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Trump Tape Troubles | Unfilter 288

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Volcanoes of Jihad | Unfilter 123

chris — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:28:53 +0000

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After weeks of speculation we have new audio from ISIS’ leader Al Baghdadi calling for attacks in Saudi Arabia & we make the case that it’s still all about the oil. Plus the latest in the Net Neutrality debate, and our follow up thoughts.

Then we take a critical look at the attempts to scare kids in schools & the twists and turns for legal cannabis.

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Cops Decide Running Surprise School Shooter Drill During Class At A Middle School Is A Great Idea | Techdirt

We’re going to have to go over this again: if your drills to prevent school tragedy actually leave school children traumatized, then don’t do those damned drills. What began with terrorism drills on school buses and then devolved into unannounced school-shooting drills is getting to be so full-on crazy that I sort of can’t believe that _anyone _thinks any of this is a good idea. The latest story involves police running an unannounced “active shooter drill” at a local middle school while classes were in session. As a part of this insane exercise, police officers went around bursting into classrooms filled with terrified students, weapons out, as they acted out their fun little thespian experience of horror. And, to add insult to injury, school officials notified parents of the drill long after unknowing students were informing their parents that an actual shooting was taking place at the school.

According to Fox affiliate WTVT, officials at Jewett Middle Academy e-mailed parents to inform them of the drill, after it took place. By that point, WTVT reports, cellphones were already filling up with texts from frightened students, who thought there was a real shooter in the school.

US Senate falls two votes short of shutting down NSA phone spying | Ars Technica

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in 2013. Rubio was first to speak against the USA Freedom Act in today’s debate, saying it could slow the government from disrupting an ISIL cell.

The US Senate voted against reining in the NSA’s spying powers tonight, shooting down a proposal that was supported not just by intelligence reform groups, but by the director of the NSA himself.

The USA Freedom Act needed 60 Senate votes to pass its key procedural vote, and it failed to get them. The bill got 58 yes votes and 42 no votes.

The bill would have stopped the government from engaging in bulk phone surveillance. Instead, Americans’ phone information would have remained with the phone companies and could only be searched by request, with specific selection terms.

It would have also provided for a privacy advocate at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which approves such surveillance. Reformers hoped that would provide for a less one-sided debate at that court.

Congress Is Irrelevant on Mass Surveillance. Here’s What Matters Instead. – The Intercept

The “debate” among the Senators that preceded the vote was darkly funny and deeply boring, in equal measure. The black humor was due to the way one GOP senator after the next—led by ranking intelligence committee member Saxby Chambliss of Georgia (pictured above)—stood up and literally screeched about 9/11 and ISIS over and over and over, and then sat down as though they had made a point. Their scary script had been unveiled earlier that morning by a _Wall Street Journal _op-ed by former Bush Attorney General Mike Mukasey and former CIA and NSA Director Mike Hayden warning that NSA reform would make the terrorists kill you; it appeared under this Onion-like headline:

There is a real question about whether the defeat of this bill is good, bad, or irrelevant. To begin with, it sought to change only one small sliver of NSA mass surveillance (domestic bulk collection of phone records under section 215 of the Patriot Act) while leaving completely unchanged the primary means of NSA mass surveillance, which takes place under section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, based on the lovely and quintessentially American theory that all that matters are the privacy rights of Americans (and not the 95 percent of the planet called “non-Americans”).

There were some mildly positive provisions in the USA Freedom Act: the placement of “public advocates” at the FISA court to contest the claims of the government; the prohibition on the NSA holding Americans’ phone records, requiring instead that they obtain FISA court approval before seeking specific records from the telecoms (which already hold those records for at least 18 months); and reducing the agency’s “contact chaining” analysis from three hops to two.

Net Neutrality

David Cameron Says People Aren’t Radicalized By Poverty Or Foreign Policy, But By Free Speech Online, So ISPs Agree To Censor Button | Techdirt

A few years ago, we mocked then Senator Joe Lieberman’s request that internet companies put “report this content as terrorist content” buttons on various types of online content. The plan went nowhere, because it’s a really bad idea, prone to massive abuse. Yet, over in the UK, some apparently think it’s such a grand idea that they’re actually moving forward with it. This isn’t a huge surprise — the current UK government has been going on for quite some time about banning “extremist” content, and just recently ramped up such efforts.

And now it appears that a bunch of big UK broadband access providers have agreed to play along:

The UK’s major Internet service providers — BT, Virgin, Sky and Talk Talk — have this week committed to host a public reporting button for terrorist material online, similar to the reporting button which allows the public to report child sexual exploitation.

