards
continues to be a critical test of Congress’ commitment of civil liberties,”
Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said
Wednesday.
Rotenberg said that CSEA makes “ISPs
more closely aligned with law enforcement interests than customer
confidentiality interests. It may not be surprising, but it’s not good
news.”
Democratic members of Congress said
during Wednesday evening’s floor debate that the Department of Homeland
Security bill had been rushed to the floor without everyone having a chance to
read it. They did not complain specifically about CSEA, which has already been
approved near-unanimously by the House.
“We were given a massive new bill this
morning that is being rushed through the House with no opportunity for debate,”
said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. “I doubt more than 10 people in Congress know
(what’s) in the bill.”
House Majority Leader Dick Armey,
R-Texas, replied by saying: “There seems to be a concern that the bill is being
rushed to the floor. ... This was not rushed to the floor. We worked hard on
it. We worked together on it.”
WHAT
CSEA DOES
CSEA
expands the ability of police to conduct Internet or telephone eavesdropping
without first obtaining a court order, and offers Internet providers more
latitude to disclose information to police.
If approved by the Senate and signed by
the president, who has called for a Department of Homeland Security, the law
would:
- Promise life terms for computer intrusions that
“recklessly” put others’ lives at risk. A committee report accompanying
the legislation predicts: “A terrorist or criminal cyberattack could
further harm our economy and critical infrastructure. It is imperative
that the penalties and law enforcement capabilities are adequate to
prevent and deter such attacks.”
- Permit limited surveillance without a court order
when there is an “ongoing attack” on an Internet-connected computer or “an
immediate threat to a national security interest.” That kind of
surveillance would, however, be limited to obtaining a suspect’s telephone
number, IP address, URLs or e-mail header information—not the contents of
online communications or telephone calls. Under federal law, such taps can
take place when there’s a threat of “serious bodily injury to any person”
or activity involving organized crime.
- Change current law, which says it’s illegal for an
Internet provider to “knowingly divulge” what users do except in some
specific circumstances, such as when it’s troubleshooting glitches,
receiving a court order or tipping off police that a crime is in progress.
CSEA expands that list to include when “an emergency involving danger of
death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of the
information without delay.”
- Specify that an existing ban on the “advertisement”
of any device that is used primarily for surreptitious electronic
surveillance applies to online ads. The prohibition now covers only a
“newspaper, magazine, handbill or other publication.”
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Reference
McGrath, Neal. (February 1995) Corporate Cops and Robbers: Asian Companies need to beef up their
security. Asian Business.
http://members.aol.com/richpost/art6.html
Enter the Spies: But it's
not just straightforward cases of fraud and embezzlement that menace Asian
companies. It's corporate spying, theft of trade secrets and other intellectual
property and leaking of all manner of sensitive information that poses the
greatest threat to corporate security in the 1990s.
Dramatic changes in the way Asian companies operate have created
tremendous new opportunities for the perpetrators of corporate crime. Risks
have grown exponentially in the past decade as companies have spread their
reach across borders, setting up facilities in other countries and working with
unfamiliar partners in alien environments.
The proliferation of service industries and the explosion of new
technology have added to the problem, opening up whole new areas of
vulnerability for companies accustomed to treating security as simply a matter
of keeping inventory under lock and key.
'Your most valuable asset is probably not your petty cash, but your
client list,' says Steve Vickers, managing director of Kroll Associates (Asia).
'If you're in a service business, even your Christmas card list could be
valuable to someone.' Yet client lists are all too often left completely
unprotected.
People in the security business say crimes against companies are on the
rise in Asia. 'You're seeing almost a mirror image in Asia of what was going on
in the US in the 1980s,' says Post. Malaysia, for example, recently announced
it would introduce a law
stipulating mandatory
flogging for convicted white
collar criminals, citing a 300% increase in commercial crime in the past
decade.
Post adds that the key is to make sure that you are aware of the risks
- and take steps to head off potential perrpetrators. 'If you leave some kind of
loophole, I guarantee you someone is going to try to take advantage of it.'
In the 1990s, security involves much more than simply hiring a guard to
stand around and watch your warehouse. Safeguarding corporate security requires
careful planning and involvement from staff at all levels. It goes to the very
heart of how a company is managed and how it treats its assets - both physical
and intangible.
'When we talk about security, we talk about protecting a company so
that it can reach its business goals,' says Post. 'It [involves] more than
better locks on the doors and a higher fence.'
The bad news is that if someone is really determined to spy on you or
steal your secrets, you probably can't stop them. The good news is that some
fairly basic steps can reduce the risk substantially.
The KGB connection: Part of
the problem is that there has been a surge in the supply of spy equipment on
the open market in the past few years. Unemployed spies from Russia and other
ex-Warsaw Pact countries are said to be readily available for all manner of
freelance work. What's worse, many of them have access to, and will often sell,
a wide range of advanced surveillance gear.
Security companies can check premises for listening devices or other
signs that someone is eavesdropping on board meetings or tapping phone, fax or
computer lines, but hi-tech sweeps that promise to give a clean bill of health
can be misleading. They can ferret out bugs in the walls and tell you if
someone has tapped the phones.
But then what? Once the
detectives have left, what's to stop the same person from simply planting new
bugs and placing fresh taps on the lines?
And that's with old technology. With current technology
it's entirely possible for someone to listen to everything you say in your
office without leaving a trace. There are hi-tech gizmos that can bounce a
laser beam off your office window to pick up vibrations, allowing the user to
listen to everything said in the room. "There are no quick fixes,' notes
Post.
The point is, while you can't be 100% certain no one is listening,
reasonable measures that make it more difficult will in most cases suffice.
Even if your rivals or their agents are capable of getting hold of a
laser-beam listening device, are they really likely to go to that much trouble
(not to mention expense - these gadgets are not cheap) to listen to days of
conversation in the hope that you will say something of value to them?
It's much more likely that competitors will use more down-to-earth
strategies to get the information they want. As Post puts it: 'Why would I go
to all that trouble? If I wanted to spy on you, I'd buy your secretary a
Mercedes.'
Post recalls how one client in the construction business became
suspicious after it had lost three major contract tenders in a row each time by
just a small margin.
A quick investigation revealed that the company's phone and fax lines
were being tapped, but
that was not the source of the leak. It turned out an employee involved in the
tendering process had been selling information on upcoming bids to the
competition.
It's the people inside the organisation with access to sensitive
information who pose the greatest risk to companies, not outside spies and
hi-tech surveillance gear.
(Reference: McGrath, Neal. (February 1995) Corporate Cops and Robbers:
Asian Companies need to beef up their security. Asian Business.)
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Reference
McGuire, Russ. (Friday, August 01, 2003) Should I market my technology to
pornographers? USA: WorldNetDaily.com.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33860
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BIZNETDAILY COMMENTARY
Should I market my technology to pornographers?
Why sin industries are earliest adopters
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Posted:
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Editor's note: Russ McGuire is the online director of Business Reform
Magazine. Each issue of Business Reform features practical advice on operating
successfully in business while glorifying God.
By Russ McGuire
© 2003 Business Reform
When it comes to new technology, sinners rule. Between sex and
gambling, the earliest users and easily the first profitable users of many new
technologies have been pornographers and casinos. If your company is developing a new technology, targeting these
industries may provide the early revenues and ongoing profits that can provide
the cash flow critical to the survival and success of any entrepreneurial
venture. Of course, it is
easier to take this stained
money than it is to refuse
it. If you want to block
immoral businesses from using your technology, you need to take specific steps
to achieve that blocking.
Toll free numbers, 900 numbers, telephone debit cards, pay per view,
personal computers, computer bulletin board systems, online services, web
e-commerce, video conferencing... the list is almost endless. Virtually every new information technology
development has had its first commercial success at the hands of the sex and
gambling industries. In large part, this is due to the anonymity and privacy
afforded by many of these technologies. Using these technologies, an individual
can indulge in their sinful habits from the privacy of their own home or hotel
room. These industries are also deceivingly information intensive.
Bottom line, using these technologies creates tremendous new revenue
opportunities for pornographers and casinos, all with very healthy margins, and
often well beyond the reach of any law enforcement or regulatory agencies since
the laws and regulations for these new technologies will always take years to
develop.
You would likely be surprised by the names of some of the technology
companies whose futures have been secured by successfully selling into this
lucrative market. These deals typically don't show up in press releases and
aren't trumpeted on the corporate web site. But the reality is that a
relatively small number of such customers can quickly recoup development
investment as well as provide tangible feedback from "real world" use
that is invaluable to technology entreprenuers.
For a moral technologist, this creates a real quandry. The revenue
opportunity represented by such a target market is certainly attractive, but if
you're like me, serving and supporting these sinful businesses and therefore
encouraging thousands or millions of people to sin is abhorrent. For many of
us, even at the risk of ruining our companies, we will do everything we can to
keep our technologies from being used by these sin industries.
Unfortunately, stopping a particular type of customer from using your
product is much harder than it would seem. Without forethought, planning, and
careful execution, you likely won't succeed in blocking your undesired
customers. When planning release of your technology to market, you must
consider both the legal and technical steps required to block use of your
technology for immoral purposes. For some types of products, this will be
easier than for others.
From a legal perspective, your greatest opportunity to define allowed
uses of your technology will either be in a software license or in a service
agreement. If your product requires either your software or an ongoing service
to be operable, then you likely have a legal leg on which to stand. As your
legal counselors assist you in writing your software license and/or service
agreement, make sure they understand your desires and include the appropriate
safeguards in the agreements.
For starters, you must retain your ability to cancel the license or
service agreement at your discretion without any burden to prove specific
conditions and without having to carefully define those conditions - placing
either of these requirements upon you will create opportunities for the
businesses you intend to block to claim that they should not be blocked. This
is a battle that you either cannot win, or may die trying.
You must also limit your financial obligations related to terminating
the license or service agreement. It is reasonable for the cancelled customer
to expect and to rapidly receive back their payments since they can no longer
use your technology. In fact, if you are like me, you will have no desire to
hold onto their money. However, you will want to make sure that your financial
obligations are limited to the amount that they have paid you. If you leave the
door open for them to make financial claims against you because they claim that
you are liable for losses in their business due to their need to change from
your technology to a competitor's, you could quickly find yourself in a legal
battle that can bankrupt your company.
Unfortunately, if your technology product is purely hardware and
doesn't rely on any of your software or any of your services, then you may find
it difficult to block specific uses, either legally or technically. Please note
that these requirements will also keep you from using standard open source
licenses, such as the GNU Public License (GPL) since these licenses are
specifically intended to allow ANY use of the technology by ANYONE for ANY
purpose.
But even if you can craft the right legal language to forbid use by
pornographers and/or casinos, obviously that doesn't mean that they'll stop
using it. Without the appropriate technical safeguards, you likely will never
know that your technology is benefitting these sin industries. In the worst
case, these sinners will pirate your technology and you won't see a cent while
they are profiting handsomely from it. In the best case, your revenues may
rapidly rise, but you'll have no visibility into who is using it and for what
purposes.
The amount of monitoring and visibility that you need will require
careful balancing between your desires and the respectful level of privacy
required by your customers who are appropriately using your technology for
legal and moral purposes.
Again, what is possible and appropriate will depend on the nature of
your product. Since many of the technologies that will be most attractive to
pornographers and online casinos are related to the Internet, you may consider
some of these tactics:
- Require product
registration over the Internet before the product will work.
- Have the software
check the status of the license/service agreement each time it is run or
periodically to ensure that the customer's ability to use the product
hasn't been rescinded.
- If your product is
involved in the operation of a web site, have the software notify you of
each web site for which the product is being used. You can then monitor
for appropriate use of your technology.
Taking such steps will likely give you the technology "hooks"
you need to ensure that your product is being used appropriately, that it
hasn't been pirated, and to shut down its use when necessary. However, you must
also make sure that you don't overstep your bounds and frustrate or offend your
real target users. Specifically:
- Do not use your
technology to collect any information about individuals and their use of
the internet without their explicit permission to do so.
- If your technology
is "client" technology that is used by individual consumers, for
example, a web browser to browse many types of web content, moral, amoral,
and immoral, you really cannot concern yourself with how individual
consumers are using your product. The focus of this article is on immoral,
profit-focused use of technology by sin businesses.
- If your technology
can be used both "online" and "offline", accommodate
the times when the user may be legitimately using the technology offline,
for example, while travelling on an airplane. You might allow a small
number of offline product uses between online times that the agreement
status is checked. If this number is exceeded, politely inform the user
that they must revalidate their software license/service contract online
before continuing to use the software.
If you think this sounds like a huge burden that is fraught with risk,
you're right. But for many of us, it is a burden worth bearing!
As the first Psalm begins: "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day
and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that
bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and
whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."
So go - exclude your technology from the way of sin businesses - and
prosper!
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Russ McGuire is Online Director for Business Reform. Prior to joining
Business Reform, Mr. McGuire spent over twenty years in technology industries,
performing various roles from writing mission critical software for the nuclear
power and defense industries to developing core business strategies in the
telecom industry. Mr. McGuire is currently focused on helping businesspeople
apply God's eternal truths to their real-world business challenges through
Business Reform's online services. He can be reached at [email protected].
