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A leak from the top of the Obama Administration forecasts the US’s intentions to strike back at China after the recent OPM hack. We’ll share what we know so far. Germany is cracking down on reports that cover intelligence leaks, and we debunk the big cyber scares of the week.

Plus a snapshot at some of the economies around the world, new “calls” for lone wolf attacks, and an update on the 2016 race!

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• Hacked e-mails: Boeing wants its drones to hack computers from the sky – The Washington Post
• Even the Department of Homeland Security Says the CISA “Cybersecurity” Bill Will HURT Security and Destroy Privacy Washington’s Blog
• The Obama administration just posted the entire Iran nuclear deal online
• Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”
• New Leak Confirms the Secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Is a Horrorshow | Motherboard
• Wikileaks Latest Info-Dump Shows, Again, That The NSA Indeed Engages In Economic Espionage Against Allies | Techdirt
• Women posed as fake brides to scam ISIS out of $3000 | Naked Security
• Encryption a growing threat to security (Opinion) – CNN.com
• BBC presenter gets caught brushing hair on live TV, stays impressively cool
• Planned Parenthood Opponents Talk Government Shutdown After Bill Fails : It’s All Politics : NPR
• After 27 Years, Reporter Who Exposed ECHELON Finds Vindication in Snowden Archive
• MH370 search live: ‘Convincing evidence’ plane was downed in Indian Ocean – Malaysian offical – Telegraph
• Turkey finally joins the ISIS fight. Should we be worried? – World – CBC News
• Turkey joins US-led coalition against ISIS, provides jets & air bases — RT News

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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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The blowback from Edward Snowden’s NBC interview is in full force, and the new director of the NSA shares his thoughts on Snowden.

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s rescue has caused a major upset, but is his rescue a clever distraction from the VA scandal?

Plus our thoughts on some recent anti-cannabis news, follow up, and much more!

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NSA is Crazy

Germany opens inquiry into claims NSA tapped Angela Merkel\’s phone

Germany\’s federal prosecutor has defied public expectations by opening an investigation into the alleged tapping of Angela Merkel\’s mobile phone by the US\’s National Security Agency (NSA).

Federal prosecutor Harald Range announced on Wednesday: \”I informed parliament\’s legal affairs committee that I have started a preliminary investigation over tapping of a mobile phone of the chancellor.\”

Most Americans Think Snowden Did the Right Thing, Poll Says

According to a survey commissioned by cloud storage service Tresorit.

The survey found that 55 percent of respondents think Snowden did the right thing in exposing PRISM, the mass data-mining program, while another 29 percent believe he was in the wrong, and 16 percent endorse neither statement. Of Snowden\’s supporters, 80 percent said he exposed constitutional violations.

cryptome.org counting total Snowden doc releases: 42 Years for Snowden Docs Release, Free All Now

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Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl

Here\’s some Recent Hostage Negotiations:

• After the North Koreans captured the U.S.S. Pueblo in 1968, President Lyndon Johnson apologized for spying as part of negotiations to secure the release of 83 American prisoners.

• In 1970, President Richard Nixon pressured Israel, Switzerland, West Germany and Britain to release Palestinian prisoners after two airlines were hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

• During the Iran hostage crisis of 1979 to 1981, President Jimmy Carter agreed to unfreeze $8 billion in frozen Iranian assets after more than a year of negotiations with the Iranian revolutionaries.

• In perhaps the most famous swap, after seven Americans were captured in Beirut, Lebanon, President Ronald Reagan agreed to send missiles to Iran in what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal.

• President Bill Clinton\’s administration sat down with Hamas in attempts to negotiate peace with Israel. His administration also worked directly with the Taliban nearly two decades ago on several occasions to see if the group would hand over Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders.

• Ronald Reagan, the president who really negotiated with terrorists

Iran-Contra, as you\’ll recall, almost laid waste to the Reagan presidency. Desperate to free U.S. hostages held by Iranian proxies in Lebanon, President Reagan provided weapons Tehran badly needed in its long war with Saddam Hussein (who, of course, was backed by the United States). In a clumsy and illegal attempt to skirt U.S. law, the proceeds of those sales were then funneled to the contras fighting the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. And as the New York Times recalled, Reagan\’s fiasco started with an emissary bearing gifts from the Gipper himself

• Military Code Of Conduct: U.S. Govt. \”Will Use Any Practical Means To Contact, Support And Gain Release\” Of POWs.

