Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Watch this video-interview with Glenn Greenwald, 53.27 min, published on Democracy Now, by Ami Goodman, Dec 30, 2013:

The German publication Der Spiegel has revealed new details about a secretive hacking unit inside the National Security Agency called the Office of Tailored Access Operations, or TAO. The unit was created in 1997 to hack into global communications traffic. Hackers inside the TAO have developed a way to break into computers running Microsoft Windows by gaining passive access to machines when users report program crashes to Microsoft.   Continuer la lecture de « The NSA Can Literally Watch Every Keystroke You Make »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by JACOB APPELBAUM, JUDITH HORCHERT, OLE REISSMANN, MARCEL ROSENBACH, JÖRG SCHINDLER AND CHRISTIAN STÖCKER, Dec 30, 2013 (Editor’s note: This is a sidebar to our main feature story on the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations unit. You can read the main text here).

The NSA has a secret unit that produces special equipment ranging from spyware for computers and cell phones to listening posts and USB sticks that work as bugging devices. Here are some excerpts from the intelligence agency’s own catalog.   Continuer la lecture de « NSA's Secret Toolbox: Unit Offers Spy Gadgets for Every Need »

Im Feuilleton der Frankfurter Allgemeinen, von KATRIN RÖNICKE, Hamburg, 30. Dezember 2013.

Wikileaks-Gründer Julian Assange ruft die Hacker-Gemeinde auf, in Geheimdienste und andere Organisationen zu gehen, Informationen zu sammeln und sie zu verraten. „Wir sind eine Klasse“ – wie die Industriearbeiter sie einst gewesen seien.  Continuer la lecture de « Chaos Communication Congress: Hacker aller Länder, vereinigt euch »

the 100th monkey/singe/Affe – story:

• Video: The Hundredth Monkey, 4.07 min,  uploaded by Lost8Wizard, April 16, 2009;
• Motivation: meine Suche nach dem 100. Affen, TV ab- und Herz & Verstand einschalten, 15.01 min, von weltenhuepfer am 10. Mai 2013 hochgeladen: Hundertster Affe auf de.wikipedia;
• L’histoire du 100ème singe ou l’espoir de l’humanité, 5.07 min, mise en ligne de Philippe Theillou, le 18 septembre 2011;  Continuer la lecture de « liens-links on my dashboard »

Democratic Left Front salutes the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa special national congress: Together, a new South Africa is possible – Published on Links.org, by the Democratic Front South Africa, Dec 23, 2013.

Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal – There is a spectre haunting the ruling class and government in South Africa: it is the radical anti-capitalist movement that the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa NUMSA has given birth to at its historic special national congress held last week. The Democratic Left Front DLF congratulates NUMSA for this congress that united metalworkers in spite of the sustained attempts to divide NUMSA … // Continuer la lecture de « Together, a new South Africa is possible »