The Means and Methods to your Mind

A recent article featured on the BBC web page today concerning "Phorm", a new advertising search engine aimed at targeting advertisements based on search habits rather than content raises questions and concerns about internet privacy and legality. The new service tracks web users searches and targets advertisements based on interests that they have. It redirects users through it's service. It's hopes are to compete with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.

The company says that it allows the website owner to make more money and enable the smaller websites to obtain traffic and advertising revenue. The tracking of your web searching, otherwise known as micro-profiling is being practiced by all of the large search engines. While larger companies may balk at this new service, smaller websites caught in the mire of the massiveness and obscurity created by so many users of the internet may be a welcome opportunity for those with niche markets.

None of this however, takes into account the new means and methods to your mind. Technology has advanced so rapidly in the past few years that it is now possible to market directly to a human brain. What will happen when these search engines begin profiling your mind? In other words, your thoughts may lead to direct brain advertising. And it's not far into the future. It is happening already.

The Federation of American Scientists' blog and research project into Government Secrecy by Steven Aftergood has been tracking the secrecy issues surrounding the U.S. Government. A lack of information and disclosure by various U.S. Government agencies concerning "new means and methods" has everybody wondering... what are they hiding? Well, for one thing, the lethality of these so called "non-lethal" weapons used for mind control. It's a little known and not very well understood telemedicine capability involving software, hardware, brain and body implants. The terminology concerns the use of these with remote "haptics", or the ability to touch a person through the airwaves. A new world of wireless warfare is at hand.

Originally designed to jump start a person's heart during a heart attack by accessing their condition and sending signals to their pacemaker, these capabilities are just as vulnerable to hacking and profiling as your computer or cell phone. In fact, they use the same means and methods of delivery as the information that you receive on your screens. These technologies can access your internal organs as well as your skin. It is now possible to "send" smells, tastes, and sensations directly to your brain. Clearly, the potential for abuse is widespread with the integration of network systems. Imagine storing the sensations of a person burned to death in a fire and sending it to your friends by accident. They would experience the REAL sensations as though it were happening to them, yet there would be no evidence of their pain and suffering. Instead, they have no recourse for justice, a U.S. Constitutional right.

Governments are not immune to it either. Soldiers and children alike are now grouped into one big blob of GPS addresses. The frightening part is that these addresses are written on tiny little chips that are no larger than the sharp tip of a good pencil. It can be embedded in your clothing, your groceries, your electronics and your body. The smart cards and security initiatives of passports, drivers licenses and mail just give more people more ways to find you... and your children. It's what happens when they find you and who they are that is so important these days. Anonymity on the internet has it's place for privacy of the user but what about the privacy of an anonymous users' victims?

While budgets and abuses of the FBI and it's Infraguard program are coming to light in the wake of complaints by victims of companies who are subcontracted to the FBI, the ability of these companies to move from one secret U.S. Government program to another in order to "hide" their activities has become a concern. So has the "hiding" and/or erasing of records. Are these records true or false? Are they evidence of subcontractor company abuses on the public? Who created the records and how are they indexed? Is it possible to "falsify" a persons' thoughts?

Wireless technology in the form of Wi-Fi and Wi-Max is just now becoming worldwide in distribution. That means that everyone in the world will be accessible. Unfortunately, the health concerns are being completely overlooked. A recent study into the effects of wireless technology causing autism was squashed by articles everywhere that provided no links to the original study that showed clear evidence of wireless radiation and it's effect of concentrating toxin producing heavy metals such as mercury and uranium in brain cells. After a period of protection from wireless radiation, there was marked improvement in the subjects studied in terms of their cognitive skills.

In fact, as opposed to treating the subject as a communications technology issue, people subjected to abuse and access are termed "mentally ill" and sent into facilities for evaluations and put on drugs and surveillance. To further complicate the issue, the U.S. Government has DOD security sharing arrangements with countries such as Japan. Recent wireless spectrum auctions and plans for HDTV transitions all involve the potential for access to your brain. Companies and consumers are penalized if they do NOT buy foreign manufactured electronic equipment due to laws involving immunity from prosecution for companies such as AT&T, Verizon and others. No-one can (or wants to) take responsibility for the safety of the consumers and the public. Ironically, this is the Presidents' responsibility, one which he cannot exercise without correct information systematically being destroyed by secretive subcontractors.

