Sharing Secret Technology

                 Transferring High Tech Secrets
            by compilation by Thomas V. Sobczak, PhD

     Working in the quiet of his room, Joe Hacker carefully pans for gold in the streams
thought secure by the managers and providers of big ticket weapon systems.  The
Pentagon, Administration and Congress choose to ignore or are ignorant of cloned
weapons that might destroy the functionality of our military.  In his November 28, 1994
issue of Security Intelligence Report, Frank McGuire wrote a commentary about an RF
(Radio Frequency) gun being tested in South America by the US Army.  He commented
that the weapon has existed since 1989.

     Beginning in 1989, and possibly before, hackers and hobbyists were affecting
computer chips using RF as the destructive mechanism.  Dr. Tom Sobczak wrote a short
explanation about how frustrated Americans were testing and fine tuning RF guns that
turned on collision warning sensors in aircraft, shutdown the electronic ignitions of
automobiles, and, affected the functioning of humans operating some weapon systems.
American creativity and ingenuity are not rivaled anywhere in the world.  Unfortunately for
the "grunt," his life is affected by big ticket item providers and generals seeking jobs when
they retire.  These guardians of national security ridicule the potential for misuse of existing
appropriate technology by "kids."

     Reports that "strange things" have occurred to law enforcement vehicles chasing
drug traffickers and alcohol distillers in some southern states never make the main stream
press.  Auto manufacturers replace "bad" chips regularly.   The logic of mutated RF can
as easily shut down the engines of a fighter, bomber or commercial airliner in flight.  All
might be the target of experimenters or terrorists.  No one wants to frighten the flying
public.  They ignore the flight TWA 800.

     In 1992, a Newsweek article mentioned Dr. Sobczak's ability to collect technological
(sometimes called competitive) intelligence outside the processes used by the American
Intelligence Community.  Dr. Sobczak has failed dismally to awaken the curiosity of these
experts to the sharing and trading that occurs among creative Americans and others
identified using names like hackers, phreaker, cracker and ham.  For all his failures,
Sobczak is called  by intelligence professionals looking for tidbits of intelligence they could
have missed.

     In 1994, Sobczak created a new designation that he offered to the DoD and the CIA.
He refocused his database after reading about the comments by ASD (Reserve Affairs)
Deborah Lee.  Ms. Lee said that the United States will make more and better use of its
reserves.  Ms. Lee triggered a new phenomenon, Patriotic Terrorists in Objection to
National Policy.  These PTO's may be "weekend warriors" who are unhappy that they will
be called upon to earn their pay.  Those who monitor Bulletin Board Systems and
INTERNET E-mail may locate more than they bargained for.  They may read about dirty
tricks ranging from the mundane, i.e., putting sugar in the gas tank to the futuristic, i.e.,
virus to stop tactical computers or sniffers to identify and reroute the orders that cause unit
mobilization.

     Experiments that Sobczak has shared with Defense agencies range the spectrum
of military (and civilian) operations.

     1.   PSYOPS (Psychological Operations) - 1990 Sobczak told Major Gus Taylor
at US SOCOM that Pathfinders taking training in the wind tunnel at WPAFB had incurred
the ire of local college age hackers.  They "hit on" the hackers' girl friends.  In retaliation
the hackers conceived a software routine to affect the VDU operators on board the
SOCOM MC-130H being developed and managed by the USAF/ASD/Airlift SPO.
    
     2.   MIRAGE - developed by or for individuals who needed to reach the shore
without being bothered by the US Navy or Coast Guard.  The device created a dead zone
where radar and other electronic devices acted strangely.  Several areas along the US
East Coast are listed as electronically unstable.  They remain unguarded routes into the
USA.

     3.   Video Display Unit (VDU) output copying - An out of date, no longer
manufactured, mechanical TV tuner can be positioned to receive signals generated by a
VDU.  Sobczak explained this phenomenon to Cpt. Lynn Miner who flew to New York from
the Phillips Laboratory at Kirtland AFB.  Signals can be copied to a VCR and reproduced
at will.  Imagine using the playback to fool the operator a defensive radar.  Could it be the
theory used by the movie "Speed" was not all farce?

     4.   Tesla Coil Kill Mechanisms - A Tesla coil allows voltage to be stored in a
large capacitor.  Should the voltage be dumped into a telephone line, it will fuse circuits
and might even kill.

     5.   Virus as a Weapon - Imagine if Mr. Morris had placed a computer software
virus, as described above in PSYOPS, into his INTERNET worm.  In place of memory
indigestion, which told of a problem as computers slowed, users of networked computers
would be susceptible to headaches for years.  Reasonable people would think to blame
the computer screen for causing damage to a user.  We all use computers too much.  We
bring on our own headaches.

     6.   Non-Ionizing Radiation - Pulsing the movement of electricity over power lines
might allow the grid to influence people.  Not all people, but, definitely, those with
susceptibilities to electrical aberrations in their psyche and physical makeup would be hurt.

     In Newsweek on December 5, 1992, Mr. John Barry worried whether the GOP will
stall the militaries high-tech revolution.  No one need worry.  The high-tech revolution
continues.  Unfortunately, it is neither acknowledged nor controlled by managers
responsible for the national defense.