Topic: SECURITY - on July 25, 2013 at 12:48:00 PM CEST
Edward Snowden 'to stay in Moscow airport' says lawyer
Reports had suggested the US whistleblower had been granted documents that would allow him to leave the airport where he has been since 23 June
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 25, 2013 at 12:32:00 PM CEST
Blueprints Of NSA's Ridiculously Expensive Data Center In Utah Suggest It Holds Less Info Than Thought
For the last two months, we’ve been bombarded with stories about the spying information-collection practices of the NSA thanks to documents leaked by the agency’s most regretted contract employee, Edward Snowden. The degree of forced exposure has gotten to the point that the agency — whose acronym is jokingly said to stand for “No Such Agency” and “Never Say Anything” — actually issued a press release on Friday announcing that it got the legal sign-off for a fresh batch of “telephony metadata in bulk” from companies such as Verizon and AT&T – despite continuing controversy over that including the call records of millions of Americans who are non-terrorists and non-criminal suspects.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 24, 2013 at 4:04:00 PM CEST
Edward Snowden gets his leaving papers
Russia issued whistleblower Edward Snowden documents on Wednesday that will allow him to leave the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremyetovo airport, ending his month-long stay there, according to law enforcement and airport sources.
The Federal Immigration Service has issued documents confirming that Snowden's asylum request is being considered, which will allow him to leave the transit zone, state news agency RIA Novosti quoted a law enforcement source as saying.
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Topic: Phone - on July 24, 2013 at 2:01:00 PM CEST
Hackers use Android 'master key' exploit in China
A security firm says it has identified the first known malicious use of Android's "master key" vulnerability.
The bug - which was first publicised earlier this month - allows attackers to install code on to phones running Google's mobile operating system and then take control of them.
Symantec said its researchers had found two apps distributed in China that had been infected using the exploit.
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on July 24, 2013 at 12:55:00 PM CEST
Australian police bust man driving car with no steering wheel
Police in South Australia arrested a man who was found driving a car with no steering wheel and using a pair of vise grips to steer.
At about 8:25 a.m. Monday, police saw the driver of a white Holden sedan driving dangerously on two flat tires in the North Eastern suburbs, police say.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 24, 2013 at 12:38:00 PM CEST
NSA kann eigene E-Mails nicht durchsuchen
Keine Antwort auf heikle Fragen. Der Geheimdienst NSA verweigert US-Journalisten Auskunft zur möglichen Einflussnahme auf Medienberichte. Die Begründung überrascht: Die NSA kann angeblich ihre E-Mails nicht durchsuchen.
Die NSA, das ist der US-Nachrichtendienst, der allein in Deutschland monatlich 500 Millionen Datenverbindungen überwacht. Die NSA sucht weltweit Experten zur Auswertung ihrer Daten mit Hilfe von zig speziellen Analyse-Programmen. Doch an den eigenen E-Mails scheitern die NSA-Experten. Es ist ihnen nicht möglich, die Daten nach bestimmten Kriterien zu durchsuchen. So begründet die NSA-Pressestelle ihr Schweigen auf eine Anfrage von Journalisten der US-Stiftung ProPublica.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on July 23, 2013 at 6:34:00 PM CEST
The Bell Labs of Quantum Computing
Raymond Laflamme can’t yet sell you a quantum computer. But he’ll sell you a $13,000 logic board for measuring entangled photons.
It’s a start.
Laflamme is head of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, a research center that’s part of a quixotic, grandiose effort by Mike Lazaridis, cofounder of the smartphone maker BlackBerry, to invent a quantum computer and turn this city 70 miles from Toronto into a “Quantum Valley.”
Since 1999, Lazaridis has put $270 million behind his vision, paying to recruit some of the world’s best theoretical physicists. While he thinks a true quantum computer is still 10 years away, he believes initial discoveries can be commercialized now, turning Waterloo into a thriving industrial cluster built around quantum information science.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 23, 2013 at 6:31:00 PM CEST
NSA Can Reportedly Track Phones Even When They're Turned Off
The NSA has a diverse range of surveillance capabilities—from monitoring Google Maps use to sifting through millions of phone call records and spying on Web searches. But it doesn’t end there. The agency can also track down the location of a cellphone even if the handset is turned off, according to a new report.
On Monday, the Washington Post published a story focusing on how massively the NSA has grown since the 9/11 attacks. Buried within it, there was a small but striking detail: By September 2004, the NSA had developed a technique that was dubbed “The Find” by special operations officers. The technique, the Post reports, was used in Iraq and “enabled the agency to find cellphones even when they were turned off.” This helped identify “thousands of new targets, including members of a burgeoning al-Qaeda-sponsored insurgency in Iraq,” according to members of the special operations unit interviewed by the Post.
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Topic: ART - on July 23, 2013 at 1:13:00 PM CEST
Bomb It 2
Jon Reiss' global graffiti documentary follow-up, Bomb It 2, takes audiences to previously unexplored areas of the Middle East, Europe, Asia & the United States.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 23, 2013 at 12:58:00 PM CEST
German Minister Calls Security A 'Super Fundamental Right' That Outranks Privacy; German Press Call Him 'Idiot In Charge'
One of the striking features of the Snowden story is that there has been no serious attempt to deny the main claims about massive, global spying. Instead, the fall-back position has become: well, yeah, maybe we did some of that, but look how many lives were saved as a result. For example, the day after the first leaks appeared, it was suggested that PRISM was responsible for stopping a plot to bomb the NYC subways. However, further investigation showed that probably wasn't the case.
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Topic: Space - on July 23, 2013 at 12:42:00 PM CEST
Ride with the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn
This beautiful video shows a selection from more than 200,000 pictures taken by NASA’s Cassini as it has orbited in and among Saturn’s rings and moons over the past years. Fabio Di Donato posted it on Vimeo yesterday, as part of the celebration today honoring a new photo of Earth to be taken by Cassini today.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 22, 2013 at 6:02:00 PM CEST
Leaker Snowden hopes to be able to leave airport by Wednesday
Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden hopes to be granted papers by Wednesday allowing him to end his month-long stay in the transit area of a Moscow airport and move to the city center, his Russian lawyer said on Monday.
Anatoly Kucherena, who helped the American file his bid for temporary asylum in Russia on July 16, said Snowden believed it would be unsafe to try to travel to Latin America soon because of U.S. efforts to return him to the United States to face espionage charges.
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