Monitoring NSA in de VS en erbuiten, deel 7

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Op woensdag 6 november 2013 19:25 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:


Facebook: alternatief is eens naar buiten gaan en mensen in het echt te ontmoeten en goedendag te zeggen of een kaartje sturen per post vanaf je vakantieadres, veel leuker en meer attent.
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Op woensdag 6 november 2013 19:27 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Het regent.

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Op woensdag 6 november 2013 19:25 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:
Een ieder die een alternatief zoekt voor hotmail en gmail: www.apennootje.nl

Een Nederlandse e-post-leverancier, gratis en echt in Nederland gevestigd volgens Firefox vlag.

of http://registrace.seznam.(...)Screen?service=email (Tsjechisch)

Videos: http://www.dropshots.com/ (Frans)
http://rutube.ru/ (Russisch)
http://www.vidiload.com/ (nederlands)

file upload: http://www2.zshares.net/ (Frans)

alternatief voor google: duckduckgo https://duckduckgo.com/ (Ierland)

blog: blog.ru (Russisch)

Facebook: alternatief is eens naar buiten gaan en mensen in het echt te ontmoeten en goedendag te zeggen of een kaartje sturen per post vanaf je vakantieadres, veel leuker en meer attent.

Installeer firefox met vlagfox om te weten waar een weblocatie gevestigd is.

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Op woensdag 6 november 2013 19:41 schreef gebrokenglas het volgende:
Owja, een alternatief voor Facebook kan zijn: de Russische vkontakte.

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Op maandag 11 november 2013 11:05 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:
Apennootje.nl blijkt te worden doorgeleid na registratie naar een Amerikaans adres volgens Firefox, dus dit heeft geen zin.

www.seznam.cz
www.mail.ru
http://www.e-mail-made-in-germany.de/
http://www.arnet.com.ar/HOME.htm

zijn wel oké denk ik.

Wellicht kunnen mensen lijstjes aanvullen.

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Op maandag 11 november 2013 11:28 schreef Motorbass het volgende:

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Hushmail.com

Encrypt je email en is gevestigd in Canada. Eerste 25MB is gratis.

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Op maandag 11 november 2013 11:29 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:

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Canada is wel een redelijk democratisch land geloof ik, dus is inderdaad ook een idee.

Merci beaucoup pour votre aide, om het maar op z'n 'Canadees' te verwoorden.

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Our offices and our servers where user data is stored are located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and operated by Hush Communications Canada Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hush Communications Corporation, a private Delaware, USA company.

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Op maandag 11 november 2013 11:28 schreef Motorbass het volgende:

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Hushmail.com

Encrypt je email en is gevestigd in Canada. Eerste 25MB is gratis.

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Op maandag 11 november 2013 11:47 schreef Motorbass het volgende:

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Al lees ik wel het volgende in hun Privacy Policy:

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Op maandag 11 november 2013 11:51 schreef raptorix het volgende:

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Helaas is dit niet veilig genoeg, je bent nog steeds afhankelijk van SSL certificaten, wat je wilt is dus end2end encryption, met andere woorden, je wilt de data lokaal kunnen decrypten.

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Op maandag 11 november 2013 11:52 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:

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Ik stel voor een typemachine aan te schaffen en een stel postzegels en de brieven maar weer met de PTT te versturen dan.

De Russische geheime dienst heeft de typemachine ook weer in ere hersteld na de schandalen die Snowden heeft geopenbaard. Internet is eigenlijk ook het paard van Troje.

Best Way to Take Lecture Notes

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Op maandag 11 november 2013 11:54 schreef Motorbass het volgende:

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Enig idee hoe dit te bereiken valt? Ik ben niet zo bekend op dit gebied.

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Gaan we voortaan zo in de les zitten

Best Way to Take Lecture Notes

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Op maandag 11 november 2013 11:59 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:

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Als de Russische geheime dienst computers niet meer vertrouwt, kan je er gerust van uit gaan dat er een heleboel mis is met die dingen.
Russen zijn bijzonder slimme mensen, hooggeschoold en de geheime Russische dienst bestaat niet uit een stel naïeve lullo's.