Just as you have a responsibility to your country under the Code of Conduct, the United States government has an equal responsibility**** — ****to keep faith with you and stand by you as you fight for your country. If you are unfortunate enough to become a prisoner of war, you may rest assured that your government will care for your dependents and will never forget you. Furthermore, the government will use every practical means to contact, support and gain release for you and for all other prisoners of war.

Insane in the Ukraine:

Conflicting accounts in heightened eastern Ukraine fighting – CNN.com

A Ukrainian government spokesman claimed that more than 300 pro-Russia militants had been killed and at least 500 wounded during an ongoing Ukrainian military operation in the towns of Krasny Liman and Slovyansk.

The self-declared separatist mayor of Slovyansk, however, said only 10 separatist fighters had died and 12 were injured in the fighting.

CNN could not immediately confirm either report.

But a CNN investigation in Luhansk has found clear evidence that whatever detonations hit the building and the adjoining park came from the air. The tops of trees were splintered, and a series of small craters — about a dozen — had been blasted in a straight line, starting in the park and reaching the walls of the building, blowing out many of its windows and spraying the area with jagged shrapnel. That\’s what appears to have killed most of the victims and injured 20 more.

The pattern of the craters clearly indicated some sort of strafing, according to a munitions expert at the scene with CNN. Their size suggested 30-millimeter ordnance, he said, which is standard equipment on the Su-25, a ground attack fighter, and the Su-27 — both combat aircraft operated by Ukraine.

Obama vows to stand with Ukraine as he meets Poroshenko in Poland – CNN.com

U.S. President Barack Obama voiced his support for Ukraine\’s newly elected president and called for the international community to \”stand solidly behind\” him Wednesday, on a visit to Europe dominated by the crisis in Ukraine.

U.S. reaffirms: No weapons will go to Ukraine

State Department spokesman Jen Psaki reiterated this week that \”we\’ll continue to review their requests\” but that the U.S. policy hasn\’t changed regarding lethal weapons. When asked by a reporter here Tuesday whether the U.S. will provide such aid, Obama pointed out that during the Crimea crisis the U.S. provided non-lethal assistance.

Weed Wackers:

WSP: Driver smoked pot before pile-up that injured 8 | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News

A violent Monday evening car crash on State Route 2 in Snohomish County injured eight people, including five children.

Washington State Patrol troopers said the causing driver had smoked marijuana earlier in the day and she has since been arrested.

Maureen Dowd on pot candy bar: \’I became convinced that I had died\’

In Maureen Dowd\’s latest column for the New York Times, she describes her scary experience eating a pot candy bar while reporting on legalized marijuana in Colorado.

She sat in a Denver hotel room experimenting with the legalized edible, \”nibbling\” on some of the chocolate-flavored bar.

\”For an hour, I felt nothing […] But then I felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. I barely made it from the desk to the bed, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours,\” Dowd said.

She goes on to explain how her paranoia deepened, saying the high wore off \”distressingly slowly.\”

\”I had been convinced that I had died and no one was telling me,\” Dowd said.

• Colorado Sells $19 Million in Cannabis in March: $1.9 Million Goes to Schools and Crime Down 10% | The Mind Unleashed

Not counting medicinal weed sales, Colorado sold nearly $19 million in their recreational weed market in the month of March, and $1.9 million of that goes straight into government coffers and towards building schools.

• As Medical Marijuana Bill Heads To Senate, States Consider Legislation – Health – Boston.com

The legislation smoked through the Republican-dominated House with a 218-189 vote in favor of the bill Friday. The bill\’s suprising majority vote represents increasingly joint views about federal oversight of state medical marijuana laws between Democrats and Republicans. The vote also reflects public opinion. The ratio of Americans in favor of medical marijuana is high at 73 percent, according to a Pew Research study.

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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday proposed shrinking the Army to its smallest size in 74 years, closing bases and reshaping forces to confront future threats like cyberwarfare. Old special interests are digging in and fighting back with everything they’ve got. But how deep are the cuts? And is there really any reduction in spending? We’ll dig in.

Plus: The NSA doubles down in Germany, an update on the Ukraine, and much much more.

