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FBI's Latest Proposal for a Wiretap-Ready Internet Should Be Trashed

Wired.com

by Julian Sanchez

May 10, 2013

The FBI has some strange ideas about how to "update" federal surveillance laws: They're calling for legislation to penalize online services that provide users with too much security.

I'm not kidding. The proposal was revealed in The Washington Post last week - and a couple days ago, a front-page story in The New York Times reported the Obama administration is preparing to back it. Why? Federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI have long feared their wiretap capabilities would begin "going dark" as criminals and terrorists - along with ordinary citizens - shift from telephone networks, which are required to be wiretap-ready under the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), to the dizzying array of online communications platforms available today. While it's not yet clear how dire the going-dark scenario really is, the statutory "cure" proposed by the FBI - with fines starting at $25,000 a day for companies that aren't wiretap capable - would surely be worse than the disease.

In Hours, Thieves Took $45 Million in A.T.M. Scheme

myaccount.nytimes.com

by Marc Santora

May 10, 2013

It was a brazen bank heist, but a 21st-century version in which the criminals never wore ski masks, threatened a teller or set foot in a vault.

In two precision operations that involved people in more than two dozen countries acting in close coordination and with surgical precision, thieves stole $45 million from thousands of A.T.M.'s in a matter of hours. In New York City alone, the thieves responsible for A.T.M. withdrawals struck 2,904 machines over 10 hours starting on Feb. 19, withdrawing $2.4 million.

Members of Congress finally introduce serious DMCA reform | Ars Technica

arstechnica.com

by Timothy B. Lee

May 9, 2013

Bill allows DRM circumvention for cell phone unlocking and other lawful purposes.

Obama administration bypasses CISPA by secretly allowing Internet surveillance

rt.com

May 9, 2013

Scared that CISPA might pass? The federal government is already using a secretive cybersecurity program to monitor online traffic and enforce CISPA-like data sharing between Internet service providers and the Department of Defense.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center has obtained over 1,000 pages of documents pertaining to the United States government's use of a cybersecurity program after filing a Freedom of Information Act request, and CNET reporter Declan McCullagh says those pages show how the Pentagon has secretly helped push for increased Internet surveillance.

DOJ: We Don't Need Warrants for E-mail, Facebook Chats

spreadlibertynews.com

by Declan McCullagh

May 9, 2013

The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI believe they don't need a search warrant to review Americans' e-mails, Facebook chats, Twitter direct messages, and other private files, internal documents reveal.

Government documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and provided to CNET show a split over electronic privacy rights within the Obama administration, with Justice Department prosecutors and investigators privately insisting they're not legally required to obtain search warrants for e-mail. The IRS, on the other hand, publicly said last month that it would abandon a controversial policy that claimed it could get warrantless access to e-mail correspondence.

FBI Uses Loopholes, Not Warrants, to Access Private Emails

commondreams.org

by Jacob Chamberlain

May 8, 2013

Despite widely held assumptions by the US public that a search warrant would be needed in order for law enforcement officials to search personal email accounts, newly discovered documents obtained by the ACLU reveal just how far off those assumptions are.

As was reported last week, the U.S. government has rarely, if ever, been denied a warrant for electronic documents access-as such warrants are approved by "surveillance requests in secret" inside a court known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (the "FISC"). However, ACLU's new revelation shows that this rigged system of surveillance requests may, in fact, be unnecessary as the entire warrant process is commonly waved.

ALL Digital Communications in the United States are Being "Captured" By Government Surveillance Systems

shtfplan.com

by Mac Slavo

May 8, 2013

You may be reading this article in the privacy of your own home, but somewhere in a National Security Agency control center your every move is being tracked.

What time you logged on this morning, the web site you visited, how long you stayed and even what you said in the comments section - all of it - has been cataloged and possibly even flagged for suspicious activity. Several years ago, to the disbelief of many, we discussed the tracking and archiving capabilities of advanced monitoring systems being implemented by the government. We noted that everything you do on a daily basis is being tracked...

Florida Supreme Court rules against warrantless cellphone searches

tampabay.com

by Charlie Frago

May 3, 2013

The Florida Supreme Court delivered a blow to law enforcement officials Thursday, ruling 5-2 that police needed a search warrant to access the data stored on an arrested person's cellphone.

The decision came in the closely watched case of Cedric Smallwood and involved the 2008 robbery of a convenience store in Jacksonville. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Fred Lewis said that in Smallwood's case, "a warrant was required before the information, data and content of the cellphone could be accessed and searched by law enforcement."

Malware warning

mattcutts.com

by Matt Cutts

May 3, 2013

Recently someone on twitter complained that Chrome was labeling their site as malware: "http://Dvorak.org site blocked by Chrome browser after I wrote negative commentary about Google."

I took a few minutes to compose a reply, so I'll go ahead and post it here. "Just to summarize: Chrome's warning is correct. Your blog is hacked and injecting a malicious iframe on dvorak.org/blog/ even on error pages. At the top of the page, the malicious iframe looks like this..."

Terror watch list grows to 875,000

washingtontimes.com

by Shaun Waterman

May 3, 2013

The number of names in a secret U.S. database of suspected terrorists has swollen to 875,000 from 540,000 only five years ago, in part because of rule changes introduced after al Qaeda's failed underwear bomb plot in 2009.

The new figures were released Friday by the U.S. National Counter-Terrorism Center, which manages the database, the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, or TIDE. A senior intelligence official explained the changes to The Washington Times. "It's absolutely not unwieldy," the official insisted. He was seeking to rebut charges that the growing size of such a database actually makes harder the work of finding real terrorists - what critics call the "larger haystack, same number of needles" problem.

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