-- James M. Atkinson President and Sr. Engineer "Leonardo da Vinci of Bug Sweeps and Spy Hunting" http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id178662 Granite Island Group jm..._at_tscm.com http://www.tscm.com/ (978) 546-3803 --------------060301030103080002040603 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> The software was written by Test Equipment Plus in La Center, WA.<br> <br> I am aware of the part which Test Equipment Plus played in the development of the Kestrel software as the company came to me about how to do certain things in the software, but I withdrew from providing any further design or software engineering support on the "secret project they were doign" and they they wanted all kind of TSCM functions in the software. <br> <br> I was happy to help them out if they were going to be selling it in the US, but as soon as they told me that they had been contracted by Paul to write the software for him, I waved the ITAR 121.1 XI(b) flag and explained that I could have noting further to do with the project, as the mention of the "foreign client" made it a U.S. State Department matter. The the actual export of the source code become a export of restricted of classified data, and any copies shipped, well it turned into a rats next of 7, 8, and 9 major violations that I wanted nothing to do with.<br> <br> A short period of time "KESTRAL: was announced, and it looked and operate dexactly like the Test Equipment Plus programming progect "for the secret customer in Canada"<br> <br> The U.S. State Deprtment lists the KESTRAL software as Test Equipment Plus being the original programmer of the project, and no authoirses licenesie of the code of Kestral to the firm in Canada. But U.S. Customs does not shipment form WA to Canada with the Shippers Export Document lacking the State Department License number in block 27 of the SED. The also have import documents from Canada on Ketsral shipment where thiese if no mention of a U.S. or Canadian Diplomatic approval for the shipments, and the license number is missing.<br> <br> As per the U.S. State Department, there is no record of the company even requested to make level ITAR 121 shipment to the units state, bu tht ecusotms records to shipment TO the united States show the required PM/DDTC license numebr to be missing.<br> <br> The software is U.S. in origin, and i was involved in the early stages of the project, and removed myself when I relased that they were doing (I do not think that Test Equipment Plus knew that the software wa s legal nightmare, only that they had a customer who wanted TSCM software, and they the cutomer in Canada d dnot at thier time know how to write it themselves"<br> <br> Somewhere around here I have probably located an E-Mail archive of the communications back and forth, and a copy of the control from the Canadian company the Test Equipment Plus for the development of the software.<br> <br> As TEP supply source code for a finish or nearly finished product it woudl have been single to though in extra fetures later, recombile it and claim that someone in camera wrote it, even though they merely took TEP source code of compiled it.<br> <br> Nope, it was written in La Center, WA... I was involved for a bit... it is also was a huge secret that they did the development.<br> <br> "Canadian Developed" does not mean "Canadians Wrote the Software from Scratch" it only means they wrote a check out to the people to did the actual work.<br> <br> <br> <br> Andrzej Wolczanski wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1322890333...._at_web125501.mail.ne1.yahoo.com" type="cite"> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="right: auto;">Kestrel TSCM TM Professional software; it is a 100 %<br> Canadian developed software application.</div> <div style="right: auto;"> </div> <div style="right: auto;"> </div> <div style="right: auto;">Regards</div> <div style="right: auto;"> <br> Andrzej Wolczanski , <var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var>TSS<br> <br> Professional Development TSCM Group Inc.<br> 319 - 4305 Fairview Street<br> Burlington Ontario<br> Canada L7L 6E8<br> <br> <br> Telephone: 647-293-7384<br> Voice / FAX: 905-624-4391<br> Canada Wide: 1-888-293-7384<br> <br> Internet: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.pdtg.ca">www.pdtg.ca</a><br> </div> <div style="right: auto;"> </div> <div style="right: auto;"> </div> <div style="right: auto;"> </div> <div style="right: auto;"> </div> <div style="right: auto;"> </div> <div style="right: auto;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> James M. Atkinson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jm..._at_tscm.com"><j..._at_tscm.com></a><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tscm-..._at_googlegroups.com">tscm-..._at_googlegroups.com</a> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, December 2, 2011 10:17:58 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [TSCM-L] {5847} Re: {5839} Re: Fwd: kestrel software<br> </font><br> <div id="yiv1502666143"> <div>There is a slight wrinkle though in all of this.<br> <br> The U.S. State Department (PM/DDTC, high folks) states that the Kestrel software was written by the same company that make the Signal Hound Receiver, and they they programmed the software at the request of the company in Canada, but that they did not have the legally required license to allow then to do the programming on behalf of a non-U.S. Citizen. <br> <br> Because the Kestrel software is considered by both the U.S. and Canadian government to be "Arms" the lack of a proper license to undertake the development of the software for a foreign entity is ahem, "a serious problem" as the software is considered by law to be "munitions" then each copy distributed out of Canada is an individual violation of both Canadian and U.S. law.<br> <br> If the software then come back into the United States a triple and quad violation of the law takes place, whereby the company in Canada is required to get permission to ship it from Canada back to the United States to retail sale, and the purchaser in the United States is required to get a license to import the "Arms" that this software represents.<br> <br> So a copy of this software in the United Stated, obtained from Canada represents potentially four separate U.S. Federal felonies for each copy. I seem to recall that each offense if something like ten years in prison, so someone could be looking at 40 years in prison for possessing one copy of the software.<br> <br> On yes, one other little tidbit, under U.S. Law, Arms Smuggling is an offense under the U.S. Patriot Act, and it is considered by law to me a predicate act of the act of terrorism, so when you bring this software in, just keep in mind that the U.S. Government will have just branded you both as an arm smuggler, and an a terrorism suspect and well... they can use that fact to snoop though your underwear, and probe you neither regions.