The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Whither The Internet In An Age Of Cyber-Espionage? As everyone should know by now, not quite two weeks ago the latest nugget from Edward Snowden via Glenn Greenwald and co-authors was revealed, and was that the NSA and its UK counterpart the GSHQ “have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds …
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‘Follow the Money’: NSA Monitors Financial World By Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark The NSA monitors banks and credit card transactions — sometimes in apparent violation of national laws and global regulations. The European SWIFT financial transaction network is being tapped on different levels, internal documents from the US spy agency show. EXTRACT …
One of the most important revelations from the international drama over Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks in May is the exposure of a nearly lunatic disproportion in threat assessment and spending by the US government. This disproportion has been spawned by a fear-based politics of terror that mandates unlimited money and media attention for even the …
Cloud Services Cannot Be Trusted Data Brokers — Opening the Kimono Digital Islam – Digital Jihad How NSA Puts All of Us (and US Commerce & Technology) At Risk NSA Not Behind the Diginotar Hack NSA Undermining Internet Security Stewardship of the Internet USG (NIST) Warns Against Using USG (NSA) Weakened Encryption US Standards Agency …
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POLICY RESPONSE TO INTELLIGENCE REVELATIONS LAGS The end of the government’s fiscal year 2013 is just weeks away, but an intelligence authorization bill for fiscal year 2014 is nowhere in sight. In past years, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees typically reported intelligence bills in late spring or early summer for House-Senate conference and floor …
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The NSA’s War Against Encryption New revelations about National Security Agency abuses, which now include everything from industrial espionage to reports that the agency can access most data on our smartphones, seem to put everything we know about how business is done on the Internet in danger. Complete story below the line.
NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans’ data with Israel • Secret deal places no legal limits on use of data by Israelis • Only official US government communications protected • Agency insists it complies with rules governing privacy • Read the NSA and Israel’s ‘memorandum of understanding’ Complete story (Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian) below the …
