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The Federal Government and your email!

Postby KFJ » Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:11 am

Your Internet Service Provider may be violating your freedom of speech.<br><br>Since the Passage of the Homeland Security law,<br>MANY of my political adversaries have disappeared from the internet.<br>Am I pleased?<br>ABSOLUTELY NOT!<br>Our freedom of speech is being taken away.<br><br>My own former ISP has told me that they have been provided with long lists<br>of numerous domains that have already been "blacklisted".<br><br>Most of the Internet Service Providers are now using a program<br>which "filters out" certain emails. Those who send the emails;<br>which are not being delivered,<br>ARE NOT GETTING AN ERROR MESSAGE,<br>TO ADVISE THEM THAT THEIR MESSAGE WAS NOT DELIVERED.<br>These messages are simply "black holed".<br><br>This program; which "filters out" certain emails, is allegedly to "protect"<br>us from things such as spam, adult content, viruses, and "hate speech", etc.<br>Who decides which "speech" is allowable?????<br>The "Thought Police" are here now.<br>I have repeatedly tested this program, by sending VERY SMALL political<br>messages, TO ONE SINGLE RECIPIENT, who is a close friend.<br>The messages had no "adult content", no virus, and had nothing that could<br>remotely be called "hate speech".<br>MANY OF these messages WERE NOT DELIVERED.<br><br>My own Internet Service Provider has told me that the program; which<br>"filters out" certain emails, was developed using guidelines from the<br>Department of Homeland Security. At the same time, the Internet Service<br>Provider is now being told that they are now regulated by the Federal<br>Communications Commission; which in turn, receives guidelines from the<br>Department of Homeland Security. OF COURSE there is no legitimate<br>justification for Federal Communications Commission regulation of the<br>internet; since it does not use shared air ways.<br>"Surveillance" of the internet is not new.<br>Visit:<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.dojgov.net/USDOJ_Carnivore_Scam.htm">www.dojgov.net/USDOJ_Carnivore_Scam.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>To read e-mail the FBI can order an Internet Service Provider to place a<br>special monitoring computer called Carnivore (now renamed Data Collection<br>System 1000) on its network servers. The FBI can then select the e-mail of<br>surveillance targets for capture and storage. Not content with this device,<br>the FBI now seeks to expand its surveillance capability to the entire<br>Internet.<br><br>"Surveillance" has now been upgraded to include actual censorship.<br>Visit:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.cdt.org/speech/">www.cdt.org/speech/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>It is time to update a famous quote from Rev. Martin Niemoller<br>Rev. Martin Niemoller, commenting on events in Germany 1933-1939 said:<br><br><br>"In Germany, they came first for the Communists,<br>and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.<br>Then they came for the Jews,<br>and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.<br>Then they came for the Trade Unionists,<br>and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Trade Unionist.<br>Then they came for the Catholics, and<br>I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.<br>Then they came for me, and by that time, no one was left to<br>speak up." -- Rev. Dr. Martin Niemoeller, July 1,<br>1937; arrested by the Third Reich<br>An update of this concept, with the United States in mind, would go like<br>this:<br><br>"First they burned the house of the Symbionese Liberation Army and killed<br>all of their members. Most of us did not object because we did not believe<br>in the same things as the Symbionese Liberation Army.<br><br>Then they dropped a bomb on the building of the Philadelphia MOVE group, and<br>destroyed two city blocks, and killed 11 members. Most of us did not object<br>because we did not believe in the same things as the MOVE group.<br><br>Then they burned the house of Gordon Kahl, a tax protester, and killed him.<br>Most of us did not object because we did not believe in the same things as<br>Gordon Kahl.<br><br>Then they burned the house of Robert Matthews, leader of "The Order," and<br>killed him. Most of us did not object because we did not believe in the same<br>things as Robert Matthews.<br><br>Then they conducted a siege and a raid of 80-member Covenant of the Sword<br>and Arm of the Lord religious group. Most of us did not object because we<br>did not believe in the same things as the Covenant of the Sword and Arm of<br>the Lord.<br><br>Then they conducted a siege and a raid of Randy Weaver's family, and killed<br>or wounded nearly everyone present; even including a baby and the dog. Many<br>of us did not object because we did not believe in the same things as Randy<br>Weaver's family.