tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141878910793686547.post7443578179931099206..comments2024-03-27T17:16:47.951+01:00Comments on UNDER MATTAN: NSA & GCHQ & FRA:s agenter lagrade miljoner porrbilder från webcams - för ökad trygghet!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141878910793686547.post-6651413122874430212014-03-02T15:21:46.379+01:002014-03-02T15:21:46.379+01:00--Insane McCain: “We Are All Ukrainians”--
March ...--Insane McCain: “We Are All Ukrainians”--<br /><br />March 1, 2014<br /><br />Source: Time<br /><br />In response to reports of a Russian takeover in parts of Crimea, Arizona Senator John McCain said on Friday, “We are all Ukrainians,” before calling for swift U.S. economic aid to Ukraine, condemnation of Russia at the United Nations, sanctions against Russian officials and the installation of U.S. missiles in the nearby Czech Republic.<br /><br />Russian President Vladimir Putin believes “this is a chess match reminiscent of the Cold War and we need to realize that and act accordingly,” McCain said, in an exclusive interview with TIME. “That does not mean I envision a conflict with Russia, but we need to take certain measures that would convince Putin that there is a very high cost to actions that he is taking now.”<br /><br />http://swampland.time.com/2014/02/28/ukraine-john-mccain-putin-crimea/<br /><br />http://www.blacklistednews.com/Insane_McCain%3A_%E2%80%9CWe_Are_All_Ukrainians%E2%80%9D/33289/0/38/38/Y/M.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141878910793686547.post-29344365355587136032014-03-01T20:57:56.326+01:002014-03-01T20:57:56.326+01:00--Private Webcam Images of Nearly 2 Million Global...--Private Webcam Images of Nearly 2 Million Global Yahoo Users Intercepted by British Spy Agency with NSA Help--<br /><br />All Gov - Saturday, March 01, 2014<br /><br />Yahoo users who used their webcams to communicate with others, including transmissions of a sexual nature, may have had their images captured—and ogled—by British spies.<br />With the help of the National Security Agency (NSA), Britain’s surveillance agency, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), intercepted and stored millions of webcam images belonging to Yahoo customers not suspected of terrorism or other threats.<br /><br />The secret program, codenamed Optic Nerve, collected the images from 2008 to 2010, and possibly beyond. Classified documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden to The Guardian indicated the collection occurred between 2008 and 2010. However, another document obtained by the newspaper showed Optic Nerve was in operation as late as 2012.<br />The vacuuming of private images was vast in scope and substantial in quantity: during just one six-month span in 2008, the program intercepted webcam transmissions belonging to 1.8 million Yahoo users worldwide.<br /><br />Images of American citizens who engage in webcam conversations via Yahoo were among those captured and stored by the government spy agency, since “there are no restrictions under UK law to prevent Americans’ images being accessed by British analysts without an individual warrant,” wrote The Guardian’s Spencer Ackerman and James Ball.<br />Many of the images contained nudity (somewhere between 3% and 11%), which not only proved irrelevant to GCHQ’s mission, but also distracting as far as keeping employees focused on more serious work.<br /><br />“Unfortunately…it would appear that a surprising number of people use webcam conversations to show intimate parts of their body to the other person,” one document states. “Also, the fact that the Yahoo software allows more than one person to view a webcam stream without necessarily sending a reciprocal stream means that it appears sometimes to be used for broadcasting pornography.”<br /><br />An internal GCHQ guide alerted its staff that they would be viewing nudity displayed by many global Yahoo users because the agency has “no perfect ability to censor material which may be offensive.”<br /><br />Yahoo claims it was not aware of the webcam interception until The Guardian broached the subject.[...]<br /><br />http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/private-webcam-images-of-nearly-2-million-global-yahoo-users-intercepted-by-british-spy-agency-with-nsa-help-140301?news=852567Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141878910793686547.post-8823385301051852472014-03-01T19:34:49.860+01:002014-03-01T19:34:49.860+01:00--US senators plan probe into NSA’s role in Yahoo ...--US senators plan probe into NSA’s role in Yahoo webcam spying scandal--<br /><br />Published time: March 01, 2014<br /><br />Following the revelations that Britain’s spy agency intercepts Yahoo users’ private data, three outraged American senators plan to launch an investigation into the NSA’s involvement in the GCHQ operation.<br /><br />The scandal with the British GCHQ intelligence agency collecting images of Yahoo users by secretly connecting to people’s webcams has made American lawmakers curious about whether their own National Security Agency has been cooperating with British intelligence in this respect.<br /><br />Senators Martin Heinrich, Mark Udall and Ron Wyden, all members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, issued a joint statement Friday, stating that they were “extremely troubled” with the “breathtaking lack of respect for privacy and civil liberties” of the UK spy agency and said that “any involvement of US agencies in the alleged activities reported today will need to be closely scrutinized.”<br /><br />“A very large number of individuals – including law-abiding Americans – may have had private videos of themselves and their families intercepted and stored without any suspicion of wrongdoing,” the statement said.<br /><br />The senators acknowledged that the interrelatedness of global communications had “dramatically increased the likelihood of innocent Americans being swept up in intelligence collection nominally aimed at foreigners," and called for US authorities “to ensure that ‘foreign’ intelligence collection does not intrude unnecessarily on the rights of law-abiding people or needlessly undermine the competitiveness of America’s leading industries.”<br /><br />On Friday the Internet Association, representing industry giants such as Amazon, AOL, eBay, Google, Netflix and Twitter, also expressed alarm over the latest GCHQ revelations and called for reform of the intelligence agencies.<br /><br />“Today’s revelations, about British intelligence practices, are alarming and reaffirm the need for greater transparency and reform of government surveillance,” the Internet Association’s CEO Michael Beckerman said in a statement. <br />[...]<br /><br />http://rt.com/usa/gchq-optic-nerve-investigation-335/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com