COTS RF disrupts Weapon Systems
Trolling the Internet easily locates experiments created by individuals functioning
outside what might be considered the usual. Sobczak created several items that
constitute an experimental weapon system. Our WS category explains the
Cadillac as the platform for a Tesla type weapon protected by unanticipated uses
of common RF technologies. The entire system cost less than $10,000. It worked.
Over time we will add detail of Sobczak's experiments with mind manipulation,
signal stealth, RF countermeasures and electronic bullets. United States Security
is at risk. Unfortunately, the ego bound in management positions of the Defense and
Homeland Security agencies ignore these successes.
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Proposer: Thomas V. Sobczak, Consultants
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Topic: Uncovering Weapons and Disabling RF conceived outside the
Military
Submitted: June 25, 2008
Dr. Thomas V. Sobczak, is authorized to represent Thomas V. Sobczak,
Consultants
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Thomas V. Sobczak PhD
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TITLE: Uncovering Weapons and Disabling RF conceived outside the Military
ABSTRACT
Weapons, that re-engineer American technology, are available in cyberspace. The
Military comes in contact with unanticipated threats from equally unanticipated, sometimes
friendly sources. Sobczak proposes to define the universe of unintended applications
emanating from hobbyist experimentation and leaked programmatic information. Hobbyists
have the means, using commercial off-the-shelf electronic components, to jam, saturate,
manipulate, and produce methods that define and/or control existing weapon systems.
Sobczak proposes to establish a wordbook of available technological information
and suggest off-the-shelf equipments and software systems that can interdict and corrupt
military weapon systems. The weapon systems of the United States are at risk and under
attack by the curious.
INTRODUCTION
Sobczak's accomplishments are uncompromisingly specific concerning vulnerabilities and
the threats to western systems, telecommunications and military equipments. We suggest
that a reviewer view http://sobczaksays.org to obtain an idea of our successes. We have
not attempted to be detailed in this proposal in the interest of national security.
Sobczak seeks funding to identify, define, recreate and develop experiments unanticipated
by weapon systems planners. By establishing baseline probabilities for experiment
success we will produce a convenient method for evaluating the effect of unplanned
improvements. We foresee examining how a particular circumstance or trend affects the
likelihood of all other events to which it is related. Sobczak will define threats by
construction of theoretical models (computer games and simulations) affecting currently
functioning weapon system sensors and code (soft and embedded).
Sobczak has located dozens of weapons capable of being reproduced at home by
hobbyists, terrorists and spies. We have amassed hobbyist text, some of which has been
indexed and structured, to test the methods and procedures of a logic set we term
SEGMENT INDEXED INTEGRATED DATABASES (SIID). We ask that you sponsor our
unusual talents to identify and exploit critical technologies by identifying their transfer from
secure environs into the ether.
Sobczak has created a system, without equal, for the collection of weapons
experimentation, harvesting data from the DDN, Internet, FTP, Telenet, direct dial Bulletin
Board Systems and special interest groups and clubs that tangent from them. Our
contacts range from Military web sites to BBS to LD BBS on-line inside American, Asian,
Mideast, European and third world countries. The experiments we locate and re-engineer
are working models of counter force that threaten field activities. Their components are
typically available from hobby and electronics component vendors.
Beyond destructive RF affecting equipments, Sobczak has researched specific topics such
as Psyops, i.e., prescribed signals used to compromise computers and condition user
response. Sobczak developed a source list of hobbyist researchers and relevant facts
about their experiments. Foreign agencies are performing similar research, either
knowingly or as a consequence of efforts located in the public domain.
Sobczak acceptance among aggressor technologists is based upon our ability to speak
the experimenter's language and our success at disrupting aggressor games to earn
"super user" privilege level in a community that thrives upon a "king of the hill" mentality.
LOCATING POTENTIAL WEAPONS
Most hackers are free spirits who rebel at man-made encumbrances blocking their search
for "ideal" free access to anything in electronic format. In carrying electronic freedom to
an extreme, hackers (seekers of knowledge) are menacing American technological
supremacy. Individuals given the proper stimuli, typically reach out beyond the system
and accomplish that which exceeds man-made norms. Hacking exists as a fact of our
everyday lives. Often we know it by different terms appropriate to the industry in which we
toil.
To some degree we all shortcut and manipulate to gain an advantage at home, in school
or on the job. We seek information to satisfy our needs. The limitations of social and
ethical behavior and the patterns we see about us form the basis for that which we
consider "doable" without being criminal. Some stretch the norm to its limit just short
inducing damage. The evil doers go beyond the limit in an attempt to exploit or corrupt for
personal gain or ego satisfaction. This last group (anarchists?) has no concept of the
effect of their actions upon national security. They implement the corruptive ideas of
others that materialize as weapons. (See http://sobczaksays.org/DM-Pecking Order)
Aggressive individuals are frustrated by systems of rules that place creativity at a premium
then deny the attainment of creativity so that people work and perform within a set range
or pattern. Those who are frustrated by man-made rules channel their abilities and search
for satisfaction in other directions. Some avenues to self satisfaction are hacking,
cracking, phreaking or any combination thereof. Hacking is the evolution of logic as it
pertains to the manipulation of sophisticated software and electronics.
