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From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Re: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 6 Num. 41
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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 12:14:53 GMT
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Brian Redman (bigred@shout.net) wrote:
: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 6 Num. 41
: ======================================
: ("Quid coniuratio est?")
:
:
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:
: INFO BLACKOUT
: =============
: By Clark Matthews
: [Spotlight, 11/06/95]
:
: Powerful national security insiders have established effective
: control over the entrance gateways to Internet. Disturbing signs
: are now emerging that the "information superhighway" has been
: targeted for systematic surveillance and political dossier
: building on Americans' opinions.
:
: This ominous news came in the first of a series of articles by
: investigative journalist Steven Pizzo in *Web Review*, an online
: magazine of cyberculture and politics (http://gnn.com/wr/)
: published by Songline Studios of San Francisco. Pizzo is the
: author of *Inside Job*, a groundbreaking expose' on the massive
: fraud and theft of insured deposits in 1980s savings and loan
: debacle.
:
: According to Pizzo, control of Internet "domain name
: registration" has passed into private hands -- with the potential
: for serious mischief or worse. "Domain names" are the odd-looking
: identifying names that are assigned to individual computer
: systems that compose the Internet (logoplex.com, for example).
:
: Through a complex chain of licensing arrangements and corporate
: acquisitions detailed in Pizzo's article, this crucial control
: over Internet domain names has passed from the non-profit
: National Science Foundation to Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) of
: Herndon, Virginia. Last May, amid growing public disbelief of
: Establishment media reports about the Oklahoma City bombing
: provocation, NSI was purchased by Scientific Applications
: International Corporation (SAIC) of San Diego.
:
: SAIC is a $2 billion defense and FBI contractor with a board of
: directors that reads like a Who's Who of the intelligence
: community. Board members include Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, the
: former director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and deputy
: director of the CIA; Melvin Laird, defense secretary under
: Richard Nixon; Donald Hicks, former head of research &
: development for the Pentagon; Donald Kerr, former head of the Los
: Alamos National Laboratory; and Gen. Maxwell Thurman (ret.), the
: commander of the U.S. invasion of Panama.
:
: Former members of SAIC's board include Robert Gates, the former
: CIA director under George Bush; current CIA director John Deutch;
: Anita Jones, Deutch's former Pentagon procurement officer; and
: William Perry, the present secretary of defense.
:
: The corporation also has a legion of computer network specialists
: and an entire division of computer consultants. SAIC currently
: holds contracts for re-engineering the Pentagon's information
: systems, automating the FBI's computerized fingerprint
: identification system, and building a national criminal history
: information system.
:
: The Internet is a marvel of computer software technology. It was
: designed to survive a nuclear attack on the United States -- like
: the Post Office, it's literally smart enough to find a way to get
: the mail through, even if most of the network is missing.
:
: But control of Internet domain name registration means the
: ability to remove troublesome -- or outspoken -- computer systems
: from the network. Potentially, this control also confers the
: power to insinuate "phantom" domains into the network -- for
: surveillance purposes, for example -- or for real-time, automatic
: censorship.
:
: Furthermore, anecdotal evidence gathered by this author suggests
: that actual "truth control" is taking place on the 'net now. E-
: mail messages with controversial contents -- including the
: details of the SAIC takeover of domain names -- have consistently
: disappeared as they travel across the network. News items
: concerning the Vincent Foster "suicide" investigation and
: allegations of NSA bank spying through compromised Inslaw
: software are being quickly and automatically cancelled {1}. And
: the cancellations are not by their authors.
As of Thursday, 11/2/95, I am unable to telnet from fwi.com to
netcom.com. Traceroute shows that packets in both directions are being
blocked at 2 totally anonymous sites with IP addresses
204.193.128.251
204.235.94.138
Sure looks suspicious to me.
: -+- Crackdown -+-
:
: With domain names under the control of secret government
: insiders, it is even theoretically possible that large parts of
: the Internet could be *shut* *down* *and* *silenced* at critical
: times. This could be accomplished by suddenly altering domain
: name registrations or interposing compromised "domains" at
: crucial points. These compromised systems could serve as "black
: holes" at critical times, stopping e-mail and important news from
: reaching the world -- or the rest of the country.
:
: Exercises in "turning the Internet off" have already taken place
: in Taiwan and Hong Kong. In Taiwan, the 'net was successfully
: shut down. All network traffic -- including news, opinions and e-
: mail sent by computer users -- was successfully "bottled up" on
: the island and prevented from reaching the world.
:
: In Hong Kong, the Internet wasn't quite strangled, but the
: British authorities who control that colony managed to throttle
: free electronic speech with the rest of the world until
: everything was bottlenecked into a few little-known satellite
: links.
:
: These are alarming precedents and sure signs that powerful,
: shadowy forces are preparing to chop at the very roots of
: America's new Liberty Tree. The secretive people on the board of
: directors of SAIC are intelligence professionals skilled at
: manufacturing events -- and then manufacturing public opinion and
: consent by controlling the truth. Will Internet disinformation,
: censorship or "shutdowns" signal the next American crisis?
:
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:
: You may be unable to find The Spotlight at your local library or
: news dealer. To subscribe, phone 1-800-522-6292 (Maryland 1-301-
: 951-6292). Note that I have no personal connection to The
: Spotlight nor am I compensated by them. I also neither
: necessarily agree nor disagree with either all or parts of the
: views expressed in The Spotlight.
:
: ---------------------------<< Notes >>---------------------------
: {1} Some of this information, regarding Foster and allegations of
: NSA bank spying, etc., is still available via anonymous ftp to
: ftp.shout.net pub/users/bigred -- see files beginning "og" as,
: for example "og003", "og021", etc.
:
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