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• FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

• Siri Offers Witty Responses About September 7 Event – Mac Rumors

• The EU may hit Apple with a $19 billion tax bill next week over ‘state aid’ – Business Insider

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• Business-Drone Rules to Take Effect

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This week, the FBI says APT6 has pawned the government for the last 5 years, Unaoil: a company that’s bribing the world & Researchers find a flaw in the visa database.

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FBI says APT6 has pwning the government for the last 5 years

• The feds warned that “a group of malicious cyber actors,” whom security experts believe to be the government-sponsored hacking group known as APT6, “have compromised and stolen sensitive information from various government and commercial networks” since at least 2011, according to an FBI alert obtained by Motherboard
• The official advisory is available on the Open Threat Exchange website
• The alert, which is also available online, shows that foreign government hackers are still successfully hacking and stealing data from US government’s servers, their activities going unnoticed for years. This comes months after the US government revealed that a group of hackers, widely believed to be working for the Chinese government, had for more than a year infiltrated the computer systems of the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM. In the process, they stole highly sensitive data about several millions of government workers and even spies.
• In the alert, the FBI lists a long series of websites used as command and control servers to launch phishing attacks “in furtherance of computer network exploitation (CNE) activities [read: hacking] in the United States and abroad since at least 2011.” Domains controlled by the hackers were “suspended” as of late December 2015, according to the alert, but it’s unclear if the hackers have been pushed out or they are still inside the hacked networks.
• Looks like they were in for years before they were caught, god knows where they are,” Michael Adams, an information security expert who served more than two decades in the US Special Operations Command, and who has reviewed the alert, told Motherboard. “Anybody who’s been in that network all this long, they could be anywhere and everywhere.
• “This is one of the earlier APTs, they definitely go back further than 2011 or whatever—more like 2008 I believe,” Kurt Baumgartner, a researcher at the Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab, told me. (Baumgartner declined to say whether the group was Chinese or not, but said its targets align with the interest of a state-sponsored attacker.)
• Kyrk Storer, a spokesperson with FireEye, confirmed that the domains listed in the alert “were associated with APT6 and one of their malware backdoors,” and that the hackers “targeted the US and UK defense industrial base.” APT6 is ”likely a nation-state sponsored group based in China,” according to FireEye, which ”has been dormant for the past several years.”
• Another researcher at a different security company, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about the hacker’s activities, said this was the “current campaign of an older group,” and said there “likely” was an FBI investigation ongoing. (Several other security companies declined to comment for this story.) At this point, it’s unclear whether the FBI’s investigation will lead to any concrete result. But two years after the US government charged five Chinese military members for hacking US companies, it’s clear hackers haven’t given up attacking US targets.

