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Embryo editing

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Human embryo editing breakthrough is a ‘major advance’ towards controversial treatments for babies

The treatment could help rid babies of genetic diseases. But the ethical and legal considerations need urgent work, experts have warned

Andrew Griffin @_andrew_griffin Wednesday 2 August 2017 17:00 BST

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A landmark study suggests that scientists could soon edit out genetic mutations to prevent babies being born with diseases. The technique could eventually let doctors remove inherited conditions from embryos before they go on to become a child.

That, in turn, opens the possibility for inherited diseases to be wiped out entirely, according to doctors. But experts have warned that urgent work is needed to answer the ethical and legal questions surrounding the work.

Though the scientists only edited out mutations that could cause diseases, it modified the nuclear DNA that sits right at the heart of the cell, which also influences personal characteristics such as intelligence, height, facial appearance and eye colour.

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The breakthrough means that “the possibility of germline genome editing has moved from future fantasy to the world of possibility, and the debate about its use, outside of fears about the safety of the technology, needs to run to catch up”, said Professor Peter Braude from King’s College London. Scientists warned that soon the public could demand such treatment – and that the world might not be ready.

“Families with genetic diseases have a strong drive to find cures,” said Yalda Jamshidi, reader in genomic medicine at St George’s, University of London. “Whilst we are just beginning to understand the complexity of genetic disease, gene-editing will likely become acceptable when its potential benefits, both to individuals and to the broader society, exceeds its risks.”

The new research, published in Nature, marks the first time the powerful Crispr-Cas9 tool has been used to fix mutations. The US study destroyed the embryos after just a few days and the work remains at an experimental stage.

In the study, scientists fertilised donor eggs with sperm that included a gene that causes a type of heart failure. As the eggs were fertilised, they also applied the gene-editing tool, which works like a pair of specific scissors and cuts away the defective parts of the gene.

When those problematic parts are cut away, the cells can repair themselves with the healthy versions and so get rid of the mutation that causes the disease. Some 42 out of 58 embryos were fixed so that they didn’t carry the mutation – stopping a disease that usually has a 50 per cent chance of being passed on.

If those embryos had been allowed to develop into children, then they would no longer have carried the disease. That would stop them from being vulnerable to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy – and would save their children, too.

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“Every generation on would carry this repair because we’ve removed the disease-causing gene variant from that family’s lineage,” said Dr Shoukhrat Mitalipov, from Oregon Health and Science University, who led the study.

“By using this technique, it’s possible to reduce the burden of this inheritable disease on the family and eventually the human population.”

The heart problem is just one of more than 10,000 conditions that are caused by an error in the gene. The same tool could be used to cut out those faults for all of those, and eventually could be used to target cancer mutations.

The work could lead to treatments that would be given to patients, once it becomes more efficient and safe. Using such a treatment on humans is illegal in both the US and the UK – but some experts expect that law will soon be changed, and that the legal and ethical frameworks need to catch up with the technology.

There is some suggestion that the editing work could take place in the UK. Though using the research as treatment is illegal there as well as the US, the regulatory barriers are much higher in America and look unlikely to be changed.

In the US, there are various regulations and restrictions on how embryos can be edited, including stipulations that such work can’t be carried out with taxpayers’ money. UK regulators are more relaxed and liberal about those restrictions, leading to suggestions that it could eventually become the home of such work in the west.

The UK has become the first country that allows mitochondrial replacement therapy, another treatment that opponents warn could allow for the creation of designer babies.

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“UK researchers can apply for a licence to edit human embryos in research, but offering it as a treatment is currently illegal,” said a spokesperson for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HEFA), which would regulate any such experiments.

“Introducing new, controversial techniques is not just about developing the science – gene editing would need to offer new options to couples at risk of having a child with a genetic disease, beyond current treatments like embryo testing.

“Our experience of introducing mitochondrial donation in the UK shows that high-quality public discussion about the ethics of new treatments, expert scientific advice and a robust regulatory system are crucial when considering new treatments of this kind.”

Doctors said that any change in the law would have to strictly keep such treatment to being used for medical reasons, and not for “designer babies” that have other characteristics edited out.

