From: 211 Date: Tue Apr 25, 2000 6:03pm Subject: Re: Another ANI-ANAC Question In a message dated 4/25/00 4:27:07 PM, TSCM@j... writes: << I am still looking for some more good ANI - ANAC numbers for California and Southwestern US area codes. >> National ANAC: 800-346-0152--don't abuse it...have not found a loc in the US where it doesn't wk. Bill Schneid Director of Special Operations Global Projects, Ltd. 310.314.8760 ICQ48007716 http://globalprojectsltd.com PI15860 212 From: kmart thou cynic Date: Wed Apr 26, 2000 2:29pm Subject: Re: Another ANI-ANAC Question And boy, oh boy, do ANAC numbers tend to get abused :-/ They are quite useful. My experience has been that simply asking a lineman for one usualy works. Guys in the field are pretty friendly and if you have a ligitimate use for one they usually have no problems giving you ANAC numbers. Local ANAC circuits are best. 213 From: G. Hoxie Date: Thu Apr 27, 2000 9:16pm Subject: Hello and... My name is George Hoxie, Sr. and I am the owner of Speculor consulting, a TSCM firm in Richardson, TX. I want to thank James for allowing me to participate in this forum and, use this first post to tell you a little about myself and my firm. I have been in the electronics industry for over 25 years: Seven of those years with Army Intelligence as a 33S (Electronic Warefare Tech.). My first tour of duty was with the 902nd MI in San Francisco, CA, where I was a TEMPEST Operator/Repairman. After that I spent the rest of my days with Uncle Sam in Panama working for the 402nd MI Btn, mostly doing missions with 3rd/7th SF out of Honduras, spending all of President Regan's money they would let us have! Any old 33s out there??? After leaving the military I went to work for Electrospace Systems (formally Collins Radio) as an EMI/EMC/TEMPEST Engineer. For the last five yrs I have been teaching for the Ericsson Compentence Development Center, specializing in DATACOM, Switching, and RBS. I currently run my TSCM business as a side line and have done so for several years. I work with law enforcment and PI's, limiting myself to the DFW area. I conduct sweeps, perform physical security investigations, and general PI surveillance jobs as they come along, all by word of mouth. I am currently limited in my capabilities to 2GHz. I am trying to give the business a jump start with a new web page and local ad campaign. If things take off, and a job warrents it, I may need to hire someone to cover 2GHz and up, provide Non-Linear junction testing, and other specialized testing that I currently cannot perform. The expense/business recovery ratio is just to far out of whack right now to justify additional expenditure on new equipment. If any of you would be interested in working in the DFW area, I would be happy to hear from you. As it has been said many times, we are indeed a small group and networking, I believe, is vital. I am always honest with my customers concerning my capabilities and have had to clean up more than one spy shop rain dance. Again, thanks for letting me be part of the group. I will do my best to be a positive contributor. Sincerely, George D. Hoxie, Sr. Speculor Consulting 214 From: Mike F Date: Thu Apr 27, 2000 1:48pm Subject: RE: Orphan Ani Jay,here is what I have, AC-213=114 AC-213=1223 AC-213=61056 AC-213=211-2345 AC-323=? AC-626=? AC-714=114 AC-714=211-2121 AC-714=211-2222 AC-805=114 AC-805=211-2345 AC-805=211-2346 AC-805=830 AC-818=1223 AC-818=211-2345 AC-818=114 AC-818=211-2346 LATER4,mike f. PS-check your computer clock. -----Original Message----- From: Jay Coote [mailto:TSCM@j...] Sent: Friday, July 10, 2893 6:44 PM To: Mike F Subject: Re: [TSCM-L] Orphan Ani Thanks. I am in the Los Angeles area. The AC's I use a lot are: 213, 323, 626, 818, 714, 949, 805, Some pacBell and some GTE Jay Jay here is ANAC,Automatic Number Announcement Circuit. > 1-800-346-0152 , > If you give me the area codes ,I might be able to send the local 3 digit > ANAC,nunbers which are better to use. > later4,mike fiorentino > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jay Coote [mailto:TSCM@j...] > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2893 6:44 PM > To: TSCM-L@egroups.com > Subject: [TSCM-L] Orphan Ani > > > Can someone post me the ANI numbers and any other useful telephone numbers? > I am in the Southern CA area (usually). > Thanks, > Jay Coote > Los Angeles > 215 From: Doug Ellsworth Date: Fri Apr 28, 2000 1:04pm Subject: ANAC alternative Hi Group, In every sweep I've done throughout the midwest, and a recent one in Long Island, I simply dial my own SprintPCS number to ID loops. SprintPCS service is available in most towns of any size. All that long distance can be expensive, but it's billed on as a necessary expense. This works for me in a pinch when I don't have a local ANAC. Moreover, it is more secure...If the bad guys happen to monitor a tap in real time, they'll be on alert as caused by the ANAC announcement. Not so much if a loop number is dialed and nobody answers. ...just a thought... -Doug Ellsworth Secure Communications Corp. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 216 From: Jay Coote Date: Fri Apr 28, 2000 6:28pm Subject: Re: Hello and... George, I would like to compare notes with you on 'jump starting' and other stuff. Jay Los Angeles TSCM@j... ---------- > My name is George Hoxie, Sr. and I am the owner of Speculor > consulting, a TSCM firm in Richardson, TX. I want to thank James for > allowing me to participate in this forum and, use this first post to > tell you a little about myself and my firm. > > I have been in the electronics industry for over 25 years: Seven > of those years with Army Intelligence as a 33S (Electronic Warefare > Tech.). My first tour of duty was with the 902nd MI in San > Francisco, CA, where I was a TEMPEST Operator/Repairman. After that > I spent the rest of my days with Uncle Sam in Panama working for the > 402nd MI Btn, mostly doing missions with 3rd/7th SF out of Honduras, > spending all of President Regan's money they would let us have! Any > old 33s out there??? > > After leaving the military I went to work for Electrospace Systems > (formally Collins Radio) as an EMI/EMC/TEMPEST Engineer. For the > last five yrs I have been teaching for the Ericsson Compentence > Development Center, specializing in DATACOM, Switching, and RBS. > > I currently run my TSCM business as a side line and have done so > for several years. I work with law enforcment and PI's, limiting > myself to the DFW area. I conduct sweeps, perform physical security > investigations, and general PI surveillance jobs as they come along, > all by word of mouth. > > I am currently limited in my capabilities to 2GHz. I am trying to > give the business a jump start with a new web page and local ad > campaign. If things take off, and a job warrents it, I may need to > hire someone to cover 2GHz and up, provide Non-Linear junction > testing, and other specialized testing that I currently cannot > perform. The expense/business recovery ratio is just to far out of > whack right now to justify additional expenditure on new equipment. > > If any of you would be interested in working in the DFW area, I > would be happy to hear from you. As it has been said many times, we > are indeed a small group and networking, I believe, is vital. I am > always honest with my customers concerning my capabilities and have > had to clean up more than one spy shop rain dance. > > Again, thanks for letting me be part of the group. I will do my > best to be a positive contributor. > > Sincerely, > > George D. Hoxie, Sr. > Speculor Consulting > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Accurate impartial advice on everything from laptops to table saws. > http://click.egroups.com/1/3020/0/_/507420/_/956888191/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ======================================================== > 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.onelist.com/community/TSCM-L > > or email your subscription request to: > subTSCM-L@t... > =================================================== TSKS > > 217 From: Jay Coote Date: Fri Apr 28, 2000 6:38pm Subject: Tel breakout boxes & resistor values I'm still slowly obtaining the parts and info on making an adequate breakout box (BOB) for telephone and other twisted pair monitoring and testing. A few months ago, other list-ees posted some great ideas, such as not forgetting to have your matrix switches look at shield and ground as well as the other pairs.... A few questions- What value resistance do you like to use in your voltage divider (matched pair of resistors) for POTS line balance tests? What R value do you like to use for current tests (without going off-hook)? What R value do you use to simulate a phone's internal R, so that off-hook tests can all be compared to this same R value? Thanks, Jay Coote Los Angeles TSCM@j... 218 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Fri Apr 28, 2000 6:54pm Subject: Re: Tel breakout boxes & resistor values At 7:40 PM -0400 4/28/00, Jay Coote wrote: >I'm still slowly obtaining the parts and info on making an adequate >breakout box (BOB) >for telephone and other twisted pair monitoring and testing. A few >months ago, >other list-ees posted some great ideas, such as not forgetting to >have your matrix switches >look at shield and ground as well as the other pairs.... > >A few questions- >What value resistance do you like to use in your voltage divider >(matched pair of resistors) for POTS line balance tests? >What R value do you like to use for current tests (without going off-hook)? >What R value do you use to simulate a phone's internal R, so that >off-hook tests >can all be compared to this same R value? > >Thanks, > >Jay Coote >Los Angeles >TSCM@j... I use a 2.2 K ohm 1% resistor for each segment, and add a 200 ohm 20 turn pot between them to "tune up" the circuit for a near perfect match. Tap the wiper on the pot for the "mid-point" connection. I've wired a rotary switch up with the six basic measurement configurations so I don't have to move any test leads during the test. I've found it helpful to tape a small calculator to the box so you don't have to fish around in the middle of the job to do the conversion calculations. -jma =================================================================== Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? =================================================================== James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... =================================================================== Copyright 2000, James M. Atkinson, All Rights Reserved =================================================================== 219 From: Gordon Mitchell Date: Sat Apr 29, 2000 1:02am Subject: Software radios, who knows about them? I am looking for a way to automate the traditional receiver operation function. Does anyone have experience with software radios? It would be nice to find something that is: 1. Much cheaper than, but with much of the functionality of a Watkins-Johnson PC driven radio 2. Provided with hooks for Visual Basic 6, preferably through COM 3. Able to go at least up to 3 GHz with a scan of 100 samples/second or more 4. DSP demodulation including common digital data and TDMA Any ideas? My first glance says that: WinRadio looks slow and modulation limited. Pentek is great but needs a front end and is expensive. Oscor is expensive for the limited performance delivered. Gordon Mitchell Future Focus, Inc Woodinville, WA toll free (888) BUG-KILR 220 From: G. Hoxie Date: Sat Apr 29, 2000 9:02pm Subject: Win32 FunLove is NO **$#@ Fun! My computer network was recently infected with the Win32 FunLove Virus and it has taken nearly two days and that many reloads of operating systems to get rid of it. The virus supposedly does no "real" harm as it only