DynDNS wird von zahlreichen bekannten Webdiensten genutzt, unter anderem Github, Twitter, Reddit, Airbnb und Amazon. Die meisten dieser Anbieter waren zumindest zeitweise von Problemen oder Ausfällen betroffen.

Der ISP-Level 3 zeigt auf seiner Outage-Map das Ausmaß des Angriffs. Neben dem Zentrum an der US-Ostküste häufen sich auch im Großraum London die Angriffe. Amazons Ausfallkarte zeigt Störungen in Deutschland, den USA und Japan. Die Webseite des Internetproviders Level3 selbst ist derzeit nur eingeschränkt erreichbar.

Probleme gibt es außer bei Twitter und Spotify offenbar auch bei der Internetseite des Nachrichtensenders CNN und dem Onlinenetzwerk Reddit. Auch die Webseiten der „New York Times“ und des Zimmervermittlungsportals Airbnb waren betroffen.

As of 15:52 UTC, we have begun monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Our Engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue.

Privacy is guaranteed under the California Constitution – including the right to be free from unwarranted government surveillance. Individuals, not the government or corporations, should determine how and when other people can access our personal information.

When you are having meetings about transparency and building trust with law enforcement, the last thing you expect to hear is that they may be secretly spying on you. But that is exactly what happened to us as community activists with Fresno Faith In Community/Live Free.

Today, the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), in conjunction with the ACLU of North Dakota, sent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and North Dakota Open Records Act requests to multiple state and federal agencies in response to the surveillance and arrests of the Native-led Water Protectors attempting to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). In an affront to First Amendment rights, Water Protectors and allies have been continuously surveilled by low-flying planes, helicopters, and drones, and have had local cell phone communications jammed and possibly recorded.

In December 1992, following a hastily-drawn sketch of a map given to him by a whistleblower, the Paraguayan lawyer Martin Almada drove to an obscure police station in the suburb of Lambaré, near Asunción. Behind the police offices, in a run-down office building, he discovered a cache of 700,000 documents, piled nearly to the ceiling. This was “the Terror Archive,” an almost complete record of the interrogations, torture, and surveillance conducted by the military dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner. The files reported details of “Operation Condor,” a clandestine program between the military dictatorships in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay and Brazil between the 1970s and 1980s.1 The military governments of those nations agreed to cooperate in sending teams into other countries to track, monitor and kill their political opponents.2 The files listed more than 50,000 deaths and 400,000 political prisoners throughout Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela.3

New Reports Show How Vague Laws Can Pave the Way for Human Rights Violations… From the United States to Australia, from France to Argentina, surveillance technology and techniques are on the rise, yet there is limited public awareness about the civil liberties implications of these rapid changes. Activists should keep pushing for the 13 Principles to protect privacy and restrict digital surveillance.

Read our reports, and learn about the situation of surveillance in Latin America. Join us to defend our rights and those of the future. Below you can find some key findings for each country.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection wants to start collecting “information associated with your online presence” from travelers from countries eligible for a visa waiver, including much of Europe and a handful of other countries. Earlier this summer, the agency proposed including a field on certain customs forms for “provider/platform” and “social media identifier,” making headlines in the international press. If approved by the Office of Management and Budget, the change could take effect as soon as December.

“It is alarming that surveillance capabilities developed in some of the world’s most advanced spying agencies are being packaged and exported around the world for profit,” said Edin Omanovic, a research officer at Privacy International. “The proliferation of such intrusive surveillance capabilities is extremely dangerous and poses a real and fundamental threat to human rights and democratization.”

Die aktuelle Ausgabe von Spectator erscheint mit einer hässlichen Karrikatur des russischen Präsidenten. In den Händen hält er das Logo von RT. Die britische Zeitschrift behauptet, Russland würde „den Propaganda-Krieg gewinnen“. RT fragt den stellvertretenden Herausgeber, Freddy Gray, nach dem Sinn seiner Veröffentlichung.

Ein ironischer Seitenaspekt des Problems liegt im bayrischen Gesetz für Beamte. Der Diensteid im Freistaat Bayern besagt nach Artikel 73:

„Ich schwöre Treue dem Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Verfassung des Freistaates Bayern, Gehorsam den Gesetzen und gewissenhafte Erfüllung meiner Amtspflichten, so wahr mir Gott helfe.“

Auf den Passus „so wahr mir Gott helfe“ kann laut Gesetz jedoch verzichtet werden. Allerdings fragt sich die Öffentlichkeit gegenwärtig, wie ein Polizist mit Sympathien für das Gedankengut der „Reichsbürger“ überhaupt den beruflichen Alltag bestehen kann.