Topic: SECURITY - on December 3, 2011 at 12:17:00 PM CET
Verbotene Trojaner für die Behörden
Der Trojaner-Hersteller DigiTask hat seine Spähsoftware mit illegalen Zusatzfunktionen angeboten - und nannte sie in seiner Präsentation folgerichtig „forbidden features“. Das geht aus Dokumenten hervor, die Wikileaks veröffentlicht hat.
.... Dokumente zeigen nun, dass der deutsche Trojaner-Hersteller DigiTask wusste, dass seine Spähprogramme die gesetzlichen Regeln unterlaufen können. Trotzdem hat er die Programme mit illegalen Zusatzfunktionen angeboten. In internen Dokumenten, die von Wikileaks veröffentlicht wurden, preist die Firma DigiTask ausdrücklich „verbotene Anwendungen“ – in ihrer Präsentation als „forbidden features“ – ihrer Programme an.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 3, 2011 at 12:12:00 PM CET
Pablo Escobar - Cartel’s expenses included $2,500 per month for rubber bands for bricks of cash.
In March 1982, the seizure of two tons of cocaine at Miami International Airport shocked U.S. officials, who realized they faced a much larger operation than anything seen before. But they still didn’t know of the Cartel’s existence, and Escobar always stayed a few steps ahead. By the time U.S. scrutiny forced Lehder to leave Norman’s Cay in September 1983, Escobar had already forged a new partnership with Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, and the operation didn’t miss a beat. In fact from 1982-1984 shipments jumped from 80 tons to 145 tons, flooding the U.S. market and causing wholesale prices to drop from $60,000 per kilo to $16,000. But cash flow remained absurd, with revenues of $3 billion in 1983 and $2.3 billion in 1984, netting Escobar alone at least $1.3 billion in profit.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 3, 2011 at 10:24:00 AM CET
Copenhagen voted overwhelmingly to remove its cannabis prohibition. Here’s why.
Copenhagen just got a lot closer to legalizing the sale of pot.
If approved by the Danish parliament, next year the city could grant licenses to individual marijuana growers. City-owned shops would then sell their crop to the public.
That prospect was deeply amusing to Israel, a burly dreadlocked Cuban in Christiania, the city’s self-declared “free town.”
"I will grow it!" he said with excessive zeal. "I’ve got this big bag of seeds."
Israel was sitting outside a cafe near Pusher Street, the area’s open-air cannabis market, rolling a succession of monster joints for the locals and tourists who drop by for a smoke.
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Topic: PHOTO - on December 2, 2011 at 7:58:00 PM CET
The Best Photo Books of 2011
In this always-on age of tweets and tumblogs and tablets, of Flickr and Facebook, of “reality” programming and insta-celebrities, we’d like to pause a moment and look at some books. Remember books? Remember breathing?
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 2, 2011 at 5:34:00 PM CET
Korruption in der Welt "Deutschland liegt sogar vor Bahrain"
Schmiergeld für alle: Viele Organisationen messen die weltweite Verbreitung von Korruption - und kommen zu unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen. Ein Gespräch mit Christian Humborg, dem Geschäftsführer von Transparency International Deutschland, über einseitige Urteile und die Frage, ob schmieren schlimmer ist, als sich schmieren zu lassen.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 2, 2011 at 5:27:00 PM CET
The 2011 corruption perceptions index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption in 183 countries
Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is the best known of our tools. First launched in 1995, it has been widely credited with putting the issue of corruption on the international policy agenda. The CPI ranks almost 200 countries by their perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys.
Public outcry at corruption, impunity and economic instability sent shockwaves around the world in 2011. Protests in many countries quickly spread to unite people from all parts of society. Their backgrounds may be diverse, but their message is the same: more transparency and accountability is needed from our leaders.
The 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index shows that public frustration is well founded. No region or country in the world is immune to the damages of corruption, the vast majority of the 183 countries and territories assessed score below five on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 10 (very clean.) New Zealand, Denmark and Finland top the list, while North Korea and Somalia are at the bottom.
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Topic: EU - on December 2, 2011 at 5:14:00 PM CET
European distrust of U.S. data security creates market for local cloud service
Concern in the European Union that U.S. data protection laws are too lax has created a new market for European cloud computing services.
