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Ron Paul Blasts NSA Defenders On Piers Morgan:"You're Justifying Dictatorship!"

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by Schiffreport

June 10, 2013

"To all of you who defend this nonsense, what should the penalty be for those who destroy the constitution?" - Ron Paul

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

guardian.co.uk

by Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras

June 9, 2013

The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows.

The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell. The Guardian, after several days of interviews, is revealing his identity at his request. From the moment he decided to disclose numerous top-secret documents to the public, he was determined not to opt for the protection of anonymity. "I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong," he said. Snowden will go down in history as one of America's most consequential whistleblowers, alongside Daniel Ellsberg and Bradley Manning. He is responsible for handing over material from one of the world's most secretive organisations - the NSA.

No evidence of NSA's 'direct access' to tech companies

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by Declan McCullagh

June 7, 2013

Sources challenge reports alleging National Security Agency is "tapping directly into the central servers." Instead, they say, the spy agency is obtaining orders under process created by Congress.

The National Security Agency has not obtained direct access to the systems of Apple, Google, Facebook, and other major Internet companies, CNET has learned. Recent reports in The Washington Post and The Guardian claimed a classified program called PRISM grants "intelligence services direct access to the companies' servers" and that "from inside a company's data stream the NSA is capable of pulling out anything it likes." Those reports are incorrect and appear to be based on a misreading of a leaked Powerpoint document, according to a former government official who is intimately familiar with this process of data acquisition and spoke today on condition of anonymity. "It's not as described in the histrionics in The Washington Post or The Guardian," the person said. "None of it's true. It's a very formalized legal process that companies are obliged to do."

American Gets Targeted by Digital Spy Tool Sold to Foreign Governments

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by Kim Zetter

June 4, 2013

The email appeared to come from a trusted colleague at a renowned academic institution and referenced a subject that was a hot-button issue for the recipient, including a link to a website where she could obtain more information about it.

But when the recipient looked closely at the sender's email address, a tell-tale misspelling gave the phishing attempt away - the email purported to come from a professor at Harvard University, but instead of harvard.edu, the email address read "hardward.edu". Not exactly a professional con-job from nation-state hackers, but that's exactly who may have sent the email to an American woman, who believes she was targeted by forces in Turkey connected to or sympathetic to the powerful Gülen Movement, which has infiltrated parts of the Turkish government.

Busted: 5 Common Myths About Web Security

OpenDNS Blog

by Erin Symons

May 21, 2013

This infographic highlights 5 common Web security myths. It's a great educational tool for users, especially those who are less tech savvy.

Despite your best efforts to educate employees on the hazards of the Web, does it still seem like there are a few users who end up clicking where they shouldn't? There are many security myths that still get passed from user to user, rendering your education tactics less effective than you'd hope, and placing heavy responsibility for security on your malware protection solution, firewall and AV.

Cell phone users 'have no legitimate expectation of privacy' - judge

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by Posting Your Comment

May 16, 2013

A federal judge recently ruled that if someone has their cell phone turned on, their location data does not deserve protection under the Fourth Amendment, meaning law enforcement can track individuals without a search warrant.

New York magistrate judge Gary Brown decided in favor of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents who were seeking his approval over a warrant on a doctor who they suspected was being paid for issuing thousands of prescriptions. The warrant would have compelled the physician's phone company to provide real-time tracking data from his cell. Brown, certainly to the delight of police, issued a 30-page brief outlining his opinion that, by carrying a cell phone, someone is essentially waiving their Fourth Amendment right to due process.

Judge Napolitano: Gov't Can't Be Trusted, So We Need Independent Counsel to Investigate Current Scandals

andrewnapolitano.com

May 16, 2013

Attorney General Eric Holder has flatly rejected the idea of appointing special counsel to investigate the Benghazi situation.

Between Benghazi, the seizure of AP phone records, and the IRS scandal, can we really trust government officials to handle these situations on their own? Judge Napolitano said pointedly, "The common thread here is that the government can't be trusted, but the government thinks that we will trust them. The government will break whatever law it wants in order to meet its own political ends."

Smart dust: A complete computer that's smaller than a grain of sand

extremetech.com

by Graham Templeton

May 15, 2013

Called the Michigan Micro Mote, or M3, this tiny computer features processing, data storage, and wireless communication.

Most breakthroughs in miniaturization are important but boring; this substance can be stretched thinner than before, that manufacturing process is now 8% cheaper. This has always been in pursuit of a day when enough fundamental nano-breakthroughs have come together from materials and manufacturing that we can start inventing whole machines on that scale. Nobody's ever written a Star Trek episode about the world's smallest microchip, only about the world's smallest computer. Now, a team from the University of Michigan has built not just a very small microchip, but a whole functioning computer, and it's less than a cubic millimeter in size.

Internet Crime Cost Consumers More Than A Half-Billion Dollars Last

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by Kelly Jackson Higgins

May 15, 2013

Number of cases reported by consumers to FBI-partnered Internet Crime Complaint Center increased by nearly 10 percent last year, with scams in auto fraud, FBI impersonation via email, extortion at the top of the list.

Consumers lost an average of $1,800 last year in Internet crimes and a total of $535 million overall, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center's (IC3) annual report on consumer complaints it received in 2012. IC3, a partnership between the FBI, the National White Collar Crime Center, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, received 289,874 consumer complaints, 40% of which reported financial losses. That was an 8.3 increase in the total number of complaints from 2011. The median dollar loss for consumers who reported financial loss to the IC3 was $600, and the average dollar loss for those who reported financial loss was $4,573.

Digital privacy gets push from the right

politico.com

by Alex Byers

May 10, 2013

Momentum to update the nation's antiquated email privacy laws is again coursing through the Capitol - and this time, movement is coming from the right.

Republicans have been increasingly attaching their names to reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act - an issue where Democrats have traditionally taken the lead. Four Republican congressmen introduced a pair of bills this week that would require government investigators to score a warrant before obtaining someone's email content. Arizona Reps. Matt Salmon and Trent Franks are partnering on a House version of ECPA reform; Kansas Rep. Kevin Yoder and Georgia Rep. Tom Graves are teaming up on the Email Privacy Act.

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