adds a little over 4Kbytes to every file you open. My problem was that the version of detection software I was running had not picked it up and my hard drives got so full they began to create error on top of error. I downloaded a new virus detection program called InoculateIT PE (Personal Edition). It is free and it does have the ability to remove this critter from files. The only problem is that as soon as you delete it from one program, due to the nature of windows always trying to "open the world", it replicates in 2,3, or 10 other files. Also, it is very difficult to delete the source (virus) file because it is always "in use" and windows won't let you. Nasty. It is my understanding that it does not transmit over email and that the real targets for the bug are windows NT machines, where it removes admin protection, thus allowing anyone access to the server. Even nastier! There is a bunch of info out there on it. Just search for "FunLove virus" on Google or your favorite Search engine. But for now, "These pipes are Clean" George Hoxie Speculor Consulting Richardson, TX speculor@h... 221 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Sat Apr 29, 2000 10:14pm Subject: Re: Software radios, who knows about them? At 11:02 PM -0700 4/28/00, Gordon Mitchell wrote: >I am looking for a way to automate the traditional receiver >operation function. Does anyone have experience with software >radios? It would be nice to find something that is: > >1. Much cheaper than, but with much of the functionality of a >Watkins-Johnson PC driven radio >2. Provided with hooks for Visual Basic 6, preferably through COM >3. Able to go at least up to 3 GHz with a scan of 100 samples/second or more >4. DSP demodulation including common digital data and TDMA > >Any ideas? My first glance says that: WinRadio looks slow and >modulation limited. Pentek is great but needs a front end and is >expensive. Oscor is expensive for the limited performance delivered. > >Gordon Mitchell >Future Focus, Inc >Woodinville, WA > >toll free (888) BUG-KILR The WJ radios are great, however; they are very costly (and you have to do a ton of sweeps to pay for it). I would lean towards the Miniceptor or Microceptor as I have owned both and have had good results. I really like the ability to have DOZENS of BW bandwidths available. Rhode and Shwartz make several units suitable for TSCM, but they actually end up costing more then the WJ equipment (for the same performance) Ma-Com, Sanders, and E-systems have good gear for TSCM but the equipment is virtually worthless below 200 MHz as it's primarily targeted toward microwave (it also costs more then the WJ gear). The SWRI OmniScan is excellent (but it's based around a HP spectrum analyzer instead of an actual receivers). It's VERY costly, and really only suitable for permanently installed systems. I really like the Micro-Tel, Collins, and Rockwell radios but they take forever to purchase, and are bulky, heavy, and oh so expensive. I've had really good results with the WinRadio 3000i-DSP. DO NOT use an external WinRadio, or work with anything other then the 3000 (I've had seriously bad experience with the 1000). They have excellent developer support, and their interface drivers are easy to modify. The ICOM radios are "OK", and are really poor quality compared to the professional radio such as the R-95, WJ, Micro-Tel and so on. Most modern spectrum analyzers can actually be adapted with a tuner section, and as a result they can actually provide operation superior to that of most professional receivers. To perform any kind of TDMA, CDMA, etc you will need a vector signal analyzer such as the 89400. Of course you can add a CDMA or digital section to your spectrum analyzer but they are usually aimed towards GSM,, etc but rarely allow you to pull apart a TDM or SS type of signal. The OSCOR is great for cases where "you need an extra set of hands", or when you have to travel light, and simply want an automated solution you can let run while you work on other parts of the sweep. I've used the OSCOR for years, and use it as a "belt and suspenders" type of function. I simply set up one or two in the area/office I am sweeping and let them run unattended while I perform the rest of the sweep using a spectrum analyzers, scopes, and other "heavy iron". Each instrument has it's specific function, it's own capabilities, strengths, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities. I would never consider using a Miniceptor for evaluating 10 GHz signals, and wouldn't use the OSCOR to find frequency hopping or burst devices. I would lean towards an OSCOR (or two), two modern spectrum analyzers with tuner cards and VSA (one to 3 GHz, and the second with a mixer interface, a laptop with a miniceptor, and a desktop machine with several WinRadio cards. Throw in several threat specific radio's, a CPM-700 or other broadband detection system, two SCD-5, a 2030, and several audio amps. -jma . =================================================================== Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? =================================================================== James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... =================================================================== Copyright 2000, James M. Atkinson, All Rights Reserved =================================================================== 222 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Sat Apr 29, 2000 10:45pm Subject: Carlos Ghigliotti Passed Away Good Evening, I regret to inform the list that Carlos Ghigliotti has just passed away (under very suspicious conditions). The following was sent to me by another list member (who asked to remain anonymous). -jma ------------------ April 29, 2000 4:20 am Arizona Time I just called the Laurel Police Department and got this statement: "At 1:27 PM officers were called to 608 Washington Blvd., Laurel, Maryland, in response to a phone call about a man who had been missing for several weeks. When officers arrived they found no signs of forced entry. Inside the apartment they found a badly decomposed body of a male, appearing to be in his 40's. No sign of a struggle was observed at that time. The body was processed and sent to the chief medical examiner in Baltimore. The body was of Carlos Ghigliotti, 42 yrs. of age, who resided at the same address where he was found." Public Relations Officer Jim Collins 350 Municipal Square Laurel, MD 20707 Phone: 301-498-0092 This is all I have for now... there should be a full story from Dallas Morning News and The Washington Post in a few hours. ------------------ Attorney David T. Hardy writes: What follows is something I have not been able to reveal prior to this point. As I mention at the end, I am now released from my promise of secrecy. Please forgive the length--I think you'll find it worthwhile. This covers many months of evidence and conversations, which I've had to keep quiet. The House Gov't Reform Committee had retained an infrared expert named Carlos Ghigliotti, of Laurel, Md. Carlos had been working on the FLIR for months, and shared a lot of his results with me. I'd pass him data when he needed it, and he knew he could count on me to keep my mouth shut. Carlos had done a lot of IR work -- including using it to spot polluters contaminating Chesapeake Bay, and diagnosing electronic errors (a bad connection or phase mismatch heats up). He loved his work, and was proud of some electronic inventions which enabled him to link together visual and IR imaging into a single image. He got into some courtroom work--chiefly determining if FLIR used to justify a drug search warrant was properly used or not. He had two principles: (1) if retained, he would tell the absolute truth as to everything and (2) he would never accept a second retainer from a drug suspect. No matter how egregious the misuse a second time around, he wasn't interested in being of assistance to a man who violated the law a second time. He'd just had a case where an attorney tried to grill him... but the more questions the guy asked, the deeper he got into the hole, until the courtroom security guards were all wandering in and sitting in the back, amusing themselves at the attorney's expense. Carlos knew his stuff, and he laid it right on the line. I talked with Carlos over the phone a lot, and visited him in his lab a couple of times. I now forget the first one, but the second visit was the day Mike McNulty previewed his latest film in DC. Thru the committee, Carlos was able to obtain a much better quality tape than any anyone else had. He discovered that, when FBI gave out "first generation copies," it was in fact giving out copies of a digitized "master," not of the original analog tape. Digitization compresses the image, and loses some of its quality. He demanded and got, thru the Committee, a copy of the original tape, on Super VHS, with some other tweakings to make it the most perfect copy possible. He said they brought out the envelope with the original--it had about twenty chain-of-custody signatures on it. He figured that his copy was as close to identical to the original tape as it was possible to have--whereas the ones everyone else has been using are a few generations down. Then he imported the video into his lab equipment (which I've seen--VERY impressive--four big monitors, Super VHS decks, two computers with more speed, RAM, and hard drive than I ever thought possible.). He was thorough, refusing to make a finding until he had it pinned down from every angle. In one case, he told me last month, he'd finally managed to link by time and location an image of a person shouldering a weapon, shown on the regular media videotapes made from the media locations, with a flash on the FLIR. He found nearly 200 suspected gunshots, and had done the work necessary to verify that many of these were genuine. Understand that his idea of "verify" wasn't just to see the image. He wanted to find the shooters, as well, and to plot their movement from one flash location to another. And he wanted to correlate the FLIR images to every possible ordinary video image, to see if he could link up what the media filmed from the side with what the FLIR registered from overhead. He was really hot on getting some footage shot by DPS from a site behind the building, so that he could tie that in as well. This man was thorough--no rushing to judgment on anything. His normal standard was to study everything from every possible angle or potential critique, until he could lay all the cards on the table, be absolutely clear, and defend his conclusions against any criticism. And he knew this was no normal case... as he once said, the Waco FLIR was probably going to be the next Zapuder film, and he wasn't going to say something that he couldn't prove against any criticism. On the side (and I have no idea why he was analyzing this) he said it had been determined that almost the entire Waco operation, not only 2/28 but the siege, had been improperly financed from money that law enforcement was supposed to use only in the war on drugs. He said there was plenty of documentation here, showing flow of money. In the 2/28 videotape, the ATF agents are all trying on new uniforms, new equipment -- everything down to the computers in the media area of the raid HQ were bought out of money supposed to be used only in drug enforcement. He said that much or all of the siege had been financed the same way. There were written standards in the gov't for when the drug enforcement money could be used, and these could be shown to have been violated in black and white terms. A considerable amount of money had been, well, embezzled, to support the effort. Carlos also told me, last month, that he'd seen FLIRs from nights before 4/19, and that it was apparent that the FLIR