whistleblowers: wikileaks, snowden i...

[angern]

http://dnevno.hr/vijesti/svijet/104456-potvrdeno-iz-samog-elitnog-vrha-stvoren-je-robovlasnicki-sustav-cilj-je-unistenje-covjeka.html

[Indy]

_____ 'Hacktivist' Jeremy Hammond jailed for 10 years

Prosecutors said the cyberattacks were carried out by Anonymous, the loosely organised worldwide hacking group, and that its participants stole confidential information, defaced websites and temporarily put some victims out of business.Jeremy Hammond was caught last year with the help of Hector Xavier Monsegur, a famous hacker known as Sabu who helped law enforcement infiltrate Anonymous.More than 250 people, including Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, wrote letters of support for Hammond; his lawyers had asked that he be sentenced to time served, 20 months.Hammond told the judge he hacked into law enforcement-related sites in retaliation for the arrests of Occupy Wall Street protesters."Yes I broke the law, but I believe sometimes laws must be broken in order to make room for change," he said.

[Indy]

Opa! Indonezija povukla ambasadora iz Oza, na račun špijuniranja.Neće da na valja ako ovo nastavi da eskalira.

[Lord Protector]

Štazi je mala maca za ove

The NSA has asked Linus Torvalds to inject covert backdoors into the free and open operating system GNU/Linux. This was revealed in this week’s hearing on mass surveillance in the European Parliament. Chalk another one up of the United States NSA trying to make information technology less secure for everyone.The father of Linus Torvalds, Nils Torvalds, is a Member of the European Parliament for Finland. This week, Nils Torvalds took part in the European Parliament’s hearing on the ongoing mass surveillance, and brought a revelation:The United States security service NSA has contacted Linus Torvalds with a request to add backdoors into the free and open operating system GNU/Linux.The entire inquiry is

on YouTube (uploaded by Hax).Nils Torvalds’ revelation was presented in an episode which started (at

) by me pointing out to the Microsoft representative in the panel, that in a system like GNU/Linux, built on open source, you can examine the source code to see that there aren’t any back doors. In Microsoft’s systems, this possibility is absent, since the source code is secret to outsiders.My question to the Microsoft representative was whether she’d be allowed to disclose if there are deliberate back doors in their systems, in the event that there are. She never responded to that question, but obviously, she didn’t have to. From other sources, we know that the NSA always prohibits the private companies they force into cooperation from disclosing any of it.Nils Torvalds spoke after me, and starting

, he said,

When my oldest son [Linus Torvalds] was asked the same question: “Has he been approached by the NSA about backdoors?” he said “No”, but at the same time he nodded. Then he was sort of in the legal free. He had given the right answer, [but] everybody understood that the NSA had approached him.

The story does not tell us how Linus Torvalds responded to the NSA, but I’m guessing he told them he wouldn’t be able to inject backdoors even if he wanted to, since the source code is open, and all changes to it are reviewed by many independent people. After all, that’s the whole point of open source code, and the reason that open source is the only kind you can trust when it comes to security.Still, it’s very interesting to hear confirmation that the NSA has tried to attack Linux at its lead developer, too.

[Lord Protector]

DW:

