TELECOM Digest     Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:23:00 EDT    Volume 26 : Issue 78

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Justice Department Calls FBI Wiretap Abuses Outrageous (Michael Sniffen)
    Suit Demands Details on Secret Court Wiretap Ruling (Bob Egelko)
    Commuications Direct Daily News (Communications Direct)
    Re: Troubles With Computers' Daylight Shift (T)
    Re: Troubles With Computers' Daylight Shift (Steven J. Sobol)
    Re: Most Computer Attacks Originate in USA (Lisa Hancock)
    Re: Most Computer Attacks Originate in USA (Rick Merrill)

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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:42:30 -0500
From: Michael Sniffen, AP <ap@telecom-digest.org
Subject: Justice Department Calls FBI Wiretap Abuses Outrageous


By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press Writer 

The FBI engaged in widespread and serious misuse of its authority in
illegally gathering telephone, e-mail and financial records of
Americans and foreigners while hunting terrorists, the Justice
Department's chief inspector said Tuesday.

The FBI's failure to establish sufficient controls or oversight for
collecting the information through so-called national security letters
constituted "serious and unacceptable" failures, said Glenn A. Fine,
the internal watchdog who revealed the data-gathering abuses in a
130-page report last week.

Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, Fine said he did not
believe the problems were intentional, but were generally the result
of confusion and carelessness.

"It really was unacceptable and inexcusable what happened here," Fine
said under questioning.

Democrats said that Fine's findings were an example of how the Justice
Department has used broad counterterrorism authorities Congress
granted in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks to trample on privacy
rights.

"This was a serious breach of trust," said Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.,
the Judiciary chairman. "The department had converted this tool into a
handy shortcut to illegally gather vast amounts of private information
while at the same time significantly underreporting its activities to
Congress."

Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, the committee's former
Republican chairman, said: "I hope that this would be a lesson to the
FBI that they can't get away with this and expect to maintain public
support," said "Let this be a warning."

Other Republicans, however, said the FBI's expanded spying powers were 
vital to tracking terrorists.

"The problem is enforcement of the law, not the law itself," said Rep.
Lamar Smith (news, bio, voting record) of Texas, the committee's
senior GOP member. "We need to be vigilant to make sure these problems
are fixed."

Valerie Caproni, the FBI's general counsel, took responsibility for
the abuses detailed in Fine's report.

"We're going to have to work to get the trust of this committee back,
and we know that's what we have to do, and we're going to do it," she
said.

In a review of headquarters files and a sampling of just four of the
FBI's 56 field offices, Fine found 48 violations of law or
presidential directives during 2003-2005 and estimated that "a
significant number of ... violations throughout the FBI have not been
identified or reported."

The bureau has launched an audit of all 56 field offices to determine
the full extent of the problem. The Senate Judiciary Committee is to
hear Wednesday from Fine and FBI Director Robert Mueller on the same
topic.

A key concern in Congress is whether the USA Patriot Act, which
substantially loosened controls over the letters, should be revised.

"Many of us have been saying that the potential for abuse of the
Patriot Act's national security letter authority is almost without
limit," Conyers said. "The Justice Department's total lack of internal
control and cavalier attitude toward the few legal restrictions that
exist in the act have possibly resulted in the illegal seizure of
American citizen's private information.,"

In 1986, Congress first authorized FBI agents to obtain electronic
records without approval from a judge using national security letters.
The letters can be used to acquire e-mails, telephone, travel records
and financial information, like credit and bank transactions. They can
be sent to telephone and Internet access companies, universities,
public interest organizations, nearly all libraries, financial and
credit companies.

In 2001, the Patriot Act eliminated any requirement that the records
belong to someone under suspicion. Now an innocent person's records
can be obtained if FBI field agents consider them merely relevant to
an ongoing terrorism or spying investigation.

Fine's review, authorized by Congress over Bush administration
objections, concluded the number of national security letters
requested by the FBI skyrocketed after the Patriot Act became
law. Each letter may contain several requests.

In 2000, the FBI issued an estimated 8,500 requests. That number
peaked in 2004 with 56,000. Overall, the FBI reported issuing 143,074
requests in national security letters between 2003 and 2005. In 2005,
53 percent were for records of U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

In a sampling of 77 case files in four FBI field offices, Fine
discovered an additional 8,850 requests that were never recorded in
the FBI's database, and he estimated there were many more nationwide.

The 48 possible violations Fine uncovered included failing to get
proper authorization, making improper requests under the law and
unauthorized collection of telephone or Internet e-mail records.

Fine said the violations were unintentional, but that conclusion has
been disputed by critics of the Patriot Act.