aircraft was being used to monitor the Davidians' water supply. The water was stored in those big plastic tanks at the rear of the building, and the coolness of the water inside showed up as a darker area. It was apparent that the water supply was shrinking, and by 4/19 was almost gone. He had heard the aircraft crew talking about it, and noting that the level was going down. So, essentially, they knew that thirst would force an end to the siege within a few days of 4/19. While I was in his lab, he showed me some footage where it was clear, beyond any doubt, that a man was moving in the wreckage of the gym. The guy gets up from behind one pile of cover and races to another. In between, you see a very long flash that exists only for an instant -- much longer in terms of physical length than could be attributed to a gunshot. He said that was a bullet imaged in flight--he'd imaged them before, while flying past shooting ranges. (Shooters know that a bullet after firing is too hot to pick up in the hand, a product of being rammed down a barrel ahead of burning powder, and then of air resistance as it travels at Mach 2-3 thru the air. I'd never suspected that one would show up on IR.). These scenes I saw with my own eyes, on his equipment--it was clear there was a person there. He'd done a preliminary report for the House committee before they had a falling out--he wanted to do a really throrough job, which he said would take months, and they wanted him to do a final report quickly. (He also mentioned that they'd been slow in payment, and he'd needed their check to buy some more equipment that he wanted to devote to the final analysis.). He said that someone (I think he said Rep. Burton himself) had called and threatened that they'd sue him for what he'd already been paid, and he decided he wouldn't take that guff from anyone. He would finalize his report, brief everyone, and that would be it. The prelim report I have here (he wanted to keep it secret for the time being, and faxed me a copy with instructions to keep my mouth shut. As will be set out below, I think I have been released from that promise.). To summarize: 11:24:16 to 36: shots from two locations into hole made by CEV in gym. 11:24:50 to 11:25:04 apparent return fire from inside of gym. 11:26:13 to 11:26:27 additional return fire. If the dark objects behind the tank are indeed shooters, this may have pinned them down. Following this, the tank backs over the dark spots. 11:26:39 "One of the two unknown subjects is clearly visible exiting out of the hole in the front wall of the gym which the tank previously made. The unknown subject turns to the right into the courtyard." 11:28:04 to 11:28:14: gunfire from this person's approximate position, directed toward building. 11:28:18 to 11:28:22: return fire from structure. 11:30:09 to 11:30:15: gunfire from shooter in courtyard, toward building. 11:33:51: gunfire between gym wall and swimming pool, into the structure. The infrared signature of these shots differs from those seen earlier in courtyard area. 11:34:32: one shot at unknown subject that is running and hiding between gym and swimming pool. [This may be the one he showed me] 11:38:34: unknown subject is seen hiding in front of tank. 11:43:36 to 11:59:03: gunshots from 2d story of building directed at tank (I believe he is here referring to the tank penetrating the front). 12:03:59: An unknown subject appears next to the tank in rear of structure. 12:07:42: fire is visible in 2nd story tower. 12:08:12: Unknown subject comes out of tank and shows up at 12:08:51 shooting at another unknown subject that appears at 12:08:34. 12:08:31 to 12:08:32: "A cluster of thermal anomalies appears at the corner of the gym." 12:08:34 and 12:08:44: unknown subject runs from the area where the thermal anomalies were seen, hops over rubble, and hides in gym. 12:08:51: automatic gunfire into area where previous subject hides. 12:10:41 to 12:11:15 numerous rounds shot from center of courtyard, directed at structure. Past this point, nothing of importance since fire overloads FLIR, but visible media and the soundtrack of FLIR indicates that gunfire did continue. He notes that events at 11:24:31, 11:24:35 and 11:28:14 may have involved more than one shot. He notes that a pattern was apparent: Davidian return fire only occurred following penetration of the building by an armored vehicle. "Total number of events that occurred between 10:41:57 and 12:16:13: 198." He told me, in late March, that he'd met with both the majority and the minority of the committee (after they sorta broke off relations) and shown them his results. Each briefing was in detail and consumed several hours. I forget the exact numbers, but somewhere around 3-8 people, mostly attorneys for the committee, were present at each briefing. He was still working on a final report when last I spoke with him. He was rather miffed that they had not given him time to analyze everything, and said he intended to insert a final section outlining all the things he had wanted to analyze when relations were broken off. He added that the minority staff had been rather surprised to see the data, since apparently the majority had been informing them only of a minimal amount of his results. Some of them suggested that maybe both the Demos and Republicans could hire him on jointly, to do a really thorough piece of work. He was rather flattered at the idea (if Carlos had any politics, I never heard of it) altho he said he was suffering from "Waco fatigue" and wanted to get back to his regular work, or even a long overdue vacation. My memory may be imperfect here, but as I recall he talked about the scene at the rear, where there is that big flash near the "dog house." His interpretation: The flash appeared to be multiple flash-bangs. It was possible they were actually thrown by a Davidian, altho not certain. But right after it, a person can be see running back into the building. A hatch opens on the CEV. When it opens, the cooler, darker interior of the vehicle is visible. A person exits the hatch. This is not totally clear, and some people agreed with his interpretation and others did not. But the person who dismounts then fires, the shots going toward the last location where the suspected Davidian is seen. He added that the Committee knew exactly who was under that hatch, so they could actually name the guy who did it. He could afterward track at least two suspected FBI shooters. He could spot their location--one stayed in the gym wreckage, and the other moved out into the courtyard, where he shoots. Ian Goddard had spotted what he thought was a structure, alongside the gym, and from which some shots come. I checked a color photo, and the structure is actually a big chunk of gym wall that the tank has knocked over and falls outward into the courtyard. I mentioned that to Carlos, and Carlos said it was more complex than that. The shooter had been in the courtyard to begin with, and the tank knocked the wall segment atop him. If there hadn't been other wreckage to catch it and hold it up a bit, he would have been squashed. I believe Carlos said that the gunshot images from that location were a little distorted, probably because the wall segment was cutting off part of the image at times. Carlos also found indications that shots were being fired into the underground storm shelter after the fire began. On one of the regular media videotapes, you could see a long, bright flash going down into the pit, from in front of one of the armored vehicles. He said it was no sunlight flash, he'd imaged it on three different media tapes from slightly different angles. His best assessment was that it was the fuse on a pyrotechnic round. I saw this tape, also, with my own eyes. His view was that they were gassing the underground vault to pin Davidians in place during the fire. Carlos was about as credible as they come. He'd done work for the FBI in the past, in fact, and often worked with gov't agencies. He had no particular ax to grind with regard to Waco: he once told me "the only thing that makes me mad about this is when I can see government officials making statements, and know for an absolute fact that they are lying." He also told me that that the House Gov't Reform Committee had even more data than he did, that he knew only part of it and couldn't talk about it, but that it was really shocking. He said that the big problem the Committee seemed to see was the question of how they could get the information out, while at the same time preventing another Oklahoma City type reprisal--it was that shocking. This conversation came shortly after Carlos' name had first been mentioned in the press, and the Committee rather played down his statements, saying they were based on visual video rather than FLIR (which was true only in small part). I asked about that--was the Committee getting cold feet over his evidence, or just playing their cards close to the chest. He said it was the latter -- they just hadn't figured out how to let the info out yet. (He was then meeting with the majority on a weekly basis, to brief them on his latest results.). I talked to him after the recreation, and his assessment was that it was pure junk -- the aircraft wasn't even at the right altitude, they didn't have the right procedures to verify that the sensor was functioning comparable to the one of 4/19, etc. The best thing that could be done with any resulting tape (and this is BEFORE the results were known) was to drop it in the wastecan. Whether it showed gunshots or did not, it'd be useless for proving anything, whether for the Davidians or the FBI. I remember talking to him outside his office, after the first visit, standing there in the parking lot after dark. He'd mentioned that the guy with Infraspection Institute, who had analyzed the FLIR for 60 Minutes back in '95 or '96, and found FBI gunshots and shooters on it, had been terrified. In fact, he'd sent copies of the tape to Carlos and to several others in the IR field, with notes saying "If anything happens to me, you'll know why." (The same guy later called me, said he didn't want his name used, that "there are too many people already in their graves over this." I wrote him off as him being rather nervous.). I asked Carlos, there in the parking lot, if he'd ever been fearful. He said only for a while, between the time he made his findings and the time he reported them to the Committee. Then he had been worried, because he was looking at clear evidence that would nail a LOT of FBI agents on perjury, and perhaps much worse. But once he told others of his results, he figured the cat was out of the bag. This is a rather long post, but there is a reason. It's in part a memorial for a feisty and totally honest guy I came to like a good deal. On April 19 of this year, from the hotel room in Waco, I called Carlos to report a minor discovery (the roof of the storm shelter, which glows bright white on the FLIR, wasn't just plywood--it was covered in black asphalt, which explained why it got so hot in the sun.). I got his answering machine, but when it came time to leave a message, the tape just said "tape finished. Thank you for calling." I thought he'd run out of tape--never happened before, but who knows? I tried again from time to time -- same result. I sent email asking him to call. Well, maybe he was out of town. Early today I tried again, and this time nothing picked up, the phone just rang off the hook. Then this afternoon I received a call. Carlos was found dead in his apartment. Perhaps the guy with Infraspection was right. I've got a call in to Laurel PD to tell them what little I know.... my phone records show calls to him up thru 3/30, after that he must have called me but there's no record, and I was unable to reach him on 4/19 and thereafter. Too