Tajni rat SAD u NemačkojAmeričke tajne službe koriste Nemačku kao bazu za svoju međunarodnu delatnost, pa i za vođenje tajnih ratova – te delatnosti velikim delom finansiraju nemački poreski obveznici – pišu NDR i Zidojče cajtungNajnovija otkrića novinara javnog servisa NDR i lista Zidojče cajtung uzburkala su nemačku javnost. Prema saznanjima ovih medija, agenti američkih tajnih službi (CIA, NSA, Sikret servis, Ministarstvo za domovinsku zaštitu) u Nemačkoj neometano rade; iz američkih vojnih baza u Nemačkoj se koordinišu napadi bespilotnim letilicama u Somaliji; američki agenti proveravaju putnike svih letova na Frankfurtskom aerodromu i po svom nahođenju im zabranjuju da ulaze u avione; u finansiranju gradnje američkih vojnih baza u Nemačkoj učestvuje i nemačka država i to stotinama miliona evra poreskih obveznika itd. Sve se to dešava uz saglasnost i saradnju nemačke vlade ali bez ikakvog učešća parlamenta. Američkoj strani se ova otkrića nimalo ne dopadaju - ambasada SAD, doduše, još nije direktno komentarisala navode NDR i Zidojče cajtunga, ali je saopštila da je reč o „čudovišnim tvrdnjama i optužbama.“CSC – važan i javnosti nepoznat partner Dva pomenuta medija su sredinom novembra počela sa objavljivanjem serije članaka praćene mnogobrojnim tabelama i dokumentima objavljenim na internetu. U prvoj fazi, Zidojče cajtung je pisao o tome da nemačka vlada već godinama održava „sumnjive poslove“ sa američkom firmom CSC. Reč je o koncernu koji važi kao jedan od najvažnijih partnera američkih tajnih službi (učestovao i u izradi špijunskih programa koje koristi NSA). Minhenski dnevnik piše da je jedan od ogranaka CSC bio upleten u akciju u kojoj je 2004. godine Nemca Kaleda el Masrija otela CIA (skandal koji je pratio i DW) „Od 2009, nemačke filijale CSC su od vlade u Berlinu dobile narudžbe vredne 25,5 miliona evra.“ To su bili zadaci poput programiranja računarskih „trojanaca“ kojima se služi nemačka policija, ili uspostavljanja mreže šifrovane komunikacije među članovima vlade. Firma je umešana i u najnoviji projekat postavljanja interne nemačke mreže elektronske pošte koja je navodno nezavisna i sigurna od nadzora.Firme sa širokim spektrom aktivnostiCSC nije jedina firma koja radi na takav način. Tu su i firme SOSi, Caci, Mekolej-Braun. SOSi se bave računarskom podrškom američkoj armiji u Evropi, propagandnim radom, vrbovanjem ljudi u Avganistanu pomažu u proceni bezbednosne situacije, a u SAD obučava agente FBI tehnikama kontrašpijunaže. NDR i Zidojče cajtung imaju saznanja da su saradnici firme Caci učestovali u mučenju zatvorenika u ozloglašenom američkom zatvoru Abu Graibu u Iraku. I ta firma nudi svojim klijentima sve moguće usluge na planu špijunaže. Njeni ljudi i danas u Nemačkoj prisluškuju telefonske razgovore i presreću internet-komunikaciju. Firma Mekolej-Braun takođe ima širok spektar aktivnosti, od inženjerskih usluga u oblasti vazduhoplovstva pa do kibernetičke bezbednosti. Američke tajne službe, prema informacijama NDR i Zidojče cajtunga, uz pomoć takvih firmi kontrolišu i kontejnere u nemačkim lukama, pa čak smeju i da određuju šta sme da se utovari na neki brod a šta ne.Nepoznate finansijske obaveze nemačkih građana „Američka vojska je“, piše Zidojče cajtung, „dobro sakrivena u gotovo 3000 strana nemačkog budžeta. Tako je nemačka vlada između 2003. i 2012. godine platila milijardu evra na ime subvencija za američke objekte u svojoj zemlji (u kojoj je trenutno stacionirano 43.000 američkih vojnika.) „Tako nemački poreski obveznik doprinosi postavljanju američke vojne strukture za tajni rat“, prenosi ovaj list i objašnjava da je osnov za to ugovor Savezne Republike Nemačke i SAD iz 1975 o gradnji američkih objekata – ABG. Prema tom ugovoru, Amerikanci smeju sami da grade samo manje objekte i zgrade sa posebnim zahtevima na planu bezbednosti. Sve ostalo radi nemačka država. Ugovor nalaže da Amerikanci u potpunosti nadoknade sve troškove gradnje. Ali oni to ne čine – kao u slučaju nove vojne bolnice u Vajlerbahu koju Amerikanci žele da završe do 2018. Pomenuti mediji pišu da će američka vojska platiti troškove projektovanja i planiranja gradnje od oko 43 miliona evra. Realni troškovi iznose 170 miliona; razliku od 127 miliona će platiti nemačka država. Ona inače plaća i socijalnu pomoć civilnim službenicima američke vojske koji su posle povlačenja trupa ostali bez posla, kao i odštetu za materijalnu štetu koju načine američki vojnici ili vojno osoblje (recimo u saobraćaju) – za takve troškove je u budžetu Nemačke za 2013. predložena suma od 56 miliona evra.Dve državne vlasti u NemačkojTo su samo neka od mnogih otkrića lista Zidojče cajtung i javnog servisa NDR koja oni prezentiraju javnosti ovih dana. Veliki novinarski tim je istraživao ovu temu dve godine. To istraživanje nema nikakve veze sa otkrićima odbeglog američkog informanta Edvarda Snoudena. Nemački projekat je počeo kada je novinarima zapela za oko čudna pojava pri posmatranju Guglovih karti na internetu (Google maps): oni su, naime, našli mnoga mesta koja su na toj karti „zamagljena“ ili su na karti prikazane šume kojih u stvarnosti jednostavno nema: tu se u stvarnoti nalaze objekti američke vojske. Rezultati istraživanja, čak i pre nego što su kompletno predstavljeni javnosti, vrlo jasno otvaraju pitanje suverenosti Nemačke, kojom se u jednom od pratećih tekstova pozabavio i komentator Zidojče cajtunga. On je konstatovao da „nacionalna država nije mrtva, ali je demistifikovana“, i dodao: „U Nemačkoj očigledno postoje dve državne vlasti: najpre nemačka, i to u formi koju su joj dali ugovori EU i drugi, a pored nje postoji i američka, u formi koja nije tačno poznata. U Nemačkoj postoji bogato iskustvo sa sistemom dve vlasti koje postoje jedna pored druge: vekovima su to bili najpre car i papa, a zatim država i crkva.“

