Go Back   DreamTeamDownloads1, FTP Help, Movies, Bollywood, Applications, etc. & Mature Sex Forum, Rapidshare, Filefactory, Freakshare, Rapidgator, Turbobit, & More MULTI Filehosts > World News/Sport/Weather > World News

World News VIDEOs-CIA TORTURE Report + Their SECRET Prisons = UN Demands Prosecutions. World Security Increases..PLUS-NSA SPYING/SNOWDEN Releases MORE Info. & Other BREAKING NEWS on IMPORTANT World Events

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Hallo to All Members. As you can see we regularly Upgrade our Servers, (Sorry for any Downtime during this). We also have added more Forums to help you with many things and for you to enjoy. We now need you to help us to keep this site up and running. This site works at a loss every month and we appeal to you to donate what you can. If you would like to help us, then please just send a message to any Member of Staff for info on how to do this,,,, & Thank You for Being Members of this site.
Post New ThreadReply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 11-07-13, 01:41   #1
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Important PEGASUS Project -US ALLIES' Officials Among Targets of NSO Malware

Runaway spy Edward Snowden 'has not yet formally accepted asylum in Venezuela' WikiLeaks reveals

  • Anti-secrecy group made announcement after Russia politician said Snowden had accepted political asylum from the South American country
  • Alexei Pushkov, who has acted as an unofficial spokesman for the Kremlin on the Snowden affair, tweeted the remarks earlier today
  • Snowden, who revealed details of a US intelligence program to monitor internet activity, went to Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on June 23
  • Venezuela has confirmed it received an asylum request from secrets whistleblower Edward Snowden - and offered him a safe haven there
  • U.S. diplomats are working to make it difficult for Snowden to find safe harbor in any of the nations that have offered him asylum
  • Tweet subsequently disappeared a few minutes after it was posted
By Daily Mail UK, 10 July 2013



........................

Wanted: Whistleblower Edward Snowden has not accepted an offer of asylum from Venezuela, Wikileaks said tonight



Whistleblower Edward Snowden has not yet formally accepted asylum in Venezuela, WikiLeaks said today.
The anti-secrecy group made the announcement on Twitter this evening after a Russian politician tweeted earlier today that the former U.S. spy agency contractor had accepted political asylum from the South American country.

'Edward Snowden has not yet formally accepted asylum in Venezuela,' Wikileaks, whose British legal researcher Sarah Harrison is assisting Snowden and travelled to Moscow with him, later said on Twitter.

It added: 'The states concerned will make the announcement if and when the appropriate time comes. The announcement will then be confirmed by us.'

Unofficial spokesman for the Kremlin Alexei Pushkov had prompted the speculation today when he tweeted that the fugitive, believed to be in Russia and wanted by the US authorities for leaking security secrets, had accepted the offer from Venezuela.
The tweet was removed a few minutes after it was posted.

Soon after the tweet's disappearance he sent another message saying his claim was based on a report from the state all-news television channel Vesti.

However, no such information could be found on Vesti's website and no Russian news agency reported that Vesti had ever said it.

The TV channel could not immediately be reached for comment and the Kremlin declined comment on today's developments.

Mr Snowden, who revealed details of a US intelligence program to monitor internet activity, went to Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on June 23 and was believed to be headed for Cuba.

But he did not board that flight is believed to have been stranded in the airport's transit lounge ever since.


Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had already offered asylum to Mr Snowden while Bolivia and Nicaragua said they too would grant asylum to the American fugitive.




Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has offered the fugitive a safe haven and 'humanitarian asylum'

Is Ed Snowden heading to Venezuela?





Ecuador said it will consider any asylum request.


Mr Maduro said it is perhaps the world's 'first collective humanitarian asylum' with various countries saying 'Come here!'
But the United States has cancelled Mr Snowden's passport and it is unclear if he has travel documents he would need to leave Moscow.
Mr Maduro said Mr Snowden 'will have to decide when he flies here, if he finally wants to travel here.'
On Friday he said: 'As head of state, the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young American Edward Snowden so that he can live (without) ... persecution from the empire,' Maduro said, referring to the United States.

He made the offer during a speech marking the anniversary of Venezuela's independence. It was not immediately clear if there were any conditions to Venezuela's offer.

'In the name of America's dignity ... I have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to Edward Snowden,' Maduro proclaimed during a military parade marking the country's Independence Day.



The escape route is fraught with problems for Snowden, and would mean him having to gain access to Russia and then taking a huge detour


'He is a young man who has told the truth, in the spirit of rebellion, about the United States spying on the whole world,' Maduro said.

But the Obama administration said yesterday that U.S. diplomats are working behind the scenes to make it difficult for Snowden to find safe harbor in any of the nations that have offered him asylum.
Snowden has received a temporary travel document to fly to Caracas, Venezuela, and both Bolivia and Nicaragua have also offered him political asylum, but White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters during his regular briefing that the United States will do what it can to stop him.

'The United States has been in touch via diplomatic and law enforcement channels with countries through which Mr. Snowden might transit or which might serve as final destinations for Mr. Snowden,' Carney said.

U.S. diplomats, he added, have 'made very clear that he has been charged with a felony, or with felonies, and, as such, he should not be allowed to proceed in any further international travel other than travel that would result in him returning to the United States.'



An air plane, a supposed Aeroflot flight to Havana, rolls out in preparation for a take-off seen through a window of Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia


It's not clear whether the Obama administration is hoping a Latin American nation will double-cross Snowden and offer him up to Washington after he arrives from Russia.
But the U.S., Carney said, is still working to persuade Moscow to short-circuit the process and turn the fugitive over before he can leave Moscow's Sheremetyevo-2 airport.

Sources say Snowden will not be allowed to board the only Aeroflot plane that offers direct connections to Caracas, a regular service to Cuban capital Havana.

The routing overflies both the EU and the US and there are fears the plane will be denied rights to Western airspace, and forced to land, leading to Snowden's arrest.

The direct distance from Moscow to Caracas is 6,175 miles but it appeared too far for Snowden.
The escape route for Snowden is fraught with problems.


**SNOWDEN MOST LIKELY TO TAKE A PRIVATE JET BUT IT WON'T COME EASY**


In order for Snowden to get from Moscow to the Venezuelan capital of Caracas without facing threat of U.S. extradition he would need to take an indirect, 7,000 mile route to avoid U.S. airspace.
Cuba is the only country in which Snowden could land safely in a commercial plane without facing extradition but would have to pass through U.S. airspace or that of a U.S. ally whereby it could be forced to land prematurely.

A private jet is considered the best bet for Snowden but it is likely to cost in the region of $200,000 to charter and would need to be of a certain size in order to reach Caracas the long way round without refuelling.

So far, Venezuela has yet to offer to cover the cost of Snowden’s journey, meaning he will have to rely on either a private donor or Wikileaks to stump up the money.

A Gulfstream V jet would be up to the job but it then becomes a question of how many are available in Russia and who would be prepared to face the wrath of America by loaning one to its most wanted man.

With Russia getting publicly impatient with the US whistleblower's presence in its transit zone, his escape route is a logistical nightmare.

'Instead of going west to Venezuela, his obvious option is east to Vladivostok and then across the Pacific to Caracas,' said one source.

It would mean Russia allowing him to formally enter its territory, which so far it has refused to do, unwilling to upset the US.

This would also involve a 14,200 mile detour and a routing that would bring him close to the US state of Hawaii posing a risk to any private plane willing to take him on a route where there are no scheduled services.
One option for the fugitive is to charter a private plane.

Former CIA analyst Allen Thomson said: 'A private plane certainly looks like the best bet to me.
'It has the advantage of simplicity and minimum involvement by the Russian government,'

As Thomson told Foreign Policy, Snowden could avoid US-influenced airspace by flying north to the Barents Sea, through the Denmark Strait, head soutwhile avoiding Canaa's Newfoundland, until getting to the east of the Windward Islands, then squeezing through between islands
END

Re:
**SNOWDEN MOST LIKELY TO TAKE A PRIVATE JET BUT IT WON'T COME EASY**


He was offered the use of a private jet, whenever he needed it, while he was still in Hong Kong
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to Ladybbird For This Useful Post:
FreaknDavid (11-07-13)
Old 11-07-13, 02:12   #2
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: PhOtOs-Snowden Granted Asylum/Offered Job in Russia+NSA Updates

How U.S. Government is Tapping Internet and Phone Calls from International Undersea Cables

  • Another top-secret National Security Agency slide, published by The Washington Post, exposes the even wider reach of the government's intelligence programs
  • Slide shows the surveillance of an extensive network of underwater fiber cables that go from North America to the rest of the world
  • This method is used in parallel to the government's monitoring of PRISM
10 July 2013

The U.S. government is tapping communications from all around the world using international undersea cables, it has been revealed.
In another top-secret National Security Agency slide exposing the even wider reach of the government's intelligence programs, a crude map shows the extensive cable network that carries a huge amount of the world's voice and internet traffic from either side of North America and onto the rest of the globe.

At the top of the slide in large letters the word 'Upstream' is written, with the description: 'Collection of communications on fiber cables and infrastructure as data flows past' and the code names Fairview, Stormbrew, Blarney and Oakstar.




New slide: Another top-secret National Security Agency slide, pictured, obtained by The Washington Post, has exposed the government's surveillance of underwater cables


Underneath, 'PRISM' is written, showing the eavesdropping on cables runs in parallel with the spying on technology giants such as Google and Yahoo that was blown open by whistleblower Edward Snowden.


An arrow on the left points to each with the caption, telling NSA staffers: 'You Should Use both.'


The overall heading of the slide, published for the first time today by The Washington Post, is 'FAA 702 Operations,' which refers to a 2008 law that allowed collection on U.S. soil for foreign intelligence purposes of communications of foreigners thought to be overseas without the need to get a warrant from a court.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence told The Sunday Post that legally authorized data collection 'has been one of our most important tools for the protection of the nation's - and our allies' - security. Our use of these authorities has been properly classified to maximize the potential for effective collection against foreign terrorists and other adversaries.'




Whistleblower: The tapping of cables extends from what NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden already made public about the use of PRISM


It added that the intelligence and law enforcement communities would continue to work will all members of Congress to ensure a proper balance is struck between privacy and protection for citizens.

It is not known how many American's emails or phone calls have been monitored because they are communicating with a potential foreign target.

The world's hundreds of undersea cables, many of which lie across the ocean floor, now carry 99 per cent of all intercontinental data including most international phone calls, The Post reports
END


Now The US is Training NEW Agents to SPY on Existing Agents....... .....


Obama executive order requires federal government employees to learn to spy on co-workers, to prevent more WikiLeaks-type disclosures

  • Reporter's question about the secret program has Obama press secretary Jay Carney 'stumped' during White House briefing
  • Program directs employees to report on co-workers' habits, travel, financial difficulties and unusual work hours
  • October 2011 executive order from the president created a task force led by James Clapper and Eric Holder, which set guidelines for federal agencies
By Daily Mail UK, 10 July 2013




President Obama is directing federal employees to rat out their co-workers in a program designed to spot former Bradley Mannings and Ed Snowdens, but experts doubt whether the program is wise or effective


The familiar command 'If you see something, say something' has been moved into the federal government's workplaces, according to a new report.
The government's Insider Threat Program, a comprehensive initiative that stretches across 5 million security-cleared employees of all federal agencies and their contractors, was brought to life following an executive order from President Obama in 2011. He issued the directive after Army Private Bradley Manning sent untold numbers of classified documents to the anti-secrecy WikiLeaks website.
The initiative asks federal government employees to spy on their co-workers, reporting to program agents on their unusual behaviors, strange attitudes, financial troubles and unprecedented travel - all indicators that a 'high-risk' person might be engaged in espionage or other leaking of secret materials in a way that might cause 'harm to the United States.'

In particular, it seeks to identify threats from federal employees who might cause 'damage to the United States through espionage, terrorism, unauthorized disclosure of national security information or through the loss or degradation of departmental resources or capabilities,' according to a secret government document prepared by a task force headed by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Attorney General Eric Holder.

The program was highlighted in a lengthy report from the McClatchy News, whose reporters explored how psychological profiling of former computer hackers and espionage offenders revealed patterns and traits that spy experts believed could be identified pre-emptively



Naysayers point to the TSA's screening program as an indicator that federal government efforts to profile potential threats are far off the mark

White House press secretary Jay Carney was caught flat-footed during his briefing with reporters Wednesday, admitting that a question about the Insider Threat Program 'stumped' him.

'I confess that I did not go read the McClatchy story,' he said.

The government's own experts are questioning whether the program has value, and if it could be sacrificing personal civil liberties on the altar of enhanced security.

Eric Feldman, a former National Reconnaissance Office inspector general who oversaw spy satellite programs, said the program could create 'a repressive kind of culture.'

He told McClatchy that the answer to spotting potential leakers shouldn't be 'to have a Stasi-like response,' referring to the feared East German communists' secret police.


A Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday found that for the first time, a plurality of Americans believe government efforts to crack down on terrorism through surveillance of ordinary Americans has gone too far.
A strong majority said they see NSA leaker Edward Snowden as a 'whistle-blower,' rather than as a 'traitor.'



Fancy yourself a James Bond wannabee? Your Defense Department co-workers could rat you out as a reckless future secret-leaker



A task force headed by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Attorney General Eric Holder (R) set the standards for the Insider Threat Program


A 2008 National Research Council report on detecting terrorists concluded that '[t]here is no consensus in the relevant scientific community ... regarding whether any behavioral surveillance or physiological monitoring techniques are ready for use at all.'
And 'doing something similar about predicting future leakers seems even more speculative,' Stephen Fienberg, a statistics and social science professor at Carnegie Mellon University told McClatchy.

Caitlin Hayden, a National Security Council spokeswoman, said in a statement that the Insider Threat Program includes provisions to protect 'civil rights, civil liberties and privacy,' but McClatchy reported that she didn't identify any of them.

The Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive oversees government programs that aim to detect secretive threats to national security. Its spokesman Gene Barlow said that in the past, co-workers of eventual leakers saw patterns of behavior that they never reported to anyone.

'The awareness effort of the program is to teach people not only what types of activity to report,' Barlow said, 'but how to report it and why it is so important to report it.'

But he cautioned that the program 'does not mandate' that employees report anything to their supervisors.
“It simply educates employees about basic activities or behavior that might suggest a person is up to improper activity,” he said.



The government has been stung by leaks from Edward Snowden, a fugutive former NSA contractor's employee who absconded with state secrets and leaked them to The Guardian, a British newspaper


'If you see someone reading classified documents they should not be reading, especially if this happens multiple times and the person appears nervous that you saw him, that is activity that is suspicious and should be reported, Barlow told McClatchy. 'The insider threat team then looks at the surrounding facts and draws the conclusions about the activity.'

Some agencies, however, have taken the program further than merely looking for deviations from normal work patterns.
The FBI is asking private security personnel to be on the lookout for employees with 'a desire to help the "underdog" or a particular cause,' those who are 'James Bond Wannabe[s], and anyone with a 'divided loyalty: allegiance to another person or company or to a country besides the United States.'

The Pentagon is reportedly implementing a system-wide training program whose goal is to set up Insider Threat Program offices with access to every security official and contractor manager.
'What we really point out is if you’re in doubt, report, because that’s what the investigative personnel are there to do, is to get the bottom of "is this just noise or is this something that is really going on?"' a senior Army counterintelligence and security official named Larry Gillis told McClatchy



White House press secretary Jay Carney admitted Wednesday that a question about the Insider Threat Program 'stumped' him. 'I confess that I did not go read the McClatchy story,' he said


The program has become the subject of ridicule among some experts who say noticing odd behaviors isn't an effective tool for identifying future espionage suspects.
Thomas Fingar, a former State Department intelligence chief who chaired the National Intelligence Council, said that 'an amateur' like a typical federal employee would have little success. He also said employees should be oriented toward helping their co-workers, not toward reporting them for internal discipline.

But the Obama administration is poised to implement the program fully, following Edward Snowden's disclosures about NSA programs that scoop up communications data from ordinary Americans on the strength of directives from secretive courts.

'Leaks related to national security can put people at risk,' the president said just weeks ago.
'They can put men and women in uniform that I’ve sent into the battlefield at risk. They can put some of our intelligence officers, who are in various, dangerous situations that are easily compromised, at risk. ... So I make no apologies, and I don’t think the American people would expect me as commander in chief not to be concerned about information that might compromise their missions or might get them killed.'
END

Does that mean that the new name of the NSA will be NSAR (Rats) .... Remember that Rats usually turn on other Rats


New polls found that the majority of Americans see Edwards Snowden as a 'HERO,' not a 'traitor'......


Outspoken 'Hero': Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden says America's National Security Agency is 'in bed' with Germany and other Western states


...Edward Snowden?

.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to Ladybbird For This Useful Post:
FreaknDavid (11-07-13)
Old 18-07-13, 15:53   #3
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: PhOtOs-Snowden Granted Asylum/Offered Job in Russia+NSA Updates

EFF Sues U.S. Government to Stop NSA Spying

Posted: 18 Jul 2013



The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the NSA’s spy programs.

The EFF is representing 19 diverse groups including Free Press, the Free Software Foundation, Greenpeace, the Callguns Foundation and the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles.

The lawsuit accuses the authorities of violating the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights of the groups and its members by gaining access to their phone records.

“The First Amendment protects the freedom to associate and express political views as a group, but the NSA’s mass, untargeted collection of Americans’ phone records violates that right by giving the government a dramatically detailed picture into our associational ties,” EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn says.

“Who we call, how often we call them, and how long we speak shows the government what groups we belong to or associate with, which political issues concern us, and our religious affiliation,” Cohn adds

“Exposing this information – especially in a massive, untargeted way over a long period of time – violates the Constitution and the basic First Amendment tests that have been in place for over 50 years.”

The EFF seeks confirmation that the NSA surveillance programs violate the constitution and demands that they are stopped.
.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to Ladybbird For This Useful Post:
FreaknDavid (02-08-13)
Old 01-08-13, 12:28   #4
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Default re: PhOtOs-Snowden Granted Asylum/Offered Job in Russia+NSA Updates




BBC News 1 August 2013, 07:43 US ET


Snowden 'Leaves Moscow Airport'

US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden leaves Moscow airport, his lawyer tells the BBC


The BBC's Moscow correspondent Daniel Sanford is reporting that Edward Snowden left Moscow Airport up to two hours ago:

Sheremetyevo Airport says Edward Snowden left one and a half to two hours ago


Snowden Granted 'One Year Temporary Asylum' in Russia

Edward Snowden has been granted one year of temporary asylum in Russia, according to his lawyer.

More to come.......

Edward Snowden's Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena has told the Wall Street Journal: "I already escorted him out of the airport into a taxi." But he declined to say where his client was heading to, except that he was going to a secure location.


"Edward Snowden was granted temporary asylum in Russia for a year and

has now left Moscow airport under the care of WikiLeaks' Sarah Harrison”
Wikileaks

.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to Ladybbird For This Useful Post:
FreaknDavid (02-08-13)
Old 01-08-13, 12:57   #5
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Default re: PhOtOs-Snowden Granted Asylum/Offered Job in Russia+NSA Updates

US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has left the Moscow airport where he has been staying since June, his lawyer told the BBC.

Anatoly Kucherena said Mr Snowden had received the necessary asylum papers to enter Russian territory from the transit zone at Sheremetyevo Airport.

The US has charged Mr Snowden with leaking details of its electronic surveillance programmes.
He arrived in Moscow on 23 June from Hong Kong, after making his revelations.

The Snowden affair has caused diplomatic ructions around the world, upsetting America's close allies and traditional enemies.

The US Attorney General, Eric Holder, has given Moscow an assurance that he will not face the death penalty if extradited to America.

The Russians say they do not intend to hand him over.


Profile: Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden, a former CIA technical worker, fled to Hong Kong in May after revealing extensive internet and phone surveillance by US intelligence.
Mr Snowden, 30, had been living with his girlfriend in Hawaii but left for the Chinese Special Administrative Region where, with his consent, the UK's Guardian newspaper revealed his identity.

After the US filed charges and asked local authorities to extradite him, Mr Snowden left Hong Kong on 23 June, initially for Moscow but with the intention of seeking asylum in Ecuador.
Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said that Mr Snowden's asylum request was being "analysed".

Journalists who interviewed him at his secret location in Hong Kong described him as "quiet, smart, easy-going and self-effacing. A master on computers".

Explaining why he decided to leave the US, he told the Guardian: "I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things… I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded."

The US has charged Mr Snowden with theft of government property, unauthorised communication of national defence information and wilful communication of classified communications intelligence.
Each of the charges carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence.

With the knowledge that the US does have an extradition treaty with Hong Kong, Mr Snowden left on an Aeroflot flight to Moscow.


'Disillusioned'

Mr Snowden is reported to have grown up in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and later moved to Maryland, near the headquarters of the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade.
Describing himself as a less than stellar student, he is said to have studied computing at a Maryland community college to get the necessary credits to obtain a high school diploma. However, he never finished the course.




Mr Snowden spent some of his early years near the NSA HQ in Fort Meade

In 2003, he joined the US Army and began training with the Special Forces only to be discharged after breaking both his legs in a training accident.

His first job with the NSA was as a security guard for one of the agency's secret facilities at the University of Maryland. He then worked on IT security at the CIA.
Despite his lack of formal qualifications, his computer wizardry allowed him to quickly rise through intelligence ranks.
By 2007, he was given a CIA post with diplomatic cover in Geneva.

Mr Snowden told the Guardian UK :

"Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I realised that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good."

Mr Snowden said he had considered going public earlier, but waited to see whether President Barack Obama's election in 2008 would change the US approach.

"[Mr Obama] continued with the policies of his predecessor," he said.

According to campaign finance records, Mr Snowden gave money in 2012 to Republican presidential long-shot Ron Paul, who supports strictly curtailing the powers of government.



