Image from Secret Bases website, whose text reads:
US Navy’s Marine Corps Security Force & Naval Criminal Investigative Service
and former GCHQ Eastcote, West London, close-up courtesy of Google Earth
The website entitled Cryptom provides detailed open- source intelligence on a platter for anyone who might care to use it. Indeed at the very top of their home page is the inscription:
Donate $25 for two DVDs of the Cryptome 12-years collection of 46,000 files from June 1996 to June 2008 (~6.7 GB). Click Paypal or mail check/MO made out to John Young, 251 West 89th Street, New York, NY 10024. The collection includes all files of cryptome.org, jya.com, cartome.org, eyeball-series.org and iraq-kill-maim.org, and 23,000 (updated) pages of counter-intelligence dossiers declassified by the US Army Information and Security Command, dating from 1945 to 1985. The DVDs will be sent anywhere worldwide without extra cost.
It should be noted that, in the intelligence field, they say that 95 percent of intelligence can be obtained via open source (at least in free societies, this is not true in Statist regimes, where even basic information is closely-guarded, punishments for revelations are severe and what information is publicly available if often used as ruse and deception) The other 5 percent, they say, is like a bikini, it’s only covers a small percentage of the nation’s secrets, but it’s a very important five percent.
Like anything security-related, we cannot expect any given secret to be protected by impervious, impregnable protection. Doors, locks, levels of security classification are founded under the principle at what difficulty or cost they will incur on foreign or hostile intelligence services to breach or obtain.
Why then, make sensitive information available to the Red Chinese, Cuban DGI, North Korea, Libya, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda and any number of hostile groups on a silver platter?
Taken from the perspective of someone or some organization who wanted to set up surveillance on US government officials, an installation, or transport of sensitive materials, conduct activities related to air transport, with nefarious objectives, Cryptom does a lot of their legwork for free.
For instance, one page details GPS Tracking of Radioactive Material Transport another details the counter surveillance and security, including a detailed look at security personnel and access passes which are then easily faked with the proper color paper and a laser jet printer by anyone, in links entitled Preparing for President Bush at Monticello, VA and Photos of Bush lying at Monticello.
Another page, A Practical Attack on the MIFARE Classic gives detailed methods on defeating security measures, such as MIFARE type security access passes:
Contactless smartcards are used in many applications nowadays. Contactless cards are based on radio frequency identification technology (RFID).... Some target applications of mifare are public transportation, access control and event ticketing.
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Other links include such wonders as:
GPS Tracking of Radioactive Material Transport
Israeli Police Stations Eyeball
Storage of Explosives During Transport
Classified National Security Information
Eyeballing US Secret Service Headquarters
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