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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008WASHINGTON, March 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. National Security Agency has released its own version of the open-source computer operating system Linux, which offers enhanced security for users. The new software was rolled out earlier this month to an e-mail list for users of Linux -- an operating system that many experts believe provides a more secure alternative to the ubiquitous Microsoft Windows. Linux is open-source, which means the core ...
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Documents prove FBI tracks Internet and phones
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008FBI also spies on home soil for military, documents show; Much information acquired without court order John Byrne The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been routinely monitoring the e-mails, instant messages and cell phone calls of suspects across the United States -- and has done so, in many cases, without the approval of a court. Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and given to the Washington Post -- which stuck ...
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Did BT spy on 36,000 customers?
Sunday, April 6th, 2008By MATTHEW HICKLEY BT tested secret "spyware" on tens of thousands of its broadband customers without their knowledge, it admitted yesterday. It carried out covert trials of a system which monitors every internet page a user visits. Companies can exploit such data to target users with tailored online advertisements. An investigation into the affair has been started by the Information Commissioner, the personal data watchdog. Privacy campaigners reacted with horror, accusing BT of illegal interception ...
tagged Internet, Technology and UK-News
Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers." Since the start of the Iraq war, there's been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs -- and the servicemembers who want to keep them. One faction sees blogs as security risks, and a collective waste of troops' time. The other (which includes top officers, like Gen. David Petraeus ...
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CIA enlists Google’s help for spy work
Monday, March 31st, 2008US intelligence agencies are using Google's technology to help its agents share information about their suspects Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects. Agencies such as the National Security Agency have bought servers on which Google-supplied search technology is used to process information gathered by networks of spies around the world. Google is also providing the search ...
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Spirit of internet at risk, campaigners warn
Saturday, March 29th, 2008A promise by the biggest broadband provider in the US that it would stop discriminating against users who swap music and video online has failed to quell a grassroots movement demanding legislation to protect equal access to the internet. Comcast, led by chairman and chief executive Brian Roberts, said it would stop interfering with the popular BitTorrent programs used for file sharing, ending a covert practice that was exposed last year ...
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FBI posts hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects
Friday, March 28th, 2008The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them. Undercover FBI agents used this hyperlink-enticement technique, which directed Internet users to a clandestine government server, to stage armed raids of homes in Pennsylvania, New York, and Nevada last year. The supposed video files actually were gibberish and ...
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Wikileaks back on the Web
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008Case that riled privacy advocates turns on unrelated technicalities By Jaikumar Vijayan In a move sure to be welcomed by privacy and civil rights advocates, a California District Court judge on Friday lifted a previous permanent injunction that he had issued two weeks ago to disable the controversial Wikileaks.org whistleblower Web site. Judge Jeffrey White of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San ...
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Zogby: Alternative Media Replacing Mainstream News
Friday, February 29th, 2008Zogby Poll - 67% View Traditional Journalism as "Out of Touch" Internet is the top source of news for nearly half of Americans; Survey finds two-thirds dissatisfied with the quality of journalism Two thirds of Americans - 67% - believe traditional journalism is out of touch with what Americans want from their news, a new We Media/Zogby Interactive poll shows. The survey also found that while most Americans (70%) think ...
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Wikileaks and Internet Censorship
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008JONATHAN WERVE Using data from the Global Integrity Index, we put a U.S. court's recent order to block access to anti-corruption site Wikileaks.org into context. In summary: The Wikileaks.org shutdown is unheard of in the West, and has only been seen in a handful of the most repressive regimes. Good thing it doesn't work very well. Starting in 2007, ...
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Leaked Documents Spring Up Across Web
Friday, February 22nd, 2008By Elana Schor The US court order shutting down the website Wikileaks today appeared to backfire on the Swiss bank that sought the legal action, as bloggers and other fans of the site gave new life to leaked documents the bank was working to suppress. In addition to international Wikileaks versions that were unaffected by the shutdown order, "mirror" copies of the website sprouted like weeds thanks to supporters of its mission. ...
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CIA Monitors YouTube For Intelligence
Thursday, February 7th, 2008By Thomas Claburn In keeping with its mandate to gather intelligence, the CIA is watching YouTube. U.S. spies, now under the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), are looking increasingly online for intelligence; they have become major consumers of social media. "We're looking at YouTube, which carries some unique and honest-to-goodness intelligence," said Doug Naquin, director of the ...
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VIDEO: The Truth About Google’s Privacy
Friday, January 18th, 2008
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Freaked Out About FaceBook
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007thought the creepiest things to happen to social networking was when old guys, claiming to be eighteen-years-old started roaming social networks like MySpace and FaceBook looking to hook up with fifteen-year-olds.But now there’s a whole different kind of creepiness. And this one includes old guys in white lab coats roaming through FaceBook profiles. A bunch of scholars at Harvard University and University of California have decided to turn the vastly ...
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Websites sell secret bank data and PINs
Monday, December 3rd, 2007Alexi Mostrous and Dominic Kennedy Security breaches that are allowing the financial details of tens of thousands of Britons to be sold on the internet are to be investigated by the country’s information watchdog. Without paying a single penny, The Times downloaded banking information belonging to 32 people, including a High Court deputy judge and a managing director. The private account numbers, PINs and security codes were offered ...
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