They have also agreed to ensure that terrorist and extremist material is captured by their filters to prevent children and young people coming across radicalising material.

ISIS / ISIL / IS / CIA

ISIS: Baghdadi Is Alive and Saudi Arabia Is Our Next Target

After roughly a week of speculation over the fate of its leader, the Islamic State (ISIS) released what it says is a speech from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi today in which the head of the makeshift caliphate calls for attacks against Saudi Arabia, among other things.

“There will be no security, no rest for Al-Salul,” the ISIS leader purportedly says, referring to the ruling family of Saudi Arabia. “Draw your swords.”

In the 16-minute speech, which ISIS also translated into English and made available online, Baghdadi allegedly calls on his followers to first attack Shiites, then proceed to combat Saudi Arabia and the U.S., which has military bases on the Arabian Peninsula.

Can Saudi Arabia keep ISIS out? – CBS News

The U.S. military said Monday coalition forces conducted more than 30 airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) since Friday. That coalition includes Saudi Arabia.

The Saudis are desperate to keep what’s happening in Iraq from happening in their country. CBS News was given an extraordinary look at what they’re doing.

We flew over the Arabian Desert to see the new, 600-mile long border fence that’s protecting Saudi Arabia from ISIS. On the other side is the chaos of Iraq, where ISIS is waging a brutal war.

The Saudis are using radar and infrared cameras to make sure it doesn’t spill across the frontier.

Saudi Funding of ISIS – The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Today, Saudi citizens continue to represent a significant funding source for Sunni groups operating in Syria. Arab Gulf donors as a whole — of which Saudis are believed to be the most charitable — have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Syria in recent years, including to ISIS and other groups. There is support for ISIS in Saudi Arabia, and the group directly targets Saudis with fundraising campaigns

Video: Who is Jihadi John? – in 60 seconds – Telegraph

“Jihadi John”, the masked Isil executioner and alleged British national,
known for his role in the beheadings of hostages by the Islamic State has
become one of the world’s most wanted men

Jihadi John – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Second French suspect in Isis beheading video – The Local

A second Frenchman who appeared among Islamic State jihadists in a grisly execution video has been identified as a 22-year-old man from an eastern suburb of Paris, a source close to the case said Wednesday.

President Francois Hollande earlier confirmed a second Frenchman was spotted in the video showing the beheading of Syrian prisoners, who the source said went by the name Abu Othman.

The two Frenchmen are seen in the brutal clip released by the IS group on Sunday which features the killing of 18 Syrian prisoners and a US aid worker.

High Note

First pot auction held in Washington state

History was made Saturday on a tiny farm outside Prosser. For the first time, marijuana was sold at an auction.

Those in the retail pot business say it’s a sign supply is slowly starting to meet demand.

Most of the U.S. could never do what Randy Williams and his Fireweed Farms pulled off – 500 pounds of pot were on sale.

Why Congress Probably Won’t Block Marijuana Legalization In Washington, D.C.

Initiative 71 cannot take effect until after D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson submits it to Congress for review, which he is expected to do when the new Congress is seated in January. “I will treat Initiative 71 in the same manner as I would any measure passed by the Council and transmit it to Congress without delay,” he said last week. Although Mayor-elect Bowser indicated that she would like to wait until the D.C. Council has approved legislation authorizing the licensing of commercial growers and retailers, the timing is up to Mendelson.

Once Mendelson submits the initiative, Congress has 30 legislative days to pass a resolution overriding it. If a resolution is not enacted by the end of that period, the initiative automatically becomes law. Getting a bill through both chambers in that amount of time will be a challenge, even with Republicans taking control of the Senate and expanding their majority in the House. And that’s assuming Republicans—who, as Rohrabacher noted, often talk about the virtues of federalism and local control—think nullifying a policy endorsed by 69 percent of D.C. voters should be one of their first acts in the new Congress.

“I think a resolution of disapproval is unlikely,” says Bill Piper, director of national affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance. “Overturning a ballot measure passed by 70 percent of the voters doesn’t really look good for the incoming Republican Congress. If the council transmits [the initiative] in January, I think that pretty much reduces or eliminates the chance that Congress will overturn it outright. It just doesn’t fit with what they’re talking about doing, which is rebranding themselves as not being obstructionists.”

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Unfiltering the State of the Union | Unfilter 83

chris — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 23:01:41 +0000

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Plus we’ll fact checking the talking points, take your live calls, our follow up, and much much more.

