https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
so there's something called the USA Freedom Act (uh oh), a "surveillance fix" that's gonna get a lame-duck vote, and this guy says it's crap.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2014/11/12/why-i-dont-support-usa-freedom-act/
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 November 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
When black people do stuff, when they have a complaint, after all this time, all of this history, it still does not qualify as "civil disobedience". It's disorder, violence - plain disobedience. This attitude toward poor blacks is very real and the powers that be still justify this regard based on crime rates.
I don't think comfortable folks realize how easy it is to abuse and disrespect poor black people, I don't think they know how these communities function. I am shocked at what I have read online about Ferguson.
Then again, who ever said people respected civil rights activists? When did that happen? I think we comfortable people get too much magical thinking from television.
― Threat Assessment Division (I M Losted), Friday, 14 November 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
Amnesty International has released a program that can spot spying software used by governments to monitor activists and political opponents
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30115679
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 November 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
nice
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/23/7272157/regin-malware-has-secretly-spied-on-computers-for-years
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
this is cool
https://www.iab.org/2014/11/14/iab-statement-on-internet-confidentiality/
The IAB urges protocol designers to design for confidential operation by default. We strongly encourage developers to include encryption in their implementations, and to make them encrypted by default. We similarly encourage network and service operators to deploy encryption where it is not yet deployed, and we urge firewall policy administrators to permit encrypted traffic.We believe that each of these changes will help restore the trust users must have in the Internet, and foster development of new approaches which allow us to move to an Internet where traffic is confidential by default.
We believe that each of these changes will help restore the trust users must have in the Internet, and foster development of new approaches which allow us to move to an Internet where traffic is confidential by default.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 December 2014 06:44 (nine years ago) link
backdoor men
The NSA's collection programs are ostensibly targeted at foreigners, but in August the Guardian revealed a secret rule change allowing NSA analysts to search for Americans' details within the databases.
Now, in a letter to Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat on the intelligence committee, the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, has confirmed the use of this legal authority to search for data related to “US persons”.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/nsa-surveillance-loophole-americans-data
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
Great story from Ars: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hackers-tied-to-the-nsa-hid-for-14-years-and-were-found-at-last/
― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
Jesus
― schwantz, Thursday, 19 February 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
feel like i am getting closer and closer to that shotgun canned food bunker
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 20 February 2015 00:03 (nine years ago) link
i thought stuxnet was fascinating and cool even if it was unnerving--this 'equation group' stuff is legit petrifying though
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Man, I remember when talking about Echelon and NSA/GCHQ super teamups 20 years ago was such a blank stare contest in the para-political/conspiracy theory crowd. Who cares, the Cold War is over. Let's all go camp out at Area 51. We're the good guys, right?
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 23 February 2015 19:39 (nine years ago) link
It was all an elaborate plot to win an oscar
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 February 2015 23:24 (nine years ago) link
just
literally intercepting hardware in the mail, adding uneraseable invisible malware, and putting it back in the mail without evidence of tampering
that stuxnet and flame were just forks of what these people can do
fucking mind boggling
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link
John Carlin, the assistant attorney general for national security, told a cybersecurity conference in Washington on Monday that officials could try to blunt ISIS’s violent PR operation by essentially trying propagandists as terrorists. He suggested the Justice Department could bring prosecutions under the law against providing material support to a terrorist organization. His remarks were believed to be the first time a U.S. official has ever said that people who assist ISIS with online media could face criminal prosecution.
Carlin was asked at the conference whether he would “consider criminal charges” against people who are “proliferating ISIS social media.” His answer: “Yes. You need to look at the particular facts and evidence.” But Carlin noted that the United States could use the material support law to prosecute “technical expertise” to a designated terrorist organization. And spreading the word for ISIS online could count as such expertise....
NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers said he agreed with public statements by FBI Director James Comey that the use of encryption, particularly on popular products like the iPhone 6, put the government at risk of not being able to monitor terrorists and spies. Rogers said lawmakers should come up with a solution for ensuring government access to encrypted communications, a plan that many technologists and civil libertarians have decried as a “backdoor” to spy on people around the world.
In a tense exchange, Alex Stamos, the chief information security officer for Yahoo, asked Rogers whether what he was really advocating was “building defects” into encryption technology.
“That would be your characterization,” Rogers replied, to nervous laughter from the audience....
Stamos asked, “If we’re going to build defects, backdoors, or golden master keys for the U.S. government, do you believe we should do so—we have about 1.3 billion users around the world—should we do so for the Chinese government, the Russian government, the Saudi Arabian government, the Israeli government, the French government? Which of those countries should we give backdoors to?”
