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Obama secretly signs the most aggressive cybersecurity directive ever

Six years after the White House first started running amok on the computer networks of... more

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Obama administration needs to take on Facebook and Google: cybersecurity under the COPPA cabana | Scholars and Rogues

The Obama administration made its mark as a campaign of technology, and as such... more

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Smartworld - Identity Ecosystem

Tsze-lu said, "The ruler of Wei has been waiting for you, in order with you to... more

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When It Comes to Cybersecurity, Scare Tactics Aren't Convincing Americans to Sacrifice Privacy

This week, comments from Democratic Senators, a panel of witnessses, and the director... more

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We’re Slowly Starting to See U.S.’ Cyber Weapons

For years now, Defense Department officials have refused to discuss the details of the... more

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David Seaman: Americans care more about soda than FISA

Recently in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg proposed a ban on super-sized drinksand it... more

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Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

Even after the Stuxnet computer worm became public, President Obama accelerated... more

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Oops! US and Israel Created and Lost Control of Stuxnet Virus

Ok the next time you hear about some bs about cybersecurity or the fake war on cyber... more

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Kim DotCom [MegaUpload] case sees tears, claims of betrayal

Kim DotCom isn't too big to cry.

In court yesterday, the MegaUpload founder choked up when he recalled how New Zealand police in January raided the Auckland mansion where he lived and when, as his lawyer, said he was "ripped him away from his family." The U.S. Attorney's office accuses MegaUpload of being a front for a massive piracy operation and lawyers there are trying to extradite him to this country to face criminal copyright, money laundering and wire fraud charges.

MegaUpload was one of the Web's most popular cyberlocker services before U.S. authorities shut it down. The U.S. government is trying to send a message that turning a blind eye to piracy can land site operators in jail. Critics say U.S officials are overreaching and at most the case is a civil dispute.

Back in court, as DotCom was tearing up, his lawyers seethed. DotCom, who has denied being a pirate, was in a New Zealand courtroom Wednesday seeking a judicial review of the search warrants served on him and MegaUpload. His attorneys argued that New Zealand authorities illegally seized data that wasn't relevant to the case and DotCom wants some of his possessions returned, according to Ira Rothken, the U.S.-based lawyer leading DotCom's worldwide defense.

But that's only one part of the U.S. government effort that has angered the DotCom side. According to Rothken, when DotCom's lawyers asked authorities to give them a copy of the data taken from him, they learned that New Zealand officials had shipped the information to the FBI for analysis.

Paul Davison, DotCom's lead attorney in New Zealand, told the media that he was assured by authorities that none of the data seized would leave the country without warning. Without the data, DotCom can't properly defend himself, his attorneys argue, and they feel betrayed.

"The court will determine whether the United States and New Zealand had the authorization to remove data from New Zealand absent a court order," Rothken told CNET. "This is a serious international issue and we believe it requires proportional remedy... It seems as though the United States is trying to win on tactics rather than on merits."

Some of the data seized from DotCom's personal computers was also encrypted and authorities have asked him for the passwords. He has refused to hand them over.

"On certain conditions, Kim DotCom would consider supplying them," Rothken said. "But not when data was secreted away from New Zealand, away from a New Zealand court and judicial supervision. His password on some of the data is his only protection against unreasonable intrusion."

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This is going to be a significant case for the future of communication and privacy laws, if anybody cares...Kim DotCom isn't too big to cry. In court yesterday, the MegaUpload founder... more

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Who Voted For CISPA?

H.R. 3523: Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (On Passage of the Bill):... more

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Reality Check Half Hour Special on CISPA and other Internet Piracy Bills, Part 2

Ben Swann takes a look at SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, ACTA and even the so called Legal... more

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Reality Check CISPA 30 Minute Special, Part 1

Ben Swann takes a look at the issues with CISPA and where it stands in Part 1 of this... more

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Microsoft backs away from CISPA support, citing privacy

Microsoft is no longer as enthusiastic about a controversial cybersecurity bill that... more

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Worse Than SOPA! New CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Will Censor The Internet!

April 03, 2012 Russia Today News http://youtu.be/KoM_tKfwDWA

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Vague Cybersecurity Legislation Threatens Civil Liberties

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We Just Built Skynet in the Desert, Now What?

Ten years after 9/11, the National Security Agency (NSA) is close to putting the finishing touches on what will be the single biggest spy center in the country. According to James Bamford of WIRED, this new one million-square foot spy complex in the Utah Desert will actually be capable of monitoring, intercepting and de-encrypting just about any message sent over any communication network in the country. It will be capable of keeping tabs on any civilian in the U.S. or any foreigner visiting the USA. And it will all be hooked up to federal computers in Washington, giving it access to the records and databases of the most powerful government agencies in the country. If all this is starting to sound a lot like Skynet in the Terminator movies, that’s because, well, it is - minus the Schwarzenegger robots, of course.

The sheer amount of data that the NSA – and by extension the CIA, FBI and Pentagon – will be able to collect on both foreigners and its own civilians is staggering. The $2 billion center, which goes by the disarmingly bland name of the Utah Data Center, is the final piece in the puzzle for the Pentagon, which has been attempting to build a Global Information Grid ever since 9/11. Remember the Total Information Awareness program of 2003? Well, it’s now here in physical form – and it’s heavily guarded. In military parlance, it’s not a “soft” target - the facility has been hardened to the point where a 15,000-pound vehicle traveling at 50 miles per hour couldn't muscle its way inside. At its peak, this new surveillance center will be able to handle so much data that the NSA practically had to coin a new word to describe it: yottabytes. There are so many servers running this system that the annual cooling costs are estimated to be $40 million.

That’s quite an electricity bill for a "data center."

That's because this federal spy center goes far beyond what’s already being collected about us online, to explore the “Deep Web” that’s all but invisible to typical search engines. The spy center will also delve into the world of code-breaking and reverse-encryption. Even things that we think are far beyond any type of cyber-penetration will be readily available to the powers-that-be. That’s where things get downright scary. We assume that spambots and spiders slither behind us everywhere we go online, but what do we really know about all the other information that is being tracked about us? What information is being collected about us by security monitors in the streets and satellites overhead? The scope of what's being collected by the NSA is breathlessly thorough in detail, reaching into every area of our lives:

"Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy."

This digital "pocket litter" that each of us leaves behind us may sound harmless – but that's until all of this highly unstructured data gets dumped into a supercomputing capable of mining all this data and producing patterns and insights. This “pocket litter” is no longer trash once it can be used to construct ever-more precise profiles of everyday civilians and predict future behaviors.

“Cybersecurity” and “the war on terror” are handy little buzzwords for enabling governments to extend their cyber-surveillance over every aspect of our lives. At the end of the day, pure democracy and absolute authoritarianism are really just flip sides of the same coin. This is precisely why dystopian novels such as George Orwell’s 1984 and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We are so terrifying. Authoritarian regimes always start out with a willingness to help - not enslave - its civilians. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. A government that claims to protect its citizens by spying on them is a government that needs to be watched, monitored and held under strict surveillance by its own citizens.

http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/we-just-built-skynet-in-the-desert-now-whatTen years after 9/11, the National Security Agency (NSA) is close to putting the... more

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The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of... more

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The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom

On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new... more

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Anonymous vows ‘crusade’ against Israel

Anonymous is 100% total and complete bullshit. Attacking the CIA and other... more

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Homeland Security's Janet Napalitano Addresses The Council on Foreign Relations

Janet Napalitano doesn't inspire any confidence in her bloated bureaucracy's... more

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