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Agent Bubbles

Samsung Galaxy Back-door

bd0101

AnCatDubh wrote: »

Convinced by NSA reform announcements?

via Gizmodo: Rating Obama’s NSA Reform Plan: EFF Scorecard Explained

Lies before, Lies now, Lies soon and after that... there is a solution though. Detach from all five-eyes wagon and rely to a trusted service provider!

bd0101

Ctrl Alt Del wrote: »

And a fresh reminder why we love "cloud based" solutions:

Prez Obama cyber-guru: Think your data is safe in an EU cloud? The NSA will raid your servers

http://m.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/24/richard_clarke_csa_comments/

That marketing hype had been used like a lollipop ever since its invention. Another sweet-loving-word and bubble, promoting the ease and convenience of having all your data handed over to US. NO THANKS!

I rather self-host or even store in ... floppies!

bd0101

Khannie wrote: »

Had a look at the code. Something coding standards could have easily avoided. Ouch.

I have also taken a look. A code repetition that resulted in a forced escape condition, which could be allegedly caused by an erroneous merging.

However, I do not even remotely believe that Apple lacks the ability to merge code. There are million lines of code merged correctly, why wouldn't the one for SSL traffic, and that particular line... be merged correctly?

The problem does not lye within coding, but ACTING - since Apple is one of the companies that gives all (encryption) keys of the kingdom to US...

Agent Bubbles

bd0101 wrote: »

I have also taken a look. A code repetition that resulted in a forced escape condition, which could be allegedly caused by an erroneous merging

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/177882-massive-linux-security-flaw-dwarfs-apples-cryptography-problems-of-just-last-week

^^Linux even worse.

Agent Bubbles

Rolling Stone - Thanks to Edward Snowden, who has leaked tens of thousands of NSA documents, we are. Do you consider him a hero or a traitor?

Bill Gates - I think he broke the law, so I certainly wouldn't characterize him as a hero. If he wanted to raise the issues and stay in the country and engage in civil disobedience or something of that kind, or if he had been careful in terms of what he had released, then it would fit more of the model of "OK, I'm really trying to improve things." You won't find much admiration from me.

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/bill-gates-the-rolling-stone-interview-20140313

Khannie

Agent Bubbles wrote: »

Rolling Stone - Thanks to Edward Snowden, who has leaked tens of thousands of NSA documents, we are. Do you consider him a hero or a traitor?

Bill Gates - I think he broke the law, so I certainly wouldn't characterize him as a hero. If he wanted to raise the issues and stay in the country and engage in civil disobedience or something of that kind, or if he had been careful in terms of what he had released, then it would fit more of the model of "OK, I'm really trying to improve things." You won't find much admiration from me.

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/bill-gates-the-rolling-stone-interview-20140313

That's really surprising. Gates is smart enough to know well that his suggestion of staying in the country and engaging in civil disobedience given the knowledge Snowden had is entirely impossible.

edit: the suggestion there also is that one can't break the law and be a hero. Nonsense.

oscarBravo

There's also the subtle but significant point that civil disobedience, by definition, involves breaking the law.

bd0101

oscarBravo wrote: »

There's also the subtle but significant point that civil disobedience, by definition, involves breaking the law.

I believe it is one evil giving birth to another. Under other circumstances what Edward Snowden did would be condemned by everybody; however, it was the fact that he uncovered the US-operation of stripping us off our liberties and right to privacy - that made him a headline for life..

Who breaks the law more, a three letter agency that snoops on billions of people, or one single person that exposes them?

HereIBe

How Google Can Repel the Attack of the NSA Quantum Computer

900913

Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet

Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. "Your rights matter,” he says, "because you never know when you're going to need them." Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee.

http://www.ted.com/talks/edward_snowden_here_s_how_we_take_back_the_internet

900913

Richard Ledgett:
The NSA responds to Edward Snowden’s TED Talk

After a surprise appearance by Edward Snowden at TED2014, Chris Anderson said: "If the NSA wants to respond, please do." And yes, they did. Appearing by video, NSA deputy director Richard Ledgett answers Anderson’s questions about the balance between security and protecting privacy.

http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_ledgett_the_nsa_responds_to_edward_snowden_s_ted_talk

cant touchthis

Glenn Greenwald: the explosive day we revealed Edward Snowden's identity to the world

Nearly a year already.

