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Malicious apps were surreptitiously added somewhere along the supply chain.
Check Point didn’t disclose the names of the companies that owned the infected phones. One of the affected parties was a “large telecommunications company” and the other was a “multinational technology company.”
It’s interesting how this came on out March 10 and the WikiLeaks notice about compromised cellphones came out a few days earlier. Coincidence?

“Vault 7” by WikiLeaks

A total of 8,761 documents have been published as part of ‘Year Zero’, the first in a series of leaks the whistleblower organization has dubbed ‘Vault 7.’ WikiLeaks said that ‘Year Zero’ revealed details of the CIA’s “global covert hacking program,” including “weaponized exploits” used against company products including “Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.”
Among the more notable disclosures which, if confirmed, “would rock the technology world”, the CIA had managed to bypass encryption on popular phone and messaging services such as Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram. According to the statement from WikiLeaks, government hackers can penetrate Android phones and collect “audio and message traffic before encryption is applied.”
NOTE: From what I’ve read, this compromise involves first compromising the phone in question and as such is not an attack on the apps themselves.
Kreb’s coverage
Krebs says: “The documents for the most part don’t appear to include the computer code needed to exploit previously unknown flaws in these products, although WikiLeaks says those exploits may show up in a future dump. This collection is probably best thought of as an internal corporate wiki used by multiple CIA researchers who methodically found and documented weaknesses in a variety of popular commercial and consumer electronics.”
Krebs also says: “Some of the exploits discussed in these leaked CIA documents appear to reference full-on, remote access vulnerabilities. However, a great many of the documents I’ve looked at seem to refer to attack concepts or half-finished exploits that may be limited by very specific requirements — such as physical access to the targeted device.”
See also Espionage vs. Surveillance
Best advice: patch your shit, secure physical access, it is not as bad as WikiLeaks is making it out to be.

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VLANing vs. subnetting
[Just getting into freebsd](https://slexy.org/view/s2GHEJe0zR
Bacula disk autochanger
Blocking ip from attempting connections to postfix email server
- https://techarena51.com/index.php/confiigure-fail2ban-block-brute-force-ips-scanning-postfix-logs/
- WordPress and Fail2ban

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Vault 7 Unlocked | Unfilter 228

chris — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 02:42:38 +0000

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CIA’s Dank Trojans | LINUX Unplugged 187

chris — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:10:58 +0000

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GNU founder Richard Stallman's famous quote resonates with today's @WikiLeaks publication on the CIA's #Vault7 https://t.co/h5wzfrReyy pic.twitter.com/aPk2CK2DbN

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 7, 2017

Vault7 – HIVE Targets Linux

The CIA has developed automated multi-platform malware attack and control
systems covering Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux and more, such
as EDB’s “HIVE” and the related “Cutthroat” and “Swindle” tools, which are
_described in the examples section below._

Vault7 – Home

HIVE

HIVE is a multi-platform CIA malware suite and its associated control
software. The project provides customizable implants for Windows, Solaris,
MikroTik (used in internet routers) and Linux platforms and a Listening
Post (LP)/Command and Control (C2) infrastructure to communicate with
these implants.

The implants are configured to communicate via HTTPS with the webserver of a
cover domain; each operation utilizing these implants has a separate cover
domain and the infrastructure can handle any number of cover domains.

Each cover domain resolves to an IP address that is located at a commercial
VPS (Virtual Private Server) provider. The public-facing server forwards all
incoming traffic via a VPN to a ‘Blot’ server that handles actual connection
requests from clients. It is setup for optional SSL client authentication: if
a client sends a valid client certificate (only implants can do that), the
connection is forwarded to the ‘Honeycomb’ toolserver that communicates with
the implant; if a valid certificate is missing (which is the case if someone
tries to open the cover domain website by accident), the traffic is forwarded
to a cover server that delivers an unsuspicious looking website.

The Honeycomb toolserver receives exfiltrated information from the implant; an
operator can also task the implant to execute jobs on the target computer, so
the toolserver acts as a C2 (command and control) server for the implant.