Mr Snowden and his girlfriend reportedly moved out of their home in Hawaii on 1 May

Mr Snowden reportedly made two donations of $250 (£160) over the course of the campaign.
He left the CIA in 2009 and began working at the NSA as an employee of various outside contractors, including consulting giant Booz Allen.
The company confirmed he had been an employee of the firm for less than three months, assigned to a team in Hawaii.

"News reports that this individual has claimed to have leaked classified information are shocking, and if accurate, this action represents a grave violation of the code of conduct and core values of our firm, it said.

Mr Snowden admitted to Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper that he took the job at Booz Allen because he wanted access to classified information to gather evidence.

He was formally sacked on 11 June.

Mr Snowden was on a salary of $122,000 according to a statement from his employer.

He and his girlfriend moved out of their home in Waipahu, West Oahu, Hawaii, on 1 May, estate agents said, leaving nothing behind.
A neighbour told ABC that the couple usually kept the blinds and doors closed and "didn't really talk to anyone at all around here".

His girlfriend, whose personal blog includes photos of her pole dancing, has said her partner's sudden disappearance caught her by surprise.

"My world has opened and closed all at once," Lindsay Mills wrote. "Leaving me lost at sea without a compass."
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to Ladybbird For This Useful Post:
FreaknDavid (02-08-13)
Old 04-08-13, 22:11   #6
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update Re: PhOtOs-Snowden Granted Asylum/Offered Job in Russia+NSA Updates

Court Rejects First Russian ‘SOPA’ Lawsuit, Target Offers Snowden a Job

Posted: 04 Aug 2013



A brand new anti-piracy law went into effect in Russia. The legislation, which has been criticized by netizens and companies such as Google and Yandex, was met by a wave of protests.

In total around 1,700 sites and services took part in a SOPA-style ‘blackout’ in an effort to show how the law, which allows for pre-trial blocking of websites, could effect the nation.

A petition against the legislation has also been gathering lots of support. On Tuesday the Pirate Party of Russia press secretary Natalia Malysheva, said signatures were at 55,000. Today almost 75,000 have made their mark.

The law allows rightsholders to file an official complaint about any sites carrying infringing content or links to the same. Failure to remove that content in a timely manner can lead to entire domains being blocked at the ISP level.

Wasting no time, yesterday a local movie company was first out of the blocks. Distributor Kino Bez Granits (Cinema Without Borders) filed a lawsuit in the Moscow City Court against social networking giant vKontakte.

Company boss Sam Klebanov said the site was carrying copies of five of his movies included titles from Steve McQueen and David Cronenberg. He added that he’d told vKontakte about the problem two weeks earlier but they failed to respond. Vknotakte denied that version of events.

“Cinema without Borders turned to VKontakte with the requirement to remove the movies. We provided VKontakte with a list of our films and asked them to take measures to eliminate our content from their portal, otherwise we would use the mechanisms of the new law and go to court, and we did that,” Klebanov said.

However, everything did not go smoothly.

Along with its complaint, Cinema Without Borders was required to show that the company is the legal owner of the movies in questions. The art-house movie distributor thought that copies of that documentation would suffice, but the court disagreed. The lawsuit was subsequently rejected on the basis of inadequate paperwork.

Vkontakte is yet to comment on developments but has spoken out in the past on the difficulties of policing a site with more than 45 million users, any of whom could upload illegal copies or links to infringing content.


vKontakte Offers Snowden a Job



Finally, vKontakte will make headlines today on an entirely different issue. Yesterday National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden was granted temporary asylum in Russia which allowed him to leave Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport.

The papers given to him by the Immigration Service not only allow him to live in Russia but also to work there and if vKontakte have their way, he will be doing that under their guidance.

Quote:
“Edward Snowden – a man who denounced crimes against the citizens of the U.S. by intelligence services around the world – has received temporary asylum in Russia. At such moments, you feel proud of our country and regret towards U.S. policy – a country committed to the principles on which it was once built,” vKontakte founder Pavel Durov said in a statement.
“We invite Edward to St. Petersburg and will be happy if he decides to join our stellar team of programmers at VKontakte. In the end, there is no more popular European Internet company than VK. I think Edward might be interested in protecting the personal data of millions of our users,” Durov concludes.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to Ladybbird For This Useful Post:
FreaknDavid (05-08-13)
Old 30-08-13, 12:02   #7
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update Navy Seals Guided from SPACE-Bin Laden Raid Leaked by Snowden+NSA Updates

Navy Seals Guided from SPACE, a Top Secret Lab that had Bin Laden's DNA and Clandestine NSA Operatives who Bugged Terrorist's Phones: New Details of Bin Laden Raid Leaked by Snowden

  • New classified information was included in 2013 'black budget' for 16 U.S. intelligence agencies
  • Documents state a branch of NSA tracked cell phones used by al-Qaeda operatives that led CIA to Bin Laden's Pakistan hideout
  • U.S. military lab in Afghanistan analyzed DNA from Bin Laden's corpse and gave positive ID eight hours after raid
  • National Reconnaissance Office satellite collected hundreds of high-resolution images of the Abbottabad compound a month before raid
By Daily Mail UK, 30 August 2013

Top secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden have revealed how a clandestine NSA unit helped bug phones to locate Osama Bin Laden, a previously undisclosed lab helped confirm his DNA and the SEALS who raided his compound were guided from space.

According to a packet of classified intelligence documents that were leaked to the Post by former NSA contractor-turned-Russian émigré Edward Snowden, the successful raid on Bin Laden's lair was made possible in part thanks to a team of top secret operatives known as the Tailored Access Operation group.

The elite hackers are tasked with breaking into computers and cell phone networks and installing spyware and locator devices. Such implants on devices owned by Al Qaeda officials were crucial to enabling the Bin Laden raid, according to the Post.

Documents also reveal the existence of a top secret lab Defense Intelligence Agency Lab holding Bin Laden's DNA that was able to confirm his identity within hours, and that a network of NSA satellites guided the SEALs on the raid and intercepted communications from the surrounding area.



Operation Neptune Spear: Leaked top secret intelligence documents revealed that the NSA played a key role
in the mission to find Osama Bin Laden by tracking cell phones of al-Qaeda operatives


The newspaper reported Thursday that the CIA was then able to identify the location of one of the cell phones belonging to an al-Qaeda operative, which was linked to the walled-in home in the affluent suburb of Abbottabad.

The classified information about the lead-up to the 2011 raid carried out by SEAL Team 6 was mentioned in the 2013 fiscal 'black budget' for the U.S. intelligence community.
The leaked documents, which include pie charts and graphs, show that the 16 agencies received nearly $53billion, with the biggest share of the budget - $14.7bllion - going to the CIA.

The NSA got $10.8billion, nearly half of which was spent on collecting, processing and analysing data.



Renegade: The classified documents detailing the 2013 fiscal budget for U.S. intelligence agencies
was leaked to the Washington Post by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden


The secret documents filled in some gaps in information about the May 2011 raid, detailing how the operation was guided from space by satellites, which collected electronic data from Pakistan while the mission was in progress.

While the 178-page 'black budget' is scant on details, the fiscal documents mentioned that an NSA branch known as the Tailored Access Operation group was responsible for installing spyware and tracking devices to collect data from cell phones used by al-Qaeda operatives.

The budget also shows that a U.S. military laboratory in Afghanistan analysed DNA from Bin Laden's corpse and confirmed his identity shortly after he was killed.
The Pentagon denied more than a year ago it had any records of these tests in a response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by The Associated Press a day after President Barack Obama announced Bin Laden's death.
The Post reported that a forensic intelligence laboratory run by the Defense Intelligence Agency performed the DNA testing eight hours after the right, and the tests 'provided a conclusive match.'
The AP's request for records submitted on May 2, 2011, included DNA and facial recognition tests performed to ensure the body was Bin Laden's, all videos and photographs taken during the raid on Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the death certificate and other records related to the mission.
In a March 2012 response, the Defense Department said it could not locate any of the files.


Secret lair: Thanks to the data gathered by the NSA, the CIA was able to identify the location of one of the
cell phones linked to a walled-in home in the affluent suburb of Abbottabad, Pakistan





Eyes in the sky: The documents stated that the raid on Bin Laden's compound was guided from space by satellites



Positive ID: A U.S. military laboratory in Afghanistan analysed DNA
from Bin Laden's corpse and confirmed his identity


The AP reported in July that the nation's top special operations commander, Adm. William McRaven, had ordered military files about the raid purged from Defense Department computers and sent to the CIA, where they more easily could be shielded from ever being made public.
The secret move appeared to have sidestepped federal rules and perhaps the Freedom of Information Act as well.
The CIA has special authority to prevent the release of 'operational files' in ways that can't effectively be challenged in federal court.
Spokesmen for the Pentagon and CIA denied the move was intended to avoid the legal requirements of the FOIA. The Bin Laden mission was overseen by the CIA, they said, which meant the records about the raid should be housed with the spy agency.


Secret force: An NSA branch known as the Tailored Access Operation group was responsible
for installing spyware and tracking devices as part of the hunt for Bin Laden




Costly service: The NSA received $10.8billion in government funds in 2013, which is about $4billion behind CIA's budget


The CIA has not responded to a separate request for many of the same records about the bin Laden mission the Pentagon said it could not find.
A month before the launch of the operation to find and kill bin Laden, satellites operated by the National Reconnaissance Office collected hundreds of high-resolution and infrared images of the Abbottabad stronghold , which were ‘critical to prepare for the mission and contributed to the decision to approve execution,’ according to the classified documents.


RELATED:

Pakistani Doctor who Helped CIA Hunt Down Osama bin Laden has 33 year Prison Sentence for Treason Overturned


  • Dr Shakil Afridi ran a vaccination program outside bin Laden's compound
  • DNA was collected in an attempt to verify the al-Qaida leader's presence
  • He was convicted on unrelated charges of 'conspiring against the state'
  • Accused of giving money and providing medical aid to Islamic militants
  • A Pakistani judicial official overturned the sentence and ordered a re-trial
30 August 2013



Retrial: Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA hunt down
Osama bin Laden has had a 33 year prison sentence overturned


The Pakistani doctor who was hailed a hero after helping the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden has had a 33 year prison sentence for treason overturned.
Shakil Afridi was convicted in May 2012 on charges unrelated to the bin Laden incident of 'conspiring against the state' by giving money and providing medical treatment to Islamic militants in Pakistan's Khyber tribal area.

The doctor's family and the militants denied the allegations.
Yesterday a senior Pakistani judicial official overturned the sentence and ordered a re-trial, on the grounds that person who had issued the sentence had not been authorised to hear the case.

Dr Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA in an attempt to verify the al-Qaida leader's presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad. U.S. commandos later killed bin Laden there in May 2011 in a unilateral raid.
Pakistani officials were outraged by the bin Laden operation, which led to international suspicion that they had been harboring al-Qaida's founder. In their eyes, Afridi was a traitor who had collaborated with a foreign spy agency in an illegal operation on Pakistani soil.
The case has caused friction between Pakistan and the United States, complicating a relationship that Washington views as vital for fighting the Taliban and al-Qaida, as well as negotiating an end to the war in neighboring Afghanistan.

In the U.S. and other Western nations, Afridi was viewed as a hero who had helped eliminate the world's most wanted man.

Officials in Washington have called for Afridi to be released. Yesterday, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told journalists that Afridi's continued detention 'sends exactly the wrong message.'



Critical intelligence: Dr Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA in an attempt to
verify the al-Qaida leader's presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad (pictured)


'We hope this latest development leads to an outcome that reflects the fact that bringing Osama bin Laden to justice was clearly in Pakistan's interest - as well as ours,' Harf said.
The doctor was tried under the Frontier Crimes Regulations, or FCR, the set of laws that govern Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal region. Human rights organizations have criticized the FCR for not providing suspects the right to legal representation, to present material evidence, or to cross-examine witnesses. Verdicts are handled by a government official in consultation with a council of elders.
Anis, a commissioner tasked with enforcing the FCR, ruled that Afridi will be re-tried under the regulations by the top political official in Khyber, Shah said. Afridi was previously tried by the official's assistant.
The doctor's lawyer, Samiullah Khan, welcomed the decision to order a re-trial, saying: 'I think it is a good achievement for us.' He called the original decision to sentence Afridi to 33 years in prison 'totally illegal.'



Dr Afridi's brother Jamil Khan Afridi welcomed Thursday's ruling, but also demanded that
the next trial should not be held behind closed doors



But Khan said he was concerned about the decision to once again hold the trial under the FCR. He would rather the case be heard by a judge under Pakistan's normal legal system.
Khan said he had not been able to share the news with his client. The doctor has been held in prison with little contact with the outside world, and the lawyer said it had been months since he'd seen his client.
Afridi's brother Jamil Khan Afridi welcomed Thursday's ruling, but also demanded that the next trial should not be held behind closed doors.
'He should be tried in an open court in the presence of media so that the world will know that my brother is innocent,' the brother said. He called the allegations against Afridi 'baseless.'
The brother said the last time authorities allowed him to meet with Afridi was in August 2012, although the doctor's wife and children were allowed to see him on July 10.
It's unclear whether a re-trial will result in Afridi being released or simply receiving a reduced sentence.

Freeing the doctor would remove a sore point between Pakistan and the U.S. at a time when relations have warmed relative to the dark days following the bin Laden raid. But the operation still causes consternation in Pakistan, and it could be politically difficult for the government if Afridi is released.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 02-09-13, 22:41   #8
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: NSA/GCHQ Unlock Encryption Progs>Spy on Purchases

By Bogdan Popa

Microsoft Sues the NSA, Asks for Permission to Disclose More Data




Microsoft has recently moved the fight against the US government to the court, asking for permission to disclose more data and thus demonstrate that it didn't help the NSA spy on its' users.

Both Google and Microsoft have filed suits in June, the Redmond-based tech giant revealed, pointing to the US Constitution and its rights to share more information with the public.

Brad Smith, general counsel & executive vice president, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft, claims that Redmond has extended the deadline to reply to these lawsuits six times until now, but talks with the government have until now ended in failure.

“We believe it is vital to publish information that clearly shows the number of national security demands for user content, such as the text of an email. These figures should be published in a form that is distinct from the number of demands that capture only metadata such as the subscriber information associated with a particular email address,” Smith said.

“We believe it’s possible to publish these figures in a manner that avoids putting security at risk. And unless this type of information is made public, any discussion of government practices and service provider obligations will remain incomplete.”

Microsoft is not alone in the fight against the NSA and the US government. In addition to Google, some other unnamed companies in the technology sector joined Microsoft's effort to ask for permission on disclosing data concerning the requests it received for providing user details.

“With the failure of our recent negotiations, we will move forward with litigation in the hope that the courts will uphold our right to speak more freely. And with a growing discussion on Capitol Hill, we hope Congress will continue to press for the right of technology companies to disclose relevant information in an appropriate way,” Smith concluded.
END




SITES THAT THE NSA (PRISM) ARE SPYING ON YOUR MOVEMENTS/ACTIONS/INFO


The Evidence...
(Note on the Top Left Hand Side and Bottom Right Hand Side, it is marked....

TOP SECRET.....

and just look which names are top of the list beneath that
:







..Big Brother is Watching You.. :







.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to Ladybbird For This Useful Post:
FreaknDavid (07-09-13)
Old 07-09-13, 14:56   #9
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: NSA Director Admits Agency Spies on Twitter & Facebook

NSA & GCHQ Unlock Encryption Programs that EVERYONE uses to Email and Make Purchases on their Phones and Tablets

  • The NSA and Britain's Government Communications Headquarters spent at least three years trying to crack into protected traffic of the most popular Internet companies: Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft’s Hotmail
  • The intelligence agencies referred to these secret programs as 'Bullrun' and its British counterpart, 'Edgehill'
  • The intelligence agencies have used a collection of methods to thwart what they see as the biggest threats to their ability to access large amounts of Internet traffic: 'the use of ubiquitous encryption across the Internet.'
Daily Mail UK, 7 September 2013

The latest round of leaks by National Security Administration whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that U.S. and British intelligence agencies have cracked many of the online security encryptions that the general public - often unknowingly - relies on every time they send an e-mail, buy something online, consult with colleagues via their company’s computer network, or use a phone or a tablet on a 4G network.
Many of these security features - like Secure Sockets Layer and virtual private networks (VPNs) - are guaranteed by Internet providers as reassurance that they're online activities will not be compromised by criminals, or governments.

Britain's Government Communications Headquarters - likely in close collaboration with the NSA - spent at least three years trying to crack into protected traffic of the most popular Internet companies: Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft’s Hotmail. The intelligence agencies referred to these secret programs as 'Bullrun' and its British counterpart, 'Edgehill.'




Encryption: The NSA has successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect their private information online


According to leaked documents - obtained by multiple news outlets, including The Guardian and the New York Times - by 2012, GCHQ had developed 'new access opportunities' into Google’s systems.

The intelligence agencies, documents reveal, have used a collection of methods to thwart what they see as the biggest threats to their ability to access large amounts of Internet traffic: 'the use of ubiquitous encryption across the Internet.'

Some of the methods include 'covert measures' to guarantee that the NSA has control over setting international encryption standards and using supercomputers to crack encryption codes 'with brute force.' Additionally, the agencies are collaborating with tech companies and Internet providers - a practice the Guardian and the Times deems the agencies' 'most closely guarded secret of all.'

The collaborations allowed the intelligence agencies to install secret vulnerabilities - often referred to as backdoors or trap doors - to the companies' encryption programs.

Some of the previously secret information revealed in Snowden's latest leak is the existence of a program the NSA has been working on for 10 years, the goal of which was to crack encryption technologies that protected information. According to the documents, the agency had a breakthrough in 2010 that allowed for 'vast amounts' of data collection through 'exploitable' Internet cable taps.



Whistleblower: The new information was revealed in the latest round of documents leaked by former NSA analyst Edward Snowden

Documents also showed that the NSA spends roughly $250 million a year on a program designed to covertly influence tech companies' product designs.
In the documents, the NSA describes strong decryption programs as the 'price of admission for the US to maintain unrestricted access to and use of cyberspace.'
Additionally, the GCHQ has identified 'the big four' service providers as Hotmail, Google, Yahoo and Facebook, and has actively been looking for ways to get into the companies' encrypted traffic.

According to the agencies, however, the goal of such domestic spying programs is vital in counter-terrorism efforts and foreign intelligence gathering.
However, security experts say the agencies' programs aren't just part of foreign intelligence gathering, and are attacking the Internet as a whole, which effects the privacy of all users, not just criminals or terrorists.

'Cryptography forms the basis for trust online,' Bruce Schneier, an encryption specialist and fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, told the Guardian. 'By deliberately undermining online security in a short-sighted effort to eavesdrop, the NSA is undermining the very fabric of the internet.'



Britain's GCHQ collaborated with the NSA on the best ways to crack online encryption programs


He went on to say that classified briefings between the agencies celebrate their success at 'defeating network security and privacy.'
'For the past decade, NSA has lead [sic] an aggressive, multi-pronged effort to break widely used internet encryption technologies,' a 2010 GCHQ document stated. 'Vast amounts of encrypted internet data which have up till now been discarded are now exploitable.'

According to the documents leaked by Snowden, the key component of the NSA's war on encryption is its collaboration with large tech companies - the budget for the collaborative effort with the 'big four' is $254.9 million this year. The program 'actively engages US and foreign IT industries to covertly influence and/or overtly leverage their commercial products' designs,' the document states. 'These design changes make the systems in question exploitable through Sigint collection...with foreknowledge of the modification. To the consumer and other adversaries, however, the systems' security remains intact.'

The fact that the NSA had a relationship with several tech companies was first reported in August after another round of leaks from Snowden.
According to the leaked documents, the NSA reimbursed tech companies like Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft millions of dollars each year for their participation in the agency's clandestine Prism surveillance program.each of the companies an opportunity to explain the new documents, asking each one specific questions about the payments they received from the government for their participation in the program.

'Federal law requires the US government to reimburse providers for costs incurred to respond to compulsory legal process imposed by the government. We have requested reimbursement consistent with this law,' a Yahoo! spokeswoman told the paper.

Facebook said it had 'never received any compensation in connection with responding to a government data request.'

Google provided a statement, but refused to answer any specific questions.

'We await the US government's response to our petition to publish more national security request data, which will show that our compliance with American national security laws falls far short of the wild claims still being made in the press today,' the statement said.

Microsoft - which seeks reimbursements from the government on a case-by-case basis - initially declined an on-the-record comment, but later provided a statement.

'Microsoft only complies with court orders because it is legally ordered to, not because it is reimbursed for the work. We could have a more informed discussion of these issues if providers could share additional information, including aggregate statistics on the number of any national security orders they may receive,' the statement read.

According to the Guardian, intelligence officials asked the publications not to publish information found in the released documents, claiming that it 'might prompt foreign targets to switch to new forms of encryption or communications that would be harder to collect or read.'
However, the news outlets 'removed some specific facts but decided to publish the story because of the value of a public debate about government actions that weaken the most powerful tools for protecting the privacy of internet users in the US and worldwide.'
END


RELATED:


NSA Can Spy on VPN Traffic





Perhaps it doesn’t come as a complete surprise, but the NSA has found a way to listen into several types of secure communication. ProPublica, The New York Times and The Guardian report that, together with other intelligence agencies, the NSA has cracked several encryption technologies and put backdoors into security software.

The articles specifically mention VPNs, and the SSL and TLS protocols are also compromised allowing the intelligence agencies to monitor Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo traffic.
The reports don’t reveal which algorithms have been compromised and where the supposed backdoors are installed.
From a technical point of view it’s nearly impossible to break the most secure forms of VPN encryption in realtime. That said, older algorithms have been cracked in the past and the NSA never ceases to amaze.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to Ladybbird For This Useful Post:
FreaknDavid (07-09-13)
Old 13-09-13, 13:28   #10
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Default re: NSA Director Admits Agency Spies on Twitter & Facebook

...........









