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— EXCLUSIVE! — Green_Footballs webcam hacked by NSA – Secret footage from inside the LGF HeadQuarters! http://t.co/fNVCYJ5dyZ #NSA
— Liz_Ardoid (@Liz_Ardoid) February 21, 2014
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Posts Tagged ‘NSA’
NSA hacks Charles Johnson’s webcam
by Phantom Ace ( 3 Comments › )Filed under Blogwars, Diary of Daedalus, Headlines, LGF at June 6th, 2014 - 10:44 pm
NSA said to have exploited the Heartbleed bug for intelligence for years
by 1389AD ( 178 Comments › )Filed under Technology at April 13th, 2014 - 8:00 am
The NSA denies that the agency knew about the bug – and they expect us to believe them.
Bloomberg has the story:
The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said.
The agency’s reported decision to keep the bug secret in pursuit of national security interests threatens to renew the rancorous debate over the role of the government’s top computer experts. The NSA, after declining to comment on the report, subsequently denied that it was aware of Heartbleed until the vulnerability was made public by a private security report earlier this month.
Tech tips here:
- Mashable: The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now
- Heartbleed.com has comprehensive technical information
NRA and ACLU join forces against the NSA
by Phantom Ace ( 97 Comments › )Filed under government at September 5th, 2013 - 12:13 pm
The NSA issue and Syria intervention is destroying the Left-Right divide. In another odd couple alliance, the ACLU has been joined by the NRA in a lawsuit against the NSA.
The National Rifle Association joined the American Civil Liberties Union’s lawsuit on Wednesday to end the government’s massive phone record collection program.
In a brief filed in federal court, the NRA argues that the National Security Agency’s database of phone records amounts to a “national gun registry.”
“It would be absurd to think that the Congress would adopt and maintain a web of statutes intended to protect against the creation of a national gun registry, while simultaneously authorizing the FBI and the NSA to gather records that could effectively create just such a registry,” the group writes.
[….]
In its filing, the gun-rights group claims that the NSA’s database would allow the government to identify and track gun owners based on whether they’ve called gun stores, shooting ranges or the NRA.
“Under the government’s reading of Section 215, the government could simply demand the periodic submission of all firearms dealers’ transaction records, then centralize them in a database indexed by the buyers’ names for later searching,” the NRA writes.
I hope the NRA and ACLU prevail.
