Comment Re:Tell me again... (Score 5, Insightful) 538
And Australia, and Spain and... is anyone surprised. Slavery is abolished, Long Live Modern Debt Slavery.
yep that's the one. I wouldn't trust Tor network as an anonymity service for anything, let alone something I really wanted to keep secret.
Tor is solid, are you and the GP trying to deceive, or have you been decieved?
Would you like to know more? "How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations"
There is speculation that this could well be the security hole which the NSA exploited to insert the DROPOUTJEEP software implant, probably using automatic updates via SSL. DROPOUTJEEP, whose existence was revealed by Edward Snowden, targets the Apple iPhone (but could conceivably be used on all other iOS devices) and allows the NSA to "remotely push/pull files from the device. SMS retrieval, contact list retrieval, voicemail, geolocation, hot mic, camera capture, cell tower location, etc. Command, control and data exfiltration can occur over SMS messaging or a GPRS data connection.All communications with the implant will be covert and encrypted.”
Apple, of course, denies that the NSA can access or are accessing iOS devices as Snowden's leaked documents claim. Still, there is no denying that such a bug is a major flaw, and allows iOS and Mac OS to be exploited by malicious persons.
The court ultimately ruled that the government had a legitimate reason to believe that David Miranda was involved with people who were at the time acting or threatening to act in a manner which was designed to influence a government and forward a political agenda, and those acts had the potential to cause death or serious property damage. All those appear true on their face, and thus the law states the detainment was legal.
That is a real stretch, you do know how ridiculous that sounds? First lets be clear: "involved with people" means The Guardian Newpaper and its journalists working on the story. Secondly you could use the same argument to start raiding and shutting down any media outlet you felt like and start detaining anyone the journalists ever related with - family and all. Real Gestapo tactics.
Every media outlet acts in a manner that could be interpreted as designed to influence a government. It could be argued that any newspaper/journalist is forwarding some political agenda. And the most ridiculous claim by Lord "Justice" Laws: "if [some leaked data that we can imagine might possibly be in the medias hands] was published, it [might for example] reveal personal details of members of the armed forces or security and intelligence agencies, thereby endangering their lives.". Neither Lord "Justice" Laws nor the security apparatus knows (by their own admission) what or how much data was leaked by Snowden, nor has any such data that "reveals personal details of members of the armed forces or security and intelligence agencies" been leaked or published by The Guardian or anyone else publishing Snowden material.
Lord "Justice" Laws might have just as easily said with the same straight face: "We do not know what data they have, but if they happen to have plans for top secrete weapons, and publish it, then they will endanger everyones lives.". So basically what the high court has done is make up a possible threat in order to get the ruling they wanted (or were told to get more likely).
No, what Lord "Justice" Laws really did was cover for unaccountable entities operating in the dark with little to no oversight, Exposing their illegal activities and a call for oversight and transparency is a fundamental obligation of any free independent press concerned with the wellbeing of society. This ruling only hints at how desperate they want to be able to raid Media outlets that start exposing their wrongdoing through responsible whistleblowing. We are already way down that slippery slope it seems, so I guess that it is only a matter of time now...
I'm very surprised at that, since it didn't happen.
Unfortunately it did happen: and the UK courts decided to ignore the extradition request, even passing new legislation to get him out of facing any trial for his substantial heinous war crimes.
The Lords, however, decided in March 1999 that Pinochet could only be prosecuted for crimes committed after 1988, the date during which the United Kingdom implemented legislation for the United Nations Convention Against Torture in the Criminal Justice Act 1988.[7][8] This invalidated most, but not all, of the charges against him; but the outcome was that extradition could proceed.
Despicable act by the "Lords", really, but no surprise and very consistent with UK courts history....
The government entry in the “Manhunting Timeline” adds Iceland to the list of Western nations that were pressured, and suggests that the push to prosecute Assange is part of a broader campaign. The effort, it explains, “exemplifies the start of an international effort to focus the legal element of national power upon non-state actor Assange, and the human network that supports WikiLeaks.” The entry does not specify how broadly the government defines that “human network,” which could potentially include thousands of volunteers, donors and journalists, as well as people who simply spoke out in defense of WikiLeaks.
No surprise there.
Especially when it involves foreigners.
No longer true, and American just visiting investigative reporting websites means you will be spied on these days (check out the real time tracking pictures of website visitors by the GHCQ). No wonder we plunged to 46th place on press freedoms...
This story links to the BBC which also appears to be very uncritical of the UK government press freedom violations these days. A much better news source would be the new real investigative reporting at The Intercept:
"A two-sided market means broadband providers would have an incentive to help because they would receive revenue from two major sources: content providers (through sponsorship or ads), and consumers (through subscription fees)."
Thus it would be a disincentive to carry any data where they could not do any double billing for the bandwidth revenue. Is Berin Szoka an industry shill?
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