In the hours after his name became known, the entire world was searching for the NSA whistleblower, and it became vital that his whereabouts in Hong Kong remained secret. In an extract from a new book, No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald recalls the dramatic events surrounding the moment Snowden revealed himself in June 2013

• Tomorrow, Glenn Greenwald talks to the Guardian about the extraordinary year following the publication of the Snowden revelations.

cant touchthis

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175843/tomgram%3A_glenn_greenwald%2C_how_i_met_edward_snowden/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tomdispatch%2FesUU+%28TomDispatch%3A+The+latest+Tomgram%29

Good detail of the beginings of it all.

cant touchthis

James Bond movie producers to make Edward Snowden film

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film rights to the newly published book "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State" have been acquired by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The book, from journalist Glenn Greenwald, offers more details about how Snowden leaked information about the NSA's online spying activities, which first came to light in 2013.

Khannie

OOooh, that's a watcher.

Kinet1c

Khannie wrote: »

OOooh, that's a watcher.

Do you think they'll be watching you, watching a movie about them watching you?

Khannie

cant touchthis

Kinet1c wrote: »

Do you think they'll be watching you, watching a movie about them watching you?

The Blu Ray is coming with added spyware called "Xtra Sprinkles"

Rucking_Fetard

Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit

For the first time, the founder of an encrypted email startup that was supposed to insure privacy for all reveals how the FBI and the US legal system made sure we don't have the right to much privacy in the first place

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email

Rucking_Fetard

It was December 11, 2012, and in a small art space behind a furniture store in Honolulu, NSA contractor Edward Snowden was working to subvert the machinery of global surveillance.

Snowden was not yet famous. His blockbuster leaks were still six months away, but the man destined to confront world leaders on a global stage was addressing a much smaller audience that Sunday evening. He was leading a local “Crypto Party,” teaching less than two dozen Hawaii residents how to encrypt their hard drives and use the internet anonymously.

“He introduced himself as Ed,”

wired.com/2014/05/snowden-cryptoparty/

Rucking_Fetard

Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and Laura Poitras reunite in Moscow. (PICS)

buzzfeed.com/lisatozzi/edward-snowden-takes-a-selfie-with-glenn-greenwald



Über-Secure ProtonMail Beta Maxes Out Servers in Just 60 Hours

Lavabit heir built by CERN boffins sees huge demand for its NSA-proof email capabilities.

infosecurity-magazine.com/view/38535/bersecure-protonmail-beta-maxes-out-servers-in-just-60-hours/

Rucking_Fetard

Edward Snowden, in an exclusive interview with "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams, is fighting back against critics who dismissed him as a low-level hacker — saying he was “trained as a spy” and offered technical expertise to high levels of government.

nbcnews.com/feature/edward-snowden-interview/exclusive-edward-snowden-tells-brian-williams-i-was-trained-spy-n115746

Rucking_Fetard

7 Key Moments From Edward Snowden's First-Ever U.S. TV Interview


One of apparently quite a few e-mails Ed sent up the chain asking about the legality of the NSA snooping. The NSA had denied their was any untill news agencys dug them up.







I can link stuff, yeeeeee:p.


Edit:Best link for new interview so far.

Big though.

Rucking_Fetard

Rucking_Fetard wrote: »

One of apparently quite a few e-mails Ed sent up the chain asking about the legality of the NSA snooping. The NSA had denied their was any untill news agencys dug them up.

Edward Snowden responds to release of e-mail by U.S. officials

Ctrl Alt Del

Seen the interview on NBC.
I had an impression of Ed been a normal IT guy,small personality and thinking about techies stuff more than anything else.

But,i can say i was shocked to discovered a very intelligent person,very serious,amiable,intelligent,smart and confident.
He looked very nice respected dressed as well...

