New Update to THE LIFEBOAT STRATEGY

If you own a copy of the third edition of my book THE LIFEBOAT STRATEGY, I've just completed a 19-page update to it.  You can download this update at http://www.nestmann.com/lifeboat_updates_0810.pdf or by clicking here.

All of these update will be incorporated into the 2011-2012 edition of this book, which I anticipate publishing in early 2011.

Comments

[Cesare Bonventre]

Wow!

Your item 54 - Hushmail is compromised

Formerly out of Anguilla with encryption designed by Zimmerman (inventor of pgp), apparently now a Canadian company and totally useless!

[Mark Nestmann]

I disagree. Hushmail is still very useful. The company only turned over evidence to U.S. prosecutors after it was ordered to do so by a Canadian court. In contrast, under the Patriot Act, a U.S.-based company could have been served with a National Security Letter and forced to turn over account records without a court order.

[Cesare Bonventre]

Since invoking the Patriot Acts I & II and evolution of the Victory Act; amendments to the Communications Act; FISA Amendments Act of 2008; FBI marriage to ChoicePoint (and use of Magic Lantern, Carnivore & Acxiom); HR 418 the REAL ID Act; Bennis v. Michigan; Steven A. Magritz Dane Case # 02CF001170 - State vs Steven A. Magritz; advent of CODIS; National Space Policy (USA Fed is king of the universe – e.g., Space Equity Acts, Commercial Space Transportation Acts, Space Exploration Acts, et al.); Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act; Office of Information Awareness criminal John Poindexter; DARPA; CAPS II; evolution of HR 1955 and S. 1959 (evil thought & thought crimes Bill) & Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007; Military Commissions Act of 2006; We the People v. US no 04cv01211 (no 05-5359; Shultz v. IRS case 06-MC-131; Ed Brown v. IRS (New Hampshire 2006); flurry of forfeiture cases decided by the United States Supreme Court that allows courts to seize “guilty property” at will for “morals violations” (US v. Halper, Austin, Kurth Ranch, etc., all separate cases); Fed Plans To End The Internet And Start Internet II – Restricted (also see Senate Bills 773 & 778); Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States (http://tinyurl.com/washpost-hidden-world); (cont part 2)

[Cesare Bonventre]

(Part 2 cont)
Goggle wi-fi spying for FED, (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/19/report-intelligence-grown-control/); FEDs proposed online ID system called, “Identity Ecosystem” see: National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace http://www.nstic.ideascale.com/); FED admits to routinely violating US Constitution; etc.; it was disclosed last week by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times: Using broad government subpoenas, these FED programs allow U.S. counterterrorism analysts, inter alia, to obtain financial information from a vast database maintained by a company based in Belgium, (which routes about 11 million financial transactions daily among 7,800 banks and other financial institutions in 200 countries). I don’t see any court oversight there!

Out of the hundreds of thousands of subpoenas requested by the FED (many in clear violation to the US Constitution) do the courts actually refuse? Statistically it is one out of every 83,000 requests – Hardly reassuring to me! It seems the courts in America are merely a rubber stamp for so-called Law Enforcement!

I feel a better solution to internet security might be PRQ Inet; or creating a sovereign & private internet backbone in Dominica, (if you can convince SAT Telecommunications Ltd. to offer those services)