Similar functionality (though limited to Windows) is provided by the RickBobby
project.

See the classified user and
developer guides for HIVE.

What time period is covered?

The years 2013 to 2016. The sort order of the pages within each level is determined by date (oldest first).

WikiLeaks has obtained the CIA’s creation/last modification date for each page but these do not yet appear for technical reasons. Usually the date can be discerned or approximated from the content and the page order. If it is critical to know the exact time/date contact WikiLeaks.

What is “Vault 7”

“Vault 7” is a substantial collection of material about CIA activities obtained by WikiLeaks.

When was each part of “Vault 7” obtained?

Part one was obtained recently and covers through 2016. Details on the other parts will be available at the time of publication.

Setting Up a Linux Build Environment for EFI

This page will walk you through building a build environment for a Linux machine. Specifically, this tutorial is focused on Ubuntu/Linux Mint.

If you're writing about the CIA/@Wikileaks story, here's the big deal: first public evidence USG secretly paying to keep US software unsafe. pic.twitter.com/kYi0NC2mOp

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) March 7, 2017

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

“Linux Sucks… For the Last Time” – 2017

“Linux Sucks”. 2017 edition. The very last “Linux Sucks”. Ever. Recorded live at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) on March 2nd, 2017.

The Story of Firefox OS

Well, I’m Ben and I’m a Mozillian. I’m a Software Engineer who worked on the “Boot to Gecko” project full time for five years and I have a story to tell.

The Endless Mission One is a gorgeous Linux-powered desktop with a tempting price tag

But the Endless Mission One, which is the subject of this review, is significantly more expensive, costing $250. It also packs more capable hardware, and a gorgeous wood finish that wouldn’t look out of place in a home office. P

OggCamp 17 – Aug 19th & 20th 2017 | Canterbury, UK

OggCamp 17 is on! Canterbury Christ Church University, 19th-20th August 2017 https://t.co/nYNbYBTO6l pic.twitter.com/AK3ZeRBK1X

— OggCamp (@oggcamp) February 26, 2017

OggCamp is a Free Culture Unconference.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Gnome and Endless at SCaLE 15x

The Endless Mission One is a gorgeous Linux-powered desktop with a tempting price tag

View post on imgur.com

The Endless Mission One comes in two variants — one with 320GB of storage, and one with 500GB. I reviewed the latter.

Get the most out of GNOME notifications – Fedora Magazine

For many users, GNOME 3, also known as Gnome Shell, is the definitive desktop interface. It’s clean and simple, without too many twinkles or distractions. That said, this article describes some tricks to change the GNOME notifications experience.

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

Litebook is a $249 Linux laptop – Liliputing

You can order the 2.9 laptop from the Litebook website. A model with a 512GB hard drive is priced at $249. Or you can pay $20 more for a version with a 32GB mSATA solid state disk and a 512GB hard drive.

Litebook – Slim, Light, Elegant — Take Back Control of your Digital Life

k. Litebooks are the perfect combination of beautiful hardware and software. Fast and intuitive the Litebook offers a computing experience like no other. Unlike Windows laptops, Litebooks are highly optimized, come without performance hogging bloatware, are designed to ensure your privacy, and are entirely free of malware and viruses, while unlike macs Litebooks are affordable, customizable, and are backwards compatible with windows software.

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Russian to Conclusions | Unfilter 217

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2016 Election | Unfilter 212

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Weiner’s Explosive Leak | Unfilter 211

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Wikileaks Melts the Media | Unfilter 210

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Red October | Unfilter 208

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DNC Frenzy | Unfilter 197

chris — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 20:31:48 +0000

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Leaks of DNC emails lead to total chaos at Hillary’s big event. We cover the content of those leaks, the fallout & debunk the spin from the Clinton campaign.

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rm -rf $ALLTHETHINGS/ | TechSNAP 262

chris — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 18:34:12 +0000

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Find out why everyone’s just a little disappointed in Badlock, the bad security that could be connected to the Panama Papers leak & the story of a simple delete command that took out an entire hosting provider.

