friendly_iconoclast
friendly_iconoclast's JournalNot only is your claim utter bullshit, it's hypocritical. I'm a host of DU's Civil Liberties Group:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1168...and these are the titles of the OP's that I've posted there, in reverse order, over the
past year or so
(BTW, these do *not* include posts I've made regarding civil liberties in other groups and fora)
The TSA Wants To Read Your Facebook Posts And Check Out Your Purchases Before It Will Approve You...
I Was Arrested for Learning a Foreign Language. Today, I Have Some Closure.
x-post from LBN: "Millions of cars tracked across US in 'massive' real-time DEA spy program"
FBI really doesn’t want anyone to know about “stingray” use by local cops
NY Civil Liberties Union: Erie County Sheriff Records Reveal Invasive Use of “Stingray” Technology
Police can’t delay traffic stops to investigate crimes absent suspicion, Supreme Court rules
Justice Department contradicts Attorney General Loretta Lynch's claims about Patriot Act
Laura Poitras Sues US Government To Find Out Why She Was Detained Every Time She Flew
First Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email
Library’s Tor relay—which had been pulled after Feds noticed—now restored
SCREW YOU, FEDS! Dozen or more US libraries line up to run Tor exit nodes
DEA bought millions in cell phone trackers and training, payment data shows
Your browser history, IP addresses, online purchases etc all up for grabs without a warrant
Prosecutor And Cop Lose It Over Idea Of Over Idea Of Needing A Conviction To Take Property
YOU, on the other hand, appear not to have posted *anything whatsoever*
(OP or reply) there in the entire history of DU3.
Mote, meet beam...
Researchers Solve Juniper Backdoor Mystery; Signs Point to NSA
Source: Wired
Security researchers believe they have finally solved the mystery around how a sophisticated backdoor embedded in Juniper firewalls works. Juniper Networks, a tech giant that produces networking equipment used by an array of corporate and government systems, announced on Thursday that it had discovered two unauthorized backdoors in its firewalls, including one that allows the attackers to decrypt protected traffic passing through Juniper’s devices.
The researchers’ findings suggest that the NSA may be responsible for that backdoor, at least indirectly. Even if the NSA did not plant the backdoor in the company’s source code, the spy agency may in fact be indirectly responsible for it by having created weaknesses the attackers exploited.
Evidence uncovered by Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, founder and CEO of Comsecuris, a security consultancy in Germany, suggests that the Juniper culprits repurposed an encryption backdoor previously believed to have been engineered by the NSA, and tweaked it to use for their own spying purposes. Weinmann reported his findings in an extensive post published late Monday.
They did this by exploiting weaknesses the NSA allegedly placed in a government-approved encryption algorithm known as Dual_EC, a pseudo-random number generator that Juniper uses to encrypt traffic passing through the VPN in its NetScreen firewalls. But in addition to these inherent weaknesses, the attackers also relied on a mistake Juniper apparently made in configuring the VPN encryption scheme in its NetScreen devices, according to Weinmann and other cryptographers who examined the issue. This made it possible for the culprits to pull off their attack.
Read more: http://www.wired.com/2015/12/researchers-solve-the-juniper-mystery-and-they-say-its-partially-the-nsas-fault/
Weinmann's post:
http://rpw.sh/blog/2015/12/21/the-backdoored-backdoor/
The NSA backdoor is known as FEEDTROUGH:
For Manny G: "You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful...
...than you could possibly imagine"
The ACLU agrees with the NRA and Paul Ryan about terror watch/no fly lists
Reposted from GD:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027439041
https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/until-no-fly-list-fixed-it-shouldnt-be-used-restrict-peoples-freedoms
By Hina Shamsi, Director, ACLU National Security Project
December 7, 2015 | 5:30 PM
The No Fly List is in the news this week, just in time for the ACLU’s argument in federal court on Wednesday in its five-year-long challenge [2] to the list’s redress process.
Last night, in response to last week’s tragic attack in San Bernardino, California, President Obama urged Congress to ensure that people on the No Fly List be prohibited from purchasing guns. Last week, Republicans in Congress defeated a proposal that would have done just that. "I think it’s very important to remember people have due process rights in this country, and we can’t have some government official just arbitrarily put them on a list," House Speaker Paul Ryan said.
There is no constitutional bar to reasonable regulation of guns, and the No Fly List could serve as one tool for it, but only with major reform. As we will argue to a federal district court in Oregon this Wednesday, the standards for inclusion on the No Fly List are unconstitutionally vague, and innocent people are blacklisted without a fair process to correct government error. Our lawsuit seeks a meaningful opportunity for our clients to challenge their placement on the No Fly List because it is so error-prone and the consequences for their lives have been devastating...
...We disagree with Speaker Ryan about many things. But he’s right that people in this country have due process rights. We want to see them respected.
No doubt this will cause consternation and/or cognitive dissonance in some.
The resulting logical twists should be quite amusing to watch...
The ACLU agrees with the NRA and Paul Ryan about terror watch/no fly lists
https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/until-no-fly-list-fixed-it-shouldnt-be-used-restrict-peoples-freedomsBy Hina Shamsi, Director, ACLU National Security Project
December 7, 2015 | 5:30 PM
The No Fly List is in the news this week, just in time for the ACLU’s argument in federal court on Wednesday in its five-year-long challenge [2] to the list’s redress process.
