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Authorities Want Remote Access To Californians’ Home CCTV Footage “For The Greater Good”

Authorities Want Remote Access To Californians’ Home CCTV Footage “For The Greater Good”
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Spy On thy neighbor as thyself

Steve Watson
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January 28, 2014

A rather Orwellian council proposal in California would see police able to remotely access the feeds from home security cameras in San Jose, for the good of society.

Cops would be able to remotely access home security cameras

The idea, forwarded by City Councilman Sam Liccardo, calls for citizens to volunteer their own CCTV systems, registering them with local law enforcement, so police can monitor whatever the cameras are trained on.

While the proposal suggests that police would have access to the cameras after a crime, remote accessibility means that cops could potentially monitor camera feeds in real time, which would amount to a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

The proposal is a desperate response to surging crime rates in the city. The idea came about after local business owners volunteered CCTV footage following a series of arson crimes in a downtown district.

“It became apparent that there’s a lot of evidence out there that residents want to provide,” Liccardo said, adding that costs would be limited because the security systems are privately operated.

Liccardo also suggested that a camera database would be compiled and maintained by existing city officials. The new database “is something that costs very little but could have a big impact in making San Jose safer.” the councilor said.

San Jose’s independent police auditor, retired judge LaDoris Cordell, lauded the idea, calling it a logical step and stating “You tend to behave when the cameras are on you.” Dismissing the notion that the proposed system would represent an “intrusion on privacy,” Cordell instead described it as allowing residents to “know what’s going on in their neighborhood.”

Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Hanni Fakhoury, noted that the proposed system is wide open to abuse. “Once you give the police unfettered access 24/7, you’re relying on them to exercise their restraint.” Fakhoury said.

“To me the really interesting and troublesome part of it is the way we are starting to privatize government surveillance — to enlist private citizens in a way that is kind of unprecedented and could be potentially really dangerous.” the attorney added.

The proposal is not limited to San Jose, cities such as Philadelphia and Chicago, as well as towns such as nearby Los Gatos and Monte Sereno have already launched similar systems of surveillance.

Officer Catherine Mann of the Los Gatos/Monte Sereno Police Department said “We haven’t had any negative responses, once we get it out to them that this is not a ‘Big Brother’ ” situation. “We’re not sitting around watching live videos from their home.” she added.

Police in San Jose say they are exploring the “merits of the idea”, which is set to be discussed by a City Council committee this week.

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CNN: Obamacare Is Causing Americans To Lose Access To Their Doctors, Face Higher Costs

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CNN reports on insurers dumping doctors from their networks and other Obamacare woes.

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Why Facebook Messenger Wants Access To Your Phone"s Microphone

There’s an Infowars story that’s beginning to circulate widely about a seemingly very Orwellian move by Facebook. 

Supposedly, the company now wants to listen in on our phone calls. This one’s a good example of paranoia that misses the point.

Facebook’s asking users who download its Messenger app to allow the app access to their phone’s microphone at any time. Why would Facebook want to do something that sounds so creepy? Because Facebook’s Messenger app is designed to let you make phone calls to your Facebook friends. Which it needs your microphone for.

That’s why the other laundry list of permissions Facebook Messenger asks for actually aren’t that egregious either. Here’s Infowars: 

The TOS also authorizes Facebook to take videos and pictures using the phone’s camera at any time without permission, as well as directly calling numbers, again without permission, that could incur charges.

But wait, there’s more! Facebook can also “read your phone’s call log” and “read data about contacts stored on your phone, including the frequency with which you’ve called, emailed or communicated in other ways with specific individuals.”

Again, this all sounds very creepy, until you consider that the app wants to be able to replace your smartphone’s actual functionality as a phone. So accessing your photos and videos lets the app text photos and videos to your friends. Similarly, access to your call logs and address books make sense when you consider that this is a phone app. 

There’s certainly reasonable arguments for why you might not want to trust Facebook with your data. And it’s entirely possible someone will turn up something genuinely discomfiting up in regards to this app. But this story isn’t that.

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“Secret” 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor PC Access

vPro processors allow remote access even when computer is turned off

Paul Joseph Watson
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September 26, 2013

Intel Core vPro processors contain a “secret” 3G chip that allows remote disabling and backdoor access to any computer even when it is turned off.

Image: Intel Core vPro.

Although the technology has actually been around for a while, the attendant privacy concerns are only just being aired. The “secret” 3G chip that Intel added to its processors in 2011 caused little consternation until the NSA spying issue exploded earlier this year as a result of Edward Snowden’s revelations.

In a promotional video for the technology, Intel brags that the chips actually offer enhanced security because they don’t require computers to be “powered on” and allow problems to be fixed remotely. The promo also highlights the ability for an administrator to shut down PCs remotely “even if the PC is not connected to the network,” as well as the ability to bypass hard drive encryption.

“Intel actually embedded the 3G radio chip in order to enable its Anti Theft 3.0 technology. And since that technology is found on every Core i3/i5/i7 CPU after Sandy Bridge, that means a lot of CPUs, not just new vPro, might have a secret 3G connection nobody knew about until now,”reports Softpedia.

