Internet

Liz Burbank, the burbank digest
November 29, 2009

The US "war on the internet" information below is just the tip of
a terrible iceberg, rarely even mentioned, much less examined by
US mainstream media. It is chillingly self-explanatory. In the works
for years, it is being incrementally implemented (for ex., at the
most basic sender-receiver authentication level, as 'anti-spam'.
'anti-ID theft' and other personal 'security' measures.) Total
surveillance and control of information and communications is central
and essential to the phony 'war on terror' --- a state terror war
for global domination as so much of the world on the deadly receiving
end knows. Made clear 'in their own words', even blogging and 'social
networking' are intolerable threats to those in the business of
spreading fear, lies and tyranny.

"The internet needs to be dealt with as if it were an enemy 'weapons
system'..."

Information Operation Roadmap Part 3: "We Must Fight the Net"

A NET OF CONTROL Unthinkable: How the Internet could become a tool
of corporate and government power, based on updates now in the works
Newsweek International Issues 2004 By Steven Levy Picture, if you
will, an information infrastructure that encourages censorship,
surveillance and suppression of the creative impulse. Where anonymity
is outlawed and every penny spent is accounted for. Where the powers
that be can smother subversive (or economically competitive) ideas
in the cradle, and no one can publish even a laundry list without
the imprimatur of Big Brother. Some prognosticators are saying that
such a construct is nearly inevitable. And this infrastructure is
none other than the former paradise of rebels and free-speechers:
the Internet. ... wasnt the Internet supposed to be the defining
example of empowering technology? Freedom was allegedly built into
the very bones of the Internet, designed to withstand nuclear blasts
and dictatorial attempts at control. ...

Certainly John Walker (ed: his important article below) believed
all that. The hackerish founder of the software firm Autodesk..in
the past couple of years noticed a disturbing trend... Walker posted
his fears in a web document called The Dangers of Digital
Imprimaturhttp://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
<http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/> ...(below)
A concurrent step would be the adoption of "trusted computing," a
system by which not only people but computer programs would be
stamped with identifying marks. Those would link with certificates
that determine whether programs are uncorrupted and cleared to run
on your computer. The best-known implementation of this scheme is
the work in progress at Microsoft known as Next Generation Secure
Computing Base (formerly called Palladium)...

article continues following these inserts:

"Trusted Computing"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1H7omJW4TI

What is TCPA? Why Should You Give a Damn?

http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html

Walker isnt the first to warn of this ominous power shift. The
Internets pre-eminent dean of darkness is Lawrence Lessig, the
Stanford University guru of cyberlaw. Beginning with his 1999 book
"Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace,"

Lessig has been predicting that corporate and regulatory pressures
would usurp the open nature of the Net, and now says that he has
little reason to retract his pessimism. Lessig understands that
restrictive copyright and Homeland Security laws give a legal
rationale to "total control," and also knows that it will be sold
to the people as a great way to stop thieves, pirates, malicious
hackers, spammers and child pornographers. "To say we need total
freedom isnt going to win," Lessig says.[...]

US Plans to 'Fight the Net' Revealed by Adam Brookes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm January 27, 2006
BBC Pentagon's 2003 "Information Operations Roadmap" newly declassified,
gives a glimpse into the US military's plans for "information
operations" [...]

Secret Pentagon "Roadmap"

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 177 A secret
Pentagon "roadmap" on war propaganda, approved by Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2003...calls on DoD to enhance
its capabilities in five key Information Operations (IO) areas:
electronic warfare (EW), PSYOP, Operations Security (OPSEC), military
deception and computer network operations (CNO)....

http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/index.htm

Full Spectrum Information Operation Roadmap: Warfare Without Limits
Brent Jessop http://www.knowledgedrivenrevolution.com/Articles/200711/200
71105_IOR_1_Thrust.htm

U.S. Department of Defense Information Operations Related Documents

Information Operations Roadmap (DOD 2003):

Download: http://information-retrieval.info/info_ops_roadmap.pdf

Information Operations (JP 3-13 2006):

