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Patriot Act reauthorized under cover of jobs bill
SEC. 645. EXTENSION OF INTELLIGENCE AUTHORITY SUNSETS. (a) USA PATRIOT IMPROVEMENT AND REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2005.—Section 102(b)(1) of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005
(Public Law 109–177; 50 U.S.C. 1805 note, 50 U.S.C. 1861 note, and 50 U.S.C. 1862 note) is amended by striking ‘‘February 28, 2010’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2010’’.
(b) INTELLIGENCE REFORM AND TERRORISM PREVENTION ACT OF 2004.—Section 6001(b)(1) of the Intel ligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–458; 118 Stat. 3742; 50 U.S.C. 1801 note) is amended by striking ‘‘February 28, 2010’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2010’’.
From Politico:
A draft of the roughly $80 billion bill, obtained by POLITICO, has a wide range of tax credits and job creation ideas, but it also includes provisions unrelated to jobs, including a reauthorization of the Patriot Act, infusion of new money to the Highway Trust Fund and extension of the so-called doc fix.
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It’s never too early to think about spying on your fellow Americans
NSA has some fancy flash games for your kids: http://www.nsa.gov/kids/home.shtml
How about the patriotic eagle guy? This is why I use a whitelist filter on my kid’s web browser.
Too bad your criminal organization is spying on Americans and supporting the international drug trade. I especially like their privacy policy. “NSA is committed to protecting your privacy and will collect no personal information about you unless you choose to provide that information to us.” LMAO!
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New “cybersecurity” legislation major threat to free speech
Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (PDF) – The end of the free Internet, if enacted.
Yet another in an unrelenting series of legislative attacks on liberty, this bill threatens to usurp ICANN and private domain registrars’ control of DNS (Domain Naming System) in the US. DNS is the system that maps IP addresses (eg. 255.255.255.255) against names like mydomain.org.
SEC. 9. SECURE DOMAIN NAME ADDRESSING SYSTEM.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Within 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information shall develop a strategy to implement a secure domain name addressing system. The Assistant Secretary shall publish notice of the system requirements in the Federal Register together with an implementation schedule for Federal agencies and information systems or networks designated by the President, or the President’s designee, as critical infrastructure information systems or networks.
b) COMPLIANCE REQUIRED.—The President shall ensure that each Federal agency and each such system or network implements the secure domain name addressing system in accordance with the schedule published by the Assistant Secretary.
If the feds take control of DNS, they can set their own terms of service and force all hosts onto subdomains, deciding who can and can’t have a web site, blog, email or IM server, etc. But one thing controlling the DNS will not do is protect networks against hackers. Almost any type of network connection (except DNS itself) can be made by IP address, bypassing DNS entirely.
I wonder who the president’s “designee” will be. Perhaps Senator Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens?
If these incompetent boobs can’t even secure their own networks now, what makes them think they can do a better job than private industry? I haven’t been hacked since about ’97 when I ditched Windows NT. I don’t need their help to secure my DNS servers. Hey feds- If you want secure systems, start by ditching Windows. If you can’t even get that thru your heads, how do you expect to take over DNS for the entire friggin Internet? Who are you going to award the no-bid contract to, Microsoft?
This is about one thing: eliminating the networks that independent citizens use to inform each other and exercise free political speech. They can’t stand the fact that you have access to real journalism on the web instead of being spoon-fed CNNBCBS propagada on TV.
SEC. 18. CYBERSECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHORITY
The President—
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(2) may declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to and from any compromised Federal government or United States critical infrastructure information system or network
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(6) may order the disconnection of any Federal government or United States critical infrastructure information systems or networks in the interest of national securitySo the president or his designee can simply shut down “critical infrastructure” every time they freak out and decide something is an emergency? What exactly is critical infrastructure?
SEC. 23. DEFINITIONS.
(3) FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND UNITED STATES CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS.—
The term ‘‘Federal government and United States critical infrastructure in formation systems and networks’’ includes—
(B) State, local, and nongovernmental information systems and networks in the United States designated by the President as critical infrastructure information systems and networks.
Its whatever they say it is. No measures, standards, or criteria.
