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Internet privacy

• The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

• Vote Summary

• Who represents You in the U.S. Congress

• Five Ways Cybersecurity Will Suffer If Congress Repeals the FCC Privacy Rules

• A VPN can stop internet companies from selling your data — but it’s not a magic bullet

• How ISPs can sell your Web history—and how to stop them

Alleged vDOS Owners Poised to Stand Trial

• Police in Israel are recommending that the state attorney’s office indict and prosecute two 18-year-olds suspected of operating vDOS, until recently the most popular attack service for knocking Web sites offline.

• On Sept. 8, 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story about the hacking of vDOS, a service that attracted tens of thousands of paying customers and facilitated countless distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the four year period it was in business. That story named two young Israelis — Yarden Bidani and Itay Huri — as the likely owners and operators of vDOS, and within hours of its publication the two were arrested by Israeli police, placed on house arrest for 10 days, and forbidden from using the Internet for a month.

• According to a story published Sunday by Israeli news outlet TheMarker.com, the government of Sweden also is urging Israeli prosecutors to pursue formal charges.

• Law enforcement officials both in the United States and abroad say stresser services enable illegal activity, and they’ve recently begun arresting both owners and users of these services.

ZFS is what you want, even though you may not know – Dan talks about why he likes ZFS

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• Interesting things you didn’t know you could do with ZFS

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Round Up:

• Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs

• Dishwasher has directory traversal bug

• Apple Says It Fixed CIA Vulnerabilities Years Ago

• Data breach disclosure 101: How to succeed after you’ve failed

• LastPass releases fix browser extension security flaws

• Google takes Symantec to the woodshed for mis-issuing 30,000 HTTPS certs

• 17-Year-Old Corrects NASA Mistake In Data From The ISS

• That Time I Trolled the Entire Internet

• Dan’s external Nagios instance

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It’s amazing to watch the mainstream media eat one of their own alive. This week, we’ll deep dive into the lies that have driven Brian Williams off camera & we’ll discuss the long-term ISIS narrative that has been slowly building to an apex.

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NBC’s Brian Williams told varying versions of rocket fire in Israel-Hezbollah war

NBC News anchor Brian Williams certainly has placed himself in dangerous situations in covering wars and natural disasters over the years. But how much danger? With Williams, the answer varies.

In his words: Brian Williams’ interview with Stars and Stripes

Questions have also arisen around statements he made about reporting on Hurricane Katrina from New Orleans in 2005, and Israel’s war with the militant group Hezbollah in 2006.

Pentagon requests $534bn for 2016, largest ever war budget

The White House will be seeking $534 billion from Congress to run the Pentagon in 2016 — its largest budget ever.

However, a source told RT that the budget is actually closer to $1 trillion, and has been for several administrations.

Debate brews over whether Williams can survive controversy

Some critics suggest that Williams, who apologized last week for falsely claiming that he was in a helicopter that had been hit by a grenade while in Iraq in 2003, should be fired. Others wonder if commerce will win out, since Williams has kept “Nightly News” at the top of the ratings while much of his news division crumbled around him. How much are the years of good work worth?

“This is one of the toughest calls that I’ve ever seen,” said Paul Levinson, professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University. “On the one hand, the public is right to expect nothing but the truth from our reporters and our news anchors.”

Williams announced Saturday he was stepping away from the show for a few days. NBC News, which launched an internal probe, hasn’t given a timetable for how long its look into Williams’ statements, coordinated by the division’s investigative editor Richard Esposito, will take or if its report will be made public.

Williams’ sub, Lester Holt, told viewers midway through Monday’s broadcast that Williams had taken himself off the air because questions have been raised about how he recalled several stories. Holt did not specify what the stories or questions were.

“He’ll be off while this issue is dealt with,” Holt said.

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Cities Argue For a Bigger Share Of Pot Tax Revenue

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Two topics we’ve been closing following on the Unfilter show, Drone assassinations, and the NSA surveillance programs have intersected this week. We’ll give you the details on how Obama uses the NSA Metadata collection to kill people with drones.

Now as we record this episode thanks to new leaks we’ve learned the Administration is preparing their case to kill another American citizen based on the cellphone, in his pocket.

Plus the GCHQ gets caught playing with hackers, and we’ll take a look at Glenn Greenwald’s new publication, and much much more.

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NSA is Crazy

• Feb. 11 Is ‘The Day We Fight Back’ Against NSA Surveillance

More than 5,300 web-based companies and other organizations, including Reddit, Imgur, Tumblr, Mozilla the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, have joined forces to protest National Security Agency surveillance on Feb. 11.

