Daily Archives: May 13, 2014

B omar - Ghir nsa (Officiel lyrics)
Aprs un long voyage, il revient et trouve son amour avec une autre personne, et il part avec un cur bris, plein de tristesse !

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Former NSA boss: "We kill people based on metadata"
May 11, 2014: Speaking at a debate in April, former intelligence boss and retired Gen. Michael Hayden admitted the NSA uses metadata to "kill people." Video courtesy Johns Hopkins University.

By: Matthew Keys Live

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UK newspaper releases new excerpts of interview with ex-NSA analyst 2013 News
Major US corporations allow the National Security Agency NSA direct access to the back ends of all of the systems that you use to communicate according to former NSA systems analyst Edward...

By: Camon Cana

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Tokyo reax to reports Japan embassy targeted by NSA surveillance 2013 News
Japan s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday that the government will call for an explanation from relevant US authorities regarding reports of alleged US surveillance of a Japanese...

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Obama speaks to US talk show on Syria Iran and NSA before departing for G8 summit 201
US President Barack Obama has said Iran s election of a relative moderate shows the country s people want to change course. Obama said in an interview with American broadcaster PBS which aired...

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Narrative und Symbole im Kampf gegen die NSA-Totalberwachung
ichsagmal-Gesprch mit Felix Schwenzel.

By: Gunnar Sohn

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The National Security Agency has been allegedly accessing routers, servers, and other computer network devices to plant backdoors and other spyware before they're shipped overseas, according to the Guardian.

The news about the NSA's alleged interception of hardware comes via journalist Glenn Greenwald's new book about Edward Snowden's NSA leaks titled "No Place to Hide." Greenwald apparently obtained documents from Snowden that detailed the NSA receiving or intercepting various devices in the US before export.

Ironically, this type of activity is exactly what the US government accused Chinese telecom gear maker Huawei of doing in 2012 on behalf of the Chinese government.

In a letter sent to Huawei in June 2012, the US House Intelligence Committee said that the committee was "concerned" the Chinese authorities could be hacking in or attempting to breach US networks using the company's telecom equipment. With the accusations, Huawei adamantly maintained that it was not involved in any sort of cyberspying. Additionally, the US White House reportedly carried out a review of security risks posed by Huawei and was said to have found no evidence that the company spied on the US.

However, the accusations strained Huawei's relations with the US, and eventually the company pulled out of the US market. Last December, the company's CEO Ren Zhengfei said, "If Huawei gets in the middle of US-China relations," and causes problems, "it's not worth it."

What the NSA is allegedly doing is outlined in a leaked report that Greenwald refers to in his new book -- it's dated June 2010 and from the head of the NSA's Access and Target Development department, according to the Guardian. This report details the NSA allegedly intercepting US-made hardware, embedding backdoor surveillance tools, then repackaging the equipment and sending it onto international customers.

With backdoor surveillance systems, the NSA could feasibly gain access to vast networks and users.

"In one recent case, after several months a beacon implanted through supply-chain interdiction called back to the NSA covert infrastructure," the NSA report says, according to the Guardian. "This call back provided us access to further exploit the device and survey the network."

This isn't the first time the NSA has been accused of this type of activity. A report from German newspaper Der Spiegel alleged that the US agency intercepts deliveries of electronic equipment to plant spyware to gain remote access to systems once they are delivered and installed. According to the report, the NSA has planted backdoors to access computers, hard drives, routers, and other devices from companies such as Cisco, Dell, Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, and Huawei.

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