»Ich bin erschüttert und es macht mir Angst. In Deutschland hindern Polizeibeamte friedliche Demonstranten an der Ausübung ihres grundgesetzlich verankerten Demonstrationsrechts. Sie erklären eine friedliche Protestaktion zu einer potentiellen Straftat und bedrohen Medienvertreter mit vorgehaltener Waffe. Ist diese Überreaktion die Klarheit und Konsequenz, die uns Frau Merkel und Herr Friedrich im Umgang mit dem NSA-Überwachungsskandal versprochen haben?
Daily Archives: 18. Juli 2013
Former CIA Milan chief held in Panama over abduction of Egyptian cleric
Robert Seldon Lady was convicted in absentia by Italian court for 2003 abduction of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr in Milan
Why Doesn‘t Skype Include Stronger Protections Against Eavesdropping?
Skype has long claimed to be „end-to-end encrypted“, an architectural category that suggests conversations over the service would be difficult or impossible to eavesdrop upon, even given control of users‘ Internet connections.
ACLU Releases Documents on License Plate Scanners From Some 300 Police Departments Nationwide
Documents Show Location Records Being Kept on Tens of Millions of Innocent Americans
Isotope Ratios of H, C, and O in CO2 and H2O of the Martian Atmosphere
Agreement between the isotopic ratios measured by SAM with those of martian meteorites, measured in laboratories on Earth, confirms the origin of these meteorites and implies that the current atmospheric reservoirs of CO2 and H2O were largely established after the period of early atmospheric loss some 4 billion years ago.
Curiosity rover finds evidence Mars lost its atmosphere 4bn years ago
„A fundamental question regarding the habitability of early Mars is how long liquid water, in the form of lakes, or even oceans, might have persisted on the surface to support microbial life that may have been present,“ said Dr Paul Mahaffy, at Nasa‘s Goddard Space Flight Centre and lead author on the parallel paper.
Biden: U.S. ready to engage with North Korea, but only if talks ‚genuine‘
The United States is ready to engage in dialogue with North Korea, but only if Pyongyang is prepared for „genuine“ negotiations and commits to giving up its nuclear ambitions, Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday.
Das lauschige Dörfchen Deer Trail, Colorado, diskutiert gerade über die Einführung für Jagdscheine für Drohnen und sogar über Kopfgelder (Abschussprämien? Wie nennt man sowas?) für heruntergeholte Drohnen.
Hah, die Amis, immer für eine pragmatische Lösung zu haben! :-)
Saudi Arabia to transfer $2 billion shortly, Egypt says
Hisham Ramez also said promised fuel aid from the Gulf would reduce pressure on Egypt‘s foreign exchange reserves by up to $650 million a month.
Five people falsely accused of crimes after errors in internet data disclosure
Sir Paul Kennedy, the retiring commissioner, attributes the 70,000 increase in requests to the number of snooping operations undertaken around the London 2012 Olympics.
Ex-CIA man, convicted of kidnapping in Italy, held in Panama: sources
Italy‘s highest court last year upheld a guilty verdict against Seldon Lady for the kidnapping of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, who was snatched from a Milan street in 2003 and flown to Egypt for interrogation, where he says he was tortured for seven months.
CIA official held in Panama over Italian snatch case
The CIA‘s former Milan station chief Robert Lady has been detained in Panama over his role in the abduction of Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Omar Nasr in Italy in 2003.
Homeland Security Threatens Legal Action Against Employees Who Read News About Leaks
Got that? Working for the government and merely reading the news about things the government is doing might subject you to legal action.
Stunning.
Berufungsgericht bestätigt unbefristete Internierungen nach dem Ermächtigungsgesetz
Ein Bundesberufungsgericht in New York hat ein bisher geltendes Verbot der Durchsetzung der Bestimmung des 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA – Ermächtigungsgesetz) aufgehoben, die es dem Präsidenten erlaubt, die unbefristete Internierung ohne Gerichtsverfahren anzuordnen.
Ex-CIA station chief in Milan detained in Panama
Lady was the station chief of the Central Intelligence Agency post in Milan during the time of the abduction. He is accused of abducting Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr and assisting in his years’ long detention which was reportedly accompanied with bouts of torture.
