Monthly Archives: February 2017

Venezuela Arrests Bitcoin Miners; Leading Bitcoin Exchange Shut Down

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“Venezuelan police have arrested eight bitcoin miners in the last two week, and the country’s leading bitcoin exchange announced yesterday that it’s suspending operations because its bank account was revoked. The recent spate of incidents is causing members of the country’s bitcoin community to take new measures to conceal their activities.”

Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/03/venezuela-surbitcoin-arrests-mining

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Border Agents Now Demanding Social Media Data from Americans

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“CBP recently began asking foreign visitors to the U.S. from Visa Waiver Countries for their social media identifiers. We raised concerns that the policy would be extended to cover Americans and private data. It appears our fears have come true far faster than we expected.”

Read more:  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/fear-materialized-border-agents-demand-social-media-data-americans

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Google, unlike Microsoft, must turn over foreign emails: U.S. judge

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“A U.S. judge has ordered Google to comply with search warrants seeking customer emails stored outside the United States, diverging from a federal appeals court that reached the opposite conclusion in a similar case involving Microsoft Corp.  U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Rueter in Philadelphia ruled on Friday that transferring emails from a foreign server so FBI agents could review them locally as part of a domestic fraud probe did not qualify as a seizure.”

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-usa-warrant-idUSKBN15J0ON

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Federal Judge Sends U.S. Marshals to Prevent Enforcement Of Trump Travel Ban

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“What the judge just did is sent federal law enforcement affiliated with the court to JFK airport to make sure other federal law enforcement obeys the order.  In other words, Judge Donnelly does not trust that the Trump administration will follow the law and pre-emptively sent muscle to carry out her order.  If you’re to believe the Daily Kos, the U.S. Marshals were sent with good reason: they report that in other airports, U.S. Customs & Border patrol has ignored the order.  Update: The Guardian also reporting non-compliance by CBP.”

Read more: https://professional-troublemaker.com/2017/01/29/federal-judge-sends-u-s-marshals-to-prevent-trump-from-enforcing-muslim-ban/

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DHS Inspector General: TSA uses secrecy to avoid embarrassment

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“The OIG report found a pervasive lack of basic security measures and consciousness at TSA airport facilities: doors propped open or with locks taped off, unmonitored entrances, lack of logs of physical access to communication nodes and servers, lack of redundancy, etc.   But the TSA tried to keep the OIG from reporting on even those problems that at already been publicly reported, after TSA review and permission, in earlier OIG reports or other pages of the same report. The real point of the TSA’s censorship is not security but avoidance of public and Congressional debate and oversight.”

Read more: https://papersplease.org/wp/2017/01/20/inspector-general-tsa-uses-secrecy-to-avoid-embarrassment/

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Europe Proposes “Restrictions On Payments In Cash”

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“Having discontinued its production of EUR500 banknotes, it appears Europe is charging towards the utopian dream of a cashless society. Just days after Davos’ elites discussed why the world needs to ‘get rid of currency,’ the European Commission has introduced a proposal enforcing ‘restrictions on payments in cash.’  The Action Plan states that ‘Payments in cash are widely used in the financing of terrorist activities.'”

Read more:  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-27/europe-proposes-restrictions-payments-cash

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Germany approves electronic ankle bracelets to monitor suspected extremists

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“Previously, only convicted individuals could be required to wear the device used to monitor location and movements.  With the cabinet proposal, ‘Gefährder,’ or people who pose a security threat, who have not been convicted can be forced to wear the device by order of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).”

Read more: http://www.dw.com/en/germany-approves-electronic-ankle-bracelets-to-monitor-extremists/a-37365188

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No, The Trump Travel Ban Wouldn’t Have Prevented 9/11

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For two simple reasons:  the travel ban omits the home countries of the 19 identified 9/11 suspects, including Saudi Arabia, now widely suspected to have been complicit in the 9/11 attacks.  Also, no citizens of the seven countries in the travel ban have been implicated in any other post-9/11 terrorist attacks.

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IRS Moves To Revoke Passports For Unpaid Taxes

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“President Trump’s executive order on travel may be generating big protests, but an IRS missive on travel and passports may not go down too well either. More than a year ago, in H.R.22, Congress gave the IRS a new weapon to collect taxes. Tax code Section 7345 is labeled, ‘Revocation or Denial of Passport in Case of Certain Tax Delinquencies.’ The law isn’t limited to criminal tax cases, or even cases where the IRS thinks you are trying to flee. The idea of the law is to use travel as a way to enforce tax collections. It was proposed and rejected in 2012. But by late 2015, Congress passed it and President Obama signed it.  Now, over a year later, the IRS has finally released new details on its website.”

Read more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2017/02/02/another-travel-ban-irs-moves-to-revoke-passports-for-unpaid-taxes/

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More than 100,000 visas revoked amid Trump travel ban

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“More than 100,000 visas have been revoked in the wake of the Trump administrations recent travel ban on citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries, according to media reports on Friday.  The Washington Post reported the figure, citing a government attorney at a federal court hearing in Virginia. NBC News’ Washington affiliate also reported the number from the hearing.”

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-visas-idUSKBN15I2EW

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