And you're listening to radio station WBAI in New York where it's 7.02 and time once again for Off The Hook. This is WBAI Live at 5 in New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New Okay. I just want to go on the record of saying that was not my fault. I held the right buttons. They just didn't work. And Ken, you're a witness, right? I'm a wit... Back me up at the hearing. Good. Good, okay, well the next problem now is my next CD is being held captive by the machine. Look at this. I'm hitting eject. It won't come out, it won't play, and that's one of my favorite CDs. It's the Dread Zone CD that I've been playing the last few weeks, and a lot of people have been asking about that. And now you know, and you may never hear it again because it's stuck in. Does anybody know how to open this damn thing? I hated when things don't work. And today, nothing has worked right. It's one of those days where, you know, everyone just feels compelled to get in your way and prevent you from doing the things you need to do. I've always made a point of telling my readers in the eight books that I have. Who are you? Where are you? Oh, okay. That was from the other studio. The other studio which somehow remained linked even though we unlinked it. That's great. Can you get my CD out of there? It's stuck pretty good, isn't it? Sort of ruins the whole effect. Everything was so together. Mike, you're back. I have these handy-dandy paperclips lying around the studio. Because this happens so often that you need paperclips to extract your music from these god-awful machines. Here's a paperclip. Yeah, take that. Don't electrocute yourself, though. Hi. It doesn't translate well over the radio. Well, then, Mike, how are you? You weren't here last week. I was not here. And Jim, you weren't here either, and I see your shining face across the hall there. Oh, it's a long story. Yeah. Well, try not to manhandle the microphone too much so he can actually hear what you say. It's a long story. Tell us the CNN Headline News part of the long story. That way we can get... Oh, I was a guest of the State Department of Corrections for a few days. You can't get that CD in this country, you know. I just want to point that out to the people who are trying to extract it now. What, the State Department of Corrections CD? No. No? Okay, now, seriously, now, you were basically charged by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Well, no, I was charged by the state of New York, but that's previous. I missed... But they started it. The MTA started the whole thing with the state of New York, right? Well, yeah, they, with the city of New York, the police department, they gave them some what I'll nebulously call evidence, or rather what I'll call nebulous evidence. And yeah, the process started quite a few months ago, got arrested, finally got indicted about a month ago. I'll just inspect you with some hanky-panky with MetroCards. Yeah. Thank you so much, man. That's what boils down to. Should I try it again? Gently, gently. Gently. Gently. You've got to touch everything so gently around here. The machines are as sensitive as the people. All right. What do you mean by that? And the next sound you hear should be the nice ambient sounds of Dread Zone. Wow. But they're not. Ah, there they are. Okay. No, that's not them either. Oh, because I don't have the right thing turned up. That was my fault. Okay. I'm sorry, Jim. So continue with... Yeah, that's okay. ...legal tribulations here. So, yeah, they indicted me last month. I had a couple of court appearances. I missed one because I misread the piece of paper that they gave me. Oh, really? Well, that's my fault. And, yeah, overall, it's my responsibility. But so I'm a day late, and I go into court, and I start asking around, what do I do? I would much rather not be arrested, you know, remanded until the next hearing. You know, it's a bad idea. So they said, well, contact your lawyer. Let him handle it. Are you sure, I say. Well, this teaches me never ask for advice until I've exhausted every possibility. And don't trust men in uniform on the ground floor. They probably know nothing. I don't think they gave me malicious advice, but they gave me wrong advice. So I spent a lovely two nights in the tombs. They put you in jail? Oh, my goodness. Knocked on my door? This reminds me of the Fiber story, where we asked them, is it okay if we drop him off because of the ice storm, if we drop him off, you know, later? And they said, sure, no problem. We bring him to the prison, and they just throw him in the hole for two days without telling him anything. But, what, you got thrown in the tombs? Yeah, they didn't tell me too much, either. No, they didn't tell me too much. It's not very comfortable. Yeah, I was aware of that. Great increased appreciation for Fiber and Bernie S. After just two little nights. What, not Kevin? Oh, yeah, Kevin, I'm sorry. He's going to be displeased to hear that. Yeah, but I only met Kevin a month ago. I mean, Fiber I met years ago. Bernie's a good friend of mine. I mean, come on. So were you in jail last week while we were on the air? Yeah, I was. I was wondering what happened to you. Yeah, I couldn't make a phone call. I really wanted to make a phone call. Collect to the station. Actually, I had a calling card I memorized. I had a touch-tone phone. I don't think you can use calling cards from jail. Well, it depends on what sort of phone you are. In the original holding cell, yes, it's a regular pay phone. And you can call collect. You can use coins if you have them. Really? Now, the tombs are down when? Chinatown, right? They're right next to the criminal court building. The address is actually 125 White Street. And it's connected via a bridge, nicknamed the Bridge of Sighs after the famous thing in Venice in the medieval times connecting the