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Badlock vulnerability disclosed

The badlock vulnerability was finally disclosed on Tuesday after 3 weeks of hype
It turns out to not have been as big a deal as we were lead to believe
The flaw was not in the SMB protocol itself, but in the related SAM and LSAD protocols
The flaw itself is identified as https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-2118
It affects all versions of Samba clear back to 3.0
“Samba 4.4.2, 4.3.8 and 4.2.11 Security Releases are available”
“Please be aware that Samba 4.1 and below are therefore out of support, even for security fixes. There will be no official security releases for Samba 4.1 and below published by the Samba Team or SerNet (for EnterpriseSAMBA). We strongly advise users to upgrade to a supported release.”
See the Samba Release Planning page for more details about support lifetime for each branch
Microsoft releases MS16-047 but rated it only “Important”, not “Critical”
The patch fixes an “elevation of privilege bug in both SAM and LSAD that could be exploited in a man-in-the-middle attack, forcing a downgrade of the authentication level of both channels. An attacker could then impersonate an authenticated user”
Microsoft was also careful to note: “Only applications and products that use the SAM or LSAD remote protocols are affected by this issue. The SMB protocol is not vulnerable.”
It seems most of the “badlock” bugs were actually in Samba itself, rather than the protocol as we were lead to believe
“There are several MITM attacks that can be performed against a variety of protocols used by Samba. These would permit execution of arbitrary Samba network calls using the context of the intercepted user. Impact examples of intercepting administrator network traffic:”
Samba AD server – view or modify secrets within an AD database, including user password hashes, or shutdown critical services.
standard Samba server – modify user permissions on files or directories.
There were also a number of related CVEs that are also fixed:
- CVE-2015-5370 3.6.0 to 4.4.0: Errors in Samba DCE-RPC code can lead to denial of service (crashes and high cpu consumption) and man in the middle attacks. It is unlikely but not impossible to trigger remote code execution, which may result in an impersonation on the client side.
- CVE-2016-2110 3.0.0 to 4.4.0: The feature negotiation of NTLMSSP is not downgrade protected. A man in the middle is able to clear even required flags, especially NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_SIGN and NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_SEAL. Which has implications on encrypted LDAP traffic.
- CVE-2016-2111 3.0.0 to 4.4.0: When Samba is configured as Domain Controller it allows remote attackers to spoof the computer name of a secure channel’s endpoints, and obtain sensitive session information, by running a crafted application and leveraging the ability to sniff network traffic.
- CVE-2016-2112 3.0.0 to 4.4.0: A man in the middle is able to downgrade LDAP connections to no integrity protection. It’s possible to attack client and server with this.
- CVE-2016-2113 4.0.0 to 4.4.0: Man in the middle attacks are possible for client triggered LDAP connections (with ldaps://) and ncacn_http connections (with https://).
- CVE-2016-2114 4.0.0 to 4.4.0: Due to a bug Samba doesn’t enforce required smb signing, even if explicitly configured. In addition the default for the active directory domain controller case was wrong.
- CVE-2016-2115 3.0.0 to 4.4.0: The protection of DCERPC communication over ncacn_np (which is the default for most the file server related protocols) is inherited from the underlying SMB connection. Samba doesn’t enforce SMB signing for this kind of SMB connections by default, which makes man in the middle attacks possible.
Additional Coverage: Threadpost – Badlock vulnerability falls flat against its type
“As it turns out, Badlock was hardly the remote code execution monster many anticipated. Instead, it’s a man-in-the-middle and denial-of-service bug, allowing an attacker to elevate privileges or crash a Windows machine running Samba services.”
“Red Hat security strategist Josh Bressers said Badlock could have been much worse, especially if it had turned out to be a memory corruption issue in SMB as some had surmised. Such a scenario would have cleared a path for remote code execution, for example.”
Additional Coverage: sadlock.org

Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca

Eleven million documents were leaked from one of the world’s most secretive companies, Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.
They show how Mossack Fonseca has helped clients launder money, dodge sanctions and avoid tax.
The documents show 12 current or former heads of state and at least 60 people linked to current or former world leaders in the data.
Eleven million documents held by the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca have been passed to German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, which then shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. BBC Panorama is among 107 media organisations – including UK newspaper the Guardian – in 76 countries which have been analysing the documents.
There are many conspiracy theories about the source of the Panama Papers leak. One of the more prominent theories today blames the CIA.
Bradley Birkenfeld is “the most significant financial whistleblower of all time,” and he has opinions about who’s responsible for leaking the Panama Papers rattling financial and political power centers around the world.
Wikileaks is also getting attention today for blaming USAID and George Soros for the leaks.
What little is known about the source of the leak comes from details published by German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung. Communicating via encrypted chat in late 2014, the source warned his or her life was “in danger” but that they had data from law firm Mossack Fonseca that they wanted to share. When asked how much data they had, the source replied “more than you have ever seen,” according to the newspaper.
Regardless, the front-end computer systems of Mossack Fonseca are outdated and riddled with security flaws, analysis has revealed.
Mossack Fonseca’s client portal is also vulnerable to the DROWN attack, a security exploit that targets servers supporting the obsolete and insecure SSL v2 protocol. The portal, which runs on the Drupal open source CMS, was last updated in August 2013, according to the site’s changelog.
On its main website Mossack Fonseca claims its Client Information Portal provides a “secure online account” allowing customers to access “corporate information anywhere and everywhere”. The version of Drupal used by the portal has at least 25 vulnerabilities, including a high-risk SQL injection vulnerability that allows anyone to remotely execute arbitrary commands. Areas of the portal’s backend can also be accessed by guessing the URL structure, a security researcher noted.
Mossack Fonseca’s webmail system, which runs on Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access, was last updated in 2009, while its main site runs a version of WordPress that is three months out of date. A further vulnerability makes it possible to easily access files uploaded to the backend of Mossack Fonseca’s site simply by guessing the URL.
Mossack Fonseca’s emails were also not transport encrypted, according to privacy expert Christopher Soghoian who noted the company did not use the TLS security protocol.
Who leaked the Panama Papers? A famous financial whistleblower says: CIA. / Boing Boing
Wikileaks Accuses US Of Funding Panama Papers Putin Expose | The Daily Caller
Panama Papers: The security flaws at the heart of Mossack Fonseca (Wired UK)
Additional Coverage: The Register – Mossack Fonseca website found vulnerable to SQL injection
Additional Coverage: Forbes
Additional Coverage: WordFence
Additional Coverage: Slashdot
In general, it seems there were so many flaws in the website we may never know which one was used to compromise the server

I accidently rm -rf /’d, and destroyed my entire company

“I run a small hosting provider with more or less 1535 customers and I use Ansible to automate some operations to be run on all servers. Last night I accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf {foo}/{bar} with those variables undefined due to a bug in the code above this line.”
“All servers got deleted and the offsite backups too because the remote storage was mounted just before by the same script (that is a backup maintenance script).
How I can recover from a rm -rf / now in a timely manner?”
There is not usually any easy way to recover from something like this
That is why you need backups. Backups are not just a single copy of your files in another location, you need time series data, in case you need to go back more than the most recent backup
It is usually best to not have your backups mounted directly, for exactly this reason
Even if you will never rm -rf /, an attacker might run rm -rf /backup/*
While cleaning up after an attacker attempted to use a Linux kernel exploit against my FreeBSD machine in 2003, I accidently rm -rf /’d in a roundabout way, Trying to remove a symlink to / that had a very funky name (part of the exploit iirc), i used tab complete, and instead of: rm -rf badname, it did rm -rf badname/, which deletes the target of the symlink, which was /.
Obviously this was my fault for using -r for a symlink, since I only wanted to delete one thing
When the command took too long, I got worried, and when I saw ‘can’t delete /sbin/init’, I panicked and aborted it with control+c
Luckily, I had twice daily backups with bacula, to another server. 30 minutes later, everything was restored, and the server didn’t even require a reboot. The 100+ customers on the machine never noticed, since I stopped the rm before it hit /usr/home
There are plenty of other examples of this same problem though
Steam accidently deletes ALL of your files
Bryan Cantrill tells a similiar story from the old SunOS days
Discussion continues and talks about why rm -rf / is blocked by on SunOS and FreeBSD
Additional Coverage: ServerFault
When told to dd the drive to a file, to use testdisk to try to recover files, the user reports accidentally swapping if= and of=, which likely would just error out if the input file didn’t exist, but it might also mean that this entire thing is just a troll. Further evidence: rm -rf / usually doesn’t work on modern linux, without the –no-preserve-root flag

