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…
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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 […]
EU Seeks Assurances from Trump Administration over Data Privacy Agreement…
The European Union’s commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Vera Jourova, has flown to Washington to seek urgent assurances over the Privacy Shield agreement, adopted July 2016 between the EU and the US to ensure EU citizens’ data on US servers was secure from surveillance. Privacy Shield is the deal between the EU and […]
Microsoft Sets a Date for the Next Windows 10 Update…
Microsoft has set a date for the next update of Windows 10. The so-called Creators Update will be available April 11 as a free update. Here are the key features: Paint 3D, which lets people draw a two-dimensional image and turn it into a 3D object; A “night light” feature that reduces blue light to […]
NSA Set to Provide Classified Communications Intercepts to House Committee…
The House intelligence committee will soon receive top-secret documents that investigators expect to reveal whether private communications of the president-elect and his transition team were improperly gathered. Rep. Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), chairman of the oversight panel, is pressing ahead with an investigation into unauthorized disclosures of intelligence that revealed…
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@Snowden: Huge–USG Confirms Cyber Offense Funded at 9X Rate of Defense…
Snowden: “…Wonder why we can’t stop foreign hacks? This is why.”
WikiLeaks Vault 7: CIA Tool ‘Marble Framework’ Used in Code to Hide Origin of Viruses, Trojans and Hacking…
676 source code files for the CIA’s secret anti-forensic Marble Framework. Marble is used to hamper forensic investigators and anti-virus companies from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to the CIA. Marble does this by hiding (“obfuscating”) text fragments used in CIA malware from visual inspection. This is the digital equivallent of a specalized CIA […]
This Is Almost Certainly James Comey’s Twitter Account…
Digital security and its discontents—from Hillary Clinton’s emails to ransomware to Tor hacks—is in many ways one of the chief concerns of the contemporary FBI. So it makes sense that the bureau’s director, James Comey, would dip his toe into the digital torrent with a Twitter account. It also makes sense, given Comey’s high profile, […]
World’s First Hydrogen Powered Yacht ‘Energy Observer’ to Sail Around the World…
The Energy Observer, which will set sail from Paris in May 2017, will be the world’s first hydrogen powered yacht. Explorers Victorien Erussard and Jerome Delafosse, will sail around in the boat powered by renewable energy. The Energy Observer yacht can generate hydrogen from 130 square meters of solar panels, two wind turbines, a traction […]
Five Eyes Allies Do Spy on One Another by Wayne Madsen…
In a rare public announcement, Britain’s signals intelligence agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), issued a rare public statement concerning a charge by an American former judge that it conducted electronic surveillance of president-elect Donald Trump after his upset victory on November 8, 2016. GCHQ stated…
Congress Voted to Block Obama-Era Internet Privacy Rules. Here’s How That Impacts You…
That bathing suit you searched for online? It’s going to haunt you. Seriously, you might see ads for it for weeks. A bill letting Internet service providers like Verizon and Comcast sell your information without first getting your permission sailed through Congress this week. A week after the Senate voted to undo the rules, the […]
Understanding the Nunes Paradox…
“SCIF” – Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. To understand the larger Devin Nunes briefing issues it is important to focus on the word “compartmented”. Intelligence information is housed by compartments. Each intelligence unit holds intelligence unique to that compartment. The FBI Counter-Intelligence Unit would hold the intel information specific to their…
The Surveillance State Behind Russia-gate by Ray McGovern & Bill Binney…
Although many details are still hazy because of secrecy – and further befogged by politics – it appears House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes was informed last week about invasive electronic surveillance of senior U.S. government officials and, in turn, passed that information onto President Trump. This news presents Trump with an unwelcome but unavoidable […]
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