prison to the Doge's Palace. The Doge was the head of Venice and all his political enemies would go before him and then he'd just send them over this bridge to the prison. You must have spent hours discussing the history and the aspirations. No, I stayed to myself. I figured that was much safer. Yeah, that's horrible. So, two nights they kept you there. Anything happen worthy of note other than being bored to death? A lot of bored to death. Things that a hacker mind would see inside the tombs that perhaps we might appreciate. Yeah, I was trying to think of that. There's not much. I believe that I have a greater appreciation for anybody who's been in prison or jail or worked their way out of prison or jail because I was looking around just for the hacker mind not intending to escape. I figured I had enough trouble just missing a court appearance imagine the trouble I'd be in if I escaped. Just looking to see how feasible that was and that was pretty damn unlikely. So, all these guys who take a spoon and chisel through over six months or two years or whatever, amazing. And this is just from missing a court date? Oh, yeah. For showing up and saying that you missed the court date. Well, no, no, no. It was not getting back to them in the time that they wanted, obviously on my lawyer's part. Like I said, it gets worse, of course. Do you want to talk about the worst part? Oh, sure. We only have an hour. Oh, okay. Well, I'll make it really quick. My lawyer, who is not happy with the fact that I haven't paid him aside from the initial amount is now taking himself off the case so I'm one step above a public defender something called an 18B which is a real attorney that donates or is forced to donate I'm not sure how it works some time to... Technically, I'm an indigent defendant so I've gone down in the quality of my counsel and I have... Well, you can't have been too high in that regard anyway winding up in jail. That's a good point. Can't get much worse than that. They're supposed to keep you out of jail. Well, yeah, but on the other hand like I said, it's my responsibility if I had just read the damn piece of paper right I would have made the appearance the day before. But you see, when you have a lawyer they're supposed to also call you and tell you, remind you of things. I appeared in a deposition last week for the whole DECSS case yet again in front of the DVD Copy Control Association and I was reminded constantly by my lawyer that you have to be here at this time to take this bus to get there. We have one key difference. You're able to pay your lawyer. Well, actually, that's not entirely true but we'll get into that. Some other time. Well, it's a special case. Oh, okay. Whereas me, I'm just another peon in the system. That should not enter into it. I agree with that. Just like with medical care payment should not... A lot of things should be but you and I know that they're different. This is what I mean when I say that certain things should not be treated as commodities. You should have the right to competent legal representation and to competent medical care and all that. But I'm just going to get off on this. My vision of the world which you probably disagree with. Somewhat. Which is rather ironic in this situation. Yeah, it is, isn't it? Jeff. Yes. How are you doing? I'm fine. Much better than Jim, obviously. Yeah, but it's good to see him. Thank you. Thank you. It's good to see all of you here. It's a nice Wednesday evening. Even I can't get it right. So Jim, the next thing for you is what? Is there another hearing? Oh, yeah. Not to mention my bail being revoked. So I need to raise cash quick. Wait, if your bail was revoked then how do you raise... I don't understand. Did they raise it? No, it was on my own recognizance. Okay. So now you're worth something more than that. Well, I was always worth more than that. I mean, even my enemies agree. What are they asking for? I got to raise two and a half. Geez. $2,500. All right. Well, outside in the street after the show we'll be doing a little fundraiser for Jim. He'll join us. Address is 120 Wall Street. I brought my harmonica. All right, then. Well, there's so much we have to go through and I definitely want to pay attention to this as well but we have so many other stories to delve into. Well, Mike, you've been away. Anything you want to report on that has happened? I have a website for the audience. You have a website for the audience? Yes. I'm not sure I understand. They have to visit this website. Okay. What's the address? ColumbiaReallyDivest.org ColumbiaReallyDivest as opposed to ColumbiaDivest.org. That's a separate website that I'm not involved with. So this is like the tradition of Verizon really sucks. Yes. Okay. ReallyDivest. Did ColumbiaDivest, out of curiosity, ColumbiaDivest.org, was that taken by Columbia University? No, no, no. Okay. So it's not quite the same as Verizon sucks. There's also Columbia Don't Divest but they're totally separate. Who would start a website saying Columbia Don't Divest? Who goes to the trouble of doing that? It's actually the most popular of the three but listeners shouldn't even bother. All right. Columbia Really Divest. Really Divest. And Columbia's spelled with a U, not like the country. Right. Okay. And what's on this site? They'll have to find out for themselves. Well, there are people out there who are sitting, eating a can of soup over the sink right now that barely have electricity in their homes that don't have access to the Internet and they'd like to know what's on this thing. And if you go to their public library and look, they're in Burkino Faso. The public library where you'll be monitored by the federal government and all kinds of other agencies. And Sarif, I think you're the expert on that, right? Oh, unfortunately. You get monitored on the way over here? Yeah. I think