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: 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: 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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Topic: SECURITY - on October 30, 2013 at 4:04:00 PM CET
NSA, DHS Sued For Threatening People Who Created Parody Merchandise
You may recall the story from a few months back about the NSA supposedly issuing a takedown over some parody NSA merchandise. The NSA later claimed that it had no problem with the parody T-shirt that was specified, but did admit that a few years ago, it had sent a cease-and-desist letter to Zazzle, the platform that many people use to make such branded content, telling them they couldn't sell any merchandise with the NSA seal, since it would be a violation of 50 USC 3613, which says it's against the law to "misuse" the NSA's logo. It turns out that the Department of Homeland Security, DHS, had sent a similar letter, focusing on 18 USC 506, saying it's a crime to "mutilate or alter the seal of any department or agency of the United States."
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 30, 2013 at 3:59:00 PM CET
NSA: Der entblößte Datenkrake
Durch die Dokumente von Edward Snowden wurden die weltweiten Spionageaktivitäten des US-Geheimdienstes enthüllt - Ein interaktiver Überblick
Im Mai 2013 ist es passiert. Da erblickte Edward Snowden das Licht der Öffentlichkeit und veränderte die Welt. Durch seine Enthüllungen über die weltweiten Spionagetätigkeiten des US-Geheimdienstes NSA ist nun klar, dass man Verschwörungstheoretiker manchmal durchaus ernst nehmen kann. Dass elektronische Kommunikation nicht immer privat stattfindet. Dass Big Brother schlicht und einfach Realität geworden ist.
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 24, 2013 at 2:35:00 PM CEST
NSALeaks as of 10/22/13 Chronological order
Be sure to link The Guardian / Washington Post or to the primary source (SCMP, Spiegel, etc) when available (most Snowden documents source from The Guardian), or directly to the leaked document(s); no blogspam. Check for reposts before posting
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 24, 2013 at 2:32:00 PM CEST
Angela Merkel's call to Obama: are you bugging my mobile phone?
The furore over the scale of American mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden shifted to an incendiary new level on Wednesday evening when Angela Merkel of Germany called Barack Obama to demand explanations over reports that the US National Security Agency was monitoring her mobile phone.
Merkel was said by informed sources in Germany to be "livid" over the reports and convinced, on the basis of a German intelligence investigation, that the reports were utterly substantiated.
theguardian.com Germany summons US ambassador over claim NSA bugged Merkel's phone NSA files – Germany summons US ambassador over Merkel phone – live Merkel OUTRAGED by claim US SNOOPED on her phone calls
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 24, 2013 at 2:30:00 PM CEST
Kanzler-Handy im US-Visier? Merkel beschwert sich bei Obama
Haben US-Dienste das Handy der Bundeskanzlerin überwacht? Die Regierung nimmt entsprechende Hinweise sehr ernst. Kanzlerin Merkel telefonierte bereits mit US-Präsident Barack Obama. Auslöser der scharfen Reaktion der Bundesregierung ist eine SPIEGEL-Anfrage im Zuge einer Recherche.
Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel war möglicherweise über Jahre hinweg Ziel US-amerikanischer Geheimdienste. Ernstzunehmende Hinweise darauf haben Merkel veranlasst, sich am Mittwoch direkt bei US-Präsident Barack Obama zu beschweren.
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 21, 2013 at 5:07:00 PM CEST
NSA-Spionage: Mexiko fordert Aufklärung über US-Bespitzelungen
Die NSA hat nach SPIEGEL-Informationen das Handy des mexikanischen Präsidenten geknackt und sein Rechnernetz ausspioniert. Auf die neuen Enthüllungen reagiert die Regierung empört. Das Vorgehen sei "inakzeptabel und illegal".
Washington/Mexiko-Stadt - Die mexikanische Regierung zeigt sich nach neuen NSA-Enthüllungen entsetzt über das Ausmaß der Spionage gegen den Präsidenten Enrique Peña Nieto. Sie verlangt nach einem aktuellen SPIEGEL-Bericht Aufklärung: Die Regierung werde von den US-Behörden "so schnell wie möglich" Antworten verlangen, so das Außenministerium. Zwischen Verbündeten dürfe es solche Aktivitäten nicht geben. Das Vorgehen der NSA sei "inakzeptabel und illegal".
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