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I'd like to know if you have any recommendations for an e-Mail service, which encrypts mails and data secure and reliable. I'm currently on gmx,which I find very unfortunate. Are there services that have there own client(app)? I'm also willing to spend a few bucks if it is necessary. Have a nice day
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Post at /. ... This doesn't bode well. Hopefully they can get these bugs fixed ASAP and get everything back up to normal. I'm still mining away personally, as I expect this to go away once the bugs are indeed fixed. It's sad that DDoS' are being abused so much these days. I'm hoping someone comes up with a way to fix it soon. I know, I know. It probably can't be fixed because of it's nature, or the required investment needed to fix it, but still. I can hope. Maybe I should move to a different exchange. The big ones seem to be more dangerous now even though they are more established. Or sell my coin on Ebay. That's an option. What do my fellow miners think? -
Hello guys, https://thedaywefightback.org/ is holding a campaign against the NSA's invasion of privacy and they want you to press Congress with emails and phone calls opposing FISA Improvements Act and support the USA Freedom Act on February 11. Here is what is on their website: Sorry for the bad copy and paste.
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The Guardian reported, from the latest Snowden's leak it seems NSA and GCHQ can take advantage from the transmitted private information across the internet from "leaky" smartphone apps like Angry Birds, collected a large amount of private information from it. Some App producers like Rovio, responded that they had no knowledge of any NSA or GCHQ programs looking to extract data from its apps users. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/nsa-gchq-smartphone-app-angry-birds-personal-data -
Original article: http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/27/5350714/new-nsa-documents-reveal-massive-data-collection-from-mobile-apps More from NSA... doesn't surprise me that much but i find these methods of acquiring data quite interesting. -
This is my first news-report here on the forum, and I'm not fluently English, so bear that in mind. The "Chaos Computer Club" (short: CCC) presses charges against the German government, the "Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution", the president of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (German secret service) and the Miltary Counterintelligence. This happens because of the leaks that Snowden provided, it is certain that domestic and foreign secret services violate laws. In particular they accuse the government and constitution protection of violating three laws: - § 99 StGB (StGB: German criminal code): forbidden secret service agent activity - § 201 StGB: violation of personal life and secret area - § 258 StGB: obstruction of justice. In addition to this, they also demand to be Snowden as witness with safe-conduct, as well as effective protection against extradiction to the U.S. This is just a short summary. The source ist computerbase.de, in German of course. I shared this with you, because, as far as I know, this is the first case that a government gets officialy accused of those things on the basis of the leaks. What are your thoughts about this?
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So I was sitting in Social Studies or History for some of you. We're learning about the constitution blah blah blaah. Then I hear "NSA". I instantly start paying some attention. My teacher asked who knows what the NSA is. I'm the only one that raised my hand. It's too bad we didn't go into depth,really I was disappointed, all he said was they were spying on american citizens. Now all the kids in my class are scared of the internet...greeaat. They still LOVE their iPhones though...not a single android in my class besides me. I know a lot of you are in school,do your teachers talk about the NSA? -
This video explanes very interesting mathematical implications and explenations for NSA cracking. I didn't fully understand the math but the implications are very interesting:
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25515948 (I don't know whether it works outside the UK, if someone posts below I will update this) (also available at if you're outside the UK (blocked by Channel4 in the UK) or http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/video-watch-whistleblower-edward-snowden-2958139 ) Edward Snowden made a speech broadcast to the world today which compared the spying which takes place today by the intelligence agencies to the spying which took place in George Orwell's Novel "1984", and said that this is far worse than Orwell imagined when he wrote the book because we carry our mobile phones, and therefore their means of spying on us, around everywhere we go. He said that Which is a very bold statement, which is not entirely true, but probably closer to the truth than we'd all like to think. One day, the governments of the world will hopefully realise that spying on their own people will alienate a lot more people than it will appease by making them feel safer. -
So they have found way past almost every consumer electronics. Not even surprised. Link to original article. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html -
According to the latest leaked NSA documents, NSA claimed they have 100% success rate on installing spyware on to the iPhone, and access all the data within the iPhone. An NSA program called DROPOUTJEEP allows the agency to intercept SMS messages, access contact lists, locate a phone using cell tower data, and even activate the device’s microphone and camera. The documents also suggested that the NSA needs physical access to a device to install the spyware—something the agency has achieved by rerouting shipments of devices purchased online—but a remote version of the exploit is also in the works. Another reason not to buy the iPhone.... for those who didn't like Apple..... http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/12/30/the-nsa-reportedly-has-total-access-to-your-iphone/ http://www.dailydot.com/politics/nsa-backdoor-iphone-access-camera-mic-appelbaum/
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Original Article: http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/30/5256636/nsa-tailored-access-jacob-appelbaum-speech-30c3 The guy believes that they are still doing it and if they are doing it since 2007, we are way more fu***d now.