..Big Brother is Watching You.. :


.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to Ladybbird For This Useful Post:
FreaknDavid (13-09-13)
Old 14-09-13, 10:25   #11
PREMIUM LINKS ONLY SUPPLIED
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 20,135
Thanks: 0
Thanked 250 Times in 237 Posts
dragonball_833 is a jewel in the roughdragonball_833 is a jewel in the roughdragonball_833 is a jewel in the rough
Default VIDEOs-NSA Snowden Accepts Award "Integrity in Intelligence" & Slams US



NSA Files (Raw Documents + Whistleblower Edward Snowden)

1. NSA COLLECTING PHONE RECORDS OF MILLIONS OF VERIZON CUSTOMERS DAILY. TOP SECRET COURT ORDER REQUIRING VERIZON TO HAND OVER ALL CALL DATA TO NSA (Story/Guardian)

2. NSA PRISM PROGRAM TAPS IN TO USER DATA OF APPLE, GOOGLE AND OTHERS. TOP SECRET NSA PRISM PROGRAM CLAIMS DIRECT ACCESS TO SERVERS OF FIRMS INCLUDING GOOGLE, APPLE AND FACEBOOK (Story/WashingtonPost/Guardian)

3. OBAMA ORDERS US TO DRAW UP OVERSEAS TARGET LIST FOR CYBER-ATTACKS. TOP SECRET OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE STEPS UP OFFENSIVE CYBER CAPABILITIES TO "ADVANCE US OBJECTIVES AROUND THE WORLD" (Story/Guardian)

4. BOUNDLESS INFORMANT: THE NSA?ÇÖS SECRET TOOL TO TRACK GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE DATA. 3-PAGE BOUNDLESS INFORMANT EXPLANATION DOCUMENT, WHICH SHOWS THE NSA COLLECTED ALMOST 3 BILLION PIECES OF INTELLIGENCE FROM US COMPUTER NETWORKS OVER A 30-DAY PERIOD ENDING IN MARCH (Story/Guardian)

5. TOP SECRET NSA BOUNDLESS INFORMANT TOOL DETAILS AND MAPS BY COUNTRY THE VOLUMINOUS AMOUNT OF INFORMATION IT COLLECTS FROM COMPUTER AND TELEPHONE NETWORKS (Story/Guardian)

6. GCHQ INTERCEPTED FOREIGN POLITICIANS?ÇÖ COMMUNICATIONS AT G20 SUMMITS. EXTRACTS FROM LEAKED TOP SECRET GCHQ DOCUMENT DESCRIBING AGENCY?ÇÖS "RECENT SUCCESSES" SPYING ON FOREIGN POLITICIANS AT G20 SUMMITS (Story/Guardian)

7. THE TOP SECRET RULES THAT ALLOW NSA TO USE US DATA WITHOUT A WARRANT. TOP-SECRET DOCUMENT SHOWS FISA JUDGES SIGNED OFF ON BROAD ORDERS ALLOWING NSA TO MAKE USE OF INFORMATION "INADVERTENTLY" COLLECTED FROM DOMESTIC US COMMUNICATIONS WITHOUT A WARRANT (Story/Guardian)

8. SECRET DOCUMENT DETAILS PROCEDURES THE NSA IS REQUIRED TO FOLLOW TO TARGET "NON-US PERSONS" UNDER ITS FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE POWERS ?Çô AND WHAT THE AGENCY DOES TO MINIMIZE DATA COLLECTED ON US CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS (Story/Guardian)

9. ONE-PARAGRAPH ORDER, SIGNED BY FISA COURT JUDGE, DECLARES PROCEDURES SUBMITTED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL ON BEHALF OF NSA ARE CONSISTENT WITH US LAW AND FOURTH AMENDMENT (Story/Guardian)

10. NSA COLLECTED US EMAIL RECORDS IN BULK FOR MORE THAN 2 YEARS UNDER OBAMA. SECRET CORRESPONDENCE INVOLVING ATTORNEY GENERAL MICHAEL MUKASEY IN 2007 REQUESTING PERMISSION FOR NSA TO EXPAND ITS "CONTACT CHAINS" DEEPER INTO AMERICANS?ÇÖ EMAIL RECORDS (Story/Guardian)

11. TOP SECRET DRAFT REPORT FROM 2009 BY NSA?ÇÖS INSPECTOR GENERAL SHOWS DEVELOPMENT OF "COLLECTION OF BULK INTERNET METADATA" UNDER PROGRAM LAUNCHED UNDER BUSH (Story/Guardian)

12. XKEYSCORE: NSA TOOL COLLECTS "NEARLY EVERYTHING A USER DOES ON THE INTERNET". TOP SECRET TRAINING MATERIALS FOR THE XKEYSCORE PROGRAM DETAIL HOW ANALYSTS CAN USE IT AND OTHER SYSTEMS TO MINE ENORMOUS AGENCY DATABASES AND DEVELOP INTELLIGENCE FROM THE WEB (Story/Guardian)

13. VIDEOS(2): EDWARD SNOWDEN- THE WHISTLEBLOWER BEHIND THE NSA SURVEILLANCE REVELATIONS. EDWARD SNOWDEN, THE SOURCE BEHIND THE GUARDIAN?ÇÖS NSA FILES, TALKS TO GLENN GREENWALD IN HONG KONG ABOUT HIS MOTIVES FOR THE BIGGEST INTELLIGENCE LEAK IN A GENERATION (Story/Guardian)


Format: pdf, avi
Language: English
Size: 237.06 MiB
Hoster: Uploaded

Important:

Please say Thank You if you like my post !

Search my posts to find more quality and interesting Stuff !

If you want to have high speed and parallel downloads buy premium account!

To Unzip the files please use 7zip and WinRar. Thanks




Links:

http://uploaded.net/file/bk914zro/NSA%20Files%20%28Raw%20Documents%20+%20Whistleblower%20Edward%20Snowden%20Interview%29.part1.rar
http://uploaded.net/file/5728pzsb/NSA%20Files%20%28Raw%20Documents%20+%20Whistleblower%20Edward%20Snowden%20Interview%29.part2.rar
__________________
Members, if you do not have a Premium Account, you can bypass them by going here for help - real-debrid.com>>>
OR, You can help this site, by clicking on the link below to buy a Premium Account.
& Thank you for helping us. Click;



dragonball_833 is offline  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 03-10-13, 00:29   #12
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Default re: NSA Director Admits Agency Spies on Twitter & Facebook

NSA Director Admits Agency Trawls Twitter & Facebook… But Insists They are NOT Building Personal Files on Americans

  • The head of the National Security Agency denied on Wednesday that the intelligence service compile's data on Americans' use of social networks
  • National Security Agency chief Gen. Keith Alexander told Senate Judiciary Committee that his agency once tested whether it could track Americans' cellphone locations
  • Claims the NSA does not use this technology
By Daily Mail, 2 October 2013


The director of the National Security Agency admitted today that the agency collects data from social networks and other private databases to hunt terror suspects but is not using the information to build dossiers, or personal files, on Americans.

NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander testified during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday that not all social network searches are authorized by a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court, but the agency's actions are proper and audited internally.

Alexander called a recent New York Times report on the searches 'inaccurate and wrong.'






Denial: National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander gestures during a Senate Judiciary Committee
oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Capitol Hill on Wednesday


The Times report did not specifically cite dossiers, but said the NSA was exploiting huge collections of personal data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans' social connections.

The Times said the private data includes bank, flight, GPS location and voting records.

General Alexander told the Judiciary Committee that social networks are only investigated when they suspect 'someone who is part of a terrorist investigation'.

'The fact that people assume that we're out there mapping the social networks of US persons is absolutely wrong,' said Alexander.

'What we do go after is those that are the subject of a terrorist investigation or something like that.'

Defending the work of the NSA's surveillance efforts which have been under fire since the revelations of whistle-blower Edward Snowden in June, General Alexander said that the agency uses social networks to 'enrich' information on suspects.





Considered: National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill

in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing


'We don't have the Facebook and other stuff on those people here in the US. It would have to come from the foreign side,' he said.

Asked whether they would continue to investigate social networks if the suspect turned out to be an American, Alexander said that the investigation would be handed over to the FBI.

However, General Alexander did admit during the hearing that the National Security Agency once tested whether it could track Americans' cellphone locations, but he says the NSA does not use that capability.

Alexander said the agency conducted tests in 2010 and 2011 to see if it could handle the data, and then reported the tests to both House and Senate intelligence committees.

He claims the data gathered was never used for intelligence analysis.
These apparent clarifications follow on from revelations in the New York Times over the weekend which claim that for almost three years the National Security Agency has been tapping the data it collects to map out some Americans' social connections, allowing the government to identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information.

Citing documents provided by former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden, the Times reported that the NSA began allowing the analysis of phone call and e-mail logs in November 2010 to examine some Americans' networks of associations for foreign intelligence purposes after NSA officials lifted restrictions on the practice.

The newspaper posted the report on its website Saturday.




National Intelligence Director James Clapper , left, accompanied by National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander,
testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee


A January 2011 memorandum from the spy agency indicated that the policy shift was intended to help the agency 'discover and track' connections between intelligence targets overseas and people in the United States, the Times reported.

The documents Snowden provided indicated that the NSA can augment the communications data with material from public, commercial and other sources, including bank codes, insurance information, Facebook profiles, passenger manifests, voter registration rolls and GPS location information, as well as property records and unspecified tax data, the paper reported.

NSA officials declined to say how many Americans have been caught up in the effort, including people involved in no wrongdoing, the Times reported.

The documents do not describe what has resulted from the scrutiny, which links phone numbers and e-mails in a 'contact chain' tied directly or indirectly to a person or organization overseas that is of foreign intelligence interest, the paper reported.





Protestors hold signs, and CodePink founder Medea Benjamin wears oversized sunglasses on Capitol Hill in Washington,
Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act


The documents provided by Snowden don't specify which phone and e-mail databases are used to create the social network diagrams, the Times reported, and NSA officials wouldn't identify them.

However, NSA officials said the large database of Americans' domestic phone call records revealed in June was not used, the paper reported.

Disclosures from documents leaked by Snowden earlier this year have sparked debate over the government's surveillance activities and concerns that Americans' civil liberties have been violated by the data collection.

Russia has granted temporary asylum to Snowden, considered a fugitive from justice in the U.S., and his whereabouts remain secret.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 05-10-13, 14:02   #13
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Default re: VIDEOs-NSA Snowden Accepts Award "Integrity in Intelligence" & Slams US










Above is in reference to this previous post:


US N.S.A Broke Copyright Laws-Stole Logo
How NSA spooks spaffed my DAD'S DATA ALL OVER THE WEB

Plundered PRISM asset without so much as a thank-you

By Damon Hart-Davis, 12th June 2013

Pics Shock, horror, scandal! America's NSA secretly took data from my website for its fiendish PRISM web-snooping project - and it ended up blasted all over the internet!

Top-secret slides detailing the massive electronic surveillance programme were leaked last week by ex-CIA techie Edward Snowden. A close inspection of the presentation reveals a terrible scandal missed by the entire mainstream media: the project's weird logo is startlingly similar, if not an exact copy, of my father's own work.




The leaked slides now all over the internet … notice the PRISM logo in the top right corner



......


That NSA PRISM logo in full - and below flipped upside-down so you can compare it to the image below


The NSA may have set aside a paltry annual budget of $20m for its internet-data hoovering program (we're doomed, doomed, I tell you), but that didn't stretch as far as bunging over some loose change for using my dad's prism photo for its creepy PRISM logo: the original image is hosted on my online gallery for free-to-use pics, although there are caveats (such as a requirement to credit and link to us).


Here is the original:




Look familiar? … prism photo snapped by former Tomorrow's World presenter Adam Hart-Davis*
(used with permission, Click Here to see Full source)



On the other hand, I'm not convinced we really want a picture credit.

I am considering finding a bean-counter at the NSA and asking if he or she could scape together a small donation (which larger organisations often do, generously, in lieu of a fee), although I wonder if all my sites and activities would experience, ahem, enhanced scrutiny for a little while.

* Yes, that prism photo is by the Adam Hart-Davis, him off Tomorrow's World back in the day
END

Above posted in post 2 this thread:

America Broke Copyright Laws First


.......




.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 13-10-13, 15:19   #14
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: VIDEOs-NSA Snowden Accepts Award "Integrity in Intelligence" & Slams US

Edward Snowden Accepts Award for "Integrity in Intelligence", & Slams US Spying:

WikiLeaks Releases New Moscow Video of Fugitive NSA Leaker


Since receiving asylum in Russia in August, former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden has rarely been seen in person. That changed earlier this week when Snowden made a rare appearance in Moscow to accept the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence.

The award is given out annually by a group of former U.S. intelligence officials to colleagues they deem worthy of the recognition.

Snowden's appearance was captured on video, above, which WikiLeaks later posted to YouTube on Friday.

The series of six videos show Snowden, dressed in a dark suit and light-colored dress shirt, meeting several people in a nondescript banquet hall. The videos were recorded on Wednesday, according to WikiLeaks.

The ex-officials said Snowden expressed no regrets regarding his decision to leak top-secret documents about U.S. surveillance programs, and added that he is adjusting to life in Russia, the AP reported.

Snowden’s temporary, one-year asylum in Russia expires on July 31, 2014.





Watch the full set of videos on WikiLeaks;

Click here..


.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 18-10-13, 22:05   #15
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Hacker Re: VIDEOs-NSA Snowden Accepts Award "Integrity in Intelligence" & Slams US

Quote:
Originally Posted by dragonball_833 View Post


NSA Files (Raw Documents + Whistleblower Edward Snowden)

1. NSA COLLECTING PHONE RECORDS OF MILLIONS OF VERIZON CUSTOMERS DAILY. TOP SECRET COURT ORDER REQUIRING VERIZON TO HAND OVER ALL CALL DATA TO NSA (Story/Guardian)

2. NSA PRISM PROGRAM TAPS IN TO USER DATA OF APPLE, GOOGLE AND OTHERS. TOP SECRET NSA PRISM PROGRAM CLAIMS DIRECT ACCESS TO SERVERS OF FIRMS INCLUDING GOOGLE, APPLE AND FACEBOOK (Story/WashingtonPost/Guardian)

3. OBAMA ORDERS US TO DRAW UP OVERSEAS TARGET LIST FOR CYBER-ATTACKS. TOP SECRET OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE STEPS UP OFFENSIVE CYBER CAPABILITIES TO "ADVANCE US OBJECTIVES AROUND THE WORLD" (Story/Guardian)

4. BOUNDLESS INFORMANT: THE NSA?ÇÖS SECRET TOOL TO TRACK GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE DATA. 3-PAGE BOUNDLESS INFORMANT EXPLANATION DOCUMENT, WHICH SHOWS THE NSA COLLECTED ALMOST 3 BILLION PIECES OF INTELLIGENCE FROM US COMPUTER NETWORKS OVER A 30-DAY PERIOD ENDING IN MARCH (Story/Guardian)

5. TOP SECRET NSA BOUNDLESS INFORMANT TOOL DETAILS AND MAPS BY COUNTRY THE VOLUMINOUS AMOUNT OF INFORMATION IT COLLECTS FROM COMPUTER AND TELEPHONE NETWORKS (Story/Guardian)

6. GCHQ INTERCEPTED FOREIGN POLITICIANS?ÇÖ COMMUNICATIONS AT G20 SUMMITS. EXTRACTS FROM LEAKED TOP SECRET GCHQ DOCUMENT DESCRIBING AGENCY?ÇÖS "RECENT SUCCESSES" SPYING ON FOREIGN POLITICIANS AT G20 SUMMITS (Story/Guardian)

7. THE TOP SECRET RULES THAT ALLOW NSA TO USE US DATA WITHOUT A WARRANT. TOP-SECRET DOCUMENT SHOWS FISA JUDGES SIGNED OFF ON BROAD ORDERS ALLOWING NSA TO MAKE USE OF INFORMATION "INADVERTENTLY" COLLECTED FROM DOMESTIC US COMMUNICATIONS WITHOUT A WARRANT (Story/Guardian)

8. SECRET DOCUMENT DETAILS PROCEDURES THE NSA IS REQUIRED TO FOLLOW TO TARGET "NON-US PERSONS" UNDER ITS FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE POWERS ?Çô AND WHAT THE AGENCY DOES TO MINIMIZE DATA COLLECTED ON US CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS (Story/Guardian)

9. ONE-PARAGRAPH ORDER, SIGNED BY FISA COURT JUDGE, DECLARES PROCEDURES SUBMITTED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL ON BEHALF OF NSA ARE CONSISTENT WITH US LAW AND FOURTH AMENDMENT (Story/Guardian)

10. NSA COLLECTED US EMAIL RECORDS IN BULK FOR MORE THAN 2 YEARS UNDER OBAMA. SECRET CORRESPONDENCE INVOLVING ATTORNEY GENERAL MICHAEL MUKASEY IN 2007 REQUESTING PERMISSION FOR NSA TO EXPAND ITS "CONTACT CHAINS" DEEPER INTO AMERICANS?ÇÖ EMAIL RECORDS (Story/Guardian)

11. TOP SECRET DRAFT REPORT FROM 2009 BY NSA?ÇÖS INSPECTOR GENERAL SHOWS DEVELOPMENT OF "COLLECTION OF BULK INTERNET METADATA" UNDER PROGRAM LAUNCHED UNDER BUSH (Story/Guardian)

12. XKEYSCORE: NSA TOOL COLLECTS "NEARLY EVERYTHING A USER DOES ON THE INTERNET". TOP SECRET TRAINING MATERIALS FOR THE XKEYSCORE PROGRAM DETAIL HOW ANALYSTS CAN USE IT AND OTHER SYSTEMS TO MINE ENORMOUS AGENCY DATABASES AND DEVELOP INTELLIGENCE FROM THE WEB (Story/Guardian)

13. VIDEOS(2): EDWARD SNOWDEN- THE WHISTLEBLOWER BEHIND THE NSA SURVEILLANCE REVELATIONS. EDWARD SNOWDEN, THE SOURCE BEHIND THE GUARDIAN?ÇÖS NSA FILES, TALKS TO GLENN GREENWALD IN HONG KONG ABOUT HIS MOTIVES FOR THE BIGGEST INTELLIGENCE LEAK IN A GENERATION (Story/Guardian)


Format: pdf, avi
Language: English
Size: 237.06 MiB
Hoster: Uploaded

Important:

Please say Thank You if you like my post !

Search my posts to find more quality and interesting Stuff !

If you want to have high speed and parallel downloads buy premium account!

To Unzip the files please use 7zip and WinRar. Thanks




Links:

http://uploaded.net/file/bk914zro/NSA%20Files%20%28Raw%20Documents%20+%20Whistleblower%20Edward%20Snowden%20Interview%29.part1.rar
http://uploaded.net/file/5728pzsb/NSA%20Files%20%28Raw%20Documents%20+%20Whistleblower%20Edward%20Snowden%20Interview%29.part2.rar

Links are still working, and if any member finds in the future that they are no longer working, please post in here to let us know

Thread Stickied copied into the General EBooks Section and also into the NSA thread in the news section

Thanks dragonball_833, good thread
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to Ladybbird For This Useful Post:
FreaknDavid (19-10-13)
Old 30-10-13, 02:46   #16
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Default re: NSA:Snowden & Manning Nominated For Peace Prize

US Spy Programs May Have Gone Too far: Lawmakers


A Spanish newspaper published a document that it said shows the U.S. National Security Agency spied on more than 60 million phone calls in Spain in one month alone.

6 hrs ago By Julie Pace of Associated Press


— Faced with anger over revelations about U.S. spying at home and abroad, members of Congress suggested Tuesday that programs the Obama administration says are needed to combat terrorism may have gone too far.
The chairman of the House intelligence committee said it might help to disclose more about National Security Agency operations but barring NSA from collecting millions of Americans' phone records would scrap an important tool.

"We can't ask the FBI to find terrorists plotting an attack and then not provide them with the information they need," said Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich. He spoke at the start of a hearing where top intelligence officials were testifying, including National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander.

A bipartisan plan introduced Tuesday would end the NSA's massive sweep of phone records, allowing the government to seek only records related to ongoing terror investigations. Critics both at home and abroad have derided the program as intrusive and a violation of privacy rights.
The proposal comes as President Barack Obama and key lawmakers are saying it's time to look closely at surveillance programs that have angered many Americans and now are drawing complaints from world leaders because of reports that their cellphone conversations were monitored.

The White House is considering ending eavesdropping on friendly foreign leaders, a senior administration official said.
The administration tried to tamp down damage Tuesday from the months-long spying scandal — including the most recent disclosure that the National Security Agency had monitored the cellphone conversations of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. A final decision about listening in on allies has not been made, the senior official said.




AP
Scroll down to see: U.S. surveillance on world leaders profile.

The White House also faces complaints at home about the NSA collecting millions of Americans' phone records and sweeping up Internet traffic and email. The Obama administration defends those programs as important in the fight against terrorism.

Asked about the reports of eavesdropping on world leaders, Obama said in a television interview that the U.S. government is conducting "a complete review of how our intelligence operates outside the country." Obama declined to discuss specifics or say when he learned about the spying operations.

"What we've seen over the last several years is their capacities continue to develop and expand, and that's why I'm initiating now a review to make sure that what they're able to do doesn't necessarily mean what they should be doing," he said Monday on the new TV network Fusion.


President Obama Did Not Know the Extent of NSA Spying and The Resulting Damage it Could Cause, - Until Snowden Leaked the Info

A second U.S. official said Obama did not know the NSA was monitoring Merkel's communications until after his visit to Germany in June. The official said information about the surveillance of foreign leaders emerged in the course of the White House's broader review of spying programs, triggered by media reports based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

The official was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and insisted on anonymity.

The White House says the United States isn't currently listening to Merkel's conversations and won't do so in the future.

On Tuesday, House Speaker John Boehner said there should be a thorough review of intelligence gathering, bearing in mind the responsibility to keep Americans safe from terrorism and the nation's obligations to allies.

"We have to find the right balance here," said Boehner, R-Ohio. "And clearly, we're imbalanced."

