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  • A New Assault on Freedom of the Press

    02/13/2014 6:06:31 AM PST · by Kaslin · 10 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | February 13, 2014 | Judge Andrew Napolitano
    Last week, a little noticed clash took place on Capitol Hill involving the fundamental values underlying the First Amendment. The issue was the lawfulness of publishing the secrets that were given to reporters by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden. The disputants were Cong. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and FBI Director James Comey. Rogers is the chief congressional apologist for the massive NSA spying apparatus. He is the current chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and in that capacity, he is one of the dozen members of Congress from both houses who were privy to much...
  • Snowden documents show British digital spies use viruses and 'honey traps'

    02/08/2014 11:38:15 AM PST · by markomalley · 10 replies
    The Register ^ | 2/7/2014 | Iain Thomson
    At the start of this week, documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden detailed DDOS attacks on chatrooms by a British online intelligence unit dubbed the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG). Now he has released a new trove showing that JTRIG is about much more than purely online annoyances.According to the documents, released to NBC News, JTRIG's role is to "deny, disrupt, degrade and deceive" by any means possible. These techniques include destroying an individual's computer with a custom virus dubbed "Ambassador's Reception", setting up social media honey traps to harvest embarrassing information, actively attacking companies online and off, and...
  • Lawmakers ‘Disturbed and Angered’ After Classified Briefing Reveals Extent of Snowden Defense Leaks

    02/05/2014 4:15:24 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 60 replies
    PJ Tatler ^ | February 5, 2014 - 1:45 pm | Bridget Johnson
    Leading members of the House Armed Services Committee emerged from a classified briefing on the Edward Snowden leaks this afternoon “shocked” at the amount of information he reportedly leaked beyond the NSA surveillance programs. Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), chairman of the Armed Service panel’s Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee and also a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the briefing on the defense consequences of Snowden’s leaks was “very highly classified,” and therefore details couldn’t be discussed. …
  • Media Blacks Out New Snowden Interview The Government Doesn’t Want You to See

    02/05/2014 7:16:11 AM PST · by GilGil · 78 replies
    Benswan ^ | 01-31-14 | Jay Syrmopoulos
    He [Snowden] states that his “breaking point” was “seeing Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie under oath to Congress” denying the existence of a domestic spying programs while under questioning in March of last year. Mr. Snowden goes on to state that, “The public had a right to know about these programs. The public had a right to know that which the government is doing in its name, and that which the government is doing against the public.” Read more: http://benswann.com/media-blacks-out-new-snowden-interview-the-government-doesnt-want-you-to-see/#ixzz2sSdnMVhn Follow us: @BenSwann_ on Twitter
  • LETTERS: Readers assess state Sen. Wendy Davis, secrets leaker Edward Snowden

    01/28/2014 2:04:27 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 14 replies
    The Waco Tribune ^ | January 28, 2014 | Various
    Davis falsehoods Wonder Woman, alias Wendy Davis, still refuses to give credit where credit is due. Namely to the equivalent of her Batman — no, not billionaire Bruce Wayne but second husband Jeff Davis, who paid for her education at Texas Christian University and Harvard, then gained custody of their daughter and her daughter by her first marriage after she dumped him. Question: Is Wendy just a common gold digger or a poster child for women who, through their own efforts, lift themselves up by their bootstraps? Could she have achieved all that education without a sugar daddy? We’ll never...
  • NSA and GCHQ target 'leaky' phone apps like Angry Birds to scoop user data

    01/27/2014 10:58:33 AM PST · by C19fan · 28 replies
    UK Guardian ^ | January 27, 2014 | James Ball
    The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of "leaky" smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, that transmit users' private information across the internet, according to top secret documents. The data pouring onto communication networks from the new generation of iPhone and Android apps ranges from phone model and screen size to personal details such as age, gender and location. Some apps, the documents state, can share users' most sensitive information such as sexual orientation – and one app recorded in the material even sends specific sexual preferences...
  • Snowden to German TV: NSA wants to kill me

