UK: Investigatory Powers Bill | Snooper's Charter

UK:  Investigatory Powers Bill | Snooper's Charter http://www.newsweek.com/investigatory-powers-bill-house-lords-brexit-477217 The Investigatory Powers Bill Goes Under the Radar as Brexit Dominates By Kristopher Wilson On 7/3/16 at 9:06 AM Opinion This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Days after Britain and the world reeled from the result of the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union, it’s back to business as usual for the House of Lords. This week the Investigatory Powers Bill was given its second reading, and it’s interesting to see how their Lordships approached scrutinising the wide-ranging powers of this controversial bill. The Investigatory Powers Bill is intended to create a comprehensive framework that governs the way police, security and intelligence agencies intercept, store and use personal data. The current provisions are scattered across many different pieces of legislation, and do not always reflect current practice or technology. The bill goes beyond telephone records to include what it defines as internet connection records, a log of visits to websites, and the use of apps such as Apple’s iMessage, and WhatsApp, owned by Facebook. The bill itself has been subject to substantial scrutiny as it passed through various House of Commons committees—including a joint committee made up of MPs and Lords—and has seen several amendments. To the government’s credit, it has been open to suggestions and as a result the bill garnered cross-party support. Nevertheless, the bill’s powers pose issues of individual privacy, access to personal data, judicial review, the use of internet connection records, and particularly the practice of bulk interception by security services and the use of strong encryption. The second reading gives an impression of the approach that the Lords will take. Certainly, those who contributed to Monday’s debate have experience in the activities this bill covers. Many possess considerable knowledge of the workings of the police and security services, have been part of the pre-legislative committees, held senior positions in security services or come from professions and industries that would be affected by the bill. But while this should be reassuring, a few patterns become immediately apparent. A balancing act The overriding theme of the members' contributions was the need to balance the protection of privacy with ensuring national security. Most were supportive of the framework the bill proposed for issuing warrants and for judicial review. Attention was paid specifically to the need to restrict the range of offences that could lead to a data interception warrant being authorized. Suggested in particular from the Labour benches by Lord Richard Rosser and Baroness Dianne Hayter, the initial preference is to limit this to serious crimes. However, given the backgrounds and experience of many of those contributing to the debate, it’s clear and perhaps concerning that national security concerns, not personal privacy, are the primary factor in making that decision. The Conservative Lord Tom King, a former chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee that oversees the work of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, relied on a series of statistics on the use of communications data in prosecutions and counter-terrorism activities, before going on to defend the general sensibility and honor of those working in the UK’s security services.  [comment:  lol ... there is no honour among thieves.  These are the same people that have fitted up journalist Julian Assange and have held him prisoner, without charge, for almost 6 years.  ]   The notion that there should be a sound legal basis for reviewing state sanctioned invasion of privacy does not amount to disputing the integrity of security personnel. But given such views are present among the Lords, we can expect to see some serious scrutiny of the argument for the protection of privacy as well as vocal support for the operational requirements of the relevant agencies. The collection of internet connection records and bulk interception of data received a decidedly mixed response. The plans would require ISPs to store web access records for each individual internet user, recording the domain visited and time of access (among other data to be confirmed). Some lords compared this to telephone call records, but Liberal Democrat Lord Ken MacDonald, addressing broader privacy concerns, pointed out that recording web activity could reveal intimate personal data, granting knowledge of “people’s lifestyles, beliefs, sexual practices, health and perfectly legal secrets”. There’s likely to be debate on this topic and amendments to the bill, especially given the doubts expressed toward the arguments for collecting internet connection records. As Liberal Democrat Lord Jonathan Oates said:     The government have not approached the issue by demonstrating where a lack of data is obstructing criminal investigations and then exploring how to tackle it…that is not evidence-based policy-making; it is policy-based evidence making and we should not accept it unless we have some much better answers. Perhaps the most concerning aspect was the lack of discussion about encryption. The issue was raised only by the Liberal Democrat Lord Paul Strasburger, and briefly dismissed in the concluding remarks of Conservative Lord Richard Keen. The bill as it currently stands places an obligation on service operators to provide access to encrypted data in its decrypted form “where reasonable”. This might require companies to redesign their communication applications, sacrificing the privacy of their users. This fundamentally undermines the point of encryption, and the implications for industries that rely on the safeguards strong encryption provides, such as shopping, finance and banking, requires very careful consideration—but in light of their Lordships' discussions so far that seems unlikely at this stage.The Conversation Kristopher Wilson is DPhil. candidate in Cybersecurity, University of Oxford   The Conversation http://www.newsweek.com/investigatory-powers-bill-house-lords-brexit-477217 COMMENT I'm so sick of surveillance. It is a gross violation to have been subjected to mass surveillance without being informed. Western governments are totally f*cked.

