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The Ethics of Running a Data Breach Search Service

• HIBP – have i been pwned?

Is the NSA Doing More Harm Than Good in Not Disclosing Exploits?

Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen

How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets

• See also Israel hacked Kaspersky, then tipped the NSA that its tools had been breached

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• CERN using tapes

• New to FreeBSD – rc scripts see also Practical rc.d scripting in BSD & man rc.subr & man periodic & daemontools

• Steam Reporting Zero Free Space on ZFS disk

• SSH Reverse Tunnel Gateway Port

• Tapes – beware of Maxell

Round Up:

• On Oct 5 High Sierra update fixes bug which exposed the passwords of encrypted Apple File System See also the original post from Sep 27

• When you turn something off, it really should be off

• disqus.com – Security Alert: User Info Breach

• U.S. lawmakers want to restrict internet surveillance on Americans

• Using Binary Diffing to Discover Windows Kernel Memory Disclosure Bugs

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The Iran deal is getting the hard sell this week from both sides, and we’ll cut through all the hype and discuss the real issues with the nuke deal & what our best alternatives are. Another Cyber attack, this time on the pentagon is behind pinned on Russia & we cover a few moments of the first 2016 debate.

Plus an update on all those rebels the US has trained in Syria, Hillary turns in her email server, a very high-class high-note & much more!

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• Hillary Clinton holds private meeting with Black Lives Matter activists | US news | The Guardian
• The Spy Satellite Secrets in Hillary’s Emails – The Daily Beast
• Readers School Politico Writer on Real Reason for Sanders BLM ‘Problem’
• Russia and Nato ‘actively preparing for war’ – Telegraph
• Clinton aides vow not to destroy emails – POLITICO
• George Soros spent $33MILLION bankrolling Ferguson protesters
• George Soros funds Ferguson protests, hopes to spur civil action
• Donald Trump Interview Boosts Ratings for Fox News Channel’s ‘Hannity’ | Variety
• EPA chief: Colorado river hit by mine waste back to pre-spill quality – Yahoo News Canada
• EPA chief: Colorado river hit by mine waste back to pre-spill quality – Yahoo News Canada
• EPA chief: Colorado river hit by mine waste back to pre-spill quality – Yahoo News Canada
• Drone hovers outside Hawaii Kai woman’s bedroom, but no crime wa – Hawaii News Now – KGMB and KHNL
• jon stewart is now free to run for democratic presidental nomination : unfilter

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It’s another historic week documented by the Unfilter show. The Obama administration signs an “executive agreement” with Iran, but we ask what the limitations of an “executive agreement” are, and what the downsides to the deal might be.

Plus the head of the FBI pushes to crack encryption, and track ISIS via twitter, the OPM hack is even worse than previously reported, and an updates on the NSA.

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• Valley of the Wolves (TV series) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
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• Cyber Berkut | Кибер Беркут
• OpEd: Film Producer/Director’s Analysis of ISIS “Fraud” Video | Your News Wire
• Staged ISIS Beheading Video Released by Russian Hackers – YouTube
• CBD compound in cannabis could treat diabetes, researchers suggest
• How Much Damage Can the OPM Hackers Do With a Million Fingerprints? – NationalJournal.com
• Privacy talk at DEF CON canceled under questionable circumstances | CSO Online
• Reddit CEO Ellen Pao resigns following community uprising — RT USA
• TTIP: a corporate lobbying paradise | Corporate Europe Observatory
• Leaked Google Data Makes Company More Transparent Than It Wants To Be | TechCrunch
• Hillary Clinton Tells Israeli Billionaire and Mega-Donor She Will Support Israel, Fight Palestinian Movement | Alternet

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Is the ISIS Cyber Division responsible for a spree of hack attacks across America? We’ll review the smattering of defacements throughout the week linked to ISIS. An Obama administration official leaks Israel’s spying, Iran talks heats up & Ted Cruz lies through his teeth on air.

