From: Does it matter Date: Sat Jan 3, 2004 9:10am Subject: Internet phone usuage I just wanted to let ppl on this group know incase they may wonder about this type of service it is great. At home I use Vonage's service and it is incredibly clear. Several times I moved it around from office to other locations and got mixed results because of the various signal strengths that I was getting pumped through my cable service. When I finally tried it at home where I have had Comcast's interenet service since day one there were 0 interrupts. If anyone is thinking of trying something like this I can recommend the service that I use to people. Thanks Darren 8135 From: Date: Tue Jan 6, 2004 6:38am Subject: Re: Re: CIA Science and Technology Directorate Museum Opens << The C130s had a detector that could, at short ranges, pick up the RF generated by a vehicle's electric's and then take them out.>> Delightful. About what year was this? Technology is a good thing. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 8136 From: David Alexander Date: Wed Jan 7, 2004 3:24am Subject: FW: Re: CIA Science and Technology Directorate Museum Opens Igloo White ran from 1969 onwards. The ignition detection system was code-named Black Crow. Don't forget they were basic trucks, probably using magnetos. Not much (probably square root of nothing) in the way of suppression fitted to them. See home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html for more technical details on the remote trail sensor units Regards Dave David Alexander Dbi Consulting Ltd Stoneleigh Park Mews Stoneleigh Abbey Kenilworth Warwickshire CV8 2DB Office : 01926 515515 Mobile: 07836 332576 Email : David.Alexander@d... Have you visited our website? http://www.dbiconsulting.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: MACCFound@a... [mailto:MACCFound@a...] Sent:06 January 2004 17:39 To:TSCM-L@yahoogroups.com Cc:dave_ale@o... Subject:Re: [TSCM-L] Re: CIA Science and Technology Directorate Museum Opens << The C130s had a detector that could, at short ranges, pick up the RF generated by a vehicle's electric's and then take them out.>> Delightful. About what year was this? Technology is a good thing. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ======================================================== TSCM-L Technical Security Mailing List "In a multitude of counselors there is strength" To subscribe to the TSCM-L mailing list visit: http://www.yahoogroups.com/community/TSCM-L It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Star Bucks that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking is a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. =================================================== TSKS Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TSCM-L/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: TSCM-L-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 8137 From: Mitch D Date: Wed Jan 7, 2004 4:10am Subject: RCA Lyra 2780 pocket Video/Audio Recorder Ran the Lyra 2780 through some simple tests for various applications,it performed well and passed. With an internal 20G HDD and removable compact Flash mem, its deadly in the field as a pocket recorder. It will record audio, as well as video for over 10 hours.It accepts a composite video input,as well as audio through an AV cable adapter. Unit accepts an external 12 V DC Input Video is in mpeg4 format we used a small low quality color cam for bench testing,playback on a monitor demonstrated smooth fluid video with a crisp color image. There is no on screen T/D stamp. Audio capability testing yielded excellent results utilizing a inexpensive consumer grade microphone,AKG 1000 pro line mic,and another mike from a law enforcement supplier. The unit is effective,easily passes for a PDA,and is something to be kept out of secure conference rooms,product development areas etc...
http://www.rca.com/product/viewdetail/0,,PI700667-CI700324,00.html At at 5 1/4 inches high by 3 1/4 inches wide by 1 inch deep, the Lyra AV Jukebox can slip into a large pocket. The color screen, measuring 2 7/8 inches wide by 2 1/4 inches high, sits in the middle of the Jukebox face, with two rocker buttons on the right side for navigating on-screen menus. Plugged into a Windows or Macintosh computer through a USB 2.0 cable, the Jukebox appears to the PC as a hard drive - so you move files back and forth by drag and drop. You can even use the Jukebox to store data files, such as Word documents, that can't be played on the device. For music, the Jukebox plays songs in the MP3 and WMA formats For photographs, the Jukebox displays images stored in the widespread JPEG format. You can show pictures one at a time, or start a slide show that automatically moves through images. For video, the Jukebox plays MPEG4 video clips. If you have clips in that format, you can drag them into the Jukebox. The Jukebox acts as a recorder for both audio and video. There's a "line in" jack on the Jukebox that connects to a cable, included in the box, ending in the familiar yellow video jack and red and white audio jacks. The cable can plug into any audio source - such as a home stereo system - to record music in MP3 format. Or the cable can plug into any video source - such as cable box, videocassette recorder, DVD player or camcorder - to record full-motion video with sound. The Jukebox holds 40 hours of video recorded this way; to get 80 hours, you must first prepare compressed video on a computer. In addition to the headset jack for listening to music, there is a "line out" jack for connecting the Jukebox to a stereo or television - again with the yellow, red and white plugs - for playing back audio and video. RCA promises a free software upgrade soon that will extend battery life to 12 hours for audio playback, by turning off the power-intensive color screen. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus 8138 From: Does it matter Date: Tue Jan 6, 2004 11:33am Subject: Re: Portable MP3 Players Brian, Not every device leaves a registry entry. In fact lots of the thumb drives/usb key chain drives don't leave any remnants of being there. Good advice on the disable of the usb. --- In TSCM-L@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Varine" wrote: > There is a way to lock out the USB ports on 2000/2003/XP. We did this at my > last company and DoD does it as well. I'm not sure which setting you need to > tweak but it can be done. I can look it up if someone is really interested. > One other interesting feature is that every device that gets connected to > the machine leaves a registry entry. When performing a forensic analysis you > can see what they've attached. Unfortunately it doesn't tell you what > they've transferred. > > Brian 8139 From: Mitch D Date: Thu Jan 8, 2004 5:15pm Subject: Landlord goes to trial for placing illegal wiretap/cam Alleged snooping landlord in pretrial conference Gary Alan Rubio By Jeanine Gore--Half Moon Bay Review The El Granada landlord accused of installing a video camera behind his tenant's bathroom mirror and tapping her telephone line will meet in closed session Thursday with the judge and prosecution to determine whether his case will move to trial. According to Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe, the Superior Court Review hearing is an opportunity for both the defense and prosecution to hear what sort of sentence Judge Craig Parsons plans to impose on Gary Alan Rubio, if convicted. Then Rubio will have a chance to re-enter his plea, said Wagstaffe. "It's like a pretrial conference," he said. Wagstaffe said Superior Court Reviews are occasionally used as a way to resolve "non-violent" felony cases before trial. But, he said, avoiding trial is unlikely for Rubio because of the unusual nature of his case. "This case is a little different," Wagstaffe said. "Something tells me this one won't be that easy to resolve." Rubio, an electrical engineer, was arrested Oct. 5 at his El Granada home. Police charged him with two misdemeanor counts for trespassing and invasion of privacy and one felony charge for installing an unauthorized wiretap. At his arraignment Nov. 10 he pleaded not guilty. If the case proceeds, the next step is a preliminary hearing and then trial. If convicted, Rubio faces up to three years in state prison for the wiretap, six months in county jail for invasion of privacy, and six months in county jail for trespassing. Wagstaffe said the DA's office is confident it has a "strong" case against Rubio. "We feel the evidence is strong enough that the jury will convict him," said Wagstaffe. Loretta Rhodes, the alleged victim, said she plans to bring a $1 million civil suit against her landlord following his criminal trial. Rhodes discovered the mini-camera Oct. 5 with the help of Sheriff's deputies, who later found evidence of a wiretap beneath the home. Neither Rhodes' attorney, Jim Lassart of San Francisco, nor Rubio's attorney, Stephen Defilippis of San Jose, could be reached for comment on the case. http://www.hmbreview.com/articles/2004/01/07/news/local_news/story3.txt __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus 8140 From: James M. Atkinson Date: Fri Jan 9, 2004 7:21pm Subject: MARTIAN AIR FORCE DENIES STORIES OF UFO CRASH MARTIAN AIR FORCE DENIES STORIES OF UFO CRASH Gusev Crater (MPI) - A spokesthing for Mars Air Force denounced as false rumors that an alien space craft crashed in the desert, outside of Ares Vallis on Saturday. Appearing at a press conference today, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser stated that "the object was, in fact, a harmless high-altitude weather balloon, not an alien spacecraft". The story broke late Saturday night when a major stationed at nearby Ares Vallis Air Force Base contacted the Gusev Crater Daily Record with a story about a strange, balloon-shaped object which allegedly came down in the nearby desert, "bouncing" several times before coming to a stop, and "deflating in a sudden explosion of alien gases." Minutes later, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser contacted the Daily Record telepathically to contradict the earlier report. General Rgrmrmy The Lesser stated that hysterical stories of a detachable vehicle roaming across the Martian desert were blatant fiction, provoked by incidences involving swamp gas. But the general public has been slow to accept the Air Force's explanation of recent events, preferring to speculate on the "other-worldly" nature of the crash debris. Conspiracy theorists have condemned Rgrmrmy's statements as evidence of "an obvious government cover-up," pointing out that Mars has no swamps. They point to the release of secret government memos detailing attempts to discredit reports of the landings by alien space craft. The memos discuss stategies to avoid troubles similar to those caused by the War of the Worlds radio program of years ago. The program, which featured a sensational story of gigantic oxygen breathing two-eyed invaders from Earth, sparked planet wide panic. Local residents like Driv Rhodo, who lives in the area of the alleged landings, are even more sceptical. "I seen it with my own 5 eyes" claimed Rhodo last week. "I've lived here over 300 years, most of my adult life-form. Them things used to be few and far between but lately they come in every few years or so. The government wants to bury the truth but I can tell you what's real. The Earthlings are going to invade and the government is spending our hard earned tax dollars on press releases and denials instead of preparing for the battle to come." A spokesthing denied any government involvement in the disappearance of Rhodo, who has not been seen since shortly after the interview, claiming "Any sentient being knows that a planet with the concentrations of water and oxygen found on Earth is a deadly and inhospitable environment for the formation of life, much less intelligent life. The fear and consternation caused by the unfounded and wild speculations of citizens like Rhodo are a traitorous disservice to the citizens of Mars." