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NSA« Previous EntriesDomestic spying quietly goes onMonday, July 7th, 2008By Bradley Olson | With Congress on the verge of outlining new parameters for National Security Agency eavesdropping between suspicious foreigners and Americans, lawmakers are leaving largely untouched a host of government programs that critics say involves far more domestic surveillance than the wiretaps they sought to remedy. These programs - most of them highly classified - are run by an alphabet ... tagged NSA and USA-NewsNY judge: NSA can refuse to discuss wiretappingFriday, June 27th, 2008WASHINGTON (AP) | The National Security Agency does not need to tell lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees whether their phones were tapped as part of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday. The NSA has refused to say whether it listened in on the conversations of the lawyers who are advising detainees being held at the U.S. naval facility ... tagged NSA and USA-NewsThe NSA, personal data and youMonday, April 28th, 2008 By Mitch Ratcliffe | Here’s a simple rule for preventing totalitarian rule in any nation: Don’t build the systems for monitoring people’s daily lives closely in the first place, and you will not be at risk of totalitarian rulers using those systems to overwhelm individual choice. The Wall Street Journal today has a long piece on the various ways ...
tagged Big-Brother, Internet, NSA and USA-NewsNSA releases new version of Linux softwareWednesday, 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 ... tagged Internet, NSA and TechnologyExposing NSA Warrantless WiretappingTuesday, April 1st, 2008Bush’s Law: Eric Lichtblau on Exposing the NSA’s Warrantless Wiretapping Program and How the White House Pressured the New York Times to Kill the Story. Democracy Now! In a national broadcast exclusive, we speak with New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau about his new book, “Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice.” Lichtblau won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program in December 2005. He reveals ... tagged NSA and USA-NewsNSA Had Access Built into Microsoft WindowsFriday, March 28th, 2008Heiss - A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors). The discovery comes close on the heels of the revelations ... tagged Microsoft, NSA and USA-NewsAn overview of the NSA’s domestic spying programMonday, March 17th, 2008In Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, Siobhan Gorman pulled together the disparate threads of reporting on what's known of the NSA's secret domestic spy program, and combined them with some of her own reporting to confirm, once again, that the NSA's program is another incarnation of the Pentagon's erstwhile Total Information Awareness program. Gorman also describes how Carnivore, the SWIFT database snooping program, and basically every other "Big ... tagged Big-Brother, Globalization, NSA and USA-NewsNSA’s Domestic Spying GrowsWednesday, March 12th, 2008Five years ago, Congress killed an experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic data about people in the U.S. to search for suspicious patterns. Opponents called it too broad an intrusion on Americans' privacy, even after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But the data-sifting effort didn't disappear. The National Security Agency, once confined to foreign surveillance, has been building essentially the same system. The central role the NSA ... tagged NSABush orders NSA to snoop on US agenciesTuesday, January 29th, 2008Cyber attack fear used to expand spy grid By Ashlee Vance in Mountain View Not content with spying on other countries, the NSA (National Security Agency) will now turn on the US's own government agencies thanks to a fresh directive from president George Bush. Under the new guidelines, the NSA and other intelligence agencies can bore into the internet networks of all their peers. The Bush administration ... tagged Bush and NSANSA Controls SSL Email Hosting ServicesWednesday, December 19th, 2007Just learned following within the past few days: Certain privacy/full session SSL email hosting services have been purchased/changed operational control by NSA and affiliates within the past few months, through private intermediary entities. Hushmail: now fully owned by private entity NSA affiliate; has had informal relationship with NSA for a number of years that effectively provided NSA with real time access to Hushmail's hosting servers. Safe-mail.net: Israeli-based, ironically privately lauded by NSA and ... tagged NSAExpanding NSA Power Bad, Fourth Amendment GoodFriday, November 23rd, 2007By Ralph Lopez Missing from the debate over expanding NSA authority in the War on Terror is the simple question, beyond our reflexive desire for privacy: why is expanding this authority such a bad idea? We know the Feds have done nasty, un-American things like spy on activists like Martin Luther King, but it comes out in the wash, doesn't it? Did the Founders, ... tagged NSANSA To Recruit ChildrenThursday, October 25th, 2007Wonkette Hey, kids! Have you ever wanted to listen in on the conversations of other people without them knowing it? Create codes that allow spies in the field to get information about enhanced interrogation techniques without those killjoys at Amnesty International finding out? Dress up as a totally extreme rapping turtle and get a blow job from a sexy lady squirrel? Well now you can, thanks to the ... tagged NSAGet your FBI file — and your NSA and CIA files too, while you’re at itTuesday, October 16th, 2007Do you have an FBI file? You might! Many people do. So let's talk about your past. Did you ... 
... ever participate in a civil rights march? How about a Vietnam war protest?
... ever sign an edgy political petition?
... ever know a guy named "Joey the Horse?" (Ever help him take out any ...
tagged CIA, FBI and NSANSA to spy on 38% of world telecom trafficThursday, August 9th, 2007The US National Security Agency now has the legal right to monitor some 38% of the world's telephone, data and internet traffic without requiring a judicial warrant.By Ian Grant George W Bush signed the relevant legislation last Sunday. According to Telegeography, a research firm that monitors telecommunications ... tagged NSATop Ten Myths About the Illegal NSA Spying on AmericansTuesday, August 7th, 2007MYTH: This is merely a "terrorist surveillance program." REALITY: When there is evidence a person may be a terrorist, both the criminal code and intelligence laws already authorize eavesdropping. This illegal program, however, allows electronic monitoring without any showing to a court that the person being spied upon in this country is a suspected terrorist. MYTH: The program is legal. REALITY: The program violates the Fourth Amendment and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ... tagged NSA« Previous Entries |
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