• The Day We Fight Back: can an internet protest stop the NSA?* | The Verge

The Day We Fight Back, though, is an attempt to dismantle a system that’s been in place for years. Inside the US, participants are urged to put a banner on their website and call or email their legislators in support of Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Senator Patrick Leahy’s (D-VT) USA Freedom Act, which would reform the NSA’s metadata database. But they’re also urged to oppose Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) FISA Improvements Act, a bill that sounds just as pleasant but has been sharply criticized for enshrining the database program in law. And even these are just baby steps in the long run.

• Sen. Paul announces ‘historic’ class-action suit over NSA spying | Fox News

“This, we believe, will be a historic lawsuit,” the Kentucky Republican said. The suit, joined by conservative advocacy group FreedomWorks, was filed in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia.

• Rand Paul files doomed class action lawsuit against NSA spying

So far, damages and injury from NSA data-gathering have been hard to establish even on an individual basis. Several groups have brought lawsuits against the administration by saying a particular individual organization or person has suffered because of surveillance. But even for Verizon customers, who have a leaked court order to back them up, there’s no definitive way to tell whether the NSA actually collected metadata from them, and the claim is too hypothetical for many judges. If Paul wants to go forward with the suit, he’ll need to calculate and prove similar damages for _every single member _of his class.

Drones

• The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program

According to a former drone operator for the military’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) who also worked with the NSA, the agency often identifies targets based on controversial metadata analysis and cell-phone tracking technologies. Rather than confirming a target’s identity with operatives or informants on the ground, the CIA or the U.S. military then orders a strike based on the activity and location of the mobile phone a person is believed to be using.

The drone operator, who agreed to discuss the top-secret programs on the condition of anonymity, was a member of JSOC’s High Value Targeting task force, which is charged with identifying, capturing or killing terrorist suspects in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

The JSOC operator’s account is supported by another insider who was directly involved in the drone program. Brandon Bryant spent six years as a “stick monkey” – a drone sensor operator who controls the “eyes” of the U.S. military’s unmanned aerial vehicles. By the time he left the Air Force in 2011, Bryant’s squadron, which included a small crew of veteran drone operators, had been credited with killing 1,626 “enemies” in action.

Bryant says he has come forward because he is tormented by the loss of civilian life he believes that he and his squadron may have caused. Today he is committed to informing the public about lethal flaws in the U.S. drone program.

• Obama Administration Openly Considering Drone Strike on American Citizen, Eviscerating Constitutional Protections

Leaks from two unnamed officials in the Obama administration to the Associated Press describe him as “an al-Qaida facilitator who has been directly responsible for deadly attacks against U.S. citizens overseas and who continues to plan attacks against them that would use improvised explosive devices.”

• Another U.S. citizen a potential drone target | KTVQ.com | Q2 | Billings, Montana

The person, who was not identified, has been the subject of debate among military commanders and intelligence officials for several weeks as they decide what to recommend. President Barack Obama would make a final decision.

CNN has also learned key members of Congress have been aware of the internal debate.

The officials spoke to CNN’s Barbara Starr on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.

• The Terrible Toll of Secrecy

Exhaustive independent studies by the British Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the New America Foundation and the Long War Journal have documented that civilian casualties are endemic – the latest count is at least 440 since the drone campaigns began, according to the BIJ.

Obama himself is hardly unaware of the dreadful downside of errant drone strikes. As Daniel Klaidman reported in his book, “Kill or Capture,” Obama authorized his very first drone strike on the third full day of his presidency, after having been assured by then-CIA director Michael Hayden that the targets were high-level al Qaeda and Taliban commanders. The Hellfire missile he sent into a compound in Pakistan instead killed a prominent pro-government tribal elder and four members of his family, including two children.

• YouTube – Is Obama Full Of It On Drone Strikes?

“The online news venture backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar debuted Monday, featuring fresh revelations about US intelligence from investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald. The news site dubbed ”The Intercept“ launched with two articles, including one co-authored by Greenwald stating that the US National Security Agency is relying on electronic surveillance, such as cell phone location, rather than human intelligence, to locate targets for lethal drone strikes. The report said the NSA ”geolocates“ the SIM card or handset of a suspected terrorist’s mobile phone for raids and drone strikes to capture or kill suspected terrorists…”.* How does this match up with what President Obama has said? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

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A lot’s happened over our holiday break, we’ll round up the critical revelations in the NSA spying programs, and the major legal challenges the NSA is facing.