The lager areas reached during the interview covered not only technicality stuff but others that a normal techie guy wasn't able to formulate a sentence and / or strategy.
He nicely avoided answer to few questions and definitively wasn't a selfish.

I dotn think he had time to pre-populate the answers and / or anticipate the questions.

I'll say that NSA better start negotiating with him as in the long run,he seems as a smart capable person or as he said "trained spy".
I guess that after interview,soem people had their ideas about Ed completed or changed in good...

Rucking_Fetard

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.ie/2014/06/making-end-to-end-encryption-easier-to.html

New Google Extension (Alpha for now) adding OpenPGP to G-mail. All code available to view and part of Bug Award System.

Khannie

Nice. I'm using a plugin called mailvelope to achieve that at the moment and it's really good. Glad to see google adding it. We may see a slow but steady move towards PGP encryption being a standard.

Recondite49

Khannie wrote: »

Nice. I'm using a plugin called mailvelope to achieve that at the moment and it's really good. Glad to see google adding it. We may see a slow but steady move towards PGP encryption being a standard.

Thanks for the tip Khannie, looks handy - it would be nice to see this integrated seamlessly into the browser, however I wonder if like the whole Cryptocat fiasco, if people will trust keys generated within the browser - do you think security gurus would worry about them being compromised?

I write gpg encrypted e-mails offline using the Enigmail plugin for IceDove (Mozilla Thunderbird in all but name) but then I'm an old fashioned gent.

Recondite49

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New Google Extension (Alpha for now) adding OpenPGP to G-mail. All code available to view and part of Bug Award System.[/QUOTE]

Very exciting - not sure I agree with their assessment though that using PGP requires huge amounts of technical know how. I suppose it's all relative. If it gets lay people using crypto I suppose we should all be behind it.

Khannie

Recondite49 wrote: »

Thanks for the tip Khannie, looks handy - it would be nice to see this integrated seamlessly into the browser, however I wonder if like the whole Cryptocat fiasco, if people will trust keys generated within the browser - do you think security gurus would worry about them being compromised?

Well I had to place my trust in openpgp.js. That may turn out to be naive, but I'm not sending anything that actually needs to be encrypted. It's more that I'm using it as an envelope.

Recondite49 wrote: »

I write gpg encrypted e-mails offline using the Enigmail plugin for IceDove (Mozilla Thunderbird in all but name) but then I'm an old fashioned gent.

I found enigmail to be a pain (and constantly breaking with updates to thunderbird). Mailvelope "just works". I even did a test with a bunch of non-techies and they all managed to send me an encrypted email. Seamless integration into chrome and firefox would just kick that up about 10 notches.

Recondite49

Khannie wrote: »

Well I had to place my trust in openpgp.js. That may turn out to be naive, but I'm not sending anything that actually needs to be encrypted. It's more that I'm using it as an envelope.



I found enigmail to be a pain (and constantly breaking with updates to thunderbird). Mailvelope "just works". I even did a test with a bunch of non-techies and they all managed to send me an encrypted email. Seamless integration into chrome and firefox would just kick that up about 10 notches.

Thanks Khannie, pleased to hear you've had some joy with it. Perhaps I'm being overly paranoid, I just used gpg originally when on the Silk Road as it was and was told then to disable java inside my browser due to security exploits - still if it gets people thinking along these lines then it's an excellent idea.

I know what you mean about updates to Thunderbird, one of the many reasons I use Debian! Have you ever used GPG4USB? It's a great way to encrypt and decrypt messages offline plus it runs on both Windows and Linux.

Rucking_Fetard

On 6/5, 65 Things We Know About NSA Surveillance That We Didn’t Know a Year Ago

Rucking_Fetard

Some numbers about NSA's data collection

https://pack.resetthenet.org/

https://mailbox.org/en/

Rucking_Fetard

Inside Edward Snowden’s Life as a Robot

bd0101

A very interesting website that I have found is the Enemies of the Internet (can be found under: 12mars.rsf.org/2014-en/ )

Get the main page pdf and have a read ! Seems like a great initiative. Your thoughts?

