Glenn Greenwald: Keynote at Chaos Communications (58:57) with Detailed Notes
6,000 watching in main room Notes below the line.
Neal Rauhauser: Quadrennial Intelligence Community Review? Start with Counterintelligence?
Quadrennial Intelligence Community Review? The Department of Defense began producing the Quadrennial Defense Review in 1997 in response to requests from Congress triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Four of them have been released and the fifth will begin to appear in February or March of 2014. …
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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SchwartzReport: Truths That Matter
In 1933, Major General Smedley Butler, at the time a famous Marine general gave a speech looking back on his military service. He made observations that are, if anything, more apposite today than they were then. Smedley Butler on Interventionism Major General Smedley Butler, USMC – Federation of American Scientists – Military Analysis Network President …
Jean Lievens: The War on Knowledge — The Year Hacktivists and the Government Went to War
The Year Hacktivists And The Government Went To War Gerry Smith Huffington Post, 20 December 2013 Peter Ludlow, a philosophy professor at Northwestern University, wrote in The Nation that the prosecution of hacktivists was part of “a war on knowledge” that extends beyond hackers to include Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, who exposed government secrets. …
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 …
Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Staff
126 Journalists Killed in 2013 — Many in Syria (Reuters) Data VIsualizations in Journalism (Zeit) FARC Waging War While Talking Peace (InSightCrime) GCHQ Monitoring of Allied Politicians (Spiegel) Israeli Banks Being Blackmailed Over Details of 3.7 Million Customers