Freebie VPN

Freebie VPN Internet Privacy It looks beautiful in Japan Mt Tsukuba Tsukub Rinrin Road, (user-masao) Bored.  Really tired, but bored. Checking out VPN Gate. VPN Gate is a University of Tsukuba, Japan, project involving public Virtual Private Network servers. I'm not too clear on how any of this works and I really don't care.   What interests me is the anonymity factor for 'everyday browsing' (ie where your ID's masked, even though you ultimately remain traceable).  I think.  I have no technical knowledge.  That's just my understanding. Not sure if this is worth the bother.  Right now, I feel like I'm over information.  I think I'm over it.  Either that, or I'm just tired and depressed. I've already hit a hurdle with the VPN Gate.  It doesn't look like Linux OS is supported. Went to VPN Gate's forum.  Forum user has posted link to VPN services.   The first service I looked at looks sh*t.   Paid service, I'd say, as it wants all your details. NordVPN sounds better: NordVPN is based in Panama, one of the small list of countries that has no data retention laws. This means the government cannot legally ask services on the Internet to hand over information on their users, allowing the VPN service to have a no-logging policy. But it's a paid service and I think I let my bank account lapse a while back, so I think I'll keep looking.   Malaysia is somewhere else where they don't have demands for VPN user data: "... based in Malaysia, simply because the government does not have any laws that allow them to take information from VPN users." [source] UK, US and Germany do not allow file sharing on P2P (peer to peer) servers ... whatever they are.   P2P make a portion of PC resources available to others in peer-to-peer network of 'nodes', says Wikipedia.  Nodes are devices (PC or other) in a larger network of what looks like information hook-ups.  It looks like you just use different servers to bypass the restrictions: P2P/Torrent P2P is available on most Hide.me servers, although the UK, Germany and US servers do not allow filesharing applications. Users will be able to move between servers to get onto P2P and there is servers in Canada for US users and plenty of servers in Europe, most of them offering P2P services. [source] I really don't care about that, as I'm not planning on sharing anything. LOL ... I'm not good at sharing anything. That's another paid service. ibVPN offers 6 hour free sign-up.  I'm bored, but not that bored. Windscribe have got a freebie service.  Wonder there's some catch like going through all the hassle of signing up, only to get hit with having to upgrade? "... increased global surveillance of ordinary citizens makes it an indispensable product for today's Internet user"  [source] They've got some scheme going, where you get paid in bitcoin if you get ppl to sign up.  I don't even have a bank account any longer, so I think I'd have a problem there.  LOL There is a freebie component with a 10 gig limit, which would probably do me.  Sounds OK so far: "What are these tools? There are 2 components: desktop VPN application, and browser extension. You can use them on their own, but for much greater protection, you should use both. How much does Windscribe cost? If you are a light user, you can use Windscribe for free. You get up to 10GB of data per month, and you can use all of the tools we offer. What does the desktop application do? The desktop application is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) client. It creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer to our servers, and all your activity is sent through the tunnel. This has 2 advantages: 1. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) IP address is masked ... 2.  Your Internet Service Provider cannot see what you do online. This is much more important than you think. browser extension provides a "Lite" VPN client, which does the same thing as the desktop one, but only in your browser. Any other applications you may be using on your computer will utilize your ISP provided IP address." [source] They're making me nervous.  I don't like the sound of the 'much more important than you think' part. It's a Canada-based company and you stand to gain 90% anonymity.  Which is better than none.  But Canada's just another Western totalitarian state.  Even so, it sounds good ... so far. Other freebie VPN services are here.  I've not check them out. Looking at real time Twitter feed, someone's asking for instructions on OpenVPN.   OpenVPN is open source software: "OpenVPN is available in repositories of most open source operating systems  .." A bonus, as it should be more secure.  Not sure where this fits in.   Algeria blocked social media on the 19th of June. Reddit has VPN discussion topic.  LOL ... it looks like some VPNs might be run by the FBI. Think I've had enough of this for now.  This is lovely .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdWvIBRVAMA

Appeal to Kim Jong-un From Western Open-Air Prison

Planet Tokyo Appeal to Kim Jong-un From Western Open-Air Prison Totally jacked off.  That seems to be my default state, more and more. Tried to load my video edit here on Blogger (for like the third consecutive shot), but was unable to do so, as the video is in excess of 200 megabytes and the limit on Blogger is 100 mb or something like that. Wanted to sign up for Yandex, as they have video hosting, I believe.   But Yandex want my phone number. WTF for?  What is this, world-wide totalitarian surveillance in force? Decided it might be a good time to put that throw-away mobile phone voucher to use, at last.  I was supposed to use it to sign back onto the Twitter account I've been shut out of, but I have an aversion to being held to ransom for my phone number, and I've an aversion to censorship in general, so I'm not playing with the Twitter assh*les ... and I've shut down the stand-by on principle, although I'm sometimes tempted to sign on again ... but there's a whole other story in that.  It looks as though I cannot sign up for the Twitter FRAUD & CENSORSHIP lies and propaganda promoting corporate and overnment controlled public communication 'social media' platform without giving them a phone number, which I won't do. So, anyway, I think to myself, why not put that throw-away SIM to use and sign up for the Yandex video hosting, so I can get my video edit up online, without having to put it through YouTube, which I'm not fond of hooking up to, along with anything else to do with Google and their data-sucking scams.  It's bad enough that I'm here.  I really should be on Russia's VK, or somewhere.  But maybe I'd be too radical for the Russians?  LOL Yandex seemed the shot for video hosting, and I really don't care what information Russians have.  I'd sooner be spied on by Russians than Google, so I thought I'd give it a shot. It appears that I live in a totalitarian open air prison. Tried to validate the pre-paid SIM card I had, so that I could sign up for Yandex and upload my video.  But validating the pre-paid card is no go without providing a massive amount of personal data:  name, address, phone number, e-mail, and formal identification numbers (such as medical number, licence number, passport number and so forth). The card *is* pre-paid.  As such, I would argue that the telecommunications provider  is breach of contract by accpting consideration while subsequently denying service.  Where are the lawyers?  How about a big class action claim, ambulance chasers?  Where the f*ck is my service and why should I provide all this personal data, as if I were under arrest? At the end of the day, it's not like I'm not traceable.  I did not bother to VPN or to TOR, so it's not like I cannot be found if I must be found.   That being so, what the f*ck is this totalitarian prison camp demand for all this PRIVATE data, just to be able to set up a phone number on which to get verification codes to activate video hosting and social media accounts on an anonymous basis, rather than giving my private data on a platter to those that simply do not need my personal data, or to hackers (in due course). Tried to put through the pre-paid SIM on a totally phony basis, which drove me up the wall, trying to make up names, a fake birthday, having to set up a throw-away e-mail, having to search for a phony street address, having to make up a fake telephone contact number, and, finally, having to devise a fake driver's licence number. It does my head in just making up one creative anonymous user-name for things, let alone all the faking and note-taking involved in that exercise, so that I could keep track of the garbage I was making up. It turns out that you can't even set up a fake account to activate your PRE-PAID SIM because these communications carrier kapo have a direct link to what is government information and soon reject fake formal verifiable IDs, although they accepted my fake look-up address as 'verified'.  LMAO The solution, then, would be just to make up an account using real data of a real person, but I'm not up for entering into ID theft or whatever that would constitute. As criminals would have no such qualms, what exactly is the point of the government raping ordinary citizens who simply want privacy?  What's going on here?  Why are we in prison?  I just wanted to upload my 'Samurai Project' video to Yandex video hosting, on an anonymous basis ... well, as anonymous as you can be without bothering to mask one's ISP address. Once done, I couldn't delete my fake e-mail account, because the controls aren't obvious in the Russian service I used.  What's wrong with site designers?  Why would they make it hard to find a 'delete account' button and leave their service full of fake and disused e-mail addresses? Intended to delete and then to set up something a bit more sensible than the fake account I sort of just bashed out off the top of my head, but now I'm too frazzled to cope with more fake names for anonymous accounts that aren't really anonymous, and I don't fancy being stuck with an ugly sounding e-mail or Russian social media account name. North Korea or China ought to help us Western prisoners out by hosting fully anonymous services for Westerners that are sick of being spied on and private data raped.  C'mon, Kim, stick it to the US-Anglo prison warders.  LOL As I've skipped a night's sleep engrossed in more video editing, I'm not feeling so good after the video upload saga, followed by the SIM card activation citizen prisoner's nightmare.  I'm really wired, in a very unpleasant way. I'm supposed to cook, but I don't know how I'll get on doing that.  Aside from being extremely wired, I'm sort of zombied out and too agro to really want to, even though I must. This sounds strange, but it also sounds rather appealing to me:  we're having Rissoles in Stroganoff Sauce.  If I can get my sh*t together enough to make it.    We're arguing now, because I'm being hassled to cook and I'm not quite done.  The parting shot to me was:  "I hope you get arrested."   No solidarity among prisoners here.  LOL Wonder if closed prisons have faster internet?

