Topic: SECURITY - on August 22, 2013 at 2:40:00 PM CEST
"Guardian"-Affäre": EU-Justizkommissarin teilt Sorge des Europarates
Reding stellt sich hinter Forderung Jaglands nach Aufklärung
Brüssel/Washington - EU-Justizkommissarin Viviane Reding hat sich hinter die Forderung des Europarates nach Aufklärung des Vorgehens der britischen Behörden gegen das Londoner Enthüllungsblatt "The Guardian" gestellt. "Ich teile die Besorgnis von Herrn Jagland voll und ganz", teilte Reding am Donnerstag auf "Twitter" mit.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 22, 2013 at 2:39:00 PM CEST
"Guardian"-Chef Rusbridger: "Die Regierung wollte die Polizei zu uns schicken"
"Vermutlich haben am Ende die Hardliner gewonnen." Seit den Enthüllungen durch den Whistleblower Snowden steht der "Guardian" im Visier der Regierung und der Geheimdienste in Großbritannien. Chefredakteur Rusbridger schildert im Interview, wie es zur Zerstörung von Festplatten im Verlagsgebäude kam.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 22, 2013 at 2:36:00 PM CEST
EFF Wins Release of Secret Court Opinion: NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional
For over a year, EFF has been fighting the government in federal court to force the public release of an 86-page opinion of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Issued in October 2011, the secret court's opinion found that surveillance conducted by the NSA under the FISA Amendments Act was unconstitutional and violated 'the spirit of' federal law.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 21, 2013 at 4:48:00 PM CEST
"Guardian-Affäre": Brüssel sieht keine Handhabe für Eingreifen
"Zum EU-Vertrag gehörende Grundrechtecharta nicht berührt"
London/Brüssel - In der britischen Affäre um das Behörden-Vorgehen gegen die Tageszeitung "The Guardian" sieht die EU-Kommission keine rechtliche Handhabe für ein eigenes Eingreifen. "Wir müssen als Hüterin der EU-Verträge in unseren Grenzen bleiben, die vom Vertrag gesetzt werden", sagte ein Sprecher der EU-Kommission am Mittwoch in Brüssel. In dem Fall werde die zum EU-Vertrag gehörende Grundrechtecharta nicht berührt.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 21, 2013 at 2:20:00 PM CEST
North Carolina State University Gets $60 Million To Help NSA Build Bigger And Better Haystacks
Who wants to work on a collaborative data project with a badly wounded intelligence agency? I'm not seeing a lot of hands... How about if I ask it with a couple of exclamation points thrown in?!?! Still nothing...
Given what we know now, it's probably safe to assume that no one wants to sign a deal with this particular devil if the NSA's abortive recruitment drive at the University of Wisconsin is any indication. The recruiters appeared to believe they could just walk in and harvest a few souls hand out a few heavily-redacted business cards while talking up Team NSA's anti-terrorism efforts.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 21, 2013 at 2:19:00 PM CEST
Endlich nachgewiesen: Die NSA überwacht sämtlichen Internet-Verkehr, der über amerikanisches Gebiet geht
Die NSA hat Zugriff auf große Teile des Internet-Verkehrs, der über ihr Staatsgebiet geht und verarbeitet diese Datenmengen in ihren eigenen Systemen. Das berichtet das Wall Street Journal unter Berufung auf eine Reihe von Beteiligten. Jede Internet-Kommunikation über amerikanische Server landet demnach höchstwahrscheinlich bei der NSA – nur ein bisschen rein amerikanische Kommunikation wird wohl rausgefiltert.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 21, 2013 at 2:16:00 PM CEST
Latest Leak: NSA Can Spy On Almost Anything, Gets To Set Its Own Filters
And, here we go again. This time, it's the WSJ journal with the scoop on NSA surveillance, and how the defenders of the NSA have been lying to us. Despite claims that the NSA was really only focused on foreign communications, the WSJ is reporting that it actually covers 75% of US internet traffic:
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 21, 2013 at 2:11:00 PM CEST
Guardian told to destroy NSA files for national security, says Clegg
Nick Clegg has endorsed the government's decision to ask the Guardian to destroy leaked secret NSA documents on the grounds that Britain would face a "serious threat to national security" if they reached the "wrong hands".
In a statement, a spokesman for the deputy prime minister gave the first official confirmation that the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, made the request to the Guardian.
theguardian.com NSA files: UK and US at odds over destruction of Guardian hard drives NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files MYSTERY of Guardian mobos and graphics cards which 'held Snowden files' U.K. Ordered Guardian to Destroy Snowden Files Because Its Servers Weren’t Secure
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 19, 2013 at 3:07:00 PM CEST
Journalist For Time Magazine Announces His Eagerness To Defend US Drone Strike Killing Julian Assange
We've already discussed the odd and somewhat sickening way in which certain mainstream journalists have been clearly cheering on the criminalization of investigative journalism, but Time Magazine's Michael Grunwald took it to a new and incredibly disgusting level this weekend, with a now deleted tweet in which he gleefully announced his eagerness to see the US kill Julian Assange, and then to defend the government for doing so:
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 16, 2013 at 1:16:00 PM CEST
Ausspähung von US-Bürgern: Die vielen Tricks der NSA
US-Bürger überwachen? Das machen wir nicht, schwor die US-Regierung. Doch neue NSA-Dokumente, die der "Washington Post" vorliegen, zeigen: Der US-Geheimdienst hat offenbar tausendfach das Gesetz gebrochen. Die Analysten haben beim Überwachen weitgehend freie Hand.
Hamburg/Washington - Mit jeder neuen Veröffentlichung aus dem Fundus von Whistleblower Edward Snowden wird das Gesamtbild des US-Überwachungsapparats klarer. Neue Dokumente in der "Washington Post" machen deutlich: Die juristische Kontrolle, mit der dieser Überwachungsapparat im Zaum gehalten werden soll, ist mindestens ineffektiv. Und die Macht der NSA-Analysten, nahezu beliebig auf Internet- oder Telefoniedaten zuzugreifen, enorm.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 16, 2013 at 12:59:00 PM CEST
NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
Most of the infractions involve unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by statute and executive order. They range from significant violations of law to typographical errors that resulted in unintended interception of U.S. e-mails and telephone calls.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 10, 2013 at 3:17:00 PM CEST
Don’t worry, NSA says—we only “touch” 1.6% of daily global Internet traffic
On the same day that President Barack Obama spoke to the press about possible surveillance reforms—and released a related white paper on the subject—the National Security Agency came out with its own rare, publicly-released, seven-page document (PDF), essentially justifying its own practices.
The entire document is dated August 9, 2013, and has no attributable names or contact details on it. Its most striking portion?
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