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Trump Administration Lobbying Hard for Sweeping Surveillance Law
Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LOBBYING HARD FOR SWEEPING SURVEILLANCE LAW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is pushing hard for the reauthorization of a key 2008 surveillance law — section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA — three months before it sunsets in December. To persuade senators to reauthorize the law in full, […]
How the NSA Built a Secret Surveillance Network for Ethiopia
Photo: Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images HOW THE NSA BUILT A SECRET SURVEILLANCE NETWORK FOR ETHIOPIA “A WARM FRIENDSHIP connects the Ethiopian and American people,” U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced earlier this year. “We remain committed to working with Ethiopia to foster liberty, democracy, economic growth, protection of human rights, and the rule […]
Bill in Congress to Fund CIA & NSA Outlaws Wikileaks
Bill in Congress to Fund CIA & NSA Outlaws Wikileaks The bill in Congress to fund US intelligence services includes a provision, Sec. 623, which states: SEC. 623. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON WIKILEAKS. It is the sense of Congress that WikiLeaks and the senior leadership of WikiLeaks resemble a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by […]
The United States of Hubris
The United States of Hubris If anyone should have any questions about whether the United States of America is not the most aggressive, warlike, and terroristic nation on the face of the earth, its latest proposed action against the supposed rogue state of North Korea should allay any such doubts. Last week, the US circulated a […]
Your Bitcoin is NOT Anonymous: IRS Moves To Track Bitcoiners With New Chain Analysis Tools
Your Bitcoin is NOT Anonymous: IRS Moves To Track Bitcoiners With New Chain Analysis Tools Last month Alt-Market.com founder Brandon Smith warned that Bitcoin may not be all that it’s cracked up to be in terms of its purported anonymity: For years, one of the major original selling points of bitcoin was that it was […]
How many Americans are swept up in the NSA’s snooping programs?
How many Americans are swept up in the NSA’s snooping programs? © Getty Images Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper famously (or infamously) told Congress the National Security Agency did not “wittingly” collect data on Americans. That turned out to be false. More recently, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked the current director of national […]
EXCLUSIVE: Documents expose how Hollywood promotes war on behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA
EXCLUSIVE: Documents expose how Hollywood promotes war on behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows Plato’s Cave reimagined for the Hollywood era — copyright Derek Swansonn Tom Secker and Matthew Alford report on their astonishing findings from trawling through thousands of new US military and intelligence documents obtained […]
The Age of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts Into High Gear [SHORT]
The Age of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts Into High Gear [SHORT] “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” ― William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice (1966) The government has become an expert in finding ways […]
Edward Snowden Asks Ron Paul If Intelligence Reports Ever Swayed His Vote
Edward Snowden Asks Ron Paul If Intelligence Reports Ever Swayed His Vote During an appearance on the Liberty Report last week, Dr. Ron Paul interviewed former NSA contractor Edward Snowden about the rise of the Deep State and how intelligence agencies are threatening Americans’ freedom. But in the closing moments of that interview, Snowden surprised […]
Cyberattacks & the Vulnerability of a Cashless Society
Cyberattacks & the Vulnerability of a Cashless Society QUESTION: Cyberattacks vs. Cash elimination – an argument against eliminating cash. Hello Mr. Armstrong, it is quite apparent that no government, no financial institution, Anti-virus software developer, or either ‘whatever’ is is really capable to stop cyberattacks. Now these people want to eliminate cash, make larger cash amounts […]
24 Hours Later: “Unprecedented” Fallout From “Biggest Ransomware Attack In History”
24 Hours Later: “Unprecedented” Fallout From “Biggest Ransomware Attack In History” 24 hours after it first emerged, it has been called the first global, coordinated ransomware attack using hacking tools developed by the NSA, crippling over a dozen hospitals across the UK, mass transit around Europe, car factories in France and the UK, universities in […]
“Worst-Ever Recorded” Ransomware Attack Strikes Over 57,000 Users Worldwide, Using NSA-Leaked Tools
“Worst-Ever Recorded” Ransomware Attack Strikes Over 57,000 Users Worldwide, Using NSA-Leaked Tools The ransomware has been identifed as WannaCry * * * Update 4: According to experts tracking and analyzing the worm and its spread, this could be one of the worst-ever recorded attacks of its kind. The security researcher who tweets and blogs as […]
President Obama’s team sought NSA intel on thousands of Americans during the 2016 election
President Obama’s team sought NSA intel on thousands of Americans during the 2016 election WATCH | The Obama administration distributed thousands of intelligence reports with the unredacted names of U.S. residents during the 2016 election. During his final year in office, President Obama’s team significantly expanded efforts to search National Security Agency intercepts for information about […]
Latest “Shadow Brokers” Leak Reveals NSA Hacked Most Windows Platforms; SWIFT Banks
Latest “Shadow Brokers” Leak Reveals NSA Hacked Most Windows Platforms; SWIFT Banks One week after the “Shadow Broker” hacker group re-emerged when in a Medium blog post it slammed Donald Trump’s betrayal of his core “base” and the recent attack on Syria, urging Trump to revert to his original promises and not be swept away […]
Leaked NSA Malware Threatens Windows Users Around the World
LEAKED NSA MALWARE THREATENS WINDOWS USERS AROUND THE WORLD The ShadowBrokers, an entity previously confirmed by The Intercept to have leaked authentic malware used by the NSA to attack computers around the world, today released another cache of what appears to be extremely potent (and previously unknown) software capable of breaking into systems running Windows. The […]
