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The
vast majority of computer surveillance involves the monitoring of data
and traffic on the Internet.... In the United States for example,
under the Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act, all phone
calls and broadband Internet traffic (emails, web traffic, instant messaging,
etc.) are required to be available for unimpeded real-time monitoring by
Federal law enforcement agencies....
There
is far too much data on the Internet for human investigators to manually
search through all of it. So automated Internet surveillance computers
sift through the vast amount of intercepted Internet traffic and identify
and report to human investigators traffic considered interesting by using
certain "trigger" words or phrases, visiting certain types of web sites,
or communicating via email or chat with suspicious individuals or groups....
Billions of dollars per year are spent, by agencies such as the Information
Awareness Office, NSA, and the FBI, to develop, purchase, implement, and
operate systems such as Carnivore, NarusInsight, and ECHELON to intercept
and analyze all of this data, and extract only the information which is
useful to law enforcement and intelligence agencies....
Computers
are also a surveillance target because of the personal data stored on them.
If someone is able to install software (either physically or remotely),
such as the FBI's Magic Lantern and CIPAV, on a computer system, they can
easily gain unauthorized access to this data....
Another
form of computer surveillance, known as TEMPEST, involves reading electromagnetic
emanations from computing devices in order to extract data from them at
distances of hundreds of meters....
The
NSA also runs a database known as "Pinwale", which stores and indexes large
numbers of emails of both American citizens and foreigners....
Vanishing Access
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Since
late April, my access to four of my websites has failed. I'm writing
this in late May. That averages about one website per week.
Access to the websites has failed in pairs. These are the pairs of
websites to which access has failed: 1. The Frontiersman
Website and the source documents website; 2. the Anarchist
Cookbook website and Free Lazor.
Here
are some facts. Access has failed simultaneously to websites that
are on different hosting services, so it isn't a hosting service problem.
The loss of access has occurred simultaneously for every computer at my
internet connection, so it isn't a computer problem. Inaccessible
websites are accessible to computers at other internet connections, so
there isn't anything wrong with the websites. All of the computers
at my internet connection can access other websites, so there isn't anything
wrong with my internet connection. With an address anonymizer, I
can access the websites, so access has failed from my IP address.
The technicians at my ISP and at the hosting services insist that they're
not blocking my access to the websites. If they're to be believed,
then what's left? In the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, he noted that
when the impossible has been eliminated, then whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth. People can form their own opinions
but it appears to me that somebody is intentionally blocking my access
to my websites. Who's the most likely culprit? It's probably
somebody who doesn't like my opinions. I don't know who's doing it.
The
only remedy that I've discovered is to upload a website to a new location.
Then, I can access it again. Of course, I have to change links from
the old address to the new one. I can't maintain the website at the
old location and other people won't know the address at the new location.
Also, finding a new hosting service is tedious. I'm open to suggestions.
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