Rucking_Fetard

US government publishes its first ever NSA transparency report via Tumblr

Statistical Transparency Report Regarding Use of National Security Authorities

Edward Snowden's lawyer will keep your secrets

Rucking_Fetard

NSA Monitors Entire World... Court gave NSA broad leeway in surveillance, documents show...

Virtually no foreign government is off-limits for the National Security Agency, which has been authorized to intercept information “concerning” all but four countries, according to top-secret documents.

The United States has long had broad no-spying arrangements with those four countries — Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — in a group known collectively with the United States as the Five Eyes. But a classified 2010 legal certification and other documents indicate the NSA has been given a far more elastic authority than previously known, one that allows it to intercept through U.S. companies not just the communications of its overseas targets but any communications about its targets as well.

The certification — approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and included among a set of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden — lists 193 countries that would be of valid interest for U.S. intelligence. The certification also permitted the agency to gather intelligence about entities including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The NSA is not necessarily targeting all the countries or organizations identified in the certification, the affidavits and an accompanying exhibit; it has only been given authority to do so. Still, the privacy implications are far-reaching, civil liberties advocates say, because of the wide spectrum of people who might be engaged in communication about foreign governments and entities and whose communications might be of interest to the United States.

“These documents show both the potential scope of the government’s surveillance activities and the exceedingly modest role the court plays in overseeing them,” said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union, who had the documents described to him.

Blowfish

I like this idea. Screw with the NSA by spamming them with garbage info.

Recondite49

Blowfish wrote: »

I like this idea. Screw with the NSA by spamming them with garbage info.

This looks ideal Blowfish, thanks for sharing.

Rucking_Fetard

Can the NSA Really Track You Through Power Lines?

German Intelligence Employee Arrested On Suspicion of Spying For US On Bundestag

NSA targets the privacy-conscious

Rucking_Fetard

US ‘kidnaps’ Russian MP’s son to ‘exchange him for Snowden’

A Russian MP claims the US kidnapped his son from the Maldives on bogus cyber-fraud charges and may be preparing to offer him as bait in a swap deal for Edward Snowden.

Roman Seleznyov, 30, was arrested at Male international airport as he was about to board a flight to Moscow. He was forced by US secret service agents to board a private plane to Guam and was later arrested. The Russian ministry slammed his detention as “a de-facto kidnapping.”

Moscow considers the kidnapping "a new hostile move by Washington,” and accused the US of ignoring proper procedure in dealing with foreign nationals suspected of crimes.

Asylum Review is up soon.

RainyDay

Hacker hacked, and photographed

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/10/31/georgia-hacker-photographed/

Rucking_Fetard

[HOPE X] Schedule

A Conversation with Edward Snowden

Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:00 (Manning, Serpico, and Olson)
We had to keep this bombshell quiet til the last minute since some of the most powerful people in the world would prefer that it never take place. (Even at this stage, we wouldn’t be surprised at mysterious service outages, but we believe the hacker spirit will trump the unprecedented might of the world’s surveillance powers. Fingers crossed.)

The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says whistleblower William Binney – that's a 'totalitarian mentality'

GCHQ has tools to manipulate online information, leaked documents show

The UK intelligence agency GCHQ has developed sophisticated tools to manipulate online polls, spam targets with SMS messages, track people by impersonating spammers and monitor social media postings, according to newly-published documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.


The documents – which were published on First Look Media with accompanying analysis from Glenn Greenwald – disclose a range of GCHQ "effects" programs aimed at tracking targets, spreading information, and manipulating online debates and statistics.


The disclosure comes the day before the UK parliament is due to begin up to three days' debate on emergency legislation governing British surveillance capabilities. With cross-party support the bill is expected to be voted through this week.


Among the programs revealed in the document are:


• GATEWAY: the "ability to artificially increase traffic to a website".


• CLEAN SWEEP which "masquerade Facebook wall posts for individuals or entire countries".


• SCRAPHEAP CHALLENGE for "perfect spoofing of emails from BlackBerry targets".