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NSA is Crazy:

Angry Birds and ‘leaky’ phone apps targeted by NSA and GCHQ for user data

Exploiting phone information and location is a high-priority effort for the intelligence agencies, as terrorists and other intelligence targets make substantial use of phones in planning and carrying out their activities, for example by using phones as triggering devices in conflict zones. The NSA has cumulatively spent more than $1bn in its phone targeting efforts.

The disclosures also reveal how much the shift towards smartphone browsing could benefit spy agencies’ collection efforts.

A May 2010 NSA slide on the agency’s ‘perfect scenario’ for obtaining data from mobile apps. Photograph: Guardian

One slide from a May 2010 NSA presentation on getting data from smartphones – breathlessly titled “Golden Nugget!” – sets out the agency’s “perfect scenario”: “Target uploading photo to a social media site taken with a mobile device. What can we get?”

The question is answered in the notes to the slide: from that event alone, the agency said it could obtain a “possible image”, email selector, phone, buddy lists, and “a host of other social working data as well as location”.

Snowden-Interview in English

Whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked the documents about US mass surveillance. He spoke about his disclosures and his life to NDR journalist Seipel in Moscow.

Edward Snowden tells German TV that NSA is involved in industrial espionage | World news | The Guardian

“If there’s information at Siemens that’s beneficial to US national interests – even if it doesn’t have anything to do with national security – then they’ll take that information nevertheless,” Snowden said in the interview conducted in Russia, where Snowden has claimed asylum.

Snowden also told the German public broadcasting network he no longer had possession of any documents or information on NSA activities and had turned everything over to select journalists. He said he did not have any control over the publication of the information.

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Obama’s NSA Reform Ruse | Unfilter 82

chris — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:45:37 +0000

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President Obama has outlined his so called reforms of America’s controversial surveillance tactics. But as expected the reforms are light on real change, and leave many of the worst policies in place and unabated. We’ll dig into the most egregious.

Plus: It’s new round of character assassination for Edward Snowden, and this time the claims are even more ridiculous. Is Snowden a double agent for the FSB? We’ll debunk.

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NSA is CRAZY

Michael Morell joins CBS News

Michael Morell, who retired as deputy director of the CIA last summer, has joined CBS News as an intelligence, national security and counterterrorism contributor, the network announced this week.

Obama’s proposed NSA ‘reform’ changes nothing

The Washington Post has already identified the five big takeaways from Obama’s speech:

US intelligence agencies will no longer hold Americans’ phone call records.
There will, nevertheless, be some system for those records to be accessible when required.
The US will no longer monitor the communications of the heads of state or government of “close friends and allies”.
A new panel will be created to provide additional input into the secret court that oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), including privacy specialists and other non-government folks.
There will be new rules to extend some of the privacy provisions applying to US citizens to foreigners, unless there’s a “compelling national security purpose”.
’The USA knows that for us spying is a crime’

“The German justice system will not stand idly by if the efforts of the NSA blithely continue here,” he told Bild newspaper on Monday.

New documents: NSA provided 2–3 daily “tips” to FBI for at least 3 years | Ars Technica

Hours after President Barack Obama finished his speech last Friday on proposed intelligence and surveillance reforms, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) declassified a number of documents from the nation’s most secretive court.

The new documents are heavily redacted orders from FISC to the FBI. These items request that the court order an entity (likely a business) to provide “tangible things” under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act. The documents do not refer to who the target is, nor which company or organization they apply to.

“The Court understands that NSA expects that it will continue to provide on average approximately three telephone identifiers per day to the FBI,” reads a footnote in a 2007 court order (PDF) authored by FISC Judge Frederick Scullin, Jr.

Rating Obama’s NSA Reform Plan: EFF Scorecard Explained | Electronic Frontier Foundation

We’ve put together a scorecard showing how Obama’s announcements stack up against 12 common sense fixes that should be a minimum for reforming NSA surveillance. Each necessary reform was worth 1 point, and we were willing to award partial credit for steps in the right direction. On that scale, President Obama racked up 3.5 points out of a possible 12.

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Snow Job:

Snowden Denies Suggestions That He Was a Spy for Russia – NYTimes.com

Mr. Rogers said on the NBC News program “Meet the Press” on Sunday that Mr. Snowden should be seen not as a whistle-blower but as “a thief, who we believe had some help.”

Officials at both the N.S.A. and the F.B.I. have said their investigations have turned up no evidence that Mr. Snowden was aided by others.