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Terror for the 4th | Unfilter 149

chris — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 22:38:34 +0000

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Dire warnings of a holiday attack this weekend, your Unfilter show gets to the bottom of this week’s latest scare! The NSA’s vacuums are back to full, we’ll explain why, Russia turns off the gas, the Supreme court makes their big decision & we’re tracking the latest claimed threats from ISIS.

Plus IRS emails recovered, the situation in Greece, some Red Book follow up & more!

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Nano Diet Windows | Tech Talk Today 159

chris — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:42:18 +0000

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In Microsoft’s attempt to capitalize on container excitement they be rushing to ship a subpar product. We’ll discuss the possible weakness of Windows Server’s Docker implementation.

Plus new interesting details turned up by the Sony Hack, a tip of that hat to John Siracusa’s OS X reviews & more!

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Microsoft Is Making a Stripped-Down Windows to Rival Linux | WIRED

Microsoft’s flagship operating system operates quite differently from Linux—which could be a problem as containers become the preferred way of computing in the cloud. But now, as so many others follow the lead of giants like Google and Twitter, Microsoft is reshaping Windows so that it doesn’t get left behind.

Wikileaks publishes hacked Sony emails, documents | ITworld

It’s made up of 173,132 emails and 30,287 documents, including some that contain highly personal information about Sony employees including home addresses, personal phone numbers and social security numbers.

After fifteen years, Ars says goodbye to John Siracusa’s OS X reviews | Ars Technica

For your reading enjoyment, here is the grand John Siracusa OS X Ars timeline:

Mac OS X DP2, December 14, 1999
Mac OS X Update: Quartz & Aqua, January 17, 2000
Mac OS X DP3: Trial by Water, February 28, 2000
Mac OS X DP4, May 24, 2000
Mac OS X Q & A, June 20, 2000
Mac OS X Public Beta, October 3, 2000
Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah), April 2, 2001
Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma), October 15, 2001
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, September 5, 2002
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, November 9, 2003
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, April 28, 2005
Five years of Mac OS X, March 24, 2006
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, October 28, 2007
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, August 31, 2009
Here’s to the crazy ones: a decade of Mac OS X reviews, May 12, 2011
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, July 20, 2011
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, July 25, 2012
OS X 10.9 Mavericks, October 22, 2013
OS X 10.10 Yosemite, October 16, 2014

Fanboys Stab Each Other Over Android vs Apple

“When police arrived at the apartment complex, they learned that the roommates had been drinking and arguing over their mobile phones,” KTUL Tulsa reports.

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Insane In The Ukraine | Unfilter 86

chris — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:57:34 +0000

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After three months building pressure the Ukraine is exploding this week, as anti-government protests turn more and more violent. Now the United States and Russia find themselves in a pissing match over who is more just to influence the revolution. The propaganda is flying, and we’ll break it down and discuss the real reasons the people are taking to the streets.

New Snowden leaks reveal the NSA tracked WikiLeaks supporters, legal bud gets a money boost from the feds, Syria is heating back up, and much much more.

On this week’s episode of, Unfilter.

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NSA is Crazy

Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters – The Intercept

The efforts – detailed in documents provided previously by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden – included a broad campaign of international pressure aimed not only at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but at****what the U.S. government calls “the human network that supports WikiLeaks.” The documents also contain internal discussions about targeting the file-sharing site Pirate Bay and hacktivist collectives such as Anonymous.

