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Monday, March 17, 2014

Edward Snowden: American Hero or Traitor? (Video)

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Edward Snowden: American Hero or Traitor? (Video)

Monday, March 10, 2014

Edward Snowden: NSA “setting fire to the future of the Internet”

Despite Rep. Mike Pompeo’s protests, the NSA whistle-blower addresses SXSW interactive

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Edward Snowden: NSA “setting fire to the future of the Internet”

Edward Snowden tells SXSW: Mass NSA spying ‘is something we have a right to know’

Edward Snowden tells SXSW: Mass NSA spying ‘is something we have a right to know’
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By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, March 10, 2014 15:47 EDT

A recent, undated picture received from Channel 4 on December 24, 2013 shows US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden (AFP)

Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said Monday he has no regrets over his leaks about mass surveillance programs, saying they sparked a needed public debate on spying and data collection.

Snowden, who spoke via video link from Russia to the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, said he revealed the programs of the US National Security Agency and other such services to foster “a better civic understanding” about what had been secret programs.

He said his decision to leak documents to journalists “wasn’t so I could single handedly change the government; what I wanted to do was inform the public so they could provide their consent to what we should do.”

Snowden, a former NSA contractor who has been in hiding in Russia and has been charged in the United States with espionage, maintained that “every society in the world has benefited” from the debate on surveillance.

“Regardless of what happens to me, this is something we have a right to know,” he said on the link with members of the American Civil Liberties Union, who noted that the hookup was routed through seven proxy servers to keep his location secure.

Snowden, who appeared against a backdrop of a giant copy of the US constitution, said the NSA programs have fundamentally altered the rights outlined in the charter.

“The interpretation of the constitution has been changed from ‘no unreasonable searches and seizures,’ to ‘any seizure is fine, just don’t search it,’” he said.

Snowden said he chose to speak to SXSW because he believes it is important to encourage technology companies to make changes to stem mass surveillance.

“The people who are in the room in Austin right now, they are the folks who can really fix things through technical standards,” he said.

Snowden said more companies should adopt robust encryption that is built into communications without users having to use complex technical tools.

He maintained that if encryption is too complex, “people aren’t going to use it; it has to happen automatically, it has to happen seamlessly.”

If online communications are fully encrypted at all stages, Snowden said, bulk data collection would become too difficult for intelligence agencies.

He also said the NSA and other agencies have devoted too many resources to this type of bulk collection and not enough to traditional methods to catch criminals and terrorists.

“We’ve had tremendous intelligence failures because we are monitoring everybody’s communications, instead of suspects,” he said.

He cited the Boston marathon bombings as an example, saying “if we hadn’t spent so much on mass surveillance, if we followed traditional models, we might have caught” the suspects.

- Congress needs watchdog -

One of the questions came via Twitter from Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, who thanked Snowden and asked how to make an intelligence oversight system more accountable.

Snowden said “the key factor is accountability” and that Congress needed a watchdog because it failed to adequately oversee the NSA.

“We can’t have officials who can lie to the Congress and not face any consequences,” he said. “We need a watchdog that watches Congress.”

Documents leaked by Snowden in 2013 revealed widespread surveillance of individuals and institutions in the United States and around the world.

He received temporary asylum in Russia in August — a move that infuriated the United States and was a key factor behind President Barack Obama’s decision to cancel a summit with counterpart Vladimir Putin last year.

Eric W. Dolan

Eric W. Dolan has served as an editor for Raw Story since August 2010, and is based out of Sacramento, California. He grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and received a Bachelor of Science from Bradley University. Eric is also the publisher and editor of PsyPost. You can follow him on Twitter @ewdolan.

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Saturday, March 1, 2014

UFOs Finally Turn Up in Documents Leaked by Edward Snowden

A number of people have asked, if there is a government UFO cover-up, why haven’t documents relating to them turned up in the massive intelligence leak by Edward Snowden. Well, in a new document released at The Intercept, the new website devoted to publishing information about the leaks, the flying saucers have arrived. Though where they’ve turned up might be cause for concern for the Fox Mulder’s out there.

