It's important that you recognize that ‘‘our system of checks and balances has failed,’’ and Congress only cares about the effect on US businesses, folks.
"NSA succeeds in thwarting much Internet encryption; Agency able to
undercut privacy, documents say" by NICOLE PERLROTH, JEFF LARSON and
SCOTT SHANE | New York Times, September 06, 2013
NEW YORK — The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders, and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly disclosed documents.
I never assumed my privacy was being protected, and I'm right out
here anyway. They obviously know how I feel, and so does the whole
world.
The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems,
protects sensitive data such as trade secrets and medical records, and
automatically secures the e-mails, Web searches, Internet chats, and
phone calls of Americans and others around the world, the documents
show.
Then the GOVERNMENT can NOT NOT KNOW about ALL the BANK FRAUD, and they are GUILTY of STEALING TRADE SECRETS!
Many users assume — or have been assured by Internet companies — that their data are safe from prying eyes, including those of the government, and the NSA wants to keep it that way.
Oh, the telecoms LIED TO YOU, world citizens?
The agency treats its recent successes in deciphering protected information as among its most closely guarded secrets, restricted to those cleared for a highly classified program code-named Bullrun, according to the documents, provided by Edward J. Snowden, the former NSA contractor.
It's Bull something!
Beginning in 2000, as encryption tools were gradually blanketing the Web, the NSA invested billions of dollars in a clandestine campaign to preserve its ability to eavesdrop.
Having lost a public battle in the 1990s to insert its own “back door”
in all encryption, it set out to accomplish the same goal by stealth.
But they are only interested in PROTECTING YOU!
The agency, according to the documents and interviews with industry officials, deployed custom-built, superfast computers to break codes, and began collaborating with technology companies in the United States and abroad to build entry points into their products. The documents do not identify which companies have participated.
Then all are guilty.
The NSA hacked into target computers to snare messages before they were encrypted.
Related: Sunday Globe Special: Hacking is Good Bu$ine$$
Can't blame China or Russia anymore!
And the agency used its influence as the world’s most experienced code maker to covertly introduce weaknesses into the encryption standards followed by hardware and software developers around the world.
“For the past decade, NSA has led an aggressive, multipronged effort
to break widely used Internet encryption technologies,” said a 2010
memo describing a briefing about NSA accomplishments for employees of
its British counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters, or
GCHQ. “Cryptanalytic capabilities are now coming online. Vast amounts of
encrypted Internet data which have up till now been discarded are now
exploitable.”
Related: Sunday Globe Special: England's Newest Nazi
That's really unfair to the Nazis since this is so far beyond what they did.
An intelligence budget document makes clear that the effort is still going strong.
Related: Snowden Spills Surveillance Budget $ecrets
Yes, even in this TIME of AU$TERITY and $EQUESTRATION for you,
American taxpayers, the TOTALITARIAN $URVEILLANCE $TATE is getting its
funding!
“We are investing in groundbreaking cryptanalytic capabilities to defeat adversarial cryptography and exploit Internet traffic,” the director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr., wrote in his budget request for the current year.
The NSA’s success in defeating many of the privacy protections offered by encryption does not change the rules that prohibit the deliberate targeting of Americans’ e-mails or phone calls without a warrant.
No, it OBLITERATES them!
But it shows that the agency, which was rebuked by a federal judge in
2011 for violating the rules and misleading the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court, cannot necessarily be restrained by privacy technology. NSA rules permit the agency to store any encrypted communication, domestic or foreign, for as long as the agency is trying to decrypt it or analyze its technical features.
Meaning FOREVER! That is why the unmentioned Utah collection warehouse is needed.
The NSA, which has specialized in code-breaking since its creation in
1952, sees that task as essential to its mission. If it cannot decipher the messages of foreign adversaries, the United States will be at serious risk, agency officials say.
That is NOT WHAT THIS is ALL ABOUT!
Some experts say the NSA’s campaign to bypass and weaken communications security may have serious unintended consequences.
What, more false flag hacking attacks that advance the agenda?
They say the agency is working at cross-purposes with its other major mission, apart from eavesdropping: ensuring the security of US communications.
Actually, when you really think about it, the purpo$e may not be all that cro$$, if you know what I mean.
Some of the agency’s most intensive efforts have focused on the encryption in universal use in the United States, including the protection used on smartphones.