"What the inspector general documented shows a pattern of intentional
misconduct that goes far beyond mismanagement," said Mike German, a
former FBI agent who is a national security counsel to the American
Civil Liberties Union. More than 700 "exigent circumstances" letters
"said the FBI had already asked for grand jury subpoenas although the
agents knew they hadn't. Some of the abuses were, frankly, outrageous.
Some of the _continuing_ wiretaps are outrageous."

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Isn't it always _good_ to see various
government agencies fighting with each other? Now, if the US Department
of Injustice thought that the FBI's behavior was 'outrageous' then you
know it probably was. It sort of reminds me of last night's episode
(one of several) on CSI-SVU. Police officers Elliott Stabler and his
partner Olivia Benson get locked up by FBI agents and held incommunicado 
for a long time. Ooooh, was Elliott pissed!  He has the audacity to 
complain to one and all that his 'civil liberties are being violated.'
Well, gee whiz, officer, welcome to the real world with the rest of
us. USA Network does CSI-SVU seven nights per week, not quite but
nearly 24 hours per day on their cable here.  Always inspirational
stories!  PAT]

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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:47:30 -0500
From: Bob Egelko, San Fran Chronicle <sanfran@telecom-digest.ortg>
Subject: Suit Demands Details on Secret Court Wiretap Ruling


Suit demands details on secret court's wiretap ruling
Group seeks to learn if program requires individual warrants

Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

A privacy rights group sued the Justice Department late in February to
try to pry loose a ruling by a secret court that the Bush
administration says approved its clandestine wiretapping program.

The suit, if it succeeds, should answer an important question about
the future of the program: whether the court will require individual
warrants, with specific evidence, before allowing the government to
intercept phone calls and e-mails between Americans and alleged
terrorists in foreign countries.

In December 2005, President Bush confirmed a New York Times report
that he had authorized the National Security Agency four years earlier
to eavesdrop on such communications without obtaining warrants from
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, as required by a 1978
law.

A federal judge in Detroit declared the program unconstitutional in
August, a ruling the administration has appealed. In San Francisco,
another judge is considering more than 40 lawsuits accusing
telecommunications companies of illegally collaborating with the
program by allowing the National Security Agency to intercept messages
and examine customer records.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco organization that
represents AT&T customers in one of the lawsuits, sued Tuesday in
Washington, D.C., seeking disclosure of a pivotal Jan. 10 ruling by a
judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

The ruling's existence was disclosed Jan. 17 by Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales, who told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the
judge had approved the surveillance, after lengthy negotiations, and
that the program was now operating under authority of the foreign
intelligence court.

Gonzales did not say, however, whether the judge was requiring a
warrant in each case or instead had given overall approval to the
program. The attorney general has refused to make the order public,
although the Justice Department sent copies to the federal judge in
San Francisco and the appeals court reviewing the Detroit ruling.

The department also disclosed the order to selected members of
Congress, including leaders of the House and Senate judiciary
committees. Tracy Schmaler, spokeswoman for Senate Judiciary Committee
Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Leahy would like to see a
declassified version made public and is exploring the subject with the
Justice Department and the White House.

In Tuesday's lawsuit, the Electronic Frontier Foundation argued that the 
public was entitled to learn details of the order under the Freedom of 
Information Act.

"While national security and law enforcement demand a limited amount
of secrecy, Americans have the right to know the government's basic
guidelines for this kind of invasive electronic surveillance of their
personal communications," said David Sobel, a lawyer for the
organization.

By random draw, the case was assigned to U.S. District Judge James
Robertson, who resigned from the foreign intelligence court after the
December 2005 disclosure that the administration had been conducting
surveillance without court review.

Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said he couldn't comment on the 
suit, but noted that orders of the foreign intelligence court have 
historically been classified. The Jan. 10 order "contains very sensitive 
information, including sources and methods'' of intelligence, Boyd said.

But Sobel said federal law prohibits agencies from keeping entire
documents secret if parts of them could be released safely. Whether
the foreign intelligence court will require wiretaps for each
surveillance is "the kind of question that could be answered without
compromising any national security interest," he said.

E-mail Bob Egelko at begelko@sfchronicle.com.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/28/MNGOCOCCVD1.DTL

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From: T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net>
Subject: Re: Troubles With Computers' Daylight Shift
Organization: The Ace Tomato and Cement Company
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:52:37 -0400


In article <telecom26.77.6@telecom-digest.org>, ozzy.kopec@gmail.com 
says:

> On Mar 16, 6:04 pm, Steven J. Sobol <sjso...@JustThe.net> wrote:

>> In article <telecom26.7...@telecom-digest.org>, Duh_OZ wrote:

>>> Tech showed up today to fix the clock on the XP (SP1) boxes.

