Das Gutachten erschöpft sich über etliche Seiten in Beteuerungen, die Software habe als Ergebnis korrekte Werte gezeigt. Die entscheidende Frage, wie diese Werte technisch zustande gekommen sind, wir mit keinem Wort beantwortet. Tatsächlich wird sie noch nicht einmal gestellt.
Zu den technischen Hintergründen verrät das Gutachten also nichts.
An dem Gutachten fällt zunächst auf, dass durchgehend von einem Download die Rede ist und nicht von einem Stream. Außerdem wird nicht deutlich, wie die Software die IP-Adressen der Nutzer ermittelt. Es wird lediglich behauptet, die Software könne IP-Adressen von Nutzern ermitteln, die von einem beliebigen Hoster Dateien downloaden. Selbst eine rudimentäre technische Erläuterung hierzu lässt das Guatchten aber vermissen.
Wie London gibt auch Cayman vor, echt britisch und total legal zu sein, aber nicht weit hinter den Fassaden geht es zu wie in einem Piratennest wie Tortuga und Port Royal in Jamaica in den Tagen des berühmten Seeräubers Henry Morgan.
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What If Nixon Had the NSA?: Sanders on Friday raised the possibility of what the bulk data storage means for a future „unscrupulous president“ or „rogue operator“ at the NSA. „I want people to think, if Nixon had the resources and the technology that now exists. Think of what he would have done,“ Sanders said on CNN. Sanders said the NSA still “has the potential to give an unscrupulous administration enormous power,” according to Canada’s Calgary Herald.
Der iranische Präsident Hassan Rohani hat sich am Mittwochabend in Teheran mit einer Gruppe von Künstlern getroffen und dabei den Wert der Freiheit für die Kunst hervorgehoben.
The start of January‘s final two weeks will share a common trait with the start of the month: shivering cold temperatures to the east of the Rockies.
We are pleased to introduce WUWT’s newest addition, the WUWT Northern Polar Vortex Reference Page. We would like to dedicate this page to NBC News and John Holdren, who both seem to need all the help they can get in understanding Polar Vorticity.
Libyan war planes attacked targets in the restive south on Saturday after gunmen stormed an air force base and the government ordered in ground troops following days of skirmishes between rival tribesmen and militias.
A few hours before François Hollande‘s press conference last Tuesday afternoon, the telephone rang. „So, will he resign?“ asked an excited colleague on the other end of the phone in London. It was not a joke, but this side of the Channel it seemed a funny question.
What to say?
„Of course he won‘t; this is France.“
Nun, der Hintergrund ist dieser hier:
„Critics fear it could be used to bar doctors and medical workers from treating protesters wounded in anti-government demonstrations as reportedly happened during mass street protests in June last year.“
Hungary will hold a parliamentary election on April 6, President Janos Ader announced in a statement on Saturday.
But it would seem that the company is starting to explore new fields, so to speak; as Salon reports in a fascinating and important post, Monsanto is going digital:
Monsanto spent close to $1 billion to buy the Climate Corporation, a data analytics firm. Last year the chemical and seed company also bought Precision Planting, another high-tech firm, and also launched a venture capital arm geared to fund tech start-ups.
The Obama administration announced last week that it expects to approve corn and soybeans that have been genetically engineered by Dow Chemical company to tolerate the toxic herbicide — 2,4-D. They are planning this approval despite the fact that use of this herbicide is associated with increased rates of deadly immune system cancers, Parkinson’s disease, endocrine disruption, birth defects, and many other serious kinds of illness and reproductive problems.
A team of US experts meeting this week in Washington, concluded that the rocket that delivered sarin to a Damascus suburb last summer could not have been fired from the Syrian government positions.
Relying on mathematical projections about the likely force of the rocket and noting that its design — some have described it as a trash can on a stick — would have made it awkward in flight, Lloyd and Postol conclude that the rocket likely had a maximum range of a little more than 1.2 miles. That range, the report explains in detail, means the rockets could not have come from land controlled by the Syrian government.
A senior German lawmaker from the co-ruling Christian Democratic Party (CDU) is scheduled to travel to Iran to hold talks with senior officials of the country about the Geneva nuclear agreement.
The shocking decision led to a rallying cry by an organization that calls itself A California Campaign to STOP Police Brutality.