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Op maandag 11 november 2013 12:02 schreef Motorbass het volgende:

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Het zou mij niet verbazen als de Russische & Chinese geheime diensten een eigen OS gebouwd hebben, aangezien de meeste OS'en Amerikaans zijn. Daarnaast is het nog altijd mogelijk een computer niet aan te sluiten op internet, dus dan ben je alsnog veilig.

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Op maandag 11 november 2013 12:04 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:

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Linux is veiliger, maar internet wordt steevast getapt door de Amerikanen. Linux of Windows.

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'Waakhond van de AIVD blijkt een tam schoothondje'

Als de AIVD apparatuur koopt om dingen te doen die bij wet verboden zijn, moet de waakhond daar op aanslaan en gaan blaffen. Niet vergoeilijken en zeggen dat de wet misschien toch wel een keer verruimd gaat worden. Concluderen dat de wetgever binnenkort toch wel nieuwe bevoegdheden aan de AIVD zal geven om het hele internet af te luisteren is drie stappen te ver. De regering heeft nog geen voorstel daartoe gedaan en de Tweede en Eerste Kamer moeten vervolgens hun oordeel ook nog geven. Gezien de jongste onthullingen, staat de uitkomst daarvan allerminst vast.

Met dit interview is Van Delden door de mand gevallen. De waakhond blijkt op schoot te zitten bij de AIVD. Hij gedraagt zich als de woordvoerder in plaats van als toezichthouder. Op dit moment doet Van Delden in opdracht van de Tweede Kamer onderzoek naar de rol die de AIVD heeft in de PRISM-affaire. Begin 2014 wordt zijn rapport gepubliceerd. Daar hoeft de Tweede Kamer weinig van te verwachten.

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Battle brews as tech companies attempt to fend off NSA hacking

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The NSA allegedly gathered millions of records from Google and Yahoo data centers around the world, but soon, the agency might have a much harder time trying to collect this type of data.
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, and other prominent technology companies are investing heavily in stronger, 2048-bit encryption. Due to computing power constraints, it's expected to be more than a decade before this type of encryption can be easily overcome.

Google, one of the leaders in the effort, announced in May that it would switch over to 2,048-bit encryption keys by the end of 2013. Yahoo recently confirmed to Bloomberg, which spoke with several tech companies that are investing in new encryption, that it will make 2048-bit encryption standard by January 2014 for all its Mail users. Facebook also plans to move to 2048-bit encryption, a spokeswoman told Bloomberg, and will roll out "perfect forward secrecy," a feature that prevents snoopers from accessing user data even if they can access the company's security codes.

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UK's reputation is damaged by reaction to Edward Snowden, says UN official

Special rapporteur on freedom of expression says he is alarmed at political response to revelations of mass surveillance

A senior United Nations official responsible for freedom of expression has warned that the British government's response to the mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden is doing serious damage to the UK's international reputation for investigative journalism and press freedom.

Frank La Rue, the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, said he was alarmed at the political reaction following the revelations about the extent and reach of secret surveillance programmes run by Britain's eavesdropping centre, GCHQ, and its US counterpart, the National Security Agency (NSA).

"I have been absolutely shocked about the way the Guardian has been treated, from the idea of prosecution to the fact that some members of parliament even called it treason," said La Rue. "I think that is unacceptable in a democratic society."

La Rue's intervention comes as a delegation of the world's leading editors and publishers prepares for a "press freedom mission" to the UK to raise their own concerns about the British government's position.

Organised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the delegation will arrive in January and include publishers and editors from five continents. WAN-IFRA says the mission is the first of its kind to the UK and has been prompted by growing concerns about UK government interference in press regulation and the political pressure on the Guardian. The delegation is expected to meet government and opposition leaders, press industry figures and civil society organisations.

"We are concerned that these actions not only seriously damage the United Kingdom's historic international reputation as a staunch defender of press freedom, but provide encouragement to non-democratic regimes to justify their own repressive actions," said Vincent Peyrègne, chief executive of the Paris-based WAN-IFRA.