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called for a "total review of all intelligence programs" following the Merkel allegations. In a statement, the California Democrat said the White House had informed her that "collection on our allies will not continue."
The senior administration official said that statement was not accurate, but added that some unspecified changes already had been made and more were being considered, including terminating the collection of communications from friendly heads of state. That official also was not authorized to divulge information about the program by name and insisted on anonymity.

Reports based on new leaks from Snowden indicate that the NSA listened in on Merkel and 34 other foreign leaders.

Quote:
"With respect to NSA collection of intelligence on leaders of U.S. allies — including France, Spain, Mexico and Germany — let me state unequivocally: I am totally opposed," Feinstein said.

She added that the U.S. should not be "collecting phone calls or emails of friendly presidents and prime ministers" unless in an emergency with approval of the president.

In response to the revelations, German officials said Monday that the U.S. could lose access to an important law enforcement tool used to track terrorist money flows.

Other longtime allies have also expressed their displeasure about the U.S. spying on their leaders.

Spain's prosecutor's office said Tuesday it has opened a preliminary inquiry to determine whether a crime was committed by NSA surveillance.

French President Francois Hollande said the United States should not be eavesdropping on its allies but that U.S. officials were cooperating with Europe on fixing the problem.

Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo's office on Tuesday confirmed a report in De Standaard that at his most sensitive meetings, the premier is asking government ministers to leave their mobile phones outside the room.

As possible leverage, German authorities cited last week's non-binding resolution by the European Parliament to suspend a post-9/11 agreement allowing the Americans access to bank transfer data to track the flow of terrorist money. A top German official said Monday she believed the Americans were using the information to gather economic intelligence apart from terrorism and said the agreement, known as SWIFT, should be suspended.

European Union officials who are in Washington to meet with lawmakers ahead of White House talks said U.S. surveillance of their people could affect negotiations over a U.S.-Europe trade agreement..

Associated Press writers Connie Cass, Donna Cassata and Kimberly Dozier in Washington, Frank Jordan, Geir Moulson and Robert H. Reid in Berlin, Juergen Baetz in Brussels, Ciaran Giles, Jorge Sainz and Alan Clendenning in Madrid and Sarah DiLorenzo in Paris contributed to this report.






RELATED:

Russia Denies Spying on G20 Leaders at St Petersburg Summit

President Putin's spokesman says allegations are aimed at diverting attention away from controversy over NSA surveillance

Lizzy Davies in Rome
The Guardian, Tuesday 29 October 2013


President Putin at the welcoming ceremony of the G20 summit in St Petersburg in September. Photograph: Sergey Guneev/EPA


Russia has denied reports it attempted to spy on foreign powers meeting at the G20 summit in St Petersburg earlier this year, denouncing the allegations as a "clear attempt to divert attention" from revelations concerning the United States' National Security Agency.


Two Italian newspapers claimed on Tuesday that USB flash drives and cables to charge mobile phones that were given to delegates – including heads of state – at the September meeting were equipped with technology to retrieve data from computers and telephones.
The St Petersburg summit on 5 and 6 September came at a particularly delicate point in relations between the Kremlin and the White House. Tensions were high over the possibility of military strikes on Syria, as well as over Russia's decision in August to grant asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The revelations from his dossier of leaked material continue to shake Washington DC and inflame parts of Europe.

According to La Stampa and Corriere della Sera, the first person to raise the alarm over the Russian devices was Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European council, who allegedly went to intelligence services in Brussels and Germany for advice on whether they were what they seemed.
Initial tests carried out by the German secret services reportedly revealed the devices to be equipped with "Trojan horse" programmes "capable of illicitly picking up computer and mobile phone data", according to a warning allegedly sent subsequently to guest countries represented at the G20 summit.


Delegates were urged "to take every possible precaution in the event of these objects having been used and, if they have not been, to hand them over to the security services for further tests", according to Corriere. It said further tests were ongoing.
It was unclear how many delegates and leaders had received the gifts and even less clear whether any of them had actually used the flash drives and chargers, the newspapers wrote.


Dmitri Peskov, spokesman for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, denied the allegations, saying they were "a clear attempt to divert attention from a problem that really exists: the US's spying, which is now a subject of discussion among European capitals and Washington". He told the Ansa news agency that Russia does not know the sources of the reports, adding that in any case they were baseless.


But the eyebrow-raising claims of what La Stampa termed "Putin's poisoned gift" appeared to have prompted the Italian government to take action on the growing number of allegations regarding covert spying operations. In a statement on Tuesday, it said the country's prime minister, Enrico Letta, had called for the inter-ministerial security committee to meet on Thursday to discuss "questions pertaining to the security of telecommunications in the light of the Datagate [NSA] affair and the revelations on the last G20".


The Italian reports are not the first to have accused a G20 host nation of spying on its guests. In June, the Guardian disclosed that foreign politicians and officials who took part in two such meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and phone calls intercepted on the instructions of their British government hosts.

continued.....
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 30-10-13, 03:39   #17
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Default re: NSA:Snowden & Manning Nominated For Peace Prize

Hundreds March in Washington Against NSA Spying

Reuters


Demonstrators hold signs during the 'Stop Watching Us: A Rally Against Mass Surveillance' march near the US Capitol in Washington, on Saturday, Oct. 26.

By Alina Selyukh and Greg Savoy of Reuters


WASHINGTON — Hundreds of protesters marched on Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday to protest the U.S. government's online surveillance programs, whose vast scope was revealed this year by former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.

People carried signs reading: "Stop Mass Spying," "Thank you, Edward Snowden" and "Unplug Big Brother" as they gathered at the foot of the Capitol to demonstrate against the online surveillance by the National Security Agency.

Americans furious with US spying demonstrate in Washington


The march attracted protesters from both ends of the political spectrum as liberal privacy advocates walked alongside members of the conservative Tea Party movement in opposition to what they say is unlawful government spying on Americans.

"I consider myself a conservative and no conservative wants their government collecting information on them and storing it and using it," said Michael Greene, one of the protesters.
"Over the past several months, we have learned so much about the abuses (of privacy) that are going on and the complete lack of oversight and the mass surveillance into every detail of our lives. And we need to tell Congress that they have to act," said another protester, Jennifer Wynne.

The event was organized by a coalition known as "Stop Watching Us" that consists of some 100 public advocacy groups and companies, including the American Civil Liberties Union, privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation, Occupy Wall Street NYC and the Libertarian Party.




Reuters Photo: Jonathan Ernst



A protester wears a mask depicting a skull beneath the head of the Statue of Liberty near the US Capitol in Washington, on Saturday, Oct. 26.

The groups have been urging Congress to reform the legal framework supporting the NSA's secretive online data gathering since Snowden's disclosure of classified information about the programs that are designed to gather intelligence about potential foreign threats.

The Obama administration and many lawmakers have defended the NSA programs as crucial in protecting U.S. national security and helping thwart past militant plots. They have also said the programs are carefully overseen by Congress and the courts.

Snowden's disclosures have raised concerns that NSA surveillance may span not just foreign, but domestic online and phone communication.



"We are calling on Congress to take immediate action to halt this surveillance and provide a full public accounting of the NSA's and the FBI's data collection programs,"
Stop Watching Us said in a letter addressed to members of Congress posted online, calling for a reform of the law known as the Patriot Act.

That law marked its 12th anniversary on Saturday. It was passed in 2001 to improve anti-terrorism efforts and is now under scrutiny by privacy advocates who say it allows "dragnet" data gathering.

"Our representatives in Congress tell us this is not surveillance. They're wrong," Snowden said in a statement before Saturday's rally. Wanted in the United States on espionage charges, he is now in temporary asylum in Russia.

His latest disclosures showed that the United States may have tapped the phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, adding to the growing outrage against U.S. data-gathering practices abroad and prompting a phone call between Merkel and President Barack Obama.


PHOTOs: World's Outrage on High Boil at US Spying


Snowden Support


































From Bolivia to Germany to India, protests abound over U.S. spying and world leaders complain bitterly that the National Security Agency may have tapped their phones or read their private email. Revelations are becoming almost daily occurrences and are sourced to former NSA employee Edward Snowden, whose leaking of highly sensitive NSA documents show the U.S. is systematically seizing vast amounts of phone and web data.

Burning in Bolivia

Bolivian demonstrators burnt a coffin and a replica of Uncle Sam outside the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, July 8. Bolivian President Evo Morales had accused the U.S. of pressuring European governments to deny his plane permission to enter their airspace amid suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden might have been on board.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 30-10-13, 08:44   #18
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Default re: NSA:Snowden & Manning Nominated For Peace Prize

In Mass Surveillance Fallout, European Parliament Votes To Suspend Financial Data Sharing With United States

Posted: 30 Oct 2013




Privacy: This week, the European Parliament voted to immediately suspend the sharing of European financial tracking data with the United States in a 280-254 decision, as well as calling for criminal investigations of the NSA. This follows in the footsteps of mass surveillance revelations that the NSA has illegally hacked into the SWIFT financial data. This appears to be yet another public wake-up and backlash against the secretive wiretapping industry.

The European Parliament has voted to immediately suspend the SWIFT data-sharing program with the United States. This follows on revelations that the NSA has hacked into the SWIFT system, which manages European and global financial transactions, and illegally given themselves access to the entire system. The European Parliament considers this to be so thorough and brutal a breach of trust, that the data-sharing agreement is called to be revoked immediately.

Under the so-called SWIFT data-sharing agreement, European financial transactions are sent to the United States in bulk, in a joint attempt to combat terrorism in the Terrorist Finance Tracking System (TFTS). Critics of the program have pointed out that it is a privacy violation of European citizens, as well as a naïve way of giving U.S. industries the upper hand in business negotiations by giving them an information advantage.


The European Parliament instructs the police of the European states to begin criminal investigations into the NSA’s dealings:

(from the Europarl report)

10. Asks the Council and the Member States, in the light of the above, to authorize an investigation by the Europol Cybercrime Centre into the allegations of unauthorized access to financial payment data governed by the Agreement;

11. Calls on the special inquiry by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs into the mass surveillance of EU citizens to further investigate the allegations of unlawful access to financial payment messages covered by the Agreement;

The SWIFT data-sharing agreement was championed by European Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, who first negotiated it while sitting on a different chair, and then championed it from the Commission once having been appointed European Commissioner, insisting that the European Parliament must approve it. She has bet a lot of her career on this data-sharing, and the European Parliament’s vote this week is not just a blow to the credibility and trustability of the United States, but also to her personal political career.

It remains to be seen if Commissioner Malmström intends to defy the European Parliament by refusing to suspend the data sharing. It also remains to be seen if a revocation of voluntary data sharing has any practical effect, seeing how the NSA has illegally given itself access to the data anyway.


We Know With 100% Certainty That Mass Surveillance Hasn’t Foiled A Single Terror Plot





Privacy: We know with 100% absolute certainty that the wiretapping industry – NSA, GCHQ, FRA, etc – has stopped a total of exactly zero terror plots. We can be certain of this fact, as there have been no trials and no convictions of planning widespread destruction. Planning such a crime is almost as serious a crime as executing it, and while there can be secret evidence in some uncivilized countries, the courts and trials themselves are not secret.

In an attempt to justify their existence, the NSA, the GCHQ, the FRA, and other similar governmental agencies in the wiretapping industry tend to say that their existence and actually-criminal operations are justified by the fact that they “foil terror plots” – a textbook example of how the ends justify the means, and of the necessity of upholding the law by systematically breaking it.

We have heard this justification from the NSA, the GCHQ, and the FRA alike, just like from their brethren.
However, we know for a certainty that they are lying.

If an act of terror was being planned in some stage sufficienty advanced to talk of it in terms of a “terror plan”, then such planning and preparation is itself a crime. In Sweden, the principal crime is “causing devastation with a hazard to the public” (allmänfarlig ödeläggelse), and that is a crime that carries a prison sentence in the double digits or even life in prison. Planning and preparing for such a crime (“förberedelsebrott”) carries practically as high a sentence as carrying it out.

So if such a planning had actually been discovered, it would be in the courts, and somebody would be on trial for it. That sequence of events is absolutely inescapable. We don’t have secret courts (even if some uncivilized countries insist of having secret evidence); the trials and charges are public, so that the public can hold the judicial branch to proper account under transparency.

But no such charges have been filed, and no such trials have been held, and most importantly, there have been no convictions. It is absolutely and positively unthinkable, that if a terror plot was foiled, that no charges would be filed. If somebody had been discovered to prepare for “devastation with a hazard to the public”, that would mean a very serious crime had been committed with penalties including the harshest possible sentence – life in prison – and such criminals would have been brought to justice exactly 100% of the time, resulting in convictions if there were a “terror plot”.

Seeing how this has not happened, we can be absolutely certain that the wiretapping industry has stopped a total of exactly zero so-called “terror plots”.

In other words, when the governmental agencies of the wiretapping industry are mumbling about having stopped “fifty or so plots but we can’t tell you about them”, they are using a well-established political persuasion method called lying like a ****ing weasel.

The Author: Rick Falkvinge

Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and is a political evangelist, traveling around Europe and the world to talk and write about ideas of a sensible information policy.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 23-01-14, 17:34   #19
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: NSA:Snowden & Manning Nominated For Peace Prize

NSA bulk collection of phone data is illegal and has only had 'minimal' benefits in preventing terrorism, independent U.S. privacy watchdog finds

  • Government taskforce reviewed surveillance programme for four months
  • Urging Obama to stop agency's bulk collection of telephone data
  • Also suggests purging inventory of millions of Americans' calling records
  • Recommendation made by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

Daily Mail UK, 23 January 2014



Former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden who exposed the NSA practices

A government taskforce that reviewed the National Security Agency's surveillance programme for four months is urging President Barack Obama to shut down the agency's bulk collection of phone data and purge its massive inventory of millions of Americans' calling records.

The recommendation from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to abandon the NSA's phone surveillance was even more sweeping than a similar proposal from another panel of experts.

That panel, the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, advised Obama in December to restrict phone surveillance to limited court-ordered sweeps.
The oversight board's new 234-page report - a copy of which was obtained by the Associated Press - contained several strong dissents from two members of the five-member board - former national security lawyers from the Bush administration who recommended that the government retain its broad phone surveillance authority.

The board disclosed key parts of its report to Mr Obama earlier this month before he unveiled his plans during a speech last week to the nation.
In that speech, the President said the bulk phone collection program would continue for the time being. He directed the Justice Department and intelligence officials to find ways to end the government's control over the phone data.
And he narrowed the NSA's bulk collection by insisting on close supervision by a secret federal intelligence court and reducing the wide chain of calls that the NSA may track.

Phone companies have said they do not want to take responsibility for overseeing the data under standards set by the NSA.




Barack Obama speaking about the National Security Agency and intelligence agencies surveillance techniques at the U.S. department of justice in Washington on January 17, 2014




President Barack Obama shakes hands as he leaves the East Room of the White House this week. A government taskforce that reviewed the National Security Agency's surveillance programme for four months is him to shut down the agency's bulk collection of phone data


Warning that the NSA's massive daily intake of calling records 'raises serious threats to privacy and civil liberties,' a three-member majority of the oversight board said the government should end the surveillance program and 'purge the database of telephone records that have been collected and stored during the program's operation.'

The board said the NSA should instead seek records directly from phone service providers using 'existing legal authorities.'

The NSA's surveillance programs and other operations began coming to light last year - and drawing intense criticism - after revelations fueled by an estimated 1.7 million documents taken by former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden and handed over to several journalists around the world.
Most controversial has been the NSA's collection of data on Americans' telephone calls and Internet messages.
The NSA says it does not listen in on the phone calls or read the Internet messages without specific court orders on a case-by-case basis as it tracks potential terrorist plots.

Along with its call for ending bulk phone surveillance, the oversight board report outlined 11 other recommendations on surveillance policy, calling for more government transparency and other reforms aimed at bolstering civil liberties and privacy protections.

The board called for special attorneys to provide independent views in some proceedings before the secret spy court - as opposed to Obama's plan for a panel of experts that would participate at times. The board also urged the administration to provide the public with clear explanations of the legal authority behind any surveillance affecting Americans.




In danger: Snowden took refuge in Moscow to evade treason charges after disclosing U.S. state secrets on NSA intelligence gathering, and now fears for his life and wants to increase security


Legal opinions and documents 'describing the government's legal analysis should be made public so there can be a free and open debate regarding the law's scope,' the board said.

Both the Bush and Obama administrations have been criticized by civil liberties advocates and by tech industry officials for failing to provide clear public explanations of the decision-making behind their surveillance policies.

Quote:
'Purge the database of telephone records that have been collected and stored during the program's operation'

Three-member majority of the oversight board
While the oversight board found consensus in some of its recommendations for transparency, its members were sharply divided when it came to the surveillance programs and their judicial oversight.
Two members, former Bush administration Justice Department lawyers Rachel Brand and Elisebeth Collins Cook, defended the bulk phone sweeps and said they were too valuable to shut down.

'I am concerned about the detrimental effect this superfluous second-guessing can have on our national security agencies and their staff,' said Brand, who as a Justice lawyer defended USA Patriot Act legislation that provided the NSA with its authority to make the bulk phone collections.

But the oversight board's three other members - executive director David Medine, former federal judge Patricia Wald and civil liberties advocate James Dempsey - held firm for broad changes.
'When the government collects all of a person's telephone records, storing them for five years in a government database that is subjected to high-speed digital searching and analysis, the privacy implications go far beyond what can be revealed by the metadata of a single telephone call,' the majority wrote.

The oversight board was created in 2005, urged by the independent commission on the 9/11 attacks as a key organizational reform needed to balance counterterrorism policy with civil liberties concerns.

The board functioned fitfully for several years, often short on members because of Congress' inaction. It finally won legislative approval last year for all five members and staff and took on its study of the NSA programs at the urging on Obama and congressional leaders.
The rival Review Group urged Obama to consider expanding the oversight board's purview to include all intelligence operations.

As part of that change, the Review Group also wants the oversight board's name changed to the Civil Liberties and Privacy Protection Board. Medine has balked at that change, worried the group will become known as the CLPP board.

continued.........
RELATED: 'I'm not a spy': Edward Snowden denies 'absurd' theory he is working for the Russians
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 23-01-14, 18:25   #20
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Default re: NSA:Snowden & Manning Nominated For Peace Prize

RELATED:

'I'm not a spy': Edward Snowden denies 'absurd' theory that he is working with the Russians to leak U.S. intelligence documents


  • Snowden has been accused of working with the Russians to leak U.S. data
  • In the past, he has also been accused of working with Chinese spies
  • He has denied all of the claims, calling them 'absurd' false accustations
  • Allegations come after Snowden's lawyer said he was fearing for his life
  • Since the leaks, Obama has trimmed powers of U.S. intelligence agencies

Former U.S. government contractor and intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has denied accusations that he worked in collaboration with the Russian government to leak documents about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs, calling the theories 'absurd'.

His denial came after the House Intelligence Committee chair, Rep. Mike Rogers, who is in charge of an ongoing investigations into Snowden's relationship with Russia, said: 'I believe there's a reason he ended up in their hands, the "loving arms" of an FSB (Russian security) agent in Moscow. I don't think that's a coincidence.'
In response to the allegations, Snowden said: 'I clearly and unambiguously acted alone, with no assistance from anyone, much less a government.

'It won't stick, because it's clearly false, and the American people are smarter than politicians think they are. This Russian spy push is absurd.'




Snowden has denied the accusations of the House Intelligence Committee that he worked with the Russian security services to leak documents about U.S national security


In addition, a top member of the the House's Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Rachel McCaul, said: 'I personally believe that he was cultivated by a foreign power to do what he did.

'I can't give a definitive statement on that, but I've been given all the evidence I know Mike Rogers has access to. I don't think he was working alone.'

Speaking in an interview, Snowden pointed to the forty days he spent trapped in Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow after he fled the U.S., as evidence that he had worked alone.
He said: 'Spies get treated better than that.'

This is not the first allegation against Snowden claiming he is a spy. Last July he was accused of working for the Chinese, and has come out against the media for reporting the allegations both last year, and today.

He said: 'If I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly to Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a Phoenix by now. The media has a major role to play in American society, and they're really abdicating their responsibility to hold power to account.'




US President Barack Obama speaks about the National Security Agency (NSA) and intelligence agencies surveillance techniques in the US, reacting to leaks by former N.S.A contractor Edward Snowden



In the speech Obama said more could be done to protect the civil liberties of his citizens, and also pledged to end spying on friendly heads of state


The allegations have come only days after President Barack Obama spoke last Friday about the trimming the power of U.S. intelligence services, reacting to the leaks by Snowden.

Speaking at the U.S. Department of Justice on January 17, he called for new privacy safeguards and said he had stopped the NSA spy taps on friendly world leaders.

The president said he would be ending the NSA's hoarding of telephone "metadata", informaion that shows the detail and destination of calls, but not their content, agreeing with critics who said that the program could open the door to more intrusion.
However, Obama has decided that he will allow bulk phone data sweeps of the citizens living in the U.S. to continue as an anti-terror tool.

He said: 'I believe we need a new approach. I am therefore ordering a transition that will end the Section 215 bulk metadata program as it currently exists, and establish a mechanism that preserves the capabilities we need without the government holding this bulk meta-data.

Since Obama's long awaited speech, Snowden has had fears for his life according to his Russian lawyer.



In danger: Snowden took refuge in Moscow to evade treason charges after disclosing U.S. state secrets on NSA intelligence gathering, and now fears for his life and wants to increase security


Explicit threats to kill him were made anonymously by Pentagon and National Security Agency officials, alleged Anatoly Kucherena.


In an interview with Russian news channel Vesti, he said: 'There are real threats to his life out there that actually do exist.
‘These statements call for physical retribution against Edward Snowden.’

Kucherana was referring to an article last week on BuzzFeed entitled ‘American Spies Want Edward Snowden Dead’.

It quoted a Pentagon official as saying: ‘I would love to put a bullet in his head.’


Another source described as a current NSA analyst said: ‘In a world where I would not be restricted from killing an American, I personally would go and kill him myself.’



