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2014/01/102014/01/12

Mini-Me: Target Data Breach Rises to Up to 110 Million — White House & NSA Irresponsibility Since 1994

Huh? Target data breach total rises to up to 110 million The massive data breach at Target over the holiday season is potentially much worse than the retailer first reported — as many as 110 million people may have had their identity and financial information compromised, the retailer says. Idiot Video and More Text

2014/01/102014/01/14

Event: 16 JAN 14, 1830-2030, National Press Club DC, Jim Bamford on NSA

Speech on the NSA at the National Press Club by James Bamford The Committee for the Republic Thursday, January 16, 2014 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EST) National Press Club, DC Event Brite Free Registration See Also: Steven Levy: 2 Hours with NSA Chiefs — They Are a) Suffering Cognitive Dissonance and b) Seriously …

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2014/01/09

Owl: “Smart Grid” is NSA on Steroids, Expensive, Instrusive, & A Major Health Hazard

Worse than NSA, plus Hazardous to Health & Home (Causes House Fires) This is one of the 2-3 most important and perhaps alarming articles (and well documented) I’ve referred to on this site in the last twelve months. An absolute must-read for anyone living in the US and all other western countries and owns a …

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2013/12/302013/12/30

Stephen E. Arnold: NSA as Poster Child for the Problem of Big Data

NSA drowns under an ocean of data Would rather drown in rising tide of pornography All is not well in the land of US spooks despite them having access to all the data on citizens that they can eat. William Binney, creator of some of the computer code used by the National Security Agency to …

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2013/12/27

Chuck Spinney: NSA Can’t Make Sense? I Am Shocked, Simply Shocked…

… the quite predictable case of data overload and why the most serious 4th Amendment breach relates to the statistical problem of ‘data culling’ algorithms* generating large numbers of “false positives” and thereby wiping out the principle of “probable cause.” NSA Can’t Make Sense of Masses of Culled Data Too Much Useless Data, Warns Former …

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2013/12/222013/12/22

Mini-Me: NSA-RSA Debacle Gets Worse

Huh? Researchers Break RSA 4096 Encryption With Just A Microphone And A Couple Of Emails As if it wasn’t enough that the NSA paid RSA $10 million to adopt an algorithm that wasn’t entirely secure, researchers have now demonstrated that they can break even RSA 4096 bit encryption with little more than a few emails …

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2013/12/212013/12/21

Penguin: NSA Paid RSA for an Embedded Back Door Into Products Sold — Time to Indict Hayden & Alexander — and File RICO Charges Against RSA

Can you spell treason? How about racketeering? This would seem to call for the indictment, conviction, and loss of pensions for the top NSA deciders, and enough RICO lawsuits to put RSA out of business. Shame! Exclusive: Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer EXTRACT: Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show …

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