Source: democracynow.org
We speak with former CIA agent Barry Eisler about the role of Edward Snowden in raising public awareness about encryption and privacy ahead of the FBI’s push for Apple to break the encryption of the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters.
"So much of Snowden’s revelations were about this very thing. And the fact that the public knows about corporate cooperation with the government now is in part, I think, what has emboldened Apple to push back," Eisler says.
"If we didn’t know about these things, I would expect that Apple would be quietly cooperating. There would be no cost to their doing so." Eisner also discusses his new novel, "The God’s Eye View," which he says is "grounded in things that are actually happening in the world. … I realized I was not going nearly far enough in what I had imagined."- democracynow.org
Showing posts with label FBI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FBI. Show all posts
Barry Eisler | Former CIA Agent Says Edward Snowden Revelations Emboldened Apple to Push Back Against FBI | Feb. 25, 2016
The End of Encryption? NSA & FBI Seek New Backdoors Against Advice from Leading Security Experts | July 8, 2015
Source: democracynow.org
FBI Director James Comey is set to testify against encryption before the Senate Intelligence Committee today, as the United States and Britain push for "exceptional access" to encrypted communications.
Encryption refers to the scrambling of communications so they cannot be read without the correct key or password. The FBI and GCHQ have said they need access to encrypted communications to track criminals and terrorists.
Fourteen of the world’s pre-eminent cryptographers, computer scientists and security specialists have issued a paper arguing there is no way to allow the government such access without endangering all confidential data, as well as the broader communications infrastructure. We speak with one of the authors of the paper, leading security technologist Bruce Schneier. -democracynow.org
FBI Director James Comey is set to testify against encryption before the Senate Intelligence Committee today, as the United States and Britain push for "exceptional access" to encrypted communications.
Encryption refers to the scrambling of communications so they cannot be read without the correct key or password. The FBI and GCHQ have said they need access to encrypted communications to track criminals and terrorists.
Fourteen of the world’s pre-eminent cryptographers, computer scientists and security specialists have issued a paper arguing there is no way to allow the government such access without endangering all confidential data, as well as the broader communications infrastructure. We speak with one of the authors of the paper, leading security technologist Bruce Schneier. -democracynow.org
Declassified FBI Document | The FBI admits we have been visited by “Beings from Other Dimensions”
Source: Official FBI vault
In 2011 after some documents were “declassified” a report written by a special agent of the FBI in 1947 reached the public.
The special agent of the FBI, a lieutenant colonel whose identity, remained anonymous because of “national security” gather numerous data on the UFO phenomena after interviewing and studying the phenomena for years. According to reports and “Declassified” documents, we have been visited by numerous extraterrestrial species, some of which are not only from other planets, but from other dimensions.
Some of these beings originate from an ethereal plane coexistent with our physical universe. These “entities”, that could “materialize” on our planet appeared as giant translucent figures.
Here is a transcript of some of the most important details of the report:
1. Part of the disks carry crews, others are under remote control
2. Their mission is peaceful. The visitors contemplate settling on this plane
3. These visitors are human-like but much larger in size
4. They are not excarnate Earth people, but come from their own world
5. They do NOT come from a planet as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us
6. The bodies of the visitors, and the craft, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter
7. The disks posses a type of radiant energy or a ray, which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship. They reenter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without trace
8. The region from which they come is not the “astral plane”, but corresponds to the Lokas or Talas. Students of osoteric matters will understand these terms.
9. They probably can not be reached by radio, but probably can be by radar. if a signal system can be devised for that (apparatus)
Addendum: The Lokas are oval shape, fluted length oval with a heat-resistaning metal or alloy not yet known the front cage contains the controls, the middle portion a laboratory; the rear contains armament, which consists essentially of a powerful energy apparatus, perhaps a ray.
In 2011 after some documents were “declassified” a report written by a special agent of the FBI in 1947 reached the public.