Unaoil: the company that bribed the world

• After a six-month investigation across two continents, Fairfax Media and The Huffington Post are revealing that billions of dollars of government contracts were awarded as the direct result of bribes paid on behalf of firms including British icon Rolls-Royce, US giant Halliburton, Australia’s Leighton Holdings and Korean heavyweights Samsung and Hyundai.
• A massive leak of confidential documents, and a large email, has for the first time exposed the true extent of corruption within the oil industry, implicating dozens of leading companies, bureaucrats and politicians in a sophisticated global web of bribery.
• The investigation centres on a Monaco company called Unaoil.
• Following a coded ad in a French newspaper, a series of clandestine meetings and midnight phone calls led to our reporters obtaining hundreds of thousands of the Ahsanis’ leaked emails and documents.
• The leaked files expose as corrupt two Iraqi oil ministers, a fixer linked to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, senior officials from Libya’s Gaddafi regime, Iranian oil figures, powerful officials in the United Arab Emirates and a Kuwaiti operator known as “the big cheese”.
• Western firms involved in Unaoil’s Middle East operation include some of the world’s wealthiest and most respected companies: Rolls-Royce and Petrofac from Britain; US companies FMC Technologies, Cameron and Weatherford; Italian giants Eni and Saipem; German companies MAN Turbo (now know as MAN Diesal & Turbo) and Siemens; Dutch firm SBM Offshore; and Indian giant Larsen & Toubro. They also show the offshore arm of Australian company Leighton Holdings was involved in serious, calculated corruption.
• The leaked files reveal that some people in these firms believed they were hiring a genuine lobbyist, and others who knew or suspected they were funding bribery simply turned a blind eye.
• The files expose the betrayal of ordinary people in the Middle East. After Saddam Hussein was toppled, the US declared Iraq’s oil would be managed to benefit the Iraqi people. Today, in part one of the ‘Global Bribe Factory’ expose, that claim is demolished.
• It is the Monaco company that almost perfected the art of corruption.
• It is called Unaoil and it is run by members of the Ahsani family – Monaco millionaires who rub shoulders with princes, sheikhs and Europe’s and America’s elite business crowd.
• How they make their money is simple. Oil-rich countries often suffer poor governance and high levels of corruption. Unaoil’s business plan is to play on the fears of large Western companies that they cannot win contracts without its help.
• Its operatives then bribe officials in oil-producing nations to help these clients win government-funded projects. The corrupt officials might rig a tender committee. Or leak inside information. Or ensure a contract is awarded without a competitive tender.
• On a semi-related note, another big story for you to go read:
• How to hack an Election from someone who has done it, more than once

Researchers find flaw in Visa database

• No, not that kind of Visa, the other one.
• Systems run by the US State Department, that issue Travel Visas that are required for visitors from most countries to be admitted to the US
• This has very important security considerations, as the application process for getting a visa is when most security checks are done
• Cyber-defense experts found security gaps in a State Department system that could have allowed hackers to doctor visa applications or pilfer sensitive data from the half-billion records on file, according to several sources familiar with the matter –- though defenders of the agency downplayed the threat and said the vulnerabilities would be difficult to exploit.
• Briefed to high-level officials across government, the discovery that visa-related records were potentially vulnerable to illicit changes sparked concern because foreign nations are relentlessly looking for ways to plant spies inside the United States, and terrorist groups like ISIS have expressed their desire to exploit the U.S. visa system, sources added
• After commissioning an internal review of its cyber-defenses several months ago, the State Department learned its Consular Consolidated Database –- the government’s so-called “backbone” for vetting travelers to and from the United States –- was at risk of being compromised, though no breach had been detected, according to sources in the State Department, on Capitol Hill and elsewhere.
• As one of the world’s largest biometric databases –- covering almost anyone who has applied for a U.S. passport or visa in the past two decades -– the “CCD” holds such personal information as applicants’ photographs, fingerprints, Social Security or other identification numbers and even children’s schools.
• “Every visa decision we make is a national security decision,” a top State Department official, Michele Thoren Bond, told a recent House panel.
• Despite repeated requests for official responses by ABC News, Kirby and others were unwilling to say whether the vulnerabilities have been resolved or offer any further information about where efforts to patch them now stand.
• State Department documents describe CCD as an “unclassified but sensitive system.” Connected to other federal agencies like the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and Defense Department, the database contains more than 290 million passport-related records, 184 million visa records and 25 million records on U.S. citizens overseas.
• “Because of the CCD’s importance to national security, ensuring its data integrity, availability, and confidentiality is vital,” the State Department’s inspector general warned in 2011.