[Roger Sanchez]

Zagreb! Sarajevo! Na karti svijeta smo!

[Prospero]

:D

Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit 'Radicalizers'Posted: 11/26/2013 11:20 pm EST | Updated: 11/27/2013 1:51 pm EST WASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, according to a top-secret NSA document. The document, provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, identifies six targets, all Muslims, as “exemplars” of how “personal vulnerabilities” can be learned through electronic surveillance, and then exploited to undermine a target's credibility, reputation and authority.The NSA document, dated Oct. 3, 2012, repeatedly refers to the power of charges of hypocrisy to undermine such a messenger. “A previous SIGINT" -- or signals intelligence, the interception of communications -- "assessment report on radicalization indicated that radicalizers appear to be particularly vulnerable in the area of authority when their private and public behaviors are not consistent,” the document argues.Among the vulnerabilities listed by the NSA that can be effectively exploited are “viewing sexually explicit material online” and “using sexually explicit persuasive language when communicating with inexperienced young girls.”The Director of the National Security Agency -- described as "DIRNSA" -- is listed as the "originator" of the document. Beyond the NSA itself, the listed recipients include officials with the Departments of Justice and Commerce and the Drug Enforcement Administration."Without discussing specific individuals, it should not be surprising that the US Government uses all of the lawful tools at our disposal to impede the efforts of valid terrorist targets who seek to harm the nation and radicalize others to violence," Shawn Turner, director of public affairs for National Intelligence, told The Huffington Post in an email Tuesday.Yet Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said these revelations give rise to serious concerns about abuse. "It's important to remember that the NSA’s surveillance activities are anything but narrowly focused -- the agency is collecting massive amounts of sensitive information about virtually everyone," he said."Wherever you are, the NSA's databases store information about your political views, your medical history, your intimate relationships and your activities online," he added. "The NSA says this personal information won't be abused, but these documents show that the NSA probably defines 'abuse' very narrowly."None of the six individuals targeted by the NSA is accused in the document of being involved in terror plots. The agency believes they all currently reside outside the United States. It identifies one of them, however, as a "U.S. person," which means he is either a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident. A U.S. person is entitled to greater legal protections against NSA surveillance than foreigners are.Stewart Baker, a one-time general counsel for the NSA and a top Homeland Security official in the Bush administration, said that the idea of using potentially embarrassing information to undermine targets is a sound one. "If people are engaged in trying to recruit folks to kill Americans and we can discredit them, we ought to," said Baker. "On the whole, it's fairer and maybe more humane" than bombing a target, he said, describing the tactic as "dropping the truth on them."Any system can be abused, Baker allowed, but he said fears of the policy drifting to domestic political opponents don't justify rejecting it. "On that ground you could question almost any tactic we use in a war, and at some point you have to say we're counting on our officials to know the difference," he said.In addition to analyzing the content of their internet activities, the NSA also examined the targets' contact lists. The NSA accuses two of the targets of promoting al Qaeda propaganda, but states that surveillance of the three English-speakers’ communications revealed that they have "minimal terrorist contacts."In particular, “only seven (1 percent) of the contacts in the study of the three English-speaking radicalizers were characterized in SIGINT as affiliated with an extremist group or a Pakistani militant group. An earlier communications profile of [one of the targets] reveals that 3 of the 213 distinct individuals he was in contact with between 4 August and 2 November 2010 were known or suspected of being associated with terrorism," the document reads.The document contends that the three Arabic-speaking targets have more contacts with affiliates of extremist groups, but does not suggest they themselves are involved in any terror plots.Instead, the NSA believes the targeted individuals radicalize people through the expression of controversial ideas via YouTube, Facebook and other social media websites. Their audience, both English and Arabic speakers, "includes individuals who do not yet hold extremist views but who are susceptible to the extremist message,” the document states. The NSA says the speeches and writings of the six individuals resonate most in countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Kenya, Pakistan, India and Saudi Arabia.The NSA possesses embarrassing sexually explicit information about at least two of the targets by virtue of electronic surveillance of their online activity. The report states that some