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GCHQ's black bag of dirty hacking tricks revealed
The dirty tricks used by JTRIG -- the toolsmiths of the UK spy agency GCHQ -- have been published, with details on how the agency manipulates public opinion, censors Youtube, games pageview...
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Honorable spies anonymously leak NSA/GHCQ-discovered flaws in Tor
Andrew Lewman, head of operations for The Onion Router (TOR), an anonymity and privacy tool that is particularly loathed by the spy agencies' capos, credits Tor's anonymous bug-reporting system for...
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UK spies secretly granted power to spy on journalists and lawyers
The UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal secretly granted permission to MI5 and MI6 to spy on journalists and lawyers, in ways that violate attorney-client privilege. (more…)
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Vodafone made millions helping GCHQ spy on the world
A newly released Snowden doc, published in the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, shows how Cable and Wireless (now a Vodafone subsidiary) made millions of pounds illegally installing fiber-taps to...
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NSA leak reveal plans to subvert mobile network security around the world
The NSA's AURORAGOLD program -- revealed in newly released Snowden docs -- used plundered internal emails to compromise nearly every mobile carrier in the world, and show that the agency had planned...
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Spies can't make cyberspace secure AND vulnerable to their own attacks
In his Sunday Observer column, John Naughton makes an important point that's hammered home by the escape of the NSA/GCHQ Regin cyberweapon into the wild: spies who make war on the Internet can't be...
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GCHQ hacking squad worried about getting sued for copyright violation
The British spy-agency targeted anti-virus software and other common applications in reverse-engineering projects aimed at discovering and weaponizing defects in the code. (more…)
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GCHQ psychological operations squad targeted Britons for manipulation
The once-secretive, now-notorious Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group ran its online propaganda and manipulation operations at home as well as abroad. (more…)
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GCHQ spied on Amnesty International, Investigatory Powers Tribunal lied about it
Last week, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal said that the UK spy agency hadn't spied on Amnesty -- this week, they admitted that they had, and claimed they hadn't deliberately misled the organisation...
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German prosecutors give spies a walk, but investigate journalists for "treason"
The German prosecutors who dropped all action against the US and UK spy-agencies who trampled German law and put the whole nation, up to and including Chancellor Angela Merkel, under surveillance,...
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UK ECHELON journalist: "Snowden proved spies need accountability"
Legendary investigative journalist Duncan Campbell describes his life of being kidnapped by the London Metropolitan Police's Special Branch, being surveiled and harassed by UK spies and ministers, and...
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KARMA POLICE: GCHQ's plan to track every Web user in the world
The KARMA POLICE program is detailed in newly released Snowden docs published on The Intercept; it began as a project to identify every listener to every Internet radio station (to find people...
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Smurfs vs phones: GCHQ's smartphone malware can take pics, listen in even...
In a new episode of the BBC's Panorama, Edward Snowden describes the secret mobile phone malware developed by GCHQ and the NSA, which has the power to listen in through your phone's mic and follow you...
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EU top court: NSA spying means US servers are not a fit home for Europeans' data
Historically, US companies have been able to get around the (relatively stringent) European data-protection rules thanks to a "Safe Harbor" agreement between the US and the EU -- but Max Schrems, an...
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UK MPs learn that GCHQ can spy on them, too, so now we may get a debate on...
In 1966, UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson told MPs that the UK spy agencies weren't allowed to tap their phones and that if that changed, he'd tell them about it first. In 1997, Prime Minister Tony...
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Big Data refusal: the nuclear disarmament movement of the 21st century
James Bridle's new essay (adapted from a speech at the Through Post-Atomic Eyes event in Toronto last month) draws a connection between the terror of life in the nuclear shadow and the days we live in...
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UK spy agency posts data-mining software to Github
Gaffer is a graph database "optimised for retrieving data on nodes of interest" developed by the notorious UK spy agency GCHQ, and now you can download, run and improve it because they've posted it to...
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UK government wants to send tech execs to jail for disclosing surveillance
Ministers are lobbying to make it a criminal offense for a tech company to inform a user that the UK government is spying on them. (more…)
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UK Home Secretary auditions for a Python sketch: "UK does not undertake mass...
UK Home Secretary Theresa May stood before Parliament on Wednesday, and, with a straight face, said: "The UK does not undertake mass surveillance. We have not, and we do not, undertake mass...
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Crowdfunding "The Haystack": an independent documentary on surveillance in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_RD0uwA3dI Edward Snowden said that Britain's spies have "some of the most extensive surveillance powers in the world," and those powers are about to be dramatically...
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BRITONS: Act now to kill the Snoopers Charter
Ed from the UK Open Rights Group writes, "Right now, the Government is ramming a new snooping law through Parliament. The Investigatory Powers Bill would force companies such as Sky, BT, Google and...
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The UK government's voice-over-IP standard is designed to be backdoored
GCHQ, the UK's spy agency, designed a security protocol for voice-calling called MIKEY-SAKKE and announced that they'll only certify VoIP systems as secure if they use MIKEY-SAKKE, and it's being...
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UK spy agencies store sensitive data on millions of innocent people, with no...
Privacy International won a lawsuit forcing the UK government to publish thousands of pages of records on the use of "Bulk Personal Datasets" by the spy agencies GCHQ, MI5 and MI6. (more…)
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MI5 warning: we're gathering more than we can analyse, and will miss...
In 2010, the UK spy agency MI5 drafted memos informing top UK officials that its dragnet surveillance programme was gathering more information than it could make sense of, and warning that its...
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UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal says GHCQ illegally spied for 17 years
The independent tribunal ruled on a case brought by Privacy International, concluding that the UK spy agency GCHQ was acting illegally for 17 years while it amassed huge databases of "bulk collection"...
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In Africa, British spies target allied leaders, executives, and telcoms...
Le Monde has published a new collection of documents from the whistleblower Edward Snowden, showing that the British spy agency GCHQ targeted the leaders of allied countries in Africa, as well as...
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'Utterly ridiculous': GCHQ shreds Spicer's claim that UK spy agency...
Officials with the British government complained to the White House today after Donald Trump's spokesliar Sean Spicer cited a bogus Fox News report claiming that former President Barack Obama got help...
View ArticleWatchdog: UK spies engaged in illegal surveillance from 2001-2012
The UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal has ruled that GCHQ (the UK's domestic surveillance apparatus) illegally engaged in mass surveillance for more than a decade (starting after 9/11), during which...
View ArticleEU's top court rules against the UK mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the UK spy agency GCHQ acted illegally when it engaged in mass-scale domestic surveillance of every Briton's electronic communications, a programme...
View ArticleUK ISP Association, spies, censorship organsation jointly condemn Mozilla for...
ISPs in the UK are required to censor a wide swathe of content: what began as a strictly limited, opt-in ban on depictions of the sexual abuse of children has been steadily expanded to a mandatory ban...
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