Freies Politikforum für Demokraten und Anarchisten

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

If you want evidence that US intelligence agencies aren’t losing surveillance abilities because of the rising use of encryption by tech companies, look no further than the testimony on Tuesday by the director of national intelligence, James Clapper.

As the Guardian reported, Clapper made clear that the internet of things – the many devices like thermostats, cameras and other appliances that are increasingly connected to the internet – are providing ample opportunity for intelligence agencies to spy on targets, and possibly the masses. And it’s a danger that many consumers who buy these products may be wholly unaware of.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/09/internet-of-things-smart-devices-spying-surveillance-us-government

Rund 15.000 Kameras überwachen Berlin

Videoüberwachung hat in Berlin innerhalb weniger Jahre deutlich zugenommen. 14.765 Videokameras überwachen derzeit den öffentlichen Raum, wie aus einer Antwort der Innenverwaltung auf eine parlamentarische Anfrage des Piraten-Abgeordneten Christopher Lauer hervorgeht. Ende 2012 machte die Innenverwaltung die Angabe von rund 11.700 Kameras - damit liegt die Zahl aktuell rund 25 Prozent höher.
http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/videoueberwachung-rund-15-000-kameras-ueberwachen-berlin,10809148,33807892.html

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

The Obama administration secured a court order from a California-based federal judge on Tuesday to force tech giant Apple to develop special software designed to compromise encryption security features embedded in the iPhone’s iOS 9 operating system.

The court decision, utilizing an obscure and antidemocratic law from the 18th century, is part of efforts to utilize last year’s attack in San Bernardino, California to intensify the assault on democratic rights and expand the police-state spying powers of the government.

The FBI and the Justice Department claim that the new software is necessary to enable federal investigators to search through an iPhone belonging to Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the attackers responsible for the mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/02/18/appl-f18.html

US-Geheimdienste machen Terror gegen Verschlüsselung

Die Terroranschläge von Paris hätten nicht stattgefunden, wenn den Attentätern nicht Verschlüsselungsmöglichkeiten zur Verfügung gestanden hätten, die den Geheimdiensten Möglichkeiten zur Aufdeckung ihrer Pläne versperrt haben, behauptet NSA-Chef Michael Rogers am Mittwoch.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/47/47443/1.html

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive officer of Google, will head a new Pentagon advisory board aimed at bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday.

Carter unveiled the new Defense Innovation Advisory Board with Schmidt during the annual RSA cyber security conference in San Francisco, saying it would give the Pentagon access to "the brightest technical minds focused on innovation."

Schmidt, now the executive chairman of Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), the parent company of Google, said the board would help bridge what he called a clear gap between how the U.S. military and the technology industry operate.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-military-innovation-idUSKCN0W421V

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Earlier this year, at the height of a very public battle between the FBI and Apple over whether the computer maker would help decrypt a mass murderer’s locked iPhone, it appeared that a little-known, 17-year-old Israeli firm named Cellebrite Mobile Synchronization might finally get its moment in the spotlight.
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/31/fbis-go-hackers/

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Nach der NSA ist die CIA dran, womit die politisch motivierte Kritik an den Praktiken der russischen oder chinesischen Geheimdienste ausgehebelt wird
https://www.heise.de/tp/features/WikiLeaks-stellt-CIA-wegen-umfangreicher-Hackprogramme-an-den-Pranger-3646552.html

Wikileaks: CIA-Papiere im "Vault 7" beleuchten staatliche Hacker

Wikileaks hat unter dem Codenamen Vault 7 begonnen, interne CIA-Papiere zu veröffentlichen. Insgesamt sind es 8761 Dokumente mit Programmier-Tipps aus den Jahren 2013 bis 2016, die in einem Wiki auf der Basis von Atlassian Confluence gespeichert wurden, erläutert die Whistleblower-Plattform. Auf die Dokumente griffen die CIA-Prgrammierer der Engineering Development Group (EDG) in einem separaten Netz namens DevLAN.net zu.
https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Wikileaks-CIA-Papiere-im-Vault-7-beleuchten-staatliche-Hacker-3646436.html

CIA Hacking Tools Revealed

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/index.html

CIA Has an “Impressive List” of Ways to Hack Into Your Smartphone, WikiLeaks Files Indicate

A concerted effort by the CIA produced a library of software attacks to crack into Android smartphones and Apple iPhones, including some that could take full control of the devices, according to documents in a trove of files released by WikiLeaks Tuesday.
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/07/cia-has-an-impressive-list-of-ways-to-hack-into-your-smartphone-wikileaks-files-indicate/

WikiLeaks Dump Shows CIA Could Turn Smart TVs into Listening Devices

It’s difficult to buy a new TV that doesn’t come with a suite of (generally mediocre) “smart” software, giving your home theater some of the functions typically found in phones and tablets. But bringing these extra features into your living room means bringing a microphone, too — a fact the CIA is exploiting, according to a new trove of documents released today by WikiLeaks.
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/07/wikileaks-dump-shows-cia-could-turn-smart-tvs-into-listening-devices/

The CIA Didn’t Break Signal or WhatsApp, Despite What You’ve Heard

There’s been one particularly misleading claim repeated throughout coverage of CIA documents released by WikiLeaks today: That the agency’s in-house hackers “bypassed” the encryption used by popular secure-chat software like Signal and WhatsApp.
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/07/the-cia-didnt-break-signal-or-whatsapp-despite-what-youve-heard/

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

In the explosive “Vault 7” CIA secrets published by WikiLeaks on Tuesday, the organization has warned that the CIA, among a myriad of other intrusive exploits, has been investigating ways to hack and manipulate the control systems of cars and trucks for use in covert operations.
https://sputniknews.com/us/201703071051357143-wikileaks-cia-possibility-hacking-vehicles/

AG Guidelines for CIA Spying on US Citizens
https://cryptome.org/2017/01/cia-spy-us-citizens.pdf