Anybody that knows Java, and the security classes can write a program to generate their own self-signed certificate.

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Stinker, figures you'd retool the header but leave the typo. Here's hoping the deplorables rebrand the White House for the high stakes casino/brothel it always was.

Across the pond, the Snooper's Charter goes in.

The law will force internet providers to record every internet customer's top-level web history in real-time for up to a year, which can be accessed by numerous government departments; force companies to decrypt data on demand -- though the government has never been that clear on exactly how it forces foreign firms to do that that; and even disclose any new security features in products before they launch.

Not only that, the law also gives the intelligence agencies the power to hack into computers and devices of citizens (known as equipment interference), although some protected professions -- such as journalists and medical staff -- are layered with marginally better protections.

square wrote:

Across the pond, the Snooper's Charter goes in.

The law will force internet providers to record every internet customer's top-level web history in real-time for up to a year, which can be accessed by numerous government departments; force companies to decrypt data on demand -- though the government has never been that clear on exactly how it forces foreign firms to do that that; and even disclose any new security features in products before they launch.

Not only that, the law also gives the intelligence agencies the power to hack into computers and devices of citizens (known as equipment interference), although some protected professions -- such as journalists and medical staff -- are layered with marginally better protections.

It's scripting time.

square wrote:

Looking forward to some nasty intelligence and Attorney General appointments.

Aaaaaand we're off and running with huge fans of surveillance with a side serving of torture.

square wrote:

Wishful thinking from someone coopted by the Bush and Obama intelligence apparatus.  Sorry, but Obama - and you - missed your chance to dismantle the surveillance state over the past eight years.

Called it.  Looks like Obama wants to go all in for some reason.

In all the outrage about the unhinged things Donald Trump keeps tweeting and saying, there's been almost zero criticism at the fact that Obama will be partly responsible for the extraordinary scope of powers Trump inherits. The Obama administration has not only done nothing to curtail the slew of extreme national security and war powers that Trump is about to acquire since the election - the White House is actively expanding them. . . .

Now, the Obama administration has warped the AUMF [Authorization for Use of Military Force] even further. As the New York Times reported on Monday, the White House is claiming it can use the 2001 law to go after al-Shabaab in Somalia, another group that didn't exist in 2001, which the Times openly states in its lead paragraph "will strengthen President-elect Donald J Trump's authority" to wage war when he enters office. . . .

Also this weekend, in another story that was overlooked while Donald Trump was tweeting nonsense that held everyone's attention, the Washington Post reported that Obama dramatically expanded the power of the secretive Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the secretive military unit that gained notoriety during the Osama bin Laden raid, "to track, plan and potentially launch attacks on terrorist cells around the globe" - even far away from battlefields.

Barbie's not the only toy that rats on you - Cayla's got a lot of friends in dark suits.

According to a coalition of consumer-interest organizations, the makers of two "smart" kids toys -- the My Friend Cayla doll and the i-Que Intelligent Robot -- are allegedly violating laws in the U.S. and overseas by collecting this sort of voice data without obtaining consent.

In a complaint filed this morning with the Federal Trade Commission, the coalition -- made up of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), and our colleagues at Consumers Union -- argue that Genesis Toys, a company that manufactures interactive and robotic toys, and Nuance Communications, which supplies the voice-parsing services for these toys, are running afoul of rules that protect children's privacy and prohibiting unfair and deceptive practices. . . .

Nuance is a giant company best-known -- to consumers, at least -- for its Dragon-branded suite of speech-to-text dictation software. The company also has a significant presence in healthcare dictation, and is -- like more large corporations than you'd think -- a defense contractor that sells products, including "voice biometric solutions," to military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies.

In case that's not invasive enough, how about making closer contact?

The maker of an Internet-connected, remote-controlled vibrator was sued in federal court for being a little too connected to its users: the company tracked various app settings such as vibration level and "temperature" without customer consent.

Some members of the intelligence community aren't in lockstep with the "collect it all" attitude of the leadership, though many are.