A recent survey indicated that 70 percent of Europeans have concerns about their online data and how well companies secure it and now two Swedish companies, Severalnines and City Network, have begun promoting their newly merged service as "a safe haven from the reaches of the U.S. Patriot Act." Under the U.S. Patriot Act, data from European users of U.S.-based cloud services can secretly be seized by U.S. law enforcement agencies.
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 2, 2011 at 5:03:00 PM CET
Anti-Terror-Paket AT
Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Sicherheitspolizeigesetz, das Polizeikooperationsgesetz und das Bundesgesetz über die Einrichtung und Organisation des Bundesamts zur Korruptionsprävention und Korruptionsbekämpfung geändert werden (SPG-Novelle 2011)
Gesetzestext / PDF, 178 KB . HTML, 92 KB
Vorblatt und Erläuterungen / PDF, 185 KB . HTML, 116 KB
Textgegenüberstellung / PDF-IMAGE, 259 KB
Sicherheitspolizeigesetz, Polizeikooperationsgesetz u.a., Änderung
Ministerialentwurf betreffend ein Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Sicherheitspolizeigesetz, das Polizeikooperationsgesetz und das Bundesgesetz über die Einrichtung und Organisation des Bundesamtes zur Korruptionsprävention und Korruptionsbekämpfung geändert werden.
Gesetzestext / PDF, 41 KB
Materialien - Vorblatt und Erläuterungen / PDF, 92 KB
Materialien - Textgegenüberstellung / PDF, 125 KB
Begleitschreiben / PDF, 166 KB . HTML, 28 KB
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Topic: WEB - on December 2, 2011 at 4:45:00 PM CET
Simple Google search unlocks GCHQ code-cracking competition
GCHQ's "Can You Crack It?" website, designed to help recruit talented codebreakers for the British government department, is getting lots of attention from the media and bloggers - but some of that may be unwanted.
A number of bloggers and Twitter users have pointed out that GCHQ appears to have done rather a poor job at locking down the website, making it child's play for anyone to visit the webpage you're only supposed to see if you've successfully cracked the code.
sophos.com GCHQ challenges codebreakers via social networks GCHQ: solve the online code, become a real-life spy
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Topic: Phone - on December 2, 2011 at 4:38:00 PM CET
Voodoo Carrier IQ detector application released for Android
This app's goal is to let you find out as easily as possible if your Android device hosts CarrierIQ rootkit or not.
It's unfinished (only a few hours old) Look for updates soon. Results are not reliable yet.
Important note: Anti - Carrier IQ fixes are not detected yet and still generate false positives.
market.android.com Source Code Which phones are infected, and how to remove it
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on December 2, 2011 at 3:37:00 PM CET
US-Rassist Duke lebt unbehelligt in Salzburg
Der Rechtsextremist und Ex-Chef des rassistischen Ku-Klux-Klan im US-Bundesstaat Louisiana, David Duke, lebt seit Jahren unbehelligt in Salzburg. Er werde von den Behörden „mit Samthandschuhen“ angefasst, sagt der Grünen-Politiker Karl Öllinger.
salzburg.orf.at Öllinger wirft im Fall des Rechtsextremisten David Duke Innenministerium Rechtsbeugung vor Antisemitische Reden im Netz, ein Haus im Pinzgauwiki
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 2, 2011 at 2:05:00 PM CET
WikiLeaks Unveils 160 Firms' Surveillance Gear Sales Docs, Still No Submissions System
WikiLeaks is still in the secret-spilling business. But not, apparently, in the business of accepting those secrets through the anonymous dropbox that was once its trademark.
The site on Thursday unveiled a new trove of 287 documents it’s calling the Spy Files, a collection of 160 digital surveillance firms’ marketing materials, price lists and catalogues, a joint effort with Bugged Planet, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and Privacy International, and with a new cadre of media partners including the Washington Post, the Hindu, the Italian paper L’Espresso and the French news outlet OWNI. The documents, sorted by company name and dozens of types of surveillance such as spyware, Wifi interception, and cellphone forensics are broken down on a new section of WikiLeaks’ site.
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