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(Reference: McGuire, Russ. (Friday, August 01, 2003) Should I
market my technology to pornographers? USA:
WorldNetDaily.com.)
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Reference
Manktelow, Nicole. (Saturday, July 19, 2003) Every step you take. Australia: The Age.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/18/1058035190298.html
All this is fuel for thought when considering the numerous traffic
cameras installed throughout Sydney. A legendary wall of TV screens allows
police in the Brisbane Street control room to keep watch on our major roads and
intersections.
"My personal observation is that there are more and more cameras
out there - in streets, in airports - but the trouble is not that they are
there but how is it [video surveillance] being used? Is anyone keeping it? What are they doing with it?," asks Crompton.
"Let me assure you that there are plenty of police parties where they show the 'best of' footage. I have no evidence of that but I have heard
plenty of stories."
…
Orlando airport provides an unfortunate example with a scanner it is
trialling called the Rapiscan Secure 1000, which uses X-rays to find objects
that may be concealed on a person's body. The system generates a 3-D image that
leaves little to the imagination, with the possible exception of skin tone.
"Rapiscan
1000 produces a picture of you - basically a picture of you without your
clothes on,"
says Crompton.
There's evidence the generated "naked" images are misused, according to Crompton. "I have seen pictures from it in magazines
about a year ago,"
he says.
"It's
unnecessary because there is another technology that instead of showing a
picture that looks like you, uses an outline."
"It's crucial how you deploy technology and also how you provide legal sanctions for the
misuse [of it],"
Crompton says.
"Part of what I am saying is, 'let's think carefully before we
rush into law'. We don't want a situation where photos of a kids' birthday
party can't be sent to grandma. We need to be careful that we get the balance
right."
(Reference: Manktelow, Nicole. (Saturday, July 19, 2003) Every
step you take. Australia: The Age.)
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Reference
Marconi, David
(1998)
Taglines for Enemy of the State (Movie).
http://us.imdb.com/Taglines?0120660
It's Not Paranoia If They're Really After
You.
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In God we trust. The rest we monitor.
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The only privacy left is inside of your head
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Reference
Mayor, Mike. (Thursday, January 18, 2001) GeoSpatial To Test Wireless Vehicle Tracking. www.WirelessNewsFactor.com
http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/6826.html
GeoSpatial To Test Wireless Vehicle Tracking
By Mike Mayor
www.WirelessNewsFactor.com,
Part of the NewsFactor Network
January 18, 2001
Photo
The tracking system will be especially useful
in transportation of special needs students -- parents can be notified of
estimated arrival times.
A software system designed to track vehicle
location and movements in real-time over wireless devices will be pilot-tested
in a Florida school district next week.
Manufactured by GeoSpatial Technologies,
Inc., the GlobalTrax software system combines
Global Positioning System (GPS), Geographic Information System (GIS) and
wireless and Internet technologies to track
vehicles such as police patrol cars, armored
vehicles, fire engines, ambulances, school buses and delivery trucks from any computer or
Web-enabled handheld wireless device.
Focus on Student Transport
The pilot test, scheduled to take place in
Stuart, Florida, will demonstrate how the system can be used in various student
transportation applications, including prenotification of bus arrivals for
parents of special needs students, performance monitoring of all scheduled
stops for pickups and drop-offs, and an onboard emergency alert system,
GeoSpatial said.
GeoSpatial noted that one of the key
components of the GlobalTrax system is its pre-arrival notification feature.
For example, when a school bus is within 10 minutes of a special needs
student's home, the system will send out an automated call via wireless
transmission to notify the parent of the impending arrival of the bus.
Easing Parents' Worries
In addition, GeoSpatial said the system will
help reduce parents' worries while they wait for a bus to arrive during
inclement weather and when there are traffic delays.
The pilot program is scheduled to last until
the end of the school year, the company said. GeoSpatial Technologies is
conducting the test in conjunction with Laidlaw Education Services; the Martin
County, Florida Schools; and Cingular (formerly BellSouth and Southwestern
Bell).
The company added that if the test proves
successful, a consumer version of the GlobalTrax system will be made available
later this year.
Santa Ana, California-based GeoSpatial
Technologies is a GIS company that incorporates wireless, GPS and Internet
technologies to develop products for public safety and consumer use. The
company's product portfolio includes GlobalTrax, WayFinder, GST CrimeMap, GST
Mapper, GST Streetlinker and GST Viewer.
(Reference: Mayor,
Mike. (Thursday, January 18, 2001) GeoSpatial
To Test Wireless Vehicle Tracking. www.WirelessNewsFactor.com.)
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Reference
Mental
Help Net Staff. Sexual Disorders: Symptoms – Voyeurism.
http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&&id=602&&cn=98&&clnt%3Dclnt00001&&
Symptoms
- Voyeurism
by
Mental Help Net Staff
Voyeurism
Symptoms
Over
a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving the act of
observing an unsuspecting person who is naked, in the process of disrobing, or engaging in sexual activity.
The
fantasies, sexual
urges, or behaviors cause clinically
significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
Criteria
summarized from:
American Psychiatric Association. (1994) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
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Reference
Middleton, James. (Tuesday, July 16, 2002) Hackers face life imprisonment. UK: VNU Business Publications Ltd.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1133587
Hackers
face life imprisonment
By
James Middleton [16-07-2002]
US Cyber
Security Enhancement Act set to become law
The
US House of Representatives yesterday approved a bill that could put hackers in
the slammer for life.
Yesterday's
vote, carried by an overwhelming 385 to three, indicated that the Cyber
Security Enhancement Act, written up before the crackdown on terrorism began
last September, will be rubber stamped all the way.
The
bill must go before the Senate to become law, but it is expected to meet with
little, if any, opposition. However, as the holiday period for senators
includes all of August, the legislation may not be passed until October.
It is
not clear how far reaching the bill will be with regard to hackers, as the life imprisonment sentence is for those who put lives
at risk through electronic means. Whether this includes minor hacking felonies
remains to be seen.
The
legislation also grants powers to the US police to tap phone lines and monitor
internet traffic without a warrant. Such actions are limited to situations
which pose a threat to national security.
The
bill is designed to complement the US
Patriot Act, brought into force some years
ago.
The
approval of the Cyber Security Enhancement Act has been criticised by civil
liberties groups.
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Mitchell, Mark. (Monday, April 1, 2002) Always on the Lookout Taipei, Taiwan: Time Asia Magazine. Vol. 159. No. 12.
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/top
APRIL
1, 2002 / VOL. 159 NO. 12
Technology
Always
on the Lookout
Taiwanese
are spying on each other with tiny video cameras, and the populace is getting
paranoid
BY
MARK MITCHELL TAIPEI
SIMON
KWONG/REUTERS
Camera
shy: ex-politician Chu Mei-Feng is Taiwan's best-known video victim
With
his mop of frizzy hair, thick eyeglasses, and shiny, polka-dotted shirts,
Lawrence Lee bears a striking resemblance to Austin Powers in The Spy Who
Shagged Me. He prefers to think of himself as "the guy behind James Bond,
007." His ramshackle office in a low-rent district of Taipei is lined
floor to ceiling with spy gadgetry: neckties fitted with lenses, cameras
disguised as Bibles, infrared goggles. If you are lucky, he will show you his
small library of Japanese manuals with detailed instructions on how to secretly
film your neighbor's underpants.
For
10 years, Lee's company, Singa Takara Enterprises, struggled to turn a profit
selling custom-made spook equipment to clients such as the Iranian secret
police. Then, in December, one of Taiwan's tabloid magazines whipped up a scandal
by distributing free copies of an X-rated video purported to be of former
Taipei politician Chu Mei-feng as she entertained somebody else's husband. The
couple was secretly filmed with a thumbnail-sized
camera hidden in a bedroom. Since the
incident, which became an Internet sensation, Lee can't keep his shelves
stocked—and Taiwan is gripped with hidden-camera
hysteria.
No
one knows how many jealous spouses, paranoid business managers and
run-of-the-mill perverts have rushed out to buy their own snooping devices.
Miniaturization technology and cheaper electronics have enabled thousands of
Taiwanese to become amateur Big Brothers, surreptitiously videotaping employees,
friends and total strangers without regard for
privacy or propriety. Shopowners retailing tiny spy cameras (which cost between $30 and $400) say sales jumped tenfold after the Chu Mei-feng scandal.
One of the hottest toys last Christmas was a Winnie the Pooh plush doll with
cameras in its eye sockets.
Chu's
ordeal (she denies the woman in the video is her) has left a lot of Taiwanese
with the creepy feeling that the environment
is crawling with electronic eyes. A recent
survey found that more than 40% of Taiwanese women won't use public toilets
because they fear hidden cameras; nearly all of these women say delaying
micturition has resulted in urinary tract infections. To ease concern, some
police departments have been ordered to conduct twice-weekly sweeps of
restrooms. Authorities have been flooded with so many phone calls from people
convinced they are being taped that the government is holding "how-to" seminars on the de-bugging of homes
and offices. Taipei-based Gi Ya Company
claims more than 100,000 customers have purchased a device that is supposed to
detect radio waves emitted by spy cams
equipped with wireless communication capabilities. The $30 appliance, marketed to women for personal
protection, comes fitted with a whistle, a make-up mirror, and a stun gun.
Business
is also booming for Lion Liu, who sells some 300 electronic-device detectors a
month to gynecologists, hospitals, department stores and local police—in
competition with Lee of Singa Takara Enterprises. Not to be outdone by Liu, Lee
has been working overtime, networking with public officials, publicly deriding
his rival's lack of competence and making the rounds of television talk shows.
Jawboning
paid off when female lawmakers demanded that the legislature be scoured for
cameras. Lee was hired for the job. Lugging a metal case full of spinning dials
and blinking LCD read-outs, he waved a big antenna over every nook, cranny and
toilet in the building. At a subsequent press conference Lee, alongside the
speaker of Taiwan's legislature, pronounced the place safe for womankind. It
was, he says, the crowning moment of his career.
His
work should keep him busy. Surveillance
cameras are proliferating everywhere. Police
monitor high-crime areas. Business owners keep tabs on their workers. According
to the China Daily, mainland China's English-language newspaper, spy
cameras are a hit with consumers in Guangdong province, where spouses are tracking their mates and store owners watch out for shoplifters. After
stumbling upon a Tokyo-based pornographic website showing photos of female
passengers on Taipei subway trains, a Taipei city councilor recently fueled
public paranoia by announcing that the transit system had been infiltrated by
Japanese criminals carrying cameras disguised as briefcases.
And
last week, a man who officials have dubbed the "big-footed pervert" was
caught sticking his camera-equipped sneaker under women's skirts. "Do we have privacy anymore?" asks security expert Liu. "No. The only safe place is a place without light." Then again, there are
always infrared
hidden cameras.
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Personal
Review
…spouses
are tracking their mates…
Also from article by Li, Liu.
The
seller admitted some people buy the cameras to supervise on their spouse's
activities or for other reasons.
Residents
feel unsafe as this method has been used to
expose aspects of people's private lives
In other words, the diverse possibilities are:
- “Predator” men on the hunt. Monitoring married or unmarried women for illicit sexual favors or forced sex. This scenario is horrifying to those “good-looking/pretty” women (married/unmarried/divorced) who stay far away from home for employment or study purposes, without proper guardianship. Even inner circle friends, whether man or woman, could become enemies in disguise. Refer the article by Pandey, Maneesh. (Tuesday, October 29, 2002) Camera leads to Peeping Tom. Delhi, India: Times News Network. Also refer the related articles:
- Leinwand, Donna. (Monday, January 28, 2002) Use of 'date rape' drug surges. USA: USA Today. Sweets, toffees or even a tea, out of friendship, hospitality etc, one have to beware these days, even from “close” friends!
- Associated Press. (Thursday, September 19, 2002) Internet Dealers of 'Date Rape' Drug Arrested. USA: FOX News Network.
- The Date Rape Pill. USA: Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International and Real World Safety.
- “unmarried/single/divorced” men along with their families or friends hunting for prospective or eligible bachelor women.
- “Predator” women on the hunt. Monitoring married or unmarried men for illicit sexual favors. Refer the article by Mukherjee, Sourav. (Wednesday, October 30, 2002) Lack of jobs driving women to world’s oldest profession. Ahmedabad, India: Times News Network. With the help of spy devices, prostitution can be carried over to higher levels. It also helps to provide a “respectable” cover, by trying to force themselves into decent families under the guise of “romantic love”. The aim being to portray themselves as “respectable house-wives” during day time and as an “undercover” sex worker at night. In short, the desire to achieve the good of both worlds!
- “unmarried/single/divorced” women along with their families or friends hunting for prospective or eligible bachelor men.
All based on “obsessive lust” for carnal or sexual “satisfaction”. Stalking, to be precise.
The so-called “traditional” society with values, which used to exist until the middle of 1990’s face a nightmare with the clandestine introduction of spy devices. The immoral nature of society which used to be “hush-hush” will get more prominent, in the days to come. More vulgar. Covert intrusion into other’s private and personal life without permission.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down
with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
- 2 Timothy 3:6 :: New International Version (NIV)
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Mukherjee, Sourav. (Wednesday, October 30, 2002) Lack of jobs driving women to world’s oldest profession. Ahmedabad, India: Times News Network.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/comp/articleshow?artid=26798388
Lack
of jobs driving women to world’s oldest profession
SOURAV
MUKHERJEE
TIMES
NEWS NETWORK [ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30,
2002 11:28:22 PM ]
AHMEDABAD:
On January 26, 2001, Savita Mohanbhai’s little world crumbled to pieces. Her
husband died in a house-collapse incident during the devastating earthquake.
