Forget Iran - Beware of US ISPs (if so why trust US Tor?) 12 April 2012 Forget Iran - Beware of US ISPs (if so why trust US Tor?) From: andre76[at]fastmail.fm To: tor-talk[at]lists.torproject.org Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:08:41 +0200 Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Forget Iran- beware of US isp's On Wed, Apr 11, 2012, at 05:07 PM, BlueStar88 wrote: > Am Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:31:28 +0200 > schrieb Gisle Vanem <gvanem[at]broadpark.no>: > > > "BlueStar88" <bluestar88[at]xenobite.eu> wrote: > > > > > > > > > If you want to argue with URLs, here is one back at you: > > Me...fearful?
The NSA is building some sort of 1 million square data collection center in Utah to collect all electronic communication data. Operation Northwoods- the US government would never even think of doing something like that. Operation Mockingbird- never happened (ha, ha) Operation Phoenix- what?! Kennedy shot by one guy? » Government Surveillance Crackdown On Internet Goes Into Overdrive Alex Jones. Cyber bills legislate for mass surveillance; Former Cybersecurity Czar calls for Homeland Security data “customs inspections” Steve Watson Infowars.com April 5, 2012 In a New York Times editorial, former government cybersecurity czar Richard A. Clarke has called for the creation of customs checks on all data leaving and entering US cyberspace. Clarke makes the call in relation to Chinese hackers stealing information and intellectual property from US firms.
“If given the proper authorization, the United States government could stop files in the process of being stolen from getting to the Chinese hackers.” “If government agencies were authorized to create a major program to grab stolen data leaving the country, they could drastically reduce today’s wholesale theft of American corporate secrets.” “Under Customs authority, the Department of Homeland Security could inspect what enters and exits the United States in cyberspace…” Clarke continues. Watch the interview: Print this page. Sen. Garbage Collectors Around the U.S. Trained to Report Suspicious Activity.
Police Given Direct Line To Cell Phone Searches. Get Breaking News First Receive News, Politics, and Entertainment Headlines Each Morning. Sign Up DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Think about all the personal information we keep in our cell phones: It’s something to consider after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled it is now legal for police to search cell phones without a warrant. Former Dallas FBI Agent Danny Defenbaugh said the ruling gives law enforcement a leg up. “I think not only will it help them, but it could be life saving,” said the former Special Agent, who was based in Dallas. The decision stems from an Indiana case where police arrested a man for dealing drugs. The judge in the appeal case, Judge Richard Posner, agreed that the officer had to search the phone immediately or risk losing valuable evidence.
Defenbaugh says the ruling takes into account exigent or time-sensitive circumstances that could be life saving in more urgent cases, such as child abduction. Paul Coggins is the former U.S. Panetta: 'International Permission’ Trumps Congressional Permission For Military Actions. West Virginia Unveils App for Suspicious Activity Reporting. Today Gov.
Earl Ray Tomblin joined by West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director Jimmy Gianato and West Virginia Intelligence Fusion Center Director Thom Kirk together announced a new mobile app, that enables West Virginians to submit tips concerning suspicious criminal and terrorist activity, is now available for smartphones. “Through the use of innovative technology our citizens can download the new Suspicious Activity Reporting Application for free and help protect their own communities,” Gov. Tomblin said. “With the assistance of our citizens, important information can quickly get into the hands of our law enforcement community allowing them to provide better protection. “The longer you wait the less accurate eyewitness information becomes and evidence fades,” said Thom Kirk, Director of the Fusion Center.
The free application is available for download from the iTunes App Store or Android Market and gives citizens the ability to: Darpa-hacms. The TSA Is Coming To A Highway Near You. WikiLeaks + Anonymous = A powerful partnership? Though it's nothing new for WikiLeaks to publish information belonging to a private company, Monday's release of Stratfor e-mails might be an indication that for the first time, Anonymous and WikiLeaks have worked together. And that could have legal consequences for WikiLeaks' editor Julian Assange, experts say.
