IS BIG BROTHER READING YOUR E-MAIL? 

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source - rich@math.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)

http://www.pdai.com/notices/notices/bigbrother.htm

IS BIG BROTHER READING YOUR E-MAIL?

By ROD DREHER

WANT to give a big, fat finger to Big Brother today?  Fax or e-mail
this column to a friend.  Be sure to include the following words:

Unabomber. Anthrax. Fissionable plutonium. North Korea. Militia.
Delta Force. Ruby Ridge.

If the suspicions of Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.), the American Civil
Liberties Union and cyber-libertarian "hacktivists" are correct,
your fax or e-mail containing those words will have been intercepted
by a sophisticated official electronic monitoring system called
"Echelon."

Echelon is a super secret global surveillance network, run by the
U.S. National Security Agency, in conjunction with the governments
of Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Echelon is said to intercept and sift through countless electronic
transmissions daily, filtering out those with particular "keywords"
that could signal a security threat. The purloined posts are later
analyzed. Hacktivists around the world have scheduled today as "Jam
Echelon Day." They're encouraging computer users to flood the
Internet with e-mails containing suspected keywords, hoping the
deluge will short-circuit Echelon's computers and satellites.

The public will never know if they succeed, but crashing Echelon
is not really the point.  The protest is meant to raise public
awareness about the threat to privacy and civil liberties purportedly
posed by the security network, which sounds like something out of
the movie "Enemy of the State."

Although the NSA will neither confirm nor deny Echelon's existence,
too much information has leaked out (through official statements
and partially declassified government documents) or has been
uncovered by journalists and investigators to allow for plausible
deniability.

If reports, including a study by the European Parliament, are
correct, Echelon was organized after World War II, chiefly as a
way for participating countries to intercept Soviet communications.

With the Russian threat gone, there is growing evidence and concern
that Echelon is being used around the world for commercial espionage
and keeping tabs on non-military targets- such as me and thee.

Groups on both sides of the American political debate, from the
ACLU on the left to the Free Congress Foundation on the right,
allege that Echelon's technology and structure makes the unregulated
monitoring of e-mails, faxes and phone calls possible - this despite
laws requiring court permission to eavesdrop on private citizens.

"The NSA does not have jurisdiction in the U.S., but the way the
electronic-communications system is set up, I could send an e-mail
to you, and it could be routed through Canada," explains Free
Congress' Lisa Dean. "This puts the e-mail under NSA's jurisdiction."

The potential for Echelon's abuse has so bothered Barr, a former
CIA analyst, that he's pushing for congressional hearings. "My
concern is that they are sweeping far too broadly," Barr tells me.
"I believe that the rights of American citizens are being infringed.
"The danger is that we have no privacy whatsoever.  Whenever you
pick up an instrument of communication, you run the risk of the
government listening in to you."

That claim is too far out for Steve Aftergood, who runs the Federation
of American Scientists' government-secrecy research project. However
overblown he considers the claims of Echelon alarmists, Aftergood
supports Barr's call for hearings to establish oversight.  "Unchecked
monitoring and surveillance by the government poses a threat to
freedom of dissent," he said.  "Even if the whole Echelon story is
a hallucination or a hoax, it is nevertheless the responsibility
of Congress to get to the bottom of it."

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Here is a list of keywords designed to trigger the Echelon systems.

This is being sent for the purpose of clogging the system and
hopefully demonstating to those who operate this equipment how
fruitless and immoral this type of snooping truly is.

Copy this and send it to as many people as you know! Do it today!!!

**************

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