that there was somebody following me. What's with this whole DARPA thing? What was it? The Information Awareness Office? Oh, yeah. Information Awareness. People have been writing in about this. Total Information Awareness is the buzzword. Total Information Awareness. Total, total, total. T-I-A. Yes. I see that phrase bandied about a lot now inside the Defense Department. How would you describe the logo? It's so 1984-ish. Right. Well, it's the pyramid with the eye on top, which anybody who knows about the Masons would be familiar with. It's an old Mason symbol, but it's also on the dollar bill, of course. And it's that eye on top of the pyramid peering at what appears to be our planet. People who are online right now, they can go visit this. www.darpadarpa.mil M-I-L slash I-A-O Right. And take a look at that symbol while you continue to describe it. While it's still there. Yeah. So that's it, and it says Scientia Espotentia, which is knowledge is power. He's looking at me like I speak Latin. No, wait a minute. You go to Columbia, Mike. It was the slogan of my... Knowledge is power. Wait, is that from 1984? No. Knowledge is strength is from 1984. Knowledge is power was the slogan of my junior high school, of all things. They haven't quite gotten to the point. They got it from Francis Bacon, circa 1580 or so. The English philosopher. Okay, now the purpose of this agency, it's been in a story on 2600, but the purpose of this agency, I'm kind of confused. I mean, there seem to be so many agencies like this popping up, but this one is particularly scary looking. Right. The logo almost says it all. Well, yeah. You got the eye. You got the planet. It's the planet, right? Right. Yeah. We are just a country on the planet. We're not the entire planet, at least not yet. Right. Well, you know, one of the funny things about the logo is that our particular continent doesn't appear on the globe. You see a whole lot of Europe and Asia, and you see Australia. Oh, so we're watching them. But we're on the other side. Well, you know, Australia is actually, appears to be on the dark side. It's on the part that isn't being illuminated by the all-seeing eye. Well, they're lucky then, aren't they? Yeah, for the moment. And then, of course, the all-seeing eye is certainly staring straight at the Middle East, but the whole fate of the Americas is really kind of unclear. But the idea is basically that, yeah, it's the all-seeing eye. They want to take all different sources of communications intelligence, interception of, and, you know, we're not just talking about interception like with a court order or a particular person's phone or anything like that, but the kind of dragnet echelon type of thing where you're pulling in all emails, all telephone calls, faxes, other kinds of electronic communication. And you're also pulling in all kinds of databases, whether they're government databases or private databases belonging to hospitals or your local video rental store or whatever. And they want to integrate all of these sources into one system where they can search it the same way that you'd search the Internet or they can run little spiders on it the same way that search engines spider around the web. Who is the they? Well, you see, that's the problem is that it's not really clear. I mean, DARPA is doing this, but DARPA isn't an intelligence agency. They're a technology agency. They're here to develop this stuff. So who's going to be in control of it? Well, I would guess the Office of Homeland Security, but they don't even really exist yet. Oh, but they will. They will. They will, but who will be controlling it? Who will be controlling it? And that's the problem is that, you know, even if Homeland Security is the most honorable bunch of folks that you ever met. Don't believe that. Well, if you just pretend for a minute, I mean, let's say that they're totally honorable and that they'll use this thing the way it really ought to be used. And heck, it's a powerful system and you could probably stop a lot of crime with it. But like I said, if you can read brainwaves, you can also stop a lot of crime. But who's going to control it tomorrow? I mean, once you put something like this in place, who's going to control it? Who's going to say who has access to it? And who's going to make sure that that's enforced? You know, even if somebody says, well, this is only something that can be accessed by such and such department. Well, I think you're being kind of negative here. I mean, it's not as if, you know, the watch lists that they put out on potential terrorists get out of hand, like that story that popped up on CNN the other day. U.S. watch list has taken on life of its own, the FBI says. That's right. FBI officials said on Tuesday they have lost control, that's their words, of an agency-created watch list of people wanted for questioning following September 11th terrorist attacks. They acknowledge that the list, which has gone through several manifestations, has taken on a life of its own and has shown up on several websites and contains names of people who have been cleared of any possible connection to last year's attack. The FBI said the list was not a list of suspects but people who agents wanted to talk to. So basically they're saying, we wash our hands of this, it's out there, and we can't control it anymore. But you know, I think the blame does fall squarely on them because who started the list? Who sent the list to various people who were irresponsible enough to send it all over the place? And, you know, who do we blame in the end? I think the FBI has got to take responsibility for this. A lot of innocent people are being targeted now who are not deserving of that kind of a thing. A law enforcement official compared it to the weekly terror bulletins sent out to state and local law enforcement partners. Once