But soon after [Director of National Intelligence James] Clapper's post [to an internal blog], it became clear he did not actually speak for "all of the women and men" in the intelligence community. While the blog is only available to people with proper security clearance, Clapper does welcome commenters. The first two intelligence people to comment on his post took Clapper, and his "constituent," to the woodshed. "I think it was inappropriate for DNI Clapper to respond in a way that indicates he agrees with the premise of the writer's letter, namely, that government must expand its domestic "watching" and the people must give up "some 'rights' in the interest of the greater good," one IC commenter posted. "The head of the US Intelligence Community -- the business of which is foreign intelligence -- should not be taking sides on matters of domestic intelligence policy."

“The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations.”





Of all the stock images they "appropriated" for this slideshow from 2014, I'm sure Teller would not be happy that they used his for the closing arguments

GooberMcNutly wrote:

“The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations.”

AKA Ratfucking.

Sharing is caring.

On Thursday The New York Times reported that the Obama administration had recently finalized rules to give the National Security Agency (NSA) more leeway in sharing its vast trove of intercepted communications with the 15 other government agencies that make up the Intelligence Community.

National Security Letter (NSL) gag orders distort public policy making.

The gag order not only impacted our transparency report and our ability to talk about the sealed case, but Cloudflare has been involved in public policy discussions related to the Internet and matters of electronic communications both in Congress and in the public sphere more broadly since the early days of the company. . . .

One personal experience is particularly telling about the gag order's negative impact on our policy advocacy efforts. In early 2014, I met with a key Capitol Hill staffer who worked on issues related to counter-terrorism, homeland security, and the judiciary. I had a conversation where I explained how Cloudflare values transparency, due process of law, and expressed concerns that NSLs are unconstitutional tools of convenience rather than necessity. The staffer dismissed my concerns and expressed that Cloudflare's position on NSLs was a product of needless worrying, speculation, and misinformation. The staffer noted it would be impossible for an NSL to issue against Cloudflare, since the services our company provides expressly did not fall within the jurisdiction of the NSL statute. The staffer went so far as to open a copy of the U.S. Code and read from the statutory language to make her point.

Because of the gag order, I had to sit in silence, implicitly confirming the point in the mind of the staffer. At the time, I knew for a certainty that the FBI's interpretation of the statute diverged from hers (and presumably that of her boss).

choad wrote:

Now Amazon's #1 Best Seller! No Joke.

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/ … tive-facts

Trump and his adoring mob sneer at you "Readers."

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We can't have the proles reporting the news; Ignorance is Strength.  Surprisingly, even Putin's buddies get swept up.

A documentary producer, a photojournalist, a live-streamer and a freelance reporter were each charged with the most serious level of offense under Washington DC's law against rioting, after being caught up in the police action against demonstrators.

The Guardian learned of their arrests after reporting on Monday that the journalists Evan Engel of Vocativ and Alex Rubinstein of RT America had also been arrested and charged with felonies while covering the same unrest on Friday morning.

All six were arraigned in superior court on Saturday and released to await further hearings in February and March, according to court filings. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said late on Tuesday that charges against journalists who were covering the protests should be dropped.

Also, the title of this topic officially becomes valid - Obama's war on whistleblowers continues under Trump.

This topic has hundreds of posts cataloging Obama's fondness for surveillance, war on whistleblowers, and lack of government transparency.  Only someone with a lobotomy would have expected a vote for Trump or Clinton to reduce any of these.

Given that it has to be explained to Trump why torture isn't a great idea, we probably won't have to wait long for the body count to accumulate.

JetRx wrote:

Unless my math is way off, Trump is responsible for zero deaths...so far.

Well, that didn't take long.

Back on topic, all the more reason to care about SCOTUS appointments.

Can the US government demand that it be able to reach into the world's servers with the tech sector's assistance? International relations issues aside, the answer to that legally thorny question depends on which US court is asked.

