Topic: SECURITY - on November 2, 2013 at 4:26:00 PM CET
NSA Spied 125 Billion Phone Calls in a Month
It seems that Greenwald already listed the US DNR total, and since he is looking at better images than I am (I am reading the Hindu's images), I'm inclined to take his total. (though not the interpretation of it, I've gone into the reasons enough times)
"There are no precise figures, but last January Brazil was just behind the United States, which had 2.3 billion phone calls and messages spied."
I have a US aggregate figure from Le Monde (3,095,533,478), Greenwald's rounded DNR figure from O Globo (2,300,000,000), which leaves the approximate US DNI total to be (795,533,478)
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 2, 2013 at 4:22:00 PM CET
NSA-Affäre: Flächendeckende Abhörung in Österreich
Laut dem Nachrichtenmagazin "profil", das einen ehemaligen US-Agenten interviewt hat, betreibt die NSA in Österreich eine Abhörstation.
In Österreich dürfte die NSA in Österreich genauso flächendeckend Telefonate erfassen und überwachen, wie es zuletzt aus anderen Ländern bekannt geworden ist: "Gehen Sie davon aus, dass das geschieht. Die Überwachung von internationalen Kommunikationsverbindungen ist gängige Praxis der NSA und eine Doktrin zur Unterstützung nationaler amerikanischer Interessen," wird ein "ehemaliger US-Agent" in einem Interview des Nachrichtenmagazins "profil" vorab zitiert (Montag-Ausgabe).
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 2, 2013 at 4:20:00 PM CET
NSA files decoded: Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations explained
When Edward Snowden met journalists in his cramped room in Hong Kong's Mira hotel in June, his mission was ambitious. Amid the clutter of laundry, meal trays and his four laptops, he wanted to start a debate about mass surveillance.
He succeeded beyond anything the journalists or Snowden himself ever imagined. His disclosures about the NSA resonated with Americans from day one. But they also exploded round the world.
For some, like Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, it is a vitally important issue, one of the biggest of our time: nothing less than the defence of democracy in the digital age.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 2, 2013 at 4:18:00 PM CET
GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance
The German, French, Spanish and Swedish intelligence services have all developed methods of mass surveillance of internet and phone traffic over the past five years in close partnership with Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping agency.
The bulk monitoring is carried out through direct taps into fibre optic cables and the development of covert relationships with telecommunications companies. A loose but growing eavesdropping alliance has allowed intelligence agencies from one country to cultivate ties with corporations from another to facilitate the trawling of the web, according to GCHQ documents leaked by the former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 2, 2013 at 4:16:00 PM CET
Ganzes Dorf in Albanien nach Arbeit auf Hanffeld berauscht
Ein ganzes Dorf im Süden von Albanien hat nach der Arbeit auf örtlichen Cannabisplantagen medizinische Hilfe wegen akuter Rauscherscheinungen gesucht. Mindestens 700 Menschen, die meisten von ihnen Frauen, hätten an "schweren Störungen durch eine Cannabisvergiftung" gelitten, sagte der Arzt Hysni Luka vom Krankenhaus der nahegelegenen Stadt Gjirokastra. Ihr Leiden komme offensichtlich von der Arbeit auf den Cannabisplantagen in Lazaret.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 1, 2013 at 4:17:00 PM CET
Drogentunnel zwischen Mexiko und USA entdeckt
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 1, 2013 at 4:14:00 PM CET
Edward Snowdens Brief
Der Grünen-Bundestagsabgeordnete Hans-Christian Ströbele hat am Freitag einen Brief des ehemaligen US-Geheimdienstmitarbeiters Edward Snowden veröffentlicht. Ströbele verteilte das Schreiben in Berlin in der folgenden nach seinen Angaben unautorisierten Rohübersetzung:
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Topic: CARS - on October 31, 2013 at 3:13:00 PM CET
Meet The Guy Who Drove Across The U.S. In A Record 28 Hours 50 Minutes
He's a tall, lanky Southerner with a penchant for cars, and, of all things, lizards. He teaches Sunday school with his wife. Ed Bolian is the kind of guy you might meet on an airplane and forget before you picked up your bags – with one exception: he claims he's the fastest man ever to drive across the United States.
That's right: Alex Roy's familiar cross-country driving record, set in his now-famous LeMans Blue 2000 BMW M5 during the fall of 2006, no longer stands. It was allegedly broken by a three-man team consisting of Ed, a co-driver, and a passenger, in a 2004 Mercedes-Benz CL55 AMG.
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 31, 2013 at 3:11:00 PM CET
Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support
Government whistleblower Edward Snowden, exiled in Russia after releasing top-secret documents about the National Security Agency's surveillance activities to the press, has a new job: tech support. Snowden's lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told the Associated Press that his client starts work Nov. 1 for a "major" Russian Website, which he declined to name. In June, Snowden—a former CIA employee who worked as a contractor for the NSA—began feeding an enormous pile of classified charts and documents about federal surveillance programs to The Guardian and other newspapers.
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 31, 2013 at 3:10:00 PM CET
Google and Yahoo furious at reports NSA secretly taps data centres
Google and Yahoo, two of the world's biggest tech companies, reacted angrily to a report on Wednesday that the National Security Agency has secretly intercepted the main communication links that carry their users' data around the world.
Citing documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with officials, the Washington Post claimed the agency could collect information "at will" from among hundreds of millions of user accounts.
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 31, 2013 at 3:08:00 PM CET
NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say
The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.
By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans. The NSA does not keep everything it collects, but it keeps a lot.
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 31, 2013 at 3:07:00 PM CET
Rogers and Schiff argue National Security Agency Programs Oct 29, 2013
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