of the data was gleaned through FBI surveillance programs carried out under the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act. The document adds, "Information herein is based largely on Sunni extremist communications." It further states that "the SIGINT information is from primary sources with direct access and is generally considered reliable."According to the document, the NSA believes that exploiting electronic surveillance to publicly reveal online sexual activities can make it harder for these “radicalizers” to maintain their credibility. "Focusing on access reveals potential vulnerabilities that could be even more effectively exploited when used in combination with vulnerabilities of character or credibility, or both, of the message in order to shape the perception of the messenger as well as that of his followers," the document argues.An attached appendix lists the "argument" each surveillance target has made that the NSA says constitutes radicalism, as well the personal "vulnerabilities" the agency believes would leave the targets "open to credibility challenges" if exposed.One target's offending argument is that "Non-Muslims are a threat to Islam," and a vulnerability listed against him is "online promiscuity." Another target, a foreign citizen the NSA describes as a "respected academic," holds the offending view that "offensive jihad is justified," and his vulnerabilities are listed as "online promiscuity" and "publishes articles without checking facts." A third targeted radical is described as a "well-known media celebrity" based in the Middle East who argues that "the U.S perpetrated the 9/11 attack." Under vulnerabilities, he is said to lead "a glamorous lifestyle." A fourth target, who argues that "the U.S. brought the 9/11 attacks on itself" is said to be vulnerable to accusations of “deceitful use of funds." The document expresses the hope that revealing damaging information about the individuals could undermine their perceived "devotion to the jihadist cause."The Huffington Post is withholding the names and locations of the six targeted individuals; the allegations made by the NSA about their online activities in this document cannot be verified.The document does not indicate whether the NSA carried out its plan to discredit these six individuals, either by communicating with them privately about the acquired information or leaking it publicly. There is also no discussion in the document of any legal or ethical constraints on exploiting electronic surveillance in this manner.While Baker and others support using surveillance to tarnish the reputation of people the NSA considers "radicalizers," U.S. officials have in the past used similar tactics against civil rights leaders, labor movement activists and others.Under J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI harassed activists and compiled secret files on political leaders, most notably Martin Luther King, Jr. The extent of the FBI's surveillance of political figures is still being revealed to this day, as the bureau releases the long dossiers it compiled on certain people in response to Freedom of Information Act requests following their deaths. The information collected by the FBI often centered on sex -- homosexuality was an ongoing obsession on Hoover's watch -- and information about extramarital affairs was reportedly used to blackmail politicians into fulfilling the bureau's needs.Current FBI Director James Comey recently ordered new FBI agents to visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington to understand "the dangers in becoming untethered to oversight and accountability."James Bamford, a journalist who has been covering the NSA since the early 1980s, said the use of surveillance to exploit embarrassing private behavior is precisely what led to past U.S. surveillance scandals. "The NSA's operation is eerily similar to the FBI's operations under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1960s where the bureau used wiretapping to discover vulnerabilities, such as sexual activity, to 'neutralize' their targets," he said. "Back then, the idea was developed by the longest serving FBI chief in U.S. history, today it was suggested by the longest serving NSA chief in U.S. history."That controversy, Bamford said, also involved the NSA. "And back then, the NSA was also used to do the eavesdropping on King and others through its Operation Minaret. A later review declared the NSA’s program 'disreputable if not outright illegal,'" he said.Baker said that until there is evidence the tactic is being abused, the NSA should be trusted to use its discretion. "The abuses that involved Martin Luther King occurred before Edward Snowden was born," he said. "I think we can describe them as historical rather than current scandals. Before I say, 'Yeah, we've gotta worry about that,' I'd like to see evidence of that happening, or is even contemplated today, and I don't see it."Jaffer, however, warned that the lessons of history ought to compel serious concern that a "president will ask the NSA to use the fruits of surveillance to discredit a political opponent, journalist or human rights activist.""The NSA has used its power that way in the past and it would be naïve to think it couldn't use its power that way in the future," he said.Adriana Usero and Ryan J. Reilly contributed reporting

