NSA Whistleblower: Edward Snowden (Surveillance/Spying)

[Zizouz]

thought he was directing his post at Thun for saying 'I told you so'

[Da Luv Doc]

thought he was directing his post at Thun for saying 'I told you so'

[Kurtis]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/guy-typing-in-all-caps-supports-edward-snowden,32785

[Niall Ferguson]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/guy-typing-in-all-caps-supports-edward-snowden,32785

LOL

[Kurtis]

Fake internet cafes and keyloggers: British intelligence reportedly spied on major world leaders during 2009 G20 summit

 

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/16/4436120/british-gchq-world-leader-surveillance-program-2009-g20-summit

[djbmc]

Damn these big intelligent leeks

[Kurtis]

its all good snooping on peasants

 

but diplomats and world leaders you bring in while smiling in their face and shit....

[Kurtis]

UK spies trawl 600m communications a day

GCHQ secretly tap global fibre-optic network for private data in scheme bigger than Prism, leaked documents show.

 

A British spy agency taps the network of cables that carry the world’s internet and telephone communications to secretly collect vast streams of private information, documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed.

The GCHQ agency scoops as much as it can from Facebook posts, email messages, internet histories and calls while tapping into the global fibre-optic network with little legal oversight, according to a report from the Guardian newspaper.

The activities are detailed in two documents leaked to the newspaper by Snowden, the former NSA and CIA worker who revealed America was spying on millions of foreigners and US nationals without their knowledge under the Prism scheme. The GCHQ scheme is billed as wider-ranging than Prism, with less legal oversight.

Snowden provided the Guardian with two GCHQ documents, titled Mastering the Internet and Global Telecoms Exploitation, which detail how an operation codenamed “Tempora” has for 18 months gathered, stored and analysed vast amounts of data, while also passing information to its US counterpart, the National  Security Agency.

"It's not just a US problem,” Snowden told the newspaper. “The UK has a huge dog in this fight. They are worse than the US."

Intelligence superpower

The Guardian says the programme has turned the UK into an "intelligence superpower" among members of the Five Eyes electronic spying alliance of US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The leaked documents show that the GCHQ intercepted 600 million "telephone events" each day last year by tapping more than 200 fibre-optic cables. Hundreds of analysts from the GCHQ were assigned to sift through the intercepts, with lawyers saying the UK had “a light oversight regime compared with the US", according to Snowden.

A source defended the programme, saying it was searching for needles rather than examining the entire haystack.

"We are not looking at every piece of straw. There are certain triggers that allow you to discard or not examine a lot of data so you are just looking at needles. If you had the impression we are reading millions of emails, we are not. There is no intention in this whole programme to use it for looking at UK domestic traffic – British people talking to each other."

The source told the newspaper that the tapping of the cables was conducted under secret agreements with commercial firms, and that some had been paid for their co-operation, and their licences to operate were dependent on agreeing to be part of the programme.

According to GCHQ's legal advice, detailed in the newspaper, it was able to launch Tempora by using a clause in the 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa), which allows the foreign secretary to sign a warrant for the interception of swathes of material as long as one end of the monitored communications is abroad.

As much of the information sent through fibre-optic cables bounces around the world before returning to source, many UK-specific communications are technically subject to the clause.

 

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/06/2013621171637307806.html

[Thun]

This is all going to backfire

 

Now companies going to stop using US technology to host there services and more privately owned will be able to eat at home

 

Using all there spy shit to pass on info to US companies to earn money from there competitors 

[Kurtis]

not just that though

 

The source told the newspaper that the tapping of the cables was conducted under secret agreements with commercial firms, and that some had been paid for their co-operation, and their licences to operate were dependent on agreeing to be part of the programme.

 

basically you cant find a provider who wont take part because they prob wont have a licence

[Thun]

Cant get away from it 

 

Can only hope new technologies from more private companies develop but these cunts will track what there developing and shut it down anyway

 

Basically fucked as you say

 

Wish people would of realised sooner to stop them with there tyrannical laws after 9/11 but people was willing to accept it and now look were we are heading

[Kurtis]

Breaking: US authorites have filed espionage charges against former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who exposed secret US surveillance programmes, US media have reported. http://aje.me/108Amdu

 

how you gonna file espionage charges against the person who revealed you were spying on people?

[Kurtis]

flown to Russia and was picked up by a Venezuelan diplomat

[Black.]

Demons gonna demon

[Pro]

The US government fully take the piss

 

after all those complaints about chinese cyber attacks

 

these guys are the biggest ones smh

[Kurtis]

NSA Director Keith Alexander, appearing this morning on ABC's This Week, criticized Snowden, saying that he's "clearly an individual who's betrayed the trust and confidence we had in him." Alexander said that "this is an individual who is not acting, in my opinion, with noble intent."

Alexander also responded to questioning about South China Morning Post's report — facilitated by Snowden — that the US engaged in hacking against targets in Hong Kong. Alexander did not deny the allegations, saying that "we have interest in those who collect on us as an intelligence agency," and that he is confident "we're following the laws that our country has in doing what we do."

 

see this is one aspect where I like China, North Korea and them man

 

its just bareface with them

 

America and various western countries come on some holier than thou shit while partaking in exactly what theyre condeming

[Kurtis]

heading to Ecuador

[Vertigo]

This guy is running rings round them.

 

And even better they can't get to him. They must have wanted to drug him and bundle him out that country on a rendition flight. But they'd look even more shady.

[The Somalian]

States have been exposed differently (even the uk has been exposed) c*nt thing is all that sh*t they come up about china when they are the biggest hackers by a country mile

[The Somalian]

their image will be fucked if this guy happens to get into an accident Julian assange and the slow game comes to mind with this. Killer is this guy actually knows basic shit

[Kurtis]

he's got a shitload more stuff to reveal apparently

 

this is the real issue though

 

[The Somalian]

I swear he only worked for them for 3 months 8 years ago, his sh*t is out dated its just the embarrassment which Americans don't like

 

there is a bigger shit storm ahead 

[Kurtis]

i thought he got the documents and escaped to Hong Kong like a few days later?

[Kurtis]

Mr Snowden flew from Hong Kong to Russia on Sunday. Officials in Hong Kong say Mr Snowden left the city voluntarily.

But Albert Ho, his lawyer in Hong Kong, told the BBC that a government official urged Mr Snowden to go over the weekend. Mr Ho said he believed the official was acting on the orders of the Beijing government.

He added that his client was given assurances that he would be allowed to leave freely.

 

more twists than lost