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 […]
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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 […]
Atlantic Council Fellow, Former Obama Defense Deputy Admits Obama WH Spied on Candidate/Pres-Elect Trump…
Farkas “…I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior [Obama] people who left; so it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy, um, that the Trump folks – if they found out HOW we knew what we knew about their, the Trump staff, dealing with Russians – that they would […]
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Tesla ‘Autopilot’ Car Hits a Cops Motorcycle…
A Phoenix police motorcycle was struck by a Tesla Model X reportedly operating on autopilot last week, police said. The incident happened a few days before an accident involving an automated Uber vehicle in Tempe. Phoenix police on Monday confirmed that the incident occurred when a Tesla driver and an on-duty officer exited the Black […]
A Hanging Wandering Skyscraper from Asteroid Orbiting Earth…Wish ya luck with that…
A New York architecture firm has unveiled designs for a skyscraper that is out of this world. Deemed the ‘world’s tallest building ever’, Analemma Tower will be suspended from an orbiting asteroid 31,068 miles (50,000 km) above the Earth– and the only way to leave is by parachute. The orbital path would swing the tower […]
China’s Secret Plan to Crush SpaceX and the U.S. Space Program…
China’s breakneck economic expansion may be flagging, but the country’s ambitions in space show no signs of slowing down. Alongside ongoing efforts to rival NASA by placing robotic landers, and eventually astronauts, on the moon and Mars, China’s government is increasingly looking to its burgeoning space sector to rival U.S. companies like Jeff Bezos’ Blue […]
The Jetson’s World Arrives: Would You Take This Italian Identified Flying Object for a Spin?…Hell Yeah!!!…
This strange vehicle might look like a flying saucer, but it’s not for extraterrestrials. Humans looking for a trip that’s truly ‘out of this world’ can now fly in style with the I.F.O or ‘Identified Flying Object’, a proposed two-seater drone concept that looks like a UFO. The I.F.O is powered by eight electric rotary […]
Whoops: The DOJ May Have Confirmed Some of the Wikileaks CIA Dump…
The US government says it wants to keep some of the now-public documents out of court because they contain classified material, suggesting that they could be authentic. Last week, the US government may have confirmed the authenticity of a number of CIA documents concerning the agency’s hacking operations, but not in the way you might […]
NYPD Sent Video Teams to Record Occupy & BLM Protests over 400 Times…
New York City Police Department documents obtained by The Verge show that police camera teams were deployed to hundreds of Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street protests from 2011–2013 and 2016. Originally acquired through a Freedom of Information Law request by New York attorney David Thompson of Stecklow & Thompson, the records are job […]
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