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NSA is Crazy

• Obama Administration Seeks to Hold NSA Phone Records Longer – WSJ.com

The Obama administration has asked a special court for approval to hold onto National Security Agency phone records for a longer period–an unintended consequence of lawsuits seeking to stop the phone-surveillance program.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Justice Department was considering such a move, which would end up expanding the controversial phone records database by not deleting older call records.

Under the current system, the database is purged of phone records more than five years old. The Justice Department, in a filing made public Wednesday, said it needs to hold onto the older records as evidence in lawsuits brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and others.

Under the proposal made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the older data would continue to be held, but NSA analysts would not be allowed to search it.

After having stopped spying on Merkel, the NSA is now focusing on German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière and other confidants (google translate)

• How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations – The Intercept

These agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself.

Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.

Other tactics aimed at individuals are listed here, under the revealing title “discredit a target”:

Then there are the tactics used to destroy companies the agency targets:

GCHQ describes the purpose of JTRIG in starkly clear terms: “using online techniques to make something happen in the real or cyber world,” including “information ops (influence or disruption).”

• Reddit Censors Big Story About Government Manipulation and Disruption of the Internet Washington’s Blog

The moderators at the giant r/news reddit (with over 2 million subscribed readers) repeatedly killed the Greenwald/Snowden story on government manipulation and disruption of the Internet … widely acknowledged to be one of the most important stories ever leaked by Snowden.

Similarly, the moderators at the even bigger r/worldnews reddit (over 5 million subscribers) repeatedly deleted the story, so that each new post had to start over at zero.

• Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying

Under current plans, a joint venture between Brazilian telecoms provider Telebras and Spain’s IslaLink Submarine Cables would lay the communications link. Telebras would have a 35 percent stake, IslaLink would have a 45 percent interest and European and Brazilian pension funds could put up the remainder.

• Brazil, EU to circumvent NSA spying with undersea cable – YouTube

Brazil and the European Union are joining forces against the National Security Agency and spying by the United States. Brazil and the EU announced they will build an undersea communications cable to connect the two areas and to reduce the reliance on cables going through the US. The proposed $185 million cable would stretch from Fortaleza, Brazil to Lisbon, Portugal.

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Shrinking the Beast

• Hagel says US military must shrink to face new era – The Washington Post

In a speech at the one-year mark of his tenure as Pentagon chief, Hagel revealed many details of the defense spending plan that will be part of the 2015 budget that President Barack Obama will submit to Congress next week. Hagel described it as the first Pentagon budget to fully reflect the nation’s transition from 13 years of wa

• Defense.gov News Article: Hagel Outlines Budget Reducing Troop Strength, Force Structure

Some of that risk, Hagel said, is associated with a sharp drawdown in the size of the Army, which the proposed budget calls for reducing to as low as 440,000 active duty soldiers from the current size of 520,000, while ensuring the force remains well trained and equipped.

The cuts assume the United States no longer becomes involved in large, prolonged stability operations overseas on the scale of Iraq and Afghanistan. “An Army of this size is larger than required to meet the demands of our defense strategy,” Hagel said. “It is also larger than we can afford to modernize and keep ready.”

• Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in Feb 2011: Defending US defense spending Cuts

“It is my judgment that the Department of Defense needs an appropriation of at least $540 billion for FY2011 for US military to properly carry out its mission, maintain readiness and prepare for the future,” said Gates, who also discussed cuts he’s made to the military budget, on programs no longer needed.
However, what is not widely known is that most of the $78 billion he’s cut would not take place until 2014 and 2015, when there will be a new secretary of defense and possibly a new president.

• Pentagon proposes to shrink US Army to pre-WWII level – YouTube

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recommended Monday that U.S. troops be reduced levels not seen since prior to World War II. In a news conference at the Pentago.

• Proposed defense budget cuts would ground A–10 fleet – YouTube

The future of the A–10s is up in the air again after Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel outlined Monday massive proposed cuts to the military.

• Cheney Bashes Food Stamps In Pro-Military Rant, Forgetting Military Families Rely On Them

In the first half of fiscal 2013, however, those eligible to shop in military commissaries – which include disabled veterans and others with military identification – cashed in nearly $53 million in food stamps, according to data provided to The Huffington Post by the Defense Commissary Agency. In 2011, more than 5,000 “active duty military” relied on the government aid.

A September report by nonprofit think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated that at least 900,000 veterans received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program assistance, or food stamps, each month.