The lowest and most threatening form of hacking are attempted by those who do not apply
reasonableness to their actions. These egoists exercise perverted logic. This
experimenter is so proud of himself that he hides in shadows and tries to shift blame to
those who copy his leavings and expand upon them in innocence or stupidity. His peers
execute the errors he propagates and cause damage inasmuch as they are incapable of
understanding the traps in the knowledge they purloin. Dozens of experiments exist
without belonging to a specific author. These experiments are available to be misused by
all.
Technology transfer is created by hacker's helpers (novices). Professionals put forth a
plethora of information that allows a novice to collect, trade and reek havoc without
realizing the consequences of his actions. Professionally prepared technical information
comes available in the hobbyist community from people who satisfy their egos and
insecurities by talking too much and giving away copies of otherwise unattainable
documents. These choice tidbits are a valued reference source in the weapons
development process. They are the currency of information trading.
Managers, evaluating the effect of hacking upon weapons data releases, fail to look at the
volume of detail and trivia revealed beyond available training, operations and maintenance
manuals available from system integrators and manufacturers. In a manner likened to a
lawyer examining a contractual agreement and annotating it for all possibilities, the
professional hacker identifies every foible and weakness that human nature allows.
Laziness via software back doors and trapdoors are examples of unintended weakness.
A serious researcher can learn a great deal from news group and chat room discussions
about the volume and quality of technological leavings that are available. Researching the
quality of security within Intelligence Community Staff concerning data losses and existing
security's effect upon the theft of new weapons research might open eyes. Mr.
Rockefeller's Committee contributes insight that allows researchers to focus.
Targeting the sources of weapon technology is as easy as reading a lesson learned or a
congressional research service report followed by using the information referenced at the
report's end. Sobczak has defined data sources by a self developed quality rating system.
The upper end is frequented by advanced degree or experienced professionals. The
special interest groups frequented are of a quality that is rivaled by post postgraduate
engineering seminars.
As PhD's specialize so do the free spirits. If one attains super privilege level of
involvement, advanced technical information is passed about freely. The USAF Weapons
Laboratory EMP project, the Rifle Laser pulse weapon at DOD via Harry Diamond Labs,
the special Virus project at US Army CSW, Black projects at Seal Beach, China Lake,
Dahlgren or Fort Bragg can be defined down to a breadboard or code specific level by
persistent researchers. Determining the volume of data available will make the reviewer
of this proposal aware of the universe of unorthodox experimental weapon information
available.
Sobczak research and validated experiences indicate that there are few trusted systems.
As long as humans are the interfaces in computing, they are and will remain the weak link
in securing secret technology. We have followed hackers whose sole goal in life is to
defeat DOD security. We traded for JCS manuals that are rare outside the E-Ring.
Diversity of purpose makes hacking dangerous. The randomness concerning place and
degree of risk makes awareness of clandestine weapons knowledge an imperative to the
success of any mission. We read about Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore. We never
read about the CIA electronics laboratory hidden on the Beltway, USAF Security Command
at San Antonio, the US Army Intelligence Command and School at Fort Huachuca
accessible via a CECOM, Fort Monmouth server, the Foreign Technology research group
at Wright Patterson AFB, Area A or the Foreign Technology group conjoined to the US
Army Law School at Charlottesville, SC. All have been opened for review by hackers.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
In 1989, the USAF/ESD decided Sobczak research about Computer Virus as a Weapon
was a potential national resource. Virus weapons were not acceptable. Business Week's
Technology Editor wrote an editorial decrying the potency of Sobczak research. Viruses
created by Sobczak experiments in 1989 and made public by trusted government
employees from Vint Hill Farms were mimicked in the Fort Sill virus that affected 5000 PCs
allocated to Desert Shield/Storm.
Sobczak's early research classified mechanisms that allow problems to occur in current
computing architectures. He created enhancements to personal computer BIOS to prevent
introduction of corruption, i.e., VIRUS and broken code strings. Sobczak took part in
dialogues on hacker/phreaker BBS. Sobczak duplicated hacker bravado to append code
outside traditional government policy. Sobczak performed comparative and relational
analyses of user friendliness versus code structure and procedure, versus complexity of
the algorithm, versus effect on data transfer and processing speeds, versus the RF
frequency levels affected. These criteria dictate security solution criteria to prevent
corruption and dissuade attackers by programmed harsh response.
