US Director of National Intelligence (James Clapper) - HACKED

ꕤ Article SOURCE https://archive.is/K75wv#selection-1376.0-1501.196 HACKED James Clapper US Director of National Intelligence Hacked by:  CWA / Crackas With Attitude Series of accounts redirect calls to:  Fee Palestine Movement confirmed by Office of DNI spox: Brian Hale FBI has not responded to request for comment Teen Who Hacked CIA Email Is Back to Prank US Spy Chief Written by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai January 12, 2016 // 12:34 PM EST One of the “teenage hackers” who broke into the CIA director’s AOL email account last year hasn’t given up targeting government intelligence officials. His latest victim is the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Motherboard has learned. A group of hackers calling themselves “Crackas With Attitude” or CWA made headlines in October, hacking into CIA Director John Brennan’s email account and apparently getting access to several online tools and portals used by US law enforcement agencies. The hackers' exploits prompted the FBI to issue an alert warning government officials of their attacks. One of the group’s hackers, who’s known as “Cracka,” contacted me on Monday, claiming to have broken into a series of accounts connected to Clapper, including his home telephone and internet, his personal email, and his wife’s Yahoo email. While in control of Clapper’s Verizon FiOS account, Cracka claimed to have changed the settings so that every call to his house number would get forwarded to the Free Palestine Movement. When they gained notoriety last year, Cracka and CWA claimed their actions were all in support of the Palestine cause. “I’m pretty sure they don’t even know they've been hacked,” Cracka told me in an online chat. But Brian Hale, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, confirmed the hack to Motherboard on Tuesday. “We’re aware of the matter and we reported it to the appropriate authorities,” Hale said, declining to answer any other questions on the record. (The FBI did not respond to a request for comment.) [ARTICLE CONTINUES ...] https://archive.is/K75wv ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Thought this was funny. But it's not so funny when you consider the amount of prison time the pranksters will get if they're caught. The redirect to 'Free Palestine Movement' is cool.  A redirect to Hezbollah or someone like that would be even funnier. Suspected social engineering hack, according to the article.  Article also said that all hacks, even the big ones, begin with a social engineering component. Wonder why FBI aren't commenting?  Maybe they're embarrassed? What I don't understand is this:  if you have access to online tools used by US law enforcement agencies, as a result of the hack, why would you disclose the hack and deprive yourself of those tools?  That doesn't make sense to me. ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- EDIT WikiLeaks notes that VICE have betrayed the source 'handle'.  Not sure if it's the guy's chat ID or his Twitter handle, or both. LINK | Source I didn't notice that reading the article first time around. Journalists don't seem like a good choice for sharing anything secret.  Look at what happened to Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu:  he did something like 18 years in an Israeli prison, 11 of it in solitary, after being betrayed by Australian newspapers & kidnapped in Europe by Mossad. With the WikiLeaks electronic submission system people who whistleblow stay anonymous because they're electronically masked, I guess. It must be hard keeping secrets.  One hint of CIA torture (or hint of anything unpleasant, really) and I'd most probably be squealing.  Secrets are also a burden, as in there's an unpleasant, conflicted feeling that must be endured in order to keep a secret.  Or, there would be for me, I think.  But that's just hypothetical social type of situations.  It would probably be worse for something really important.  ꕤ

Massive US Intelligence Incursion on Civilian Population Planned | 'US Wants Private Companies to Spy on Americans'

SOURCE http://www.sott.net/article/300055-U-S-intelligence-agencies-want-even-more-cooperation-from-private-business-to-monitor-people U.S. intelligence agencies want even more cooperation from private business to monitor people RT Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:46 UTC Image © Beawiharta / Reuters The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to make it easier for private, "uncleared" companies, which don't usually aid the intelligence community (such as ridesharing company Uber) to contribute to next generation surveillance needs. The strategy to encourage unconventional partners to collaborate with intelligence agencies is part of a recently released, unclassified roadmap that outlines the future of data analysis. The "Enhanced Processing and Management of Data from Disparate Sources," as the plan is called, explains six areas that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), led by James Clapper, believes will be crucial for surveillance community in the near future. "One of our goals for the coming year is to try and extend our outreach via whichever trade associations are willing to take it on, into the uncleared community as well," David Honey, the ODNI director of science and technology, told Nextgov. "That's why getting this information on to the ODNI's open website was so important to us. We want to have that outreach to the nontraditionals to include the uncleared performer community so that they can gain insight into what the challenges are that we face so that they can come forward with ideas." Accessing private sector research and syncing it with ODNI threat assessments for the future means "the right technology will be ready at the right time at the right price," Nextgov reported. For example, ride-sharing company Uber could offer the government tools that could be molded to fit intelligence-gathering needs, Honey said. "Maybe they've got scheduling algorithms that would help us with our logistics problems," he said. "If we can leverage those kinds of tools, maybe we gotta adapt them a little bit, but that certainly beats having to go and pay for those things from scratch." Comment: It's hard to believe that a relatively recent business like Uber could be better at logistics than the U.S. government. This is likely just a bland excuse given to hide the real purpose, to be better able to monitor as many people as possible. Some areas ODNI is seeking to develop, according to Nextgov, include: "expertise in determining the biases of social media site moderators, geolocation in the presence of encryption, room temperature quantum computing, and immersive virtual world user experience." While the intelligence community's go-to technology development firms are reliable partners, Honey said some of the nontraditional players have the luxury of thinking outside intelligence-gathering frames that could lead to applications valuable to ODNI. Honey said US intel agencies and those reliable partners are crowdsourcing updates to their five-year science and technology strategy in order to match ODNI needs with corporate projects via a classified website. Spy agencies "need to be able to post the challenge in a way that the system automatically alerts the right technology suppliers," Honey said, adding "if you're a technology provider and you are posting new solutions, the solutions need to be able to find their way to the customer" with ease. With that in mind, he said ODNI may create an unclassified public online portal for those without a security clearance to offer suggestions for the strategy. Honey said ODNI will gather interested businesses next week to begin developing ways to measure the intel community's progress in addressing their five-year strategic plan. "If you are too close to the classified information, you are going to try to create a faster horse," Honey said. "Quite often, people who have just a general knowledge of what we're trying to do are in a better position to help us think about new solutions, than those who are deeply ingrained in the machine." The Obama administration has requested $53.9 billion to fund the ODNI in 2016. SOURCE http://www.sott.net/article/300055-U-S-intelligence-agencies-want-even-more-cooperation-from-private-business-to-monitor-people ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- SUMMARY US Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)   Head:  James Clapper, Director ODNI Program:  'Enhanced Processing and Management of Data from Disparate Sources' 6-Area Plan Civilian Surveillance Partner Outreach Areas of expertise sought: biases of social media site moderators geolocation in the presence of encryption room temperature quantum computing immersive virtual world user experience Seek to utilise non-traditional players outside of intel community to exploit: thinking outside the box / ie outside intelligence-gathering frames may create public online portal for anyone who wishes to assist the totalitarian state in becoming more totalitarian nutting out how to measure the progress/success of the 5-year strategic plan ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT What happens in the US doesn't stay in the US. Expect this to be applied by US intelligence partners as well, in some form or other. That's $53.9 billion in 2016 for this sector assigned to keeping the subjugated population under totalitarian control ... Mein Gott! And this is only a fraction of what this totalitarian state spends on maintaining surveillance and other forms of such control. Hypocrites have smeared the Russians for years for what they themselves have done and continue to do.    lol PS ... sounds like they're hiring hackers.  lol Oh, and this social media surveillance stuff sounds seriously sick.  ꕤ