• President Obama Is Fighting Cuts to the Military, Not Demanding Them

You might disagree with Obama’s priorities, but Cheney’s claim is based entirely on the notion that Hagel and Obama are proposing military cuts. But they aren’t. Hagel proposed a change in force structure that would lead to a smaller Army, but his overall budget proposal is $115 billion more than the current sequester levels demanded by Republicans

• Army Gives Out $500,000 Armored Trucks for Free – YouTube

The U.S. Army is giving away 13,000 armored trucks, worth about $500,000 each. The 20-ton MRAPs, or Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected trucks, were built specifically to save U.S. soldiers from roadside bombs in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Now the trucks are patrolling U.S. city streets. U.S. law enforcement agencies have received the lion’s share of this high-powered military surplus. (Source: Bloomberg)

• Obama assessing four alternatives to NSA phone data collection: WSJ | The Verge

One proposal would be to put phone metadata collection under the purview of US telecommunications companies. Under this option, the NSA would inform the companies of when it needs to search their databases for terrorism-related investigations, and the phone companies would return only the results of those searches, rather than data on consumers unrelated to the investigations.

A second proposal would see a different federal agency hold the data — the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), for instance — and a third would place them under the control of a third entity that’s neither a federal agency nor a telecom company.

The final proposal would abolish the data collection program altogether, an option that Obama in January said would require more work “to determine exactly how this system might work.”

• List of countries by military expenditures – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is a list of countries by military expenditure, the amount spent by a nation on its military in a given year.

• U.S. defense spending compared to other countries | pgpf.org

We currently spend more on defense than the next 10 countries combined. Defense spending accounts for about 20 percent of all federal spending — nearly as much as Social Security, or the combined spending for Medicare and Medicaid.

• Video: The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight

Mike Lofgren, a former GOP congressional staff member with the powerful House and Senate Budget Committees, joins Bill to talk about what he calls the Deep State, a hybrid of corporate America and the national security state, which is “out of control” and “unconstrained.” In it, Lofgren says, elected and unelected figures collude to protect and serve powerful vested interests.

Ukraine mayhem

• BBC News – Ukraine crisis: Yatsenyuk is PM-designate, Kiev Maidan told

The Maidan council named Arseniy Yatsenyuk to become prime minister. The cabinet – to be voted on by MPs on Thursday – includes leading activists.

The US has offered Ukraine’s struggling economy – which faces default – loan guarantees of up to $1bn (£600m).

Meanwhile, Mr Yanukovych has been put on the international wanted list.

The fugitive president – whose whereabouts are unclear – is accused of being behind last week’s deaths of more than 100 protesters at the hands of riot police in and around the Maidan.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington planned to offer Ukraine the loan guarantees to help stabilise the country’s economy.

Mr Kerry also warned Russia it would be a “grave mistake” to embark on any military intervention in Ukraine.

• Russia flexes military muscle as tensions rise in Ukraine’s Crimea

Russia ordered surprise military exercises on Ukraine’s doorstep Wednesday as tensions in that country’s southern Crimea region simmered, with pro-Russian demonstrators facing off against rival protesters in the city of Simferopol.

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A mobile provider is hacked, customer records are breached, and the authorities suspect it was an inside job, we’ll share the details.

Then we’ll discuss the NSA induced crisis of trust we now collectively share, plus your questions, our answers, and much much more!

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Vodafone Germany breached, possibly by insiders

• The internal servers of Vodafone Germany were compromised, and data for over 2 million customers was stolen
• The breach only disclosed information on German customers, who will be notified by mail
• The way the attackers managed to compromise the servers suggest they had help from an insider
• Vodafone turned their evidence over to German police, “An individual has been identified by the police and their assets have been seized.”
• Compromised data:
• customer names
• address
• gender
• birth date
• bank account numbers and bank sort codes
• Other data including phone numbers, credit card numbers and passwords are currently thought to be safe. “No personal call information or browsing data was accessed by the attacker”
• The attack was originally discovered on September 5th, however Police asked the company to withhold the notification while they executed their investigation and made arrests and seizures
• “German news agency DPA reported that the suspect had worked for a contractor of the company and was not a Vodafone employee”
• Additional Coverage
• Vodafone is advising customers to be on the lookout for targeted Phishing scams that might use the personal information gained from this attack to make successful attacks against the victims and their banking and credit card accounts
• eu data breach notification law