The special agent of the FBI, a lieutenant colonel whose identity, remained anonymous because of “national security” gather numerous data on the UFO phenomena after interviewing and studying the phenomena for years. According to reports and “Declassified” documents, we have been visited by numerous extraterrestrial species, some of which are not only from other planets, but from other dimensions.
Some of these beings originate from an ethereal plane coexistent with our physical universe. These “entities”, that could “materialize” on our planet appeared as giant translucent figures.
Here is a transcript of some of the most important details of the report:
1. Part of the disks carry crews, others are under remote control
2. Their mission is peaceful. The visitors contemplate settling on this plane
3. These visitors are human-like but much larger in size
4. They are not excarnate Earth people, but come from their own world
5. They do NOT come from a planet as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us
6. The bodies of the visitors, and the craft, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter
7. The disks posses a type of radiant energy or a ray, which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship. They reenter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without trace
8. The region from which they come is not the “astral plane”, but corresponds to the Lokas or Talas. Students of osoteric matters will understand these terms.
9. They probably can not be reached by radio, but probably can be by radar. if a signal system can be devised for that (apparatus)
Addendum: The Lokas are oval shape, fluted length oval with a heat-resistaning metal or alloy not yet known the front cage contains the controls, the middle portion a laboratory; the rear contains armament, which consists essentially of a powerful energy apparatus, perhaps a ray.
Snooping FBI plane 'sucking up everyone's cellphones' | Jan. 9, 2015
Source: RT.com
If you're ever on the phone in the street in the United States, you might want to think twice about being too candid. It's being reported that intelligence agencies are eavesdropping on thousands of people's calls using fake cellphone towers installed on small planes - all without a search warrant.
It's a strategy designed to pinpoint criminals, so police can then be dispatched to catch them - although there are serious concerns about how much is being listened in to. -RT.com
If you're ever on the phone in the street in the United States, you might want to think twice about being too candid. It's being reported that intelligence agencies are eavesdropping on thousands of people's calls using fake cellphone towers installed on small planes - all without a search warrant.
It's a strategy designed to pinpoint criminals, so police can then be dispatched to catch them - although there are serious concerns about how much is being listened in to. -RT.com
New World Next Week | FBI Report Exposes Police State Paranoia | Dec. 7, 2014
Source: NewWorldNextWeek.com, corbettreport.com, mediamonarchy.com
This week on the New World Next Week: A new FBI report gives the lie to police propaganda about the "public threat"; Ukraine rushes citizenship for foreigners appointed to government cabinet; and reports confirm organic farming's ability to feed the world. -newworldnextweek.com
This week on the New World Next Week: A new FBI report gives the lie to police propaganda about the "public threat"; Ukraine rushes citizenship for foreigners appointed to government cabinet; and reports confirm organic farming's ability to feed the world. -newworldnextweek.com
Ray McGovern | US intelligence agencies detail global threats, January 29, 2014
Source: RT.com
According to the annual Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community report, Al-Qaeda and its associated forces remain a threat, especially in Iraq. But the report says that the terrorist organization isn't the only threat the US faces from abroad. RT's Liz Wahl talks to former CIA analyst Ray McGovern about the details of the report from the heads of US intelligence agencies to see if the report is fearmongering or realistic. -RT.com
According to the annual Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community report, Al-Qaeda and its associated forces remain a threat, especially in Iraq. But the report says that the terrorist organization isn't the only threat the US faces from abroad. RT's Liz Wahl talks to former CIA analyst Ray McGovern about the details of the report from the heads of US intelligence agencies to see if the report is fearmongering or realistic. -RT.com
