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World's Biggest Data Breaches and Hacks

informationisbeautiful.net

July 23, 2013

Data visualization of the world biggest data breaches, leaks and hacks. Constantly updated. Powered by VizSweet.

Tomorrow, Congress Votes on an Amendment to Defund Domestic Spying: Here's How You Can Help

eff.org

July 23, 2013

There's a fight brewing in Washington around NSA surveillance, and pro-privacy Representatives from both parties are taking the battle to the budget.

The House is gearing up for a vote on the Defense Appropriations Bill (basically, the budget for the Department of Defense) and a bipartisan coalition of Representatives will be introducing a novel amendment that attempts to strike at funding for one type of particularly egregious surveillance power of the NSA. EFF thinks this amendment is an important step in curbing the NSA's domestic surveillance and urges concerned citizens to call immediately to voice your support. You can call your Representative (look up your Representative by zip code here, or find the phone number here) or you can use the easy call-in tool at Defund the NSA, which lets you look up your Representative by zip code and gives you a sample script for the call.

Is the NSA Blinded by Big Data?

medium.com

by Zeynep Tufekci

July 23, 2013

Who says it's the best method to catch the bad guys?

Rabbits hop around but that's not very threatening. Hops on a network, however, are a different game. When a rabbit hops on a lawn, each hop adds a yard or so. Not so in a network topology. In a network, the difference between one and two hops is huge. The difference between two and three hops is humongous because the effect of "hops" on traversing a network is exponential rather than additive. Exponential mechanisms don't add, they multiply-and that is the key to understanding a multitude of modern phenomena ranging from viral videos to pandemics.

Peter Z. Scheer: Five Ways to Have a Chat Behind Big Brother's Back

truthdig.com

by Sarah Stillman

July 22, 2013

Since Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the NSA's mass surveillance of Americans, interest in cryptography has been piqued.

That's fine if you're a nerd, but what about Grandma's privacy? Luckily there are fairly simple ways to communicate privately. Just be warned, if you use encryption, the NSA has reportedly decided it can hold on to your data indefinitely, whether you're American or not.

Germany intelligence cooperated with NSA as Merkel denied knowledge

rt.com

July 21, 2013

Der Speigel magazine has revealed German intelligence operated one of NSA's spying programs.

Chancellor Angela Merkel had denied any previous knowledge of NSA's tactics, adding that she first learned about them through the media. Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, along with the domestic intelligence agency the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), used American National Security Agency's (NSA) XKeyScore program, according to Spiegel which claims to have seen the US intelligence service's secret documents.

"What Is That Box?" - When The NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company

buzzfeed.com

by Justine Sharrock

July 21, 2013

For nine months, this Utah ISP had a little black box in the corner, courtesy of the NSA. Its owner tells his story.

When people say the feds are monitoring what people are doing online, what does that mean? How does that work? When, and where, does it start? Pete Ashdown, CEO of XMission, an internet service provider in Utah, knows. He received a Foreign Intelligence Service Act (FISA) warrant in 2010 mandating he let the feds monitor one of his customers, through his facility. He also received a broad gag order. In his own words: The first thing I do when I get a law enforcement request is look for a court signature on it. Then I pass it to my attorneys and say, "Is this legitimate? Does this qualify as a warrant?" If it does, then we will respond to it. We are very up front that we respond to warrants. If it isn't, then the attorneys write back: "We don't believe it is in jurisdiction or is constitutional. We are happy to respond if you do get an FBI request in jurisdiction or you get a court order to do so."

Striking Back at Police State Amerika

activistpost.com

by Dave Hodges

July 21, 2013

Every day a granny is goosed by TSA, a federal SWAT team raids the wrong house, a citizen acquitted of a crime still has their property confiscated by authorities, even the dumbed down public is aware that their every communication is monitored by the NSA and Obama has set his administration up to violate every constitutional right of every citizen in America under the NDAA and Executive Order 13603. Anyone who possess an IQ above room temperature is aware that our federal government is totally out of control and is wreaking tyranny upon the American people. As a people, we have seemingly grown numb to the constitutional violations perpetrated by our government against the citizens of this country. However, the abuse of citizens does not begin and end with the federal government.

Should you ever look at your customers pictures / videos?

community.spiceworks.com

by LarryG

July 19, 2013

If you run (or work for) a business that works on personal PCs you may end up in a situation like this. I believe I did the right thing and I would do the same again, but what do you think? What would you have done?

Near the end of 2011 a PC was brought to me. The customer wanted the data backed up, drive wiped, Windows installed then data restored. Fairly simple request, didn't really think much of it. Hooked up an external drive, started copying the My Documents folder and walked away. A while later I walked back over and looked at the screen to check on the progress. What I saw literally stopped me in my tracks. I stared at the screen, kind of dumbfounded, for a few seconds. File names like "10 year old having sex" and "6 year olds naked" were scrolling across the screen. When I had recovered my wits I stopped the backup and checked the folder that was being copied to - there were a lot of videos with names like that...

NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say

Wired.com

by David Kravets

July 19, 2013

The Obama administration for the first time responded to a Spygate lawsuit, telling a federal judge the wholesale vacuuming up of all phone-call metadata in the United States is in the "public interest," does not breach the constitutional rights of Americans and cannot be challenged in a court of law. Thursday's response marks the first time the administration has officially answered one of at least four lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of a secret U.S. snooping program the Guardian newspaper disclosed last month. The administration's filing sets the stage for what is to be a lengthy legal odyssey - one likely to outlive the Obama presidency - that will define the privacy rights of Americans for years to come. The New York federal district court lawsuit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, demands a federal judge immediately halt the spy program the civil rights group labeled as "one of the largest surveillance efforts ever launched by a democratic government."

Anonymous Operation NSA's first target: Californian Senator Dianne Feinstein. She has taken over $698,000 in bribes from security and defense contractors to vote in favor of them and against you.

xrepublic.tv

July 18, 2013

Greetings Californian State Senator Dianne Feinstein. We are Anonymous. Did you think that your actions against the citizens of this country would go unnoticed?

Did you think that we the people, would not respond to your gruesome dishonesty? We have been watching. In accordance with phase II of #Op NSA we have found you, Senator Feinstein, GUILTY Of supporting unconstitutional acts carried out by the Government and its agencies. Although the opinion of the FISA court that oversees the National Security Agency's operations is often not released to the public, we are now making it known to the public. While the public may have been kept in the dark; you, Senator Feinstein were fully aware of the FISA court's two thousand and eleven opinion. Eighty pages detailing how the National Security Agency's surveillance conduct is in direct violation of the fourth amendment of the United States Constitution as well as in excess of the limitations imposed by the statute: The FISA amendments act of two thousand and eight. When you told the American people that you have no knowledge of the National Security Agency's surveillance program, PRISM, of violating anyone's civil liberties or freedoms: You were lying.

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