Oddly, some of the worst abuses may have been perpetrated by subcontractors to the DOE. In addition to secret underground bases, they have a program to "test the endurance" of people via wireless technology. Anyone who has ever been a victim of "electronic harrassment" will tell you that the abuse was severe. Stories of torture via remote are all over the internet if you know where to find them. Services like "Phorm" may be finding them for you.

It is of concern to citizens everywhere, the ability to produce the reality of "water boarding" and "heart attacks" via remote wireless access. It is time to stop this "cabal" before a new "telemafia" emerges to destroy people in mass numbers. The recent attack on epilepsy patients who were "frozen" in place at the same time in different locations is an example of multiple massively parallel online gaming (MMPOG) taken to a new level.  Ages also, will be difficult to control. A joystick in the hands of a 4 year old playing a game or a terrorist is only a matter of data and what happens to it. Furthermore, without "auto law", who is going to protect your mind from perverts? The NSA? India?

All of these concerns and questions need to be brought into the discussion about the future evolution of these technologies... and what they mean for people everywhere. We are all experiencing the development of "big brother" and Orwellian thought control. Do we have privacy to protect or is it a matter of preventing our privacy from being eroded by surveillance? This is the debate over the next decade and beyond. We cannot afford to make a mistake. Reality and virtual reality must be a factor in the decisions about the future of planet earth.

Links:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/default.stm

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/

http://www.femtobeam.spaces.live.com/

http://groups.msn.com/CalenderClicker/messageboard

http://invite.gather.com/w?memberId=485573&wv=1&fw=http://samarobin.gather.com

April 9, 2008

Your Brain and Civil Rights

by

Robin Ore

Recently an article published in Wired magazine by Clive Thomson entitled, "Why The Next Civil Rights Battle Will Be Over The Mind" speaks about hypersonic sound being used to convey an audio message directly into a persons brain by targeting their position. This is done by multiple satellites comparing data in a 3D "map" to pinpoint a location. This can be done with your cell phone, your computer, the chips in your body, or via antennas and cameras in the area where you are located.

These new technologies are not new. They have been around for half a century, but only recently have become sophisticated enough to use on the population. Combined with micro profiling, they are either a useful tool to keep us safe or a way for thieves, rapists and murderers to access our brains. Telemarketers could literally drive you up the wall with constant "brain calls". Furthermore, there is no definition about it's constitutionality.

Sometimes referred to as "cloud computing" or "augmented cognition", these technologies will transform our very lives. But who is on the other end of your brain with the remote control? Where is the protection of your brain, your time, your health and your ideas? What about privacy? These are the questions that will be on the forefront of most peoples' minds over the next decade.

The use of millimeter wave antennas (MMW) or WiMax has begun to extend worldwide, replacing WiFi with a higher broadband capability and a greater range. Yet, it takes far less power than your cell phone to access your brain if you have implants. Your bioelectricity will carry the information to and from the implanted devices to your brain. Your brain then sends and receives the signals to your body. In other words, you can get zapped.

To complicate matters even further, it is now known that mercury and other heavy metals can be concentrated in the brain cells by wireless electromagnetic radiation (EMR), destroying tubules and producing toxins that destroy brain cells and contribute to autism in both children and adults. The study was immediately hushed and difficult to find but it was a legitimate evaluation and medical experiment by doctors. The children were kept away from all wireless technology to allow their brains to flush the toxins. Those who were able to remain "wire free" showed marked improvement in their cognitive skills.

The subconscious mind does not lie, although there is such a thing as "false memories". It can be argued that false memories can be put into your mind during your dream state by the same technologies. Sleepwalking and other hypnotic states can be induced by these technologies as well. There appears to be a trend toward blaming actions by people on their medication, but one wonders if the "electronic harassment" isn't the cause of the problem that leads people in droves to the nearest psychiatrist, who then prescribe medications.

The discussion now is using these technologies as lie detector tests, as outlined in the article. On the one hand, it can be argued that the First Amendment would prevent it's use. On the other, if a person cannot lie, justice will be done. That is, if you have not been the victim of experimentation, causing false memories.

