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[News] [OT] Innocent People Die Because {Everyone is a Terrorist}^TM

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Data Snooping Mission Creep

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| Oh, look, what a surprise: it's not just for anti-terrorism:
| 
|     Local councils, health authorities and hundreds of other public bodies 
|     are to be given the power to access details of everyone's personal text, 
|     emails and internet use under Home Office proposals published yesterday.  
| 
| And, look, they still haven't learned about the dangers of centralised 
| databases: 
| 
|     The government has already indicated that it intends to go one step 
|     further this autumn by introducing a draft communications bill which 
|     would require all the telecommunications companies to hand over this data 
|     to one central "super" database so that the police and other public 
|     authorities will be able to access it directly without having to make a 
|     request each time to the individual company holding the records.     
|  
| Well, at least that will make it easier to steal....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/08/data-snooping-mission-creep.html

Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with
untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/13/man-whose-us-immigra.html

Ill and in Pain, Detainee Dies in U.S. Hands

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| He was 17 when he came to New York from Hong Kong in 1992 with his parents 
| and younger sister, eyeing the skyline like any newcomer. Fifteen years 
| later, Hiu Lui Ng was a New Yorker: a computer engineer with a job in the 
| Empire State Building, a house in Queens, a wife who is a United States 
| citizen and two American-born sons.    
| 
| But when Mr. Ng, who had overstayed a visa years earlier, went to immigration 
| headquarters in Manhattan last summer for his final interview for a green  
| card, he was swept into immigration detention and shuttled through jails and 
| detention centers in three New England states.  
| 
| In April, Mr. Ng began complaining of excruciating back pain. By mid-July, he 
| could no longer walk or stand. And last Wednesday, two days after his 34th 
| birthday, he died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a 
| Rhode Island hospital, his spine fractured and his body riddled with cancer 
| that had gone undiagnosed and untreated for months.    
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/nyregion/13detain.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Paranoid governments kill people, not save them


Recent:

Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry

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| For months, the Bush administration has waged a high-profile campaign, 
| including personal lobbying by President Bush and closed-door briefings by 
| top officials, to persuade Congress to pass legislation protecting companies 
| from lawsuits for aiding the National Security Agency’s warrantless 
| eavesdropping program.    
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/washington/16nsa.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=e6aa872194ef69e8&ex=1355461200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss


Related:

Judge: Man can't be forced to divulge encryption passphrase

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| In this case, Judge Niedermeier took the second approach. He said that 
| encryption keys can be "testimonial," and even the prosecution's alternative 
| of asking the defendant to type in the passphrase when nobody was looking 
| would be insufficient.    
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http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9834495-38.html?tag=nefd.blgs


Animal Rights Activists Forced to Hand Over Encryption Keys

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| If you remember, this was sold to the public as essential for fighting 
| terrorism. It's already being misused. 
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/animal_rights_a.html


Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?

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| Which is why you should worry about a new random-number standard that 
| includes an algorithm that is slow, badly designed and just might contain a 
| backdoor for the National Security Agency.  
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http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/11/securitymatters_1115


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| "Is this a good idea or not? For the first time, the giant software maker 
| is acknowledging the help of the secretive agency, better known for
| eavesdropping on foreign officials and, more recently, U.S. citizens as 
| part of the Bush..."
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/nsa_helps_micro_1.html


Microsoft could be teaching police to hack Vista

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| Microsoft may begin training the police in ways to break the
| encryption built into its forthcoming Vista operating system.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2150555/microsoft-teaching-police-hack


UK holds Microsoft security talks

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| "UK officials are talking to Microsoft over fears the new version of 
| Windows could make it harder for police to read suspects' computer files."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm


For Windows Vista Security, Microsoft Called in Pros

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| The NSA also declined to be specific but said it used two groups — a “red 
| team” and a “blue team” — to test Vista’s security. The red team, for 
| instance, posed as “the determined, technically competent adversary” to 
| disrupt, corrupt or steal information. “They pretend to be bad guys,” Sager 
| said. The blue team helped Defense Department system administrators with 
| Vista’s configuration .     
| 
| Microsoft said this is not the first time it has sought help from the NSA. 
| For about four years, Microsoft has tapped the spy agency for security 
| expertise in reviewing its operating systems, including the Windows XP 
| consumer version and the Windows Server 2003 for corporate customers.   
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http://www.manpreet.co.in/tech-stuff/microsoft-vista-developed-with-help-from-us-national-security-agency/


Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems

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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to 
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files, 
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status 
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could 
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status 
| messages?     
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html


Spy Master Admits Error

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| Intel czar Mike McConnell told Congress a new law helped bring down a terror 
| plot. The facts say otherwise. 
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20749773/site/newsweek/


FBI ducks questions about its remotely installed spyware

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| There are plenty of unanswered questions about the FBI spyware that, as we 
| reported earlier this week, can be delivered over the Internet and implanted  
| in a suspect's computer remotely. 
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9747666-7.html


United States Government Online Watchdogs? Part of the war on terror?

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| Is there anyone in the abandonia community with a US based connection who is 
| experiencing this watchdog behavior? Are any foreign Vista users experiencing 
| similar attacks from their own countries ministries and governing agencies?"   
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http://www.whitedust.net/news/3984/United_States_Government_Online_Watchdogs?_Part_of_the_war_on_terror?.../


No email privacy rights under Constitution, US gov claims

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| This appears to be more than a mere argument in support of the 
| constitutionality of a Congressional email privacy and access scheme. It 
| represents what may be the fundamental governmental position on 
| Constitutional email and electronic privacy - that there isn't any. What is 
| important in this case is not the ultimate resolution of that narrow issue, 
| but the position that the United States government is taking on the entire 
| issue of electronic privacy. That position, if accepted, may mean that the 
| government can read anybody's email at any time without a warrant.       
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/04/4th-amendment_email_privacy/


How NSA access was built into Windows

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| A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that
| special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency
| have been secretly built into Windows.
| 
| [...]
| 
| The first discovery of the new NSA access system was made two years
| ago by British researcher Dr Nicko van Someren. But it was only a
| few weeks ago when a second researcher rediscovered the access
| system. With it, he found the evidence linking it to NSA.
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http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html
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