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XKeyscore. _law_enforcement_disclosure_report.pdf. بعد أزمة فودافون.. مطالب بإصدار تعديلات قانون تنظيم الاتصالات لمنع التنصت. Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveillance. Vodafone, one of the world's largest mobile phone groups, has revealed the existence of secret wires that allow government agencies to listen to all conversations on its networks, saying they are widely used in some of the 29 countries in which it operates in Europe and beyond.

Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveillance

The company has broken its silence on government surveillance in order to push back against the increasingly widespread use of phone and broadband networks to spy on citizens, and will publish its first Law Enforcement Disclosure Report on Friday. Vodafone Lays Bare Scale of Phone Tapping - WSJ. Egypt's police seek ability to monitor social media for signs of dissent. Egyptian journalists protest in Cairo on Sunday in support of their imprisoned colleagues.

Egypt's police seek ability to monitor social media for signs of dissent

Egypt, citing security, wants foreign companies to help monitor social media. CAIRO Mon Jun 2, 2014 3:15pm BST CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's interior ministry has asked foreign technology firms to help it monitor social media websites to prevent crime and track down terrorists, officials said on Monday, another sign that the government intends to stifle all forms of dissent.

Egypt, citing security, wants foreign companies to help monitor social media

Seven foreign firms have offered proposals for monitoring social media websites, an interior ministry official said. Interior Ministry officials did not name the companies. The plan was announced days after former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the man who toppled Egypt's first freely-elected leader, won a landslide victory in a presidential election, according to provisional results. Social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook played a vital role in the 2011 popular uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Egypt's Police to Build System That Monitors Social-Media Comments. Mission Impossible: Hardening Android for Security and Privacy. Updates: See the Changes section for a list of changes since initial posting.

Mission Impossible: Hardening Android for Security and Privacy

The future is here, and ahead of schedule. Come join us, the weather's nice. This blog post describes the installation and configuration of a prototype of a secure, full-featured, Android telecommunications device with full Tor support, individual application firewalling, true cell network baseband isolation, and optional ZRTP encrypted voice and video support. ZRTP does run over UDP which is not yet possible to send over Tor, but we are able to send SIP account login and call setup over Tor independently. The SIP client we recommend also supports dialing normal telephone numbers if you have a SIP gateway that provides trunking service. How The NSA Targets Tor. I2P. The software is free and open source and is published under multiple licenses. The name I2P is derived from Invisible Internet Project, which, in pseudo-mathematical notation, is represented as I²P. Technical design[edit] Exposed: Globally Renowned Activist Collaborated With Intelligence Firm Str.

Lesser known, an exclusive Occupy.com investigation reveals that Popovic and the Otpor! Offshoot CANVAS (Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies) have also maintained close ties with a Goldman Sachs executive and the private intelligence firmStratfor (Strategic Forecasting, Inc.), as well as the U.S. government. Popovic’s wife also worked at Stratfor for a year. These revelations come in the aftermath of thousands of new emails released by Wikileaks' “Global Intelligence Files.” The emails reveal Popovic worked closely with Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based private firm that gathers intelligence on geopolitical events and activists forclients ranging from the American Petroleum Institute and Archer Daniels Midland to Dow Chemical, Duke Energy, Northrop Grumman, Intel and Coca-Cola. In one of the emails, Popovic forwarded information about activists harmed or killed by the U.S.

Blog >> A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch. Last week I was contacted by an agent of Mobily, one of two telecoms operating in Saudi Arabia, about a surveillance project that they’re working on in that country.

Blog >> A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch

Blackphone. The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone. I've always known this, and I'm sure most of you do too, but we never really talk about it.

The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone

Every smartphone or other device with mobile communications capability (e.g. 3G or LTE) actually runs not one, but two operating systems. Aside from the operating system that we as end-users see (Android, iOS, PalmOS), it also runs a small operating system that manages everything related to radio. (1) Ramy Raoof - There are new findings on censorship by governments...

Planet Blue Coat: Mapping Global Censorship and Surveillance Tools. Download PDF version Read The New York Times article associated with this report.

Planet Blue Coat: Mapping Global Censorship and Surveillance Tools

The following individuals contributed to this report:Morgan Marquis-Boire (lead technical research) and Jakub Dalek (lead technical research), Sarah McKune (lead legal research), Matthew Carrieri, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Ron Deibert, Saad Omar Khan, Helmi Noman, John Scott-Railton, and Greg Wiseman. Summary of Key Findings. Mapping Hacking Team’s “Untraceable” Spyware. A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services. Can't find what you're looking for? Help make justdelete.me better. easy. How to Delete Yourself from the Internet - Infographic. BRASïLIA - Brazil will press tech giants such as Google and Facebook to store Internet data pertaining to its citizens locally due to allegations of US spying, according to a regulator.

"Data centers are in various parts of the world. We do not want all of them to be based in Brazil, but yes we do want data storage centers here," Virgilio Almeida, the coordinator of the Internet oversight committee in Brazil (CGI), said Monday. "Naturally this can occur with tax incentives, purchase policies, but this is something that the government wants to keep in the country. " CGI officials discussed the issue with President Dilma Rousseff, according to press reports, amid growing government concern over allegations of widespread US cyber-spying in Brazil.

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