Left to fend for herself and her two young children, the 40-year-old woman took
to walking the streets of Ahmedabad. Unsurmountable
responsibilities coupled with unemployment pushed this
middle-class housewife into prostitution.
More
than an isolated case, this. It may well be a trend. Surveys carried out by
experts and NGOs suggest that the number of prostitutes operating within city
limits has seen a fair increase in recent months. The figure, say surveyors,
now stands at 4,000 — an all-time high.
If
you’re wondering about the reason behind this “disturbing” phenomenon, then the
blame rests on lack of job opportunities and natural and
man-made disasters.
“Increase in prostitution is a stark economic statement. It says that the city offers few job opportunities and
that young as also the not-so-young are taking the
easy but demeaning way out to earn a living.
This also points towards a breakdown of our
value system where
want of money overrides any other concern,”
says sociologist Gaurang Jani.
Jyotsnaben
Harshadbhai (25), a small-town girl living near Nadiad, was back to her
favourite haunt — a busstop on the busy Ashram Road. Soon, a youth riding a
snazzy mobike stopped near her. People at a nearby tea-stall watched dumbstruck as
a deal was quickly struck and the couple zipped away to a seedy guest house.
Before
becoming a sex worker, Jyotsnaben used to shuttle between Ahmedabad and Nadiad
regularly to earn a living. Paltry
remuneration of Rs 1,000 per month at a beauty parlour disillusioned her, and she chose to
take the cue of some of her friends who had already taken to prostitution.
Rajesh
Gumane, project officer of Partnership for Sexual Health (PSH) Programme being
run by voluntary organisation Jyoti Sangh, says: “There is an urgent need for
employment opportunities for sex workers, and more importantly for their family
members.”
Jani,
who is a consultant to Jyoti Sangh, adds, “Coupled with PSH, sex education
should be made compulsory in high schools and colleges. Our youngsters should
be told about the hazards, like AIDS and STD, of this high-risk behaviour.”
Jani’s assertion is upheld by the surveyors of sex workers in the city who talk
of brothels operating from slums, street-walkers loitering near busy
thoroughfares and multiplexes and of
call-girls who are just a telephone call away.
Surveyors
said: “We fear that in the aftermath of the riots, the number could well rise.
If any intervention is to be effective, it will have to be through viable means of earning a respectable living.”
(Names
of sex workers have been changed to protect identities).
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Review
Paltry
remuneration of Rs 1,000 per month at a beauty parlour disillusioned her, and she chose to take
the cue of some of her friends who had already taken to prostitution.
It is not only lack of job opportunity. The desire for more money, the easy way. In short, even if the society creates more jobs, one with a desire for quick money need not accept “the low paying” job. Why tire and toil oneself, while “a lot” can be made in a short duration with less tire and toil.
…young
as also the not-so-young are taking the easy
but demeaning way out to earn a living. This
also points towards a breakdown of our value
system where
want of money overrides any other concern.
The desire for more and quick money.
Will the society be willing to give high-paying normal respectable jobs to sex-workers? Naturally no, for those without sufficient qualification.
Refer the advice given by The Blessed One, Lord Buddha, according to –
Vanijja Sutta (AN V.177) -- Business
(Wrong Livelihood) {A iii 208} [Thanissaro Bhikkhu, trans.]. Five kinds of wrong livelihood for lay followers.
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Reference (Key points only)
Ofgang, Kenneth. (Monday, July 07, 2003) C.A. Allows Doctor to Sue Over
Secret Taping by TV Station. USA: Metropolitan News-Enterprise.)
http://www.metnews.com/articles/lieb070703.htm
A doctor who was secretly
recorded in connection with a television news report about alleged improper
prescription of controlled substances is entitled to proceed with his suit
against the owners of the station, the Court of Appeal for this district ruled
Thursday.
…
…violation
of Penal Code Sec. 632. The statute, which imposes both criminal and civil
liability, makes it illegal to electronically eavesdrop upon, or to record, a
“confidential communication” without the consent of each “party.”
…
A news
media defendant, he told the MetNews, should not be allowed to record a
person’s conversations illegally, use the tape to ruin a person’s career, and
then walk away paying only a few thousand dollars in damages.
…
The case is Lieberman v. KCOP
Television, Inc., B161477.
(Reference: Ofgang, Kenneth. (Monday, July 07, 2003) C.A. Allows Doctor to Sue
Over Secret Taping by TV Station. USA: Metropolitan News-Enterprise.)
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Reference
(Key points only)
Orland, Kevin. (Thursday, February 06, 2003) Stalker Victims Should Check For GPS. USA: CBS Broadcasting Inc.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/06/national/main539596.shtml
"He
told me no matter where I went or what I did, he would know where I was,"
Adams testified at a recent court hearing.
Police
say Adams' case and several others across the country herald an incipient
danger - high-tech stalking.
Just
as the global satellite positioning system can help save lives, so can its
abuse endanger them, advocates of stalking
victims say.
"As
technology advances, it's going to be almost impossible for victims to flee and
get to safety," said Cindy Southworth,
director of technology at the National Network to End Domestic Violence in
Washington.
…
In
the Adams case, Seidler pleaded not guilty last month to felony counts of
stalking, recklessly endangering safety, burglary and a misdemeanor count of
disorderly conduct.
…
Police
say Seidler put a global positioning
tracking device between the radiator and grill of Adams' car. Such gadgets use a constellation of Defense Department
satellites to pinpoint location and can send their coordinates via cellular
networks to wireless handsets or computers.
Trucking
companies use GPS systems to track of hazardous cargo and monitor drivers. Corrections
authorities use them to monitor sex offenders. Hikers, boaters and motorists
use GPS devices to keep from getting lost. GPS technology is also being built
into cell phones to help emergency dispatchers find 911 callers. They're also
being used to prevent car theft.
Southworth
trains victims advocates, law enforcement and prosecutors on stalkers' use of
the technology…
…
GPS
is not the first technology to be misused by stalkers, who have also employed
the Internet, microchip-sized cameras and even caller identification…
…
Tracy
Bahm, the Stalking Resource Center's director, said some states are working to update their stalking statutes
to include the high-tech variety.
The
center typically advises states to keep their statutes broad enough to include
technologies that don't yet exist.
"As
society and technology evolve, stalkers will always find new ways to harass
their victims," Bahm said.
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Reference
Pandey, Maneesh. (Tuesday, October 29, 2002) Camera leads to Peeping Tom. Delhi, India: Times News Network.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=26696955
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_702954.html?menu=news.technology.internetcrime
Camera
leads to peeping Tom
MANEESH
PANDEY
TIMES
NEWS NETWORK [ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2002
11:10:43 PM ]
NEW
DELHI: For almost a month, a voyeur landlord in South Patel Nagar watched his five young women
tenants in the bathroom through a web camera
he had installed there.
According
to the west district police, the landlord was booked when the five unmarried
women lodged a complaint against him.
‘‘The
working women, in the age group of 24 to 30, are outraged over the incident. They have registered a
complaint against their landlord, Pankaj Chopra (35), accusing him of downloading their nude pictures from a computer connected
to the web camera in their bathroom through a cable,’’ said Dependra Pathak, deputy commissioner of police
(west).
Pathak
said one of the women, while taking a bath,
spotted the hidden camera on Sunday and
reported the matter to the Patel Nagar police. The matter was investigated and
Chopra’s computer seized. The local police confiscated nude pictures of the
five women which the accused had downloaded in floppies.
The
five women were living as paying guests on the first floor of the house since the first week of
June. Only some of them were employed. The women shared the first floor bathroom amongst
themselves, while the Chopras lived on the ground floor.
The
DCP said the accused had built a room on top of the tenants’ bathroom on the
second floor, which he was using for office work. With a computer connection
there, he had installed the web camera on
the ceiling of the bathroom. Thereafter,
Chopra had been watching the women on his
computer and downloading images.
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Reference
Raman, B. (Monday, March 19, 2001) Sting Operations. Paper no. 212. South Asia Analysis Group.
http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper212.htm
…but,
in many countries, it is illegal to use them
clandestinely against another person in his or her house or office.
Only
the FBI can mount a sting operation. No
private individual, not even a journalist, can.
"Individuals,
any and all entities must and shall comply with all applicable local, state,
federal laws and regulations before performing or engaging in any recording,
covert surveillance or any transmission of radio frequencies.
Be
aware of your local laws prior to using ANY covert devices.
…but in India there are no laws regulating the use of
covert investigative/surveillance equipment by private individuals.
Despite
the legal safeguards in the US, there have been growing complaints of the misuse of such covert equipment not only by private
individuals, but also by the law enforcement agencies, resulting in a violation
or distortion of the rules of natural justice and particularly of the basic
constitutional or legal guarantee that no person can be made to incriminate
himself by using force or deceitful means.
Sting
operations could be mounted only against persons against whom
some evidence of criminality already exists and a sting operation is considered
necessary for getting conclusive evidence.
Permission
for sting operations must be obtained from appropriate courts or the
Attorney-General. This
safeguard has been laid down since those who mount a sting operation themselves commit the
offences of impersonation, criminal trespass under false pretences and making a
person commit an offence.
The
Supreme Court has ruled: "The first duties of the officers of the law are to
prevent, not to punish crime….”
…
These
sting operations are constructed so as to take advantage of the fact that
everyone makes mistakes. They refuse to
discriminate between the "unwary
innocent" who are legitimate victims of human nature, predisposed
to eventually making a mistake and nothing more,
and the "unwary guilty" who are looking for
the opportunity to commit the crime, or the "unwary negligent" who just don't care
enough one way or the other."
(Reference: Raman,
B. (Monday, March 19, 2001) Sting Operations. Paper no. 212.
South Asia Analysis Group.)
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Reference
Rich, Frank. (Sunday, July 02, 2000) Voyeurism for the entire family. USA: New York Times News Service.
http://www.naplesnews.com/00/07/perspective/d440226a.htm
What's
harder to explain is why supposedly
privacy-conscious Americans are so eager to
audition en masse for these shows or to
gleefully spy on others by watching them.
But Jeffrey Rosen, whose new
book, "The Unwanted Gaze," is the
definitive text on privacy perils in the digital age, feels sanguine about "Big Brother." It's
"silly to huff and puff about wanting to watch lurid television," he
says. "It's a human impulse." He adds that the exhibitionism of the
contestants, even at the price of being humiliated in prime time, is also
understandable in the post-Monicagate era. "Being on TV is now seen as more important than being a good
citizen," he explains. "Bill Clinton showed that in a culture of exposure,
shamelessness is a self-defense; no amount of bad behavior is embarrassing as
long as you continue to be on television. The distinction between fame and infamy has been
eradicated."
Also eradicated,
apparently, is the distinction between
reality and unreality.
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Reference
Roberts,
Penny Brown. (Sunday, June 01, 2003) Killer suspect arrested and released again and again.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA: The Advocate.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/060103/new_killer001.shtml
A Peeping Tom should wave some red flags. It goes
along the line of a sexual predator.
-
Police Chief Don Dixon,
(Reference: Roberts, Penny Brown.
(Sunday, June 01, 2003) Killer
suspect arrested and released again and again. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA: The
Advocate.)
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Reference
Sharon, Meghdoot. (Saturday, November 18, 2000) Eve-teasers murder father for protecting daughters. Ahmedabad, India: Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/20001118/ina18007.html
Eve-teasers
murder father for protecting daughters
MEGHDOOT
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AHMEDABAD,
NOV 17: There are no tears left anymore. For Seema, Anita and Rekha, who saw
their father tortured and killed before their eyes last Tuesday, all that
remains now is shock and grief, etched into their lives forever.
Santram
Upadhyay, 47, had objected to his daughters
being harassed by two youths who were his neighbours and paid with his life.
In
their one-room house at Premnagar slum in Amraiwadi, the girls are huddled
together, numbed by the tragedy that has struck them. Their elder brother
Rajesh arrived from Mumbai only yesterday. Their mother, Shantidevi, is still
in a state of shock. She keeps staring at his picture, in between breaking into
uncontrollable sobs. Rekha, the eldest daughter studying in class X, suddenly
breaks the silence. ``My father died trying
to save our honour. The sad fact is the
whole `basti' watched him being clobbered to death but no one helped.''
Their
ordeal goes back longer. An employee of a
private security firm in the city, Santram, along with his wife Shantidevi and
three daughters, used to live in the Premnagar slums. For the past few months,
the girls had been subjected to constant
harassment by two youths, who stay just across their house.
On
Tuesday too, Santram returned home from work around 8.30 pm to find the youths teasing and harassing
his daughters. The girls were studying in the verandah when the two brothers
Dinesh Parsinath Thakore and Rajendra Parsinath Thakore, along with some
friends, gathered there and began singing songs and whistling.