It would be nice to just brain call your mother when you are thinking of her to say hi, but what if your mother is in the bathtub. No doubt about it, people now need a Vchip.

The Wired article about the massively parallel attack (edited by Cybercrime

Submitted by on Saturday March 29, @10:17AM

Politics  :  Security  

* Cybercrime reserves the right to edit out offensive language

Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer

By Kevin Poulsen 03.28.08 | 8:00 PM

RyAnne Fultz, 33, says she suffered her worst epileptic attack in a year after she clicked on the wrong post at a forum run by the nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation.
Photo courtesy RyAnne Fultz

Internet griefers descended on an epilepsy support message board last weekend and used JavaScript code and flashing computer animation to trigger migraine headaches and seizures in some users.

The nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation, which runs the forum, briefly closed the site Sunday to purge the offending messages and to boost security.

"We are seeing people affected," says Ken Lowenberg, senior director of web and print publishing at the Epilepsy Foundation. "It's fortunately only a handful. It's possible that people are just not reporting yet -- people affected by it may not be coming back to the forum so fast."

The incident, possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims, began Saturday, March 22, when attackers used a script to post hundreds of messages embedded with flashing animated gifs.

The attackers turned to a more effective tactic on Sunday, injecting JavaScript into some posts that redirected users' browsers to a page with a more complex image designed to trigger seizures in both photosensitive and pattern-sensitive epileptics.

RyAnne Fultz, a 33-year-old woman who suffers from pattern-sensitive epilepsy, says she clicked on a forum post with a legitimate-sounding title on Sunday. Her browser window resized to fill her screen, which was then taken over by a pattern of squares rapidly flashing in different colors.

Fultz says she "locked up."

"I don't fall over and convulse, but it hurts," says Fultz, an IT worker in Coeur d'Alene, Ohio. "I was on the phone when it happened, and I couldn't move and couldn't speak."

After about 10 seconds, Fultz's 11-year-old son came over and drew her gaze away from the computer, then killed the browser process, she says.

"Everyone who logged on, it affected to some extent, whether by causing headaches or seizures," says Browen Mead, a 24-year-old epilepsy patient in Maine who says she suffered a daylong migraine after examining several of the offending posts. She'd lingered too long on the pages trying to determine who was responsible.

Circumstantial evidence suggests the attack was the work of members of Anonymous, an informal collective of griefers best known for their recent war on the Church of Scientology. The first flurry of posts on the epilepsy forum referenced the site EBaumsWorld, which is much hated by Anonymous. And forum members claim they found a message board thread -- since deleted -- planning the attack at 7chan.org, a group stronghold.

Fultz says the attack spawned an uncommonly bad seizure. "It was a spike of pain in my head," she says. "And the lockup, that only happens with really bad ones. I don't think I've had a seizure like that in about a year."

But she's satisfied with the Epilepsy Foundation's relatively fast response to the attack, about 12 hours after it began on Easter weekend. "We all really appreciate them for giving us this forum and giving us this place to find each other," she says.

Epilepsy affects an estimated 50 million people worldwide, about 3 percent of whom are photosensitive, meaning flashing lights and colors can trigger seizures.

An anonymous reader writes "Wired is reporting that griefers accessed the support forums of nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation and used JavaScript and strobing GIFs to trigger seizures in users in what may be the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims.

"I don't fall over and convulse, but it hurts," says Fultz, an IT worker in Coeur d'Alene, Ohio. "I was on the phone when it happened, and I couldn't move and couldn't speak."

Epilepsy affects an estimated 50 million people worldwide, about 3 percent of whom are photosensitive, meaning flashing lights and colors can trigger seizures."
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/03/epilepsy

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Anonymous Hackers Track Saboteur, Find and Punish the Wrong Guy - UPDATED

By Ryan Singel January 29, 2008 | 7:59:26 PMCategories: Hacks and Cracks  

Anti-Scientology agitators have repeatedly harassed and threatened violence against a 59-year-old PG&E worker and his wife, who were mistakenly flagged as pro-Scientology hackers.