Sobczak designed an encrypted VIRUS guaranteed to destroy unauthorized users on a
network. Sobczak created "active response" is an application where a signed virus is
dispatched upon connecting to verify the validity of the receiving station. If the receiving
station acknowledges the virus with a proper signature, normal operation happens. Failure
to verify causes the receiver to be neutralized with prejudice. If both ends of the
connection are validated, the system continues to function sending random virus code
during transmission so as to affect any interloper who tries to listen. The system works to
the point that data collected to a tape or CD/RW will corrupt a hard drive and memory
chips when it is read into a computing device off line.
Sobczak identified problems that go unnoticed between low end devices and networks.
He created a hardware device, driven by firmware, that requires code and data to be
filtered before execution. Sobczak researched how to excite corrupt code to execute and
fail. Execution triggers' firmware traps and purges that prevent virus execution. (Defined
in an SBIR funded by the US Army SDI.)
RF transmissions extend virus potency to wireless, cellular and satellites. TWA Flight 800
could well have fallen victim to an advanced Aegis Electronic Counter Measures
experiment. A Naval experiment was in progress in the area on that day.
Functioning within many networks are sniffer code mechanisms that affect security and
operations. The Morris worm proved this point. Nuisance viruses such as the two
hundred seventy eight WORD macro virus variations are tips of a childish mischief.
Sobczak determined corrupting codes need not be written as virus.
One cannot performance test for embedded code sets triggered by combinations of unique
conditions. Potentially dangerous code sets are reused thanks to Federal Cost cutting
(Code Reuse) Sobczak researched mechanisms to identify corrupted code set reuse.
Sobczak demonstrated to Dr. Albanese (USAF/SAM/RSD) the ease with which embedded
code controlling a VDT snap back (screen refreshes) could be overwritten to manipulate
the refresh rate. Code modification above 268 cycles causes ocular muscle dysfunctions.
Further research led to Sobczak's COTS successes.
1. Capture and modification of the refresh rate (snap back mechanism) of a video tube.
2. Disorientation of people using:
a. Light
b. Sound
3. Stimulating vibrations in a metal tooth filling
a. Pain
b. The voice of God
4. Triggering an involuntary nerve synapse
Sobczak told the CIA about the appearance and interest, by several former Soviet
Republics, Russia, China, Columbia and Israel, in US network and BBS source lists. We
located extensive research in psychological operations originating in Russia affecting
equipment operators. Sobczak identified specific areas of interest and tracked
occurrences. By judicious trading we obtained direct dial telephone numbers of Medical
School and Government data repositories researching psychological programs in the U.S.
Officers from USAF Phillips Laboratory at Kirkland AFB visited when our small scale PC
experiments paralleled their large scale EMP program. We affected some susceptible
individuals by manipulating lighting.
Using a modified television receiver, Sobczak learned to copy VDU screens from machines
as far away as a mile to video tape or to another computer screen. Wave guides were
required to focus a collecting antenna. Sobczak copied letters of credit from Japanese
Banks received at the Port Authority Teleport (Richmond County, NY), word processing
emissions at UN Headquarters (NYC) and dozens of meaningless home PC screens
located in our test area. Fibre optic lines were read underground at Vernon and Borden
Avenues near Citibank at Court Square, Long Island City, NY.
Positive uses of corrupt code sets are endless. Anything from a dish antenna driver
through a radar guidance system can be manipulated or destroyed by corrupt code.
Sobczak developed the concept of VIRUS AS A WEAPON (VAAW). We were interested
in how coded corruption could be used as a countermeasure.
Our next experiment was born out of a BBS report of a Midwest hacker who studies
microwave. He took control of an ATT transmission tower, twice. Columbus, OH
newspapers validated his claim. The potential for aggression was enormous.
Sobczak purchased a BEARCAT 16 scanner. We obtained an AC/DC converter configured
for power from an auto twelve volt battery using the cigarette lighter. Radio Shack offers
a wide variety of potentially corruptive signal processors available at low cost. We
obtained aircraft frequencies from the FAA at John F. Kennedy airport. We were provided
a dozen voice and data frequencies. Later we found a book by Howard Sam's that
identified voice frequencies. The remaining frequencies moved data.
Sobczak separated transmissions from receptions. Sobczak made no overt attempt to
corrupt. The plans for a microwave transmitter and needed wave guides to narrow the
signal were available from electronics magazines and on anarchist BBS. Sobczak
randomly transmitted RF signals toward incoming aircraft. The New York Times reported
that collision warnings were triggered. We reported our experiments to the FAA. The FAA
denied our results. We successfully duplicated this experiment with six repetitions in as
many days and moved on. We used a similar approach to degrade Coast Guard Radar
off the coast of Long Island, NY.
Sobczak ranked the devices mentioned in our collected data. Prominent was the A/D
converter subsystem. We wondered how easily one might corrupt an A/D converter. A call
to the ASD library at the USAF Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio allowed Sobczak to obtain
DOD/NASA reports defining A/D uses in current weapon systems (F-15, F-16, B1B).
