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FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by busymom0 »

koheripbal wrote: post #279
fareesh wrote: post #205

The FBI has shown that it will doctor emails in order to get FISA warrants. This fact is subverted by the narrative that one person was caught doing it, as if to imply that he woke up one morning and chose to do it all on his own.

source?

The IG Horowitz report from December 2019. FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith doctored a email from the cia which originally said Carter page was a CIA source and he changed it to he was not a source which made a huge difference because if courts had known Carter Page was a cia source, then the FISA warrants and 3 renewals on him would have not ever been issued. Carter Page was helping his own country and working for the CIA. But Kevin Clinesmith turned it the opposite. And as expected Clinesmith got no jail time.

> In Nov. 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz issued a criminal referral for Clinesmith’s role in the FBI’s surveillance of Carter Page. According to Horowitz’s final report on FISA abuse, Clinesmith–identified as “Office of General Counsel attorney“–altered an email used in a surveillance renewal application.

> According to Horowitz, an FBI “Supervisory Special Agent 2” had requested “a definitive answer to whether Page had ever been a source for another U.S. government agency before he signed the final renewal application” of the third FISA warrant application seeking to maintain the wiretap on the former Trump 2016 campaign advisor.

> A Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) liaison told Clinesmith that Page “did, in fact, have a prior relationship with that other agency,” the IG report continued. Clinesmith, however, “altered the liaison’s email by inserting the words ‘not a source’ into it, thus making it appear that the liaison had said that Page was ‘not a source’ for the other agency” and passed it along to the FBI’s supervisory agent.

> “Relying upon this altered email, [Clinesmith] signed the third renewal application that again failed to disclose Page’s past relationship with the other agency,” Horowitz concluded.

> Horowitz’s report also showed that although the CIA told the FBI in August 2016 about Page’s relationship with the CIA, the FBI left that out in the initial FISA application, filed in September 2016.

> The report said the first FISA application left out that Page had been approved as an “operational contact” for the CIA from 2008 to 2013 and that he had had “provided information to the other agency concerning his prior contacts with certain Russian intelligence officers.”

> That information “overlapped with facts asserted in the FISA application,” according to Horowitz’s report. The FISA warrant application on Page also left out that the CIA had given Page a “positive assessment,” the report said.

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/120919-e...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-fbi-lawyer-ke...

Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by pfranz »

mc32 wrote: post #8

Oh boy, that ever useful boogeyman >“In December 2019, the Washington Post reported that Elbakyan was being investigated by the US Justice Department on suspicion that she “may” be working with Russian intelligence to “steal U.S. military secrets...” When you start trotting that out, you know it’s a witch-hunt because if they had real reasons they’d have stated them, since they don’t they offer vague insinuations cou…

> And whatever happened to Apple who refused to work with FBI on the San Bernardino shooter but here is only happy to comply in a much less interesting case?

For a bunch of years Apple was slowly moving in a direction where they couldn't offer encryption keys to law enforcement because only customers had access to encryption keys. I'm not sure if it was publicly announced or just internally planned, but they were planning to do it for iCloud backups, too, but never went through with it. Reporting says it was in cooperation with the FBI.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/21/apple-dropped-plan-for-encry...

Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by freebuju »

koheripbal wrote: post #278
MathYouF wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of you people really listen to podcasts and youtube videos and lectures at more than 1x speed? What about just enjoying the emotional journey, the pregnant pauses, having time to consider possibilities and implications between narrative sections? I only ever met one person who basically always sped up any media they consumed, but I wonder if it's more common and if so what you think about your habit. Seems useful…

I speed up most. It allows me to fit them into a commute.

Why not slim down the number of podcasts?

Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by CRConrad »

dredmorbius wrote: post #175
gowld wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're being misleadingly pedantic. This article is about people who are US citizens abroad, or foreigners who came to USA or who are under the jurisdiction (imprisonment) of territory controlled by the USA government. Non-resident non-citizen non-present people violating US national security (rightly or wrongly, that's per the government's judgment) don't have Constitutional rights.

Statutory or case law citation requested.

But first, please, citation on how this "statutory or case law" could apply in the first place. It has no more jurisdiction over the kind of people described than the constitution. (Neither, of course, does the original claim that they violated US law.)

This American habit of claiming global hegemony for American law is, on the whole, about equally fucking annoying whichever side it comes from: Yank law enforcement blithely assuming a right to arrest someone who's never set foot in America isn't really all that much worse than Yank liberals who leap to the conclusion that the only defense such victims have is the Holy Constitution.

Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by CRConrad »

0x5f3759df-i wrote: post #228
Sleepytime wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet they have no hesitation to use the entire national security apparatus to chase a foreign national around the world for publishing some scientific papers.

An American law enforcement agency requesting data from an American company is a far cry from "chasing a foreign national around the world". I think it's a waste of time as much as anyone else but Sci-hub is clearly against US law. Just because you disagree with the value of a law enforcement action doesn't mean you are living in a "police state"

> Sci-hub is clearly against US law.

Sci-hub has nothing to do with US law.

> Just because you disagree with the value of a law enforcement action doesn't mean you are living in a "police state"

Uncritically buying one's national government's claim to global jurisdiction, justifying "law enforcement actions" against foreign citizens in foreign lands in the frigging first place, on the other hand...

That seems to indicate some kind of successful indoctrination into a pro-police-state mindset.

Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by CRConrad »

aeontech wrote: post #26
shockeychap wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So why hasn't end-to-end encryption been utilized for years with the storage of email and other files, like they do with iMessage content?

You can certainly use E2E encryption (ie, S/MIME) for your email, whether it's using Apple Mail or not. I'm not sure what you suggest Apple can do about it if you don't use PGP/GPG on your side though (and yes, you can use S/MIME for email both with iOS and macOS). How Apple CloudKit security works is documented [0] and what Apple can provide to the law enforcement is pretty easily googleable [1], and has been subjec…

> You can certainly use E2E encryption (ie, S/MIME) for your email, whether it's using Apple Mail or not. I'm not sure what you suggest Apple can do about it if you don't use PGP/GPG on your side though (and yes, you can use S/MIME for email both with iOS and macOS).

What Apple could do seems fairly obvious: Build it into their mail client and enable it by default, no?

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Post by avh02 »

MathYouF wrote: post #276
avh02 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

waaaaay too slow talking to be at 1x speed. I don't listen to podcasts that fast, but darknet diaries definitely needs a speed bump. I like the episodes I've listened to though (so far only 5-10 of them)

All of you people really listen to podcasts and youtube videos and lectures at more than 1x speed? What about just enjoying the emotional journey, the pregnant pauses, having time to consider possibilities and implications between narrative sections? I only ever met one person who basically always sped up any media they consumed, but I wonder if it's more common and if so what you think about your habit. Seems useful…

personally, i listen to mostly informational podcasts (darknet diaries, select episodes of freakonomics, selfhosted, etc) - even if there's a story setup to it, it's not really what i'm there for - i'm not a genius or anything but usually don't need an artificial pause and consideration time - if i really need it i'll pause it myself or rewind briefly to listen to something again. I tend to listen to podcasts when i can't be doing anything else (waiting rooms, airplanes, maybe commuting, etc)

However, i'm not a 2x'er - i'll do 1.2-1.5 depending on who's talking - some others (in my weaker languages) i'll do at 0.8x

Personally not a fan of music between sections or artificial reflective moments ("did you get that?! wow...") or trying to make things grandiose. Though i guess i wouldn't like a monotonous drone either.

Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by ikerdanzel »

piokoch wrote: post #54
mc32 wrote: post #8

Oh boy, that ever useful boogeyman >“In December 2019, the Washington Post reported that Elbakyan was being investigated by the US Justice Department on suspicion that she “may” be working with Russian intelligence to “steal U.S. military secrets...” When you start trotting that out, you know it’s a witch-hunt because if they had real reasons they’d have stated them, since they don’t they offer vague insinuations cou…

I am only surprised child porn has not been found on her computer yet. And there is no report from some hotel room cleaner that he or she was raped by Elbakyan. Those "stolen" military secrets published in journals anyone can purchase for a few bucks does not even sounds scary. Apparently FBI got lazy these days, maybe because of all that Covid mess.

For past 3 years, way before pandemic, FBI has already earn the butt joke nationally. Now, we don't even want to talk about it. Think of it as a past the prime stand up comedian.

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Post by thinkmassive »

shockeychap wrote: post #48
thinkmassive wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because 99.9999999% of emails are not encrypted before being sent.

True. But I’m not talking about end-to-end between sender and receiver. I’m just talking about using public key encryption to encrypt received contents with one key and decrypt with another. There are a lot of technical challenges - particularly with maintaining compatibility with email clients - but it can be done. The inability of MTAs to negotiate and utilize any kind of SSL-style encryption when relaying messages…

According to Google, 82% of outbound email to other providers, and 93% of inbound from other providers, is encrypted in transit.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview

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