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You might think that the remote vehicle "start" capabilities offered through some car companies, like OnStar via General Motors, for example, is a "cool" thing to have. If so, realize this: A company that can remotely start your vehicle and unlock your door can also remotely shut you out of it or shut it down completely, especially if forced to do so by authorities (who may or may not have a court order to do so).
That kind of technology works both ways, so to speak.That's an important thing to consider, given the fact that Apple, Inc., was recently granted a patent enabling the company to wirelessly disable the camera function on specific iPhones in certain locations, "sparking fears that such techniques could be used to prevent citizens from communicating with each other or taking video during protests or events such as political conventions and gatherings," PrisonPlanet.com reported.
In this electronic day and age, just about all of us are aware that cellphone-generated video is easy to take and easy to upload to an audience of millions within moments. Most of us have seen the cellphone video of a fight or a confrontation or another impactful incident involving civilians and authorities. It's a powerful medium that very often offers a point of view not available to the mainstream media - but carried by them, nonetheless.
That may all be about to change.Freedom is not a givenTheoretically, according to U.S. Patent No. 8,254,902, published recently, "apparatus and methods of enforcement of policies upon a wireless device" could be implemented with the flick of an electronic switch.According to the patent:Apparatus and methods for changing one or more functional or operational aspects of a wireless device, such as upon the occurrence of a certain event.
In one embodiment, the event comprises detecting that the wireless device is within range of one or more other devices. In another variant, the event comprises the wireless device associating with a certain access point. In this manner, various aspects of device functionality may be enabled or restricted (device "policies").
This policy enforcement capability is useful for a variety of reasons, including for example to disable noise and/or light emanating from wireless devices (such as at a movie theater), for preventing wireless devices from communicating with other wireless devices (such as in academic settings), and for forcing certain electronic devices to enter "sleep mode" when entering a sensitive area.What that means is, an encoded signal could possibly be transmitted to all wireless devices entering "a sensitive area" (and who defines what that is?) which would command them to disable all recording functions.
Feeling safer now?The fear, obviously, is that this capability can and will be used by authorities at given times to control what you can and cannot document on your personal device, based on their whims and needs.Not a good development for those who love freedom.
Just when technology was set to make more of the world instantly accessible...This development comes on top of an innovation by technology companies to make wireless connectivity a major component of the latest cameras; this would not bode well for photographers and citizen journalists who are already having their first and fourth amendment rights trampled.
Says Michael Zhang at the tech site Peta Pixel:"If this type of technology became widely adopted and baked into cameras, photography could be prevented by simply setting a 'geofence' around a particular location, whether it's a movie theater, celebrity hangout spot, protest site, or the top secret rooms at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California."The same site offers some soothing advice as well:"Companies often file patents for all kinds of random technologies that never end up seeing the light of day, so you shouldn't be too concerned about this latest document. It's just a warning of what the future could potentially hold."Knowledge is power. We'll be keeping an eye on this development for our readers.
https://worldtruth.tv/apple-granted...ear-government-buildings-or-political-events/
That kind of technology works both ways, so to speak.That's an important thing to consider, given the fact that Apple, Inc., was recently granted a patent enabling the company to wirelessly disable the camera function on specific iPhones in certain locations, "sparking fears that such techniques could be used to prevent citizens from communicating with each other or taking video during protests or events such as political conventions and gatherings," PrisonPlanet.com reported.
In this electronic day and age, just about all of us are aware that cellphone-generated video is easy to take and easy to upload to an audience of millions within moments. Most of us have seen the cellphone video of a fight or a confrontation or another impactful incident involving civilians and authorities. It's a powerful medium that very often offers a point of view not available to the mainstream media - but carried by them, nonetheless.
That may all be about to change.Freedom is not a givenTheoretically, according to U.S. Patent No. 8,254,902, published recently, "apparatus and methods of enforcement of policies upon a wireless device" could be implemented with the flick of an electronic switch.According to the patent:Apparatus and methods for changing one or more functional or operational aspects of a wireless device, such as upon the occurrence of a certain event.
In one embodiment, the event comprises detecting that the wireless device is within range of one or more other devices. In another variant, the event comprises the wireless device associating with a certain access point. In this manner, various aspects of device functionality may be enabled or restricted (device "policies").
This policy enforcement capability is useful for a variety of reasons, including for example to disable noise and/or light emanating from wireless devices (such as at a movie theater), for preventing wireless devices from communicating with other wireless devices (such as in academic settings), and for forcing certain electronic devices to enter "sleep mode" when entering a sensitive area.What that means is, an encoded signal could possibly be transmitted to all wireless devices entering "a sensitive area" (and who defines what that is?) which would command them to disable all recording functions.