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CISA Security Bill: An F for Security But an A+ for Spying | WIRED

When the Senate Intelligence Committee passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act by a vote of 14 to 1, committee chairman Senator Richard Burr argued that it successfully balanced security and privacy. Fifteen new amendments to the bill, he said, were designed to protect internet users’ personal information while enabling new ways for companies and federal agencies to coordinate responses to cyberattacks. But critics within the security and privacy communities still have two fundamental problems with the legislation: First, they say, the proposed cybersecurity act won’t actually boost security. And second, the “information sharing” it describes sounds more than ever like a backchannel for surveillance.

On Tuesday the bill’s authors released the full, updated text of the CISA legislation passed last week, and critics say the changes have done little to assuage their fears about wanton sharing of Americans’ private data. In fact, legal analysts say the changes actually widen the backdoor leading from private firms to intelligence agencies. “It’s a complete failure to strengthen the privacy protections of the bill,” says Robyn Greene, a policy lawyer for the Open Technology Institute, which joined a coalition of dozens of non-profits and cybersecurity experts criticizing the bill in an open letter earlier this month. “None of the [privacy-related] points we raised in our coalition letter to the committee was effectively addressed.”

“CISA goes far beyond [cybersecurity], and permits law enforcement to use information it receives for investigations and prosecutions of a wide range of crimes involving any level of physical force,” reads the letter from the coalition opposing CISA. “The lack of use limitations creates yet another loophole for law enforcement to conduct backdoor searches on Americans—including searches of digital communications that would otherwise require law enforcement to obtain a warrant based on probable cause. This undermines Fourth Amendment protections and constitutional principles.”

Israel Denies Spying on Iran Nuclear Talks – NYTimes.com

Three top Israeli ministers on Tuesday denied a report that their intelligence services had spied on the closed-door negotiations over Iran‘s nuclear program, as tensions continued to mount between Washington and Jerusalem.

“There is no such thing as Israel spying on the Americans,” the defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, said at a pre-Passover toast, according to a transcript provided by his office. Mr. Yaalon said he had checked and found no complaint from the United States to Israeli intelligence services about such spying. “There is a strict prohibition on that,” he said.

NSA shared Americans’ private communications with Israel: Snowden

Former U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden has accused the U.S. National Security Agency of routinely passing private, unedited communications of Americans to Israel, an expert on the intelligence agency said Wednesday.

James Bamford, writing in the New York Times, said Snowden told him the intercepts included communications of Arab- and Palestinian-Americans whose relatives in Israel and the Palestinian territories could become targets based on the information.

“It’s one of the biggest abuses we’ve seen,” Bamford quoted Snowden as saying.

Snowden said the material was routinely transferred to Unit 8200, a secretive Israeli intelligence organization.

Bamford cited a memorandum of understanding between the NSA and its Israeli counterpart outlining transfers that have occurred since 2009.

Leaked by Snowden and first reported by the British newspaper the Guardian, it said the material included “unevaluated and unminimized transcripts, gists, facsimiles, telex, voice and Digital Network Intelligence metadata and content.”

• Israel stole classified US information and used it to help congressional Republicans – Vox

The Wall Street Journal‘s Adam Entous dropped a huge story Tuesday morning: Israel acquired classified US information while spying on the Iranian nuclear negotiations, and leaked the stolen information about the emerging deal to American lawmakers in an attempt to sabotage the Obama administration’s outreach to Tehran.

US House Votes 348-48 To Arm Ukraine, Russia Warns Lethal Aid Will “Explode The Whole Situation” | Zero Hedge

Yesterday, in a vote that largely slid under the radar, the House of Representatives passed a resolution urging Obama to send lethal aid to Ukraine, providing offensive, not just “defensive” weapons to the Ukraine army – the same insolvent, hyperinflating Ukraine which, with a Caa3/CC credit rating, last week started preparations to issue sovereign debt with a US guarantee, in essence making it a part of the United States (something the US previously did as a favor to Egypt before the Muslim Brotherhood puppet regime was swept from power by the local army).

The resolution passed with broad bipartisan support by a count of 348 to 48.