Then: On January 1st 2014 recreational cannabis stores open their doors in Colorado, and sparked interest around the world. We’ll check in on the first few days of making history.

Now the national debate has started, and the pundits take to the air to weigh in, but their analysis misses the target.

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NSA is CRAZY

• Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress | World news | theguardian.com

Sanders, in a letter dated 3 January, defined “spying” as “gathering metadata on calls made from official or personal phones, content from websites visited or emails sent, or collecting any other data from a third party not made available to the general public in the regular course of business”.

• NSA exploring alternatives to holding database of domestic phone records

The NSA’s director, Gen. Keith Alexander, told the advisory panel, the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, that the “NSA itself has seriously considered moving to a model in which the data are held by the private sector.” But, according to a review group member, Alexander told the group that “no one else wanted it — especially not the phone companies.” Alexander, the member said, “described it as a ‘bit of a hot potato.’ ”

• ACLU will appeal ruling that NSA bulk phone record collection is legal

As expected, on Thursday the ACLU filed notice that it will appeal Pauley’s decision before the second circuit court of appeals. The civil liberties group said in a statement that it anticipates making its case before the appellate court in the spring.

“The government has a legitimate interest in tracking the associations of suspected terrorists, but tracking those associations does not require the government to subject every citizen to permanent surveillance,” deputy ACLU legal director Jameel Jaffer said in the statement.

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Devil Weed Takes Root in America

• Colorado Recreational Marijuana Sales Exceed $5 Million In First Week

Owners of the 37 new dispensaries around the state reported first week retail sales to The Huffington Post that, when added together, were roughly $5 million.

Prices also were boosted by the state’s 25 percent tax on retail purchases, including a 15 percent excise tax and a 10 percent sales tax. Voters approved the levy in November. Local taxes can add more to what customers pay.

• Colorado is running low on (legal) marijuana – The Margin – MarketWatch

Six days after sales became legal, stores are rationing how much they sell, and a company that makes cannabis-infused sparkling fruit drinks, chocolates, mints and more ran out of supplies in just three days, Denver’s local ABC affiliate reported. Among retailers, Lodo Wellness Center in downtown Denver, for example, is limiting customers to an eighth of an ounce, or one-eighth of what they can legally buy, it said.

The ArcView Group, which matches marijuana entrepreneurs and investors, has estimated the legalized pot market in the U.S. could reach $10.2 billion over the next five years, from $1.44 billion last year, as other states join Colorado and Washington in legalizing recreational marijuana use.

The Money Problem

• “People think we all became millionaires,” Ortega said. “But as a business owner, I can’t write anything off for the last three years.”

Still, the federal prohibition means banks won’t accept marijuana businesses for traditional bank accounts, and retailers said they can’t take advantage of traditional business tax writeoffs.

• “Absurd on every single level”: How the feds may be crippling the legal pot industry

Financial institutions don’t want to run afoul of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, which can charge fines of up to $500,000 per transaction for working with companies who sell illegal products. Though Colorado and Washington have been cleared for adult recreational use sales, and 21 states (plus the District of Columbia) have legalized pot for medicinal use, marijuana remains illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act. Even a state-owned bank, which one Washington lawmaker has proposed, would have to abide by federal banking laws. The discrepancy between state and federal law puts financial institutions at risk of money laundering prosecution, and they want precise assurances before assuming that risk. “They want the safe harbor to be so abundantly clear,” said Rep. Heck.

The irony here is rich. A year ago, British-based bank HSBC was fined $1.9 billion for actual money laundering for Mexican drug cartels, suspected of killing thousands of innocent civilians. HSBC had no problem doing very profitable business with the illegal drug trade, and they basically got away with it, with no criminal prosecution and a paltry fine. But in Washington and Colorado, you have legal businesses operating within state law, and no bank will touch them. “I guess they don’t think we’re big enough dollar-wise for them to risk it,” said Alex Cooley of Solstice. “But it’s crazy, in Washington, Bank of America is the state bank. They’ll take our tax revenue from the state but they won’t take our money.”

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• Agencies prepare for new Illinois medical marijuana law
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The rampant disfunction of US Government has triggered a partial shutdown for the first time in 17 years after congress failed to break a partisan deadlock. But is the Shutdown a scam? Can tea party members force Obama to neuter his signature legislation while holding the the Federal government hostage? We’ll cut through the crap.

