* Posts by bernhard.fellgiebel

17 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Nov 2013

You've been arrested for computer crime: Here's what happens next

bernhard.fellgiebel

Mein Herzliches Beileid

Rule Of Law died in 2001. Rest in peace.

How Google paved the way for NSA's intercepts - just as The Register predicted 9 years ago

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Utter Nonsense Logic Here

The predecessor of NSA, the Army and Navy intelligence offices read ALL telegrams as early as the 1920s. to that end they physically collected all telegrams from Western Union, Cable and Wireless and similar telegraph operators and brought them back next day. (source:Charles Bamford)

A certain Mr Yardley broke all Japanese diplomatic ciphers in the pay of USG so that they could read those for political gain (fleet limitation talks etc). Source: Bamford and Mr Yardley himself (he "snowdened" after Minister Stimson laid off Yardley and his skilled personell)

So they have a long history of reading messages IN TOTAL and this magazine wants to tell us they need any sort of legal technicality to read all emails ? That's simply irrational. The US Army is the same army as in the 1920s and so is the US Navy. Only the US Army Air Force is now called US Air Force. Certainly they inherited US Army customs. Air Force General Clapper, chief of US intelligence, is the modern form of General Der Nachrichtentruppe and flew with the 6994th security squadron in Vietnam listening to adversary radio emissions, producing emitter location fixes and transcripts.

Radio outfits such as the 6994th produced about 90% of useful intelligence in Vietnam and that means Clapper is the undisputed king of the secret government business and has been for a long time. They simply don't know any other effective way of gathering intelligence than Fishtrawling Intelligence (so to speak).

Source: 6994th security squadron website. Very interesting read.

Do we really think they need any permit to read each and every bit of internet communications ? They have given themselves the General Permission in 1921 or so. It has not been rescinded since.

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Re: Redefining "reading" is not the biggest problem

Why do your think Xerography and microfiches were invented ? War (US Army and Navy copying all telegrams in the US ca. 1925) as the mother of every invention surely applies to these two technologies.

Need to store 5000 telegrams ? Put them on a microfiche.

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@ gazthejourno

Oh yeah, when the American Corporation is short of arguments, it resorts to insults. Let the battle commence. Google will lose like Micro$soft has lost.

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Re: secure?

SMTP server-to-server can be secured using TLS. POP3 and IMAP can be secured using TLS, too.

Running your Personal Cloud indeed makes a lot of sense. Also run a TOR exit router and use TOR personally. I can attest it is indeed quite effective. It raises their snooping costs to the level that you must ACTUALLY be a terrorist to be identified as opposed to being an "information terrorist" (ie. somebody who calls out the scams of the rich, powerful and their cultist, untouchable friends in that oily country)

We The People can do something for freedom, and part of it is to boycott Google and Facebook. Run an RPI and personal cloud software. Get help from the local Linux or computer club. Freedom is work, Convenience is Slavery.

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Re: Dear Mr Censor,

"We're clearing them with the NSA's Reg-sniffing snoopers first"

Either a case of Daily Heil or you are embarrassed to have your reasoning challenged. I tend to think it is the latter one. In short: USG reads telegrams since 1920s. ALL of them. Nothing has changed in their policies.

Encrypt or perish.

bernhard.fellgiebel

Dear Mr Censor,

where are my comments ?

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Re: Unified Privacy Policy

Google is the New Bell Labs: USG's technology bitch. Ready to sell out your data/telephone calls to the powerful people. Key personell already moved from Bell Labs to Google.

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"Do No Evil" and Other Lies

After reading the utterings of a certain Mr Schmidt, co-CEO of Google I fully expect them to cooperate with the government's snooping efforts. Not grudgindly, but enthusiastically. They want to be part of something which is effectively a World Government. Having billions of dollars makes you want power, so that's their current activity - playing politics with YOUR DATA.

They boast about the capability to "shit tons of data from one datacenter to another". But they claim they cannot afford to encrypt those massive data movements. That's about as believable as "accidents under the nose of Al Capone". They are working in collusion with the government in order to play pollitics and all of this is entirely intentional. Ordinary Googlers are told it is "too expensive", but the senior leaders use YOUR DATA as a chip of influence in washington and wherever washington and NY throw around their weight.

Using Google services without an anonymizer (or using gmail at all) is a sign of a lack of intelligence, folks.

bernhard.fellgiebel

Well said. Freedom is work, only Slavery comes convenient.

Berners-Lee: 'Appalling and foolish' NSA spying HELPS CRIMINALS

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Will They Care ?

Certainly not. Proper software and hardware is unhackable (see the L4 operating system). There is even unbreakable crypto (OTP) and contrary to Bruce Schneier's claim it is actually feasible.

Modern computers give every single person potentially something like the SIGABA machine, which is still secure to the present day (for something like SMS messages). Every single person who can afford a computer !

So how can they continue to have nice jobs ? How do they continue to be powerful ? Subvert everything. Mr Berners-Lee is obviously very naive indeed.

Inside Intel's secret super-chips: If you've got the millions, it's got the magic

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$emiconductor

So the TLAs can have their "customized" instructions for "their" geography ?

Sure as hell they don't want to disclose the circuitry for RDRAND. It's the property of DGSE.

Thought you didn't need to show ID in the UK? Wrong

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ID Cards - Pathetic

People carry an electronic beacon these days. They even spend voracious amounts of money on The Beacon. And of course most of people connect The Beacon with their bank account and that means with their real identity; in almost all cases.

Then they have these nasty black camera apertures everywhere. They never need a picture of you - all they need to do is to match the set of pictures they acquire in the tube (or MARTA, whatever your local train-with-tons-of-cameras is called) to nail down your current picture to your bank account.

If you have acquried the phone and SIM anonymously, they can use the voice fingerprint you leave at your bank, your airline, your business/holiday airflight and many other places.

For each new face and new phone this will take a few days to calibrate the system. But if you take a train or bus for a few weeks, they know with almost total precision where you are and who you are. All the time.

And then they have some sort of pretext (use the imperial religionists for that end) to "clamp down on people riding the train without a cellphone".

After they have your face in the database attached to your real ID, you can from then on ride the system without a cellphone and they still know who you are.

And don't tell me they don't do this - the Americans love this sort of thing and Britain is "anxious" to please America. As one US air force colonel told me "you can never collect enough".

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Re: Passport?

I hear they have your detailed phone records, <strike>Amazon</strike>almost entire(from rebate cards) buying habits and juvenile rants of the last 15 years in lieu of a passport.

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Re: It's the database, dammit!

In Germany we have national ID, but the register is supposedly to be decentralized with the mayor of your town/village/city. I am not sure how secure this scheme is, as the ID cards are made at a central location, the Federal Printing/Minting agency. Then, there are systems like INPOL and CEVIS which are supposed to help police catch wanted people but I would not be surprised to learn that they can also check the validity of passports and ID cards with said systems.

You have to register yourself in a few days after moving to a new address, renting a new address and so on.

The Nazis didn't use ID cards to identify whom they wanted to gass though. They used the birth registers to that end. From that intelligence they stamped "J" into the ID cards for the jews.

bernhard.fellgiebel

Re: Default passwords

I think the Americans abuse the SSID for similar purposes. Here in Germany it's often the birthdate and your current address.

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Re: You need ID to get on a plane or into the Palace.

I recall visiting Buck-Palace as a tourist and I am not sure I had to display ID. I also got onto HMS Victory without ID but overheard an old lady saying "oh if they bomb victory". I reassured her it won't happen, but of course I knew technically it was possible.

But maybe that was because they received some sort of warning of "strange German guy visiting your" or something.