Tag: nsa
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#StopWatchingUs: Anti-NSA Rally Attracts Thousands In DC
from usatoday.com: Thousands rallied against NSA’s domestic and international surveillance on Saturday by marching to the Capitol and calling for closer scrutiny of the agency as more details of its spying are leaked. Holding signs that said “Stop mass surveillance,” “Thank you, Edward Snowden” and “No NSA mass spying,” and chanting slogans like “no secret…
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NSA Site Goes Down Due to Alleged DDoS Attack
from RT.com: The website for the United States National Security Agency suddenly went offline Friday. NSA.gov has been unavailable globally as of late Friday afternoon, and Twitter accounts belonging to people loosely affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivism movement have suggested they are responsible. Twitter users @AnonymousOwn3r and @TruthIzSexy both were quick to comment on the…
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India’s PM Has No Mobile Phone, Email For NSA To Hack
xfrom ndtv.com: The Prime Minister does not own a mobile phone or use personal email, giving India “no cause for concern” about new US hacking revelations, his office said on Friday… Asked if Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was concerned, his spokesman replied: “The prime minister doesn’t use a mobile phone and he doesn’t have an…
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Ex-NSA director gets a taste of his own eavesdropping
from msnbc.com: Former Bush National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden learned the hard way Thursday afternoon that you never know who’s listening. Hayden was on an Amtrak Acela train reportedly attempting to give an anonymous quote to a newspaper reporter disparaging the Obama administration’s handling of the fallout from revelations that the NSA spied on…
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US Seeking to Soothe France Over NSA Snooping
from abcnews.go.com: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says America is working to find the right balance between protecting peoples’ security and privacy rights. Kerry arrived in Paris Monday to anger over a reported NSA program that collected more than 70 million French telephone records over a month. Kerry said protecting people’s security in today’s…
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NSA & GCHQ target Tor anonymity network
from theguardian.com: The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself. Top-secret NSA documents, disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveal that the agency’s current successes against…
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NSA accused of hacking into India’s nuclear systems
from thehindu.com: The public assertions made by Indian and American officials that no content was taken from India’s internet and telephone networks by U.S.’s National Security Agency (NSA) and that the American surveillance programs just looked at “patterns of communication” as a counter-terrorism measure are far from the truth, if not outright misleading. According to…
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New #Snowden Leak Reveals Secret $52.6 Billion Budget for Intelligence Agencies
from IntelliHub.com: A new leak from Edward Snowden shows a massive budget for the military spy industrial complex that is hidden from the public. The original leaks made my Edward Snowden were enough to totally change the whole collective dialogue about government spying, but those initial leaks were merely the tip of the iceberg. There…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode165 – Global Tax Grid, Hemisphere Project, RFID ID
Story #1: G20 Nations Chase Tax Evaders With Plan To Swap Data Globally // Story #2: AT&T Helps DEA Collect More Phone Calls Than NSA // Story #3: California Abruptly Drops Plan to Implant RFID Chips in Driver’s Licenses
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German email providers ‘seen as surveillance safe haven’
from BBC: #NewsFromElsewhere: Web users are turning to German email providers to avoid US state surveillance, it seems. Telecoms firm Freenet has reported an 80% increase in new users in the last three weeks, while web hosting company 1&1 says its email providers GMX and web.de have seen a six-figure increase, reports Der Spiegel. It…