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"The ABUSE Is That The Govt Is Collecting This In The First Place Without Suspicion Of Wrong Doing!"

xrepublic.tv

August 10, 2013

A Guide to What We Now Know About the NSA's Dragnet Searches of Your Communications

aclu.org

by Brett Max Kaufman

August 10, 2013

Charlie Savage of The New York Times confirmed this week what we have been warning about for years, including to the Supreme Court last fall: The National Security Agency (NSA) is "searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans' e-mail and text communications into and out of the country, hunting for people who mention information about foreigners under surveillance . . . ." The rub: If you've sent an international email or text since 2008, chances are the government has looked inside of it. In other words, the same NSA surveillance dragnet that government officials have consistently dismissed as speculative and far-fetched is very, very real. The Times's front-page story raises questions akin to those advanced by a report in The Guardian last week revealing that under a program codenamed "XKeyScore," NSA analysts use dropdown menus and filters - just like the ones we all use every single day on the web - to gain instant access to "nearly everything a typical user does on the Internet." Essentially, XKeyScore is the NSA's very own, very powerful surveillance search engine.

Obama vs. Snowden

townhall.com

by Paul Jacob

August 11, 2013

The most "transparent presidency" in American history confronts the agency of that transparency. Which side is easier to see through?

Who is telling the truth: President Barack Obama or Edward Snowden? When the middle-aged Mr. Snowden (now 30 years old) fled to Hong Kong and then on to Russia, having disclosed to The Washington Post and Glenn Greenwald at The Guardian of London a reported treasure trove of top-secret documents about the National Security Agency surveillance and data-mining programs, a fierce national (and worldwide) debate ensued. President Obama has repeatedly said that he welcomes the discussion. On the minor little manner of this "debate" itself, who is dealing in truth? No one has ever suggested the documents pilfered and made public by Snowden were inauthentic. And no one sound in mind thinks Obama honestly welcomed this debate.

NSA Twists Words To Fit Agenda, Cites ZERO Terrorists Intercepted

xrepublic.tv

August 11, 2013

"The National Security Agency is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans' e-mail and text communications into and out of the country, hunting for people who mention information about foreigners under surveillance.

The N.S.A. is not just intercepting the communications of Americans who are in direct contact with foreigners targeted overseas, a practice that government officials have openly acknowledged. It is also casting a far wider net for people who cite information linked to those foreigners, like a little used e-mail address, according to a senior intelligence official."* Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

Mega to run 'cutting-edge' encrypted email after Lavabit's 'privacy seppuku' - RT News

rt.com

August 11, 2013

Kim Dotcom's Mega.co.nz is working on a highly-secure email service to run on a non-US-based server.

It comes as the US squeezes email providers that offer encryption and Mega's CEO calls Lavabit's shutdown an "honorable act of Privacy Seppuku." Mega's Chief Executive Vikram Kumar, who is heading the development of the company's own end-to-end encryption technology to protect the privacy of the future email's users, has reacted to the Lavabit founder's decision to suspend his service's operations - an act, which was shortly followed by voluntary closing down of another secure email service, Silent Circle.

President Obama orders intelligence chief accused of lying to Congress to lead NSA review

theverge.com

by T.C. Sottek

August 12, 2013

When President Obama announced a series of intelligence reforms last Friday he called for the creation of an independent advisory group made up of "outside experts" who will review controversial surveillance programs.

But based on a memorandum issued today by the White House, it's not clear how independent the effort will be. The president has directed the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, to establish the "review group" that will be responsible for issuing a report about how surveillance programs "impact our security, our privacy, and our foreign policy." The review group is intended in part, as the president said last week, to "maintain the trust of the people" - so why did the president put a man at the center of the spying controversy in charge? While Clapper may be technically well-suited to direct a review group given the intelligence community's unique need for secrecy, it may be difficult to sell the process to the American people with current skepticism about his accountability. Earlier this month, lawmakers concerned with the government's broad surveillance efforts said that Clapper should resign for lying to Congress. "[Clapper] was here in March and unambiguously lied to Congress," Rep. Thomas Massie (R, KY) told Democracy Now. "And I believe he was under oath. And it really sets a bad precedent for the whole organization to let him keep his post."

Man has $16,500 worth of Bitcoin stolen from MtGox

examiner.com

August 12, 2013

Dave Wright had $16,500 of the crypto-currency Bitcoin transferred from his account without his knowledge. On April 23rd 2013, Wright's Mt. Gox account was hacked by an IP address based in Holland and the money was transferred out.

"Every time I log back into my account it is like returning to a murder scene, so sad." A Bitcoin account can be set up so it is completely anonymous which is a strong appeal to it's users but it also makes theft hard to reconcile. Since April, Wright has been contacting the company based in Japan and has been told there was nothing they could do to return his funds and he would have to contact his local police.

If you use Google Chrome, your passwords aren't as private or secure as you think

shellypalmer.com

by Shelly Palmer

August 12, 2013

While it's convenient to have Chrome save your logins and passwords, anyone can see all your saved info with just a few clicks, simply by heading into Chrome's settings.

All you'd need to do to uncover a saved password is click "Show" next to the associated site. That's all it takes. Other major browsers, like Mozilla's Firefox, have built-in 'Master Password' features, which require further authentication before revealing any saved passwords. While it doesn't seem like Google is rushing to change this security oversight, there are third-party options you should look into if your computer is used by anyone else you don't completely trust; programs like RoboForm link to your browsers and store your login information more securely behind a master password. A dedicated enough hacker will uncover your saved passwords no matter how secure they are, but do you really want to leave the front door unlocked for anyone to walk in?

Intelligence committee withheld key file before critical NSA vote, Amash claims

theguardian.com

by Spencer Ackerman

August 12, 2013

Republican who led Congress revolt against surveillance insists members did not see document before 2011 Patriot Act vote

A leader of the US congressional insurrection against the National Security Agency's bulk surveillance programs has accused his colleagues of withholding a key document from the House of Representatives before a critical surveillance vote. Justin Amash, the Michigan Republican whose effort to defund the NSA's mass phone-records collection exposed deep congressional discomfort with domestic spying, said the House intelligence committee never allowed legislators outside the panel to see a 2011 document that described the surveillance in vague terms.

I asked the NSA for its file on me, and here's what I got back

dailydot.com

by Kevin Collier

August 14, 2013

I can't shake the feeling that the National Security Agency thinks I'm a chump.

I mean, I've written a lot about them. I've talked to their media contacts. I've been denied clarifications. I've pored over their press releases and page after page of NSA documents that former contractor Edward Snowden took from them and leaked to the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald. Yet when I sent the NSA a formal request through the Freedom of Information Act, asking what the agency had collected on me through two big programs-a telephone metadata collection program and PRISM-they acted like I was a total newbie at this stuff.

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