For you who may not know this guy yet. Adam Ruins Everything.

Adam ruins the internet.

The compressed view screen inside the main screen thing is sort of dumb though.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39490324

"The idea that all ISPs should be required to spy on citizens and hold the data for six months is appalling."

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39490324

"The idea that all ISPs should be required to spy on citizens and hold the data for six months is appalling."

Doesn't matter the NSA has the same information and more. Do you think it's safe?

kv

 

https://thenextweb.com/security/201...pper-cias-windows-hacking-tool/#.tnw_L8uj3Lsp

In case you haven’t had your dose of paranoia fuel today, WikiLeaks released new information concerning a CIA malware program called “Grasshopper,” that specifically targets Windows.
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As if this wasn’t alarming enough, the Grasshopper user guide even states upfront that Grasshopper uses bits from a toolkit taken from Russian organized crime.

Russian stooges.

 

https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/longhorn-tools-used-cyberespionage-group-linked-vault-7

Spying tools and operational protocols detailed in the recent Vault 7 leak have been used in cyberattacks against at least 40 targets in 16 different countries by a group Symantec calls Longhorn. Symantec has been protecting its customers from Longhorn’s tools for the past three years and has continued to track the group in order to learn more about its tools, tactics, and procedures.

The tools used by Longhorn closely follow development timelines and technical specifications laid out in documents disclosed by WikiLeaks. The Longhorn group shares some of the same cryptographic protocols specified in the Vault 7 documents, in addition to following leaked guidelines on tactics to avoid detection. Given the close similarities between the tools and techniques, there can be little doubt that Longhorn's activities and the Vault 7 documents are the work of the same group.

Who is Longhorn?
Longhorn has been active since at least 2011. It has used a range of back door Trojans in addition to zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise its targets. Longhorn has infiltrated governments and internationally operating organizations, in addition to targets in the financial, telecoms, energy, aerospace, information technology, education, and natural resources sectors. All of the organizations targeted would be of interest to a nation-state attacker.

Longhorn has infected 40 targets in at least 16 countries across the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Africa. On one occasion a computer in the United States was compromised but, following infection, an uninstaller was launched within hours, which may indicate this victim was infected unintentionally.

 

This isn't necessarily about privacy, but it does show how the internet........and now, any information on it, is being manipulated.

So that next time you go to your favorite news site.........you might be the only one reading it.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/14/facebook-discovers-major-spam-operation-usa-today-likes-plummet/

 

https://arstechnica.com/security/20...rs-just-dumped-its-most-damaging-release-yet/

The Shadow Brokers—the mysterious person or group that over the past eight months has leaked a gigabyte worth of the National Security Agency's weaponized software exploits—just published its most significant release yet. Friday's dump contains potent exploits and hacking tools that target most versions of Microsoft Windows and evidence of sophisticated hacks on the SWIFT banking system of several banks across the world.

The exploits governments use are in the wild.

https://medium.com/@msuiche/the-nsa-compromised-swift-network-50ec3000b195

The last time a nation-state used multiple 0days to target another country’s critical infrastructure was when Stuxnet was launched targeting Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. NSAs modus operandi is to gain total access and hack , using multiple 0days, an entire infrastructure of the intended target. In this case, if Shadow Brokers claims are indeed verified, it seems that the NSA sought to totally capture the backbone of international financial system to have a God’s eye into a SWIFT Service Bureau — and potentially the entire SWIFT network. This would fit within standard procedure as a covert entity entrusted with covert actions that may or may not be legal in a technical sense. If the US had a specific target in the region’s financial system, NSA penetration offers redundancy and other options than merely relying upon good faith compliance procedures, standard diplomatic requests, or collaborating with SWIFT Service Bureau.

 

I just heard this one with one ear so I may not have it totally correct.
Seems like the police were working on a case and had a DNA sample but no suspect and no match. So they sought a subpoena on Ancestory dot com for a match in their database.

 

The FBI probably owns Ancestry.........The CIA has always owned the phone companies. Everyone knows that.

 

@ronv

It was on Forensic Files tonight. They had a good biological sample. It wasn't in any of the normal databases they searched, but at that time, Ancestry made their database public. Since then, Ancestry made their database private and that case is the only one where they responded to a police request. All requests now require a court order.