Feeling safer now?The fear, obviously, is that this capability can and will be used by authorities at given times to control what you can and cannot document on your personal device, based on their whims and needs.Not a good development for those who love freedom.
Just when technology was set to make more of the world instantly accessible...This development comes on top of an innovation by technology companies to make wireless connectivity a major component of the latest cameras; this would not bode well for photographers and citizen journalists who are already having their first and fourth amendment rights trampled.
Says Michael Zhang at the tech site Peta Pixel:"If this type of technology became widely adopted and baked into cameras, photography could be prevented by simply setting a 'geofence' around a particular location, whether it's a movie theater, celebrity hangout spot, protest site, or the top secret rooms at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California."The same site offers some soothing advice as well:"Companies often file patents for all kinds of random technologies that never end up seeing the light of day, so you shouldn't be too concerned about this latest document. It's just a warning of what the future could potentially hold."Knowledge is power. We'll be keeping an eye on this development for our readers.
https://worldtruth.tv/apple-granted...ear-government-buildings-or-political-events/
Looks like Edward's story not holding up. He lied about.
1. Snowden overstated his salary... by a lot
2. He reportedly left his home on May 1
3. Snowden didn't have 'authority' to wiretap anybody
4. He might not have had the ability to do so, either
5. Snowden's résumé is fishy
1. Snowden overstated his salary... by a lot
2. He reportedly left his home on May 1
3. Snowden didn't have 'authority' to wiretap anybody
4. He might not have had the ability to do so, either
5. Snowden's résumé is fishy
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It would have been truly shocking had NSA not countered by releasing information to discredit him. Probably each of those points they raise can be disputed, and may prove not to be true.
But it doesn't matter now. They've done their job to discredit him.
One thing they left out is that he has never responded to the question "is it true that you have stopped beating your wife?" Even if that question was never asked, he would be tainted by the statement he has never responded to it.
Not hard for an organization to discredit a rogue dissident.
But it doesn't matter now. They've done their job to discredit him.
One thing they left out is that he has never responded to the question "is it true that you have stopped beating your wife?" Even if that question was never asked, he would be tainted by the statement he has never responded to it.
Not hard for an organization to discredit a rogue dissident.
If, back before he dropped out of high school, 16-year-old Edward Snowden had just managed to see that "60 Minutes" report and witness the collective yawn that followed, he might have, 13 years later, decided that the American public would never share his fear of surveillance.
He might still be living in Hawaii with his beautiful, pole-dancing girlfriend, working a job with a ~$200,ooo salary.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/edward-snowden-had-watched-60-145117625.html
The 60 minutes report.
https://cryptome.org/echelon-60min.htm
He might still be living in Hawaii with his beautiful, pole-dancing girlfriend, working a job with a ~$200,ooo salary.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/edward-snowden-had-watched-60-145117625.html
The 60 minutes report.
https://cryptome.org/echelon-60min.htm
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[h=1]Facebook, Microsoft reveal surveillance request data after US deal[/h]
Facebook became the first to release aggregate numbers of requests, saying in a blog post that it received between 9,000 and 10,000 US requests for user data in the second half of 2012, covering 18,000 to 19,000 of its users' accounts.
Facebook has more than 1.1 billion users worldwide.
Read on:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-15/facebook-microsoft-reveal-surveillance-request-data/4756342
Facebook became the first to release aggregate numbers of requests, saying in a blog post that it received between 9,000 and 10,000 US requests for user data in the second half of 2012, covering 18,000 to 19,000 of its users' accounts.
Facebook has more than 1.1 billion users worldwide.
Read on:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-15/facebook-microsoft-reveal-surveillance-request-data/4756342
Get ready for the dirt, here it is.
[h=2]Edward Snowden Q&A[/h]It is the interview the world's media organisations have been chasing for more than a week, but instead Edward Snowden is giving Guardian readers the exclusive.
https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower
[h=2]Edward Snowden Q&A[/h]It is the interview the world's media organisations have been chasing for more than a week, but instead Edward Snowden is giving Guardian readers the exclusive.
https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower
Isn't anyone worried or scared shirtless after this?.
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On the lighter side it did save many lives.
Recently-leaked communication surveillance programs helped thwart more than 50 “potential terrorist events” around the world since the September 11 attacks, National Security Agency director Gen. Keith Alexander said Tuesday.
Alexander said at least 10 of the attacks were set to take place in the United States, suggesting that most of the terrorism disrupted by the program had been set to occur abroad.