“We do not accept a NOT GUILTY verdict in the murder of Kelly Thomas! We DEMAND the murderers to be imprisoned or FULLERTON will continue to feel the wrath of the people,” read the Facebook page that promoted the Fullerton protest. By Saturday morning, more than 1,000 people planned to attend the event.
Former U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull sent emails to personal and professional contacts that showed disdain for blacks, Indians, Hispanics, women, certain religious faiths, liberal political leaders, and some emails contained inappropriate jokes about sexual orientation, the Judicial Council of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found.
On Capitol Hill on Thursday, CNSNews.com asked Blumenauer: “The omnibus bill yesterday, it was 1,582 pages, did you have a chance to read all the pages before voting on it?”
Blumenauer laughed and said: “Nobody did!”
“Nobody did?” said the CNSNews.com reporter.
“Nope,” said Blumenauer.
Hairston argues that JPMorgan Chase should be treated like any other person or business prohibited from doing business with the city:
“The bank has violated the city code by making admissions of dishonesty and deceit in the way they dealt with their investors in the mortgage securities and Bernie Madoff Ponzi scandals,” Hairston [said].
We must push the FCC to correct the agency’s past mistakes and truly protect our nation’s communications infrastructure. The agency must ensure that broadband communications networks are open, accessible, reliable and affordable for everyone.
Verizon are labeled as common carriers, not information service providers.
That way, net neutrality will be preserved and the internet will remain open to everyone, not just giant corporations.
Go to freepress.net to sign the petition and tell the FCC how you feel!
The Post is supposed to expose CIA secrets. But Amazon is under contract to keep them. Amazon has a new $600 million “cloud” computing deal with the CIA.
In analyzing what the president‘s speech means for bulk collection going forward, much ink will undoubtedly be spilled over a few critical paragraphs. Below, I‘ve annotated those paragraphs with my thoughts about how to interpret them. The bottom line? We probably won‘t know much until at least March 28.
The main Syrian political opposition group in exile, the Syrian National Coalition, has agreed to attend internationally sponsored peace talks beginning in Switzerland next week, the Coalition‘s media office said on Saturday.
Egypt‘s pro-democracy coalition seeks to unite revolutionary efforts, rejecting the ruinous coup and murderous military rule, before January 25, in a serious escalation of peaceful protest activities.
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These releases reflect the Executive Branch’s continuing commitment to make information about the implementation of Sections 501 and 702 publicly available when appropriate, while ensuring the protection of the national security of the United States. Because these documents include discussion of matters that must remain classified so as to protect national security, it was necessary to redact some information from them.
In the coming weeks, we will work with our oversight committees to implement the President’s reforms while we continue to focus on the intelligence challenges facing the United States and our allies.
As intelligence professionals, we have historically preferred to avoid the spotlight, but we know that for the foreseeable future, the public will remain focused on what we do and how we do it. To build on and maintain the trust of the American people and our international partners, we must embrace the President’s call for transparency.
The 1 For the purposes of this directive, the terms „Intelligence Community“ and „elements of the Intelligence Community“ shall have the same meaning as they do in Executive Order 12333 of December 4, 1981, as amended (Executive Order 12333). (..)
2 For the purposes of this directive, the terms „foreign intelligence“ and „counterintelligence“ shall have the same meaning as they have in Executive Order 12333. Thus, „foreign intelligence“ means „information relating to the capabilities, intentions, or activities of foreign governments or elements thereof, foreign organizations, foreign persons, or international terrorists,“ and „counterintelligence“ means „information gathered and activities conducted to identify, deceive, exploit, disrupt, or protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations, or persons, or their agents, or international terrorist organizations or activities.“ Executive Order 12333 further notes that „[i]ntelligence includes foreign intelligence and counterintelligence.“ (..)
7 Departments and agencies shall apply the term „personal information“ in a manner that is consistent for U.S. persons and non-U.S. persons. Accordingly, for the purposes of this directive, the term „personal information“ shall cover the same types of information covered by „information concerning U.S. persons“ under section 2.3 of Executive Order 12333.
(5.November 2013)
Obama avoided almost entirely any discussion of overseas intelligence collection that he authorized on his own, under Executive Order 12333, without legislative or judicial supervision.