According to DW, the measure urges Obama to provide Ukraine with “lethal defensive weapon systems” that would better enable Ukraine to defend its territory from “the unprovoked and continuing aggression of the Russian Federation.”

“Policy like this should not be partisan,” said House Democrat Eliot Engel, the lead sponsor of the resolution. “That is why we are rising today as Democrats and Republicans, really as Americans, to say enough is enough in Ukraine.”

Engel, a New York Democrat, has decided that he knows better than Europe what is the best option for Ukraine’s people – a Europe, and especially Germany, which has repeatedly said it rejects a push to give western arms to the Ukraine army, and warned that Russia under President Vladimir Putin has become “a clear threat to half century of American commitment to an investment in a Europe that is whole, free and at peace. A Europe where borders are not changed by force.”

This war has left thousands of dead, tens of thousands wounded, a million displaced, and has begun to threaten the post-Cold War stability of Europe,” Engel said.

Odd, perhaps the US state department should have thought of that in a little over a year ago when Victoria Nuland was plotting how to most effectively put her puppet government in charge of Kiev and how to overthrow the lawfully elected president in a US-sponsored coup.

Then again, one glance at the Rep. Engel’s career donors provides some explanation for his tenacity to start another armed conflict and to escalate what he himself defines as a cold war into a warm one.

Cruz’s Wife Heidi to Take Unpaid Leave From Goldman – Bloomberg Business

Heidi Cruz, a managing director at Goldman
Sachs Group Inc. in Houston, has taken an unpaid leave from her
private wealth-management job to help with her husband’s
campaign for the U.S. presidency, a person familiar with the
matter said.

Ted Cruz, 44, a Republican senator from Texas, said on
Twitter early Monday morning that he plans to run for president
in the 2016 election. Heidi Cruz’s leave will last the duration
of the campaign, said the person, who asked not to be identified
speaking about Cruz’s employment.

Heidi Cruz, 42, a Harvard Business School graduate who
worked in President George W. Bush’s administration, joined
Goldman Sachs in 2005 and was promoted to managing director, the
firm’s second-highest rank, in 2012. She serves as regional head
of the Houston office in the private wealth-management unit,
which serves individuals and families who have on average more
than $40 million with the firm.

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We look at the Israel and Gaza conflict, and how this current event fits in a historical context. The new NSA reforms that could truly make a difference, and the recent developments at the crash site of MH17.

Plus the New York Times endorses Cannabis legalization, Washington is still blowing, and more!

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— The Slow Death of Privacy —

U.S. Senate bill proposes sweeping curbs on NSA surveillance – Yahoo News

Senator Patrick Leahy introduced legislation on Tuesday to ban the U.S. government’s bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records and Internet data and narrow how much information it can seek in any particular search.

The bill, which has White House backing, goes further than a version passed in May by the U.S. House of Representatives in reducing bulk collection and immediately drew warmer response from privacy advocates and technology companies.

• Senator Leahy Introduces NSA Reform Legislation | Video | C-SPAN.org

Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduces a bill that would end the NSA’s bulk data collection and storage of metadata, require court orders to search private phone company databases and put limitations on broad searches by the NSA.

Tech Companies Reel as NSA’s Spying Tarnishes Reputations – Bloomberg

Citing concerns from top executives of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) and other companies, the report made a case that NSA spying could damage the $150 billion industry for cloud computing services. Those services are expanding rapidly as businesses move software and data to remote servers.

“The immediate pain point is lost sales and business challenges,” said Chris Hopfensperger, policy director for BSA/The Software Alliance, a Washington-based trade association that represents companies including Apple Inc. and Oracle Corp.

U.S. technology companies may lose as much as $35 billion in the next three years from foreign customers choosing not to buy their products over concern they cooperate with spy programs, according to an earlier study by the Washington-based Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

Lawfare › Senator Leahy’s NSA Reform Bill: A Quick and Dirty Summary

But the administration also makes significant gains here. Most importantly, it codifies an authority that is now highly contested, and it pushes back a scheduled sunset of that authority that is approaching rather quickly.

