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- ukit20
NSA surveillance now being used in domestic investigations
http://www.reuters.com/article/2…
"documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges"
- _niko0
Then there's this bullshit:
http://www.thestar.com/news/worl…the entire world knows what the NSA is up to, do they honestly think that Terrorists didn't get the memo and have stepped up their chatter about an impending attack? I see one of two possibilities:
1) the terrorists are fucking with the NSA, feeling them out seeing exactly how good their surveillance is
2) The NSA is making it all up to validate their continued illegal existence.
- i'm all for going under the surface but this is utter nonsense friend.fadein11
- ukit20
Where it all began:
- yurimon0
someones being illegally naughty,
- albums0
Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora. Stop governments from spying on you by encrypting your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary services.
- oey0
- oey0
I spent the last 3 days doing some research about open source software and the links in prism-break.org
About how to install Linux, something I've been thinking of for the last two years, and other sorts of things.
I even "applied" for an email account in riseup.netI didn't install or uninstall anything to and from my MacBook.
Today after backing up i restarted the machine.
Unresponsive.No safe-mode, no disk utility, no shit.
No boot from DVD.
Black screen.Makes a hell of a noise but besides that...
Not even the power light gets on.- Ah shit that sucks.instrmntl
- another failed mac hard drive - sigh. never happened to me on windows - 3 times on mac.fadein11
- logic board...oey
- hey fadein, you cunt, Apple doesn't make hard drivesmonospaced
- hd failures happen at the same rate regardless of computer brand housing itmonospaced
- ukit20
Every email you send to anyone outside the U.S. is saved and scanned by the government.
- _niko0
911 is my favourite car, pressure cookers are the best way to cook vegetables, sophia vergara is da bomb, Israel will be destroyed in basketball at the euros.
It was nice knowing you QBN.
- ukit20
German Government warns of Windows 8
"Windows 8 is an unacceptable security risk for companies and authorities, experts warn the government. The so-called Trusted Computing is a back door for the NSA."
- ukit20
LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA
According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for data security. It allows Microsoft to control the computer remotely through a built-in backdoor. Keys to that backdoor are likely accessible to the NSA – and in an unintended ironic twist, perhaps even to the Chinese.
The backdoor is called “Trusted Computing,” developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group, founded a decade ago by the all-American tech companies AMD, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Wave Systems. Its core element is a chip, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), and an operating system designed for it, such as Windows 8. Trusted Computing Group has developed the specifications of how the chip and operating systems work together.
Now there is a new set of specifications out, creatively dubbed TPM 2.0. While TPM allowed users to opt in and out, TPM 2.0 is activated by default when the computer boots up. The user cannot turn it off. Microsoft decides what software can run on the computer, and the user cannot influence it in any way. Windows governs TPM 2.0. And what Microsoft does remotely is not visible to the user. In short, users of Windows 8 with TPM 2.0 surrender control over their machines the moment they turn it on for the first time.
It would be easy for Microsoft or chip manufacturers to pass the backdoor keys to the NSA and allow it to control those computers. NO, Microsoft would never do that, we protest. Alas, Microsoft, as we have learned from the constant flow of revelations, informs the US government of security holes in its products well before it issues fixes so that government agencies take advantage of the holes and get what they’re looking for.
Experts at the BSI, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and the Federal Administration warned unequivocally against using computers with Windows 8 and TPM 2.0. One of the documents from early 2012 lamented, “Due to the loss of full sovereignty over the information technology, the security objectives of ‘confidentiality’ and ‘integrity’ can no longer be guaranteed.”
Elsewhere, the document warns, “This can have significant consequences on the IT security of the Federal Administration.” And it concludes, “The use of ‘Trusted Computing’ technology in this form ... is unacceptable for the Federal Administration and for operators of critical infrastructure.”
Rüdiger Weis, a professor at the Beuth University of Technology in Berlin, and a cryptographic expert who has dealt with Trusted Computing for years, told Die Zeit in an interview that Microsoft wanted to completely change computing by integrating “a special surveillance chip” in every electronic device. Through that chip and the processes of Windows 8, particularly Secure Boot, “users largely lose control over their own hardware and software.”
- instrmntl0
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/1…
- yurimon0
Part of the shpeal.
- yurimon0
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