Robins keuze: Citizenfour
Robins keuze voor de Cineville Preview #1: Citizenfour, de oscarwinnende documentaire over NSA_medewerker Edward Snowden. In de theaters vanaf 28 mei. Deze film zien in de Cineville Preview...

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Who is Mr. Snowden? New doco reveals whistleblower #39;s personal story, escape saga
The way we view security and privacy has been shaken up by Edward Snowden #39;s revalations on US government mass surveillance. However, there #39;s plenty we still don #39;t know about the NSA ...

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Glenn Greenwald: "Edward Snowden and the Secrets of the National Security State"
Glenn Greenwald, best known for his series in "The Guardian" detailing classified information about global surveillance programs based on top-secret documents provided by Edward Snowden, spoke...

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Spy Games

04.13.155:15 AM ET

Russian spy-watcher Andrei Soldatov on Snowdens strange behavior in Russia, the Nemtsov assassination, and signs of a power struggle in Putins inner circle.

Andrei Soldatovs beat is Russian spies, which is a hot topic for a new cold war. As editor of agentura.ru, an online watchdog of Putins clandestine intelligence agencies, he has spent the last decade reporting on and anatomizing the resurrection of the Russian security state, from KGB-style crackdowns on dissent at home to adroit or haphazard assassinations abroad.

Most recently, Soldatov and his coauthor and collaborator Irina Borogan broke serious news about the extent to which the Federal Security Service (FSB) was surveilling and eavesdropping on everyone within slaloming distance of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Soldatov has just emerged from a writerly purdah, which has seen him complete his latest and forthcoming title with Borogan, Red Web: The Struggle Between Russias Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries. He spoke to me via Skype from Moscow recently about the latest Russian hack of the White House, the Boris Nemtsov assassination, the Boston Marathon bombings, reshuffles in Putinist spyland, and why neither Edward Snowden nor Glenn Greenwald will agree to be interviewed by him.

Weiss: Youve no doubt seen the CNN report about Russian hackers infiltrating White House computers and obtaining President Obamas personal schedule. What can you tell us about this operation?

Soldatov: Reportedly, it took months. This type of attack is about phishing, not real hacking. Social engineering efforts are usedtheyre going after people, not systems. They sent emails provoking White House officials to disclose some information about their accounts. Its a very special operation because the people behind it are very sophisticated; they know the types of questions to ask to solicit a response. You need to know how bureaucracy works, and what kind of request people expect to get.It reminds me of an investigated by the University of Torontos CitizenLab in 2012.

On February 23, 2012, an email was sent to the director of Tibet Group 1, an activist organization, addressed personally, and appeared to come from Mr. Cheng Li, a prominent China scholar based at the Brookings Institution. The email requested the assistance of Tibet Group 1 in verifying information on Tibetan self-immolations. The name and title provided in the email matched real details for Cheng Li provided on his Brookings Institute staff page.But the director noticed that the email was sent from a suspicious AOL account, and turned to CitizenLab experts. It was soon discovered that the account appeared to have been registered by the attackers for this specific attack. Attached to this email was an Excel spreadsheet with malware.The Chinese security services were thought to be behind it because the operation was very sophisticated.

There were some reports that some Russian opposition leaders were targeted by the same people [who hacked the White House]. But thats the only evidence we have of Russian involvement right now.

So how are these phishing expeditions coordinated? Are Russian spies in Washington keeping tabs on White House officials and feeding the relevant information back to the hackers or the hackers government handlers?

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Bring us the head of Edward Snowden!

The anonymous artists who constructed the Snowden bust that was stealthily erected and then confiscated by authorities in Brooklyns Fort Greene Park are now demanding that cops hand over the statue.

The police have no right to keep the sculpture, said civil-rights lawyer Ron Kuby, who says he is representing the three unidentified masterminds. The statue itself is not contraband ... While the artists did not follow the guidelines for the Arts in the Park program, the statue itself more than qualifies for entry into the Arts in the Park program.

Parks Department employees remove the bust at Fort Greene Park.Photo: Gabriella Bass

The 4-foot-tall bust, which is made of a sculpting material known as hydrocal, was confiscated on April 6 just hours after it was first spotted atop the parks Prison Ship Martyrs war monument, which pays homage to Revolutionary War soldiers.

The artists sneaked into the park at around 4 a.m. and placed the sculpture on top of a pillar without being noticed.

Speaking Tuesday at the site, Kuby was joined by Geoffrey Croft, president of NYC Park Advocates, as they blasted the NYPD and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton for removing the 100-pound bust, which is a tribute to the 31-year-old National Security Agency leaker.

As the artists behind this work, we hope New York City will release the statue so it may continue to spark healthy conversations about issues central to our freedoms, the purported artists said in a statement that was read by Croft.

By releasing our sculpture, the NYPD has an amazing opportunity to show it protects not only its people, but also honors the citys long history as a benchmark for creative expression and free thinking, the statement said.

Kuby also showed supporters a letter that he said he had sent to the Bratton, urging him to release the sculpture.

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NEW YORK, April 14 (UPI) -- A group of guerrilla artists who placed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden atop a column in a New York park only to have police confiscate it are demanding for the sculpture to be returned.

The 4-foot, 100-pound bust of Snowden was placed atop a column that is part of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn on April 6. The name "Snowden" was also attacked in large typeface at the base of the column.

The New York Police Department removed the statue a mere hours later and said they are keeping it as part of the investigation into the incident.

The anonymous artists now say they want the sculpture back so they can put it on display through all the proper channels.

NYC Parks Advocates President Geoffrey Croft told 1010 WINS in New York the artists want to apply to have the sculpture put on display through the city's "Art in the Parks" program.

" 'Art in Parks' has been a long, long, long held tradition and having the city seize a work like this simply just doesn't make sense," Croft said. "We feel it's censorship and it sends the wrong message."

But it can take months for the application to be approved, so a local gallery in Manhattan has agreed to show the work in the meantime.

Croft, along with attorney Ron Kuby, sent a letter to the NYPD asking for the bust to be released.

"The letter basically states that they don't have a right to legally seize the artists' property and they are demanding that the bust be returned immediately," Croft said.

"Whatever the right of the Parks Department to remove an unauthorized park sculpture," Kuby said during a news conference Tuesday, "that does not translate into the right of the police to indefinitely detain a work of art."

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