Link..https://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/nsa-leak-keith-alexander-92971.html#ixzz2WaUjQKEG
Recently-leaked communication surveillance programs helped thwart more than 50 “potential terrorist events” around the world since the September 11 attacks, National Security Agency director Gen. Keith Alexander said Tuesday.
Alexander said at least 10 of the attacks were set to take place in the United States, suggesting that most of the terrorism disrupted by the program had been set to occur abroad.
Link..https://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/nsa-leak-keith-alexander-92971.html#ixzz2WaUjQKEG
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SWITZERLAND, Zürich — For the very first time, the shocking evidence of Obama nuclear terror whistleblower David Chase Taylor’s case for Swiss political asylum will be entered into the official court record at the “Bezirksgericht Zürich” (District Court of Zürich) on June 25, 2013. .
The 9:54 A.M. hearing will be a historic step in Taylor’s quest for political asylum. After 2 years of being denied access to a good-faith asylum hearing of any kind, Taylor will finally be able to declare under oath and on the record why he desperately needs and deserves political asylum in Switzerland.
Although it has not yet been confirmed, it does appear that the case of alleged NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is yet another elaborate scheme designed by the CIA to divert attention away from Taylor’s case in Switzerland. On June 24, 2013, exactly one day before Taylor’s appearance in a Swiss court where he will outline the evidence in his case for political asylum, Snowden has officially “gone missing” in Russia.
Taylor first applied for political asylum on March 8, 2011, after releasing a book entitled “The Nuclear Bible”—a self-proclaimed “work of love” aimed at preventing a nuclear terror attack in his home country of the United States.
Taylor’s book, released on January 28, 2011, claims to have caught the Obama administration red-handed attempting to conduct an act of nuclear terror at the National Football League’s (NFL) annual championship game entitled theSuper Bowl, routinely the most watched television event in America.
Why Taylor needs political asylum in Switzerland is not really up for debate; one look at the evidence surrounding Super Bowl XLV in Dallas, Texas, on February 6, 2011, and anyone would conclude that something was clearly amiss that cold Sunday night in Texas.
There is more to read. but remember the blackout during Superbowl LXV Hmmmmmm
https://truthernews.wordpress.com/2...vid-chase-taylor-in-swiss-court-june-25-2013/
The 9:54 A.M. hearing will be a historic step in Taylor’s quest for political asylum. After 2 years of being denied access to a good-faith asylum hearing of any kind, Taylor will finally be able to declare under oath and on the record why he desperately needs and deserves political asylum in Switzerland.
Although it has not yet been confirmed, it does appear that the case of alleged NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is yet another elaborate scheme designed by the CIA to divert attention away from Taylor’s case in Switzerland. On June 24, 2013, exactly one day before Taylor’s appearance in a Swiss court where he will outline the evidence in his case for political asylum, Snowden has officially “gone missing” in Russia.
Taylor first applied for political asylum on March 8, 2011, after releasing a book entitled “The Nuclear Bible”—a self-proclaimed “work of love” aimed at preventing a nuclear terror attack in his home country of the United States.
Taylor’s book, released on January 28, 2011, claims to have caught the Obama administration red-handed attempting to conduct an act of nuclear terror at the National Football League’s (NFL) annual championship game entitled theSuper Bowl, routinely the most watched television event in America.
Why Taylor needs political asylum in Switzerland is not really up for debate; one look at the evidence surrounding Super Bowl XLV in Dallas, Texas, on February 6, 2011, and anyone would conclude that something was clearly amiss that cold Sunday night in Texas.
There is more to read. but remember the blackout during Superbowl LXV Hmmmmmm
https://truthernews.wordpress.com/2...vid-chase-taylor-in-swiss-court-june-25-2013/
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James Corbett talks to Press TV about the Snowden manhunt and how it is detracting from both the content of the documents that he leaked and the fact that another NSA whistleblower, Russ Tice, has stepped forward with startling new revelations about NSA wiretapping. According to Tice, the NSA has targeted the entire Supreme Court, major military figures including General David Petraeus, the Congressional leadership of both the Democrats and Republicans, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and even former Illinois Senator Barack Obama in a hitherto undisclosed revelation about NSA eavesdropping.
So if they are not spying on people, many would have been dead on Canada day.
A man and a woman have been charged in a terror plot targeting the B.C. legislature in Victoria on Canada Day, RCMP said Tuesday.
John Stewart Nuttall, in his late 30s, and Amanda Marie Korody, in her late 20s to early 30s, both of Surrey, have each been charged with knowingly facilitating a terrorist activity, conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, and possession of an explosive substance.
