Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

[Cidersomerset]

China and Trump both agree – control the Internet

By David Icke on 19th December 2015 Big Brother, The Police State





Political ‘opposites’ in the global one-party state have an uncanny ability to demand
the same things while spouting different reasons and excuses. One of their key
areas of agreement is suppressing the free-flow of information on the Internet. All
so predictable.

Read more: China and Trump both agree – control the Internet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35112856


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China Just Launched The Most Frightening Game Ever — And Soon It Will Be Mandatory

By David Icke on 23rd December 2015 B

As if further proof were needed Orwell’s dystopia is now upon us, China has now gamified
obedience to the State. Though that is every bit as creepily terrifying as it sounds, citizens
may still choose whether or not they wish to opt-in — that is, until the program becomes
compulsory in 2020. “Going under the innocuous name of ‘Sesame Credit,’ China has created
a score for how good a citizen you are,” explains Extra Credits’ video about the program.

The owners of China’s largest social networks have partnered with the government to create
something akin to the U.S. credit score — but, instead of measuring how regularly you pay
your bills, it measures how obediently you follow the party line.’

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/12/...mandatory.html

[Cidersomerset]

Worst Anti-Privacy Bill Since The PATRIOT Act, Passes Hidden In A Budget Bill And Media Is SILENT

By David Icke on 19th December 2015



‘On Friday, Congress passed a $1.15 trillion omnibus spending package to continue funding
the federal government, which included an already defeated, and extremely controversial cyber
security bill, that was inserted into the spending package as a means of assuring its passage.

In spite of this massive revelation and horrific blow to privacy, the mainstream media remains
mum. While many outlets are covering the passage of the spending bill, they are completely
omitting anything about CISA.’

Read more: Worst Anti-Privacy Bill Since The PATRIOT Act, Passes Hidden In A Budget Bill And
Media Is SILENT

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/12/...is-silent.html

[Cidersomerset]

Investigating Alternatives To Microsoft Windows Can Get You On The NSA List



‘PRESTON’ mass surveillance program started under Tony Blair – Snowden leaks

By David Icke on 20th December 2015




‘Mass surveillance programs initiated under former prime minister Tony Blair have
been gathering private data in bulk for over a decade, according to leaks by NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden reported by the Register.

First exposed on Thursday, the surveillance program allegedly has a specialist
internet and phone tapping center at MI5’s London HQ under the codename PRESTON.

The program “works alongside and links to massive databases holding telephone call
records, internet use records, travel, financial, and other personal records held by
the National Technical Assistance Centre (NTAC),” claims the Register.’

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mQVlSK3Ho44

Published on 28 Sep 2015

GCHQ's secret programme is scooping your online habits, like which radio stations
you tune in, social media activity & search history putting together a web profile.



https://www.rt.com/uk/326332-preston...-powers-blair/

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By David Icke on 19th December 2015




‘Simply using certain encryption services or investigating alternatives to Microsoft
Windows could get you placed under surveillance by the National Security Agency
(NSA) and other intelligence organizations, according to a new report.

Utilizing encryption solutions such as TOR could result in monitoring by the NSA and
its allies, including Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ),
according to the report in the German me­dia out­let Ta­gesschau.

The NSA tracks people with a surveillance tool called XKeyscore.’

Read more: Investigating Alternatives To Microsoft Windows Can Get You On

http://govtslaves.info/investigating...-the-nsa-list/

[Flash]

Thanks for this post.

This is exactly why the masses have to understand in a crude manner what is being done and how. It is just very complicated to understand the reach of the spy agency on personnal people profiles, estates, health, name it. And most people do not understand how far it goes, nor what Snowden says.

Posted by Cidersomerset (here)
Investigating Alternatives To Microsoft Windows Can Get You On The NSA List



‘PRESTON’ mass surveillance program started under Tony Blair – Snowden leaks

By David Icke on 20th December 2015




‘Mass surveillance programs initiated under former prime minister Tony Blair have
been gathering private data in bulk for over a decade, according to leaks by NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden reported by the Register.

First exposed on Thursday, the surveillance program allegedly has a specialist
internet and phone tapping center at MI5’s London HQ under the codename PRESTON.

The program “works alongside and links to massive databases holding telephone call
records, internet use records, travel, financial, and other personal records held by
the National Technical Assistance Centre (NTAC),” claims the Register.’