Meanwhile the shutdown shenanigans have provided an excellent distraction from recent major NSA leaks, we’ll dig through the latest outrageous revelations.

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NSA is CRAZY

• N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens

Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials.

The policy shift was intended to help the agency “discover and track” connections between intelligence targets overseas and people in the United States, according to an N.S.A. memorandum from January 2011. The agency was authorized to conduct “large-scale graph analysis on very large sets of communications metadata without having to check foreignness” of every e-mail address, phone number or other identifier, the document said.

• How The NSA Plays a central role in the U.S. assassination program

Over the weekend, investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill told an audience in Brazil that he and Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald are working on a project involving “how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role in the U.S. assassination program.”

We know a bit about the NSA’s connection to America’s global capture/kill machine already.

In the 2010 report “Top secret America,” Dana Priest and Will Arkin of The Washington Post reported that the NSA provided the capture/kill squads of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) with a huge advantage after the signals intelligence agency “learned to locate all electronic signals in Iraq.”

• Qwest CEO who resisted NSA spying is out of prison. And he feels ‘vindicated’ by Snowden leaks.

After his release from custody Sept. 20, Nacchio told the Wall Street Journal that he feels “vindicated” by the content of the leaks that show that the agency was collecting American’s phone records.

Nacchio was convicted of selling of Qwest stock in early 2001, not long before the company hit financial troubles. However, he claimed in court documents that he was optimistic about the firm’s ability to win classified government contracts — something they’d succeeded at in the past. And according to his timeline, in February 2001 — some six months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — he was approached by the NSA and asked to spy on customers during a meeting he thought was about a different contract. He reportedly refused because his lawyers believed such an action would be illegal and the NSA wouldn’t go through the FISA Court. And then, he says, unrelated government contracts started to disappear.

• Government shutdown won’t shut down NSA spying

  On Friday, the Defense Department released its plans for dealing with a potential shutdown. In a memo, intelligence and surveillance programs were listed as essential duties of the department not be affected by a shutdown.

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Shutdown Showdown

• Why Boehner doesn’t just ditch the hard right

What we’re seeing is the collapse of institutional Republican power. It’s not so much about Boehner. It’s things like the end of earmarks. They move away from Tom DeLay and they think they’re improving the House, but now they have nothing to offer their members. The outside groups don’t always move votes directly but they create an atmosphere of fear among the members. And so many of these members now live in the conservative world of talk radio and tea party conventions and Fox News invitations.

• Shutdown can’t stop lobbyists from their appointed rounds

“Shutdown can’t stop lobbyists from their appointed rounds,” by Byron Tau: "Beltway lobbyists are making their normal load of Hill meetings and client work happen — in spite of a federal government operating without hundreds of thousands of staffers and …

One of the biggest problems for lobbyists on Capitol Hill on day one of the shutdown was simply getting into the congressional office buildings for the access they need with lobbyists and staff. Massive lines formed Tuesday outside the House and Senate office buildings because the shutdown forced the Capitol complex to reduce the number of open entrances. Even after the morning rush of staffers arriving for work was over, it was common to see lines of nearly 100 people waiting to get into the congressional office buildings. … [David Urban, a lobbyist with the American Continental Group] – ‘being a good lobbyist,’ he joked – [said:] ‘I had one of the staffers come pick us up and he drive us into the garage’ … bypassing the security lines. … ‘I went to a 7:45 a.m. breakfast on the Hill this morning with two congressmen — it was packed and they were on time,’ said Brian Johnson, a tax and trade lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute. ‘With long lines at all the congressional buildings, I’m thankful I’ve built relationships where folks on the Hill will just take a call — most of them, that is.’

• Postal Service defaults on $5.6 billion payment – Oct. 1, 2013

“We have not made the required $5.6 billion Retiree Health Benefits prefunding payment due Sept. 30, 2013,” wrote USPS spokeswomen Patricia Licata in an email to CNNMoney. She added that the default has absolutely nothing to do withthe federal government shutdown. “We have been saying for several months that we will be defaulting on this payment. This is the third time we have [done so],” Licata wrote.

Postal officials have long complained about a Congressional mandate that requires them to set aside billions of dollars for a retiree health care fund each year. The Postal Service also defaulted on these prefund payments last year. In fiscal year 2012, the Postal Service lost a total of $15.9 billion, including $11.1 billion in defaulted payments that it owes to prefund health benefits for retirees.