<br><br>Then they burned the church of the Branch Davidians and killed nearly all of<br>them. A few of us did not object because we did not believe in the same<br>things as the Branch Davidians<br><br>And then they kidnapped Elian Gonzalez ..."<br><br>John Perna April 22, 2000<br><br>"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman,<br>and child of this great nation.<br>We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our<br>homeland."<br><br>- Adolf Hitler, proposing the creation of the Gestapo in Nazi<br>Germany.<br><br>Sound familiar?<br> America, you better pull yer head out...........<br><br>Memorize this:<br> Homeland Security=Gestapo<br> Homeland Security=Gestapo<br> Homeland Security=Gestapo<br> Homeland Security=Gestapo<br> Homeland Security=Gestapo<br> Homeland Security=Gestapo<br><br>Constitutional rights:<br> Freedom of religion<br> Freedom of speech<br> Freedom of assembly<br> The right to keep and bear arms.<br><br> Are NOT dependent on which religion or ideology someone believes. If<br>one group can be liquidated, it will just be a matter of time before they<br>get around YOU.<br><br>THIS MESSAGE ALSO WILL BE A TEST TO BE CERTAIN THAT MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS<br>NOT BEING LIMITED, AND MY CIVIL RIGHTS ARE NOT BEING VIOLATED.<br><br>The internet has the capacity to defend itself... for the time being. It<br>would be wise to send test messages, to close friends, to determine if your<br>FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS BEING LIMITED.<br>If you find that your FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS BEING LIMITED,<br>change your Internet Service Provider at once.<br><br><br>I suggest that you visit<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.1smartisp.net/sc/?page=ispsignup">www.1smartisp.net/sc/?page=ispsignup</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>to learn about ISP access that is respectful of freedom of speech.<br><br>My former ISP gave me the web page for the company that makes the filter,<br>AND ADMITTED that the protcols were developed from guidelines from<br>The Department of Homeland Security.<br><br>You will find the page at <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.surfcontrol.com/products/">www.surfcontrol.com/products/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Here is the page, where they tell, as much as they will tell you, about what<br>gets filtered out:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.surfcontrol.com/Default.aspx?id=354&mnuid=1.4.1.4">www.surfcontrol.com/Defau...id=1.4.1.4</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.surfcontrol.com/products/email/images/screen_email_dictionary.gif">www.surfcontrol.com/produ...ionary.gif</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>This is a direct copy and past:<br><br><br><br>E-mail Dictionary<br><br>Description/Criteria<br><br>Adult<br><br> Sexually Explicit<br> Adult-Oriented<br><br>Alcohol/Tobacco/Drugs<br><br> Instructions<br> Products<br> Terms<br> Promotion<br><br>Arts/Entertainment<br><br> Media<br> Humorous<br> Horoscopes<br> Art<br> Activity Guides<br><br>Computing/Internet/Hacking<br><br> Software<br> Parts<br> Accessories<br> Hacking<br><br>Confidential<br><br> Customize to meet your confidentiality needs<br><br>Finance<br><br> Stock Trading<br> Money Management<br> Accounting<br><br>Gambling<br><br> Tips<br> Term<br> Online Casinos<br> Betting Pools<br><br>Hate Speech/Offensive<br><br> Prejudice based on Race, Gender, Religion, etc.<br><br>Job Search<br><br> Employment Agencies<br> Job Listings<br> Career Searches<br><br>Medical/Healthcare<br><br> Medical and health care terminology<br><br>Shopping<br><br> Internet Mall<br> Online Catalogs<br> Retail Stores<br><br>Spam<br><br> Spam<br> Bulk E-mail<br> Mass Marketing<br><br>Sports<br><br> Sports-related content<br><br>Travel<br><br> Airlines<br> Accommodations<br> Destinations<br><br>Violence / Weapons<br><br> Avocation or depictions of violent acts<br><br><br><br>They only mention the most popular types of censorship; HOWEVER,<br>You will notice that many of the categories include an open door for the<br>censorship of free speech, THAT IS PURELY LAWFUL, and unoffensive.<br><br>OF COURSE, anyone can voluntarily install this software if that is what they<br>want.<br><br>I spoke with my former ISP on the phone several times a day for a week.<br><br>I also spoke with several other ISP competitors, while shopping for one that<br>would not censor me.<br>I got not contradictory information, and everyone said they were not allowed<br>to hand out the guidelines.<br>Both The Federal Communication Commission and Homeland Security were<br>referenced repeatedly.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: The Federal Government and your email!

