Apple insists it did not work with NSA to create iPhone backdoor program

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... ne-program

Feel free to tell us what comes of your thorough investigation into the NSA

I suspect that with the large nature of most of these businesses it could be possible for an outsider to slip in some code that will be benign for most purposes. It might not even need approval. You might only need one willing and trusted programmer willing to pass of some NSA code as their own and it is in.

I was reading earlier about something called Dark Mail, which is a proposed successor to SMTP (the system the internet uses to pass email around) which will, in theory, be completely impossible to 'man in the middle' attack - only the receiver and sender will be able to see the message, or indeed that the message was even sent between them. A quote from their kickstarter site..



Firstly - "There are currently 0 lines of documentation" -

Secondly - just a project to make email non-interceptable requires something like four and a half million lines of code in various computer languages. How anyone can possibly have a detailed enough view of all of that to be able to say with any certainty that it is actually secure and hasn't been tinkered with escapes me. Yes, an open source community can scrutinise each separate part but often security holes appear not in any one part but in the borders where those parts interact. True security is, IMO, impossible in a 'public' online environment where governments and corporations with effectively infinite resources can attempt to compromise them.

NSA statement does not deny 'spying' on members of Congress

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j ... s-congress



How clever of them. Reassurance while avoiding the question and implying Congress shouldn't think itself above the electorate, especially when there's spying to be done.

They are probably more dangerous than the rest of us. They need to be watched.

Mass surveillance by security services should be reviewed, say Lib Dems

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... hq-snowden

*cough* in government *cough*

+1

MEPs seek video link with Snowden for NSA spying probe

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25669448



How exactly has Snowden endangered lives? He revealed things the ISC and government apparently didn't know, and they operate as oversight! Who in their right mind trusts agencies that spy on entire countries? Including their own!

And does he really think Snowden's actually gone into hiding when the entire world knows where he is? Or that he'd be stupid enough to put himself in a position to be handed over to Obama's dodgy administration?

And if he thinks any serious terrorist is using digital technology to communicate he really is a fcuking muppet. The security forces will be lucky to pick up radicalised foot soldiers that way. If history has shown us anything it's that you need eyes and ears on the ground.

Christ, maybe I'll send him some Troubles books or something...

I believe the US government has actually been forced to admit on the record that they have no evidence even a single person has been harmed to due to the information released by Snowdon.

NSA and GCHQ activities appear illegal, says EU parliamentary inquiry

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j ... ry-inquiry

Overall the leaks have been bad for the UK and the US but these things should not be happening in the first place.

NSA makes final push to retain most mass surveillance powers

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j ... inglis-npr

That sounds very vague. Many Somali send money back from whereever they are to their families. The same applies to people from the Philippines to South America. They all work abroad and sent money home via the banks or western union. The fact that Somalis might have a relative who might have a link to al-Shabaab is not necessarily a terrorist funding plot foiled.

John McCain seeks congressional investigation into 'broken' NSA

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j ... estigation