‘Terror’ group’s IRC meets
p2p news / p2pnet: When a “shadowy group of disaffected urban youth” began talking in chat rooms in 2004, “espousing anti-Western views,” the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was listening, says The Toronto Star, going on:
“Often it’s just that – talk – but when CSIS began monitoring the sites allegedly used by some of the 17 men and youths arrested on terrorism-related charges in a sweeping series of raids across the GTA [Greater Toronto Area] Friday evening, the Canadian spy agency heard enough to remain interested, and increased surveillance of the group.”
Four months later, “two Americans, from the Atlanta, Ga., area, popped onto the radar,” says the story.
“According to the Los Angeles Times, U.S. authorities were also watching the two Americans, and at some point discovered communications between the men in Canada and Atlanta and other suspected terrorists overseas, including a group arrested in London last fall that counted among its members a computer specialist who used the Arabic word irhabi – for terrorist – as his Internet handle, Irhabi007.”
Surveillance and investigations continued until, by the end of last week, the police and security agencies felt they had enough to move in on the group, says The Toronto Star.
Charges include, “participating in or contributing to the activity of a terrorist group, including training and recruitment; providing or making available property for terrorist purposes; and the commission of indictable offences including firearms and explosives offences for the benefit of or in association with a terrorist group,” it adds.
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Also See:
The Toronto Star – Plot began in chat room, June 5, 2006
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June 6th, 2006 at 2:12 am
Interesting, in that this is the same “BigBrother” so often railed against, and yet not a comment here!!!
June 6th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
of course, it was the government that sold them the fertilizer. They can’t create their NWO police state without inventing the enemies!
And that soldering iron, the multimeter, and the grill , clearly terrorist tools, what else would such things ever be used for?
good thing theyre monitoring all our communications. see, if you don’t support your private conversations being eavsdropped upon then you are supporting terrorism!
June 6th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
“You are either with us, or against us”
June 6th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Well first of all everyone knows instant messaging and IRC is wire-tapped. Its been that way since 1999 that i can recall when the FBI first introduced their undernet project. Operation fastlink (fbi again) had its own Linknet server with linknet ircop. All IRCD’S are had.
carnivore (echlon for the older generation) has been around since what? 1996 or so?
The programmers of IRCD’s have bitched about feds approching them to build backdoors into their IRCD’s since when?? 1997 or so?
The Magic Lantern project has been around since when? 1999 or so?
All AUS traffic goes through gov servers. Same with UK. Think North America is going to be very different?
Think CSIS isn’t involved in this?
AUS legalized police and gov spyware/keylogging projects. FBI/cia fund similar projects. Think CSIS doesn’t?
The above is all pre- 9/11. Just a hunch, but i think post-9/11 involves more than the above now
IM/IRC, encrypted or not, all had or can be had. But this has been known since the late 90’s.
I am very sure this will push (Canadian) bill C-74 (don’t know if an article was ever done here on C-74). But Canadians should be aware of it. Its also known at the MITA act or most commonly known as “lawfull access”.
There is now even a gov “CYBER SECURITY TASK FORCE”
http://direct.srv.gc.ca/cgi-bin/direct500/XEou%3dOACSTF-BSGTC%2cou%3dCSTFS-GTCS%2cou%3dCSTFS-GTCS%2cou%3dPSEPC-SPPCC%2co%3dGC%2cc%3dCA
Now with the above comes responsibility of informing the public and having other groups involved like a member of the privacy commissioner etc to keep an eye on things as a 3rd party to protect rights.
Its inevitable today. But what is not acceptable is what happening in the States with mass communication mining w/o peoples knowledge and no watch-dog to over-see and protect rights etc.
Bill C-74 was rejected for this. But i am sure this will now be revisited very shortly again. Keep your eyes open for it.
Don’t even think for a second your encrypted irc channel, regular irc channel, SSL IRCD with blowfish encrypted channel is safe and only you can see it…. Puh-lease.
If i’m not mistaken, current laws allow CSIS to tap you, no court order required, as opposed to other “police” agencies.
So bitch about the gov about what? Things people should know and should have known about since 1997 when this info was first reported?
National security, and the mass mining/profiling of ordinary people are two different things. And, the rejection of bill C-74 shows this and supports this, in my opinion.
Then again, I support that illegal Alien picking yuur locks stealing your salami sandwhich and… i won’t say it, to f’n rude.
June 6th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
No food here bro…
June 6th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
“Only a Sith deals in absolutes.” – Obi Wan Kenobi
June 7th, 2006 at 9:25 am
no bait.. I’d never go there again.
Difference of views…
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