Postby RollickHooper » Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:33 am

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=893">www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=893</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br><br><br>Li Zhuang, Feng Zhou, and Doug Tygar have an interesting new paper showing that if you have an audio recording of somebody typing on an ordinary computer keyboard for fifteen minutes or so, you can figure out everything they typed. The idea is that different keys tend to make slightly different sounds, and although you don’t know in advance which keys make which sounds, you can use machine learning to figure that out, assuming that the person is mostly typing English text. (Presumably it would work for other languages too.) <p></p><i></i>
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re: eavesdropping

Postby hanshan » Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:06 pm

<br><br><br>KFJ:<br><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>I also spoke with several other ISP competitors, while shopping for one that<br>would not censor me.<br>I got not contradictory information, and <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>everyone said they were not allowed<br>to hand out the guidelines.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->Both The Federal Communication Commission and Homeland Security were<br>referenced repeatedly.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Is this accurate? By what authority are they not allowed<br>to hand out the guidelines? What's the punishment?<br>How are <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>they</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> gonna enforce this?<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>On July 11, 2000, the existence of an FBI Internet monitoring system called "Carnivore" was widely reported. Although the public details were sketchy, reports indicated that the Carnivore system is installed at the facilities of an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and can monitor all traffic moving through that ISP. The FBI claims that Carnivore "filters" data traffic and delivers to investigators only those "packets" that they are lawfully authorized to obtain. Because the details remain secret, the public is left to trust the FBI's characterization of the system and -- more significantly -- the FBI's compliance with legal requirements.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/" target="top">www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>'Carnivore' Eats Your Privacy </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br> Page 1 of 1 <br><br>Wired News Report<br><br>10:05 AM Jul. 11, 2000 <br><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Not all Internet service providers seem to like the idea of a government computer silently recording their network traffic, especially since Carnivore systems are typically kept in locked boxes, and at least one company is challenging the practice in court.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.eff.org/Censorship/" target="top">www.eff.org/Censorship/</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><br><br>.....<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Don't forget Echelon

Postby DrDebugDU » Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:14 pm

Echelon makes a copy of every phone call, everything send over the internet, the location of every cellphone at every point in time ad infitum! <br><br>The internet has made things easier in fact, since all communication are now digital via gigantic backbones, so just tapping the backbones will get you 90+% of the info.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>Executive Summary<br><br>In the greatest surveillance effort ever established, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has created a global spy system, codename ECHELON, which captures and analyzes virtually every phone call, fax, email and telex message sent anywhere in the world. ECHELON is controlled by the NSA and is operated in conjunction with the Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ) of England, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of Canada, the Australian Defense Security Directorate (DSD), and the General Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) of New Zealand. These organizations are bound together under a secret 1948 agreement, UKUSA, whose terms and text remain under wraps even today.<br><br>The ECHELON system is fairly simple in design: position intercept stations all over the world to capture all satellite, microwave, cellular and fiber-optic communications traffic, and then process this information through the massive computer capabilities of the NSA, including advanced voice recognition and optical character recognition (OCR) programs, and look for code words or phrases (known as the ECHELON “Dictionary”) that will prompt the computers to flag the message for recording and transcribing for future analysis. Intelligence analysts at each of the respective “listening stations” maintain separate keyword lists for them to analyze any conversation or document flagged by the system, which is then forwarded to the respective intelligence agency headquarters that requested the intercept.<br><br>But apart from directing their ears towards terrorists and rogue states, ECHELON is also being used for purposes well outside its original mission. The regular discovery of domestic surveillance targeted at American civilians for reasons of “unpopular” political affiliation or for no probable cause at all in violation of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution – are consistently impeded by very elaborate and complex legal arguments and privilege claims by the intelligence agencies and the US government. The guardians and caretakers of our liberties, our duly elected political representatives, give scarce attention to these activities, let alone the abuses that occur under their watch. Among the activities that the ECHELON targets are:<br><br>(...)<br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://fly.hiwaay.net/~pspoole/echelon.html">fly.hiwaay.net/~pspoole/echelon.html</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=drdebugdu>DrDebugDU</A> at: 9/12/05 12:14 pm<br></i>
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re:in loco parentis/Echelon