British Political Policing - 460 Political Groups Infiltrated Over 4 Decades

BRITISH POLITICAL POLICING 460 Political Groups Infiltrated Over 4 Decades London police lied about stats to get taxpayer money, probe finds Published time: 21 Jun, 2016 19:52 Edited time: 21 Jun, 2016 19:53 Police officers from London’s Met who ran an intelligence operation that infiltrated hundreds of political groups exaggerated the success of their work, according to a high-level police report. Managers of the secretive Scotland Yard unit, which is known as the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), were found to have exaggerated the validity of intelligence obtained by undercover officers, the internal inquiry found. What’s more, the inquiry also suggested the SDS overemphasized the achievements of the unit in order to get public funding. Although the findings were sent to Metropolitan police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe last year, they were kept secret until now, the Guardian reports. The latest report adds to mounting criticism of the British police after undercover officers infiltrated over 460 political groups spanning over four decades. Many undercover spies were found to have formed long-term relationships with women during operations and officers that gathered intelligence on relatives of the murdered teenager Stephen Laurence and families campaigning for justice, but concealed evidence in court cases. A large percentage of the officers controversially stole the identities of dead children to form their fake identities, without permission from the families of the deceased. READ MORE: Police spies ‘violated human rights’ of women tricked into sexual relationships The behavior of undercover police emerged after 2010 when journalists and political activists led investigations into events, prompting senior police figures to set up an internal inquiry in 2013, led by Derbyshire chief constable Mike Creedon. Last year, Creedon sent a “restricted” report to Hogan-Howe, outlining an update on the inquiry and was released to the Guardian through a Freedom of Information request. Creedon said there was evidence of SDS managers exaggerating their actions and achievements. “Evidence of SDS managers clearly exaggerating the involvement of SDS officers and the value of their intelligence has been discovered and certainly for the first two decades of the unit there was an annual report to the commissioner [of the Metropolitan Police] and the Home Office to ensure continued funding,” he said. Though Creedon did not provide any examples, he added: “This would not be the only occasion where members of a unit embellished their importance and success in order to secure finance.” A hearing is to be held on Wednesday to determine if police should inform parents of the dead children that their identities were stolen. While only a few names of officers who adopted these identities have been revealed, a ruling in favor of releasing the spies’ names could lead to transparency in identifying many others. https://www.rt.com/uk/347671-london-police-lied-taxpayers/ COMMENT Some 'democracy' this is.  No wonder there's never any change.  It's suppressed.

