January 14, 2014
Non-profit group (click here) the Freedom of the Press Foundation said on Tuesday that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will join its board of directors in February 2014.
The group uses a crowd-funding structure to collect donations for journalism projects and to encourage news organizations to use encryption tools.
"Journalism isn't possible unless reporters and their sources can safely communicate," said Snowden in a statement, "and where laws can't protect that, technology can. This is a hard problem, but not an unsolvable one, and I look forward to using my experience to help find a solution.”...
This is also NOT metadata. Just because people haven't been rounded up, doesn't mean it wasn't going to happen. This is not about national security, this is about aggression. Aggression against innocent people. The USA government has given itself permission to own every computer in the world and use it at will. This is complete denial of citizen's rights. It violates the 14th Amendment. It states:...“nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”...
The malware introduces criminality to our government processes and removes the rights of citizens.
January 15, 2014
The U.S. National Security Agency (click here) is reported to have implanted malicious software in nearly 100,000 computers worldwide -- allowing the U.S. to conduct surveillance on those machines and create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks.
The New York Times says the NSA inserts most of the software by gaining access to computer networks, but has also increasingly made use of a secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not connected to the Internet.
The report cites NSA documents, U.S. officials and computer experts.
The Times story comes as President Barack Obama prepares to announce Friday changes he wants to make in the scope of the NSA spying. The Timesreports that aides to Mr. Obama say he will curtail the agency's surveillance, but not adopt the most far-reaching recommendations of a White House review panel....
In Congressional testimony, former CIA Director Michael Morrell stated the metadata collected has not prevented any attacks on Americans. He stated that once there was suspect of an attack within dialogues LISTENED TO by an agent the metadata was then accessed to find out who the person was speaking with and whether it was about American citizens within an American location inside the USA. No, ACTIVE LISTENING, by CIA agents and the cross check of metadata ever turned up a known terrorist threat within the USA.
C-Span (click here) The statements regarding Metadata was during questioning by Senator Grassley, but, one has to witness the tone and emphasis by both Morell and Grassley to know there was option to stop the program. Grassley came away from this testimony determined to keep the program as it exists today. It is a political thing, but, also sheer fear of the unknown, too. Grassley is more than willing to violate the 14th Amendment for his own reasons.