Postby hanshan » Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:26 pm

<br><br>DrD - <br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>The guardians and caretakers of our liberties, our duly elected political representatives, give scarce attention to these activities, let alone the abuses that occur under their watch.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br>Comforting, eh?<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/remote_behavioral_techology.htm" target="top">www.deepblacklies.co.uk/remote_behavioral_techology.htm</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/masters_of_persuasion.pdf" target="top">www.deepblacklies.co.uk/masters_of_persuasion.pdf</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>..... <p></p><i></i>
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re:in loco parentis/Echelon

Postby DrDebugDU » Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:51 pm

That's a very good collection as well.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>ULTRASOUND TRANSMISSION OF VOICE<br><br>Communication is understood as an inner voice with loss of the directional quality of sound perception. "Since most cultures attribute inner voices either as a sign of madness, or as messages from spirits or demons, both of which . . . evoke powerful emotional reactions", quotes the Lowrey patent's effect on people.<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>It's amazing what they have invented over the years. And those poor people think that they are hearing 'voices' and are mad...<br><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><br>I loved that mobile phone stuff. As you might have noticed there has been a huge hype with mobile phones for years now. It was like everybody had to have one and look and behold everybody has one. Even though they were sold by the millions, the manufactors lost fortunes making them and forced Sony and Ericsson to merge, because it was too much for Ericsson, but Ericsson continued price dumping after the merger...<br><br>People kept on complaining that there was no reception in their area and that they didn't work abroad. Guess what, the reception is widespread and they function world-wide. TV and internet are now available as options as well. Long life technology.<br><br>When you talk about ID cards with transmission devices and microchipping etc., people will say that the people will not allow that and that the investments are such that they are never going to build it. <br><br>Guess what, it has already been constructed and the majority of people carry their mobile phones with them, allowing a reasonable trace of where each person is at any point in time and all Echelon has to do is to get a feed off a couple of lines which aggregate all the data on a global level...<br><br>> our duly elected political representatives<br><br>Running for president (and my bet) in 2008. Mark Warner who made his fortune as a broker of cellular phone franchise licenses... <p></p><i></i>
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re: microwave transmissions

Postby hanshan » Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:08 pm

....<br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>March 2003 another study in the International Journal of Oncology suggested that mobile phone users had a 30% increased risk of brain tumours - mainly accoustic neuromas - which occurred close to the ear used for mobile phone listening. Previous studies had shown that growth of leukaemia cells could be increased dramatically after exposure to mobile phone radiation. Although accoustic neuromas do not metastasise (jump to invade other parts of the body) they can create serious problems if intreated. The early symptoms can be hearing loss, loss of balance or noises in one ear - but all these are very common for many other reasons. Advanced growths can invade other nearby areas, causing pressure on the brain.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Short exposure to mobile phone radiation kills brain cells in rats</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Short exposure to mobile phone radiation - two hours - has been reported in 2003 to destroy cells in parts of the brain important for memory, movement and learning, and could possibly conceivably premature onset of illnesses such as Alzheimers - although we have no evidence of a similar effect in humans. Lund University Hospital Professor Leif Salford says mobile radiation allows harmful proteins and toxins through the brain barrier in rats. He also has found significant degree of damage to brain neurons in adolescent rats.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.globalchange.com/radiationtv.html" target="top">www.globalchange.com/radiationtv.html</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><br>some <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>très spooky</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->stuff out <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>there</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><br>will look for some <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Matrix</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> material<br><br><br><br><br>....<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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My experience of web censorship

