| Hey, I just signed a letter to the Commanding Officer at Quantico Brig to end the inhumane conditions of Private Bradley Manning's detention as he awaits trial. Please join me in signing this important letter, and pass it on to your friends and family when you're done: http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/bradleymanning?source=share&subsource=email Thanks! ---BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE--- Hey Firedoglake Activist, Bradley Manning spent his 23rd birthday on Friday completely isolated, just as he has every day for the last 5 months months in his cell at the Quantico Marine Base. Manning is the Marine Private accused of leaking classified documents to Wikileaks. Since July, he has been held in cruel and inhumane conditions like violent, dangerous criminals in a Supermax prison. He spends each day completely isolated, with severe restrictions placed on basic activities like sleep and exercise. Yet he has not been convicted of any crime. The extreme isolation in which Manning has spent every day of the last 5 months is grueling. It's already taking its toll: Bradley Manning's physical and mental health are suffering, according to his attorney and friend who have seen him in prison. Bradley Manning deserves humane treatment while he awaits trial. Can you please add your name to our letter urging Commanding Officer of Quantico Marine Corp Base to lift the heavy restrictions of Manning's detention? http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/bradleymanning?source=share&subsource=email Bradley's friend, David House, will deliver your letter to the Commanding Officer at the Quantico Marine Base brig when he visits Bradley next month. While Manning is held in "maximum custody," the military's most severe detention policy, he is also under a longstanding "Prevention of Injury" (POI) order that adds additional restrictions beyond those of other prisoners. While POI orders typically last a week or two, Manning has been held under a POI order for more than five months. A day in the life of Bradley Manning is isolating, lonely, and frustrating. - Manning stays in his cell for 23 hours a day - Guards must check on him every 5 minutes, and he must respond each time - He is not allowed to sleep between 5am and 8pm - Substantive exercise is not allowed beyond walking, potentially in chains - Communication with other people in the brig is banned, and he cannot write to people outside beyond the few a list approved by the brig commander; any unapproved letters he receives are destroyed. - He has not been allowed to read newspapers or watch international news during TV time - Comfortable sleep is impossible; he must surrender his clothes each night, has only a heavy "suicide blanket" akin to an x-ray vest, and guards must be able to see his face at all times. - A psychologist has said Manning isn't a danger to himself or others, and the POI order is unnecessary. His lawyer has also been unable to remove the POI order. But it is clear that Bradley Manning has been subjected to undue, inhumane, and unnecessary punishment, and it must stop now. Stop the inhumane treatment of Bradley Manning. Please add your name to our letter urging the Marine Commander in charge of Manning lift the unnecessary POI order. http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/bradleymanning?source=share&subsource=email No matter what you think of Manning's alleged acts, there is no reason to subject him to these extreme conditions. Thank you for standing up for human rights. Michael Whitney Firedoglake.com |
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Isolation is torture
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
TrueMajority: Victory: offshore #oil drilling banned! - #BP Oil Spi ll #boycottbp #oilspill #blacktide
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CIA WikiLeaks Task Force Launched
Me thinks there will soon be many more leaks related to three letter acronyms! - #leakspin
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Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Robert Fisk: Stay out of trouble by not speaking to Western spies - #leakspin
Another gem from Robert Fisk, and likely good advice as well.Regards,
proclus
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proclus
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via The Independent - Robert Fisk RSS Feed on 12/17/10
Almost 30 years ago, a British diplomat asked me to lunch in Beirut.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Amnesty: Stop the execution of Kevin Cooper in California
via Amnesty International USA Actions on 12/17/10
Kevin Cooper, who has been on death row in California for 25 years, is asking outgoing governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to commute his death sentence before leaving office on January 2, 2011. Kevin Cooper has consistently maintained his innocence of the four murders for which he was sentenced to death. Since 2004, a dozen federal appellate judges have indicated their doubts about his guilt. Urge Governor Schwarzenegger to grant clemency for Kevin Cooper.Bank Of America Will Stop Processing WikiLeaks Payments, WikiLeaks Responds On Twitter
"Our advise is to place your funds somewhere safer."
More sensible advice from Wikileaks. Hooray for Wikileaks!
