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The NSA admits they’ve been intercepting US communications, the situation in Ukraine is getting very tense, and we’ll update you on many other topics on this unplugged edition of Unfilter!
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— Show Notes —
NSA is Crazy
Last week, National Intelligence Director Gen. James R. Clapper sent a brief letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in which he admitted that agents of the National Security Agency (NSA) have been reading innocent Americans’ emails and text messages and listening to digital recordings of their telephone conversations that have been stored in NSA computers, without warrants obtained pursuant to the Constitution. That the NSA is doing this is not newsworthy – Edward Snowden has told the world of this during the past 10 months. What is newsworthy is that the NSA has admitted this, and those admissions have far-reaching consequences.
NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years
The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said.
Obama creates exception for NSA to exploit internet security flaws
The decision, reported by The New York Times, was made this past January as part of a review of recommendations for reforming the NSA. Officials in the administration tell the Times that Obama decided that the NSA should disclose flaws to the public, but the key is that he provided an all-important exception in the case of a “clear” need for national security and law enforcement purposes. Such exceptions are broad, and could allow the NSA to exploit a flaw such as Hearbleed while the public remained at risk of attacks from hackers and others.
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Ukraine
CIA Director John Brennan Makes Emergency Visit to Ukraine Amid Crisis
“We don’t normally comment on the CIA director’s travel but given the extraordinary circumstances in this case and the false claims being leveled by the Russians at the CIA we can confirm that the director was in Kiev as part of a trip to Europe,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.
The person who said this to Interfax in a phone talk added that John Brennan came to Ukraine not under his real name.
Wiretapping Advocate Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox Board
The former secretary of state’s consulting firm, RiceHadleyGates, has been advising the startup on management issues for the last year. Now she’ll help the company think about such matters as international expansion and privacy, an issue that dogs every cloud company in the age of Edward Snowden and the NSA. “As a country, we are having a great national conversation and debate about exactly how to manage privacy concerns,” Rice says about her new position. “I look forward to helping Dropbox navigate it.”
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