• UNDERPASS to "change outcome of online polls".


• SPRING BISHOP to find "private photos of targets on Facebook".


The document also details a range of programs designed to collect and store public postings from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+, and to make automated postings on several of the social networks.
Capabilities to boost views of YouTube videos, or to boost the circulation of particular messages are also detailed.
GCHQ has also, the document suggests, developed capabilities to scan and geolocate the IPs of entire cities at a time.

Rucking_Fetard

New Guardian Interview - vid

Rucking_Fetard

Why All the Snowden Docs Should Be Public: An Interview with Cryptome

Ever since the phrase “Information wants to be free” was first uttered in the early 80s, activists have campaigned for technology to act as a vehicle for knowledge. We've since seen the advent of the internet, the proliferation of personal computers, and the rise of whistleblowing sites.

Before Snowden and Wikileaks grabbed the headlines, there was Cryptome. Launched in 1996, the website, or “digital library,” as its owners John Young and Deborah Natsios describe it, is a tome of classified documents. Including everything from lists of MI6 agents to details on nuclear technology, the archive currently stands at over 71,600 files, spanning nearly two decades of disclosures.

Cryptome has even made vague hints that the Snowden documents may be released in full this month.

Rucking_Fetard

Rucking_Fetard wrote: »

[HOPE X] Schedule

http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/hopex1/videos/57007569

jmcc

It would be interesting if all of the documents were released but that would neultralise Snowden's (and Greenwald's) value. By effectively drip feeding the documents, a certain level of continuing interest can be maintained. The sad thing is that a lot of the really important stuff gets missed amongst the wibbling of clueless fanboys and fangirls. Most people just don't understand what they are seeing when they are looking at the various documents. Consequently some really important points are missed, While there has been some analysis by people who do understand the issues, there are some very disturbing aspects that have slipped right by the non-tech media coverage.

The data that has been released has been interesting (from a technical rather than sociological point of view). Most of it consists of briefing and overview documents for management rather than those directly involved. There's a lot of simplified discussion of the what and a few block diagrams of the how. There's the rub, to quote Shakespeare. The methodology and the Mathematics are not disclosed. I can say that all com/net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia websites are hosted on approximately 7 million distinct IP addresses. I have posted graphs of where all these IP addresses and websites are hosted. However that's not the same as explaining the programs, methodology and concepts behind the process that generates those numbers and graphs. The Snowden documents suffer from the same paradox - the methodology is missing and has not been disclosed. The techie/cryppie response to some of the disclosures differs from that of the non-tech to some degree. Some of the disclosures have been quiet impressive and it has hard not to think of the systems and processes as being extremely cool. However some documents have been rather disturbing when their implications are considered from a techie/cryppie point of view. The methodology and Mathematics have not been disclosed.

The impact of the Snowden disclosures has lessened and they are fading out of the news cycle. It is similar to what happened to Julian Assange and Wikileaks - a great deal of initial coverage, outrage and impact which gradually faded. The public can be extremely fickle with their outrage and right now, there are other things dominating the news cycle. There are some similarities between Snowden and Assange in that their media value lies in "other people's data". Both have attracted well meaning people who support them and have created a lot of media coverage. Ultimately, without a continual flow of other people's data which they can disclose to the media, their value to the media fades. Snowden and Greenwald have to keep disclosing to maintain their positions in the news cycle and a full disclosure of the Snowden documents would lessen their position. It would be interesting to see a full disclosure but I am not sure if it will happen.

Regards...jmcc

Rucking_Fetard

^^^

Snowden-documents show no evidence for global mass surveillance

Rucking_Fetard

Snowden's temporary asylum status expires in Russia

Fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden's year-long leave to stay in Russia has expired without confirmation that it will be extended.

His lawyer said he could stay in the country while his application for an extension was being processed.

Speaking at the end of May, US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Mr Snowden to "man up" and return home to face justice.

:rolleyes:

Loves to be heard but nothing of value to say. "At least we tried."

Should take up gardening, plants might listen.