“The way you framed the question isn’t designed to elicit a response,” Rogers said.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/23/justice-department-we-ll-go-after-isis-twitter-army.html
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
friend of mine does a/v at ^^ this place and says there was audible uncomfortable-shifting-in-chairs during this exchange
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
btw this was in the snowden/greenwald/poitras Reddit AMA after the oscars
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-ovezEUAAAK9mm.png
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link
that + the password scene in Citizenfour suggests that Oliver Stone should've cast Steve Carell as GG.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
Was thinking Jeremy Piven for GG myself.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 06:26 (nine years ago) link
"Why is your agency above the law, sir?…Why can you lie to the Senate about mass surveillance presuming the entire globe to be subject to pervasive collection, twisting the meaning of the terms in violations of the statutes in the Constitution restraining your agency?
Why are you above the law for perjury and why is the NSA above the law for mass surveillance, even violating the contours that the authors of the Patriot Act intended to authorize in 2001?…[A]nd Senators, why won’t you do your job? You’re charged with oversight of these officials."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN2973g0QUw#t=19
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2015/02/26/after-hearing-capitol-police-arrest-lawyer-for-shouting-question-at-clapper-about-nsa-surveillance/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 February 2015 05:11 (nine years ago) link
buttar fuckin rules
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 27 February 2015 05:53 (nine years ago) link
whoa
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 February 2015 06:54 (nine years ago) link
Researchers working with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Intercept.
The security researchers presented their latest tactics and achievements at a secret annual gathering, called the “Jamboree,” where attendees discussed strategies for exploiting security flaws in household and commercial electronics. The conferences have spanned nearly a decade, with the first CIA-sponsored meeting taking place a year before the first iPhone was released.
By targeting essential security keys used to encrypt data stored on Apple’s devices, the researchers have sought to thwart the company’s attempts to provide mobile security to hundreds of millions of Apple customers across the globe. Studying both “physical” and “non-invasive” techniques, U.S. government-sponsored research has been aimed at discovering ways to decrypt and ultimately penetrate Apple’s encrypted firmware. This could enable spies to plant malicious code on Apple devices and seek out potential vulnerabilities in other parts of the iPhone and iPad currently masked by encryption.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/10/ispy-cia-campaign-steal-apples-secrets/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 14:00 (nine years ago) link
Wikimedia files suit against NSA
http://time.com/3738697/wikimedia-nsa-upstream-surveillance/
― franklin, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
The Obama administration set a record again for censoring government files or outright denying access to them last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.
The government took longer to turn over files when it provided any, said more regularly that it couldn't find documents and refused a record number of times to turn over files quickly that might be especially newsworthy.
It also acknowledged in nearly 1 in 3 cases that its initial decisions to withhold or censor records were improper under the law — but only when it was challenged.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ab029d7c625149348143a51ff61175c6/us-sets-new-record-denying-censoring-government-files
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:04 (nine years ago) link
as usual, "most transparent"
― drash, Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:50 (nine years ago) link
what the ████ is this ████████
― Infostealer.Steamfishi (am0n), Thursday, 19 March 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
█ █ █ █ █ █ █
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
our corporate and spook overlords: Working Together
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/01/nsa-corporate-america-push-broad-cyber-surveillance-legislation/
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 April 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
... except for any actual software / internet companies. Silicon Valley spends a fair bit on lobbying now, will be interesting/terrifying to see who wins.
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
fun in Fort Greene Park
http://mashable.com/2015/04/07/edward-snowden-hologram-statue-brooklyn/
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
oh, Clapper!
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/241508-spy-head-had-absolutely-forgotten-about-nsa-program
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 May 2015 13:37 (nine years ago) link
i guess for a few hours at least, the government isn't collecting our metadata
― Nhex, Monday, 1 June 2015 13:53 (nine years ago) link
let's plot something
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 1 June 2015 14:07 (nine years ago) link
oh, naivete; the Zombie Patriot Act goes on.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/31/zombie-patriot-act-will-keep-u-s-spying-even-if-the-original-dies.html
I'm still irked that people don't remember that USA PATRIOT Act is an acronym.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 June 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Contrived_acronyms
― Mordy, Monday, 1 June 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
Pierce:
Let me say for the record that, because I am not five-years-old, I do not believe for a moment that the NSA has stopped collecting that data while Mitch McConnell tries to tease a vote out of his unruly caucus, nor do I believe for a moment that it will cease to do so if and when the compromise passes. The NSA's messianic delusions about its role in the world, which is something it has in common with the rest of the heroes of our intelligence community, will sustain it through these minor eruptions of actual democracy.