damn bad. He was a good man, and I'd come rather to like him. He was rigorously honest -- his own man, and no one elses'. Since the Committee has his results (and has had information on it for months now), I guess we'll soon know how serious they are about investigating Waco. Carlos Ghigliotti was the owner of Infrared Technologies Corp. in Laurel, Maryland. Washington Post reports that from 1991 to 1995, Ghigliotti, 42, was paid by the FBI as a thermal imaging expert on an array of environmental dumping cases, according to an FBI document. Ghigliotti "performed reliable work for the FBI," the 1995 document states. http://www.waco93.com/washingtonpost10_6_99.htm ------------------ From The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38496-2000Apr29.html - Waco Siege Investigator Found Dead In His Home By Cindy Loose Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 29, 2000; Page B03 Carlos Ghigliotti, who had been retained by a U.S. House committee to help investigate the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Tex., was found dead in Laurel under unexplained circumstances yesterday. "We're investigating it as a homicide," said Laurel police spokesman Jim Collins. Ghigliotti, 42, was found about 1:30 p.m. in the 600 block of Washington Boulevard. His body was badly decomposed, said police. There were no signs of a break-in or a struggle at the home, where Ghigliotti ran his business, Infrared Technologies Corp., police said. An expert in thermal imaging and videotape, Ghigliotti told the House Government Reform Committee in October that his analysis of tapes at Waco indicated that an FBI agent fired shots at the compound on April 19, the final day of the siege--a view disputed by the FBI. Michael Caddell, lead lawyer in a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the Waco siege, said last night that he recently had discussed the findings with Ghigliotti and intended to retain him--not only because his work was impressive but also because Caddell's first expert had suffered a stoke recently. Caddell said that two weeks ago he wrote to Waco Special Counsel John C. Danforth, urging that he interview Ghigliotti immediately. Caddell said he'd heard of Ghigliotti's death yesterday from Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), chair of the committee that retained Ghigliotti. Police called Burton, Caddell said, because his business card was found in Ghigliotti's pocket. A building manager, concerned that no one had seen Ghigliotti for some weeks, contacted police, who found the body. Michael McNulty, who made a documentary film about Waco that was instrumental in reopening the investigation, said he had been looking forward to seeing Ghigliotti's conclusions. He added, "My impression is that the work he did was significant and important." Ghigliotti's body was transported to the chief medical examiner's office in Baltimore for an autopsy. =================================================================== Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? =================================================================== James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... =================================================================== Copyright 2000, James M. Atkinson, All Rights Reserved =================================================================== 223 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Sun Apr 30, 2000 9:18am Subject: What every good spy should know Sunday, April 30, 2000 Guardian Newspapers by Oleg Gordievsky What every good spy should know Friday April 28, 2000 There are few absolutes in the world of espionage, but some things never change. When I joined the KGB in the early 60s, the prevailing view was the same as that expressed yesterday by Sergei Ivanov, head of the Russian security council: British spies are some of the best in the world. This perception was partly based on myth. Early on, Soviet intelligence became convinced that the head of the British consul in Moscow was plotting a coup d'Ètat against Lenin and the Bolsheviks, and that he had nearly prevailed; the Russians believed they had only disrupted the conspiracy at the very last moment. From that moment on, they had an exaggerated awe for the British. Later, though, their awe proved more justified. During the second world war, when the KGB had to cooperate with the British services, they found them highly impressive: attractive, intelligent, dedicated, imaginative. When the cold war broke out, surveillance in Moscow was so penetrating that they assumed it would be impossible for foreign agents to operate; they were amazed to discover that the British were managing. And they were even more impressed when Kim Philby told them there were fewer than 10 British agents operating in the Soviet section of head office. The Russians - who had hundreds of spies themselves - had assumed they were up against a huge directorate. They couldn't understand how so few people could achieve such a wonderful result. Charm is a key qualification for a successful agent: a good spy, fundamentally, is somebody who knows how to persuade other humans to give him what he wants. You need to be charismatic, charming, clever, interesting and well-spoken - but that is not enough. You have to have arguments at your disposal, to be able to persuade your targets to become your contacts. Most British schools and universities - not just Oxbridge, as Philby claimed - seem to produce such people; smooth, courageous types who don't need to be told what to do. The great drawback for the Russians was that fear of defection and betrayal led to the purging in the 30s and 40s from the agency of people with cosmopolitan attitudes - people who spoke languages, who knew Europe and the US. The KGB became much like the rest of Soviet society: free from any liberal, intelligent elements and full of bureaucrats. I remember coming back to Moscow to report my results and being told to be quiet because there were far more important things to worry about - the restructuring of a department, the filling of a middle-ranking position. Internal bureaucracy meant the Russians lost sight of the real targets - although even when they did get orders, Russian agents could often be lazy, unsystematic and disorganised. Travelling west after years in the Soviet system, they would become intoxicated by freedom and start drinking, womanising and engaging in petty corruption, and start lying to their superiors about how many contacts they had made. The CIA is different again. It's a huge organisation with a huge budget, and simply too many people to get the job done. Departments overlap; in some smaller Latin American countries, US intelligence officers seem to be tripping over themselves. The importance of the private sector in the US means the best brains are recruited by big corporations for good money; the CIA must make do with second-rate material. Where the proportion of clever, charming officers in MI6 is nine out of 10, in the CIA it is closer to one out of 10. But the most incompetent agents in recent history have to be the French military intelligence officers who blew up the ship Rainbow Warrior in an exercise against Greenpeace in New Zealand in 1985. One person died for nothing. The two officers, using false documents, attempted to leave New Zealand but were caught. It was a very awkward situation. Gossip with former French agents and you get the impression this is typical of the military intelligence agency there - although not of their excellent counterintelligence service, which is unjustifiably held in contempt by the military people because its staff are technically policemen. But modern technology is changing the game. American and British spies now produce so many documents on computer that it is increasingly difficult to stop them leaking out; the KGB, meanwhile, is restricting use of modern technology - and remains very efficient in protecting its secrecy. For the 11 years I worked for Britain, I was unable to spirit a single enciphered cable from the KGB; today David Shayler and Richard Tomlinson can get dozens of top-secret documents out of the building simply because they were stored electronically. I find it all very strange, but I don't know what to do about it. I'm told nothing can be done to stop it - but if it continues, the secret services eventually won't be secret at all. Oleg Gordievsky, a former KGB officer, defected to MI6 in 1985. =================================================================== Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? =================================================================== James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... =================================================================== Copyright 2000, James M. Atkinson, All Rights Reserved =================================================================== 224 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Sun Apr 30, 2000 11:24am Subject: Phone BOB and Analyzer The following is based on my own research and designs so please give appropriate credit. I have been using variations on the following circuit (18th evolution currently) now for several years, and simply Velcro the box to the back of a hand-held Oscilloscope (a Fluke 199 for the time being). The controls are mounted on the sides/edges of the box. A elastic backstrap is added across the bottom, with a removable panel for battery access. First Setup Switch Bank (2 ea) 12 position rotary switch to select which pin becomes of the RJ-45 becomes tip, and which becomes ring in your circuit. Positions 1-8 are simply the 8 pins. Position 9 is Electrical Ground, Position 10 is Structural, Sheath, or Station Ground, Position 11 is a passive aerial (Condor rubber ducky), and Position 12 is an active antenna circuit/preamplifier that uses the rubber ducky. (Position 11 and 12 are primarily for RF analysis). Normally you will only be using a single setting (for a single line) and you will not need to these set-up switches. Optionally you may want to use 10 ea 12 position miniature rotary switches to set up the conditions of each of 5 pairs (remember the 5th is ground) and then another full sized six position switch to choose which of the five pairs to examine. You should add a mini WECO jack between the first and second switch to plug your J.S. Popper/Craft cables into. A second Mini WECO jack can be added to insert your Craft or Buttset into the circuit. Second Switch (DPDT, center off) Position A - Apply TDR Pulsers or Tone Generator Position B - Measure/Monitor Switch Third Switch (12 position rotary) Allows dial tone to be forced, and seizing current to be measured 00 ohms (open) 25 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Variable Linear Pot (10 turn 0-5k ohms) Fourth Measure/Monitor Switch (12 Position Rotary) Uses an external DVM or O'scope in DVM mode. TRV - Tip to Ring Volts TGV - Tip to Ground Volts RGV - Ring to Ground Volts TRC - Tip to Ring Current (Dead Short) TGC - Tip to Ground Current (Dead Short) RGC - Ring to Ground Current (Dead Short) TRC - Tip to Ring Current (through 2.2 divider resistors) TGC - Tip to Ground Current (through 2.2 divider resistors) RGC - Ring to Ground Current (through 2.2 divider resistors) VDV - Voltage between Resistor Divider Center and Earth Ground AUD - Raw audio to Amplifier RF1 - Raw RF to Tunable Detector Modules Add an Isolated BNC to Monitor the Line via Oscilloscope (before Switches) The next switch controls the TDR pulser and tone generator and chooses between various TDR setups, and Tone generation. Add a DPDT (w/ center lock) to switch between a single tone, a warbling tone, and the center lock for a swept tone. Be sure to use a switched impedance matching circuit with at least 8 positions (0, 50, 72, 100, 