Download: http://information-retrieval.info/JP3_13.pdf

Joint Doctrine for Military Deception (JP 3-13.4 2006):

Download: http://information-retrieval.info/JP3_13_4.pdf

Joint Doctrine for PSYOPS (JP 3-53 2003):

Download: http://information-retrieval.info/JP3_53.pdf

Joint Doctrine for Public Affairs (JP 3-61 2005):

Download: http://information-retrieval.info/JP3_61.pdf

Joint Doctrine for Civil Affairs (JP 3-57.1 2003):

Download: http://information-retrieval.info/JP3_57_1.pdf

Joint Doctrine for Electronic Warfare (JP 3-13.1 2007):

Download: http://information-retrieval.info/JP3_13_1.pdf

Information Operations: The Hard Reality of Soft Power, Joint Forces
Staff College and the National Security Agency (2004) (ISBN
1574886991).

America prepares for 'cyber war' with China, Telegraph.uk.co (June
15, 2007).

Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Cyberspace Wars
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/politics/29cyber.html?_
r=1&th&emc=th WASHINGTON The Pentagon plans to create a new military
command for cyberspace, administration officials said Thursday,
stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive
and defensive computer warfare.The military command would complement
a civilian effort to be announced by President Obama on Friday that
would overhaul the way the United States safeguards its computer
networks... Officials said that in addition to the unclassified
strategy paper to be released by Mr. Obama on Friday, a classified
set of presidential directives is expected to lay out the militarys
new responsibilities and how it coordinates its mission with that
of the N.S.A., where most of the expertise on digital warfare resides
today...

DARPA, Microsoft, Lockheed team up to reinvent TCP/IP
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/16/darpa_microsoft_reinvent_internet/

Technology Leaders Favor Online ID Card Over Passwords Michael B.
Jones, Microsofts director of identity partnerships, said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/technology/24card.html?th=
&emc=th&pagewanted=print

Microsoft Palladium: Next Generation Secure Computing Base
http://epic.org/news/2003.html

Microsoft and the National Security Agency April 6, 2007
http://www.techweb.com/wire/29110640

A Fresh Start for the Internet Stanford University researchers
aren't just dreaming of a new Internet:

they're building it.

"a threat to democracy"

Obama: We Need To Bail Out Newspapers Or Blogs Will Run The World
9-21-09 http://www.businessinsider.com/john-carney-obama-we-need-to-
bailout-newspapers-or-blog-will-run-the-world-2009-9
...<http://www.businessinsider.com/john-carney-obama-we-need-to-bailout-newsp
apers-or-blog-will-run-the-world-2009-9> Obama said he will look
at a news paper bailout, otherwise, blogs will take over the world,
and that would be a threat to democracy bills that could give tax
newspapers tax-breaks if they were to restructure as 50 (c) (3)
educational corporations. One of the bills is that of Senator Ben
Cardin, who has introduced the "Newspaper Revitalization Act

(NB: Bill passed and Obama since has declared a "swine flu" national
emergency) 8/28/9 Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of
Internet http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html by
Declan McCullagh Internet companies and civil liberties groups were
alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the
White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from
the Internet. They're not much happier about a revised version that
aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, West Virginia Democrat, have spent
months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy
of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt
<http://www.politechbot.com/docs/rockefeller.revised.cybersec
urity.draft.082709.pdf>
<http://www.politechbot.com/docs/rockefeller.revised.cybersecurity.draft.0827
09.pdf%3E> )...The new version would allow the president to "declare
a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer
networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. ("Cyber"
is defined as anything having to do with the Internet, telecommunications,
computers, or computer networks.) ...

U.S. Institute of Peace Study by Israeli Professor: Terrorist Groups
Active on the Internet
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-4-200 4_pg7_53
There are hundreds of sites on the Internet serving terrorist groups
and their supporters, according to a study done by the * US Institute
of Peace (USIP).

