#prism
Les « Cinq Yeux » deviendraient les « Neuf Yeux »
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La Commission des Forces armées de la Chambre des #Représentants propose, afin de pouvoir intercepter toutes les #communications en #Russie et en #Chine, d’élever le statut de l’ #Allemagne, de la #Corée du Sud, de l’ #Inde et du #Japon. Les « Cinq #Yeux » deviendraient alors les « Neuf yeux ».
L’architecture de ce système n’est connue que depuis les révélations de Edward #Snowden (aujourd’hui réfugié politique en Russie). Ce dernier a également montré qu’il était utilisé pour #espionner non seulement les puissances étrangères, mais ses propres #citoyens. Il a en outre révélé l’existence de cinq programmes :
#Prism (interception des communications Internet avec la complicité des principaux fournisseurs d’accès) ;
#Tempora (extraction des communications par #câbles sous-marins) ;
#Muscular ( #surveillance des transferts internationaux de bases de données) ;
#Stateroom (surveillance des communications locales à partir des #ambassades et #consulats en violation de la Convention de Vienne) ;
#XKeyscore (traitement des #données globales).
Les « Cinq yeux » sont un système non pas national, mais #supranational. Ils échappent aux #lois et #constitutions des cinq #États membres. Ils constituent de facto un #Pouvoir plus important que celui des chefs d’État et de #gouvernement des États-membres. Contrairement à une idée reçue, les citoyens des « #Cinqyeux » sont aujourd’hui les #populations les plus surveillées au monde, bien plus que les populations russes ou chinoises.
"Five Eyes" about to become "Nine Eyes"
#empire #États-Unis #impérialisme #usa #five-eyes #services de #renseignements #nine-eyes
‘Panic made us vulnerable’: how 9/11 made the US surveillance state – and the Americans who fought back
'The #Snowden #documents showed that by 14 September – just three days after the attacks – the then director of the #NSA, #MichaelHayden, had taken a " #tactical-decision” to begin #snooping on the #digital #communications of #people based in the #US.'
#panic #vulnerable #9-11 #mass #surveillance #state #edwardsnowden #whistleblowers #government #spying #internet #prism #espionage #patriot-act #jamesclapper #aclu #ronwyden #benwizner #markklein #american-muslims #cybersecurity
Nouveau scandale d'espionnage international : c'est quoi, le projet Pegasus ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9z1lGmYPfY
#espion #espionnage #android #ios #surveillance #politique #journalisme #droitdelhomme #vieprivée #terrorisme #liberté #pegasus #nsa #snowden
Les entreprises françaises aussi se débrouille très bien #amesys #eagle #safran #thales #atos
Les entreprises américaines également #prism #xkeyscore #palantir
Youtube / Google is demanding European Internet users that they give them an image of their IDs if they want to watch age-restricted videos: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779
Google caught helping CIA spy on you: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ySfGLCk_1hw
Social Media Is a Tool of the CIA. Seriously - CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-media-is-a-tool-of-the-cia-seriously/
Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures_(2013%E2%80%93present)
#google #youtube #CIA #imperialism #oligarchy #Internet #privacy #surveillance #video #streaming #Snowden #PRISM #EU #Europe #AVMSD #UK
The Chilling Truth About Social Control - Edward Snowden on Social Media and Surveillance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c15FqY_1AYk
“Arguing that you don't care about the right to #privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about #free #speech because you have nothing to say.” #edwardsnowden
#snowden #social #control #media #surveillance #us #patriotact #data #google #5eyes #prism
Now You Can Find Out if the NSA and GCHQ Spied on You
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Thanks to a legal victory #Privacy_International obtained earlier this year, the #UK’s #Investigatory_Powers_Tribunal is now required to search through data the #GCHQ obtained from the #NSA for #information collected on #anyone in the world if that person so requests it. If #you #request the #info and the #Tribunal finds something, it must let #you #know. The catch is #you have to make the request before December 5, 2015. #Privacy_International has made this easy with its “Did GCHQ Illegally Spy on You?” online tool.
Earlier this year the #Investigatory_Powers_Tribunal in the #UK ruled that British intelligence services acted unlawfully when they accessed the #private #communications of millions of #people that had been collected by the #NSA under its #mass-surveillance programs known as #PRISM and #Upstream and shared with the #British #spy agency. The #PRISM program, which began in 2007, allowed the #NSA to collect #data in bulk from #US #companies like #Yahoo and #Google. The #Upstream program involved the collection of #data from #taps placed on hundreds of undersea cables outside the #US.