Yeah, except that is a VIOLATION of the LAW since the NSA is only supposed to be monitoring FOREIGN communications!
Many Americans, often without realizing it, rely on such protection every time they send an e-mail or buy something online.
Then it is NO PROTECTION at all, is it? And what companies made money des$igning the $tuff?
For at least three years, one document says, Britain’s GCHQ, almost certainly in close collaboration with the NSA, has been looking for ways into protected traffic of the most popular Internet companies: Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and Microsoft’s Hotmail. By 2012, GCHQ had developed “new access opportunities” into Google’s systems, according to the document.
“The risk is that when you build a back door into systems, you’re not
the only one to exploit it,” said Matthew D. Green, a cryptography
researcher at Johns Hopkins University. “Those back doors could work
against US communications, too.”
I'll bet I can guess who (rhymes with) the likely ones are to expLoit it.
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Related: Globe Not on Guardian
You don't need any encryption-busting computers for this, NSA a**hole.
Wait a minute, I got a call:
"NSA can crack all iPhones, Androids" by Frank Jordans | Associated Press, September 09, 2013
BERLIN — The US National Security Agency is able to crack protective measures on iPhones and BlackBerry and Android devices, giving it access to users’ data on all major smartphones, according to a report Sunday in the German newsweekly Der Spiegel.
The magazine cited internal documents from the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, in which the agencies describe setting up dedicated teams for each type of phone as part of their effort to gather intelligence on potential threats such as terrorists.
The data obtained this way include contacts, call lists, SMS traffic, notes, and location information, Der Spiegel reported.
The documents don’t indicate that the NSA is conducting mass surveillance of phone users but rather that these techniques are used to eavesdrop on specific individuals, the magazine said.
Which they said they were not doing, but are.
The article doesn’t explain how the magazine obtained the documents, which are described as secret. But one of its authors is Laura Poitras, an American filmmaker with close contacts to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who has published several articles about the NSA in Der Spiegel in recent weeks.
Then I think we know where they came from, God bless him.
The documents outline how, starting in May 2009, intelligence agents were unable to access some information on BlackBerry phones for about a year after the Canadian manufacturer began using a new method to compress the data.
After GCHQ cracked that problem, too, analysts celebrated their achievement with the word ‘‘Champagne,’’ Der Spiegel reported.
Yeah, England is up to its neck in this, too.
The magazine printed several slides alleged to have come from an NSA presentation referencing the film ‘‘1984,’’ based on George Orwell’s book set in a totalitarian surveillance state. The slides — which show stills from the film, former Apple Inc. chairman Steve Jobs holding an iPhone, and iPhone buyers celebrating their purchase — are captioned: ‘‘Who knew in 1984 . . . that this would be big brother . . . and the zombies would be paying customers?’’
Yes, Amurkns, you have just been insulted by the NahSAys, and I know you don't care because you all have your heads in your gadgets!
Snowden’s revelations have sparked a heated debate in Germany about the country’s cooperation with the United States in intelligence matters.
Yeah, when you start looking past the smoking prism that is the Jewish narrative of history you realize Germans don't take any shit.
On Saturday, thousands of people in Berlin protested the NSA’s alleged mass surveillance of Internet users. Many held placards with slogans such as ‘‘Stop watching us.’’
Now THAT would have been MY HEADLINE and LEAD -- and here it is BURIED back in the bu$ine$$ section of my Boston Globe.
Separately, an incident in which a German police helicopter was used to photograph the roof of the American consulate in Frankfurt has caused a minor diplomatic incident.
(Blog editor smiled at AmeriKa getting a taste of its own medicine)
The German magazine Focus reported Sunday that US Ambassador John B. Emerson complained about the overflight, which German media reported was ordered by top officials after reports that the consulate housed a secret espionage site.
Related: A Diplomatic CIA
"CIA officers serving overseas often use the State Department as their official “cover’’ to avoid revealing the true nature of their work"
Not really that secret anymore. US embassies are nothing more than spy stations now.
A US embassy spokesman downplayed the story, saying ‘‘the helicopter incident was, naturally enough, the subject of embassy conversation with the Foreign Ministry, but no letter of complaint about the incident was sent to the German government.’’
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In regards to the data-mining, the Globe advises a shift in habits for something only they foresaw.
Time to hang up this post.