>> Why on God's green earth are you still running SP1? Do you realize how
>> many security hotfixes you don't have installed on those boxes?

> We don't have admin rights so we can't do updates.  I did ask the tech
> why we aren't on SP2 and he replied "SP2 causes problems".  I then
> told him it has been a while since SP2 has been out, no?  He said
> "yeah" and left it at that.  My guess is "big brother" ordered no
> machines to be upgraded to SP2 unless absolutely necessary.

> At the end of next week I'll ask people in the main office (I am off
> site) if any machines are on DST.  Hopefully they will come up with a
> plan that doesn't include "just wait until 02:00 on the first Sunday
> in April" :0)

Your tech just doesn't want to be bothered, that's all. 

And there's a way around the admin rights on XP machines, it's called 
ophcrack. 

In article <telecom26.77.7@telecom-digest.org>, sjsobol@JustThe.net 
says:

> In article <telecom26.76.4@telecom-digest.org>, T wrote:
 
>> Our Debian boxes worked just fine, but we had to patch a couple of
>> older RH7.3 boxes.

> Here's the way it went for me:

> ** Suse 10: nothing required, it shipped out of the box with the
> changes.

> ** Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3: only needed to update the appropriate
> RPM package.

> ** Red Hat 8 and 9: too old to have updated packages, end-of-life
> products, and therefore had to download the tzdata tarballs and
> compile from source. Only took a few minutes for each server.

> ** Windows XP - there were some client machines that didn't update
> properly for whatever reason (all SP2, btw). Ours at home ... all
> three of them ... did.

> ** Windows 2000 - have to manually update DST data, but it's not
> difficult to do.

>> Same for me. Sounds like his host info changed and the server doesn't
>> recognize it. Time to hose the entry for his login in
>> /etc/sshd/known.hosts

> That's it. Although PuTTY is a Windows client, so the file is
> somewhere else. I forgot about known_hosts :)

No -- I meant on the server side. If you clear your machines entry on
the server it'll then re-set the key.

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From: Steven J. Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Subject: Re: Troubles With Computers' Daylight Shift
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:34:30 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Glorb Internet Services, http://www.glorb.com


In article <telecom26.77.6@telecom-digest.org>, Duh_OZ wrote:

>> Why on God's green earth are you still running SP1? Do you realize how
>> many security hotfixes you don't have installed on those boxes?

> We don't have admin rights so we can't do updates.  I did ask the tech
> why we aren't on SP2 and he replied "SP2 causes problems".  I then
> told him it has been a while since SP2 has been out, no?  He said
> "yeah" and left it at that.  My guess is "big brother" ordered no
> machines to be upgraded to SP2 unless absolutely necessary.

I didn't upgrade to SP2 until nine months after it came out, but once
I upgraded (after all of the issues were ironed out) I was fine. SP2
*did* cause issues when first released, but that was ... how many
*years* ago?

Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows
Victorville, California     PGP:0xE3AE35ED

It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Most Computer Attacks Originate in USA
Date: 19 Mar 2007 11:59:06 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


I have some questions on this report and would appreciate hearing what
other people think of it and expand on what was said.  Thanks!

On Mar 19, 2:00 pm, Jordan Robertson, AP <a...@telecom-digest.org>
wrote:

> Criminals may purchase verified credit card numbers for as little as
> $1, and they can buy a complete identity -- a date of birth and
> U.S. bank account, credit card and government-issued identification
> numbers -- for $14, according to Symantec's twice-yearly Internet
> Security Threat Report released Monday.

What is the original source for the stolen information?  Is anything
being done to stop the leaks?

> The legitimate owner of the computer typically doesn't know the
> machine has been taken over -- and the phenomenon is largely
> responsible for the palpable increase in junk e-mail in the past half
> year.

Is anything being done to notify the owners of such machines so they
can correct the problem?  If not, why not?

> Symantec said it expects to see more threats begin to emerge against
> Microsoft's Vista operating system.

Wasn't one of the big features of Vista supposed to be better security
to prevent that sort of thing?

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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:10:53 -0400
From: Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Most Computer Attacks Originate in USA


Jordan Robertson wrote:

> By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer

> The United States generates more malicious computer activity than any
> other country, and sophisticated hackers worldwide are banding
> together in highly efficient crime rings, according to a new report.

Might be true, but I would like to see a breakdown of types of
activity.

For example, I have an FTP server that is CONSTANTLY being attempted
to be broken into from Paris, Seohl, various locations in China, but
NEVER from the USA!

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