Tag: spying
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NATO tech expert gets seven-year jail sentence for data theft
from rawstory.com: A German court Tuesday sentenced a former NATO employee to seven years in jail for spying after the IT expert copied secret data in order to sell it to a foreign intelligence service. The 61-year-old man, identified only as Manfred K., had worked for the transatlantic military alliance at the US airbase of…
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Britain rejects EU watchdog plan to probe data-gathering practices
from RT.com: The UK has rejected a call from an EU watchdog to probe how security agencies intercept metadata. Documents divulged by Edward Snowden revealed the covert practices of British spy body GCHQ in what has been described as “breach of fundamental rights.” UK newspaper the Guardian reported that Britain sought to “disassociate itself” from…
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Apple ‘Can Read Your iMessages Whenever They Want’ Researchers Claim
from slate.com: Apple says that when people communicate using its iMessage service, their chats are secured using strong encryption. But security researchers are questioning the company’s claims after uncovering what they say is a flaw that enables the messages to be spied on. Back in April, Apple’s iMessage service attracted attention after a document showed…
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Brazil’s President Cancels White House Visit Over NSA Spying
‘Unhappy’ With Administration’s Response to Surveillance from antiwar.com: NSA surveillance is a big deal in a lot of countries, but few more than Brazil, where media outlets have covered the spying intensively, and detailed US surveillance of government leaders as well as espionage against major Brazilian companies. The diplomatic fallout for the US was already…
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Declassified files detail blatant violations, abuse of #NSA domestic spying program
from RT.com: For years the National Security Agency has been violating restrictions and misusing the US domestic spying program that collected private data from US citizens, newly released declassified documents show. The new information from Intelligence Community Documents Regarding Collection under Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) shows that the government on…
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US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet
from guardian.co.uk: US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails, according to top-secret documents revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden. The files show that the National Security Agency and its…
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America’s biggest rocket launches top-secret spy satellite
from NBC.com: The United States’ largest rocket launched a spy satellite on a hush-hush mission Wednesday. An unmanned Delta 4-Heavy rocket lifted off the pad at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base at 2:03 p.m. ET (11:03 p.m. PT) Wednesday, carrying a classified payload into a polar orbit for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. “Today’s launch is…
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Encrypted Email Providers Shutter Services To Protect Users from Government Snoops
from reason.com: Last week, two companies, first Lavabit (as noted by Scott Shackford) and then Silent Circle, shut down their encrypted email services abruptly and with no warning. Lavabit’s announcement was both cryptic and frightening, with owner Ladar Levison strongly implying that the move came to avoid submitting to government surveillance demands. Silent Circle CEO…
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Students Question #NSA Recruiters Over Illegal Spying and Lies
from ActivistPost.com: When NSA recruiters went to the University of Wisconsin earlier this week to pitch language students on working for the agency, they got more than they bargained for. The informed students turned the question-and-answer session into a hearing. On trial were the NSA’s lies, their legality, and how they define “adversary”. The students…
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Skype’s secret Project Chess reportedly helped NSA access customers’ data
from guardian.co.uk: Skype, the web-based communications company, reportedly set up a secret programme to make it easier for US surveillance agencies to access customers’ information. The programme, called Project Chess and first revealed by the New York Times on Thursday, was said to have been established before Skype was bought by Microsoft in 2011. Microsoft’s…
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US Government Uses Early Knowledge Of Microsoft Bugs For Spying
from PopSci.com.au: Buggy software isn’t just annoying-the right compromised code can leave private information vulnerable to clever hackers for as long as the problem is unnoticed. The only thing that could make bugs worse? Government agencies gaining access to the vulnerabilities before everyone else, and using spies to exploit them. Before Microsoft releases a public…
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Spy Agency ASIO Wants Powers to Hack Into Personal Computers
Spy agency ASIO wants to hack into Australians’ personal computers and commandeer their smartphones to transmit viruses to terrorists.
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Massive New Surveillance Program Uncovered
from Slate.com: When a former senior White House official describes a nationwide surveillance effort as “breathtaking,” you know civil liberties activists are preparing for a fight. The Wall Street Journal reported today that the little-known National Counterterrorism Center, based in an unmarked building in McLean, Va., has been granted sweeping new authority to store and…
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Microsoft Won’t Say If Skype Has Wiretap Backdoor
The United States government and law enforcement agencies have been trying to force VoIP carriers such as Skype and other digital communications companies to include a backdoor that would allow police and government agencies to institute a wiretap on online communications.
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FBI Secretly Creates Internet Police
RT reports FBI wants own e-spy capabilities. The FBI announces, as a result, new Domestic Communications Assistance Center (DCAC) in Quantico, VA to fulfill ambitions and keep up with the Jones’, i.e., the NSA after recent unveiling of Utah Data Center. There is little known about the DCAC other than goal to wiretap internet and…