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We expertly hunt real spies, real eavesdroppers, and real wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. Atkinson Ph: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 mailto:jmatk@t... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- World Class, Professional, Ethical, and Competent Bug Sweeps, and Wiretap Detection using Sophisticated Laboratory Grade Test Equipment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8141 From: James M. Atkinson Date: Sat Jan 10, 2004 10:09am Subject: Florida judge sues women who accused him of spying http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/7670050.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 09, 2004 Florida judge sues women who accused him of spying By KEVIN HOWE khowe@m... A Florida judge who was once charged with peeping and prowling in a case involving a Maryland mother and her daughter at a Carmel motel has filed a malicious-prosecution lawsuit against the two women. Charles Weaver Cope, 54, a judge on the Pinellas-Pasco Counties Circuit Court, served the Monterey County Superior Court lawsuit this week on veterinarian Lisa Jeanes, 33, and her mother, physician Nina Jeanes, both of Maryland. "I'm pretty scared," Lisa Jeanes said Thursday. "The whole thing's a horrifying experience. I was hoping it was over. I'm pretty shocked and disheartened to hear about this. I really want it to be over with for good." Being served with the suit, she added, was "Very much a surprise. I thought the whole thing was over with." Though the prowling and peeping charges were eventually reduced to public drunkenness, Cope was formally reprimanded by Florida judicial authorities as a result of the Carmel incident. Adding to his troubles, the November issue of Readers Digest cited the Carmel case while listing him as one of three recipients of its "Broken Gavel Award" given to "sleazy, corrupt or abusive" judges. "From what I know of the case, the lawsuit won't survive long," said John Mills, the lawyer who prosecuted Cope in Florida for the Judicial Qualifications Commission, a watchdog of judicial behavior. "What I've said all along is that the way Judge Cope has handled the allegations against him has done much more harm to the judiciary than any of the conduct he was charged with." Cope was arrested in April 2001 after the Jeaneses complained to Carmel police that he had tried to enter their hotel room with a stolen key. Cope had met the women earlier when all three were intoxicated, police said. They were vacationing in Carmel and he was attending a judicial conference. Monterey County prosecutors initially charged him with misdemeanor counts of peeping and prowling. The criminal case against him ended in a plea bargain in August 2002, when Cope entered a written no-contest plea of public drunkenness. Five other misdemeanor charges were dropped. Cope was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and donate $5,000 to charity. He was credited for 28 days served in a Florida residential alcohol treatment center in September 2001, said Lisa Poll, a Monterey County deputy district attorney. The case caused a stir in Florida, where Cope was tried before Florida's Judicial Qualifications Commission in June 2002. According to reports in the St. Petersburg Times, Lisa Jeanes testified that Cope introduced himself by offering to help her in a time of emotional distress. She testified that he then made unwanted sexual advances on the beach and later tried to enter her room. Cope's Florida attorney countered that she was lying to cover up an amorous encounter with the judge. The Florida panel found Cope guilty of public drunkenness and inappropriate behavior but dismissed several other charges. Last August the Florida Supreme Court publicly reprimanded Cope for his behavior, but he remains on the bench. Cope's suit alleges that the women's allegations against him "were without probable cause, were malicious, and made for an improper purpose" and that "all charges against plaintiff (Cope) were favorably terminated in his favor." Prosecutor Poll commented at the time Cope entered his no-contest plea that her office believed the women's account of what went on in Carmel, and that the other misdemeanor charges -- prowling, peeping, aggravated trespassing, petty theft, and battery -- were not dropped for lack of evidence. "We discussed the resolution with (Lisa Jeanes) extensively and with her agreement decided not to put her through the hardship of a trial," Poll said. Prosecutors also felt that bringing in witnesses from Virginia, Maryland, and Florida would be too difficult for them and too costly for local taxpayers, Poll said. Cope's suit alleges that the accusations caused him economic harm and asks for actual and punitive damages in excess of $25,000. Lisa Jeanes said she is working on finding an attorney to respond to the suit within the required 30 days. The suit was filed Aug. 4 but was not formally served on the women until this week because Cope's attorney, Charles Warner of Monterey, had been waiting for legal documents from Florida. Kevin Howe can be reached at 646-4416. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We expertly hunt real spies, real eavesdroppers, and real wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. Atkinson Ph: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 mailto:jmatk@t... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- World Class, Professional, Ethical, and Competent Bug Sweeps, and Wiretap Detection using Sophisticated Laboratory Grade Test Equipment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8142 From: James M. Atkinson Date: Sat Jan 10, 2004 1:24pm Subject: It's a fitting tribute. 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Atkinson Ph: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 mailto:jmatk@t... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- World Class, Professional, Ethical, and Competent Bug Sweeps, and Wiretap Detection using Sophisticated Laboratory Grade Test Equipment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8143 From: Date: Sat Jan 10, 2004 5:38pm Subject: pinhole camera attached to ATM was transmitting PIN numbers to van Article published January 10, 2004 ATM thief on probation Paul Raymore Valentin Raducan, 31, pleaded no contest to one charge of fraudulent use of an access card, a misdemeanor, in Nevada County Superior Court Nov. 18. Raducan had initially been charged with two other felony counts, including concealing, selling or withholding stolen property and burglary; however, both of these charges were dismissed. Raducan received three years of conditional probation for his plea (the equivalent of pleading guilty) in addition to 20 days' jail time and a fine of $708.78. Other conditions of his probation: He is required to submit to search and seizure, he is forbidden to possess any access cards such as credit cards and ATM cards unless they have been issued to him, and he is forbidden to possess electronic surveillance equipment. The defendant also agreed to pay restitution, although that amount had not yet been determined. After Raducan's arrest in early November, agents with the FBI were looking into whether Raducan might have ties to an organized crime ring linked to similar activities nationwide. After further investigation, the bureau decided that there was not enough evidence to pursue charges other than those he faced in the state of California. Raducan was arrested Nov. 5 in Truckee after local police noticed him talking with another man on a two-way radio in the vicinity of the U.S. Bank branch on Donner Pass Road. A silver van was parked nearby with the motor running and nobody inside. Inside the van, officers found a laptop computer, a suitcase and a new coffee maker that had recently been purchased from Starbucks Coffee. Further investigation revealed that Raducan had purchased more than $1,100 worth of coffee equipment from Starbucks, using two credit cards that had been reported stolen in the North Lake Tahoe area earlier that day. Officers also found a pinhole camera attached to the U.S. Bank ATM machine, which they believe was transmitting PIN numbers of potential victims to the laptop inside the van. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 8144 From: Date: Sat Jan 10, 2004 9:36pm Subject: "They were called 'shorties,'" a term he learned from wiretap surveillance Hints and hunches lead to an ID theft ring and an elusive suspect What began in Hudson County as simple bank-fraud case has mushroomed Sunday, January 11, 203 BY TED SHERMAN Star-Ledger Staff Some knew him as Sug, short for Sugar. Others called him Sabor. He was sued under the name Kendall Dailey and indicted as Annur Hamilton. He had an address in Newark, could be found in Baltimore, was living in a Springfield townhouse, and had an apartment in Hamilton Township outside Trenton. From Our Advertiser The credit card in his wallet was in the name of Barnum. He was arraigned last week on a 31-count indictment in Hudson County, where he now sits in jail on $2.5 million bail. His lawyer says he is the victim of mistaken identity. This is a story of how the man of many names came to be arrested in the parking lot of a Dunkin' Donuts in Plainfield. He is accused of heading a multimillion-dollar identity theft ring that used 29 people and a multitude of fake names to clear out bank accounts across the state. Investigators are still trying to unravel the scheme, which first came to light last year. They say it involved a nurse who provided names of terminally ill patients; several bank employees who supplied account numbers of their customers; state motor vehicle agents who provided bogus licenses; a Newark print shop that made phony documents; and a mortgage broker and real estate appraisers who falsified the value of houses that were bought and sold in the names of people whose identities were stolen. Were it not for a detective's hunch and a car -- a $68,500 silver-gray BMW 745i, registered to a sham address -- an arrest may never have been made in the case, law enforcement officials say. THE HOT WHITE-COLLAR CRIME Identity theft targeted nearly 10 million people last year at a cost of $5 billion to the victims and nearly $48 billion to business and financial institutions, the Federal Trade Commission estimates. It is a relatively easy fraud to commit. Personal and credit data are available to just about anyone. Online or telephone transactions require virtually no human contact. Many victims do not know they have been targeted until their money is gone. The ease of changing identities makes it hard for law enforcement to track suspects. "You are dealing with a phantom, basically, and that makes it more difficult," explained Joel S. Lisker, a former FBI special agent who is senior vice chairman of Dudinsky, Lisker and Associates, a Washington, D.C., consulting and lobbying firm. At the same time, identity theft is not a high priority for most law enforcement agencies, notes Robert D. McCrie, an expert in security management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. "That's why it's the most rapidly growing white-collar crime in the country," he said. Fraud artists who engage in identity theft typically fragment their activities so if someone does start an investigation, the crime will seem of little significance, McCrie pointed out. That was how it began for Hudson County Prosecutor Edward J. De Fazio. When representatives of the Provident Bank of New Jersey, based in Jersey City, came in one day last year to report apparent tampering with several customer accounts, he thought he had a simple fraud case on his hands, he recalled. The accounts had been converted illegally to make them Internet-accessible, enabling checks to be cut electronically and then mailed out. Provident Bank officials declined to explain how that could happen, but noted none of their customers lost money. The prosecutor said money was streaming out of the accounts. "The checks were being made out to various names and apparent businesses, at $8,000 to $9,000 at a clip, but not in even amounts," he said. "Initially we weren't sure what it was all about, but we saw they were going to a Mailboxes Etc. box in South Orange, so we knew we were on to something." The checks were made out to people and businesses that never saw the money -- all identity theft victims. One check for $7,914.30 was made out to a man with cerebral palsy who was a client of Cerebral Palsy of Essex and West Hudson in Belleville, but the check was mailed to the South Orange address. Later on, his name would turn up on several fraudulent real estate transactions. Investigators found a list of other people with cerebral palsy during a search of one suspect's apartment. Officials at the social service agency declined to comment on the matter. No arrests have been made of anyone connected with the center. In the beginning, De Fazio said, there was no paper trail beyond the identity theft victims, and the amounts of money involved were not particularly large. Many of the transactions stretched far beyond Hudson County. Investigators began recording similar transactions -- some linked by the same names -- in a series of thick, black, three-ring binders that now completely fill a bookcase in the sixth-floor office of the prosecutor. What emerged, said Sgt. Thomas Cooney, a member of the special investigations unit, was the discovery that a small network of operatives, most of them women with forged identification, was being used to cash checks on accounts in banks all over New Jersey -- including Provident, Fleet Bank, Sovereign Bank, PNC Bank and the former First Union. "They were called 'shorties,'" Cooney said of the women, a term he learned from later wiretap surveillance. "Some were paid as much as $1,000 per transaction. They would be dropped off and told if there were any problems, to leave the ID and just walk out." SARA MEETS SABOR Sara Henry had a good job. The 28-year-old registered nurse from Lindenwold in Camden County was employed by Cross Country TravCorps, the nation's largest medical staffing firm. She was living in Philadelphia while on assignment at Frankford Hospital, a small critical-care facility in the Northeast section of the city. In February, she went with a girlfriend to Atlanta for the annual NBA All-Star Game -- a glittery all-weekend extravaganza of flashing lights, thumping music and entertainment by Mariah Carey, as Michael Jordan battled it out on the floor of the Philips Arena with Kobe Bryant and Yao Ming. It was there that Henry met her friend's ex-boyfriend and his cousin, who was introduced to her as Sabor, a young man who tooled around in a high-performance BMW sedan. A transcript of Henry's interview with detectives, part of the public record in the state's case to revoke her New Jersey nursing license, outlines how her involvement began. Henry said she started dating Sabor when she got back home. She quickly learned he went by other names. Once, while they were at dinner, he paid for the meal by pulling out a credit card in the name of Barnum. "Did he ever explain to you who Mr. Barnum was?" Henry was asked. "No," she said. The conversation with her new boyfriend eventually turned to the subject of people who might not worry if their names were borrowed. "He said since you're a nurse, that you could get me into people that were maybe gonna be sick for a while; weren't gonna be checking their mail; somebody that may be dying or didn't have any family," she told investigators. "And he said I could take the names. All I would need is a name and a birthdate." No one would be hurt, she said he told her. "He said that he would take a name from someone; sometimes it was his friend's relatives or other people and he would take their names and put them into a mortgage and then, about a year later, they would reappraise the house for more than what they bought it for and they would sell it and then everyone would get money," Henry said. "The person whose name it was in, the loan would be paid off and then their credit would ... be higher." He suggested she could get 20 percent of any profits. She eventually gave him three names -- all gravely ill patients at Frankford Hospital. One was on life support. Two others were terminal, including a man with lung cancer. THE HUNCH Tom Cooney, the Hudson County investigator, felt as if he was tracking a ghost. He had a list of dummy accounts, reams of ATM activity, fraudulent credit cards, and he began to figure someone was at the center of a growing scheme. His suspect did not have a name. No one knew what the suspect looked like. Still, it wasn't exactly as if the guy was lying low. Cooney's gut told him his target was driving a silver-gray BMW 745i that had been leased and registered to one of the fake names and addresses in the binders. No one was making payments on the sedan. Cooney had only the license plate -- a hook he could not reel in without blowing the whole investigation. He didn't want to arrest the driver right away, not if he wanted any chance of unraveling what increasingly appeared to be a sophisticated fraud ring. In an effort to follow the vehicle and the driver, Cooney began trying to trace transactions on credit cards tied to some of his identity theft victims. As cops have for decades, he stuck pins onto a map to determine where money was being spent. Purchases clustered around Route 22, east of Mountainside, in Union County. "There were places he frequented. Restaurants, gas stations, stores," Cooney recounted. "So we staked out the highway, hoping he would drive down one morning." An undercover unit would be ready to roll off the center island of the east-west state highway and begin tailing the silver-gray BMW. It was a shot in the dark, Cooney readily conceded. As he sat there one morning, staking out the crawling, rush-hour traffic, Cooney glumly realized just how many high-end BMWs are out there. And it might well have ended there, a search for the veritable needle in a haystack, when Cooney spotted the familiar BMW logo atop a Springfield car dealership and played a hunch. Cooney decided he had nothing to lose by talking to the service manager. Maybe the manager had seen the car. "We hit pay dirt. It was just plain luck," he said, smiling as he retold the story. Employees at JMK BMW on Route 22 did remember the car and the driver. "We knew him," said a service adviser. "He came in a few times. We gave him a ride home." The address they had was a townhouse complex on the other side of the highway in Springfield. Two other cars leased under false names turned out to be parked there as well -- a Lincoln Navigator SUV and another BMW. Six weeks later, the prosecutor's office obtained a court order to wiretap cell phones. "We knew there were more people involved. We wanted to see who they were," explained De Fazio. CALLING THE BANKS Cooney still was not sure of the name of the suspect, but he concluded the driver of the BMW was the likely boss of the operation. Investigators in the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said their cell phone surveillance showed calls to the toll-free numbers of several banks, one after another, to obtain account balances on specific customers. The accounts would then be drained. Lt. Timothy Griffin, commander of the special investigations unit, said: "We knew what they were doing, but not where or when." More surprising to investigators were some calls that led to bank employees. At least two bank employees would be charged with feeding account information about customers to the ring. It was not just bank accounts being looted. At the same time, more cars were being leased under assumed names and disappearing, including a Hummer H2, Mercedes-Benzes, Land Rovers and Jaguars. Authorities told a Randolph schoolteacher, Judy Moore, that several luxury cars had been purchased in her name. "For a couple of months, I was the owner of a Mercedes and a Hummer," Moore recalled later. "We would drive down the highway and see one and say, 'Is that one mine?'" Moore's savings account was raided as well -- a money market account that she had never written a check against. "There was nothing I could have done about it," she said. "The money was gone before I knew it." She did not learn of the fraud until she received a call from the prosecutor's office. Moore is not sure why her account and name were targeted, but an employee of Fleet Bank, identified by prosecutors as Shamia Nichole Jones, 24, of Orange, was later indicted. Fleet Bank quickly restored all of the stolen funds, Moore said. Luxury houses also were being purchased, and second mortgages were providing cash to the buyers through fraudulently inflated appraisals, said De Fazio. In one case, a newly built $895,000 beachfront house in Brigantine was bought, and a second $125,000 mortgage was taken out against an inflated value provided by an appraiser allegedly in on the plan. The real estate scheme extended throughout the state. When De Fazio's investigators swooped in, the group was negotiating to buy a $2.6 million house on Chelsea Drive in Livington, De Fazio said. THE MVC LINK Henry had a girlfriend who worked at the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission's Mount Holly agency. The woman, Sheilina Moore, could provide registration documents on vehicles with no questions asked, Henry told detectives. Sabor wanted to meet Sheilina Moore. He had a black 2003 Hummer H2, and Moore would provide documentation in the name of Terry C. Moore. Sabor told Henry that Terry Moore was a relative of his. "For doing this for Sabor, was she paid anything?" investigators asked. "Two thousand dollars," replied Henry. "I put it under the mat of her car she left unlocked in the back." Sheilina Moore was arrested in November by the FBI, accused of participating in a separate ring dealing in driver's licenses on the black market. Moore also got Sabor a driver's license, Henry said. She remembered the last name on the license was Hamilton. THE CRACKDOWN He was a man with many names. After hours of surveillance tapes, they knew him as "Sug." They knew he used the name Jamal Barnum. And they knew him as Annur Hamilton. "We weren't quite sure what his name was until we arrested him," said Cooney. As investigators got closer, the man with many names began to get nervous. He told his girlfriend people were following him. "He called me and said that the FBI were following him and his baby's mother," Henry told detectives. "He said that they didn't have anything on him." It was June, and De Fazio decided he had enough to move in. With 25 search warrants and an army of police and agents from the FBI, authorities made more than 20 arrests and seized cars, documents and computers across New Jersey. According to a search warrant report, authorities found keys to a BMW and Jaguar in Henry's apartment, along with computer equipment, digital cameras and lamination devices that investigators said were used to create phony licenses and ID. Photos of women Cooney identified as operatives in the scheme were found on the computer disk drive. Also discovered were automobile registration certificates for Jamal Barnum, blank New Jersey birth certificates with raised seals from the Township of Livingston and the city of Newark, and bank and brokerage account statements for several potential identity-theft victims, according to the report. Cooney arrested the man with many names outside a Dunkin' Donuts in Plainfield. He was booked as Annur Hamilton, 30, of Hamilton Township. Henry would later identify him from a photograph as the man she knew as Sabor. "He was really in shock," said Cooney, remembering the scene as the man was brought down to Jersey City to be booked. He was sitting there, Cooney said, and more than 20 of "his closest friends show up" to be fingerprinted and photographed. Last week, 23 men and women named in a 31-count indictment were arraigned in Hudson County on charges of conspiracy, theft by deception, identity theft, financial facilitation of criminal activity, possession of motor vehicles with altered identification numbers, and receiving stolen property, said Assistant Prosecutor Mary Ellen Gaffney, who is handling the case. Five others still have not been apprehended. Sara Henry, who had no prior criminal record, pleaded guilty Monday to a downgraded charge of conspiracy to commit fraud -- a third-degree crime that could mean no jail time when she is sentenced. She will be expected to testify as a prosecution witness, Gaffney said. Henry's lawyer, Ron Helmer of Haddon Heights, said his client received nothing for her participation in the scheme. The man with many names sits in the Hudson County jail, on $2.5 million bail. According to Cooney, he was charged with forgery in Union County in 1998 under the name of Kendall Dailey. There is a tax lien against him under several names in Essex County, records show, and a string of different addresses under the name of Hamilton. His attorney, Elise DiNardo of Jersey City, says authorities have the wrong man. "He has a college degree. His father is a physician," said the attorney. "They are alleging he's the mastermind of this organization, but I don't see how that's possible." According to DiNardo, Hamilton buys distressed houses in foreclosure, restores them and resells them for a living. DiNardo said the state has been very vague as to what proof it has, and her client did not know any of the co-defendants in the case. "Mr. Hamilton lives a modest life," she said. Cooney is convinced otherwise. "This," he said, "is a case of people where every instance of their lives -- from the time they got up in the morning until they went to bed at night -- was a fraud." Copyright 2004 NJ.com. All Rights Reserved. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 8145 From: Date: Sun Jan 11, 2004 1:23am Subject: Al Qaeda hunt follows old tracks -*Al Qaeda hunt follows old tracks Sat January 10, 2004 09:41 PM ET By Simon Cameron-Moore ANGOR ADDA, Pakistan (Reuters) - U.S. troops on the Afghan side of the border have two simple rules to follow: don't cross over, and radio the Pakistan army first before shooting at any suspected al Qaeda militant spotted over there.T The Pakistani general pointed across the dusty plain on the other side of the frontier from the village of Angor Adda, his finger following a jeep hurtling towards the U.S. base of Shikin a few miles to the north in the Afghan province of Paktia. "The camp is there, see that patch of white?" General Shaukat Sultan said, indicating a faintly visible compound near the foot of a range of ochre and grey hills. Everything in South Waziristan, a tribal area in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province has the same two-tone hue, from the high serrated ridges and rocky slopes of the mountains to the dried out riverbeds and mud walls of its isolated settlements. "Over there," he said sweeping round to another range of hills to the west, "is where our troops killed eight al Qaeda and captured 18 two months ago. "That encounter was billed as a demonstration of the Pakistan army's commitment to the U.S. led "war on terror". Two soldiers were killed. A month later a couple more al Qaeda men were gunned down in the same area. Just last week, the Pakistani army launched another operation against suspected Islamic militants in South Waziristan involving troops and helicopters. The army entered the semi-autonomous tribal areas for the first time in mid-2002 to seal the borders against fugitive al Qaeda and Taliban fighters. President Pervez Musharraf told Reuters just days after the first of two assassination attempts on him in December that the last time Pakistan had any substantial clue al Qaeda kingpin Osama bin Laden or his deputy Ayman al Zawahri were in Pakistan was nearly nine months ago. Electronic surveillance, possibly from one of the U.S.-manned listening posts in the tribal areas, put one of them in Waziristan -- but subsequent searches yielded nothing. BYWORD FOR MILITANCY Waziristan is ideal for any seasoned guerrilla fighter, like bin Laden and al Zawahri, to lie low. The region is redolent with conflict and intrigue. The British military intelligence officer T.E. Lawrence, better known as "Lawrence of Arabia", was in Waziristan in 1928 -- when the Raj was unhappy with a troublesome king in Kabul. For more than 150 years the mountain caves of the North West Frontier provided hiding for holy war warriors, or mujahideen, who India's British colonial rulers dubbed "Hindustani Fanatics". Like bin Laden, they were followers of the strict fundamentalist Wahabi sect of Islam that spread out of Arabia to the Indian sub-continent in the early 19th Century. Their running battles with the British lasted over a century. "We found the ashes of his fire still warm in his cave but he had flown. Our informer as usual informed both ways." Jack Lowis, the British Political Agent for South Waziristan, wrote those words 60 years ago about the hunt for the Faqir of Ipi, a Muslim holy man whose fighters took on the British Raj. The Faqir was never caught, but he represents more than just a historical parallel. His son was reportedly a brother-in-arms of bin Laden, fighting with the mujahideen who drove the Red Army out of Afghanistan in the 1980s. FRIEND OR FOE Pakistan says it has captured more than 500 al Qaeda suspects so far, but its army has suffered casualties in the hunt. At another village in South Waziristan 10 troops and two al Qaeda members were killed in a clash last June. But still, U.S. servicemen carry tales back to reporters in Kabul of Taliban militia slipping over the border for sanctuary in Pakistan, unhindered by watching Pakistani troops. General Sultan bristled with indignation: "There is no question of anyone in the Pakistan