[ScanIndiana] Fw: [InHam] Fw: [Ham-Radio-News] Information seeking to disable radio comms

Tue, 18 Feb 2003 20:02:44 -0500

Hhmmm....I don't know about this one...Hoax?.....BUT.....real food for
thought

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Evans N9RLA" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 20:41
Subject: [InHam] Fw: [Ham-Radio-News] Information seeking to disable radio
comms


> I can't say how authentic this email is, but the suggestions offered seem
to
> be pretty sound so I decided to pass it on.  See below for the body of the
> email.
> Dan
>
> Dan Evans K9ZF
> IN-Ham list administrator
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dakota Summerhawk" <[email protected]>
> To: "Shywyradioclub" <[email protected]>; "Ham-Radio-News"
> <[email protected]>; "Amateurradioemergencyservice"
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 4:57 PM
> Subject: [Ham-Radio-News] Information seeking to disable radio comms
>
>
> > AT THE REQUEST OF THE CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES THIS
SPECIAL
> > BULLETIN IS SENT TO ALL EMCOMMWEST SUBSCRIBERS -
> >
> > Homeland Security Threat Advisory:   Suspicious Activity
> >
> > We have received information from APCO (Associated Public Safety
> > Communications Officers, Inc.) members that they have received numerous
> > calls of a suspicious nature from people describing themselves as
college
> > students performing research.
> >
> > The questions have included specific communications infrastructure
> location
> > information requests. Additionally, there have been reports of people
> > recording and photographing public safety communications towers.
> >
> > While there has been no evidence to suggest these are not legitimate
> > actions, APCO advises you to pay close attention to such activity and
> report
> > anything suspicious according to your local Standard Operating
Procedures
> > (SOP). APCO further advises not to release information to persons of
> unknown
> > origin at this or any other time.  Additionally, APCO recommends that
you
> > re-evaluate your internal Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for
> procedures
> > on handling these types of calls to ensure this issue is addressed
> > specifically for communications related information during this time of
> > heightened security.
> >
> > Subject: FYI...Use caution
> >
> > This afternoon, I receive a suspicious call from a gentleman claiming to
> be
> > long distance and representative of a "study of a Western College",
> desiring
> > to speak to the person who could best answer questions concerning the
> radio
> > repeater system we operated on in Rockdale County, Georgia.
> >
> > He volunteered he had gotten my name and address from APCO Int. and that
> > this research was for a college paper.
> >
> > He spoke and sounded middle-eastern and was very disappointed when I
told
> > him I did not give "any" information out concerning my radio system to
> > anyone by phone, and he could place his request in writing... He started
> to
> > stammer and ask how he would do that, and I informed him he had my name
> and
> > number and he should have my address and I ended the call.
> >
> > I do not expect to receive anything in the mail from this individual.
> > Recently, a discovery in Virginia upon a routine traffic stop it was
found
> > that a map of the entire state's radio system (towers etc) was found in
> the
> > possession of a suspicious individual.   WE DO NOT NEED TO ASSIST IN THE
> > COMPILATION OF THIS INFORMATION.
> >
> > Please DO NOT give out any information to inquiries about your
> > communications system, 911 switches, or other type of surveys that could
> > furnish information to wrong people.
> >
> > I wish I had been able document the caller's phone number, as I have
> caller
> > ID, but it was not retrievable on my system.  If any of you receive
these
> > calls, if you can get a call back number or more information, please do
so
> > and forward to GEMA.  I am notifying GEMA at this time.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Carolyn H. Hunter
> >
> > (Communications Director - Rockdale County GA)
> >
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> Wireless
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