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• Microsoft Sues Justice Department Over Client Data Gag Orders
• Root cause analysis of a recent Flash zero day
• Exclusive: Canadian Police Obtained BlackBerry’s Global Decryption Key
• After an outage, an Australian mobile provider credited customers with a single day of unlimited data usage. One customer managed to use 994 GB of mobile usage in a single day
• Sophisticated bribe scheme gets game company with access to antivirus whitelist to falsely list malware was trusted
• Microsoft releases optional Windows update to mitigate “mousejacking”, where an attacker can take over your wireless mount and keyboard from up to 100 meters away
• Github commits can now be GPG signed to prove their authenticity
• If you can’t break crypto, break the client. Recovery of plaintext from iMessage
• Renting a movie on your iOS device might free up some space for you
• The Italian Ministry of Economical Progress has revoked “HackingTeam”’s licence to export their Galileo remote control software outside of the EU, must ask special permission for each sale
• Laziness remains the greatest enemy of password security
• The “All Prior Art” project seems to machine generate every possible patent and release it under a creative commons license, so it can never be patented by anyone else. The ultimate reverse patent troll?
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CISA is working its way through the system, we highlight some reasons to be concerned & the role Facebook might be playing. Plus the European Parliament rejects amendments protecting net neutrality & some TalkTalk hack follow up.

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• Despite Concerns, Cybersecurity Bill Heads to Vote | Al Jazeera America
• Senior Former Intelligence Official Admits That ‘The Point’ Of CISA Is Surveillance | Techdirt
• Petition: Facebook betrayed us by secretly lobbying for cyber-surveillance bill / Boing Boing
• Ex-NSA Chief’s Cybersecurity Startup Draws Funding – WSJ
• TalkTalk hack: Police arrest teenager (15) in Northern Ireland – BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
• TalkTalk says it was “not legally required” to encrypt leaked customer data | Ars Technica UK
• European Parliament rejects amendments protecting net neutrality | The Verge
• Exclusive: Wal-Mart seeks to test drones for home delivery, pickup | Reuters

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Microsoft suffers a few major set back today & one rather important win. We’ll break it all down and talk about the long-term impact. Plus Google and the EU get into a tussle & Ikea has the solution to your power hungry smart device.

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Yahoo renews Microsoft search partnership – Business Insider

There are two major changes.

• Yahoo was responsible for the sales relationships for Bing search ads under the partnerships previously. All of those sales relationships are going to come under Microsoft in the coming months.
• The new deal now only requires Yahoo to pull a majority of its traffic from the Bing ads marketplace. Just 51%, rather than the 100% it was required to pull before. That means the other 49% of Yahoo’s search traffic could be monetized by Yahoo’s own ad units or by another search provider, like Google.

The are some HUGE ramifications:

• Yahoo has a lot of flexibility with the 49% of its search traffic that doesn’t have to be monetized by Bing. It could sell that traffic to Google, for example. That would immediately boost Yahoo’s revenues. One reason that may not happen is that, back in 2009, Yahoo tried to do a search ads deal with Google, and the Department of Justice scared Google out of it. Also, Mayer talks a lot about Yahoo’s own ads product, Gemini.
• Yahoo will probably be able to cut costs, shrinking its search ads sales force.
• Microsoft will have to hire a search ads force over the next couple months.

Verizon and AT&T Won’t Pre-Install Three Microsoft Apps on Samsung S6 – Digits – WSJ

Google and the EU — What’s Next? | Re/code

Google’s antitrust standoff with the European Union, a tumultuous legal tug-of-war begun in February 2010, reached a climax this morning with the EU laying the foundation for a formal complaint against Google for abusing its market position.

WikiLeaks Releases an Archive of Hacked Sony Emails

Microsoft will bundle its apps on Cyanogen’s Android OS | The Verge

Rumors of a Microsoft and Cyanogen partnership have been making the rounds recently, and the Android mod maker is confirming them today. In an email to The Verge, Cyanogen says it’s partnering with Microsoft to integrate the software giant’s consumer apps and services into the Cyanogen OS. Bing, Skype, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, and Microsoft Office will all be bundled later this year. As part of the partnership, Microsoft has committed to creating “native integrations” on Cyanogen OS.

These native integrations will likely result in increased integration for Microsoft’s apps and services in a way the company has been trialling recently with Android. Microsoft has experimented with a number of Android apps, and even a Next Lock Screen that aims to replace the traditional lock screen of Google’s Android OS. These experiments, and Microsoft’s many Android apps, are all aimed at pulling consumers away from Google services on Android.