Last night, in response to last week’s tragic attack in San Bernardino, California, President Obama urged Congress to ensure that people on the No Fly List be prohibited from purchasing guns. Last week, Republicans in Congress defeated a proposal that would have done just that. "I think it’s very important to remember people have due process rights in this country, and we can’t have some government official just arbitrarily put them on a list," House Speaker Paul Ryan said.
There is no constitutional bar to reasonable regulation of guns, and the No Fly List could serve as one tool for it, but only with major reform. As we will argue to a federal district court in Oregon this Wednesday, the standards for inclusion on the No Fly List are unconstitutionally vague, and innocent people are blacklisted without a fair process to correct government error. Our lawsuit seeks a meaningful opportunity for our clients to challenge their placement on the No Fly List because it is so error-prone and the consequences for their lives have been devastating...
...We disagree with Speaker Ryan about many things. But he’s right that people in this country have due process rights. We want to see them respected.
Laquan McDonald police reports differ dramatically from video
Source: Chicago Tribune
Hundreds of pages of newly released Chicago police reports from the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald are most striking for one simple reason: They are dramatically at odds with the dash-cam video that has sparked protests across the city, cost the city's top cop his job, and embroiled Mayor Rahm Emanuel in scandal.
The reports, released by the city late Friday, show that Officer Jason Van Dyke and at least five other officers claim that the 17-year-old McDonald moved or turned threateningly toward officers, even though the video of the October 2014 shooting shows McDonald walking away, and the scenario sketched out by Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez in charging Van Dyke with murder contends he was walking away as well.
At least one patrol officer said that McDonald was advancing on the officers in a menacing way and swung his knife at them in an "aggressive, exaggerated manner" before he was shot and killed. Officers claimed, too, that even after McDonald had been shot by Van Dyke, the teen tried to lift himself off the ground with the knife pointed toward the officers, and though he had been mortally wounded, still presented a threat...
...With the video of the shooting as a backdrop, the reports — the first detailed accounts from the officers at the scene — offer a way to examine what Van Dyke and his colleagues say happened. Because they diverge so dramatically from the video, they suggest one possible avenue for additional investigation.
Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-laquan-mcdonald-chicago-police-reports-met-20151204-story.html
Reading this story, it becomes clear that Van Dyke is not the only one that needs to do time
over this
An awkward question that no one has yet asked
John Rosenthal runs Stop Handgun Violence:
http://www.stophandgunviolence.org/
and was interviewed last night (2 December) on WBZ radio's "Nightside"
- the podcast is available here:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/12/02/nightside-another-tragedy/
I was listening to the first hour last night, and was struck by something
At 13:40, Rosenthal says that he has helped to pass strong gun laws, and that Massachsetts
has the second lowest gun death rate in the country (Hawaii is lowest).
These are both true. What's also true is that two states with some of the laxest gun laws
in the US are immediately next to MA (New Hampshire and Vermont). You can drive
to New Hampshire from Boston in less than an hour, and Vermont in two (traffic permitting)
The host, Dan Rea, points out at 14:12 that Chicago has really tough gun laws. Rosenthal
replies that (paraphrasing) Illinois doesn't, and guns are easily accessable in bordering towns
and in next-door Indiana.
Which raises the 'awkward question' of the subject line:
Why does the same condition that occurs in Chicago - lax gun laws within easy driving
distance- not cause the same claimed effect in Massachusetts?
I was driving, so did not call in and ask.
Your browser history, IP addresses, online purchases etc all up for grabs without a warrant
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/30/isp_national_security_letter_details_published_following_11year_legal_battle/What the FBI can do with an NSL and a gagging order
30 Nov 2015 at 22:53, Kieren McCarthy
Following a decade-long legal battle, the details of a US national security letter (NSL) sent to ISP owner Nicholas Merrill can finally be revealed
The broad details have been known for some time, and a recent court decision all but listed the personal information that Merrill was told to hand over on all of his ISPs' customers.
However, the decision by the FBI to not continue appealing the federal court's judgment means people are now able to formally see the personal information that the US government believes it has a right to be granted access to without a warrant...
...At the same time the gag order built into the NSL was officially lifted, an unredacted version [PDF] of a court decision from Judge Victor Marrero was published listing in full all the details that the FBI requested be handed over by Calyx Internet Access back in 2004.
That PDF can be found at the following link, and is worth a detailed read not only for
what it reveals, but for wonderful levels of judicial snark:
https://regmedia.co.uk/2015/11/30/merrill-fbi-unredacted.pdf
Your browser history, IP addresses, online purchases etc all up for grabs without a warrant
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/30/isp_national_security_letter_details_published_following_11year_legal_battle/What the FBI can do with an NSL and a gagging order
30 Nov 2015 at 22:53, Kieren McCarthy
Following a decade-long legal battle, the details of a US national security letter (NSL) sent to ISP owner Nicholas Merrill can finally be revealed
The broad details have been known for some time, and a recent court decision all but listed the personal information that Merrill was told to hand over on all of his ISPs' customers.
However, the decision by the FBI to not continue appealing the federal court's judgment means people are now able to formally see the personal information that the US government believes it has a right to be granted access to without a warrant...
...At the same time the gag order built into the NSL was officially lifted, an unredacted version [PDF] of a court decision from Judge Victor Marrero was published listing in full all the details that the FBI requested be handed over by Calyx Internet Access back in 2004.
That PDF can be found at the following link, and is worth a detailed read not only for
what it reveals, but for wonderful levels of judicial snark:
https://regmedia.co.uk/2015/11/30/merrill-fbi-unredacted.pdf
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