Tag: Privacy
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Gary Busey – Entertainer, Activist
Actor, Musician, Activist “It’s time for American citizens to stand up and pay attention to what we’re here for, and what this country was founded upon…and where it could be going if we, each one of us, does not stand up and write our congressman and senators and let them know we are very concerned with…
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The Edward Snowden guide to encryption: Secret 12-minute homemade video
Snowden made video to teach reporter how to speak with him securely It explains how to use Public Key Encryption to scramble online messages Privacy campaigners call on ordinary people to learn how to use the method +4 Whistleblower: The tutorial Edward Snowden made for reporters on to avoid NSA email surveillance has been made…
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U.N. Calls For ‘Anti-Terror’ Internet Surveillance
United Nations report calls for Internet surveillance, saying lack of “internationally agreed framework for retention of data” is a problem, as are open Wi-Fi networks in airports, cafes, and libraries. The United Nations is calling for more surveillance of Internet users, saying it would help to investigate and prosecute terrorists. A 148-page report (PDF) released…
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Whonix: The Anonymous Operating System
Whonix is an anonymous general purpose operating system based on Virtual Box, Ubuntu GNU/Linux and Tor. By Whonix design, IP and DNS leaks are impossible. Not even malware with root rights can find out the user’s real IP/location. Whonix consists of two machines, which are connected through an isolated network. One machine acts as the…
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The Supreme Court Isn’t Bothered By the NSA’s Warrantless Wiretapping
The Supreme Court refused to hear a case on Tuesday that holds telecom companies accountable for letting the National Security Agency spy on unknowing Americans without a warrant. Dating back to 2006 when the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation first filed the class-action lawsuit, the case accuses AT&T of providing the…
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You Might Be Considered a “Potential Terrorist” By Government Officials If….
Find Out If You Are Doing Things Which Might Be Considered Suspicious There have been so many anti-terrorism laws passed since 9/11 that it is hard to keep up on what kinds of things might get one on a “list” of suspected bad guys. We’ve prepared this quick checklist so you can see if you…
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Micro-Drone: Mosquito Cyborg Spy with On-Board RFID NanoTech
You are looking at an insect spy drone for urban areas, already in production, funded by the US Government. It can be remotely controlled an is equipped with a Camera and Microphone. It can land on you and may have the potential to take a DNA sample, or leave RFID tracking nano-technology on (or…
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Shredding the Constitution: National Detention, Targeted Killing and Spying Cases
Indefinite detention, targeted killing and warrantless wiretapping are hot issues in the courts this week. Here’s the latest: INDEFINITE DETENTION // The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 provision that allows the government to indefinitely detain US citizens without charge or trial is once again in effect, after a Second Circuit Court overturned Judge…
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Keeping the Government Out of Your Smartphone
Smartphones can be a cop’s best friend. They are packed with private information like emails, text messages, photos, and calling history. Unsurprisingly, law enforcement agencies now routinely seize and search phones. This occurs at traffic stops, during raids of a target’s home or office, and during interrogations and stops at the U.S. border. These searches…
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Private Investigator Steven Rambam’s Privacy Post-Mortem: OWS Attendee’s ID’d by Cell Phone Sniffers
While we in the civil liberties community disagree strongly with private investigator Steven Rambam‘s admonition to “Get Over It,” after listening to him describe electronic surveillance powers it’s hard to disagree with the first part of the title of his talk: “Privacy Is Dead.” (Part two of the talk is below.) “Where you work, what…
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TheIntelHub Radio: Max Maverick Guest Appearance on the Bob Tuskin Show
Topics of Discussion: Police State Build Up Surveillance Technology Life After Martial Law Elite Globalist Agenda Specific Solutions for Humanity Bob Tuskin An eternal student of economics, science and the arts. His radio career began at age 15, then with 911 as the backdrop, his activist side began to emerge. An organic gardener, a radio…
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1 Billion Invested: FBI Launches Facial Recognition Project
The Next Generation Identification programme will include a nationwide database of criminal faces and other biometrics “FACE recognition is ‘now’,” declared Alessandro Acquisti of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in a testimony before the US Senate in July. It certainly seems that way. As part of an update to the national fingerprint database, the FBI…
