Obwohl die Zwischenfälle lange nicht an die Niederschlagungen von Regimegegnern in mit den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika alliierten Ländern wie Ägypten und Bahrain heranreichen, droht die Obama-Administration mit der Verhängung von Sanktionen.
Daily Archives: 16. Januar 2014
February 11TH 2014 Is The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance
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Muse – Bliss
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The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
(2008) Retired Brigadier General Hanan Gefen, a former commander of Unit 8200, noted his former organization’s influence on Comverse, which owns Verint, as well as other Israeli companies that dominate the U.S. eavesdropping and surveillance market. “Take NICE, Comverse and
Check Point for example, three of the largest high-tech companies, which were all directly influenced by 8200 technology,” said Gefen. “Check Point was founded by Unit alumni. Comverse’s main product, the Logger, is based on the Unit’s technology.”
Check Point, a large Israeli-based company that sells firewalls and other Internet security software from an office in Redwood City, California, was founded by Unit 8200 veteran Gil Shwed. Today the four years he spent in the Unit go virtually unmentioned in his official biography. In 2006, the company attempted to acquire the firm Sourcefire, whose intrusion-prevention technology is used to protect the computer assets of both the Pentagon and NSA. Because of the potential for espionage, the deal set off alarm bells at the NSA and FBI and it was eventually killed by the Committee on Foreign Investments in the U.S., an oversight board.
Alan T. Sherman, a specialist in information assurance at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, noted the potential for “information warfare” was likely. “It’s easy to hide malicious [software] code. Sometimes it just takes a few lines of malicious code to subvert a system.” Nevertheless, despite the fact that many of the NSA’s and the Pentagon’s sensitive
communications—like those of the rest of the country—travel across the tapping equipment of Verint and Narus, their links to Israel seem to have slipped below the radar.
Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA
(03.04.2013) According to a former Verizon employee briefed on the program, Verint, owned by Comverse Technology, taps the communication lines at Verizon, which I first reported in my book The Shadow Factory in 2008. Verint did not return a call seeking comment, while Verizon said it does not comment on such matters.
At AT&T the wiretapping rooms are powered by software and hardware from Narus, now owned by Boeing, a discovery made by AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein in 2004.
The Unit
(07.02.2007) “Take Nice, Comverse and Check Point for example, three of the largest high-tech companies, which were all directly influenced by 8200 technology,” says Gefen. “Check Point was founded by Unit alumni. Comverse’s main product, the Logger, is based on the Unit’s technology. Look at Metacafe, one of the hottest companies today. Eyal Herzog, one of the founders, is also an 8200 alumnus and he accumulated a huge amount of relevant experience in the Unit.”
If Germany‘s BND intercepted Syrian commanders CW requests and Hezbollah to Iranian embassy phone stuff, did GCHQ and Israel‘s Unit 8200?
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«Agur 12» will Internet zensurieren, Inhalte sperren und löschen
(06.12.2013) Die Vorschläge von «Agur 12» verunmöglichen die Erstellung einer Privatkopie durch Herunterladen. In Deutschland führte die Novellierung des Urheberrechts zur totalen Abschaffung des Rechts auf Privatkopie. Nur so gelang es, Internet-Downloads widerspruchsfrei unter Strafe zu stellen. Es scheint vorhersebar, dass die Medienindustrie in der Schweiz ähnliche Ziele verfolgt.
Bund nimmt in Kauf, dass #NSA und #Unit8200 Zugriff auf Schweizer Überwachungssystem haben … #Verint
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Telecom tapping: Verint to supply new Swiss spying system
“The federal authorities finalised a contract on December 18,” Matthias Ramsauer, secretary general of the Swiss justice and police department said on Wednesday, confirming a report in the Le Temps newspaper that named the firm.
Schweizer Überwachungssysteme möglicherweise NSA-infiltriert
Das Überwachungssystem der Schweizer Strafverfolgungsbehörden kommt von einer Firma, die enge Verbindungen zur NSA und zum Mossad hat. Beim Bund kann man darum nur hoffen, dass keine Spionageelemente miteingebaut wurden.