<br> <br> Do not smuggle TSCM gear, and if you have ANY questions at all about any of this I would invite you to contact the U.S. State Department, ITAR enforcement or PM/DDTC office and query then as to the weather conditions on an island about 200 miles South of Miami, just a short jump South from the Florida Keys.<br> <br> Please, let me say again, DO NOT SMUGGLE THIS EQUIPMENT. You can not get it across any U.S. or Canadian border unless you break the law, or you have a very important license for the transaction from the U.S. State Department, and also from the Canadian Government.<br> <br> Look, if you are in the United States, just use the software that is FREE and which already come with the signal hound, it is essentially the same things a KESTRAL, and the company that did the software for Paul merely added a few bells and whistles to the FREE software that already comes with the product (I have direct personal knowledge of the development of the software).<br> <br> So, remind me why you would want to pay extra money for something that is already FREE, and potentially get yourself twisted up an an arm smuggling issue?<br> <br> The Signal Hound is a great product, and I strongly recommend it, but folks, there is no reason to buy it expect from the company that actually makes it, and who will give you the software actually for FREE.<br> <br> Notice how many times I used the word "FREE" in the above, it should tell you something. <br> <br> Labview also controls all of the Anritsu spectrum analyzers, and Anristu will give you a demo copy for free when you purchase their equipment, and they have some pretty cool TSCM functions build it (thanks to guess who), plus the software that does the TSCM activities is actually built in to the analysers so that you need to external controllers of any sort. <br> <br> FREE is always good.<br> <br> -jma<br> <br> <br> Black Signals wrote: <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>Gotcha back, I have been corrected it is also motion detection software. <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="yiv1502666143moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sentientvision.com/defence_products_airborne_kestrel_maritime.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://sentientvision.com/defence_products_airborne_kestrel_maritime.html</a> Here is the link <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="yiv1502666143moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.kestreltscm.com/SISS002.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.kestreltscm.com/SISS002.htm</a> I use the signal hound receiver with the software. There are multiple affordable receivers for the software. Today they released this statement below. The Kestrel TSCM TM Professional Software Provides full advanced operational support and control of the the MS2722C (9kHz to 9 GHz), MS2723C (9 kHz to 13 GHz), MS2724C (9 kHz to 20 GHz), MS2725C (9 kHz to 32 GHz), and the MS2726C (9 kHz to 43 kHz) professional series portable handheld spectrum analyzers. Cheers On Dec 1, 10:16 pm, Its from Onion <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="yiv1502666143moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ared..._at_msn.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:ared..._at_msn.com"><ar..._at_msn.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>Gotcha, however there are like 6 different companies with that name - even a hand held wind speed device! </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:10:42 -0800 Subject: [TSCM-L] {5839} Re: Fwd: kestrel software From: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="yiv1502666143moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:j..._at_inverarity.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:j..._at_inverarity.com">j..._at_inverarity.com</a> To: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="yiv1502666143moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tscm-..._at_googlegroups.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:tscm-..._at_googlegroups.com">tscm-..._at_googlegroups.com</a> </pre> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>Yes I am using Kestrel and have done the training. It is highly recommended. It is not motion detection software. It is legit sweep software designed specifically for sweeps and signal analysis. </pre> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>On Dec 1, 4:30 pm, MitchD <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="yiv1502666143moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:m..._at_tscmusa.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:m..._at_tscmusa.com"><..._at_tscmusa.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>-------- Original Message -------- Subject: kestrel software Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:48:00 -0600 From: MitchD <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="yiv1502666143moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ts..._at_gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:ts..._at_gmail.com"><..._at_gmail.com></a> To: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="yiv1502666143moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tscm-..._at_googlegroups.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:tscm-..._at_googlegroups.com">tscm-..._at_googlegroups.com</a> </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>anyone on the list using kestrel software w anything? </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>-- Mitch Davis TSCM/Special Operations Group Inc. 20 Music Square West,Suite 208 Nashville, TN. 37203 USA 615.251.0441 Fax 615.523.0300www.tscmusa.com *********************************** "Maintaining a higher degree of excellence" ***************************************** Technical Investigation Services Handheld Communication Forensics/GPS forensics Technical Surveillance Experts Expert Witness Services </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre> </pre> </blockquote> <br> <pre class="yiv1502666143moz-signature">-- James M. Atkinson President and Sr. Engineer "Leonardo da Vinci of Bug Sweeps and Spy Hunting" <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="yiv1502666143moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id178662" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id178662</a> Granite Island Group <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="yiv1502666143moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jm..._at_tscm.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:jm..._at_tscm.com">jm..._at_tscm.com</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="yiv1502666143moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.tscm.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.tscm.com/</a> (978) 546-3803 </pre> </div> </div> <br> <br> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="80">-- James M. 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