“It may be that some countries never permit germline genome editing because of moral and ethical concerns,” said Professor Joyce Harper from University College London. “If the law in the UK was changed to allow genome editing, it would be highly regulated by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, as is PGD, to ensure it is only used for medical reasons.”

But that work has already received significant opposition.

Dr David King, director of the Human Genetics Alert, which opposes all tampering with the human genome, said: “If irresponsible scientists are not stopped, the world may soon be presented with a fait accompli of the first GM baby.

“We call on governments and international organisations to wake up and pass an immediate global ban on creating cloned or GM babies, before it is too late.”

Professor Robin Lovell-Badge from the Francis Crick Institute said the research only appears to work when the father is carrying the defective gene, and that it would not work for more sophisticated alterations. “The possibility of producing designer babies, which is unjustified in any case, is now even further away,” he said.

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The Everett Herald, Unfair and Bias

I  used to be an avid reader of the Herald. When I moved to everett 13 years ago, I subscribed to delivery and was a loyal reader for many years. I find that as time goes on, I am more and more in awe at the bias of the stories written. Ive noticed that not only are the stories innaccurate and bias, but poorly organized. One such story has hit me at a personal level and that is the coverage of the recent murder trial in Everett of George d. Hatt. I believe I sat near ms. Hefley and not once did she or anyone else bother to ask anyone from the victims family anything. The first article was riddled with errors of facts and hearsay from the trial and  seemed very much in favor of the defendant and I felt it was even disrespectful to the victim, whose name is barely mentioned well into the second paragraph. And again, why didnt the writer get deeper into the thoughts or emotions of the people involved? I was there throughout most of the trial, with Andrew Spencers mother, father, son, and many other family and friends and I can tell you first hand, that this was a very intense roller coaster ride for all of us. Why didnt the coverage include any statements from the family, friends, or anyone for that matter? The facts were arranged in such a way that I felt the writer was conveying sympathy towards the defendant and making the victim less of a victim and more of a deserving criminal. If you had talked to anyone you might have heard a different story altogether. And if you are going to reprint things that the defense says, why not print the entire story, instead of leaving out bits of important information that are pertinent to the eventual outcome the jury came to? To top it off, the 3rd and final article that came out on Friday morning was not even worthy enough to be put on the front page as had the first two articles. This trial was so important when the writer wanted to make the crime seem justified, but when justice was served, and not in the writers obviously bias manner, the story took the back seat to yet another article about the homeless problem. Here are some key facts Diane Hefley left out: Andrew Spencer lived in Granite Falls and was a father. George Hatt was squatting on the property he claims was robbed by Andrew Spencer. There has been nothing to date that proves Andrew ever robbed or vandalized George Hatts possessions. The Herald would know this if instead of opinions, the writers did a bit of research themselves before throwing together some courtroom banter and hitting spell check, print.  George Hatt has an even longer list of felonies than Andrew Spencer. George Hatt showed absolutely no remorse for killing Andrew. George Hatt did not just shoot Andrew, he tricked him into thinking their dispute was settled and then lured him back with lies, he shot him at close range, twice, then threw him in a shallow hole, said he would forever be known as kissing his own ass, then jumped on this back, not once, but several times, breaking ribs, etc, then proceeded to club the deceased with a 50lb barbell, all before throwing some dirt on top, pouring various chemicals, and staging a bonfire for 3 days before fleeing. The body was not recovered in one piece, and was only recognizable because the head had been protected from the brunt of the fire. Even if you could justify a self defense plea, or sympathize with him for being robbed, even if you could justify this murder in any way, there is still the fact that what was done to Andrew after he died was horrific enough that no one showed up the day they showed the pictures of his remains in court. And telling also, is that the one and only day anyone showed up in support of George, was the girlfriend who was also there the night he killed Andrew, yet she was never called to the stand as a witness because her testimony kept changing and she was deemed a hostile witness, She is,  by the way, facing charges in another case out of Tacoma from just a few months ago, involving prescription fraud. These two career criminals have been known to talk about other individuals that have been victims of theirs in the past, it is rumoured that George is quoted as saying he "stopped counting his victims after 22". Why then, is the Herald painting a picture of a person who was an unfortunate felon who was merely teaching a robber a lesson ? Its easy to say what you want about Andrew Spencer, because he isnt here to defend himself, but the courtroom was filled with people who knew him, including his parents. George Hatt made sure to slip into his testimoney that his dad is a retired fire captain in Ventura County, CA, yet no one flew up or drove up from California in support of his defense. And no one from the Herald bothered to give any real thought to how these three articles sounded to the victims family. Or anyone else who reads them and doesnt know the full story.
My father, before his untimely death when I was 15, used to tell me, "It is better to keep your mouth shut and let everyone think you are stupid, then to open your mouth and prove it." And the old tried and true cliche rings out as well, the one that says if you dont have anything nice to say,  dont say anything at all. I suppose you could say I'm guilty of that one, as I really dont have anything nice to say with regards to these articles, however, I think I speak for all those of us who knew Andrew Spencer, when I say, he was a kind person with a big heart and a checkered past, who once went out and bought shoes for several people in winter time who had no warm shoes.  I didnt know him for very long, and in fact, I tried to dislike him based on the things I had heard about him, but he was such an honest and sincere person who expressed regret for his past mistakes.  One couldn't help but like him, with his warm smile and easy laugh.
I cant say George Hatt was even the least bit sorry or remorseful for anything he did to Andrew.  Im repulsed just thinking about the pictures of his mutilated body, and the horrifying scene George staged to look like a campfire, complete with lawn chairs set around a firepit, where underneath lay the broken pieces of a man he thought had robbed him, a man who he actually had used as one of many identities he stole over the course of his 2 years in Granite Falls, to sell vehicles and drugs and numerous other shady deals.  Ask anyone about him, and they'll have nothing good to say. He even sent letters from jail telling his girlfriend to arrange a false witness to help get him acquitted of the murder charges he faced.  He signed it "The Granite Falls Grim Reaper".  Of course, he tried to say in court that that was not his signature,  but even without an expert in handwriting, anyone could see that it was indeed the same penmanship.
Andrew Spencer may have once had "Bad Boy" Tattooed on his wrists, but even more true is the one george hatt has in large letters across his chest that reads "Hell Awaits".
Shame on you, Herald, and you, Diane.   I thought you would at the very least,  quote reactions or comments from the victims family, in lieu of Andrew   not being alive to speak in his own defense. 