In short, the trade throughout this bill seems to be institutionalization of governmental authority in exchange for regulation the government will regard as burdensome and a great deal of transparency. Whether this works ultimately in favor of the government or the civil libertarians probably depends on whether industry ends up maintaining call records—in which case the institutionalization of governmental access to them will probably prove more important than the added hurdles attached to that access. If, on the other hand, industry stops maintaining these records, government will have won the authority to access records that no longer exist.

Former NSA chief to profit from patented hacker detection tech, charging clients $1M a month – Boing Boing

• Keith Alexander, the former director of the National Security Administration, is filing for tech security patents related to his work running the NSA.

• He’s hawking a hacker/intrusion-detection service to banks and big corporations for a reported fee of one million dollars a month.

Shane Harris for Foreign Policy, on what could possibly justify that $1 million/month fee:

The answer, Alexander said in an interview Monday, is a new technology, based on a patented and “unique” approach to detecting malicious hackers and cyber-intruders that the retired Army general said he has invented, along with his business partners at IronNet Cybersecurity Inc., the company he co-founded after leaving the government and retiring from military service in March. But the technology is also directly informed by the years of experience Alexander has had tracking hackers, and the insights he gained from classified operations as the director of the NSA, which give him a rare competitive advantage over the many firms competing for a share of the cybersecurity market.

The fact that Alexander is building what he believes is a new kind of technology for countering hackers hasn’t been previously reported. And it helps to explain why he feels confident in charging banks, trade associations, and large corporations millions of dollars a year to keep their networks safe. Alexander said he’ll file at least nine patents, and possibly more, for a system to detect so-called advanced persistent threats.

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— The 47-Year-War —

Six-Day War

The Six-Day War was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967, by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (known at the time as the United Arab Republic), Jordan, and Syria. The war began on June 5 with Israel launching surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields after the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.

A period of high tension had preceded the war. In response to PLO sabotage acts against Israeli targets,[16][17][18] Israel raided into the Jordanian-controlled West Bank[19][20] and initiated flights over Syria, which ended with aerial clashes over Syrian territory.[21] Syrian artillery attacks against Israeli civilian settlements in the vicinity of the border followed by Israeli responses against Syrian positions in the Golan Heights and encroachments of increasing intensity and frequency into the demilitarized zones along the Syrian border,[22] and culminating in Egypt blocking the Straits of Tiran,[23] deploying its troops near Israel’s border, and ordering the evacuation of the U.N. buffer force from the Sinai Peninsula.[24][25] Within six days, Israel had won a decisive land war. Israeli forces had taken control of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria.

By June 10, Israel had completed its final offensive in the Golan Heights, and a ceasefire was signed the day after. Israel had seized the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank of the Jordan River (including East Jerusalem), and the Golan Heights. Overall, Israel’s territory grew by a factor of three, including about one million Arabs placed under Israel’s direct control in the newly captured territories. Israel’s strategic depth grew to at least 300 kilometers in the south, 60 kilometers in the east, and 20 kilometers of extremely rugged terrain in the north, a security asset that would prove useful in the Yom Kippur War six years later.

Gaza Strip

Gaza has an annual population growth rate of 2.91% (2014 est.), the 13th highest in the world, and is overcrowded.

There is a limited capability to construct new homes and facilities for this growth. The territory is 25 miles long, and from 3.7 to 7.5 miles wide.

With a total area of 141 sq miles.

As of 2014, Palestinians of the Gaza Strip numbered around 1.82 million people. The large Palestinian refugee population makes it among the most densely populated parts of the world

Following the victory of Hamas in the 2006 Palestinian legislative election, Hamas and Fatah formed the Palestinian authority national unity government headed by Ismail Haniya. Shortly after, Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in the course of the Battle of Gaza,[43] seizing government institutions and replacing Fatah and other government officials with its own.[44] By 14 June, Hamas fully controlled the Gaza Strip. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas responded by declaring a state of emergency, dissolving the unity government and forming a new government without Hamas participation

Not snow – evacuation notices dropped on #Gaza. The question that remains is, "to where?" #Egypt #Israel pic.twitter.com/d7GvOpx5Tj

— Noor (@kelo3adi) July 30, 2014

Israeli Shells Said to Hit School in Gaza, Killing at Least 20 – NYTimes.com

The strikes came in rapid succession. At around 5 a.m. Wednesday at a United Nations school at the Jabaliya refugee camp, where 3,300 Palestinians had taken refuge from the fierce fighting in their Gaza neighborhoods, what appeared to be four Israeli artillery shells hit the compound.

