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Alternatives To Google And Gmail: Private Search And Email Services Promise Online Anonymity In The Wake Of NSA Surveillance. A Google search page is reflected in the eye of a computer user.

Alternatives To Google And Gmail: Private Search And Email Services Promise Online Anonymity In The Wake Of NSA Surveillance

Reuters In case we didn't get the point some years back when warrantless wiretapping was the shock du jour, we now know with some certainty that the National Security Agency has been sifting through our phone records and Web activities. But there's still a great deal that we're in the dark about: Whose data is being accessed? How much are they looking at? Who is they? Mountains and mountains of personal data about you are being collected, stored, bought and sold every day. Long before Edward Snowden dumped NSA surveillance secrets into Glenn Greenwald’s lap, privacy watchdogs have been railing against the extensive data-collecting practices of the country’s largest tech giants, in particular Google Inc.

Rt. Heartbleed. Why We Do What We Do. NSA Spying. The US government, with assistance from major telecommunications carriers including AT&T, has engaged in massive, illegal dragnet surveillance of the domestic communications and communications records of millions of ordinary Americans since at least 2001.

NSA Spying

Since this was first reported on by the press and discovered by the public in late 2005, EFF has been at the forefront of the effort to stop it and bring government surveillance programs back within the law and the Constitution. History of NSA Spying Information since 2005 (See EFF’s full timeline of events here) News reports in December 2005 first revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been intercepting Americans’ phone calls and Internet communications. Spy Files. NSA Glossary. 28 January 2014Last updated at 14:06 ET By Leo Kelion Technology reporter The documents leaked by Edward Snowden have led the White House to call for reforms When the Guardian and Washington Post newspapers published the first of Edward Snowden's NSA-GCHQ leaks in June, it unleashed a stream of abbreviations, acronyms and jargon describing the cyberspies' activities.

NSA Glossary

Below are some of the key terms referred to in the classified documents and the reports about them. The list refers to documents alleged to have been sourced by Snowden from various intelligence agencies that have been printed by other news outlets. Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying. NSA shares raw intelligence with Israel. NSA & Israel Developed STUXNET Together. Stuxnet made international headlines in 2010 for specifically target a uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran.

NSA & Israel Developed STUXNET Together

Stuxnet was designed to make the centrifuges spin out of control and cause physical damage to the plant in Natanz. Stuxnet temporarily disabled 1,000 centrifuges that the Iranians were using to enrich uranium. A message from Comodo Hacker. ComodoHacker's Pastebin. Unit 8200 - Israel. Unit 8200 (Hebrew: יחידה 8200‎, Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim) is an Israeli Intelligence Corps unit responsible for collecting signal intelligence (SIGINT) and code decryption.

Unit 8200 - Israel

It also appears in military publications as the Central Collection Unit of the Intelligence Corps and is sometimes referred to as Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU).[1] History[edit] Unit 8200 was established in 1952 using primitive surplus American military equipment.

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PROJECT ECHELON: U.S. ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE EFFORTS. NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel. The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals.

NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel

Details of the intelligence-sharing agreement are laid out in a memorandum of understanding between the NSA and its Israeli counterpart that shows the US government handed over intercepted communications likely to contain phone calls and emails of American citizens. Heartbleed Bug. The U.S.

Heartbleed Bug

National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said. The NSA’s decision to keep the bug secret in pursuit of national security interests threatens to renew the rancorous debate over the role of the government’s top computer experts.

Heartbleed appears to be one of the biggest glitches in the Internet’s history, a flaw in the basic security of as many as two-thirds of the world’s websites. Its discovery and the creation of a fix by researchers five days ago prompted consumers to change their passwords, the Canadian government to suspend electronic tax filing and computer companies including Cisco Systems Inc. to Juniper Networks Inc. to provide patches for their systems. Related: Controversial Practice. UKUSA Spy Deal, British Intelligence Reports Made Public. For drama, it couldn't quite compete with the arrests on Monday, June 28, by the U.S.

