Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
U.S. Intelligence Official: Privacy Is a Soviet Style Bureaucracy That Knows Everything About You
November 12th, 2007In other words, anonymity is out, but trust us to implement, “a system of laws, rules, and customs with an infrastructure of Inspectors General, oversight committees, and privacy boards on which our intelligence community commitment is based and measured.” You can already see where this is going: We don’t want to do this, but the […]
NZ Attorney General on GCSB Intercepts in Urewera 16 Case: “That Evidence Will Never See the Light of Day.”
November 8th, 2007Not even in 200 years? * uncomfortable chuckle * Why would the evidence—collected under interception warrants—“never see the light of day?” Well, it turns out that the government isn’t going to go with terrorism charges here after all. But… Revealing the “evidence” would reveal the methods by which it was collected, and, in all likelihood, […]
Hushmail: Encrypted Email Provider Turns Over Clear Text Messages to Feds
November 8th, 2007“I don’t believe in web based email solutions that purport to provide strong encryption and/or anonymity. Who knows what their applets and servers are doing? Not me.” —The Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity * sigh * Via: Wired: Hushmail, a longtime provider of encrypted web-based email, markets itself by saying that “not even a Hushmail […]
Mark Klein on AT&T/NSA Domestic Surveillance Program: “The NSA is Getting Everything.”
November 8th, 2007Must see related stories: NSA, AT&T and the NarusInsight Intercept Suite Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance Via: Washington Post: A Story of Surveillance Former Technician ‘Turning In’ AT&T Over NSA Program By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 7, 2007; D01 His first inkling that […]
No Email Privacy Rights Under Constitution, U.S. Government Claims
November 4th, 2007The most fascinating aspect of this is that lots of people assume that their plain text email communications are private! Via: Register: On October 8, 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati granted the government’s request for a full-panel hearing in United States v. Warshak case centering on the […]
AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance
October 31st, 2007Please indulge me by re-reading this extended passage from Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation: Remember Russell Tice, the NSA SIGINT officer who had knowledge of a special access NSA operation that was so disturbing that he tried to tell the U.S. Congress about it? What was Tice talking about here: Tice said his information […]
Lockheed Martin Co-Developing System to Predict Stability of Nations
October 31st, 2007Sounds like a plugin level task for the SEAS system. Via: Washington Business Journal: Lockheed Martin Corp. said Wednesday that a team lead by its Cherry Hill, N.J.-based Advanced Technology Laboratories has won a $1.3 million contract to develop a system for predicting crises and the stability of countries. The contract is for the first […]
Travelers: Homeland Security is Googling You
October 29th, 2007Via: Cleveland Leader: Andrew Feldman, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who’s currently a psychotherapist in Vancouver, was recently detained for four hours, fingerprinted, and then barred entry into the United States after Homeland Security googled him and found an article he wrote in a literary and scientific journal in which he talked about using LSD and […]
Terror Watch List Swells to More than 755,000
October 25th, 2007Via: USA Today: The government’s terrorist watch list has swelled to more than 755,000 names, according to a new government report that has raised worries about the list’s effectiveness. The size of the list, typically used to check people entering the country through land border crossings, airports and sea ports, has been growing by 200,000 […]
Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution
October 20th, 2007Via: Phoenix New Times: This newspaper and its editorial staff — both current and former — are the targets of unprecedented grand jury subpoenas dated August 24. The authorities are also using the grand jury subpoenas in an attempt to research the identity, purchasing habits, and browsing proclivities of our online readership. It is, we […]
