#edwardsnowden — Public Fediverse posts

Als hätte „Minority Report“ in deutschen Amtsstuben das Denken ersetzt. Der Dokumentarfilm von Klaus Stern stellt den Menschen vor, der diese Vision verkauft – und mit ihr eine technoide Version der Totalüberwachung salonfähig macht. Dass der Film dabei selbst ein Teil dieser Normalisierung wird, ist die bittere Pointe. Er zeigt, was er nicht kritisiert. Das ist sein größtes Problem. (ARD, Wh.)

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Maximum anonymity for #Activists, #Journalists, #Dissidents, and #Whistleblowers.

#SESSION (Loki Network/Decentralized)
Who uses it: Activists in Hong Kong, Belarus, Iran, and protest groups in the West. Why: If an activist is stopped, the police check the phone. In Session, there is no phone number, no address book, no logs of who spoke to whom. It is the best choice if the risk is having your device seized and trying to trace your network of contacts.

#SIMPLEX Who uses it: Whistleblowers, informants, crypto-anarchists. Why: It is the only app where a "user profile" truly doesn't exist on the server. If the server is seized, there is nothing to find. It is used when contact secrecy is vital more than ease of use.

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Snowden Issues ‘Final Warning’ to Bitcoin Developers on Privacy Enhancements - In the wake of the U.S. intensifying its clampdown on privacy-oriented software an... - https://news.bitcoin.com/snowden-issues-final-warning-to-bitcoin-developers-on-privacy-enhancements/ #u.sdepartmentofjustice(doj) #protocolprivacy #cryptocurrency #samouraiwallet #snowdenbitcoin #edwardsnowden #wasabiwallet #coinjoin #privacy #snowden #crypto #news

📬 Edward Snowden zum Bitcoin-Datenschutz: „Die Uhr tickt“
#Datenschutz #Krypto #CoinJoin #EdwardSnowden #SamouraiWallet #Trezor #WasabiWallet #zkSNACKs https://sc.tarnkappe.info/9ead29

Elon Musk Promises to Step Down as Head of Twitter — Edward Snowden Throws His Name in the Hat for CEO - Tesla CEO and Twitter chief Elon Musk has promised to step down as head of Twitter... - https://news.bitcoin.com/elon-musk-promises-to-step-down-as-head-of-twitter-edward-snowden-throws-his-name-in-the-hat-for-ceo/ #edwardsnowdenceooftwitter #elonmusktwitterpoll #elonmuskstepsdown #edwardsnowden #twitterhead #twitterceo #edsnowden #featured #elonmusk #twitter

Joe Rogan Experience - Edward Snowden

Former #CIA contractor turned #whistleblower Edward Snowden shocked the world when he revealed the misdeeds of the US intelligence community and its allies.

Now living in #Russia, he is a noted privacy advocate and author who serves as president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. His book, Permanent Record, is now available in paperback from Henry Holt and Company.

#JoeRogan #EdwardSnowden #FreedomOfThePressFoundation

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Evernote quietly disappeared from an anti-surveillance lobbying group’s website - In 2013, eight tech companies were accused of funneling their users’ data to the U... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/lyFFxSVGYik/ #nationalsecurityagency #transparencyreport #masssurveillance #washingtond.c. #edwardsnowden #usafreedomact #cloudstorage #spokesperson #unitedstates #government #techcrunch #computing #microsoft #security #articles #congress #evernote #facebook #linkedin

US Domestic Surveillance Disclosures pre-dating Edward Snowden's Revelations

Asking for sources of any current activities met with some resistance at HN. Challenged for any awareness of pre-Snowden programmes, I listed a few I was aware of, off the top of my head:

Regards pre-Snowden, the situation was far more than an "open secret", there were multiple documented projects and methods employed. Among them:

• 2013: Hemisphere, an AT&T call records database dating to the 1980s accessible by the US DEA. (This was publicised near-simultaneously with Snowden's own 2013 disclosures.) https://www.eff.org/cases/hemisphere

• 2006: Mark Klein and the Room 641A revelations concerning AT&T's beam splitters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

• 2005, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe, NSA whistleblower, warrantless surveillance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(intelligence_official)

• 2004, Russell Tice, NSA surveillance including of congressional members. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/01/why-nsa-whistle-blower-russ-tice-may-be-right.html

There were very strong suspicions around the TIA (total information awareness) and USA PATRIOT ACT (2003, 2001). I recall much chatter about this at the time, and the related FISA court, though little by way of specific details of technological measures and methods involved.

Carnivore, a WinNT workstation-based tool, disclosed ~2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)

There are telephnic data retention programmes, including MAINWAY (revealed in 2006), containing an estimated over 1.9 trillion call-detail records, and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAINWAY

Project ECHELON, with disclosures of varying aspects from 1972 -- 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

There are earlier periods, notably addressed by the FBI's own COINTELPRO archives (https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro), though for my purposes I'm considering "modern" projects to be circa 1990 onwards. (COINTELPRO and the Church Committee hearings resulted in substantial changes, at least publically, to US domestic surveillance).

And I've compiled a long list of pre-1990 references of concerns regarding significant technologists who'd warned of the risks of information technology as a tool of surveillance and control, largely as no such list seemed extant: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193

I'm well aware that documentation of clandestine and national security issues is difficult to come by, see the TK case for one reason why that is.

But that's also why specific documentation is so valuable and why I'd requested that.

(Adapted from an HN comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27184956 )

#surveillance #SurveillanceState #SurveillanceCapitalism #NSA #CIA #FBI #Carnivore #ECHELON #PatriotAct #FISA #MAINWAY #Room614A #ATT #MarkKlein #WilliamBinney #RussellTice #Hemisphere #EdwardSnowden #COINTELPRO #ChurchCommittee