Snowden Calls Russian-Spy Story ‘Absurd’ in Exclusive Interview : The New Yorker

Speaking from Moscow, where he is a fugitive from American justice, Snowden told The New Yorker, “This ‘Russian spy’ push is absurd.”

“It’s not the smears that mystify me,” Snowden told me. “It’s that outlets report statements that the speakers themselves admit are sheer speculation.” Snowden went on to poke fun at the range of allegations that have been made against him in the media without intelligence officials providing some kind of factual basis: “ ‘We don’t know if he had help from aliens.’ ‘You know, I have serious questions about whether he really exists.’ ”

Snowden went on, “It’s just amazing that these massive media institutions don’t have any sort of editorial position on this. I mean these are pretty serious allegations, you know?” He continued, “The media has a major role to play in American society, and they’re really abdicating their responsibility to hold power to account.”

Before Snowden, Nixon Admin Pioneered Evidence-Free ‘Russian Spy’ Smears Against Daniel Ellsberg | Techdirt

Ellsberg is commonly looked at as the quintessential whistleblower today, but shortly after he leaked the top secret Vietnam War study, the Nixon administration made a concerted effort to paint him as a Soviet spy in the press, using anonymous quotes and non-existent ‘secret’ evidence.

Live Q&A with Edward Snowden: Thursday 23rd January, 8pm GMT, 3pm EST | Free Snowden](https://freesnowden.is/_2476.html)

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NSA collects millions of text messages daily in ‘untargeted’ global sweep

The National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million text messages a day from across the globe, using them to extract data including location, contact networks and credit card details, according to top-secret documents.

The untargeted collection and storage of SMS messages – including their contacts – is revealed in a joint investigation between the Guardian and the UK’s Channel 4 News based on material provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The documents also reveal the UK spy agency GCHQ has made use of the NSA database to search the metadata of “untargeted and unwarranted” communications belonging to people in the UK.

The NSA program, codenamed Dishfire, collects “pretty much everything it can”, according to GCHQ documents, rather than merely storing the communications of existing surveillance targets.

The NSA has made extensive use of its vast text message database to extract information on people’s travel plans, contact books, financial transactions and more – including of individuals under no suspicion of illegal activity.

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CBS: The NSA Network | Unfilter 79

chris — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:08:02 +0000

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On Monday a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate American’s rights. A Federal Judge ruled that the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans phone records almost certainly violates the protections of the 4th Amendment against unreasonable search.

Timed like an Amazon Cyber Monday ad, 60 Minutes attempts the boldest white wash of the facts and lies surrounding the NSA spying yet.

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CBS Airs NSA Propaganda Informercial Masquerading As ‘Hard Hitting’ 60 Minutes Journalism By Reporter With Massive Conflict Of Interest

The reporting was conducted by John Miller, a former intelligence community official (who worked for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the NSA) in a spokesperson role and a variety of historical roles in the intelligence community. While he does “disclose” the ODNI role upfront (but not the others), he left out that he’s about to be hired in an intelligence role for the NYPD, a deal that has been described as “a 99.44 percent done deal.”

How we know the 60 Minutes NSA BIOS Plot Attack was crap

Stripped of techie talk, this passage simply says “The NSA foiled a major plot, trust us.” But of course, there is no reason we should trust them. It’s like how the number of terrorist plots foiled by telephone eavesdropping started at 50 then was reduced to 12 then to 2 and then to 0, as the NSA was forced to justify their claims under oath instead of in front of news cameras.

60 Minutes Contiunes Edward Snowden Charecter Assanstation

The interview also featured an extensive attempt by NSA agents to discredit former contractor Edward Snowden. Snowden, who leaked documents this year revealing the extent of the telephone-records program and other efforts like PRISM, was described by CBS’ John Miller as a “20-something-year-old high school dropout contractor.” Discussing the NSA’s visit to Snowden’s former Hawaii home, Rick Ledgett, the agency’s head of an Edward Snowden task force, said he “couldn’t bring himself” to sit in Snowden’s chair.

Alexander went a step further, comparing Snowden to a murderer. “This is analogous to a hostage taker taking 50 people hostage, shooting 10 and then say, ‘if you give me full amnesty I’ll let the other 40 go.’”

NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS’s flawed report

Our take on five things the spy agency would like the public to believe about its vast surveillance powers

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”It’s Surely Orwellian”

Judge: NSA phone program likely unconstitutional

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon found that the program appears to violate the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. He also said the Justice Department had failed to demonstrate that collecting the information had helped to head off terrorist attacks.

