The Library of Congress, one of the biggest libraries in the world, gathers 5 terabytes a month. The NSA sucks up much, much more. "The NSA say it needs all this data to help prevent another terrorist attack like 9/11. In order to find the needle in the haystack, they argue, they need access to the whole haystack."
"The NSA, in its defence, frequently argues that if today’s surveillance programs existed before 9/11, it might have been able to stop those attacks. But this, too, is a matter of dispute. The intelligence agencies had a lot of capability before 9/11, and did pick up vital information, but failed to share it with one another or join up the dots."
Greenwald: ... ein paar meiner Freunde haben Medizin studiert. Als sie immer mehr Krankheiten kennenlernten, haben sie sich selbst krank gefühlt. So ähnlich könnte es auch mir gehen, aber ich arbeite dagegen an. "Greenwald: Das Internet gab uns das große Versprechen der Befreiung und der Demokratisierung. Die Menschheit sollte mit Hilfe offener und freier Kommunikation die Macht haben, gemeinsam Machtmissbrauch zu bekämpfen. Die Bürger sollten sich ungehindert vernetzen können, um Ideen auszutauschen und die Grenzen der menschlichen Freiheit zu erweitern. Der Überwachungsstaat ergreift nun die Macht im Netz. Er will dieses Werkzeug der Freiheit in sein Gegenteil verkehren, in ein Werkzeug der Überwachung und Kontrolle. Wir stehen an einem Scheideweg. " Greenwald: Das geht nicht. Menschen sind nicht distanziert. Alle Journalisten sind Aktivisten
. The real tell will be if we see Schmidt and other CEOs acting in any sort of concerted manner to push back against surveillance state creep. If not, this was just an effort at damage control
Företrädare för den tyska industrin varnar efter Snowdens avslöjanden för industrispionage och efterlyser skyddsåtgärder och investeringar i en självständig europeisk IT-utveckling. Danska industriförbundet manar medlemsföretagen att gå över till kurirpost. "Det framväxande strategiska tekniska hotet förväntas i första hand komma från Ryssland, Kina, Indien, Japan, Tyskland, Frankrike, Korea, Israel, Singapore och Sverige."
Another unintended victim of game-changing Iran attack By Phil Muncaster, 11th November 2013 The infamous Stuxnet malware thought to have been developed by the US and Israel to disrupt Iran’s nuclear facilities, also managed to cause chaos at a Russian nuclear plant, according to Eugene Kaspersky.
Google executive Richard Salgado testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee Privacy, Technology and the Law Subcommittee hearing on The Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 13, 2013. (Reuters) - Search giant Google Inc on Wednesday warned that U.S. spying operations risk fracturing the open Internet into a "splinter net" that could hurt American business.
NYT Editorial Board: 22.11.2013: "the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. That is not a court by any standard definition. A rotating slate of federal judges considers secret warrant applications from the government and issues secret opinions, without hearing any opposing argument. In 2012, the court approved 1,855 of 1,856 requests that came before it."
Utländska makter som utvecklar massförstörelsevapen försöker i allt högre grad komma åt svensk kunskap och svenska produkter. Senaste året har i genomsnitt ett misstänkt anskaffningsförsök skett varje vecka, enligt Säpo. Nya måltavlor är svenska universitet med känslig forskning.
By Mark Ames, and Yasha Levine; nsfwcorp 15.11 2013 When you scratch the surface of his investments and get a sense of what sort of ideal world he'd like to make, it becomes clear that Omidyar is no different from his peers... Pierre Omidyar’s dystopian vision is merging with Glenn Greenwald’s and Laura Poitras’ monopoly on the crown jewels of the National Security Agency — the world’s secrets, our secrets
"Internet security is hard," he says with emphasis. "All systems have undiscovered holes in them, and it's only a question of how fast the bad guys can discover the holes compared with how fast the good guys can patch them up."
LONDON—Today, Monday 27 February,[2012] WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods
by Nathan Schneider December 2, 2013 refers to" a new paper published in the journal Societies Without Borders in September by Sean Chabot and Majid Sharifi. It’s called “The Violence of Nonviolence: Problematizing Nonviolent Resistance in Iran and Egypt.” "
Hundreds of letters defending Jeremy Hammond, who is facing 10 years in prison for email leaks, call for lenient sentence Ed Pilkington in New York theguardian.com, Monday 4 November 2013