COMPLICIT ENCRYPTION GEEKS ENABLE THE AMERICAN SPY STATE

The invasion of America’s privacy is not possible without the support of encryption engineers

Contributing Writers | Opinion | AMERICANS FOR INNOVATION  | Nov. 06, 2015, Updated Mar. 30, 2017 | PDF

Fig. 1—Adolf Hitler relied upon his "Brownshirts" to spy on rivals.

In 1921, Adolf Hitler organized a group to protect his political rallies. They became known as Brownshirts (also stormtroopers, Sturm Abteilung – SA) after the color of their uniform shirts. Their activities evolved from protecting Hitler and Nazi meetings to disrupting the activities of those who opposed him. As Nazi influence grew, the Brownshirts gained a reputation as a well-organized gang of violent thugs. They became Hitler’s private army that led the violence on Kristallnacht (the "Night of the Broken Glass") in November 1938 that destroyed about half the synagogues in Germany and thousands of businesses, and sent tens of thousands of innocent citizens to camps (including the business and family of an AFI contributing writer, God rest their souls).

Encryption engineers are modern day Brownshirts?

While they put many off of Nazism, others were attracted to the group’s discipline. In 1934, to consolidate his power, Hitler ordered the killing of 85 Brownshirt leaders in a “blood purge” that became known as the “Night of the Long Knives.” These hits were carried out by the SS and Gestapo, the secret police of his emerging regime. Germany’s courts turned a blind eye to the murders, a judicial failure that ushered in Hitler as “the supreme judge of the German people.” Hitler then proceeded with his Third Reich eugenic vision of German superiority. (Eugenics: literally “well born”—a set of beliefs and practices that aimed to improve the genetic quality of humanity). IBM provided Hitler with computers to catalog Jews, Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals and political opponents.

America's encryption engineers are betraying our trust, just like Hitler's Brownshirts betrayed their own parents, colleagues, neighbors and relatives. No German was immune from their treachery. The American Spy State Cartel (a) spies on everyone, (b) harasses rivals, (c) supports eugenics, (d) is supported by complicit federal judges turning a blind eye to the law, and (e) presses Obama-Hillary's policy for the "harnessing of private incentives to public goals." They also (f) support IBM who formed The Eclipse Foundation in 2001 and created Facebook along with the rest of social networking industry which compiles detailed "dark profiles" on every person on the planet. These are all disturbingly similar attributes to Hitler's fascism.

Photo: The Holocaust Explained.

(Nov. 06, 2015)—The invasion of America’s privacy in the Digital Age is not possible without the support of encryption engineers.

Technically, politicians and bureaucrats don’t breach your privacy, encryption engineers do. So what has gone wrong with the morality of these talented people? This post will review the facts and leave the moral questions for later.

Encryption engineers manage the digital keys that lock and unlock your data “at rest” (stored) and “in motion” (moving through the Internet).

Encryption must be regulated in public, not by spies, bankers, corrupt judges and greedy lawyers

To date, this esoteric, but all-important task of data encryption has been the murky domain of spies, lawyers and bankers, FISA court judges and tech geeks (the “Spy State Cartel”).

Encryption scrambles the contents of your messages then files and unscrambles them once they reach their intended destinations using digital keys managed by encryption engineers.

For example, the phrase “your cancer treatment program” would be encrypted with a digital key and travel through the Internet as “Qij\aq6NB5Lf@;kndFq7CN{Q{." So, even if it was intercepted it could not be read. The theory is that this knowledge of your medical condition would remain confidential between you and your doctor.

The Big Privacy Lie

That is the BIG PRIVACY LIE. The fact is, the Spy State Cartel knows about your cancer and stores that information (along with every other detail about your life) in a “dark profile” maintained on you offshore—out of the reach of the U.S. Constitution.

Only the NSA and their “public-private partner” commercial crony accomplices have access. See President Obama Executive Order No. 13691, Feb. 13, 2015—Promoting Private Sector Cybersecurity Information Sharing.

Photo: Edward Snowden, Digital Trends.

On Jun. 06, 2013, we first learned from NSA whistleblower and American patriot Edward Snowden that all of the major American Internet and telecommunications providers have given the NSA a backdoor master encryption key to all your data.

Your personal information is private in any form

Think about it. Would you be incensed if you arrived home tonight and discovered a person rummaging through your file cabinet? Of course you would. You'd call the police. What if it was the police, along with the phone company, a local politician, your and a group of local business leaders, just nosing around? You'd call out the hounds.

So then, why do you allow that very same activity to occur on your computer and phone just because you cannot see the bits and bytes through which they rummage? Put your foot down. Now!

These same providers colluded with former law professor James P. Chandler and crony commercial lawyers via the IBM Eclipse Foundation (2001) to write convoluted “end user license agreements” (EULA) where you agreed to give up your privacy in exchange for free applications and services, like email and document sharing. Stop signing and supporting this sneaky, slimy lawyering. Stop using providers that invade your privacy with such sneaky, abusive practices.

