Need to end planet-wide-snooping leaks? That’ll do the trick, thinks US spymaster By Jasper Hamill 9th August 2013 11:23 GMT The NSA has announced its brainwave to end further leaks about its secret operations by disaffected employees: it… Read More ›
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Report: IRS agents used secret DEA data to make cases against taxpayers, covered up where the info came from
By David Martosko PUBLISHED: 15:12 EST, 8 August 2013 | UPDATED: 15:15 EST, 8 August 2013 An outdated version of a manual distributed to Internal Revenue Service agents showed them how to hide the origin of intelligence on… Read More ›
Revealed: How the NSA will spy on you if you just put the word Osama in an email, text message or Facebook chat
An message sent to a cousin named Osama may now be enough to make any American a target of surveillance The information was couched in a set of rules leaked by Edward Snowden about a 2008 domestic surveillance law The… Read More ›
Drawing the Line on Altering Human Minds
August 6, 2013, 2:14 pm <!– — Updated: 3:42 pm –> By NICK BILTON In my column this week, “Computer-Brain Interfaces Making Big Leaps,” I noted that a number of researchers and scientists were coming closer to technology usually reserved… Read More ›
US embassy closures used to bolster case for NSA surveillance programs / embassies and consulates were going to be closed anyways in accordance with local custom and practice for the bulk of the week for the Eid celebration
Congress told that NSA monitoring led to interception of al-Qaida threats but privacy campaigners fear ulterior political motives Spencer Ackerman and Dan Roberts in Washington theguardian.com, Monday 5 August 2013 16.30 EDT Motorists drive past the US embassy in… Read More ›
Secret US drug agency unit passing surveillance information to authorities ( Special Operations Division, or SOD )
Wiretaps and telephone records are being funnelled across the country to launch criminal investigations of Americans Reuters in Washington theguardian.com, Monday 5 August 2013 10.38 EDT Federal agents are trained to ‘recreate’ the investigative trail to effectively cover up… Read More ›
NSA’s ‘Homeland’ includes Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Central America
Posted By Josh Peterson On 7:15 PM 08/02/2013 In Politics Americans now have responsibility for a bunch of new places they can’t find on a map. It turns out that the National Security Agency considers Canada, Greenland, Mexico and parts of… Read More ›
Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA / Suggesting a new Shadow Government
Documents provided by two House members demonstrate how they are blocked from exercising any oversight over domestic surveillance • Morgan Griffith’s requests for NSA information • Alan Grayson’s requests for NSA information Glenn Greenwald theguardian.com, Sunday 4 August 2013 08.26… Read More ›
The Pre-Snowden NSA leaks – Bumblehive, Operation Thinthread, Going Dark, Stingray, Trapwire, Total Information Awarness, etc..
Editors Note ( Ralph Turchiano ) – This is a requested Re-post from 2013 The Intelligence community began to lose control prior to Snowden. The Boston Bombing event resulted in over zealous Intelligence Consultants revealing trade secrets. Then Following the… Read More ›
Exclusive: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ
• Secret payments revealed in leaks by Edward Snowden • GCHQ expected to ‘pull its weight’ for Americans • Weaker regulation of British spies ‘a selling point’ for NSA Nick Hopkins and Julian Borger The Guardian, Thursday 1 August 2013 11.04… Read More ›
XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’
• XKeyscore gives ‘widest-reaching’ collection of online data • NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches • Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history • NSA’s XKeyscore program – read one of the presentations Glenn Greenwald… Read More ›
Oz defence department: We don’t have a ban on Lenovo kit
EEV: Really are they this Dumb? Nobody said you did, sunshine By Phil Muncaster Posted in Security, 31st July 2013 02:59 GMT Update The Australian Department of Defence has issued an official statement denying it banned the… Read More ›
Russian Agency Seeks Typewriters for Secret Documents
With the NSA spying scandal still making headlines, a Russian paper reports that agencies in that country have turned to typewriters to help keep their documents secret. It sounds like a Luddite response to recent revelations from Edward Snowden —… Read More ›
Little known search engine that refuses to store data on users doubles web traffic amid NSA tapping scandal
DuckDuckGo, based in Pennsylvania, does not share user data with sites This means fewer advertisements and results that are not skewed for users Firm saw web traffic double in the wake of Snowden NSA tapping leak By Helen Collis PUBLISHED:… Read More ›
NSA ‘In Bed Together with the Germans’
In an interview, Edward Snowden accuses the National Security Agency of partnering with Germany and other governments in its spying activities. New information also indicates close working ties between the German foreign intelligence agency and the American authority. In an… Read More ›
Good news for the NSA: There are 42% fewer new secrets for future Edward Snowdens to leak
By Josh Meyer @JoshMeyerDC July 3, 2013 Oops, didn’t mean to declassify that. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite One of the reasons former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was able to get away with stealing top-secret documents about government surveillance programs is… Read More ›
U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement
July 3, 2013 By RON NIXON WASHINGTON — Leslie James Pickering noticed something odd in his mail last September: a handwritten card, apparently delivered by mistake, with instructions for postal workers to pay special attention to the letters… Read More ›
Germany’s top security official: stop using American websites if you fear US eavesdropping
German minister: drop Google if you fear US spying Wednesday Jul 03, 2013 | The Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top security official says Internet users worried about their data being intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies should stop using… Read More ›
Key US-EU trade pact under threat after more NSA spying allegations