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Friday, December 17, 2010
Stallman: The #Anonymous #WikiLeaks protests are a mass demo against control
I love this man.Regards,
proclus
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proclus
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via Technology: Anonymous | guardian.co.uk by Richard Stallman on 12/17/10
The actions against MasterCard and Amazon are not 'hacking'. People are just finding a way to protest in a digital space
The Anonymous web protests over WikiLeaks are the internet equivalent of a mass demonstration. It's a mistake to call them hacking (playful cleverness) or cracking (security breaking). The LOIC program that is being used by the group is prepackaged so no cleverness is needed to run it, and it does not break any computer's security. The protesters have not tried to take control of Amazon's website, or extract any data from MasterCard. They enter through the site's front door, and it just can't cope with the volume.
Calling these protests DDoS, or distributed denial of service, attacks is misleading, too. A DDoS attack is done with thousands of "zombie" computers. Typically, somebody breaks the security of those computers (often with a virus) and takes remote control of them, then rigs them up as a "botnet" to do in unison whatever he directs (in this case, to overload a server). The Anonymous protesters' computers are not zombies; presumably they are being individually operated.
No – the proper comparison is with the crowds that descended last week on Topshop stores. They didn't break into the stores or take any goods from them, but they sure caused a nuisance for the owner, Philip Green. I wouldn't like it one bit if my store (supposing I had one) were the target of a large protest. Amazon and MasterCard don't like it either, and their clients were probably annoyed. Those who hoped to buy at Topshop on the day of the protest may have been annoyed too.
The internet cannot function if websites are frequently blocked by crowds, just as a city cannot function if its streets are constantly full by protesters. But before you advocate a crackdown on internet protests, consider what they are protesting: on the internet, users have no rights. As the WikiLeaks case has demonstrated, what we do online, we do on sufferance.
In the physical world, we have the right to print and sell books. Anyone trying to stop us would need to go to court. That right is weak in the UK (consider superinjunctions), but at least it exists. However, to set up a website we need the co-operation of a domain name company, an ISP, and often a hosting company, any of which can be pressured to cut us off. In the US, no law explicitly establishes this precarity. Rather, it is embodied in contracts that we have allowed those companies to establish as normal. It is as if we all lived in rented rooms and landlords could evict anyone at a moment's notice.
Reading, too, is done on sufferance. In the physical world, you can buy a book with cash, and you own it. You are free to give, lend or sell it to someone else. You are also free to keep it. However, in the virtual world, e-readers have digital handcuffs to stop you from giving, lending or selling a book, as well as licences forbidding that. Last year, Amazon used a back door in its e-reader to remotely delete thousands of copies of 1984, by George Orwell. The Ministry of Truth has been privatised.
In the physical world, we have the right to pay money and to receive money – even anonymously. On the internet, we can receive money only with the approval of organisations such as PayPal and MasterCard, and the "security state" tracks payments moment by moment. Punishment-on-accusation laws such as the Digital Economy Act extend this pattern of precarity to internet connectivity. What you do on your own computer is also controlled by others, with non-free software. Microsoft and Apple systems implement digital handcuffs – features specifically designed to restrict users. Continued use of a program or feature is precarious too: Apple put a back door in the iPhone to remotely delete installed applications and anotherin Windows enabled Microsoft to install software changes without asking permission.
I started the free software movement to replace user-controlling non-free software with freedom-respecting free software. With free software, we can at least control what software does in our own computers.
The US state today is a nexus of power for corporate interests. Since it must pretend to serve the people, it fears the truth may leak. Hence its parallel campaigns against WikiLeaks: to crush it through the precarity of the internet and to formally limit freedom of the press.
States seek to imprison the Anonymous protesters rather than official torturers and murderers. The day when our governments prosecute war criminals and tell us the truth, internet crowd control may be our most pressing remaining problem. I will rejoice if I see that day.
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
SHOCKING NEWS: The torture of Bradley Manning
Friends, Have you heard the shocking news? Glen Greenwald reports that U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning is being tortured. Manning is accused of leaking information about Afghanistan to WikiLeaks, but hasn't been convicted of -- or tried for -- any crime. Manning is being held at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, and according to Greenwald: "Manning has been subjected for many months without pause to inhumane, personality-erasing, soul-destroying, insanity-inducing conditions of isolation similar to those perfected at America's Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado: all without so much as having been convicted of anything." Will you join me and stand in support of Private Manning? Visit:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/Manning/?referring_akid=.45919.DIgdOG&sour...