As Judge Rules NSA Surveillance “Almost Orwellian,” Obama Prepares to Leave Spying Program Intact

Judge Leon was appointed to the bench by Republican President George W. Bush in 2002. Leon suspended enforcement of his injunction against the program pending an expected appeal by the government. The lawsuit was brought by conservative attorney Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch, and based on information leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Larry Klayman: the Tea Party ‘gadfly’ who took on the NSA

Tea Party activist was plaintiff in landmark case against NSA

Notoriously litigious, he sued Clinton administration 18 times

Klayman is a former prosecutor for the US Justice Department

Larry Klayman in his own words: why I challenged the NSA in court

Klayman brought the case on behalf of Charles Strange

Klayman brought the case on behalf of Charles Strange, the father of Michael Strange, a cryptologist technician for the NSA and a support personnel member of Navy SEAL Team 6.

Michael Strange was killed in Afghanistan when his helicopter was shot down in 2011.

Charles Strange, as a subscriber of Verizon Wireless, brought the case against the NSA, Department of Justice and several U.S. officials, including President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.

Lawyer who won ruling against NSA claims the government has been harassing him

“I think they are messing with me,” Klayman told the
court, according to Judge Leon’s memorandum from Monday.

Klayman told the court that “he and his clients had received
inexplicable text message and emails, not to mention a disk
containing a spyware program,” Leon wrote

NSA is CRAZY

NSA review panel releases findings on US surveillance practices – live | World news | theguardian.com

"Finally, we cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake of wholly “trusting” our public officials."

NSA shouldn’t keep phone database, review board recommends

The recommendation that the NSA no longer keep the phone database — estimated by some former officials to contain more than 1 trillion records — is among a set of sweeping technical reforms aimed at restoring public confidence in the spying apparatus, said individuals briefed on its contents.

The 200-page report’s 40-plus recommendations, also include barring NSA from asking companies to build “backdoors” into their software so that the government may gain access to encrypted communications. The NSA would also be prevented from undermining global encryption standards and prohibited from stockpiling “zero day” hacking tools that can be used to penetrate computer systems, and in some cases, damage or destroy them, according to the individuals, who were not authorized to speak on the record.

“I have significant doubts about the efficacy of the metadata collection program as a means of conducting time-sensitive investigations in cases involving imminent threats of terrorism,” Leon wrote. “The government does not cite a single instance in which analysis of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the Government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive in nature.”

Ed Snowden Sends Open Letter To Brazil… Which The Press Blatantly Misrepresents

Reading the actual letter, that doesn’t seem to be the case at all. While he does mention that without being granted political asylum, the US government “will continue to interfere with my ability to speak,” there does not appear to be any quid pro quo setup, in which he’s asking for asylum. He’s just laying out the situation.

‘NSA’s goal is elimination of privacy worldwide’ – Greenwald to EU (FULL SPEECH)

The NSA’s ultimate goal is to destroy individual privacy worldwide, working with its UK sidekick GCHQ, journalist Glenn Greenwald warned an EU inquiry, adding that they were far ahead of their rivals in their “ability to destroy privacy.”

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Gaming is to Blame | Unfilter 67

chris — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:08:20 +0000

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Another mass shooting grabs the attention of the nation, and while the essential details of the story are yet to emerge, the media has already cast their villain, video games. In their quest to demonize their #1 competition, they once again rob the people of a balanced dialog. We’ll do our best, to fix that.

Plus: The world economies dodged a major bullet by the name of Larry Summers. We’ll dig into this parasites destructive past and why this week was a victory for everyone.

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NSA is CRAZY

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on NSA data requests: ‘You don’t comply, it’s treason’ | The Raw Story

During an interview at the Techcrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Mayer was asked why tech companies had not simply decided to tell the public more about what the US surveillance industry was up to. “Releasing classified information is treason and you are incarcerated,” she said.

FISA Court: Telecoms okay with NSA data collection – YouTube

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is revealing information about the NSA’s collection of Americans’ phone records, called the Section 215 Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Program. According to a declassified brief released Tuesday by FISA Court Judge Claire Eagan, not a single telecom company has challenged the legality of the NSA’s collection of their customers’ metadata. The court briefing also went on to say that it believed members of Congress were fully briefed on the program. RT’s Sam Sacks has the reaction from members of Congress about the first brief the FISA Court declassified of its own volition.