Reports in Der Spiegel that US agencies bugged European council building ‘reminiscent of cold war’, says German minister Ian Traynor in Brussels, Louise Osborne in Berlin and Jamie Doward guardian.co.uk, Sunday 30 June 2013 08.39 EDT The Justus Lipsius building in… Read More ›
Europe Furious over NSA Spying on EU Facilities : ” The US, he added, once the land of the free, “is suffering from a security syndrome,”
‘Out of Control’ By Claus Hecking and Stefan Schultz Senior European Union officials are outraged by revelations that the US spied on EU representations in Washington and New York. Some have called for a suspension of talks on the trans-Atlantic… Read More ›
Attacks from America: NSA Spied on European Union Offices
SPIEGEL ONLINE 06/29/2013 11:21 PM By Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Fidelius Schmid and Holger Stark America’s NSA intelligence service allegedly targeted the European Union with its spying activities. According to SPIEGEL information, the US placed bugs in the EU representation… Read More ›
EU officials ‘targeted’ in US spying programme
30 Jun 2013 BERLIN (AFP) The European Union was one of the “targets” of Washington’s huge Internet spy programme, with bugs hidden in EU offices in Brussels and the United States, German weekly Der Spiegel said in an edition to be… Read More ›
Paper: NSA gets data from UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France
Sunday, 30 June 2013 The NSA has been working with at least seven European other countries to collect personal communications data, according to Wayne Madsen, a former NSA contractor who has come forward because he does not think the… Read More ›
How the NSA is still harvesting your online data
Files show vast scale of current NSA metadata programs, with one stream alone celebrating ‘one trillion records processed’ Glenn Greenwald and Spencer Ackerman guardian.co.uk, Thursday 27 June 2013 11.03 EDT The NSA collects and analyzes significant amounts of data from US… Read More ›
Feds Cracking Down on Classified Gatekeepers / federal contractor pleaded guilty to lying about conducting background checks on government employees
By ADAM KLASFELD WASHINGTON (CN) – A federal contractor pleaded guilty to lying about conducting background checks on government employees – a crime that prosecutors say is becoming increasingly common. The U.S. government had indicted Ramon Davila in 2011 for… Read More ›
How Skype developed a secret program called ‘Project Chess’ to make it easier for law enforcement and government officials to spy on customers’ data
By Hayley Peterson PUBLISHED: 09:56 EST, 21 June 2013 | UPDATED: 09:56 EST, 21 June 2013 The web-based calling service Skype allegedly developed a secret program called ‘Project Chess’ to make it easier for the government to spy… Read More ›
GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications
Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal Ewen MacAskill, Julian Borger, Nick Hopkins, Nick Davies and James… Read More ›
Mysterious privacy board touted by Obama has deep government ties – Even worse may all be a Lie
Privacy & Civil Liberties Board at the heart of Obama’s effort to address NSA surveillance scandal is itself a Washington enigma Dan Roberts in Washington guardian.co.uk, Friday 21 June 2013 13.33 EDT A security guard at 2100 K Street in… Read More ›
DoD: If You See A Leaked NSA Document, Press SHIFT And DELETE To Get Rid Of It
from the this-again dept We saw this back when Wikileaks released a bunch of documents and the Defense Department and other government agencies told employees that they weren’t allowed to look at any of the documents, even though they were… Read More ›
‘Tell your boss I owe him another friggin’ beer:’ Hot mic catches NSA boss praising FBI chiefs for supportive testimony on surveillance programs
By Hayley Peterson PUBLISHED: 15:23 EST, 18 June 2013 | UPDATED: 15:24 EST, 18 June 2013 The director of the National Security Agency was overheard offering a round of beer to the FBI’s second-in-command following Tuesday’s congressional hearing on… Read More ›
Feds Must Produce NSA Dragnet Records for Criminal Defense
By IULIA FILIP FORT LAUDERDALE (CN) – Citing the NSA telephone dragnet, a federal judge ordered the United States government to deliver telephone records demanded by a man on trial for an armored car robbery in which a… Read More ›
Obama: NSA secret data gathering ‘transparent’
By KIMBERLY DOZIER / AP Intelligence Writer / June 17, 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in secret…. Read More ›
GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians’ communications at G20 summits / phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009
Exclusive: phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009 Ewen MacAskill, Nick Davies, Nick Hopkins, Julian Borger and James Ball The Guardian, Sunday 16 June 2013 15.46 EDT… Read More ›
Parents of SEAL killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash join billion-dollar lawsuit against the government after ‘their Verizon phone was tapped when they started asking questions over their son’s death’
Charles and Mary Anne Strange, from Philadelphia, said they heard strange tapping on the line in the months after son Michael’s death Mr Strange said: ‘When I started asking questions, that’s when my phone got tapped’ By Daily Mail Reporter… Read More ›
Americans start operation “Troll the NSA”
Tuesday, 11 June 2013 An operation to troll the NSA has started up online in a bid to jam the spy scanners. The plan is to ‘test’ the system by sending a message full of terrorist buzz words to… Read More ›
Americans widely back NSA phone tracking: poll
11 Jun 2013 WASHINGTON (AFP) A solid majority of Americans support the US government’s programs tracking telephone records to try to uncover terror, a Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll found Monday. Despite US intelligence concerns raised by contractor Edward Snowden’s leak… Read More ›
BREAKING NEWS: Defense contractor, 29, who leaked NSA documents reveals himself
Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former CIA technical assistant, says he passed the classified information to The Guardian The documents blew open a number of intense NSA surveillance operations and caused a firestorm over the government’s actions Snowden, a high school… Read More ›
The spy who came in for your soul – ” We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.”
