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- reanimate0
Last Minute US Govt Claims Put Halt to Greenwald 'Bombshell'
- yurimon0
http://massprivatei.blogspot.fr/…
Coming to a city near you: ‘Smart’ street lights that “track everything we do all the time”
- yurimon0
https://www.techdirt.com/article…
Privacy And Civil Liberties Board Mostly Unconcerned About PRISM Or Backbone Tapping By NSA
- ukit20
Today, I learned that my IP address is being tracked by the NSA, and that – as a law-abiding citizen – it’s likely both the metadata and the actual content of my internet traffic is being analyzed and stored as well.
I know this because of a stunning investigation just published in Germany, which may have been furthered by a second, secret whistleblower, rather than documents released by Edward Snowden.
In this investigation, Jacob Appelbaum, Lena Kampf and John Goetz reveal some of the actual source code and rules for XKeyscore, one of the NSA’s most powerful and comprehensive deep-packet inspection programs. In short, XKeyscore can analyze and store both the metadata and the full internet content of individuals being targeted.
So who is being targeted? According to the investigation, anyone globally who has done an internet search for any number of popular privacy software tools – including Tor and Talis – as well as anyone who has visited either of those sites or been determined to utilize their programs.
Not only are IP addresses automatically tracked by XKeyscore for anyone who might have done so much as search for a web privacy tool, but XKeyscore’s code reveals that the metadata and the actual content of emails and web traffic may be analyzed and stored as well.
- That's sad man, we should go back to the times of angelfire and geocities :(
Maaku
- That's sad man, we should go back to the times of angelfire and geocities :(
- monNom0
From my point of view, this is an all-out arms race -- superior information wins. Constitutional or not, the fact that the technology exists means that if it is not exploited by the US government, then a foreign government or group could develop superior technology and superior tactical information about the US. It's pandora's box, you can't force the technology back inside, and even if you curtail it's use in the US, other countries will continue to use it and eventually develop superior tech, tipping the balance of power.
Hopefully the government uses it benignly, like they mostly do with their bombs and guns and such.
- yurimon0
http://www.defenseone.com/techno…
Built Cloud Just Went Live
- ukit20
Claims that the NSA knocked out internet in an entire country...by accident
- Weyland0
https://firstlook.org/theinterce…
The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist
- yurimon0
https://www.techdirt.com/article…
How Various Law Enforcement Agencies Could Hack Your Computer Via YouTube Videos
- yurimon0
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/20…Newly Revealed NSA Program ICREACH Extends the NSA's Reach Even Further
- ukit20
New York Film Fest Will World Premiere Laura Poitras’ Edward Snowden Docu ‘CITIZENFOUR’
- yurimon0
http://www.policestateusa.com/20…
Da Homeland Subversion
- ukit20
NYFF: Edward Snowden Doc 'Citizenfour' Reveals Existence of Second NSA Whistleblower