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Did Bush’s Broadband Deregulation Upend His Own NSA Wiretapping ? - 21 août 2012
As Congress prepares to reauthorize the controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008 - which effectively legalized the notorious warrantless wiretap program launched by President Bush "” much about the law remains shrouded in secrecy : The National Security Agency has refused to give legislators even a rough estimate (...)
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Legislation Seeks to Limit Warrantless Wiretapping Powers - 4 août 2012
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) introduced legislation Thursday that would provide limited privacy protections to the warrantless wiretapping program secretly adopted under the George W. Bush administration.
The proposal would amend what was initially called the Terrorist Surveillance Program the Bush administration (...)
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Whistleblower, Suspected of Leaking Warrantless Spying Program, Sues NSA - 2 août 2012
A former congressional staffer and NSA whistleblower who the authorities suspected of exposing the George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program is suing the government, saying her constitutional rights are being violated because her computer seized five years ago has never been returned, and the (...)
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Code source Skype diffusé par les Anonymous - 29 juillet 2012
Le groupe de cybercitoyens Anonymous diffuse le code source du logiciel de conversation téléphonique par Internet Skype. Microsoft a acquis, il y a peu, le système/logiciel de communication Skype. De la VoIP qui aura rapporté 8,5 milliards de dollars aux auteurs de cet outil de téléphonie par Internet. Les Anonymous (...)
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NSA Chief Tells Hackers His Agency Doesn’t Create Dossiers on All Americans - 28 juillet 2012
NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander, appearing for the first time at the DefCon hacker conference, told the crowd of hackers and security professionals that his agency "absolutely" does not maintain files on Americans.
Responding to a question from DefCon founder Jeff Moss asking "does the NSA really keep a file on (...)
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Is France about to End Exporting Surveillance Technology ? - 24 juillet 2012
During a public radio show held in Montpellier (France) on july 20th and hosted by public radio FranceCulture and Le Monde, France’s best known and weightiest newspaper, French State Sec. for Digital Economy Fleur Pellerin announced she was opposed to suveillance technology exports to oppressive regimes.
This (...)
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The black box : Inside America’s massive new surveillance centre - 16 juillet 2012
The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and green-grey sagebrush rustles in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It’s the heart of Mormon country, where religious pioneers arrived more than 160 (...)
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The NSA’s warrantless wiretapping is a crime, not a state secret - 10 juillet 2012
As the US will neither affirm nor deny its vast dragnet of phone calls and emails, we must sue to protect our privacy and liberty
This week, cellphone carriers publicly reported that US law enforcement made an astounding 1.3m demands for customer text messages, caller locations, and other information last year. (...)
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NSA : It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You - 19 juin 2012
The surveillance experts at the National Security Agency won’t tell two powerful United States Senators how many Americans have had their communications picked up by the agency as part of its sweeping new counterterrorism powers. The reason : it would violate your privacy to say so.
That claim comes in a short (...)
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Court Wary of Overturning Warrantless Spy Case Victory, But Might Have To - 2 juin 2012
A federal appeals court appeared troubled Friday by the Obama administration’s arguments that the government could break domestic spying laws without fear of being sued "” and that the government’s argument might be correct, due to an oversight by Congress.
A two-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (...)
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Les USA révèlent les mots-clés surveillés sur Internet - 2 juin 2012
Le département de la sécurité intérieure des USA a communiqué la liste des mots-clés surveillés par les agences de renseignements américains, suite à une requête basée sur la loi pour la liberté d’information. Les termes couvrent de nombreux sujets, mais sont considérés comme trop vagues, variés et ambigus par les groupes (...)
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Congress Looking Happy to Reauthorize Broad, Secret Spying Powers - 31 mai 2012
House lawmakers of both stripes in a Thursday hearing seemed amenable to the Obama administration’s request to continue giving the government broad, warrantless electronic surveillance powers over American citizens "” though some suggested Americans or at least members of Congress deserved to know how many people (...)
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Feds Want Warrantless Spying Loss Overturned, Saying the Law Can’t Touch Them - 31 mai 2012
The Obama administration is set to argue to a federal appeals court Friday that the government may breach, with impunity, domestic spying laws adopted in the wake of President Richard M. Nixon’s Watergate scandal.
The case tests whether Americans may seek recourse or monetary damages when a sitting U.S. president (...)
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London’s Burning Over Government Surveillance Plans - 18 mai 2012
Officials in the UK want to give law enforcement organizations the ability monitor certain aspects of all electronic communications. The proposal wouldn’t let police read a message’s actual content without a warrant, but they would be able to learn who sent it, who received it, how long it was and the place from (...)
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Pentagon to expand cybersecurity program for defense contractors - 14 mai 2012
The Pentagon is expanding and making permanent a trial program that teams the government with Internet service providers to protect defense firms’ computer networks against data theft by foreign adversaries.
It is part of a larger effort to broaden the sharing of classified and unclassified cyberthreat data (...)
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Les liens entre Google et la NSA peuvent rester secrets - 12 mai 2012
Ni Google ni la NSA n’ont l’obligation de dévoiler la nature précise des liens qui les unissent. La justice a considéré que les statuts spéciaux de l’agence de renseignement américaine couvraient également le partenariat tissé avec le moteur de recherche peu après les cyberattaques chinoises ayant visé plusieurs entreprises (...)
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Google et les services secrets américains n’auront pas à dévoiler leurs liens - 12 mai 2012
L’agence de renseignement ultra-secrète américaine NSA n’a pas l’obligation de révéler la nature de ses liens avec Google, a confirmé vendredi la justice américaine. La cour d’appel de Washington a jugé que les statuts spéciaux de l’Agence de sécurité nationale (NSA) lui permettaient de garder secret tout arrangement avec le (...)
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Mozilla Slams CISPA, Breaking Silicon Valley’s Silence On Cybersecurity Bill - 4 mai 2012
While the Internet has been bristling with anger over the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, the Internet industry has been either silent or quietly supportive of the controversial bill. With one exception.
Late Tuesday, Mozilla’s Privacy and Public Policy lead sent me the following statement : (...)
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Foreign spies ’penetrate’ US military networks - 24 mars 2012
Foreign spies should be assumed to have penetrated the computer networks of the US military, American politicians have been told.
Security experts testifying to the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee said the penetration was likely so complete that attempts to curb it should stop.
Instead, cyberdefence should be (...)
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New Interest in Hacking as Threat to Security - 14 mars 2012
During the five-month period between October and February, there were 86 reported attacks on computer systems in the United States that control critical infrastructure, factories and databases, according to the Department of Homeland Security, compared with 11 over the same period a year ago.
None of the attacks (...)
