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Protesters attempt
to slam spy agency
By Ted Bridis
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — An ultra-se
cret spy network reportedly is
eavesdropping on e-mails — look
ing for words suggesting terrorist
plots and other nefarious acts —
and prompting angry Internet
users to try to overwhelm the lis
teners by flooding the system with
fabricated messages.
In an attempt at electronic civil
disobedience Thursday, organiz
ers urged Internet users on dozens
of Web sites and in discussion
groups to bombard the U.S. Na
tional Security Agency with mil
lions of e-mails with subversive
sounding language. “Give the
[NSA] their keywords!” one per
son wrote.
It was unclear who thought up
“Jam Echelon Day,” as it was
called in one message from an
Australia-based Web site, but the
intent was clear: Flood the NSA’s
powerful computers with enough
suspicious traffic to crash them
and disrupt the high-tech listening
system, code-named “Echelon.”
A1997 report commissioned by
the European Parliament de
scribed “routine and indiscrimi
nate” monitoring of fax, e-mail
and telephone messages in Europe
by the global spy network, which
it said was coordinated by the
NSA with the help of other na
tions’ security organizations. A
follow-up study for the European
Union this year found the same
thing.
Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., has said he
supports congressional hearings
to determine the scope of the spy
network’s capabilities and to pre
vent abuses. The network is said
to include a listening station in
Sugar Grove, W.Va., about 250
miles from Washington.
The NSA, which is barred by
law from spying on U.S. citizens,
declined to comment Thursday on
its network or the potential impact
of the day’s e-mail campaign.
“The agency doesn’t discuss al
leged intelligence operations,”
NSA spokeswoman Judith Emmel
said. “It doesn’t confirm or deny
any Echelon-type technology.”
But even supporters of the jam
ming campaign were pessimistic
that their efforts would have much
effect. They suggested the spy net
work was smart enough to ignore
the e-mails typically sent with
lists of random words, especially
since many of the messages were
in English — not in Arabic or In
donesian, for example.
“I think it will cause a lot of
laughter up at NSA, to tell the
truth,” said Wayne Madsen of the
Washington-based Electronic Pri
vacy Information Center, who
tracks news about Echelon. “If
they seriously think they’re going
to bring the computers at the NSA
to a grinding halt, they’re going to
be seriously disappointed.”
Escapee found in Oregon
TOOELE, Utah — A man police
say faked suicide to escape going
to prison for sexually assaulting a
12-year-old girl has been found
alive in a small town in Oregon.
Michael John Smith was dis
covered and arrested last week in
Madras, more than two years after
he was convicted of sexually
abusing his stepdaughter’s friend,
said Tooele County Attorney
Alan Jeppeson.
Smith waived extradition this
week and will return to Utah Oct.
29. He could face an additional
charge for jumping bail and is un
der investigation in a second
abuse case that was unfinished
when he disappeared.
Smith vanished in June 1997,
after he was ordered to undergo
an evaluation at the Utah State
Prison, Jeppeson said. The judge
would have used that evaluation
to determine Smith’s sentence.
While out on bail, Smith left a
suicide note saying he intended to
throw himself into a mine near
Stockton, Jeppeson said. At the
mine, authorities found Smith’s
clothes and some personal be
longings.
But the mine was dangerous
and police doubted Smith was in
side, so the Tooele County Sher
iffs Office never searched it,
Jeppeson said.
Smith was eventually found
through his Social Security num
ber when a Utah Department of
Corrections employee discovered
he had not been registered as a
convicted sex offender and began
looking for him.
Officials in Jefferson County,
Ore., contacted Utah authorities
last week and said they thought
they knew where Smith was living
but wanted a picture of him to be
sure.
When caught, Smith confessed
immediately, Jeppeson said.
“I think that he had thought
that it had gone away somehow,”
Jeppeson said.
Smith told authorities he had
spent about a year living in a cab
in in the woods before moving to
Madras and taking a job under an
assumed name, Jeppeson said.
Tooele County Sheriffs Detec
tive Judd Ericson said he posted
warrants on a nationwide com
puter crime network because he
knew Smith was not really dead
— in part because a Tooele Coun
ty Jail inmate who knew Smith re
vealed Smith’s plans to stage his
death.
“I knew someday something
would happen,” Ericson said.
“They always make a^mistake.”
The Associated Press
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