We chose to study Teledyne. Sobczak wrote code and paper tested a "pause/open/push"
sequence in repetitive mode. The technical manual explained anyone can easily acquire
an access point into the data stack. Code can be entered and directed to a processing
stack without affecting in-use data collecting memories. A transmitter can be constructed
that mixes analog signal being returned from a contact to produce a modified signal. It
is possible to disrupt a system using the A/D Converter. Sobczak wrote code to average
input signals. This transmission program nulls video feed converted data to make the
result equal a straight line on the scope.
Sobczak research determined sensors are not protected. Corrupt codes can be used to
produce a psychological effect. The Psyops code developed was an extension of his A/D
converter research appended to Psyops RF Signal that allows damage to equipment
operators.
Sobczak determined it feasible to affect brain cells by software produced low frequency
waves. His goal was to alter psychological states (mood changes) and possibly to transmit
stimuli that trigger suggestions and/or commands directly into the human brain. Defense
and the CIA had become paranoid about loss of mind manipulation leadership. MKULTRA
(ARTICHOKE), MKDELTA, MKNAOMI, MKRESEARCH, BLUEBIRD (renamed
ARTICHOKE by DCI) and a continuation of the earlier CHATTER Project (1947) was
authorized to regain leadership. Brookhaven National Laboratory in our neighborhood was
involved and insecure. Sobczak gained access to their projects. This research has
recently extended to the Prophet Ghost holographic system being developed by the CIA.
Research proved that electromagnetic fields raising body temperature by less than 1
degree Celsius result in somatic change. Chemical, physiological and behavioral changes
occur within "windows" of frequency and energy continua. One window is at the level of
the human electroencephalogram, i.e., in the range of extremely low radio and sound
waves (+/- 20hertz).
A soliton wave propagates suddenly acquired energy, or energy imparted by a shock,
without dispersing it. Sobczak's initial research found that soliton waves began being
considered relevant in high energy physics and in the government fusion program in 1985.
Sobczak began writing software to simulate the soliton wave form in 1991 as a substitute
to energy amplification. This was demonstrated to Navy Dalghren Laboratory and
USAF/SAM/RSD.
Solitons occur as electro-solitons and as acoustic solitons. They form only at certain
windows. Solitons are dynamically stable "spikes." Solitons have long lifetimes. Their
vibration has a long persistence. The foregoing characteristics contribute to the formation
of soliton energy without a twelve order of magnitude increase predicted by the original
linear assumption. Software solitons are nonlinear.
Solitons allow extracellular disturbances such as acoustic or electromagnetic bursts to be
propagated across a cell membrane. As a form of corruption or as an anti-corruption tool
one must visualize the human brain and its environment as structures of waves. The
software creates pseudo soliton shock waves. Modern electronics were programmed (a
virus) to create a range of resonances utilizing the flexibility, speed and accuracy inherent
in the circuitry of a computing device and certain of its peripheral components.
Sobczak attempted to define the frequencies appropriate to repel aggression as well as
the available options for transmission both to the target and across the membrane of brain
cells. Sobczak's research suggests brain cells will be reachable diversely, flexibly and
routinely in the not too distant future. Sobczak showed Dr. Albanese at SAM/RSD a
means to use software solitons to affect people based on over the horizon radar.
Sobczak located Dr. Albanese during research concerning the effects of radiation
generated by over-the-horizon radar on an unsuspecting public in Massachusetts.
Sobczak used a VAX cluster at SAM that was open to hackers to gain attention.
Exploration of the relationship of computing devices to a cross-membrane phenomenon
is not documented anywhere in unclassified publications. Using software corruption
protection provides a high risk nut enormous payback potential to secure systems from
aggression that subverts the ability of the operator to function. A new phenomenon has
been discovered. Sobczak determined how a computer-based soliton can be created in
software and triggered to produce negative effects on people.
Sobczak research determined Russian mathematicians have been concerned with solitons
(initially referred to as excitons) long before Americans became interested. If a literature
search is an acceptable means of determining interest, Americans are still disinterested.
It is conceivable that researchers' Davydov, Drazin and Boris Ponomarev functioning
under the wing of Uri Andropov achieved workable results that warranted further testing.
They attacked the US Embassy in Moscow.
Russian, American, and German scientists successfully entered a membrane
independently. Sobczak research proved that when the time comes for a fundamental
innovation, discovery or invention to occur, it will occur in several different places at
different times involving independent researchers who do not know of the other's efforts
due to political or military security considerations.
Student hackers from the University of Dayton tried to infect the operational software suite
of SOCOM's MC-130H to revenge perceived slights given by SO/LIC Pathfinders training
in the Area A Wind Tunnel. These hackers unknowingly made practical use of software
soliton theory.
