From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V4 #105 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Sunday, 2 January 1994 Volume 04 : Number 105 In this issue: throwing sand in the All-Seeing Eye... Re: throwing sand in the All-Seeing Eye... Re: action plan for '94 See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TRADER@cup.portal.com Date: Sat, 1 Jan 94 12:29:16 PST Subject: throwing sand in the All-Seeing Eye... (this is a lengthy article about my plan to have fun with paranoid people in the US government) I've often wondered if various entities of the US government monitor the public messages in groups such as this or monitor unencrypted electronic mail. I've worked in the communications industry since 1987 and I know how easy it is to monitor digital communications -- in fact, it is often necessary to monitor data communications to find problems in the hardware or software. There have been rumors that NSA can scan international links for keywords like "MX missile" or "Stealth bomber". It's very easy to set up this kind of filter program -- for instance, if you mention Kibo in a Usenet public message, he will respond. With that in mind, I'd like to propose an experiment (maybe prank is a better description...). The following is a list of phrases that are put at the beginning of classified files by the US government. They are taken from Department of Defense manual DOD 5220.22-M and Title 32, Section 2001 Code of Federal Regulations. Note: comments are placed between square brackets, i.e. [this is a comment]. My experiment is to see what happens if you start putting some of these at the beginning of your Internet messages... [primary markings] TOP SECRET (TS) [markings shown in parentheses are accepted abbreviations. For example, you could just put (TS) on a document, instead of TOP SECRET] SECRET (S) CONFIDENTIAL (C) [additional markings] SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION [very secret intelligence information] (SCI) DISSEMINATION AND EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION CONTROLLED BY ORIGINATOR [this marking, also written as ORCON, is used on information that clearly identifies a US intelligence source or method] (ORCON) WARNING NOTICE - INTELLIGENCE SOURCES OR METHODS INVOLVED [this marking is used on information that could identify an intelligence source or method] (WNINTEL) SINGLE INTEGRATED OPERATIONAL PLAN - EXTREMELY SENSITIVE INFORMATION [US nuclear war fighting plans] (SIOP-ESI) CRITICAL NUCLEAR WEAPON DESIGN INFORMATION (CNWDI) RESTRICTED DATA - This material contains RESTRICTED DATA as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Unauthorized disclosure subject to administrative and criminal sanctions. [used for nuclear secrets that are below CNWDI] FORMERLY RESTRICTED DATA - Unauthorized disclosure subject to administrative and criminal sanctions. Handle as RESTRICTED DATA in foreign dissemination. Section 144b, AEC 1954. [this label applies to nuclear secrets that have been transferred to a military agency from the Department of Energy or it's predecessor, the Atomic Energy Commission] LIMITED DISSEMINATION [used on information in Special Access Programs] (LIMDIS) FOREIGN GOVERNMENT INFORMATION [classified material that originated with a US ally] (FGI) COSMIC TOP SECRET [NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) document that is classified TOP SECRET] NATO SECRET NATO CONFIDENTIAL NATO RESTRICTED ATOMAL [NATO nuclear secrets] NOT RELEASABLE TO CONTRACTORS/CONSULTANTS [this might be used if the powers-that-be are discussing cancelling a contract with an aerospace company...] (NOCONTRACT) CAUTION - PROPRIETARY INFORMATION INVOLVED [this marking is used on documents that would prove harmful to a company. For example, it could be marked on TRW documents that weren't supposed to go to Martin Marietta Co.] (PROPIN) REPRODUCTION REQUIRES APPROVAL OF ORIGINATOR OR HIGHER GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY. CLASSIFIED BY MULTIPLE SOURCES NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS [under no circumstances can this data be released, not even to a US ally] (NOFORN) [this is the dreaded NOFORN marking that Cliff Stoll jokingly said meant 'No Fornication' in his book "The Cuckoo's Egg"...] Paul McGinnis / TRADER@cup.portal.com ------------------------------ From: Mary Shafer Date: Sat, 1 Jan 1994 18:45:11 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: throwing sand in the All-Seeing Eye... Please don't send such messages to me. Since I sometimes telnet to this system while at work, I really don't want these things appearing on my screen. While you may chafe against security restrictions and think they're silly, remember that some of us would lose our jobs if we lost our clearances. Actually, I think you overestimate your importance in the Government's eyes, but I don't want to spoil your fun. Just leave me out. Regards, Mary Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR shafer@ursa-major.spdcc.com ------------------------------ From: Mary Shafer Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 00:56:56 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: action plan for '94 My employer is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I have a clearance and work on several restricted projects. I do not wish to find myself reading documents marked with security markings, particularly at work. It's bad enough with real classified documents and the security rag; I have no desire to have these spuriously marked documents pop up on my monitor. Just don't send any messages to me that look like classified material. That's not too much to ask, I think. I'm not stopping you from sending them to anyone else, just to me. If that means that you can't send them to the skunk works list, then you need to get your own list, unless you can convince the list owner to produce a subset of the list that doesn't mind. Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR shafer@ursa-major.spdcc.com ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V4 #105 ********************************* To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "listserv@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@ecn.purdue.edu". 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