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Earlier this year, Edward Snowden started to "sue" the Norwegian state. Now, The petition will most likely go to the Supreme Court of Norway. Borgarting Court of Appeal came to the same conclusion as Oslo District Court, that they wont process the case. The reason is that they wont process the case before there is a extradition request from the United States. But United States would not do that before he already was in Norway. For those who don know, the case is that Snowden want to know, if he is safe from being sent to USA because of the extradition law paragraph five. He want to come to Norway to get the price he did win, The Ossietzky Prize. Edward snowden will also have to pay ~2350€ to the state for legal cost. -Vidar Strømme, Snowdens Norwegian Lawyer - Norwegian PEN My opinion: If the petition does not go trough, it is bad, and Snowden probably wont come to Norway. If it does, it would be great, and he probably will come to Norway to pick up his prize. Sources: (in Norwegian) http://www.aftenposten.no/norge/Lagmannsretten-avviser-Snowdens-anke_-na-varsler-hans-advokat-anke-til-Hoyesterett-605542b.html https://www.nrk.no/norge/vil-anke-avvisning-av-snowden-soksmal-til-hoyesterett-1.13154003 http://www.tv2.no/nyheter/8622824/
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The French electronica pioneer Jean Michel Jarre have made a techno song with Edward Snowden. The song is called Exit: Personally, I do not like Techno music, And I dont like this song. Links: Norwegian: http://www.nrk.no/kultur/snowden-gir-ut-technolat-med-jean-michel-jarre-1.12923319 English: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/28/edward-snowden-jean-michel-jarre-song-exit http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/28/11516770/jean-michel-jarre-edward-snowden-song-video-exit
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Before the mods move this (if they are going to) hear me out I think this deserves to be in the tech new. It is based around tech. Its about one of the most important and largest us government data breaches in recent history and i think linus and luke would have an interesting discussion about this and the way the are portraying him in the movie/trailer. Just from the trailer you can already see that they are portraying him as the hero of the people against the government. Hollywood always loves the classic underdog for the people. Which means that the movie will probably be pretty two dimensional and be a good guy vs bad guy movie with not a ton of layers (think Steve jobs movie). I will say the trailer has peaked my interests and i probably will go see it. But i will reserve my full judgement of the movie until i see it. That being said from the trailer it looks like they are simplifying this a bit to much. Which is understandable most likely because the general audience is not tech savvy. But i really do hope they go more in depth.
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source: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20151022IPR98818/html/Mass-surveillance-EU-citizens'-rights-still-in-danger-says-Parliament --- all nice and fluffy, but I don't see Snowden anytime asking for asylum in any of the EU countries that are also NATO member states US Gov is still awaiting for Snowder to return and "face the music" over the leaked documents
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Along with info about how Canada keeps its infrastructure secure, Snowden has revealed that Canadian intelligence has the ability to disable, control, or destroy a target's internet-connected infrastructure with software tools. It can also make attacks look like they been done by someone else to held responsible. With its own infrastructure, the Communication Security Establishment (CSE) has the ability to process 125GB of internet traffic per hour for intelligence, and store 300TB at a time. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/24/snowden_dossier_details_canadian_spies_running_false_flag_operations_online/
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Der Spiegel has just released a report on new documents from Edward Snowden, detailing even more of the NSA's antics. It's kind of a long read, but the TL;DR version is much the same as the rest of the Snowden leaks: the NSA likes haxxoring, finding every way to collect all the datas and ideally leaving no trace. None of this comes as a huge surprise, which in itself is a sad and scary prospect, but there are some new details that I imagine will ruffle the feathers of the international community; especially some of the US's closest allies. On to some of my thoughts in the article: They have tapped into other countries' intelligence networks to collect that countries' data. The NSA went with the 'I Drink Your Milkshake' reference; I propose, 'SIGINT-CEPTION' They're working hard to hide any trace of responsibility and dodge any potential legal actions: Then there's this, 'Yo dawg, I heard you like spying!' and the shuffling of data to mask the origin/destination. One of the many issues I have with all of this, is that the NSA would be hugely naive to think that whatever tools, patches, hacks, software, etc they are using, will remain only in the hands of the NSA. If Stuxnet has taught us anything, it will get out, and people will find ways to use it. Then there's the recent Obama announcement about going after hackers with harsher penalties. Nearly everything that would be considered 'hacking' by a civilian, is being done ten-fold (at the least) by the government itself. There was a point in time where this kind of government spying, hacking and surveillance was in the realm of tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists and dystopian science-fiction. Keep in mind a lot of these documents are several years old, which begs the question: what are they using now? Full article with links to PDF's of the Snowden documents: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-docs-indicate-scope-of-nsa-preparations-for-cyber-battle-a-1013409.html