Ocular muscles strained in an attempt to adjust to refresh code modifications. The hackers
attacked the MC-130H System Program Office through the data center in Area B at Wright
Patterson AFB. Sobczak experiments used overlays of VDT refresh code to misuse the
Video Display system. The effects produced by an adjusted refresh rate connected
through a network to the outside world is unique. Sobczak called this software system
"Active Response." It deters aggression. In tests, the Active Response code stopped
99.9% of the intrusions visited on our internal systems and applications software by
hackers. Active Response properly placed in a computing system causes an attackers
worse headache.
Sobczak showed AIR-055 (Vice Admiral Dunleavy, Admiral of the Lower Half Hickey and
Captain John Paul Jones) how an FLTSATCOM link could be used to port UNIX "do loops"
to Harris hardened but poorly secured VAXES on an operational aircraft carrier. The Navy
leased SATCOM channels from private operators. Sobczak crossed channels to capture
a navy-leased link.
The Vice Admiral recommended our research to the Chief of Naval Research. A female
Commander suggested the research was criminal. The US Navy would arrest and
prosecute if we continued to find and expand upon this experimental technology. Sobczak
research continues. Navy satellites remain at risk. The UNIX system on capital ships has
yet to be secured. UNIX has many security features that users fail to implement. Hackers
migrate Federal UNIX networks without fear.
Sobczak research located corruption at the mini computer level of operation. Federal
VAXes are the easiest devices to target. HP security is effective if it is installed properly
and kept current per SE Instructions. Sobczak knows of an inquisitive Federal employee
who has written code to determine if security is properly installed and current. If
installation is insecure the program downloads "/passwd/id/ao" to the interrogator.
HP does not protect against resource manipulation. A simple shell can lockup HP
equipment. Sobczak showed this weakness to AIR-055 at the Pentagon. While Sobczak
cannot verify the statistic, it was suggested that ego causes failure to admit error 8 of 10
times.
Sobczak called the central exchange of a military facility involved in weapon systems
development to gain access. He asked for the telephone number of the computer center.
This was easily obtained. At the data center we told the secretary answering our call that
we needed the direct dial number of the computer room so we might talk to our SE. In 10
of 10 tries the computer room telephone number was given automatically without thought
as to the consequences of the act. As no one ever calls the computer room except with
problems, the request for a clean line for a system error log upload produced current
telephone numbers 8 of 10 times.
The two hundred fifty odd passwords of Mr. Morris Jr are effective adjuncts to password
hackers(code breaking software) like Deluxe Hack or FH (I'm just a Fucking Hacker).
HP's older TI990's, than in use, were the easiest targets. Security of the HP 990 in the F-
16 SPO at WPAFB was nonexistent. The targeted machine manages life cycle budget
projections. Intelligence gathering mixed with common sense allows a multitude of data
to be identified. The SPO machine was linked the higher commands, Logistics Centers
and Contractor computers.
Sobczak researched protection of the UNIX/Xenix kernel. We believe that a job queue
monitor is a practical answer to security without loss of processing speed. Files and
programs would be validated and verified prior to execution.
Sobczak has arrangements with individuals we consider expert in the ability to convert
code from language A to language B within and among OS. We have found that these
experts take corrupted code we obtain and/or generate and convert it to minicomputer and
mainframe code in hours. As Sobczak gains experience we find that we can take a
program through disassembly, execution of the appropriate diagnostics, adjustments of the
disassembled code to optimize function, and, reassembly in a mini or mainframe format
in less than one hour.
The Sobczak team for anti-corruption research includes hardware specialists. At the VAX
level a corrupt code can be placed on a machine in a manner that defies human detection.
Further, the VIRUS destroys itself on execution leaving no trace of prior existence. HP
hardware specialists have replaced components and filed quality failure reports concerning
damage that was virus initiated using a PC programmed REXX shell.
We told the NSA that DOD had a problem. Rumor in the ether said that the then Director
of DARPA (Gary Denman) had brought his girl friend from his last post to Washington.
She worked for a large corporation that received an abnormal amount of research awards.
At the time of our research the buzz word for funding at DARPA was MCM (Multi-chip
Module). At a meeting in the Pentagon cafeteria protagonists who wanted to blackmail
Denman were almost identified. AF Special Investigations using Pentagon Police raided
the cafeteria.
As in most things military, snafu ruled. The Pentagon Police arrested some minor
uninvolved hackers (the wrong criminals) who happened to be having a 2600-type
meeting.
The hackers were released with apologies and the attempt to suborn the DARPA Head
continued until someone leaked the story to the Washington Post. The big corporation
continues to receive an inordinate amount of research awards. Sobczak followed
electronic exchanges and harvested dozens of new information sources at major
contractor facilities during this exercise.
