Topic: SECURITY - on June 9, 2013 at 10:06:00 PM CEST
Web-Überwachung durch die NSA: 29-jähriger Techniker verriet Spähprogramm Prism
"Ich will nicht in einer Gesellschaft leben, die so etwas macht", sagt Edward Snowden. "So etwas", damit meint er das geheime Ausspähen von Internetdiensten, wie es die National Security Agency (NSA) seit 2007 getan hat. Snowden war die vergangenen vier Jahre als Mitarbeiter externer Unternehmen wie Dell in dem US-Geheimdienst tätig - jetzt hat ihn die britische Zeitung "Guardian" als Quelle hinter den Berichten über die Internet-Überwachung präsentiert.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 9, 2013 at 10:03:00 PM CEST
NSA whistleblower goes public
The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell.
The Guardian, after several days of interviews, is revealing his identity at his request. From the moment he decided to disclose numerous top-secret documents to the public, he was determined not to opt for the protection of anonymity. "I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong," he said.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 9, 2013 at 9:28:00 PM CEST
Are the NSA's PRISM slides photoshopped?
The Washington Post and The Guardian came with a breaking news story about a Top Secret NSA program called PRISM, which reportedly collects data directly from the servers of nine major internet companies like Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Skype and Apple.
Many of these firms have already denied that the government has access to their networks. Today both president Obama and director of National Intelligence James Clapper said there is no gathering of information about US citizens or of any person located within the United States.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 9, 2013 at 5:29:00 PM CEST
PRISM and Other Spy Tools
PRISM has been in use since about 2003 based on a resume of a user and likely indicates PRISM collection well before recent publication of PRISM access to Internet servers, beginning with Microsoft in 2007. Numerous similar spying tools and programs are described below.
A discussion in 2000 between journalist Duncan Campbell and a Microsoft executive about NSA planting a key in Microsoft products
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 9, 2013 at 5:11:00 PM CEST
PRISM-Welle ebbt nicht ab – und das ist auch gut so
Die Enthüllungen über die umfassenden US-Überwachungstätigkeiten im Rahmen des PRISM-Programms haben ein großes internationales Medienecho hervorgerufen. Allerorten bestreiten, kritisieren und bekräftigen die beteiligten Akteure irgendwas. Der Guardian bloggt fortlaufend zu PRISM und Co. Im deutschsprachigen Raum spiegelt sueddeutsche.de das recht ausführlich.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 7, 2013 at 5:29:00 PM CEST
Anonymous leaks PRISM-Docs
Anonymous hat Dokumente zu PRISM geleakt, die anscheinend besagen, dass es neben der massenhaften Bespitzelung praktisch aller Social Networks auch ein Programm namens GIG gibt, praktisch eine Info-Sharing-Plattform für Geheimdienste in 35 Ländern. Yay!
Der Codename lautet Prism. Dahinter verbirgt sich nach Berichten von "Washington Post" und "Guardian" ein streng geheimes Abhörprogramm, das die National Security Agency (NSA) seit 2007 aufbaut. Aus Dokumenten vom April dieses Jahres soll hervorgehen, dass der Geheimdienst Zugriff auf die Server von Microsoft Chart zeigen, Google Chart zeigen, Facebook Chart zeigen, Apple Chart zeigen und anderen IT-Firmen hat. Die NSA fischt die Daten der Nutzer direkt ab, die Unternehmen wollen offiziell von nichts wissen.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 7, 2013 at 1:00:00 PM CEST
DoseNation 22: R.U. Sirius
The legendary R.U. Sirius joins us to talk about his latest book, "Timothy Leary's Trip Through Time", and many amazing details about Leary's life.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 5, 2013 at 5:59:00 PM CEST
Dutch cannabis coffee shop owners win partial victory
Coffee shop owners promised payout over crackdown on cannabis, but were warned other drug moves would remain
A Dutch court has ordered the government to compensate owners of cannabis-selling cafes who say they are losing money because of measures to stamp out drug tourism.
But in a setback for owners of so-called coffee shops, The Hague district court ruling also said other moves to prevent foreigners from buying soft drugs in the Netherlands were legitimate.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 5, 2013 at 4:45:00 PM CEST
High Country: A Mind-Melting Journey Through the Silicon Valley of Weed (Part 1)
Matt Ellis doesn’t smoke weed. He simply doesn’t enjoy being stoned. The all-too-familiar itch of paranoia that follows a few deep rips of cannabis is enough to keep him from using. But that’s not to say he doesn’t enjoy—or maybe even need—weed. It’s in the one green that he sees gobs of the other.
“At the end of the day, it’s about making money,” says Ellis, whose Denver-based biomass extraction company is one of countless others riding a wave of high tech innovation in the wake of recent measures in Colorado and Washington state legalizing small amounts of weed for recreational use. “I mean, I want to help people, don’t get me wrong," Ellis tells me, referring to a medicinal pot industry brimming with new and diffuse cannabis-concentrate highs that his company, ExtractionTek Solutions, is poised to capitalize on. “But we gotta make a living.”
motherboard.vice.com High Country: A Mind-Melting Journey Through the Silicon Valley of Weed (Part 2)
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Topic: EU - on May 31, 2013 at 3:37:00 PM CEST
Monsanto gibt Kampf für Gentechnik in Europa auf
Der Protest war offenbar zu groß: Der Saatguthersteller Monsanto beendet seinen Kampf für Gentechnik in Europa. Das Unternehmen will weder die Zulassung neuer Pflanzen beantragen, noch für solche Nahrung lobbyieren.
In Europa gab es lange heftigen Protest gegen Monsantos gentechnisch veränderte Produkte - jetzt lenkt der weltgrößte Saatguthersteller offenbar ein: "Wir machen keine Lobbyarbeit mehr für den Anbau in Europa", sagte Monsantos Europa-Pressechef Brandon Mitchener der "taz". "Derzeit planen wir auch nicht, die Zulassung neuer gentechnisch veränderter Pflanzen zu beantragen." Grund sei die geringe Nachfrage der Bauern.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 31, 2013 at 3:32:00 PM CEST
Joint Venture: Ex-Microsoft-Manager plant Cannabis-Imperium
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 30, 2013 at 8:06:00 PM CEST
How will Feds deal with marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington?
A potential showdown will probably not target individual users of the drug, instead focusing on new regulations that will make marijuana sales permissible, a violation of federal law.
Now that voters in Colorado and Washington have approved legalized sales of marijuana in those two states, the federal government is expected to aggressively confront the new laws through lawsuits saying they are invalidated under US law.
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