Govt Spies Hacked Into Live Webcam Chats Of Millions

The British GCHQ spy agency—with possible assistance from its U.S. counterpart—built and maintained a program that allowed it to tap the live webcam chats of millions of internet users with no connection to criminal or national security investigations.

Jon Queally
بواسطة Jon Queally
GCHQ

The latest documents leaked to journalists by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and published Thursday in the Guardian newspaper reveal that the British GCHQ spy agency—with possible assistance from its U.S. counterpart—built and maintained a program that allowed it to tap the live webcam chats of millions of internet users with no connection to

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Western Spy Agencies Infiltrating, Warping World Of Online Activism

Latest Snowden documents show extent to which GCHQ has gone to ‘manipulate, deceive, and destroy reputations’ of online targets

Jon Queally
بواسطة Jon Queally
Homeland Security logo

According to newly published documents, Western spy agencies like the GCHQ and NSA have developed sophisticated online operations in which covert agents infiltrate online communities, networks and forums in order to "manipulate, deceive"—even destroy the reputations of—targeted individuals and groups even if those people have not be charged, or

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NSA Revelation: US, UK Intentionally Targeted WikiLeaks And Its Supporters

Greenwald and Gallagher reported that after WikiLeaks was formed in 2008, the U.S. Army classified the organization as an enemy and “plotted how it could be destroyed.”

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke
Graphic via WikiLeaks

Glenn Greenwald’s new publication, The Intercept, which was partially created in order to publish information the journalist obtained from National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, published another revealing report on Wednesday detailing how the U.S. and U.K. governments targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups in their

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Merkel Proposes EU Counter-Espionage Network To Beat NSA

Discusses Plans With French President Hollande

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz

After their respective talks with President Obama about NSA surveillance of EU member nations, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has unveiled a proposal to create a European counter-espionage-focused communications network to foil NSA and GCHQ surveillance, and is discussing those plans with French President Francois Hollande. NSA surveillance has

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Privacy Advocates Lead Public In “Fight Back” Against NSA

Digital protests may be a new phenomenon, but this same technique was used to help defeat SOPA and PIPA two years ago.

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

More than 6,000 activist groups, companies and online platforms such as Demand Progress, Reddit, Mozilla, and BoingBoing held a global day of activism in opposition to government mass surveillance programs such as the National Security Agency on Tuesday. Known as “The Day We Fight Back,” the online protest largely involved placing anti-spying

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UK Targeted Anonymous With Cyber-Terrorism Tactic, Leaked Documents Reveal

“The government agencies … will substantiate their actions as being ‘for the greater good,’ while we have these denial of service attacks taking down innocent service providers, crippling countless users worldwide.”

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese
Activists of the international network "Anonymous" pose behind their masks August 14, 2008. (Photo Michael Gottschalk/file)

According to documents stolen by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden and published by NBC News, the United Kingdom has engaged in distributed denial of service attacks and other traffic-blocking online tactics against non-belligerents. This represents the first time a Western nation has been caught using cyber-terrorism

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