    01/26/2014 9:05:43 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 56 replies
    TheLocal.de ^ | 26 Jan 2014 20:06 GMT+01:00 | (AFP/The Local)
    Fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden voiced fears that US “government officials want to kill me”, in a TV interview to be broadcast in Germany on Sunday night. […] Snowden also told the German broadcaster: “These people, and they are government officials, have said they would love to put a bullet in my head or poison me when I come out of the supermarket, and then watch as I die in the shower.” […] According to (public television broadcaster) ARD, Snowden also claims in the interview that the NSA is involved in industrial espionage. …
  • "Dots need to be collected so as to be connected." (What about suspicionless dots, per the NSA?

    01/24/2014 10:18:56 AM PST · by Laissez-faire capitalist · 7 replies
    1/24/2014 | Laissez-Faire Capitalist
    I have heard more than once (from Dems, Dem-e's and RINOs as well) concerning the NSA that "we need to be able to collect the dots so that we can connect the dots." But what about suspicionless dots, as in suspicionless wiretaps or suspicionless meta data mining/gathering? Was it ok for the British to serve a search warrant for an entire city (big or small), so as to try to find the one person they were looking for in that city? No evidence of abuse? Has Congress had near unlimited access to the NSA's activities to see if any abuse...
  • Snowden Not Returning to The U.S.

    01/24/2014 6:18:44 AM PST · by EAGLE7 · 34 replies
    Eric Snowden stated he is not returning to the U.S. considering the current "whistleblowing" laws.
  • NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to hold Q&A Thursday

    01/23/2014 8:02:21 AM PST · by MeshugeMikey · 57 replies
    CNET ^ | January 21, 2014 | Steven Musil
    Edward Snowden is expected to offer his opinion of President Obama's NSA reforms during a Webcast question-and-answer session on Thursday. It will be Snowden's first live chat since he began releasing classified internal documents last June that revealed the National Security Agency's surveillance programs, according to FreeSnowden.is, the support site hosting the hour-long Q&A. Snowden, who is currently living in exile in Russia, was charged with espionage after reportedly stealing 1.7 million classified documents from US government computers.
  • Feds accuse background check contractor of fraud

    01/23/2014 7:21:01 AM PST · by Doogle · 12 replies
    foxnews ^ | 01/23/14 | FOXNEWS
    The government has accused its largest security background check contractor of defrauding the U.S. of millions of dollars by filing more than 660,000 flawed background investigations. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department made the claims in a 25-page civil complaint that joined a whistleblowers' lawsuit against US Investigations Services, LLC in U.S. District Court in Alabama. USIS was the firm that conducted background checks on NSA leaker Edward Snowden, as well as Aaron Alexis, a defense contractor who fatally shot 12 people before killing himself at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. this past September. Federal officials...
  • Snowden scandal to cost US cloud companies billions

    01/20/2014 11:22:54 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 26 replies
    EU Observer ^ | 20.01.14 @ 09:25 | Nikolaj Nielsen
    The US cloud industry faces up to €25.8 billion in lost revenues following revelations about US-led snooping on EU citizens. “The surveillance revelations will cost the US cloud computing industry USD 22 to 35 billion in lost revenues over the next three year,” said EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding on Sunday (19 January) at the Digital Life Design Conference in Munich. …
  • Gospodin Snowden (Is Snowden an agent for Russia?)