Same Day It’s Revealed Verizon Has Never Challenged NSA, It Mocks Internet Companies For Doing So

“I appreciate that the consumer-centric IT firms that you referenced [Yahoo, Google, Microsoft] that it’s important to grandstand a bit, and waive their arms and protest loudly so as not to offend the sensibility of their customers,” Stratton said.

“This is a more important issue than that which is generated in a press release. This is a matter of national security.”

Brazil’s Rousseff cancels state visit to U.S. over spying

Brazilian President Dilma
Rousseff has canceled a state visit to Washington in October
over reports that the United States spied on her personal
communications and those of other Brazilians, a leading
Brazilian newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Rousseff’s visit, scheduled for Oct. 23, was conceived to highlight the improvement in ties between the two biggest economies in the Americas and Brazil’s emergence over the past decade as a regional power.
The trip has been seen as a platform for deals on oil exploration and biofuels technology, and Brazil’s potential purchase of fighter jets from Chicago-based Boeing Co.
The itinerary includes a state dinner at the White House, the only such event offered by the Obamas this year.

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Navy Yard shooting

13 Killed in D.C. Navy Yard Shooting, Victims Identified

A former Navy man launched an attack Monday morning inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard, spraying gunfire on office workers in the cafeteria and in the hallway at the heavily secured installation, authorities said. Thirteen people were killed, including the gunman.

Navy Yard Shooter’s Video Games To Blame, Not Guns, Hasselbeck Says

Elisabeth says that Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old IT contractor, was clearly influenced to go shoot up the Washington Navy Yard… by his gaming habit.

Fox News’ Hasselbeck: Navy Yard shooting shows need for video game registry, not gun control

“What about frequency testing?” she added. “How often has this game been played? I’m not one to get in there and say, monitor everything, but if this, indeed, is a strong link, right, to mass killings then why aren’t we looking at frequency of purchases per person? And also, how often they’re playing and maybe they time out after a certain hour.”

[Video games getting blamed for Navy Yard attack… (https://www.gamezone.com/originals/2013/09/17/video-games-getting-blamed-for-navy-yard-attack-is-misdirection-and-irresponsible-of-mainstream-media)

But the Telegraph describe the “darker side to Alexis’s character” – the side that saw him playing violent “zombie” video games in his room for hours at a time.

Larry Punts

Bernanke says unemployment hasn’t improved enough to slow stimulus

“Conditions in the job market today still are far from what all of us would like to see,” Bernanke said at a news conference after the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee voted to continue its bond-buying program at the same pace.

The unemployment rate has dropped from 8.1% when the stimulus program began a year ago to 7.3% last month, Bernanke said.

The figure is close to the 7% level Bernanke has said the Fed wanted to see at the end of the bond-buying program.

But he noted that the rate still is “well above acceptable levels.”

Larry Summers withdraws name for Fed chair job

During his time as Treasury Secretary in the Clinton administration, Summers earned his reputation as a deregulator. Summers urged Congress to repeal parts of a Depression-era rule called Glass-Steagall, which prevented financial institutions from simultaneously acting as investment banks, commercial banks and insurance companies. This move paved the way for banks to become larger than ever.

Also in the late ’90s, Summers pushed back against a movement to regulate complex derivatives. Some say, both those decisions played a role in precipitating the 2008 financial crisis.

The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis

The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak’s fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial regulation across the planet. When you see 26.3 percent unemployment in Spain, desperation and hunger in Greece, riots in Indonesia and Detroit in bankruptcy, go back to this End Game memo, the genesis of the blood and tears.

Syria

How the United States, Russia arrived at deal on Syria’s chemical weapons

According to a State Department official’s account of the negotiations, which began Thursday evening and ended Saturday afternoon with a framework accord to secure and eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons, it was a deal that almost did not happen.

In the end, the deal was written entirely by the U.S. side. The Russians agreed to it in an impromptu poolside conversation between Kerry, Lavrov and their deputies, who dragged over chairs to join them. Kerry made final edits to the draft on an iPad in his hotel room.

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75% of the Internet | Unfilter 64

chris — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:13:03 +0000

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Declassified documents today reveal the NSA has intentionally abused their surveillance program, and retained data on US citizens despite a court order. All this as more details emerge about how the NSA collects nearly 75% of all US Internet traffic

David Miranda Glenn Greenwald’s partner was held for nine hours under an Orwellian anti-terrorism law. They confiscated his equipment, and questioned him about the Guardian’s reporting of the Snowden Leaks.