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We update you on several big stories we’ve been following this week in this causal supporter show style edition of Unfilter. Plus our thoughts on Mozilla’s CEO stepping down, XP coming to an end, and more!

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NSA is Crazy

Edward Snowden: US government spied on human rights workers

The US has spied on the staff of prominent human rights organisations, Edward Snowden has told the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Europe’s top human rights body.

Giving evidence via a videolink from Moscow, Snowden said the National Security Agency – for which he worked as a contractor – had deliberately snooped on bodies like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

Snowden, meanwhile, dismissed NSA claims that he had swiped as many as 1.7m documents from the agency’s servers in an interview with Vanity Fair.

He described the number released by investigators as “simply a scare number based on an intentionally crude metric: everything that I ever digitally interacted with in my career.”
He added: “Look at the language officials use in sworn testimony about these records: ‘could have,’ ‘may have,’ ‘potentially.’ They’re prevaricating. Every single one of those officials knows I don’t have 1.7m files, but what are they going to say? What senior official is going to go in front of Congress and say, ‘We have no idea what he has, because the NSA’s auditing of systems holding hundreds of millions of Americans’ data is so negligent that any high-school dropout can walk out the door with it’?”

In the Vanity Fair interview the whistleblower said he paid the bill in the Mira Hotel using his own credit card because he wanted to demonstrate he was not working for a foreign intelligence agency. “My hope was that avoiding ambiguity would prevent spy accusations and create more room for reasonable debate,” he told the magazine. “Unfortunately, a few of the less responsible members of Congress embraced the spy charges for political reasons, as they still do to this day.”

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CIA Torture Scandal Marches On

Fury at attack on Dianne Feinstein by ex-CIA director Michael Hayden

The latest row broke on Sunday when Hayden, a former NSA and CIA director, said the Senate intelligence committee’s landmark report on torture and coercive interrogations was not objective because Feinstein, a California Democrat, was too “emotional”.

Ron Wyden, a member of the Senate intelligence committee, said on Monday that Michael Hayden’s attack on Feinstein, the committee chairperson, was “outrageous” and fitted a pattern of “misleading” the American public.

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Russia and United States are meeting face to face for the first time, since the situation in the Ukraine that they’ve helped create, exploded. The confirmation bias is strong, and all sides are engaged in media fueled war of propaganda to hide the real reasons for the conflict, we’ll follow the money, and break it down.

Actions speak louder than words, and we’ll examine the fast paced maneuvering of the US, Russia, and the EU, and why all of this could be heading towards a new kind of status quo, we’ll explain.

Plus our followup, your feedback, and much much more.

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NSA is Crazy

• GCHQ’s interception and storage of Yahoo webcam images condemned | World news | theguardian.com

GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 reveal that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not.

In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam images, including substantial quantities of sexually explicit material, from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.

• Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ | World news | The Guardian

Optic Nerve was based on collecting information from GCHQ’s huge network of internet cable taps, which was then processed and fed into systems provided by the NSA. Webcam information was fed into NSA’s XKeyscore search tool, and NSA research was used to build the tool which identified Yahoo’s webcam traffic.

Bulk surveillance on Yahoo users was begun, the documents said, because “Yahoo webcam is known to be used by GCHQ targets”.

The documents also show that GCHQ trialled automatic searches based on facial recognition technology, for people resembling existing GCHQ targets

The document estimates that between 3% and 11% of the Yahoo webcam imagery harvested by GCHQ contains “undesirable nudity”. Discussing efforts to make the interface “safer to use”, it noted that current “naïve” pornography detectors assessed the amount of flesh in any given shot, and so attracted lots of false positives by incorrectly tagging shots of people’s faces as pornography.

