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  • 'Routine' NSA Email Intercept Leads to Arrests in Britain & Canada; First Reported Bust from NSA Email Snooping
    Citing anonymous sources in the British intelligence community, The Sunday Times reported that an e-mail message intercepted by NSA spies precipitated a massive investigation by intelligence officials in several countries that culminated in the arrest of nine men in Britain and one in suburban Orleans, Ontario. It is the first time that routine US monitoring of e-mail traffic has led to an arrest.
    Posted Sat 04/10/2004
  • Uncensored 'Hackergate' Report Accidentally Released; Perps' Names Revealed
    An uncensored version of the Senate Sergeant At Arms' report on his investigation into Republican hacking of sensitive Democrat computer servers was accidentally released to journalists on March 4. The 67-page report includes the names of the partisan cyber-thieves, other...
    Posted Tue 03/30/2004
  • The Brave New World of Computers on the Battlefield
    From Reuters: The blue dots moving on the computer screen are US tanks and Humvees, the red ones are the enemy that American soldiers must kill or capture. This is not a video game but how the most high-tech division...
    Posted Mon 01/05/2004
  • Leaked: Restricted FBI Surveillance 'Guidance' for Voice-Over-IP Providers
    A restricted FBI document has leaked, detailing recent FBI "requirements" for "electronic surveillance capabilities" needed so the Bureau can tap "carrier-grade voice-over-IP" (CGVoP). The document, dated January 2003, was intended to "provide guidance" to "service providers and equipment manufacturers."
    Posted Fri 01/02/2004
  • US Using Police Software to Track Iraqi Insurgents
    From the Associated Press: American troops battling the shadowy guerrilla insurgency in Iraq have adopted the computer-sleuthing tactics of urban police departments to prepare strikes against rebel fighters and their sources of money and weapons. Military intelligence analysts have adopted...
    Posted Fri 12/26/2003
  • Nov. Court Ruling Revealed FBI Use of OnStar-Type Services to Spy on Car Passengers
    From SecurityFocus.com: An appeals court this week [ca. 11/19/03] put the brakes on an FBI surveillance technique that turns an automobile driver's on-board vehicle navigation system into a covert eavesdropping device, after finding that the spying effectively disables the system's...
    Posted Wed 12/24/2003
  • Bush Admin Steps Up 'Web Scrubbing'; Removing Embarrassing Docs and Transcripts from Gov't Web Sites
    As intrepid bloggers and a few others have been noticing, the Bush Admin has long maintained a practice of re-editing or simply deleting from government web sites media transcripts and documents that prove embarrassing. Now even the Washington Post has...
    Posted Wed 12/24/2003
  • MATRIX: Text of the ACLU Issue Brief
    The full text of the Oct. 2003 ACLU Issue Brief detailing MATRIX (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange), a program that ties together government and commercial databases in order to allow the authorities to conduct detailed searches on particular individuals, and to search for patterns in this data that can identify individuals possibly involved in terrorist or other criminal activity.
    Posted Thu 11/13/2003
  • Chinese Govt. Targets Tibet Activists with Computer Viruses
    A Beijing-based Internet company has been implicated in creating a program specifically designed to spy on computers of Tibetan Government-in-Exile and Tibet Support Groups. The attempt to spy has been done through sending innocuous-looking messages, purportedly from officials of the...
    Posted Thu 11/13/2003
 


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