IDF Unit 8200 Cyberwar Veterans Developed NSA Snooping Technology
(08.06.2013) Verint and Narus created programs which offered the NSA backdoors to all the major U.S. telecommuications and technology companies including Facebook, Microsoft, Google. That’s how the companies could deny that they explicitly knew or approved of PRISM’s harvesting their data:
Is Israel‘s booming high-tech industry a branch of the Mossad?
(16.10.2008) Author of ‚The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America‘ says the NSA thinks so.
Analyse und Anleitung zur Neutralisierung des psychologischen Kriegsbegriffs “Verschwörungstheorie”
Gesamtgesellschaftliche Zielwirkung des Begriffs:
Stigmatisierung, Isolierung und Neutralisierung von Gegenmeinungen zu Darstellungen, Thesen oder Behauptungen, die durch vermeintliche oder tatsächliche institutionelle oder gesellschaftliche Autoritäten und Mehrheiten aufgestellt bzw akzeptiert werden. Stigmatisierung, Ächtung oder Ausgrenzung derjenigen Personen, die solche vermeintlichen oder tatsächlichen Autoritäten und Mehrheiten und / oder ihre Darstellungen, Thesen oder Behauptungen in Frage stellen. Niederschlagung von geistigen Strömungen, juristischen, parlamentarischen, journalistischen, polizeilichen, nachrichtendienstlichen oder militärischen Untersuchungen oder Ermittlungsergebnissen, die von diesen Autoritäten und Mehrheiten nicht erwünscht sind und deren Position gefährden könnten. Dienlich zur Kontrolle, Führung und / oder Neutralisierung jedweder gesellschaftlichen, politischen, parlamentarischen, informellen, militärischen, polizeilichen, nachrichtendienstlichen Opposition sowie von deren Repräsentanten und “Leuchttürmen”.
Eigentlich ist das ja sowas wie ein Ritterschlag, wenn einen die Titanic persifliert, aber das ist ja doch deutlich unter Niveau für die Titanic.
PS: Liebe Titanic, wenn ihr von mir ein paar Klicks haben wollt, macht einfach mehr richtig tolle Inhalte. Ich linke dann gerne auf euch.
EU Commission Redefines Corporate Lobbyists As ‚Civil Society‘ To Pretend To Be Transparent In TAFTA/TTIP
The fact that the USTR continues to peddle the line that TPP is „the most transparent trade negotiation in history,“ despite a dogged refusal to reveal its negotiating positions to the public (to say nothing of any draft texts), indicates that the US government is acutely aware that its attitude towards transparency in TPP and TAFTA/TTIP is both unpopular and unjustifiable. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, the European Commission too is desperately trying to convince people that it is conducting the TTIP negotiations in a fully open way. For example, earlier this week, the Commission held what it called an „Outreach“ session in Brussels:
Critic of France‘s Hollande says it with dung
A critic of President Francois Hollande and France‘s ruling elite dumped tonnes of horse manure in front of the national parliament building in Paris on Thursday in a pungent protest against French politics.
Spanish ruling party rebels launch new conservative party
Vox pledged to be more active than Rajoy in defending Spanish national unity, saying in their new party program that they would restore central power while „respecting Spain‘s cultural diversity“.
Sarkozy ally Rachida Dati backs David Cameron over EU referendum plan
French former justice minister says PM right to challenge ‚naive musings‘ about creating a European superstate
Tsipras rejects “signature of commitment” to loan agreements with the Troika
Speaking to SYRIZA parliamentary group meeting on Wednesday, Alexis Tsipras said:
“If they dare to ask our signature on their Memoranda, they will receive the answer they got last time: Look somewhere else for accomplices in the crime…”.
Renzi defends possible talks with Berlusconi
„This controversy of meeting with a felon is outrageous.