Postby lantern » Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:03 pm

Hello guys <br><br>I am a lurker here at this site: I read every day, but post hardly ever as I am a bit shy of public discussions- they can get a little too heated for my sensitive nature- but wanted to add my two cents on this one.<br><br>I had an experience with these issues when I was a teacher in London during the nineties. The incident happened in 1999 in an inner city school in East London. The school had an internet section of the library, where the kids could go and surf the net, with about 15 computers. The kids loved it, it was very popular, always filled with kids during lunchtime and break-time. One day I had some free time and the library was empty, so I sat at one of the computers to look up a metaphysical message board that I was quite into at the time. I typed in the address and a message popped up saying that my selection had been censored by the school's censorship program. <br><br>I was really taken aback, as this was a very harmless spiritual web site I was looking for and I could not figure out how it could be bad for the kids to read about these things. So I typed in other very positive spiritual web sites and each one of them got censored. So at this point I became suspicious of what content this program was actually censoring. So I called the local educational authority and asked for to speak to the person in charge of school internet censorship, to understand which criteria were being used and why. I was passed from person to person and I was eventually told that they could not give me access to that information. At which I replied that if the kids were being prevented from free access to information of various kinds, but if the nature of the blocked information was withheld, then this could be interpreted as a manipulation of children’s minds towards a set ideology. I suggested that surely the local paper and the parents would be very interested in hearing about that. Surely they would agree with me that the criteria of the educational authority’s censorship policy should be available to educators and parents. I immediately got through to the man in charge.<br><br>The man I was speaking to told me that there was actually no censorship policy a part from the one set by the software company itself. All that they had done was approve a censorship software to install on the computers of all schools within their jurisdiction. The software package came already complete with a list of censored items and one could not just pick items from the list : it was all or nothing. The package came as a whole. The software had been introduced at a meeting as the standard software available for schools and had been approved by the council as the one to install on the borough’s school’s PC network. And it was approved as a way to make sure kids did not surf porn web sites in school (something that they all managed to so anyway, by the way, as my inner city teens were very street wise and they all seemed to know how to hack through the censorship program. In fact I asked one of them to show me how he did it, as I wanted to learn myself how to get through the evil program- but what to him was a piece of cake, flew right over my head: I never figured out)<br><br>Anyway, returning to my phone conversation with the local education authority, I asked for the name of the software company and for details of the software to be sent to me. The guy was reluctant, but with a new reminder of my willingness to write to the newspaper ad of my rights to know what the policies of my borough were, he sent me the full software details. The list was similar to the one posted in the post above. On top of the usual porn and gambling crap, all sorts of political and spiritual stuff was censored. All sorts of things to do with learning about finances were also censored. So I tried to find some of this content on the school internet system.<br><br>I had no trouble viewing Tony Blair's official web site. I had no trouble finding some other mainstream political stuff. But no way of accessing anything alternative or spiritual. But information about the pope was easily accessible. I started to smell a rat. <br><br>So, at home, on my own computer, I did some research on this software company - it was either Cyber Patrol or Web Sense- I can't remember which one of these two exaclt as it has been a while. And I realized that not only this software program was used in schools but also in many corporate offices across America. At the time I was very busy with many other things, so I dropped it there. But I was deeply concerned about what I had found out. A software company that was selling a censorship package aimed at stopping people from surfing porn at work or in school but that was also blocking a ton of ideological content on the sly. Despicable.<br><br>A couple of years later, the editor for a magazine I was writing for, asked me if I would write an article on kids and the internet- pluses and minuses of internet use for children and adolescents. She listed easy access to pornographic material as one of the minuses and that set me off on the censorship track again. Again, when researching email porn blocking programs and porn blocking censorship software for kids, I was back at Web Sense and Cyber Patrol. But this time I also found this site <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.peacefire.org">www.peacefire.org</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> - and realized that I was obviously not the only one smelling an attempt at ideological censorship under the guise of blocking porn and spam related content. I made a brief mention of this in the article I wrote, briefly warning parents of the fact that the software they might be installing on their computers to erase one problem could actually create another, but did not elaborate much as my editor told me to keep it short. And she was right, as it was not the right kind of magazine for this kind of content.<br><br>Writing this article and reading the peacefire site however set me off thinking of how interesting it is that so many of us are being flooded with porn in our emails making us cry out for software that can block or censor such kinds of content. It did set up alarm bells for me with regards to things like email spam. Since then I have seen spam in a different light. I am now suspicious that spam might be part of a problem - reaction -solution scenario. When we are flooded with pornography, spam and adware type crap, our reaction is to want this flood of crap to stop. The solution is to install blocking software. But once we do, who knows what additional content gets blocked by these people. So no blocking software for me. I am suspicious of all kinds of "protecting softwares" now. I am not even that comfortable with the idea that Norton Antivirus is on my computer, although it is hard to do without it when working on a PC. And I do not like the fact that Microsft has direct access to my Pc when I am online, since it tells we every so often that I need this or that update. I have started to wonder if Microsoft would able to remotely access my files and document folders. But maybe that is just paranoia. However these are paranoid times. And as a lawyer friend of mine often says<br><br>“Just because you are paranoid, it does not mean they are not out to get you”<br><br>A sad statement of our times, that however always makes me somewhat laugh <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :\ --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/ohwell.gif ALT=":\"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>Ok I better get back to work now...blessings to you all ...<br> <p></p><i></i>
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Email monitoring

