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Feds find border drones don’t actually make border more secure
DHS OIG: "There is no reason to invest additional taxpayer funds at this time."
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Snowden Claims U.S. Policy Is Creating A Black Market For Digital Weapons
dward Snowden says in a new interview with NOVA Next that the U.S. government wrongly promotes cyber offense strategies at the expense of weakening the system and leaving it open to cyber attacks from the black market. “We’re creating a class of Internet security researchers who research vulnerabilities, but then instead of disclosing them to the device manufacturers to get them fixed and to make us more secure, they sell them to secret agencies,” Snowden says.
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Shock as WhatsApp, iMessage and Snapchat face UK ban
Some of the UK's most popular messaging services could soon be banned. Speaking earlier today, David Cameron, announced his plans for new surveillance laws which could spell the end of popular services such as WhatsApp and Snapchat. Mr Cameron wants to stop all methods of communications that can't be read by the UK's security services. All of the big messaging apps, including Apple's iMessage and FaceTime, encrypt their data so could face a total ban after the next election.
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David Cameron vows to ban effective encryption in the UK if re-elected
The Tory leader said: 'If I am prime minister I will make sure that it is a comprehensive piece of legislation that does not allow terrorists safe space to communicate with eachother'
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Exclusive: A Sneak Peek At CISPA 2015
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is the bill in the US Congress that just refuses to die. Like a zombie, it keeps rising from the dead to harass cyber activists and civil liberties advocates. In a slight reprieve, Representative Mike Rogers, CISPA's previous co-sponsor, has announced that he will not run for re-election. Never one to waste an opportunity for a crisis...
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White House just endorsed CISPA measures, two years after veto threat
The White House unveiled Tuesday an updated cybersecurity information-sharing proposal, which critics quickly likened to a controversial bill that failed in Congress two years ago. With little fanfare, the Obama administration said Tuesday its proposal "encourages the private sector to share appropriate cyber threat information" with the Dept. of Homeland Security, which will then share it with other U.S. government agencies and private sector companies.
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Will online anonymity win out?
The cypherpunks are winning the second crypto-war against government spies. What will happen when everyone is anonymous?
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Guantanamo guard: ‘CIA killed prisoners and made it look like suicide’
A FORMER Guantanamo Bay guard has spoken for the first time about what he claims was a CIA murder of detainees, covered up as a triple suicide. Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman was on guard at the Cuban prison camp on the night they died, and calls the official version of events “impossible”.
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Attorney General Holder limits civil seizure process that split billions of dollars with local and state police
Attorney General Eric Holder is barring local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property without proof that a crime occurred. The Post's Robert O'Harrow Jr. explains the most sweeping check on police power to confiscate personal property since the seizures began three decades ago.
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Obama Sides with Cameron in Encryption Fight
President Obama said police and spies should not be locked out of encrypted smartphones and messaging apps, taking his first public stance in a simmering battle over private communications in the digital age.
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British intelligence intercepted emails from The New York Times, Reuters, BBC, and others
Newly released Snowden documents show GCHQ was listening in the internal communications of some of the most prestigious journalistic institutions in the world. A report in The Guardian details a test exercise that resulted in emails from BBC, Reuters, The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde, The Sun, NBC, and The Washington Post all being deposited onto GCHQ's internal intranet, available to anyone logged into the system.
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Edward Snowden says secret Apple spyware is the reason he won’t use an iPhone
Is Apple’s wildly popular iPhone series hiding spyware that can collect information about users without their knowledge. As thoroughly as developers have dug through Apple’s iOS code over the past seven and a half years, one would think functionality like that would have been unearthed by now. According to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, however, iPhones are capable of activating “special software” behind the scenes that collects information about users...
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California cops hope to expand facial recognition, “eCrime” head says
California’s top digital cop told an assembled crowd of law enforcement, civil libertarians, and concerned citizens that the “possibilities are limitless” when it comes to using facial recognition to solve crimes. “It doesn’t require a front face shot,” Robert Morgester, the senior assistant attorney general and the head of the state’s eCrime Unit, said on Wednesday. “The software has become so robust that you can do a side shot.
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China Cracks Down On VPN Services After Censorship System ‘Upgrade’
China is cracking down on VPNs, software that allows internet users to access Twitter, Facebook, Gmail and others services blocked in the country, according to state media and service providers. People’s Daily reports that China’s ‘Great Firewall’ internet censorship system was “upgraded for cyberspace sovereignty”, a move that affected the usage of at least three popular VPN services and attacked others with more vigor than usual.
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Edward Snowden: Apple iPhone With Secret iFeature Allows Government to Spy on You
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden won't use an Apple iPhone because he says it has "special software" that can be activated remotely, allowing the government to spy on its user. "Edward never uses an iPhone; he's got a simple phone," Anatoly Kucherena, Snowden's attorney, said in an interview with RIA Novosti, a Russian media company, reports Tech Times.
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U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars
The Justice Department has been building a database to track in real time the movement of vehicles around the U.S., a secret intelligence-gathering program that scans hundreds of millions of records about motorists. NOTE: If you get a paywall, use the link in the Related Links area.
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Why the alleged Russian spy ring matters
They weren't exactly James Bond but the three alleged Russian spies exposed by the FBI are part of the most intense effort by Russia to infiltrate agents onto American soil since the Cold War. In an affidavit unsealed in federal court on Monday, the Justice Department accused Evgeny Buryakov, also known as "Zhenya," of posing as a Russian banker in Manhattan to funnel economic intelligence to the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.
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"CSE tracks millions of downloads daily" claim Snowden documents
Canada's electronic spy agency sifts through millions of videos and documents downloaded online every day by people around the world, as part of a sweeping bid to find extremist plots and suspects, CBC News has learned. Details of the Communications Security Establishment project dubbed "Levitation" are revealed in a document obtained by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and recently released to CBC News.
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Spent by the UK government on the siege against Julian Assange
Julian Assange has been effectively detained without charge since December 2010. Ecuador has stated that Assange can stay indefinitely. That doesn't bode well for taxpayers.
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Anonymous Are Claiming That The Pirate Bay Is Being Run By The FBI
Now that The Pirate Bay is back in action after a long time on the sidelines, conspiracy theorists have conjured up something that will stop you using the torrent site. Theorists, including the likes of hacktivist group Anonymous, are claiming the file sharing website could now be in the hands of the FBI and are warning users of the risks of using the site.
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