Tag: nsa
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US reportedly bugged EU offices, computer networks
from spiegel.de: America’s NSA intelligence service allegedly targeted the European Union with its spying activities. According to Der Spiegel information, the US placed bugs in the EU representation in Washington and infiltrated its computer network. Cyber attacks were also perpetrated against Brussels in New York and Washington. Information obtained by Der Spiegel shows that America’s National Security…
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New World Next Week: Episode159 – Insider Threats, Poor Food, Supreme Genes
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode159 – Insider Threats, Poor Food, Supreme Genes 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: ‘Insider Threat’ Program Forces Federal Employees To Spy On Co-Workers Questions And Answers…
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Know Your History: What is Project #ECHELON?
from nsawatch.org: Q – What is Project ECHELON? ECHELON is the term popularly used for an automated global interception and relay system operated by the intelligence agencies in five nations: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (it is believed that ECHELON is the code name for the portion of the…
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Flashback: The 1960 Snowdens: #NSA Agents Who Showed Up in Moscow Bearing State Secrets
from motherboard.vice.com: Fifty-three years ago a pair of NSA agents pulled a Snowden – they told their bosses they were going on vacation, went to Mexico before slipping off to Havana en route to the Soviet Union, where they surfaced in September 1960. Unlike Snowden, they were deliberate defectors, eager to work for a new…
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#NSA takes surveillance fact sheets off website
from Politico.com: Following a complaint from two senators, the National Security Agency has removed from its website two fact sheets designed to shed light on and defend a pair of surveillance programs. Users now trying to access the documents detailing surveillance under legal authorities known as Section 215 and Section 702 receive an error message…
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Whistleblower: #NSA Wiretapped Obama, Petraeus, Alito & Others
from Boiling Frogs Post: Last week, during exclusive interviews with Boiling Frogs Post and Corbett Report, NSA whistleblower Russell Tice revealed first-time-ever shocking new details of the NSA spying scandal. In addition to detailing how the NSA is collecting and storing the content of all electronic communications passing through the United States, he also revealed…
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‘Insider Threat’ program forces federal employees to spy on co-workers
from PressTV.ir: Government documents have revealed that the Obama administration is implementing a program that requires millions of federal employees to spy on their co-workers as part of a sweeping crackdown on security leaks across the U.S. government. The program titled “Insider Threat” which has gone almost entirely unnoticed in the U.S. media also presses…
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#PRISM barely scratches the surface… 50 years of global surveillance
RINF Alternative News looks at the reality of the global surveillance network and explains how PRISM is just a small part in a decades-long agenda to monitor citizens. Sources: http://www.duncancampbell.org/content…http://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/jo…http://www.nickyhager.info/ebook-of-s…http://www.nickyhager.info/exposing-t…http://www.cyber-rights.org/intercept…http://retro.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Echelon/st…http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_suyRP…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF5mrw…http://www.fas.org/irp/program/proces…http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2889…http://www.zdnet.com/dutch-government…
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Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear
from The Corbett Report: “If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear.” We’ve all heard this argument a million times when talking to people about the latest revelations of government snooping or the latest roll-out of creepy Orwellian technology. The implication is that the only people who complain about having their…
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Janet Napolitano Denies Existence of ‘Orwellian State’
from Politicker.com: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano weighed in on the NSA intelligence leaks on Friday, telling NY1 that fears over government surveillance were overblown. “I think people have gotten the idea that there’s an Orwellian state out there that somehow we’re operating in. That’s far from the case,” she told Errol Louis during an…
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NSA admits they listen to U.S. phone calls without a warrant, more than half the Senate skips briefing
from EndTheLie.com: In a secret briefing, the National Security Agency (NSA) admitted they can listen to U.S. phone calls and other communications without a warrant but over half of the Senate decided to fly out of Washington D.C. early and skip the briefing on the NSA’s surveillance programs. According to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), in…