Family
members said a quarrel took place after which Santram threatened the youths
that he would call a cousin residing at Hatkeshwar to teach them a lesson.
Santram
had reached the end of the lane, when the two brothers and a cousin rushed
behind him with sticks and pipes and attacked him. Santram, whose skull had
been smashed, was rushed to L G Hospital where he died on Wednesday morning.
``My
father had tolerated this for long. He got enraged that night when they called
him a `hijra' who could do nothing even as they teased us,'' said Rekha, adding
that their problems began some months ago.
``When
we attempted to study, they would blast the music system at full volume
throughout the night,'' she said. Her sister added, ``They would bring their
friends here and all would recite `shayris', adding our names in between
lines.''
``They
had threatened my father earlier too when he had attempted to stop them from
harassing us,'' said the third daughter.
The
two brothers, their father and cousin who have been named as accused are
absconding. Their house, located exactly opposite that of Santram's, is locked.
Santram
had approached Amraiwadi police a few months ago after a quarrel between the
two families. He had stated in his complaint
that Dinesh and Rajendra were harassing his daughters and when he had objected,
they had threatened him with dire consequences.
However, no action was taken.
Though
the Amraiwadi police station is less than half a kilometre from the place where
Santram was murdered, the police arrived
after the accused had fled.
Copyright
© 2000 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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Reference
Shiel, Fergus. (Friday, September 27, 2002) Cyber stalkers to be jailed for up to 10 years. Australia: The Age Company Ltd.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/26/1032734276334.html
Cyber
stalkers to be jailed for up to 10 years
By
Fergus Shiel
Law
Reporter
Cyber
stalking is to be made a crime under Victorian law punishable by up to 10 years' imprisonment.
And the law covering all
forms of stalking is to be extended to cover
stalking even where the victim is not aware
that the offence has occurred.
Victorian
Attorney-General Rob Hulls confirmed yesterday that new legislation outlawing
online stalking would be introduced early next month.
"That
means that if a person is stalked in a chatroom; if they are stalked by e-mail;
if they are stalked on the Internet, it will be illegal," Mr Hulls said.
"We think that it is important that the evil of stalking itself is made a crime whether or not the victim has been harmed," he said.
"That
occurs with the law of threat to kill at the moment, whether or not the victim is aware of the threat and we believe the stalking laws should be extended to
that extent."
The
Law Institute has endorsed the new law of cyber stalking, but opposes removal
of the requirement that is central to existing stalking legislation that harm
or apprehension of fear actually occur.
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Reference
Swami, Praveen. (Mar. 31 - Apr. 13, 2001) The Surveillance Scene. India: Frontline. Volume 18 - Issue 07.
http://www.flonnet.com/fl1807/18071340.htm
COVER
STORY
The
surveillance scene
A
run-down on currently available surveillance and counter-surveillance
technologies and their applications, in the context of the Tehelka operation.
PRAVEEN
SWAMI
SPIES, unlike Tehelka's team of journalists, would not
really have needed to enter Defence Minister George Fernandes' home to find out
just what was happening there. Using equipment available off the shelf, such as
long-range parabolic microphones and shotgun
microphones, they could have picked up
conversations sitting in a hotel room 1,500 metres away, even through a 50 cm thick wall. Each time Fernandes picked up a cordless or cellular
telephone to speak to officials, electronic devices costing just a few thousand
dollars would have allowed the spies to listen in. And if they were equipped with state-of-the-art emission detection equipment, the spies could have read
each line of text typed out on the computers at
the Defence Ministry.
Encryption,
code-making and code-breaking are all part of modern surveillance and
anti-surveillance practices.
Tehelka's sting operation has shaken up India's intelligence establishment, and not for the obvious reasons. It has illustrated just how vulnerable defence and strategic establishments are to professional surveillance, and shown up the dismal state of counter-surveillance infrastructure.
In
the world of modern surveillance technology, the miniature cameras used by
Tehelka lie at the bottom end of the scale. Spybase, an online surveillance
technology vendor, sells products like the VidLink 100 video transmitter system
for as little as $39 9 (about Rs.18,800). Fitting into any object the size of a
cigarette box, the VidLink transmits video signals from its miniature camera
up to 1.6 km away, where
they can then be recorded on tape. An amateur version of the VidLink is
available for just $1 79 (about Rs.8,400) and allows for video transmission
over some 250 m. High resolution systems are also commercially available.
U.S.-based Communications Control Systems (CCS) sells a video camera fitted in
a pen, with a lens just 3.6 mm in diameter,
which can record
colour images in just 0.5 Lux of brightness.
Systems like these have been widely used abroad, both by journalists and law-enforcement organisations, as well as for commercial espionage. A corporation might, for example, record the payment of bribes to politicians in order to prevent them from reneging on an agreement. Miniature cameras and video transmitters, concealed in devices as diverse as desktop clocks, electrical plugs, door knobs or even hollowed-out books, are routinely used to monitor employees in rooms where sensitive information is kept. Despite a fair level of information on such surveillance methods being available, criminals continue to be caught on camera. The producers of a recent British Broadcasting Corporation programme used covert cameras to blow the lid of trafficking in eastern European women. Police forces routinely use cameras fitted inside car radio antennae to keep suspects under surveillance. "All this is seen as essential equipment," says security equipment dealer Ajay Gupta, "not as expensive toys."
Why,
then, have we not seen explicit images of corruption and narratives of scandal
emerge from elsewhere in the world? The
simple answer is that these techniques will
not work in developed countries. Any office
or home where sensitive material is stored, or secrets are discussed, would be
protected with modern counter-surveillance devices that would detect any
electronic intrusions. One major
counter-surveillance tool consists of systems that can detect any
transmissions, through a full range of 5 mega hertz to over 4 gigahertz.
The minute a covert camera is turned on, for
example, the counter-surveillance equipment would detect its activation. Users would also be alerted to the presence of any audio
or video transmitter concealed in fixed devices planted inside a room. Kits are
available to detect the covert use of audio and video recorders.
State-of-the-art
equipment can feed false signals to those listening in, allowing images of
bribe-taking, for example, to be replaced with innocuous footage. Other technologies exist to alert users that their telephones
are being tapped. CCS' B-411, for example,
monitors telephone lines for any changes in the electrical parameters, of the
kind caused by transmitters, extension phones, or even plain tape recorders.
The B-411 then generates a masking tone that makes eavesdropping difficult.
Devices to prevent other kinds of surveillance are again available
commercially. Audio jammers, which generate
random noise, are available for around $100,
and provide a high level of protection
against microphones and tape recorders. Each
jammer can protect conversations taking place within a 100 square metre room.
Special shielding equipment is available to protect
rooms from microphone surveillance.
Organisations
in advanced countries, official and corporate ones, go to extraordinary lengths
to protect their secrets. Telephone, fax and e-mail correspondence is, for
instance, routinely encrypted. This provides users of counter-surveillance
technology another layer of defence should their systems fail to alert them to
bugs. A variety of devices are commercially available, ranging from cheap
gadgets that distort voices, to full-scale encryption equipment. Anyone
listening in to an encrypted telephone or radio conversation would hear only
gibberish. Sadly, very few Indian establishments use encryption routinely.
While the Intelligence Bureau and the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) have
secured some key voice and fax lines, many communications, including satellite
telephones, remain unencrypted. That means anyone
armed with a frequency scanner, or even just some copper wire, screwdrivers and
ingenuity, can listen in to sensitive conversations.
New
technology can resemble science fiction. Since the early 1980s, the
intelligence community has been discussing technologies
to protect the surveillance of emissions from computer monitors and printers.
Technology exists to read this kind of text from up
to 3 km away, using the electronic emissions generated by computers. The United States security establishment has rigorous
standards, code-named Tempest, to protect these kinds of surveillance. Other standards,
reportedly codenamed Nonstop and Hijack, exist to prevent the
transmission of signals from radio frequency devices such as cellphones, pagers
and cordless phones. German computer magazines
reported in 1991 that authorities processing sensitive data in that country
were required to use only Tempest-protected devices approved by ZfCH, Germany's
Central Office for Encipherment. Ericsson is
believed to be the market leader for such special computer security screens.
EVER
since espionage began, code-breakers have been constantly at war with
code-makers. Any technology to ensure
secrecy is immediately challenged by counter-technologies, which are in turn
beaten by new secrecy tools. Experts, however, believe that the war is finally
being won by the code-makers. Simon Singh,
the author of The
Code Book, has suggested that the advent of
quantum cryptography would make it theoretically and practically impossible to
decipher an encrypted conversation.
Concerns
about the intelligence establishment's communication security have been voiced
for several years now. The May 2000 report of the official task force on the
intelligence apparatus (see separate story) noted the need for the Intelligence
Bureau to possess "a reliable and safe communications capability".
The report said: "Many of the hostile groups operating within the country
currently benefit from the expertise of foreign intelligence services, and are
able not only to latch on to frequencies, but can also demodulate RF (radio
frequency) transmissions that have been modulated and remodulated after
transmission." "Almost all messages," the report concluded,
"now need to be encrypted, and online encryption is a dire necessity."
The report has been accepted by the Central government, but it is anyone's guess how long it will be before such
major technological upgradation comes about.
Interestingly,
one form of unbreakable encryption, based on what are known as one-time cipher pads, has
existed for almost a century. A one-time cipher consists of replacing
characters or digits with a randomly generated alternative. The hotline between
the Presidents of the U.S. and Russia apparently use these pads, but the costs
of generating genuinely random characters, and the difficulties involved in
regularly disseminating pads, render the use of this method impractical for
everyday use.
Big
Brother is listening, but Indian intelligence officials are curiously blase about electronic
surveillance. The U.S.-run Project Echelon
can intercept almost all e-mail and fax correspondence and telephone
conversations, using a network of satellites and earth-based receivers. The interception of conversations between Pakistan's
military ruler General Pervez Musharraf and the Chief of General Staff, Lt.
Gen. Mohd. Aziz Khan during the Kargil war would not have been possible had
both sides used encryption. Technologies like Rivest-Adelman-Shamir
(RSA), based on one-way algorithms, provide
for near-unbreakable encrypted communication. The U.S. has imposed severe restrictions on the export of
strong encryption software, but some
products based on RSA technology, like the now-legendary e-mail encryption software PGP, are available for download from servers outside that
country. Strong encryption necessitates
enormous computer resources to decode, of the kind that can stretch the
abilities even of the National Security Agency of the U.S.
Organisations
like the RAW do possess significant technological capabilities, including equipment
to sweep important installations for bugs and to protect communications from
interception. The organisation, sources say, also has considerable capability
to intercept telephone conversations. Military Intelligence, for its part, has
formidable capabilities to decrypt enemy communications and gather intelligence
by prowling the air waves. Such technology, however, is closely guarded, and
finds little system-wide application. Visitors to top intelligence
establishments and the Defence Ministry face only physical frisking, designed
to detect not
sophisticated surveillance tools but
weapons. Any half-competent spy with access
to any of these establishments would have little difficulty planting bugs, or
taping conversations, or filming documents. Even
rooms which house ciphering equipment are rarely shielded from the prospect of
an electronic attack.
If
Tehelka's investigative team members had instead been espionage agents, the
consequences would have been calamitous for the country. None of the conversations
of the Defence Minister would have been confidential. India's nuclear secrets,
its defence acquisitions, its inner workings: all these would have been transparent. Decisions
made in the offices of top military officials would have been known to India's
enemies even as they were being made.
For
all we know, this is already the case. Almost
all of India's top officials receive civilian visitors, and there appears to
be little regular audit of what they might have left behind. That Tehelka could record on tape politicians unconnected
with defence is cause for nothing except sadness. That they
could penetrate
high-security offices with such ease underlines
the urgent need to upgrade the technological resources available to India's
defence and intelligence organisations.
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Vocabulary
blasé
adj. Unconcerned; nonchalant: had a blasé
attitude about housecleaning.
Personal
Review.
Any
half-competent spy … would have little difficulty planting bugs, or taping
conversations, or filming documents.
Almost all of India's top officials receive civilian visitors, and there appears to be little regular audit of what they might have left behind.
Refer the sample scenarios provided by spy device victim and the current advancement of spy devices. The level of intelligence gathering that could happen at home as well as at office of many Indian “Babus” or bureaucrats through these modern spy devices is worth noting. But then, who cares? Many of these Babus are blasé as the author of the above article (Praveen Swami) notes sadly.
And if they were equipped with state-of-the-art emission detection equipment, the spies could have read
each line of text typed out on the computers at
the Defence Ministry.
Passwords, classified material etc, “open” secrets!
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Reference
Taylor,
Charles. (Friday,
January 21, 2000) "Rear Window". salon.com.
http://dir.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2000/01/21/rear_window/index.html
http://dir.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2000/01/21/rear_window/index.html?pn=2
There's
a big difference between peeping at
strangers and watching a movie that's been made for
the express purpose of being watched. But Hitchcock was uniquely suited to explore what Grace
Kelly refers to in the film as "rear-window" ethics.
Movies
are often talked of disapprovingly as a passive activity. That's too easy. In
some ways, Hitchcock's whole career, his oft-quoted preference for suspense over surprise,
was a black joke played on moviegoer
passivity. An
audience that possesses crucial information that the characters lack is both desperate to do
something and
excruciatingly aware of its inability to do anything.