UKUSA Spy Deal, British Intelligence Reports Made Public

Department of Justice of 10 people charged with spying — with eight of them allegedly carrying out "long-term, deep-cover assignments for the Russian government. " But for armchair spy catchers and amateur historians, last Friday's revelations were of even greater historical significance. Britain's National Archives and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) made public one of the most important documents in the history of the Cold War: the seven-page UKUSA Agreement, a secret pact that, since 1946, has allowed the two countries to share intelligence with each other.

US Defense Contractors vs WikiLeaks Response v6. Wikileaks: Monsanto vs Paris GMO Activists. Show Headers 3967, F)PARIS 3853, G)PARIS 3429, H)PARIS 3399, I)PARIS 3429 Classified by Ambassador Craig Stapleton; reasons 1.4 (b), (d) and (e). 1.

Wikileaks: Monsanto vs Paris GMO Activists

(C) Summary: Mission Paris recommends that that the USG reinforce our negotiating position with the EU on agricultural biotechnology by publishing a retaliation list when the extend "Reasonable Time Period" expires. In our view, Europe is moving backwards not forwards on this issue with France playing a leading role, along with Austria, Italy and even the Commission.

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HBGary leaked emails

The Fail of HBGary. Corporate Hacker Tries to Take Down WikiLeaks - The Colbert Report. The HBGary vs. Anonymous Saga: What can we learn? If you follow security news, then you’ve surely heard about the recent drama between “Anonymous” and the HBGary security firm (more on who Anonymous is below), which took place over the past few weeks. While I’ve personally followed this fiasco with great interest, I’ve avoided commenting about it here, since most of our customers and readers are network administrators who are more concerned with practical business solutions than melodramatic cyber-quarrels.

However, recently I read a fantastic article sharing the technical details of the HBGary breach, which I believe is a must-read for any computer security practitioner. I’ll come back to that article in a minute, but first let me summarize the Anonymous/HBGary saga for those that may not have heard about it (if you have heard about it, feel free to skip to “Learning from Others’ Mistakes”). HBGary hack: lessons learned. Unless you’ve been living under a stone for last couple of weeks, you will have heard about the HBGary Federal hack. Seeing everything published about this probably makes every security professional think for at least a second, 'Could this happen to me too?

'. As most details about how the attack was carried have been published already (for example, see we can now look at all exploited vulnerabilities. Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack. It has been an embarrassing week for security firm HBGary and its HBGary Federal offshoot. HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr thought he had unmasked the hacker hordes of Anonymous and was preparing to name and shame those responsible for co-ordinating the group's actions, including the denial-of-service attacks that hit MasterCard, Visa, and other perceived enemies of WikiLeaks late last year.

When Barr told one of those he believed to be an Anonymous ringleader about his forthcoming exposé, the Anonymous response was swift and humiliating. HBGary's servers were broken into, its e-mails pillaged and published to the world, its data destroyed, and its website defaced. As an added bonus, a second site owned and operated by Greg Hoglund, owner of HBGary, was taken offline and the user registration database published. Official HBGary Federal Sock Sorter. …or, what happens when some Manager Guy gets a few Big Ideas that some perceive as evil and some others as completely mad. A while ago, some weird guy from HBGary Federal wanted to track down some Anonymous members, and failed spectacularly in this task.

It’s a long story, but the basic idea is this: The company provides intel to government agencies. Personalsoftware0302.pdf. Domestic Surveillance National Data Warehouse. Your Data: If You Have Nothing to Hide, You Have Nothing to Fear Our value is founded on a unique and deep understanding of risks, vulnerabilities, mitigations, and threats. Domestic Surveillance plays a vital role in our national security by using advanced data mining systems to "connect the dots" to identify suspicious patterns. Why We Collect Your Data In the past, domestic law enforcement agencies collected data AFTER a suspect had been identified. This often resulted in lost intelligence and missed opportunities. IC OFF THE RECORD - Public Access to Unauthorized Leaks.

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