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Volume 32 : Issue 125 : "text" Format
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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 14:46:57 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data
Message-ID: <p06240811cdda7dbcc26e@[10.0.1.13]>
Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global
surveillance data
Revealed: The NSA's powerful tool for cataloguing global surveillance
data - including figures on US collection
Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill
guardian.co.uk
Sunday 9 June 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-data-mining-slides
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/08/boundless-informant-nsa-full-text
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 14:44:58 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: NSA's Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do
Message-ID: <p06240810cdda7d76b1e7@[10.0.1.13]>
NSA's Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do
Slide from secret PowerPoint presentation describes how program
collects data 'directly from the servers' of tech firms
James Ball
guardian.co.uk
Saturday 8 June 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-prism-server-collection-facebook-google
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 14:43:10 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance
Message-ID: <p0624080fcdda7cec917d@[10.0.1.13]>
Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance
The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the
NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he
never intended on hiding in the shadows
Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras in Hong Kong
guardian.co.uk
Sunday 9 June 2013
The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in
US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former
technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence
contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden has been working at the
National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of
various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell.
The Guardian, after several days of interviews, is revealing his
identity at his request. From the moment he decided to disclose
numerous top-secret documents to the public, he was determined not to
opt for the protection of anonymity. "I have no intention of hiding
who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong," he said.
Snowden will go down in history as one of America's most
consequential whistleblowers, alongside Daniel Ellsberg and Bradley
Manning. He is responsible for handing over material from one of the
world's most secretive organisations - the NSA.
In a note accompanying the first set of documents he provided, he
wrote: "I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions,"
but "I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal
pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I
love are revealed even for an instant."
...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance
***** Moderator's Note *****
There are three things that children do not know:
1. There is no Santa CLaus
2. Governments don't always tell the truth
3. Adults have secrets
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 15:03:12 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Remember All Those Passwords? No Need
Message-ID: <p06240818cdda817ba300@[10.0.1.13]>
Remember All Those Passwords? No Need
By DAVID POGUE
June 5, 2013
"If you want to avoid having your identity stolen, use long passwords
that contain digits, punctuation and no recognizable words. Make up a
different password for every Web site. And change all of your
passwords every 30 days."
Have these security pundits ever listened to themselves?
That advice is clearly unfollowable. I currently have account names
and passwords for 87 Web sites (banks, airlines, blogs, shopping,
e-mail, Facebook, Twitter). How is anyone - even a security
professional - supposed to memorize 87 long, complex password
strings, let alone remember which goes with which Web site?
So most people use the same password over and over again, and live
with the guilt.
There are solutions. Most Mac and Windows Web browsers now offer to
memorize passwords for you. But that feature doesn't work on all Web
sites, and is generally of little help when you pick up your phone or
tablet. At that point, the only person you've locked out of all your
online accounts is you.
The only decent solution is to install a dedicated password
memorization program (like Roboform, KeePass, LastPass, 1Password,
and so on). Last week, one of the best was just improved: Dashlane,
now at 2.0. It's attractive, effective, loaded with timesaving
features and available for Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android - and
it's free.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/technology/personaltech/too-many-passwords-and-no-way-to-remember-them-until-now.html
Concerns About Dashlane, and Answers
June 6, 2013
In my column in Thursday's paper, I reviewed Dashlane, a very cool,
free program that automatically enters your names, passwords, credit
card information and other details on Web sites.
As usual when something terrific and free comes along, many readers'
primary reaction was suspicion, sometimes verging on paranoia. When
the topic is as touchy as privacy, well, multiply that by 10.
Here are some of the most frequently e-mailed concerns about Dashlane
- and their answers:
...
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/concerns-about-dashlane-and-answers/
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 14:48:58 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: How the U.S. Uses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly
Message-ID: <p06240812cdda7e5ce7d4@[10.0.1.13]>
How the U.S. Uses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly
By JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU
June 8, 2013
WASHINGTON - When American analysts hunting terrorists sought new
ways to comb through the troves of phone records, e-mails and other
data piling up as digital communications exploded over the past
decade, they turned to Silicon Valley computer experts who had
developed complex equations to thwart Russian mobsters intent on
credit card fraud.
The partnership between the intelligence community and Palantir
Technologies, a Palo Alto, Calif., company founded by a group of
inventors from PayPal, is just one of many that the National Security
Agency and other agencies have forged as they have rushed to unlock
the secrets of "Big Data."
Today, a revolution in software technology that allows for the highly
automated and instantaneous analysis of enormous volumes of digital
information has transformed the N.S.A., turning it into the virtual
landlord of the digital assets of Americans and foreigners alike. The
new technology has, for the first time, given America's spies the
ability to track the activities and movements of people almost
anywhere in the world without actually watching them or listening to
their conversations.
New disclosures that the N.S.A. has secretly acquired the phone
records of millions of Americans and access to e-mails, videos and
other data of foreigners from nine United States Internet companies
have provided a rare glimpse into the growing reach of the nation's
largest spy agency. They have also alarmed the government: on
Saturday night, Shawn Turner, a spokesman for the director of
national intelligence, said that "a crimes report has been filed by
the N.S.A."
With little public debate, the N.S.A. has been undergoing rapid
expansion in order to exploit the mountains of new data being created
each day. The government has poured billions of dollars into the
agency over the last decade, building a one-million-square-foot
fortress in the mountains of Utah, apparently to store huge volumes
of personal data indefinitely. It created intercept stations across
the country, according to former industry and intelligence officials,
and helped build one of the world's fastest computers to crack the
codes that protect information.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/us/revelations-give-look-at-spy-agencys-wider-reach.html?pagewanted=all
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