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Stop the Mass Wiretapping Bill

cms.fightforthefuture.org

June 22, 2013

If Massachusetts does this, other states will follow. Soon every local cop in the country knows who you call.

Right now, Massachusetts has some of the best electronic privacy protections, and current laws only allow the Government to tap your phone if they suspsect you of a violent or very serious crime. The proposed changes, which are being pushed for by law enforcement, would drastically expand the law to allow for wiretaps relating to nearly ANY drug or gun-related offense. The result is that local police will be spying on a LOT more people. So how will they get all that info? The bill gives law enforcement direct access to phone company switching stations. So not only can they tap your cell phone, but if you even share a phone company with ANYONE suspected of a huge range of crimes, your call data could get swept up in their monitoring. The revelations about the Federal Government and the NSA spying on all Americans is disturbing enough, but if this bill passes, low-level law enforcement agents would be able to listen in on our lives through unconstitutional "general wiretaps." It's an outrage that the MA Legislature is even considering this bill at a time when crime is dropping and the public is demanding answers about government surveillance.

Michael Hastings Sent Email About FBI Probe Hours Before Death

huffingtonpost.com

June 22, 2013

Hours before dying in a fiery car crash, award-winning journalist Michael Hastings sent an email to his colleagues, warning that federal authorities were interviewing his friends and that he needed to go "off the rada[r]" for a bit.

The email was sent around 1 p.m. on Monday, June 17. At 4:20 a.m. the following morning, Hastings died when his Mercedes, traveling at high speeds, smashed into a tree and caught on fire. He was 33. Hastings sent the email to staff at BuzzFeed, where he was employed, but also blind-copied a friend, Staff Sgt. Joseph Biggs, on the message. Biggs, who Hastings met in 2008 when he was embedded in his unit in Afghanistan, forwarded the email to KTLA, who posted it online on Saturday.

Facebook Security Glitch Affected Millions Of Its Members

redorbit.com

June 22, 2013

The phone numbers and email addresses of nearly six million Facebook users were accidentally exposed as the result of a year-long data leak, officials from the social network confirmed on Friday.

Facebook officials blamed the release of the contact information, which started back in 2012, on a technical glitch in a system which allows individuals to upload contact lists or address books, Reuters and USA Today have reported. As a result of the bug, Facebook users who downloaded contact information from the people on their friends list were provided with information they were not supposed to have access to. Security officials at the popular social media website were reportedly notified of the glitch last week and fixed it in less than 24 hours.

Meet The Man In Charge Of America's Secret Cyber Army (In Which 'Bonesaw' Makes A Mockery Of PRISM)

zerohedge.com

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June 22, 2013

With his revelations exposing the extent of potential, and actual, pervasive NSA surveillance over the American population, Edward Snowden has done a great service for the public by finally forcing it to answer the question: is having Big Brother peek at every private communication and electronic information, a fair exchange for the alleged benefit of the state's security. Alas, without further action form a population that appears largely numb and apathetic to disclosures that until recently would have sparked mass protests and toppled presidents, the best we can hope for within a political regime that has hijacked the democratic process, is some intense introspection as to what the concept of "America" truly means.

Tech Insight: Quick Wins For Strengthening SMB Security

darkreading.com

by John H. Sawyer

June 21, 2013

Big or small, companies are being hacked every day no matter their size. Small businesses ask, "Why me? I don't have anything worth stealing."

Yet they don't realize how useful their high-speed Internet connections are as new launch points for brute-force SSH scans and DDoS attacks. The simple truth is that no one is safe from attack, and small organizations often feel the impact more than large enterprises because of their limited budgets and IT staff. Since January, I've been speaking with IT staff from local city and county governments throughout Florida at conferences and in private meetings. The common issue among nearly every one of their organizations is that they have practically no budget for security and no dedicated security staff. In many cases, there is only one or two IT people, and they handle everything from desktop and server support to IT training and security.

Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying

eff.org

June 20, 2013

All of the evidence found in this timeline can also be found in the Summary of Evidence we submitted to the court in Jewel v. NSA.

It is intended to recall all the credible accounts and information of the NSA's domestic spying program found in the media, congressional testimony, books, and court actions. For a short description of the people involved in the spying you can look at our Profiles page, which includes many of the key characters from the NSA Domestic Spying program.

Skynet rising: Google acquires 512-qubit quantum computer; NSA surveillance to be turned over to AI machines

naturalnews.com

by Mike Adams

June 20, 2013

Most people don't know about the existence of quantum computers.

Almost no one understands how they work, but theories include bizarre-sounding explanations like, "they reach into alternate universes to derive the correct answers to highly complex computational problems." Quantum computers are not made of simple transistors and logic gates like the CPU on your PC. They don't even function in ways that seem rational to a typical computing engineer. Almost magically, quantum computers take logarithmic problems and transform them into "flat" computations whose answers seem to appear from an alternate dimension.

LinkedIn DNS hijacked, traffic rerouted for an hour, and users' cookies read in plain text

venturebeat.com

June 19, 2013

App.net cofounder Bryan Berg noticed that LinkedIn was DNS-hijacked tonight and that traffic was rerouted to a shady India-based site. That's bad for LinkedIn, but there's worse news for you.

According to Berg, that site does not require SSL (secure sockets layer), which means that anyone who visited in the last hour or so sent it their long-lived session cookies in plain text ... a potential security risk. DNS hijacking is the process of redirecting a domain name to a different IP address. IP addresses are strings of numbers that identify a server, but they're long and hard to remember. The DNS system allows us to use simple, easy-to-remember names like linkedin.com, and it then translates them to IP address like 216.52.242.86.

Keith Alexander To Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce: 'Tell Your Boss I Owe Him Another Friggin' Beer'

huffingtonpost.com

by Paige Lavender

June 19, 2013

National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander got caught by a hot mic after the public hearing on the NSA's Internet and phone data sweeps Tuesday.

"Tell your boss I owe him another friggin' beer," Alexander said to FBI deputy director Sean Joyce. HuffPost's Michael McAuliff reported earlier on the hearing: The House Intelligence Committee's public hearing featured leaders from the office of the director of national intelligence, the NSA, the FBI and the Department of Justice, all called to respond to revelations from leaker Edward Snowden that the United States collects records on the phone calls of U.S. citizens and sweeps extensive data from the Internet.

Pathological Altruism: The Road to Hell Really Is Often Paved With Good Intentions Argues New Study

reason.com

by Ronald Bailey

June 19, 2013

In a remarkably interesting new paper, "Concepts and implications of altruism bias and pathological altruism," in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Oakland University systems engineer Barbara Oakley argues that intentions to help people all too often hurt them. Unintended harm is the outcome of she what calls pathological altruism. She defines pathological altruism "as behavior in which attempts to promote the welfare of another, or others, results instead in harm that an external observer would conclude was reasonably foreseeable." In her study Oakley explores the psychological and evolutionary underpinnings of empathy and altruism and how they can go wrong. It turns out that pathological altruism is a pervasive problem affecting public policy.

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