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mQVlSK3Ho44

Published on 28 Sep 2015

GCHQ's secret programme is scooping your online habits, like which radio stations
you tune in, social media activity & search history putting together a web profile.



https://www.rt.com/uk/326332-preston...-powers-blair/

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By David Icke on 19th December 2015




‘Simply using certain encryption services or investigating alternatives to Microsoft
Windows could get you placed under surveillance by the National Security Agency
(NSA) and other intelligence organizations, according to a new report.

Utilizing encryption solutions such as TOR could result in monitoring by the NSA and
its allies, including Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ),
according to the report in the German me­dia out­let Ta­gesschau.

The NSA tracks people with a surveillance tool called XKeyscore.’

Read more: Investigating Alternatives To Microsoft Windows Can Get You On

http://govtslaves.info/investigating...-the-nsa-list/

[Anchor]

Posted by Anchor (here)
I think the gradual drip by drip release of information has been perfect. GG has orchestrated it well. It has given the US government time each phase to tell their their twisted words and get caught twisting the "truth" to the point of obvious deception each time.

Releasing all the material at once would waste the opportunities to see those master smiths of weasel words be exposed again and again until no one trusts a single word they utter on such a wide scale that it accelerates the changes coming where the truth is actually heard (and seen) by many.

So:

1) Backdoor discovered in ScreenOS based Juniper network gear, by Juniper doing a review of thier own software - and Juniper says they discovered "unauthorized code" and releases a patch. Within six hours Fox-IT researchers discover a backdoor being closed (two backdoors actually, 1) giving complete admin access - and 2) the ability to decrypt VPN traffic going though the equipment)

2) West says we didnt do it, must be China or Russia

3) Intercept releases presentations from NSA/GCHQ bragging about how they compromised ScreenOS based Juniper equipment!


You know I am almost wondering if Glen and his teams were the ones who tipped Juniper off to review their code in this manner.

I hope all vendors of networking equipment - particularly VPN equipment - now do similar code reviews.

[norman]

Posted by Anchor (here)

2) West says we didnt do it, must be China or Russia

yea right.

I know a person, I won't describe further, who is actively penetrating places that most of the world believes are unpenetrable.

Using wild IPs is rattle and dummy stuff... who's expected to believe that?

It's obviously not the people with brains and a grip on reality.

[norman]

The thing about Snowden is that he has always had prime access to the "front end" of all the data. That front end means a hell of a lot in the raw war of data. There are smart asses who can steal the data but they don't have the front end to make sense of it.

[Anchor]

Posted by norman (here)
I know a person, I won't describe further, who is actively penetrating places that most of the world believes are unpenetrable.

Using wild IPs is rattle and dummy stuff... who's expected to believe that?

It's obviously not the people with brains and a grip on reality.

Norman,

I believe you but I think the larger point is being missed.

People just don't care about security in the way that they need to in order to be effective. Governments and military cant even do it properly. Information Security is my day job and where I am has a h good and hard perimeter defence that we are all proud of. We pay a lot of money to the best pen-testers and experts to help us keep it that way.

The problem is always the people on the inside of that perimeter.

Getting those poeple to follow policies is hard.

Even outside of work I try to teach people who want to know how to be more "secure" or "private" but people cannot be bothered with complex passwords, difficult to remember operational security procedures - mainly because they can never really be bothered to internalise why they need to.

It is just too hard to:

1) have a different password for every different service you use that needs password protection
2) maintain private keys securely
3) not write secrets on post-it notes
4) not share accounts

etc etc


Hands up who here has a smart phone. If you do, except in the smallest set of really smart people who invest a lot of time (and money) in the art of privacy and security - you have no privacy.

Even if you do lock them down it is easy to make mistakes and compromise yourself - just one click with the wrong security context can unravel years of diligent "enemy of the state" type behaviour.

Do you use "free" stuff? Oh you do? Well then you gave up on privacy as soon as you did that. You (or your accurately your "profile") is the product. You are an advertising target and your profile is kept very up to date by companies that hum away in the background with massive full spectrum profiles on everyone. They are meticulously accurate. Your profile is what you use, how you use it, what you think, what mood you are in, where go you and when you go there. How you pay for things, how much disposable income you have and how you like to spend it, your credit record, your health, not to mention your social network, who you like, your sexual preferences, your intellectual proclivities etc. It goes without saying that your political leanings are all in that profile.