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Today, I stumbled across an article that claims that Canada's NSA "equivalent" has been recording/keeping data on the countries citizens. I won't include my opinion in this post, to avoid an argument. Original article here:http://www.dailydot.com/news/canada-nsa-csec-cse-incidentally-tracking-own-citizens/?utm_content=buffer6d8c4&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer Sorry if this was reposted...I tried searching this topic on the forums and didn't come across anything, so I think I'm in the clear. -
Empty promises or genuine concern? http://rt.com/news/un-resolution-worldwide-surveillance-476/
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The NSA has teamed up with Google to enslave the world and kick puppies again. The latest leak to spring from the increasingly troubled US intelligence and counter-terrorism agency is a set of leaked presentation slides showing that the NSA and Britain's GCHQ are using the Google advertising cookie known as "PREF" to pinpoint a certain PC and carry out hacking attempts against the target. The cookie is publicly used to let "Google track users to personalize their ad experience" and can be picked up from Google itself or any third party website that happens to use embedded Google services. It's not known if Google was involved or even knew about this usage model for its cookie and Google has declined to comment so far. At the very least this lends validity to Microsoft's Scroogled campaign and might even move a few of those horrid coffee mugs. The original article comes from Nathan Ingraham for The Verge.
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In the latest leak from Snowden it is reviled that the NSA keeps a record of what porn some people watch. The reason for saving this is so that they can use it to harm the reputation of people the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches. Six of the targets (all being Muslims) are being used as examples of how the NSA exposes their sexual fetishes as an attempt to undermine their credibility. Basically, they are trying to go "Don't blow up out buildings please, look, your leader is looking at porn! Don't take orders from someone who looks at porn!". I wonder how many peoples' porn habits they are monitoring. Source: Huffingtonpost -
I don't know if this has already been posted, but the NSA has been reported, from a document dating back to 2008, spying on gamers in MMORPGs like WOW and Second Life. Original article here: http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/9/5191338/nsa-gchq-videogame-spying-leaked-documents Moderators: Feel free to delete this if it's a repost. Also, I put in general discussion because it could really go anywhere. Forgot to include: Reason for spying was to investigate and look for possible terrorist negotiations in the online world. Won't post my opinion so I don't start any wars on the forums. Thanks for reading!