Trust

• to believe that someone is good and honest and will not harm you, or that something is safe and reliable
• Bruce Schneier – Trust in Man/Machine Security Systems
• Colin Percival – Don\’t trust me: I might be a spook
• Kevin Mitnick – Use a VPN
• Bruce Schneier – The US Government Has Betrayed the Internet. We Need to Take It Back
• TechRepublic – Escaping the dragnet of surveillance
• Kurt Roeckx – State of encryption
• Bruce Schneier – How Advanced Is the NSA\’s Cryptanalysis—And Can We Resist It?
• The Guardian – How to foil NSA sabotage: use a dead man\’s switch
• Matthew Green – On the NSA
• BoingBoing – Firsthand account of NSA sabotage of Internet security standards
• BBC – \’Money reduces trust\’ in small groups, study shows – Bruce Schneier – The Effect of Money on Trust
• Ed Felton – NSA Apparently Undermining Standards, Security, Confidence
• Bruce Schneier – Americans Must Sacrifice Some Security to Reform the NSA

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• ISC looking for help tracking a new adaptive botnet, possibly related to Blackhole malware toolkit
• LastPass : The last password you\’ll have to remember: LastPass and the NSA Controversy
• Intel announces new Atom Z3000 series
• Google’s plan to make it harder for the NSA to spy on users
• Seagate announces new ‘Shingled Magnetic Recording’, layers tracks on top of each other to increase bit density.
• Researchers find flaws in the installation mechanism of of the GameHouse platform
• New paper details keylogged that stealthily runs on your GPU
• Google, Yahoo and Facebook ammend requests to publish transparency reports
• The challenges of running a PriateBay Proxy to defeat Censorship
• New zeroday exploit for USB internet modem puts millions of PCs at risk

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A landmark ruling in Germany combined with the media’s attempt to label Bitcoin legal status collide this week on the Plan B show. Plus the security warning Blockchain.info users need to know, and Butterfly Labs pokes the hornets nest!

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• German government okays Bitcoins for private transactions | PCWorld

The German Federal Ministry of Finance said on Monday that Bitcoin is not a full-fledged currency but that it is permissible to use it in private transactions.

But if companies want to use Bitcoins for commercial transactions, they need the permission of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), said Martin Chaudhuri, ministry spokesman.

• Bitcoin now \’unit of account\’ in Germany

While not putting Bitcoins on the same footing as formal currencies such as the pound or dollar, Germany\’s move does mean that people who have speculated in the online cryptocurrency could be liable for capital gains taxes if they sell them less than a year after acquiring them.

People who have held on to them for longer will not be liable, the ministry told German MP Frank Schaeffler, who raised the question with the ministry. German authorities are trying to work out how — or whether — they could determine taxes due on Bitcoin transactions between individuals.

• Germany\’s ruling on Bitcoin paves the way for its legitimacy in the EU | The Verge

The most interesting aspect of the German ruling may be the consequences for the rest of the EU. The designation means that any exchange that wants to sell Bitcoin in Germany knows exactly what it needs to do: get a license from BaFin under Article 32 Kreditwesengesetz. Once an exchange is licensed in Germany, it would be allowed to operate anywhere in the EU — a stark contrast from the US, which requires a federal registration in addition to separate licenses from the states.

BFL 600 GH Bitcoin Mining Card

Performance Specifications

• 600 GH/s nominal performance ( + / – 20% )
• 350w (0.6w/GH conservative estimate)

Connectivity

• USB 2.0 – Monarch cards can be used as an external computer peripheral and chained via USB hub. In this mode it can be controlled via an Android host or standard Linux or Windows computer.
• PCI Express – Monarch cards consume two PCI slots when installed in a standard ATX motherboard. The PCIe format used is 1X for maximum compatibility.

Mining Software compatibility

• EasyMiner software is provided for Android, Windows & Linux operating systems.
• BFGminer – Open source available
• CGminer – Open source available
• BitMinter – Java Client

Prior to this announcement, BFL’s largest mining rig ran at 500 GH/s and cost $22,484. It required over 100 chips and an enclosure of almost two cubic feet. The new 600 GH/s device will be the first ASIC miner to take the form factor of a standard graphics card.