Jeff Marek, director of business client engineering for Intel, acknowledged that the company’s Sandy Bridge” microprocessor, which was released in 2011, had “the ability to remotely kill and restore a lost or stolen PC via 3G.”

“Core vPro processors contain a second physical processor embedded within the main processor which has it’s own operating system embedded on the chip itself,” writes Jim Stone. “As long as the power supply is available and and in working condition, it can be woken up by the Core vPro processor, which runs on the system’s phantom power and is able to quietly turn individual hardware components on and access anything on them.”

Although the technology is being promoted as a convenient way for IT experts to troubleshoot PC issues remotely, it also allows hackers or NSA snoops to view the entire contents of somebody’s hard drive, even when the power is off and the computer is not connected to a wi-fi network.

It also allows third parties to remotely disable any computer via the “secret” 3G chip that is built into Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors. Webcams could also be remotely accessed.

“This combination of hardware from Intel enables vPro access ports which operate independently of normal user operations,” reports TG Daily. “These include out-of-band communications (communications that exist outside of the scope of anything the machine might be doing through an OS or hypervisor), monitoring and altering of incoming and outgoing network traffic. In short, it operates covertly and snoops and potentially manipulates data.”

Not only does this represent a privacy nightmare, it also dramatically increases the risk of industrial espionage.

The ability for third parties to have remote 3G access to PCs would also allow unwanted content to be placed on somebody’s hard drive, making it easier for intelligence agencies and corrupt law enforcement bodies to frame people.

“The bottom line? The Core vPro processor is the end of any pretend privacy,” writes Stone. “If you think encryption, Norton, or anything else is going to ensure your privacy, including never hooking up to the web at all, think again. There is now more than just a ghost in the machine.”

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Former senior NSA official: Maybe only 30 or 40 agency officials had access to that FISA order that leaked

posted at 2:01 pm on June 11, 2013 by Allahpundit

Normally, this is where I’d say there are only two obvious possibilities: Either I’m right that he conspired with someone higher up the chain who fed him these highly sensitive documents or the guy’s some sort of master hacker who managed to slip past NSA’s internal security to lift top-secret stuff off their servers. But I can’t say that in this case because none of us really has any idea how NSA operates. Could the IT guy have had routine access to bombshell surveillance program data? I … don’t think so, but I … guess, maybe?

Even the intel guys can’t figure it out:

Among the questions is how a contract employee at a distant NSA satellite office was able to obtain a copy of an order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a highly classified document that would presumably be sealed from most employees and of little use to someone in his position.

A former senior NSA official said that the number of agency officials with access to such court orders is “maybe 30 or maybe 40. Not large numbers.”…

Officials questioned some of Snowden’s assertions in his interview with the Guardian, saying that several of his claims seemed exaggerated. Among them were assertions that he could order wiretaps on anyone from “a federal judge to even the president.”

“When he said he had access to every CIA station around the world, he’s lying,” said a former senior agency official, who added that information is so closely compartmented that only a handful of top-ranking executives at the agency could access it.

“Investigators also need to determine whether anyone else was involved in disclosing the information to reporters,” per WaPo’s sources. That’s one possibility — Snowden in cahoots with a more senior person who wants the information out but doesn’t want his fingerprints on it. In theory, though, security at NSA is so tight that there’s no way to access, let alone remove, information without leaving a cyber-fingerprint of some kind. That’s the whole point of PRISM, right? Finding even the faintest cyber-prints? An agency that can track people’s physical movements based on their use of electronic devices should, one would think, be able to track their own contracted employees’ virtual movements on their premises. And yet here we are, with Snowden safely decamped with the goods to Hong Kong and Glenn Greenwald promising even more revelations.

Theory two, then: Snowden’s a hacking genius who somehow beat NSA’s internal security. Marc Ambinder assesses the degree of difficulty:

According to several current and former officials who’ve worked on NSANet, every keystroke is logged and subject to random audits. “Screengrabs” are prohibited. Documents can be printed with special facilities but that, too, leaves a record. As a mission support specialist, Snowden would have had access as part of his jobs to the physical servers and hard drives that contain material.

If he did not want to leave an audit trail, he might have disconnected a hard drive containing temporarily cached documents, brought them into an area that included desktops and hardware not cleared for such access, connected them, and then printed documents out. It is also possible that he disabled, under the guise of fixing something, access privileges for auditors. He could have temporarily escalated his own access privileges, although this would have raised flags among his superiors.

In theory, this would have alerted NISIRT, the NSA’s Information Systems Incident Response Team, which maintains a 24/7 watch over the backend of NSANet. Operational branches, including Special Source Operations (domestic and compartmented collection programs), Global Access Operations (satellites and other international SIGINT platforms), and Tailored Access Operations (cyber) have their own NISIRT team.

The agency also has a counterspy team that looks at NSA employees — and contractors? — in hopes of anticipating who might be ready to leak. Evidently they missed the Ron-Paul-donating loner who’d apparently been in contact with Glenn Greenwald for months before he skipped town. And if Ambinder’s scenario is correct, they also missed one of their hard drives going offline. Would a powerpoint on PRISM and a FISA order authorizing phone-record harvesting even be on the same hard drive? I.e. did Snowden collect this stuff steadily over time, by accessing different NSA “compartments,” rather than in one grand heist? Because if so, that’s an even more catastrophic internal security breakdown. Could NSA counterspies have missed repeated breaches?

