Catégorie : Politics

Published on World Socialist Web Site WSWS, by Tom Carter, Dec 31, 2013.

US District Judge William H. Pauley’s ruling in the case of ACLU v. Clapper on December 27, which sanctions dragnet NSA surveillance of the telephone records of the entire country’s population, has immense significance for democratic rights.

Although it is written by a federal judge, it is not so much a legal opinion as it is a fascist-style polemic that advocates scrapping the US Constitution and implementing a police state. The fact that a federal judge makes such arguments is a significant indication of the extent to which a pro-dictatorship consensus has developed within the highest levels of the judicial system.   Continuer la lecture de « The pseudo-legal arguments for a police state »

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 »