Tag: prism
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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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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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#Prism – US surveillance leaker Edward Snowden ‘not afraid’
from theaustralian.com.au: The 29-year-old government contractor who turned whistleblower to reveal vast US surveillance programs says he is not afraid, despite the intelligence authorities’ threat to hunt him down. In footage shot by The Guardian newspaper, Edward Snowden said he packed his bags for Hong Kong three weeks ago, leaving behind a “very comfortable…
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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.…