It's JED (Jam Echelon Day)!

["VICE@Paradox" <VICE@ParadoxCafe.Com>]

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Today's officially the first annual day the world is invited to
protest our global surveillance by the spooks at Echelon, the 
global communications monitoring system that has been set up to
keep an eye on all our *potentially* subversive business, social,
personal and other communications. 

Hacktivism@Tao.Canada, http://hacktivism.tao.ca/, invites us all 
to pass a few of the keywords sought by the Echelon systems by 
phone, fax or email to someone else in hopes of first making a 
blip of protest on the Echelon radar and later, perhaps, even 
crashing the System. 

We at VietInfoComm&Edu (VICE) Consulting reckon there are enough
keywords in our eSig alone to get us intercepted, but we've 
included an Echelon keyword list below just in case. 

Further information on Echelon can be found in the article in the
forwarded email below or at http://www.echelon.wiretapped.net/

Finally, we've tried to be careful to blind-cc only those of you
we think might have some interest in Jam Echelon Day and to avoid 
any duplicate mailings. Please pardon any the inevitable mistake 
or few. Hundreds will receive this.

All the best
AD
VICE

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From: worker-hacktivism@tao.ca [mailto:worker-hacktivism@tao.ca]On
Behalf Of megan
Sent: Thursday, 21 Oct 1999 23:09
To: hacktivism@lists.tao.ca
Subject: IS BIG BROTHER READING YOUR E-MAIL (fwd)


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NEW YORK POST 10-21-99

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 supersecret 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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JED KeyWords:

FBI CIA NSA IRS ATF BATF DOD WACO RUBY RIDGE
OKC OKLAHOMA CITY MILITIA GUN HANDGUN MILGOV
ASSAULT RIFLE TERRORISM BOMB DRUG HORIUCHI
KORESH DAVIDIAN KAHL POSSE COMITATUS RANDY
WEAVER VICKIE WEAVER SPECIAL FORCES LINDA
THOMPSON SPECIAL OPERATIONS GROUP SOG SOF
DELTA FORCE CONSTITUTION BILL OF RIGHTS
WHITEWATER POM PARK ON METER ARKANSIDE IRAN
CONTRAS OLIVER NORTH VINCE FOSTER PROMIS
MOSSAD NASA MI5 ONI CID AK47 M16 C4 MALCOLM X
REVOLUTION CHEROKEE HILLARY BILL CLINTON GORE
GEORGE BUSH WACKENHUT TERRORIST TASK FORCE
160 SPECIAL OPS 12TH GROUP 5TH GROUP SF 
animal rights direct action sabotage
assassination blowjob palestinians fuse
NASA Ames Research Facility McDonalds
secret service office on L street
FBI office on H St
ELF Earth Liberation Front Unabomber
bud BushWacker beaver doobie Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh Trudeau Viet Cong AK47 
McDonalds Burger King Billy Beer

Echelon GCHQ CSE DSD GCSB FBI CIA NSA IRS DEA ATF BATF
DOD Waco Ruby Ridge Oklahoma City militia handgun assault rifle
terrorism bomb drug Horiuchi Koresh Davidian Randy Weaver Vickie
Weaver Delta Force Mossad MI5 C4 Malcolm X revolution Bill Earth
First Clinton Wackenhut terrorist anarchist smuggle assassination
politics methylamphetamine PGP encryption hacker Milosevic nuclear
weapons sarin anthrax marijuana Jim Bell botulism toxin 
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