In December, Anonymous claimed it had hacked Stratfor, the Austin, Texas-based private company that produces intelligence reports for clients. On Monday, WikiLeaks began releasing 5 million e-mails it said belonged to Stratfor that reveal, WikiLeaks says, a litany of injustices by the company. WikiLeaks is calling the leak The Global Intelligence Files. WikiLeaks has not said where it got the e-mails. Anonymous, an amorphous group of hackers worldwide, is claiming on Twitter and on other social media that they gave it to the site. "Their [WikiLeaks and Anonymous] working together made sense. FEMA National Responder Support Camps (NRSC) Contract Announcement. New Google Privacy Policy | How To Change Your Settings. How to clear your Google history Learn how to clear your Google data history with this demonstration by Tablet editor Stephen Hutcheon. P 29, 2012 Opinion: Australia absent in Google privacy feud Today is your last chance to adjust your Google privacy settings before a major change to the way Google collects and collates data about you, its users.
From March 1, the company will begin to aggregate all the information it acquires about its users who are logged in to Google services into a single, unified pool of data. How your web history page should look after you've clicked "remove". This collectable information is what Columbia Law School professor and privacy advocate Eben Moglan refers to as the “data dandruff of life”. Advertisement In the past, data collected in the course of a web search would be kept separate from, for instance, your YouTube viewing activity, your Gmail usage or your Map queries. Revealed: US plans to charge Assange. Assange speaks at London news conference WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, says more 'explosive' information to be released on intelligence analysts Stratfor. 28, 2012 See the Stratfor emails UNITED STATES prosecutors have drawn up secret charges against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, according to a confidential email obtained from the private US intelligence company Stratfor.
In an internal email to Stratfor analysts on January 26 last year, the vice-president of intelligence, Fred Burton, responded to a media report concerning US investigations targeting WikiLeaks with the comment: ''We have a sealed indictment on Assange.'' ''If I thought I could switch this dickhead off without getting done I don't think I'd have too much of a problem.'' … Stratfor's Chris Farnham on Assange.
Advertisement The Herald has secured access to the emails through an investigative partnership with WikiLeaks. List of Releases. Search the GI Files LONDON—Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods, for example : "[Y]ou have to take control of him.
Control means financial, sexual or psychological control... Stratfor has realised that its routine use of secret cash bribes to get information from insiders is risky. Comment Comment: 1. U.S. opening up airspace to use of drones - Technology & science - Science - DiscoveryNews.com. After more than 40 years of development and extensive use by the military, the United States has set the date when the nation’s airspace will be open for drones. Should you be scared? Short answer: No, but like any new technology, unmanned aerial vehicles have their dark side.
Legislation passed by Congress last week gives the Federal Aviation Administration until Sept. 30, 2015, to open the nation’s skies to drones. NEWS: Smart Drone Aircraft Makes Debut Flight The first step comes in 90 days when police, firefighters and other civilian first-response agencies can start flying UAVs weighing no more than 4.4 pounds, provided they meet still-to-be-determined requirements, such as having an operator on the ground within line-of-sight of the drone and flying it at least 400 feet above ground.
Currently, UAVs can only fly in restricted airspace zones controlled by the U.S. military. The deadline for full integration of drones into U.S. airspace is Sept. 30, 2015. NEWS: Drones Play ‘Where’s Waldo’ McCain: Cybersecurity Bill Ineffective Without NSA Monitoring the Net | Threat Level. Photo: StuffEyeSee/Flickr After three years of haggling to produce bipartisan cybersecurity legislation that addresses the security of the nation’s critical infrastructure systems, the Senate finally got a bill this week that seemed destined to actually pass. That is, until a hearing on Thursday to discuss the bill in which Sen.
John McCain (R-Arizona) sideswiped lawmakers behind the proposed legislation and announced that he, and seven other Senate ranking members, were opposed to the bill and would be introducing a competing bill in two weeks to address failings they see in the legislation. McCain and his colleagues oppose the current bill on the grounds that it would give the Department of Homeland Security regulatory authority over private businesses that own and operate critical infrastructure systems and that it doesn’t grant the National Security Agency, a branch of the Defense Department, any authority to monitor networks in real-time to thwart cyberattacks. U.S. government concerned about Anonymous causing blackouts.