from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Snake Oil ex-KGB Major Defeats Hackers, Saves Computer Industry Next: that "Japanese programmer" who breaks PGP keys in five minutes. A FORMER senior KGB officer who defected to America is patenting a new device to thwart hackers and could be the saviour of the US computer industry. Victor Sheymov is also poised to become the next "dot.com" multi-millionaire after he left the service of American intelligence to found a "cybersecurity" company outside Washington. The ex-KGB major has even persuaded James Woolsey, a former director of the CIA, to join his board of directors. Mr Sheymov was smuggled out of Moscow with his wife and daughter by the CIA. He was soon working for the highly secretive National Security Agency (NSA) trying to find ways of breaking into the KGB communications systems that he had designed. He turned to the private sector after falling out with the CIA over the $1 million (£670,000) he says he was promised as part of his defection package. "The CIA cheated me in a major way," he told the New York Times. Although he defected more than 20 years ago, he only settled his differences with the American government last year. By then he had started work on his "algorithm", a set of programming instructions for a computer, which he believes can make any machine impregnable to hackers. Hacking has become a threat to America's military and corporate infrastructure. Both the State Department and the FBI have been embarrassed by breaches of computer security. The agency employs young hackers to test its own security and to break into the systems of foreign governments, terrorist organisations and drug syndicates. After perfecting his algorithm, Mr Sheymov used his former NSA colleagues to test it. "We tried and we couldn't get in," said one expert hacker with 18 years of service at the agency. **America has for the first time shot down a missile using a laser beam during a test in New Mexico. The Tactical High Energy Laser has been developed by the Pentagon for use by Israel to defend its border with Lebanon against attack from Katyusha rockets fired by Hizbollah guerrillas. The Electronic Telegraph, June 9, 2000 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html <A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