In "Rear Window"
Hitchcock presents a hero who is in the same position the director put his
audiences in: a watcher who sees (or thinks
he sees) what he is powerless to stop. Jeff
is bored to distraction. "I'm going to do something drastic," he
warns. And so, when he thinks that one of the neighbors he's been watching has
murdered his invalid wife, he's thrilled. At last something has appeared to
rouse him out of the stupor of inactivity and summertime heat. Jeff isn't the
ordinary person caught in extraordinary circumstances, like Robert Donat in "The 39 Steps"
or Cary Grant in "North by Northwest," characters driven to
prove their innocence. He's not personally involved in the crime. He isn't horrified or frightened, or
motivated by a sense of justice or outrage over a woman's death; he's turned
on, which is made a bit too obvious by his use of a huge, phallic zoom lens to
do his peeping.
The
possibility of a murder gives Jeff the same vicarious thrill that sends him
into war zones or onto the tracks of speedways to snap his pictures. (When an
editor informs him of war breaking out in some new hot spot, he responds --
with pride -- "Didn't I tell ya that'd be the next place to blow?")
Soon, Jeff's society girlfriend, Lisa (Kelly), and the insurance company nurse
Stella (Thelma Ritter), both of whom have
been chiding him for spying on the neighbors, succumb to the same fevered curiosity. And
since the promise of a mystery is the thing
that's lured us into the theater, we go along too.
Except
that Hitchcock doesn't make it so easy. Put in the position of watching along
with Jeff, we see moments so private that our first impulse is to look away in embarrassment:
A single, middle-aged woman, whom Jeff dubs Miss Lonelyhearts, entertains an
imaginary beau at a romantic dinner for two; a struggling composer comes home
late and scatters his work in drunken self-disgust. Hitchcock makes us aware
that Jeff feels almost no sense of impropriety
at what he's seeing, and he doesn't leave it at that.
Impropriety n.
pl.
im·pro·pri·e·ties
- The quality or condition of being improper.
- An improper act.
- An improper or unacceptable usage in speech or
writing.
Impropriety n.;
pl.
Improprieties. [L. improprietas; cf. F. impropri['e]t['e]. See Improper.]
1. The
quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time
place, or circumstances; as, impropriety of behavior or manners.
2.
That which is improper; an unsuitable or improper act, or an inaccurate use of
language.
But
every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities. --Johnson.
Many
gross improprieties, however authorized by practice, ought to be discarded.
--Swift.
Impropriety n
1: an
improper demeanor [syn: improperness] [ant: propriety, propriety] 2: an
indecent or improper act [syn: indecency] 3: an act of undue intimacy [syn:
familiarity, indecorum, liberty]
One
of the most painful things Hitchcock shows us is the home life of Thorvald
(Raymond Burr), the salesman Jeff comes to suspect of murder. A fat, rumpled
man, Thorvald isn't attractive or agreeable. He's brusque and rude during his
one interchange with a neighbor, and his life looks to be hell. His invalid
wife, who appears to be a hypochondriac, begins berating him as soon as he
walks through the door. When he attempts to be tender to her by placing a
fresh-cut flower from his lovingly tended flower bed on her dinner tray, she
laughs at him and tosses it away. And, having made this suspected murderer
pitiable, Hitchcock goes even further, employing his traditional method of
supplying the audience with information that his characters don't possess, but
with a twist: This bit of information would seem to suggest that no crime took
place. In the scene where Thorvald confronts Jeff, both of their faces remain
in darkness. It's as if a character has
walked out of a movie to demand an
accounting from the person who has turned his life into entertainment.
The
screenplay by John Michael Hayes (from the Cornell Woolrich story "It Had
to Be Murder") lapses from time to time into awkward topic sentences. At
one point, Stella declares, "We've
become a race of peeping toms." But it
isn't peeping that's on trial here as much as the
propensity of human beings to detach themselves from one another. The backyard world of "Rear Window" isn't a neighborhood
-- mereely a collection of people living in
close proximity. The neighbors barely speak
to one another. Jeff's voyeurism is simply the most extreme form of that detachment. Hitchcock brings that to the fore in an excruciating
sequence where Jeff and Lisa and Stella are so intrigued by what's going on in
Thorvald's apartment that, despite the urgent evidence in front of their eyes,
they nearly allow a woman to commit suicide. And Hitchcock ups the ante just a
few minutes later when Jeff almost allows Lisa to be killed as he watches,
acting as if he were a man watching a movie instead of a person with the power
to prevent a murder.
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Reference
The
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Cyber
Crime - IT ACT, 2000. Chapter IX. Penalties and Adjudication. 43. Penalty for
damage to computer, computer system, etc. India.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) - Cyber Crime -
IT ACT, 2000.
IT ACT, 2000
CHAPTER IX
PENALTIES AND ADJUD1CATION
43. Penalty for damage to computer, computer system, etc.
If any person without permission of the owner or any other
person who is in charge of a computer, computer system or computer network, -
(a) accesses or secures access to such computer, computer
system or computer network;
(b) downloads, copies or extracts any data, computer data
base or information from such computer, computer system or computer network
including information or data held or stored in any removable storage medium;
(c) introduces or causes to be introduced any computer
contaminant or computer
virus into any computer,
computer system or computer network;
(d) damages or causes to be damaged any computer, computer
system or computer network, data, computer data base or any other programmes
residing in such computer, computer system or computer network;
(e) disrupts or causes disruption of any computer,
computer system or computer network;
(f) denies or causes the denial of access to any person
authorized to access any computer, computer system or computer network by any
means;
(g) provides
any assistance to any person to facilitate access to a computer, computer
system or computer network in contravention of the provisions of this Act,
rules or regulations made thereunder;
(h) charges the services availed of by a person to the
account of another person by tampering with or manipulating any computer,
computer system, or computer network,
he shall be liable to pay damages by way of compensation not exceeding one crore rupees to the person so affected.
Explanation.-For the purposes of this section,-
(i) "computer contaminant" means any set of
computer instructions that are designed-
(a) to modify, destroy, record, transmit data or programme residing
within a computer, computer system or computer network; or
(b) by any means to usurp the normal operation of the
computer, computer system, or computer network;
(ii) "computer data base" means a representation
of information, knowledge, facts, concepts or instructions in text, image,
audio, video that are being prepared or have been prepared in a formalized
manner or have been produced by a computer, computer system or computer network
and are intended for use in a computer, computer system or computer network;
(iii) "computer virus" means any computer
instruction, information, data or programme that destroys, damages, degrades or
adversely affects the performance of a computer resource or attaches itself to
another computer resource and operates when a programme, data or instruction is
executed or some other event takes place in that computer resource;
(iv) "damage" means to destroy, alter, delete,
add, modify or rearrange any computer resource by any means.
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Reference
Thera,
Ñanamoli. (Translated from the Pali) (Revised: Thu 17 May 2001) Anguttara Nikaya V.161. Aghatapativinaya Sutta. Removing
Annoyance.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/anguttara/an05-161a.html
Anguttara Nikaya V.161
Aghatapativinaya Sutta
Removing Annoyance
Translated
from the Pali by Ñanamoli Thera.
For
free distribution only.
Read
an alternate translation by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
From
The Practice of Loving-kindness (Metta) (WH 7), by Ñanamoli Thera,
(Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1987). Copyright ©1987 Buddhist
Publication Society. Used with permission.
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"Bhikkhus,
there are these five ways of removing annoyance, by which annoyance can be
entirely removed by a bhikkhu when it arises in him. What are the five?
"Loving-kindness
can be maintained in being towards a person with
whom you are annoyed: this is how annoyance with him can be removed.
"Compassion
can be maintained in being towards a person with
whom you are annoyed; this too is how annoyance with him can be removed.
"Onlooking
equanimity can be maintained in being
towards a person with whom you are annoyed; this too is how annoyance with him
can be removed.
"The
forgetting and ignoring of a person with
whom you are annoyed can be practiced; this too is how annoyance with him can
be removed.
"Ownership
of deeds in a person with whom you are
annoyed can be concentrated upon thus: 'This good person is owner of his deeds,
heir to his deeds, his deeds are the womb from which he is born, his deeds are
his kin for whom he is responsible, his deeds are his refuge, he is heir to his deeds, be they good or bad.' This too is how annoyance with him can be removed.
"These
are the five ways of removing annoyance, by which annoyance can be entirely
removed in a bhikkhu when it arises in him."
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Revised:
Thu 17 May 2001
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/anguttara/an05-161a.html
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Reference
Undercover
Press. Spying,
Espionage & Investigation.
http://www.undercoverpress.com/private.html
Many situations today are
potentially threatening, even dangerous, yet cannot be resolved by
"calling the cops"-not until it's to late.
It's sad when we have to
experience such invasions of our privacy and security. But why let suspicions
become paranoia? There ARE ways of striking back!
SECRET AGENT is unquestionably
the most complete and up-to-date book available for really getting anything on
anybody. A must for privacy seekers who want to know the enemy before taking
him on.
(Reference: Lapin, Lee. Secret Agent I UP498 and Secret Agent II UP499. Review. USA:
Undercover Press.)
Read burned documents that have
turned to ash.
(Reference: Lapin, Lee. Private Intelligence
Secrets UP677. Review. USA: Undercover Press.)
…did you know that your cordless
phone can beheard on a fifty dollar scanner as far as a mile away? That your
pager messages and fax documentsn can be interceptede?
(Reference: Lapin, Lee. The Phone Book UP844. Review. USA: Undercover Press.)
(Reference: Undercover Press. Spying, Espionage & Investigation.)
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Reference
Walt, Vivienne. (Wednesday, May 20, 1998) Shelves of Snooping Aids Make Privacy Hard to Buy. USA: The New York Times Company.
http://216.87.7.9/press/snooping_aids_make_privacy_hard_to_buy.htm
Shelves
of Snooping Aids Make Privacy Hard to Buy
By
VIVIENNE WALT
LOS ANGELES -- A MAN stepped through the door of a spy store in West Hollywood and muttered that his company, a "major movie studio," was tapping his telephone. He needed a device to examine the phone, hunt down the tap and shut the thing off.
That
might sound like an unreasonably worried customer.
But
phone tapping is bigger than ever -- both the
illegal kind and the legal kind.
Court-authorized
government wiretaps reached a record two million private conversations last
year, according to Justice Department
figures released this month.
Americans
might express outrage that Linda Tripp taped phone calls from her friend,
Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern. But Ms. Tripp, it seems, has plenty of
company. More than ever, Americans seem to
relish listening in on other people's conversations and taping their own,
electronics analysts and people who sell electronic devices say.
For
do-it-yourself spies, the easiest surveillance -- taping your own calls -- is
now so simple and cheap that there hardly seems to be a reason not to own the
technology. Many new telephone answering machines have a button that, when
pushed, will begin taping conversations without informing the other party. That
is illegal in only 13 states; New York is not among them, although Maryland,
where Ms. Tripp taped Ms. Lewinsky, is.
Several
recording jacks on the market plug into a tape recorder on one end and a
telephone on the other, allowing the user to put the tape on pause during
irrelevant parts and so save various literary agents and reporters from slogging
through hours of worthless chitchat later on.
"I'm
not sure what people are doing with these, but they're very popular," said
a sales assistant at a Los Angeles branch of Radio Shack, whose catalogue
offers three such jacks, ranging from $19.99 to $34.99.
At
the West Hollywood spy store, Spy Tech Agency, on Sunset Boulevard, engineers
have modified regular voice-activated recorders so they can tape four hours on
each side, which allows someone to tap a phone without having to baby-sit the
action continually. With one of these, the
owner can splice a connecting line into one
part of the telephone wire -- which is called tapping into the line -- and then hide the recorder in some other part of the
house.
Last
year, said the Spy Tech Agency's owner, John Dresden, the device may have saved
the life of a Spy Tech client, a suspicious
husband who taped his wife's calls only to discover that she and her lover were
plotting his murder. His wife found the
recorder and smashed it, Mr. Dresden said, but the husband returned to buy
another one and then handed the tapes to the police.
More recently, Mr. Dresden installed one of these recorders for a woman who wanted to record the calls of her teen-age son, whom she suspected of using drugs. The tapes exceeded her worst fears, Mr. Dresden said. "She couldn't believe the stuff he was doing," he said.
With
all this gadgetry, anybody might be tempted to try tapping a phone. But beware: all states ban unauthorized third-party wiretaps, even though some judges have ruled that parents can
record their children's calls because they pay the phone bills.
Despite
the laws, private investigators say they are being bombarded with clients'
requests for illegal wiretaps. "When I had an ad in the yellow pages, I'd
get a few requests every week," said Tom Grant, a longtime private
detective whose best-known client these days is Paula Corbin Jones. By far
the easiest method of telephone tapping, he said, is bribing a
technician.
Telephone
deregulation has increased the number of telephone companies, and it has also
changed the design of telephone boxes outside buildings, which connect the
inside lines to the street. Since telephone companies no longer have sole
authority over the inside wires, new boxes are designed with simple, modular
jacks so an electrician can add a line. That means that a snoop with minimal
technical know-how can plug a recording jack into the box without ever entering
the house.
