Mercury News Sunday 17th September 2006

Private data easy to buy on Internet. Many Use Unregulatted Search Firms, Even Police

By Elise Ackerman

Hewlett-Packard is hardly alone in hiring investigators who use questionable methods to find out information.

State and federal law enforcement agents, corporate law firms, big banks and major media companies have all enlisted unscrupulous information vendors, according to a congressional investigation and interviews with industry sources.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/15542029.htm

Leaking inside information from the Board of Directors to the media: is this a crime?

Should Hewlett-Packard have called in the police to investigate the source of the leaks? If so, why wasn't this done? Was there an effort to keep this "in the family?"

Why is there no attention being paid to the leakers and the media who received inside information from a director(s) of the corporation? The leaker(s) has(have) resigned. Are they subject to criminal prosecution? Is there no complainant? Is the evidence tainted by improper procedures?

Doesn't receiving inside information and then publishing this information make those who obtained the information and the organsation(s) who published it legally liable for doing so?

Is this a civil and/or criminal liability? If it is criminal, are the police reluctant to spend the time investigating this type of corporate crime thus leaving it up to the corporation to fend for itself with respect to an investigation. If it is only a civil legal problem, what is the corporation supposed to do?

Publicly traded corporations are subject to legal compliance with respect to the disclosure of inside information. Those inside the corporation must do something when they have knowledge or just suspect that inside information is being divulged inappropriately. Why are those inside the corporation being castigated for acting responsibly while nothing is being done with respect to the leaker(s) and publisher(s) of the information.

Divulging inside information from the board level is like stealing something. Those who receive that information are receiving stolen goods. The organisation(s) who publishes the stolen goods is(are) making money from such stolen goods that its competitors do not have. They have sought to achieve a competitive edge by dealing in stolen goods which is information in this instance. Why aren't these popple and organisations being investigated?

Son of Magic Lantern

Sun Sep 17 11:57:56 BST 2006: while typing the above, this computer has been subjected to keystroke capture surveillance and interference by Lt Harry Bird and BS. This is easy for me to detect since it is variable in its usage and results in extremely delayed keystroke response while I am typing. There is much verbal activity associated with this surveillance and interference of both a general and specific kind. Last Sunday's web journal led with the declaration from Lt Harry Bird "We're trying to stop him." This is just one way of doing so which impacts the mouse too. Try using the mouse with a delay.

The information I produce is useless and will be made public. There is little point in using keystroke capture for it. However, this interference is an attempt to keep me from expressing my thoughts which is a violation of the European Human Rights Act of 1998. This is part of a thought control process which I've been documenting thoroughly for many years with hundreds if not thousands of quite explicit and specific examples witnessed by many. Lt Harry Bird and BS simply do not like what I am documenting and reporting and seek to stop it. They go further than this by attacking whatever I do to stop human activity altogether. They have declared frequently for years that their objective is to "shut him down." The purpose of that is to "break him down" as is also frequently stated.

A classic instance of this occurred in mid-2001 when Lt Harry Bird failed to load the keyboard map onto my notebook computer because he forgot the software. I was working at the Internet shop easyEverything on Kensington High Street. When I booted my notebook, the keyboard would not work. Lt Harry Bird started yelling and apologising to Paul Winston, Metropolitan Police Special Branch officer that he had forgotten the software. I could not use my notebook until I returned home and booted it there where Lt Harry Bird had access to his keystroke capture surveillance software. My operating software disks were there too if I needed them, but I didn't.

As can be noted, this surveillance software can be loaded without any communication connection on a computer wherever that computer is located. It is loaded at boot, and at one time was about 15 Mb. The computer can be operated remotely this way, files can be accessed and downloaded and passwords can be read that are displayed on the screen as asterisks. This has been used by BS to crash my use of a word processer so often that I was prevented from using it for months until Paul Winston finally blocked this abuse. He found it usefull to allow such abuse to go on for a period of time before stopping it. This game playing abuse confirmed what was being done and why.