John Lawson, who lives in Stockton, California with his wife Julia, began receiving threatening phone calls around 2 a.m. Saturday morning. He didn't know why until THREAT LEVEL explained that a hacking group calling itself the g00ns (goons spelled with zeros, not goons with the letter o) posted his home address, phone number and cell numbers, as well as Julia's Social Security number, online. The obscene and threatening calls have continued through Tuesday, according to Lawson.

SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM FOR G00N's RESPONSE

The calls are just one small offshoot of an ongoing, larger attack on the Church of Scientology by a ragtag group of internet troublemakers who call themselves Anonymous. The group says it is targeting Scientology in part for its use of litigation to suppress unflattering documents on the internet.

Over the weekend, the g00ns thought they had caught a hacker who had busted into a server being used to help coordinate the online attacks and real world protests against Scientology.  But Lawson says the callers have the wrong guy.

"I don't even really know how to use a computer," Lawson said.

His phone just keeps ringing, Lawson said, and when he answers, callers spout vulgarities and threats and then hang up. On Monday, he got a call that seemed to originate from the Virgin Islands. The caller  threatened to kill him.

"They have got the wife really scared because they have my address," Lawson said. "I think I am going to buy me a gun today just in case."

The Stockton police came out on Sunday to take a report, and Lawson has put fraud protection alerts on his and his wife's credit reports.

Lawson wants his personal information off the internet but doesn't know who to talk to to get it down.

The address of the site with their personal information was shared in online chat rooms where members of a group called Anonymous congregate to plan attacks on the Church of Scientology. The site's URL was also submitted to Digg, where it made it to the front page.

Planning for those attacks was disrupted in the last four days by a counter-hack group calling itself the Regime. That group hacked and severely disrupted 711chan.org, one of the central planning facilities for the Anonymous attack. 

According to an e-mail from the hacker to THREAT LEVEL, the Regime's "main objective was to obtain logs and various data including user names and passwords" and "to take down our targets in the best way possible to bring as much embarrassment/shame as we could to the offending organization."

The hacker said his group turned over the purloined data to the Church of Scientology.

Soon after, the g00ns claimed to have found out where the Regime was hacking from, and managed to obtain personal information about the Lawsons. John Lawson believes that information came from Comcast, his ISP.

A Digg commenter suggested that the g00ns tracked down an IP address used in the attack on 711chan and traced it to Lawson. If that's the case, the group overlooked the possibility that Lawson's computer or router had been compromised and was used by the real attacker as a proxy that would hide the attacker's real location.

For his part, Lawson doesn't care about the how or why, he just wants the calls to stop.

"I called three news places in Stockton just to get something out there to let them know they have the wrong guy," Lawson said.

This isn't the first time that the anti-Scientologists have hit the wrong target.

Last week, participants downloaded hacking software that accidentally targeted a school in the Netherlands, rather than a Scientology site. That misfire lasted only a few minutes, but its lesson seems not to have been learned by online vigilantes who think their righteous ends justify illegal means.

UPDATE:  10:50 PST Members of g00n tell THREAT LEVEL that they immediately took down the Lawsons' contact info after seeing this story, but emphasize that they had nothing to do with the harassing phone calls and that they have not been involved at all in the Anonymous attacks on Scientology.

They say their motivation for posting the info was to send a warning to the Regime hacker in order to help their friend at 711chan.org, whose website was repeatedly hacked by the Regime.

They also said that the IP address associated with the Lawsons' had been used in attacks on 711chan for four days, and then later was used to access and probe the site where the Lawsons' info was posted. They say they called the Lawsons before posting the info to verify it, and swear that the person they spoke with sounded much younger than a 59 year-old man.

They further contend that 711chan's server logs showed that the IP address was associated with a computer running the Debian flavor of Linux, which casts doubt on the theory that the attacker remotely taken over the Lawson's computer. If that were the case the OS would have been a flavor of Windows. Another possibility is that the Lawsons have a compromised wireless router.

The g00ns say its clear something isn't right in Stockton and vow to figure out who the Regime is, but blame him for leaving a trail that led to the Lawsons, rather than using some sort of proxy or anonymizing tool such as TOR.

They forwarded THREAT LEVEL a transcript of a chat between 711chan's operator and the Regime hacker, which showed the Regime hacker trying to blackmail the 711chan operator into turning over information about the g00ns, by implying that not doing so would make him turn over more information to the Church of Scientology. THREAT LEVEL has no way of verifying that transcript.