Postby Project Willow » Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:05 pm

Around the time of the WTO protests in Seattle I made the mistake of using the word "bomb" in an email. I used it as a figure of speech. An odd thing happened to the email. I was already on several anti-globalist email lists, and I assume that is how my address got on a monitoring list.<br>This particular email was addressed to my own listserv list that I have run since 1996 (unrelated to politics, WTO, etc. and remotely hosted). The email did not go through to the list. When it didn't go through, I checked the server and there was no problem. I waited for a considerable amount of time, tried to resend it, and still it was not distributed. I tried sending it from a different address, and then it went through. The original post finally did go through to the list, 3 days later, and the entire section around where I had used the word "bomb" had been excised.<br>I checked for just about every technical problem I could think of in terms of listservs, isps, address problems, and there was no alternate explanation I could find. The email did contain material on mc programs. My assumption is some FBI guy got the email through a carnivore type filter program and then was so dumbfounded over the actual content, he failed to do his job correctly. That section of that email sits in some file somewhere I guess, I can only imagine under what label.<br><br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rolleyes --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/eyes.gif ALT=":rolleyes"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>Also, I hate cell phones, I hate them, I hate them! They perform terribly, you can't hear anyone clearly, they run out of juice every other day, they're a constant nuisance!! <p></p><i></i>
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Re: My experience of web censorship

Postby DrDebugDU » Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:06 pm

Welcome, lantern<br><br>That's a very good post. Personally I have no knowledge about website blocking programs, but I know what you mean about spam. I had to abandon my primary email account, because it is flooded. <br><br>Back in 1997-1999 I used it for some .com site registrations and I tended to talk on usenet using my email account. For the first years there was no problem, but then the spam started coming. I've tried everything and every possible software but to no avail - even worse they all had false positives, ie. correct email which has marked as spam. The last time I've checked the email account it gathered 200-300 spams a day - literally non-stop. So basically I switched to a webmail provider which is only known by friends and even that one gets a couple of spams a day despite not being listed anywhere. So I agree that spam is a problem-reaction-solution thing. I think it killed email as a form of communication.<br><br>Check out: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/networks.lasso">www.spamhaus.org/statisti...orks.lasso</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/spammers.lasso">www.spamhaus.org/statisti...mers.lasso</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>It is a couple of providers and a couple of spammers are responsible for most of the spam and it's the same names and same providers for years now. Also note that the world largest ISPs have unresolved spam problems for over 3 years now. Insiders call them white hats, because they refuse to handle it.<br><br>As far as browsers go, change to a non-IE browser. It makes everything so much easier. Technically microsoft can access your files, normally they 'only' send your ID and registration info which is not nice either. <p></p><i></i>
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re: China Grove

