Seit Monaten hat sich aufgrund der Informationen von Edward Snowden herausgestellt, dass der Schnüffelapparat der NSA den Planeten umspannt, mit großen Teilen des Internets und praktisch allen Telefongesprächen unter seiner Kontrolle. Offenbar hat das noch nicht gereicht.

In italy during a demonstration against government measures and impotent politics, riot police undestand the gravity of actual italian situation and decide to follow another people.

Like Gandhi, he would lead a resistance movement – a movement that at its start held little prospect of success. Like King, he would give potent voice to the claims of the oppressed, and the moral necessity of racial justice. He would endure a brutal imprisonment that began in the time of Kennedy and Khrushchev, and reached the final days of the Cold War. Emerging from prison, without force of arms, he would – like Lincoln – hold his country together when it threatened to break apart. Like America‘s founding fathers, he would erect a constitutional order to preserve freedom for future generations – a commitment to democracy and rule of law ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power.

Francis says world produces enough to feed everyone

Briefly laying aside differences hardened over decades, President Barack Obama on Tuesday shook the hand of the president of Cuba at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela.

One of the writers who signed a letter demanding an international bill of digital rights, says ‚our masters are in the grip of a delusionary nightmare‘

Verizon and AT&T have remained remarkably silent concerning all of the reports of NSA surveillance, which is fairly incredible, given that it appears that they have been the major players in basically handing over full access to their backbone networks to the NSA — even to the point of volunteering to do so, rather than having to wait for a court order. It‘s no surprise that, unlike various internet companies, the telcos have not been at all supportive of attempts to allow for greater transparency over how companies work with the NSA.

In 1997, Ori Cohen, Vice President of Business and Technology Development for VDONet, founded Narus with Stas Khirman in Israel.[1] Presently, they are employed with Deutsche Telekom AG and are not members of Narus‘ Executive Team. (..)

In 2004, Narus employed former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency, William Crowell as a director. (..)

Since 11 September 2001, Crowell served on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Task Force on Terrorism and Deterrence, the National Research Council Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism and the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.“

(21.November) Enge Militär- und Geheimdienstverbindungen einiger Telekom-Partner werfen die Frage auf, wie sicher die Kundendaten des Konzerns tatsächlich sind – zumal die Telekom mit Ori Cohen und Stas Khirman seit März 2013 sogar zwei Männer im Konzern beschäftigt, die zuvor Narus, eine Firma mit engsten Verbindungen zum amerikanischen Geheimdienst, gegründet hatten.

(17.November) Mossad’s Narus provides AT&T, Brasil Telecom, Egypt Telecom with Deep Packet Inspection equipment (DPI) technology (Spy Ware). Others involved (include but not limited to: Sandvine (Canada), Allot (Israel), Ixia (USA), Advanced IO (Canada) and Procera Networks (USA)

The NSA leaving data harvesting, data mining and data milling activity to the Mossad is leaving a Fox guarding a Henhouse.

(8. Juli 2009) Genau wissen, welche Interessen jeder Internetbenutzer hat um ihm dann zielgerichtet genau passende Werbung anzuzeigen – der Traum der Werbeindustrie schien Anfang 2008 endlich wahr geworden zu sein. Der Dienstleister Phorm hatte 2008 eine Plattform geschaffen um anhand analysierter Datenpakete von Internetnutzern zielgerichtete Werbung auszuliefern. Mit der British Telecom hatte man damals geheime Tests durchgeführt um die Technologie zu testen.

Controversial ‘deep packet inspection’ system used by NSA for surveillance to be rolled out by AFP next year

(04.November) Although there is no legislation set up to allow widespread data retention, the Australian Federal Police is setting up systems that will allow it to analyse traffic, and capture and retain metadata.

506 Künstler aus aller Welt haben sich in zahlreichen Zeitungen weltweit für die Wahrung der Demokratie in der digitalen Welt ausgesprochen. Die Überwachung durch Geheimdienste verletze die Privatsphäre sowie die Gedanken- und Meinungsfreiheit.