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

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Maryland lawmakers want to cripple the NSA's headquarters

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/11/5401398/nsa-hq-water-electricity-cut-off-maryland-bill

 

http://www.dw.de/reporters-without-borders-security-interests-threaten-press-freedom/a-17425376

 

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/12/internet-governance-us-european-commission

 

Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Courts.

-- Tom

 

Everything We Know About How the NSA Tracks People's Physical Location by Bruce Schneier.

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GOPHERSET: NSA Exploit of the Day by Bruce Schneier.

-- Tom

 

NSA employee implicated in Snowden probe resigned, memo says.

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How Classified NSA Exploit tools RADON and DEWSWEEPER Work

 

Spying by N.S.A. Ally Ensnared U.S. Law Firm

 

Did the NSA really help spy on U.S. lawyers?

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...opean-network-to-beat-nsa-spying-9132388.html

 

Snowden documents reveal that the NSA spied on WikiLeaks website visitors

http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/18/snowden-nsa-documents-wikileaks/

 

The government asked AT&T for location data nearly 38,000 times last year

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...r-location-data-nearly-38000-times-last-year/

 

US intelligence chief: NSA should have been more open about data collection James Clapper tells interviewer the spy agency could have avoided controversy by being up front with American citizens!

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/us-intelligence-chief-nsa-open-bulk-phone-collection

 

The Privacy Worm Turns: Now You Can Spy On The NSA.

-- Tom

 

"The NSA's TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries in order to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting."


I wondered this as I had just ordered my latest smart phone from Best Buy Mobile when the Carrier IQ revelation came to light. BlackBerry vehemently denied "pre-installing" Carrier IQ or anything like it on its smartphones, but this doesn't mean someone else, some "man in the middle" didn't install it. Companies always use these carefully crafted statements. Even "pre-install" sounds extremely shady. What about "post-install"? Did someone else install it at some middle destination between origin, Best Buy warehouse, Sprint, etc., at some point where it was no longer legally in BlackBerry's possession in accordance with some bill of lading? I mean I bought the phone in Massachusetts, but it was shipped from some place in New Jersey. It's a Sprint "branded" BlackBerry. It's OS is carrier "tested" by Sprint. It was purchased from Best Buy Mobile, shipped from whose possession? See where I'm going with this? So many parties involved, why couldn't/wouldn't the NSA be in the middle? When BlackBerry says, "We do not pre-install Carrier IQ or any other program like it" and "BlackBerry does not have the BES encryption keys and cannot decrypt your data," it's enough to satisfy less insightful people (i.e. most people). But statements like these don't make clear whether BlackBerry has knowledge of anyone else (carriers, NSA, etc.) installing something like Carrier IQ on its devices or whether anyone else (NSA, some "secret court," etc.) has the encryption keys. It's all cya legalese for these corporations.

And what about this thing with shippers now? Obviously the USPS is under federal control, but are companies like UPS and Fedex betraying us in the same way as the tech giants? And the tech giants have been betraying us. If even I who knows nothing considered these possibilities before Snowden blew the whistle, how can any intellectually honest person believe that the computer geniuses and high level ceo's at google and yahoo didn't think of this and had no idea about this spying as they have been claiming in recent media reports? If NSA is intercepting shipped goods to install their spy tools, is it doing so covertly or with the knowledge and/or cooperation of the shippers? Where does it end?

 

It’s OK to parody the NSA

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/its-ok-to-parody-the-nsa/

 

Schneier: Break Up the NSA.

-- Tom

 

Why AT&T’s Surveillance Report Omits 80 Million NSA Targets
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/ma-bell-non-transparency/

 

FISA, the NSA, and America’s Secret Court System.

-- Tom

 

Oh, I see
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/24/richard_clarke_csa_comments/

 

By Glenn Greenwald:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

 

There's big difference between being able to hack into a foreign database and getting unlimited access to them via NSLs or back tapping their infrastructure.