Re: Update #2 - Re: Google Bobbles NSA wiretap searches

responder wrote:

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Hello Group. I will post some links that seem related, along with a
line or two about the nature, source or significance of each source.

There are two "stories" that I would like to point you to today, both of
which have already scrolled off the google news default pages. One is
about US General Gonzales' threat to prosecute newspapers and journalists,
and the second is the release of documents in the AT&T wiretap case.

"...And the last shall be first, and the first shall be last."

...or something like that...

This is hot stuff hosted by wired.com.

Press Release Source: Lycos, Inc.

Wired News Publishes Full-Text of AT&T NSA Wiretap Documents Monday May
22, 12:36 pm ET

WALTHAM, Mass., May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Lycos, Inc. (http://www.lycos.com),
a media destination for creators and consumers of quality content, today
announced the following information from Wired News
(http://www.wired.com), the award-winning leader in online news content,
covering news that "counts" in technology, business, politics and culture,
and the online home of WIRED Magazine.

This morning, Wired News released the full text of the AT&T documents
provided to it by a witness in a court case involving AT&T's alleged
participation in National Security Agency's domestic wiretap operations.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060522/nem039.html?.v=43

Why We Published the AT&T Docs [...]
*
See Also

* Court Deals AT&T a Setback
* Stumbling Into a Spy Scandal
* AT&T Whistle-Blower's Evidence
* The Ultimate Net Monitoring Tool
* The Eternal Value of Privacy
* AT&T Seeks to Hide Spy Docs
* Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
* AT&T Sued Over NSA Eavesdropping
* A Pretty Good Way to Foil the NSA

By Evan Hansen| Also by this reporter 02:00 AM May, 22, 2006

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70947-0.html?tw=wn_index_3

There's more here than can be properly summarized. Read through all the
"Story continued" links to the end.

Excerpt:

This is the infrastructure for an Orwellian police state. It must be shut
down!

So, OK, back to the mundane. General Gonzales threatens to prosecute
Newspapers and journalists. This is a page story from "Voice Of America",
you know, the cold-war propoganda machine (seems fairly objective):

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-05-21-voa19.cfm

And this is the same story from firstamendmentcenter.org

Gonzales: Reporters can be prosecuted for revealing classified info

By The Associated Press
05.22.06

WASHINGTON — Prosecuting reporters who reveal state secrets endangers not
only freedom of speech but the public's right to know what politicians and
government officials are up to, says an advocate for journalists.

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=16921

And then, there is this, from Reuters. I had a problem with a link on
this page, the one that takes you to page 2. The article could all fit on
one page, but Reuters split it into two pages. And the links (2) to the
second page didn't work. It could have been a javascript error on the
page, but I couldn't see what was wrong. Except that the link didn't
work. Similar to mangled links on google. Yes, I looked at source. Maybe
a Micro$oft javascript thing? The script does seem to refer back to code
on the server that is not visible to the user. Same story; different
result, here:

http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-05-21T172024Z_01_N21173642_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-LEAKS-GONZALEZ.xml

A very long URL with probably personally encoded data. I called seven
different numbers/people at Reuters, from US to Geneva. To almost the
last, they simply disconnected, or else simply did not respond. The Tech
support in Geneva was good and attentive, basically ended by saying "works
for me". The Reuters people in UK (Christopher Barnett -sp?)- I have the
number - were decidedly the most cordial, communicative and
conversational, but referred me back to US Reuters - US Washington
+12028988457 or US NYC +16462236180 or Network Center on LI NY, look it up
with whois reuters.com. I do still read Reuters daily. But they are a
pretty insular clique, not accepting of people like me or of inquiries
from people like me. Trying to talk with people like most them that I
reached, it is impossible to determine any cause or cure.

I promised a note on how to _detect_ MITM, and still hope to do that.

I am working on securing definitive, legally verifiable evidence that data
transmissions are being altered, and thus MITM is active. This appears to
be just a matter of time and work, as the outcome is now pretty clear.
Might take some time. Hope I don't stub my toe or some such in the
interim and get laid up. Anyone cares to step in or up as backup, that's
cool.

Meanwhile, please read the disclosure at wired,com. The entire release is
available as a pdf document it this location:

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/att_klein_wired.pdf

Don't forget to look at this page, as it does change. http://www.eff.org/

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