Tag: nsa
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7 Powerful Ways to Maintain Your Privacy and Integrity Online
from Activist Post.com: The recent NSA leaks from whistleblower Ed Snowden have publicly confirmed that digital privacy does not exist. The federal government and intelligence agencies have direct server access to the world’s most popular sites and services including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and more. This means that all of your data when using these…
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New World Next Week: Episode157 – NSA Catch-22, Bankster Bail-Ins, Less Peace
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode157 – NSA Catch-22, Bankster Bail-Ins, Less Peace Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Snowden, ‘Catch-22’ And The Dehumanization Of Our Nation NSA Snooping Was Only the…
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Interview with #NSA whistleblower William Binney
from RT.com: American citizens hoping to change the way the NSA monitors their everyday activities have little hope of recourse, longtime agency veteran Bill Binney told RT. He said the way the Patriot Act is interpreted is the a big first step toward totalitarianism. Related: Video: The Program (Stellar Wind)
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#Prism: Australia gets ‘deluge’ of US secret data
from apperspective.net: The Australian government has been building a state-of-the art, secret data storage facility just outside Canberra to enable intelligence agencies to deal with a ”data deluge” siphoned from the internet and global telecommunications networks. The high-security facility nearing completion at the HMAS Harman communications base will support the operations of Australia’s signals intelligence…
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NSA Spying: False Hope vs. Real Solutions
James Corbett goes off on NSA in Boiling Frogs Report. Corbett pleas with viewers in attempt to slap hypnotic masses out of trance. High tech tools to gather – real time – info are clearly biggest threat yet to individual liberty. These high tech programs (see previous posts) are major efforts to place us all…
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After #PRISM, ‘Boundless Informant’ tool comes to light
from CNet.com: Meet the U.S. National Security Agency’s global intelligence tracking tool, Boundless Informant, the latest intelligence secret exposed by leaked information. The stream of leaks revealing the U.S. National Security Agency’s secrets carries on with the public outing of a powerful intelligence tracking tool. In a fresh wave of documents obtained by The Guardian,…
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Through a #PRISM, Darkly: Tech World’s $20 Million Nightmare
from mashable.com: If you’re still not feeling queasy after reading Thursday’s revelations about the National Security Agency tapping Internet records, you’re probably not paying close enough attention. In short: a leaked intelligence presentation, verified by multiple major news sources, claimed to reveal the existence of an NSA program called PRISM. This program allegedly lets the…
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U.S. Intelligence Mining Data From Nine U.S. Internet Companies In Broad Secret Program
from washingtonpost.com: The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time. The highly classified program, code-named PRISM, has not been disclosed publicly before.…
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Government seeks to shut down NSA wiretapping lawsuit
from arstechnica.com: Warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency began as a Bush-era program in October 2001; in 2008, the government essentially allowed the practice in the FISA Amendments Act. The same year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed lawsuits challenging the surveillance. At a hearing today in San Francisco federal court, the debate over whether…
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The Program (Stellar Wind)
from nytimes.com:National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney explains how the secretive agency run its pervasive domestic spying apparatus in a new piece by Laura Poitras. Binney – one of the best mathematicians and code breakers in NSA history, worked for the Defense Department’s foreign signals intelligence agency for 32 years before resigning in late 2001…
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#DataDump: Balconies, Breaches, Biggest Builds and More
Julian Assange takes aim at US as diplomatic row deepens; Speech from balcony calls on Obama to abandon witchhunt // Did Bush’s Broadband Deregulation Upend His Own NSA Wiretapping? // Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire’s Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth
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#DataDump: Dossiers, Dismissed and More
Despite i9/11 Threat, Lawmakers Punt Cyber Security Bill // NSA Chief Tells Hackers His Agency Doesn’t Create Dossiers on All Americans // Feds: We Can Freeze Megaupload Assets Even if Case Dismissed // All systems go for Curiosity rover landing Monday morning // #Audio #Satire: New Hubble Peephole Can See Into Women’s Showers
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Police using ‘predictive analytics’ to prevent crimes before they happen
from rawstory.com: Crime fighters have long used brains and brawn, but now a new kind of technology known as “predictive policing” promises to make them more efficient. A growing number of law enforcement agencies, in the US and elsewhere, have been adopting software tools with predictive analytics, based on algorithms that aim to predict crimes…
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#DataDump: Infiltration, Asylum, Aircraft and More
Facebook To Buy Israeli Biometrics Startup Face.com For $100 Million // Face.com App Allowed Facebook, Twitter Account Hijacking // Researcher: CIA, NSA may have infiltrated Microsoft to write malware // NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say If We Spied on You // Apple fined more than $2m over 4G claim // Assange Seeks…