His story ended the night a man took his life, and now you disregard who he was and what a loss we have suffered with your carelessly arranged words. While it may just be another day at the office for you, his children will be at school and hear the snickers of other kids whose parents read your articles and spoke with disdain about someone you nor they, ever knew.
Its your loss to never have known him, our loss because we loved him.

The articles written by Diana Hefley lack feeling, empathy,  and smear the facts, alot like George Hatt.

Sincerely,
AN EX READER.

E.S.

Dirty tricks

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What Exactly Are the Spy Agencies Actually DOING with their Bag of Dirty Tricks?
Posted on July 15, 2014 by WashingtonsBlog
Note: Update below …

SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF WHAT THEY MAY BE DOING

Newly-released documents from Edward Snowden show that the British spy agency GCHQ has developed numerous offensive digital tools.

But what exactly are they doing with these dirty tricks?

We think it’s important to think through the specific possibilities, in order to gain an understanding of how pernicious these manipulations can be.

We quote verbatim (in black) the names and descriptions of some of these tools – some of which Glenn Greenwald didn’t highlight in his report.  We then provide descriptions in blue of potential misuses of such tools.

Then we discuss how likely such misuses really are.

TOOLS AND POTENTIAL MISUSES

Here are the actual dirty tricks in the British spy agencies toolkit, with hypothetical examples of potential misuses …

CHANGELING: Ability to spoof any email address and send email under that identity. Fake an email from a privacy advocate to make it look like he’s proposing terrorism.

SCRAPHEAP CHALLENGE: Perfect spoofing of emails from Blackberry targets. Fake an email from an opponent of  bailouts to the giant banks to make it look like she’s planning to bomb a bank.

BURLESQUE: The capacity to send spoofed SMS messages. Fake a message from an an anti-war writer to make it look like he’s planning to sabotage a military base.

IMPERIAL BARGE : For connecting two target phone together in a call. Fake a telephone connection to make it look like a critic of the president’s policies spoke with a leader of Al Qaeda.

