Lulzsec hacker pleads guilty over Sony attack. BlackBerry, Twitter Probed in London Riots. BlackBerry smartphone maker Research in Motion Ltd. (RIMM) said it is assisting London police with investigating the use of the company’s messaging service by rioters to plan disturbances, as they prepare for another night of “mass disorder.” “Police have got very extensive monitoring of the Blackberry Messenger model,” Stephen Kavanagh, deputy assistant commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police, told reporters today.
“A lot of people who are seeing those messages are forwarding them to police” who are “planning for mass disorder again tonight.” David Lammy, the U.K.’s intellectual-property minister, today called for a suspension of BlackBerry service to prevent its use among rioters to communicate plans, according to a statement from his office. Research in Motion, based in Waterloo, Ontario, posted a message on its official U.K. Less Encryption Court Orders Twitter spokeswoman Rachel Bremer declined to comment. ‘Opportunistic Theft’
O que é GSM e como funciona? Aprenda o que é e como funciona o GMS (Global System for Mobile). Sistema Global para Comunicações Móveis (GSM: originalmente, Groupe Spécial Mobile) é uma tecnologia móvel e o padrão mais popular para celulares do mundo. Telefones GSM são usados por mais de um bilhão de pessoas em mais de 200 países. A onipresença do sistema GSM faz com que o roaming internacional seja muito comum através de "acordos de roaming" entre operadoras de celular. O GSM diferencia-se muito de seus predecessores sendo que o sinal e os canais de voz são digitais, o que significa que o GSM é visto como um sistema de celular de segunda geração (2G). Este fato também significa que a comunicação de dados foi acoplada ao sistema logo no início. GSM é um padrão aberto desenvolvido pela 3GPP.
O GSM possui uma série de características que o distinguem dentro do universo das comunicações móveis. Do ponto de vista do consumidor, a vantagem-chave do GSM são os serviços novos com baixos custos. Arquitetura da rede GSM. The Spy files. WikiLeaks: The Spy Files Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors, including for ’political opponents’ are a reality. Today WikiLeaks began releasing a database of hundreds of documents from as many as 160 intelligence contractors in the mass surveillance industry. Working with Bugged Planet and Privacy International, as well as media organizations form six countries – ARD in Germany, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in the UK, The Hindu in India, L’Espresso in Italy, OWNI in France and the Washington Post in the U.S.
International surveillance companies are based in the more technologically sophisticated countries, and they sell their technology on to every country of the world. Selling Surveillance to Dictators How Mass Surveillance Contractors Share Your Data with the State. IBM E O HOLOCAUSTO. Exclusive: How Gaddafi Spied on the Fathers of the New Libya. They are poets, journalists, writers, historians, intellectuals, aged between 50 and 70. Most occupied key roles within the Libyan opposition network.
Until recently, seven of them were still living in exile: four in the UK, two in the US, one in Helsinki. Last August, one of them was appointed the Libyan ambassador in London. Another was one of 15 founding members of the National Transitional Council (NTC), created in March 2011 to coordinate the insurgency in Libya. He has since been appointed Minister for Culture. While they were living in Britain and the United States, the electronic correspondence of all these figures was spied on by the extensive monitoring systems of Amesys, a French electronic warfare arms dealer which forms part of the Bull group.
Contacted in the course of our investigation, Amesys officials gave OWNI the following response: Amesys is a manufacturer of equipment. In Washington and London Sabotage and electronic espionage An anti-WikiLeaks system. FRA law. Signals Intelligence has existed in Sweden since 1905 when Swedish General Staff and Naval Staff respectively, had departments for signals intelligence and cryptanalysis. These departments succeeded, for instance, to decode the Russian Baltic Sea Fleet cipher. After World War I, this ability mostly ceased as politicians did not see its value and did not grant funding. The Swedish Navy still continued in a smaller scale and developed the competence further.
One of the first major successes was in 1933 when the cipher of the Russian OGPU (predecessor to KGB) was solved. The first stationary collection site was located in the middle of Stockholm, but in 1940 it was moved to a number of villas in the suburban island of Lidingö. More sites were established in Sweden and in 1943, FRA moved its headquarters to Lovön, some 15 km from Stockholm. In the 1960s, even the location of the FRA headquarters was still highly secret.[10] FRA SIGINT tower in Kåseberga, Scania. Sweden approves wiretapping law. Sweden's parliament has approved controversial new laws allowing authorities to spy on cross-border e-mail and telephone traffic.
The country's intelligence bureau will be able to scan international calls, faxes and e-mails. The measure was passed by a narrow majority after a heated debate in the Stockholm parliament. Critics say it threatens civil liberties and represents Europe's most far-reaching eavesdropping plan. "By introducing these new measures, the Swedish government is following the examples set by governments ranging from China and Saudi Arabia to the US government's highly criticised eavesdropping programme," said Peter Fleischer of Google. Checks and balances But those who support the plans say such measures are needed to protect national security from those increasingly using such technology to plan attacks.
The government insists that it will filter out domestic communication and monitor only international calls, faxes and messages. "I think the law needs to be re-written. PRESS RELEASES - Press release - Data retention: Commission takes Germany to Court requesting that fines be imposed. European Commission - Press release Data retention: Commission takes Germany to Court requesting that fines be imposed Brussels, 31 May 2012 – More than two years after the national law transposing the EU Data Retention Directive was annulled by the German Federal Constitutional Court, Germany has still not complied with the Directive. As a result, today the Commission referred the country to the European Court of Justice, requesting it to impose financial penalties. The Data Retention Directive makes it mandatory for telephone companies and Internet service providers to store telecommunications traffic and location data for law enforcement purposes.
Ongoing delays in transposing the Directive into national law are likely to have a negative effect on the internal market for electronic communications and on the ability of police and justice authorities to detect, investigate and prosecute serious crime. Background For more information Homepage DG Home Affairs: German court orders stored telecoms data deletion. Vast amounts of telephone and e-mail data held in Germany must be deleted, the country's highest court has ruled. The constitutional court overturned a 2008 law requiring communications data to be kept for six months.
The law - designed to combat terrorism and serious crime - required telecoms companies to keep logs of calls, faxes, SMS messages, e-mails and internet use. But nearly 35,000 Germans lodged complaints against it, arguing that the law violated their right to privacy. Responding to the thousands of formal complaints, Germany's constitutional court described the law as a "particularly serious infringement of privacy in telecommunications". However, it did not rule against data retention in principle.
The judgement was handed down even though the law specified that companies were not supposed to record telephone calls or to read any of the e-mail or SMS communications.