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

Re: US and UK struck NSA secret deal

It's all politics, they have to appear to be 'outraged', even though a huge proportion of the electorate can see through them & their duplicity & dissembling. Besides, international & domestic terrorism are not imaginary threats. The security services both sides of the Atlantic know full well that they need to cooperate to be effective.

Smiley would probably claim that: "Everything's completely normal at the circus."

 

Re: US and UK struck NSA secret deal

It's a dead giveaway!

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/us-uk-secret-deal-surveillance-personal-data

 

Six degrees of separation?

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

 

The November NSA Trove I: An Introduction.

The November NSA Trove II: Judge Kollar-Kotelly’s Opinion on Internet Metadata.

The November NSA Trove III: More Details on the Bulk Telephony Metadata Program.

-- Tom

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/21/un-surveillance-resolution-us-uk-dilute-language

 

Surveillance backlash: Hayden Sees No End In Sight for the NSA.

-- Tom

 

Since politics is verboten, I won't comment on Hayden's spin control mission.

 

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/ungaletter

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/22/nsa-bulk-data-collection-constitutional-rights-aclu

 

hi
Now 73 Things We've Learned About the NSA
http://www.tedgioia.com/nsa_facts.html

USA and NSA surveillance tool list
http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Usa_surveillance_tools

Like Bruce believe in maths not in code
http://tomchop.me/slideware/PRISM/#/16
Tks to OSSIR.

rgds

 

Inside the obscure FBI unit that does the NSA's dirty work.

-- Tom

 

N.S.A. Report Outlined Goals for More Power.

-- Tom

 

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." Lord Acton.

The Tech giants are powerful business entities, but 'the bad men' have absolute power. Their greatness is defined by their never ending conquests. Information is a very lucrative bounty in this day and age and it is easy plunder. Our privacy and personal treasures will never be secure in the presence of Absolute Rule.

 

http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/11/23/nsa-infected-50000-computer-networks-with-malicious-software/

 

You know, I think it will get really ugly when many of these nations and their governments and corporations get tired of that. I'm also afraid that we as consumers and users are going to pay a price as well when it happens.

 

NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software.

Reference: NSA hacked 50,000 global networks.

-- Tom

 

Is all this NSA snooping doing any good? Who have they caught?
All terrorists have to do is use Internet cafes with fresh devices, same with cell phones - a new one a day keeps NSA away.
It all looks like a giant boondoggle.

 

hi,

Dark shadows and subliminal advertisement of the NSA in NCIS

http://introverthitsthestreets.blogspot.fr/2013/11/the-nsa-according-to-ncis-just-few-bad.html

http://nesaranews.blogspot.fr/2013/11/nsa-spying-on-ncis.html

http://www.ncisfanwiki.com/page/11.09 Gut Check - RECAP

Like the blogger of the first link, i used to watch NCIS for the first seasons, not anymore since years: things are not always here as white, there as good, here as good and there as bad...but often grey.
NSA, good goals, bad actions...

rgds

 

FreddyFreeloader, I think that is the biggest question. I'm not so certain that these programs are having any profound effect in law enforcement and the security of the nation. Perhaps in time it will lessen the security, as this distrust and anger towards the government can only eventually backfire.

Kareldjag, that can be said of most controversial agencies. They have a purpose and are needed. But paranoia and power don't mix well.

 

Excellent articles.

 

Microsoft, suspecting NSA spying, to ramp up efforts to encrypt its Internet traffic
Washington Post

Microsoft is moving toward a major new effort to encrypt its Internet traffic amid fears that the National Security Agency may have broken into its global *communications links, said people familiar with the emerging plans.

Suspicions at Microsoft, while building for several months, sharpened in October when it was reported that the NSA was intercepting traffic inside the private networks of Google and Yahoo, two industry rivals with similar global infrastructures, said people with direct knowledge of the company’s deliberations. They said top Microsoft executives are meeting this week to decide what encryption initiatives to deploy and how quickly.

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N.S.A. May Have Hit Internet Companies at a Weak Spot (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/technology/a-peephole-for-the-nsa.html

 

I wonder how fast Level 3 could go out of business

 

Hmmm.

Funny how deep light of day can travel to reach the darkest remote regions of the underground.


"and no stone shall be left upon another that won't be overturned"

 

No one actively trying to commit violence. They have finally admitted that they ONLY stopped ONE guy from sending some money to Somalia, to defend against an Ethiopian invasion. Isn't that swell?