Snowden in October 11, 2013 during a WikiLeaks press conference. WikiLeaks has been instrumental in aiding Snowden's leaks of information about confidential U.S spying programs


Snowden has been carefully guarded in Moscow since he received temporary asylum in August a move which outraged the U.S. and led to President Barack Obama snubbing a summit invitation from his opposite number Vladimir Putin, a former spy.

The Russian Lawyer said: 'Edward is treating these as real threats.'
‘Today, it might not be enough to have private guards. We must also think about how to safeguard his life and well being.’

‘We think that the U.S. government must take note of such statements.
‘The people who make extremist statements do so while wearing a mask -- they do not reveal their identities.'
‘But we have specific publications that printed these interviews. We will ask for these people's masks to come off. We must know who this NSA officer is, who issues orders about ways to eliminate Edward Snowden.'

Putin has specifically denied his agents worked with Snowden.

RELATED:
CLICK -Did the Russians help Snowden steal NSA files? Head of the US Intelligence Committee investigates whether Putin's spies conspired with fugitive


continued....'I would love to put a bullet in his head' - Threats to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden


.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 23-01-14, 18:36   #21
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Default re: NSA:Snowden & Manning Nominated For Peace Prize

RELATED:

'I would love to put a bullet in his head': NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden 'fears for his life after receiving anonymous death threats from Pentagon and NSA'


  • Edward Snowden has received anonymous death threats, his lawyer says
  • This NSA whistleblower now fears for his life and safety in Russia
  • Article quotes Pentagon source wanting to 'put a bullet in his head'
By Daily Mail UK, 22 January 2014




Fear for his life: Edward Snowden has allegedly received death threats from Pentagon and NSA officials


American intelligence leaker Edward Snowden fears for his life and needs stronger security, his Russian lawyer claimed on Tuesday.

Explicit threats to kill him have been made anonymously by Pentagon and National Security Agency officials, alleged Anatoly Kucherena.
‘There are real threats to his life out there that actually do exist,’ he told Russian news channel Vesti.
‘These statements call for physical retribution against Edward Snowden.’

Snowden, 30, has taken refuge in Moscow to evade treason charges after disclosing U.S. state secrets on NSA intelligence gathering involving the monitoring of millions of phone calls and emails.

There are recent U.S. claims that the former espionage contractor may have received Russian assistance before revealing his huge classified dossier in the name of transparency and openness.

In an article last week on BuzzFeed entitled;
‘American Spies Want Edward Snowden Dead’.

It quoted a Pentagon official as saying: ‘I would love to put a bullet in his head.’
Another source described as a current NSA analyst said: ‘In a world where I would not be restricted from killing an American, I personally would go and kill him myself.’

Snowden has been carefully guarded in Moscow since he received temporary asylum in August a move which outraged the U.S. and led to President Barack Obama snubbing a summit invitation from his opposite number Vladimir Putin, a former spy.

‘Edward is treating these as real threats,’ said the Russian lawyer. ‘Today, it might not be enough to have private guards. We must also think about how to safeguard his life and well being.’
He challenged the U.S. government to name the officials who made the apparent threats.

‘We think that the U.S. government must take note of such statements,’ said the lawyer. ‘The people who make extremist statements do so while wearing a mask -- they do not reveal their identities.
‘But we have specific publications that printed these interviews. We will ask for these people's masks to come off. We must know who this NSA officer is, who issues orders about ways to eliminate Edward Snowden.’

The blast came after the heads of congressional intelligence committees in Washington claimed on Sunday that Snowden could have been working in collusion with Russian secret services at the time he was gathering his treasure trove of classified data.
Putin has specifically denied his agents worked with Snowden.

‘I don't think it was a gee-whiz luck event that he ended up in Moscow under the handling of the FSB,’ said Republican representative Mike Rogers.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 20-02-14, 18:25   #22
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: NSA:Snowden & Manning Nominated For Peace Prize

Pirate Party MPs, MEPs Jointly Nominate Snowden And Manning For Peace Prize

Posted: 20 Feb 2014




Civil Liberties:


Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 in a joint nomination by the Pirate MPs of Iceland and the Pirate MEPs of the European Parliament.

“Manning gave us an insight into the brutal reality of war and the two-facedness of political power. Snowden has revealed how states watch and control our information flows. Taken together, it’s a very strong image. That’s why we nominate these two together”, says Amelia Andersdotter, Member of European Parliament (Pirate).

“The revelations of Edward Snowden have, among other things, led to a large-scale inquiry into mass surveillance by the European Parliament. Making him a Peace Prize Laureate would be an additional way of saying that the democratic society stands behind his actions. Instead of giving the prize to powerholders, the Nobel Committee should give it to those who expose power”, says Christian Engström, Member of European Parliament (Pirate).


Full text of the nomination:


Quote:
Dear Nomination Committee of the Nobel Peace Prize,

We wish to nominate two outstanding candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize of 2014. It is our firm belief that
Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden have achieved and exceeded all the qualifications required to be worthy laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize.

The nominees are both whistleblowers who have inspired change and encouraged public debate and policy changes that contributed to a more stable and peaceful world.

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning
(born Bradley Edward Manning, December 17, 1987) is a soldier in the United States army who was sentenced to 35 years in a military prison in 2013 for releasing hundreds of thousands of documents to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The leaked documents pointed to a long history of corruption, serious war crimes, and a lack of respect for the sovereignty of other democratic nations by the United States government in international dealings.
These revelations have fueled democratic uprisings around the world, including a democratic revolution in Tunisia. According to journalistic, academic, and intellectual scrutiny her actions helped motivate the democratic Arab Spring movements, shed light on secret corporate influence on foreign and domestic policies of European nations, and, also contributed to the Obama Administration’s agreement to withdraw all U.S.troops from occupied Iraq.
The profound information that was revealed by this courageous whistleblower helped to foster public dialogue on the legitimacy, suitability, and relevancy of the military interventions carried out by US troops both Iraq and Afghanistan. The release of these documents led directly to calls demanding the full withdrawal of the military forces from these countries, as well as investigating committees on the treatment of detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
The documents and information should never have been kept from public scrutiny, and the very fact that embedded journalists minimized or omitted facts in the field exacerbated the corruption of the information flow. The revelations – including video documentation of an incident in which American soldiers gunned down Reuters journalists in Iraq – have fueled a worldwide discussion about the overseas military engagements of the United States, civilian casualties of war and the rules of engagement. Citizens worldwide owe a great debt to the WikiLeaks whistleblower for shedding light on these issues.

Edward Joseph Snowden
(born June 21, 1983) is an American computer specialist, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, and former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who disclosed top secret NSA documents to several media outlets, initiating the NSA leaks, which reveal operational details of a global surveillance apparatus run by the NSA and other members of the Five Eyes alliance, along with numerous corporate and international partners.
He has, with great risk to his personal well-being and future, revealed the horrific scope of the global espionage network of the Anglo-American spy agencies. By releasing documents regarding the activities of clandestine agencies he has not only unveiled the global scale of mass surveillance which endanger a wide array of civil liberties (cornerstones of our liberties such as free speech and the right to privacy) but, he has also given the people of the world the necessary tools to counter the ever invasive path towards mass surveillance. Blatant violations to even the very basic human rights have been institutionalized by US government agencies while privacy has been classified in ALL the major international human rights charters and declarations.

The debate on mass surveillance cannot take place without the disclosure of the basic structures and methods of the corresponding secret spy programs. Citizens, researchers and politicians need insight into these methods to be able to weigh the social consequences and the possible resulting damage to the global society. Mass surveillance erodes the fundamentals of modern democracies; making local laws to protect privacy meaningless within its global scope.

Snowden has shown us that journalists can no longer protect their sources, lawyers can’t protect their clients and doctors can’t protect their patients information. The concept of privacy has been redefined to complete exposure into no privacy. His actions have shown the rest of the world and its policy makers that joint global action needs to take place in order to reinstate constitutional rights of privacy for citizens which is completely essential to healthy democracies.
By leaking the documents to investigative journalists from independent media, Snowden has managed to carefully consider the balance between public interest and national security. By revising the source documents, he and his supporters avoided leaking highly sensitive information that might have put currently running operations and the people involved into danger.

Some might argue that Snowden acted against the law, however, mass secret surveillance is illegitimate as it undermines the sovereignty of the people over the state apparatus. It is very well known that at times of universal deceit just telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. When the state is acting outside the rule of law it is up to the citizens to report on such unlawfulness for the greater good of its peoples and principles for sustainability of the future.

Snowden and Manning courageously acted and as a result we have a more stable and peaceful world and far more of a possibility to develop/enact true democratic models.
We are nominating Manning and Snowden together because the courage of Manning inspired Snowden and both of them have inspired thousands of people all over the world to speak truth to power and demand transparency and accountability in their own societies.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 13-04-14, 18:47   #23
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: NSA Knew About Heartbleed Bug- & Did NOTHING!

More People Were Paid To Exploit Heartbleed For The NSA Than To Fix It

Posted: 13 Apr 2014





Infrastructure – Zacqary Adam Green:

Unsurprisingly, it turns out that the NSA knew about the Heartbleed bug since shortly after it was added to OpenSSL.

While thousands of salaried NSA personnel search for bugs like these to exploit, OpenSSL has only four part-time volunteers maintaining it. Of course this was going to happen.

The idea behind open source software is that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” This only works if there actually are enough eyeballs. Code audits can only happen if there are people with the will, expertise, and time to do so. Rusty Foster pointed out the problem with OpenSSL:

The project’s code is more than fifteen years old, and it has a reputation for being dense, as well as difficult to maintain and to improve. Since the bug was revealed, other programmers have had harsh criticisms for what they regard as a mistake that could easily have been avoided.…

Unlike a rusting highway bridge, digital infrastructure does not betray the effects of age. And, unlike roads and bridges, large portions of the software infrastructure of the Internet are built and maintained by volunteers, who get little reward when their code works well but are blamed, and sometimes savagely derided, when it fails. To some degree, this is beginning to change: venture-capital firms have made substantial investments in code-infrastructure projects, like GitHub and the Node Package Manager. But money and support still tend to flow to the newest and sexiest projects, while boring but essential elements like OpenSSL limp along as volunteer efforts.

This point is only compounded by the NSA news. As it turns out, a great deal of funding was going towards meticulously auditing OpenSSL. The problem is that the NSA keeps the results of these audits to themselves. No bugs are fixed. No patches are committed. Critical flaws are kept under wraps so that they can be used to siphon more data and break into more computers.

Never mind the fact that the NSA’s priority is supposed to be the defense of the United States, when critical infrastructure in the US was potentially affected by this bug. If they wanted to call this defense, then the NSA must have been really confident that the classic go-to bogeymen of China, Russia, Iran, or Al Qaeda hadn’t also discovered Heartbleed. Which, of course, they couldn’t be, because Neel Mehta at Google eventually reported it, so it’s not like it was impossible to find without NSA super-wizardry.

But back to the issue at hand: the NSA has, potentially, a small army of security researchers doing all of the code audits that tech companies and the open source community should be doing, and hoarding the benefits for themselves. The Is TrueCrypt Audited Yet? project might as well change its website header from “Not Yet” to “Who Knows?” This is awful. Economically, it’s also unsurprising.

The NSA has an entire budget devoted to doing just this: “$1.6 billion a year on data processing and exploitation, more than a thousand times the annual budget of the OpenSSL project” reports The Verge. Their prime directive is to find bugs, keep them quiet, and exploit them for their own gain (sorry, “national security”). OpenSSL’s volunteers, on the other hand, need jobs to feed their families. As much as they might want to, they don’t have the time to devote the effort needed to make sure their code is rock-solid. And apparently, neither do its users. It took a Google employee two years to discover Heartbleed, despite the fact that they’re a multi-billion dollar corporation that depends on the integrity of things like OpenSSL. Evidently, though, it’s still not cost-effective to have dedicated teams keeping an eye on the code.

My instinct is to just say that this is another infopolicy case for a universal basic income, to free up volunteers who are willing and able to perform these audits from the pressure of having to work another job. While that would certainly help, I admit it’s a bit reductionist. Code audits can be boring, tedious work, and while with 7 billion people in the world I’m sure some of them would be jumping out of the woodwork to proofread thousands of lines of code, I can’t say how many. But the NSA has apparently figured out how to efficiently spot glaring security flaws, so it’s high time the white hats did too.
Rick Falkvinge - Founder of The Pirate Party
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 13-04-14, 19:37   #24
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Default Re: NSA:Snowden & Manning Nominated For Peace Prize

Data Protection: Angela Merkel Proposes New Europe Network

BBC News




Chancellor Merkel flagged up the proposals in her weekly podcast



German Chancellor Angela Merkel is proposing building up a European communications network to help improve data protection.
It would avoid emails and other data automatically passing through the United States.
In her weekly podcast, she said she had raised the issue with French President Francois Hollande.

Revelations of mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) have prompted huge concern in Europe.

Disclosures by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden suggested even the mobile phones of US allies, such as Mrs Merkel, had been monitored by American spies.

Classified NSA documents revealed that large amounts of personal data are collected from the internet by US and British surveillance.

Mrs Merkel criticised the fact that Facebook and Google can be based in countries with low levels of data protection while carrying out business in nations that offer more rigorous safeguards.

"Above all, we'll talk about European providers that offer security for our citizens, so that one shouldn't have to send emails and other information across the Atlantic," she said.
"Rather, one could build up a communication network inside Europe."

Sensitive

There was no doubt that Europe had to do more in the realm of data protection, she said.

A French official was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying that the government in Paris planned to take up the German initiative.

Personal privacy is a sensitive issue in Germany where extensive surveillance was carried out under the Nazis and in communist East Germany.

A foreign policy spokesman for Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats, Philipp Missfelder, recently said revelations about US spying had helped bring relations with Washington down to their worst level since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Germany has been trying to persuade Washington to agree to a "no-spy" agreement but without success.


How Intelligence is Gathered


  • Tapping fibre optic cables
  • Eavesdrop
  • Accessing internet company data
  • ping on phones
  • Targeted spying

READ MORE, - Click Links Below :

Spy leaks
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 18-04-14, 20:24   #25
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: NSA>Encryption Boom/Russia Grants 'Spy' Snowden Residency

'Does Russia Spy on its Citizens?'
-Edward Snowden puts Surprise Question to Putin in Televised Q&A as Leader Denies Mass Surveillance in Clear Dig at the West


  • NSA whistleblower has been hiding in Moscow since last summer
  • He put a question to Russian President in annual televised Q&A
  • Putin spoke from one spy to another: We share a 'professional language'
  • He added he 'thanked God' Russia does not have a programme like in U.S.
By Daily Mail, 17 April 2014


NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has made a surprise appearance on live TV in Russia in which he asked Vladimir Putin whether the Kremlin carries out mass surveillance.

The former US contractor, who has been in hiding in Moscow since last summer, put the question to the Moscow premier today in what will be seen as another criticism of Western spying techniques.
And former KGB agent Putin replied by addressing Snowden - who has been granted asylum in Russia - from one spy to another.

Scroll Down for Video





Q&A: The NSA whistleblower appeared on the Russian president's annual live television session

President Putin said.

Quote:
'Mr Snowden, you are a former agent, a spy,'

'I used to be working for an intelligence service. We are going to talk one professional language.
'Our intelligence efforts are strictly regulated by our law. Special forces can use this kind of equipment as they intercept phone calls or follow someone online, but you have to get court permission to stalk a particular person.

'We don't have a mass system of such interception and according to our law it cannot exist.
'Of course we know that criminals and terrorists use technology for their criminal acts and of course special services have to use technical means to respond to their crimes including those of a terrorist nature.
'But we do not have a mass-scale, uncontrollable effort like that. I hope we won't do that and we don't have as much money as they have in the States and we don't have these technical devices that they have in the States.

'Our special services, thank God, are strictly controlled by society and the law and are regulated by the law.'
ALASKA? IT'S TOO COLD!

Vladimir Putin ruled out a new land grab for the US state of Alaska, once a possession of the Russian tsars - because it is too cold.

The Kremlin strongman was asked by a pensioner whether after his annexation of Crimea, he had colonial ambitions for the American territory.... which was sold to Washington in 1867 for a bargain $7.2 million.

'Faina Ivanovna, dear, why do you need Alaska?' Putin responded to the pensioner.

Referring to Siberia and Russia's Arctic territory, he reminded her: 'We have a northern country - 70 percent of our territory is in the north and the far north.'
'Alaska is cold too,' he said. 'Let's not get ahead of ourselves.'

Alaska was settled as a fur trading outpost in the 18th century by tsarist Russia.
Some Russians have disputed the legality of the Alaskan sale

The US state lies across the Bering Strait from the Russian region of Chukotka, where football oligarch Roman Abramovich was once governor.

A petition posted on the White House website in March asking to give Alaska back to Russia has gathered more than 42,000 signatures.






Attack on the West: The Russian President said he 'thanks God' his country did not spy like the U.S.



Phone-in: It is so popular that fake websites were set up offering to take cash for questions

Mr Snowden fled the U.S., initially to Hong Kong, after leaking thousands of documents which detailed how the National Security Agency was indiscriminately monitoring citizens' data.
They included webcam images, millions of which he claimed depicted nudity or sexual acts and had no particular value to spies.

During the phone-in the Russian President also joked that he couldn't understand Mr Snowden's accent, saying:

Quote:
'The American version of English is a little different from the kind of English I'm used to.'
Mr Snowden had asked whether Russia indiscriminately analyses the information of millions of individuals.
He added:

Quote:
'Recently in the U.S. two individual White House investigations as well as a federal court all concluded that these programmes are ineffective in stopping terrorism and they unreasonably intrude on the private lives on ordinary citizens.
'I've seen little public discussion of Russia's own involvement in the policies of mass surveillance so I'd like to ask you, does Russian intelligence store or analyse in any way the communications of millions of individuals?'



Televised: The President's annual session is tightly-controlled and has a shortlist of questioners


The Russian President was speaking as part of his annual question and answer session on TV in which he accused Ukraine of committing a 'grave crime' by using the army to quell unrest in the east.
The phone-in is seen by many as a tightly-controlled PR exercise, with questions shortlisted by officials before the event.

It is so popular that several fraudulent websites were set up claiming to be shortlisting questions in exchange for cash.

Mr Putin used the session to warn Ukraine's leaders they risk dragging the country into the abyss and said he hoped he would not need to resort to sending in Russian troops in a thinly-veiled threat.
Recalling that parliament had granted him the right to use military force in Ukraine, the Kremlin chief said: 'I really hope that I do not have to exercise this right and that we are able to solve all today's pressing issues via political and diplomatic means.'

Ukraine sent in troops this week to try to recapture a series of eastern towns from pro-Russian militants, but their first attempt on Wednesday ended in total disarray.
Some armoured troop carriers retreated and others fell into the hands of the pro-Russian separatists.


Ed Snowden asks Putin a Question During Call-in

__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 21-05-14, 15:33   #26
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Hacker re: NSA>Encryption Boom/Russia Grants 'Spy' Snowden Residency

Meet 'UglyGorilla,' 'KandyGoo' and 'WinXYHappy' - America's Newest Most Wanted: Criminal Charges Brought against Chinese Army Officials who Hacked U.S. firms - But is There any Real Hope of Prosecuting Them?

  • The U.S. attorney general announced criminal charges Monday afternoon against five Chinese army officials who work in a top-secret Shanghai building that houses People's Liberation Army Unit 61398
  • An indictment from a Pennsylvania grand jury accuses them committing specific acts of cyber-espionage on behalf of their government
  • They allegedly used 'spearphishing' techniques to trick employees at five American companies and one labor union into giving them access to computer systems so they could steal trade secrets
  • The men named in the first-of-its-kind case, all now considered international fugitives, have never been to the United States where federal authorities could arrest them
  • US Steel Corp., Westinghouse, Alcoa, Allegheny Technologies, SolarWorld and the United Steelworkers Union were all targeted
  • The U.S. has asked for assistance in capturing the defendants but China quickly called the charges 'made up'
  • The White House said Monday that U.S. government agencies 'do not gather intelligence for the benefit of US companies'........ ...

Daily Mail UK, 21 May 2014


The United States/NSA has brought first-of-its kind cyber-espionage charges against five Chinese military officials accused of hacking into U.S. companies to gain trade secrets.

According to the indictment announced Monday, the hackers targeted the U.S. nuclear power, metals and solar products industries and are accused of stealing trade secrets and economic espionage.

Their base of operations is People's Liberation Army Unit 61398, an elite cyber-crimes team that operates from a fortified building on the outskirts of Shanghai.

That military group, known there as the 'Comment Crew,' was the subject of a groundbreaking 2013 report from a U.S. security firm that tracked their activities online to Internet addresses assigned to a specific city block in China's financial capital.

The alleged victims identified Monday are Alcoa Inc., Westinghouse Electric Co., Allegheny Technologies, U.S. Steel Corp., United Steelworkers Union, and SolarWorld, Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday.

SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEOS



'UglyGorilla,' an alias of Chinese army official Wang Dong, allegedly controlled the computers of U.S. victims
after a gang of cyber-hackers gained access by sending users fake 'spearphishing' emails that contained links to malware








'Jack Sun' (L), a Chinese Army captain, 'was observed both sending malicious emails and controlling victim computers,
' while 'KandyGoo' (R) tested malicious email messages and managed domain accounts used by the Chinese







'WinXYHappy' may sound like an unoriginal Twitter handle, but it was the alias of an alleged Chinese army hacker (L) who controlled Americans'
computer accounts while computer programmer 'hzy_lhx' (R) and others managed online domains after the People's Liberation Army got control of them



The defendants, identified in an indictment as Wang Dong, Sun Kailiang, Wen Xinyu, Huang Zhenyu, and Gu Chunhui, used online aliases including 'UglyGorilla,' 'WinXYHappy' and 'KandyGoo' to gain access to the American companies' computer systems, where they could collect business intelligence to tip negotiations and contract bidding in their Chinese rivals' favor.

The men, according to the indictment, 'worked together and with others known and unknown to the Grand Jury for the PLA's [People's Lilberation Army's] General Staff, Third Department ... a signals intelligence component of the PLA.'

