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The Canadian Progressive: Canada’s Secretive Spy Agency CSEC Spies For Israel
A story recently published by Glenn Greenwald reveals that Canada’s highly secretive spy agency CSEC cooperates with with the NSA to support Israeli intelligence agencies with “cash, weapons and surveillance.” The post Canada’s Secretive Spy Agency CSEC Spies For Israel appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Glenn Greenwald to speak in Ottawa at Oct 25 event sponsored by OpenMedia
Glenn Greenwald Speaks 2014, Ottawa Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald is coming to Canada. He will speak about privacy, state surveillance, and its impact on Canadians at an event in downtown Ottawa sponsored by your OpenMedia.ca team. WHO: Glenn Greenwald, American journalist, lawyer, and author, who is best known for
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: House Bars NSA From Meddling With Encryption Standards
The U.S. House of Representatives last month inserted into a defense appropriations bill a measure barring the National Security Agency from meddling with encryption standards. The post House Bars NSA From Meddling With Encryption Standards appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Here’s One Way to Land on the NSA’s Watch List
If you downloaded the privacy software Tor in 2011, the NSA may have scouped up your computer IP address and spied on you, says ProPublica. The post Here’s One Way to Land on the NSA’s Watch List appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingTHE CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE: Glenn Greenwald on why government snooping is dangerous and what we can do about it
Journalist and author Glenn Greenwald suggests how we can protect ourselves from government snooping, and defend our civil liberties in the digital age. The post Glenn Greenwald on why government snooping is dangerous and what we can do about it appeared first on THE CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE.
Continue readingThings Are Good: It’s Time to Reset the Net
One year ago today Edward Snowden revealed to the world evidence that many long suspected – that the American government is actively performing mass surveillance. Innocent people have been targeted and information the likes of which we’ll never fully know has been collected on nearly anyone who’s used the internet.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: NSA Caught In Another Lie about #Snowden
The NSA had claimed that Ed Snowden hadn’t contacted superiors with concerns about their illegal activity. They released an email attempting to discredit his claim that he had raised concerns, and the email proves Snowden was telling the truth. The Washington Post has published a response from Snowden to NSA’s
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: A Country’s Name To Kill
An interesting ethical debate is taking place. FirstLook Media, the controversial and adversarial media outlet owned by PayPal’s inventor, has withheld the name of the 5th country the NSA collects recordings of all phone calls from. SOMALGET and MYSTIC are Top Secret programs revealed by the Snowden leaks from the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Tell Harper: Defend Online Privacy
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Continue readingThings Are Good: A Call For Mathematicians to Protest the NSA
The NSA is the world’s largest employer of mathematicians and now there is a movement from some mathematicians calling for a protest against the spying agency. We don’t know what they work on at the NSA but we do know that mathematicians contributed extensively to the Orwellian mass surveillance of
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Canadian Election Attacked From America #RoboCon
If Canada’s “SIGINT” (Signals Intelligence) agency doesn’t have records to share with Elections Canada of malicious #robocalls made outside of Canada aimed at disrupting our federal election, then what good is CSEC doing for our democracy? Tracking Brazilian terrorists? Production orders were obtained for records from Rogers, Shaw and Videotron.
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Edward Snowden’s every move still strikes controversy
With Edward Snowden’s major contribution to history – the leaking of the NSA documents that shed significant light on what our governments are doing – now well over and done with, you might think we would be focusing on the revelations themselves, and that little if any attention would need
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Obama Broke Hearts And Promises
Kinsella is right that Obama has broken hearts. The precise moment at which Barack Obama broke many progressive hearts, however, is just as easy to ascertain: it came in June of last year, when it was revealed that the U.S. government – aided and abetted by the “Five Eyes,” the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Hack The Planet
Most people would consider “Hack the planet” to be some sort of black-hat hacker battle cry. It might more accurately describe the unconstitutional efforts of the United States of America’s NSA spy agency. From a comment on the story: ““The intelligence community’s top-secret “Black Budget” for 2013, obtained by Snowden,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: How the NSA Endangers a Free Society
Some NSA efforts to destroy Assange and intimidate people supporting Wikileaks have been revealed. ANTICRISIS GIRL was a system to spy on Wikileaks searchers. – This other item is big news too, because Matt’s been an important journalist covering Wall St. crimes.
Continue readingThings Are Good: The Day We Fight Back Against Spying
The Day We Fight Back against mass surveillance is today! Thanks to Edward Snowden we have learned about America’s and other countries illegitimate and immoral mass surveillance operations. More revelations about the extent of the surveillance programs are sure to come. Just in the past couple of days it was
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Breaking News – The NSA is Spying on Americans!!1!!
I’m glad we can trust the people we elect, to do the things they say and not deceive us, even in interests of the greater good. Filed under: Humour Tagged: greater good, Humour, Jon Stewart, NSA, Spying
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: On Mass Surveillance
The revelation this week that CSEC has the capability to monitor the movements of Canadians simply by gathering some metadata from the traffic that goes by on public networks raises a lot of interesting questions that are worth discussing. In an e-mail conversation on the matter, the following question was
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