This is why Edward Snowdens material is so good - it really is getting to the common mindset that we are being watched.

We are the product.

In the main, all this non-sense about terrorism is an excuse to further the corporate advertising agenda to strip as much privacy from everyone as possible - just so they can sell you more **** to make you "happy".

[norman]

Posted by Anchor (here)

In the main, all this non-sense about terrorism is an excuse to further the corporate advertising agenda to strip as much privacy from everyone as possible - just so they can sell you more **** to make you "happy".

I think Jade Helm taught us it's about more than harvesting our likes and dislikes to sell us more stuff.

Privacy has layers, too. I can stop my dodgy neibour sneaking in my house when I'm not around, but I can't stop MI5 doing it.

[Cidersomerset]

We knew this all the time , you can do more or less anything in the
name of national security even cover things up and change history.
So this is just conformation for people who somehow think government's
don't.

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Tribunal rules computer hacking by GCHQ is not illegal

By Brian Wheeler
Political reporter


2 hours ago

From the section UK Politics


Man holding computerImage copyright Reuters

GCHQ is operating within the law when it hacks into computers and smart phones,
a security tribunal has ruled.Campaigners Privacy International have lost a legal
challenge claiming the spying post's hacking operations are too intrusive and
break European law.The case was launched after revelations by US whistleblower
Edward Snowden about the extent of US and UK spying.

GCHQ admitted its agents hack devices, in the UK and abroad, for the first time
during the hearings.Its previous policy had been to "neither confirm nor deny"
the existence of such operations.


Listening devices

Hackers can remotely activate cameras and microphones on devices, without the
owner's knowledge, log keystrokes, install malware, copy documents and track
locations among other things, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) was told.

The Home Office has now published a code of practice for hacking, or "equipment
interference" as it is also known, and aims to put it on a firmer legal footing in its
Investigatory Powers Bill, which is due to become law later this year.

Read More....


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35558349

[Openmindedskeptic]

Edward Snowden would be willing to return to US for fair trial

"Edward Snowden has told supporters he would be willing to return to the US if the government could guarantee a fair trial.

The former National Security Agency contractor, who has been living in Russia since June 2013, said he would present a public interest defence of his decision to leak thousands of classified intelligence documents if he appeared before a US jury. “I’ve told the government I would return if they would guarantee a fair trial where I can make a public interest defence of why this was done and allow a jury to decide,” Snowden told a libertarian conference, the New Hampshire Liberty Forum."

[PathWalker]

A Conversation on Privacy With Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, and Glenn Greenwald
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/30/...on-on-privacy/

NSA WHISTLEBLOWER Edward Snowden joined MIT professor Noam Chomsky and The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald on Friday for a discussion on privacy rights hosted by the University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The panel was moderated by Nuala O’Connor, the president of the Center for Democracy and Technology.

The panel marked Snowden’s first public appearance after the terror attacks in Brussels. Commenting on Belgium’s intelligence failures, he referenced New York Times reporting that Belgian authorities ignored a tip from Turkish intelligence. “When you collect everything, you understand nothing … you’re blinded by the noise,” Snowden said. “I worked at that desk, I used the tools of mass surveillance.”

Panelists also discussed the recent showdown between Apple and the FBI over access to San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone. Snowden questioned the FBI’s motives for hacking the phone, explaining that the bureau already has the phone’s call records. “They already know that these phones weren’t in contact with foreign terrorists,” Snowden said.

Watch the full discussion below

This is a Vimeo video (probably censored by youtube)

https://vimeo.com/160952562

[Cidersomerset]

MIRROR ON LINE.....

Edward Snowden just summed up David Cameron's attitude to the Panama Papers perfectly

11:02, 5 Apr 2016
Updated 13:58, 5 Apr 2016
By Ben Glaze , Mikey Smith , Dan Bloom

After David Cameron declared his family's tax affairs a private matter, the fugitive
whistleblower said what many people are thinking


Ed threw Dave a little shade

Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden has perfectly summed up David Cameron's
attitude to the Panama Papers revelations.Yesterday, the Prime Minister wouldn't
answer questions over his family's use of tax havens.Mr Cameron's father, Ian, paid
no UK duty for 30 years on a firm run from the Bahamas.When asked if any
Cameron cash was hidden in offshore accounts, Downing St replied: “That’s a
private matter.”