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The same thing happened with my attempts to upgrade to Internet Explorer version 6.0 whose download was blocked for many weeks until that was stopped by the same person. I've had continuous competition and problems with Lt Harry Bird and BS accessing the computers in this manner and copying what I write and store. I have many, many well documented examples of this, but most revealing was this incident where I could not use the keyboard on my notebook at an Internet shop. This is just a very small part of an overall programme of nonstop and indefinite experimental destruction being carried out against me for many years used to develop surveillance technology against a completely innocent human guinea pig.

Where's the outcry against this? The government is doing it. That makes it all right. This is the surveillance technology which should be of most concern to everyone. Who will be watching the rogues using this technology against the corporate community and private sector on a widespread basis without a warrant or any control whatsoever? But, it's not just computer technology.

"You're not a very good programmer," said a male the instant I woke last night.

During the past two nights, I've experienced a similar sleep pattern disturbance. Each night I woke just shortly after being asleep a couple hours from a dream. The interval was about an hour until the next wake up following a dream as well. This continued at frequent intervals thereafter. At one of these wake ups last night, a male said instantly upon waking, "You're not a very good programmer." I took this to refer to the fact that he was telling someone with him that the whole process of memory probing dream inducement had failed in this instance because of this guy's programming. They actually try not to wake me because this halts their activity which has to be restarted.

The usual side effects ware present as well including blocked nasal passage on the downhill side and loud tinnitus. I described this and noted what was happening. The reaction I got was a kind of murmuring that indicated to me he had made a mistake in talking when I could hear him through the surveillance technology. They use every means possible to probe memory and induce dreams. What is interesting about this concerns the fact that these were Friday and Saturday nights where other people with daytime jobs could join in and sleep the next day. Another interesting fact is that I went to sleep at two different times each night an hour apart. This means that the disturbances occurred after a period of elapsed time quite independent of the time of night.

I have been documenting these sleep disturbances for over eight years each and every night since they are all originate from an outside source. I have progressed to a comprehensive method of documenting what occurs to me while I sleep. Some of this in written form can be seen in July and August 2001 on this web journal. Thus, I can go through each night's sleep activity and see exactly when I woke and hear my notes about what was happening recorded on three different sources. I describe each dream if there was one and any abuse such as this comment. The difference between these two nights was that the first one had dreams at each wake up that I described, but the second night had dreams which I forgot immediately upon waking and could not specifically describe except the last bit of the last dream.

The surveillance technology with respect to the computer and brain are quite similar. Identical I should think. Those in Silicon Valley should be at the vanguard in recognising the abuse of this surveillance technology since it has grave implications for all they do. They should be working on methods to detect and block this surveillance technology if they want to stay in business as independent, free agents in a democratic world. The implications for corporate espionage and enterprise sabotage are profound indeed. Personally, I think that time and attention are being wasted on an illusionary problem of no consequence when the reality of what I describe as existing today is considered.

Information will not be leaked in the future. It will be stolen by the most sophisticated surveillance technology ever known to the human race. Those losing their valuable research information and all that goes with corporate management will never know until they are losers in the marketplace.

IT Weekly Sunday, 17 September 2006

Hurd moves to solve who-Dunn-it scandal

by Peter Branton

Last week’s news that Patricia Dunn is to step down as chairman of HP is the most dramatic piece of gossip to hit the IT industry since, well, since the last HP chairman left.

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While it is not unusual for the most senior executive at a US company to take all the lead roles, it raises questions of corporate governance: in the UK for instance, institutional investors prefer to see the roles of chairman and CEO kept separate.

HTTP://WWW.tip.net/features/details.HP?id=5148&category=

Browser crashes today are similar to word processor crashes in the past.

On three different occasions today while publishing this web journal, the Firefox browsers have crashed when I was using the right click button on the mouse to select or paste text. The same type of crash would occur as I described above when I was using certain commands in the word processor. I have had no problems for weeks with Firefox until now. This had been a problem before but was evidently stopped only to resume once again. This is why I ignore problems for the most part. They are man made and arbitrary in an attempt to send me on wild goose chases to waste my time.