BADGER : Mass delivery of email messaging to support an Information Operations campaign. Send out a fake, mass email pretending to be from a prominent whistleblower “admitting” that he’s mentally unstable, disgruntled, dishonest, vindictive and a Russian spy.

WARPATH: Mass delivery of SMS messages to support an Information Operations campaign.  Send out a fake, mass message from a targeted group calling for the murder of all Christians and Jews.

SPACE ROCKET: A programme covering insertion of media into target networks. Insert a video of underage girls on a whistleblower website.

CLEAN SWEEP Masquerade Facebook Wall Posts for individuals or entire countries. Put up a bunch of fake wall posts calling for jihad on the Facebook page of a reporter giving first-hand reports of what’s really happening in a country that the U.S. has targeted for regime change.

HAVOK Real-time website cloning technique allowing on-the-fly alterations. Hack the website of a state politician who insists the government must respect the Constitution,  and post fake demands for a violent march on Washington, D.C.

SILVERLORD: Disruption of video-based websites hosting extremist content through concerted target discovery and content removal. Disrupt websites hosting videos espousing libertarian views.

SUNBLOCK: Ability to deny functionality to send/receive email or view material online. Block emails to reporters and the web functionality of a government insider who is about to go public on wrongdoing.

ANGRY PIRATE: A tool that will permanently disable a target’s account on their computer. Disable the accounts of a leading opponent of genetically modified foods.

PREDATORS FACE: Targeted Denial Of Service against Web Servers. Take down a website which is disclosing hard-hitting information on illegal government actions.

UNDERPASS: Change outcome of online polls. Change the results of an online poll from one showing that the American people overwhelmingly oppose a new war which is unnecessary for the defense of America’s national security to showing support for it.

GATEWAY: Ability to artificially increase traffic to a website. Make a website calling for more surveillance against the American people appear hugely popular.

BOMB BAY: The capacity to increase website hits, rankings. Make it look like a site praising praising Al Qaeda is popular among a targeted local population, when the locals actually despise violent Islamic fundamentalists.

SLIPSTREAM: Ability to inflate page views on websites. Make it appear that an article saying that the Constitution is “outdated” and “unrealistic in the post-9/11 world” is widely popular.

GESTATOR: Amplification of a given message, normally video, on popular multimedia websites (Youtube). Make a propaganda video – saying that Dear Leader will always help and protect us – go viral.

WHAT IS THE LIKELIHOOD OF MISUSE?

We don’t know which of the above hypothetically forms of misuse are actually occurring. However, as we wrote in February:

We’ve warned since 2009 (and see this) that the government could be launching cyber “false flag attacks” in order to justify a crackdown on the Internet and discredit web activists.

A new report from NBC News – based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden – appear to confirm our fears, documenting that Britain’s GCHQ spy agency has carried out cyber false flag attacks:

In another document taken from the NSA by Snowden and obtained by NBC News, a JTRIG official said the unit’s mission included computer network attacks, disruption, “Active Covert Internet Operations,” and “Covert Technical Operations.” Among the methods listed in the document were jamming phones, computers and email accounts and masquerading as an enemy in a “false flag” operation. The same document said GCHQ was increasing its emphasis on using cyber tools to attack adversaries.

Later that month, we noted:

A new report from NBC News shows that the British spy agency used “false flag attacks” and other dirty tricks:

British spies have developed “dirty tricks” for use against nations, hackers, terror groups, suspected criminals and arms dealers that include releasing computer viruses, spying on journalists and diplomats, jamming phones and computers, and using sex to lure targets into “honey traps.”

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The agency’s goal was to “destroy, deny, degrade [and] disrupt” enemies by “discrediting” them, planting misinformation and shutting down their communications.

Sound familiar? It should:

Between 1956 and 1971, the FBI operated a program known as COINTELPRO, for Counter Intelligence Program. Its purpose was to interfere with the activities of the organizations and individuals who were its targets or, in the words of long-time FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize” them.

NBC continues:

[The agency] also uses “false flag” operations, in which British agents carry out online actions that are designed to look like they were performed by one of Britain’s adversaries.

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JTRIG used negative information to attack private companies, sour business relationships and ruin deals.