The #Tribunal will only search for #records #shared between the #NSA and #GCHQ prior to December 2014. And, unfortunately, it won’t #reveal if the #GCHQ obtained #data about #you on its own and/or #shared it with the #NSA, or if the #NSA spied on you and didn’t #share that #data with #GCHQ. The amount of data the #Tribunal will search may also be limited.
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A nation's intelligence apparatus spying on its legislature is straight-up, full-on reign-of-terror status stuff
First off, I'm not particularly happy that ordinary citizens, residents, and visitors to the US (ALL of whom have constitutional protections against illegal search) are subject to pervasive surveillance.
But the fact that it extends to lawmakers and other public officials outside the scope of officially sanctioned lawful investigations (which are both allowable and sadly necessary) is absolutely terrifying. This takes everything straight to reign-of-terror status.
You see, because of a few fundamental facts of life.
I expect my politicians are dirty. They're mixed up in all sorts of things (sometimes it even comes out, see today's news on the former governor and first lady of the Commonwealth of Virginia)...
Continued at the dreddit: http://reddit.com/r/dredmorbius
Somewhat expanded from an earlier G+ post, with cites and links, including a statement from the late Mssr. du Plessis.
http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2cb6nf/a_nations_intelligence_apparatus_spying_on_its/
It's Time to #nongoogle Everything.
It's been nearly a year since the Snowden documents came out. In that time there's been a growing number of people, myself included, who have become aware of the environment of ubiquitous surveillance we're in--not just government eavesdropping, but corporate data collection as well--and from then to now, the progress in pushing back against this stifling environment has been underwhelming.
We know, generally, what needs to be done. That we need significant, and unceasing pressure on our respective governments to push for meaningful reform, firstly. Politicians need to know they will not have the people's support, if they can't even have a respect for our fundamental rights.
It's also clear that there are many commercial, and technological changes that need to be made, such as increased use of encryption (especially client-side encryption), and more widespread adoption of free software.
One thing that is particularly clear is that our information technologies need to be much more decentralized. This problem is described nicely in this New Yorker article:
"The national-security state tends to love monopolies—a coöperative monopoly augments and extends the power of the state, like a technological prosthesis. (Germany offers even more extreme examples of this than America does.) In general, when a dominant firm, or a few firms, holds power over part of the information industry, we can expect intelligence agencies to demand coöperation and partnership. Over time, the firm can become a well-compensated executioner of state will. If history is any guide, the longer that companies like Facebook and Google stay dominant, the more likely it becomes that they will serve as intelligence partners to the United States and other governments."
It is clear that continued support of the tech giants like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and so on, will always only go towards the continued elimination of our privacy, and thus, our freedom. Fundamentally, it can be viewed as a constant, that a big-enough corporation will always act in its own interest, and often to the detriment of the people. To that end, the details of our personal lives have become their next gold rush. Information is power. It is lucrative. It is in the tech giants (and many other companies) best interest to ever-increasingly base their business models on surveillance.
But they don't call it surveillance. They call it Big Data, and they praise Big Data like it's the new gospel. They can go on for hours about how Big Data will benefit everyone, to make everything more efficient, less wasteful, etc. But of course, as they can only be trusted to do, the first thing they use Big Data for is to manipulate us, so they can boost their bottom line.
"Consumers going through major life events often don’t notice, or care, that their shopping habits have shifted, but retailers notice, and they care quite a bit. At those unique moments, Andreasen wrote, customers are “vulnerable to intervention by marketers.” In other words, a precisely timed advertisement, sent to a recent divorcee or new homebuyer, can change someone’s shopping patterns for years."
And Big Data doesn't just mean manipulation. It means discrimination and predation.
"In one particularly egregious case, a telemarketer stole from a 92-year-old Army veteran's bank account after receiving information from the data broker InfoUSA, which advertised lists like "Oldies But Goodies" to reach people described as “gullible . . . [who] want to believe their luck can change.”"
To put it into Occupy language, Big Data is one more tool for the 1% to further consolidate their power, and more effectively keep the 99% down.
Without sufficient counter-forces against these developments, they will only continue. And it's clear, given how much governments have become intoxicated by the power of surveillance -- much of which is enabled by Big Data -- that they cannot be relied on, or trusted to fix this problem. We have to do it ourselves.