Later Sobczak concentrated his research into intelligence and technology collection
skewed to corrupting code sets that might be modified into security tools. Available
intelligence about weapons research is everywhere. Sobczak told the Naval Investigative
Service about applications software that produced logistics models for the F-14 and F-18.
Working systems with nomenclature and parts lists were available on Foreign Bulletin
Board Systems. The NIS at Suitland Parkway in a Washington, D.C. suburb said not to
worry. Contractors sometime transfer information using the INTERNET. No one cared that
the node Sobczak polled was found in then communist Europe (Warsaw, Poland). Worse
the same source taught us to manipulate the Defense Data Network.
The SDI was at risk because the SDI Operations Staff did not remove Installation System
Engineers ids and Passwords. MGR.SYS opened dozens of HP devices to interrogation.
Further, links from the Pentagon to the National Test Bed Facility, SAIC, Boeing, etc. were
available through SDI computers at Huntsville Arsenal.
During Operation Desert Storm, Sobczak offered an operations officer at SOCOM the
opportunity to hack Iraqi C2. Sobczak had access to a Thompson CSF backbone in
Bagdad running under COSMOS. Sobczak communicated daily with four individuals in
Kuwait during the first Gulf War. They provided insight that we passed to SOCOM
Sobczak explored intrusion mechanisms created by aggressive personalities. He
predicted that 184,000 intrusions would occur within DOD. In 1995 DOD admitted
numbers close to the forecast. Further, DISA acknowledged that victims had reported
intrusion and data loss only 2% of the time.
Intrusions occur in any system because intruders are using lawful ids and Passwords. The
problem grows out of proportion to reality. Most intrusions go unreported. Those in
charge hide intrusions from Upper Management to protect their jobs. Trusted employees
are frequent culprits. Sobczak created an integrated software security solution (V-
PHAGE) modeled on the NSA compartmentalization model. The USAF said that properly
installed the V-PHAGE solution is unbeatable.
Sobczak was told about a General Officer (Eagleton?) who as Commander of the F-16
SPO had an ID and Password that he never used. This became backup access for
hackers.
While consulting to a contractor in Arlington's IDA building Sobczak met an engineer from
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Weather trapped us in Arlington, VA for
three days in an ice/snow storm. This engineer was a great source of insight for security
research. He told Sobczak about the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Hacker
Project. The US Army was spending millions at that time to find and have the FBI arrest
hackers who might seek Army secrets.
LLNL and LANL competed for the same security budget lines. LLNL was funded by USAF
at Kelly AFB, TX. LANL was funded by the Army Intelligence Agency. LLNL leaked
information about the LANL Hacker project to the hacker community. Hackers went on to
mislead LANL computer scientists. The Army spent millions to collect garbage. Dr. (Col)
Alexander ignored our warnings.
It continued to snow. We (LLNL Engineer and I) spent most of our time trading stories.
He explained the Sniffer attacks on LLNL before LLNL Management could deny their
occurrence. About 30,300 DOD computers were interdicted by hackers using sniffers.
Drug dealers from Columbia paid European hackers and trusted government employees
to locate secrets in the DEA and USCG databases. The American-Jewish hacker
community helped the Israeli government to create a shopping list of secret American
Technologies. The super secret National reconnaissance Office was not secret to
hackers. Sobczak identified insecurities and created solutions to negate potential attacks
as exercises in logic.
The experience of knowing about things hidden within security classifications is stressful.
While visiting a Manhattan hotel to chat with EDS Corporation a Russian National
approached me. He gave me a "CCCP" gold pin. He said was an Olympic lawyer. He
wanted to purchase my intelligence and security knowledge. His UN Mission sources
claimed Sobczak research results were focused and relevant.
Sobczak called the FBI. An FBI Agent was assigned. Some months later while having
dinner in a Queens, NY restaurant two men started a conversation. They happened to be
officers from a Russian ship docked in Brooklyn, NY. They invited me to see their new
computers. I wondered how strangers knew about my involvement with computers. The
FBI was again involved. Foreign intelligence appears to equal or exceed that available
to US agencies here at home. Foreigners, particularly those involved with the UN and
Trade Missions buy American technology for scientists at home to duplicate.
The United States does not have legislation that prohibits signal collection. SIGINT for the
masses is practiced by hackers. It can be as simple as listening to CB or SSB channels.
The equipment and tools hackers use are defined somewhere on the Internet. Knowing
the frequencies and/or bandwidth used by computer equipment and peripheral devices
helps make some hackers, super spies.
A listening device plugged into a wall in a private office exposes information to the
listening world. In a few cost conscious companies they purchase and use baby watcher
devices. Managers never dream that anyone could use these cost cutting devices against
them. Transceiver placement is very similar to the art form called "Bugging." DEA wires
drug buyers. They arrest the seller and have tapes of the transaction. Anyone with a
BEARCAT scanner can listen to the .5 watt transmissions if they are in range and find the
right frequency.
