ABC News: FBI Spy System Performs Instant Wiretaps - Foiled by Skype
“The released documents suggest that the FBI’s wiretapping engineers are struggling with peer-to-peer telephony provider Skype, which offers no central location to wiretap.”
Big Brother Surveillance State Being Set Up Around You Now
Antiwar Radio MP3 Podcast Interview with Charlie Savage.
Related article: “US doles out millions for street cameras“
The Raw Story | US spy satellites to be used on Americans
‘Information from “some of the U.S.’s most powerful intelligence-gathering tools” will soon be at the disposal of a wide array of law enforcement agencies at all levels of government, reports Robert Block in the Journal Wednesday.’
See Who’s Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company’s machines. In this case, the changes came from an IP address reserved for the corporate offices of Diebold itself.
New York Surveillance Camera Players
‘Only someone completely distrustful of all government
would be opposed to what we are doing with surveillance cameras.’
– NYC Police Commissioner Howard Safir, 27 July 1999.
The Surveillance Camera Players: Completely distrustful of all government.
Website | Antiwar Radio MP3 Podcast Interview
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Malaysia cracks down on bloggers
“The Malaysian government has warned it could use tough anti-terrorism laws against bloggers who insult Islam or the country’s king.”
US Senators call for universal Internet filtering | Press Esc
“US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order to protect children at the end of a Senate hearing for which civil liberties groups were not invited.”
Software Inspector - Secunia
Feature Overview - The Secunia Software Inspector:
* Detects insecure versions of applications installed
* Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied
* Assists you in updating your system and applications
* Runs through your browser. No installation or download is required.
Japanese P2P leak cop fired | The Register
“The ex-copper, who has not been named, lost his job with the Tokyo Police Department over the leak of personal details of 12,000 people obtained during the course of criminal investigations. The hapless plod apparently installed the Winny file-sharing software onto his PC, blissfully unaware that confidential data was being made available to other users via the P2P network.”
Is a World Currency Realistic? Global Money and DGC On NPR | Digital Money World
“In an interview on National Public Radio in the United States Benn Steil, an economist for the Council on Foreign Relations says most national currencies should be eliminated because they end up being manipulated by politicians, and do more economic harm than good.”
Will security firms detect police spyware? | CNET News.com
“A recent federal court decision raises the question of whether antivirus companies may intentionally overlook spyware that is secretly placed on computers by police.”
The return of the ransom-ware Trojan | The Register
“Virus writers are revisiting the tactic of holding data on compromised machines to ransom with a new strain of so-called “ransom-ware” Trojan.”
European court protects file sharers | The Register
“European telcos and ISPs do not have to hand over subscriber information to record labels which are trying to find file sharers.”
IEEE Spectrum: The Athens Affair - Cell Phone Snooping
“How some extremely smart hackers pulled off the most audacious cell-network break-in ever.”
French collective society sues Open Source P2P Azurerus for 16 Million Euros | EDRI
The French collective society for phonogram producers representing the independent labels started a legal action against P2P software producers Azurerus for 16 Million Euros.
BetaNews | E-mail Account Holders Have Right to Privacy, Appeals Court Upholds
“A US federal appeals court yesterday upheld a district court ruling in favor of an individual whose e-mail records were copied by government investigators from servers at Yahoo and another ISP. In finding that the government violated Steven Warshak’s Fourth Amendments rights against unreasonable search and seizure, it may have prevented the government from loosely applying a key tool in its ability to obtain e-mail records without a warrant: the Stored Communications Act (SCA).”
Slashdot | Users Rage Against China’s ‘Great Firewall’
“Yang’s fury erupted a few days ago when he found he could not browse his friend’s holiday snaps on Flickr.com, due to access restrictions by censors after images of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre were posted on the photo-sharing Web site.”
Wired News: Why Smart Cops Do Dumb Things | Wired
Much of our country’s [Editor: authors country: USA] counterterrorism security spending is not designed to protect us from the terrorists, but instead to protect our public officials from criticism when another attack occurs.
Insidious New Exit Tax May Cost Expats Dearly | Sovereign Society
Congress is on the verge of passing an outrageous law that would impose the first-ever “exit tax” on expatriates (former U.S. citizens or long-term residents).
Adobe Reader update lances multiple bugs | The Register
Adobe has fixed a security vulnerability in its Reader software that created a mechanism for hackers to commandeer vulnerable systems… Users tricked into opening malformed PDF documents might be exposed to malware. Credit for discovering the bug goes to security researcher Piotr Bania.
