Messages From the Past
| Wed Nov. 25, 2009 11:46 AM PST
Wikileaks has released an archive of half a million wireless pager messages from 9/11. Here's a random sampling:
13:37:52 All, feel free to work from home the remainder of this week. All is fine and I am in Kansas City now. I am attempting to get to Denver tomorrow, but do not know if I will get there or not.
13:37:52 Call me ASAP All TEA travel hasbeen cancelled until further notice. You will have to stay where you are for now.
13:37:54 ]!z00]"AJ];0a]<6America Under Attack ]<4Breaking News: ]<2The U.S. stock markets are closed u
13:37:56 National Preparedness Responce Team Update: Due to terrorist action in New York 23 DS3's leased from TCG are down
13:37:59 PLEASE CALL WIFE ON CELL OR ANYWAY YOU CAN.
13:38:50 IM GLAD YOUR SAFE. I LOVE YOU. CALL ME IF YOU CAN GET THROUGH. SUNSHINE
13:38:56 Russ, I am going to work from home, honestly I can not concentrate here, news, radio, hope you understand
13:38:56 Mike, The Center has been asked to evacuate
13:38:57 Pizza has been ordered if you haven't had lunch yet. Come by fish bowl. sd
13:38:57 YOUR SISTER CALLING TO CHECK TO SEE IF YOU ARE OK.
Where did all these messages come from? Wikileaks says: "While we are obligated by to protect our sources, it is clear that the information comes from an organization which has been intercepting and archiving national US telecommunications since prior to 9/11." I wonder who that could be?
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Submitted by steve duncan on Wed Nov. 25, 2009 11:51 AM PST.
I'd tell you but then Liz Cheney would have to kill you.
phone number
Submitted by gaardvark on Wed Nov. 25, 2009 12:07 PM PST.
Kevin, maybe you should remove the phone number in:
13:37:59 PLEASE CALL WIFE ON CELL OR ANYWAY YOU CAN.
13:38:50 IM GLAD YOUR SAFE. I LOVE YOU. CALL ME IF YOU CAN GET THROUGH. ########## SUNSHINE
Just a thought
> it is clear that the
Submitted by Anonymous33 (not verified) on Wed Nov. 25, 2009 4:50 PM PST.
> it is clear that the information comes from an organization which has been intercepting and archiving national US telecommunications since prior to 9/11
No it isn't.
It's clear that it came from an organization which has a record of pager messages. The rest is a leap.
odd
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed Nov. 25, 2009 7:28 PM PST.
I didn't see a single "WTF?", which I would have expected. However, those NT machines in cabinet 311R really need to be looked at...
Here's a beaut...
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed Nov. 25, 2009 7:40 PM PST.
"Frm: DKU@att.net Sub: Going to DC Txt: Well, night fall is here. Its time to do some looting. I need a microwave. Request???"
Did someone save the NORAD
Submitted by B on Wed Nov. 25, 2009 10:51 PM PST.
Did someone save the NORAD tapes?
All hail the FPGA
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu Nov. 26, 2009 12:21 AM PST.
> I wonder who that could be?
Any kid with a scanner or modified pager, several dollars worth of parts, a computer and some free software (I recommend pocflex) can do that. I was like 14 when I started but, like listening in on cell phone conversations, it gets old fast.
Its probably a decent way to keep track of fire brigades, which is why I suspect many news organisations do it around the clock. What I remember best is that during a heatwave a lot of computers and industrial systems send out automated warnings about overheating.
As far as I know the NSA is no longer all that far ahead from the average geek. Take for example the A5/2 encryption algorithm which is used to protect GSM cell phone conversations from eavesdroppers. The consensus among cryptographers is that it was designed broken during the paranoid cold war years. (one cryptographer on the ukcrypto mailing list claims a GCHQ person admitted this to him) Any day now the full rainbow tables needed to crack the encryption of all GSM calls in minutes if not seconds will be published. Then a couple hundred dollars worth of home assembled hardware competes with the stuff that costs tens of thousands of dollars for those with an end user certificate.
If you value your privacy you use GPG / PGP or S/MIME. (This is especially the case for those who are of interest to the rent-a-spooks from groups like the NRA. Those with the funding to pay someone to wade trough a lot of communications)
The point of pointing this out and making noise about this is that more and more banks are using GSM cell phone text messages to authorize online transactions of joe sixpack who has already been the target of a lot of phishers.
Absurd
Submitted by daCascadian (not verified) on Thu Nov. 26, 2009 10:21 AM PST.
Anyone that thinks the technology used on the civilian side is anywhere near "cutting edge" is really, really deluded not to mention uninformed. The lesson of this is that an individual needs to take responsibility (action) for one's own security in all things, especially communications over public channels like the the different phone systems, internet etc.
No Such Agency is simply the public face of a much deeper set of activities. Catch up to reality; start by admitting that what you are allowed to know is simply the surface of a very deep pool.
"If you don't deal with reality, reality will deal with you" - C.J. Campbell
You can go to the bank on
Submitted by KSA crew (not verified) on Fri Nov. 27, 2009 2:30 AM PST.
You can go to the bank on the fact that the end is very nigh for 911 liars, stalkers, slanderers.
As for those who say that it's not appropriate to release personal messages that were texted on 911.... People deserve the truth... What is not right [much less appropriate] is the continual lies and slander that has gone on for years.
Karma can be a b!tch. Justice is coming and those who deserve their "just desserts" will be finally getting them.
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