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/Manning/?referring_akid=.45919.DIgdOG&sour...
Getting to #Assange through Manning - #freeassange #leakspin #wikileaks
A great explanation why efforts to prosecute Assange and Wikileaks endanger journalism and freedom of the press. Many other problems too! An excellent read.Regards,
proclus
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proclus
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via Commondreams.org Views by on 12/16/10
by Glenn Greenwald
In The New York Times this morning, Charlie Savage describes the latest thinking from the DOJ about how to criminally prosecute WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. Federal investigators are "are looking for evidence of any collusion" between WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning -- "trying to find out whether Mr.
WikiLeaking Covert Wars - #wikileaks #cablegate #leakspin
Here we have another trusted journalist corroborating the Wikileaks cables. If there were any doubt before, and despite wild initial accusations to the contrary, it is now clear that they are what they purport to be. There is a message here to the prevaricators. Your message will be drowned and buried in the rising groundswell of truth. Your sandy foundations will be washed away.Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
via The Nation: All Articles by Jeremy Scahill on 12/9/10
Jeremy ScahillThe latest WikiLeaks dump has corroborated, in part, what sources recently told The Nation about covert military actions in over seventy-five countries.
RepowerAmerica: Koch Industries in Your Home? - #coal #fracking #boycottbp
via Repower AmericaBlog by Repower America on 11/23/10
Koch Industries may think it’s the biggest company you’ve never heard of, but it is actually a massive conglomerate with its dirty fingers in a range of industries, and many of their products are probably sitting in your house.RepowerAmerica: Portrait of an Artist as a Climate Hawk - #climatehawk
via Repower AmericaBlog by Repower America on 12/7/10
In the ongoing struggle against climate change, we know that reality is on our side, despite pressure from big polluters and dirty energy companies. We also, however, need to help tell the story of the climate crisis to show how it affects all of us.RepowerAmerical: Fox News Editor Tries To Muzzle Climate Science
via Repower AmericaBlog by Repower America on 12/15/10
Have you ever wondered why so many politicians don’t accept the reality of climate change?Wednesday, December 15, 2010
If you cannot mirror Wikileaks, you might consider mirroring their mirror list. http://ping.fm/K8QtG http://ping.fm/DJrpa #leakspin
If you cannot mirror Wikileaks, you might consider mirroring their mirror list. http://ping.fm/K8QtG http://ping.fm/DJrpa leakspin
If you cannot mirror Wikileaks, you might consider mirroring their mirror list. http://ping.fm/K8QtG http://ping.fm/DJrpa #leakspin
If you cannot mirror Wikileaks, you might consider mirroring their
mirror list. http://ping.fm/K8QtG http://ping.fm/DJrpa #leakspin
mirror list. http://ping.fm/K8QtG http://ping.fm/DJrpa #leakspin
Demand Progress: Protect the First Amendment: Don't outlaw #WikiLeaks! - #Assange #cablegate #leakspin
Friends -- Congressman Ron Paul asked that crucial question during a spirited
defense of freedom of the press: "If WikiLeaks is to be prosecuted for publishing classified documents,
why shouldn’t the Washington Post, the New York Times, and others
who also published these documents be prosecuted?" But, amazingly, there really is talk in Washington of passing laws to
prosecute the newspapers that teamed up with WikiLeaks. Join me in letting Congress know that you support Freedom of the
Press. Click here: http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/wikileaks/?referring_akid=40.45919.7LHIm8&... Here's how new Congressman Allen West answers Paul's question: "I think that we also should be censoring the American news agencies
which enabled [WikiLeaks' Julian Assange] to do this and also
supported him and applauding him for the efforts." It's almost unbelievable. Click here to let West and the rest of them
know that we're going to defend the First Amendment! http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/wikileaks/?referring_akid=40.45919.7LHIm8&... Regards,
proclus
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defense of freedom of the press: "If WikiLeaks is to be prosecuted for publishing classified documents,
why shouldn’t the Washington Post, the New York Times, and others
who also published these documents be prosecuted?" But, amazingly, there really is talk in Washington of passing laws to
