TSA is officially allowed to lie to you in order to cover its ass
[Quote]: The TSA is allowed to lie in its responses to Freedom of Information Requests. Its court-granted ability to lie to the public it nominally serves isn’t limited to sensitive issues, either:...
View ArticleSnowden Documents Show U.S. Spied on Petrobras, Globo TV Reports
[Quote]: The U.S. government spied on Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Globo TV reported, citing classified documents obtained by former intelligence contractor Edward...
View ArticleFBI: We know you’re innocent, but you’re not getting off the No-Fly list...
[Quote]: FBI agents put this pressure on ACLU clients Abe Mashal, a Marine veteran; Amir Meshal; and Nagib Ali Ghaleb. Each of these Americans spoke to FBI agents to learn why they were suddenly banned...
View ArticleDear America, I Saw You Naked And yes, we were laughing. Confessions of an...
[Quote]: “Working for the TSA,” I wrote, “has the feel of riding atop the back of a large, dopey dog fanatically chasing its tail clockwise for a while, then counterclockwise, and back again, ad...
View ArticleSwiss fighters grounded during hijacking as outside office hours
[Quote]: No Swiss fighter jets were scrambled Monday when an Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked his own plane and forced it to land in Geneva, because it happened outside business hours, the Swiss...
View ArticleYahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ
[Quote]: Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret...
View ArticleUS tech giants knew of NSA data collection, agency’s top lawyer insists
[Quote]: The senior lawyer for the National Security Agency stated unequivocally on Wednesday that US technology companies were fully aware of the surveillance agency’s widespread collection of data,...
View ArticleFBI Abruptly Walks Out On Senate Briefing After Being Asked How ‘Insider...
[Quote]: Meanwhile, the FBI fiercely resists any efforts at Congressional oversight, especially on whistleblower matters. For example, four months ago I sent a letter to the FBI requesting its training...
View ArticleGuardian obtains footage of police officer firing Taser at naked man
[Quote]: The Guardian has obtained CCTV footage showing a police officer firing a Taser at a naked man in a cell. A chief constable tried to prevent the release of footage showing the Wiltshire...
View ArticleFBI chief says anti-marijuana policy hinders the hiring of cyber experts
[Quote]: James Comey, the FBI director, says the bureau’s no-tolerance marijuana policy is hindering the hiring of cyber-security experts. Coney added that he is “grappling” with possibly changing the...
View ArticleEmails Show Feds Asking Florida Cops to Deceive Judges
[Quote]: Police in Florida have, at the request of the U.S. Marshals Service, been deliberately deceiving judges and defendants about their use of a controversial surveillance tool to track suspects,...
View ArticleMeet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On
[Quote]: The National Security Agency and FBI have covertly monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-Americans—including a political candidate and several civil rights activists, academics, and...
View ArticleThe ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control
[Quote]: William Binney is one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA. He was a leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union during the Cold War but resigned soon after...
View ArticleX509
[Quote]: Shortly after the initial news came out that NSA fakes google and yahoo servers with stolen or faked certificates: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/new_nsa_leak_sh.html the...
View ArticleConstruction of New CYBER/ISR Facility
[Quote]: The 175th Wing, Maryland Air National Guard, located at Warfield Air National Guard Base, Baltimore, Maryland, intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) to award a single firm fixed-price...
View ArticleMilitarized Schooling? “Newtown Was A Nuclear Bomb That Changed Everything”
[Quote]: Returning students at Hillsborough County Public Schools in Tampa, Fla. found 20 new armed officers in the elementary schools in the first year of a plan costing about $1 million. The school...
View ArticleThe Police Tool That Pervs Use to Steal Nude Pics From Apple’s iCloud
[Quote]: As nude celebrity photos spilled onto the web over the weekend, blame for the scandal has rotated from the scumbag hackers who stole the images to a researcher who released a tool used to...
View ArticleFBI Agents Pose as Repairmen to Bypass Warrant Process
[Quote]: The next time you call for assistance because the internet service in your home is not working, the “technician” who comes to your door may actually be an undercover government agent. He will...
View ArticleCongress Just Passed Legislation Ramping Up Mass Surveillance to...
[Quote]: When I learned that the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2015 was being rushed to the floor for a vote—with little debate and only a voice vote expected (i.e., simply declared “passed”...
View ArticleGerman researchers discover a flaw that could let anyone listen to your cell...
[Quote]: German researchers have discovered security flaws that could let hackers, spies and criminals listen to private phone calls and intercept text messages on a potentially massive scale – even...
View ArticleInside the NSA’s War on Internet Security
[Quote]: The Snowden documents reveal the encryption programs the NSA has succeeded in cracking, but, importantly, also the ones that are still likely to be secure. Although the documents are around...
View ArticlePolice: 2-year-old shoots, kills mom in N. Idaho Wal-Mart
[Quote]: A woman in her late 20s is dead after a 2-year-old boy got a hold of a loaded handgun in her purse and accidentally shot her inside a Wal-Mart store in Hayden, the Kootenai County Sheriff’s...
View ArticleWhen The FISA Court Rejects A Surveillance Request, The FBI Just Issues A...
[Quote]: We considered the Section 215 request for [REDACTED] discussed earlier in this report at pages 33 to 34 to be a noteworthy item. In this case, the FISA Court had twice declined to approve a...
View ArticleWhatsApp and iMessage could be banned under new surveillance plans
[Quote]: David Cameron could block WhatsApp and Snapchat if he wins the next election, as part of his plans for new surveillance powers announced in the wake of the shootings in Paris. The Prime...
View ArticleGCHQ captured emails of journalists from top international media
[Quote]: GCHQ’s bulk surveillance of electronic communications has scooped up emails to and from journalists working for some of the US and UK’s largest media organisations, analysis of documents...
View ArticleFeds operated yet another secret metadata database until 2013
[Quote]: In a new court filing, the Department of Justice revealed that it kept a secret database of telephone metadata—with one party in the United States and another abroad—that ended in 2013. The...
View ArticleInnocent frequent flier detained after run-in with TSA
[Quote]: Apparently, working as a supervisor for the Transportation Security Administration at Philadelphia International Airport comes with a perk: You get to throw people in jail for no good reason...
View ArticleSamsung Smart TV: If you don’t mind, I’ll take one that’s a little more stupid
[Quote]: Imagine if your television was listening to everything you said in front of it. Hold on, actually, this doesn’t need to be a thought experiment. Simply pop down to the shops and buy a Samsung...
View ArticlePortland man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to become an FBI informant
[Quote]: The 36-year-old Eritrean-born American was finally back in Portland at the end of a five-year odyssey that began with a simple business trip but landed him in an Arab prison where he alleges...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Metal Detectors at Sports Stadiums
[Quote]: It’s an attitude I’ve seen before: “Something must be done. This is something. Therefore, we must do it.” Never mind if the something makes any sense or not.
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