Still,
new digital telephone systems are far more
difficult to tap than the older, analog lines --
so much so that the Federal Bureau of Investigation won an agreement from the
telephone industry to institute some changes in the system to make surveillance
easier.
Under
the deal, companies agreed to give government agents the ability to track
cellular-phone users. But the F.B.I. is arguing for greater access to digital
networks, including, among other things, the ability to monitor conference
calls even after the agent's target has hung up.
Cordless
and cellular phones can invite eavesdropping. Speaker
Newt Gingrich was overheard in December 1996 by a Florida man and woman who
were using a simple radio scanner in their car; they eavesdropped on a conference call with
Republican leaders, hatching their response to ethics charges against him. At
least one of the participants chose to talk on a cellular phone -- proving,
perhaps, that many Americans are not aware
of how leaky wireless telephones can be.
It is
also true that the recorded phone call has become commonplace in some areas.
Call a customer-service line, and a recording lets you know you are being
taped. Answer a telemarketing call, and that the call is probably being taped.
"There's
an acceptance that there are fewer opportunities for candid conversation,"
said Robert Ellis Smith, editor of The Privacy Journal, a newsletter based in
Providence, R.I.
Government
wiretapping is on the rise, too. A total of
1,186 requests were approved by Federal and state judges in 1997, which was an
increase of 3 percent from the number in 1996, according to the Justice
Department wiretapping report issued this month. As in the past, most of the
requests, nearly three-quarters, were for drug investigations; the largest
number were issued in New York, which had 304; in New Jersey, with 70, and
Florida, with 57.
But
for those who care about keeping their conversations private, there are a few
simple rules. First and foremost, stay off
cordless and cellular telephones: they act as radio transmitters. If you need a cordless telephone, buy an expensive,
digital version. VTech makes telephones that include a digital scrambling
system. Use digital, rather than analog,
cellular phones for more private conversations. Another
rule to remember is that even if your phone is secure, your conversation
partner's may not be.
For
sensitive calls to a specific person, two voice-scrambling devices are
available to attach to both handsets. They will scramble the transmission and
unscramble it on the other end. Spy Tech sells them for $300 each.
While
scrambling devices can render wiretaps useless, some tap detectors on the
market will alert you if someone's listening. Most
of them work on finding radio signals
transmitted over the line, a signal that
there is a wiretap at work. But in large
offices, finding a bug or phone tap needs far more complicated methods than
anything you can buy from a catalogue.
"It
isn't that simple, like in the movies, unfortunately," Mr. Dresden, of the
Spy Tech Agency, told the studio employee who came looking for a wiretap
detector for his office telephone.
"We'd
have to come in and sweep the whole place -- it'll cost you around 50
grand," said Mr. Dresden, leaning against a cabinet of tiny transmitters
in his blue jeans and cowboy boots. In an era when people are seeing alluring
little gadgets for James Bond and Dick Tracy-type wristwatch computers, it was
disappointing news. The man left empty-handed.
In
the final analysis, many people seem not to care a great deal about whether their
calls are being tapped. The news this month
that the government was listening in on a record number of calls barely made a
flutter in the news.
"Technology's
already diminished our privacy a lot," said
David Wagner, a computer-science graduate student at the University of
California at Berkeley who helped crack the GSM encryption technology used in
80 million cellular phones a few weeks ago. "Two
hundred years ago, if you wanted a private conversation, you went out into the
middle of the woods."
Mr.
Dresden cannot provide the woods. But in recent years, he has helped several
financial companies come close to that experience by designing safe rooms for them where deals can be made
without fear of economic espionage. One room
in a downtown Los Angeles building, Mr. Dresden
said, has vibrating noise generators built
into the walls -- about $30,000 worth of
electronic equipment alone.
For
the studio employee who wandered into his store, however, Mr. Dresden offered
his best advice for anyone needing privacy:
"Don't use the phone."
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Reference
Abnormal
Psychology: Sexual Disorders.
http://www.byu.edu/~psychweb/bnc/ab/ab-n18.htm
Voyeurism
A
voyeur is one who achieves sexual arousal through clandestine viewing of
others. Hence, the are also called "peeping Toms."
Again almost exclusive to men, these persons most often view women, with
favorite targets being women who are undressed or a couple having sex. The "danger" of potentially being caught seems
to heighten the arousal, and the avoidance of overtly approaching a women, with
the associated risk of rejection, simultaneously makes it seem safer. Indeed, many of these men have intense insecurities about the status with women or have a history of
rejection.
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Personal
Review.
The above case is equally applicable on women who spy on “unbending” men or strangers. To find ways to corner, sexually. Naturally such women don’t display a sense of dignity, shame, self-respect or even decency. Predator women, just like predator men.
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Reference
Boy's cell phone camera helps foil attempted abduction. (Friday, August 01, 2003) USA:
The Associated Press.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/105656p-95556c.html
Boy's cell phone camera helps foil attempted abduction
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLIFTON, N.J. — A
15-year-old boy foiled an apparent abduction attempt when he pulled out his
cell phone camera and snapped photos of a man trying to lure him into a car and
the vehicle’s license plate, police said.
The teen gave the evidence to police, who arrested a suspect the next
day.
“It’s surprising the kid had the presence of mind to use the technology
under duress,” Detective
Capt. Robert Rowan told The Record of Bergen County.
A spokeswoman for Sprint, whose phone the boy used, said she had never heard of someone using the new technology to catch a criminal.
The teen, whose name was not released by police, was walking home about
7 p.m. Tuesday when a man, later identified by police as William MacDonald,
pulled up in a white older model Ford, Rowan said.
“He offered to drive the boy to Passaic to look for girls,” said Rowan.
“He then started engaging in a sexually explicit conversation. The kid
naturally didn’t want to have anything to do with the guy, but he kept
following him. The juvenile told him he wasn’t interested and had to go home.”
At that point, the boy took the pictures, and MacDonald got out of his
car and grabbed the teen by the arm, Rowan said. A struggle followed, but the
boy was able to break free and run away.
He ran onto a bus and rode to Paterson, where he called his brother on
the cell phone. His brother picked him up and took him to police headquarters.
MacDonald, 59, of Passaic, was charged with attempting to lure a
juvenile into a car, criminal restraint and simple assault. If convicted, he
could face up to five years in state prison. He is being held in the Passaic
County Jail on $25,000 bail.
Originally published on August 1, 2003
(Reference: Boy's
cell phone camera helps foil attempted abduction. (Friday, August 01, 2003) USA:
The Associated Press.)
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Reference
CBI begins query into phone tapping; Tata Tea director Kidwai interrogated. phone-tapping.net.
http://www.phone-tapping.net/phone_tapping_articles17.html
CBI
begins query into phone tapping; Tata Tea director Kidwai interrogated
The
Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday initiated the inquiry process into
allegations that phones of some industrialists in Bombay had been tapped.
The
bureau registered a case on Thursday on the basis of complaints received from
the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited, Bombay, regarding the tapping of
telephone lines of certain top industrialists, a CBI spokesman said.
The
case was registered in the CBI special crime branch in Bombay, the spokesman
added.
The
home ministry, following the MTNL complaint, had on Wednesday ordered a
comprehensive inquiry into the entire episode.
The complaints
of telephone tapping came after The Indian
Express published the alleged transcript of
conversation between industrialists Nusli Wadia and Ratan Tata and Field
Marshal Sam Maneckshaw on the telephone which had connections with the Tata Tea
case.
Meanwhile,
Tata Tea Executive Director Sayeed M Kidwai was being interrogated by the Assam
police for the second day on Thursday in connection with the alleged nexus
between Tata Tea and the banned National Democratic Front of Bodoland.
Kidwai,who
arrived in Guwahati by a special plane following summons by the state police,
was taken directly to a police guest house. He was summoned in connection with
paying the air fare by the company to four Bodo militants to travel to New
Delhi where a meeting was held between them. The interrogation was being
conducted by sleuths of the Assam police's Special Operation Unit.
Tata
Tea Managing Director R K Krishna Kumar, who was also summoned by the state
police along with Kidwai, has sought more time and is expected to arrive here
on October 11, the police said.
Kidwai
was earlier interrogated by the police on September 11 in connection with
funding for treatment of ULFA 'cultural secretary' Pranati Deka.
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Reference
CBI can tap at whim -- Agency has 6 bugging machines. (Tuesday, August 06, 1996) India: The Pioneer.
http://www.phone-tapping.net/phone_tapping_articles15.html
"The
Pioneer" headlined on August 6, 96:
"CBI
can tap at whim -- Agency has 6 bugging machines"
(The
CBI is effectively the Indian equivalent of the FBI)
Apparently,
these machines costing Rs. 7.5 million = $200,000 each, can each tap 7 phones
in a 25-km radius, and were bought from a Hyderabad-based company, Fidelity
Systems. Apparently, all that is needed to tap a phone is for the sleuths to
dial the number through the machine, which then automatically starts and stops
recording all conversations carried out with that number, as well the numbers
dialled by the target.
As it
is, the law on wiretapping is draconian in India: on the occurrence of an
emergency, or for "public safety", a designated government officer
can direct that "any message or class of messages to or from any person or
class of persons, or relating to any particular subject, brought for
transmission by or transmitted or received by any telegraph, shall not be
transmitted, or shall be intercepted or detained or shall be disclosed to the
government." (This is from the Indian Telegraph Act of 1885(!), and
applies to e-mail and BBSes as well). But with these new machines, even this
designated officer can be bypassed.
Under
a box titled "Beware of blank calls", the newspaper mentions that when
the sleuths ring your number to start tapping, you get a "blank" call
(which one is quite used to here -- if that were enough evidence, the whole of
India is being tapped!)
What
technology is this? If it indeed works this way, what is to prevent any large
company or rich person from procuring the same hardware?
Apparently,
the purchase was authorised by former prime minister Rao, who is now
complaining that his own phone is being tapped (serves him right).
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Reference
Cyber
Security Enhancement Act of 2001.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:HR03482:@@@D&summ2=0&
Cyber
Security Enhancement Act of 2001 - Directs the United States Sentencing
Commission to amend Federal sentencing guidelines and otherwise address crimes involving fraud in connection with computers and access to
protected information, protected computers
or restricted data in interstate or foreign commerce or involving a computer
used by or for the Federal Government. Includes among exceptions to otherwise
criminal conduct emergency disclosures to a governmental entity by an
electronic communication service and specified disclosures made in good faith. Increases penalties for violations where the offender
knowingly causes or attempts to cause death or serious bodily injury.
Directs
the Attorney General, acting through the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, to
establish and maintain a National Infrastructure Protection Center to serve as
a national focal point for threat assessment, warning, investigation, and
response to attacks on the Nation's critical infrastructure, both physical and
cyber.
Establishes
within the Department of Justice an Office of Science and Technology to work on
law enforcement technology issues, addressing safety, effectiveness and
improved access by Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies. Includes
investigative and forensic technologies, corrections technologies, and
technologies that support the judicial process.
Abolishes
the Office of Science and Technology of the National Institute of Justice,
transferring functions, activities, and funds to the newly formed Office.
Requires
the Director of the Office to operate and support National Law Enforcement and
Corrections Technology Centers.
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Reference
Cyber
Security Enhancement Act of 2002.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:HR03482:@@@L&summ2=m&
Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2002 - Title I: Computer Crime - Directs the United States
Sentencing Commission to review and, if appropriate, amend Federal sentencing
guidelines and otherwise address crimes involving fraud in connection with
computers and access to protected information, protected computers, restricted
data in interstate or foreign commerce, or involving a computer used by or for
the Federal Government.
Requires such guidelines to: (1) reflect the serious nature of the
offenses, their growing incidence, and the need for an effective deterrent; (2) consider resulting losses, the
level of sophistication involved, any financial gain, intent, and the violation or disruption of
privacy rights, national
security, critical infrastructure, or public health or safety; (3) assure consistency; and (4) account for mitigating circumstances.
(Sec. 101A) Requires the Commission to report to Congress
on any actions taken and recommendations regarding statutory penalties.
(Secs. 102 & 103) Includes among exceptions to otherwise
criminal conduct emergency disclosures to a governmental entity by an
electronic communication service (which must be subsequently reported to the
Attorney General and Congress) and specified disclosures made in good faith.
(Sec. 104) Directs the Attorney General to establish and
maintain a National Infrastructure Protection Center to serve as a national
focal point for threat assessment, warning, investigation, and response to
attacks on the Nation's critical infrastructure, both physical and cyber.
Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003.
(Sec. 105) Prohibits the distribution of advertisements of
illegal interception
devices through the
Internet as well as by other, specified media.
(Sec. 106) Increases penalties for violations where the offender knowingly causes or
attempts to cause death or serious bodily injury.
(Sec. 107) Expands the legal protection for a
communication provider who legally assists law enforcement with an
investigation under the emergency disclosure exception under the USA PATRIOT
Act to include information disclosed under statutory authorization.
(Sec. 108) Adds immediate threats to national security
interests and ongoing attacks on protected computers to the list of situations
during which an emergency pen register and/or trap and trace device may be used.
(Sec. 109) Broadens the offense of and increases the
penalties for illegally intercepting cell-phone conversations or invading the privacy of another
person's stored communications. States that a law enforcement officer need not be present for a warrant
to be served or executed under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Title II: Office of Science and Technology - Establishes within the Department
of Justice an Office of Science and Technology to work on law enforcement
technology issues, addressing safety, effectiveness, and improved access by
Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies.
