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A critique of RE: Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad
Aimee Farr writes: Lucky wrote: [re: psyops] Perception management. I happened to have a bit of time on my hands, so I decided to spend a few minutes trying to decipher Aimee's message (rather than simply deleting them as I usually do). A few comments follow - more related to style and usage than content: Japan's Asia for the Asiatics propaganda was a sign of military expansion, and was totally ignored by allied powers -- to our great loss -- and surprise. In most countries, they just walked in (hell, they walked over France). Hmm. They presumably refers to Japan despite the disagreement in number. Still, I don't recall Japan having walked over France, so I can't be sure - maybe you mean the Axis powers?. In the 40s and 50s, we also had Comintern agents agitating Asian populations against the West. Warning signals were all over the place, and we flat-out failed to see the significance, due to American notions of conflict. Comintern - now there's a term that must be common in Aimee's Waco law offices. Don't you think it's a bit rude to require your readers to go google an obscure term every other sentence. And consider the phrase we had Comintern agents agitating... One wonders whom the pronoun we refers to here. We [] failed to see the significance, due to American notions of conflict. Cause and effect are not obvious. (BTW, according to Encyclopedia.com, Comintern was disbanded in 1943.) Several far-sighted military commentators of the 40s-50s, which had embraced guerrilla-political tactics, pointed to Asian attitudes (and even the India-Pakistan conflict) as holding the key to the Middle East for the U.S.S.R., and stressed that we needed to undertake a perceptual offensive to combat anti-Western agitprop. Asian attitudes and the India-Pakistan conflict gave the USSR the key to the Middle East? This sort of dense non-sequitur seems to be quite a common artifact in Aimee's rants. I have a axis map of 1950 here, hypothesizing conflict and guerrilla bases in Asia as auxiliary forces to augment the technical inferiority of the U.S.S.R. -- it is rather spooky, as it mirrors today's map, with China as a new player. Certainly, the author did not foresee the possibility of today's terrorism, with world-wide range, or it's possible use as an auxiliary (or even decisive force in being), but it fits nicely with the that line of thinking. A map hypothesizing conflict? And why would the U.S.S.R. want to augment [its] inferiority? One would expect that it would be far more interested in mitigating its inferiority. And the term decisive force in being is a bit difficult to parse. So, something like the Office Of Strategic Influence, has been called for, in strength, for 50 years. These calls for change were ignored and not supported by the military, who rarely considered populations as incipient forces in being. There's that in being construction again. Alright, google tells me that force in being is a DOD term of art. I guess one needs to be up-to-speed on all the spook-talk around here - no matter how obscure. We made the same mistake in WW II, by failing to cultivate a climate receptive to resistance. Indeed, to a large extent, we relied on communists (like Tito) to fight -- a deal with the Devil in many countries, because Britain was fighting for survival. We...relied on communinists...to fight...because Britan was fighting for survival. Not sure who we refers to. Having previously identified herself as being a resident of Texas, the antecedent of we certainly isn't obvious; were she instead known to be from the UK, the antecedent would have appeared to be the British people. Had we seeded ideas beforehand and understood the political climate, we would have fought from a position of strength, and minimized the rise of post-war communist influence and civil wars. One of the great strengths of Comintern - HUMINT. They got there first. I'm guessing we really means NATO, or western non-communist nations? (HUMINT: Don't you just love tossing in those spook terms?) In WW II, the British Royal Air Force did not want to dirty itself with the SOE, even if it cost them their country. The idea of dropping in civvies-dressed saboteurs, was just not gentlemanly for Sandhurst men. It was deceptive and unethical. Had the SOE received more support, and seeded stay-behind resistance, the SOE and the OSS would have likely deterred invasions -- saving millions of lives. There was even resistance to coastwatcher programs, which ended up playing a major role in the war. (Todays coasts : American corporations.) The way I read this stay-behind resistance, if seeded during the war, might have prevented invasions. Wouldn't seeding the resistance during the war have been a bit late? In what way are WWII's coasts similar to today's American corporations? If Wingate's long range penetration (ala terrorism) is a new game, along with Anti-Western
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Re: When Nannies Rule the Net (kinda long, sorry) (fwd)