Consider that a federal magistrate judge in Philadelphia answered that question Friday in the affirmative, ordering Google to comply with US warrants and transfer e-mail stored overseas to the US so the FBI could examine it as part of a criminal probe. Yet just two weeks ago, a New York-based federal appeals court let stand its highly publicized July decision that allowed Microsoft to quash a US court warrant for e-mail stored on its servers in Dublin, Ireland.

$2.2mil = getting away with it.

Don't piss off your neighbors - their unverified complaints could give the FBI an excuse to rummage through your life.

Assessments allow agents to look into tips or leads that don't meet the standard for opening an investigation, which requires specific information or allegations of wrongdoing -- an "articulable factual basis" for suspicion, as FBI rules put it. In an assessment, by contrast, an agent just needs to give an "authorized purpose" for their actions. Agents can open assessments "proactively," in order to evaluate potential informants, collect intelligence about threats surrounding public events, study a field office's geographical area, or gather information about a general phenomenon of interest to the bureau. . . .

The Intercept is publishing in full for the very first time the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide, or DIOG, which governs FBI operations. The DIOG's rules for assessments, which were previously released with significant redactions, make clear that the FBI can follow up on a tip or complaint by probing government records and conducting interviews. The bureau need not necessarily keep a record of this search. But if agents decide to dig deeper by opening an assessment, they are allowed to have informants collect information, and they can also physically surveil the subject -- including by airplane. In some cases, they can issue grand jury subpoenas. If the purpose of an assessment is to evaluate someone as a potential informant, agents can give polygraph tests, dig through trash, and use fake identities in the course of their research.

square wrote:

Customs and Border Protection looking to amp up its likes.

"We want to get on their social media, with passwords: What do you do, what do you say?" [Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly] told the House Homeland Security Committee. "If they don't want to cooperate then you don't come in."

We can't get the President's tax returns but they want private passwords?  War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery.

Meet the new bosses...

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/d … ncy-234879

After Trump grew infuriated by disclosures of his confrontational phone calls with foreign leaders, an investigation was launched into the source of the leaks, according to one White House aide. National Security Council staffers have been instructed to cooperate with inquiries, including requests to inspect their electronic communications, said two sources familiar with the situation. It's not clear whether the investigation is a formal proceeding, how far along it is or who is conducting it.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 … ournalists

The [British] government's legal advisers have been accused of launching a "full-frontal attack" on whistleblowers over proposals to radically increase prison sentences for revealing state secrets and prosecute journalists. . . .

"It's the mere handling of documents that becomes a criminal offence on the basis of the risk handling those documents causes, not that you actually hand them to a foreign state," he said. "So spying becomes possession of secret information. This is not what any of us would recognise as the definition of spying. It's spying as China might define it."

Germany: Cayla is not your friend.

Under German law, it is illegal to sell or possess a banned surveillance device. A breach of that law can result in a jail term of up to two years, according to German media reports.

At least someone still believes in the Fourth Amendment.

A federal magistrate judge in Chicago recently denied the government's attempt to force people in a particular building to depress their fingerprints in an attempt to open any seized Apple devices as part of a child pornography investigation. . . .

In a 14-page opinion and order . . . Judge M. David Weisman wrote that while investigators did have probable cause to search a particular home, "these limitations do impact the ability of the government to seek the extraordinary authority related to compelling individuals to provide their fingerprints to unlock an Apple electronic device."

Hope you enjoy having your data sold to all comers.

The Federal Communications Commission plans to halt implementation of a privacy rule that requires ISPs to protect the security of its customers' personal information.

The data security rule is part of a broader privacy rulemaking implemented under former Chairman Tom Wheeler but opposed by the FCC's new Republican majority. The privacy order's data security obligations are scheduled to take effect on March 2, but Chairman Ajit Pai wants to prevent that from happening. . . .

The most well-known portion of the privacy order requires ISPs to get opt-in consent from consumers before sharing Web browsing data and other private information with advertisers and other third parties.