But last night, Mr Snowden, who has heavily criticised the UK's push for mass
government snooping on emails and browsing histories , pointed out the PM's
hypocrisy.

He tweeted, simply: "Oh, now he's interested in privacy."

Edward Snowden
✔ ‎‎@Snowden

Oh, now he's interested in privacy. https://twitter.com/ReutersIndia/sta...65816701468672 …
11:55 AM - 4 Apr 2016
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Mr Cameron's father, who died in 2010, was a director of Blairmore Holdings Inc.
The investment fund hired a bishop to ­allegedly help it avoid paying UK tax .
Furious anti-tax avoidance campaigners and critics last night demanded the PM
come clean about his family’s riches.Labour MP Jess Phillips said: “If he’s not sure
then he should find out and rectify it as soon as possible. While tax affairs for
ordinary people are a private matter, he is a Prime Minister who has committed to
stamping out tax avoidance.”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8iuLLkWefxs

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...med-up-7691935


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An article I saw yesterday seems appropriate here in some respects....


Ministry of Truth? BBC to erect George Orwell statue outside London HQ

By David on 5 April 2016 GMT Big Brother, Useless Media




‘Despite his resignation from the BBC in 1943, when he grew tired of “pushing
propaganda,” a statue of George Orwell, author of the dystopian ‘1984’, will soon
be erected outside the broadcaster’s London HQ.

The statue of Orwell – real name Eric Blair – will be accompanied by a plaque that
reads: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they
do not want to hear,” the Guardian reported on Monday.

Sculptor Martin Jennings told the Guardian: “I was delighted when I visited the site
to find it littered with cigarette butts – that is absolutely the place for Orwell, who
was rarely seen without a cigarette in hand, to the grave detriment of his health.”’

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=juVlSSHMKbs

Published on 16 Sep 2015

The Home Office has set up the 'Veil Initiative' which means facial recognition,
behaviour prediction and 3D human imaging. Is this a step towards a safer Britain,
or is it a breach of personal privacy?


https://www.rt.com/uk/338386-orwell-...ampaign=chrome

[Cidersomerset]

Edward Snowden Interview on Apple vs. FBI, Privacy, the NSA, and More

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=o8pkUTav0mk

Published on 25 Feb 2016

"There's a very real difference between allegiance to country–allegiance to people–than allegiance
to state, which is what nationalism today is really more about," says Edward Snowden. On February
20, the whistleblowing cybersecurity expert addressed a wide range of questions during an in-depth
interview with Reason's Nick Gillespie at Liberty Forum, a gathering of the Free State Project (FSP)
in Manchester, New Hampshire.

FSP seeks to move 20,000 people over the next five years to New Hampshire, where they will secure
"liberty in our lifetime" by affecting the political, economic, and cultural climate of the state. Over
1,900 members have already migrated to the state and their impact is already being felt. Among their
achievements to date:

getting 15 of their brethren in the state House, challenging anti-ridehail laws, fighting in court for outre
religious liberty, winning legal battles over taping cops, being mocked by Colbert for heroically paying
off people's parking meters, hosting cool anything goes festivals for libertarians, nullifying pot juries,
and inducing occasional pants-wetting absurd paranoia in local statists.

Snowden's cautionary tale about the the dangers of state surveillance wasn't lost on his audience of
libertarians and anarchists who reside in the "Live Free or Die" state. He believes that technology has
given rise to unprecedented freedom for individuals around the world—but he says so from an
undisclosed location in authoritarian Russia.

And he reminds us that governments also have unprecedented potential to surveil their populations at
a moment's notice, without anyone ever realizing what's happening.

"They know more about us than they ever have in the history of the United States," Snowden warns.
"They're excusing themselves from accountability to us at the same time they're trying to exert greater
power over us."

In the midst of a fiercely contested presidential race, Snowden remains steadfast in his distrust of partisan
politics and declined to endorse any particular candidate or party, or even to label his beliefs. "I do see sort
of a clear distinction between people who have a larger faith in liberties and rights than they do in states
and institutions," he grants. "And this would be sort of the authoritarian/libertarian axis in the traditional
sense. And I do think it’s clear that if you believe in the progressive liberal tradition, which is that people
should have greater capability to act freely, to make their own choices, to enjoy a better and freer life over
the progression of sort of human life, you’re going to be pushing away from that authoritarian axis at all times."

