Not a Jim Stone Fan
Regarding Jim Stone ...
Jim Stone was never considered a useful source of nuclear disaster information.
During the early days of the Japan multiple meltdown, many interested Americans surfed the internet for nuclear news updates. Sources were rare, which was most peculiar. The USSR Chernobyl meltdown was extensively covered throughout the West. Oh, and mathematically 3 is more than 1. The ‘news blackout’ drew our attention, not the news. The news ‘management’ was TOO obvious. So, we surfed and compared notes. The information blackout related to the Fukushima Daiichi was the ‘big draw’.
To the best of my present recollection, the Jim Stone website was visited once, perhaps a handful of times. It did not serve my needs. I moved on. The Jim Stone posts on the BRAWM webpage did not interest me, until now. Now, for the same reason as before, I am interested.
Now, WE are watching. Now it matters.
Bill Duff
I may disagree
Jim Stone,
I may disagree with what you say, but …
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
S.G. Tallentyre AKA E. B. Hall
Then again, I may only disagree with how you say it.
In any event, go ahead on.
Sent to prison
Sent to prison
"What we have here is a failure to communicate!" (Cool Hand Luke)
The sale highlights a rift between the government of Germany and German corporations
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/13/europe39s-telecoms-aid-w...
William Daly, a former CIA signal-intelligence officer for the agency's Office of Science and Technology who retired in 2000, said the monitoring center in Iran will be used to “monitor dissidents and those ayatollahs who oppose the Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei].” In Iran, a country that frequently jails dissidents and where regime opponents rely heavily on Web-based communication with the outside world, a monitoring center that can archive these intercepts could provide a valuable tool to intensify repression.
Lily Mazaheri, a human rights and immigration lawyer who represents high-profile Iranian dissidents, said she had suspected that the government had increased its capability to monitor its perceived enemies. Recently, one of her clients was arrested because of instant messaging he had participated in with Ms. Mazaheri. “He had received a call from the Ministry of Intelligence, and this guy when he went to the interrogation, they put in front of him printed copies of his chats with me. He said he was dumbfounded, and he was sent to prison.”
The sale also highlights a rift between the government of Germany, which has endorsed diplomatic and economic pressure on Iran to curb its nuclear program, and German corporations that continue to export sensitive technology to Iran.
Siemens Prison
Welcome to Cyber Hell
Jim Stone,
Welcome to Cyber Hell, courtesy of Siemens et al. Deep packet inspection enables authorities to alter communications for disinformation purposes. This odious practice appears to have spread to several former democracies, including the USA. (online.wsj.com/article/SB124562668777335653.html)
“Iranian government appears to be engaging in a practice often called deep packet inspection, which enables authorities to not only block communication but to monitor it to gather information about individuals, as well as alter it for disinformation purposes, according to these experts. The monitoring capability was provided, at least in part, by a joint venture of Siemens AG, the German conglomerate, and Nokia Corp., the Finnish cellphone company, in the second half of 2008, Ben Roome, a spokesman for the joint venture, confirmed.”
Instant Message Surveillance - IRAN
Iran Instant Message Surveillance
"women's rights activists arrested in the nation had been shown transcripts of instant messages they had sent"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8112550.stm
Hi-tech helps Iranian monitoring
By Rory Cellan-Jones … Technology correspondent, BBC News
Data inspection Nokia Siemens, a joint venture between the Finnish and German companies, supplied the system to Iran. The product allows authorities to monitor any communications across a network, including voice calls, text messaging, instant messages, and web traffic.
In mid-June, the OpenNet Initiative, which surveys net-watching efforts, updated its survey of net use in Iran and said the nation was: "investing in improving its technical capacity to extensively monitor the behavior of its citizens on the internet." It said women's rights activists arrested in the nation had been shown transcripts of instant messages they had sent. "If true," said the survey, the evidence, "would support the existence of an advanced surveillance program."
Instant Message Surveillance
Siemens Euphamisms
Or, as Siemens prefers to phrase it …
“a comprehensive portfolio of applications and network infrastructures, including turnkey solutions and related services”
http://www.usa.siemens.com/answers/en/#681960
Siemens Enterprise Communications and Nokia Siemens Networks are the only supplier in the global market to provide a comprehensive portfolio of applications and network infrastructures, including turnkey solutions and related services.
George Orwell (AKA Eric Arthur Blair) was an optimist
Stone's website is truly
Stone's website is truly chilling.
This forum isn't much better.
This forum isn't much better. It's the virtual equivalent of a band of lunatics holing up in a Berkeley supply closet ranting and clamoring over xerox copies, stolen notebooks and old newspaper clippings.
Old News
IFF you would like some OLD NEWS
Siemens Bribery Record is VERY OLD NEWS,
http://www.answers.com/topic/1914
Japan's prime minister Count Gonnohyoe Yamamoto and navy minister Viscount Makoto Saito, 56, resign under pressure; they are held "morally responsible" for having permitted high-ranking navy personnel to accept bribes for placing large orders with Germany's Siemens-Schuckertwerke AG and then with England's Vickers' Sons and Maxim for communications equipment. Several scapegoats go to jail but Yamamoto and Saito are merely retired to the naval reserve. Yamamoto's government has reformed the nation's civil-service system and begun Japanese involvement on the mainland by demanding and receiving railway rights in Manchuria. Former prime minister Shigenobu Okuma is elected to serve in that post once again; now 76, he will head the government until he retires in 1916 (but see 1915). Yamamoto will become prime minister again in 1923, Saito in 1932.
No, this is NOT the Yamamoto who bombed Pearl Harbor. If memory serves this is the step-father of the WWII Admiral.
Lots of PRIORS for Siemens