All posts below this one were cut and pasted from my yahoo profile blog located at http://profiles.yahoo.com/nyphonejacks
I will be reviewing and, if needed, editing them in the next few days.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
why your communications are not secure...
CALEA - Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
http://www.fcc.gov/calea/
requires all telephone companies, including VoIP companies to provide surveillance capabilities of its subscribers
FISA - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act
Allows for wireless wiretapping and electronic surveillance - INCLUDING US citizens... FISA amendment act provided RETROACTIVE IMMUNITY to telephone comapnies that assisted the government in the illegal warantless wiretapping of US citizens!
CARNIVORE -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)
Packet sniffer installed at ISP to monitor internet traffic
ECHELON -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
GLOBAL NSA spying network
Room 641A -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Confirmed location at an AT&T office where the NSA has installed equiptment to sniff, and monitor all communications through the internet backbone that goes thru this office. Other similar locations are believed to exist across the country.
Policeware -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policeware
"Law enforcement" spyware to monitor your computer usage...
TIA - Total Information Awareness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office
Renamed "Terrorist Information Awareness" to sound less threatening to your freedoms and civil liberties, this is a centrailzed database with various functions from monitoring electronic communications, to facial recognition software and cameras... INCLUDING DATA MINING OF SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND TELEPHONE AND BANKING RECORDS!
ADVISE - (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADVISE
Another government data mining program, including many various forms of electronic records, such as telephone records, bank records, internet history, emails, etc... allegedly shut down after testing was done with actual citizens personal information..... likely still operational black-ops program...
MALINTENT -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MALINTENT
Non-invasive system designed to read body language, heart rate, and other bio-factors to tell if you are going to commit a terroristic attack... sounds like that movie Minority Report to me...
TALON -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TALON
Database consisting on anti-war demonstrators....
Intellipedia-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellipedia
The intellege communities wiki pages - including sensitive, secret and top secret information...
COINTELPRO - COunter INTELligence PROgram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
ILLEGAL counter intellegence operations carried out by the FBI...
DCSnet - Digital Collection System Network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCSNET
FBIs point and click interface to wiretap just about any telephone or SMS communication...
SIGINT - Signals Intellegence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGINT
Monitoring of various methods of communications, including encrypted communications...
http://www.fcc.gov/calea/
requires all telephone companies, including VoIP companies to provide surveillance capabilities of its subscribers
FISA - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act
Allows for wireless wiretapping and electronic surveillance - INCLUDING US citizens... FISA amendment act provided RETROACTIVE IMMUNITY to telephone comapnies that assisted the government in the illegal warantless wiretapping of US citizens!
CARNIVORE -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)
Packet sniffer installed at ISP to monitor internet traffic
ECHELON -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
GLOBAL NSA spying network
Room 641A -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Confirmed location at an AT&T office where the NSA has installed equiptment to sniff, and monitor all communications through the internet backbone that goes thru this office. Other similar locations are believed to exist across the country.
Policeware -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policeware
"Law enforcement" spyware to monitor your computer usage...
TIA - Total Information Awareness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office
Renamed "Terrorist Information Awareness" to sound less threatening to your freedoms and civil liberties, this is a centrailzed database with various functions from monitoring electronic communications, to facial recognition software and cameras... INCLUDING DATA MINING OF SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND TELEPHONE AND BANKING RECORDS!
ADVISE - (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADVISE
Another government data mining program, including many various forms of electronic records, such as telephone records, bank records, internet history, emails, etc... allegedly shut down after testing was done with actual citizens personal information..... likely still operational black-ops program...
MALINTENT -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MALINTENT
Non-invasive system designed to read body language, heart rate, and other bio-factors to tell if you are going to commit a terroristic attack... sounds like that movie Minority Report to me...
TALON -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TALON
Database consisting on anti-war demonstrators....
Intellipedia-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellipedia
The intellege communities wiki pages - including sensitive, secret and top secret information...
COINTELPRO - COunter INTELligence PROgram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
ILLEGAL counter intellegence operations carried out by the FBI...
DCSnet - Digital Collection System Network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCSNET
FBIs point and click interface to wiretap just about any telephone or SMS communication...
SIGINT - Signals Intellegence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGINT
Monitoring of various methods of communications, including encrypted communications...
WiFi and 2.4 Ghz phones (and other wireless consumer devices)
WiFi operates within the 2.4 Ghz range, along with many cordless telephones, microwave ovens, and countless other consumer electronics. Due to this fact on occasion signals may interfere with each other, and cause undesirable operation between multiple devices.
If you are experiencing interfearance issues with your WiFi and 2.4Ghz cordless telephone (or other wireless consumer device) then before replacing your phone (or wireless device) with a model operating in a diffrent frequency, like a 5.8Ghz or DECT phone, you can try changing the channel that the WiFi router operates on. Normally this will reduce or eliminate interfearance issues.