(Sec. 203) Defines "law enforcement technology"
to include investigative and forensic technologies, corrections technologies,
and technologies that support the judicial process.
(Sec. 204) Abolishes the Office of Science and Technology
of the National Institute of Justice, transferring functions, activities, and
funds to the newly formed Office.
(Sec. 205) Requires the Director of the Office to operate
and support National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Centers.
(Sec. 206) Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968 to require the Assistant Attorney General to coordinate the
activities of the various bureaus whose functions relate to technology
programs.
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Eve-teasers turn killers, 60-yr-old man murdered. (Wednesday, February 06, 2002) New Delhi, India: The Pioneer.
http://www.edage.org/legal_news_feb2.htm
THE
PIONEER
06.02.2002
ON
LINE
Eve-teasers
turn killers,
60-yr-old
man murdered
Staff
Reporter/New
In a most
heinous and cowardly crime, a 60-year-old man was stabbed to death by three
youths when he objected to the three passing obscene
remarks on his married daughter.
The
incident occurred in the Jahangirpuri area of North-west district on Monday
night. Jaidev (60), resident of gali number 8, Haiderpur had gone to the
Nizamuddin Railway station around midnight on Monday to receive his daughter
Sanju (20) who was coming back from Uttar Pradesh.
Accompanying
Jaidev was his son Ganesh, Sanju was coming back with her husband Mahipal and
Mahipal's brother Inderpal. Jaidev and his son received the three at the
station.
Not
finding a direct bus, they took a connecting bus to a place midway. When they
got off, it was around midnight and not finding any auto to take them back
home, the five started to walk home.
The
five were at Godaam fatak, Subzi Mandi in Jehangirpuri when three youths on a
scooter started to follow them. Ganesh, Mahipal and Inderpal were walking
around 100 metres ahead of Jaidev and Sanju.
As the
three youths passed Jaidev and Sanju, one of them passed an obscene comment and
pulled at Sanju's saree. Like any father
would, Jaidev objected and abused the three youths.
The
youths took umbrage to this and parked their scooter and came towards Jaidev.
One of them got into a fight with Jaidev and stabbed him with a knife in the
chest and abdomen repeatedly. The three ran away after committing the crime.
A
passerby saw the incident happen and the blood oozing out of Jaidev's chest and
informed the police. The police got there to find a profusely bleeding Jaidev
on the ground. He was taken to the Babu Jagjivan Ram hospital where he was
declared brought dead.
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Vocabulary.
Umbrage n.
a feeling of anger caused by an
offence;
"give or take umbrage
or offense"
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Eve-teasing Act to be made more stringent. (Wednesday, October 30, 2002) Chennai, India: Times News Network.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/comp/articleshow?artid=26791386
Eve-teasing
Act to be made more stringent
PTI [ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2002 09:47:20 PM ]
CHENNAI:
The Tamil Nadu government has decided to make the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of
Eve-teasing Act, 1998, more stringent and effective, and a bill to amend the
act was introduced in the assembly on Wednesday.
Incidents
of eve-teasing resulting sometimes even in loss of lives of college and school
girls continued unabated even after the enactment of the act in 1998, a statement appended to the bill said.
The
government referred the act to the State Law Commission to suggest suitable
changes so as to make it more effective, and the commission had made several
recommendations. The act was being amended incorporating the recommendations of
the commission, it said.
Several
women's fora had also suggested for a change in the title of the act as the
term eve-teasing sounded less serious and had less impact on the offenders. To
have a better focus and a wider coverage, the government has decided to change
the title into The Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act, the
statement added.
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FBI bugging phones, scanning emails in Pakistan. (Tuesday, November 19, 2002) Japan: Japan Today.
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=7&id=239165
FBI
bugging phones, scanning emails in
Tuesday,
November 19, 2002 at 09:10 JST
LAHORE
— After the recent statement of Osama bin Laden, telecast by Al-Jezeera TV, the
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
has become more active in Pakistan to trace
the al-Qaida network, through which the statements of Osama and other
al-Qaida's leaders are being released, according to local media reports.
The latest
audio cassette carrying the alleged statement of bin Laden was delivered to a
reporter of Al-Jazeera in Islamabad.
The
sources said that after the latest statement of bin Laden, telecast by
Al-Jazeera TV, the FBI teams swiftly moved
to Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad and northern areas. They also expanded their network for scanning telephones
particularly cellular phones. The arrival of
an FBI team in a city hotel a few days ago was also for this purpose, the
sources maintained.
The
users of cellular phones in Pakistan were facing problems due to FBI's hi-tech
communication system and installation of powerful boosters and scanners in
various areas. The complaints about system
and communication error had also been made by the cellular phone subscribers.
The
sources furthers disclosed that not only the
FBI, but a large numbers of the U.S. Central Investigation Agency (CIA)
personnel were also operating here to assist the FBI in order to trace out al-Qaida and other anti-U.S.
organizations' network in Pakistan.
Moreover,
the National Security Agency (NSA) is also assisting the FBI to scan
telephones, cellular phones, fax messages and the
Internet, the sources added.
The
U.S. agencies, operating in Pakistan, initially installed the system to scan
the cellular phones of Mobilink which is working on the GSM network. Later, other technology for the scanning of other
cellular phone system and telephones was also imported from the U.S. (Balochistan Post)
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Personal
Review
Moreover,
the National Security Agency (NSA) is also assisting the FBI to scan
telephones, cellular phones, fax messages and the
Internet, the sources added.
There is always a bigger fish!
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Hackers could face life in jail. (Tuesday, July 16, 2002) Science/Nature: BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2131773.stm
Tuesday,
16 July, 2002, 14:39 GMT 15:39 UK
Hackers
could face life in jail
Photo.
Some
hackers could be face long prison sentences
Malicious
computer hackers could soon face life in prison for some computer crimes.
The
US House of Representatives has approved a bill that inflicts harsh penalties
for computer crimes that harm people or endanger America's critical
infrastructure.
The
same law rewrites the rules on surveillance and lets US police forces and law enforcers
install wiretaps if there is an ongoing attack deemed to threaten national
security.
Civil
liberty groups criticised the legislation and said it trampled on rights to
privacy, was hastily drawn up and punished people too severely.
Jail
time
The
Cyber Security Enhancement Act was endorsed by a huge majority in the US House
of Representatives on Monday.
The
Act was drawn up in response to a series of well-publicised attacks on
high-profile websites.
Photo.
Kevin
Mitnick: Former hacker banned from using computers
Last
year's attacks in New York contributed to its support by US politicians.
Earlier
this year Lamar Smith, one of the Congressmen sponsoring the bill, said:
"A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet
or a bomb."
The
CSEA asks for the revision of sentencing guidelines for crimes that are
committed with, or by, a computer.
It
calls for a maximum life sentence for those who put lives at risk by breaking into computer systems and changing them or by recklessly misusing a computer.
'Sweeping
and harsh'
The
Act also gives law enforcement organisations more powers to investigate hack
attacks.
It lets police forces and federal investigators install wiretaps without prior approval of a court if the attack is thought to be a threat to national security or is "ongoing".
The
bill also obliges net service providers to tip off the police if they notice
any suspicious activity on their network.
Civil
liberties groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the legislation
was too sweeping and the penalties it invoked were too harsh.
The
Act still has to go before the Senate before it becomes law and some opponents
are hoping that there will not be enough time to consider it before the current
political sessions end in October.
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He lost his life for opposing eve-teasers. (Tuesday, October 29, 2002) Kochi, India: Times News Network.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/comp/articleshow?artid=26683610
He
lost his life for opposing eve-teasers
PTI [ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2002 07:57:05 PM ]
KOCHI:
A 45-year-old man, who filed a police complaint against some miscreants for
making lewd remarks at a woman and her daughter, was hacked to death inside his
house at Nearpananghad on Sunday night, police said.
Gopalakrishnan
had confronted a group of miscreants near his residence at Pananghad, who
teased the woman and her daughter on Sunday evening.
Gopalakrishnan,
a fisherman, who had also complained to the police about the ganja trade of the
miscreants, also filed a complaint with the police.
Later
in the night when there was power-cut in the area, the group of miscreants in
an inebirated state forced their way into the victim's house and inflicted
serious injuries on him. They also damaged window panes and cars parked in the
neighboring houses before warning the
frightened neighborhood about the consequences if any complaint was made to
police.
Gopalakrishnan
was rushed to the hospital where he later died.
Three
of the miscreants who had attacked Gopalakrishnan were arrested on Tuesday,
police sources said.
Meanwhile,
15 houses of the miscreants were burnt by the neighbors of the deceased, in
protest against the murder.
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Hidden
bedroom cameras inspire video privacy bill. (Tuesday,
April 16, 2002) USA: SiliconValley.com.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3077573.htm
Hidden
video cameras in bedrooms, bathrooms and other private places would be outlawed
under a bill introduced in Congress Tuesday that
would also limit pornographic Web sites to
an online red-light district.
…
…illegal
to film someone for a ``lewd or lascivious purpose'' without that person's
consent.
Violators
would face an unspecified fine and up to three years of jail time, or 10 years
if the filmed subject was under 18.
The
bill would not apply to security cameras in private places such as department
store dressing rooms, nor would it penalize those filming on city streets or
other public places where privacy does not exist.
Landrieu said she wrote the bill after hearing from Wilson, a Monroe, Louisiana, homemaker who found hidden video cameras above her bed and in her shower nearly four years ago.
Wilson
found she could not pursue criminal charges
against the voyeur because secret video taping, unlike audio surveillance, is
illegal in only a handful of states.
``It's
an outrageous, outrageous violation of someone's privacy and it's outrageous we
don't have laws prohibiting this,'' Landrieu
said.
…
``It's
getting to the point where every aspect of our lives is now subject to this
kind of surveillance ... and there's a lack of procedures governing the use of that
technology,'' said David Sobel, general
counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
The
bill would also require Web sites containing pornography, hate speech or other
material deemed harmful to minors to give up their ``.com'' Web addresses and register
under an adults-only Internet domain such as ``.prn.''
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Japan arrests 'secret porn movie makers'. (Friday, October 11, 2002) Japan, Asia-Pacific: BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2319411.stm
Friday, 11 October, 2002, 10:41 GMT 11:41 UK
Japan arrests 'secret porn movie makers'
A man watching a pornographic video in Japan reportedly
got a shock when he spotted his wife in it.
The Asahi Shimbun reported that two people have been arrested after
it is alleged they secretly filmed the man's wife at a public bathhouse.
A 41-year-old man and 33-year-old woman have been arrested
on charges of illegal entry after they posed as customers at the bathhouse, the
newspaper said.
The Asahi said the woman suspect is alleged to have hidden a camera in her towel in
order to film women in the changing room.
The husband of one of the filmed women, whom the report
did not name, saw the video at a local shop.
The newspaper said the two suspects allegedly began
shooting videos in public changing rooms in the Osaka area in western Japan two years ago.
The male suspect is accused of selling the videos to
wholesalers for up to 80,000 yen ($644) each, the paper reported.
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Landrieu: New Bill Makes “Video Voyeurism” A Federal Crime. (Tuesday, April 16, 2002) USA: State Government of Louisiana.
http://www.senate.gov/~landrieu/releases/02/2002417521.html
Under a new bill introduced today by Senator Mary Landrieu(D-La.), secretly videotaping a person in intimate situations without their consent would become a federal crime.
"In
the privacy of our own homes, none of us should have to wonder whether or not
we're being secretly watched-- and even
recorded," said Senator Landrieu. "Unfortunately, our laws haven't
kept up with the new technology that makes this kind of invasion of privacy
very easy to accomplish. This act of "video voyeurism" is not
addressed by our federal legal system and in most states, it's not even a
crime. The legislation I am introducing today helps fill this gaping hole in
our privacy laws, so that if someone is secretly watching you, under this bill
it will be a crime punishable by law."
…
"This bill will help provide victims and their families with much-needed protection and ensure some accountability for those who violate the privacy of others."
- Susan Wilson.
…
Under
the bill, any person who uses a camera or similar recording device to record
another individual either for a lewd or lascivious purpose without that
person's consent is in violation of the law. The penalty for violation is a
fine and/or imprisonment of up to three years, or ten years in the case of a
minor.
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Man accused of installing software to monitor use of computer by estranged wife. (Thursday, September 06, 2001) USA: News Tribune Co.
http://newstribune.com/stories/090601/wor_0906010962.asp
"Just
like breaking into someone's home, breaking into a person's computer is a
crime," Granholm said. "These are crimes that hurt people because
they make them feel vulnerable."
Brown,
41, was charged with installing an
eavesdropping device, eavesdropping, using a computer to commit a crime and having
unauthorized computer access.
…
Granholm
said Brown used a commercially available program called eBlaster to hack into
his estranged wife's computer at her home in Warren this spring. The program caused all her Web surfing and Internet
communication to be e-mailed to Brown as frequently as every 30 minutes without
her knowledge, Granholm said.
When
Brown allegedly shared some of that
information with his estranged wife's friend, the
Michigan Attorney General's High Tech Crime Unit was alerted and investigators
seized Brown's computer equipment.