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Glenn Greenwald’s partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours

Glenn Greenwald’s partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours | World news | The Guardian

The 28-year-old was held for nine hours, the maximum the law allows before officers must release or formally arrest the individual. According to official figures, most examinations under schedule 7 – over 97% – last less than an hour, and only one in 2,000 people detained are kept for more than six hours.

Miranda was released, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles.

David Miranda’s lawyers apply for interim injunction over seized data | World news | theguardian.com

The London law firm Bindmans will present Miranda’s case for the injunction before two high court judges, arguing that the Metropolitan police misused schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

US doesn’t know what Snowden took, sources say – Investigations

More than two months after documents leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden first began appearing in the news media, the National Security Agency still doesn’t know the full extent of what he took, according to intelligence community sources, and is “overwhelmed” trying to assess the damage.

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NSA is CRAZY

New Details Show Broader NSA Surveillance Reach – WSJ.com

The system has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic in the hunt for foreign intelligence, including a wide array of communications by foreigners and Americans. In some cases, it retains the written content of emails sent between citizens within the U.S. and also filters domestic phone calls made with Internet technology

The 86-page opinion, which was declassified by U.S. intelligence officials Wednesday, explains why the chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled the collection method unconstitutional. The judge, John D. Bates, found that the government had “advised the court that the volume and nature of the information it has been collecting is fundamentally different from what the court had been led to believe.”

Under the program, the NSA for three years diverted large volumes of international data passing through fiber-optic cables in the United States into a repository where the material could be stored temporarily for processing and for the selection of foreign communications, rather than domestic ones. But in practice, the NSA was unable to filter out the communications between Americans.

According to NSA estimates, the agency may have been collecting as many as 56,000 “wholly domestic” communications each year.

Bradley Manning Gets 35

WikiLeaks trial: Bradley Manning shows no reaction to prison sentence – latimes.com

Wednesday morning and was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.

Manning, who could have been sentenced to 90 years, stood at attention and showed no emotion as the military judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, delivered the sentence. As soon as Lind left the bench, Army guards quickly rushed Manning out of the courtroom.

“We’ll keep fighting for you Bradley!” shouted half a dozen Manning supporters among the 45 spectators in the courtroom. “You’re our hero!”

That short scene, lasting no more than two minutes, ended more than three years of legal jousting and a summer-long court-martial that highlighted the growing national debate about government secrecy.

WikiLeaks soldier Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison | Reuters

“It’s more than 17 times the next longest sentence ever served” for providing secret material to the media, Goitein said. “It is in line with sentences for paid espionage for the enemy.”

Following the Money Flowing to Egypt

Where U.S. aid to Egypt goes

The money is deposited into an account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which Egypt can access to make payments on long-term contracts it signs with defense companies. The U.S. government is a co-signer on the contracts, guaranteeing the payments will be made. If aid to Egypt is suspended, the U.S. government could still be responsible for the deals Egypt has made so far, according to a Congressional Research Service report.

Point-Counterpoint Cut off aid to Egypt – and to Israel | National Columnists | ADN.com

Since July 3, the Israeli government has lobbied U.S. officials not to cut off aid to Egypt.

Top 10 US companies profiting from military aid to Egypt

US defense contractors profiting from military aid to Egypt

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Drone Patrol | Unfilter 35

chris — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:40:29 +0000

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The Department of Defence has signalled it’s dramatically increasing the size of its Cyber Command, but things are never as simple as it sounds.

You might have heard that this new “comprehensive” immigration reform being worked on hinges on increased border security that relies heavily on drones to hunt illegal immigrants. We look at the numbers.

And why the US might be in hot water over it’s excessive use of drones around the world very soon.

Speaking of the cloud…

A new report details the major invasion British internet users\’ privacy on popular \’cloud\’ services.

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Cliffhanger | Unfilter 31

chris — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:23:04 +0000

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The mainstream media\’s lack of follow up borders on malpractice, tonight we follow up on some of the big stories in 2012, and where their threads are leading in 2013.

The Fiscal Cliff deal has been reached, but is this just the beginning of a series of \”cliffs\” this year? And Obama authorizes five more years of warrantless wiretapping, we\’ll share the history of this 1978 act of congress.

The great news for weapons of war manufactures, we\’ll tell you why 2013 will be a boom for their profits.

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Meme Spotting | Unfilter 21

chris — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:06:17 +0000

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It’s been a big week for Drones, in ACT1 we’ll tell you the latest on this growing new type of warfare. Plus the gift the courts gave to the telcos, and the latest in new cyber laws.