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Changing photos on social media sites and emailing and texting colleagues and neighbors unsavory information.

And reporter Glenn Greenwald noted that Snowden documents showed:

Western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction.

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These agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse …. Among the core self-identified purposes … are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends: “false flag operations” (posting material to the internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy), and posting “negative information” on various forums.

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The discussion of many of these techniques occurs in the context of using them in lieu of “traditional law enforcement” against people suspected (but not charged or convicted) of ordinary crimes or, more broadly still, “hacktivism”, meaning those who use online protest activity for political ends.

The title page of one of these documents reflects the agency’s own awareness that it is “pushing the boundaries” by using “cyber offensive” techniques against people who have nothing to do with terrorism or national security threats, and indeed, centrally involves law enforcement agents who investigate ordinary crimes…. no conceivable connection to terrorism or even national security threats.

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Then there is the use of psychology and other social sciences to not only understand, but shape and control, how online activism and discourse unfolds. Today’s newly published document touts the work of GCHQ’s “Human Science Operations Cell”, devoted to “online human intelligence” and “strategic influence and disruption”….***

Under the title “Online Covert Action”, the document details a variety of means to engage in “influence and info ops” as well as “disruption and computer net attack”, while dissecting how human beings can be manipulated using “leaders”, “trust, “obedience” and “compliance”:

The U.S. government is also spending millions to figure out how to manipulate social media to promote propaganda and stifle dissenting opinions. And see this and this.

And any criticism of government policies is now considered “extremist” and potential terrorism. According to Department of Defense training manuals, all protest is now considered “low-level terrorism”. And see this, this and this.  Questioning war is considered extremism. The government also considers anyone who tries to protect himself from government oppression and to claim his Constitutional rights a “extremist”. This is not entirely new … the CIA director relabeled “dissidents” as “terrorists” so he could continue spying on them in 1972. Indeed – for 5,000 years straight – mass surveillance of one’s own people has always been used to crush dissent.

The NSA is now also collecting and retaining the most intimate personal details of Americans, including nude and suggestive pictures and medical and financial records … even though they admittedly have no conceivable security value.

You may think you have “nothing to hide”, but you’re breaking the law numerous times every day … without even knowing it (update).

Indeed, top NSA whistleblowers say that the NSA is blackmailing and harassing opponents with information that it has gathered – potentially even high-level politicians – just like FBI head J. Edgar Hoover blackmailed presidents and Congressmen.

Moreover, if the NSA takes a dislike to someone, it can frame them. This has been CONFIRMED by top NSA whistleblowers.

And the following facts make it likely that British and U.S. spy agencies are misusing their powers:

The Pentagon falsely smeared USA Today reporters who were investigating the use of illegal Pentagon propaganda against the American people
The government and big banks joined forces to violently beat up peaceful protesters speaking out against bank corruption. Organizers of the protests say that their emails were blocked
The NSA engages in offensive attacks (“we hack everyone everywhere“). And private corporations – big banks – will likely get the power to declare cyber war. Similarly, the largest German newspaper alleges that the U.S. government helped Monsanto attack the computers of activists opposed to genetically modified food
The U.S. government at times uses national security powers to protect things other than the interests of the American people – such as globalism or global corporations (and may be putting foreign countries’ needs over our own) – and relies on countries which don’t even have a Constitution to justify unconstitutional acts. NSA’s recent actions are motivated by a power grab, not fighting terrorism
Top NSA whistleblowers Bill Binney and Thomas Drake both say that the U.S. has become a police state. They say that the U.S. government has become like the Stasis or Soviets, Binney says that the NSA has become like “J. Edgar Hoover on super steroids” and that “the ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control“
Update: NSA whistleblower Russel Tice – a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping, and who used to work in “black ops” – tells Washington’s Blog after reading this post:

My biggest fear has been that Black World programs that I specialized in would be turned against the American people. I do not confirm or deny want I see in your piece, but you are now starting to think like a Black World operations officer. I do not know of any case where such capabilities have definitively been used directly against U.S. Citizens, but I have not been privy to their targeting for over ten years now.

But I have to congratulate you on thinking out of the strict technology box and thinking “for what purpose.”