Also on THREAT LEVEL:

·        War Breaks Out Between Hackers and Scientology -- There Can Be Only One

·        School Cop Investigated for Porn Link on Friend's MySpace Profile

·        MySpace Quietly Fixes Bug that Gave Voyeurs Access to Teens' Private Photos

·        Montana Governor Foments Real ID Rebellion

·        Dastardly Hacker Blamed for Campaign Typo

·        NSA Must Examine All Internet Traffic to Prevent Cyber Nine-Eleven, Top Spy Says

Elsewhere on Wired:

·        alt.scientology.war

·        Spy Gear and Police Tech at Homeland Security Conference

·        Photographer Captures America's Best-Kept Secrets

Photo: Victor Blue/Wired

Epileptics Attacked by Hackers (edited from sources)

Griefers Assault Epileptics Via Message Board

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Griefers Assault Epileptics Via Message Board

Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 29, @05:05PM
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An anonymous reader tips us to a story up at Wired reporting on what may be the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on victims. Last Saturday, griefers posted hundreds of bogus messages on the support forums of the nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation that used JavaScript and strobing GIFs to trigger migraines and seizures in users. For about 3% of the 50 million epileptics worldwide, flashing lights and colors can trigger seizures. "'I don't fall over and convulse, but it hurts,' says [an IT worker in Ohio]. 'I was on the phone when it happened, and I couldn't move and couldn't speak.' ... Circumstantial evidence suggests the attack was the work of members of Anonymous, an informal collective of griefers best known for their recent war on the Church of Scientology. The first flurry of posts on the epilepsy forum referenced the site EBaumsWorld, which is much hated by Anonymous. And forum members claim they found a message board thread — since deleted — planning the attack at 7chan.org, a group stronghold."

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The Cyberwars Begin

by

Robin Ore

March 29, 2008

The Cyberwar has begun. Today a group of hackers attacked innocent epilepsy victims using alternative wireless access directly to their brain pacemakers. It caused one to “freeze” in place, unable to move or speak. Now, what was once the purvey of intelligence agencies and top secret Government experimentation, (for the so-called ultimate soldier) and other endeavors, has been hacked and is being used by cyber terrorists against the population.

To make matters worse, these mind controlled hackers are attacking other mind controlled hackers and mistaking identities all over the world. They are stealing identities, assuming them and then duplicating them while wirelessly routing themselves from different locations at the speed of light. They are using stolen data from medical records and government data bases. They are micro-profiling the populations at large… looking for your children, your bank account information and your lifeline.

They are now using cell phone towers to wirelessly route, alter and send information to heart and brain pacemakers via what is commonly referred to as “haptics” software. This software is written in C++ programming language and uses standard Muse Continuum analog receivers and transmitters. It will be in your HDTV transition box by January of 2009.

Not only has wireless technology been proven to cause brain tumors and concentrate toxic heavy metals in the brain, it can now be used to kill you and force you physically to do what the sender wants. It can convince you that you are hearing voices and being influenced by the spirit world. You are hearing voices. They are subliminal messages “written” directly into your brain cells by radio waves, more specifically, Millimeter Wave Antennas (MMW) used for Wi-Max and Wi-Fi. The FCC just recently auctioned off your health and freedom.

The US Government itself is under attack and can’t do much to help you at this point. They are being manipulated by greedy communications subcontractors who want control and have it. They pass off liability either to the Government or to equipment manufacturers. Who are you going to call about your Sony HDTV box when it starts directing your life next year? The police? Nope. They will put you away or force you to take meds. They will tell you it is all in your mind… and it is.

Meanwhile, the deliberate takeover of the free world is underway and no-one is responsible. The US Constitution has been thrown out the window. We are all living outside the law. There is no way to redress grievances, peacefully assemble, protest, or oppose these “forces” without losing your rights altogether. Guns won’t help you, either. The “enemies” are invisible. The only way to try to protect yourself is with tin foil (deflects infrared radiation), and other physical means. For your children’s sake, learn about the dangers associated with cell phones and wireless technology, especially newborns.

It’s a different world. The future is now and we are in a new type of interconnected brain and body war. The Cyberwar has begun.