• CIA Reportedly Spied on Senate Intelligence Committee Which May be a Federal Crime : Just Security

McClatchy News is reporting that the CIA may have monitored computers that the agency provided to the Senate Intelligence Committee. The computers were used by Senate aides to prepare the Committee’s (still unreleased) report on the CIA’s secret detention and interrogation programs.

• C.I.A. Employees Face New Inquiry Amid Clashes on Detention Program – NYTimes.com

The agency’s inspector general began the inquiry partly as a response to complaints from members of Congress that C.I.A. employees were improperly monitoring the work of staff members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to government officials with knowledge of the investigation.

The committee has spent several years working on a voluminous report about the detention and interrogation program, and according to one official interviewed in recent days, C.I.A. officers went as far as gaining access to computer networks used by the committee to carry out its investigation.

• Obama knew CIA secretly monitored intelligence committee, senator claims

A leading US senator has said that President Obama knew of an “unprecedented action” taken by the CIA against the Senate intelligence committee, which has apparently prompted an inspector general’s inquiry at Langley.

The subtle reference in a Tuesday letter from Senator Mark Udall to Obama, seeking to enlist the president’s help in declassifying a 6,300-page inquiry by the committee into torture carried out by CIA interrogators after 9/11, threatens to plunge the White House into a battle between the agency and its Senate overseers.

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Ukraine mayhem

• Confirmation bias

Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is the tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses.

People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs.

• Victoria Nuland Reportedly Curses European Union in Leaked Audio

• ‘Tough’ Ukraine talks to continue after Paris summit

Russia’s Sergei Lavrov refused to meet his Ukrainian counterpart, whose government Moscow does not recognise.

• Secretary of State John Kerry visits Kiev, promises aid to Ukraine – World – The Boston Globe

The visit — and a promise of a $1 billion loan — was intended to build a relationship with Ukraine’s new leaders while demonstrating to an increasingly aggressive Russia that the United States is firmly behind Ukraine’s citizens, including the ragtag volunteer defense forces who continue to stand guard around the parliament building in Kiev.

• EU offers Ukraine $15 billion, but help hinges on IMF deal

The European Union offered a larger than expected package of aid to Ukraine on Wednesday, saying it was willing to provide $15 billion in loans and grants over the next several years to help get the shattered economy back on its feet.

• Ukraine Won’t Pay Russia For Gas, Has Billions In Obligations Due; Europe Promises Aid Money It Doesn’t Have | Zero Hedge

Ukraine’s acting finance minister Oleksander Shlapak reported that the country needs to repay $10 billion by year end and that the country may ask for a debt restructuring. Naturally, absent outside help, no repayment is possible and the country will certainly default, which means someone has to step up and bail out the Ukraine. The only question is where this aid comes from: EU/IMF or Russia.

• US ups air defense presence in Europe

The United States is sending six more F–15 fighter jets and one KC–135 refueling aircraft to Poland, according to a defense official Wednesday.

• Putin, Flashing Disdain, Defends Action in Crimea – NYTimes.com

“The only thing we had to do, and we did it, was to enhance the defense of our military facilities because they were constantly receiving threats and we were aware of the armed nationalists moving in,” Mr. Putin said, referring to Russia’s longstanding bases affiliated with the Black Sea Fleet, which has its headquarters in the port of Sevastopol in the Crimea region of Ukraine.

• CIA reportedly says Russia sees treaty as justifying Ukraine moves

CIA director John Brennan told a senior lawmaker Monday that a 1997 treaty between Russia and Ukraine allows up to 25,000 Russia troops in the vital Crimea region, so Russia may not consider its recent troop movements to be an invasion, U.S. officials said.

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New leaks give us a better picture of how the NSA vacuums up your Internet traffic, and leverages their relationships with telecom companies to take what they want.

Then Latin America stands with Edward Snowden as multiple offers of asylum come in, we’ll bring you up to date on the hunt for Edward Snowden and discuss his latest revelations.

