NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal

The NSA doesn't like to talk about it's successes, because that can reveal methods.

 

Haha surprise surprise! Just finished posting about the lie of "terrorism". Excellent article.

 

I think these surveillance don't catch many terrorists is because terrorists quickly figure out how to circumvent them. They follow the news and they have their own messages boards where they discuss how to invade detection. Using pgp encrypted emails and proxies, for example, help them invade detection.

 

Patriot Act author introduces bill to block NSA's use of the Patriot Act.

-- Tom

 

We Need an Invasive NSA.

The premise of this article is that an Invasive NSA will protect US Corporations from intrusive cyber attacks from foreign entities.

-- Tom

 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2053540/nsas-alexander-asks-telecom-industry-to-trust-him.html

These guys are getting more and more worried. They know that this will become ab election issue.

 

4 U.S. whistleblowers just met with Edward Snowden in Russia.

Edward Snowden Honored By Intelligence Veterans: He 'Put His Life at Risk' to 'Expose Turnkey Tyranny'.

In the above link (just added) there is an interesting story about other accused so-called 'traitors', Benjamin Franklin notably being fired as Postmaster General for leaking some information to the British in 1773 - to which, it looks like Snowden is in very good company as far as History will determine!

-- Tom

 

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Alternatives networks are developped to avoid surveillance eyes...like Meshnet, Hyperboria and co.

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/hacktivists-want-to-free-the-net-by-building-a-new-one-from-scratch

http://www.techhive.com/article/259...sorship_free_alternative_to_the_internet.html

http://www.newscientist.com/article...g-the-internet-from-scratch.html#.UgphgxYTHFI

As for tor, another paradise that might help freedom in some countries, but also help criminal career opportunities.
But i guess that some law enforcement Gvt agencies, the NSA in particular have already the solution against theses smell dark networks
http://media.koreus.com/200510/toilettes7.jpg

rgds

 

Gen. Alexander Offers To Store Phone Metadata At A 'Neutral Site' To Alleviate Concerns About The NSA's Spying.

-- Tom

 

PATRIOT Act Author Says James Clapper Should Be Fired And Prosecuted; Plans Law To Stop NSA Overreach.

-- Tom

 

Feds Begged Washington Post Reporter Not To Name Companies In PRISM, Because It Worried They'd Stop Cooperating.

-- Tom

 

Lavabit Files Opening Brief in Landmark Privacy Case.

Edward Snowden’s E-Mail Provider Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show.

Completely private email is not legal and shouldn't be.

How is it that completely private email is not legal, and shouldn't be?

-- Tom

 

Seltzer writes; If the government had come to Levison looking for communications of a kidnapper holding a child for ransom, would he have resisted in the same way? Would his resistance have generated any sympathy?
Pretty poor, such rethorical trickery, especially if you also claim to have judicial knowledge from tv-series Law & Order.

I'd like to ask mr Seltzer that if has was charged with child obduction on day 1 and he was forced to hand over the encryption key of all the very, very private movies files, he and his partner made over the last decades and refused to do so on day 2, was found completely innocent of the child obduction on day 3 and was then prosecuted and sentenced to prison a year later for not handing over his encryption key, would he agree that the government should have such right?
That he indeed lost all privacy when accused of such a crime?
Just being rhetorical oc.

-edit; And about Sensenbrenner' change of hearts, way too late imo. The 'least untruthful answer' by Clapper is likely a motto on their Ferengi deck. (Yeah, Alexander, it pretty much sucks).

 

Just FYI, the US Navy funded initial Tor development, and the US and Swedish governments are currently the major Tor Project funders

And, according to the Tor Project, governments, military and LEA all use Tor

 

Laptops Snowden took to Hong Kong, Russia were a 'diversion'.

-- Tom

 

http://www.dw.de/telekom-hopes-to-s...eeping-internet-traffic-in-germany/a-17154274

 

Privacy issues aside, isn't it more efficient to keep traffic, as much as possible, as local as possible? Or is signal-transmission delay generally a much smaller share of latency than switching, routing etc delays?

 

DoJ: If we can track one American, we can track all Americans.

-- Tom

 

Catching terrorists increases budgets, more intrusive laws, and power. Every terrorist caught would be (and is) paraded in front of the cameras of whatever country they were in...they also have to be entered into the criminal justice system. They are too big of a "PR Win" to be "disappeared". In the US, the NSA has caught 0 (they claim 1...now - but he just sent some money). Residents of other countries can surmise just how many terrorists the NSA has caught where they live. "Terrorist Myth" was the perfect label. Statistically, I'm more afraid of 1.5" long, Chinese Hornets.

PD

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ive-coverage-of-all-developments-and-reaction

 

NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally

The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top-secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

The collection program, which has not been disclosed before, intercepts e-mail address books and “buddy lists” from instant messaging services as they move across global data links. Online services often transmit those contacts when a user logs on, composes a message, or synchronizes a computer or mobile device with information stored on remote servers.

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http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Tec...fter-protesting-US-spying/UPI-69911381785172/

 

EU aims to be the world's leading 'trusted cloud region':

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-898_en.htm

 

http://www.parool.nl/parool/nl/3587...-NSA-Ook-Nederlander-kan-terrorist-zijn.dhtml

 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...security-leaks-gchq-nsa-intelligence-agencies