Utah Mulls Measures to Help, Limit NSA Data Center – ABC News

“The end game here is to limit the encroachment on our 4th Amendment rights,” Roberts told the Daily Herald of Provo. “We’d love to see Congress fix that on their own, but I don’t have a lot of faith in that happening. So this is a state effort to take a step in that direction.”

He does have supporters, though, including the Libertas Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank in Utah.

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Ukraine mayhem

Kiev drone footage: Aerial view of burning Maidan amid Ukranian riots – YouTube

Ukraine parliament to work on constitution bill

Opposition leaders, backed by protesters in the streets, want a return to a constitution enacted in 2004 that would move substantial powers over the government from the president to parliament – a proposal rejected by President Viktor Yanukovich and his supporters, who have had a majority in the legislature.

Ukraine: Deadly clashes around parliament in Kiev

The proposals would curb the powers of President Viktor Yanukovych, but the opposition say they were blocked from submitting their draft, meaning no debate could take place.

Ukraine Facing Civil War: Lviv Declares Independence from Yanukovich Rule

The development came after clashes between police and protesters left at least 25 people dead in capital Kiev.

Ukrainian police yesterday moved in to clear a protest camp in Kiev’s Independence Square, known as the Maidan, the heart of anti-government demonstrations sparked by President Yanukovich’s rejection of a trade and investment deal with the European Union last November.

Rioters seize over 1,500 guns in Ukraine mayhem – security services

Ukraine’s security service has announced it is launching a counter-terror operation. Radicals have seized over 1,500 firing arms and 100,000 bullets in the last 24 hours, the service said.

Reacting to the “conscious, purposeful use of force by means of arson, killings, kidnapping and terrorizing people,” which Yakimenko treats as “terrorist acts,” the Security Service and Anti-terrorist center of Ukraine have decided to launch a counter-terrorist operation.

Venezuelan opposition leader Lopez due in court after surrendering

The man the government blames for the deaths is opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, who turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday.

This one map helps explain Ukraine’s protests

What’s happening in Ukraine is complicated and driven by many factors: the country’s history as an unhappy component of the Soviet Union, its deep economic woes, a sense of cultural fondness for the West, wide discontent with government corruption, two decades of divided politics and a sense that Yanukovych caved to Putin.

No single datapoint could capture or explain all of that. But the map below comes perhaps as close as anything could. It shows Ukraine, color-coded by the country’s major ethnic and linguistic divisions. Below, I explain why this map is so important and why it helps to tell Ukraine’s story. The short version: Ukraine’s politics have long been divided into two major factions by the country’s demographics. What’s happening right now is in many ways a product of that division, which has never really been reconciled.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Roughly speaking, about four out of every six people in Ukraine are ethnic Ukrainian and speak the Ukrainian language. Another one in six is ethnic Russian and speaks Russian. The last one-in-six is ethnic Ukrainian but speaks Russian. This map shows where each of those three major groups tend to live. (I’m rounding a bit on the numbers; about five percent of Ukrainians are minorities who don’t fit in any of those three categories.)

Here’s why this matters for what’s happening in Ukraine now: Since it declared independence in 1991, the country has been politically divided along these ethnic-linguistic lines. In national elections, people from districts dominated by that majority group (Ukrainian-speakers who are ethnically Ukrainian) tend to vote for one candidate. And people from districts with lots of ethnic Russians or Russian-speakers tend to vote for the other candidate.

Bonus Round

Obama administration clears banks to accept funds from legal marijuana dealers

The Obama administration on Friday gave the banking industry the green light to finance and do business with legal marijuana sellers, a move that could further legitimize the burgeoning industry.

For the first time, legal distributors will be able to secure loans and set up checking and savings accounts with major banks that have largely steered clear of those businesses. The decision eliminates a key hurdle facing marijuana sellers, who can now legally conduct business in 20 states and the District.

As Syria threat expands, Obama mulls options

They are also are looking at newer, more far-reaching options, including drone strikes on extremists and more forceful action against Assad, whom President Barack Obama told to leave power 30 months ago.