prosecute the newspapers that teamed up with WikiLeaks. Join me in letting Congress know that you support Freedom of the
Press. Click here: http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/wikileaks/?referring_akid=40.45919.7LHIm8&... Here's how new Congressman Allen West answers Paul's question: "I think that we also should be censoring the American news agencies
which enabled [WikiLeaks' Julian Assange] to do this and also
supported him and applauding him for the efforts." It's almost unbelievable. Click here to let West and the rest of them
know that we're going to defend the First Amendment! http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/wikileaks/?referring_akid=40.45919.7LHIm8&... Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
I have a report that US gov sites now blocking access to www.elpais.com. Did I wake up in an Orwell novel? #wikileaks #cablegate #leakspin
I have a report that US gov sites now blocking access to www.elpais.com. Did I wake up in an Orwell novel? wikileaks cablegate leakspin
Funding Bill Threatens Fair Trials for Detainees - #Guantanamo #noextradtion
Here is the message I sent.Please consider your voted carefully on the 2011 Omnibus Appropriations bill. I am opposed to the provision which eliminates Federal court access for the Guantanamo detainees. This provision would further erode the US government’s record on human rights. I support fair trials in US federal courts for Guantanamo detainees charged with crimes, and I oppose military commissions and indefinite detention, as these practices violate human rights. It appears that there may still be time to block this provision, which would be the correct course for protecting access to the courts. Thank you.Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
via Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog by Geneve Mantri on 12/15/10
APGraphicsBank
The Senate is about to vote on an omnibus spending bill which includes a provision that would represent a major setback to the fight for human rights at Guantanamo. The provision bars the spending of federal funds to move any detainee – including Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – from Guantanamo to the US for any purpose, including trial, through September 2011.
The House passed the measure last week, even though most members did not realize the Guantanamo provision was part of the huge spending bill.
The Obama administration has opposed the measure. Last week Attorney General Eric Holder called the provision:
“an extreme and risky encroachment on the authority of the executive branch to determine when and where to prosecute terrorist subjects.”
This bill would stop the US from bringing terrorism suspects to justice in federal courts — the most experienced and proven forum. These are the very same federal courts that used by the Justice Department during the Bush and Obama administrations to convict more than 400 individuals of terrorism‐related crimes since 9/11. Only last month Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Ghailani was successfully convicted in a free and fair trial and will likely be jailed for the rest of his life.
Amnesty is not alone in calling on the Senate to vote against this provision. Last week a group of 17 military leaders wrote Congress, urging them “to oppose any restrictions proposed for inclusion in the fiscal year 2011 funding bill that would put politics before American values and national security and hinder the President from bringing suspected terrorists to justice.”
And many of our country’s leading national security and foreign policy experts – including General David Petraeus, General Colin Powell, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and five former Secretaries of State from both parties – believe that closing the Guantánamo Bay detention facility is essential to U.S. counterterrorism efforts.
There’s still time for us to pressure the Senate and block this provision, but we need you to call your Senators right now and urge them to oppose it. You can reach your Senators by calling the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 or email them here.
Here is a suggested message for you to personalize: “I am calling/writing to urge you to oppose a provision in the 2011 Omnibus Appropriations bill to block Guantanamo detainees from coming to the US mainland for prosecution. This provision would further erode the US government’s record on human rights. I support fair trials in US federal courts for Guantanamo detainees charged with crimes, and I oppose military commissions and indefinite detention, as these practices violate human rights. Thank you.”
Please tell us about the message you sent to your Senators in the comments!