that leaves headquarters, we have no more control, they say. However, it's wound up in the hands of private enterprise. Apparently it gets sent to car rental agencies and other such places. Just for the sake of fun, I'm going to ask any of our moles in these places, if they have access to that list, send us a copy because let's see how easy it is to get a copy of this list. And you can send that to oth at 2600.com or just mail it to us or leave it on our doorstep or something like that. You know, if this thing is that kind of a thing security threat, let's see how secure it really is. I don't think it's secure at all. I think a lot of innocent people are being taken advantage of. And that's the same basic threat on all of these. You know, whether it's DARPA or whether it's FBI. Basically, when you start these things, yeah, they don't get dismantled. They stay there and they get abused. And before you know it, everybody is able to look up anything and find all kinds of personal information. There's no end. You mentioned Australia. Interesting things coming from Australia, too. Police in New South Wales will be given extraordinary powers to search vehicles, sites, and even a general quote, type of person, unquote. What type of person do you think they'd say we were? What does that mean? I don't know. I'd love to find out. A general type of person in the event of a terrorism threat or after a terrorist attack. Now, do they mean military folk, a general type of person? No, they mean that. It's not capital G. But it's interesting because, coincidentally, Australia has gotten that terrorist attack. They've received the terrorist threat, rather, that they were looking for so that enables them to do this. The Terrorism Bill, or otherwise known as the Police Powers Bill, would allow police acting on credible information to stop, search, and demand the names and addresses of anyone who fitted the broad description of a potential terrorist. Human. Is that broad enough for you? The Premier, Bob Carr, has outlined the details of the new legislation which he described as, quote, one of the most significant bills introduced into the New South Wales Parliament, unquote. Under the legislation, the police commissioner, the deputy commissioners, or in their absence, an officer above the rank of superintendent could authorize the search of people, vehicles, and sites and in the event of an attack, police could be given the same powers for 48 hours and the opportunity to extend that time if deemed necessary. It's like we're watching some science fiction thing unfold. It's unbelievable. You know, 1984 was on TV last night. The one from 1984 that was made in 1984. It was so familiar just looking at the people screaming at the telescreen and, you know, embracing Big Brother. It seems more familiar every day. You know, we were speaking to some of the people who were You know, we were speaking just a moment ago about this suspect list, but it's soon going to be a thing of the past. I mean, if you look at this example in Australia and if you look at the total information awareness example, the suspect list is going to be more like the phone book. You're not going to really need one because the exceptions will be the people who aren't the suspects. Yeah, absolutely. There's an excellent article in the New York Times They go into a little more detail. Yeah, actually that William Sapphire article I read that on the train the other day. I broke my promise and I took a train again on Long Island which I regret doing and I don't know if I want to get into this, but they really they did something but they lost a train. They basically lost a train. Well, they didn't really lose a train. What they did was they gave out schedules a week ahead of time so everybody got on the wrong train and it wasn't because we were still on the old schedule but they hadn't given out the new schedule so all these people were stranded. Like I said, I should keep to my promises. Is this one of these double-decker diesel ones that they're doing now? It was supposed to be but it wasn't. So there wasn't even any novelty to it. It was just standing on a platform for an hour. Anyway, about the target person they go into a little bit more detail as to what exactly a type of person is. We've made it very clear, for example, the description of Middle Eastern appearance would not be sufficient. It would have to go further in the detailing of that person. It may well be a Middle Eastern person with a beard and identification scarring. Hey, hey, wait. Uh-huh. What's this about the beard? Well, you don't look Middle Eastern. Not especially anyway. You don't have to worry. Also, speaking with the New York Times, the ID card incorporating biometric features would help stem the rising tide of identity theft. That's the other scare word going around. That's according to a security and surveillance forum that was held in Sydney. Australian federal police forensic expert James Brandy said a better system for verifying personal identity was needed and a national card was a matter of hours. Now, is this really true? I mean, yeah, somebody can, you know, can get a hold of your credit card, they can get a hold of all kinds of other things, but identity theft is, you know, it's something that I don't think is as impossible to deal with as the people who want you to panic are saying. There's something wrong with that. Well, you know, in these situations where people have their identity stolen and somebody's running around buying things as them or pretending that they're dead or something like that, the big problem always seems to be that when they call up these companies that think that they're up to something that they're not up to and they explain, well, that's just stupidity. That can be treated. 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