Oh, yawn. Censorship because your ISP subscribes to some kind of highly-effective-blocks-only-spam? That's like arguing (in the U.S.) your dry cleaner violates your Fourth Amendment rights when checking your pockets before washing your trousers. If you don't like it, switch to another mail service that does not filter. Last I checked, canada.com's mail service was free. If I ran it, I'd probably do the same thing. About the only legitimate complaint you have, assuming canada.com discloses in the TOS, is that the filtering is overbroad. In a few years of experience with canada.com, I have found it to snare only spam. -Declan At 01:57 AM 2/20/2002 -0500, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: D == Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D This is true. Canada.com does monitor and filter the incoming D mail of its users for spam. Thanks for the confirmation, but please, use the correct terminology. Filter implies a passive sifting, like a coffee filter or an air filter. It has sweet tones of purity. What Canada.com (and I presume from your accepting defense that others do this too) is doing is _censorship_, which is, according to my Oxford dictionary, the action of an official authorized to examine printed matter, movies, news c, before public release, and to suppress any parts on the grounds of obscenity a threat to security c. How can you describe it as otherwise? How is this different than tapping my telephone or reading my snail-mail? D In canada.com's defense, it does notify the sender that the D message was blocked as spam, and it has only blocked spam so D far, and no legit messages to that subscriber. Let's be accurate again: At least those emails where Canada.com notifies me would be classed as spam ... they _don't_ however, notify _me_ that they've done this, and we don't know -- they _may_ be doing other funky things with the contents of my email. Who needs carnivore when you can get it for free from Canada's largest and wealthiest communications company? Excuse me, I'm just going to pop out to the mailboxes and go through my neighbour's mail; he might have some spam in there, y'know. Oops, nope, no spam today, but, hey ... _this_ is sure interesting ... -- Gary Lawrence Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] TeleDynamics Communications Inc Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.(Pablo Picasso)
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Re: Andy Rooney: Least of our worries
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Matthew Gaylor wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:38:32 -0500 Subject: Andy Rooney: Least of our worries From: David M Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt, It's hard to know how to answer those who say it will be easy to institute safeguards in such a way that a national ID won't inaugurate a toboggan slide down the slippery slope into a police state. Each exponent of the national ID is farther down the slope Let's face it, we're already in a police state; if you doubt this, you haven't taken a commercial air plane flight recently. Your national ID is your SSN and/or driver's license. If they need your records they can get them easily. I very much doubt most any judge is anything but unwilling to sign any search order these days. You can bet the facial recognition software is in use. You can bet that systems such as EzPass (auto toll payment via transponders) are being used to track who goes where, and so on. The real question is how to reclaim our rights.
Re: 911 attackers awarded a 10 for effectiveness
At 11:15 PM 2/19/02 -0800, Tim May wrote: 911 attackers awarded a 10 for effectiveness But if the Quebecois terrorists complain about unfairness, do we have to give them a 10 too? -- Never underestimate the stupidity of some of the people we have to deal with, William A. Reinsch, Under Secretary of Commerce for the Bureau of Export Administration, said while being grilled about whether terrorists and criminals would be naove enough to use the technology being pushed by the Administration.
Whether Cops Can Monitor E-Mail Without Warrant
[An interesting line ---Any reasonably intelligent person, savvy enough to be using the Internet ... would be aware that messages are received in a recorded format, by their very nature, and can be downloaded or printed, said the court, --- might be read by (completely different) courts thinking about copyright digital rights technologies.] Court to Decide Whether Cops Can Monitor E-Mail Without Warrant By Michael RubinkamAssociated Press Writer Published: Feb 20, 2002 PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether police may look at a suspect's e-mail and instant messages without first obtaining a court order. The case involves a former Lehigh County police officer, Robert Proetto, who used the Internet to solicit sex from a 15-year-old girl. Proetto is appealing his conviction. It's the first time any state supreme court has agreed to review government access to private Internet communications, said Proetto's attorney, Tommaso Lonardo. It's a relatively novel question, said David Sobel, general counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center. After meeting the girl in an Internet chat room, Proetto e-mailed her a nude photograph of himself. He also asked for a nude videotape of the girl, according to court documents. Proetto and the girl chatted often for about a week and Proetto repeatedly ask her to have sex, documents say. The girl reported Proetto to the Bristol Borough Police Department in Bucks County. Proetto was arrested when he made sexually explicit online comments to a detective posing as another 15-year-old girl. Proetto was convicted of criminal solicitation and related offenses and served six months of house arrest. His probation ends this month. At issue is whether Proetto's e-mail and instant messages to the girl should have been suppressed at trial. Proetto claims police violated the state's wiretapping law by looking at the messages without first obtaining a warrant. Proetto also claims his Fourth Amendment privacy rights were violated. Though federal law only requires the consent of one person before a telephone call or Internet communication can be recorded, Pennsylvania and 11 other states require the consent of all parties. I think most people would feel more comfortable knowing the other participant in a communication does not have the unilateral ability to bring the government into that conversation without court approval, Sobel said. Pennsylvania's Superior Court took a different view, ruling that Proetto had consented to the recording by the very act of sending e-mail and instant messages. Any reasonably intelligent person, savvy enough to be using the Internet ... would be aware that messages are received in a recorded format, by their very nature, and can be downloaded or printed, said the court, likening an e-mail message to a message left on a telephone answering machine. The court also said the wiretapping law did not apply because police did not intercept Proetto's messages as he was sending them, but after the fact. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which announced last month it would consider the case, will decide whether the evidence should have been excluded. At the time of his conviction, Proetto, who is in his early 30s, was working as a police officer for the Colonial Regional Police Department in Lehigh County. He was fired and now sells appliances, Lonardo said. Mike Godwin, a policy fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, said Proetto's case illustrates the difficulty of applying old laws to a relatively new technology. States have the freedom to raise the floor of protection for intercepted communications, he said. It becomes a question of whether Internet messages count. http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGACY31BXXC.html
Re: When Nannies Rule the Net (kinda long, sorry) (fwd)
D == Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D About the only legitimate complaint you have, assuming D canada.com discloses in the TOS ... Which they do not. If they do, I cannot find it. If they had a policy statement saying we monitor your email and filter what we believe is spam which then defines spam and further promises, as their privacy statement does, never to disclose the contents of my email to any human eyes without a supoena, then I'd be happy. I'd know where I stand and if I discovered they'd banned BCE (their competitor) from sending me contract offers, I'd have recourse to recompense. I'd be happier still if they disclosed the regex's they used, but that's wishing for too much. D ... is that the filtering is overbroad. In a few years of D experience with canada.com, I have found it to snare only spam. Precisely my point: How about the one's you have not found? How do you know the filtering is overbroad? My spam cans collect upwards of a hundred spams a day through this account, so the filtering doesn't work as advertised, so what is it they are snaring? The simple fact is, we _don't_ know, _and_ they make _no_ promises. So, to summarize then, you have _no_ objections to my secretly rifling through my neighbour's post _providing_ I then hand-deliver his post for free? Remind me never to share an apartment block with you. -- Gary Lawrence Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] TeleDynamics Communications Inc Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.(Pablo Picasso)
Re: When Nannies Rule the Net (kinda long, sorry) (fwd)
This conversation has become tiresome. At 11:49 AM 2/20/2002 -0500, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: So, to summarize then, you have _no_ objections to my secretly rifling through my neighbour's post _providing_ I then hand-deliver his post for free? If the neighbor agreed to it, I have no objection. I strongly suspect what canada.com does is permitted by their TOS. You have not shown otherwise. If you don't like it, get a real account somewhere else. -Declan
Re: American Dissident Voices: The Martyrdom of Wafa Idris
That was one of the fines pieces of propaganda I've ever seen. Right up there with the stuff from Wag the Dog. :) Whoever wrote that should be hired by the whitehouse. They've sure got talent. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ --*--:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net
RE: A critique of RE: Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway SentimentAbroad
Gil Hamilton wrote: Hmm. They presumably refers to Japan despite the disagreement in number. Still, I don't recall Japan having walked over France, so I can't be sure - maybe you mean the Axis powers?. She could be referring to the Japanese takeover of French Indochina. Marc de Piolenc Yes, I was referring to Indochina. The night of Pearl Harbor, Japanese troops pretty much issued an ultimatum by surrounding French garrisons. The Vichy government accepted Japan as a defensive partner, Roosevelt was negotiating the Indochina issue, (but shortly thereafter froze Japanese assets in the U.S.). The French presence drew off troops, so they probably deserve more credit than they got. However, they should have fought and taken to the jungle. As the allies should have fought in 1940, instead of negotiating. They surprised us too, of course. ~Aimee
RE: Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad (fwd)
Choate: In my opinion it is possible to spend too much time reading others works and not enough time thinking about them and ones own views. The reality is that if a single one of these papers had any real application to the real world problems they'd stand out light a nova in a eclipse. Unfortunately they don't, and probably won't since the sorts of research and dialog (and I use that term loosely) is limited. One would do better, for themselves and society, if they were to read to the point they think they understand the problem and then quit reading and start modelling. The solution(s) will not only be unexpected but they will come from unexpected sources. Oh, be a little more tolerant. Faustine isn't coy, she's humble. She gives her opinion, and some helpful refs to allow you to come to your own conclusion. A sign of integrity: respect for other people's opinions, and an acknowledgement of other people's work. ~Aimee
Re: When Nannies Rule the Net (kinda long, sorry) (fwd)
D == Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D This conversation has become tiresome. D At 11:49 AM 2/20/2002 -0500, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: So, to summarize then, you have _no_ objections to my secretly rifling through my neighbour's post _providing_ I then hand-deliver his post for free? D If the neighbor agreed to it, I have no objection. Ok. I know where you stand. Please stand far from my mail. Mr Jones, would you like me to fetch your mail for you? Oh, yes please and that gives me license to secretly open, inspect and reseal it? I'm glad I don't live you your country; in mine, that is illegal. My point is that this same scenario be illegal with respect to email too. D I strongly suspect what canada.com does is permitted by their D TOS. You find it, and I will shut TF up: Canada.com privacy policy: http://www.canada.com/aboutus/privacypolicy.html The canada.com Network collects personally identifying information about you only when you specifically and knowingly provide it to us. ... and implicitly, using this service satisfies this condition? Canada.com TOS: http://www.canada.com/aboutus/termsofservice.html D You have not shown otherwise. If you don't like it, get a D real account somewhere else. This is not the point, now, is it. I have, I believe, provided you with the bits; you now have the TOS and Privacy Policy, and I have read them both but can find no statement that says we reserve the right to read your emails without your knowledge and to take action based on the contents of your emails. we reserve the right to censor your emails should someone try to send you materials _we_ decide are unacceptable. You find those two statements, or statements to that effect, and I will be quite happy to admit I have no case. As I stated before, my _real_ mail host did try these filters, and when I asked for them to be removed, they did so cheerfully and within an hour. Canada.com has not responded to my emails, and there is no profile option to opt out of this censorship service, nor any mention that this censorship even occurs. We come down to a question that arose early in the 90's: Is disrupting internet a crime? In 1988 it was not, but by 1996 it was a serious crime because people came to rely on Internet for life-critical services. My point is that _email_ can be at least as and perhaps more life-critical than snail-mail, and should be granted the same basic protections. If Mr Jones _requests_ that I scrap any letters from his sister, then that is _his_ decision, not mine. -- Gary Lawrence Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] TeleDynamics Communications Inc Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.(Pablo Picasso)
RE: Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad (fwd)
Um, how do you think the USA got sucked into WWII anyway? Sure Pearl Harbor did the trick, but before that, the Brits were running psyops on us trying to change our isolationist policies. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ --*--:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Eugene Leitl wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Lucky Green wrote: So where is the news? Is it that the government is admitting to this well-known fact? Admitting to run PSYOPS against allies has novelty at least to me. Widespread realization of this results in loss of efficiency in communication (everything is assumed to be a lie a priori unless proven otherwise) and voter-driven change in policy (e.g. EU-US axis).
Scientific American: Feature Article: The Worldwide Computer: March 2002
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John Walker 1600 Pennsylvalia Avenue Washington, D.C. 53222 On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Tony Burton wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:55:16 -0800 From: Tony Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CDR: bulk hosting info Please reply with contact information. I am interested in your services. Tony -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place...
Freedoms revisited
Osama bin Laden Calls US Fight a Defense of Freedom (Remarks to National Religious Broadcasters Convention) (1900) Al Queda's fight against USA, says Osama bin Laden, is a defense of our freedom in the most profound sense: It is the defense of our right to make moral choices -- to seek fellowship with God that is chosen, not commanded. This freedom is respected and nurtured in the nation's society of laws, Osama told the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee February 19. Our system of government respects our freedom to make choices, to accept the consequences and to maximize the potential that God has placed within us, he said. The purpose of our system of justice is not to crush that freedom or to override that freedom but to respect it, to nurture it and through it, to unleash the potential of every human being. Osama said US administration has a different understanding of choices. Because they fear that people with freedom will reject their ideas, terrorists seek to deny us our freedom. He added that US Government distrust personal choice because they have abandoned every value except their own lust for power. In a universe of choices -- a marketplace of ideas -- their way offers us nothing, bin Laden said.
Peek-A-Booty released
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24099.html Peek-A-Booty, cDc's much vaunted anonymity app, is vaporware no more - it went public at the landmark CodeCon conference in San Francisco's DNA Lounge on Sunday. Peek-A-Booty is designed to let surfers access sites blocked by government restrictions, and is essentially, a distributed proxy network. It uses a peer-to-peer model, masking the identity of each node. So the user can route around censorship that blocks citizens' access to specific IP addresses, because the censor doesn't know they're going there. If you're a Peek-A-Booty node, you might be doing it on their behalf. So the software isn't itself a browser, but simply requires the user to use localhost in the proxy field of their preferred browser. [...]