Both are Canadian-born citizens.
“This self-radicalized behaviour was intended to create maximum impact and harm to Canadian citizens at the B.C. legislature on a national holiday,” RCMP Assistant Commissioner Wayne Rideout said.
Police said the attacks were inspired by “al-Qaida ideology,” and there is no evidence that any other individuals were involved in the attempted attack.
“This was a domestic threat without international linkages,” Assistant Commissioner James Malizia stated.
The plot stretches back five months, police said.
The pair had placed at least three pressure cookers devices at the Legislature. RCMP said although the devices were designed to “cause injury and death,” there was no risk to the public and police had control over the devices as they were being built. They would not give details.
A photo of “inert” explosive devices shown at the police conference seem to show pressure cookers much like those used at the Boston Marathon bombing.
However, RCMP said there was no evidence these pressure cooker explosives were linked to the Boston attack.
Nuttall and Korody are both in custody and were to appear in Surrey provincial court Tuesday morning.
Both accused live in Surrey, British Columbia. They were arrested in the neighbouring city of Abbotsford.
In April, police charged two men with plotting to derail a Toronto-area passenger train in an operation they say was backed by al-Qaida elements in Iran. U.S. authorities later announced visa fraud charges against a Tunisian man they said was linked to that plot.
Police also say Canadians took part in an attack by militants on a gas plant in Algeria in January.
CSIS has long expressed concern that disgruntled and radicalized Canadians could attack targets at home and abroad.
Canadian resident Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian citizen, tried to cross into the United States from British Columbia on a mission to blow up Los Angeles airport in 2000 and is serving 37 years in a U.S. prison.
A man and a woman have been charged in a terror plot targeting the B.C. legislature in Victoria on Canada Day, RCMP said Tuesday.
John Stewart Nuttall, in his late 30s, and Amanda Marie Korody, in her late 20s to early 30s, both of Surrey, have each been charged with knowingly facilitating a terrorist activity, conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, and possession of an explosive substance.
Both are Canadian-born citizens.
“This self-radicalized behaviour was intended to create maximum impact and harm to Canadian citizens at the B.C. legislature on a national holiday,” RCMP Assistant Commissioner Wayne Rideout said.
Police said the attacks were inspired by “al-Qaida ideology,” and there is no evidence that any other individuals were involved in the attempted attack.
“This was a domestic threat without international linkages,” Assistant Commissioner James Malizia stated.
The plot stretches back five months, police said.
The pair had placed at least three pressure cookers devices at the Legislature. RCMP said although the devices were designed to “cause injury and death,” there was no risk to the public and police had control over the devices as they were being built. They would not give details.
A photo of “inert” explosive devices shown at the police conference seem to show pressure cookers much like those used at the Boston Marathon bombing.
However, RCMP said there was no evidence these pressure cooker explosives were linked to the Boston attack.
Nuttall and Korody are both in custody and were to appear in Surrey provincial court Tuesday morning.
Both accused live in Surrey, British Columbia. They were arrested in the neighbouring city of Abbotsford.
In April, police charged two men with plotting to derail a Toronto-area passenger train in an operation they say was backed by al-Qaida elements in Iran. U.S. authorities later announced visa fraud charges against a Tunisian man they said was linked to that plot.
Police also say Canadians took part in an attack by militants on a gas plant in Algeria in January.
CSIS has long expressed concern that disgruntled and radicalized Canadians could attack targets at home and abroad.
Canadian resident Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian citizen, tried to cross into the United States from British Columbia on a mission to blow up Los Angeles airport in 2000 and is serving 37 years in a U.S. prison.
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Do you really believe Governments are not looking at everyone?.
Do you really believe Governments are not looking at everyone?.
Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Which prompts the question: How'd the government know what they were Googling?
Catalano (who is ) the tension of that visit.
[T]hey were peppering my husband with questions. Where is he from? Where are his parents from? They asked about me, where was I, where do I work, where do my parents live. Do you have any bombs, they asked. Do you own a pressure cooker? My husband said no, but we have a rice cooker. Can you make a bomb with that? My husband said no, my wife uses it to make quinoa. What the hell is quinoa, they asked. ...
Have you ever looked up how to make a pressure cooker bomb? My husband, ever the oppositional kind, asked them if they themselves weren’t curious as to how a pressure cooker bomb works, if they ever looked it up. Two of them admitted they did.
The men identified themselves as members of the "joint terrorism task force." The composition of such task forces , but, as after the Boston bombings, include a variety of federal agencies. Among them: the FBI and Homeland Security.
