Monthly Archives: February 2014

ACLU to Obama: No, You Can’t Just Murder an American Overseas

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“The ACLU, which is fighting an ongoing legal battle with the White House over the CIA and Pentagon’s use of drones and Obama’s secretive assassination program, responded to the leaked details of the internal deliberations by issuing a serious warning against an attempted assassination.  Though the ‘leaks’ given to AP appear to be designed to show that the White House is having serious internal legal deliberations, those opposed to the targeting killing argue that the Obama administration, even with increased transparency, could not possibly justify a program in which due process is withheld from those facing an extrajudicial death sentence.”

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/10-3

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Feds Float Trial Balloon; ‘Consider’ Targeting American In Drone Strike

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“An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say, and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to do so legally under its new stricter targeting policy issued last year.  The CIA drones watching him cannot strike because he’s a U.S. citizen and the Justice Department must build a case against him, a task it hasn’t completed.  Four U.S. officials said the American suspected terrorist is in a country that refuses U.S. military action on its soil and that has proved unable to go after him.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/report-the-us-is-considering-targeting-another-american-in-a-drone-strike-2014-2

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The NSA’s Perversion of Privacy: The Most Outrageous Breaches

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“Since the first story about how a secret court order gave the government access to millions of Verizon phone records, we’ve learned about many other overreaches by the federal government, including a government program that gains access to private information on popular services like Facebook, a tool the NSA can use to wiretap virtually anyone in the world, widespread spying on friendly foreign countries and even that the NSA has been infiltrating the online gaming world with forays into World of Warcraft. Here’s a roundup of some of the most unnerving stories about the NSA, starting before the Snowden revelations.”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/guide-leaks-exposing-nsas-perversion-privacy?paging=off

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Google, Facebook, Microsoft: steady rise in surveillance data requests

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“Google, Facebook, and Microsoft were among the technology companies to release new figures Monday showing a rising number of requests for their users’ data coming from a secretive U.S. surveillance court.  Depending on the company, the content might include private messages, documents, photos or videos.  By releasing the new numbers, the companies hope to become more transparent about the government data requests they receive tied to national security.  ‘Publishing these numbers is a step in the right direction,’ said Richard Salgado, Google’s legal director for law enforcement and information security, in a blog post breaking out the figures.”

http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/google-facebook-and-microsoft-show-steady-rise-in-surveillance-data-requests-235612

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Sophisticated Spy Tool ‘The Mask’ Rages Undetected for 7 Years

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“Stuxnet was reportedly created by the U.S. and Israel. There are no signs that Mask was created by the same group. Kaspersky instead found evidence that the attackers may be native Spanish speakers. Raiu said it’s the first APT malware they’ve seen with Spanish language snippets; usually, it’s Chinese.  Kaspersky believes the espionage operation belongs to a nation state because of its sophistication and because of an exploit the attackers used that the Kaspersky researchers believe may have been sold to the attackers by Vupen, a company in France that sells zero-day exploits to law enforcement and intelligence agencies.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/mask/

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NSA: Today We Fight Back!

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“Today, DownsizeDC.org joins dozens of organizations and THOUSANDS of websites to protest the NSA’s warrantless spying on American citizens.  We invite you to join us. There are apps you can use for your blog, website, or Twitter/Facebook page at https://thedaywefightback.org/.  And you can TAKE ACTION via DownsizeDC.org’s “Hands Off the Internet” campaign telling Congress that YOU DENY CONSENT to NSA spying using DownsizeDC.org’s Hands Off the Internet Campaign.”

https://secure.downsizedc.org/blog/today-we-fight-back

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Hacked X-Rays Could Slip Guns Past Airport Security

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“The supervisor’s password screen could be subverted through a simple SQL injection attack — a common hacker tactic that involves entering a special string of characters to trigger a system into doing something it shouldn’t do. In this case, the string would allow an attacker to bypass the login to gain access to a console screen that controls the TIP feature.  Using the console, an attacker could then direct the system to superimpose weapons or other contraband onto the x-ray images of clean bags to disrupt passenger screening. Or the attacker could superimpose images of clean bags onto the operator’s monitor to cover the true x-ray image of a bag containing contraband.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/tsa-airport-scanners/

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How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a Paperwork Error

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“FBI agent Kevin Kelley was investigating Muslims in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004 when he checked the wrong box on a terrorism form, erroneously placing Rahinah Ibrahim on the no-fly list.  What happened next was the real shame. Instead of admitting to the error, high-ranking President Barack Obama administration officials spent years covering it up.  After seven years of litigation, two trips to a federal appeals court and $3.8 million worth of lawyer time, the public has finally learned why a wheelchair-bound Stanford University scholar was cuffed, detained and denied a flight from San Francisco to Hawaii: FBI human error.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/no-fly-coverup/

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EU neighbours regret Swiss vote for immigration quotas

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“The vote invalidates the Swiss-EU agreement on freedom of movement.  German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the vote would cause ‘a host of difficulties for Switzerland’.  France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said ‘it will hurt Switzerland to be inward-looking’.  In a statement, the European Commission said the Swiss vote ‘goes against the principle of free movement of persons between the EU and Switzerland.  The EU will examine the implications of this initiative on EU-Swiss relations as a whole.’  Mr Fabius told French radio it was bad news ‘both for Europe and the Swiss’. Europe ‘was going to review its relations’ with Switzerland, he added.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26116648

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Davos global survey finds growing distrust in government

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“Ahead of the gathering of political and business leaders in the Swiss resort of Davos, the public relations firm Edelman found that only 44 percent of university-educated people participating in the survey trusted government, down 4 percentage points from the previous year. As recently as 2011, trust in politicians stood at 52 percent.  The 2014 Edelman Trust Barometer found the largest-ever gap in its 14-year history — 14 points — between trust in government and trust in business.  Agency CEO Richard Edelman  warned that sinking trust in government could stoke a rise in support for more extreme political parties, particularly in May’s election for the European Parliament.”

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/01/20/davos-global-survey-finds-growing-distrust-in-government/

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