The Guardian, and major media organisations in other countries, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, began disclosing details of the extent and reach of secret surveillance programmes run by GCHQ and the NSA in June.

The articles have sparked a global debate on the scale and oversight of surveillance by the US and UK intelligence agencies. However, in the UK there has been growing political pressure on the Guardian, with calls for it to be prosecuted, a decision to call the editor, Alan Rusbridger, to give evidence to the home affairs select committee and a warning from David Cameron that he would take "tougher measures" against the newspaper unless it demonstrated "some social responsibility".

On Friday the New York Times voiced its concern over the political climate in the UK. In an editorial entitled "British press freedom under threat" it stated: "Britain has a long tradition of a free, inquisitive press. That freedom, so essential to democratic accountability, is being challenged by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron."

It pointed out that unlike the US, Britain has no constitutional guarantee of press freedom. "Parliamentary committees and the police are now exploiting that lack of protection to harass, intimidate and possibly prosecute the Guardian newspaper for its publication of information based on National Security Agency documents that were leaked by Edward Snowden … The global debate now taking place about intelligence agencies collecting information on the phone calls, emails and internet use of private citizens owes much to the Guardian's intrepid journalism. In a free society, the price for printing uncomfortable truths should not be parliamentary and criminal inquisition."

In an interview with the Guardian La Rue said the political fallout in the UK was unacceptable.

"When you are in public office you understand that the role of the press is to investigate things that are done right or things that are done wrong and make it known to the public. And if you are in office you know that you come under public scrutiny and public scrutiny comes with public criticism and you cannot use national security as an argument and much less challenge as treason something that is informing the public, even if it is embarrassing information for those that are in office."

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Britse geheime dienst bespioneert hotels

De Britse geheime dienst GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) houdt elke dag in de hele wereld reserveringen in hotels in de gaten waar doorgaans veel hoge regeringsfunctionarissen of diplomaten komen. De reserveringssystemen worden bespied met het programma 'Koninklijke Conciërge'. Dit blijkt zondag volgens het Duitse weekblad Der Spiegel uit publicaties van de Amerikaanse 'klokkenluider' Edward Snowden.

Van minstens 350 hotels weet GCHQ wie er wanneer verblijven. Dat kan aanleiding zijn om telefoons of computers in de betreffende hotelkamers af te luisteren of spionnen naar het hotel in kwestie te sturen.

Systeembeheerder Snowden heeft een schat aan vertrouwelijke informatie gestolen bij zijn voormalige werkgever, de Amerikaanse inlichtingendienst NSA (National Security Agency). Hij doet sindsdien boekjes open over de omvangrijke en technisch geraffineerde wijze waarop de Amerikaanse en Britse geheime diensten communicatie bespioneren en in kaart brengen.

Diplomatieke rel
De Brits-Amerikaanse spionage leverde een diplomatieke rel op toen uitlekte dat ook regeringsleiders, onder wie de Duitse bondskanselier Angela Merkel, zijn afgeluisterd door de NSA. De Amerikaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken John Kerry hoopt die schade snel te repareren.

Volgens Der Spiegel wil Kerry naar Berlijn komen zodra de nieuwe Duitse regering geïnstalleerd is. Hij hoopt een 'renaissance' in de transatlantische betrekkingen te realiseren. President Barack Obama beloofde eerder al dat Merkel niet afgeluisterd wordt of zal worden. Over spionage in het verleden liet hij zich niet uit.

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Grilling of spy chiefs ‘a total pantomime’

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AN UNPRECEDENTED public appearance by UK spy chiefs has been labelled a “total pantomime” after it emerged that they were told of questions in advance.

A private deal was struck with the heads of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ to ensure they did not face any surprises when they were grilled before an audience, sources close to Westminster’s secretive intelligence and security committee (ISC) have revealed.

The agreement followed a year of delicate negotiations and was a condition for the three spy bosses to subject themselves to public cross- examination.

The disclosure explains the apparently “soft” line of questioning during the hearing and why there were relatively few revelations. Some MPs on the committee believe the meticulous choreography and scripted questions were a reasonable price for securing cooperation from the three agency's for the 90-minute televised session.