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Tim Cook appears to be using his international tour, which so far includes Israel, Germany and the UK. In an interview with the German newspaper BILD posted yesterday, Cook went as far as to praise Edward Snowden for his role in prompting discussion of the issue. Cook has in the past resisted FBI pressure to compromise its strong encryption, and was the only tech CEO to attend a recent White House cybersecurity summit. In the BILD interview, Cook reiterated Apple’s stance on privacy, and also said that as Apple had grown larger, it had taken deliberate decisions to be less secretive about some aspects of its business … Cook stressed that Apple takes pains to ensure that it does not have access to unnecessary data about its customers. He said that when Apple does request permission to use customer data, it is always used to improve products and customers “have a right to stop that at any time.“ Cook said that Apple had chosen to be extremely transparent about privacy issues, and also to share its work on improving working conditions in its supply chain in the hope that this would help accelerate the pace of change. There would, though, be no change in Apple’s secrecy about its product plans. Shortly after what would have been Steve Job’s 60th birthday, Cook described Steve as the best teacher he’d ever had. Source: http://9to5mac.com/2015/03/02/tim-cook-edward-snowden/
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I'm writing a current topic paper on a controversial topic, and I just so happened to be assigned internet privacy. So what do you guys think about the evidence that the NSA without a doubt is looking through peoples personal emails, texts and maybe even listening to phone calls. Do you think this is wrong, or can be justified because it will end up protecting the people of the US. If you guys could give me just a couple sentence on what your views are that would be great!
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Today there was a live stream from the Auckland town hall, I only caught the ending to it, but it was very interesting to hear what Glenn Greenwald, Snowden, Assange, Kim Dotcom and others had to say. It was chilling in parts to see the levels that the New Zealand government were involved with the NSA spying and the 5 eye's program. I don't have time at the moment to give my full thoughts on it. But if you are interested here is the archive up on youtube. Coverage starts around 21 mins which I think I queued it up for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbps1EwAW-0#t=1313
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Author: Ryan Martin (eTeknix) ABC.es reports that the USA is exerting threats as well as political and economic sanctions in a bid to get Venezuela to revoke Snowden’s asylum, or hand the NSA whistleblower over to the USA if he arrives on American soil. With Snowden seeking temporary asylum within Russia in a bid to help him make the final move to a Latin American nation like Venezuela, the USA is worried that he might make it there and is preparing for the worst. The USA has already revoked the visas of entry to the USA for Venezuelan government officials and businessman associated with the current government in power in Venezuela. Additionally John Kerry, current American secretary of State, has threatened the Venezuelan foreign minister with a suspending the sale of gasoline to the Latin American country if Snowden is successfully received and processed for asylum. With such a potentially crippling threat it remains to be seen whether Venezuela will choose to uphold their values in favour of accepting Edward Snowden if that results in economic and political damage to Venezuela and its current government. Source: http://www.eteknix.com/usa-threatening-venezuela-with-political-and-economic-sanctions/ Comment: Wow... Never thought USA would go as far as threatening other countries.
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An interesting interview with Snowden on the NSA and the government. EDIT: The founder of the World Wide Web also says a few words.
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Reporters without Boarders is a non-profit organization which fights for the freedom of information and freedom of the press. They are known for their "Press Freedom Index" ranking which tracks how free the press is to spread information in different countries. They have consult status at the United Nations and was formed in 1985. Both the US and the UK appear in their newly published "Enemies of the Internet 2014" list. The full list is: The United States The United Kingdom India China North Korea Russia Syria Iran Hopefully this will be a wake up call for a lot of people. Having the title "world champion of surveillance" (The UK) is not exactly a positive thing... When your country is on the same list as North Korea and China (not to mention the other ones) then you are doing something very very wrong. Sources and further reading: Salon, The Verge, Reporters without borders
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I do advise reading the full article here. Also, I'd recommend watching the full YouTube video down below. It was quite interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPrDqoaHHSY
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We have all been told by people "say if you know something bad is happening, speak up". So when someone finally does, well I don't need to re-iterate the Snowden happenings but usually when someone comes out and says that something is bad they don't get get told to "man up". Is there any wonder why Snowden doesn't trust the USA justice system to the USA with the John Kerry calling him a wimp, a traitor and be named a fugitive? It would be interesting to see what would happen if Snowden went home. I also love this little article as John Kerry doesn't try to down play Snowden' s comments about being trained as a spy or doing high level intelligence work, instead he continues trying to make Snowden look like a traitor, hacker and a patriotic citizen. See Article here This thread is welcomed to be moved if need be, its tech related but its no cellphone announcement thread.