That document is a Powerpoint presentation from the British intelligence agency GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), titled simply enough “The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations“, in which three of the fifty slides are images of ‘UFOs’. Unfortunately, there is no text related to the images, so there could be a number of reasons for them being included – from pointing out people’s belief systems, through to them possibly being part of actual psychological operations (psy-ops). The only clue might be that the images are listed under a heading of “Influence and Information Operations”.

Besides the UFO references, there are a number of allusions to magic, from the mission statement to produce “cyber-magicians”, to another slide listing the historical involvement of professional magicians with psy-ops, through to finishing with an image of Teller beside a quote, “Conjuring with Information”.

Glenn Greenwald has written some commentary on the latest release of documents, pointing out how they show intelligence agencies are intentionally manipulating online discussions:

Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends: “false flag operations” (posting material to the internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy), and posting “negative information” on various forums.

Returning to the topic of UFOs, writer/film-maker Mark Pilkington is well-acquainted with the dual topic of UFOs and intelligence agency deceptions via the intensive research he did for his book and related documentary Mirage Men. On his blog, Mark notes that “it’s clear that [intelligence agencies] consider the UFO subject, its attendant beliefs, and the vocal community surrounding it, to be a useful field of operations for their activities”. He also points out that not much has changed in the last six decades, given the similarities between the newly released document and a research paper released in 1950 titled “Exploitation of Superstitions for Purposes of Psychological Warfare” – right down to the listing of magicians who have participated in psy-ops.

If you’d like to learn more about this subject, take a look at the lecture Mark gave a couple of years ago (embedded below), titled “The Abuses of Enchantment: Folklore and Deception in the Disinformation Age”:

As Greenwald points out, “these GCHQ documents are the first to prove that a major western government is using some of the most controversial techniques to disseminate deception online… Claims that government agencies are infiltrating online communities and engaging in “false flag operations” to discredit targets are often dismissed as conspiracy theories, but these documents leave no doubt they are doing precisely that… No government should be able to engage in these tactics”.

Or, as Fox Mulder told us all those years ago: “Trust no-one”.

Source: Daily Grail

Note: The featured image above is not from the GCHQ documents.

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Saturday, February 15, 2014

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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Two Faced Edward Mordrake

Edward Mordake named as the 19th century heir to an English
peerage. He had an extra face on the back of his head, which could
neither eat nor speak out loudly, although it could laugh and cry.

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Friday, January 17, 2014

Spies Want Edward Snowden Dead...

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

NSA Quantum Program Leaked: Edward Snowden Reveals How US Government Spies On Offline Computers

posted on Jan, 16 2014 @ 10:17 AM

reply to post by zeroBelief

I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Cottonmouth is only one of the methods they use to monitor data in an isolated (no network) environment. If you think about the sheer number of wireless networks out there, and the fact that they already said Nightstand can inject packets of data from 8 miles away, I’d bet money that they can pretty easily intercept data from pretty much any standard wireless network if they really wanted to. They also mentioned micro-circuitry that’s used in a similar fashion to the Cottonmouth method.

Jesus, as I was writing this I just remembered the whole RSA scandal that was uncovered a few weeks back (Source). Talk about a perfect way to distribute Cottonmouth!? Who’s to say that every one of the RSA key’s sold and used with this flawed algorithm designed by the NSA, also doesn’t double as a radio-transmitter like Cottonmouth? It’d be the perfect double whammy:

Step 1: If the user is online, they can use the backdoor built-in to the algorithm to gain real-time access, like a trojan virus. This would then allow further installation/distribution of software to keep the door “held open” too.
Step 2: In the event that the PC was offline yet still accessing a secure date source via the RSA key, they would simply need a little briefcase (Nightstand) located somewhere within their acceptable 8-mile radius to accomplish the exact same thing.

This is probably worthy of another thread, but directly related to the OP. S&F for the find, should be interesting come Friday.

edit on 16-1-2014 by parad0x122 because: typo

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013