Plus on the eve of new talks with China the US is caught in another hypocritical scandal, a look at the explosive situation in Egypt, your feedback, and much much more.

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Is Broccoli-Gate The Media Having a Laugh at the Public?

• President Obama says broccoli is his favorite food | Fox News

The president’s answer places him in direct odds with former President George H.W. Bush, who famously declared in 1990 that he hated broccoli.

“And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!” he said.

Egypt Headed for Civil War?

• Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood calls for ‘uprising’ after troops shoot protesters – The Washington Post

Egypt lurched into dangerous new terrain Monday as an angry and bloodied Muslim Brotherhood called for an “uprising” against the new order, and the head of Egypt’s top Islamic authority warned that the country was headed toward “civil war,” after security forces opened fire on supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi in the early morning hours.

• Menendez: Egypt aid can be ‘leverage’ – The Hill’s Video

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on Sunday said the U.S. could use its foreign aid package for Egypt as “leverage” to push the country back to democracy, days after the military ousted elected President Mohamed Morsi.

• The U.S. gives Egypt $1.5 billion a year in aid. Here’s what it does.

What do we actually give to Egypt? Between 1948 and 2011, the United States has given Egypt about $71.6 billion in bilateral military and economic aid. That’s more than we’ve given to any other country over that time frame save for Israel.

A recent report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service lays out the details. The biggest chunk is military aid, averaging about $1.3 billion per year since 1987, with much of that military equipment. For instance, Egypt plans to acquire 1,200 M1A1 Abrams Battle tanks from the United States. The components are jointly manufactured in both countries and shipped to Egypt for final assembly. This year, the United States is also shipping 20 F–16 fighter jets overseas. Plus there’s money for border security along the Sinai Peninsula.

Egypt also gets a few special financing provisions, says CRS, including the ability to deposit its funds at an interest-bearing account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The nation also gets to engage in cash-flow financing to pay for military equipment, a special provision not available to most recipients, and one that allows Egypt to negotiate bigger arms purchases.

• Why do we give Egypt so much aid?

The Obama administration has insisted that aid to Egypt is crucial to avoiding broader problems. “A hold up of aid might contribute to the chaos that may ensue because of their collapsing economy, said Secretary of State John Kerry in January. ”Their biggest problem is a collapsing economy."

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Latest Leaks

• The NSA slide you haven’t seen

A classified NSA slide obtained by The Washington Post and published here for the first time lists “Two Types of Collection.”

One is PRISM, the NSA program that collects information from technology companies, which was first revealed in reports by the Post and Britain’s Guardian newspaper last month. The slide also shows a separate category labeled “Upstream,” described as accessing “communications on fiber cables and infrastructure as data flows past.”

• Colombia demands explanation on NSA spying allegations | Reuters

Colombia is considered a top military and diplomatic ally in the region following a decade of joint operations against Marxist rebels and drug trafficking gangs that have caused harm to both countries’ economies.

“In rejecting the acts of espionage that violate people’s rights and intimacy as well as the international conventions on telecommunication, Colombia requests the corresponding explanations from the United States government through its ambassador to Colombia,” the foreign ministry said in the statement.

• Snowden Seen as Whistle-Blower by Majority in New Poll

A majority of U.S. registered voters
consider Edward Snowden a whistle-blower, not a traitor, and a
plurality says government anti-terrorism efforts have gone too
far in restricting civil liberties, a poll released today shows.