US Republicans & FBI Exploit Orlando Mass Shooting

US Republicans & FBI Exploit Orlando Mass Shooting http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-22/us-senate-likely-to-pass-fbi-spying-bill-after-orlando-shooting/7534988 US Senate likely to pass FBI spying bill after Orlando shooting 23/06/2016 The US Senate on is likely to pass a Republican-backed proposal to expand the Federal Bureau of Investigation's secretive surveillance powers after the mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub. Key points: Laws would broaden the phone and internet records available to the FBI without a warrant The bill has been criticised by privacy and civil liberty advocates The bill would allow for the permanent surveillance of "lone wolf" suspects The spying bill is the Republican response to the massacre after a push for gun-control measures sponsored by both major US parties failed earlier this week. The legislation would broaden the type of telephone and internet records the FBI could request from telecommunications companies without a warrant. The proposal met opposition from critics who said it threatened civil liberties and did little to improve national security. The bill, which the Obama administration has sought for years, "will allow the FBI to collect the dots so they can connect the dots, and that's been the biggest problem that they've had in identifying these homegrown, radicalised terrorists," Republican Senator John Cornyn said. The vote also represents a bi-partisan drift away from policy positions that favouring digital privacy, which had taken hold in the three years since former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed the breadth of government surveillance programs. The post-Snowden moves included the most substantial reforms to the US intelligence community since the terror attacks of September 11 2001, and a refusal to heed the FBI's call for laws that would undermine encryption. Critics say proposed laws 'exploit' the Orlando shooting The legislation before the Senate, filed as an amendment to a criminal justice funding bill, would widen the FBI's authority to use so-called National Security Letters, which do not require a warrant and whose very existence is usually a secret. Such letters can currently compel a company to hand over a user's phone billing records, but under the Senate's change they could also demand time stamps of emails, the emails' senders and recipients, in addition to some information about the websites a person visits. How the shooting unfolded We've put together a timeline of how a gunman killed 50 people and injured 53 others at a crowded nightclub in Orlando. The legislation would also permanently allow the intelligence community to conduct surveillance on "lone wolf" suspects who do not have confirmed ties to a foreign terrorist group. It is unclear if the House would pass the Senate proposal, given its alliance between libertarian-leaning Republicans and tech-friendly Democrats that has blocked past efforts to expand surveillance. Privacy groups and civil liberties advocates accused Republicans this week of exploiting the Orlando shooting to build support for unrelated legislation. Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, criticised Senate Republicans for "pushing fake, knee-jerk solutions that will do nothing to prevent mass shootings or terrorist attacks". Though Republicans invoked the Orlando shooting in support of the bill, FBI Director James Comey has said shooter Omar Mateen's transactional records were fully reviewed by authorities who investigated him twice for possible extremist ties. Mr Comey said there was "no indication" Mateen belonged to any extremist group and that it was unlikely authorities could have done anything differently to prevent the attack. Reuters http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-22/us-senate-likely-to-pass-fbi-spying-bill-after-orlando-shooting/7534988 COMMENT This appears to be a typical government power-grab strategy in all Western countries. The US and the West are already surveillance states, so this is just another nail in the coffin of civil liberties and another step toward totalitarianism. Note also:  the FBI Director admits they could not have done anything to prevent the shooting.

