After being blasted by new CIA Director Mike Pompeo yesterday as a “hostile non-state intelligence service,” Julian Assange has decided to respond by trolling the CIA, the “state non-intelligence agency,” over its own roles in producing “al-Qaeda, ISIS, Iraq, Iran and Pinochet”…
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Whaddayaknow: British Spies Were First to Eavesdrop on Trump’s Transition Team After All…
Britain’s spy agencies played a crucial role in alerting their counterparts in Washington to contacts between members of Donald Trump’s campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives, the Guardian has been told. GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious “interactions” between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close…
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NASA: Ingredients for Life at Saturn’s Moon Enceladus…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft discovered hydrogen in the plume of gas and icy particles spraying from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The discovery means the small, icy moon — which has a global ocean under its surface — has a source of chemical energy that could be useful for microbes, if any exist there. The finding also provides […]
Obama Justice Department Obtained Secret Order to Monitor Trump Campaign Adviser in June 2016…
The secret order allowed the government under the Obama administration to monitor the communications of the adviser, Carter Page, as part of an investigation into potential links between Russia and the Trump administration. Trump tweeted on March 4 that he had his “wires tapped in Trump Tower” during the campaign, for which critics bashed Trump, […]
Big Internet Firms to Oppose GOP Plans to Roll Back Net-Neutrality Rules…
The Internet Association, a trade group that includes companies such as of Netflix Inc. and Facebook Inc., told Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai in a meeting that it “continues its vigorous support of the FCC’s [net-neutrality] order,” the group said in a regulatory filing. It added that the net-neutrality rules are “a vital component […]
Court Rules Facebook Can’t Challenge Demands for User Data (and Can’t Tell Users)…
Facebook is not exactly the champion of user privacy, but at least in one case, the company did go to bat for its users. Facebook took New York law enforcement to court over secret warrants that allowed authorities to collect user data. Unfortunately, Facebook just lost their case in the New York courts. The court […]
Snowden: “NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons; hackers leaked it”…
Here’s the file – “We view this as keeping our oath to protect and defend against enemies foreign and domestic. TheShadowBrokers wishes we could be doing more, but revolutions/civil wars taking money, time, and people…Be considering this our form of protest. The password for the EQGRP-Auction-Files is CrDj”(;Va.*NdlnzB9M?@K2)#>deB7mN …
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Don’t Forget Your Base: Dear President Trump…
Respectfully, what the fuck are you doing? TheShadowBrokers voted for you. TheShadowBrokers supports you. TheShadowBrokers is losing faith in you. Mr. Trump helping theshadowbrokers, helping you. Is appearing you are abandoning “your base”, “the movement”, and the peoples who getting you elected….
Cyborgs at Work: Employees Getting Implanted with Microchips…
Like many of you out there, I first heard about this technology in the 1990s. Decades later, a passive microchip implant seems like a practically innocuous fairy tale compared to the privacy hell that has metastasized all around us. In terms of technologies of political control, think of a chip implant as something like a […]
Reports in Unmasking Controversy Were Detailed, Had Info About ‘Everyday Lives’…
The intelligence reports at the center of the Susan Rice unmasking controversy were detailed, and almost resembled a private investigator’s file, according to a Republican congressman familiar with the documents. “This is information about their everyday lives,” Rep. Peter King of New York, a member of the House Intelligence committee said. “Sort of like in […]
U.S. Spy Agencies Intercept & Unmask Congressional Figures as Often as Once a Month…
The U.S. government’s foreign surveillance sweeps up American lawmakers and their staffers so routinely now that Congress is alerted as often as once a month that its employees involved in intercepted conversations have been unmasked and their identities shared with intelligence or law enforcement agencies, Circa has learned…
Rand Paul: If Rice’s Snooping Wasn’t Political…Why Wasn’t FBI Involved?…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) believes Susan Rice did not sufficiently answer Andrea Mitchell’s questions on Tuesday. When the MSNBC anchor pressed the former national security adviser over whether she spied on the Trump transition team and unmasked their names for political purposes, Rice said surveillance was well within her job description…
Devin Nunes Temporarily Steps Aside from Russian Inquiry…
Less than two weeks after the Democrats on the House intelligence committee called for Nunes to recuse himself, the committee chairman said he would “temporarily” leave the inquiry in the hands of other right-wing Republicans, leaving it unclear how much Nunes’ absence would transform an investigation stalled by deep partisan infighting…
An Update on Verizon’s AppFlash: Pre-Installed Spyware Is Still Spyware…
Verizon recently rolled out a new pilot project to pre-install on customers’ devices an app launcher/search tool that, we believe, is really just spyware. This software, called AppFlash, is preloaded on a new model of LG device—the LG K20 V—rather than in all of their Android line as we previously reported. The software allows Verizon […]
Obama Administration Spying Included Press, Allies and Americans…
The Trump administration is twisting itself into knots attempting to prove or justify the President’s tweets about Barack Obama and his former administration officials’ “wiretapping” Trump Tower between November and Inauguration Day, while some of those high ranking Obama officials are once again using their twitter accounts to fire back at Trump…
Facebook Failed to Protect 30 Million Users From Having Their Data Harvested by Trump Campaign Affiliate…
In 2014, traces of an unusual survey, connected to Facebook, began appearing on internet message boards. The boards were frequented by remote freelance workers who bid on “human intelligence tasks” in an online marketplace, called Mechanical Turk, controlled by Amazon. The “turkers,” as they’re known, tend to perform work that is rote and repetitive…
STUDY: Over Half Car Crashes Distracted by Phone…
Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s leading smartphone-centric telematics provider, has announced its latest findings on distracted driving. Data from a study involving several hundreds of thousands of drivers shows that phone distraction occurred during 52 percent of trips that resulted in a crash. CMT’s mobile apps measure driving behavior in six categories: phone use […]
U.S. Internet Providers Pledge to Not Sell Customer Data after Controversial Rule Change…
The three major US Internet Service Providers (ISPs) Comcast Corp, Verizon Communications Inc, and AT&T Inc have pledged to protect the private data of US citizens in solidarity against the latest internet bill passed by Congress. “We do not sell our broadband customers’ individual web browsing history. We did not do it before the FCC’s […]
Records Show Deep Ties between FBI And Best Buy Computer Technicians Looking for Porn…
Technicians for Best Buy’s “Geek Squad City” computer repair facility had a long, close relationship with the FBI in “a joint venture to ferret out child porn,” according to claims in new federal court documents, which also note that Best Buy’s management “was aware that its supervisory personnel were being paid by the FBI” and […]
This Map Will Show If Your Web Traffic Passes Through an NSA Listening Post…
Internet data pinballs across national borders, and for Canadians this means potentially exposing it to eavesdropping by US-based corporations and the National Security Agency. Now, an interactive mapping tool named Internet Exchange Mapping (IXmaps), re-launched for public use today, will show you how—and how easily—you data can be spied on by tracing the oftentimes byzantine […]
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