Fifty-five percent said Snowden was a whistle-blower in
leaking details about top-secret U.S. programs that collect
telephone and Internet data, in the survey

“The fact that there is little difference now along party lines about the overall anti-terrorism effort and civil liberties and about Snowden is in itself unusual in a country sharply divided along political lines about almost everything,”

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Where in the World is Snowden

• Edward Snowden: ‘The US government will say I aided our enemies’ – video interview | World news | guardian.co.uk

In the second part of an exclusive interview with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden contemplates the reaction from the US government to his revelations of top-secret documents regarding its spying operations on domestic and foreign internet traffic, email and phone use. This interview was recorded in Hong Kong on 6 June 2013

• Snowden’s five dubious options for getting to Venezuela

Should NSA leaker Edward Snowden decide to accept Venezuela’s offer of asylum, the tricky thing will be figuring how to get there from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. His big problem is that after the strange saga of Bolivian President Evo Morales’s flight over Europe, which included an unexpected stopover in Austria where the presidential plane may have been searched, Snowden might want to avoid flying over any countries friendly to the United States.

He appears to have, generally speaking, five options, each of which carries significant risk.

Dinner with China:

• US and China begin strategic talks – Americas – Al Jazeera English

US Vice President Joe Biden has urged China to end its “outright” theft through hacking and to improve human rights as the world’s two largest economies began annual strategic talks.

• Jack Lew on Chinese cyber theft, Snowden – YouTube

Treasury Secretary Lew tells Fareed Zakaria how Chinese cyber theft is different from NSA surveillance.

• NSA ‘spied’ on most Latin American nations: Brazil pape

Citing documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the fugitive former American intelligence contractor, O Globo newspaper said the NSA programs went beyond military affairs to what it termed “commercial secrets.”

These included petroleum in Venezuela and energy in Mexico, according to a graphic O Globo identified as being from the NSA and dated February of this year.

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Obama shrugged him off, calling him some 29 year old hacker. But this week the Administrations actions spoke louder than their words. Their hunt for Edward Snowden intensifies as they twist the arm of Vladimir Putin, ground the jet of the Bolivian president, and placing frantic calls to nation leaders around the world.

We’ll bring you up to date on the twists and turns in hunt for Snowden, analyze the latest leaks, and discuss why some of America’s allies are very angry.

Then we’ll cover the historic showdown in Egypt as millions take to the street, your feedback, and much much more.

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— Show Notes —

Germany, France outraged by US ‘Cold War’ spying web

• EU concern over Der Spiegel claim of US spying

The report, carried by Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine, cites a secret 2010 document alleging that the US spied on EU offices in New York and Washington.

• Germany, France outraged by US ‘Cold War’ spying web – YouTube

Europe’s reeling from revelations that its leaders and citizens have been targeted by U.S. wiretapping and mass surveillance. That information was leaked to the German media – and the American ambassador there has been summoned for an explanation. RT is joined by Lizzie Phelan, newsroom chief at RT’s video agency in Berlin, Ruptly. RT is also joined by French journalist and blogger Jean Marc Manach.

• German Magazine Der Spiegel Lands Latest Edward Snowden NSA Scoop

“The documents prove that Germany played a central role in the NSA’s global surveillance network – and how the Germans have also become targets of U.S. attacks,” Der Spiegel reported. “Each month, the U.S. intelligence service saves data from around half a billion communications connections from Germany.”

• France wants to ‘temporarily suspend’ trade talks with US over NSA spying — RT News

France wants to delay the ‘biggest bilateral trade deal in history’ by 2 weeks after learning the USA was allegedly tracking economic communications of EU member states. But Germany says they should go ahead as planned.

• Warren on Trans-Pacific Partnership: If people knew what was going on, they would stop it

• Bug found at Ecuador’s embassy in London

At Tuesday’s press conference in the capital Quito, minister Patino said that the hidden listening device was found during a regular security check by the Ecuadorian intelligence for the Ecuadorian embassy in the UK on June 16.

The microphone was found in the office of the ambassador Ana Alban.

“We immediately conducted an investigation to find the source and I will release our result at tomorrow’s press conference including the source of the device, who was using it and which department installed it”, Patino told reporters.

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Where in the World is Snowden

• Biden asks Ecuador to reject Snowden’s asylum request

Vice President Biden has asked Ecuador to turn down an asylum request from National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, the country’s president said Saturday.

