Spyware implemented by IBM in Lotus Notes used by Tax Agents

And who controls the UNDERLYING INFRASTRUCTURE ?
Vixie Enterprise & ex-MFNX.

Friday July 25, 2003


Faces of the Week July 21 - 25
by David Dukcevich, Forbes
NEW YORK - Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology.

After six decades running the world's biggest banks, promoting American interests abroad and giving millions to charity, the last thing you would want for your golden years is to be pestered by the Securities and Exchange Commission. But that's happening to David Rockefeller. The 88-year-old financier was subpoenaed to supply documents related to an investigation of bankrupt Metromedia Fiber Network. The former chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank served as a company director from 1997 until 2001, and sat on the teleco's audit committee. The firm announced it would restate 2001 results after filing for Chapter 11 in May 2002. The SEC began investigating the Metromedia Fiber Network's revised loss of $5.36 billion a month later. Word of the subpoena was made public after Rockefeller filed court papers asking for reimbursement for the cost of producing the documents. Rockefeller could probably pay for all fees involved out of his own pocket--he has an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion.

12-24-03 05:51 PM

And look what Vixie registered as domain: United Nation New World Order ! And his former company was MIBH (Men In Black Hats/Helicopters) sold to MFNX !

"Just around the time when Paul Vixie sold his M.I.B.H. (Men In Black Hats/Helicopters) company for $51M to Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. (NASDAQ:MFNX), he registered the UNNWO domains. Note that the United Nations New World Order address is the same as the one given for MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System) and Vixie Enterprises headquarters. Vixie's instructions for blackholed ips now flow through unnwo.net named ips. Vixie owns and pays for these domains himself. "



Registrant:
United Nations New World Order (UNNWO2-DOM)
950 Charter Street
Redwood City, CA 94063
US

Domain Name: UNNWO.COM

Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
Vixie, Paul (PV15) paul@VIX.COM
M.I.B.H., LLC
950 Charter Street
Redwood City, CA 94063
+1.650.779.7000 (FAX) +1.650.779.7055
Technical Contact:
Stuart, Stephen John, Jr. (SHS) stuart@TECH.ORG
Stephen Stuart
950 Charter St.
Redwood City, CA 94063
650-779-7036 (FAX) (415) 324-2797 (FAX) 650-779-7055

Record last updated on 09-Jan-2000.
Record expires on 09-Jan-2002.
Record created on 09-Jan-2000.
Database last updated on 9-Jan-2001 00:58:07 EST.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS-EXT.VIX.COM 204.152.184.64
NS1.GNAC.COM 209.182.195.77

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Registrant:
United Nations New World Order (UNNWO3-DOM)
950 Charter Street
Redwood City, CA 94063
US

Domain Name: UNNWO.NET

Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
Vixie, Paul (PV15) paul@VIX.COM
M.I.B.H., LLC
950 Charter Street
Redwood City, CA 94063
+1.650.779.7000 (FAX) +1.650.779.7055
Technical Contact:
Stuart, Stephen John, Jr. (SHS) stuart@TECH.ORG
Stephen Stuart
950 Charter St.
Redwood City, CA 94063
650-779-7036 (FAX) (415) 324-2797 (FAX) 650-779-7055

Record last updated on 09-Jan-2000.
Record expires on 09-Jan-2002.
Record created on 09-Jan-2000.
Database last updated on 9-Jan-2001 00:58:07 EST.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS-EXT.VIX.COM 204.152.184.64
NS1.GNAC.COM 209.182.195.77

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Registrant:
United Nations New World Order (UNNWO-DOM)
950 Charter Street
Redwood City, CA 94063
US

Domain Name: UNNWO.ORG

Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
Vixie, Paul (PV15) paul@VIX.COM
M.I.B.H., LLC
950 Charter Street
Redwood City, CA 94063
+1.650.779.7000 (FAX) +1.650.779.7055
Technical Contact:
Stuart, Stephen John, Jr. (SHS) stuart@TECH.ORG
Stephen Stuart
950 Charter St.
Redwood City, CA 94063
650-779-7036 (FAX) (415) 324-2797 (FAX) 650-779-7055

Record last updated on 09-Jan-2000.
Record expires on 09-Jan-2002.
Record created on 09-Jan-2000.
Database last updated on 9-Jan-2001 12:52:41 EST.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS-EXT.VIX.COM 204.152.184.64
NS1.GNAC.COM 209.182.195.77




Quote from CalTrader:

Let me repeat what I said earlier: its SIMPLE to construct a secure custom protocol to use over the public internet for secure communications.