Big Data needs to be pushed back against, just as much as state-eavesdropping, because in the end, Big Data means Big Control, Big Power, for those who can gather the most information about everyone.
"While not everyone is online all day long, we’re all implicitly offline. Wouldn’t it be great it we could gather meat space data and use that to tailor the offline experience much like companies now tailor your online experience? “Personalizing your meat space experience” is a gross way of saying “pretty much control your life.”"
We need to get the masses to migrate to free software alternatives, to have better computer literacy, and to have a deeper understanding of the technical details related to all-things-data.
But that's a tall order. Getting a person to change even one small computing habit is like pulling teeth. There needs to be good, quantifiable reasons. They need to hit home, and the changes need to be made one at a time. For those of us with more experience and knowledge in computer technology, it's not fair to expect that anyone is going to change when we're effectively saying, "Hey, everything about the way you use computers is wrong. You need to stop, and do things this way instead."
Here's the thing: People don't need to change all their computing habits at once to make a difference. It may be completely unfeasible to get everyone to peel away all their bad practices at once, but we can target exactly one change at a time, and drive hard for it. Each individual change may seem small, even insignificant, toward the goal of fully safeguarding an individuals personal data, but it could send shockwaves through the system.
And what we should do is start with the low-hanging fruit.
We should stop using the search engines from any of the tech giants, and we should do everything possible to get everyone to do the same.
To make it clear, that means no more Google searches, no more Bing searches, and no more Yahoo searches. As a rule of thumb, if the company was named in the NSA Prism slides, don't use their search systems.
Instead of them, use one of the alternatives that tend to be recommended. Whether it's Ixquick, DuckDuckGo, StartPage, Disconnect, MetaGer, or if you're more determined, Seeks, or YaCy.
Anyone can switch to a different search engine. If you can go to google dot com, you can go to duckduckgo dot com (or one of the other ones). This can be a great galvanizing effort, a way to tell someone, "Look, you can make a difference. You can make the world better. All you gotta do is use a different search engine. Easy."
A quick look at the volume of searches for the top search providers, as of last February (assuming I'm reading the charts right):
- Google: 11.941 billion
- Microsoft: 3.257 billion
- Yahoo: 1.822 billion
- Ask: 477 million
- AOL: 235 million
11.944 billion monthly searches. When the news about Prism first broke out, searches on DuckDuckGo went from 1.7 million a day to 3 million a day within a fortnight, and that was simply from an uncoordinated, kneejerk reaction by the people. Imagine if there was a coordinated effort, dedicated solely to diminishing the number of searches done on the tech giant engines. We can bring Google's monthly searches down from ~12 billion, to 6b, 3b, and so on until their share looks more like AOL's.
So let's make that the definitive goal: 1. Remove Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask, and AOL from the list of top search providers. 2. Make the top list of search providers include Disconnect, DuckDuckGo, Ixquick, MetaGer, Seeks, StartPage, and/or YaCy.
While search isn't the only way these companies make money, it will still hit them hard. It's a major driver of ad revenue. There are entire markets around search engine optimizations. If the number of eyeballs and clicks on the big search providers plummets, so will much of their profits. This will get attention, a lot of it.
This is doable, though we need to spread the word as far and wide as possible. Copy and paste this post on all the sites you frequent. Link to it. Reshare it. Echo the sentiment in your own words. Make catchy infographics and other artistry about the effort and post it on sites like Reddit, Imgur, Tumblr, and so on. Translate it.
Change your default search engine to one of the ones listed, on all the browsers and devices you use. Get your friends and family to make the switch too. That may be the hardest part, but don't get frustrated. Have a sense of humor about it. Give them a reason to want to make the switch. Make deals if you have to; tell them you'll make dinner for them.
If you run a website of any kind, consider adding something to it, to further spread the message.
If you still use any of the big social media like Twitter or Facebook, which is bad, rally around a hashtag, like, say, #nongoogle, #ungoogle, or something. Make it trend.
And on that note, we need to talk about language. The holy grail of advertising is when someone uses a company name to refer to a product. Like how we call hook-and-loop velcro. In the case of search, telling someone to "google" something is an endorsement of their product. It makes Google the norm, and stands in the way of breaking their dominance in search. So what we should do is either call it what it is, search, or even use the terms 'nongoogle' or 'ungoogle' to make an explicit declaration of our intent to push for this initiative.