The study undertaken by Gabriel Weimann, a professor at the Haifa
University in Israel and currently a senior fellow at USIP, writes
that today all active terrorist groups have established their
presence on the Internet..

Israeli high-tech companies work for U.S.

U.S. law enforcement wiretaps authorized by the Communications
Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/18/2248 26.shtml
[Isreali] Amdocs provides billing and directory assistance for most
American phone companies, Comverse Infosys handles telephone tapping
equipment for US law enforcement, Odigo runs "Instant Message"
systems on computers. All three are closely tied to the Mossad and
the Israeli Defense Force, which is massively funded by u.s. Most
firewalls on US corporate and government computer systems are
provided by Israeli Checkpoint Systems. Odigo's offices near the
World Trade Towers allegedly received two hour advance warning of
the 911attacks...

"From the depth of our heart -- thanks to The Israeli Defense Forces"

Microsoft logo under the text with the Israeli national flag in the
background.

Microsoft CEO: Our company almost as Israeli as American By Maayan
Cohen, TheMarker Correspondent, and Reuters
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/985800.html Microsoft's Chief
Executive Steve Ballmer, on a visit to Israel... at the inauguration
ceremony of the American software giant's new research and development
center in Herzliya...said Microsoft is an Israeli company almost
as much as it is American...that the proportion of Microsoft employees
per capita in Israel is almost similar to that in the United
States...he knows very few places around the world that offer such
a variety of startup opportunities, and that his company intends
to purchase more Israeli startup companies... the CEO said Microsoft
is not looking to buy all of Yahoo! but is currently engaging in
negotiations about other types of deals with the U.S.

No. 2 search engine.

Related:# Microsoft Israel creating new R&D center in Herzliya #
Yahoo!

President Susan Decker takes interest in Israel # Internet giant
Yahoo! to follow rivals Google, Microsoft to Israel

Emerging Threats Analysis: U.S. military to patrol Internet
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2008/06/30/Analysis-US-m
ilitary-to-patrol-Internet/UPI-83401214841029/
...<http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2008/06/30/Analysis-US-military-to-pa
trol-Internet/UPI-83401214841029/>

National Dragnet Is a Click Away: Authorities to Gain Fast and
Expansive Access to Records Several thousand law enforcement agencies
are creating the foundation of a domestic intelligence system through
computer networks that analyze vast amounts of police information
to fight crime and root out terror plots.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03
/05/AR200803050366_pf.html

US warrantless wiretapping since 1990s predates 9/11 12/19/07 "The
Register"- Secret surveillance operations that enabled the National
Security Agency (NSA) to access telecommunications traffic data
have been in place since the
1990s....http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18928.htm

The Open Source Center is a component of the Office of the Director
of National Intelligence administered by the CIA.

OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE ADVANCES Naquin addressed the Central
Intelligence Retirees' Association October 3, 2007. The text of his
remarks is at http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/naquin.pdf The DNI Open
Source Center, which gathers, translates, analyzes, and distributes
unclassified open source intelligence from around the world, is
steadily growing in capability and impact, according to Doug Naquin,
the Center's Director. The Open Source Center, which replaced the
CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, is doing more analysis
and outreach than it predecessor and is also exploring new media,
said Mr. Naquin in a recent speech. "We're looking now at YouTube,
which carries some unique and honest-to-goodness intelligence," he
said. "We have groups looking at what they call 'Citizens Media':
people taking pictures with their cell phones and posting them on
the Internet. Then there's Social Media, phenomena like MySpace and
blogs.... A couple years back we identified Iranian blogs as a
phenomenon worthy of more attention, about six months ahead of
anybody else."...

Does The Government Manipulate Social Media?

The U.S. government long ago announced its intention to "fight the
net". As revealed by an official Pentagon report called "Information
Operations Roadmap" (ed: see above) ... "Strategy should be based
on the premise that the Department [of Defense] will 'fight the
net' as it would an enemy weapons system".