Carnage at U.N. school as Israel pounds Gaza Strip

Israeli shelling killed at least 15 Palestinians sheltering in a U.N.-run school and another 17 near a street market on Wednesday, Gaza’s Health Ministry said, with no ceasefire in sight after more than three weeks of fighting.

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, 1,323 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed since Israel began its offensive on July 8 with the declared aim of halting cross-border rocket fire. Ninety-six Palestinians were killed on Wednesday alone.

On the Israeli side, 56 soldiers and three civilians have been killed. Public support remains strong for continuing the military operation

• Video: Israeli Extremists Sing Gaza Is A Graveyard

Tomorrow there’s no school in Gaza, they don’t have any children left.'”

This video shows an Israeli mob actually singing in celebration of children’s deaths in the style of a soccer fans’ song: “In Gaza there’s no studying, No children are left there, Olé, olé, olé-olé-olé.”

Israel is finding it harder to deny targeting Gaza infrastructure | World news | The Guardian

With blackouts, food shortages and sewage in the streets, observers say the IDF either targets civilians or has terrible aim

• Schematics from Israel’s Iron Dome missile shield ‘hacked’ by Chinese, says report

List of countries by Global Militarization Index

The Global Militarization Index (GMI) depicts the relative weight and importance of the military apparatus of one state in relation to its society as a whole. For this, the GMI home a number of indicators to represent the degree of militarization of a country:[1]

• comparison of military expenditure with its gross domestic product (GDP);
• comparison of military expenditure with its health expenditure;
• contrast between the total number of (para)military forces with the number of physicians, and the overall population;
• ratio of the number of heavy weapons available and the overall population.

• Israel Defense Forces – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In 2012, Israel spent $15.2 billion on its armed forces, one of the highest ratios of defense spending to GDP among developed countries ($1,900 per person). However, Israel’s spending per capita is below that of the USA

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Ukrainian forces take over Debaltseve, Shakhtarsk, Torez, Lutuhyne, fighting for Pervomaisk and Snizhne underway

The anti-terrorist operation (ATO) forces have taken control of the town of Debaltseve in Donetsk region and the Savur-Mohyla heights, from which illegal armed groups constantly shelled the positions of Ukrainian law enforcers, the ATO press center reported on Monday, July 28.

U.S. Releases Satellite Images To Back Up Claims Russia Fired Rockets Into Ukraine

Stepping up pressure on Moscow, the U.S. on Sunday released satellite images it says show that rockets have been fired from Russia into neighboring eastern Ukraine and that heavy artillery for separatists has crossed the border.

The images, which came from the U.S. Director of National Intelligence and could not be independently verified by The Associated Press, show blast marks where rockets were launched and craters where they landed. Officials said the images show heavy weapons fired between July 21 and July 26 — after the July 17 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

US says satellite images show Russia has fired rockets into Ukraine | Fox News

The U.S. images claim to show multiple rocket launchers fired at Ukrainian forces from within Ukraine and from Russian soil. One image shows dozens of craters around a Ukrainian military unit and rockets that can travel more than seven miles.

U.S. Says Russia Tested Cruise Missile, Violating Treaty – NYTimes.com

Russia first began testing the cruise missiles as early as 2008, according to American officials, and the Obama administration concluded by the end of 2011 that they were a compliance concern. In May 2013, Rose Gottemoeller, the State Department’s senior arms control official, first raised the possibility of a violation with Russian officials.