"People
have to be very concerned about security," Granholm
said. "You hate to be paranoid, but the
reality is people get hacked all the time."
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Pentagon
system tracks every auto. (Wednesday, July 02, 2003)
USA: WorldNetDaily.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33371
A new
Pentagon system officials say will be deployed to combat zones in foreign lands
has the capability
to track every single car in urban areas, the Associated Press reported
Tuesday, leading some to worry the technology will lead to a further erosion of
privacy.
Besides
tracking the vehicles, the Defense Department's system – dubbed "Combat
Zones That See" – can also analyze vehicular movement, a capability the Pentagon says
will help U.S. troops fight and protect themselves overseas.
At the
center of the unclassified technology is an innovative computer program that
can immediately identify vehicles by size, shape, color and license plate. It
also can reportedly identify drivers and passengers by face recognition, reports AP.
…
Testing
could occur as early as 2006.
…
In the
meantime, public and government privacy advocates worry the Pentagon's new
system could be used to spy on American drivers in American cities. Already some experts
complain the U.S. and other countries rely too much on surveillance technology,
and similar technology has been used at the Super Bowl, to screen for possible
terrorists.
"Privacy
has been called 'the civil rights issue of the information age,'" said an analysis from
Minnesota Public Radio. "Americans enjoy unlimited benefits from new
technologies in a wired world. But those wires send information in two
directions, and the access to our personal data has never been more open for
abuse."
Says the
American Civil Liberties Union, "Big Brother is no longer a fiction."
"Many
people still do not grasp that Big Brother surveillance is no longer the stuff
of books and movies," says Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU’s
Technology and Liberty Program. "Given the capabilities of today’s
technology, the only thing protecting us from a full-fledged surveillance society
are the legal and political institutions we have inherited as Americans."
"Cell phones that
pinpoint your location. Cameras that track your every move. Subway cards that
remember.
We routinely sacrifice privacy for convenience and security. So stop worrying.
And get ready for your close-up," said an analysis in Wired Magazine.
(Reference: Pentagon
system tracks every auto. (Wednesday,
July 02, 2003) USA: WorldNetDaily.)
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Reference
Plot Summary for “Enemy of the State”. (Movie)(1998)
http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0120660
A successful lawyer finds himself the target
of a treacherous NSA official and his goons after receiving evidence to a
politically motivated murder, the only man that can help him is a former
government operative turned surveillance
expert.
Summary written by mystic80
Robert Dean is just a successful and gutsy
labor lawyer when he runs into an old college friend who was a big hurry.
Unknown to him, that friend secretly drops a disc and viewer containing footage
of a political assassination overseen by the senior advisor to the National
Security Agency. Unfortunately, that politician soon learns what Dean has in
his possession and secretly uses the vast resources of the NSA to find,
investigate and stop him before he goes public. Soon, Dean finds himself on the run, with his
assets frozen, his loved ones watched and
actively hunted by NSA agents using all the
surveillance technology they have available. Not knowing what is going, Dean must stay one step
ahead while trying to figure out the cause of this mess.
Summary written by Kenneth Chisholm { [email protected] }
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Reference
Surveillance
and Security - Personal and Corporate Espionage / Spying
Are
you being bugged ?
http://www.globalchange.com/bug.htm
And
just in case you were still under the delusion that a swept room is secure,
devices are available using lasers which allow
someone to listen to a conversation taking place half a mile away using
equipment operating at that distance. Laser
light reflects off window glass, carrying with it vibrations from noise inside
the room.
…
Privacy
died a long time ago. In some countries use of concealed transmitters is
against the law yet these things are widely available for decreasing cost.
…
…theft
of "words spoken" has become one of the highest value crimes that can
possibly be committed. We urgently need international agreement that covert electronic surveillance is illegal except for
enforcing law and order. The sale of these
devices should be banned in every nation…
…
So
how can you protect yourself?
Firstly,
you should assume that whatever room you are
using is insecure unless otherwise proven.
…
Regard with suspicion any small gift that the donor might expect you to keep in your office, or put in your pocket. Examples included expensive pens, paper weights or any other object.
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The Date Rape Pill. USA: Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International and Real World Safety.
http://www.fullpower.org/Articles/rohypnol.html
The Date Rape Pill
Known as a "roofies" or rohypnol, the date rape
pill is a sedative 10 times more powerful than Valium. This small, tasteless, odorless pill dissolves easily in a drink, works in about 10 minutes, and costs about
$1.50 each. Someone who
has taken a date rape pill becomes very disoriented and then passes out, with no or very little memory of what
happened.
Rapists are using the date rape pill to entrap women. They
bring a woman a drink having dropped the pill in it. Or they put the pill in
the drink or food when the woman leaves the table. When the woman becomes ill
or disoriented, the rapist "very kindly" helps her leave, taking her
home or to some other place. Sometimes he reads her address on her drivers
licence. Then, while she is semi-conscious or passed out, he rapes her. The
woman wakes up the next day, and is not able to explain what happened.
The date rape pill has been discussed on television and in
magazine articles. The following safety habits can protect you from a bad
experience:
- When going out, if
you have a friend you trust with you, you are safer.
- Watch out for your
friends and make sure they are watching out for you when you are places
with lots of people or people you don't know and trust like at a party or
in a coffeehouse or in a bar.
- Be
aware. Now that you know about
the date rape pill, it is your responsibility to watch out for yourself
and people you care about.
- Don't
go home with someone you don't both know and trust and don't accept drinks when you are alone at a
house where there are strangers (like at a party).
- Watch when someone
pours you a drink. Better
yet, get your own drink.
- Make an agreement
ahead of time with friends that you won't let each other leave with people
you haven't planned to go with.
- Don't leave your
drink or food unattended at a party or coffeehouse or lounge or anywhere
else that people you don't know and trust could have access to it.
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Voyeurism victim opens up on TV shows. (Friday, January 17, 2003) USA: The News-Star.
http://www.thenewsstar.com/html/133CF0A8-BD28-4DE7-AEC1-EE5D75B22565.shtml
… her
case against a neighbor who secretly installed video cameras in her bedroom and
bathroom brought about a new law against video voyeurism.
…
In
1998, when she found the cameras, along with intimate moments captured on
videotape in her neighbor's house, Wilson
discovered that law had not caught up with technology - there were no laws against
the practice in Louisiana. That spurred her to lobby for the creation of a law
in 1999.
The
story of Wilson and her family was already the subject of the Lifetime movie
"Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story."
…
Wilson
described as surreal the process of having the
most embarrassing, painful moments in her life made
into a movie.
…
Wilson
talked about the movie, which she described as surprisingly realistic, as if
she were holding the whole episode at an arm's length. When she described the
more poignant portions of the film, she used third-person
pronouns - she and her rather than me and I
- to deepict her own character, played by Angie Harmon.
"Listen
to me," Wilson said. "Even now, 'she' and 'her'. But that's part of my protection. I had to separate myself
from it. (The realism) was very hard to deal with. I had to keep distracting
myself."
Fourth
District Attorney Jerry Jones prosecuted Wilson's neighbor, who received a
suspended sentence for unauthorized entry.
…
"She
said his entering her house and drilling some holes didn't injure her, but both
those acts were against the law," Jones said.
"The
act that really caused her injury (videotaping her) was not against the
law," Jones said, "and that seriously upset her."
Shortly
after that, he asked Wilson to help lawmakers right that wrong by telling her
story. "She was a housewife, a mother, not a public spokesman," Jones
said. "I watched her mature from a shy person into a dynamic public
speaker."
The end result is a few paragraphs in the Louisiana Revised Statues, listed under 14:283, video voyeurism: "The use of any camera, videotape, photo-optical, photo-electric, or any other image recording device for the purpose of observing, viewing, photographing, filming, or videotaping and it is for lewd or lascivious purpose ... shall be, upon a first conviction thereof, be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisonment, with or without hard labor, for not more than two years or both."
Wilson,
though glad for the opportunity she has been given as a result of what happened
to her, still struggles with it.
…
… it has put such a strain on my family and on me."
The
worst part, she said, was living in a world where this sort of thing happens,
and according to the law, it was perfectly OK.
Wilson
said she lost a lot of freedom that day - but in reality, it was just a
perceived freedom.
"I'm
not (free) anymore," Wilson said.
"You aren't either."
But
thanks to Wilson's willingness to press the issue, even though she was in
the uncomfortable position of accusing a neighbor
and member of
her church, Jones said, no one will have to settle for OK.
The
whole experience has been cathartic, she said.
"I
like who I am now. I had always been a people-pleaser."
But through her experiences, and through her children, especially her oldest daughter, she learned that she didn't have to please people all the time.
"I
want (my children) to be kind," Wilson said, "but if you please God, you don't have to worry
about pleasing people - you do things
because they are the right thing to do."
Wilson
is currently working on a national law against the practice that will save her
from a state-to-state battle. Jones said about eight states have a law against
video voyeurism.
Jones
said he will introduce a bill similar to Megan's
Law at the next state session to require notification of neighbors in the event of a video
voyeurism conviction.
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What's the world thinking about? Sex, for one thing. (Friday, November 29, 2002)
Singapore: The Straits Times.
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/techscience/story/0,4386,157675,00.html?
What's the world thinking about? Sex, for one thing
Google's logs show that despite diversity in geography and
ethnicity, people search for the same things
MOUNTAIN VIEW (California) - At Google's headquarters
here, visitors sit in the lobby, transfixed by the words scrolling by on the
wall behind the receptionist's desk: animacion, japonese, Harry Potter,
brasileira de normas, tecnicas.
The projected display, called Live Query, shows updated samples of what people
around the world are typing into Google's search engine. The terms scroll by in
English, Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, French - any of the 86 languages that Google tracks.
Stare at Live Query long enough, and you feel that you are
watching the collective consciousness of the world stream by.
Each line represents a thought from someone, somewhere with an Internet connection. Google collects these queries - 150
million a day from more than 100 countries - in its databases, storing the
computer logs millisecond by millisecond.
So what is the world thinking about?
Sex, for one thing.
'You can learn to say sex in a lot of different languages
by looking at the logs,' said Mr Craig Silverstein, director of technology at
Google.
Despite its geographic and ethnic diversity, the world is
spending much of its time thinking about the same things. Country to country, day to day, even minute to minute, the
same topics bubble to the top: celebrities, current events, computer downloads.
People all over the world are very similar, based on what
they search for, said Mr
Greg Rae, one of three members of Google's logs team, which is responsible for
building, storing and protecting the data record.
Judging from Google's data, some sports events stir interest
almost everywhere: the Tour de France, Wimbledon, the Melbourne Cup horse race
and the baseball World Series were among the top 10 sports-related searches
last year.
It also becomes obvious just how familiar American movies,
music and celebrities are to searchers worldwide.
Google can also feel the reverberations of big events immediately.
On Feb 28, 2001, for example, an earthquake began near
Seattle at 10.54 am local time. Within two minutes, earthquake-related searches
jumped to 250 a minute from almost none.
On Sept 11, searches for the World Trade Center, Pentagon
and CNN shot up immediately after the attacks. Over the next few days,
Nostradamus became the top search query, fuelled by a rumour that Nostradamus
had predicted the Twin Towers' destruction.
Google's query data respond to television, movies and
radio. But the mass media also feed off the demands of their audiences. One of Google's strengths is its
predictive power, flagging trends before they hit the radar of other media.
As such, it could be of tremendous value to entertainment
companies or retailers.
Google is quiet about what, if any, plans it has for
commercialising its vast store of query information. 'There is tremendous opportunity
with this data,' Mr Silverstein said. --The New York Times
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Woman jailed for using sheriff's web address to sell porn. (Wednesday, November 06, 2002) UK: Ananova.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_704092.html
Ananova:
Woman jailed for using sheriff's web address
to sell porn
A woman has been jailed for a year after
using a website with the name of her local
sheriff to sell porn videos.
Jennifer Dute admitted ridiculing Sheriff
Simon Leis for his anti-pornography stance.
Ms Dute used the address as a gateway to her porn site to sell her homemade
porn videos in Hamilton County, Ohio.
According to the Cincinatti Post she referred
to Leis, whose deputies arrested her in 1999 for pandering obscenity, as "Simon
(expletive) Leis who thinks he runs the county."
A jury last month convicted her of pandering
obscenity for selling four of the homemade porn tapes she starred in and her
husband videotaped.
She had promised following a 1999 conviction
for pandering obscenity to never again sell her tapes from or in Hamilton
County.
Assistant prosecutor Brad Greenber told the
court that instead of living up to that agreement, she continued making and
selling the videos
"She reacted by taunting Sheriff Leis. Not only did she taunt him, she stole his name," Mr Greenberg said.
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That Which Is
Undying, and not merely to time alone,” murmured the Sphinx, breaking its muteness at last. “Thou art eternal, and not merely of the vanishing
flesh. The soul in man cannot be killed, cannot die. It
waits, shroud-wrapped, in thy heart, as I waited, sand-wrapped, in thy world. Know thyself, O mortal! For there is One within thee, as in all men, that comes
and stands at the bar and bears witness that there IS a God!”
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Search in Secret Egypt. (17th Impression) London,
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