army assisting the enemy. They owe their loyalty to the flag, not to any individuals. "Pakistan's forces are full of Pashtuns. And the Taliban, an Islamic student militia that emerged less than two decades ago, is also largely Pashtun. While many tribesmen dislike the Taliban for preaching ways that go against traditional Pashtun culture, local leaders say the ethnic ties mean sympathies for the Taliban are there. To add to the complications of making out friend from foe on the border, a string of friendly fire incidents between U.S. and Pakistani forces highlighted a communication gap. On New Year's Eve last year, a U.S. F-16 warplane dropped a bomb on a madrassa near Angor Adda killing two Pakistani troopsafter an exchange of fire in which a U.S. soldier also died. In August, U.S. forces shot dead two Pakistani soldiers in another "friendly fire" incident in Waziristan -- this time provoking a protest from Musharraf. Procedures have been tightened since. U.S. officers from the Shikin base regularly meet their counterparts in Angor Adda, and keep them informed by radio. Pakistani officers say the U.S. troops are also required to alert them first before firing across the border to avoid return fire. STATUS SYMBOLS Bullets fly regularly in Waziristan even without the two friendly armies' crossfire. The tribes have a gun culture that makes Detroit appear tame. "People really do own heavy arms -- rocket and grenade launchers, sometimes even (shoulder-fired) stinger missiles," Sikander Hayat Khan Sherpao, an opposition lawmaker in Peshawar, a city at the southern end of the Khyber Pass. Olaf Caroe, the last British Governor-General on the Frontier and an authority on Pashtun tribes, compared to the Wazir to a panther and the region's other main clan, the Mahsud, to a wolf. He wrote: "The wolf pack is more purposeful, more united and more dangerous. "Angor Adda is in Mahsud territory. As an army patrol passed by, two Mahsud youths lounged around a Frontier Force checkpoint in the village as if they owned it. The Kalashnikovs cradled in their arms gave them the right to act that way, just as the Martini-Henry rifles and the long-barrelled jezails of their forefathers did in bygone eras. A Pakistan army colonel nodded sagely: "This is a very dangerous place. Every child has a gun." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 8146 From: James M. Atkinson Date: Sun Jan 11, 2004 10:48am Subject: Thieves plant spy cameras in Hong Kong cashpoint machines http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2004/January/theworld_January165.xml§ion=theworld&col= Thieves plant spy cameras in Hong Kong cashpoint machines (DPA) 8 January 2004 HONG KONG - Pinhole spy cameras capable of filming people tapping in their PIN numbers have been found hidden in two bank cashpoint machines in Hong Kong, a news report said on Thursday. The cameras - discovered in two machines outside a Hang Seng Bank branch - could transmit images to a remote receiver, according to the South China Morning Post. Hundreds of customers who used the cashpoint machines have now been contacted for their cards to be cancelled although no thefts from accounts had been reported, the newspaper said. Similar hidden cameras have been found fitted into cashpoint machines in mainland China and Malaysia but the discovery at the Hang Seng Bank is the first of its kind in Hong Kong. A Hang Seng Bank spokeswoman refused to tell the newspaper where and how the spy cameras had been fitted into the cashpoint machine cubicles. It is believed thieves may have intended to use the information to empty bank accounts after stealing cashpoint cards from customers following their visits. Alternatively, duplicate cards could be produced so that thieves could then use the PIN numbers to access the accounts of customers they have photographed. Less than 50 reports of thefts involving cashpoint machine transactions were reported in Hong Kong last year, police said. However, only three months ago, Hong Kong Monetary Authority officials advised banks to step up cashpoint machine security amid fears of sophisticated new theft attempts. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We expertly hunt real spies, real eavesdroppers, and real wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. 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Without such mandatory rules, the two agencies predicted in a letter to the FCC last month that "criminals, terrorists, and spies (could) use VoIP services to avoid lawfully authorized surveillance." The letter also was signed by the Drug Enforcement Administration. This is not the first time the Bush administration has expressed concern about terrorists and other lawbreakers using VoIP to evade wiretaps. As previously reported by CNET News.com, a proposal presented quietly to the FCC in July sought guaranteed surveillance access to broadband providers. But the latest submission, which follows a recent FCC forum on Internet telephony, is more detailed than before and specifically targets VoIP providers as a regulatory focus. In general, VoIP providers have pledged to work with police, and some, like Level 3 Communications, do not oppose the regulations the FBI is seeking. Others, like a coalition of 12 smaller VoIP providers including BullDog Teleworks and PingTone Communications, have told the FCC that "there are various industry initatives under way and the commission should allow those initiatives time to succeed before preemptively regulating." Federal and local police rely heavily on wiretaps. In 2002, the most recent year for which information is available, police intercepted nearly 2.2 million conversations with court approval, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Wiretaps for that year cost taxpayers $69.5 million, and approximately 80 percent were related to drug investigations. Those statistics do not include approximately the same number of additional wiretaps authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. When weighing the FBI's request, the FCC will have to decide whether a 1994 law called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) applies to VoIP providers. The law is ambiguous. It clearly requires "telecommunications carriers" to provide ready wiretapping access while explicitly exempting "information services." If the FCC decides CALEA does not apply, the debate would shift to Congress, which could decide to amend the law. When Internet links are used to carry voice calls that begin and end in the traditional, circuit-switched network--a move that Verizon Communications announced Wednesday--that would easily fall within CALEA's existing definitions. But Internet-to-Internet voice links like those offered by VoIP companies Vonage and Skype are closer to information services and fall into a regulatory gray area. The status of voice conversations carried through instant-messaging programs is even more unclear, as is the FCC's ability to compel overseas VoIP providers to comply with U.S. rules. "The FCC should ignore pleas about national security and sophisticated criminals because sophisticated parties will use noncompliant VoIP, available open source and offshore," said Jim Harper of Privacilla.org, a privacy advocacy Web site. "CALEA for VoIP will only be good for busting small-time bookies, small-time potheads and other nincompoops." One unusual section of the FBI letter is that it claims the bureau is seeking to protect Americans' privacy rights: "Mandatory CALEA compliance by VoIP providers would better protect the privacy of VoIP users than a voluntary approach. CALEA protects the privacy of surveillance suspects by requiring carriers to provision the surveillance in a confidential manner." Otherwise, the FBI argues, a VoIP company might turn over a "full pipe" to police that would include conversations of more people than necessary. At least one FCC commissioner has expressed strong support for sweeping VoIP into CALEA's requirements, which currently apply only to telephone companies. "We must understand the concerns raised by DOJ and FBI that classifying Vonage's VoIP as an information service severely undercuts CALEA," Jonathan Adelstein said last month. "VoIP jeopardizes the ability of federal, state and local governments to protect public safety and national security against domestic and foreign threats. Public safety is not negotiable." 8148 From: Brian Varine Date: Fri Jan 9, 2004 1:23pm Subject: Wireless transmitter intrusions This is pretty comical: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_853744.html?menu=news.latestheadlines Burger King customers told: 'You are too fat to have a Whopper' Police believe teenage pranksters are hacking into the wireless frequency of a US Burger King drive-through speaker to tell potential customers they are too fat for fast food. Policeman Gerry Scherlink said the pranksters told one customer who had just placed an order: "You don't need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead." The offenders are reportedly tapping into the wireless frequency at the restaurant in Troy, Michigan. Police believe the culprits are watching and broadcasting from close range. Officer Scherlinck said the men are telling customers who order a Coca-Cola that, "We don't have Coke." And when the customer asks what they do have, the hacker would say: "We don't have anything. Pull ahead." But what has managers concerned is the profanity the hackers are using, according to police. A drive-through customer has told police if he had children with him in the car and someone used profanity, he would have been upset. Burger King franchise owner Tony Versace issued the following statement in response to the incidents: "We apologise to our customers who've been insulted by the use of this drive-through speaker." Management at the fast-food restaurant are reportedly trying to change the radio frequency used for the speakers, reports Local 4. 8149 From: James M. Atkinson Date: Mon Jan 12, 2004 11:49am Subject: The Charge of the Light Brigade The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Forward, the Light Brigade!" Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew Some one had blunder'd. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd. Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not, Not the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came thro' the jaws of Death, Back from the mouth of hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred. When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wonder'd. Honor the charge they made! Honor the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We expertly hunt real spies, real eavesdroppers, and real wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. 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It would look like normal, SSH-encrypted traffic to anyone watching the packets fly by, so the wiretap technology would be useless - unless the SSH keys could be obtained by some method, it is unlikely that the conversation could be recovered in a timeframe of use in an investigation. I just hope that most criminals stay as technically illiterate as they are now - read the "I was a hacker for the mob" article in Wired a couple months ago (nov. or dec. issue, can't remember right now), it's rather interesting. Best regards, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Does it matter" To: Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:55 PM Subject: [TSCM-L] Wiretaps, Feds, voip > Hope this interests people. > > Darren > > > > > > The agencies have asked the Federal Communications Commission to > order companies offering voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service > to rewire their networks to guarantee police the ability to > eavesdrop on subscribers' conversations. > > Without such mandatory rules, the two agencies predicted in a letter > to the FCC last month that "criminals, terrorists, and spies (could) > use VoIP services to avoid lawfully authorized surveillance." The > letter also was signed by the Drug Enforcement Administration. > 8151 From: human being Date: Mon Jan 12, 2004 11:25am Subject: 'MRI system for semiconductors' saw this article about an ''MRI system for semiconductors'' and wondered exactly what it meant. apparently it is for quality control for chips, yet it also said their product line was related signal analyzers. how is this different from the gear that TSCM equipment works-- does the analysis of the guts of a computer and its signaling ever get review? or is this a part of the profession not meant for common review? why i ask is because i read something about how a single photon can affect a single transistor (in space, on a satellite for instance) and previously i wondered how a speaker can also be used as a microphone (as is said in basic texts i've read) - thus, could it be that a chip may be looking like a simple IC yet perform some dual-function, making a radio into a transmitter? and would a signal analyzer or oscilloscope or other tools find such a thing? or, then again, is this not realistic to the field, (of inquiry). brian 'MRI system for semiconductors' // signal analyzer? 'Leisz, 50, is founder, president and CEO of Wavecrest Corp., an Eden Prairie manufacturer of equipment that is fast enough and accurate enough to detect flaws in even the fastest of the hyper-speed semiconductors now under development.' ... 'Today, the speed of Wavecrest's products is measured in attoseconds, which is the time it takes light to traverse not a hair, but an atom. Whoops, there's that glaze again.' brian thomas carroll: research-design-development architecture, education, electromagnetism http://www.electronetwork.org/bc/ 8152 From: Nicolas Gregoire Date: Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:13am Subject: Re: Gen Hawleys politically incorrect mssg On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:33, Mitch D wrote: > The plain fact is that our country has, with all our > mistakes and blunders, always been and always will be the > greatest beacon of freedom, charity, opportunity, and affection > in history. If you need proof, open all the borders on Earth and > see what happens. OK. So let's forget that USA is/was giving money and/or weapons to the School of Americas, to Ben Laden, to the contras, etc. Have you ever heard about state-terrorism ? Please read some Chomsky books about this and give a real look to real life. -- Nicolas Gregoire 8153 From: Does it matter Date: Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:47pm Subject: I can "see" you aren't telling the truth? This takes the cake. One little gadget debuting at CES claims to put truth detection voice analysis on the bridge of your nose. "Voice Analysis Eyeglasses" provide real-time analysis on the inside of the lenses about whoever is talking at the time, says its maker, the Israeli company Nemesysco, which developed the technology for counterterrorism and government customers. "A chip inside the glasses is able to read the voice frequency of the person you are talking to," said Beata Gutman, a spokeswoman for the company. "The voice is analyzed through that chip and there are lights that indicate whether the person is lying." She said the truth specs were expected to be available at the end of January for $400-$500. 8154 From: Thomas Shaddack Date: Mon Jan 12, 2004 7:38pm Subject: Re: Wiretaps, Feds, voip (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: Re: [TSCM-L] Wiretaps, Feds, voip Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:54:57 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Shaddack To: Michael Puchol On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Michael Puchol wrote: > > The greatest problem with this is the very old saying "if you outlaw xxxx, > then only outlaws will have xxxx" (substitute the xxxx for your favourite > weapon, device, algorithm or communications technology). In this case, what > is to stop a criminal using an SSH session and tunnel the VoIP over it? Maybe the difference between TCP and UDP. VoIP is almost exclusively UDP-only, as little dropouts don't matter while latency is much more important. TCP, if available, is usually only a fallback mode. > It would look like normal, SSH-encrypted traffic to anyone watching the > packets fly by, so the wiretap technology would be useless - unless the > SSH keys could be obtained by some method, it is unlikely that the > conversation could be recovered in a timeframe of use in an > investigation. There are other possibilities as well. Any VPN system will do; industrial standard is IPSec, available for all major platforms - built-in in Windows, available for Linux 2.4 kernel at www.freeswan.org and either built-in or as different-named add-ons for other systems. Another VPN implementation that looks secure is OpenVPN , based on OpenSSL and running on Windows 2000/XP and Linux/BSD/Solaris/Mac. Any kind of VoIP can be run through a VPN. The VPN supplies the encryption of the call. There are even VoIP programs with strong crypto support. My favorite one is the old but good SpeakFreely (don't believe the rumours it's dead - all that happened is that the original author/maintainer steps away from the development which moves to Sourceforge), which runs in both various unixes and Windows; the problem there is the key handshake, which has to be performed by an external application (which then in turn can run SF process and feed it with the negotiated session key). Another one often suggested is Skype, but I'd be wary about it as it's closed-source. My favorite way is using SpeakFreely with session keys prenegotiated and physically exchanged on strips of paper and manually entered in every couple days, and call negotiation (when to call, and the IP addresses to use) done over Jabber or ICQ; more sophisticated software for this is under slow, relaxed-pace development. Even a combination of methods is possible. Occassionally one of my ISP's routers dies and I lose access to good part of the Net - I don't see most foreign IPs, but I see the office I have a VPN connection into, so by setting up a proxy (and UDP forwarding) I can regain the connectivity for the price of couple dozens milliseconds. With an "accomplice" (or a hired machine in a colocation) in other country, it's possible - for the cost of few dollars and couple milliseconds - foil (to certain degree) even traffic analysis, using the offshore machine as a "meeting point". For further increase of cost and delay and dropped packets it's possible to chain such machines as well. Personally I am pretty excited about the recent development of tiny computers with low power requirements and capability to run eg. Linux; they have lots of applications, including but not limited to low-cost mobile secure telephone devices. If time and money permit, I would like to try to hack together such toy. > I just hope that most criminals stay as technically illiterate as they > are now - read the "I was a hacker for the mob" article in Wired a > couple months ago (nov. or dec. issue, can't remember right now), it's > rather interesting. The state of technological literacy is atrocious in all segments of society. For some real stories from the trenches check http://www.userfriendly.org/community_techtalesarchive.html > Best regards, > > Mike > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Does it matter" > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:55 PM > Subject: [TSCM-L] Wiretaps, Feds, voip > > > > Hope this interests people. > > > > Darren > > > > > > > > > > > > The agencies have asked the Federal Communications Commission to > > order companies offering voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service > > to rewire their networks to guarantee police the ability to > > eavesdrop on subscribers' conversations. > > > > Without such mandatory rules, the two agencies predicted in a letter > > to the FCC last month that "criminals, terrorists, and spies (could) > > use VoIP services to avoid lawfully authorized surveillance." The > > letter also was signed by the Drug Enforcement Administration. > > > > > > > ======================================================== > TSCM-L Technical Security Mailing List > "In a multitude of counselors there is strength" > > To subscribe to the TSCM-L mailing list visit: > http://www.yahoogroups.com/community/TSCM-L > > It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. > It is by the juice of Star Bucks that thoughts acquire speed, > the hands acquire shaking, the shaking is a warning. > It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. > =================================================== TSKS > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TSCM-L/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > TSCM-L-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > 8155 From: Date: Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:47pm Subject: New poll for TSCM-L Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the TSCM-L group: How much interest do you have in a new model of phone analyser for TSCM? o A. None at all o B. Somewhat Interested o C. Interested o D. Very Interested o E. Extremely Interested To vote, please visit the following web page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TSCM-L/surveys?id=1170141 Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups web site listed above. Thanks! 