Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Cryptome Forced Down Over Microsoft Law Enforcement Surveillance Compliance Document
February 25th, 2010Update: Microsoft Withdraws DMCA Complaint Against Cryptome Via: cryptome.org: Subject: DN: www.cryptome.org; Registrar: Network Solutions; Host: Network Solutions – Demand for Immediate Take Down – Notice of Infringing Activity – MS Ref. 304277 Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:22:59 -0500 From: “DMCA” To: “John Young” We would like to notify you that Microsoft has contacted […]
Baby DNA Sent to Military Lab for Potential Use in National Database
February 24th, 2010Via: Statesman: An Austin lawyer threatened to pursue a new federal lawsuit Monday after learning that some newborn blood samples in Texas went to the U.S. military for potential use in a database for law enforcement purposes. The Department of State Health Services never mentioned the database to Jim Harrington, director of the Texas Civil […]
Law Enforcement is Tracking Americans’ Cell Phones in Real Time Without Warrants
February 23rd, 2010In summary, my thesis was that the NSA operation that Tice was involved with was related to tracking individual Americans, on the ground, in real time, using the mobile phone networks. —AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance If this is happening on an almost indiscriminate basis with law enforcement cases, how wide of a […]
The Digital Dictatorship
February 22nd, 2010If you pretend that the author is referring to the U.S. when he mentions countries like Iran and the former East Germany, this is much more informative. Via: Wall Street Journal: Since the publication of John Perry Barlow’s “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” in 1996, they have been led to believe that cyberspace is […]
School Used Student Laptop Webcams to Spy on Them at School and Home
February 18th, 2010Via: BoingBoing: According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools’ administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. The issue […]
Is DARPA Calling for Improvements to ECHELON’s Voice Recognition Systems?
February 16th, 2010I’ll just plonk my entire commentary from U.S. Allegedly Listened In on Calls of Americans Abroad—I Know, You’re Shocked into this post: This is probably the biggest not-news-to-you-or-me post ever to appear on Cryptogon. What is described below has been standard operating procedure for NSA for decades. What seems strange, though, is the amount of […]
The CIA and NSA Want You to Be Their Friend on Facebook
February 16th, 2010Don’t break out the foil, the U.S. News & World Report article states, because the spooks are telling you up front, here we are. Oh sure. What this shit-for-brains article doesn’t explore is how many hundreds or thousands of full time, professionally run honeypots, black propaganda outlets, sock puppets/trolls/shills etc. are operational on Facebook. See: […]
Feds Push for Tracking Cell Phones
February 12th, 2010Tice said his information is different from the Terrorist Surveillance Program that Bush acknowledged in December and from news accounts this week that the NSA has been secretly collecting phone call records of millions of Americans. “It’s an angle that you haven’t heard about yet,” he said. —AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance For […]
Court Keeps White House Spy Docs Secret
February 11th, 2010Via: Wired: A federal appellate panel on Tuesday blocked a court order requiring disclosure of e-mail between the White House, Justice Department, National Security Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence — communications that paved the way for new spy legislation. The 2008 messages were a precursor to legislation that year to kill […]
Google as Experimental ISP; Will Offer One Gigabit Per Second Connections
February 11th, 2010Via: Google: We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan to offer service at a competitive […]
