#NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning
http://www.wired.com/2013/06/general-keith-alexander-cyberwar/ Overview of the activities of Alexander the Geek, spy master behind #stuxnet
#NSA Intercepted Children’s Letters To Santa http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/12/nsa-letters-to-santa N Pole address is non-US & OK for snooping HT @peterwsinger @DuffelBlog
The #NSA & #Snowden: Argues 2-factor authentication & 2-person authorization would’ve stopped theft of 1.7M documents
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/5/174340-the-nsa-and-snowden/fulltext
How the #NSA Almost Killed the #Internet: Will personal data need to be stored in country of origin?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/how-the-us-almost-killed-the-internet HT @fpine (1/2)
Good qt from Myhrvold: considering… threat of terrorists with bio.. degrees… tough surveillance measures might not be so bad. (2/2)
QT:{{”
There are others who argue that we may regret even modest constraints on the NSA. Former Microsoft research head Nathan Myhrvold recently wrote a hair-raising treatise arguing that, considering the threat of terrorists with biology degrees who could wipe out a good portion of humanity, tough surveillance measures might not be so bad. Myhrvold calls out the tech companies for hypoc-risy. They argue that the NSA should stop exploiting information in the name of national security, he says, but they are more than happy to do the same thing in pursuit of their bottom lines. “The cost is going to be lower efficiency in finding terrorist plots–and that cost means blood,” he says. “}}
What #Surveillance Valley knows about you: A LOT – eg info sold to insurers on recent weight gains & illegal drug use
http://pando.com/2013/12/22/a-peek-into-surveillance-valley
MT @davidlazer So many #NSA elves that deconfliction needed to avoid collisions. Spies Infiltrate… Online Games
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/world/spies-dragnet-reaches-a-playing-field-of-elves-and-trolls.html
QT: {{”
But for all their enthusiasm — so many C.I.A., F.B.I. and Pentagon spies were hunting around in Second Life, the document noted, that a “deconfliction” group was needed to avoid collisions — the
intelligence agencies may have inflated the threat.
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How America’s Top Tech Companies Created the #Surveillance State: Subtle pressure created an intel-industrial complex
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/how-america-s-top-tech-companies-created-the-surveillance-state-20130725
Beyond staring down the PM: Can the Guardian Take Its Aggressive Investigations [to a] Global [Brand]? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/10/07/131007fa_fact_auletta via @Kernos501
staring down the PM to become a global brand
ANNALS OF COMMUNICATIONS
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
A British newspaper wants to take its aggressive investigations
global, but money is running out.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/10/07/131007fa_fact_auletta
#NSA Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens: Metadata can be very revealing
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/nsa-examines-social-networks-of-us-citizens.html via @kenhyers #privacy
#NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption, hurting credibility of
private-company solutions v opensource http://nyti.ms/1aaj0QI MT @BrianBrownNet
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html