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What Google can’t tell you about US surveillance in its transparency reports
Author: Jade Kim
Google’s bi-annual clearness reports are frequently honored for efforts in making police and government monitoring of email and web task more noticeable. As the company’s latest report shows, the regularity of these requests in the US is enhancing quickly, but we might not be getting the complete photo. As a current Computerworld report appropriately mentions, Google’s reports do not cover the warrant-less requests made under the USA Patriot Act, the recently-renewed FISA Amendments monitoring law, or FBI-issued National Safety Letters, all of which consist of gag orders that prevent net companies and web business from revealing any information. Such surveillance programs are stated to look with hundreds of thousands of Americans, and …
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One year later, Occupy’s struggle to survive in a Surveillance State
Author: Alexander McQueen
About fifty protesters were rounding the corner as I approached the intersection of Drama and Maiden Lane, a tiny portion of the thousands that took to the streets on Monday for the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. The little group was followed closely by a seemingly unlimited police motorcade, a steady chaperone, as it made its way in the direction of Occupy & rsquo; s former residence in Zuccotti Park. It & rsquo; s a website and scene that has come to be familiar ever before because Adbusters initially summoned a monsoon of protest against corporate greed and political corruption into the heart of New York’s economic district. However this time, things were a little different.
While social networks have actually been a steady rallying point for the Occupy motion …
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Report: FBI forming new cyber intelligence research unit, focus on digital surveillance
Author: Matthew Wilson
According to a report filed by technology site CNET, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is forming a new cyber intelligence and research unit dubbed the Domestic Communications Assistance Center (DCAC). The briefing states that the DCAC’s purpose will be “to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications” (initially focusing on VoIP services, social networks, and wireless communication mediums) . Via a prepared statement, the FBI explained that the unit’s modus operandi will be to “assist federal, state and local law enforcement with electronic surveillance capabilities.” Congress has appropriated over $ 54 million for “lawful electronic surveillance” in fiscal year 2012; the DCAC has been earmarked just north of $ 8 million from that pie. The Bureau’s full statement is after the break.
Report: FBI forming new cyber intelligence research unit, focus on digital surveillance originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 26 May 2012 05:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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No Comments »Obama cracks down on Iran and Syria’s surveillance of dissidents
Author: Conrad Thomas
President Obama may be quite cozy with tech — what with his predilection for the iPad and those town hall meetings on Facebook — but he’s well aware of its dark side, too. Today he announced that the US will freeze assets and cancel the American visas of Iranian and Syrian agencies tracking dissidents and pro-democracy groups via satellite, computer and phone networks. Among the entities getting the blacklist treatment are the Syrian cellphone company Syriatel, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iranian internet provider Datak Telecom. Amid election-year pressure to confront Iran, Obama also addressed the ongoing threat of the country acquiring nukes, but also paid lip service to social media’s role in a democracy. “These technologies should be in place to empower citizens, not to repress them,” he told an audience of 250 people, according to Reuters. Still, given the limited impact of previous sanctions against Iran, it remains to be seen just how much of an effect Washington’s actions have on the human rights situation in either country.
Obama cracks down on Iran and Syria’s surveillance of dissidents originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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ZTE follows Huawei’s lead, promises to curb Iran business after surveillance system sale
Author: Stacey Cook
ZTE has said it is going to scale back its business dealings with Iran after it was revealed the company sold the country’s largest telecommunications company a surveillance system that can be used to monitor both the voice and data traffic of Iran’s citizens. The revelations came in a Reuters piece on Thursday, which stated that the manufacturer had signed a contract worth $ 130.6 million with the Telecommunication Co of Iran last year. In addition to the surveillance system, a packing list associated with the contract also revealed several US-made hardware and software products — despite the fact that there is a ban on the sale of US technology items to Iran. In response, a ZTE spokesperson told Reuters that “we are going to curtail…
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F-BOMB $50 surveillance computer hides in your CO detector, cracks your WiFi
Author: Melissa Shroeder
What happens when you take a PogoPlug, add 8GB of flash storage, some radios (WiFi, GPS) and perhaps a few sensors, then stuff everything in a 3D-printed box? You get the F-BOMB (Falling or Ballistically-launched Object that Makes Backdoors), a battery-powered surveillance computer that costs less than $ 50 to put together using off-the-shelf parts. The 4 x 3.5 x 1-inch device, created by security researcher Brendan O’Connor and funded by DARPA‘s Cyber Fast Track program, is cheap enough for single-use scenarios where costly traditional hardware is impractical. It can be dropped from an AR Drone, tossed over a fence, plugged into a wall socket or even hidden inside a CO detector. Once in place, the homebrew Linux-based system can be used to gather data and hop onto wireless networks using WiFi-cracking software. Sneaky. Paranoid yet? Click on the source link below for more info.
F-BOMB $ 50 surveillance computer hides in your CO detector, cracks your WiFi originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Robotic Surveillance Bird Fail
Author: Rod Sutherland
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Craigslist Ad Looks For Undercover ‘Piracy Surveillance Investigator’
Author: Matthew Wilson
You are the sword and shield of the party! In this case, the party is a California-based private investigator looking to bank a few dollars by fighting piracy. An ad recently popped up on Craigslist San Antonio looking for “piracy surveillance investigators.†Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to sneak about town, seeking bars and other establishments that are illegally showing sporting events, like UFC or WWE or boxing. You stand to make up to $ 500 per night.
Following the trail of breadcrumbs leads us to Wayne & Associates, a California-based private investigator. It’s owned by a man in Los Angeles.
The deal is that you go around and gather evidence of establishments illegally showing pay-per-view events.
Nearest I can tell, you go out on the town the night of a pay-per-view event, like the upcoming WrestleMania, and try to get video of the illegal broadcast.
You’d think that no bar owner on Earth would be dumb enough to connect a laptop pointed to a justin.tv stream to his HDTVs, but that’s exactly what happened in Boston about a year ago. Pretty sure that guy should have been nominated for a Darwin Award.
The payscale seems to vary. Previous informants were paid $ 75 if they reported on an establishment with no video, but that jumps to $ 100 if video is taken. You’re provided with a list of establishments that are fully licensed to show the event in question.
Mighty, mighty strange, this.
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