Postscript:  We don’t know whether or not the spy agencies are misusing their bag of tricks in the specific ways discussed above (in blue).  The whole point is that they have been caught lying time and again about what they’re doing, they’re running amok with no oversight, and the fact that they could be targeting government critics in exactly these ways shows how bad things have become.

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Rumors

So ive heard a few rumors and i want to keep track of them.

Was told that someone by the name of kerry miles (sp?) Is thought to be responsible for the murder of the mother and daughter hikers that were found mutilated and shot in thr head up on the hiking trails off mt loop /pilchuck area. He is a cousin of Myrna Mann, and the reasons this is believed is because 1) he carries on his person at all times a weapon that is thd same as the one used. 2) place where bodies were found is a favorite spot of his to hang out, 3)he has a dog that is known for chewing at bodies of animals that his owner has shot, after he has shot them, 4)he is a self proclaimed woman hater, states this often and openly and 5)  has threatened a female with shooting her and being able to get away with it because he has done it before.

Yes this is all just hearsay, but as an investigator of any case involving murder, i think it would be a good detective practice to follow up on all possible leads. Was. Told that law enforcement dismissed any notion towards him.
Also am told he has a violent hairpin trigger temperment and always always always carries his gun. Is known to be violent and hateful towards women.

Unsure of last name, or of spelling of kerry.
This information was shared with me on march 15 of 2017 by someone with many insights and information regarding several unsolved murders in the area of granite falls lake stevens.

Unsolved victims after GREEN RIvER Killer

Thursday, November 21, 1991 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
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The Victims: Forty Unsolved Murders Since 1984
This is a list of 40 unsolved killings in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties since 1984, the year officials say the Green River killer stopped murdering young women in the Seattle area. Nearly all the 40 victims were women, many whose deaths resemble the deaths of the serial killer's victims - prostitutes or young, street-wise teenagers.

KING COUNTY

1. Sarah Habakangas, 17, of Virginia, found strangled Nov. 5, 1991, off Interstate 90 east of North Bend. Had been living in Tacoma and near Sea-Tac strip since arriving in Seattle area six months ago. Arrested twice in Seattle for prostitution.

2. Anna Lee Chebetnoy, 14, of Puyallup, found Sept. 17, 1991, off Highway 410 east of Enumclaw. Last seen in Puyallup. Found near where a Sumner teenager's remains discovered in 1990.

3. Remains of woman found Sept. 11, 1991, 10 miles east of Enumclaw near Highway 410. Remains were of woman with African-American characteristics. Stood 4 feet 11 inches to 5 feet 2. Was 17 to 24-years-old. Had been dead at least two years.

4. Unidentified skeletal remains, believed to be of a woman, found along the Snoqualmie River near Fall City on Sept. 6, 1991.

5. Dawn Jennings, 37, of San Juan Island, found Aug. 4, 1991, near Highway 2, five miles east of Skykomish. Police looking into possibility she did not die from foul play.

6. Unidentified skeletal remains discovered July 6, 1991 off of I-90 near North Bend. Remains are of a white woman, 14 to 22 years old, 5 feet 6 to 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed over 170 pounds. Believed to have died in May or June.

7. Marta Reeves, 37, of Bothell. Found Sept. 20, 1990, eight miles east of Enumclaw off Highway 410. Believed to have disappeared from Seattle, where she had been arrested twice for prostitution.

8. Rhonda Hanke, 22, of Portland was found alongside I-90 five miles west of Snoqualmie Pass on Dec. 27, 1989. Shot in the head.

9. Kerry Anne Walker, 15, of Renton, found Dec. 22, 1989, north of Tukwila. The Renton High School freshman was last seen Dec. 20, 1988 when mother, leaving for work, peeked in room and saw her sleeping.

10. Unidentified woman, 30 to 50 years old, found Oct. 3, 1989 in 2300 block of Airport Way South in Seattle. Possibly Native American; stood 5 feet 1 to 5 feet 4, weighed 100 to 120 pounds. Died of shotgun wounds.

11. Kimberly DeLange, 15, of Sumner found Aug. 20, 1988, east of Enumclaw off Highway 410, where Chebetnoy was found this September. Last seen at Puyallup shopping center.

