Archive for September, 2013
Cryptogon Reader Signs Up for Hosting with BlueHost
September 9th, 2013Thanks to the owner of travcotravels.com for signing up for hosting with BlueHost. Cryptogon received $90 as a result. If you would like to support Cryptogon by signing up for hosting with BlueHost, just temporarily disable your ad blocking software and the BlueHost link will appear below: BlueHost
Saudis Sent Death-Row Inmates to Fight Syrian Government
September 8th, 2013From January. Via: USA Today: Saudi Arabia has sent death-row inmates from several nations to fight against the Syrian government in exchange for commuting their sentences, the Assyrian International News Agency reports. Citing what it calls a “top secret memo” in April from the Ministry of Interior, AINA says the Saudi offered 1,239 inmates a […]
9/11 & Operation Gladio
September 8th, 2013Via: Russia Today:
NSA Can Access Data on All Smartphones
September 8th, 2013Via: Spiegel: The United States’ National Security Agency intelligence-gathering operation is capable of accessing user data from smart phones from all leading manufacturers. Top secret NSA documents that SPIEGEL has seen explicitly note that the NSA can tap into such information on Apple iPhones, BlackBerry devices and Google’s Android mobile operating system. The documents state […]
Recovery: Poverty in N.J. Reaches 52-Year High
September 8th, 2013Via: Star Ledger: Poverty in New Jersey continued to grow even as the national recession lifted, reaching a 52-year high in 2011, according to a report released today. The annual survey by Legal Services of New Jersey found 24.7 percent of the state’s population — 2.1 million residents — was considered poor in 2011. That’s […]
Computer Program Uses Twitter to ‘Map Mood of Nation’
September 7th, 2013Via: BBC: British scientists have developed a computer program they say can map the mood of the nation using Twitter. Named Emotive, it works by accessing the emotional content of postings on the social networking site. The team, from Loughborough University, say it can scan up to 2,000 tweets a second and rate them for […]
Is NSA Dropping Its Own Versions of Open Source Encryption Software Onto the Wire As We Download Them?
September 7th, 2013Hijacking the stream and substituting the content? Trivial. I used to do this for fun on wi-fi networks last decade. Definitely trivial. But what I don’t get is how the downloads would pass hash checks? For example, you can check GPG’s SHA-1 values here. What’s SHA-1, you ask? In cryptography, SHA-1 is a cryptographic hash […]
John Gilmore on NSA Meddling in Cryptography Standards
September 7th, 2013Via: Cryptography Mailing List: To this day, no mobile telephone standards committee has considered or adopted any end-to-end (phone-to-phone) privacy protocols. This is because the big companies involved, huge telcos, are all in bed with NSA to make damn sure that working end-to-end encryption never becomes the default on mobile phones. Wikipedia: John Gilmore
Is British Government Decrypting Data Encrypted with TrueCrypt from Hard Drive David Miranda Was Carrying?
September 7th, 2013I did a double take while reading this Reuters article about the Snowden material: Miranda was held and questioned for nine hours before being allowed to resume his trip from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro, where he and Greenwald live. Greenwald has said that Miranda had carried Snowden related material from him in Brazil to […]
Recovery: Americans Are Participating in the Workforce at the Lowest Level in 35 Years
September 7th, 2013Via: Washington Post: Americans are participating in the workforce at the lowest level in 35 years, according to government data released Friday, as lackluster job growth fails to offset the droves of people who have given up looking for work. According to the Labor Department, the economy added a disappointing 169,000 jobs in August. In […]