All your points about secret backdoors etc are moot: truly secure systems dont use any of the tools you mention so these problems are non-issues.

Keep in mind that the only systems reported on by the so-called security "experts" are the ones that people know about. The mere fact that they are public already tells you that they are not the systems actually in use.

Use your mind rather than your mouth: Why do you think anyone would release a system for a bunch of hack security experts to break apart unless they had an ulterior motive for doing so ?
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Tue Oct 25, 3:04 AM ET



WASHINGTON (AFP) - Tiny dots produced by some laser printers are a secret code that can allow the government to track down counterfeiters, a new study concludes, raising the hackles of privacy advocates.

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation said its researchers recently broke the code behind the tiny tracking dots and said the US Secret Service confirmed that the tracking is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers to identify counterfeiters.

"We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer," said EFF researcher Seth Schoen.

EFF said the yellow dots are less than one millimeter in diameter and can be seen only with a blue light, magnifying glass or microscope.

Lorie Lewis, a spokeswoman at the Secret Service, declined to confirm the report directly but acknowledged that the agency "has worked together with other government agencies and industry on preventive technological countermeasures designed to discourage the illegal use of printers and copiers in the production of counterfeit currency."

Lewis said she could not elaborate on these measures but said they were "specific and limited to the reproduction of currency" and that the action "in no way tracks or measures the use of a personal computer's hardware or software."

EFF, a group promoting privacy, free speech and technological innovation, said the news has troubling implications for privacy even if the aim is to stop counterfeiting.

EFF spokeswoman Rebecca Jeschke said the same information could be used by governments to track down dissidents.

"Internationally, there are governments who would be very interested in what dissidents have to say and in tracking dissidents," she said.

Jeschke added that although the deal appeared to be with the US government, the fact that it was relatively easy to break the code would mean other governments could use the same codes for other purposes.

EFF broke a code in a Xerox DocuColor printer and identified other codes in printers from Canon, Brother, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Epson and other makers. And they noted that the codes are not limited to printers sold in the United States.

"We had test pages from Europe, and they do have the same codes on them," Jeschke said.

Xerox spokesman Bill McKee said the company would not comment on specific technology "for security reasons."

"Xerox does not routinely share any information about its customers," he said. "We, like any manufacturer, assist investigating agencies, when asked."

Beth Givens of the California-based Privacy Rights Clearinghouse said the report was troubling,

"It begs the question about what other kinds of secret tracking mechanisms are out there," she said.

Givens said the system could threaten a basic right to remain anonymous.

"The right to leaflet goes all the way back to the birth of this country," she said.

"If you print something on a color printer, you're no longer anonymous."

"Underground democracy movements that produce political or religious pamphlets and flyers, like the Russian samizdat of the 1980s, will always need the anonymity of simple paper documents, but this technology makes it easier for governments to find dissenters," said EFF senior attorney Lee Tien.

"Even worse, it shows how the government and private industry make backroom deals to weaken our privacy by compromising everyday equipment like printers. The logical next question is: what other deals have been or are being made to ensure that our technology rats on us?"
 
Quote from harrytrader:

One can wonder what NSA did put on Linux now :D

"Linux Gets Security Boost from NSA"
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3317331
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Linux is open source, so it is exceptionally unlikely that the NSA could sneak a back door into Linux without the kernel maintainers or those that work on the security aspects of Linux or crytographic code in Linux noticing it and raising hell.

A very good argument for open source software.
 
Quote from dcraig:

Linux is open source, so it is exceptionally unlikely that the NSA could sneak a back door into Linux without the kernel maintainers or those that work on the security aspects of Linux or crytographic code in Linux noticing it and raising hell.

A very good argument for open source software.
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Yep.
 
Mods, quickly condemn this common sense-taxing conspiracy crap to Chit Chat
before it s p r e a d s
through this already-insider-infected open source Software Forum infrastructure!

... tiny dots... tiny dots everywhere...
 
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