12. Ophelia McGnight, 17, of Seattle. Found Feb. 6, 1988 in Montlake Park. Died of gunshot wounds.

13. Dorthea J. Presleigh, 24, found Oct. 19, 1987 at Grandview Park in South King County. Disappeared from Sea-Tac strip day before dying of multiple gunshot wounds.

14. Debbie Gonzales, 14, of Auburn found Sept. 26, 1987, in woods off Auburn-Black Diamond Highway west of Black Diamond. No obvious cause of death.

15. Rose Marie Kurran, 16, of Lynnwood. Strangled; body left in plastic bag east of Sea-Tac Airport. Liked to hitchhike. Last seen on Pacific Highway South. Found Aug. 31, 1987. Police say she was victim of serial killer.

16. Shan M. Morehouse, 15, of Auburn found March 14, 1986 in woods off Seward Park in Seattle. Died from blow to head.

17. Rose Ann Black, 25, Seattle, Student at Seattle Vocational School. Found Aug. 20, 1984, in Lake Washington, near bathhouse at 800 Lake Washington Boulevard, with throat slashed.

18. Kathleen Arita, 38, Boeing computer operator from Renton, found May 9, 1984 near Star Lake off South 272nd Way. Last seen leaving home. Died of strangulation.

SNOHOMISH COUNTY

19. Unidentified, dismembered man. Right leg found Feb. 28, 1991 in Skykomish River near Startup; scalp attached to ear and brown curly hair found March 26, 1991, off High Bridge Road in Snoqualmie River ravine southwest of Monroe; left leg found Aug. 22, 1991 on sand bar of Snohomish River five miles south of city of Snohomish.

20. Tia Hicks, 20, of Seattle. Body found April 22, 1991, in cabin cruiser parked in Mountlake Terrace on 220th Street Southwest between Highway 99 and I-5. Apparent transient who used drugs. Disappeared from Seattle.

21. Sun Nyo Lee, 36, of Bothell. Skull found March 27, 1991, southwest of Monroe near Snoqualmie River off High Bridge Road. Detectives were investigating scalp found March 26 when they came across Lee's head, believed to have been cut off.

22. Michelle Koski, 17, of Seattle. Strangled; found Aug. 25, 1990 southwest of Monroe, near intersection of Highway 522 and Echo Lake Road.

23. Robyn Kenworthy, 20, of Seattle. Nude body found Oct. 22, 1988 beneath a pile of logs off logging road two miles north of Index.

24. Jennifer Burnetto, 32, of Tacoma, found stabbed to death June 29, 1988, eight miles northeast of Index.

25. Hazel Gelnett, 66, transient also known as Jennifer James. Found strangled May 8, 1988, in woods three miles east of Gold Bar.

26. Unidentified skeletal remains of woman in teens or early 20s found Jan. 1, 1988, in Canyon Park northwest of Bothell, 600 feet south of 228th Street Southwest.

27. Jay Cook, 20, of British Columbia found Nov. 26, 1987, beneath High Bridge near Monroe. Body of girlfriend found near Alger, Skagit County.

28. Dismembered white man found June 7, 1987, two miles east of Gold Bar.

29. Molly Purdin, 21, of Kennewick, found bludgeoned to death July 7, 1985 eight miles northeast of Index.

PIERCE COUNTY

30. Tracey Wooten, 26, of Tacoma, found Aug. 15, 1990, in Tacoma north of Commencement Bay. Alleged prostitute.

31. Samontra Baker, 24, of Tacoma, found Aug. 13, 1990, in vacant lot across from Tacoma condominium. Last seen in car with two strangers. Died of stab wounds.

32. Lisa Rivas, 19, formerly of Seattle living at Fife motel when she died. Body found Jan. 9, 1989, in woods near the Fort Lewis training ground off Highway 507. Trying to shake off life of prostitution and drug abuse when killed by blows to the head.

33. Tracy Whitney, 18, of Federal Way, found Aug. 28, 1988 near Sumner floating at confluence of the Stuck and Puyallup rivers.

34. Shannon L. Pease, 15, of Tacoma. Found April 4, 1988, in field in Lakewood. Believed to have disappeared April 3, 1988, from Ponders Corner in Tacoma area.