For example, Facebook’s EULA first states “You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook.” Sounds good, but then in the very next sentence you give up those rights “you grant us a . . . worldwide license to use any IP [intellectual property] you post.” It’s much worse, but the point is made.

Our encryption geek sons and daughters have betrayed us

These recalcitrant geek children of ours have allowed this unprecedented assault on our Constitutional rights to privacy and property. They don't appear to care, so let's give them motivation to care. Expose them.

When the NSA comes knocking at the door of an American company, they should be told "NO, you don’t have jurisdiction inside the borders of the United States." But, our encryption engineering children don't fight for our property and privacy rights. Instead, they just give them the backdoor keys and cash the bribery checks, in our opinion.

Bookmark: #drbg-list

Who are these encryption engineers?

The National Institute of Standards (NIST) is required by law to publish a list of companies and their hardware and software products that include a “DRBG Algorithm” which likely gives the NSA and their commercial cronies a permanent backdoor. This list includes contact names and addresses.

See Perlroth, N., Larson, J., Shane, S. (Sep. 05, 2013). N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web. The Wall Street Journal.

The NIST DRBG Validation List is formatted oddly [NOTE, Mar. 30, 2017: This file has been removed from the NIST website—see HTML | PDF versions reproduced from the file when it was available.] Part of each table entry scrolls off the page. Printing cuts off the disclosure about DRBG algorithms, and it is over 200 pages. Experienced investigators say such unwieldy government disclosure files are common in agencies with something to hide from public scrutiny.

Here are properly formatted versions of the NIST file: HTML | PDF (Thank you to AFI researchers. It took eight hours to fix.)

The list has over 900 entries currently. It reads like a Who’s Who of Internet, computer, software  and telecommunications providers. Includes on the list are Microsoft, Dell, IBM, Cisco, Kapersky, Red Hat, Samsung, Motorola, Sonus, HP, Palo Alto Networks, Apple, McAfee, Oracle and Northrup Grumman.

Left & Right United Against Obama's Spy State

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Uncannily, the same companies are members of IBM’s Eclipse Foundation (2001). These companies all relied on Leader Technologies' social networking invention stolen by Professor James P. Chandler and the IBM Eclipse Foundation in 2001-2002.

Below are 133 of the most recent entries. Is your son, daughter, friend, or classmate on this list? Ask them why they are complicit or silent about this historic abuse of privacy. Ask them about their “sudden newfound wealth” (very likely for active colluders).

Their investments will likely focus on fellow Cartel members like JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, UBS, Fidelity, Vanguard, T. Rowe Price, TIAA-CREF, Baillie Gifford, Credit Suisse, Barclays, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and BlackRock. A trip to the Cayman Islands may have been in their vacation schedule.

Sons & Daughters Who may be Betraying our privacy — Encourage them to whistleblow and stop this madness