NETHERLANDS - POLICE HARASSMENT, POLITICAL POLICING & POLITICAL SUPPRESSION

Article SOURCE https://www.nordfront.se/polisen-i-nederlanderna-slar-till-mot-medborgare-som-uttryckt-sig-invandringskritiskt-pa-natet.smr NETHERLANDS POLICE HARASSMENT, POLITICAL POLICING & POLITICAL SUPPRESSION Translation from Swedish Police in the Netherlands strike against citizens who expressed themselves critical of immigration online The editorial staff By the editors, 2016-02-01 redaktionen@nordfront.se OPPRESSION. In response to Nederländares [ie Nederlander] migration resistance to police now have established ten intelligence units that monitor what citizen writes on social media. Monitoring is then followed up with home visits to the immigration critics who deemed to have gone too far. As previously reported, has experienced a number of Netherlands loud protests and riots against the planned asylum accommodation, which also resulted in a number of asylum places stopped. At the same time, is now reporting the Dutch daily NRC Trade sheet on how Dutch police recently started cracking down on people who expressed themselves critical of immigration on social media, with several named examples. Mark Jongeneel, 28 years old from the municipality of Sliedrecht, got from his mother know that he tried by two policemen who just knocked on the door and who now was on his way to his place of work. When the police confronted him in the Office where he works as they should according to the Land have expressed something along the lines of: — You tweet a lot. We have ordered to ask you to moderate your tone. Your tweets can be regarded as seditious. What Mark had done was he on Twitter had written a couple of posts that included a new planned refugee accommodation in Sliedrecht. The tone of the posts should have been along the lines of: Sliedrechts City Council will come up with a proposal to receive 250 refugees for the next two years. What a bad idea! Should we let this happen?! In another case, so wrote the 43-year mechanic Johan van Kite from the town of Kaatsheuvel, outraged on Facebook if they advertised plans to place 1200 refugees at the resort: Let these leaders risk going to hell, we're going to all of them. Later that day, he was a 20-minute police visit, in which he describes how the authoritarian police officials pointed out that he was instigating a demonstration, after which they forced him to remove it, he wrote. Since then describes John the feeling that his liberty has been limited, and that he now feels aware that police read when he writes on Facebook. What the newspaper NRC experiences from a police statement, the Dutch police in this purpose set up ten pieces of intelligence units, with Digital detectives that in real time monitoring what is written on Facebook and on Twitter where you are looking for posts as "gone too far" in his criticism of the detention centres. Police gets here its legal support in the ban against so-called hate crimes and sedition, but according to police is the limit [ie definition arbitrary] for what is illegal diffuse and constantly open to new interpretations. After that post that "gone too far" discovered helps the local police with home visits to those individuals identified by the Digital detectives. The police are the last few months have struck against a large number of Dutch people in this way. At least 20 such home visits have taken place in Leeuwarden in October last year. The same thing occurred in Enschede. And in Brabant Kaatsheuvel so have at least three persons received a visit from the police. This makes overall newspaper NRC to talk about a police state, but a police spokesman for the local police in Malden defending the newspaper its actions with that particular tolerate demonstrations, but they have to be tillståndsgivna, and that freedom of expression certainly exists, where threats to Land just been speaking of recommendations. Mark see it all as an attempt to silence him, but attests to the newspaper NRC that he does not intend to let this keep him back. Swedish https://www.nordfront.se/polisen-i-nederlanderna-slar-till-mot-medborgare-som-uttryckt-sig-invandringskritiskt-pa-natet.smr ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Europe is being forcibly invaded and Europeans are being raped by political policing and by the state enforcers of the invasion of Europe policy, pursuant to European Union / NATO member elites' agenda.  The invasion of ancestral European homelands, the state political policing, the police harassment and POLITICAL SUPPRESSION is being PAID FOR by the oppressed taxpayer.

SURVEILLANCE - Blackberry 9720 - Messages Decrypted by Netherlands Criminologists - Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) Technique (works on Smartphones & some PGP)