New World Next Week | Black Sites, Designer Babies, FDA Shutdown, October 10, 2013
Source: NewWorldNextWeek.com, corbettreport.com, mediamonarchy.com
Story #1: FBI Seizes Silk Road, an Online Drug Market, and Makes Arrest
Feds Raid Online Drug Market Silk Road
Agorism: Revolutionary market anarchism
Flashback Video: How to buy drugs like DMT and CHANGA on the Silk Road - Adam Kokesh
Story #2: Popular Fast Food Chain Yoshinoya To Grow Food 60 Miles From Fukushima Plant
Former Japanese PM Koizumi Calls for End to Nuclear Power
Story #3: Exercise 'Can Be As Good As Pills'
Story #1: FBI Seizes Silk Road, an Online Drug Market, and Makes Arrest
Feds Raid Online Drug Market Silk Road
Agorism: Revolutionary market anarchism
Flashback Video: How to buy drugs like DMT and CHANGA on the Silk Road - Adam Kokesh
Story #2: Popular Fast Food Chain Yoshinoya To Grow Food 60 Miles From Fukushima Plant
Former Japanese PM Koizumi Calls for End to Nuclear Power
Story #3: Exercise 'Can Be As Good As Pills'
New World Next Week | Silk Road Shutdown, Fukushima Fast Food, Exercise Pills, October 3, 2013
Source: NewWorldNextWeek.com, corbettreport.com, mediamonarchy.com
Story #1: FBI Seizes Silk Road, an Online Drug Market, and Makes Arrest
Feds Raid Online Drug Market Silk Road
Agorism: Revolutionary market anarchism
Flashback Video: How to buy drugs like DMT and CHANGA on the Silk Road - Adam Kokesh
Story #2: Popular Fast Food Chain Yoshinoya To Grow Food 60 Miles From Fukushima Plant Former Japanese PM Koizumi Calls for End to Nuclear Power
Story #3: Exercise 'Can Be As Good As Pills'
Story #1: FBI Seizes Silk Road, an Online Drug Market, and Makes Arrest
Feds Raid Online Drug Market Silk Road
Agorism: Revolutionary market anarchism
Flashback Video: How to buy drugs like DMT and CHANGA on the Silk Road - Adam Kokesh
Story #2: Popular Fast Food Chain Yoshinoya To Grow Food 60 Miles From Fukushima Plant Former Japanese PM Koizumi Calls for End to Nuclear Power
Story #3: Exercise 'Can Be As Good As Pills'
FBI Sued For Access to Facial-Recognition Records, June 26, 2013
Source: activistpost.com
Lawsuit Seeks Transparency Before Implementation of a 'Bigger, Faster and Better' Biometrics System
As the FBI is rushing to build a "bigger, faster and better" biometrics database, it's also dragging its feet in releasing information related to the program's impact on the American public. In response, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a lawsuit to compel the FBI to produce records to satisfy three outstanding Freedom of Information Act requests that EFF submitted one year ago to shine light on the program and its face-recognition components.
Since early 2011, EFF has been closely following the FBI's work to build out its Next Generation Identification (NGI) biometrics database, which would replace and expand upon the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). The new program will include multiple biometric identifiers, such as iris scans, palm prints, face-recognition-ready photos, and voice data, and that information will be shared with other agencies at the local, state, federal and international levels. The face recognition component is set to launch in 2014.
Read more »
Lawsuit Seeks Transparency Before Implementation of a 'Bigger, Faster and Better' Biometrics System
As the FBI is rushing to build a "bigger, faster and better" biometrics database, it's also dragging its feet in releasing information related to the program's impact on the American public. In response, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a lawsuit to compel the FBI to produce records to satisfy three outstanding Freedom of Information Act requests that EFF submitted one year ago to shine light on the program and its face-recognition components.Since early 2011, EFF has been closely following the FBI's work to build out its Next Generation Identification (NGI) biometrics database, which would replace and expand upon the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). The new program will include multiple biometric identifiers, such as iris scans, palm prints, face-recognition-ready photos, and voice data, and that information will be shared with other agencies at the local, state, federal and international levels. The face recognition component is set to launch in 2014.
Read more »
FBI To Internet Providers: Spy For Us Or Face A $25,000 Fine, May 8, 2013
Source: popsci.com
Existing wiretap law is almost 20 years old and doesn't capture the nuances of modern internet use. Here's how the FBI plans to get around it.