8156 From: Fernando Martins Date: Tue Jan 13, 2004 1:51am Subject: Re: pinhole camera attached to ATM was transmitting PIN numbers to van this is a present hazard in Europe, i think there is no need but, there are pictures available of the scam "implementation" watch out for strange boxes (like, in a ATM outside a bank, there is no box with the bank documentation/brochures ... the cam is in the bottom) where we insert the card, the gear is a little more fat (there is a fake one on the top) FM ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 4:38 AM Subject: [TSCM-L] pinhole camera attached to ATM was transmitting PIN numbers to van > > > > Article published January 10, 2004 > ATM thief on probation > > > Paul Raymore > > Valentin Raducan, 31, pleaded no contest to one charge of fraudulent use of > an access card, a misdemeanor, in Nevada County Superior Court Nov. 18. Raducan > had initially been charged with two other felony counts, including > concealing, selling or withholding stolen property and burglary; however, both of these > charges were dismissed. > > Raducan received three years of conditional probation for his plea (the > equivalent of pleading guilty) in addition to 20 days' jail time and a fine of > $708.78. > > Other conditions of his probation: He is required to submit to search and > seizure, he is forbidden to possess any access cards such as credit cards and ATM > cards unless they have been issued to him, and he is forbidden to possess > electronic surveillance equipment. The defendant also agreed to pay restitution, > although that amount had not yet been determined. > > After Raducan's arrest in early November, agents with the FBI were looking > into whether Raducan might have ties to an organized crime ring linked to > similar activities nationwide. After further investigation, the bureau decided that > there was not enough evidence to pursue charges other than those he faced in > the state of California. > > Raducan was arrested Nov. 5 in Truckee after local police noticed him talking > with another man on a two-way radio in the vicinity of the U.S. Bank branch > on Donner Pass Road. A silver van was parked nearby with the motor running and > nobody inside. > > Inside the van, officers found a laptop computer, a suitcase and a new coffee > maker that had recently been purchased from Starbucks Coffee. Further > investigation revealed that Raducan had purchased more than $1,100 worth of coffee > equipment from Starbucks, using two credit cards that had been reported stolen > in the North Lake Tahoe area earlier that day. > > Officers also found a pinhole camera attached to the U.S. Bank ATM machine, > which they believe was transmitting PIN numbers of potential victims to the > laptop inside the van. > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ======================================================== > TSCM-L Technical Security Mailing List > "In a multitude of counselors there is strength" > > To subscribe to the TSCM-L mailing list visit: > http://www.yahoogroups.com/community/TSCM-L > > It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. > It is by the juice of Star Bucks that thoughts acquire speed, > the hands acquire shaking, the shaking is a warning. > It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. > =================================================== TSKS > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TSCM-L/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > TSCM-L-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > 8157 From: David Alexander Date: Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:24am Subject: man flies Atlantic with 5 bullets in pocket The big news here in the UK this morning is that a man with a Sierra Leone passport arrived at Heathrow Airport (London, England) with 5 rounds of ammunition in his pocket. He arrived on a flight from the USA. I don't know if the US 'readers' of this list are aware of the problems that flights from the UK (and I suspect other countries too) have had. A lot of flights have either been delayed or cancelled. Also we are very unhappy with the (in our opinion) the high-handed way that the US security authorities have been dealing with other countries. For example, the FBI and DHS are insisting that European countries flout their own privacy laws and supply data about passengers that should not be in the public domain. The net result among most people I know is quite simple - we're not coming to America as long as this is in force. We have zero confidence in the security authorities to keep the information safe and not misuse it. I'd just like to say that right now, we are laughing ourselves stupid. I know it's not you guys who read this list, please don't think I'm having a go at you personally, I'm not. Your postings show how dumba** you think most of this is and how ineffective it is on internal flights. Now you know, it's no better on the international ones either. Considering how long your sea and land borders are I'm sure that, if I wanted to, I could get a whole platoon of 'illegals' into the USA without detection or going anywhere near a scheduled flight. I also think that, with the relatively low value of second-hand airliners at the moment, if I was OBL and looking to repeat 9/11 I'd just buy a couple of old soviet Aeroflot transport aircraft and book them on 'one-way cargo runs' into the USA. My 2c. David Alexander Dbi Consulting Ltd Stoneleigh Park Mews Stoneleigh Abbey Kenilworth Warwickshire CV8 2DB Office : 01926 515515 Mobile: 07836 332576 Email : David.Alexander@d... Have you visited our website? http://www.dbiconsulting.co.uk 8158 From: James M. Atkinson Date: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:40pm Subject: The leak that went awry http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0116/p11s03-cods.html Commentary > Daniel Schorr from the January 16, 2004 edition The leak that went awry By Daniel Schorr WASHINGTON - The making of a coverup, like the making of a sausage, is not always pleasant to watch. Attorney General John Ashcroft, who rarely recuses himself from anything, has suddenly decided to get out from under the investigation of who leaked the identity of a CIA covert officer. And Mr. Ashcroft, who rarely misses his turn on camera, left it to Deputy Attorney General James Comey to make the announcement - and also to disqualify himself. Why would the Justice Department pass off what looks like a quintessentially Washington investigation to the US attorney in Chicago? Perhaps for that very reason. Fingering CIA officer Valerie Plame after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson exploded the administration's African-uranium-to-Iraq theory, smacked of typically Washingtonian bureaucratic revenge. Who in the White House could have picked up the telephone and made that vengeful call to columnist Robert Novak? The FBI has presumably interviewed a lot of officials and subpoenaed a lot of telephone records for the week of the leak last June. Mr. Comey says that what led to the attorney general's withdrawal was "an accumulation of facts." If those facts point to someone in the White House who has a personal relationship with the attorney general, it could present a perceived conflict of interest. As US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald took over the investigation, word was leaked to The Washington Post that maybe no crime was committed in the first place. The Post's source pointed out that while it is a felony under the 1982 Agents' Protection Act to identify a federal agent undercover, this does not apply if the leaker did not know that Ms. Plame was an undercover operative. Nice try! The original Novak column last July that started all the fuss emphasized the importance of his scoop because "the agency has never before declassified that kind of information." White House spokesman Scott McLellan says that no one wants to get to the bottom of this more than President Bush, and that the president has directed staff members to cooperate with the investigation. But, if everyone on the staff were cooperating, the mystery probably would've been solved by now. Who took it on himself or herself to "declassify" a sensitive national security secret? Stay tuned for the 2004 chapter in the story of the leak that went awry. . Daniel Schorr is a senior news analyst at National Public Radio. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We expertly hunt real spies, real eavesdroppers, and real wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. 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Please email me privately if your interested, -jma ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We expertly hunt real spies, real eavesdroppers, and real wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. Atkinson Ph: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 mailto:jmatk@t... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- World Class, Professional, Ethical, and Competent Bug Sweeps, and Wiretap Detection using Sophisticated Laboratory Grade Test Equipment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8160 From: Date: Fri Jan 16, 2004 3:51pm Subject: possible participation of foreign experts in the investigation Eurasia Insight - Wiretap Controversy Flares in Kyrgyzstan Eurasia Insight: WIRETAP CONTROVERSY FLARES IN KYRGYZSTAN 1/16/04 Kyrgyzstan’s presidential and parliamentary votes may be over a year away, but election-related maneuvering is already underway. Both critics and supporters of President Askar Akayev have taken steps in recent days to consolidate their respective forces. Meanwhile, controversy has erupted over the alleged “bugging” of a member of parliament’s office. The bugging controversy began January 14, when MP Ismail Isakov, who chairs the lower house of parliament’s State Security Committee, announced that he had discovered a listening device planted behind a radiator in his office. He hinted the National Security Service (NSS) was responsible for planting the bug, estimating that it had been functioning for up to 18 months, according to a report by the AKIpress news agency. Isakov called for the resignations of Akayev and NSS chief Kalyk Imankulov. Shortly after the initial discovery, bugs were uncovered in the offices of other MPs, including Azimbek Beknazarov and the leader of the Atameken Party, Omurbek Tekebaev. Beknazarov in recent years has been a fierce critic of Akayev’s administration. