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Yep I'm done, I'll just go about my life from now on... It's total power, I think it's unlikely that they'll want to give up on this kind of power, they'll probably keep signing governments and 'the tech' will eventually be exported and in the hands of governments everywhere, they'll keep building this and they'll create tons of algorythms of course because it's just too much data, any resistance can be crushed... an…
This is brilliant, I love the screenshots: Foreignness factor: The person has stated that he is located outside the U.S. Human intelligence source indicates person is located outside the U.s. The person is a user of storage media seized outside the U.s. Foreign govt indicates that the person is located outside the U.s. Phone number country code indicates the person is located outside the U.s. Phone number is register…
xkeyscore.com leads to Google maps.......just saying o.0
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I would think Silk Road provides enough incentive that if the government could defeat tor hidden services, they would have busted Silk Road.
No way. What you forget is that once they bust it -- then they've REVEALED that they have the capability to do that. Once they've revealed that, then people take account of it, and it becomes harder for the NSA to monitor them. Half of the signals intelligence game is keeping your capabilities secret, so you can keep monitoring the signals, rather than have your target change their game. That is to say, if they can g…
I'm getting seriously irritated at the "I have nothing to hide" crowd. For starters, here are a few ways this can go horribly wrong: * Industrial espionage -- it's big business, and I'm sure it pays better than being an NSA analyst. * Foreign espionage -- since this gives unlimited querying power to every agent, a single "turned" agent could inflict massive damage on U.S. government and industry interests on behalf o…
I completely agree. I got very frustrated talking to two intelligent people (one a lawyer) about this the other day. I think everyone should be educated to make sure they know about these points so that they can intelligently explain them to the "I've got nothing to hide" crowd. The 4th Amendment and the right to privacy just doesn't seem to carry much weight with the average person any longer (if it ever did).
People need to look at this long term and realise that abuses of power will continue to intrude larger and larger sets of the population unless they are stopped now.
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I'd like to know where they are keeping these "over 300 terrorists" that have been captured due to this program. How is one labeled a terrorist by this program I wonder?
>Someone whose language is out of place for the region they are in Check (German browsing in English) >Someone who is using encryption Check (my PGP Key is on my website) >Someone searching the web for suspicious stuff Check (I'm a curious person, what did you expect?) I guess I'm considered a terrorist nowadays.
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> Why would Google (or anyone) link to them directly? with fiber no less! "They have no direct access to our servers" I wonder what a beam splitter consists of. Oh. A PRISM.
Beam splitters are, in general, not prisms. A prism, as traditionally referred-to (and in the NSA PRISM graphic) separates light of different wavelengths. In a signal tap, you want to split the intensity, not the wavelength. In simplest form, telecom signals are at a single wavelength; passing it through a 'Dark side of the moon' prism will only deflect the beam, not split it. When one refers to a beamsplitter, it's…
I wonder how Sencha ( http://www.sencha.com/ ) feels about how the NSA is clearly using their ExtJS framework given the screenshots. I guess this kind of puts different perspective to the whole debate that came from JSMin's "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." clause ( http://wonko.com/post/jsmin-isnt-welcome-on-google-code ) given that conceivably your open source framework might be a significant part of…
>Foreignness factor I know NSA's mandate is to spy on foreigners , but it's still very jingoistic and xenophobic that not being American makes it OK to spy on you.
One could assume that Americans are spied on by foreign governments and the data is just exchanged. The US spies on Brits, the UK spies on US persons, and the both compare notes.
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I think so. Yes. IIRC, the first time I saw this leaked was a combo leak by a Navy Seal and a member of the Executive. The Seal leaked that they powered down Bin Laden's computers to take his hard drives after they shot him. The Executive member said that the drives were encrypted and it would take a few days to get the data. Jihadis are known to use a custom version of PGP with 2048bit RSA keys. They either used tha…
Good info. Do you have any sources online you can point to?
I don't recall the source of the Executive comment. It was kind of buried in a news piece with a broad focus that I read. I'll look for it. Unfortunately, I can't recall the exact language to do a good search and find it. Sorry.
But, here they are saying they have it, it's encrypted, and they can get it in "weeks or months" (despite the large number of drives/filesystems with presumably different keys): http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20059825-10391695.html
The Executive and Legislature couldn't keep something secret to save their lives. And, JSOC leaks like a fucking sieve. If I can't find that particular leak on the web, I'm sure there will be another one soon with the same info. Every guy likes to talk to pretty news reporters and seem important.
Claimed 75%+ success rate attacking Chinese systems: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1260306/edward-sn...
Asrar al-Mujahideen (the Jihadi PGP fork w/ 2048bit RSA): http://www.rbijou.com/2013/03/18/an-overview-of-jihadist-enc...
The news coverage sucks something awful. The thing is having enough knowledge of mil/ir/tech/math to put all the leaks together.