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Cryptoparty Goes Viral: Pen testers, Privacy Geeks Spread Security to the Masses
Security professionals, geeks and hackers around the world are hosting a series of cryptography training sessions for the general public. The ‘crytoparty’ sessions were born in Australia and kicked off last week in Sydney and Canberra along with two in the US and Germany. Information security experts and privacy advocates of all political stripes have…
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PRIVACY SOS: Remote Monitoring & Access, Spy Tech Secretly Embeds Itself In Phones
In 2008, a Reston, VA based corporation called Oceans’ Edge, Inc. applied for a patent. On March, 2012 the company’s application for an advanced mobile snooping technology suite was approved. The patent describes a Trojan-like program that can be secretly installed on mobile phones, allowing the attacker to monitor and record all communications incoming and…
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Fault Lines: Controlling the Web – Mini Documentary by Al Jazeera
In January 2012, two controversial pieces of legislation were making their way through the US Congress. SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, were meant to crack down on the illegal sharing of digital media. The bills were drafted on request of the content industry, Hollywood studios and major…
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#OpBigBrother – EMERGENCY ALERT ABOUT WORLDWIDE SURVEILLANCE FROM ANONYMOUS
For years Anonymous worked hard to protect our world and its peoples. NOW LISTEN CAREFULLY, This is an ALERT ABOUT SURVEILLANCE. Privacy of the people all over the world is suffering more and more outrages. We should not tolerate it. Cameras are everywhere even in our sky, and robots are used to gather and treat…
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Pre-Crime Software Moves One Step Closer to Reality
The era of Big Data is upon us. Major corporations in the areas of advertising, social media, defense contracting, and computing are forming partnerships with government agencies to compile virtual dossiers on all humans. This data integration initiative is taking place across the board in our largest federal agencies and departments as part of an…
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TRAPWIRE: Wikileaks Drops a Surveillance Bombshell – Widescale Facial Recognition & Behavior Pattern Mapping
Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology — and have installed it across the US under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous. Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks across the United States…
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Why I Left Google
Ok, I relent. Everyone wants to know why I left and answering individually isn’t scaling so here it is, laid out in its long form. Read a little (I get to the punch line in the 3rd paragraph) or read it all. But a warning in advance: there is no drama here, no tell-all, no former…
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August 3, 2012 – DCMX Radio: Re-cap Week’s Alternative News, Intro to CyberWar: Viruses, Hacking, & Black Security Breaches, Protecting Your Computer, Securing Your Internet Connection & Maintaining Privacy Online
Cyber Security Industry Explosion, Intelligence Spying, Data-mining, Black-Hats, White-Hats, Gray-Hats abound. Alphabet Agencies, Corrupt Globalist Corporations exploiting your info. Micro Tutorial on Protecting Your Computer, Securing Your Internet Connection, Maintaining ‘some’ Privacy Online http://youtu.be/CxfyIgPHGg4 Every Week Night 12-1am EST (9-10pm PST)
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How To Hack Satellite Internet & Surf Anonymously
A Spanish researcher demos new satellite-hijacking tricks with cybercriminal potential. Satellites can bring a digital signal to places where the Internet seems like a miracle: off-the-grid desert solar farms, the Arctic or an aircraft carrier at sea. But in beaming data to and from the world’s most remote places, satellite Internet may also offer…
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14 Incredibly Creepy Surveillance Technologies That Big Brother Will Be Using To Spy On You
Most of us don’t think much about it, but the truth is that people are being watched, tracked and monitored more today than at any other time in human history. The explosive growth of technology in recent years has given governments, spy agencies and big corporations monitoring tools that the despots and dictators of the…
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Encryption Becomes Illegal In the UK: Jail Time For Failure To Provide Keys
There was some surprise in the comments of yesterday’s post over the fact that the United Kingdom has effectively outlawed encryption: the UK will send its citizens to jail for up to five years if they cannot produce the key to an encrypted data set. First of all, references – the law is here. You…
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Soul Rape: New Scanners Will Instantly Know Everything About You From 50m Away
Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away. From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level…