(30.12.2013) Why is Executive Order 12,333 so important? Here is how we explained it in our complaint (filed today in federal court in New York):
„Although EO 12,333 permits the government to target foreigners abroad for surveillance, recent revelations have confirmed that the government interprets that authority to permit sweeping monitoring of Americans‘ international communications. How the government conducts this surveillance, and whether it appropriately accommodates the constitutional rights of American citizens and residents whose communications are intercepted in the course of that surveillance, are matters of great public significance and concern. While the government has released several documents describing the rules that govern its collection and use of Americans‘ international communications under statutory authorities regulating surveillance on U.S. soil, little information is publicly available regarding the rules that apply to surveillance of Americans‘ international calls and emails under EO 12,333.“
(30.12.2012) The latest lawsuit seeks information related to the use of Executive Order 12333, which was signed in 1981 and governs surveillance of foreign targets.
Under the order, the National Security Administration is collecting „vast quantities“ of data globally under the order‘s authority, „inevitably“ including communications of U.S. citizens, the lawsuit said.
(17.01.) Earlier today, President Obama announced a series of reforms to address abuses by the National Security Agency. We were heartened to see Obama recognized that the NSA has gone too far in trampling the privacy rights of people worldwide.
The decision was made following a week of violent protests in Burgos that spilled over to Madrid and resulted in the arrests of dozens of people. Citizens came out in full force last weekend to block construction workers from expanding Vitoria street in the city’s Gamonal neighborhood into a boulevard.
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(13.01.) Rioting began on Friday night as residents of Burgos‘ Gamonal district objected to city hall plans to remodel a street into a tree-lined boulevard with an underground car park.
Human Rights Watch said “the draft law falls far short of Egypt’s obligation to respect freedom of assembly under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.”
The new Spanish law proposes harsh penalties for unauthorized protesting and bans protesters from assembling in front of national and regional parliaments. Protesters who transgress the new boundaries could face fines of up to 600,000 euros.
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Wenn man das blutige Register der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika im Bereich der Außenpolitik verfolgt, dann kommt man nur sehr schwer auf den Gedanken, dass die lange Spur von Tod, Chaos und Verwüstung etwas anderes ist als das Ergebnis von Böswilligkeit bei der Verfolgung politischer und wirtschaftlicher Interessen.
„Die Zukunft der Roten Flora im Schanzenviertel als alternatives Kulturzentrum ist endgültig gesichert. Am Freitag trat eine Änderung des Bebauungsplans in Kraft, der die Nutzung des Gebäudes rechtsverbindlich festschreibt“, so eine Meldung des NDR.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is working on formulating an interim document between Israel and the Palestinians, to be presented at the end of January, according to Palestinian sources quoted in Al-Hayat. The sources said the document is a general outline with vague and flexible demands which will allow room for both sides to maneuver.
Let the putschists deceive themselves and hold fools‘ celebrations. The whole world laughs at them as they bring back six decades‘ corruption and fraud, and the usual 99.99% results in all elections, in their favor – of course. Certainly, if they made referendums and elections every day, and if they declared false results with ludicrous figures every day, they would change nothing on the ground. Remember: what is built on falsehood is false itself. Mubarak fell the same way, but they do not want to understand the lesson yet. They never will.
The party doesn‘t have a leader of course – or any particular ideology – it‘s just that a large proportion of the Egyptian population is inclined to spurn even the most historic of democratic opportunities in favour of sitting comfortably at home.
The purchase of Nest is a hint at the future of smart devices in the home
The NSA-O-Matic generates eerily plausible leaked NSA programs at the click of a mouse, including non-denial denials from NSA shills and spokesjerks.
Kristen Stewart ended her break from the spotlight at this year‘s Sundance Film Festival with the premiere of „Camp X-Ray,“ where she plays a young, conflicted guard at Guantanamo Bay. (..)
„I was so nervous when I first started working and preparing because I didn‘t think that people would believe me or think that I looked tough in a uniform,“ she said, „that I could do that job, that I could wrangle detainees that are massive and scary.“
Im Sommer vergangenen Jahres hatte der Dienst noch 20 Millionen deutsche Nutzer.
Koum erwähnte in seinem Tweet, dass es sich bei der Anzahl um aktive Nutzer handele. Das bedeutet, dass die 30 Millionen Nutzer den Messenger mindestens einmal im Monat verwenden.