    01/19/2014 4:50:07 PM PST · by Greetings_Puny_Humans · 113 replies
    Legal Insurrection ^ | 1/19/2013 | William A. Jacobson
    Gospodin Snowden Posted by William A. Jacobson Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 4:45pm How did Edward Snowden so carefully thread the needle to download a massive trove of highly secret documents from across the NSA and intelligence networks without detection? How did he know exactly which job to go after in Hawaii to give him that access, and how was his escape so neatly orchestrated that he ends up first in Chinese controlled Hong Kong with its difficult extradition rules, and then on to Vladimir Putin’s arms?
  • President Obama's Full NSA Speech

    01/17/2014 9:43:17 AM PST · by LeoWindhorse · 28 replies
    WSJ Digital Network ^ | Jan 16 , 2014 | WSJDigitalNetwork
    Video - only Streamed live on Jan 17, 2014 President Barack Obama address changes to government surveillance practices.
  • NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep

    01/16/2014 11:17:41 AM PST · by C19fan · 11 replies
    UK Guardian ^ | January 16, 2014 | James Ball
    The National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million text messages a day from across the globe, using them to extract data including location, contact networks and credit card details, according to top-secret documents. The untargeted collection and storage of SMS messages – including their contacts – is revealed in a joint investigation between the Guardian and the UK’s Channel 4 News based on material provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The documents also reveal the UK spy agency GCHQ has made use of the NSA database to search the metadata of “untargeted and unwarranted” communications belonging to people in...
  • Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying

    01/16/2014 6:47:36 AM PST · by C19fan · 9 replies
    NY Times ^ | January 15, 2014 | Peter Baker
    As a young lawmaker defining himself as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama visited a center for scholars in August 2007 to give a speech on terrorism. He described a surveillance state run amok and vowed to rein it in. “That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens,” he declared. “No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.” ....................................................... Feeling little pressure to curb the security agencies, Mr. Obama largely left them alone until Mr. Snowden began disclosing secret programs last year. Mr. Obama was angry at the revelations, privately excoriating Mr....
  • NSA programme in 100K computers around world allows them to hack even when not connected to Internet

    01/15/2014 8:17:02 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 26 replies
    The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world - but not in the United States - that allows the U.S. to conduct surveillance on those machines, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The Times cited NSA documents, computer experts and U.S. officials in its report about the use of secret technology using radio waves to gain access to computers that other countries have tried to protect from spying or cyberattacks....
  • Iran Says 'Tall, White' Space Aliens Control America

    01/15/2014 7:00:52 AM PST · by lbryce · 45 replies
    Forbes ^ | January 13, 2014 | Michael Peck
    Documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden conclusively prove that the United States has been ruled by a race of tall, white space aliens who also assisted the rise of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. These revelations about our alien overlords might not cost you any sleep. But the part that should concern you a tad is that the UFO story was just published by the Fars News Agency, the English-language news service of Iran, a nation that may be very close to acquiring nuclear weapons. This being a crazy conspiracy theory, naturally the Russians are behind it. The alleged...
  • President’s goal for NSA reform — no more Edward Snowdens

    01/14/2014 6:39:47 AM PST · by Qbert · 13 replies
    The Hill ^ | 01/14/14 | Justin Sink and Julian Hattem
    The Obama administration plans to overhaul the nation’s security clearance system to prevent future intelligence leaks like the one by former defense contractor Edward Snowden. The changes, part of a package of reforms President Obama is expected to announce Friday during a speech at the Justice Department, will include more stringent — and more frequent  — vetting of security clearances, according to sources familiar with the administration’s plans.  The president is embracing some of the proposals offered by an advisory panel he appointed. The panel recommended security clearances become more highly differentiated and that a new clearance level be created...
  • How the NSA Threatens National Security

    01/13/2014 11:49:48 AM PST · by NewHampshireDuo · 13 replies
    Schneier on Security ^ | 1/13/2014 | Bruce Schneier
    [....] First and foremost, the surveillance state is robust. It is robust politically, legally, and technically. I can name three different NSA programs to collect Gmail user data. These programs are based on three different technical eavesdropping capabilities. They rely on three different legal authorities. They involve collaborations with three different companies. And this is just Gmail. The same is true for cell phone call records, Internet chats, cell-phone location data. [....] Our choice isn't between a digital world where the NSA can eavesdrop and one where the NSA is prevented from eavesdropping; it's between a digital world that is...