Pixeom Is An Anti-Corporate Cloud Device That Wants To Give You Back Your Data Privacy. Meet Pixeom, a prototype device being Kickstarted by brother and sister duo Karishma and Sam Nagar, with the aim of offering alternative cloud services that don’t require you to hand over the keys to your private data in exchange for a convenient digital service.
Prior to Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA‘s (and other governments’ security agencies‘) dragnet surveillance of everyone’s online lives, Pixeom would probably have sunk without a trace. Or not even been conceived of as a mainstream project at all. But, post-Snowden, there’s a perfect storm of cloud-computing concerns amassing to undermine the convenience of mainstream online services. And, after a month seeking crowdfunding on Kickstarter, Pixeom has passed its funding target of $50,000 — with close to 400 backers, and still has 15 days left to run on its campaign. Guardian and Washington Post win Pulitzer prize for NSA revelations. The Guardian and the Washington Post have been awarded the highest accolade in US journalism, winning the Pulitzer prize for public service for their groundbreaking articles on the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities based on the leaks of Edward Snowden.
The award, announced in New York on Monday, comes 10 months after the Guardian published the first report based on the leaks from Snowden, revealing the agency’s bulk collection of US citizens’ phone records. In the series of articles that ensued, teams of journalists at the Guardian and the Washington Post published the most substantial disclosures of US government secrets since the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam war in 1971. Pentagon report: scope of intelligence compromised by Snowden 'staggering' A top-secret Pentagon report to assess the damage to national security from the leak of classified National Security Agency documents by Edward Snowden concluded that “the scope of the compromised knowledge related to US intelligence capabilities is staggering”.
The Guardian has obtained a copy of the Defense Intelligence Agency's classified damage assessment in response to a Freedom of Information Act (Foia) lawsuit filed against the Defense Department earlier this year. The heavily redacted 39-page report was prepared in December and is titled “DoD Information Review Task Force-2: Initial Assessment, Impacts Resulting from the Compromise of Classified Material by a Former NSA Contractor.” But while the DIA report describes the damage to US intelligence capabilities as “grave”, the government still refuses to release any specific details to support this conclusion. Only 12 pages of the report were declassified by DIA and released. The NSA Archive. Nsa-observer. Network Graph. Snowden affair: the case for a pardon. In an interview with the Washington Post just before Christmas, Edward Snowden declared his mission accomplished.
At first sight it seemed a grandiose, even hubristic, statement. In fact, it betrayed a kind of modesty about the intentions of the former NSA analyst. "I didn't want to change society," he explained. "I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself. " Mr Snowden – through journalists, in the absence of meaningful, reliable democratic oversight – had given people enough knowledge about the nature of modern intelligence-gathering to allow an informed debate.
That debate is now actively happening. Man does civic duty, and is warmly thanked? Mr Snowden gave classified information to journalists, even though he knew the likely consequences. Independent commission to investigate future of internet after NSA revelations. A major independent commission headed by the Swedish foreign minister, Carl Bildt, was launched on Wednesday to investigate the future of the internet in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations.
NSA Leaks Shift Market Share to European Cloud Providers. There is data security, and then there is Swiss data security.
The difference was explained to me by Stéphan Grouitch in a conference room deep within a mountain in the Swiss Alps, lit by a subterranean buzz of fluorescent lights. To get to here, under more than 3,000 feet of stone and earth, I showed my passport (something I didn’t have to do to enter the country from Germany), had my finger scanned repeatedly, and passed under security cameras and motion detectors. A blast door, thicker than my forearm is long, is said to protect this old Cold War bunker against a 20-megaton bomb. How did the NSA hack our emails? A Closer Look At Blackphone, The Android Smartphone That Simplifies Privacy. One of the more interesting devices here at Mobile World Congress is Blackphone: a pro-privacy handset being developed by Spanish startup Geeksphone, in partnership with U.S. security company Silent Circle using a “security-oriented” Android build called PrivatOS.
“We modified some default behaviours of Android and some security flaws that we found and we call that PrivatOS. It’s just small modifications of the Android core,” said Geeksphone founder and CEO Javier Agüera, demoing the device to TechCrunch. “For example the default crypto engines — there’s a list of crypto engines that the system by default uses… and in the first version of Android the first option was good enough, then they changed it for something that is terrible. So we reverted that to what it was before.”
“PrivatOS is 100% compatible. Let Go, Let Gov (Season 17, Episode 1. Transparent Machines™ Se libérer de Google ? Chiche ! — Si on commençait par la recherche. Les lecteurs de ce blog savent que Framasoft s’est engagé à se libérer par étapes des outils de Google : Framasoft a déjà dit bye-bye à Gmail, s’est libéré des GoogleGroups, de Google analytics et de la publicité, des polices de caractère Google… Tout cela demande à la fois de la détermination, un travail technique conséquent et des logiciels ou services de substitution fiables.
Ce n’est pas forcément à la portée du simple utilisateur. Nsa-talking-points. Snowden, un an après : pourquoi l'Amérique nous écoute-t-elle. NSA : le pape François (aussi !) sur écoutes. Surveillance : la DGSE a transmis des données à la NSA américaine. LE MONDE | • Mis à jour le | Par Jacques Follorou Une semaine après les manifestations d'indignation exprimées par les autorités politiques françaises après les révélations du Monde sur l'ampleur des interceptions électroniques réalisées, en France, par l'Agence nationale de sécurité (NSA) américaine, de nouveaux éléments montrent que cette émotion pouvait être, en partie, feinte.
Mardi 29 octobre, devant la commission du renseignement de la Chambre des représentants, le chef de la NSA, le général Keith Alexander, a juré que les informations du Monde ainsi que celles d'El Mundo, en Espagne, et de L'Espresso, en Italie, sur l'interception de communications de citoyens européens par la NSA étaient « complètement fausses ». Comment la NSA infiltre secrètement les serveurs de Google et Yahoo! Le "Washington Post" révèle, sur la base de documents d'Edward Snowden, comment la NSA a procédé pour récolter les données privées des utilisateurs de Google et Yahoo!.
Jean-Jacques Urvoas : les américains écoutent tout ce qu'ils veulent en France. Qui espionne qui ? Alain Bauer et Jean-Jacques Urvoas. Le Parlement européen veut suspendre des accords avec les Etats-Unis. The NSA may have another leaker on its hands. The NSA files: how they affect you - video animation. Encrypted Web Traffic More Than Doubles After NSA Revelations. Google search guru Matt Cutts says we should encrypt the entire internet. And he’s not alone. Stop Watching Us: The Video. Etherpad.