(Update, 12:50 p.m.: The Guardian confirmed with the FBI that the agency was aware of the visit, but that it was conducted by local police on Long Island. Local police forces participate in joint terrorism task forces, as in the Boston example above.)
Ever since details of the NSA's surveillance infrastructure were leaked by Edward Snowden, the agency has been insistent on the boundaries of the information it collects. It is not, by law, allowed to spy on Americans — although there are exceptions of which it takes advantage.
Its PRISM program, under which it collects internet content, does not include information from Americans unless those Americans are connected to terror suspects by no more than .
It collects metadata on phone calls made by Americans, but stopped collecting metadata on Americans' internet use in 2011. So how, then, would the government know what Catalano and her husband were searching for?
It's possible that one of the two of them is tangentially linked to a foreign terror suspect, allowing the government to review their internet activity. After all, that "no more than two other people" ends upcovering millions of people.
Or perhaps the NSA, as part of its routine collection of as much internet traffic as it can, automatically flags things like Google searches for "pressure cooker" and "backpack" and passes on anything it finds to the FBI.
Or maybe it was something else. On Wednesday, The Guardian on XKeyscore, a program that could clearly allow an analyst to run a search that picked out people who'd done searches for those items from the same location. How those searches got into the government's database is a question worth asking; how the information got back out seems apparent.
It is also possible that there were other factors that prompted the government's interest in Catalano and her husband. He travels to Asia, she notes in her article. Who knows. Which is largely Catalano's point.
They mentioned that they do this about 100 times a week. And that 99 of those visits turn out to be nothing. I don’t know what happens on the other 1% of visits and I’m not sure I want to know what my neighbors are up to.
One hundred times a week, groups of six armed men drive to houses in three black SUVs, conducting consented-if-casual searches of the property perhaps in part because of things people looked up online.
But the NSA doesn't collect data on Americans, so this certainly won't happen to you.
Correction: After confirmation from the FBI that its agents weren't involved in the visit, the headline of this piece was changed to "Visit From the Cops" instead of "the Feds."
Do you really believe Governments are not looking at everyone?.
Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Which prompts the question: How'd the government know what they were Googling?
Catalano (who is ) the tension of that visit.
[T]hey were peppering my husband with questions. Where is he from? Where are his parents from? They asked about me, where was I, where do I work, where do my parents live. Do you have any bombs, they asked. Do you own a pressure cooker? My husband said no, but we have a rice cooker. Can you make a bomb with that? My husband said no, my wife uses it to make quinoa. What the hell is quinoa, they asked. ...
Have you ever looked up how to make a pressure cooker bomb? My husband, ever the oppositional kind, asked them if they themselves weren’t curious as to how a pressure cooker bomb works, if they ever looked it up. Two of them admitted they did.
(Update, 12:50 p.m.: The Guardian confirmed with the FBI that the agency was aware of the visit, but that it was conducted by local police on Long Island. Local police forces participate in joint terrorism task forces, as in the Boston example above.)
Ever since details of the NSA's surveillance infrastructure were leaked by Edward Snowden, the agency has been insistent on the boundaries of the information it collects. It is not, by law, allowed to spy on Americans — although there are exceptions of which it takes advantage.
Its PRISM program, under which it collects internet content, does not include information from Americans unless those Americans are connected to terror suspects by no more than .
It collects metadata on phone calls made by Americans, but stopped collecting metadata on Americans' internet use in 2011. So how, then, would the government know what Catalano and her husband were searching for?
It's possible that one of the two of them is tangentially linked to a foreign terror suspect, allowing the government to review their internet activity. After all, that "no more than two other people" ends upcovering millions of people.
Or perhaps the NSA, as part of its routine collection of as much internet traffic as it can, automatically flags things like Google searches for "pressure cooker" and "backpack" and passes on anything it finds to the FBI.
Or maybe it was something else. On Wednesday, The Guardian on XKeyscore, a program that could clearly allow an analyst to run a search that picked out people who'd done searches for those items from the same location. How those searches got into the government's database is a question worth asking; how the information got back out seems apparent.
It is also possible that there were other factors that prompted the government's interest in Catalano and her husband. He travels to Asia, she notes in her article. Who knows. Which is largely Catalano's point.
They mentioned that they do this about 100 times a week. And that 99 of those visits turn out to be nothing. I don’t know what happens on the other 1% of visits and I’m not sure I want to know what my neighbors are up to.
But the NSA doesn't collect data on Americans, so this certainly won't happen to you.
Correction: After confirmation from the FBI that its agents weren't involved in the visit, the headline of this piece was changed to "Visit From the Cops" instead of "the Feds."