(Berlusconi) was a founder of the current government, and I didn‘t see any ministers step down when he was convicted“
Renzi insists does not want to sink Letta
Matteo Renzi, the new leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), reiterated Thursday that his frequent criticism of Premier Enrico Letta‘s coalition government was not part of a plot to sink it so he can take the place of his PD colleague.
Syrian chemical arms ‚won‘t touch Italian soil‘
The transfer of Syrian chemical weapons from a Danish ship to an American one in the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro would take place directly from vessel to vessel and not on Italian soil, Transport Minister Maurizio Lupi told parliament on Thursday.
Italian mayor dismayed as port chosen for Syrian chemical weapons transfer
Mayor of Gioia Tauro says locals ‚will come after me with a pitchfork‘ if anything goes wrong during ship-to-ship operation
Chemical weapons could arrive in Italy within weeks
The transfer of chemical weapons from Syria between ships in a port in Italy‘s southern region of Calabria could occur in just a few weeks‘ time, a senior weapons official told a parliamentary committee on Thursday.
Die Berliner Polizei hat letztes Jahr doppelt so viele stille SMS verschickt wie im Vorjahr.
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Peru blocks plans for new indigenous reserve as oil production starts
Culture ministry backtracks after pressure from Perupetro, putting indigenous peoples‘ lives at risk
Analysis: What next for Algeria after new Bouteflika hospital visit?
Abdelaziz Bouteflika‘s second visit to Paris for hospital treatment has reignited speculation the president who oversaw Algeria‘s emergence from almost a decade of civil war may be unable to run for reelection in April.
Wireless Safety Activists Confront FCC Chair Tom Wheeler in Silicon Valley
New FCC chair Tom Wheeler came to Silicon Valley on January 9th, 2014. We suspect he won‘t forget his visit anytime soon.
Kissinger gave ‘green light’ to military killings
Former US secretary of State Henry Kissinger knew perfectly well about the repression being committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship and in 1976 gave the junta led by late former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla a year to put an end to “the terrorist problem,” according to a former US official.
US president Jimmy Carter’s assistant secretary for human rights, Pat Derian, reignited the discussion over the role played by the US in the last Argentine dictatorship in a recently published interview.
Im Zweifel für den Humor – Bildervortrag‘500 Jahre Karikatur und Justiz‘ von Philipp Heinisch und Univ.-Prof. Dr. Götz Schulze
Philipp Heinisch und Univ.-Prof. Dr. Götz Schulze laden in die Räumlichkeiten der Juristischen Fakultät der Universität Potsdam zum Bildervortrag „500 Jahre Karikatur und Justiz“ ein. Dabei will der Künstler eine andere Perspektive auf die Juristerei eröffnen. Unter dem Motto: Anspruch und Wirklichkeit.
Edward Snowden isn‘t the only truth teller who deserves clemency
The author is the US attorney for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
Last week, both the New York Times and the Guardian released editorials supporting clemency for NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Considering the important nature of Snowden‘s revelations, clemency is definitely in order – and it‘s about time that major outlets recognize that.
However, the focus on Snowden‘s singular case seriously deflects from the fact that the Obama administration has been a nightmare for whistleblowers and truth tellers, and that several others currently in prison or in exile deserve the same clemency or clear assurances they will not be prosecuted.
Here’s Walmart’s Internal Guide To Fighting Unions And Monitoring Workers
Leaked internal documents show that Walmart’s strategy for fighting to keep its workers from forming unions includes instructing managers to report suspicious activity and warning workers that joining OUR Walmart could hurt them.
In two Powerpoint presentations, published by OccupyWallSt.org and confirmed as authentic by a Walmart spokesman, the company depicts OUR Walmart organizers as money-hungry exploiters looking to fleece Walmart associates without providing any material benefit to the workers, and it urges managers to nudge workers away from unions while taking care to frame their comments in ways that don’t violate the letter of U.S. labor laws.