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Post by avordvet on May 27, 2015 4:18:51 GMT -5
The NSA's Technotyranny: One Nation Under SurveillanceSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 05/26/2015 22:30 -0400 Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, Beware of what you say, what you read, what you write, where you go, and with whom you communicate, because it will all be recorded, stored and used against you eventually, at a time and place of the government’s choosing. Privacy, as we have known it, is dead. www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-26/nsas-technotyranny-one-nation-under-surveillance
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Post by avordvet on Jun 9, 2015 13:10:53 GMT -5
Obama lawyers asked secret court to ignore public court's decision on spyingSpencer Ackerman, Tuesday 9 June 2015 07.00 EDT Last modified on Tuesday 9 June 2015 09.06 EDT The Obama administration has asked a secret surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six months. The legal request, filed nearly four hours after Barack Obama vowed to sign a new law banning precisely the bulk collection he asks the secret court to approve, also suggests that the administration may not necessarily comply with any potential court order demanding that the collection stop. www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/09/obama-fisa-court-surveillance-phone-records
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Post by avordvet on Jun 17, 2015 4:15:57 GMT -5
Possible Pentagon destruction of evidence in NSA leak case probedBy Marisa Taylor, McClatchy Washington Bureau, June 15, 2015 WASHINGTON — Two government watchdog agencies are investigating whether the Pentagon inspector general destroyed evidence improperly during the high-profile leak investigation of former National Security Agency senior official Thomas Drake. The Justice Department acknowledged the probes in a letter last week to a federal magistrate judge who recently received the allegations from Drake’s lawyers. The judge is determining whether she should take further action in a case that ended in 2011 when Drake pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/06/15/269866/possible-pentagon-destruction.html
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Post by avordvet on Jun 23, 2015 3:44:05 GMT -5
NSA Has Reverse-Engineered Popular Consumer Anti-Virus Software In Order To Track Users22 Jun 2015, by Lucas Matney The NSA and its British counterpart the GCHQ have put extensive effort into hacking popular security software products to “track users and infiltrate networks,” according to the latest round of Snowden docs unearthed today by The Intercept. Cybersecurity companies, including the Moscow-headquartered Kaspersky Lab, were targeted by government agencies to gain intelligence of the latest exploits. Details of the security software’s inner workings were deciphered by agencies through a process called software reverse engineering (SRE), which allowed them to analyze and exploit the software suites. A top-secret warrant renewal request issued by the GCHQ details the motivations behind infiltrating the products of such anti-virus companies. techcrunch.com/2015/06/22/nsa-has-reverse-engineered-popular-consumer-anti-virus-software-in-order-to-track-users/
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Post by avordvet on Sept 3, 2015 4:42:49 GMT -5
Judge eager to re-enter NSA surveillance fightBy Josh Gerstein, 09/02/15, 03:01 PM EDT Warning that the constitutional rights of tens of millions of Americans are being violated, a federal judge said Wednesday that he's eager to expedite a lawsuit seeking to shut down the National Security Agency's controversial program to collect data on large volumes of U.S. telephone calls. During an hourlong hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, Judge Richard Leon repeatedly urged the conservative lawyer who brought the suit to take steps to allow the case to move forward quickly by asking a federal appeals court to formally relinquish control over an appeal in the case. www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2015/09/judge-eager-to-re-enter-nsa-surveillance-fight-213272
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Post by avordvet on Dec 19, 2015 7:57:01 GMT -5
The Rutherford Institute, Wikipedia, ACLU Et Al. Appeal to 4th Circuit Seeking Reinstatement of Lawsuit Over the NSA's Mass Surveillance ProgramDecember 17, 2015 BALTIMORE, Md. — The Rutherford Institute and a coalition of educational, legal, human rights and media organizations have filed an appeal and will ask the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate a lawsuit challenging the government’s mass surveillance programs. Despite extensive evidence that the government is systematically copying and substantially reviewing all international text-based communications, a Maryland federal court dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that the coalition of national and international groups does not have standing to bring the First and Fourth Amendment lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. Department of Justice and their directors. The Obama administration has argued that the organizations do not have concrete evidence their communications have been monitored under the secret program. However, in rebutting the government’s claims, The Rutherford Institute and its coalition cite a vast array of sources, including statements by former intelligence officials such as Edward Snowden, that corroborate allegations that the NSA’s program involves copying and sifting through the contents of international internet traffic. www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/the_rutherford_institute_wikipedia_aclu_et_al._appeal_to_4th_circuit_seekin
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Post by avordvet on Dec 24, 2015 6:13:42 GMT -5
If you or I hacked a system and set up 'backdoors', we would be imprisoned immediately, yet the governments agents can do it at will with absolutely NO reprecussions... NSA suspected in Juniper firewall backdoorsDual_EC weaknesses and Juniper error exploited, researchers say.By Staff Writer, Dec 24 2015 10:00AM Security researchers suspect the United States' National Security Agency may have had a hand in the planting of unauthorised backdoors in Juniper's enterprise firewalls. The network equipment vendor last week issued an urgent security alert for its NetScreen enterprise firewalls, after discovering "unauthorised code" in the device operating system that allows them to be fully compromised. www.itnews.com.au/news/nsa-suspected-in-juniper-firewall-backdoors-413235
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