CIA Backs $630,000 Study Into How To Control The Weather
Well, sort of. What the CIA is actually doing is funding part of a $630,000, 21-month study into the science of modifying the climate, known as geo-engineering.
‘Warlord’ Liz Cheney, Taking Back the GOP From Rand Paul?
Conservatives are puzzled about Cheney’s decision to run because Enzi has reportedly been a reliable, toe-the-party line Republican. The decision to run is doubly strange because Cheney is a longtime resident of Virginia, and seems to have moved to Wyoming recently just for the sake of the impending campaign. Enzi said her decision was unexpected, adding, “I thought we were friends.”
SSL Labs: Deploying Forward Secrecy
SSL supports forward secrecy using two algorithms, the standard Diffie-Hellman (DHE) and the adapted version for use with Elliptic Curve cryptography (ECDHE). Why isn‘t everyone using them, then?
Assuming the interest and the knowledge to deploy forward secrecy are there, two obstacles remain:
A simple SSL tweak could protect you from GCHQ/NSA snooping
An obscure feature of SSL/TLS called Forward Secrecy may offer greater privacy, according to security experts who have begun promoting the technology in the wake of revelations about mass surveillance by the NSA and GCHQ.
How Did Snowden Get In?
. We worked in a place called a SCIF – a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. The SCIF was literally cut off from the rest of the world. The Internet couldn’t be accessed from inside the SCIF. Rooms were shielded so cell phones wouldn’t work. (Some such devices weren’t allowed in the SCIF for that matter. Obviously, you wouldn’t want an iPod with a built-in camera in a SCIF.)
Opening remarks by President Jacob Zuma to the 6th South Africa – European Union Presidential Summit, Presidential Guest House Tshwane, South Africa
President Von Rompuy, President Barroso and the EU Commissioners and delegation, Ministers and Deputy Ministers, The Business Delegation, Distinguished guests, The media, I extend a warm welcome to you, on the occasion of this 6th South Africa-EU Summit. (..)
A key event at this Summit will be the signing of the Agreement between South Africa and the European Atomic Energy Community for cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
Happy Birthday Tat’uMadiba
Parliament’s Presiding Officers, Members and officials are proud and privileged to join the world in wishing a very happy 95th birthday to our first democratically elected President, and father of the nation, Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela.
US-Spionage in Deutschland: Wütende Bürger, zahme Politiker
Dennoch ist offensichtlich, dass weder Berlin noch Brüssel eine weitere Zuspitzung der Beziehungen mit Washington wollen. Das Ausspionieren der europäischen Botschaften und der EU-Vertretungen in Washington und New York scheint niemanden wirklich zu stören.
Bauzeitenverlängerung bei S21 verbietet einen Beginn des Grundwassermanagements
Die Presseerklärung vom Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz (BUND) Stuttgart zu der am Dienstag vom Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart (RP) auf Antrag der Bahn AG abgebrochenen Erörterungsverhandlung des Städtebau-Projekts “Stuttgart 21″ (S21) im Stuttgarter Apollo-Theater.
Bundesregierung zur Spähaffäre: Der trojanische Innenminister
Das „Grundrecht auf Sicherheit“ ist ein Trojaner, der sich eingeschlichen hat in die Innenpolitik in Deutschland. Als Super-Grundrecht mit eingebautem Blaulicht gefährdet er das Grundgesetz – und stellt den Rechtsstaat als Ganzes in Frage.
British spies did NOT use US Prism programme to get round UK law, intelligence watchdog rules
Claims by US whistleblower Edwards Snowden dismissed as ‚unfounded‘
Intelligence and Security Committee says GCHQ operates within the law
Foreign Secretary William Hague says it vindicates spies‘ professionalism
Prism-Skandal: Die scheinheilige Transparenz-Botschaft der Internetriesen
Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft: Die großen US-Online-Konzerne fordern bei der NSA-Überwachung nun ein bisschen Transparenz. Das ist scheinheilig. Jahrelang haben die Firmen nicht geklagt, nicht lobbyiert, nicht informiert.