Obama’s top aides plan to meet at the White House before week’s end to examine options, according to administration officials.

Homeland Security is seeking a national license plate tracking system – The Washington Post

The national license-plate recognition database, which would draw data from readers that scan the tags of every vehicle crossing their paths, would help catch fugitive illegal immigrants, according to a DHS solicitation. But the database could easily contain more than 1 billion records and could be shared with other law enforcement agencies,

A spokeswoman for DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) stressed that the database “could only be accessed in conjunction with ongoing criminal investigations or to locate wanted individuals.”

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Obama Is Afraid Of You | Unfilter 57

chris — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 18:13:58 +0000

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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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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.

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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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)

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‘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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Internet Insecurities | Unfilter 41

chris — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:38:43 +0000

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U.S. intelligence officials claim Cyber-attacks and cyber-espionage pose a greater potential danger to U.S. national security than Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. We go after these claims.

On Tuesday the Freedom of the Press Foundation published leaked audio from Bradley Manning’s courtroom testimony, allowing the world for the first time to hear the voice of the 25-year-old Army private as he details leaking of thousands of reports and a cables to WikiLeaks.

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Secret tape of Bradley Manning Leaked

Despite onerous Army rules prohibiting recording of the Manning hearings at Ft. Meade, Maryland, the recently formed Freedom of the Press Foundation published anonymously sourced audio of Manning’s full plea allocution on Tuesday, allowing the world for the first time to hear the crisp voice of the 25-year-old Army private as he details his leaking of thousands of Army field reports and a quarter-million State Department diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks.

Secret Courtroom Audio Gives WikiLeaker Bradley Manning a Voice | Threat Level | Wired.com

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Today, Freedom of the Press Foundation is publishing the full, previously unreleased audio recording of Private First Class Bradley Manning’s speech to the military court in Ft. Meade about his motivations for leaking over 700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks. In addition, we have published highlights from Manning’s statement to the court.

Freedom of the Press Foundation Publishes Leaked Audio of Bradley Manning’s Statement | Freedom of the Press Foundation

Pakistan, Iran Leaders Inaugurate Pipeline Project

The Iran-Pakistan pipeline is designed to help Pakistan overcome its mushrooming energy needs at a time when the country is facing increased blackouts and energy shortages.

But there are serious doubts about how Pakistan could finance the $1.5 billion needed to construct the pipeline and whether it could go through with the project without facing U.S. sanctions, which Washington has put in place to pressure Iran over its nuclear program.

Pakistan, Iran Leaders Inaugurate Pipeline Project

Quraishi, president of the lobbying group PakNationalists Forum,
said that the United States’ threat of sanctions is just for public
show. In terms of bilateral relations, Washington will try to
accommodate some of Pakistan’s reasons for proceeding with the
project.

‘US will not impose sanctions on Pakistan while it needs help in the region’ — RT Op-Edge

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CIA Effort In Iraq Places US Spooks On Syria’s Three Largest Borders

Officals told WSJ that the agency provides support to Iraq’s Counterterrorism Service (CTS) — comprised of SWAT-like units and U.S.-trained Iraqi special forces — which reports directly to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

In June The New York Times reported that CIA officers in southern Turkey was been funneling weapons to Syrian rebels. In December NPR reported that CIA officers were training rebels in Jordan on how to identify and safeguard chemical weapons (while Der Spigel reported that it had been happening since May).

In October and November we reported on potential but unconfirmed indications that the CIA may have been funneling heavy weapons from Benghazi, Libya, to Turkey.

CIA In Iraq Because of Syrian War – Business Insider

U.S. Steps Up Alarm Over Cyberattacks

U.S. intelligence officials told a Senate hearing that the nation is vulnerable to cyberespionage, cybercrime and outright destruction of computer networks, both from sophisticated, government-sponsored assault as well as criminal hacker groups and cyberterrorists.

“It’s hard to overemphasize its significance,” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said, addressing members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “These capabilities put all sectors of our country at risk—from government and private networks to critical infrastructures.”

U.S. Official Cites Cyberattack Risks

The Remote Administration Tool is the revolver of the Internet’s Wild West.

Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams | Ars Technica

Russian hackers release sensitive information on Biden, Clinton and stars including Beyoncé, Jay-Z.

The full list of victims, according to the hacker’s Web site:

Michelle Obama, Kim Kardashian, Joe Biden, Robert Mueller (FBI Director), Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder (U.S. Attorney General), Charlie Beck (LAPD Chief), Mel Gibson, Ashton Kutcher, Jay Z, Beyonce, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears,Sarah Palin, Hulk Hogan, Donald Trump, Arnold Schwarzenegger

34 Civil Liberties Groups Speak Out Against CISPA in Lead Up to Hearings

On Monday, EFF and over 30 other Internet rights organizations sent a letter to members of Congress demanding they vote no on the “cybersecurity” bill known as CISPA. The letter starts off a week in which Congress will hold three different hearings about CISPA and computer and network security. In addition to the letter, each hearing will provide opportunity to voice many of the bill’s problems. We encourage you to join the fight and tell your Representative to say no to CISPA.

34 Civil Liberties Groups Speak Out Against CISPA in Lead Up to Hearings | Electronic Frontier Foundation

CISPA Opponent’s Petition Reaches White House To Stop Congress

“CISPA is about information sharing. It creates broad legal exemptions that allow the government to share ‘cyber threat intelligence’ with private companies, and companies to share ‘cyber threat information’ with the government, for the purposes of enhancing cybersecurity,” the petition begins. “The problems arise from the definitions of these terms, especially when it comes to companies sharing data with the feds.”

CISPA Opponent’s Petition Reaches White House To Stop Congress

Not so Fast WA: Drones could bring billions of dollars, jobs, to Washington state

While Washington competes to be designated a test site for unmanned aircraft by the FAA a new report details just how much money the drone industry could bring to our state. New estimates show Washington could see an economic impact of more than $1.3 billion in just three years.

“Washington is one of those states that would be benefited the most. You have Boeing, which is already involved in this. But you also have all the spin-offs from having a high number of well-trained engineers with product knowledge on this,” says study author and aviation economist Daryl Jenkins.

Nationally, the immediate impact could be upwards of $13 billion, according to Jenkins.

Drones could bring billions of dollars, jobs, to Washington state

Much-needed legislation to control surveillance by government drones has gained bipartisan support in Olympia. HB 1771 puts reasonable rules in place that would protect the public against warrantless surveillance while allowing drone use for legitimate purposes – like avalanche patrols and rescue operations. But Boeing is lobbying heavily to block the bill. Tell the Governor not to give in to Boeing – the people of Washington want safeguards against suspicionless surveillance.

Don’t Let Boeing Block Reasonable Rules for Drones | American Civil Liberties Union

A bi-partisan bill to limit drone use within Washington state is meeting resistance from the aerospace and defense corporation Boeing.

Boeing lobbyists attempt to derail Wash. state drone regulation bill

Fukushima disaster: Two years in

Japan’s 52 nuclear reactors were taken off line following the world’s second most grievous nuclear accident (after Chernobyl). All but two remain in cold shutdown. As Japan scrambled to replace all that lost energy production it gobbled up oil to fire up generators

Soon after the disaster Japan’s government revised plans on developing the national nuclear energy industry. The same year Germany approved a program on abandoning nuclear power. At present only 9 NPPs are operating there. Though Germany plans to shut them down by 2022, experts note that Berlin just like Tokyo will have to adjust its plans.

In late 2012, the new Japanese government announced plans to deviate from the policy of the previous cabinet and re-launch 6 nuclear reactors on the territory of the country. The term was not mentioned

Two years after Fukushima disaster: too early to give up nuclear energy

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Hillary’s Finale | Unfilter 34

chris — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:26:26 +0000

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Was Aaron Swartz a source for Wikileaks? Was this the reason for the intensity of the response to such a minor crime? A Texas Senator think so, we’ll share the details. Plus the highlights from Hillary Clinton’s time in the hot seat, North Korea threatens the US and the rise of food fraud.

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