If we can make this happen, it will be a huge, tangible victory in the fight for our privacy rights, and civil liberties. So please spread the word and take action. It's time to start doing nongoogle searches.
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Al Jazeera: "EXCLUSIVE: Emails Reveal Close Google Relationship with NSA"
Email exchanges between National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander and Google executives Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt suggest a far cozier working relationship between some tech firms and the U.S. government than was implied by Silicon Valley brass after last year’s revelations about NSA spying.
Disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden about the agency’s vast capability for spying on Americans’ electronic communications prompted a number of tech executives whose firms cooperated with the government to insist they had done so only when compelled by a court of law....
More: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html
#Google #NSA #spy #EdwardSnowden #surveillance #surveillancestate #prism #aljazeera
Janine Gibson, The Guardian: "Somebody from Google said to ... the Guardian, 'Do you have confidence that we are protecting your email?', we said, 'No', and they said, 'Neither do we.'"
2m20s into video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxr1i8vWoQ
Details use of privacy and encryption tools by The Guardian and its sources: TailsOS, Jabber, air-gapped phones, no mobile phones.
h/t @Will Hill
#surveillancestate #nsa #google #privacy #theguardian #prism
Karl Auerbach on the NSA and "Target"-ed survaillance:
The recent penetration of Target will probably cause more economic damage than many so called "terrorist" attacks.
NSA claims that it is protecting the US by doing massive evaluation of internet data crossing the US border.
That the penetration of Target was all carried via internet data crossing the US border.
Why did NSA not see this happening?
And why is it unable to now look at the data in retrospect?
(From the Plus).
Peter Bachman replies:
I was told that the NSA did give the information to Target, but I have not looked up a reference.
Reference on that?
#NSA #surveillancestate #prism #databreach #debitcard #Target
CommonDreams: "Pentagon & NSA Officials say They Want Snowden Extrajudicially Assassinated"
‘In a world where I would not be restricted from killing an American, I personally would go and kill him myself,’ a current NSA analyst told BuzzFeed. ‘A lot of people share this sentiment.’
‘I would love to put a bullet in his head,’ one Pentagon official, a former special forces officer, said bluntly…
‘His name is cursed every day over here,’ a defense contractor told BuzzFeed, speaking from an overseas Intelligence collections base. ‘Most everyone I talk to says he needs to be tried and hung, forget the trial and just hang him.’
I'll note: the horse has already left the barn. Killing Snowden won't un-release his disclosures. Might discourage the next guy (or gal). Or might just convince them to operate along the lines of the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI. That said, none-Facebook pokes-on-the-street is straight out of the KGB / FSB playbook. Just sayin', guys.
A somewhat grudging h/t to @Will Hill (heads and ledes, my man, heads and ledes).
#surveillancestate #pentagon #nsa #PRISM #assassination
#what-else-can-I-add-here-to-get-the-snoops-on-my-ass-oh-hai-guyz
NY Times: "It is time for the United States to offer Mr. Snowden a plea bargain or some form of clemency"
[T]his is the main stream media. Kicking out story after story after story that the tinfoil hat brigade (yr. humble correspondent raises his hand) have been shouting, or mumbling to the walls, about for years if not decades. It's not just 2600 and the occasional Wired piece anymore.
It all beggars the question though: why are the spooks so hell bent for leather to suck up untold petabytes of highly detailed personal information on every man, woman, child, dog, and cat that they'd be willing to sacrifice billions of dollars of business and an entire emerging technology sector?
Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport, had Tweeted about a Snowden-related a London mass surveillance meeting
A backpacker coming home for Christmas had every bit of electronic equipment stripped from him at the airport.
A Customs officer at Auckland International Airport took law graduate Sam Blackman's two smartphones, iPad, an external hard drive and laptop - and demanded his passwords.
Mr Blackman, 27, who was breaking up travelling with his journalist fiance Imogen Crispe for a month back in New Zealand for Christmas, was initially given no reason why the gear was taken.
The only possibility of why it occurred was his attendance - and tweeting - of a London meeting on mass surveillance sparked by the Snowden revelations
Customs claims they were "searching everything for objectionable material under the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993." In the inimitable words of Click and Clack the Tappet brothers: Bo-o-o-o-gus!
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#Snowden helped derail a growing chain of #prism deals http://www.itproportal.com/2013/12/10/the-year-the-nsa-hacked-the-world-a-2013-prism-timeline-part-i/ cash for #surveillance