Computer weapons beyond those that target Information warfare floods the net. Sobczak
located twenty-five electronic weapons with schematics, narrative plans, part lists and test
plans. The potential for multiple hits in a universe of one hundred million users is great.
Ten years ago we gave the USAF code that created enough friction (heat) to fry a BIOS
chip.
NECESSARY TASKS
We will define the areas dangerous to system software, application software, and
processing equipment security. Sobczak will examine each area and devise a method that
minimizes duplication of effort between and among actions available to intruders. Our
analysis will define the sources to be polled. Sobczak will create the procedures by which
sources eligible to be considered will be determined. The number of random locations and
questions will form the basis for identifying the extent of experimental weapon sources.
The first goal will be a determination of the credibility of the data and the degree of risk to
field activities posed by the availability of this data to an enemy. Sobczak will identify the
"handle" name, who released the knowledge and the collector "handle(s)" who collect the
knowledge. We will correlate the collectors by topic and produce an current threat warning
as necessary. We will recommend alternative actions available to subvert collector
actions. Upon instruction to do so, Sobczak. will implement the option(s) selected. We
will generate models which simulate the universe of weapons and use them to determine
if a coordinated action is occurring. Sobczak will function as a monitor of experimental
disabling weapons oriented data transfers within your mission(s).
Model Task Order
Preface:
This order will become effective when the following three conditions are met:
All hourly estimates and costs per hour per category are included.
This document is signed by Thomas V. Sobczak and the Independent Contractor
selected to accomplish the task(s).
A valid Government contract number with the name and location of the Contracting
Officer is affixed to this document.
By accepting this Task Order the Independent Contractor agrees to submit to an audit
should the Government so decide.
RESEARCH TASK
The selected independent contractor or employee (to be decided) will perform evaluations
of information, as yet undefined, resident on the Internet, in individually operated Bulletin
Board Systems, in File Transfer Protocol (FTP) archives, in Government owned archives
and data repositories, in the archives of contractors to the Government and in such
storage facilities that may be located and made available for evaluations of suspect
information worldwide.
The selected independent contractor or employee must have available the following
search engines and be conversant in the algebra necessary to structure a query for each:
Google.com
Technorati.com
Alltheweb.com
WebFerret.com
clusty.com
ixquick.com
accoona.com
mooter.com
metacrawler.com
copernic.com
Thomas V. Sobczak, Consultants will provide access to the foregoing, if necessary, and
to similar search engines that might be deemed more appropriate to the research
undertaken.
First Iteration: The independent contractor or employee will be provided with a word, a
set of words, an idea, as appropriate. He or she will be expected to identify and define
all those words, ideas and concepts that might be included in an explanation of the target
word(s) meaning. Synonyms and close approximations should be explored. Your records
must cite the source of the word(s) you locate including the publisher and date of
publication. It is important that you validate your source from at least one different citation.
This is particularly true on the web.
Note: in previous examinations of words we have found that eighty-five percent of the
universe is located initially. The remaining words, ideas and concepts appear as the
study progresses. Information sources such as Wikipedia, Thomas, the Anarchists
Cookbook, the Big Book of Mischief, the Bomb Book, Spyopedia and Sobczak's RF
Threatopedia offer alternate points of view to assist in defining and focusing your search.
All the foregoing are in possession of Thomas V. Sobczak, Consultants and are available
to you.
Once a list of all appropriate words, ideas and concepts is organized, the definition(s) of
each word or phrase must be compared to all others in order to eliminate duplicate and
redundant word sets. Highlight those word(s),ideas, or concepts where you locate
conflicting definitions for the same word, idea, concept. Pass this list to your coach for
resolution as a part of your weekly report.
On each Tuesday morning, you must provide a written summary of the work accomplished
in the previous week that includes the lists and definitions created and the time spent in
doing exploratory research in word ontology. Include any conflicting definitions so your
coach may become involved. Also, include an estimate of estimated time to complete
Phase One. Be advised that the estimate will be treated as a best guess so strive for
realism.
Second Iteration: Using the word(s), ideas and concepts provided and expanded upon
determine if any source documents located by a search engine describe research and/or
experimentation involving that word(s), idea or concept. The word as originally entered
for the first search engine must be repeated for each of the remaining nine search engines.
The task is time consuming, repetitive and often boring. This said, it is important that no
word or engine is skipped over. Documentation must be maintained with appropriate
references to provide traceability from your current location back to the next higher level.
When the first word(s) is finished, move to the second and repeat the process. Keep
repeating the process until your word(s), ideas and concepts are exhausted.
It is important that prior to beginning a search, you read and understand the rules
used to format a search query for each engine. As an example to find references focused
only to me you might use:
Thomas Sobczak
Thomas V Sobczak
Thomas V. Sobczak
"Thomas V. Sobczak"
will each produce a different number of returns. In the first three, the words are treated
incrementally. Only the last will produce the desired focused result.