Want to do more to close Guantanamo? Take action with us in January to mark the detention facility’s 9th anniversary.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC
------ Forwarded message ------
From: Theo de Raadt
Subject: Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:18:27 -0700
To: security-announce@openbsd.org I have received a mail regarding the early development of the OpenBSD
IPSEC stack. It is alleged that some ex-developers (and the company
they worked for) accepted US government money to put backdoors into
our network stack, in particular the IPSEC stack. Around 2000-2001. Since we had the first IPSEC stack available for free, large parts of
the code are now found in many other projects/products. Over 10
years, the IPSEC code has gone through many changes and fixes, so it
is unclear what the true impact of these allegations are. The mail came in privately from a person I have not talked to for
nearly 10 years. I refuse to become part of such a conspiracy, and
will not be talking to Gregory Perry about this. Therefore I am
making it public so that
(a) those who use the code can audit it for these problems,
(b) those that are angry at the story can take other actions,
(c) if it is not true, those who are being accused can defend themselves. Of course I don't like it when my private mail is forwarded. However
the "little ethic" of a private mail being forwarded is much smaller
than the "big ethic" of government paying companies to pay open source
developers (a member of a community-of-friends) to insert
privacy-invading holes in software. ---- From: Gregory Perry
To: "deraadt@openbsd.org"
Subject: OpenBSD Crypto Framework
Thread-Topic: OpenBSD Crypto Framework
Thread-Index: AcuZjuF6cT4gcSmqQv+Fo3/+2m80eg==
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:55:25 +0000
Message-ID:
Accept-Language: en-US
Content-Language: en-US
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
MIME-Version: 1.0
Status: RO Hello Theo, Long time no talk. If you will recall, a while back I was the CTO at
NETSEC and arranged funding and donations for the OpenBSD Crypto
Framework. At that same time I also did some consulting for the FBI,
for their GSA Technical Support Center, which was a cryptologic
reverse engineering project aimed at backdooring and implementing key
escrow mechanisms for smart card and other hardware-based computing
technologies. My NDA with the FBI has recently expired, and I wanted to make you
aware of the fact that the FBI implemented a number of backdoors and
side channel key leaking mechanisms into the OCF, for the express
purpose of monitoring the site to site VPN encryption system
implemented by EOUSA, the parent organization to the FBI. Jason
Wright and several other developers were responsible for those
backdoors, and you would be well advised to review any and all code
commits by Wright as well as the other developers he worked with
originating from NETSEC. This is also probably the reason why you lost your DARPA funding, they
more than likely caught wind of the fact that those backdoors were
present and didn't want to create any derivative products based upon
the same. This is also why several inside FBI folks have been recently
advocating the use of OpenBSD for VPN and firewalling implementations
in virtualized environments, for example Scott Lowe is a well
respected author in virtualization circles who also happens top be on
the FBI payroll, and who has also recently published several tutorials
for the use of OpenBSD VMs in enterprise VMware vSphere deployments. Merry Christmas... Gregory Perry
Chief Executive Officer
GoVirtual Education "VMware Training Products & Services" 540-645-6955 x111 (local)
866-354-7369 x111 (toll free)
540-931-9099 (mobile)
877-648-0555 (fax) http://www.facebook.com/GregoryVPerry
http://www.facebook.com/GoVirtual
From: Theo de Raadt
Subject: Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:18:27 -0700
To: security-announce@openbsd.org I have received a mail regarding the early development of the OpenBSD
IPSEC stack. It is alleged that some ex-developers (and the company
they worked for) accepted US government money to put backdoors into
our network stack, in particular the IPSEC stack. Around 2000-2001. Since we had the first IPSEC stack available for free, large parts of
the code are now found in many other projects/products. Over 10
years, the IPSEC code has gone through many changes and fixes, so it
is unclear what the true impact of these allegations are. The mail came in privately from a person I have not talked to for
nearly 10 years. I refuse to become part of such a conspiracy, and
will not be talking to Gregory Perry about this. Therefore I am
making it public so that
(a) those who use the code can audit it for these problems,
(b) those that are angry at the story can take other actions,
(c) if it is not true, those who are being accused can defend themselves. Of course I don't like it when my private mail is forwarded. However
the "little ethic" of a private mail being forwarded is much smaller
than the "big ethic" of government paying companies to pay open source
developers (a member of a community-of-friends) to insert
privacy-invading holes in software. ---- From: Gregory Perry
To: "deraadt@openbsd.org"
Subject: OpenBSD Crypto Framework
Thread-Topic: OpenBSD Crypto Framework
Thread-Index: AcuZjuF6cT4gcSmqQv+Fo3/+2m80eg==