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. Parliament Speaker Abdigani Erkebayev characterized the discoveries as “anti-constitutional actions,” and the legislature moved to open a probe into the incident. The head of parliament’s International Affairs Committee, Alisher Abdimomunov, suggested that foreign governments were “ready to cooperate with the investigating group,” the Kabar news agency reported January 15. Government officials have rejected the assertion that state security agents were involved. Imankulov, the NNS chief, hinted that government opponents could have staged the incident, insisting that security services haven’t employed “such a technique for the last 10 years,” the Kabar news agency reported. Imankulov went on to say the incident might “be the beginning of a PR campaign” in connection with the scheduled parliamentary vote in early 2005. He also raised the possibility of a “third force” being responsible for the episode. State prosecutors announced that they had opened a formal criminal investigation, citing Criminal Code Article 136, which prohibits unauthorized wiretaps and other invasions of privacy. Imankulov welcomed the possible participation of foreign experts in the investigation. Such experts could “satisfy both parties -- government and opposition -- so that as a result there won’t be doubts about the investigation’s legitimacy,” he said. The bugging controversy flared as political factions started preparing for the parliamentary election. At a January 14 news conference, six opposition parties announced that they were forming a united front called “For People’s Power.” The bloc comprises political movements that have sought to push Akayev from power. On January 12, two pro-government parties Unity and Alga – announced their merger. Such consolidation raises the chances that the political parties will gain a sufficient share of the vote to secure seats in the next parliament. http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav011604_pr.shtml [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 8161 From: James M. Atkinson Date: Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:56am Subject: Profundity GEORGE CARLIN STRIKES AGAIN 1. Ever wonder about those people who spend $2.00 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards: NAIVE. 2. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? 3. OK.... so if the Jacksonville Jaguars are known as the "Jags" and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are known as the "Bucs," what does that make The Tennessee Titans? 4. If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea...does that mean that one enjoys it? 5. There are three religious truths: a. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. b. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. c. Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters. 6. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes? 7. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? 8. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? 9. Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren't they just stale bread to begin with? 10. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racecar is not called a racist? 11. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one? 12. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys eranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed? 13. If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP? 14. Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks? 15. What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men? 16. I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me.... They're cramming for their final exam. 17. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks, so I wondered what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? 18. Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen can look for them while they deliver the mail? 19. If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for? 20. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. 21. Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag? 22. If a cow laughed, would milk come out of her nose? 23. Whatever happened to Preparations A through G? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We expertly hunt real spies, real eavesdroppers, and real wiretappers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. Atkinson Ph: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 mailto:jmatk@t... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- World Class, Professional, Ethical, and Competent Bug Sweeps, and Wiretap Detection using Sophisticated Laboratory Grade Test Equipment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 8162 From: Steve Uhrig Date: Sat Jan 17, 2004 8:25pm Subject: FCC Radio Museum online courtesy of the Radio Club of America newsletter: http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history Covers the history of radio, ideas which made it possible, more. Emphasis on mobile radio and its applications for safety, business and personal use. Hertz, Marconi, Fessenden, Tesla, Alexanderson, DeForest and Armstrong are mentioned. Something to bookmark and read when you're stuck in a hotel room some evening. Good historical info. Steve ******************************************************************* Steve Uhrig, SWS Security, Maryland (USA) Mfrs of electronic surveillance equip mailto:Steve@s... website http://www.swssec.com tel +1+410-879-4035, fax +1+410-836-1190 "In God we trust, all others we monitor" ******************************************************************* 8163 From: Date: Sun Jan 18, 2004 5:51am Subject: NSA relents on files' release NSA relents on files' release Secret agency allows EPA, MDE, Fort Meade to view pollution report; Cursory look shows no problems; Edited version planned because of security fears; access later to full study By Rona Kobell Sun Staff January 18, 2004 Baltimore Sun After months of denying regulators access to a key environmental study, the National Security Agency has opened its doors and its files - if only for a peek. Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Maryland Department of the Environment and Fort Meade's environmental office got their first look last week at the super-secret eavesdropping agency's building contamination study, which outlines potential pollution problems. NSA is situated on a corner of the Fort Meade Army post in Odenton, which has been listed since 1998 on the EPA's Superfund list of the nation's most hazardous sites. Although NSA is not near the main areas of concern, regulators long have suspected that NSA has handled some hazardous waste over the years. But their cursory review of the NSA study didn't yield any red flags. "Based on my brief review, I did not see any regional environmental impacts resulting from historical operations at the NSA campus," said Fort Meade environmental engineer Jeffrey Thornburg. NSA expects to release an edited version of the report to regulators and the public next month. That version will include the environmental studies, but not maps, historical data and building function details that the NSA has deemed sensitive. "The study is currently under review to remove information relating to NSA's plans, operations, and potential security vulnerabilities," an NSA spokeswoman said last week. Federal and state regulators will be able to return to NSA and view the full report if they need more information. Historical data, such as the location of a wood-treatment facility or computer chip-making operation, might explain why certain contaminants turn up in certain places. If the edited report does not answer all such questions, Thornburg said, he'll go back to see the full version. For months, the lack of environmental information from the global code-breaking agency has frustrated regulators and citizens who have been working together to clean up the 86-year-old Army post. Over the past five years, the Army's environmental office has identified close to 200 areas of potential contamination that could cause long-term ground-water and soil problems, most stemming from fuel, solvents and munitions dating to the post's years as a major training camp for soldiers. By last summer, only 30 sites still required further cleanup. Board and Army That swift action and exchange of information improved the once-contentious relations between the Army and the Restoration Advisory Board, the citizen-regulator group overseeing the Superfund cleanup. Rather than participating in the Army's study, the NSA conducted its own in 2002. Last year, NSA officials gave the findings to an EPA representative, but abruptly took the report back, noting new post-Sept. 11, 2001, security concerns. NSA said the report revealed too much about its buildings and their functions. NSA told The Sun last month that it launched the study at the advisory board's request and not in response to Superfund requirements. However, EPA officials considered the pollution study a key part of the regulatory process. Advisory board Chairwoman Zoe Draughon said the NSA agreed to release the information only after the news reports circulated and public pressure increased. "The NSA is releasing the report not because it's the right thing to do, but because it's being forced to do it," she said. "But at this point, I'll take anything." Review by regulators Draughon said she doesn't need to see the unedited report as long as the regulators can review it. "NSA can't check themselves and say, 'Oh, we're OK,'" she said. "They have to let the people who are supposed to do the checking do their jobs." Board members hope that the NSA's cooperation is a sign that the agency's door may be opening more than just a crack. In the past few months, NSA and Army officials have met more frequently. "We're bridging any sort of gaps in our relationship," Thornburg said. "This is really setting the tone for future communication between NSA and Fort Meade." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]