The Winter Propaganda Games are in full force, ramping up before the actual games begin and the media working in hand with egomaniac politicians would have you believe the Olympics are taking place in the middle of a war zone.
Then the GCHQ, the NSA, and the Canadian spy agencies spend some more time in the light, as new revelations have come out. We’ll bring you up to date.
Plus an update from across the pond, our follow up, and much much more.
On this week’s episode of, Unfilter.
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— Show Notes —
NSA is Crazy
Rogers, who today runs the Navy’s Fleet Cyber Command, oversees a total force of approximately 15,000 sailors and civilians – plus contractors- of which about 5,000 are specifically charged with giving the Navy the same kind of reach and flexibility in cyberspace that it has at sea.
“The network must be treated as a weapons system as we continue the fight to maintain our advantage in cyberspace, and thus across the other four war fighting domains: sea, air, land and space,” he said in a Q&A on the Feb. 2013 issue of Military Information Technology magazine, which dubbed him the “Cyberspace Warrior.”
“He was the best there was, and he was going to lead us into the cyberfuture,” said retired Adm. Gary Roughead, who in 2011 picked Rogers to head Fleet Cyber Command, the Navy’s cyber organization, which was seen as a steppingstone.
- CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers: Edward Snowden documents – Politics – CBC News
A top secret document retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and obtained by CBC News shows that Canada’s electronic spy agency used information from the free internet service at a major Canadian airport to track the wireless devices of thousands of ordinary airline passengers for days after they left the terminal.
After reviewing the document, one of Canada’s foremost authorities on cyber-security says the clandestine operation by the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) was almost certainly illegal.
Joint Committee on National Security Strategy has a chat with PM David Cameron
“I think the public reaction as I judge it has not been one of
‘shock horror!’ but one of ‘intelligence agencies carry out
intelligence work: good’,” Cameron said. Apparently Mr Cameron
hasn’t seen this
YouGov poll from June 2013, which showed that 56 percent of
people think that Edward Snowden did the right thing (compared to
27 percent of people who think he did the wrong thing) and 52
percent think he shouldn’t be prosecuted.
Mr Cameron highlighted how crimes in television dramas are solved by tracking
the use of mobile phones. He warned that investigators will lose this
ability as criminals and terrorists resort to using the internet instead.Earlier this week Mr Cameron told BBC Radio 2 that he likes to relax by
watching Elementary, a modern-day version of Sherlock Homes set in the US,
and Homeland, a thriller about a CIA agent on the trail of a soldier she
believes is an Al-Qaida operative.
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Winter Propaganda Games
The U.S. State Department has told Americans coming to Sochi that they should have “no expectation of privacy,” even in their hotel rooms.
A July 2013 article in the Washington Times reveals that there was a significant cybersecurity threat during the 2012 London Olympic Games. “There was a credible [threat of] attack on the electricity infrastructure supporting the Games,” said Oliver Hoare, head of Olympic cybersecurity.
“There are a number of specific threats of varying degrees of credibility that we’re tracking,” he said. “And we’re working very closely with the Russians and with other partners to monitor any threats we see and to disrupt those.”
“The primary threat, from a terrorism perspective, comes from Imarat Kavkaz, probably the most prominent terrorist group in Russia. It’s made its intent clear to seek to carry out attacks in the run-up to the Games,” said Olsen. “We think the greater danger from a terrorist perspective is in potential for attacks to occur outside of the actual venues for the Games themselves in the area surrounding Sochi or outside of Sochi in the region.”
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