Oxford College of Emory University

There is a Masonic symbol (compass and t-square) on this monument located opposite Seney Hall on the campus of Oxford College of Emory University. This is the original campus founded c 1937 of Emory University which moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1915 some 35 miles to the west. This campus in Oxford, Georgia, has remained. During the Civil War, the school was closed since all the students went to war. It's two literary societies, FEW and Phi Gamma, were used as hospitals for both Confederate and Union soldiers. There is a cemetery down in the woods with dead from almost every Confederate state. Most died in 1864. I read a review of James Reston Jr's biography of William Tecumseh Sherman which noted that those in the South in the path of Sherman's army had posted the Masonic symbol in hopes of avoiding destruction. Although I've wanted to read this book, I've not had the opportunity to get to it yet. I have never heard anyone discuss the presence or symbolism of this momument. It just so happens that I forwarded a copy of a recent Email to the Dean as follows:

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Subject: BBC HardTalk Interview with Tyrone Brooks Representative in the Georgia Legislature
Date: Saturday 16 September 2006 23:23
From: Gary D Chance
To: Dean Stephen Bowen

Dear Dean Bowen

Here's a copy of an Email I sent along to BBC News24 after watching a 30-minute Hardtalk interview with Georgia State Representative Tyrone Brooks. He was talking about his civil rights work and experiences in Covington.

Hardtalk comes along at 2330 each weekday night featuring a 30-minute interview. This series of programmes dealt with "Baby Boomers" experience and activity including Bill Clinton. The interviewer was travelling through the South and talked with Tyrone Brooks.

I thought you might be interested in seeing what I wrote following the interview although I'm certain that Oxford and Covington (I hope) have changed completely since my years at Oxford.

I've just noticed that you obtained your PhD in South Africa in 1976. That must have been an interesting experience at that time.

Best wishes for the new academic year.

Gary

---------- Forwarded Message ----------

Subject: HardTalk Interview with Tyrone Brooks Representative in the Georgia Legislature
Date: Thursday 17 August 2006 00:09
From: Gary D Chance>
To: news24@bbc.co.uk

It's was amazing to hear his story about Covington, Georgia when he was first demonstrating there to get blacks employed in the city businesses. His experience with the local law enforcement was all too typical at that time even in the 1970s.

I went to school right next to Covington in Oxford, Georgia from 1958 to 1961. This was the original campus of Emory University which moved to Atlanta in 1915. It was originally on land deeded by the Georgia legislature c 1837 to the Methodist Church for the sole purpose of higher education.

The history of that area is incredible including the school being closed during the Civil War because all the students went off to fight. The two buildings that were literary societies were used as hospitals, and there is still a cemetery down in the woods. Sherman marched through the area but spared Covington.

Covington was the city where we went because Oxford was only a town for the school. It wasn't really a town. There was nothing else there except the school. I would like to say that Oxford was more enlightened than Covington because of the liberal arts foundation for the school, but it was only slightly so at that time. The campus staff from the grounds and kitchen were pictured in our annuals. I must say, though, that this was something because these were black employees.

If Covington did not employ blacks in the businesses there, at least Emory-at-Oxford as it was called then or Oxford College of Emory University as it is called today did not discriminate with respect to employment in the 1950s. The society in the south in those days was definitely segregated, but I do not recall any incident of overt racism on the Oxford campus at that time.

It's a shame, though, that we were not more activists then. The consciousness of the tragedy of discrimination was not out in the open or in the course curriculum at that time. Now it is totally different, and the school will not tolerate bigotry of any kind with a very mixed student body.

There were no blacks at that school in those days. In fact, this was the time when universities were just beginning to be desegregated. In 1960/61 my roommate's girlfriend had transferred to the University of Georgia. She lived in the girl's door where the first black girl to attend there was living. She described that they had to hide on the floor under the windows because the dorm was stoned at night.

It's taken a long time to begin the process of desegregation in the deep south, and as Tyrone Brooks points out, the problem from the bigots still exists there. That was an outstanding interview.

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