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:55:25 +0000
Message-ID:
Accept-Language: en-US
Content-Language: en-US
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
MIME-Version: 1.0
Status: RO Hello Theo, Long time no talk. If you will recall, a while back I was the CTO at
NETSEC and arranged funding and donations for the OpenBSD Crypto
Framework. At that same time I also did some consulting for the FBI,
for their GSA Technical Support Center, which was a cryptologic
reverse engineering project aimed at backdooring and implementing key
escrow mechanisms for smart card and other hardware-based computing
technologies. My NDA with the FBI has recently expired, and I wanted to make you
aware of the fact that the FBI implemented a number of backdoors and
side channel key leaking mechanisms into the OCF, for the express
purpose of monitoring the site to site VPN encryption system
implemented by EOUSA, the parent organization to the FBI. Jason
Wright and several other developers were responsible for those
backdoors, and you would be well advised to review any and all code
commits by Wright as well as the other developers he worked with
originating from NETSEC. This is also probably the reason why you lost your DARPA funding, they
more than likely caught wind of the fact that those backdoors were
present and didn't want to create any derivative products based upon
the same. This is also why several inside FBI folks have been recently
advocating the use of OpenBSD for VPN and firewalling implementations
in virtualized environments, for example Scott Lowe is a well
respected author in virtualization circles who also happens top be on
the FBI payroll, and who has also recently published several tutorials
for the use of OpenBSD VMs in enterprise VMware vSphere deployments. Merry Christmas... Gregory Perry
Chief Executive Officer
GoVirtual Education "VMware Training Products & Services" 540-645-6955 x111 (local)
866-354-7369 x111 (toll free)
540-931-9099 (mobile)
877-648-0555 (fax) http://www.facebook.com/GregoryVPerry
http://www.facebook.com/GoVirtual
: #Leakspin - Chinese hackers employed to secure #Microsoft #Windows - #wikileaks #cablegate Chamber of Commerce
I have been learning so much from the Wikileaks cables using Google
site searches, such as the following. http://www.google.com/search?q=site:wikileaks.ch+microsoft This search looks for occurances of the word Microsoft in the leaked
cables. Currently three cables are coming up for me in the search,
and they provide interesting intelligence. For example, it appears
that a level of security clearance may be required to actually secure
Microsoft Windows. Secondly, and perhaps more interesting, the cables
warn of the dangers of Chinese hackers, but then state that Chinese
hackers were employed to secure Microsoft Windows! These facts
certainly bear further investigation, and likely explain much of what
we have been seeing in the current spate of network attacks. Here
below are links the the relavent cables. 09STATE67105, DIPLOMATIC SECURITY DAILY
http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/06/09STATE67105.html 08STATE116943, DIPLOMATIC SECURITY DAILY
http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2008/11/08STATE116943.html Finally, there is a third cable describing some of the activities of
the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt. Microsoft is found
praising USAID for a focus on education and health, areas in
particular need of development in Egypt. One wonders how many Chinese
engineered Microsoft Windows systems where deployed in Egypt! 08CAIRO1067, CODEL BAIRD MEETS WITH EGYPTIAN LEADERS ON MARGINS
http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/2008/05/08CAIRO1067.html Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
site searches, such as the following. http://www.google.com/search?q=site:wikileaks.ch+microsoft This search looks for occurances of the word Microsoft in the leaked
cables. Currently three cables are coming up for me in the search,
and they provide interesting intelligence. For example, it appears
that a level of security clearance may be required to actually secure
Microsoft Windows. Secondly, and perhaps more interesting, the cables
warn of the dangers of Chinese hackers, but then state that Chinese
hackers were employed to secure Microsoft Windows! These facts
certainly bear further investigation, and likely explain much of what
we have been seeing in the current spate of network attacks. Here
below are links the the relavent cables. 09STATE67105, DIPLOMATIC SECURITY DAILY
http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/06/09STATE67105.html 08STATE116943, DIPLOMATIC SECURITY DAILY
http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2008/11/08STATE116943.html Finally, there is a third cable describing some of the activities of
the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt. Microsoft is found
praising USAID for a focus on education and health, areas in
particular need of development in Egypt. One wonders how many Chinese
engineered Microsoft Windows systems where deployed in Egypt! 08CAIRO1067, CODEL BAIRD MEETS WITH EGYPTIAN LEADERS ON MARGINS
http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/2008/05/08CAIRO1067.html Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
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