Via: freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/calea-ii-risks-of-wiretap-modifications-to-endpoints/
Will US secure communication devices come with a new generation of backdoors?
Where US device makers go, the world usually follows.
May 182013
May 142013
An anonymised mobile phone usage data package came with a nice bit of info: your location down to ~100 metres.
The data was all anonymised, aggregated- just dont think too much about the 100m part.
Apr 192013
Via: www.globalresearch.ca/clinton-bush-and-obama-us-war-crimes-over-three-administrations/5331757
www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/world/us-practiced-torture-after-9-11-nonpartisan-review-concludes.html
More at: detaineetaskforce.org
detaineetaskforce.org/report/
Over two years a 11-member Task Force produced a ~600-page report on the abuse of detainees over three US administrations.
The report covers extraordinary renditions, black sites, rendition, enhanced interrogation tactics, night raids, pulpified prisoner’s legs, the use of feeding tubes….
Apr 182013
Via http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/intel/clear-2012.pdf
The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence has a official number – 4.9 million as personnel with a government-wide security clearance.
A 2009 report estimated that 2.4 million.
A 1995 GAO report offered an estimate of 3.2 million for 1993.
Thats a lot of relatives to visit, school teachers to track down, friends to interview, state and federal databases to search… sealed state court records found?
Someone did take the time to sit down and do the interviews or is it all digital from a laptop now?
Apr 092013
Via m.ibtimes.co.uk/classification-cyber-weapons-marks-beginning-arms-race-455143.html
More cash for cyber defences, more staff and a grand vision of space-based assets…
Feb 192013
Via: www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/software-tracks-social-media-defence
Tracking users…. via a ”proof of concept” product that was not sold to any clients?
Private sector and public sector getting around ‘walled gardens’ find what? Security risks?
Like protesters in front of an East German church – what are the options?
The optics of mass arrests? Or yet more expensive undercover work.
Jan 102013
Via: www.scmagazine.com.au/News/328135,linguistics-identifies-anonymous-users.aspx
with a video.
Comments at yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/09/0233243/linguistics-identifies-anonymous-users
What your writing style can give away about you. Interesting video. Function words used in a thesis could track a person in a chatroom…
Dec 162012
Interesting comments about session rates per device and the move from sort and save to save and find.
Dec 162012
Via: www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/tweeters-could-be-military-targets-20121213-2bcjq.html
Could using social media or blog comments about any military operation make you a legal military target?
The Geneva Convention protecting civilians could be removed if a power feels uploading, downloading or sharing is part of the fight. How long before “knowingly providing material support or resources to an entity that has been designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.” becomes just “providing material support or resources to an entity that has been designated”"
Nov 252012
Going back to the site:
consortiumnews.com/2012/11/04/the-why-behind-the-benghazi-attack/
A interesting view after the “Mata Haris” like email find
presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/19/273240/coup-and-countercoup-in-washington/