In ACT2: We go meme spotting this week, and unfilter the subtle ways the Industrial Media Complex applies pressure to public opinion.

In ACT3: After hitting the episode 20 mark, we\’ve reflected a bit on the show and have a few thoughts, and a few questions for you. If you\’ve enjoyed this show, please stay tuned.

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Failure Cascade | TechSNAP 68

chris — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:35:21 +0000

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The failure of Google Talk takes down several other Google services including GMail and then as a result even Twitter, we got the details. Plus how to determine if your WordPress site has been hacked, and some dangerous new Mac malware.

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Google Talk Outage

This morning at 06:40 EDT (10:40 UTC) GoogleTalk experienced an outage for nearly all users
Users were able to access GoogleTalk but would receive an error, and not be able to communicate with other users
This interrupted a lot of business users who use Google Apps as an integrated document management and messaging platform
Google reported the issue resolved at 11:25 EDT (15:25 UTC)
Google Apps Status Page for this Outage
Google has not released any details about the cause of or the resolution to the outage
A large number of users took to Twitter to complain about the outage
This was followed shortly by an outage at twitter, possibly caused by the increased traffic generated by the google outage

OSX/Crisis drive-by malware/rootkit for OS X 10.6 and 10.7

The malware is installed silently, and does not require any user interaction
The malware detects if it is being run as a privileged user, in which case it also installs a rootkit to hide its existence, if run as a regular user, a different less dangerous payload is used
Once installed, the malware phones home to a UK Linode instance (I would expect this to be shut down soon, if it hasn’t been already), where it would receive further instructions and/or participate in a botnet (common activities include sending spam, advertising click-fraud, scanning and infecting other computers or websites)
The payload also attempts to spy on the user’s activities in Firefox, Safari, Adium and Skype (likely stealing passwords and key strokes, and possibly spreading to other mac users via IM and file transfer from trusted contacts)

Asus releases first ‘USB Attached SCSI Protocol’ (UASP) Devices

The new protocol replaces the standard USB BOT (‘Bulk Only Transfer’) mode which is plagued by high command latency and a lack of parallelism
UASP also allows up to 64k commands to be queued (BOT standard is to send the next command only once the current command completes), and allows commands to complete out of order
UASP requires a specialized USB controller on both the motherboard and the USB device (hard drive drive enclosures are the target market here)
However, UASP does not require any specific hard drive, and will work with any off the shelf HDD or SSD (although the performance gains are harder to see with a spinning drive)
While this is great news, there is still better news, Asus’s devices also support ‘Turbo Mode’ (Optimized BOT, send the next command before the first is acknowledged) that is compatible with many existing USB 3.0 Controllers (Intel, NEC) and offers most of the speed improvement of UASP without replacing your motherboard

7500 Blackhat Conference Attendees get password reset email

It appears that a volunteer working with ITN International, the company that handles the on-site registration and check in for the blackhat conference, accidentally sent a password reset email to all registered users
The emails include the username, and a new password in plain text (it would probably be much better to direct users to a password reset page, establish their identity with some other bit of information, and then store a new password using a proper cryptographic hashing algorithm, but this is a system by a conference management company, not the Blackhat attendees)
The email also included a URL to sign in to the Blackhat conference system, which uses an unqualified hostname that only works on the Blackhat registration network
This caused ZDNet’s tech writer to assume that this was a very poor phishing attempt (neglecting to consider how a phisher would have gotten the attendees email addresses), noted that the url was ‘not even real’, and that the from address was not spoofed
Official Explaination and Appology

Bryan’s RadicalBreeze.com got hacked

RadicalBreeze.com was running wordpress 2.9.1
The current version of WordPress is 3.4.1
Despite Bryan’s rant – ‘Google doesn’t want people to know about better software’ , this was not google claiming that Illumination Software Creator was malware, nor was it a false positive or mistake by Google, but an automated detection of a compromised site
The compromise was entirely Bryan’s fault, for running an incredibly old version of wordpress, subject to a number of vulnerabilities
The particular malware that has infested his site appears to be related to some vulnerabilities in Plesk , that were fixed in February 2012 and July 2012 that allowed the automated script to compromise his site and modify the files to inject the iframe
It is unclear that this time if any customer data was compromised, it very likely could have been, but the attack seems automated rather than targeted
Google Safe Browsing Report
Malicious software is hosted on 1 domain(s), including dynapass.ru/
1 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including sqqkemzgshwnkkrk.waw.pl/
Google’s “How did this happen?”
In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message

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