CENTCOM announced in 2008 a team of employees would be "[engaging]
bloggers who are posting inaccurate or untrue information, as well
as bloggers who are posting incomplete information." The Air Force
is now also engaging bloggers....

Finally, under the post-9/11 "homeland security" laws, the government
routinely demands full access to ISPs and websites... Do you doubt
the military and homeland security apparatus would step in to take
control of what it considered an "enemy" message...the government
considers any message questioning anything the government does as
an enemy message. See this, this, this and
this...http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/01/government-hea
vily-manipulates-social.html

digest note re: Soft power propaganda: US/NED/Soros NGO 'pro-democracy'
partner to 'fight terrorism' U.S. government taps Facebook, Google,
MTV to "Fight Terrorism Global Research, November 28, 2008
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11198 The US
State Department announced plans on Monday to promote online youth
groups as a new and powerful way to fight crime, political oppression
and terrorism.

Drawing inspiration from a movement against FARC rebels in Colombia,
the State Department is joining forces with Facebook, Google, MTV,
Howcast and others in New York City next week to get the "ball
rolling." It said 17 groups from South Africa, Britain and the
Middle East which have an online presence like the "Million Voices
Against the FARC" will attend a conference at Columbia University
Law School from December 3-5. Observers from seven organizations
that do not have an online presence -- such as groups from Iraq and
Afghanistan -- will attend. There will also be remote participants
from Cuba.

They will forge an "Alliance of Youth Movement," said James Glassman,
under secretary of state for public diplomacy....

"Unless a way of intervening in the radicalization process can be
found, we are condemned to stepping on cockroaches one at a time."

Social Repression and Internet Surveillance: H. Res. 1695, 1955 &
S.1959 By Nikki Alexander
...Jane Harman (D-CA) sponsored H.Res.1955 her partner, Dave Reichert
(R-WA),authored the original bill... H.Res.1695....establishes a
National Commission and Center of so-called "Excellence" to censor
and crush social concerns... perceived to be "threats" by
RAND..."homegrown terrorism,"

"violent radicalization" and "ideologically based violence"...who
have been "violently radicalized" by "extremist belief systems."..."The
Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically
based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United
States by providing access to broad and constant streams of
terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens."... RAND
spokesman, Brian Jenkins... said to Jane Harmans Committee: "Unless
a way of intervening in the radicalization process can be found,
we are condemned to stepping on cockroaches one at a time." ...the
precise terminology used by Nazis to justify exterminating
Jews.http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18998.htm

The Dangers of Digital Imprimatur
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ by John Walker
Global Internet, Once a spring of liberty, Autumn chill so near.

November 4th, 2003

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What You Can do

Consider writing your legislators.

(Letter to Ct Legislators.)

I am writing to express my hope that you will support town, city, and county efforts to create municipal high-speed wireless and broadband networks.

An open Internet, universally accessible, is essential to this state's educational, informational, economic and cultural future. But high-speed, broadband Internet access isn't available or affordable to everyone in our state. That's why many cities across America are investigating and implementing municipal wireless and broadband networks. Some are even reducing the cost of deployment using wireless Internet, known as WiFi, to reach everyone in the community.

Big telephone and cable companies are trying to stop or slow down this effort by communities to build municipal broadband and wireless networks. If they get state legislatures to help them block competition like they did in Pennsylvania, they could lose an important incentive to build their networks to connect the underserved. Municipal wireless and broadband networks could provide competition to expand availability, lower prices and improve service. Everyone should be able to connect to the educational, economic and cultural benefits of the Internet.

Please support efforts to allow towns, cities, and counties to deploy municipal broadband and wireless networks and resist any efforts to block their deployment. And as communities explore how to build universal, affordable, open networks, I also encourage you to explore partnerships to build upon the skills and expertise of an experienced telecommunications workforce.

Thank you for your consideration of this important issue. I look forward to hearing from you about your efforts to ensure that everyone in our state has access to the technology Americans need for the 21st century.

Bibliography

Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace: Lawrence Lessig

Preparing Web Graphics: Lynda Weinman

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