NODE 9333d3b0CIA eating internet email & usenet news
Arsen Ray Arachelian <rarachel@prism.poly.edu>Wed, 3 Aug 94 21:24:24 PDT
It's started. The >CIA< (nevermind that we suspect the NSA has done this
already) admitedly is starting an internet site(s) where they will monitor
email and usenet feeds. Supposedly this is for "reasearch" purposes where
agents would "post" questions in such a way as to not give away their real
questions.
See this week's Computerworld. Anyone have a scanner they can post this
article up with? I'm not up to typing it...
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NODE 4abe054bRe: CIA eating internet email & usenet news
Brian Lane <blane@squeaky.free.org.free.org>Wed, 3 Aug 94 21:53:34 PDT
On Thu, 4 Aug 1994, Arsen Ray Arachelian wrote:
>
> It's started. The >CIA< (nevermind that we suspect the NSA has done this
> already) admitedly is starting an internet site(s) where they will monitor
> email and usenet feeds. Supposedly this is for "reasearch" purposes where
> agents would "post" questions in such a way as to not give away their real
> questions.
>
> See this week's Computerworld. Anyone have a scanner they can post this
> article up with? I'm not up to typing it...
What do you mean by email monitoring, their own or ours? Maybe we
should bombard them with encrypted copies of the Digital Telephony bill?
Brian
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NODE 1d3f5db7Re: CIA eating internet email & usenet news
Arsen Ray Arachelian <rarachel@prism.poly.edu>Sun, 7 Aug 94 22:06:57 PDT
On Wed, 3 Aug 1994, Brian Lane wrote:
> > See this week's Computerworld. Anyone have a scanner they can post this
> > article up with? I'm not up to typing it...
>
> What do you mean by email monitoring, their own or ours? Maybe we
> should bombard them with encrypted copies of the Digital Telephony bill?
Don't know for sure. That article was a bit too vague as tot he exact
nature of the data vacuuming. I suspect however that while Computerworld
may be quite vague all by its self, the CIA wasn't too talkative as to
what they'd eat up. However, you can bet that any TCP/IP packets sent
through their hardware will duplicate themselves on their hard drives.
It's certain that they will eat up usenet news. They mentioned that the
reason that this system is up is so that they can do research, but in such
a way as to prevent traffic/question analysis of their querries so as to
prevent others from finding out just what they're working on. Who knows,
maybe they'll get accounts on internet providers or use anon mail to post
their querries, but "They're here!"
I certainly wouldn't put it past them to read any email they can though. :-(
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