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Wiretapping for Fun and Profit
Wiretapping for Fun and Profit
Fun ABC News reports on wiretapping by the NSA of telephone conversations of Americans overseas: Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of “cuts” that were available on each operator’s computer. “Hey, check this out,” Faulk says he would…
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Lavabit CEO discusses his surveillance nightmare
Lavabit CEO discusses his surveillance nightmare
Leo Laporte yesterday aired a live audio interview with Ladar Levison, CEO and founder of Lavabit. Last month, Mr. Levison made the headlines when he shut down his Dallas-based secure email service immediately after providing his company’s SSL keys (effectively, the company’s master keys) to the FBI in compliance with a federal court order. He posted this message on Lavabit’s home page: I have…
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Frontline's United States of Secrets
Frontline’s United States of Secrets
On Tuesday night, PBS broadcast a powerful Frontline two hour long piece about the NSA’s snooping into citizens’ electronic communications. They subtitled it “How the government came to spy on millions of Americans”. The second part will air next Tuesday. Watch it. http://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365245528 Read PBS’ webpage about this Frontline program and the NSA.
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Fiorina: I rushed out HP servers to power NSA snooping (theregister)
Fiorina: I rushed out HP servers to power NSA snooping (theregister)
Last updated: [relativedate], [relativetime] US presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina has boasted that HP sold the NSA servers that allowed the agency to build a system for mass surveillance.
Servers originally earmarked for retail customers were shipped to the NSA instead, to power a warrantless surveillance programme codenamed “Stellar Wind”, approved by then-president George W Bush in the…
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Thanks for nothing, NSA.
Thanks for nothing, NSA.
ICANN, The World Wide Web Consortium, IETF, and other organizations are unhappy with NSA’s spying on users of the Internet. They plan to move the functions of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) out from under US oversight. Wired magazine reported in NSA Leaks Prompt Rethinking of U.S. Control Over the Internet’s Infrastructure that, The leaders who run the internet’s…
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NSA surveillance lawful, judge says
NSA surveillance lawful, judge says
Today a New York-based federal judge ruled that NSA’s surveillance of telephone traffic data is lawful. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/25529677 This contradicts the 16 December ruling by a California-based federal judge, who ruled that the NSA’s telephone surveillance is “probably unconstitutional”. I guess that this critical question needs to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Visit my website:…
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Good Grief, More illegal NSA snooping
Good Grief, More illegal NSA snooping
This is getting old. The NSA again demonstrates that By EFF designer Hugh D’Andrade It’s violating US Citizens’ fourth amendment rights It’s lied about warrantless phonetapping: Not only is it capturing a phone call’s “metadata”, it’s capturing the phone call itself Its internal controls are inadequate It’s unable to manage: its unconstitutionally purloined data its employees and contractors. …
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NSA's "all-encompassing, indiscriminate dump of phone metadata"
NSA’s “all-encompassing, indiscriminate dump of phone metadata”
From today’s L.A. Times editorial: In a powerful opinion released Monday in Washington, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon castigated what he called an “almost-Orwellian technology that enables the government to store and analyze the phone metadata of every telephone user in the United States.” Yet Leon also noted that the government had not cited “a single instance” in which the data had…
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