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After an abrupt change of course President Obama’s plan to bomb Syria has won key congressional support, as lawmakers prepare to authorize America’s new war, we’ll blow past the patriotic platitudes and superficial reasons for the conflict and call out the real interest behind this aggression, and the dangerous blowback even a limited strike could bring.

Plus: Revelation of the NSA’s rampant spying continue to leak, this week we learned the NSA captured the emails of Brazil and Mexico presidents, and they’re not very happy about it.

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NSA is CRAZY

• Brazil and Mexico Ask the U.S. to Explain Reports of NSA Spying on Their Leaders – Abby Ohlheiser – The Atlantic Wire

Brazil and Mexico have called on the U.S. to explain recent reports — sourced to documents obtained by Edward Snowden — alleging that the NSA spied on Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. Rousseff, who called in U.S. ambassador Thomas Shannon over the allegations, might cancel an October trip to the White House.

• NSA Spied on Al Jazeera Communications: Snowden Document – SPIEGEL ONLINE

The United States intelligence agency was so interested, in fact, that it hacked into Al Jazeera’s internal communications system, according to documents from former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden that have been seen by SPIEGEL.

One such document, dated March 23, 2006, reveals that the NSA’s Network Analysis Center managed to access and read communication by “interesting targets” that was specially protected by the news organization. The information also shows that the NSA officials were not satisfied with Al Jazeera’s language analysis.

• David Miranda was carrying password for secret files on piece of paper

"Much of the material is encrypted. However, among the unencrypted documents
… was a piece of paper that included the password for decrypting one of
the encypted files on the external hard drive recovered from the claimant.

“The fact that … the claimant was carrying on his person a handwritten piece
of paper containing the password for one of the encrypted files … is a
sign of very poor information security practice.”

• Al-Qaeda tries to hack US drones

According to the latest Snowden leaks in The Washington Post, an intelligence community report entitled “Threats to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” details Al-Qaeda’s attempts to counter US drone strikes dating back to 2006. Al-Qaeda attempted to down US drones in various ways, including jamming GPS signals and hobby airplanes. The terrorist organization is trying to recruit more engineers and technicians to focus on counter-drone operations.

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Syria

• David Cameron rules out any future military action in Syria – Telegraph

The Prime Minister said that the UK “can’t be part and won’t be part” of any
military strikes against Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

• Kerry, Hagel address Senate on using force in Syria – Middle East News | Latest News Headlines | The Irish Times – Tue, Sep 03, 2013

“President Obama is not asking America to go to war,” Mr Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

“He is asking for authorization to degrade and deter (Syrian president) Bashar al-Assad’s capacity to use chemical weapons.”

• Senate panel votes to authorize Syria strike

The vote came after Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., raised objections to an earlier draft. The objections forced lawmakers to renegotiate the measure; McCain ultimately won tougher language clarifying that U.S. policy would be aimed at changing the momentum on the ground. He was among the 10 who voted for the final resolution, after getting two amendments added.

“These amendments are vital to ensuring that any U.S. military operations in Syria are part of a broader strategy to change the momentum on the battlefield in Syria,” McCain said in a statement afterward. “That strategy must degrade the military capabilities of the Assad regime while upgrading the military capabilities of moderate Syrian opposition forces. These amendments would put the Congress on the record that this is the policy of the United States, as President Obama has assured me it is.”

• Hagel estimates cost of Syria strike at ‘tens of millions’ of dollars

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told lawmakers on Wednesday that a limited military strike against Syria was expected to cost “tens of millions” of dollars.

Weed

• Obama administration will not block state marijuana laws if distribution is regulated – The Washington Post

The Obama administration said Thursday that it would not challenge laws legalizing marijuana in Colorado and Washington state as long as those states maintain strict rules involving the sale and distribution of the drug.

In a memo to U.S. attorneys in all 50 states, Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole said the Justice Department is “committed to using its limited investigative and prosecutorial resources to address the most significant threats in the most effective, consistent and rational way.” He stressed that marijuana remains illegal under federal law.

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Every Important Person In Bitcoin Just Got Subpoenaed By New York\’s Financial Regulator

• New York State to investigate \’Wild West\’ Bitcoin industry • The Register

An official told the Associated Press that 22 subpoenas have been issued in all, seeking information on such topics as what measures Bitcoin companies may have taken to prevent money laundering, and what kind of consumer protections might be available for Bitcoin investors.

\”If virtual currencies remain a virtual Wild West for narcotraffickers and other criminals, that would not only threaten our country\’s national security, but also the very existence of the virtual currency industry as a legitimate business enterprise,\” Benjamin Lawsky, who heads the New York Department of Financial Services, said in a memo accompanying the subpoenas on Monday.

