Topic: SECURITY - on June 28, 2013 at 5:32:00 PM CEST
SSL: Intercepted today, decrypted tomorrow
Millions of websites and billions of people rely on SSL to protect the transmission of sensitive information such as passwords, credit card details, and personal information with the expectation that encryption guarantees privacy. However, recently leaked documents appear to reveal that the NSA, the United States National Security Agency, logs very high volumes of internet traffic and retains captured encrypted communication for later cryptanalysis. The United States is far from the only government wishing to monitor encrypted internet traffic: Saudi Arabia has asked for help decrypting SSL traffic, China has been accused of performing a MITM attack against SSL-only GitHub, and Iran has been reported to be engaged in deep packet inspection and more, to name but a few.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 28, 2013 at 4:08:00 PM CEST
Snowden's father: My son may return to US, being manipulated by WikiLeaks
Edward Snowden’s father says his son could return to back to the US if certain conditions are met, NBC reports. Snowden wants to remain at large before trial and choose where it would take place. The father insists his NSA-leaker son was manipulated.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 28, 2013 at 3:26:00 PM CEST
Ex-Pentagon general target of leak investigation, sources say
Legal sources tell NBC News that the former second ranking officer in the U.S. military is now the target of a Justice Department investigation into a politically sensitive leak of classified information about a covert U.S. cyber attack on Iran’s nuclear program.
According to legal sources, Retired Marine Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has received a target letter informing him that he’s under investigation for allegedly leaking information about a massive attack using a computer virus named Stuxnet on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Gen. Cartwright, 63, becomes the latest individual targeted over alleged leaks by the Obama administration, which has already prosecuted or charged eight individuals under the Espionage Act.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on June 28, 2013 at 3:20:00 PM CEST
Vatican Official Arrested Over $26 Million Scheme
Sica said Scarano was a middleman in the Swiss operation. Friends had asked him to intervene with a broker, Giovanni Carenzio, to return 20 million euros they had given him to invest. Sica said Scarano persuaded Carenzio to return the money, and an Italian secret service agent, Giovanni Maria Zito, went to Switzerland to bring the cash back aboard an Italian government aircraft. Such a move would presumably prevent any reporting of the money coming into Italy.
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Topic: logisch - on June 28, 2013 at 2:56:00 PM CEST
WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI
On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík, his jacket pocket concealing his calling card: a crumpled photocopy of an Australian passport. The passport photo showed a man with a unruly shock of platinum blonde hair and the name Julian Paul Assange.
Thordarson was long time volunteer for WikiLeaks with direct access to Assange and a key position as an organizer in the group. With his cold war-style embassy walk-in, he became something else: the first known FBI informant inside WikiLeaks. For the next three months, Thordarson served two masters, working for the secret-spilling website and simultaneously spilling its secrets to the U.S. government in exchange, he says, for a total of about $5,000. The FBI flew him internationally four times for debriefings, including one trip to Washington D.C., and on the last meeting obtained from Thordarson eight hard drives packed with chat logs, video and other data from WikiLeaks.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 28, 2013 at 2:54:00 PM CEST
SNOWDEN and ME. TRUE MOSCOW story of OPEN DATA HERO
“Not piroshki again”, sighed Ed, picking wearily at the polystyrene tray. The greasy snack glistened under the harsh lights of the Sheremetyevo International Airport Transit Zone.
“Everyone loves doughnuts Ed,” I replied. “And a piroshki is just a doughnut with horse meat in it,” I said.
“AND MUSHROOM AND FINEST HERBS” boomed a voice, apparently from nowhere. This was spooky as there was nobody within 15 yards of us. I had a feeling we were being watched. And listened to.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 28, 2013 at 2:52:00 PM CEST
Neuer NSA-Leak: Obamas Vorratsdatenspeicherung
Barack Obama hat die de facto Vorratsdatenspeicherung von George W. Bush bis 2011 fortgeführt. Zudem gibt es Hinweise auf neue US-Rasterprogramme für Verkehrsdaten. Das geht aus den neuesten Enthüllungen von Glenn Greenwald und seinem Kollegen Spencer Ackerman hervor. Diese basieren vermutlich auf dem Stapel an geleakten Dokumenten von Edward Snowden, auf denen Greenwald sitzt.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 28, 2013 at 2:49:00 PM CEST
US-Armee sperrt Zugriff auf britischen The Guardian
Zur Zeit ist es scheinbar nicht möglich aus dem Netzwerk der amerikanischen Armee heraus, auf die britische Webseite des Guardian zuzugreifen. Der Zugriff sei demnach zu dem Zeitpunkt gesperrt worden, als Glenn Greenwald die ersten von Edward Snowdon bereitgestellten NSA-Dokumente veröffentlichte. Das berichtet der Monterey County Herald in Bezug auf einen Sprecher des US-Militärs.
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Topic: Apple - on June 28, 2013 at 2:47:00 PM CEST
Steve Wozniak on Newton, Tesla, and why the original Macintosh was a 'lousy' product
Ford gathered journalists in its hometown of Dearborn, Michigan earlier this week for its Further with Ford conference, holding a variety of panels to discuss the past, present, and future of technology across a variety of industries (Warby Parker and Coca-Cola were both in attendance, for instance). One of those panelists happened to be the gregarious and always entertaining Steve Wozniak — better known to most of us as "Woz" — and I had the opportunity to spend a few minutes with him after his final panel appearance on Tuesday. The Apple co-founder, entrepreneur, and technologist was eager to chat.
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