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Should I Join Toastmasters, National Speaker Association (NSA), etc...
Should I Join Toastmasters, National Speaker Association (NSA), etc...? Well it depends! Joining these organization will certainly help you but only you can ...

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Pakistani Minister Diplomat NSA Media on Payroll of CIA | Chutia Lucman
Pakistani Media revealed that How Pakistani Minister Diplomat NSA and Media Person on Payroll of US.

By: Chutia Lucman

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The NSA and its allies have raided the pockets of independent and nation-state hackers and monitored some of the security industry's foremost researchers in its bid to hoover information on targets and find better ways to break systems, Snowden documents reveal.

Spooks would monitor the work of 'freelance' and rival state hackers, notably those plundering email accounts owned by targets of interest to the NSA and friends, and pilfer the stolen contents, according to a report by The Intercept.

That stolen data, referred to as 'take', was then pinched from hacker targets such as journalists, activists and military sources including the Indian Navy. Those hacks were likely the handiwork of other nation-state hackers given the sophistication of the breaches.

The documents revealed the hackers' email-plundering infrastructure was referred to under the moniker INTOLERANT and that Canada and the UK had hands in hacker pockets.

Here's a choice bit from one of the alleged NSA documents:

The NSA would tip-off allies such as the UK and Australia when it found data in hackers' take.

Snowden's trickle-feed cache also revealed the NSA had run an open source intelligence gathering service known as Lovely Horse which monitored the Twitter feeds of security bods including Mark Dowd, Tavis Ormandy and HD Moore. The Intercept listed 36 other Twitter sources who could be flattered by the agency's interest.

The agency also scraped security blogs for data in its bid to keep abreast of emerging exploits and vulnerabilities.

It need not have go to the length to build in-house systems however. Plenty of RSS feed platforms and page-monitoring browser extensions exist, while Aussie hacker Matt Jones (@volvent) had in 2012 created the TalkBack portal to analyse Twitter chatter and pry out new vulnerability information using known good security sources.

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NSA raided hackers' troves of stolen data: report

The NSA has published its first "report" on signals intelligence "reform" in the US. If you were hoping for sweeping changes in the wake of Ed Snowden's whistleblowing, you're in for disappointment.

The factsheet, covering the year to date, was written up after some prodding and tutting by President Obama in January 2014.

It shows some minor tweaks in how Uncle Sam's agencies collect and processes information on people's everyday lives. We're told mass surveillance is still allowed:

Information obtained en masse from emails, phone calls, internet snooping, and so on, by spies using Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will now be more closely scrutinized rather than slung into a bottomless bit well: any material deemed to not be of national importance will be deleted as soon as it is found, it's claimed.

Data which could be useful will be kept for five years before deletion, unless it's stuff the NSA really wants to keep for national security purposes in which case, it's indefinite.

The rules on whistleblowing have also been amended to allow staff to report illegal activity by their peers without fear of professional sanction. If, like Edward Snowden, you're a contractor, there are still no legal protections for whistleblowing, and you can expect to be prosecuted if you speak out.

The use of secret National Security Letters by the FBI and others has been changed, the NSA notes. These letters allow investigators to trawl through corporate databases but deny the businesses concerned the right to tell anyone about it. These gagging orders will now expire after three years.

The NSA report states:

In his January 17, 2014 remarks, the President directed the Attorney General to amend how we use National Security Letters so that [their] secrecy will not be indefinite, and will terminate within a fixed time unless the government demonstrates a real need for further secrecy.

In response to the Presidents new direction, the FBI will now presumptively terminate National Security Letter nondisclosure orders at the earlier of three years after the opening of a fully predicated investigation or the investigations close.

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NSA lays out its reforms post-Snowden (they can fit on back of a stamp)