This is not a misguided effort to protect our network infrastructure. Its a deliberate attack on free speech, and the feds know exactly what they’re doing. According to Reuters, the previous head of the National Cyber Security Center Rod Beckstrom resigned in protest of the over-reaching role the NSA is playing in cyber security.
What is the first objective of a military when attacking any enemy? Shut down their communications. We are the enemy and this is an attack on the ability of free individuals to communicate with each other. Please write your congress critters immediately. If you don’t care about politics, at least think of your 4chan and bittorrent downloads!
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Unsubstantiated: eBay put Skype on iPhone ‘to boost price of NSA backdoor’
Unnamed sources from The Register, huh. Well this would not surprise me if it were true. Windows system encryption has been backdoored by the NSA since windows 95.
‘Judas Phone’ reaps $bns for ‘man-at-both-ends’ attack
Exclusive Skype was pushed onto Apple’s iPhone at the instigation of the VoIP app’s corporate owner eBay, the Reg can exclusively reveal – in order to reap huge sums from government listening agencies interested in spying on Jesus-mobe-toting terrorists.
The revelations come from a disgruntled eBay insider familiar with the matter, known to Reg handlers only by the randomly-assigned codename “Click Jezebel”. This individual, already sickened by years spent living off the proceeds of artificially hyped repeat sales of bug-infested rugs and defective lava lamps, found the latest attempt to wring value from Skype a step too far.
According to this source, cynical eBay profiteers have long been intent on squeezing some revenue out of Skype, but the customer base has stubbornly resisted monetisation. It’s also well known that Skype is considered extremely difficult to listen in on by plods, spooks and so on – partly because of its peer-to-peer nature, which routes calls unpredictably, and partly because of its obscure encryption. The Reg has reported before on the difficulties faced by Italian and German police – not to mention Britain’s GCHQ – in eavesdropping on Skype calls.
When news broke recently that America’s NSA was offering “billions” to any company which could offer a bona-fide solution for Skype eavesdropping, unscrupulous tat-bazaar overlords saw their chance at last. Secret top-level negotiations were opened with the NSA: these were time-consuming as they had to be carried out via courier-delivered, one-time-pad encrypted hardcopy letters owing to understandable paranoia on both sides.
The idea was that eBay would order Skype engineers to develop a Skype update which would cause user clients to relay details of every call or chat to secretly-established NSA “black servers”, located in China to provide plausible deniability. In the event of the NSA wishing to listen in on a given call, the clients at either terminus – in addition to sending the normal Skype encrypted traffic to each other – would also send the voice or text to the spooks.
Within the NSA the ploy is known as the “man-at-each-end” attack, according to our source. Company engineers prefer the term “p2p2pwn”, apparently.
It appears that negotiations initially proceeded well, with payment arrangements swiftly hammered out. Each time the NSA Skype backdoor is used, US black-budget funds will be used to purchase an agreed, substantial amount of tat on eBay, causing clean untraceable revenue to flow into the online gumble-bazaar’s coffers. The purchases will then normally be put straight back up for re-auction, maximising the payment to eBay and minimising losses to the US taxpayer.
But at the final stages a sticking point emerged. It’s well known that many targets of interest to the NSA dislike platforms which have long been able to run Skype, such as Windows Mobile phones. These individuals – Taliban warlords, Afghan politicians, celebrities, ruthless criminal biz-kingpin supervillains etc. – typically favour the added bling factor of Apple’s Jesus Phone.
“They said to us, get backdoored-up Skype on the iPhone, we’ll pay full price,” according to our person familiar with the matter. “Otherwise we knock off $2bn.”
Thus Skype at once entered into negotiations with Apple, while telco objections to free VoIP on the iPhone were stifled behind the scenes by NSA arm-twisting. This part of the plan, according to our informant, was known as “Project Judas Phone”, and has now reached fruition.
Our source, possibly exposed after the Reg accounts department called him at work to verify an expense-account lunch claim from one of our scribes, was forced to flee his job and home last week. He is now thought to be in hiding, or perhaps in a secret prison overseas somewhere.
Attempts to contact eBay’s Swiss alpine mountaintop HQ for comment have so far proved fruitless. We also tried to reach the NSA, but negotiating a secure comms protocol has so far proved impossible. ®
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