The charges have been described as unprecedented and dramatize a long-time Obama administration goal to prosecute state-sponsored cyber threats.
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin said during a news conference at the Justice Department that 'unit 61398 of the Chinese military' is the outfit behind the cyber attacks.
That unit was the subject of a damning February 2013 report from the U.S. security firm Mandiant, which found it was the most likely driving force behind hundreds, if not thousands of similar digital intrusions.

The firm said last year that the office block where unit 61398 is housed has been linked to stolen technology blueprints, manufacturing processes, clinical trial results, pricing documents, negotiation strategies and other secret data from more than 100 companies.
The unit, known in China as the 'Comment Crew,' has also made incursions into the computer networks that control oil pipelines, power grids, water plants and other key pieces of infrastructure, Mandiant determined.
Unit 61398 is located in Shanghai's Pudong district – China's financial and banking hub – and is staffed by perhaps thousands of people proficient in English, computer programming and network operations, Mandiant said in its report.


FBI releases photos of Chinese officials indicted for spying






Source of the attacks: People's Liberation Army unit 61398 is located in Shanghai's Pudong district and staffed by perhaps
thousands of people proficient in English, computer programming and network operations, according to a bombshell 2013 report





UglyGorilla and KandyGoo work here: The home base for China's notorious 'Comment Crew' is located on the outskirts of the Shanghai metro area


The unit has stolen 'hundreds of terabytes of data from at least 141 organisations across a diverse set of industries beginning as early as 2006', it said. Some 115 of the victims were located in the United States, with smaller numbers in Canada and Britain.
The information stolen ranged from details on mergers and acquisitions to the emails of senior employees.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry immediately dismissed the Mandiant report as 'groundless' when it was released, and said China's government firmly opposed hacking.

'Hacking attacks are transnational and anonymous,' government spokesman Hong Lei said during a February 19, 2013 news conference.
'Determining their origins are extremely difficult. We don't know how the evidence in this so-called report can be tenable. Arbitrary criticism based on rudimentary data is irresponsible, unprofessional and not helpful in resolving the issue.'

Carlin seemed to be recalling those criticisms on Monday.

'In the past, when we brought concerns such as these to Chinese government officials, they responded by publicly challenging us to provide hard evidence of their hacking that could stand up in court,' he said.
'Well, today we are.'

FBI Director James Comey said on Monday that 'the amount of theft that's going on is simply staggering.'
'There's only two types of corporations – big corporations – in America,' he said. 'Those who have been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't yet know they've been hacked by the Chinese.'
'It is sapping the lifeblood of a lot of these companies, and it's about our ability to compete and about the ability of our people to get and keep good jobs.'

Holder said the Chinese military's alleged efforts were made in order to give companies in the communist nation an edge over their U.S. rivals.

'In sum, the alleged hacking appears to have been conducted for no other reason than to advantage state-owned companies and other interests in China at the expense of businesses here in the United States,' he said Monday. 'This is a tactic that the United States government categorically denounces.'

Said Bob Anderson Jr., executive assistant director of the FBI's criminal, cyber response and services division: 'This is the new normal. This is what you're going to see on a recurring basis.'

A Pennsylvania grand jury indicted five Chinese individuals on cyber espionage charges for allegedly targeting six American companies and stealing trade secrets, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday, publicly accusing China of cyber spying for the first time.



FBI Director James Comey said 'there's only two types of corporations -- big corporations -- in America.
Those who have been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't yet know they've been hacked by the Chinese'




The PLA unit is alleged to have stolen hundreds of terabytes of data from at least 141 organizations across a diverse
set of industries, beginning as early as 2006 -- and a U.S. intelligence firm traced them back using IP addresses assigned to a specific city block




China's Foreign Ministry quickly fired off a statement on Monday that contained echoes of its pronouncements from 15 months ago, insisting that the grand jury indictment was 'made up' and would 'damage Sino-American cooperation and mutual trust.

Quote:

'The Chinese government's stance on the issue of Internet security is consistent and clear," said the statement from Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang, demanding 'immediate rectification.'
'China is a staunch defender of network security, and the Chinese government, military and associated personnel have never engaged in online theft of trade secrets,' Qin's statement insisted.
The charges against the Chinese military officials come on the heels of a separate worldwide operation over the weekend that resulted in the arrest of 97 people in 16 countries who are suspected of developing, distributing or using malicious software called BlackShades, Holder said.

The software allows criminals to gain surreptitious control of personal computers. An announcement on those arrests was expected for later Monday in New York.

'These two cases show that we are stepping up our cyber enforcement efforts really around the globe,' Holder said, adding that the U.S. will not tolerate these activities.

U.S. officials have previously asserted that China's army and China-based hackers had launched attacks on American industrial and military targets, often to steal secrets or intellectual property. China has said that it faces a major threat from hackers, and the country's military is believed to be among the biggest targets of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command.
'It is our hope that the Chinese government will respect our criminal justice system,' Holder said.




Attorney General Eric Holder, accompanied by U.S. Attorney for Western District of Pennsylvania David Hickton (L), Assistant Attorney General
for National Security John Carlin (2nd R) and FBI Executive Associate Director Robert Anderson (R), spoke at a DOJ news conference to level the first-of-its-kind indictment

Holder announces hacking charges against Chinese officials




White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Monday that the United States 'won't tolerate government-enabled cyber-espionage or threats against our government or private cyber systems.'
And he insisted that America doesn't and won't respond in kind.
'We do not gather intelligence for the benefit of US companies,' he said.


WILL THEY FACE JUSTICE?

Holder said Monday that none of the five Chinese criminal defendants has been on U.S. soil since the investigation began.
That means they have been outside the reach of U.S. law enforcement and can't presently be arrested.
If they were to travel to a country that shares an extradition treaty with the United States, that could change. But for now the prosecution remains largely symbolic.

A Justice Department official speaking on background told MailOnline on Monday that the legal action would proceed forward anyway, however, in order to help the government collect additional information and pressure the Chinese government.
FBI Director James Comey told ABC News that 'the practical impact' of Monday's indictments 'is if these fellas want to travel out of China on vacation, they should be looking over their shoulder.'
'The world is a lot smaller now than it used to be,' he said.

In recent months, Washington has been increasingly critical of what it describes as provocative Chinese actions in pursuit of territorial claims in disputed seas in East Asia. For its part, Beijing complains that the Obama administration's attempt to redirect its foreign policy toward Asia after a decade of war in the Middle East is emboldening China's neighbors and causing tension.

The hackers allegedly stole emails and other communications that could have helped Chinese firms learn the strategies and weaknesses of American companies involved in litigation with the Chinese government or Chinese firms.
Despite the ominous-sounding allegations, at least one of the firms downplayed the hacking.

'To our knowledge, no material information was compromised during this incident, which occurred several years ago,' said Monica Orbe, Alcoa's director of corporate affairs. 'Safeguarding our data is a top priority for Alcoa, and we continue to invest resources to protect our systems.'

Last September, President Barack Obama discussed cybersecurity issues on the sidelines of a summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
'China not only does not support hacking but also opposes it,' Premier Li Keqiang said last year in a news conference when asked if China would stop hacking U.S. websites. 'Let's not point fingers at each other without evidence but do more to safeguard cyber security.'

VIDEOs:






MORE: Chinese Media Responds;

China News

RELATED: Chinese have been Hacking the US for Years;

Chinese Army Hacking

.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Ladybbird For This Useful Post:
FreaknDavid (21-05-14), pop (11-06-14)
Old 08-06-14, 16:13   #27
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: NSA>Encryption Boom/Russia Grants 'Spy' Snowden Residency

Edward Snowden was in Moscow's Sights
-Six Years Before Leaking U.S. Secrets Claims Former KGB Agent


  • Moscow identified Edward Snowden as a possible defector in 2007
  • Former KGB chief Boris Karpichkov said Moscow 'tricked' Snowden
  • Russians began monitoring Snowde
  • Edward Snowden admits he was Trained as a Spy
  • n, 30, in Geneva while at the CIA
  • US officials trying to establish whether Snowden as a double agent

By Daily Mail UK, 8 June 2014


Russian spies 'tricked' US whistleblower Edward Snowden into asking Moscow for asylum by posing as diplomats after spending six years targeting him, a former major in the KGB has claimed.

Boris Karpichkov, who fled Russia after 15 years serving with the KGB said Snowden had been identified as a potential defector as far back as 2007.

Snowden, 30, arrived in Moscow after he was revealed as responsible for leaking more than 1.7 million highly classified US documents.







Former KGB spy Boris Karpichkov, top, said Russian security services first identified Edward Snowden,
as a possible defector back in 2007 while he working with the CIA in Geneva as a communications specialist



Karpichkov told reporters that Russian security agents leaked information concerning Snowden's arrival in Moscow to provoke the US into action.

The US cancelled Snowden's passport before he could get a connecting flight out of Moscow, forcing him to seek asylum.

According to Karpichkov: 'It was a trick and he fell for it. Now the Russians are extracting all the intelligence he possesses.'

Karpichkov said: 'He lives in a block of flats in Moscow’s *suburbs controlled by the FSB. His flat is heavily alarmed to stop anything happening to him. He meets the FSB twice a week over plenty of food and drink.'

Former CIA official Robert Baer has said the US has began investigating whether Snowden had been turned by the Russians in 2007.
Bauer believes the Russians will want to know the extent of the West's electronic interception capability.



Edward Snowden, right, told Brian Williams, left, that he had been trained as a spy
by the CIA had had lived undercover using as assumed name and working in a cover job



SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO

Mr Baer said his former colleagues at the CIA were conducting a 'damage assessment' to determine what top secret information Snowden handed over to the Russians.

According to Baer, the Russians first became aware of Snowden while he was working for the CIA in Geneva.

He said: 'They are looking at the possibility that information was passed on. It’s a damage assessment – clearly what he saw in Geneva has to be looked at and it has to be assumed that he passed it on to Russia.’

He said: 'You’d be seeing the intelligence briefings that Geneva would get. You’d also be getting NSA reports. That’s the sort of regular stuff he’d be getting across his desk.

'He was a disaster there. As a communicator he will have seen everything.’

Snowden could also have seen information sent by British intelligence, Mr Baer said.
‘There’s a daily intelligence briefing which gives you a summary of chatter and intercepts and diplomatic communication. He could have easily given it to Russia. I think it is just horrendous.'

Meanwhile, Snowden last week admitted that he was trained in espionage. He made the claim during an interview with Brian Williams.


Quote:
Snowden said: 'I was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the word, in that I lived and worked undercover overseas — pretending to work in a job that I’m not — and even being assigned a name that was not mine.'
'But I am a technical specialist. I am a technical expert. I don’t work with people. I don’t recruit agents. What I do is I put systems to work for the United States. And I’ve done that at all levels from — from the bottom on the ground all the way to the top.'
MORE: Edward Snowden's Interview with Brian Williams— saying "I Was Trained as a Spy”



.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to Ladybbird For This Useful Post:
pop (11-06-14)
Old 11-06-14, 16:08   #28
pop
Official Site Mascot/Moderator
 
pop's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 1,176
Thanks: 2,013
Thanked 1,002 Times in 636 Posts
pop has much to be proud ofpop has much to be proud ofpop has much to be proud ofpop has much to be proud ofpop has much to be proud ofpop has much to be proud ofpop has much to be proud ofpop has much to be proud of

Awards Showcase
Bronze Medal 
Total Awards: 1

Default re: NSA>Encryption Boom/Russia Grants 'Spy' Snowden Residency

Thanks just watch an hour long vid of Snowden and other American ppl Talking about how to keep yourself safe on the net and alot of other great points he as made.
pop is offline  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to pop For This Useful Post:
Ladybbird (14-07-14)
Old 14-07-14, 13:02   #29
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Default re: NSA>Encryption Boom/Russia Grants 'Spy' Snowden Residency

Monitoring the Public? Thanks to Snowden and Co, This is Just the Beginning, says JAMES SLACK

Daily Mail UK, 14 July 2014





A huge hole was blown in the UK’s intelligence gathering capabilities by the Guardian newspaper’s Ed Snowden (above) revelations – which exposed a raft of sensitive techniques to terrorists


The key question for the public is: does this new legislation give the spies more power to track what I’m doing on my mobile phone?
The answer – for now at least – is no. It simply preserves capabilities they were first handed in the wake of the July 7 and Madrid bombings almost ten years ago.

Under a 2006 EU directive, police and the security services have been able to access a treasure trove of communications data collected and stored by mobile phone and internet companies. This includes information on who you call, when, for how long and roughly where you were at the time.
It is used for checking alibis, tracing kidnap victims and – in the case of terrorists – identifying and tracking plots.

This year, in a case brought against the Irish Government, the European Court of Justice ruled the directive was a breach of privacy – paving the way for members of the public to potentially sue communications firms who continued to store the data.
The response of the phone companies was to inform the UK Government that, if they did not clarify the law, they would start destroying phone records and other important information.
Some overseas-based companies went further: refusing to co-operate on the issue of intercept warrants, which are often used by the security services in terrorism cases and, unlike the communications data, include details of what a person is actually saying.

Security officials were clear that, if their existing powers were not maintained, they would lose track of plotters and lives would be lost.

The result is yesterday’s emergency legislation, which gives legality under British law to the powers originally included in the 2006 EU directive.

The Data Retention and Investigation Powers Bill also makes it clear to companies based overseas, such as Yahoo, that if they wish to provide services in the UK, they must comply with intercept warrants. This, however, is by no means the end of the debate.

Security officials and the Home Office would have liked the Bill to go much further but could not get approval from the Liberal Democrats.




The new snooping legislation preserves capabilities they were first handed in the wake of the July 7 (above) and Madrid bombings almost ten years ago

They remain determined to amass new powers to monitor the public’s internet use, such as their visits to Facebook and use of apps.
In a speech last month, Theresa May said the powers used to defeat Britain’s enemies were not keeping up with new technology and this ‘loss of capability’ was the ‘great danger we face’.
She added: ‘We are in danger of making the internet an ungoverned, ungovernable space, a haven for terrorism and criminality.’

On top of this, there is the huge hole blown in the UK’s intelligence gathering capabilities by the Guardian newspaper’s Snowden revelations – which exposed a raft of sensitive techniques to terrorists.

For this reason it is inevitable that, after the General Election, the issue of a new ‘snoopers’ charter’ will immediately be back on the agenda.
Communications data has been used in 95 per cent of all serious organised crime cases handled by the CPS and every major MI5 counter-terrorism investigation over the past decade.


More...

RELATED...

CIA Station Chief Expelled in Berlin Spy Row: Germany Orders Expulsion in Response to Two Cases of Alleged Spying
  • Top U.S. intelligence official in Germany has been told to leave after Germans were frustrated by lack of American response to spying scandal

Germany has ratcheted up its row with America over CIA spying in the country with the immediate expulsion of the agency’s Berlin chief.

The dramatic rebuke to Washington comes after Germany’s intelligence agency, the BND, uncovered two cases of alleged American spying in a week.
The U.S. official was told to leave the country in a public signal of Angela Merkel’s fury over US spying on Germany which in the past has included repeated snooping on her own mobile phone.

A NATO ally expelling the spy chief of a friendly country is an extraordinary move but Mrs. Merkel has public opinion behind her. New polls show that many Germans want increased independence from America because of its snooping programme.




German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for 'greater trust' between the U.S. and her nation - code for demanding Americans stop spying on the NATO ally



Quote:

'The representative of the US intelligence services at the United States embassy has been asked to leave Germany,' a German government spokesman said.
'The request occurred against the backdrop of the ongoing investigation by federal prosecutors as well as the questions that were posed months ago about the activities of US intelligence agencies in Germany.'


The move came a day after Berlin police searched the home and office of a German military intelligence official alleged to have been spying for America.

The suspect is a foreign country specialist in the German defence ministry’s political department and has not yet been charged.
German military intelligence alerted prosecutors after the suspect was found to have 'met suspiciously often with US contacts', according to Spiegel Magazine.

A week ago a German intelligence agent was arrested after handing over German secrets to the US in exchange for cash.The 31-year-old employee of the BND stands accused of selling 218 top secret German intelligence documents he downloaded on to a USB stick for 25,000 pounds.

Last year documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the former NSA employee, revealed that the agency had been monitoring Mrs Merkel’s mobile phone.




The unnamed intelligence official works at the U.S. embassy in Berlin (pictured). Germany has asked the official leave the country


More...
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 08-08-14, 17:42   #30
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: NSA- More Wikileaks & Snowden Leaks Revealed

Spying Revelations Lead to German Encryption Boom

Daily Mail Friday, 8th Aug 2014


Revelations about the National Security Agency's electronic eavesdropping capabilities have sparked anger in Germany and a boom in encryption services that make it hard for the most sophisticated spies to read emails, listen to calls or comb through texts.

Jon Callas, co-founder of Silent Circle, which sells an encryption app allowing users to talk and text in private, said a series of disclosures from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden last year have been a boon for business.
Silent Circle is one of a host of online security companies cashing in on swarms of new security-conscious customers around the world who want to shield their communications from foreign governments — and nowhere is the market hotter than in Germany, whose chancellor, Angela Merkel, was reported to be a target.




In this photo taken Wednesday, July 30, 2014, Silicon Valley pioneer and Silent Circle co-founder Jon Callas
holds up Blackphone with encryption apps displayed on it at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.



Revelations about the NSA's electronic eavesdropping capabilities, with targets reported to include Chancellor Angela Merkel, have sparked anger in Germany, and a boom in encryption services that make it hard for the most sophisticated spies to read emails, listen to calls or comb through texts. Snowden¿s leaks were a real boon for us, said Callas, whose company sells an encryption app which allows users to talk and text in private.

"Germans have always been particularly attuned to security and privacy concerns," Callas said. "I think that culturally, Germany has seen privacy problems in their recent past. There are people who remember the communists. There is still a cultural sore spot over security and privacy, an understanding of what can go wrong better than any other place in the world."

The companies' customers range from diplomats and journalists to privacy advocates and people trying to protect trade secrets.

"If you're a reporter, you can talk confidentially to a source. If you're a banker, you can talk to a client. If you're a business person, you can use it in places where spying is a cultural norm," Callas said.

Although Silent Circle doesn't provide specific numbers, Callas said it saw a "huge increase" in subscriptions to its private phone and text service after Snowden's disclosures and a spike in Germany after two reported cases of suspected U.S. spying there earlier this year.
And while the technology has Silicon Valley roots, the servers are in Canada and Switzerland, two countries with strong privacy protections. Two weeks ago, Silent Circle also began selling a secure smartphone, whose first run sold out, Callas said.

At CeBIT, a leading tech industry event held annually in the German city of Hannover, Deutsche Telekom was among several companies to launch new security products on the back of Snowden's revelations.

"I want to send a personal thanks to the NSA, because we wouldn't be having this discussing if that hadn't happened," Reinhard Clemens, a Deutsche Telekom board member, told reporters. "That was the best marketing campaign we've ever had."

The company, known for its T-Mobile brand in the United States, sells a smartphone app that encrypts voice and data traffic. It was developed with Berlin-based firm GSMK, an offshoot of the German hacking group Chaos Computer Club.
Customers seeking an all-in-one solution can buy GSMK's $2,750 secure cellphone that will protect confidential communications from all but the most dedicated eavesdroppers.
Chief Executive Bjoern Rupp said his company has seen a surge of interest in its encryption technology since details of the NSA's surveillance capabilities leaked last year.
"Snowden is transforming the industry," Rupp told The Associated Press. "There is a completely new consciousness about security."

Since launching in 2003, the company has sold about 100,000 secure devices, but the number of apps sold in the past year is "in another dimension," said Rupp, without revealing a precise figure.

British rival Vodafone, meanwhile, launched its own "Secure Call" app at the CeBIT fair with the claim it would allow users to make "calls that are as secure as those of the German government."

Merkel herself used to be photographed with a Nokia slider phone. Since reports surfaced that the NSA had listed her among its foreign intelligence targets, the chancellor has avoided being seen with low-end devices. Her new gadget, as widely reported, is a top-range BlackBerry outfitted with a custom-made security suite made by German company Secusmart — endorsed for sensitive communications by Germany's Federal Office for Information Security.

Apparently seizing on the opportunity, BlackBerry recently announced it was buying Secusmart.
"The acquisition of Secusmart underscores our focus on addressing growing security costs and threats ranging from individual privacy to national security," BlackBerry CEO John Chen said in a statement.

Ravishankar Borgaonkar, who works with Telekom Innovation Laboratories and FG Security in Berlin, uses an app on his Samsung smartphone that detects how secure each call is with red and green buttons.
"I try to make my calls as secure as possible," he said. "I get paranoid about some stalker trying to look at my phone, because if they get in it they can get to all my data."

And as someone who works in tech, Borgaonkar said he's getting tapped a lot these days for help.
"All my friends who are not in technology are asking me if their phones are secure, and what they should do," he said.

For those who don't want to take any chances, the revelations have also sparked a retro trend. The country's business weekly Wirtschaftswoche recently reported typewriter sales rising for the first time in years.
German companies aiming to protect their trade secrets apparently have turned to typewriters to ensure their correspondence with foreign clients isn't intercepted by rivals capable of hacking into their computer networks.

Patrick Sensburg, a member of Merkel's conservative bloc and chair of the parliamentary committee investigating alleged NSA spying in Germany, even suggested — only half-jokingly — that he and his fellow lawmakers might start using typewriters to hide the panel's sensitive work.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 08-08-14, 18:17   #31
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: NSA- More Wikileaks & Snowden Leaks Revealed

American Fugitive Edward Snowden is 'Spotted at the Bolshoi Theatre Watching Opera'
-as his Lawyer Confirms he Has Been Granted Another Three Years in Russia

  • NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden photographed at Russian opera
  • Rare public occurrence marked one year since being granted political asylum
  • Watched a tragic love story about Ivan the Terrible called The Tsar's Bride
  • Snowden's lawyer confirms his residency has been extended for three years
Daily Mail UK, 8 August 2014




Snowden photographed at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow where he watched a Russian opera performance


American fugitive Edward Snowden has made a rare public appearance in Moscow, visiting The Tsar's Bride opera at Bolshoi Theatre.