DRBG (Deterministic Random Bit Generator) Validation List, NIST, selected entries from the most recent 133 entries (over 900 total entries). Accessed Nov. 05, 2015. Click here for an Excel spreadsheet | PDF from which the following names were selected.
Company	Name (last, first)	Email	Phone	City	State
Apple Inc	Geddis, Shawn	geddis@apple.com		Cupertino	CA
Alcatel-Lucent	Nothaft, Alfred	alfred.nothaft@alcatel-lucent.com	+ 1-972-477-5087	Ottawa	Canada
Alcatel-Lucent	Rajsic, Carl	carl.rajsic@alcatel-lucent.com	+ 1-613-784-6218	Ottawa	Canada
Dell Inc.	Mandava, Srihari	srihari_mandava@dell.com		Santa Clara	CA
Dell Software Inc.	Sanagala, Usha	usanagala@sonicwall.com	408-962-6248	Santa Clara	CA
General Dynamics	Aylesworth, David	David.Aylesworth@gd-ms.com	781-400-6527	Needham	MA
Harris Corporation	Kwak, Suzanne	skwak@harris.com	585-242-4686	Rochester	NY
Harris Corporation	Ruggieri, Steven	sruggi01@harris.com	585-239-7806	Rochester	NY
HP Security Voltage	Martin, Luther	support@voltage.com	408-886-3200	Cupertino	CA
Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Johnson, Matt	matt.johnson@hp.com	402-758-7262	Omaha	NE
Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Kuriyavar, Nagesh	nagesh.kuriyavar@hp.com	402-758-7262	Omaha	NE
Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Pittman, Bob	bob.pittman@hpe.com	978-264-5211	Littleon	MA
Hewlett-Packard	Drew, John	john.drew@hp.com	+ 44-560-109-0356	Bristol	UK
Hewlett-Packard	Laredo, Laura	laura.loredo@hp.com	+ 44-117-316-2462	Bristol	UK
Hewlett-Packard Company	Dhillon, Harjit	Harjit.dhillon@hp.com	916-501-1426	Sunnyvale	CA
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.	Luciani, Luis	luis.luciani@hp.com	281-518-6762	Houston	TX
IBM	Knibloe, Christine	cknibloe@us.ibm.com	412-977-9398	Tucson	AZ
IBM Corporation	Fraser, Marie	fraserma@ie.ibm.com	+ 353 (21) 730-6043	New Brunswick	Canada
IBM Corporation	Hernandez, Sandra	hsandra@us.ibm.com	512-286-5624	New Brunswick	Canada
IBM Internet Security Systems	Leake, Sheena	sleake@us.ibm.com	404-238-5565	Atlanta	GA
IBM Internet Security Systems	Moultrie, Ferrell	fmoultrie@us.ibm.com	678-234-4069	Atlanta	GA
Intel Corporation	Nissen, Andy	andy.nissen@intel.com	651-628-5385	Santa Clara	CA
Motorola Solutions Inc.	Nguyen, Tom	kxp467@motorolasolutions.com	847-576-2352	Schaumburg	IL
Motorola Solutions Systems	Chmiel, Tomasz	tomasz.chmiel@motorolasolutions.com	+ 48-12-29-79-000	Krakow	PL
Motorola Solutions Systems	Rypina, Tomasz	tomasz.rypina@motorolasolutions.com	+ 48-12-29-79-000	Krakow	PL
Northrop Grumman MS Network Security	Howard, Kristian	kristian.howard@au.ngc.com	+ 611300365893	Braddon	Australia
Northrop Grumman MS Network Security	Hoyle, Warwick	warwick.hoyle@au.ngc.com	+ 611300365893	Braddon	Australia
OpenSSL Software Foundation Inc.	Marquess, Steve	info@openssl.com	877-673-6775	Adamstown	MD
Oracle Communications	Mathiyalagan, Madhu	madhu.mathiyalagan@oracle.com	781-538-7514	Bedford	MA
Oracle Communications	Suares, Nikhil	nikhil.suares@oracle.com	781-538-7568	Bedford	MA
Palo Alto Networks	Bajic, Jake	jbajic@paloaltonetworks.com	408-753-3901	Santa Clara	CA
Palo Alto Networks	Bishop, Richard	rbishop@paloaltonetworks.com	408-753-4000	Santa Clara	CA
Qualcomm Technologies Inc.	Liong Ling, Yin Ling	yliong@qti.qualcomm.com	858-651-7034	San Diego	CA
Red Hat, Inc.	Rubin, Ann-Marie	arubin@redhat.com	978-392-1000	Raleigh	NC
Samsung	Ahn, Changsup	cs77.ahn@samsung.com	+ 82-10-3173-9021	Gyeonggi-do	Korea
Samsung	Park, Jisoon	js00n.park@samsung.com	+ 82-10-4556-5007	Gyeonggi-do	Korea
Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd.	Burnham, Kim	bumhan.kim@samsung.com	+ 82-10-9397-1589	Gyeonggi-do	Korea
Security First Corporation	Orsini, Rick	rorsini@securityfirstcorp.com	949-858-7525	Rancho Santa Margarita	CA
Sonus Networks Inc.	Chan, Nui	nchan@sonusnet.com	1-855-GO-SONUS	Westford	MA
SUSE LLC	Biege, Thomas	thomas@suse.de	+ 49-911-74053-500	Cambridge	MA
SUSE LLC	Hager, Michael	mike@suse.de	+ 49-911-74053-80	Cambridge	MA
Toshiba Corporation	Kimura, Akihiro	akihero.kimura@toshiba.co.jp	+ 81-45-890-2856	Tokyo	Japan
ViaSat Inc.	Naik, Savitha	savitha.naik@viasat.com	740-476-7416	Carlsbad	CA
ViaSat Inc.	Suksumrit, David	david.suksumrit@viasat.com	760-476-2306	Carlsbad	CA
Vmware Inc.	Betts, Eric	betts@vmware.com	1-650-427-1902	Palo Alto	CA
Vmware Inc.	Sturdivant, Gary	gsturdivant@vmware.com	1-650-427-4429	Palo Alto	CA
Vocera Communications Inc.	Crispin, Jacob	cjacob@vocera.com	918042654719	San Jose	CA
Vocera Communications Inc.	Keunemany, Ammath	akeunemany@vocera.com	408-882-4615	San Jose	CA

How can you stop the spy state?

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For starters, the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment empowers Congress to legislate a payday for Leader Technologies shareholders. This would provide adequate financing for Leader to offer a rational social networking environment—one that offers the application utility that people have come to enjoy about Leader’s invention without sacrificing security and privacy.

Contact your elected representatives and ask them to use Congress' power of the purse to pay Leader Technologies and unplug the Cartel.

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