The suspect where 34 of 35 markers were identified from a family member, was cleared. In fact he joined the murdered girl's mother to free one person from jail with the case and the three of them will continue to pursue justice to find the killer of that woman's daughter. It was twenty years ago.

Nothing prevents the police from buying your data from whatever seller is pandering it. You could do the same ... as could I, but I'm not that interested in such nonsense.

 

The FBI probably owns Ancestry.

You would be wrong. Ancestry is an out growth of the Mormon Church.

The CIA has always owned the phone companies. Everyone knows that.

Listen to Alex Jones much?

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-fbi...r-who-gave-top-secret-documents-to-wikileaks/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikilea...or-calling-it-a-hostile-intelligence-service/

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-fbi...r-who-gave-top-secret-documents-to-wikileaks/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikilea...or-calling-it-a-hostile-intelligence-service/

Bet they catch this one.

 

Bet they catch this one.

I would suspect the person that did it is long gone if it was a contractor.

 

I would suspect the person that did it is long gone if it was a contractor.

I didn't think you could hide from the CIA.
Do you think the guy that did it, do it for money or did he think he was a patriot?
Can Wikileaks pay enough to make it worth the risk?

 

I didn't think you could hide from the CIA.
Do you think the guy that did it, do it for money or did he think he was a patriot?
Can Wikileaks pay enough to make it worth the risk?

Knowing and getting are two separate issues (Snowden). Wikileaks is a conduit not a procurer. (information pimp)
Why did 'he' do it? Mad at his girl or boyfriend, who knows. A patriot? What the hell is that today?

 

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/bose-headphones-spy-listeners-lawsuit-174749975--finance.html

(Reuters) - Bose Corp spies on its wireless headphone customers by using an app that tracks the music, podcasts and other audio they listen to, and violates their privacy rights by selling the information without permission, a lawsuit charged.

The complaint filed on Tuesday by Kyle Zak in federal court in Chicago seeks an injunction to stop Bose's "wholesale disregard" for the privacy of customers who download its free Bose Connect app from Apple Inc or Google Play stores to their smartphones.

"People should be uncomfortable with it," Christopher Dore, a lawyer representing Zak, said in an interview. "People put headphones on their head because they think it's private, but they can be giving out information they don't want to share."

 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11842034

The highly secretive meeting being held in Queenstown this weekend is a gathering of intelligence and security agencies related to the Five Eyes spying network, the Herald understands.

Among the people believed to be attending are Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Mike Pompeo.

It is understood about 15 agencies which carry out intelligence for Five Eyes - the spying partnership of the United States, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and New Zealand - are attending the conference.

 

https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28...d-americans-communications-without-a-warrant/

The “upstream” surveillance program is one of two controversial programs authorized by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is scheduled to expire in December unless it is reauthorized by Congress. It was among several programs whose existence was a secret until being revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Until now, upstream was examining every Internet communication that traveled on the huge telecommunication cables going in and out of the U.S., searching through every word, grabbing sometimes very big chunks of data that included even a single mention of a specific target, and then putting everything into a database for NSA analysts to look through.
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The change does not affect the other major program that operates under Section 702, called Prism. That program warrantlessly harvests communications to and from foreign targets from major Internet companies like Facebook and Google. But like upstream, Prism “incidentally” sweeps up innocent Americans’ communications as well. Those are then entered into a master database that a Justice Department lawyer once described as the “FBI’s ‘Google’ of its lawfully acquired information.” Critics call those “backdoor searches” of warrantless surveillance.

https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/press-room/statements/2017-04-28-702-statement.shtml

After considerable evaluation of the program and available technology, NSA has decided that its Section 702 foreign intelligence surveillance activities will no longer include any upstream internet communications that are solely "about" a foreign intelligence target. Instead, this surveillance will now be limited to only those communications that are directly "to" or "from" a foreign intelligence target. These changes are designed to retain the upstream collection that provides the greatest value to national security while reducing the likelihood that NSA will acquire communications of U.S. persons or others who are not in direct contact with one of the Agency's foreign intelligence targets.

In addition, as part of this curtailment, NSA will delete the vast majority of previously acquired upstream internet communications as soon as practicable.

 

Something to look at: https://myactivity.google.com/