The one ray of hope to come out of the windbaggery yesterday is the fact that, for the first time since the attacks of 9/11, the national legislature came out from under the bed and confronted, however meekly, the idea that in the freedom-vs.-security debate, the sides ought to be at equal strength. For this, we have to thank Senator Aqua Buddha, who forced the issue. His performance was choppy and, occasionally, incoherent. The blog's Five Minute Rule was in effect throughout his presentation. For example, he found himself consistently incapable of pronouncing "Tsarnaev," and he botched (for his own rhetorical purposes) James Madison's famous quote from Federalist 51...
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a35380/rand-paul-patriot-act/
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 June 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
As Washington weighs new cybersecurity steps amid a public backlash over mass surveillance, U.S. tech companies warned President Barack Obama not to weaken increasingly sophisticated encryption systems designed to protect consumers' privacy.
In a strongly worded letter to Obama on Monday, two industry associations for major software and hardware companies said, "We are opposed to any policy actions or measures that would undermine encryption as an available and effective tool."
The Information Technology Industry Council and the Software and Information Industry Association, representing tech giants, including Apple Inc, Google Inc, Facebook Inc, IBM and Microsoft Corp, fired the latest salvo in what is shaping up to be a long fight over government access into smart phones and other digital devices.
Obama administration officials, led by the FBI, have pushed the companies to find ways to let law enforcement bypass encryption to investigate illegal activities, including terrorism threats, but not weaken it so that criminals and computer hackers could penetrate the defenses.
So far, however, the White House has not spelled out specific regulatory or legislative steps it might seek.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/09/us-cybersecurity-usa-encryption-idUSKBN0OP09R20150609
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 June 2015 03:28 (nine years ago) link
find ways to let law enforcement bypass encryption to investigate illegal activities, including terrorism threats, but not weaken it so that criminals and computer hackers could penetrate the defenses
as anyone with any knowledge of information security will tell you, this is literally impossible
― jennifer islam (silby), Thursday, 11 June 2015 03:55 (nine years ago) link
A digital network that would only allow the pure of heart to access its records, employing safeguards to restrict potential security breaches by Hacktivists and Vagabonds.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 11 June 2015 04:29 (nine years ago) link
Obama has built quite a base by promising the literally impossible and doing what he wants
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:11 (nine years ago) link
Meanwhile: British spies removed from operations after Russia and China crack codes to leaked Snowden files
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 14 June 2015 03:15 (nine years ago) link
(whether or not that story is even valid is entirely up to you)
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 14 June 2015 06:06 (nine years ago) link
seems it isn't, on evidence beyond "Murdoch-owned"
http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/06/how-we-really-know-sunday-times-story.html#.VX4WqtVVhBc
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report-snowden-files-journalism-worst-also-filled-falsehoods/
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 June 2015 07:09 (nine years ago) link
Summary of XKEYSCORE so far: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/01/nsas-google-worlds-private-communications/
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 2 July 2015 01:21 (nine years ago) link
Not only does the document-leaker in Fort Leavenworth prison face limits on what she can read, but the banned books are often literary classics.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/08/21/chelsea-mannings-banned-book-list-shockingly-long-dimanno.html
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 August 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
hey Brits
The mass surveillance operation — code-named KARMA POLICE — was launched by British spies about seven years ago without any public debate or scrutiny. It was just one part of a giant global Internet spying apparatus built by the United Kingdom’s electronic eavesdropping agency, Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ.
The revelations about the scope of the British agency’s surveillance are contained in documents obtained by The Intercept from National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. Previous reports based on the leaked files have exposed how GCHQ taps into Internet cables to monitor communications on a vast scale, but many details about what happens to the data after it has been vacuumed up have remained unclear.
Amid a renewed push from the U.K. government for more surveillance powers, more than two dozen documents being disclosed today by The Intercept reveal for the first time several major strands of GCHQ’s existing electronic eavesdropping capabilities.
One system builds profiles showing people’s web browsing histories. Another analyzes instant messenger communications, emails, Skype calls, text messages, cell phone locations, and social media interactions. Separate programs were built to keep tabs on “suspicious” Google searches and usage of Google Maps.
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/gchq-radio-porn-spies-track-web-users-online-identities/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 September 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
"According to Snowden's lawyer, Ben Wizner of the ACLU, @Snowden himself will be controlling the account."
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/29/edward-snowden-twitter-snowden/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3r51QI4Ctw
― where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Thursday, 1 October 2015 01:27 (eight years ago) link