To change the channel that your router operates on, you first must log into your router, which can normally be accomplished by entering http://192.168.1.1 into your web browser. If that is not the address for your wireless router, then you need to determine what the IP address of your wireless router is, to do this click the start button and type in CMD into the search bar. At the comand prompt enter IPCONFIG then hit enter - you want to see the default gateway IP address, and then enter that into your web browser.
Once you are on the web interface of your router, you will likely need to enter a user ID and password. Common combinations are admin/admin, admin/password, and admin/(blank). If none of these user ID/password combos work then you will need to check the user manual for your router, or google the default password for your brand and model router (sometimes this information is actually located on a sticker on the bottom of the router).
Once logged into the router web interface you need to look for the wireless settings, and change the channel number that the router operates on. Once you save these new settings you are done, you do not need to make any changes to the wireless devices that you have set up to connect to your router (unless you also change the SSID of the router, or the security settings).
If you are still having issues, you can attempt to change the channel again. There are several choices, and one should reduce or eliminate the interfearance. If you continue to have issues, you may need to replace your phone (or other wireless consumer devices) or use a wired network, and disable the wireless radio in your router (also located in the web interface settings).
When purchacing new telephones, or consumer electronics try to avoid purchacing devices that operate within 2.4Ghz. If you are purchacing wireless video cameras, or video senders it may be difficult to locate products that are not within the 2.4 Ghz range. In that instance you may want to consider replacing the router with a 802.11a router which operates within the 5Ghz range, however locating 802.11a hardware is difficult, since that standard did not really take off. Also, since 802.11a operates in a diffrent frequency than 802.11b/g/n it is not backwards compatible with the wireless cards located in your wireless PCs so you would also need to purchace new wireless cards for all of your wireless PCs...
If you are experiencing interfearance issues with your WiFi and 2.4Ghz cordless telephone (or other wireless consumer device) then before replacing your phone (or wireless device) with a model operating in a diffrent frequency, like a 5.8Ghz or DECT phone, you can try changing the channel that the WiFi router operates on. Normally this will reduce or eliminate interfearance issues.
To change the channel that your router operates on, you first must log into your router, which can normally be accomplished by entering http://192.168.1.1 into your web browser. If that is not the address for your wireless router, then you need to determine what the IP address of your wireless router is, to do this click the start button and type in CMD into the search bar. At the comand prompt enter IPCONFIG then hit enter - you want to see the default gateway IP address, and then enter that into your web browser.
Once you are on the web interface of your router, you will likely need to enter a user ID and password. Common combinations are admin/admin, admin/password, and admin/(blank). If none of these user ID/password combos work then you will need to check the user manual for your router, or google the default password for your brand and model router (sometimes this information is actually located on a sticker on the bottom of the router).
Once logged into the router web interface you need to look for the wireless settings, and change the channel number that the router operates on. Once you save these new settings you are done, you do not need to make any changes to the wireless devices that you have set up to connect to your router (unless you also change the SSID of the router, or the security settings).
If you are still having issues, you can attempt to change the channel again. There are several choices, and one should reduce or eliminate the interfearance. If you continue to have issues, you may need to replace your phone (or other wireless consumer devices) or use a wired network, and disable the wireless radio in your router (also located in the web interface settings).
When purchacing new telephones, or consumer electronics try to avoid purchacing devices that operate within 2.4Ghz. If you are purchacing wireless video cameras, or video senders it may be difficult to locate products that are not within the 2.4 Ghz range. In that instance you may want to consider replacing the router with a 802.11a router which operates within the 5Ghz range, however locating 802.11a hardware is difficult, since that standard did not really take off. Also, since 802.11a operates in a diffrent frequency than 802.11b/g/n it is not backwards compatible with the wireless cards located in your wireless PCs so you would also need to purchace new wireless cards for all of your wireless PCs...
60 bonus minutes for activating a Virgin mobile phone
EDIT - THIS IS A VERY OLD POST, ALSO I AM NOT CURRENTLY RECOMMENDING VIRGIN MOBILE SERVICE!
[EDIT - I gave this phone away a while ago, so not sure if it is still an active code]
If you are planning on getting Virgin Mobile service here is an code where you can get a bonus 60 minutes of airtime...
You HAVE TO activate your phone ONLINE at http://virginmobileusa.com to get the bonus minutes, then enter this kickback code:
MLTupJJc
You MUST add $20 or more to your account within 45 days of activation to get the bonus 60 minutes.
[EDIT - I gave this phone away a while ago, so not sure if it is still an active code]
If you are planning on getting Virgin Mobile service here is an code where you can get a bonus 60 minutes of airtime...
You HAVE TO activate your phone ONLINE at http://virginmobileusa.com to get the bonus minutes, then enter this kickback code:
MLTupJJc
You MUST add $20 or more to your account within 45 days of activation to get the bonus 60 minutes.
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