Is the NSA changing bank accounts?
• intellihub.comHas the National Security Administration (NSA) been changing the amounts held in the financial accounts of people it targets?
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Surveillance
NSA Software Program Bugs iPhone (Publisher Recommended)
• news.firedoglake.com30th Chaos Communication Congress Jacob Applebaum revealed the existence of an NSA software program known as DROPOUTJEEP which turns a user’s iPhone into a surveillance device for the government. (MUCH more in VIDEO)
The Metadata Program in Eleven Documents
• http://www.newyorker.com, Ryan LizzaBy the end of 2013, a great number of documents revealed the once-secret history of the National Security Agency’s telephone-metadata program, which, since 2001, has collected the phone records of virtually all Americans.
Feds Consider Vehicle Location Tracking in New Cars
• http://www.infowars.com, Kit DanielsProposal may lead to more accidents, mileage taxes and tickets for “recorded traffic violations”
Shipping companies largely silent on NSA intercepting packages
• The Daily CallerShipping giants FedEx and UPS haven’t said much since it was revealed Sunday that the National Security Agency intercepts electronics packages to install spyware, but what they have said implies they knew what the agency was up to.
Feds Consider Vehicle Location Tracking in New Cars
• InfowarsIn a few weeks, federal officials may require new vehicles to have trackable GPS “safety” devices which could be hacked to cause automobile accidents and may even usher in mileage taxes. “Who has access and how do you secure the data?”
Apple denies working with NSA
• The HillDocuments from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden showing the spy agency can intercept nearly all forms of communication sent from an iPhone. The DROPOUTJEEP program gives the NSA the power to gain access to contact lists,
Keynote for Chaos Communication Congress
• github.comModerator: So that was your applause, Glenn! Welcome to the 30th Chaos Communication Congress, in Hamburg. The floor is yours!
2014 Will Bring More Social Collapse
• http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Paul Craig Roberts2014 is upon us. For a person who graduated from Georgia Tech in 1961, a year in which the class ring showed the same date right side up or upside down, the 21st century was a science fiction concept associated with Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film, “2001
11 Good Things for Liberty in 2013
• lewrockwell.com, By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.As 2013 draws to a close, let’s pause to recall some important developments for the cause of liberty – some of which you already know well, and others you’ll be hearing about for the first time.
Microwave Love: How The Post Office and NSA Track Your Every Move
• Nakedcapitalism.comIf nothing else, watch the section starting at 48:30. Oh, and in case you missed it, the NSA can compromise “air gapped” (as in never connected to the Internet) computers. And don’t miss the part that starts at 55:00.
The NSA Actually Intercepted Packages to Put Backdoors in Electronics
• GizmodoThe NSA revelations keep on coming, and if you're feeling desensitized to the whole thing it's time to refocus and get your game face on for 2014. Because shit continues to get real. SPIEGEL published two pieces this morning about the NSA's Tai
Conflicting court rulings on NSA spying
• Free Press PublicationsOn Christmas Eve, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden delivered a Christmas message for British TV station Channel 4, saying, “George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information. The types of collection in the book… are nothing compared t
Ray McGovern: My Take
Gen. Michael ‘No Probable Cause’ Hayden
Ray McGovernEx-NSA chief Michael Hayden, who once declared that “probable cause” is not part of the Fourth Amendment, is sure to hurl more stones at NSA leaker Edward Snowden, especially after a New York judge endorsed the NSA’s “metadata” as legal, says ex-CIA
Is the NSA's Spying Constitutional? It Depends On Which Judge You Ask
• Andrew Cohen, The AtlanticTwo recent rulings draw diametrically opposed conclusions about the same set of facts. This is why we have a justice system in which lower-court conflicts rise up for resolution by a single, supreme court. This is why the law can seem, at times, to
Glenn Greenwald testifies before EU Parliament
• http://www.dailypaul.com, by JiveDadsonGlenn Greenwald testifies before EU Parliament
Democrat Judge Protects Obama & NSA & Trashes Constitution, Charges Larry Klayman Of Freedom Watch
• Sacramento BeeToday, ruling in ACLU v. Clapper, (13-cv-3994) federal Judge Pauley of the District of New York found that the NSA's program that spies on over 300 million Americans – the entire populous – is consistent with the U.S. Constitution and that "[t]his bl
NY district judge rules that NSA phone surveillance is legal
• ars technicaJudge Pauley ruled that the National Security Agency’s mass collection of phone records is lawful. The judge ruled that Fourth Amendment protections do not extend to records held by third parties, like telecom companies.
Fusion Centers: Expensive and Dangerous to Our Liberty
• reason.comA new report says they're fraught with waste and abuse and have whittled away at civil liberties protections.
Houston Police Department Issues Body Cams for 100 Officers
• http://thelibertybeat.com, Derrick BrozeOn December 9th the Houston Police Department launched a pilot program arming 100 officers with “body cams”.
Public Education Works After All: A Nation of Double-Thinking Sheep
• Strike The RootSo finally, even the White House admits that the NSA’s wide-ranging program of pervy-voyeurism and spying and prying and snooping and sniffing has had no significant impact on the so-called War on the World, otherwise known as the War on Terror.
Four-star general screams at reporter working on Snowden documents
• TechDirtA four-star military officer known for his even keel seethed through one meeting alongside a reporter he knew to be in contact with Snowden. Before walking away, he turned and pointed a finger. “We didn’t have another 9/11,” he said angrily,
A New Twist in International Relations: The Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-the-U.S. Clause
• BloombergSome companies are apparently so concerned about the NSA snooping on their data that they're requiring - in writing - that their technology suppliers store their data outside the U.S.
NSA Lawsuit Attorney: Ignore White House Panel
• US NewsFreedom Watch founder Larry Klayman, right, says he continues to encounter strange email and phone glitches as he sues to stop National Security Agency surveillance programs.
Snowden delivers Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message
• Channel 4 newsNSA whistleblower Edward Snowden delivers Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message, saying his revelations on privacy invasion enable people to choose how their governments are run.
Snowden urges end to mass surveillance in Christmas message
• www.sbs.com.au/newsUS intelligence leaker Edward Snowden will call citizens to work together to end mass surveillance when he delivers a Christmas Day broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 television network.
Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished
• Barton Gellman,Washington Post“For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,” he said. “I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change
White House Tries to Prevent Judge From Ruling on Surveillance Efforts
• New York TimesObama moved to prevent a federal judge from ruling on the constitutionality of warrantless surveillance programs authorized during the Bush administration, telling a court recent disclosures about NSA spying were not enough to undermine its claim
Snowden ally Applebaum says his Berlin apartment subject to raids
• Russia TodayJacob Appelbaum, a Berlin-based US journalist with access to some of Edward Snowden’s documents, claims there have been a series of raids on his apartment, saying he suspects possible US involvement.
Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
• ReutersAs a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, the most influential firm in computer security
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