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The Power of Privacy
by grarpamp 21 Dec '16

21 Dec '16

And other compelling videos you list in this thread that introduce people to surveillance, datamining, privacy concepts. And that might just make you mad, cry, or wow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGX-c5BJNFk

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The NSA Is Coming To Town
by grarpamp 20 Dec '16

20 Dec '16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pcWlyUu8U4 ps: youtube just destroyed their frontpage UI and made it look like a stupid phone... which probably helps the NSA too.

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oil supply sigint
by grarpamp 20 Dec '16

20 Dec '16

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=29212 Solar, natural gas, wind make up most 2016 generation additions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/prices.php

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Turkey Blocks: Great Firewall Of Turkey
by grarpamp 20 Dec '16

20 Dec '16

https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/12/18/tor-blocked-in-turkey-vpn-ban/ Turkey Blocks finds that the Tor direct access mode is now restricted for most internet users throughout the country; Tor usage via bridges including obfs3 and obfs4 remains viable, although we see indications that obfs3 is being downgraded by some service providers with scope for similar on restrictions obfs4. The restrictions are being implemented in tandem with apparent degradation of commercial VPN service traffic.

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Govt Stingrays: Raping Your Wallet While We Rape Your Privacy
by grarpamp 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/19/14007830/house-committee-congress-stingr… https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/THE-FINAL-bipartisan… The devices, used by local and federal law enforcement agencies around the country, have been controversial, both for their power to track mobile devices and the secrecy often accompanying their use. As the report notes, the devices are still often used by local law enforcement agencies without warrants, instead relying on various lower standards of evidence. The committee's investigation, which last year prompted the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security to change their policies on when to require a warrant before using the devices, found that the Justice Department uses 310 of the devices and spent $71 million on them between fiscal years 2010 and 2014. Homeland Security has 124 devices and spent $24 million in the same period. [...] The committee recommends that agencies become more "candid" about the devices, and urges states to pass legislation that would "require, with limited exceptions, issuance of a probable cause based warrant prior to law enforcement's use of these devices." That's on average $194,000 to $230,000 *each*. Open source HW and SW to do the same thing is well under $1000 each. It's time you arrest and charge these rapists with count 1) wallet rape, count 2) privacy rape, count 3) conspiracy to abuse, convict them, and put them in jail.

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[WAR] Syrian conflict in a simple chart
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Dec '16

18 Dec '16

Short table comparing the Assad regime, to the "moderate rebels" Al-Qaeda regime which USA and MSM around the Western world has been pushing. Simple truth behind war in Syria, explained in one simple chart that Obama White House does not want you see http://theduran.com/the-simple-truth-behind-the-war-in-syria-explained-in-o… -- * Certified Deplorable Neo-Nazi Fake News Hunter (TM)(C)(R) * Executive Director of Triggers, Ministry of Winning * Weapons against traditional \/\/European\/\/ values: http://davidduke.com/jewish-professor-boasts-of-jewish-pornography-used-as-… * How Liberal Lefties view the world: http://bbs.dailystormer.com/uploads/default/optimized/3X/0/4/042cb95724339d…

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US To SECRET and LIE SOME MORE About Number Of Americans Under Surveillance
by grarpamp 18 Dec '16

18 Dec '16

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-surveillance-idUSKBN1452FX The U.S. intelligence community will soon disclose an estimate of the number of Americans whose electronic communications have been caught in the crosshairs of online surveillance programs intended for foreigners, U.S. lawmakers said in a letter seen by Reuters on Friday. The estimate, requested by members of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, is expected to be made public as early as next month, the letter said. Its disclosure would come as Congress is expected to begin debate in the coming months over whether to reauthorize or reform the so-called surveillance authority, known as Section 702, a provision that was added to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 2008. "The timely production of this information is incredibly important to informed debate on Section 702 in the next Congress— and, without it, even those of us inclined to support reauthorization would have reason for concern," said the letter signed by 11 lawmakers, all members of the House Judiciary Committee. The letter was sent on Friday to National Intelligence Director James Clapper. ...

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Twitter Subsidiary Caught Giving Surveillance Feeds To Govts, Twitter Backpedals
by grarpamp 17 Dec '16

17 Dec '16

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/15/twitter-dataminr-user-da… http://www.aclunc.org/docs/20160315_dataminr_email_to_jric.pdf http://www.aclunc.org/docs/20161212_twitter_letter_to_aclu.pdf https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/legal-docket/gill-v-doj-challenge-federal-s… https://www.jric.org/ Twitter has blocked federally funded "domestic spy centers" from using a powerful social media monitoring tool after public records revealed that the government had special access to users' information for controversial surveillance efforts. The American Civil Liberties Union of California discovered that so-called fusion centers, which collect intelligence, had access to monitoring technology from Dataminr, an analytics company partially owned by Twitter. The ACLU's records prompted the companies to announce that Dataminr had terminated access for all fusion centers and would no longer provide social media surveillance tools to any local, state or federal government entities. The government centers are partnerships between agencies that work to collect vast amounts of information purportedly to analyze "threats". The spy centers, according to the ACLU, target protesters, journalists and others protected by free speech rights while also racially profiling people deemed "suspicious" by law enforcement. Records that the ACLU obtained uncovered that a fusion center in southern California had access to Dataminr's "geospatial analysis application", which allowed the government to do location-based tracking as well as searches tied to keywords. That means the center could use Dataminr to search billions of tweets and monitor specific demographics or organizations. Shell companies to be given same access in the future.

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oil supply sigint
by hozer＠hozed.org 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

So Trump is installing all these oil guys, and someone is creating a narrative of russians hacking the election, and it's all so overly bizzare I think I'm living in someones broken simulation matrix. Then I see https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/12/09/unpacking-new-cia-leak-dont-ignore-al… which says "But what about the implications that climate science will be squelched in addition to alternative energy development? They can purge anybody who worked on alternative energy, halt reporting about climate change, but they can't hide tankers floating out at sea chock full of oil. They can't hide the strategic petroleum reserve. They can't force the market to pay more for oil unless they truly shut off the spigots and the moves they are making suggest they are doing no such thing." So what's going on here? There's some kind of sigint here about oil, but I'm not quite seeing all the pieces. Are we out? Is it gone? Or do we just have some shadow government that's about to bust the petrodollar and go cryptocurrency because it's getting too hard to trace the cold hard cash flows when they go dark? Or is this leaking stuff just the intelligence community reminding Trump who's really in charge here. What I read of him is he'd be trivial to manipulate by some guys who have spent their lives installing puppet governments.

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Assange assasinated?
by Cannon 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

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