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Not sure if this has been posted before, I did a quick search but found little. Source: PCMagazine , Engadget, CNET So the OS that Edward Snowden supposedly used during his communications with journalists is no longer in Beta and is in Stable Version 1.0. The OS, TAILS (The Amnesiac Incognito Live System), is a linux based distro which acts as an amnesiac system, saving none of your files, browsing data or any data whatsoever.The OS has a web browser, office suite, instant messenger and even a photo editor. Some sites are blocked, such as purchasing sites and sites needing log-in identification, so the user is incredibly difficult to track as they browse the web. From CNET: "After booting up with the Linux-based software from a DVD, SD card, or USB drive, a computer can travel around the Internet without leaving a trace of its activity on the device unless explicitly told to do so." The OS is obviously minimal in nature and intent, so the question begging to be asked is, who is this for apart from highly confidential informants who need absolute security? I understand the need for security especially in the wake of the NSA leaks, but will anyone in the community take up this OS as an everyday thing or just for novelty?
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According to the newest leak from Snowden, the NSA and the GCHQ (basically the UK equivalence of the NSA) can decrypt vast amounts of encrypted data sent on the Internet. What they have done is invested hundreds of millions building computers to brute force encryption, and also collaborated with a big amount of companies (from service providers to software companies) to implement backdoors into the encryption software they use. Big services like Hotmail, Google, Yahoo and Facebook are mentioned so if you use any of those services, chances are that even encrypted traffic to them is being sniffed. Experts such as Bruce Schneier (specialist on encryption) are very worried about this, because it is undermining the foundation the Internet was built upon. This is a huge security risk since it means that there is code in a lot of services which can be used to decrypt traffic. I am highly against the NSA spying on me, but if someone manages to exploit this they could basically get access to all your private information including bank details, phone numbers, medical records, your Internet history, chat history, everything. By the way, this might very well apply to things like VPN providers as well, or any other service you use. Maybe it's time to move away from Windows and start using only open and free software... Source and further reading: The Guardian
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The Guardian newspaper has revealed that some of their journalists were supervised by GCHQ (UK intelligence HQ) staff in the destruction of a computer containing files leaked by Edward Snowden. The procedure was filmed and posted to their website. The video appears to show them destroying hard drives with a dremel and drilling holes into what appears to be an mSATA SSD. Source At the end of the video a wide-angle shot is shown of all of the PC's components and it is obvious that the motherboard, GPU and more have been destroyed. Is this really necessary in order to protect the data that was stored on the PC? Especially considering that the Guardian admitted to having other copies of the files saved in other countries... Edit: Relevant Guardian article
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New Snowden documents relieved that in 2011 US spy agencies conducted 231 offensive cyber attacks. These are covert attacks carried out by US agency's on (foreign)high profile computer networks. The goals of these attacks are mainly data collection and sabotage (like Stuxnet). This information was found in the recently leaked "Black Budget" that lists how much money is being spend on data collection, data analysis, management, facilities and support and data processing and exploitation. The "Black Budget" document was leaked to the Washington post by Snowden. (small summary of the black budget) Source(s) / Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-spy-agencies-mounted-231-offensive-cyber-operations-in-2011-documents-show/2013/08/30/d090a6ae-119e-11e3-b4cb-fd7ce041d814_story.html
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While they may not have put a back door into Linux they sure have been weakening other security measures it seems. Loving this NSA, making the world a less secure place for our own paranoia Much more of article in link Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/20/us-usa-security-snowden-rsa-idUSBRE98J02Z20130920
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23776063 Once the guardian leaked the info about the government spying on everybody the UK government commanded them to destroy all hardrives with any info snowden gave them. Guess we aren't getting any more leaks from the guardian So much for that "free press" bullshit
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As many of you know, Wikileaks has posted some questionable material which may or may not have been illegal to do so. To cover their tracks they encrypted 349GB of data in case anything would happen to them in the near future which was posted several times on their Facebook page. This was first seen when hacker "SuperDAE" released a 1.7TB torrent when he was arrested in June. Could this be linked to Snowden and the NSA? Whatever it is it's obviously quite significant and has the possibility of harming whoever's content is inside. Original article: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/08/what-could-be-in-wikileaks-giant-349gb-insurance-file/
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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.
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Whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden lauded Apple for enabling measures like default full-disk encryption in iOS 8, in a rare editorial published on Friday. Hard to disagree with him on this one. Apple basically rams encryption into every phone and if we truly believe what Apple says about not having decryption keys, they can't even access what your backups contain. Even disabling activation lock requires some serious proof before Apple even considers breaking that, their actions lately certainly go a long ways in letting people know they give a damn about privacy more than other companies. I wish all manufacturers took this route and enabled encryption by default. Let the government cry about not having access to your information, Apple certainly didn't give a damn about that. http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/06/05/edward-snowden-hails-apple-as-pioneering-for-ios-8-security-measures
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