I'm surprised the article didn't complain about John Young's efforts: http://cryptome.org/naic-eyeball.htm --- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 09:47:28 -0700 From: "Jeffrey St. Clair" <sitkaat_private> To: CP List <counterpunch-listat_private>, David Vest <davidvestat_private>, Dave Marsh <marsh6at_private>, Chuck Spinney <cspinneyat_private>, Declan McCullagh <declanat_private> Subject: Space Command v. the Internet http://www.gazette.com/stories/0811top2.php August 11, 2002 Internet Good Friend to Terrorists - Schriever squadron roots out information that makes bases vulnerable - By John Diedrich, The Gazette [ -- PHOTO: Bryan Oller, The Gazette. This Global Positioning System jammer shows how compact such a device can be. The 527th Space Aggressor Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base assembled the item using parts commonly available at retail stores. -- ] A computer and Internet connection found in millions of homes can reveal a lot about a U.S. military base: how high a fence is, where the operations center and fuel supply are located and how many troops live there. That scares a military braced for more terrorist attacks. Airmen in the 527th Space Aggressor Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base work to make such an attack tougher. They scour the Internet for potentially compromising information, thinking and acting like the enemy. They can't, however, yank the information when they find it. They simply show commanders where their base might be vulnerable. Such information once was the domain of powerful nations with satellites, spy planes and billion-dollar budgets. The Internet and high-quality satellite pictures from private companies put the information a click and a credit card away. The threat from easily available information - coined "open-source intelligence" - is real. Last year, U.S. soldiers found a General Accounting Office report on an al-Qaida computer in Afghanistan that showed how easy it is to breach security at sensitive U.S. buildings. The United States has since "scrubbed" its Web sites of potentially sensitive information, but more than government information is available on the Internet. High-resolution satellite pictures, including images of military installations, are for sale or free on the Web. [...] <http://www.gazette.com/military/schriever.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan CNET Radio 9:40 am ET weekdays: http://cnet.com/broadband/0-7227152.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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