At the heart of the issue is the 1987 treaty that bans American and Russian ground-launched ballistic or cruise missiles capable of flying 300 to 3,400 miles. That accord, which was signed by President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, helped seal the end of the Cold War and has been regarded as a cornerstone of American-Russian arms control efforts.

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• The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization – NYTimes.com

The federal government should repeal the ban on marijuana.

• Legalize Marijuana? Responses Vary – NYTimes.com

Marijuana farm photos show inner-workings of massive Texas pot plantation – Houston Chronicle

A deer hunter in Polk County, Texas stumbled across a massive marijuana growing operation Saturday, July 26, 2014. Investigators found more than 44,000 plants spread across more than 12 fields

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Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has silenced America’s war drums, at least for now. While special interests continue to push for war, American’s have awoken from their industrial media induced commas and taken to the streets. We’ll cover the mounting pressure against a new war.

Then the NSA is caught again, this time subverting industry standards and covertly influencing major tech companies. We’ll bring you up to date.

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NSA is CRAZY

• Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security | World news | Guardian Weekly

The files show that the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have broadly compromised the guarantees that internet companies have given consumers to reassure them that their communications, online banking and medical records would be indecipherable to criminals or governments.

The agencies, the documents reveal, have adopted a battery of methods in their systematic and ongoing assault on what they see as one of the biggest threats to their ability to access huge swathes of internet traffic – “the use of ubiquitous encryption across the internet”.

Those methods include covert measures to ensure NSA control over setting of international encryption standards, the use of supercomputers to break encryption with “brute force”, and – the most closely guarded secret of all – collaboration with technology companies and internet service providers themselves.

Through these covert partnerships, the agencies have inserted secret vulnerabilities – known as backdoors or trapdoors – into commercial encryption software.

• NSA FISA Surveillance: NSA Shared Americans’ Info From Phone Data Program With CIA, FBI

The National Security Agency made a select amount of information on American citizens available to the Central Intelligence Agency and two other agencies even though prohibited by court order, according to documents released Tuesday by National Intelligence Director James Clapper.

The unauthorized dissemination of Americans’ data, including telephone numbers and email addresses and culled from the full phone records database on all domestic and one-end-foreign calls, is one of a number of ways in which the NSA misused the database between 2006 and 2009. Though there are authorized reasons the NSA can share information with outside agencies, the dissemination activity revealed in the documents did not fit those criteria.

However, it remains a mystery why the NSA granted the CIA, Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) access to the data, because that information was blacked out when the intelligence community released documentation of this violation on Tuesday.

• NSA: Steve Jobs is the real Big Brother and iPhone buyers are zombies – The Hacker News

• iPhone 5s is a TRAP!

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Syria

• Obama ‘could pause Syria attack plans’

“I want to make sure that norm against use of chemical weapons is maintained,” Mr Obama told ABC News.

“That’s in our national security interest. If we can do that without a military strike, that is overwhelmingly my preference.”

• Obama + Syria

• Syria accepts Russian chemical weapons proposal

The Syrian government has accepted a Russian proposal to put its chemical weapons under international control to avoid a possible U.S. military strike, Interfax news agency quoted Syria’s foreign minister as saying on Tuesday.

• Russia’s Syria proposal offers major powers clear advantages – latimes.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin appears especially delighted by the tentative acceptance of the plan. It allows him to show that Moscow remains a major player in the Middle East and a world power broker.

“He’s been eager to show that he can fill the partial diplomatic vacuum the U.S. has left in the Middle East, and this lets him make that point,” said Andrew Weiss, a White House advisor on Russia during the Clinton administration and now vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

• New Syria resolution would OK force if talks fail

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday that he is working on a new congressional resolution for Syria that would link the use of force with the failure to achieve a political solution eliminating Bashar Assad’s chemical weapons stockpiles.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., made the remarks a day after President Obama said he would postpone seeking authorization for a military strike to give a diplomatic solution a chance to work.

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

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

Then the good news for Cannabis legalization, your feedback, and much much more.

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NSA is CRAZY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Al-Qaeda tries to hack US drones

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Senate panel votes to authorize Syria strike

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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