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The Tenth Amendment Center, a constitutional/libertarian think tank, spells out the how and why of eliminating expansion of the NSA and other federal enforcers by states passing legislation making it unlawful for a state to assist the feds. The article points to NSA data centers that requires massive amounts of water for cooling. This water happens to be provided by the individual states housing these data centers and if this legislation were to pass it would be unlawful for the state to continue to provide water to NSA data centers. http://benswann.com/breaking-national-think-tank-launches-attack-on-nsa-the-secret-to-killing-it-water/#ixzz2kMuPbhOY
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Brandon Downey, a security engineer with Google switched against the NSA when he found out that they tapped into Google's Network. This is what he said: Original Post: The Verge Edit: Mike Hearn also a security engineer with Google based in Switzerland supports Brandon Downey's "Fuck You" comment to the NSA Props goes to Ethnod for linking to Mike Hearn's post -
Yup, i said it. Can someone please explain me all the buzz about the NSA? It doesn't make sense to me. Is the government watching my secret porn stash or what is going on? Thx in advance
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A developer at /DEV/TTYS0 downloaded firmware 1.13 for his DIR-100 revA and decided to reverse engineer it a bit. What he found appears to be a backdoor. If you change your browser's useragent to "xmlset_roodkcableoj28840ybtide" without the quotes, you can access the web GUI of the router without having to type in a password or username. Basically, if you use a D-Link router's firmware which has this function, anyone can access your network and basically do anything to you (change password on the network and kick you out, redirect you to scam sites, monitor your traffic etc). If you read the user agent backwards it says "JoelBackDoor" so it's obvious that this was put in the firmware on purpose. It seems like these models are affected: DIR-100 DI-524 DI-524UP DI-604S DI-604UP DI-604+ TM-G5240 BRL-04UR BRL-04CW But there is no telling if other routers has this as well. It's worth noting that this is an old firmware, but what makes me wonder is, why would they add this and if they used to add it in their old firmwares, are they adding it in their new ones as well? So, what purpose do you people think this backdoor has and do you think other manufacturers and/or newer versions of the firmware also has backdoors like this? This is what worried me as soon as I started hearing about the NSA implementing backdoors into closed source software. If the backdoors are exposed, then even your average Joe could potentially wreak havoc on other peoples' equipment. Source: /DEV/TTYS0 Some TP-Link routers also has a bug (not sure if this one is actually intended to be a backdoor like the D-Link one) which lets you remotely access the router with root privileges by sending a simple HTTP request which then starts a TFTP transfer from the host computer to the router, and then executes the file as root. More info about that here: Sekurak
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If you are interested in spying and the UK spying program check out BBC news now or it should be on iplayer too
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Denmark is a part of the inner circles of cooperation with the NSA. According to documents from the former NSA employees Edward Snowden , as the British newspaper The Guardian has seen. The cooperation , as Denmark is a part of, is called "The 9-eye" , and the level of cooperation is the second highest and ranks Denmark over a number of key European allies . In the past week, the focus of the NSA scandal was the cooperation between the United States and various European intelligence services - the content of both Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Minister of Justice Morten Bødskov has refused to comment on . The new revelations about the structure of intelligence cooperation , the U.S. intelligence services located at the top is led by NSA. Picture: The danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, and the U.S president, Barack Obama. The next step is the English speaking countries , Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand which is "The 5 -eye". This designation is according to Canadian research document an abbreviation of "AUS / CAN / NZ / UK / U.S. EYES ONLY" and is also about which countries may see certain classified information. The five countries have since the conclusion of the UKUSA Agreement in 1946 had a special , close cooperation with the United States , and Snowden documents have previously revealed how the U.S. directly fund parts of the British intelligence service GCHQ. I previously asked a question about the NSA and how it affects people. I live in Denmark and never thought NSA would be an issue here, but i guess i was more than wrong. This was in the news this morning. What are your thoughts of this? Source: Danish news website http://www.information.dk/477364
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/08/01/usb-security/ “These problems can’t be patched,” says Nohl. “We’re exploiting the very way that USB is designed… You can give it to your IT security people, they scan it, delete some files, and give it back to you telling you it’s ‘clean’ but the cleaning process doesn’t even touch the files we’re talking about.” Ok, this is getting ridiculous. Now you can not trust on pretty much anything or anyone. Can't be patched too, and what is preventing the NSA or any other organization from already have infected the new USB that are coming into the market, the very machine used to test memory sticks before they are shipped could be infected too. The only way around this I see is to use a Device to read any USB memories you get from other people, and then transmit the data through network to your PC. As long as you keep any USB devices away from your PC, you should be fine. Makes me wonder if lightning or e-SATA have similar issues.
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I know, that this topic is not directly related to tech-news... but in my opinion a proof, that all the US-anti-terror laws were were never about terror but about data. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/government-agents-directly-involved-us-terror-plots-report