Postby hanshan » Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:09 pm

<br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://radio.weblogs.com/0113064/images/2004/07/13/simulacres.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><br>lantern:<br><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>I have started to wonder if Microsoft would able to remotely access my files and document folders. But maybe that is just paranoia.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Actually, not only can they, but they do. Hey, not anything any good hacker couldn't do. Interesting speculation bout censorship coming in on a Trojan Horse spam blocker. <br> Privacy concerns? PGP:<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/timeline/" target="top">www.cypherspace.org/adam/timeline/</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html" target="top">www.schneier.com/book-applied.html</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><br>DrD - (<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> don't forget the salt)</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Geomagnetic Waves & GWEN</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br> <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Sixty four elements in the ground modulate, with variation, the geomagnetic waves naturally coming from the ground. The earth's natural 'brain rhythm' above is balanced with these. These are the same minerals found in red blood corpuscles. There is a relation between the blood and geomagnetic waves. An imbalance between Schumann and geomagnetic waves disrupts these biorhythms. These natural geomagnetic waves are being replaced by artificially created low frequency (LF) ground waves coming from GWEN Towers.<br><br><br>The United States is bathed in this magnetic field which can rise from ground up to 500 ft, but goes down into basements, so everyone can be affected and mind-controlled. The entire artificial ground-wave spreads out over the whole of the USA like a web. It is easier to mind-control and hypnotize people who are bathed in an artificial electromagnetic-wave.<br><br><br>Our brains are extremely vulnerable to any technology which sends out ELF waves, because they immediately start resonating to the outside signal by a kind of tuning-fork effect.<br><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Electromagnetic Disease Transmission, ELF, & Chemtrails</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br><br>The physics and engineering behind electromagnetic disease transmission are frightening. Diseases can be reproduced as 'disease signatures' in that the vibration of a disease can be manufactured and sent on to be induced. (The brainwave pattern of hallucinogenic drugs can also be copied and sent by ELF waves to induce 'visions'.) Once diseases are sprayed in the air, electromagnetic-waves attuned to the disease, using harmonics and subharmonics, will make them more lethal and infectious by sending particular disease frequency death-patterns. <br><br>Some chemtrails have been analyzed and shown to be creating cleavages in spacial perceptions, blocking the interaction of various amino-acids that relate to higher-consciousness and to increase dopamine in the brain producing a listless, spaced-out state of lower reactive mind. <br><br>Basically, the goal is to fog the difference between the real and unreal and some of this could be connected with the many UFO abductions occurring en-mass.<br><br>The Sydney Morning Herald on 21 March 1983 published an article by Dr Nassim Abd El-Aziz Neweigy, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Agriculture, Moshtohor Tukh-Kalubia, Egypt. It stated: <br><br><br>"Russian satellites, controlled by advanced computers, can send voices in one's own language interweaving into natural thoughts to the population of choice to form diffused artificial thought. The chemistry and electricity of the human brain can be manipulated by satellite and even suicide can be induced. Through ferocious anti-humanitarian means, the extremist groups are fabricated, the troubles and bloody disturbances are instigated by advanced tele-means via Russian satellites, in many countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America."<br><br>"Physicists in Russia correlate the mean annual magnetic-activity, electro-magnetic and electro-static fields on human behavior and medical indications.They are similar to biorhythms.These magnetic frequencies can be manipulated. Our brain waves can mimic magnetic frequencies from very simple equipment at extremely low power levels. From half a second to 4 seconds later, the neurons and brainwaves are driven exclusively by the device, with power levels almost nonexistent. All one needs is a circularly polarized antenna aimed up at the ionospheric cavity and they can manipulate the moods of everyone within a 75 sq. mile area. The body picks up these "new" manipulated waves and begins to correspond immediately. "Sleep" frequency will make everyone become tired and sleep."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://educate-yourself.org/mc/mctotalcontrol12jul02.shtml" target="top">educate-yourself.org/mc/mctotalcontrol12jul02.shtml</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/schumann.html" target="top">www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/schumann.html</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><br><br>as a friend recently remarked : <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>d'ere's some heavy<br>shit comin' down</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:blue;font-family:comic sans ms;font-size:xx-small;">....</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br><br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Thanks!

Postby lantern » Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:20 pm

DrDebugDU and Hanshan for suggestions and links...<br><br><br>Much appreciated !<br><br><br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Thanks!

Postby Col Quisp » Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:54 pm

Welcome Lantern! Great post! Don't be afraid to post more often!<br><br>Dr. D: Thanks for that scary explanation of chemtrails. It's amazing how many people just don't see them. <br> <p></p><i></i>
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Internet filtering in public libraries

Postby Nonny » Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:31 am

For public libraries to continue to receive federal dollars for internet expenses (E-rate) they had to install filtering on all computers by July 1, 2005. This was to comply with the Children’s Internet Protection Act. This was opposed by the American Library Assoc. --- 1st amendment rights of free speech.<br>My library uses Websense. There were many problems at first. All complaints were logged and Websense will tell you why the site is filtered. So, with much tweaking -- there are fewer complaints now. Some controls appeared to be "off" but in fact were being filtered. One was alternative journals -- another was religion. Fixed.<br>Public libraries need federal and state funds to survive. This was very troubling. We have a T1 line and more and more depends on it. Also, librarians can bypass the filter for an adult patron that requests it -- but not for porn, which is stated in our usage policy.<br><br>---------------------------------<br>Comcast and Symantec blocked emails about the Downing Street Memos<br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/794" target="top">www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/794</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br> <p></p><i></i>
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