Snowden's appearance coincides with his lawyer's confirmation the US fugitive's residency in Russia has been extended another three years.

Russian websites claim to have spotted Snowden making his public appearance to mark a year since was given asylum in Russia.

'Journalists nearly missed him in his disguise - perhaps because he came to watch a tragic love story from Russia in the times of Ivan the Terrible without his usual spectacles,' said a vesti.ru website.





The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where Snowden was photographed making a rare public appearance.
The former CIA contractor is shown smiling and looking relaxed in a snapshot at the theatre, said the pro-Kremlin news outlet.



Snowden receives three-year Russian residence permit:





Until now the only glimpses of Snowden in Moscow since he was granted asylum a year ago have shown him pushing a supermarket trolley and on a tourist boat on the Moscow River.

Snowden's Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena explained Snowden lived a 'measured life, reading Russian classical prose, actively learning Russian and freely travelling around the country'.

His public appearance came as he sought further asylum in Russia after his previous stint ended on August 1.
Kucherena said: 'The decision on the application has been taken and therefore, with effect from August 1, 2014, Edward Snowden has received a three-year residential permit.
'In the future, Edward himself will take a decision on whether to stay on and get Russian citizenship or leave for the United States.'

He said Snowden could apply for citizenship in 2018 after living in Russia for five years, but that he had not decided whether he wanted to stay or leave.
Kucherena said Snowden was studying Russian and had an IT-related job, but did not provide further details.
'He is a high-class IT specialist.'

He said Snowden's security was being taken seriously and that he was using private security guards.

The tone of statements out of the United States, including out of the State Department, suggested his security was at risk, even in Russia, Kucherena said.

Kucherena has in the past expressed concerns that Snowden could be in danger because of his intelligence background and the fact the United States wants him to stand trial.
'I should say that he can move freely, he can go to the shops, visit museums and theatres,' he said. '[But] he needs to think about his safety.'

Snowden's place of residence has not been disclosed and few pictures of him have appeared in the media.



Edward Snowden pictured in Hong Kong after he leaked details of the NSA's spying operations


However, voices in the West have suggested he is strongly under the control of the Russian secret services, an allegation denied in Moscow.


Snowden is wanted by US prosecutors for leaking details about the National Security Agency's snooping operations.
The spokesman for the White House National Security Council, Ned Price, said Snowden needed to return to the United States to face charges related to the leaks.
'Mr. Snowden faces felony charges here in the United States. He should return to the U.S. as soon as possible, where he will be accorded full due process and protections,' Price said.

Amnesty International has called on other states to offer him asylum. Currently he cannot travel because his US passport was annulled.

'Edward Snowden is cornered in a legal limbo, without a passport or asylum protection from any government,' said Sherif Elsayed-Ali, deputy director of global thematic issues at Amnesty International.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 16-08-14, 12:58   #32
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: NSA- More Wikileaks & Snowden Leaks Revealed

German Spy Agency Recorded Hillary Clinton's Private Conversation on a Plane
-While She was US Secretary of State


  • Three German news outlets citing anonymous sources reported that the conversation had been picked up 'by accident' and was supposed to be destroyed
  • The sources said Germany's BND security agency also eavesdropped on other American politicians
  • Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked that Washington bugged German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone
  • Hillary Clinton called Merkel 'the greatest leader in Europe' while promoting her new book in Berlin last month
Daily Mail UK, 16 August 2014


German security agents recorded a conversation involving Hillary Clinton while she was U.S. Secretary of State, media reported on Friday - a potential embarrassment for Berlin which has lambasted Washington for its widespread surveillance.

Clinton's words were intercepted while she was on a U.S. government plane, Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and German regional public broadcasters NDR and WDR said, without giving details of where she was or when the recording was made.

The respected broadsheet quoted German government sources saying the conversation had been picked up ‘by accident’ and was not part of any plan to spy on Washington's top diplomat.




Eavesdropping:
German security agents 'accidentally' recorded a conversation involving Hillary Clinton while she was U.S. Secretary of State


The fact the recording had not been destroyed immediately was ‘idiocy’, said one of the sources.
German media did not say when the recording in question was made, but mentioned that Germany's Federal Intelligence Service also allegedly eavesdropped on other 'American politicians' and other 'friendly countries.'

Both Germany's government and a spokeswoman for the National Security Council at the White House declined to comment on the reports on Friday.

Relations between the United States and Germany soured last year as a result of revelations by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that Washington spied on German officials and bugged the phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The dispute was revived in July when Germany's Federal Prosecutor arrested Markus R., a 31-year old employee of Germany's foreign intelligence agency (BND), on suspicion of spying for the Americans.

Details of the German recording of Clinton's conversation were included in documents that Markus R. had passed on to Washington, said the German media reports, without citing a source for that information.




Embarrassing:
The bombshell revelation about Clinton comes after Germany lambasted the US for bugging the phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel



The newspaper and the radio stations said a joint investigation had discovered the documents also showed Germany's government had ordered the BND to spy on a NATO partner state, without naming the country.

The media reports said U.S. authorities had brought up the affair in recent discussions, including one between current Secretary of State John Kerry and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

Merkel said in an interview last month that the United States and Germany had fundamentally different conceptions of the role of the intelligence service, and she stressed the Cold War was over.
Despite the embarrassing NSA spying scandal, Mrs Clinton and Chancellor Merkel have been on good terms.

As recently as last month, Hillary Clinton called Merkel 'the greatest leader in Europe' and cited her as a good argument for the United States having a woman president soon.




Leading ladies:
Merkel, and Clinton, pictured at the second day of the 47th Munich Security Conference in 2011, have enjoyed a good working relationship







High praise: During her visit to Berlin last month, Mrs Clinton, pictured with Merkel
on different occasions in 2011, called the chancellor 'the greatest leader in Europe'



‘I think we are ready for a woman to break through the glass ceiling,’ Clinton said in an interview with Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

In an appearance at a Berlin theater to promote her new book, Hard Choices, Clinton joked about her and Merkel's shared taste for pants suits and voiced admiration for the chancellor's leadership of Europe in the euro zone debt crisis.

‘I say in the book I think she is the greatest leader in Europe, I think she is a great leader globally, I think she carried Europe on her shoulders and it wasn't easy,’ she said.


Archive: Merkel, 'Any US spying would be unacceptable
'

__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 16-08-14, 15:02   #33
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: NSA- More Wikileaks & Snowden Leaks Revealed

NSA Eyed Preset Strikes in Cyberattacks

AP/Daily Mail UK, 16 August 2014


WASHINGTON (AP) —
The National Security Agency secretly planned a cyberwarfare program that could automatically fire back at cyberattacks from foreign countries without any human involvement, creating the risk of accidentally starting a war.
-According to a new report based on interviews with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.



The program, codenamed MonsterMind, would have let the military agency automate the process of "hunting for the beginnings" of a foreign cyberattack, the report said. The software would be constantly on the lookout for digital "traffic patterns" that indicated known or suspected attacks, the report published this week by Wired magazine said.

The report, part of a wide-ranging interview with Snowden in Moscow, described the MonsterMind program as "in the works" and went further than other programs that existed for decades.

Without any human involvement, Snowden told the magazine, a counter-attack could be leveled at an innocent party — largely because initial attacks are often routed or diverted through other countries.





This image provided by Platon/Wired shows the cover of the September 2014 issue of Wired magazine, featuring former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Snowden gave an exclusive interview with Wired, in the issue scheduled to hit newsstands on Aug. 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Platon/Wired)


"You could have someone sitting in China, for example, making it appear that one of these attacks is originating in Russia. And then we end up shooting back at a Russian hospital," Snowden said. "What happens next?"

The problem of attribution after a cyberattack has long unsettled computer security experts. A House technology subcommittee in 2010 concluded that, "proactively tracing interactions within a system may help determine where an attack originated after one occurs, but tracing every interaction is impractical and quite likely unconstitutional."

Snowden also called the program a major threat to privacy because NSA would first "have to secretly get access to virtually all private communications coming in from overseas to people in the U.S.," said the new report, by NSA expert and author James Bamford.


Snowden remains exiled in Russia since leaking top secret NSA documents to journalists last year. They revealed the NSA was collecting the phone records and digital communications of millions of citizens not suspected of a crime, prompting congressional reform.

The NSA declined to comment on specifics of the Wired report.

A spokeswoman, Vanee Vines, instead said: "If Mr. Snowden wants to discuss his activities, that conversation should be held with the U.S. Department of Justice. He needs to return to the United States to face the charges against him."

Snowden is charged under the U.S. Espionage Act and faces up to 30 years in prison for leaking the documents.

The U.S. government has elevated lately the damages of foreign cyberattacks against American interests. In May, the Justice Department brought first-of-its kind cyber-espionage charges against five Chinese military officials accused of hacking into U.S. companies to gain trade secrets.

Snowden also told the magazine that the NSA tried to hack into a major Syrian Internet router in 2012 during the middle of the country's civil war. But he said the NSA mistakenly "bricked" the router — computer-speak for rendering it useless — temporarily crippling Internet access there.


PREVIOUS RELATED REPORTS-NSA Loads Computers/Phones with Spyware:


NSA Intercepts Computer Deliveries to Plant Spyware

SNOWDEN Leaks UK/US Spies CRACKED Blackberrys
.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 18-08-14, 18:17   #34
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: NSA- More Wikileaks & Snowden Leaks Revealed

Ecuador Bids to End Assange Impasse

AP/Daily Mail UK, 18 August 2014


The Ecuador government is to make a fresh attempt to break the deadlock over the future of Julian Assange, after it was made clear there is no immediate prospect of ending the impasse surrounding his case.


Foreign minister Ricardo Patino revealed during a brief visit to the UK that he will try to meet new Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, saying changes to the UK's extradition laws create a better climate for reaching a deal.
He was speaking inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London where Mr Assange has been staying for the past two years.




WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, right, during a press conference inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London with Ecuador's foreign minister Ricardo Patino


The WikiLeaks founder brushed off incorrect reports that he is about to give up his fight against extradition to Sweden where he faces sex-related allegations. His supporters made it clear he will remain inside the embassy.

Mr Patino was visiting the embassy to mark the second anniversary of Ecuador granting political asylum to Mr Assange.

The WikiLeaks founder believes he will be extradited to the United States if he travels to Sweden.
Asked about reports that he is planning to give up, Mr Assange said his legal advisers had told him he would be leaving the embassy soon, adding: "But perhaps not for the reasons the Murdoch press and Sky News are saying."

Scores of journalists and photographers waited outside the embassy, but if they expected Mr Assange to walk out, they were disappointed.
He spent 50 minutes sitting next to Mr Patino at a news conference before returning to the room he has been working from for the past two years.

Police officers continued to wait outside the embassy, as they have done for more than two years, in a round-the-clock operation Mr Assange said had cost £7 million.

He refused to explain his comment about leaving soon, but it was taken as a joke reply to the reports of him leaving.
Sources made it clear there is no deal in sight which would see Mr Assange leave the embassy soon.
Mr Patino said there had been "two lost years" for everyone involved, including the two Swedish women at the centre of the saga.

"There has not been justice for anyone. The situation must come to an end," he said.

Mr Patino referred to recent changes to the extradition laws in the UK which he believed would mean Mr Assange would not be facing extradition if the case started today.

"Over the coming weeks I will be trying to set up a meeting with the UK Foreign Secretary. We believe that the recent reforms create a better climate for us to try to reach an agreement."

WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson made clear the rumours of Mr Assange's imminent departure are not true.

"The world is not coming to an end," he told reporters inside the embassy. "The plan, as always, is to leave as soon as the UK Government decides to honour its obligations in relation to international agreements."
Mr Hrafnsson said he did not know where the rumours reported in the British media had come from.

Mr Assange walked into the Ecuadorian embassy on June 19, 2012, and was granted political asylum two months later on August 16.

He said he has now been detained for four years, having spent time in prison and house arrest before going to the embassy.
He pointed out that the building, close to the Harrods store in Knightsbridge, does not have an outside area so he is not able to see sunlight.

"It is an environment which any healthy person would find themselves with certain difficulties they would have to manage.
"The United Nations minimum standard for prisoners is one hour a day of outside exercise.
"Even when I was in Wandsworth prison in solitary confinement, that was respected."

Mr Patino said the quality of Mr Assange's life and health is being "seriously affected", adding: "Ecuador is obligated to protect Julian Assange in our embassy until he can fully enjoy his right to asylum."

Mr Assange, sporting a beard and with longer hair than when he first arrived at the embassy, did not go into any detail about his health, preferring to concentrate on the lack of any progress over his case.
He repeated that he had not been charged with any offence and accused the US government of being "intransigent".

Mr Patino said the UK Government only wanted to look at the legal aspect of the case rather than for a political settlement.
"It is time to free Julian Assange and for his human rights to be finally respected," he added.

The media scrum outside the embassy eventually evaporated after it became clear the 43-year-old Australian was not about to walk out.

Police will immediately arrest Mr Assange if he does leave the building, although there has been criticism of the cost of the security operation, including from Liberal Democrats on the London Assembly.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 24-09-14, 17:49   #35
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: NSA- More Wikileaks & Snowden Leaks Revealed



On a December night in 2011, a terrible thing happened on Mount Cudi, near the Turkish-Iraqi border. One side described it as a massacre; the other called it an accident.

Several Turkish F-16 fighter jets bombed a caravan of villagers that night, apparently under the belief that they were guerilla fighters with the separatist Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK). The group was returning from northern Iraq and their mules were loaded down with fuel canisters and other cargo. They turned out to be smugglers, not PKK fighters. Some 34 people died in the attack.
An American Predator drone flying overheadhad detected the group, prompting U.S. analysts to alert their Turkish partners.

The reconnaissance flight—which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal in 2012—and its tragic consequences provided an important insight into the very tight working relationship between American and Turkish intelligence services in the fight against Kurdish separatists. Although the PKK is still considered a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union, its image has been improved radically by its recent success in fighting ISIS in northern Iraq and Syria. PKK fighters—backed by U.S. airstrikes—are on the front lines against the jihadist movement there, and some in the West are now advocating arming the group and lifting its terrorist label.

Documents from the archive of U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden,,,, that Der Spiegel and The Intercept have seen,,,, show just how deeply involved America has become in Turkey’s fight against the Kurds. For a time, the NSA even delivered its Turkish partners with the mobile phone location data of PKK leaders on an hourly basis. The U.S. government also provided the Turks with information about PKK money flows, and the whereabouts of some of its leaders living in exile abroad.


At the same time, the Snowden documents also show that Turkey is one of the United States’ leading targets for spying. Documents show that the political leadership in Washington, D.C., has tasked the NSA with divining Turkey’s “leadership intention,” as well as monitoring its operations in 18 other key areas. This means that Germany’s foreign intelligence service, which drew criticism in recent weeks after it was revealed it had been spying on Turkey, isn’t the only secret service interested in keeping tabs on the government in Ankara.

Turkey’s strategic location at the junction of Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East made the future NATO member state an important partner to Western intelligence agencies going back to the very beginning of the Cold War. The Snowden documents show that Turkey is the NSA’s oldest partner in Asia. Even before the NSA’s founding in 1952, the CIA had established a “Sigint,” or signals intelligence, partnership with Turkey dating back to the 1940s.

During the Cold War, the U.S. used bases in Turkey primarily to conduct surveillance against the “underbelly of the Soviet beast,” as one NSA document puts it. Today, it targets Russia and Georgia from Turkish soil, collecting information in “near real time.” Since the outbreak of its civil war, Turkey’s neighbor Syria has become a central focus of NSA surveillance.




A PKK guerilla in the mountains of northern Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region.
David Furst/AFP/Getty Images


U.S. secret agents have also provided support to the Turkish government in its battle against the Kurdish separatists with the PKK for years. One top-secret NSA document from January 2007, for example, states that the agency provided Turkey with geographic data and recordings of telephone conversations of PKK members that appear to have helped Turkish agents capture or kill the targets. “Geolocations data and voice cuts from Kurdistan Worker Party communications which were passed to Turkey by NSA yielded actionable intelligence that led to the demise or capture of dozens of PKK members in the past year,” the document says.

The NSA has also infiltrated the Internet communications of PKK leaders living in Europe. Turkish intelligence helped pave the way to the success by providing the email addresses used by the targets.

The exchange of data went so far that the NSA even gave Turkey the location of the mobile phones of certain PKK leaders inside Turkey, providing updated information every six hours. During one military operation in Turkey in October 2005, the NSA delivered the location data every hour.

In May 2007, then-Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell signed a “memorandum” pledging deeper intelligence support for Turkey. A report prepared on the occasion of an April 2013 visit by a Turkish delegation to NSA headquarters at Fort Meade indicates that cooperation in targeting the PKK had “increased across the board” since then. That partnership has focused overwhelmingly on the PKK—NSA assets in Turkey collected more data on PKK last year than any other target except for Russia.

It resulted in the creation of a joint working group called the Combined Intelligence Fusion Cell, a team of American and Turkish specialists working together on projects that included finding targets for possible Turkish airstrikes against suspected PKK members. All the data for one entire wave of attacks carried out in December 2007 originated from this intelligence cell,,,, according to a diplomatic cable from the WikiLeaks archive.


The deep working relationship has continued under Barack Obama’s presidency. In January 2012, U.S. officials proposed supporting Turkey in their fight against the PKK with diverse measures, including access to a state-of-the-art speech recognition system that enabled real-time analysis of intercepted conversations. The system can even search for keywords and identify the person speaking if a voice sample of that individual has been stored.

The NSA offered to install two such systems for Turkey’s intelligence service. In exchange, the Turks would provide voice samples for a number of Kurdish activists. Given its close and enduring relationship with the NSA, agency authorities wrote, they saw little risk in providing the technology. The only thing NSA experts didn’t feel comfortable entrusting to Turkey was the automatic keyword search function.

The partnership is managed through the NSA’s Special Liaison Activity Turkey (SUSLAT) office, which is based in Ankara. In addition to data, the Americans provide their Turkish partners with complete interception systems, decryption assistance, and training.

Using its internal “follow the money” reconnaissance unit, the NSA also tracks PKK’s cash flows in Europe. The Turks reciprocate by providing the U.S. agents with written transcripts of telephone calls made by PKK leaders, as well as intelligence insights about Russia and Ukraine.




Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, with two of his ministers




But in true “Spy v. Spy” fashion, Turkey is itself is the target of intense surveillance even as it cooperates closely with the U.S.— one NSA document describes the country bluntly as both a “partner and target.” The very politicians, military officials, and intelligence agency officials with whom U.S. officials work closely when conducting actions against the PKK are also considered legitimate spying targets by the NSA. To that end, in addition to the official SUSLAT liaison office and the intelligence workers it has cleared with the Turkish authorities, the U.S. has two secret branch offices, operating Special Collection Service listening stations in both Istanbul and the capital city of Ankara.

The degree to which the NSA surveils its partner is made clear in the National Intelligence Priorities Framework (NIPF), a document establishing U.S. intelligence priorities. Updated and presented to the president every six months, the NIPF shows a country’s “standing” from the perspective of the U.S. In the April 2013 edition, Turkey is listed as one of the countries most frequently targeted by Washington for surveillance, with U.S. intelligence services tasked with collecting data in 19 different areas of interest.

The document places Turkey at the level of Venezuela—and even ahead of Cuba—in terms of U.S. interest in intelligence collection. Information about the “leadership intention” of the Turkish government is given the second-highest priority rating, and information about the military and its infrastructure, foreign policy goals, and energy security are given the third-highest priority rating. The same framework also lists the PKK as an intelligence target, but it is given a much lower priority ranking.

Beginning in 2006, the NSA began a broad surveillance operation–a joint effort by several NSA units—aimed at infiltrating the computers of Turkey’s top political leaders. Internally, officials called the effort the “Turkish Surge Project Plan.” It took six months for the team to achieve its goal. One document celebrates the discovery of the “winning combination” and reports that collection had begun: “They achieved their first-ever computer network exploitation success against Turkish leadership!”

It goes without saying that the U.S. intelligence services also had Turkish diplomats in their sights, particularly those stationed in the United States. A classified document from 2010 states that the NSA surveilled the Turkish embassy in Washington, D.C., under a program codenamed “Powder.” A similar project for monitoring Turkey’s representation to the United Nations operated under the codename “Blackhawk.”

Analysts had access to the telephone system in the Turkish embassy and could tap content directly from computers. In addition, they infected computer systems used by the diplomats with spyware. The NSA also installed trojan software at Turkey’s U.N. representation in New York. According to the NSA document, it even has the capability of copying entire hard drives at the U.N. mission.

The NSA shared many of its spies’ insights with its “Five Eyes” partners—the British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand intelligence services. Within that group, the British had already developed their own access to Turkey, with its GCHQ spy agency monitoring political targets in Turkey as well as elements in the energy sector.


One classified British document states that in October 2008, GCHQ tasked agents with improving access to the Turkish Energy Ministry,
as well as enterprises including the Petroleum Pipeline Corporation, the Turkish Petroleum Corporation, and the energy company Calik
Enerji. The assignment also included a list of the names of 13 targets, including then-Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Güler.

In 2008, GCHQ analysts began reviewing satellite images of the rooftops of ministries and companies to assess what types of
communications systems they were using and the possibilities for infiltrating them. The documents do not indicate whether those efforts bore fruit.

Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek is also explicitly named in documents as a GCHQ “target,” despite the fact that he is a dual Turkish-British citizen. Nevertheless, a surveillance order against him includes, among other things, two mobile phone numbers as well as his private Gmail address. When questioned by reporters for Der Spiegel, GCHQ officials said they do not comment on the details of operations.
a GCHQ “target,” despite the fact that he is a dual Turkish-British citizen. Nevertheless, a surveillance order against him includes, among other
things, two mobile phone numbers as well as his private Gmail address. When questioned by reporters for Der Spiegel, GCHQ officials
said they do not comment on the details of operations.