35. Unidentified woman found March 24, 1988, along Highway 16 in Tacoma. Fully dressed, 18 to 22 years old, between 5 feet 1 and 5 feet 4. Believed of mixed race, possibly African American with Asian or Native American ancestry.

36. Jennifer Bastian, 13, of Tacoma, found Aug. 28, 1986, in Point Defiance Park, where had been riding bicycle when she disappeared Aug. 4, 1986. Police believe think she was a victim of a serial killer who also murdered Michella Welch.

37. Stephanie Louie, 18, of Auburn, found Aug. 19, 1986, in woods near Eatonville. Last seen by a family member August 1983 at an Omak rodeo. Reported missing in 1984.

38. Denise L. Sallee, 17, of Pierce County. Found partly buried in Parkland on March 29, 1986. Disappeared from Tacoma shopping-mall bowling alley Jan. 24, 1986.

39. Michella Welch, 12, of Tacoma. Disappeared March 26, 1986, while playing with younger sisters at Tacoma's Puget Park. Body found the same evening.

40. Terry L. Main, 21, of Pierce County. Found in Tacoma on Feb. 22, 1986, the same day she disappeared about 5 a.m.

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Cell phone spying and Signal App

TECHNOLOGY
INNOVATION, THE INTERNET, GADGETS, AND MORE.
MARCH 7 2007 6:53 PM
How Do You Intercept a Text Message?
Turn your cell phone into a spy gadget.

By Christopher Beam
Text messaging.
A person text messaging
Retail giant Wal-Mart fired an employee Monday for eavesdropping on phone calls and intercepting text messages between the company's media-relations staff and a New York Times reporter. How do you intercept a text message?

Turn your own cell phone into a surveillance gadget. There are a few ways to do this. One method, phone cloning, lets you intercept incoming messages and send outgoing ones as if your phone were the original. If both phones are near the same broadcast tower, you can also listen in on calls. To clone a phone, you have to make a copy of its SIM card, which stores the phone's identifying information. This requires a SIM reader that can read the card's unique cryptographic key and transfer it to another phone. (Warning: This is super illegal, but there are still sites that show you how.) The problem with cloning is that it only lets you intercept messages sent to one phone number. Plus, you need physical access to the target phone to make it work—something Wal-Mart's technician probably didn't have.

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It's also possible to intercept unencrypted or poorly encrypted messages directly as they're broadcast over cellular channels. (If the network uses sophisticated encryption, you might be out of luck.) To steal messages with your phone, you would need to upload illegal  " firmware" onto your phone. This essentially turns your phone into a radio and allows it to pick up all the texts broadcast on a given channel—instead of limiting you to the ones addressed to you. You'd also need to know the network for the target phone—Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, etc.—and you'd have to make sure that both your phone and the target are within range of the same base station. This method isn't too expensive since you don't need much more than a computer, a phone, and some firmware that any serious techie could find online for free.

Wal-Mart isn't discussing details of the method its employee used, but a spokesperson did say he was able to intercept messages that included certain keywords. Companies like Global Security Solutions and Homeland Security Strategies develop interceptors for law-enforcement purposes. (Prices reportedly run as high as nearly $1 million.) These fancy devices essentially work the same way as the firmware method outlined above, but they have antennas for longer range and may run more smoothly.

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Explainer thanks Patrick Traynor of Pennsylvania State University.

Christopher Beam is a writer living in Beijing.

FUTURE TENSE
THE CITIZEN’S GUIDE TO THE FUTURE.
FEB. 9 2017 9:30 AM
How to Set Up Signal Private Messenger
And why you need it.

By Jennifer Golbeck
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Signal will encrypt your messages for you.
Holly Allen for Slate

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Encrypted texts and calls: not just for movie spies and paranoid hackers! The app Signal has seen a huge surge in popularity since the 2016 presidential election, when it became a go-to recommendation for people who might not want outsiders (like the government) reading their messages. It’s is a super-easy-to-use messaging application that works like any other texting program—but it has some extra benefits. All messages are encrypted, including when they go through Signal’s servers, so if anyone intercepts them in transit or at Signal, they can’t read them. The same goes for voice calls (also free), which you can make with the app.