Arguments for which radicalizers are being targeted:Where the report was sent:Intelligence gleaned from electronic surveillance:

[Zaz_pi]

US off the hook as EU drops investigation into spying claimsThe European Union's executive body has decided to ax its investigation into the allegations that the U.S. spied on EU citizens, angering lawmakers in the bloc's Parliament who called for tougher actions against America's surveillance regime.The European Commission's decision is a major blow for the European Parliament who have staged a series of inquiries into the snooping claims and called for the suspension of a controversial financial data-sharing agreement between the EU and the U.S. aimed at tracking terrorists' funds.Members of European Parliament (MEPs) are outraged by the Commission's decision."Investigation? What investigation? It consisted of asking them asking the U.S., 'Hey did you take our data illegally?' That is not an investigation," Dutch MEP Sophia in 't Veld told CNBC in a phone interview from Brussels."Our citizens are being spied upon. Our communications are not safe. There is mass surveillance of EU citizens on EU territory. It is unacceptable that the Commission refuses to make full use of its powers and protect our rights. We will use any instrument we can to make our citizens get the protection they are entitled to."

:)

[Indy]

Holanđani saznali da njihova tajna služba hackuje forume i pribavlja odatle informacije o svim korisnicima.

[hazard]

Miralem nagrabusio.

[Indy]

Mene bi čudilo ako on ne radi za njih.

[Gandalf]

http://www.thestar.c...al_details.html

Ellen Richardson went to Pearson airport on Monday full of joy about flying to New York City and from there going on a 10-day Caribbean cruise for which she’d paid about $6,000. But a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent with the Department of Homeland Security killed that dream when he denied her entry.“I was turned away, I was told, because I had a hospitalization in the summer of 2012 for clinical depression,’’ said Richardson, who is a paraplegic and set up her cruise in collaboration with a March of Dimes group of about 12 others....MP Mike Sullivan said what has happened to his constituent is “enormously troubling... How did U.S. agents get her personal medical information?’’

Edited December 1, 2013 by Gandalf

[Anduril]

Mene bi čudilo ako on ne radi za njih.

Pa naravno - klasicni agent provocateur - nema sanse da se neko normalno onako ponasa.

[Prospero]

Miralem? :D

[Lord Protector]

Miralem holandska krtica?