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Yahoo to add encryption to all services in wake of NSA spying revelations

CEO Marissa Mayer moves to calm privacy fears after reports US spy agency gained access to Google and Yahoo data centres

Yahoo will add encryption to all its products by spring 2014, chief Marissa Mayer has announced, in a bid to tackle users’ privacy fears in the wake of reports that the National Security Agency had accessed the tech firm's data centres.

In a blogpost on Monday, Mayer said: “We’ve worked hard over the years to earn our users’ trust and we fight hard to preserve it. As you know, there have been a number of reports over the last six months about the US government secretly accessing user data without the knowledge of tech companies, including Yahoo.

“I want to reiterate what we have said in the past: Yahoo has never given access to our data centers to the NSA or to any other government agency. Ever. There is nothing more important to us than protecting our users’ privacy.”

Mayer’s move comes after the Washington Post reported last month that the NSA had broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centres around the world.

According to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with officials, the NSA, in partnership with its British counterpart GCHQ, has been copying large amounts of data as it flows across fibre-optic cables that carry information between the companies’ worldwide data centres.

After the story broke, Yahoo said government attempts to circumvent its online security systems offered “substantial potential for abuse”. Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, called the news “really outrageous”.

Yahoo recently announced it was beefing up security on its email service by introducing https (SSL – Secure Sockets Layer) encryption with a 2048-bit key across its network by 8 January 2014.

The company said it would now:

Encrypt all information that moves between its data centers by the end of the first quarter of 2014;

Offer users an option to encrypt all data flow to/from Yahoo by the end of Q1 2014;

Work closely with international partners to ensure that Yahoo co-branded mail accounts are https-enabled.

Google too is racing to encrypt its data. Executives at the tech giant refer to an “arms race” with US authorities and others who want unauthorised access to its users’ data. Executives say the company has been improving and extending its encryption of data since the Snowden stories first broke, doubling the length of its digital keys and implementing new measures to detect fraudulent attempts to access its information.

Similar moves to add greater encryption and other security measures are under way at Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. All the tech giants feel that their reputations have been damaged by the Snowden leaks and insist that they never hand over information to the NSA without a legal order.

The tech firms are currently lobbying to be allowed to make more disclosures about the number of NSA orders they receive. Currently those orders are dealt with under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the companies are gagged from disclosing details.

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Surveillance technology out of control, says Lord Ashdown

Former Lib Dem leader says it is time for high-level inquiry to address fundamental questions about privacy in 21st century

The technology used by Britain's spy agencies to conduct mass surveillance is "out of control", raising fears about the erosion of civil liberties at a time of diminished trust in the intelligence services, according to the former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown.

The peer said it was time for a high-level inquiry to address fundamental questions about privacy in the 21st century, and railed against "lazy politicians" who frighten people into thinking "al-Qaida is about to jump out from behind every bush and therefore it is legitimate to forget about civil liberties". "Well it isn't," he added.

Ashdown talks frequently to the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, and is chair of the the Liberal Democrats' general election team. Though he said he was speaking for himself, his views are understood to be shared by other senior members of the Liberal Democrats in government, who are also keen for some kind of broad inquiry into the subject.

This idea is also supported by Sir David Omand, a former director of GCHQ. He told the Guardian he was in favour of an inquiry and thought it would be wrong to "dismiss the idea of a royal commission out of hand". It was important to balance the need for the agencies to have powerful capabilities, and the necessity of ensuring they did not use them in a way parliament had not intended, Omand added.

Ashdown is the latest senior politician to demand a review of the powers of Britain's intelligence agencies – GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 – and the laws and oversight which underpin their activities.

In an interview with the Guardian, Ashdown said surveillance should only be conducted against specific targets when there was evidence against them. Dragnet surveillance was unacceptable, he added.

Ashdown made clear revelations in the Guardian about GCHQ and its American counterpart, the National Security Agency, had raised important issues that "could not be ignored or swept aside in a barrage of insults".