Snowden drews laughs when asked if he was eligible to vote via absentee ballot. "This is still a topic of...
active research," he deadpans.

But he stresses that the U.S. government can win back trust and confidence through rigorous accountability
to citizens and by living up to the ideals on which the country was founded. "We don’t want Russia or China
or North Korea or Iran or France or Germany or Brazil or any other country in the world to hold us up as an
example for why we should be narrowing the boundaries of liberty around the world instead of expanding them,"
says Snowden.

Runs about 50 minutes.

Go here for full transcript, downloadable versions, and more links and videos: http://reason.com/reasontv/2016/02/25...

Produced by Todd Krainin, Meredith Bragg, and Nick Gillespie. Cameras by Bragg and Krainin.

Visit http://reason.com/reasontv/2016/02/22... for full text, links, and downloadable versions.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

0:00 - Edward Snowden, welcome to New Hampshire. Meet the Free State Project.

0:53 - Apple vs. the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Why should strong encryption be legal?

5:02 - Is privacy dead? Should we just get over it?

10:48 - What would a legal and effective government surveillance program look like?

14:53 - Could we have stopped the slide into mass surveillance? Shouldn't we have seen it coming?

19:04 - How can government earn back the trust and confidence of the American people?

21:40 - What's wrong with our political parties?

24:27 - What are Snowden's political beliefs? Is he a libertarian?

26:27 - How did Snowden educate himself? Is he helped or hurt by his lack of formal education?

28:48 - Why did Snowden see bulk surveillance differently than his NSA co-workers?

33:03 - Was the NSA involved in gathering evidence against Ross Ulbricht?

35:39 - Will the government eventually give up fighting internet commerce? Or will they just change tactics?

37:32 - How can Snowden advocate freedom from a place like Russia?

41:00 - How should we teach children about the Internet?

43:43 - Under what conditions would Snowden return to the United States?


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[Cidersomerset]

The Richie Allen Show on Davidicke.com: Privacy Activist Steve Jolly -
'Chipping Dogs Is A Major Step Towards Microchipping People'

By David on 5 April 2016 GMT

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=24D0v418sHM

Published on 5 Apr 2016


Please Support The Show – http://richieallen.co.uk/

[PathWalker]

Notice the colored identical number pairs bellow, are they real? Is this coincidence or synchronicity? What is the mystical meaning of these numbers?

Posted by Cidersomerset (here)

Edward Snowden
✔ ‎‎@Snowden

Oh, now he's interested in privacy. https://twitter.com/ReutersIndia/sta...65816701468672 …
11:55 AM - 4 Apr 2016
27,695 27,695 Retweets
22,722 22,722 likes

[Cidersomerset]

Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald & Noam Chomsky - A Conversation on Privacy

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IOksJKfapVM

Published on 26 Mar 2016

11:00 to skip Intro.

The balance between national security and government intrusion on the rights of
private citizens will be the topic of a panel discussion featuring renowned linguist
and MIT professor Noam Chomsky, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, and
Intercept co-founding editor Glenn Greenwald. Nuala O’Connor, president and CEO
of the Center for Democracy and Technology, will act as moderator.

Chomsky and Greenwald will appear in person at the event, hosted in Tucson by the
University of Arizona College of Behavioral Sciences, while Snowden will appear via
videoconference.

Source: https://theintercept.com/a-conversati...

[Cidersomerset]

NSA involved in Gitmo interrogations – new Snowden leak

By David on 19 May 2016 GMT

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AjPkNaXhYMQ

Published on 17 May 2016


The NSA participated in Guantanamo Bay interrogations, newly released leaks by
whistleblower Edward Snowden show. A decade’s worth of NSA newsletters will be
published over the coming months.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/7cua

[Openmindedskeptic]

Here's an excellent long-read article explaining why Edward Snowden had no choice but to exercise civil disobedience rather than become a traditional "whistleblower".

How the Pentagon punished NSA whistleblowers

[Openmindedskeptic]

Please follow this link for an excellent article that features an embedded video.

Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by new Pentagon source