Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 01:37 AM EDT |
The U.S.’s Director of National Intelligence
James R. Clapper just
released an official statement.
According to Clapper, “The Guardian and The
Washington Post
articles refer to collection of communications pursuant to
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
They contain
numerous inaccuracies.”
Clapper argues that Section 702 is meant to ”
facilitate the
acquisition of foreign intelligence information concerning
non-U.S. persons located outside the United States.” It is
not meant to be
used to “intentionally” target any U.S.
citizens (though the statement leaves a
door open for an
admittance of “unintentional” spying).
Given the outright
denials of all the tech firms accused of
participating in this program,
including Google, Facebook
and Apple, it remains unclear if the accusation that
these
companies knew about the program is one of the
“inaccuracies.”
Frederic Lardinois, TechCrunch[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 01:41 AM EDT |
The National Security Agency has obtained direct
access to the
systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other
US internet giants, according to a
top secret document
obtained by the Guardian.
The NSA access is part of a
previously undisclosed program
called PRISM, which allows officials to collect
material
including search history, the content of emails, file
transfers and
live chats, the document says.
The Guardian has verified the authenticity of
the document,
a 41-slide PowerPoint presentation – classified as top
secret
with no distribution to foreign allies – which was
apparently used to train
intelligence operatives on the
capabilities of the program. The document claims
"collection
directly from the servers" of major US service
providers.
Glenn Greenwald and Ewen
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 02:11 AM EDT |
The DNI didn't deny it in his first statement, merely niggling about
inaccuracies, and in the supplementary statement more or less
admitted it was happening, but it was very, very naughty to say so.
Those asked at "the big companies" may have had good reason to
deny knowledge if they didn't know, but somebody who doesn't
talk to the newspapers does know. I'm pondering the possibility
that this was such a secret spook operation that POTUS himself
didn't know. Whatever, he's got an awful lot of egg to wash off
his chin before he talks to the Chinese President about cyber espionage.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 02:58 AM EDT |
I've often wondered where is the physical location of the servers for
apple.co.nz, google.co.nz, etc. I suspect that they reside in an Akamai
rack somewhere in Auckland. I've always considered that using my
gmail account to send a message across town could implicate me
in some activity such as PRISM. But I would regard any tampering with
the domain registration or routing for them by US authorities to be
a hostile act. Does this make me a terrorist? Without yet taking up arms
against them?
I've been watching Freedom Box for a while with half an eye.
Looks like now's the time to get serious. It's our 'net, not theirs.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 04:44 AM EDT |
@ Wash DC: Thank you for the valueable information...
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 09:54 AM EDT |
If the Big Brother were not both suffering from paranoia and narapoia it might
even be scary.
The Land of the Free-roaming Snoop. We the people hail you.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 10:43 AM EDT |
mirror of infographic
http://i.imgur.com/xKHKmpC.jpg
slow EFF original
https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 12:47 PM EDT |
The Grauniad is now claiming that Britains GCHQ has
received a lot of the data gathered. They are also making clear that the
gathering is contrary to the rules on Data protection used throughout Europe and
if it was gathered in Europe then the action was illegal.
Wonder which other
NATO countries received some data ? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 08:19 PM EDT |
The Grey Lady roused itself to profile Glenn Greenwald after his
blockbuster stories of the last two days: the first on a secret court order now
in effect for Verizon to provide the NSA on all telephone records in its
systems, the second on the PRISM program, which has given the NSA direct access
to servers of information giants including Google, Facebook, and Microsoft,
since 2007.
But the piece is mean-spirited, underplaying Greenwald’s
credentials and coming too close for comfort to character
sniping.
Yves
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 09:15 PM EDT |
In the wake of last night’s revelation that everyone in the world has a
creepy NSA-shaped stalker, defenders of online liberty and generally angry
internet people Anonymous
have leaked a treasure trove of NSA documents, including seriously important
stuff like the US Department of Defense’s ‘Strategic Vision’ for controlling the
internet.
The documents — 13 in total — were [.PDF] posted
online, along with an accompanying
message full of the normal Anonymous bluster: people won’t be silenced, they
have the memory of trivia-master elephants, the governments of the world will
fall, your average press release really.
The documents seem to mostly
relate to PRISM and
supporting operations, and mostly date from around 2008, supposedly not long
after PRISM first reared its ugly head.
Chris Mills, Gizmodo[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 11:24 PM EDT |
First, we have not joined any program that would give the U.S.
government—or any other government—direct access to our servers.
[...]
Second, we provide user data to governments only in accordance with
the law. [...]
Finally, this episode confirms what we have long
believed—there needs to be a more transparent approach. [...]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 11:36 AM EDT |
Analysts at the National Security Agency can now secretly access
real-time user data provided by as many as 50 American companies, ranging from
credit rating agencies to internet service providers, two government officials
familiar with the arrangements said.
Several of the companies have provided
records continuously since 2006, while others have given the agency sporadic
access, these officials said. These officials disclosed the number of
participating companies in order to provide context for a series of disclosures
about the NSA's domestic collection policies. The officials, contacted
independently, repeatedly said that "domestic collection" does not mean that the
target is based in the U.S. or is a U.S. citizen; rather, it refers only to the
origin of the data.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 01:24 PM EDT |
My sources confirm that the NSA did not have direct access or any
special instant access to data or servers at the PRISM targets, but instead had
to send requests to the companies for the data. These requests must be complied
with by law, but only if the government narrowly defines what it’s looking for.
The government may have initially requested a firehose of data, and was happy to
take this full data dump from the tech companies and sort it itself. Had the
tech giants simply accepted these requests at the minimum level required by law,
many innocent citizens’ data could have been monitored.
By working to create
“a locked mailbox and give the government the key” which the New York Times
reported, rather than allowing widespread monitoring, the firehose is restricted
to a trickle of specific requests. When the NSA has specific people they want to
data about, they make a specific, legal request for that data that the tech
companies are required to comply with. Google or Facebook then puts the specific
requested data into the locked mailbox where the government can access it. This
keeps requested data about suspected terrorists or other people who are threats
to national security segregated from that of innocent users.
By cooperating,
companies can better ensure that each request is valid, and narrow enough in its
scope. If the request is too broad, the tech companies can send it back and ask
for a narrower pull. The method also ensure the data is securely transferred
from the companies to the government, opposed to being more forcibly pulled by
the NSA in ways that could have left it open for exploit by
third-parties.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 03:21 PM EDT |
http://libertasutah.org/interview/nsa-whistleblower-speaks-out-on-verizon-prism-
and-the-utah-data-center/
if the site is still down you can try this
screen shot:
http://i.imgur.com/pv8aAV4.jpg
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 10:25 PM EDT |
The National Security Agency has developed a powerful tool for
recording and analysing where its intelligence comes from, raising questions
about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot keep track of all the
surveillance it performs on American communications.
The Guardian has
acquired top-secret documents about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless
Informant, that details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of
information it collects from computer and telephone networks.
The focus of
the internal NSA tool is on counting and categorizing the records of
communications, known as metadata, rather than the content of an email or
instant message.
The Boundless Informant documents show the agency
collecting almost 3 billion pieces of intelligence from US computer networks
over a 30-day period ending in March 2013.
Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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