ꕤ Article SOURCE (via VK) https://xakep.ru/2016/01/12/cops-hjacked-pgp-blackberry/ SURVEILLANCE - Blackberry 9720 - Messages Decrypted by Netherlands Criminologists - Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) Technique (works on Smartphones & some PGP) Google Translation Russian to English Dutch police said that cracked the encryption Blackberry Maria Nefedova https://xakep.ru/2016/01/12/cops-hjacked-pgp-blackberry/ In December 2015 the Dutch blog misdaadnieuws.com (Crime News) published in its pages the document, according to which law enforcement authorities of the Netherlands have found a way to recover deleted messages and read emails and encryption on devices BlackBerry. Historically, the company BlackBerry stake on the security of their devices. Smartphones companies have traditionally come with a built-PGP-encrypted, which, in particular, used for e-mail client. Protecting BlackBerry devices considered to be very reliable, so misdaadnieuws.com published in the pages of the report of the Dutch Institute of Criminology (Netherlands Forensic Institute, NFI) has caused considerable surprise among experts and journalists. Publication Vice Motherboard contacted representatives of NFI, to confirm or refute the information published in the blog. January 11, 2016 criminologists finally answered and said that they do often have to assist the police in the investigation of criminal offenses, but it needs to recover and extract data from a variety of devices. NFI staff confirmed that a private company using the software Cellebrite, they have found a way to recover deleted messages and read emails on smartphones BlackBerry, PGP-protected encryption. According to a report published misdaadnieuws.com, when working with the BlackBerry 9720 criminologists were able to recover 325 encrypted messages, but were able to decipher only 279 of them. Which techniques are used to circumvent the encryption criminologists tell refused. Probably, they were able to guess the password, based on memory dump, but for the application of this technique usually requires removal of the chip from the motherboard, which is unacceptable when dealing with evidence. However, it is reported that the Dutch forensic technique it requires physical access to a device that can serve as some consolation for the owners of protected devices. In addition, NFI imperfect technique: it works not with all models of smartphones and implementations of PGP, for example, has no effect on GhostPGP.   Source | English Translation ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Encryption sounds crap if it can readily be decrypted. The 297 out of 325 encrypted messages broken success rate is massive. Blackberry might need to work on their security? It sounds like GhostPGP is the only way to go ... unless it's a double-cross.  lol I don't have to worry about any of it, because I have no fancy devices. The most excitement I get is the text reminder to recharge the old fashioned prepaid mobile. ꕤ

InfoLink - Louis B Susman - US Ambassador to London (Jul 2009 - Apr 2013)

