The NSA Teams Up with the Chinese Government to Limit Internet Anonymity
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| TraceBack is most useful in monitoring the activities of large masses of
| people. But of course, that's why the Chinese and the NSA are so interested
| in this proposal in the first place.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/09/the_nsa_teams_u.html
Exclusive: Widespread cell phone location snooping by NSA?
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| ThorpeGlen, a U.K.-based firm, offers intelligence analysts a graphical
| interface to the company's mobile-phone location and call-record data-mining
| software. Want to determine a suspect's "community of interest"? Easy. Want
| to learn if a single person is swapping SIM cards or throwing away phones
| (yet still hanging out in the same physical location)? No problem.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-10030134-46.html
Police state. Windows Mobile is said to already have back doors.
The Pentagon's World of Warcraft Movie-Plot Threat
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| I don't know why he thinks that the terrorists will use World of Warcraft and
| not some other online world. Or Facebook. Or Usenet. Or a chat room. Or
| e-mail. Or the telephone. I don't even know why the particular form of
| communication is in any way important.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/09/the_pentagons_w.html
Related:
Cryptome: NSA has access to Windows Mobile smartphones
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| First time in history Cryptome.org has released information about the
| characteristics of NSA’s network surveillance.
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http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1028
Dual_EC_DRBG Added to Windows Vista
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| Microsoft has added the random-number generator Dual_EC-DRBG to Windows
| Vista, as part of SP1. Yes, this is the same RNG that could have an NSA
| backdoor.
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| It's not enabled by default, and my advice is to never enable it. Ever.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/12/dual_ec_drbg_ad.html
Microsoft Cofee brews 'back door' fears
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| The assurances came after reports claiming that Cofee could provide a 'back
| door' into Microsoft operating systems and applications.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/75780,microsoft-cofee-brews-back-door-fears.aspx
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
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