Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
White House Mistakenly Identifies CIA Chief in Afghanistan
May 26th, 2014Via: Washington Post: The CIA’s top officer in Kabul was exposed Saturday by the White House when his name was inadvertently included on a list provided to news organizations of senior U.S. officials participating in President Obama’s surprise visit with U.S. troops. The White House recognized the mistake and quickly issued a revised list that […]
“Why I Was Forced to Shut Down Lavabit”
May 20th, 2014Via: Guardian: If my experience serves any purpose, it is to illustrate what most already know: courts must not be allowed to consider matters of great importance under the shroud of secrecy, lest we find ourselves summarily deprived of meaningful due process. If we allow our government to continue operating in secret, it is only […]
China Bans Use of Microsoft’s Windows 8 on Government Computers
May 20th, 2014To save energy. *wink* Via: Reuters: China has banned government use of Windows 8, Microsoft Corp’s latest operating system (OS), in a blow to the U.S. technology company which has long been plagued by sales woes in the country. The Central Government Procurement Center issued the ban on installing Windows 8 on government computers as […]
The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas
May 20th, 2014Via: First Look: The National Security Agency is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of the Bahamas. According to documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the surveillance is part of a top-secret system – code-named SOMALGET – that was implemented without the knowledge […]
Skygate 911
May 15th, 2014Via: Pilots for 9/11 Truth:
Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack
May 14th, 2014Via: Tim Bray: That’s the title of RFC 7258, also known as BCP 188 (where BCP stands for “Best Common Practice”); it represents Internet Engineering Task Force consensus on the fact that many powerful well-funded entities feel it is appropriate to monitor people’s use of the Net, without telling those people. The consensus is: This […]
Hunter Biden to Ukraine Gas Board
May 13th, 2014Via: Politico: Hunter Biden, the younger son of Vice President Joe Biden, will be joining Ukraine’s largest private gas producer, the company announced in a statement “The company’s strategy is aimed at the strongest concentration of professional staff and the introduction of best corporate practices, and we’re delighted that Mr. Biden is joining us to […]
Document Establishes NSA’s Involvement in COINTELPRO
May 13th, 2014Via: The Guardian: One document from the Snowden files, dated 3 October 2012, chillingly underscores the point. It revealed that the agency has been monitoring the online activities of individuals it believes express “radical” ideas and who have a “radicalising” influence on others. The memo discusses six individuals in particular, all Muslims, though it stresses […]
NSA Routinely Installs Backdoors in Computers and Networking Equipment Exported from the U.S.
May 13th, 2014Via: The Guardian: But while American companies were being warned away from supposedly untrustworthy Chinese routers, foreign organisations would have been well advised to beware of American-made ones. A June 2010 report from the head of the NSA’s Access and Target Development department is shockingly explicit. The NSA routinely receives – or intercepts – routers, […]
New Zealand: Big Brother Has to Sign Off on ISP Infrastructure Changes and Personnel
May 13th, 2014So it goes… Via: ITnews: Local and international telcos and network providers in New Zealand are now required to comply with strict and complex new communications interception and security legislation. … Known as the Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Act (TICSA), the new law requires network operators to register with the NZ Police. Similary, suppliers […]