By Kelsey D. Atherton
Existing wiretap law is almost 20 years old and doesn't capture the nuances of modern internet use. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act was first authorized in 1994, and it ordered "telecommunications carriers" to comply with court orders to assist in intercepting communication. Since then, communication online has taken off, while the landscape of what we know has telecommunications carriers has drastically changed. In 2006, the FCC expanded the act to include Internet access providers, but there's a tricky caveat: court orders under existing law only instruct internet communications providers to offer technical assistance to law enforcement. That gives the tech companies some leeway if they're uncomfortable handing over information; they can just say they were unable to make the technology work the way the FBI wants.
Under the new proposal, that wiggle room disappears. FBI officials can notify a company (with a wiretap order, say) that they need the tech to be surveillance-ready in 30 days. If not? Fines, starting at $25,000/day that the capability isn't there. Of course, complying isn't exactly free, either. Over at Lawfare, >Susan Landau writes:
The FBI plan is really about cost shifting. When wiretapping was about alligator clips, law enforcement paid the full costs of a tap. With CALEA, the government reimbursed the service providers $500 million for retrofitting old switches to be CALEA compliant, but the companies had to pay the costs of doing so for new infrastructure (law enforcement does pay for the work involved in executing a particular tap, but not the cost of creating the infrastructure). What the FBI wants to do now is have communications services wiretap compliant with private industry footing the bill.
The plan allows the FBI to adapt quickly as new media emerge, and more and more private information is in the hands of internet-based tech companies. But it's still a far cry from law. Right now, the Obama administration is considering the proposal. If White House officials choose to push it forward, it would still need to pass in Congress.
Existing wiretap law is almost 20 years old and doesn't capture the nuances of modern internet use. Here's how the FBI plans to get around it.
By Kelsey D. Atherton
Existing wiretap law is almost 20 years old and doesn't capture the nuances of modern internet use. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act was first authorized in 1994, and it ordered "telecommunications carriers" to comply with court orders to assist in intercepting communication. Since then, communication online has taken off, while the landscape of what we know has telecommunications carriers has drastically changed. In 2006, the FCC expanded the act to include Internet access providers, but there's a tricky caveat: court orders under existing law only instruct internet communications providers to offer technical assistance to law enforcement. That gives the tech companies some leeway if they're uncomfortable handing over information; they can just say they were unable to make the technology work the way the FBI wants.
Under the new proposal, that wiggle room disappears. FBI officials can notify a company (with a wiretap order, say) that they need the tech to be surveillance-ready in 30 days. If not? Fines, starting at $25,000/day that the capability isn't there. Of course, complying isn't exactly free, either. Over at Lawfare, >Susan Landau writes:
The FBI plan is really about cost shifting. When wiretapping was about alligator clips, law enforcement paid the full costs of a tap. With CALEA, the government reimbursed the service providers $500 million for retrofitting old switches to be CALEA compliant, but the companies had to pay the costs of doing so for new infrastructure (law enforcement does pay for the work involved in executing a particular tap, but not the cost of creating the infrastructure). What the FBI wants to do now is have communications services wiretap compliant with private industry footing the bill.
The plan allows the FBI to adapt quickly as new media emerge, and more and more private information is in the hands of internet-based tech companies. But it's still a far cry from law. Right now, the Obama administration is considering the proposal. If White House officials choose to push it forward, it would still need to pass in Congress.
GRTV | The FBI Fosters, Funds and Equips American Terrorists, April 17, 2013
Source: GRTV.ca, corbettreport.com
The Boston Marathon bombing has provoked shock, grief and outrage from around the world. After decades of conditioning, the public automatically equates such terrorism with Muslim radicals. But the evidence shows that every major terror plot on American soil in the past 10 years has been fostered, funded and equipped by one organization: the FBI. -GRTV.ca
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The Boston Marathon bombing has provoked shock, grief and outrage from around the world. After decades of conditioning, the public automatically equates such terrorism with Muslim radicals. But the evidence shows that every major terror plot on American soil in the past 10 years has been fostered, funded and equipped by one organization: the FBI. -GRTV.ca
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