Documentation is an imperative to prevent confusion during your exploration. Using a
lined pad, indicate the name and location of the search engine. Next, print the search
terms exactly as you entered them upon the search engine. Now, conduct your search.
When you receive a result screen, copy the time of the search and the number of hits. Do
not be frustrated by large numbers of hits. Search engines do not focus. If you address
the search loosely, you will generate dubious hits. Read the engine help screens.
Simply by scanning the output on page one of your search, you will be able to know if you
are moving in the right direction. Do not become frustrated if your result does not appear
to be appropriate. Take a step back and review your request and its structure. Did you
tangent away from your topic? Did you misinterpret something? If you are not satisfied,
try the same exact word search on a different engine. If you change the path you have
taken you must adjust the documentation with appropriate notation concerning the logic
for the change/adjustment. Remember, document, document and documentation
guarantees a true picture of your efforts.
Your first valid find will have you smiling. Locating a meaningful result is only the
beginning. You will forget the boring and time consuming. Be careful not to become over
confident. Validate your result using a second search engine.
When you locate a result that meets the search criteria, i.e., research and/or experiments
that are about your search word(s), identify the web page location and the summary
printed in explanation by the search engine. Add this to your documentation.
On each Tuesday morning, you must provide a written summary of the work accomplished
in the previous week that includes the lists of actions taken and the results identified and
documented, and the time spent in accomplishing your searches. Include an estimate of
estimated time to complete Phase Two.
Iteration "x": Once you have identified research and/or experiments relating to the search
word(s), a more detailed effort can happen coincidentally with the on going search
process.
Again, documentation is an imperative. As you have located a web site, next you must
define what the research/experiment is, how does it work, who is conducting the study,
where is the research occurring and when will it be available, if it is not already available.
The foregoing run on sentence is the meat of our exploration. It is important that as much
documentation as is available is appended to your report. Equally important is a
determination from another source who might certify the validity of your find.
Research/experimentation from a single source should be color coded Red. Multiple
source identification should be coded Green. Information that cannot be certified by a
second source is coded Blue. The Blue items will be addressed by your coach so as to
allow you to continue your task unimpeded.
On each Tuesday morning, you must provide a written summary of the work accomplished
in the previous week that includes documentation of the results identified and the time
spent in doing definition.
STUDY TOPIC
Word(s), ideas, concepts ________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
ESTIMATE (The estimate provides a snapshot of the time assumed to be needed to
accomplish the Task based upon the Word(s) provided)
Person Task $ per Hr Hours Total OH
1.
2.
3.
Contract No. Date Issued Contracting Officer
Contractor Date Thomas V. Sobczak Date
PROPOSAL
Sobczak. proposes to identify, design and structure weapons affecting mission
success.
Phase One - Defining the hobbyist weapon universe
Sobczak. will survey sources worldwide to define topics relevant to building
weapons that use off-the -shelf components. Sobczak using the resources at our disposal
will produce a report concerning each item identified as achievable.
Phase Two - Configuring hobbyist weapons (To be estimated mid Phase one)
Sobczak. will determine available knowledge concerning the vulnerabilities and
methods to exploit vulnerabilities for equipments available to commercial, military and
intelligence operators. Sobczak. will analyze and structure the information collected to
determine a matrix that integrates threat to potential countermeasure. Sobczak will
suggest a proof of concept product for demonstration purposes. Sobczak. will provide an
analysis of risk, by equipment in use, citing the vulnerability and any potential neutralizing
counter force.
Phase Three - Development of plans and equipment models necessary to
production of Beta test units. (To be estimated three months before the termination of
Phase Two)
RESUMES
The following are the resumes of the key contributors to the success of this Unsolicited
Proposal.
Owner: Thomas V. Sobczak seeks simple answers to complex problems. He owns
and operates Thomas V. Sobczak, Consultants. He received a BA, Social Science, St.
Johns University, Brooklyn, NY; MBA, Management, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY;
and a Ph.D., Management, Sussex College, England; He completed "the Economics of
National Security" Course and refresher from the National Defense College, Fort McNair,
Washington. Sobczak is a Fellow - Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME); Fellow -
Institute for the Advancement of Engineering; Fellow - Institution of Production Engineers
(England); an SME Certified Manufacturing Engineer; a California Licensed Professional
Engineer; and the author of six books and numerous articles. He has been Visiting
Professor & Lecturer at Hofstra University, NY Institute of Technology, and the NY
Polytechnic University. Dr. Sobczak suffered a below the knee amputation that causes him
to be anchored to a computer in order to conceive ubiquitous solutions.
Sobczak. employs consultants with specific skills concerning the development of non-
traditional code based responses that attempt to manipulate transmitted signal.
On request, copies of the Management Plan, Overall Schedule and Estimated Costs
can be supplied to interested parties.