ꕤ Info/Ref Louis B Susman former US Ambassador to Britain (2009-2013) as marked SUMMARY Louis B Susman -- based Chicago -- lawyer 27 years: St. Louis-based Thompson & Mitchell -- mergers & acquisitions -- 20 years making deals as a Chicago-based investment banker -- at Salomon Brothers (later merged Citigroup, 1998) -- key role Dayton Hudson's buy of Marshall Field's -- key role LG Electronics' buy  of Zenith Electronics -- x2 deals that changed the Chicago corporate landscape -- former Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking -- retired investment banker & lawyer -- major fund-raiser for Obama's first presidential campaign -- 2009 appointed US Ambassador to Britain by Barak Obama -- July 10, 2009 -  April 3, 2013 -- 2013 retired as Ambassador to United Kingdom Non-executive chairman:  DJE Holdings -- family-owned parent company of Edelman and Zeno Group -- joins board at public relations giant Edelman -- Edelman world's largest public relations firm -- f. Chicago 1952 (Daniel Edelman) -- Chicago & NY bases -- 4,600 employed, 66 offices -- annual billings:  $665 million http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-03/business/chi-exambassador-sussman-joins-edelman-parent-20130403_1_richard-edelman-investment-banking-investment-banker Fait Accompli Louis B Susman, Chairman [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. source https://archive.is/XRTLc international event-planning company co-owner & managing director Alex Fitzgibbon husband of American-Swedish 'corporacratic' heiress Cristina Stenbeck - particulars here FOI RELEASE Official US government e-mail (27 Nov. 2010) re WIKILEAKS MATERIAL RELEASE Just Prior to 'Coincidental' Handy London Arrest of Julian Assange [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. http://graphics.wsj.com/hillary-clinton-email-documents/pdfs/C05771811.pdf The Guardian 1 DAY PRIOR TO ASSANGE ARREST IN LONDON http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/05/julian-assange-lawyers-being-watched Julian Assange's lawyers say they are being watched WikiLeaks founder's lawyers also accuse US state department of inappropriate behaviour in not respecting attorney-client protocol Sam Jones and agencies @swajones Monday 6 December 2010 03.16 AEDT Lawyers representing the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, say that they have been surveilled by members of the security services and have accused the US state department of behaving "inappropriately" by failing to respect attorney-client protocol. Jennifer Robinson and Mark Stephens of the law firm Finers Stephens Innocent told the Guardian they had been watched by people parked outside their houses for the past week. "I've noticed people consistently sitting outside my house in the same cars with newspapers," said Robinson. "I probably noticed certain things a week ago, but mostly it's been the last three or four days." Stephens said he, too, had had his home watched. Asked who he thought was monitoring him, he said: "The security services." Robinson said the legal team was also experiencing "other forms of pressure" from Washington. She pointed to a letter from a state department legal adviser – addressed to both Assange and her – which appeared to bracket together client and lawyer as if to suggest that WikiLeaks and its lawyers were one and the same. The letter, which was released to the press, begins: "Dear Ms Robinson and Mr Assange. I am writing in response to your 26 November 2010 letter to US Ambassador Louis B Susman regarding your intention to again publish on your WikiLeaks site what you claim to be classified US government documents." Robinson said: "By eliding client and lawyer, that was a very inappropriate attempt to implicate me. That is really inappropriate to come from the state department of all places; they understand very well the rules on attorney-client protocol." She said that although they had requested a public retraction from the state department, no answer had been received. "It's quite a serious situation," she said, adding that, according to the UN's Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, governments should ensure that lawyers "are able to perform all of their professional functions without intimidation, hindrance, harassment or improper interference" and that "lawyers shall not be identified with their clients or their clients' causes as a result of discharging their functions". A spokeswoman for the Home Office declined to comment on the lawyers' surveillance claims. Assange, who is staying in Britain, has come under growing pressure from politicians in the US and around the world after his site started publishing excerpts from a cache of 250,000 secret American diplomatic cables last week. It emerged on Saturday that Australian police are investigating whether Assange, an Australian citizen, has broken any of the country's laws and is liable to prosecution there. The foreign minister, Kevin Rudd, said: "The Australian government unequivocally condemns the action by any of those responsible for the unauthorised release of classified and confidential information and diplomatic communications between states." Swedish prosecutors have sent an international arrest warrant to the Metropolitan police, seeking the extradition of Assange for questioning on allegations – which he strongly denies – of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.   [Comment:  How convenient, Sweden !!!] Stephens today denounced the extradition warrant as a "political stunt" and said Assange would fight deportation to Sweden on the grounds that it could lead to him being handed over to the US, where senior politicians have called for him to be executed. The former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has described him as "an anti-American operative with blood on his hands" and called for him to be hunted down like a Taliban leader, while another senior Republican, Mike Huckabee, has said that "anything less than execution is too kind a penalty" for his actions. Stephens said that Sweden's chief prosecutor had told Assange in September that there was no case for him to answer, following complaints against him by two women, but the investigation was revived following the intervention of a Swedish politician.  [comment:  women did NOT make 'complaints' -- they  reportedly sought 'ADVICE', which just happens to be a convenient way to make false statements without being punished for doing so in Sweden - see legal comment below.  Note also:  Sweden police failed to follow protocols and the police database was tampered with, along with other irregularities.] He said that Swedish prosecutors knew where Assange was and urged them to call him to discuss the case. Stephens told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show: "It is quite bizarre, because the chief prosecutor in Sweden dropped the entire case against him, saying there was absolutely nothing for him to find back in September, and then a few weeks later on – after the intervention of a Swedish politician – a new prosecutor, not in Stockholm where Julian and these women had been, but in Gothenburg, began a new case which has resulted in these warrants and the Interpol Red Notice being put out." He added: "It does seem to be a political stunt." http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/05/julian-assange-lawyers-being-watched [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. The US govt & shrill Palin (& assorted US airhead) claims that were made were subsequently NOT supported by facts: [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Well, that was interesting. ꕤ