• Every Important Person In Bitcoin Just Got Subpoenaed By New York\’s Financial Regulator – Forbes

The New York State Department of Financial Services is stepping into the sheriff\’s boots.

\”We believe that — for a number of reasons — putting in place appropriate regulatory safeguards for virtual currencies will be beneficial to the long-term strength of the virtual currency industry,\” said NYSDFS superintendent Benjamin Lawsky in a statement.

List of companies subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services

• BitInstant
• BitPay
• Coinabul
• Coinbase Inc.
• CoinLab
• Coinsetter
• Dwolla
• eCoin Cashier
• Payward, Inc.
• TrustCash Holdings Inc.
• ZipZap
• Butterfly Labs
• Andreesen Horowitz
• Bitcoin Opportunity Fund
• Boost VC Bitcoin Fund
• Founders Fund
• Google Ventures
• Lightspeed Venture Partners
• Tribeca Venture Partners
• Tropos Funds
• Union Square Ventures
• Winklevoss Capital Management

Congress appropriations bill directs FBI to launch a federal investigation of Bitcoin as potential means for criminal, terrorist or other illegal activities

• Congress starts looking into Bitcoin

A Senate committee is pressing federal regulators and law enforcement officials to explain how they plan to oversee Bitcoin and other virtual currencies as the issue gains increasing attention from government officials concerned about the role these new markets will play in the future.

The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Monday sent letters to several agencies requesting that they disclose their virtual currency policies, how they developed them, how agencies are coordinating and finally what they plan to do going forward.

• From the bill (page 45):

Money laundering.–The Committee understands that Bitcoins and other forms of peer-to-peer digital currency are a potential means for criminal, terrorist or other illegal organizations and individuals to illegally launder and transfer money. News reports indicate that Bitcoins may have been used to help finance the flight and activity of fugitives. The Committee directs the FBI, in consultation with the Department and other Federal partners, to provide a briefing no later 120 days after the enactment of this Act on the nature and scale of the risk posed by such ersatz currency, both in financing illegal enterprises and in undermining financial institutions. The briefing should describe the FBI efforts in the context of a coordinated Federal response to this challenge, and identify staffing and other resources devoted to this effort.

• CRPT-113hrpt171.pdf

• Crypto-currency for NSA leaker: Snowden fund accepts Bitcoin — RT News

The Journalistic Source Protection Defence Fund (JSPD) was set up on August 9 with the goal to provide legal as well as campaign aid to journalistic sources. Snowden, who is behind the biggest intelligence leak in the history of the US National Security Agency (NSA), has been selected the first such source.

Android Security Flaw Puts Bitcoin Wallets at Risk

• 55 BTC Stolen Through Security Vulnerability in Android Bitcoin Wallets

SecureRandom is a Java class that generates cryptographically strong random numbers. In order to remain secure the random numbers used to generate private keys must be nondeterministic, meaning that the output of the generator cannot be predicted. Mike Hearn stated in an email to bitcoin developers regarding the Secure Random class on android, \”Android phones/tablets are weak and some signatures have been observed to have colliding R values, allowing the private key to be solved and money to be stolen.\” Bitcoin uses a random number in transaction signatures and if the same random number is reused the private key of the wallet can be determined.

Before the announcement was made, users on the bitcointalk.org forums had noticed over 55 BTC were stolen a few hours after the client improperly signed a transaction using the compromised random number generator. Users observed SecureRandom re-using the same random numbers for multiple transactions, thus compromising the private keys.

• 55 BTC Stolen Through Security Vulnerability in Android Bitcoin Wallets

There are two types of mobile wallets, those where the private keys are generated locally on the phone, and those where private keys are held by a private company. Android wallet apps where keys are generated on the device include: Bitcoin Wallet, BitcoinSpinner, Mycellium Wallet, and Blockchain.info. Blockchain.info has already repaired the vulnerability, Bitcoin Wallet has an update in beta testing, and fixes for BitcoinSpinner and Mycellium are currently in development.

• 55 BTC Stolen Through Security Vulnerability in Android Bitcoin Wallets – The Genesis Block

The announcement on bitcoin.org identified a three step process to secure existing addresses on all other apps:

1. Generate a new address on a secure random number generator.
2. Transfer all existing bitcoins to the new address. Do not send any bitcoins from this address using an Android device until the updates are implemented
3. Notify any users of your old address of the change, so that the compromised address does not receive any more bitcoins.

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