Re: DC to get spycams --no choice but to accept it
Meyer Wolfsheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Tim May wrote: The notion that a Panopticon (everything being watched) is desirable is one of the weirdest mutations of political theory in the past century. Whether or not a panopticon exists isn't relevant to its usefulness in promoting good behavior -- what matters is that the people believe it exists. This is why humankind has so persistently believed in the various omniscient and benevolent dictator god religious myths. Belief in an infallible panopticon is an evolutionary adaptation. I suspect that the last century has produced the greatest number of rational atheists, which may have resulted in the concurrent shift from relying on Allah to punish the wicked to inventing a need for Big Brother to do so. I don't think it has anything to do with atheism or rationalism - both of which I am quite fond of. It has more to do with a human need for institutions which seems to be present in 90% of the population. Sort of a literal agoraphobia. Isn't there something regarding these personality traits in the Meyers-Briggs tests? http://www.phobialist.com/ My favorite is Zemmiphobia Mike
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On Monday, February 11, 2002, at 09:50 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote: (Yes, I'm a few days behind in my mail). The ominous trend here is increased docility. The state cannot afford to acknowledge that there is no defense from attacks by people who are ready to sacrifice their lives. That makes state weak and unfit. Crap. There are plenty of defenses against idiots who are willing to sacrifice their lives. There are few defenses against *intelligent* people willing to sacrifice their lives. Odd as it may seem, several more real attacks would probably make the air travel go back to normal - the absurdity of current make-believe would come into the spotlight. The anti- No, it wouldn't. We live in a mad world, all several more real attacks would do is get everyone to the point where they'd be willing to wear state-issued paper jammies while they flew. -- Crypto is about a helluva lot more than just PGP and RSA...it's about building the I-beams and sheetrock that will allow robust structures to be built, it's about the railroad lines and power lines that will connect the structures, and it's about creating Galt's Gulch in cyberspace, where it belongs.--Tim May
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Re: CDR: A critique of RE: Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway SentimentAbroad
-- On 21 Feb 2002, at 1:03, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: She could be referring to the Japanese takeover of French Indochina. The Axis powers met fierce, though poorly organized, resistance in their invasion of France. It was no cakewalk. It was a cakewalk. The french bent over, asked the nazis to screw them, then proceeded to kill the french jews, fortunately with less efficiency than the nazis. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG LaEiWCYgW/d/iIfBZz+7onu9XaR8mRc2VHnc0G2M 4AjFW11p02QshTI972mHnSOb9d3Gk94+WcJzjxl4m
RE: Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad (fwd)
At 12:06 AM 2/20/2002 -0500, Faustine wrote: The new RAND works are creating the vocabulary we use to think of these things just as surely as the old RAND works did: In Athena's Camp, Strategic Appraisal, Strategic Information Warfare Rising, The Emergence of Noopolitik: Toward an American Information Strategy, on and on. The free pdfs are anyone's for the taking at http://www.rand.org. Like this passage from the recent RAND study Preparing for Future Warfare with Advanced Technologies: Prioritizing the Next Generation of Capabilities HOW IS SUCCESS IN WARFARE CURRENTLY MEASURED? Though many in the defense community might readily agree that the needs are indeed considerably different from what they were in the past, defense planners are finding it hard to get beyond the measure of success used in the Cold Warhalting a massed armor invasion. steve
I will not comply!
I'm not sure how many of you made it to RSA, but their authentication requirements rubbed me the wrong way for a conference originally dedicated to both privacy and security. From the looks of things its gone beyond big S and little p to all S and no p. To test their resolve and have a bit of fun while at it I decided to show up wearing Groucho glasses. At first the processors greeted me with a nervous giggle, but when I insisted I be photographed with the glasses on the said I had to appear as I do on my driver's license. So, I removed it from my wallet and 'lo I was wearing Groucho glasses on my DL as well (amazing what a photo-realistic printer and adhesive paper can do). At this point they knew they either had to call security or let me enter in disguise. They decided the latter and I entered mustachioed. They asked that I continue to wear the glasses after entering. When I approached the door monitors they challenged me and my credentials. After inspecting the picture ID and verifying its likeness they stepped aside. A few of you may have seen me on the show floor so attired. My Groucho glasses were a hoot. I brought lots of smiles to people's faces. I think I had the best time ever at a conference. If you'd like a .jpg of my ID card let me know. steve
RE: Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad (fwd)
Choate: Faustine isn't coy, she's humble. And you're easily fooled. Yes, but I can't help but be impressed by even the facade of intellectual honesty in public discourse, especially one involving a professional cadre which has diverted their professional energies into political means to the extent this community has. The alternative is to become an unwitting agential-of-influence. ~Aimee
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