135, 300, 600, 900, 1200 ohms, etc). Also be sure to de-couple loop DC, and add a high pass (Capacitive Reactance) circuit to suppress the ring voltages at 20 Hz. Tone1 - 500 Hz to 2.5 kHz (Audible) Tone2 - 20 to 60 kHz (Ultrasonic) Tone3 - 550 kHz to 2 MHz (AM BCB RF - use a AM radio to rcvr) Tone4 - Variable Frequency TDR1 - Short Range (out to 150 Feet) TDR2 - Medium Range (out to 1,500 Feet) TDR3 - Short Range (out to 15,000 Feet) TDR4 - Variable Pulse Repetition Rate The TDR circuit will require a voltage adjustment, and a variable cap to pre-load the signal (to make it lean into the line condition). Also, it will be helpful to make the TDR with an adjustable pulse duration. The CC/VLF detector circuit should be tunable from 3 kHz and 500 kHz, and RF from 500 kHz to 400 MHz. Use a 12 position rotary switch for each band, with the 12th position being a variable circuit. The audio circuit uses AGC and a voice bandpass circuit from 300 Hz to 3000 Hz for normal telco voice, and 100 Hz to 10 kHz for hi-fidelity voice. You will need at least 100 dB of gain for the audio with a 90-110 dB filtering of 60 Hz and related harmonics. You can add a few other functions depending on the procedure you follow for TSCM (my box performs all of the TSG test measurements). Adding connections for an external LCR meter is helpful, as is a variable power supply to "power up" the line or biasing voltages to activate microphones. Try to avoid using hot packs until you can verify that all elements of the system can withstand higher voltages (most modern PBX systems can not) A noise or swept tone generator is helpful for measuring the frequency response of various components of the telephone system, and a quad tone sweep generator may be added if you feel you needed it. A PBX blipper is helpful when you want to remotely activate or open the microphone of remote digital telephone. A digital conversion circuit or command capture circuit is also be helpful, but really isn't required unless you dealing with higher threat situations. Let me know if you have any questions. If there is enough interest in my box I may offer copies of it to other TSCM'ers -jma =================================================================== Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? =================================================================== James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... =================================================================== Copyright 2000, James M. Atkinson, All Rights Reserved =================================================================== 225 From: Miguel Puchol Date: Sun Apr 30, 2000 6:43pm Subject: RE: Software radios, who knows about them? Hi Gordon, If there is interest in this, all one needs is the radio's protocol. I have written a software program that runs AOR receivers and the Icom PCR1000, but if needed, could run a R&S or similar receiver that has serial port control. Cheers, Mike > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Gordon Mitchell [mailto:gordonm@b...] > Enviado el: sábado, 29 de abril de 2000 8:02 > Para: TSCM listserv > Asunto: [TSCM-L] Software radios, who knows about them? > > > I am looking for a way to automate the traditional receiver > operation function. Does anyone have experience with software > radios? It would be nice to find something that is: > > 1. Much cheaper than, but with much of the functionality of a > Watkins-Johnson PC driven radio > 2. Provided with hooks for Visual Basic 6, preferably through COM > 3. Able to go at least up to 3 GHz with a scan of 100 > samples/second or more > 4. DSP demodulation including common digital data and TDMA > > Any ideas? My first glance says that: WinRadio looks slow and > modulation limited. Pentek is great but needs a front end and is > expensive. Oscor is expensive for the limited performance delivered. > > Gordon Mitchell > Future Focus, Inc > Woodinville, WA > > toll free (888) BUG-KILR > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Was the salesman clueless? Productopia has the answers. > http://click.egroups.com/1/3019/0/_/507420/_/956988017/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ======================================================== > 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.onelist.com/community/TSCM-L > > or email your subscription request to: > subTSCM-L@t... > =================================================== TSKS > > 226 From: Jordan Ulery Date: Sun Apr 30, 2000 9:45pm Subject: Re: Win32 FunLove is NO **$#@ Fun! Good program "InoculateIT PE" you got. What, pray tell, was the system you were using earlier? "G. Hoxie" wrote: > My computer network was recently infected with the Win32 FunLove > Virus and it has taken nearly two days and that many reloads of > operating systems to get rid of it. > > The virus supposedly does no "real" harm as it only adds a little > over 4Kbytes to every file you open. My problem was that the version > of detection software I was running had not picked it up and my hard > drives got so full they began to create error on top of error. > > I downloaded a new virus detection program called InoculateIT PE > (Personal Edition). It is free and it does have the ability to > remove this critter from files. The only problem is that as soon as > you delete it from one program, due to the nature of windows always > trying to "open the world", it replicates in 2,3, or 10 other files. > > Also, it is very difficult to delete the source (virus) file because > it is always "in use" and windows won't let you. Nasty. > > It is my understanding that it does not transmit over email and that > the real targets for the bug are windows NT machines, where it > removes admin protection, thus allowing anyone access to the server. > Even nastier! > > There is a bunch of info out there on it. Just search for "FunLove > virus" on Google or your favorite Search engine. > > But for now, "These pipes are Clean" > > George Hoxie > Speculor Consulting > Richardson, TX > speculor@h... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Accurate impartial advice on everything from laptops to table saws. > http://click.egroups.com/1/3020/0/_/507420/_/957060129/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ======================================================== > 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.onelist.com/community/TSCM-L > > or email your subscription request to: > subTSCM-L@t... > =================================================== TSKS 227 From: Andre Holmes <1ach@g...> Date: Mon May 1, 2000 0:02am Subject: Re: Win32 FunLove is NO **$#@ Fun! Hello G. Hoxie I have intelligance on this virus it appears to be a new virus called w32 funlove.4099 infects programs also applications with exe,scr,or ocx extensions .Replicates under windows 95&NT.Characterisitcs = memory resident,size stealth,full stealth,triggered event,encrypting,polymorphic you might want to go out and buy a anti virus program that can defeat your attacker let me know if you need a trojan horse defense I distribute the product and it works. Recommend it if you have a tcp connection to the http//www. it also has free updates for life to the licensed computer. -----Original Message----- From: G. Hoxie To: TSCM-L@egroups.com Date: Saturday, April 29, 2000 10:02 PM Subject: [TSCM-L] Win32 FunLove is NO **$#@ Fun! >My computer network was recently infected with the Win32 FunLove >Virus and it has taken nearly two days and that many reloads of >operating systems to get rid of it. > >The virus supposedly does no "real" harm as it only adds a little >over 4Kbytes to every file you open. My problem was that the version >of detection software I was running had not picked it up and my hard >drives got so full they began to create error on top of error. > >I downloaded a new virus detection program called InoculateIT PE >(Personal Edition). It is free and it does have the ability to >remove this critter from files. The only problem is that as soon as >you delete it from one program, due to the nature of windows always >trying to "open the world", it replicates in 2,3, or 10 other files. > >Also, it is very difficult to delete the source (virus) file because >it is always "in use" and windows won't let you. Nasty. > >It is my understanding that it does not transmit over email and that >the real targets for the bug are windows NT machines, where it >removes admin protection, thus allowing anyone access to the server. >Even nastier! > >There is a bunch of info out there on it. Just search for "FunLove >virus" on Google or your favorite Search engine. > >But for now, "These pipes are Clean" > >George Hoxie >Speculor Consulting >Richardson, TX >speculor@h... > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Accurate impartial advice on everything from laptops to table saws. >http://click.egroups.com/1/3020/0/_/507420/_/957060129/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >======================================================== > 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.onelist.com/community/TSCM-L > > or email your subscription request to: > subTSCM-L@t... >=================================================== TSKS > 228 From: William Knowles Date: Sun Apr 30, 2000 11:07pm Subject: Re: Win32 FunLove is NO **$#@ Fun! It goes without saying that you should always, always, ALWAYS! have your virus definations updated on a weekly and sometimes daily basis, and since you're likely going to be using your computer for 6-12+ hours a day online you should be taking some precautions and managing some risk, I know that every day that the computer is down for me, is a day that will not be billing any hours. I can highly recommend that those of you using Windows 95 & 98 (My condolences) :) look into Norton Internet Security 2000, I understand they make one for the NT networks but I have yet to play around with it. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003JAOZ/qid=957163190/sr=1-1/103-0368359-4119056 The Norton package bundles a personal firewall (Ideal for those of you on the list with Cable or DSL) with Norton AntiVirus 2000 for just under $60.00 Cheers! William Knowles wk@c... On Mon, 1 May 2000, Andre Holmes wrote: > Hello G. Hoxie I have intelligance on this virus it appears to > be a new virus called w32 funlove.4099 infects programs also > applications with exe,scr,or ocx extensions .Replicates under > windows 95&NT.Characterisitcs = memory resident,size stealth,full > stealth,triggered event,encrypting,polymorphic you might want to > go out and buy a anti virus program that can defeat your attacker > let me know if you need a trojan horse defense I distribute the > product and it works. Recommend it if you have a tcp connection to > the http//www. it also has free updates for life to the licensed > computer. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: G. Hoxie > To: TSCM-L@egroups.com > Date: Saturday, April 29, 2000 10:02 PM > Subject: [TSCM-L] Win32 FunLove is NO **$#@ Fun! > > > >My computer network was recently infected with the Win32 FunLove > >Virus and it has taken nearly two days and that many reloads of > >operating systems to get rid of it. > > > >The virus supposedly does no "real" harm as it only adds a little > >over 4Kbytes to every file you open. My problem was that the version > >of detection software I was running had not picked it up and my hard > >drives got so full they began to create error on top of error. 