Blockchain.info Users Need to Update Browser Plugin/Clear Cache

• Blockchain.info security [FUNDS STOLEN]

Jesse James has informed me of a problem with the rng used by blockchain.info javascript clients being poorly seeded when initialised in a background webworker task. In some browsers this could lead to duplicate R values being used when signing transactions (Firefox is likely to be particularly vulnerable). This issue effects the transaction signing code only, not the generation of private keys.

Patches have now been deployed, Please ensure you upgrade to the latest version of your Blockchain.info client.

• Chrome extension – v2.85
• Fixefox extension – v1.97
• Mac client – v0.11

Users of the web interface should clear their browsers cache before next login.

Only a handful of addresses are known to be affected thus far. Likely if you have been affected by this problem your coins will have been taken already. All affected users will be refunded in full, please PM me or email help@blockchain.info.

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• Myths – Bitcoin

Let\’s clear up some common Bitcoin misconceptions.

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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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• Isn’t a government that is large enough to effectively spy on all of its people, simply a government too large?

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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.

• ‘Hell to pay:’ Residents angry as RCMP seize guns from High River homes (with video)

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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We discuss the trend towards privatized prisons, how they make money, and dirty details they don\’t want you to know.

Then we unfilter the headlines, with an update on Stuxnet, some hard questions for the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and using drones for police enforcement.

Plus an update on some stories from last week, and feedback!

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ACT ONE: Headlines

• Confirmed: US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it

• Germany Readying Offensive Cyberwarfare Unit, Parliament Told

• HP, Cisco, Sun Gear Surfaces Inside Iranian Mobile Operator

  • There is no evidence indicating that any of these companies sold their products directly to Iranian companies. However, should these companies be allowed to sell their products directly to Iranian companies and anyone else they want to do business with?
  • Or do you agree with “the UN Human rights council believes that American firms should be building clauses into their contracts with international customers that levy heavy fines if a customer redistributes or uses the products in a way that violates human rights.”

• Sanders Questions Bernanke on Conflicts at the Fed

• Canada No Pirate Nation: Global Leader In Music Download Sales

  • Canada makes the U.S. piracy list, again in

Drone Headlines:

• The Age Of Drones: Military May Be Using Drones In US To Help Police
• Virginia Governor Wants Military Drones For Police Play clip

ACT TWO: Prison Industrial Complex

• Ohio prison becomes first to be sold to a private company
• Prison Industrial Complex
• Inside the secret industry of inmate-staffed call centers
• Idaho Uses Prison Labor to Pick Potatoes
• Private purchasing of prisons locks in occupancy rates

ACT THREE: Feedback

• A follow up on last week\’s stories, stop the leaks!
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• Rachel Maddow Exposing private prisons role in Arizona\’s \’Papers Please\’ roots – YouTube
• Seattle police clarify plans for drone aircraft | Seattle Times

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Obama keeps a list of drone targets, the Flame virus goes after the middle east, and some tuna have some real radiation problems. It must be an Unfilter news round up!

Tune in to find out which stories are crap, and which are legit. Plus we breakdown the real story behind the Flame virus, and have a good laugh at the big media’s hype of it.

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ACT ONE: The Flame in Which we Burn

• Germany sets new solar power record, institute says
  • SolarCity \”is a web-based application that uses Esri mapping software to calculate solar potential for rooftops\” is an app from Code for America that is pseudo open source
• Meet \’Flame,\’ The Massive Spy Malware Infiltrating Iranian Computers
• Technology Patent Wars Sign of Robust Innovation, Patent Office Claims The things people tell themselves so that they can feel good about their job.

ACT TWO: He’s Making a List…

• Secret ‘Kill List’
• US Drone Strikes Increase in Pakistan: 31 Killed Since Wednesday
• To avoid counting civilian deaths, Obama re-defined \”militant\” to mean \”all military-age males in a strike zone\”
• Syria Catagory
• Iran Catagory
• Wesley Clark

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• Watch the Euro Category for Important Eurozone Updates
• Dan\’s plea for more help on all the Jupiter Broadcasting Reddit communities especially the Unfilter sub Reddit

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• Israel Blamed For Extremely Strong Computer Virus Plaguing The Middle East
• CNN: Obama\’s Secret Kill List – YouTube
• Bush Used Playing Cards
• Al Qaeda In Yemen | FRONTLINE | PBS
• President Obama at 2012 AIPAC Policy Conference – YouTube
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• Smash the Control Machine by Otep from the album Smash the Control Machine

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