He also criticised the Labour party, which was in power when the agencies began testing and building many of their most powerful surveillance capabilities. Labour's former home secretary Jack Straw was responsible for introducing the Regulation of Investigatory Power Act 2000 (Ripa), which made the programmes legal.

"Ripa was a disgraceful piece of legislation," Ashdown said. "Nobody put any thought into it. Labour just took the words they were given by the intelligence agencies. I don't blame the intelligence agencies.

"We charge them with the very serious business of keeping us secure and of course they want to have powers. But it's the duty of government to ensure those powers don't destroy our liberties and Labour utterly failed to do this."

One consequence of Labour's negligence was the development of surveillance techniques that could damage civil liberties and erode privacy, said Ashdown.

He said that he was "frightened by the erosion of our liberties" and while accepting that there was a need to keep the nation safe it was the "habit of politicians who are lazy about the preservation of our liberties or don't mind seeing them destroyed, to play an old game.

"They tell frightened citizens: 'If you give me some of your liberties, I will make you safer'".

Ashdown said that as a young man in 1960s he was taken to a vast Post Office shed in central London where spies were steaming open letters. Recalling being met by "a deep fog of steam" after entering the room, he said that the place was "filled with diligent men and women, each with a boiling kettle on their desk, steaming open letters". It was appropriate for the state to intervene in the private communications of its citizens, but the peer added "only in cases where there is good evidence to believe the nation's security is being threatened, or arguably, when a really serious crime has been committed".

The former party leader said that intercepting communications needed to be "targeted on an individual and not classes of individuals or, as at the moment, the whole nation" and argued that ought to be sanctioned by a third-party, preferably by a judge, or if not a member of the cabinet.

Ashdown said he did not believe Britain's intelligence agencies were out of control, but he said the same was not true of technology.

"We need a proper inquiry to decide what liberties and privacies ought to be accorded in the new interconnected world, and what powers of intrusion ought to be given to the state. The old laws that applied in the age of the steaming kettle will no longer do. The old protections are no longer good enough," he said.

Ashdown said the Guardian's reporting of the NSA files had been "helpful because it had raised this important issue to the point where sensible people understand this inquiry is now necessary".

An inquiry also needed to be set in the context of people's privacy expectations, he added, noting: "People today seem more casual about their privacy than they used to be. They don't seem to mind when their privacy is breached when they use Google, Facebook and other social media."

He added that he hoped this had not "changed the public's attitude towards the state's power to intrude into their privacy" but argued this was the fundamental question that needed to be addressed.

Ashdown said he thought the agencies would welcome an inquiry too, saying that they "recognise the mechanisms are no longer sufficient" and he doubted whether such an exercise would be "inimical to the heads of the secret services".

The Lib Dem also dismissed the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, chaired by Sir Malcolm Rifkind, which is supposed to scrutinise the agencies.

He said that it was an institution "wholly incapable of coping" with the new circumstances.

Although he was careful to be respectful of its Conservative chair, Ashdown argued that "we are no longer in the age when a grandee's emollient words are enough to assure us that our liberties are safe" and concluded that the committee was "past its time".

Ashdown defended the Guardian's reporting of the issues over the last five months, and the paper's right to publish material that it deemed in the public interest.

He said: "I am not going to back every single thing the Guardian has done. But overall, in my view, the Guardian has done a very important in job exposing a really important issue that must now be properly considered."

But he also criticised Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked files to the Guardian, the Washington Post and Der Spiegel.

"When Snowden first broke cover, I had quite a lot of admiration for him. Here was a whistleblower breaking surface on an issue that is certainly important. But I have to say that the way he has behaved since has diminished that admiration enormously. It seems to me this is becoming more about vanity."

Meanwhile, Omand said the ISC had to be given a chance to review the work of the agencies in an inquiry that it announced last month.

"Much now depends first upon the ISC and whether their latest inquiry can rise above the current clamour to a calm and dispassionate examination of the capabilities needed to keep our people safe and secure, and at the same time, how public confidence can be maintained that under no circumstances could these powerful capabilities be used in ways that parliament did not intend."