Hopefully we’ll be able to game all of this out as part of the great national debate on NSA spying that Obama supposedly welcomes but won’t lift a finger to actually make possible. (“If President Obama really welcomed a debate, there are all kinds of things he could do in terms of declassification and disclosure to foster it.”) Exit question: Why did Snowden claim he was making $ 200,000 a year if he was only making $ 122,000? Is he including benefits in measuring his compensation? Any lie he tells, however small, will raise doubts about his motives. Seems weird that he’d open himself up to a challenge on something as minor as that.

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Former senior NSA official: Maybe only 30 or 40 agency officials had access to that FISA order that leaked

Former senior NSA official: Maybe only 30 or 40 agency officials had access to that FISA order that leaked

posted at 2:01 pm on June 11, 2013 by Allahpundit

Normally, this is where I’d say there are only two obvious possibilities: Either I’m right that he conspired with someone higher up the chain who fed him these highly sensitive documents or the guy’s some sort of master hacker who managed to slip past NSA’s internal security to lift top-secret stuff off their servers. But I can’t say that in this case because none of us really has any idea how NSA operates. Could the IT guy have had routine access to bombshell surveillance program data? I … don’t think so, but I … guess, maybe?

Even the intel guys can’t figure it out:

Among the questions is how a contract employee at a distant NSA satellite office was able to obtain a copy of an order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a highly classified document that would presumably be sealed from most employees and of little use to someone in his position.

A former senior NSA official said that the number of agency officials with access to such court orders is “maybe 30 or maybe 40. Not large numbers.”…

Officials questioned some of Snowden’s assertions in his interview with the Guardian, saying that several of his claims seemed exaggerated. Among them were assertions that he could order wiretaps on anyone from “a federal judge to even the president.”

“When he said he had access to every CIA station around the world, he’s lying,” said a former senior agency official, who added that information is so closely compartmented that only a handful of top-ranking executives at the agency could access it.

“Investigators also need to determine whether anyone else was involved in disclosing the information to reporters,” per WaPo’s sources. That’s one possibility — Snowden in cahoots with a more senior person who wants the information out but doesn’t want his fingerprints on it. In theory, though, security at NSA is so tight that there’s no way to access, let alone remove, information without leaving a cyber-fingerprint of some kind. That’s the whole point of PRISM, right? Finding even the faintest cyber-prints? An agency that can track people’s physical movements based on their use of electronic devices should, one would think, be able to track their own contracted employees’ virtual movements on their premises. And yet here we are, with Snowden safely decamped with the goods to Hong Kong and Glenn Greenwald promising even more revelations.

Theory two, then: Snowden’s a hacking genius who somehow beat NSA’s internal security. Marc Ambinder assesses the degree of difficulty:

According to several current and former officials who’ve worked on NSANet, every keystroke is logged and subject to random audits. “Screengrabs” are prohibited. Documents can be printed with special facilities but that, too, leaves a record. As a mission support specialist, Snowden would have had access as part of his jobs to the physical servers and hard drives that contain material.

If he did not want to leave an audit trail, he might have disconnected a hard drive containing temporarily cached documents, brought them into an area that included desktops and hardware not cleared for such access, connected them, and then printed documents out. It is also possible that he disabled, under the guise of fixing something, access privileges for auditors. He could have temporarily escalated his own access privileges, although this would have raised flags among his superiors.

In theory, this would have alerted NISIRT, the NSA’s Information Systems Incident Response Team, which maintains a 24/7 watch over the backend of NSANet. Operational branches, including Special Source Operations (domestic and compartmented collection programs), Global Access Operations (satellites and other international SIGINT platforms), and Tailored Access Operations (cyber) have their own NISIRT team.

The agency also has a counterspy team that looks at NSA employees — and contractors? — in hopes of anticipating who might be ready to leak. Evidently they missed the Ron-Paul-donating loner who’d apparently been in contact with Glenn Greenwald for months before he skipped town. And if Ambinder’s scenario is correct, they also missed one of their hard drives going offline. Would a powerpoint on PRISM and a FISA order authorizing phone-record harvesting even be on the same hard drive? I.e. did Snowden collect this stuff steadily over time, by accessing different NSA “compartments,” rather than in one grand heist? Because if so, that’s an even more catastrophic internal security breakdown. Could NSA counterspies have missed repeated breaches?

Hopefully we’ll be able to game all of this out as part of the great national debate on NSA spying that Obama supposedly welcomes but won’t lift a finger to actually make possible. (“If President Obama really welcomed a debate, there are all kinds of things he could do in terms of declassification and disclosure to foster it.”) Exit question: Why did Snowden claim he was making $ 200,000 a year if he was only making $ 122,000? Is he including benefits in measuring his compensation? Any lie he tells, however small, will raise doubts about his motives. Seems weird that he’d open himself up to a challenge on something as minor as that.

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