SURVEILLANCE, CYBER-SECURITY & OTHER
NSA New Chief Risk Officer Position
NSA/CSS Dir Adm Michael S. Rogers announced creation of new
Chief Risk Officer pos'n @ Agency/ http://tinyurl.com/plruj5r
/ NSA insurance? #USA
>> Why would a spy agency be involved in insurance?
Cyber-Security
#Hacker
/ eBay custom Javascript & Flash content expose users / cross-site
scripting (XSS) / http://goo.gl/9FUTzs
/ criticism eBay
#cybersecurity
Windows XP anywhere on network / unpatched & unsupported XP = "Swiss
Cheese of operating systems" 4 hackers /bitcoinmag
Taiwan
Population: 2.619 million (Dec 2010)
>> Taiwan aka: The Republic of China .. Ma Ying-jeou
is President .. lawyer, US exposure .. aka "Teflon pot" /
controversies
#Taiwan
govt investigates Xiaomi /China's smartphone co / on potential #cybersecurity
concerns http://tinyurl.com/jwmly6l
/ dec'n in 3mths
#China &
#Taiwan historical
foes /defeated Nationalists fled 2 island / civil war loss 2Communists 1949 /
Renegade province
#Surveillance
- Xiaomi smartphone accused of sending copies user text-msgs 2 servers mainland
China / co. DENIES - http://tinyurl.com/jwmly6l
>> #China Shi
Tao journalist leaked censorship order govt had sent Chinese media: IMPRISONED
2005 b/c YAHOO handover E-MAILS
>Apple has begun 2 store user data on servers @ mainland #CHINA / first
time tech giant has stored user data on Chinese soil !
WikiLeaks
#UN's Ban
suppresses information >> not a word about corporations or #Assange
or #Wikileaks
raised by #Ecuador!!
>> http://www.innercitypress.com/unga1ecuador092414.html …
Believe: Techie corporate fatcat in bed w/ US govt or
whistleblower-publisher political prisoner?
VIDEO
>#Assange
has the 'luxury' of UK police guards in #Ecuador
embassy corridors & elevators. PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE - HR violation
>"If you have something that you don't want anyone
to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" - Eric
Schmidt
Ray McGovern / USA
‘Surveillance state’
"Ex-CIA analyst joins Chico State profs in discussion of Fourth Amendment, government power over Americans"
/#Surveillance has
NOT stopped a single terrorist attack NSA's Alexander
Black Market
#Surveillance
- Dark Net - 34 countries ops. - drugs busts - Europol - http://tinyurl.com/mvh5abq - 1,000 ppl / ppl traffic, 600kg cocaine + or
FBI - Fake Cellphone Towers Surveillance
#Surveillance
- FBI uses IMSI catchers, ie fake cellphone towers, to pipe private cellphone
data thru government monitors / ocregister
>> countries w/out encrypted phone data traffic (or
weak encryption) render IMSI device unnecessary!
FBI forced state & local law enforcement 2 sign non-disclosure 2 acquire IMSI tech themselves / police militarization!!
[ocregister] #USA
FBI on Apple & Google Encryption
> above link = The Politics Behind iPhone Encryption and
the FBI - Jonathan Zdziarski
Roman Seleznev - Russian Alleged Hacker
US Fed judge in hacker case - Roman Seleznev /blocks #Philadelphia
law firm Fox Rothschild LLP from acting - http://tinyurl.com/n5s62wq
#Russia
- conflict of interest issue / firm represented some of
Roman Seleznev's alleged victims [politico]
Satellite Navigation
#Russia
/US refused Russia’s GLONASS satellite navigation system on its territory.
Russia then banned use GPS on Russian territory for military purposes
>> Globalnaya navigatsionnaya sputnikovaya sistema =
"Global Navigation Satellite System" [wiki]
COMMENT
Buch of random information in the IT, cyber-security, surveillance, hacking and similar category, that I found interesting at the time.
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