Rafael Correa said he had a “friendly and very cordial” conversation with Biden, and told the vice president that Ecuador hadn’t sought to be put in the situation of deciding whether to harbor an American fugitive. Correa said Ecuador can’t consider the asylum request until Snowden is on Ecuadorean soil.

• Ecuador Leader Says Biden Called About Asylum Request – NYTimes.com

White House officials have said in recent days that in their contacts with foreign governments about Mr. Snowden, they have warned those governments about the felony charges that Mr. Snowden faced in the United States and urged that they not further aid his international flight.

• Bolivian president’s jet rerouted amid suspicions Edward Snowden on board | World news | The Guardian

France and Portugal accused of refusing entry to their airspace, while plane lands in Vienna with no sign of Snowden

• Charlie Rose – Alan Rusbridger and Janine Gibson – YouTube

Guardian editors Alan Rusbridger and Janine Gibson on Edward Snowden and the NSA leaks

Showdown: Egypt

• Egypt’s military suspends constitution, replaces President Morsi – latimes.com

CAIRO – Egyptian military leaders on Wednesday said they were suspending the constitution, and they replaced President Mohamed Morsi with the head of the nation’s constitutional court.

• Raw: Egypt Military Releases New Protest Video – YouTube

The Egyptian military released new images taken from the skies above Cairo during this weekend’s huge anti-government protests. Hundreds of thousands of protesters can be seen gathered at Tahrir Square and the Ittihadiya presidential palace. (July 2)

• Egypt – Imgur

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• U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement – NYTimes.com

“Show all mail to supv” — supervisor — “for copying prior to going out on the street,” read the card. It included Mr. Pickering’s name, address and the type of mail that needed to be monitored. The word “confidential” was highlighted in green.

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About 30 RCMP officers set up a blockade at the checkpoint, preventing 50 residents from walking into the town. Dozens more police cars, lights on, could be seen lining streets in the town on standby.

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Some call it one of the most significant public health advances in history, others call it a dangerous toxic substance. In this episode we look at the Fluoride debate.

And a new generation of technology is empowering our cars, but what is being done to safeguard your privacy?

Plus: Your feedback, and our follow up.

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ACT ONE:

• Drug tunnels discovered days apart in U.S., Mexico

• New car technology is keeping people safer on the roads without potentially violating privacy unlike madating

  • Congress Closes In on Car \’Black Box\’ Law
  • Cars Should Automatically Call for Help After Crashes, EU Parliament Says More about eCall in the EU here

• Americans\’ Confidence in Television News Drops to New Low

• S. Korean develops efficient, marketable bio oil plant

• ACTA Lives: How the EU & Canada Are Using CETA as Backdoor Mechanism To Revive ACTA

• Kim Dotcom Offers the DoJ a Deal
  

• Wikipedia Russia, Other Sites Protest Proposed Internet \’censorship\’ Law

ACT TWO:

• Professional Perspectives: Fluoride in Tap Water – YouTube
• Fluoride & Pineal Gland
• Fluoride and The Pineal Gland – YouTube
• Basic Information about Fluoride in Drinking Water | EPA
• Fluoride Risk Assessment and Relative Source Contribution
• EPA Reverses Itself on Fluoride
• EPA lowers Fluoride in Water due to Health Hazards
• EPA Proposes Phaseout of Fluoride-Based Pesticide
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  WHY EPA HEADQUARTERS UNION OF SCIENTISTS
  OPPOSES FLUORIDATION
  
• EPA Union Calls for Moratorium on Water Fluoridation
• Fluoride Report Confirms EPA Union\’s 20-year-old Concerns
• Fed up with fluoride flap, Everett councilmen walk out of meeting
• Fluoride-free Calgary savings go to children’s dental health
• How to Remove Fluoride from Drinking Water
• Officials Say Kids Getting Too Much Fluoride

• Pro Water Fluoridation Video

• US: Check Your Water\’s Fluoride

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