[Nettime-bold] DISA to NY SCP: "no one is monitoring you or your website"

[molly hankwitz <mollybh@netspace.net.au>]

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>Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 01:09:47 -0500
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>From: SCP-New York <notbored@panix.com>
>Subject: DISA to NY SCP: "no one is monitoring you or your website"
>
>First, some background:
>
>As readers of http://www.notbored.org/army.html will know, the website
>maintained by the New York Surveillance Camera Players (NY SCP) is
>frequently visited by servers registered to various entities in the US
>Department of Defense. In March 2001, the NY SCP submitted a Freedom of
>Information Act request to the Defense Information Systems Agency. DISA,
>whose motto is "Quality Information for a Strong Defense," is responsible
>for the DoD's computer infrastructure. The NY SCP chose to hit DISA with a
>FOIA request because it had visited the site more than any other DoD
>entity. (To date, DISA servers have visited the NOT BORED!/NY SCP website
>46 times since August 2000.)  In its FOIA request, the NY SCP gave specific
>times, dates and server names for each and every visit, which made it
>impossible for DISA to deny that these visits took place.
>
>In April 2001, DISA responded by saying, "This Agency has learned that
>employees
>visited the site because they were attracted to the domain name
>'notbored.org'" but denied that DISA had any records on either the NY SCP,
>NOT BORED! or its website. Finding that this response opened up more
>questions than it answered -- DoD "employees" (military personnel) are
>surfing the Internet when they are bored and are spending their time at
>anarchist web sites such as the one maintained by NOT BORED???? -- the NY
>SCP submitted an appeal. Though it was ignored for several months, the
>appeal was finally answered on 23 October 2001 (the letter just arrived in
>the NY SCP's stale-mail-box today, 6 November 2001).
>
><quote>
>
>Regulatory/General Counsel
>FOIA Office
>Defense Information Systems Agency
>701 S. Courthouse Road
>Arlington, Virginia 22204-2199
>23 October 2001
>
>Dear [Surveillance Camera Players]
>
>In your letters of April 24 and August 24, 2001, you appealed the Agency's
>"no records" response denial of your Freedom of Information Request 01-78,
>dated March 5, 2001. You requested documents pertaining to all records kept
>by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) between August 1, 2000, to
>the present on "The Surveillance Camera Players," "Not Bored!" or the
>website located at http://www.notbored.org.
>
>The "no records" response denial was based on this Agency's search and
>determination that no records exist pertaining to the [sic] "The
>Surveillance Camera Players," "Not Bored!" or the website located at
>http://www.notbored.org. We acknowledge that your website has been visited
>by at least one of our employees. Apparently, this visit impacted the
>performance cache flow proxy server. We use this server to maintain control
>over Internet connectivity. It serves as an intermediary device between our
>employees using the Internet and the other web servers. We believe the
>multiple hits to your web page may have been caused by our cache server
>routinely updating itself.
>
>Please be assured that no one within DISA is monitoring you or your
>website. After thoroughly reviewing this matter, I concur with the initial
>denial authority's "no records" response to the requested information.
>
>This constitutes a final decision on your appeal. If you disagree with this
>determination, you may seek judicial review of this decision in the
>appropriate U.S. District Court.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Harry D. Raduege, Jr.
>Lieutenant General, USAF
>Director
>
><unquote>
>
>Though this explanation is POSSIBLE, it is HIGHLY UNLIKELY. Note well the
>*irregularity* of DISA's visits, which have come at the following times and
>dates:
>
>2:40 am on 2 August 2000, 12:27 pm on 31 August 2000, 4:16 pm on 12
>September 2000, 1:01 pm on 14 September 2000, 6:58 pm on 7 November 2000,
>6:38 am on 15 November 2000, 2:52 pm on 17 November 2000, 8:32 am on 29
>November 2000,
>twice at 4:34 pm on 28 December 2000, 5:17 pm on 6 January 2001, twice at
>3:17 pm, on 10 January 2001, at 1:09 pm on 18 January 2001, at 12:48 pm on
>23 January 2001, at 1:33 am on 31 January 2001, at 1:23 pm on 7 February
>2001, at 1:40 am on 8 February 2001, twice at 12:36 pm on 8 February 2001,
>twice at 2:54 pm on 8 February 2001, 3:22 pm on 13 February 2001, twice at
>11:19 am on 14 February 2001, at 8:35 pm on 19 February 2001, at 8:25 pm on
>25 February 2001, at 2:23 pm on 26 February 2001, 2:19 am on 1 March 2001,
>at 5:28 pm on 2 March 2001, at
>12:32 pm on 5 March 2001, at 4:58 pm on 6 March 2001, at 2:00 am on 16
>March 2001, at 2:49 pm on 26 March 2001, at 4:09 pm on 28 March 2001, at
>8:44 am on 29 March 2001, at 9:58 pm on 5 April 2001, at 2:33 pm on 20
>April 2001, at 12:40 pm on 25 April 2001, at 11:58 am on 30 April 2001, at
>12:28 pm and then again at 5:48 pm on 1 May 2001, at 9:31 am on 4 May 2001,
>12:00 pm on 9 May 2001, 11:22 am on 17 July 2001, 9:50 am on 2 October
>2001, 5:50 am on 4 October 2001, 2:50 am on 15 October 2001, 7:48 am on 23
>October 2001 and 10:31 am on 30 October 2001
>
>Note as well the total absence of visits between July 2001 and the
>beginning of the phoney "war on terrorism," and the fact that there was
>only *one* visit between 9 May 2001 and 2 October 2001. Didn't the cache
>server "routinely" update itself during these periods of time?
>
>It is quite clear that DISA (among other DoD entities) is in fact
>monitoring the NY SCP's website, and that the Agency cannot say so, for it
>would open itself to valid claims that it was violating both its mandate
>and the Posse Comitatus Act.
>
>The New York Surveillance Camera Players
>http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html
>notbored@panix.com
>

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