When The Guardian newspaper ran a story last summer about a planned spying operation against the Turkish finance minister during his
visit to London in the run-up to the G-20 summit in 2009, officials in Ankara were so angered that the Foreign Ministry summoned the
British ambassador and criticized the “scandalous” and “unacceptable” operation. Contacted for a response to the surveillance
operations conducted by the NSA and GCHQ, a spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry said “such things” would only be discussed at
the diplomatic level.

This story was reported and published in a collaboration between Der Spiegel and The Intercept. Additional research by Peter Maass.
Photo credits: Burak Kara/Getty Images; David Furst/AFP/Getty Images; Burhan Ozbilici/AP
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 24-10-14, 01:31   #36
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Hacker re: VIDEO-Russia Exposes NSA Secret Prog>Lets US Spy on All Home PCs in World

Was Snowden Spying for Russia Seven Years ago? CIA Fears Fugitive Handed Over 'Treasure Trove' of Secrets to Moscow

  • Snowden said he was acting for the good of the country
  • The 30-year-old doesn't believe he should be given a lengthy prison term
  • Former NSA worker denied having links to Russia
  • He says State Department is responsible for his exile in Moscow
  • Robert Baer, a former CIA officer, claims Russians were in touch with Snowden in 2007 when he was stationed in Geneva
  • Described Snowden as a 'Walter Mitty' character for claiming he was a spy but also said his leaks would cause damage to intelligence gathering
AP, 23 October 2014


The CIA believes Edward Snowden may have been recruited by the Russians as long as seven years ago and could have passed on a ‘treasure trove’ of secrets.


The US intelligence agency is investigating whether the fugitive, now living in Moscow, betrayed his country by working for the Putin regime as a double agent as early as 2007.

Robert Baer, a former senior CIA official, told the Mail that the fact Snowden had ended up in Russia was a likely sign that Moscow had signed him up when he was working for the spy agency in Geneva.




Edward Snowden says he acted on behalf of the American people when he revealed secret NSA files




Revelations: NBC's Brian Williams traveled to Moscow to interview Snowden about his case


He said that if secrets had been passed to the Russians it may have helped them in their recent annexation of Crimea, as they could have changed the codes and frequencies of their communications to stop the US listening in. Security chiefs in the UK are furious at the Snowden leaks and say incalculable damage has been done by them.

However, they do not share the belief that Snowden was recruited by the Russians while working for the CIA in Geneva.

And in an interview in May 2014, Snowden denied he had any relationship with the Russian government, claiming he had the best interests of the American public at heart when he leaked secret files to the media.

The fugitive caused outrage last year by releasing thousands of National Security Agency documents to the Guardian and the Washington Post.
They detailed the NSA’s practice of harvesting data on millions of telephone calls made in the US and around the world, and revealed the agency had snooped on foreign leaders.
He fled the US last May and has been living under temporary asylum in Russia ever since.

Mr Baer said he had been told by contacts at the CIA that they were carrying out a ‘damage assessment’ into whether Snowden handed sensitive information to the Russians.
‘They are looking at the possibility that information was passed on,’ he said. ‘It’s a damage assessment – clearly what he saw in Geneva has to be looked at and it has to be assumed that he passed it on to Russia.’




Disillusioned: Snowden claims he was motivated to act after managers failed to listen when he raised concerns about the NSA's surveillance




Homesick: Snowden says he would like to return to the U.S. and doesn't believe he deserves to be jailed


From 2007 to 2009, Snowden was posted to Geneva, where he worked as a ‘communicator’, looking through intelligence reports and passing them on to headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
He was so trusted during this time that he was chosen to provide President Obama with support at the 2008 Nato summit in Romania.


But Mr Baer said he could have ‘betrayed’ his country by passing information to Moscow.

‘You’d be seeing the intelligence briefings that Geneva would get. You’d also be getting NSA reports. That’s the sort of regular stuff he’d be getting across his desk.
‘He was a disaster there. As a communicator he will have seen everything.’
Snowden could also have seen information sent by British intelligence, Mr Baer said.
‘There’s a daily intelligence briefing which gives you a summary of chatter and intercepts and diplomatic communication. He could have easily given it to Russia. I think it is just horrendous.’




Robert Baer says Edward Snowden's actions have hugely damaged U.S. and UK intelligence gathering


Snowden fled to Russia after a brief spell in Hong Kong during which he was expected to seek asylum in a South American state.

But Mr Baer said he suspected the stopover in the Far East had been part of a deliberate ploy to muddy the waters. ‘Why did he not get a plane to South America in the first place? None of it stands up. It looks like a recruitment operation.’


Speaking earlier on BBC Radio 4, Mr Baer said he believed Snowden should go to jail for a long time, because letting such a high-profile whistleblower go free would set a dangerous precedent.

‘If you take that attitude with any whistleblower you’d have a really bad problem,’ he said. ‘Could it lead to another catastrophe? I’d say yes.
‘That’s a treasure trove that the Russians could use for years and years. They’re going to know all the parameters about our intercepts and GCHQ’s as well.’




Denial: The Moscow-based NSA whistlebower said he was not working with the Russian government


Mr Baer also derided Snowden’s claims in an NBC interview that he was a bona fide spy as ‘silly’.

‘I think we all know by now he was a systems administrator,’ he said. ‘When he worked in Geneva, he was a communicator – that means he sits in an office and relays messages back to Langley. That’s not a spy.
‘And secondly the NSA doesn’t have spies overseas. It’s got technicians who sit in American embassies and sort of listen to scanners. So I worry about his common sense here. He has a Walter Mitty complex it seems to me.’

Mr Baer said Snowden’s actions would cost Western intelligence agencies billions of dollars as they are forced to rebuild their communications systems.





Exclusive: The hour long interview was filmed in a Moscow hotel




Secret service: Snowden told NBC's Brian Williams he had been trained as a spy and had worked undercover for the CIA and the National Security Agency


MORE RECENT UPDATES ON THE NSA & SNOWDEN WILL BE POSTED IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...

.

__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 06-11-14, 15:53   #37
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: VIDEO-Russia Exposes NSA Secret Prog>Lets US Spy on All Home PCs in World

FBI Raids Home of 'Second Snowden': Feds 'Storm Virginia Property of Government Contractor who Leaked Details of US Terror Watchlist'

  • FBI is convinced a new leaker is supplying secrets to journalists
  • It follows the release of over a million names on the TIDE watchlist
  • Journalist at heart of Snowden affair claims FBI raided a property in Northern Virginia
  • He says that a criminal investigation has also been launched
  • But there is a feeling Justice Department may not prosecute following criticism they have been over zealous in the past
AP, 5 November 2014


FBI agents have reportedly raided the home of the 'second leaker' the individual thought to be a government contractor continuing the work of Edward Snowden by leaking classified documents to the press.

Investigators executed a search warrant at a property in Northern Virginia with federal prosecutors opening a criminal investigation, according to journalists at the heart of the Snowden affair who cite law enforcement and intelligence sources.

It follows the leaking of NSA documents listing over one million names collected on the government's secret terrorist watchlist called the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE).

Scroll down for video








Second leaker? According to journalists working for the website set up by Glenn Greenwald, top, FBI agents have raided the home of a individual thought to be continuing the work of Edward Snowden, right


The FBI obtained a federal warrant to identify the source of the TIDE documents which were published by The Intercept — an online publication set up by Glenn Greenwald.

Mr Greenwald is the journalist who Snowden originally contacted and confided in before going on to provide with hundreds of classified documents stolen from the NSA.





In the recent documentary 'Citizen Four' about the affair, Snowden acknowledges the existence of the second leaker and praises their courage



The TIDE documents were dated August 2013 - months after Snowden fled the United States, revealing the existence of the second leaker.
In addition two articles in the German press had reported on US national security and spying issues without citing Snowden - adding to the theory that the notorious whistleblower is not the only leak.

'That's particularly notable given that virtually every other article using Snowden documents - including der Spiegel - specifically identified him as the source,' Greenwald said in an email to The Hill in July.

In the recent documentary 'Citizen Four' about the affair, Snowden acknowledges the existence of the second leaker and praises their courage.


Greenwald says in Citizenfour that the person is higher in rank than Snowden.

Despite the concern surrounding the leak of the TIDE documents, Intercept journalist Michael Isikoff has suggested that the Justice Department may be reluctant to prosecute the second leaker.

In an article Mr Isikoff wrote:

'The case has also generated concerns among some within the US intelligence community that top Justice Department officials — stung by criticism that they have been overzealous in pursuing leak cases — may now be more reluctant to bring criminal charges involving unauthorized disclosures to the news media, the sources said.

'One source, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter, said there was concern "there is no longer an appetite at Justice for these cases".
'"Investigators are continuing to pursue it, but are not ready to charge yet," another anonymous source is quoted as saying.





Concern: President Barack Obama and his administration become aware of the second leaker after the release of names on a classified terrorist watchlist



Quote:






TIDE: The documents printed in The Intercept date from August 2013 - months after Snowden fled the United States
Rio-based Greenwald, left the Guardian last year to launch The Intercept with the backing of eBay founder, billionaire, Pierre Omidyar.

The TIDE documents relate data, there is one watchlist which contains 680,000 names, of which only a fraction are Americans.

However, it also claims that 40 percent of those on the list have no affiliation at all to terrorist groups.
In addition, the list has basically doubled since the underwear bomber plot to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day in 2009.
The justification for this is that the would-be bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab was not on any watchlists at the time that could have had a chance of preventing the attack.








Edward Snowden is wanted in the United States under the Espionage Act. He now lives in Russia, where he was granted a three-year residency. His dance girlfriend Lindsay Mills has moved there to be with him



Snowden is wanted in the United States under the Espionage Act. He now lives in Russia, where he was granted a three-year residency.
Snowden did not tell anyone what he was doing when he abruptly left the US.
He told his girlfriend, dancer Linsday Mills, with whom he lived with in Hawaii, that he was going on a work trip.

Snowden's revelations sparked a global debate on the limits of privacy versus the needs of national security.
His critics view him as a traitor who refuses to face trial in the U.S. for his actions, while supports see him as a hero who spoke up for civil liberties.

CitizenFour: Official Trailer for Edward Snowden Movie




Edward Snowden: Here's How We Take Back the Internet


__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 02-12-14, 17:14   #38
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: VIDEO-Russia Exposes NSA Secret Prog>Lets US Spy on All Home PCs in World

The 10 Most Ridiculous Movie Myths That Turned Out to Be True






Hollywood doesn’t understand technology and “hacking.” That’s what we thought, anyway. But many of the ridiculous things we’ve seen in movies turned out to be completely true.



We laughed off many of these myths when we saw them in movies. “Don’t believe what you see on TV,” we told people. Boy, were we wrong.


The NSA Spying on Everybody

One of the oldest themes is a government that knows all and sees all. If the hero needs some information to stop a plot, they can tap into a seemingly infinite amount of real-time information to find the villain, determine who they’re communicating with, and then track them in real-time. Alternately, the all-seeing government surveillance state is often portrayed as a villain.
We all scoffed at this, but much of it appears to be true. The NSA (and other countries’ intelligence agencies) are monitoring Internet traffic and phone calls, building up huge databases they can query. That scene where the hero taps into a massive database that gives them all the information they need — well, it’s more true than we could have ever imagined. Heck, even The Simpsons mentioned this in 2007’s The Simpsons Movie!




Your Location Can Be Tracked

Cell phones can be tracked by triangulating their relative signal strengths between three nearby cell towers, we know that. But the US government has gone to even greater lengths. They’ve placed fake cellular towers on small airplanes and flown over urban areas, intercepting communications between a suspect’s cell phone and the real cell tower to determine someone’s exact location without even needing to a cellular carrier for help.


Yes, that scene where a hero boards an airplane and flies over an urban area, staring at a map as they track a suspect’s exact location somehow — that’s true, too.




Webcam Hijacking

Webcams can be scary. They offer a way for an unseen attacker to view us from afar. They may be used by a twisted mind to exploit someone, demanding that someone strip for the webcam or their secrets or private photographs will be sent to family members or the public. Or, a webcam may simply function as a convenient way for someone to snoop on an otherwise-secure area.

Webcam hijacking is certainly real, too. There’s a whole community of twisted minds using RAT (Remote Access Tool) software to spy on people, hoping to catch a glimpse of them undressing, and attempting to manipulate them into stripping for the camera. The UK’s GHCQ intelligence agency captured millions of Yahoo! webcam images, including many pornographic ones.




Hacking Traffic Lights and Cameras

Cut to the dramatic chase scene. Our heroes are chasing after a skilled hacker. Or, our heroes need to use their hacking skills to catch up with the villain. Either way, someone is manipulating the traffic cameras, turning them green when they need to drive through and red when their pursuers need to drive through. Or, our heroes hack into the traffic camera grid to spy on someone’s movements throughout a city. Or, even worse, a city is taken over by a supervillian who turns all the traffic lights green to cause chaos while cackling maniacally.

That makes for a dramatic scene, but it’s silly — or is it? It turns out that hacking traffic lights and their cameras is often trivial. Researchers have found that many traffic lights are connected to open Wi-Fi networks and using default passwords.

2003’s The Italian Job features a character “hacking” traffic lights, turning all lights at an intersection green to create a traffic jam.





Darknet Drug Rings, Arms Trafficking, and Hitmen


There’s a secret part of the Internet where the criminals lurk, below the shiny exterior that us upstanding citizens walk over everyday. You can get anything here, for a price. Any type of illegal drug you want, stolen credit card numbers, fake identification documents, illegal weapons, and professional hitmen for hire.

Much of this is true thanks to the “darknet” —Tor hidden services, for example. It’s become more public knowledge thanks to the bust of Silk Road, but other sites have sprung up. Of course, there’s no guarantee all this stuff is actually legitimate.

When Silk Road’s “Dread Pirate Roberts” attempted to hire hitmen and pay them in BitCoin, he seems to have hired both someone who took the money and vanished as well as police who used it to build a case against him. There’s no evidence the hundreds of thousands of dollars in BitCoin he spent actually got anyone killed, so maybe this criminal mastermind isn’t as clever as he thought he was.





Hacking Security Cameras and Security Systems

Our heroes — or villains — need to break into a secure location. To scope it out, they hack the security cameras and examine the place’s security, noting the amount of guards, their patrols, and other security features they’ll need to bypass.

It’s convenient, but also not too hard. Many IP security cameras have horifically weak security and can be trivially hacked. You can even find websites that provide a list of publicly exposed security cameras you scan snoop on yourself.

Like many other products, security systems themselves often have horrifically weak security, so they can be shut down or jammed if someone put the effort in.





Hacking ATMs for Cash

ATMs are a great hacking target. If someone needs some cash, they can simply hack an ATM to get it. While the ATM may not start shooting bills all over the street as it might in the movies, we’ve also seen a variety of ATM hacks springing up. The most pedestrian of them involve attaching a magnetic strip reader and camera to the machine itself to “skim” people’s ATM card credentials, but there are attacks that work directly by hacking the ATM’s software.

This one shows up as far back as 1991’s Terminator 2, where John Connor jacks a device into an ATM and gets it to dispense some free cash.





Security Backdoors in Encryption Protocols

“It’s no good, sir — he isn’t talking. We’ll never break the encryption on his hard drive.” It’s a line that might be spoken before a clever government hacker speaks up and says it’s no problem. After all, the government has a backdoor into the encryption and can crack it. That’s just a dramatic version of a possible scene — in reality, this usually manifests itself as the government being able to crack any encryption it wants, just because.

We’ve now seen backdoors inserted into encryption systems in the real world. The NSA manipulated the NIST into inserting a backdoor into the Dual_EC_DRBG encryption standard, which was recommended by the US government. (Source) The NSA then paid $10 million to RSA Security in a secret deal, and this compromised encryption standard was then used by default in their BSAFE library. (Source) And that’s just a backdoor we know about.

Windows 8.1’s default “device encryption” goes out of its way to hand a recovery key over to Microsoft, so the government could get it from them. Backdoors may also look like this one in Windows, which offers some convenient features for Windows users, access for the US government, and plausible deniability for Microsoft.






Hotel Key Cards Can Be Easily Hacked

Does someone want to get into a hotel room? No problem! Hotel room locks are easily hijacked thanks to their card readers. Just pop open the lock, do something with the wires, and you’re in.

Whoever invented this myth probably didn’t spend much time thinking of it, but it’s possible. With some cheap hardware and a few seconds, an attacker could open up the assembly on the outside of the lock, plug hardware into an open port, read the decryption key from memory, and open the lock. Millions of hotel room locks around the world are vulnerable to this.

Onity, the company that manufactured the locks, will give hotels a cap to put over the port and screws that make the assembly harder to unscrew. But hotels don’t want to fix this, and Onity doesn’t want to give out replacement locks for free, so many locks will never be fixed.





Passwords Can Be Easily Hacked

Passwords are never too much of an obstacle in the movies. Either a clever person sits down and attempts to guess someone’s password, or they plug something in and quickly crack their password.

Many passwords are horrible, so trying combinations like “password,” “letmein,” a child’s name, a pet’s name, a spouse’s birthday, and other obvious bits of data will often let you luck into someone’s password.

And, if you re-use the same password in multiple places, If you do gain access to a password database so you can perform a brute-force attack against it, it’s often quick to guess the password thanks to lists that include obvious, common passwords. Rainbow tables also speed this up, offering precomputed hashes that let you quickly identify common passwords without spending a lot of computing power.





These are far from the only myths that turned out to be true. If there’s one common thread here, it’s that security (and privacy) is often an afterthought in the real world, and the technology we use is never as secure as we’d like it to be. As we charge towards ever-more connected devices we’ll need to take security much more seriously.
__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 15-12-14, 21:26   #39
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Update re: VIDEO-Russia Exposes NSA Secret Prog>Lets US Spy on All Home PCs in World

German Parties Lose Court Bid To Quiz Edward Snowden In Berlin

German Court Rejects Bid by Opposition Parties to Fly CIA Mole Edward Snowden in to Testify About Country's Agencies

  • Members of Greens and Left want panel to hear from Snowden in person
  • Govt does not want him in Germany, as it fears this may strain US relations
  • Snowden has said he will not speak from Moscow, where he is in exile
AP, 14 December 2014






The German government does not want to allow Edward Snowden into the country as it fears this may damage relations with the United States



Germany's highest court has thrown out a bid by opposition parties to force the government to allow Edward Snowden to come to Berlin to testify about the National Security Agency's activities.
Members of the opposition Greens and Left Party want a parliamentary panel investigating the NSA's operations to hear from the whistleblower in person.

But the government does not want to allow Snowden into the country, as it fears this could damage to relations with the US and put it under pressure to extradite him.

The Federal Constitutional Court said on Friday that it has rejected as legally inadmissible a suit by the two opposition parties against the government's stance.

Government parties on the panel suggested questioning Snowden in Moscow, where he is currently living in exile. But the former NSA contractor has said through a lawyer he will only speak to the panel if allowed to do so in Germany.
Snowden is currently wanted in the US after leaking classified details of government surveillance programmes.

Support for Snowden peaked in Germany last year when reports based on documents leaked by the whistleblower suggested that the NSA had targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone.

Germany's chief federal prosecutor in June opened an investigation into the alleged monitoring of a cellphone Merkel used for party business.

But this week Harald Range said his office so far has found no actionable evidence that the calls were tapped.

'As of today, there is no evidence leading to charges that connection data were recorded or a phone call by the chancellor was listened to,' he said.

German magazine Der Spiegel broke the story of the alleged monitoring last year, citing documents provided by Snowden.





Edward Snowden, who is in Moscow, is seen on a giant screen during a live video conference for an interview as part of Amnesty International's annual Write for Rights campaign at the Gaite Lyrique in Paris this week


Range said his office does not have an original NSA document ordering the surveillance, and that Der Spiegel invoked its right to refuse testimony in response to a request to provide the original or answer questions about it.

The NSA has declined to comment.

Snowden has not responded to an offer to give a written statement, and requests for information to various German security authorities 'haven't taken us further', Range said.
However, he said the investigation continues and will take account of what a separate parliamentary inquiry finds out.





Support for Edward Snowden peaked in Germany last year when reports based on documents leaked by the whistleblower suggested that the NSA had targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone



Germany Loses Bid To Quiz Edward Snowden In Berlin


__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 19-01-15, 17:39   #40
 
Ladybbird's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 47,374
Thanks: 27,594
Thanked 14,456 Times in 10,262 Posts
Ladybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond reputeLadybbird has a reputation beyond repute

Awards Showcase
Best Admin Best Admin Gold Medal Gold Medal 
Total Awards: 8

Hacker Whistleblower Snowden Makes New Documentary

Snowden Documentary 'Citizenfour' to Air on HBO

The Oscar hopeful will debut 9pm US ET, 23 Feb. 2015 on the pay cable network

Snowden uses the name "Citizenfour"


19 Jan 2015






Citizenfour

The pay cable network announced that the acclaimed doc about National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden will air on Feb. 23 — the night following the Academy Awards. This will mark a substantial platform for the feature, which currently has a limited theatrical release and recently made the Academy's shortlist for eligible titles in the best documentary race.

Citzenfour, which finds journalist Glenn Greenwald interviewing Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room, has been lauded by critics — including The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy.

Oscar-nominated director Laura Poitras (My Country, My Country) had been working on the feature before Snowden contacted her. (He used the name "Citizenfour").

Citzenfour has already earned honors from the New York, Los Angeles, Bost, San Francisco film critics.

Radius presents the Praxis Films production, in association with Participant Media and HBO Documentary Films.

It will be posted on this site on 24 Feb, in the TV Shows/Documentaries Section, for REGISTERED MEMBERS ONLY...

__________________
PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL










TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath If I Don't Get Elected'


PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE
& Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1..

THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES
Ladybbird is online now  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
Reply With Quote
Post New ThreadReply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
SEO by vBSEO 3.5.2
Designed by: vBSkinworks