COLUMN – The spy who came in for your soul Source: Reuters – Sun, 9 Jun 2013 08:00 PM Author: Reuters (Jack Shafer is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Jack Shafer June 9 (Reuters) –… Read More ›
NSA sucks realtime data from FIFTY companies
Companies are all compelled by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to hand over any information requested under the law, but they’re not required to make access easier PRISM data-mining program was launched in 2007 with approval from special federal judges… Read More ›
Boundless Informant: the NSA’s secret tool to track global surveillance data
Revealed: The NSA’s powerful tool for cataloguing data – including figures on US collection • Boundless Informant: mission outlined in four slides • Read the NSA’s frequently asked questions document Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill guardian.co.uk, Saturday 8… Read More ›
Spy program shows just how well US knows its people
17:35 07 June 2013 by Hal Hodson For similar stories, visit the Crime and Forensics Topic Guide They’re watching you (Image: Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The US government is watching every digital move that Americans make. More than 115 million people… Read More ›
Link to Anonymous Leaked PRISM-related NSA docs
EEV: Always Click with Caution Link to Anonymous leaks more PRISM-related NSA docs Primary Page: http://thedocs.hostzi.com/ 2010 EA Conf_RA Track Presentation_20100506.ppt 3170_01.pdf 514401Doddirectoritenetworks.pdf 6212_01.pdf 800001pDirectoriteDodinfoenterprise.pdf DT-12-COI-Glossary.pdf DoDAF-DM2_CMP_v1-0_FINAL_2011-10-03r1.docx DoD_NetOps_Strategic_Vision.pdf EATransitionStrategy.pdf NSI_EE.pdf insa-spies.pdf netcentric_jfc-1.pdf security_clearance.pdf
Foreign Governments gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation
UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation Exclusive: UK security agency GCHQ gaining information from world’s biggest internet firms through US-run Prism programme Nick Hopkins guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 June 2013 09.27 EDT Documents show GCHQ (above) has… Read More ›
COLUMN – Why the government wants your metadata
Source: Reuters – Fri, 7 Jun 2013 02:23 PM Author: Reuters (Jay Stanley and Ben Wizner are Reuters columnists but their opinions are their own.) By Jay Stanley and Ben Wizner June 7 (Reuters) – In the wake of The… Read More ›
Leak of NSA order against Verizon could cause irreversible harm to national security, says top intelligence officer
A copy of a secret order shows that the National Security Agency ordered Verizon to hand over millions of phone records with no explanation Order extends from until July 19 and includes domestic and foreign calls Nearly 150million Verizon customers… Read More ›
By the numbers: The NSA’s super-secret spy program, PRISM
Posted By Elias Groll Thursday, June 6, 2013 – 8:00 PM In a bombshell scoop, the Washington Post is reporting that the National Security Agency (NSA) has gained direct access to the servers of nine prominent Internet companies,… Read More ›
Forget phones, PRISM plan shows internet firms give NSA everything
Microsoft, Google, Apple and Yahoo! and others open their legs servers By Iain Thomson in San Francisco Posted in Security, 7th June 2013 00:23 GMT It has been a rough 24 hours for the US National Security Agency. First a leaked… Read More ›
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order / Verizon forced to hand over telephone data – full court ruling
Verizon forced to hand over telephone data – full court ruling The US government is collecting the phone records of millions of US customers of Verizon under a top secret court order. Read the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order TOP… Read More ›
NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily – revealed
Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama • Read the court order in full here Glenn Greenwald The Guardian, Wednesday 5 June 2013 Under the terms of the… Read More ›
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?
A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk, Saturday 4 May 2013 08.22 EDT Former FBI counterterrorism agent Tim Clemente, on CNN, discussing government’s surveillance capabilities Photograph: CNN screegrab The real capabilities… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 