4Kbytes here, 4Kbytes there adds up pretty quickly on a large network and had a few really on their knees. William Knowles wk@c... *-------------------------------------------------* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC --------------------------------------------------- C4I Secure Solutions http://www.c4i.org *-------------------------------------------------* 229 From: Jordan Ulery Date: Mon May 1, 2000 8:46am Subject: Re: Win32 FunLove is NO **$#@ Fun! Another site to look at is ZoneAlarm. This is a freeware site, but has upgrades. The firewall is very, very good and fits in well as a more in-depth protection device that neither Norton nor McAfee offer. William Knowles wrote: > It goes without saying that you should always, always, ALWAYS! have > your virus definations updated on a weekly and sometimes daily basis, > and since you're likely going to be using your computer for 6-12+ > hours a day online you should be taking some precautions and managing > some risk, I know that every day that the computer is down for me, is > a day that will not be billing any hours. > > I can highly recommend that those of you using Windows 95 & 98 > (My condolences) :) look into Norton Internet Security 2000, I > understand they make one for the NT networks but I have yet to > play around with it. > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003JAOZ/qid=957163190/sr=1-1/103-0368359-4119056 > > The Norton package bundles a personal firewall (Ideal for those of you > on the list with Cable or DSL) with Norton AntiVirus 2000 for > just under $60.00 > > Cheers! > > William Knowles > wk@c... > > On Mon, 1 May 2000, Andre Holmes wrote: > > > Hello G. Hoxie I have intelligance on this virus it appears to > > be a new virus called w32 funlove.4099 infects programs also > > applications with exe,scr,or ocx extensions .Replicates under > > windows 95&NT.Characterisitcs = memory resident,size stealth,full > > stealth,triggered event,encrypting,polymorphic you might want to > > go out and buy a anti virus program that can defeat your attacker > > let me know if you need a trojan horse defense I distribute the > > product and it works. Recommend it if you have a tcp connection to > > the http//www. it also has free updates for life to the licensed > > computer. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: G. Hoxie > > To: TSCM-L@egroups.com > > Date: Saturday, April 29, 2000 10:02 PM > > Subject: [TSCM-L] Win32 FunLove is NO **$#@ Fun! > > > > > > >My computer network was recently infected with the Win32 FunLove > > >Virus and it has taken nearly two days and that many reloads of > > >operating systems to get rid of it. > > > > > >The virus supposedly does no "real" harm as it only adds a little > > >over 4Kbytes to every file you open. My problem was that the version > > >of detection software I was running had not picked it up and my hard > > >drives got so full they began to create error on top of error. > > 4Kbytes here, 4Kbytes there adds up pretty quickly on a large network > and had a few really on their knees. > > William Knowles > wk@c... > > > *-------------------------------------------------* > "Communications without intelligence is noise; > Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." > Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC > --------------------------------------------------- > C4I Secure Solutions http://www.c4i.org > *-------------------------------------------------* > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Would you like to save big on your phone bill -- and keep on saving > more each month? Join beMANY! Our huge buying group gives you Long Distance > rates which fall monthly, plus an extra $60 in FREE calls! > http://click.egroups.com/1/2567/0/_/507420/_/957164403/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ======================================================== > 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.onelist.com/community/TSCM-L > > or email your subscription request to: > subTSCM-L@t... > =================================================== TSKS 230 From: Lachlan.h Date: Tue May 2, 2000 5:10am Subject: Fw: [2600-AU] [LINK] GPS now for tracking people not targetting missiles (fwd) Hi guys, I just thought you may be interested in the following mail that I received from the 2600 mailing list. I'm new to this list, and I'm not sure if this information has already been posted - If so, please except my apologies. Just some background on myself :- I'm a 19 year old male, Australian I.T Student. ----- Original Message ----- From: Grant Bayley To: <2600-list@w...> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 12:11 PM Subject: [2600-AU] [LINK] GPS now for tracking people not targetting missiles (fwd) > > Nice.... > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 11:24:14 +1000 > From: Gordon Keith > To: link@w... > Subject: [LINK] GPS now for tracking people not targetting missiles > > > THE NET NEWS > >From Alan Farrelly > May 2, 2000 > > GPS SCRAMBLING TURNED OFF > President Clinton today ordered that as at 8pm EDT the US military stop > scrambling the Global Position System satellite signals. This means GPS > navigation will improve, from an error factor of more than 100 metres > to under 20 metres. The White House says the accuracy of GPS will exceed > the resolution of US Geological Survey topographical quad maps. Net News > will never get lost in the wilderness again! See > http://www.whitehouse.gov/library/PressReleases.cgi?date=0&briefing=4 > > > >From the press release: > > The improved, non-degraded signal > will increase civilian accuracy by an order of magnitude, and have > immediate implications in areas such as: > > Enhanced-911: The FCC will soon require that all new cellular phones be > equipped with more accurate location determination technology to improve > responses to emergency 911 calls. Removing SA will boost the accuracy > of > GPS to such a degree that it could become the method of choice for > implementing the 911 requirement. A GPS-based solution might be simpler > and more economical than alternative techniques such as radio tower > triangulation, leading to lower consumer costs. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The name of this list is: 2600-list@w... > To unsubscribe, e-mail: 2600-list-unsubscribe@w... > For additional commands, e-mail: 2600-list-help@w... > > 231 From: Date: Sat Apr 29, 2000 4:04am Subject: Re: A.N.A.C. Greetings. At the risk of seeming like a dolt, of what use is an automatic number announcement circut in a t.s.c.m. land line sweep? Negative- 232 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Tue May 2, 2000 6:24am Subject: GPS Precision I seem to recall that on a stationary target the precision GPS signal has accuracy of under one inch, and that the "20 foot" accuracy number relates to targets moving at a high rate of speed. -jma May 1, 2000 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT REGARDING THE UNITED STATES? DECISION TO STOP DEGRADING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM ACCURACY THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _______________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 1, 2000 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT REGARDING THE UNITED STATES? DECISION TO STOP DEGRADING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM ACCURACY Today, I am pleased to announce that the United States will stop the intentional degradation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) signals available to the public beginning at midnight tonight. We call this degradation feature Selective Availability (SA). This will mean that civilian users of GPS will be able to pinpoint locations up to ten times more accurately than they do now. GPS is a dual-use, satellite-based system that provides accurate location and timing data to users worldwide. My March 1996 Presidential Decision Directive included in the goals for GPS to: ?encourage acceptance and integration of GPS into peaceful civil, commercial and scientific applications worldwide; and to encourage private sector investment in and use of U.S. GPS technologies and services.? To meet these goals, I committed the U.S. to discontinuing the use of SA by 2006 with an annual assessment of its continued use beginning this year. The decision to discontinue SA is the latest measure in an on-going effort to make GPS more responsive to civil and commercial users worldwide. Last year, Vice President Gore announced our plans to modernize GPS by adding two new civilian signals to enhance the civil and commercial service. This initiative is on-track and the budget further advances modernization by incorporating some of the new features on up to 18 additional satellites that are already awaiting launch or are in production. We will continue to provide all of these capabilities to worldwide users free of charge. My decision to discontinue SA was based upon a recommendation by the Secretary of Defense in coordination with the Departments of State, Transportation, Commerce, the Director of Central Intelligence, and other Executive Branch Departments and Agencies. They realized that worldwide transportation safety, scientific, and commercial interests could best be served by discontinuation of SA. Along with our commitment to enhance GPS for peaceful applications, my administration is committed to preserving fully the military utility of GPS. The decision to discontinue SA is coupled with our continuing efforts to upgrade the military utility of our systems that use GPS, and is supported by threat assessments which conclude that setting SA to zero at this time would have minimal impact on national security. Additionally, we have demonstrated the capability to selectively deny GPS signals on a regional basis when our national security is threatened. This regional approach to denying navigation services is consistent with the 1996 plan to discontinue the degradation of civil and commercial GPS service globally through the SA technique. Originally developed by the Department of Defense as a military system, GPS has become a global utility. It benefits users around the world in many different applications, including air, road, marine, and rail navigation, telecommunications, emergency response, oil exploration, mining, and many more. Civilian users will realize a dramatic improvement in GPS accuracy with the discontinuation of SA. For example, emergency teams responding to a cry for help can now determine what side of the highway they must respond to, thereby saving precious minutes. This increase in accuracy will allow new GPS applications to emerge and continue to enhance the lives of people around the world. 30-30-30 At 8:10 PM +1000 5/2/00, Lachlan.h wrote: >Hi guys, > >I just thought you may be interested in the following mail that I received >from the 2600 mailing list. > >I'm new to this list, and I'm not sure if this information has already been >posted - If so, please except my apologies. > >Just some background on myself :- >I'm a 19 year old male, Australian I.T Student. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Grant Bayley >To: <2600-list@w...> >Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 12:11 PM >Subject: [2600-AU] [LINK] GPS now for tracking people not targetting >missiles (fwd) > > > > > > Nice.... > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 11:24:14 +1000 > > From: Gordon Keith > > To: link@w... > > Subject: [LINK] GPS now for tracking people not targetting missiles > > > > > > THE NET NEWS > > >From Alan Farrelly > > May 2, 2000 > > > > GPS SCRAMBLING TURNED OFF > > President Clinton today ordered that as at 8pm EDT the US military stop > > scrambling the Global Position System satellite signals. This means GPS > > navigation will improve, from an error factor of more than 100 metres > > to under 20 metres. The White House says the accuracy of GPS will exceed > > the resolution of US Geological Survey topographical quad maps. Net News > > will never get lost in the wilderness again! See > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/library/PressReleases.cgi?date=0&briefing=4 > > > > > > >From the press release: > > > > The improved, non-degraded signal > > will increase civilian accuracy by an order of magnitude, and have > > immediate implications in areas such as: > > > > Enhanced-911: The FCC will soon require that all new cellular phones be > > equipped with more accurate location determination technology to improve > > responses to emergency 911 calls. Removing SA will boost the accuracy > > of > > GPS to such a degree that it could become the method of choice for > > implementing the 911 requirement. A GPS-based solution might be simpler > > and more economical than alternative techniques such as radio tower > > triangulation, leading to lower consumer costs. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- =================================================================== Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? =================================================================== James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... =================================================================== "...any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke =================================================================== 233 From: Ed Naylor Date: Tue May 2, 2000 10:31am Subject: Re: Re: A.N.A.C. I've had several situations where there were extra unidentified lines on premise. Ed (Engineered Systems, Arroyo Grande, CA) ============================ At 05:04 AM 4/29/00 -0400, you wrote: >Greetings. >At the risk of seeming like a dolt, of what use is an automatic number >announcement circut in a t.s.c.m. land line sweep? >Negative- 234 From: Mike F Date: Tue May 2, 2000 10:44am Subject: RE: Re: A.N.A.C. The use is for identification of a particular phone line. If customer is in office building,where there are say another 50 businesses. When you get to where the phone lines enter building,you would want ot identify customers phone line(s),with the linesmans phone or any phone. Therefore you would be checking the phone lines of your customer not the other 50 businesses. Then,the correct phone line(s) identified,you could follow correct wires for physical inspection. Connect other equipment you have to detect possible phone taps. later4,mike f. -----Original Message----- From: Negative-@w... [mailto:Negative-@w...] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 5:05 AM To: TSCM-L@egroups.com Subject: [TSCM-L] Re: A.N.A.C. Greetings. At the risk of seeming like a dolt, of what use is an automatic number announcement circut in a t.s.c.m. land line sweep? Negative- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do you love your Mother? Click Here http://click.egroups.com/1/3652/0/_/507420/_/957266768/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================== 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.onelist.com/community/TSCM-L or email your subscription request to: subTSCM-L@t... =================================================== TSKS 235 From: Guy Urbina Date: Tue May 2, 2000 11:54am Subject: RE: GPS Precision My two cents worth on GPS precision.... (by the way, I think it's great SA is finally taken off) typical errors and their degradation to accuracy: satellite clock error --- 2 ft. ephemeris errors -------- 2 ft. receiver errors --------- 4 ft. atmospheric/ionospheric --12 ft. Total = 20ft. Don't forget to multiply your PDOP (position dilution of Precision) to this number. Good PDOPS are between 3 and 6. (PDOP is basically a ranging error that depends on the SV's relative angles in the sky. The wider the angle between the satellites, the better the measurement) with SA gone now, your typical walmart GPS receiver will have an accuracy of anywhere between 60 to 120 ft. But with the GPS chipsets coming out now especially with the WAAS (wide area augmentation system) you can get accuracy within 2 meters or less. The tracking systems I design, I was getting 15 meter accuracy with SA on, closer to 15 ft, now....I'm even anticipating better resolution when I switch over to the SIRF 2 chipsets in the next few months. BTW, some of the OEM receiver vendors have imbedded in their firmware limits to tracking above a certain velocity........I believe it has something to do with preventing their receivers for use in GPS guided munitions. They call it *anti missile limit* -Guy -----Original Message----- From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng [mailto:jmatk@t...] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 4:24 AM To: TSCM-L@egroups.com Subject: [TSCM-L] GPS Precision I seem to recall that on a stationary target the precision GPS signal has accuracy of under one inch, and that the "20 foot" accuracy number relates to targets moving at a high rate of speed. -jma May 1, 2000 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT REGARDING THE UNITED STATES? DECISION TO STOP DEGRADING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM ACCURACY THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _______________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 1, 2000 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT REGARDING THE UNITED STATES? DECISION TO STOP DEGRADING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM ACCURACY Today, I am pleased to announce that the United States will stop the intentional degradation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) signals available to the public beginning at midnight tonight. We call this degradation feature Selective Availability (SA). This will mean that civilian users of GPS will be able to pinpoint locations up to ten times more accurately than they do now. GPS is a dual-use, satellite-based system that provides accurate location and timing data to users worldwide. My March 1996 Presidential Decision Directive included in the goals for GPS to: ?encourage acceptance and integration of GPS into peaceful civil, commercial and scientific applications worldwide; and to encourage private sector investment in and use of U.S. GPS technologies and services.? To meet these goals, I committed the U.S. to discontinuing the use of SA by 2006 with an annual assessment of its continued use beginning this year. The decision to discontinue SA is the latest measure in an on-going effort to make GPS more responsive to civil and commercial users worldwide. Last year, Vice President Gore announced our plans to modernize GPS by adding two new civilian signals to enhance the civil and commercial service. This initiative is on-track and the budget further advances modernization by incorporating some of the new features on up to 18 additional satellites that are already awaiting launch or are in production. We will continue to provide all of these capabilities to worldwide users free of charge. My decision to discontinue SA was based upon a recommendation by the Secretary of Defense in coordination with the Departments of State, Transportation, Commerce, the Director of Central Intelligence, and other Executive Branch Departments and Agencies. They realized that worldwide transportation safety, scientific, and commercial interests could best be served by discontinuation of SA. Along with our commitment to enhance GPS for peaceful applications, my administration is committed to preserving fully the military utility of GPS. The decision to discontinue SA is coupled with our continuing efforts to upgrade the military utility of our systems that use GPS, and is supported by threat assessments which conclude that setting SA to zero at this time would have minimal impact on national security. Additionally, we have demonstrated the capability to selectively deny GPS signals on a regional basis when our national security is threatened. This regional approach to denying navigation services is consistent with the 1996 plan to discontinue the degradation of civil and commercial GPS service globally through the SA technique. Originally developed by the Department of Defense as a military system, GPS has become a global utility. It benefits users around the world in many different applications, including air, road, marine, and rail navigation, telecommunications, emergency response, oil exploration, mining, and many more. Civilian users will realize a dramatic improvement in GPS accuracy with the discontinuation of SA. For example, emergency teams responding to a cry for help can now determine what side of the highway they must respond to, thereby saving precious minutes. This increase in accuracy will allow new GPS applications to emerge and continue to enhance the lives of people around the world. 30-30-30 At 8:10 PM +1000 5/2/00, Lachlan.h wrote: >Hi guys, > >I just thought you may be interested in the following mail that I received >from the 2600 mailing list. > >I'm new to this list, and I'm not sure if this information has already been >posted - If so, please except my apologies. > >Just some background on myself :- >I'm a 19 year old male, Australian I.T Student. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Grant Bayley >To: <2600-list@w...> >Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 12:11 PM >Subject: [2600-AU] [LINK] GPS now for tracking people not targetting >missiles (fwd) > > > > > > Nice.... > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 11:24:14 +1000 > > From: Gordon Keith > > To: link@w... > > Subject: [LINK] GPS now for tracking people not targetting missiles > > > > > > THE NET NEWS > > >From Alan Farrelly > > May 2, 2000 > > > > GPS SCRAMBLING TURNED OFF > > President Clinton today ordered that as at 8pm EDT the US military stop > > scrambling the Global Position System satellite signals. This means GPS > > navigation will improve, from an error factor of more than 100 metres > > to under 20 metres. The White House says the accuracy of GPS will exceed > > the resolution of US Geological Survey topographical quad maps. Net News > > will never get lost in the wilderness again! See > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/library/PressReleases.cgi?date=0&briefing=4 > > > > > > >From the press release: > > > > The improved, non-degraded signal > > will increase civilian accuracy by an order of magnitude, and have > > immediate implications in areas such as: > > > > Enhanced-911: The FCC will soon require that all new cellular phones be > > equipped with more accurate location determination technology to improve > > responses to emergency 911 calls. Removing SA will boost the accuracy > > of > > GPS to such a degree that it could become the method of choice for > > implementing the 911 requirement. A GPS-based solution might be simpler > > and more economical than alternative techniques such as radio tower > > triangulation, leading to lower consumer costs. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- =================================================================== Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? =================================================================== James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... =================================================================== "...any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke =================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ High rates giving you headaches? The 0% APR Introductory Rate from Capital One. 9.9% Fixed thereafter! http://click.egroups.com/1/3010/0/_/507420/_/957266954/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================== 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.onelist.com/community/TSCM-L or email your subscription request to: subTSCM-L@t... =================================================== TSKS 236 From: Jordan Ulery Date: Tue May 2, 2000 5:06pm Subject: Re: GPS Precision GPS is great, unless you are on the receiving end of a guided missile. Yes, compensation & correction is relatively easy for the sophisticated, but the slam, bam, blow 'em up man is now armed with a delivery system that had previously been denied. Also, tracking of individuals with "On*" and like systems is now much more accurate, in an emergency, or if your just spying on your fellow man. There are pluses and minuses in ever action and I am not too certain the pluses outweigh the minuses here. Guy Urbina wrote: > My two cents worth on GPS precision.... > (by the way, I think it's great SA is finally taken off) > > typical errors and their degradation to accuracy: > > satellite clock error --- 2 ft. > ephemeris errors -------- 2 ft. > receiver errors --------- 4 ft. > atmospheric/ionospheric --12 ft. > > Total = 20ft. > > Don't forget to multiply your PDOP (position dilution of Precision) to this > number. Good PDOPS are between 3 and 6. > > (PDOP is basically a ranging error that depends on the SV's relative angles > in the sky. The wider the angle between the satellites, the better the > measurement) > > with SA gone now, your typical walmart GPS receiver will have an accuracy of > anywhere between 60 to 120 ft. > > But with the GPS chipsets coming out now especially with the WAAS (wide area > augmentation system) you can get accuracy within 2 meters or less. > > The tracking systems I design, I was getting 15 meter accuracy with SA on, > closer to 15 ft, now....I'm even anticipating better resolution when I > switch over to the SIRF 2 chipsets in the next few months. > > BTW, some of the OEM receiver vendors have imbedded in their firmware limits > to tracking above a certain velocity........I believe it has something to do > with preventing their receivers for use in GPS guided munitions. They call > it *anti missile limit* > > -Guy > > -----Original Message----- > From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng [mailto:jmatk@t...] > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 4:24 AM > To: TSCM-L@egroups.com > Subject: [TSCM-L] GPS Precision > > I seem to recall that on a stationary target the precision GPS signal > has accuracy of under one inch, and that the "20 foot" accuracy > number relates to targets moving at a high rate of speed. > > -jma > > > May 1, 2000 > > STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT REGARDING THE UNITED STATES? DECISION TO > STOP DEGRADING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM ACCURACY > > THE WHITE HOUSE > > Office of the Press Secretary > > _______________________________________________________ > For Immediate Release May 1, 2000 > > STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT REGARDING > THE UNITED STATES? DECISION TO STOP DEGRADING > GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM ACCURACY > > Today, I am pleased to announce that the United States will stop the > intentional degradation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) signals > available to the public beginning at midnight tonight. We call this > degradation feature Selective Availability (SA). This will mean that > civilian users of GPS will be able to pinpoint locations up to ten times > more accurately than they do now. GPS is a dual-use, satellite-based > system that provides accurate location and timing data to users worldwide. > My March 1996 Presidential Decision Directive included in the goals for GPS > to: ?encourage acceptance and integration of GPS into peaceful civil, > commercial and scientific applications worldwide; and to encourage private > sector investment in and use of U.S. GPS technologies and services.? To > meet these goals, I committed the U.S. to discontinuing the use of SA by > 2006 with an annual assessment of its continued use beginning this year. > > The decision to discontinue SA is the latest measure in an on-going effort > to make GPS more responsive to civil and commercial users worldwide. Last > year, Vice President Gore announced our plans to modernize GPS by adding > two new civilian signals to enhance the civil and commercial service. This > initiative is on-track and the budget further advances modernization by > incorporating some of the new features on up to 18 additional satellites > that are already awaiting launch or are in production. We will continue to > provide all of these capabilities to worldwide users free of charge. > > My decision to discontinue SA was based upon a recommendation by the > Secretary of Defense in coordination with the Departments of State, > Transportation, Commerce, the Director of Central Intelligence, and other > Executive Branch Departments and Agencies. They realized that worldwide > transportation safety, scientific, and commercial interests could best be > served by discontinuation of SA. Along with our commitment to enhance GPS > for peaceful applications, my administration is committed to preserving > fully the military utility of GPS. The decision to discontinue SA is > coupled with our continuing efforts to upgrade the military utility of our > systems that use GPS, and is supported by threat assessments which conclude > that setting SA to zero at this time would have minimal impact on national > security. Additionally, we have demonstrated the capability to selectively > deny GPS signals on a regional basis when our national security is > threatened. This regional approach to denying navigation services is > consistent with the 1996 plan to discontinue the degradation of civil and > commercial GPS service globally through the SA technique. > > Originally developed by the Department of Defense as a military system, GPS > has become a global utility. It benefits users around the world in many > different applications, including air, road, marine, and rail navigation, > telecommunications, emergency response, oil exploration, mining, and many > more. Civilian users will realize a dramatic improvement in GPS accuracy > with the discontinuation of SA. For example, emergency teams responding to > a cry for help can now determine what side of the highway they must respond > to, thereby saving precious minutes. This increase in accuracy will allow > new GPS applications to emerge and continue to enhance the lives of people > around the world. > > 30-30-30 > > At 8:10 PM +1000 5/2/00, Lachlan.h wrote: > >Hi guys, > > > >I just thought you may be interested in the following mail that I received > >from the 2600 mailing list. > > > >I'm new to this list, and I'm not sure if this information has already been > >posted - If so, please except my apologies. > > > >Just some background on myself :- > >I'm a 19 year old male, Australian I.T Student. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Grant Bayley > >To: <2600-list@w...> > >Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 12:11 PM > >Subject: [2600-AU] [LINK] GPS now for tracking people not targetting > >missiles (fwd) > > > > > > > > > > Nice.... > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 11:24:14 +1000 > > > From: Gordon Keith > > > To: link@w... > > > Subject: [LINK] GPS now for tracking people not targetting missiles > > > > > > > > > THE NET NEWS > > > >From Alan Farrelly > > > May 2, 2000 > > > > > > GPS SCRAMBLING TURNED OFF > > > President Clinton today ordered that as at 8pm EDT the US military stop > > > scrambling the Global Position System satellite signals. This means GPS > > > navigation will improve, from an error factor of more than 100 metres > > > to under 20 metres. The White House says the accuracy of GPS will exceed > > > the resolution of US Geological Survey topographical quad maps. Net News > > > will never get lost in the wilderness again! See > > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/library/PressReleases.cgi?date=0&briefing=4 > > > > > > > > > >From the press release: > > > > > > The improved, non-degraded signal > > > will increase civilian accuracy by an order of magnitude, and have > > > immediate implications in areas such as: > > > > > > Enhanced-911: The FCC will soon require that all new cellular phones be > > > equipped with more accurate location determination technology to improve > > > responses to emergency 911 calls. Removing SA will boost the accuracy > > > of > > > GPS to such a degree that it could become the method of choice for > > > implementing the 911 requirement. A GPS-based solution might be simpler > > > and more economical than alternative techniques such as radio tower > > > triangulation, leading to lower consumer costs. > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > =================================================================== > Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? > =================================================================== > James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 > Granite Island Group > 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ > Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... > =================================================================== > "...any sufficiently advanced technology is > indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke > =================================================================== > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > High rates giving you headaches? 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I am Jim Douglas, I run a small Investigation Company specialising in fraud (investigations) mainly within the banking industry. I live and have an office in St Peter Port on the Island of Guernsey and ‘have a desk’ in a major City of London financial institution who monopolise most of my services. I work with a number of London Investigators, which is where I have regularly viewed TSCM Onelist. In common with many people in this industry, I have a Government background. I then worked for a couple of years as a full time TSCM Operator in partnership with an ex-telephone engineer and although I enjoyed both the work and the level of remuneration, the unsocial hours lacked appeal. I like to keep up with what’s happening in the TSCM world and now turnout for a former colleague’s sweep team to cover for holidays etc. One of my reasons for joining the group was to ascertain if any of you TSCM Ops could explain to me how someone can get a TSCM (US) Patent granted relating to : 'detecting single/multiple spectra at different locations and collating these records to distinguish spectral features associated with one specific location from other locations in the site of interest' Isn't that the basis of all TSCM/TEMPEST Sweeps? A similar application was disallowed in Europe, although someone told me the US system allows the Patent, pending objections, true or not? Check it out, there are over 40 claims. US Patent # 6,021,269 of 1/2/2000. Jim Douglas Douglas Security Consultants PO Box 122 Fosse Andres St Peter Port Guernsey Channel Isles Cellnet: 44(0)802 510216 email: Dugconsult@a... 240 From: Andy Grudko Date: Tue May 2, 2000 2:39pm Subject: Re: GPS Precision ----- Original Message ----- Subject: [TSCM-L] GPS Precision > I seem to recall that on a stationary target the precision GPS signal > has accuracy of under one inch, and that the "20 foot" accuracy > number relates to targets moving at a high rate of speed. > May 1, 2000 > STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT REGARDING THE UNITED STATES? DECISION TO STOP DEGRADING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM ACCURACY I've been using GPS for 6 years for tracking suspects and never needed more than the +- 20mr accuracy offered by the existing commercial system. Perhaps the President can use this extra accuracy to establish exactly where his cigar was on a particular date, to - within an inch. Aggh, I'm just being cynical - we all know a US President has never written a press release! 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