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Ex-counterterror chief: U.S. lost track of terrorists …

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By Kevin Liptak, CNN

updated 9:39 AM EDT, Wed October 22, 2014

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Washington (CNN) -- Ripping the cover off top-secret U.S. surveillance programs pushed foreign terrorists underground and out of intelligence services' reach, a former top intelligence official said Tuesday.

"We've lost collection against some individuals, people that we were concerned about we are no longer collecting their communications," Matt Olsen, who until September led the National Counterterrorism Center, told CNN's Jim Sciutto. "We lost insight into what they were doing."

Olsen said the revelations made public by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden had changed the way terrorists communicate, causing them to fall out of the U.S. government's sight.

"They've changed how they encrypt their communications and adopted more stringent encryption techniques," he said. "They've changed service providers and email addresses and they've, in some cases, just dropped off all together."

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Hillary Clinton makes big statement on NSA spying – Salon.com

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Hillary Clinton, one of the Democratic Partys leading national security hawks, lauded Democratic Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado on Tuesday for his work on National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance reform.

Campaigning with Udall today, the former secretary of state and likely 2016 presidential contender applauded the senator forleading the Senate in asking the hard questions about intelligence and the tradeoff between liberty and security, The Hill reports.

That was an important and challenging task that he took on, Clinton said.

Since security contractor Edward Snowden leaked files last year exposing the NSAs massive domestic surveillance program, Udall has been among the Senates most vocal champions of surveillance reform. Teaming up with fellow Sens. Ron Wyden and Ron Paul on the issue, Udall has backed privacy safeguards like ending bulk collection of Americans personal data and requiring agencies to obtain a warrant before reading citizens emails. As he seeks to fend off a formidable challenge from GOP Rep. Cory Gardner, Udall has highlighted his fierce criticism of NSA spying as an example of his willingness to break ranks with President Barack Obama.

Clinton has previously signaled some support for NSA reform, alluding this summer to changes that needed to be made in order to secure that privacy, that constitutional right to privacy that Americans are due, hastening to add that she views it as a really difficult balancing act.

As a U.S. senator from New York in 2001, Clinton joined 97 other senators in voting for the U.S.A. Patriot Act, which significantly expanded the scope of anti-terrorism surveillance and drew ire from civil libertarians. But when the Bush administrations warrantless eavesdropping program came to light, Clinton expressed privacy concerns.

Obviously, I support tracking down terrorists. I think thats our obligation. But I think it can be done in a lawful way, Clinton said in January 2006.

While Clinton did not throw her support behind any specific NSA reform proposals on Tuesday, her remarks suggest that shell make a concerted effort to woo civil liberties advocates ahead of 2016.

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Hillary Clinton makes big statement on NSA spying

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Hillary Clinton, one of the Democratic Partys leading national security hawks, lauded Democratic Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado on Tuesday for his work on National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance reform.

Campaigning with Udall today, the former secretary of state and likely 2016 presidential contender applauded the senator forleading the Senate in asking the hard questions about intelligence and the tradeoff between liberty and security, The Hill reports.

That was an important and challenging task that he took on, Clinton said.

Since security contractor Edward Snowden leaked files last year exposing the NSAs massive domestic surveillance program, Udall has been among the Senates most vocal champions of surveillance reform. Teaming up with fellow Sens. Ron Wyden and Ron Paul on the issue, Udall has backed privacy safeguards like ending bulk collection of Americans personal data and requiring agencies to obtain a warrant before reading citizens emails. As he seeks to fend off a formidable challenge from GOP Rep. Cory Gardner, Udall has highlighted his fierce criticism of NSA spying as an example of his willingness to break ranks with President Barack Obama.

Clinton has previously signaled some support for NSA reform, alluding this summer to changes that needed to be made in order to secure that privacy, that constitutional right to privacy that Americans are due, hastening to add that she views it as a really difficult balancing act.

As a U.S. senator from New York in 2001, Clinton joined 97 other senators in voting for the U.S.A. Patriot Act, which significantly expanded the scope of anti-terrorism surveillance and drew ire from civil libertarians. But when the Bush administrations warrantless eavesdropping program came to light, Clinton expressed privacy concerns.

Obviously, I support tracking down terrorists. I think thats our obligation. But I think it can be done in a lawful way, Clinton said in January 2006.

While Clinton did not throw her support behind any specific NSA reform proposals on Tuesday, her remarks suggest that shell make a concerted effort to woo civil liberties advocates ahead of 2016.

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The Latin American hardware encryption display market is expected to reach $2,366.8 million by 2018 – New Report by …

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(PRWEB) October 19, 2014

The Latin American hardware encryption display market report defines and segments the market in Latin America with analysis and forecast of revenue. This market was valued at $165.0 million in 2013, and is expected to reach $2,366.8 million by 2018, at a CAGR of 70.3% from 2013 to 2018.

Browse through the TOC of the Latin American hardware encryption market report to get an idea of the in-depth analysis provided. It also provides a glimpse of the segmentation of the market, and is supported by various tables and figures.

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Currently, smartphones and tablets are the most widely used consumer electronic products, and their use has surpassed that of computers/desktops. Thus, these markets have become the emerging markets for hardware encryption. Hardware encryption enabled on smartphones and tablets is majorly devoid of any storage components; thus, it cannot be considered as a separate product. Most enterprise-edition smartphones and tablets have a hardware encryption chip set in them, which does the encryption and decryption processes. The main strategy of market leaders in the hardware encryption industry is to provide complete solutions to protect data, which is not only limited to one product line, but also provides solutions for management all sorts of devices that can store data, such as flash drives, smartphones, and tablets.

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http://www.micromarketmonitor.com/contact/2646141468-speak_to_analyst.html Latin America is a potential market for hardware encryption display in the coming years. One of the major reasons for the development of the market in this region is the growth of the consumer electronic market, which in turn is spurred by the presence of retailers from developed markets and the increasing income of the middle class. Countries contributing towards the Latin American hardware encryption market are Brazil and Argentina.

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This market is segmented and forecast based on applications, products, and end-users. The market in terms of application comprises automotive, consumer electronics, emerging & next gen applications, medical applications, military, and networking/communication solutions. On the basis of products, the market is segmented into flash drive, hard disk drives, and in-line encryptors. The market is further segmented and forecast based on end-users, covering building/infrastructure, consumer & commercial, industrial manufacturing, and other end-users.

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Open Surveillance

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Cryptography could keep electronic investigations under control.

Bryan Ford

Democracy rests on the principle that legal processes must be open and public. Laws are created through open deliberation; anyone can read or challenge them; and in enforcing them the government must get a warrant before searching a persons private property. For our increasingly electronic society to remain democratic, this principle of open process must follow us into cyberspace. Unfortunately, it appears to have been lost in translation.

The National Security Agency, formed after World War II to spy on wartime adversaries, has clung to military-grade secrecy while turning its signalsintelligence weapons on us and our allies. While nominally still a foreign intelligence agency, the NSA has become a de facto law enforcement agency by collecting bulk surveillance data within the United States and feeding the data to law enforcement agencies. Other agencies also have secret-surveillance fever. The FBI secretly uses warrantless subpoenas to obtain bulk cell-tower records affecting hundreds of thousands of users at once, whether investigating bank robberies or harmless urban pranks. Police spy on entire neighborhoods with fake cellular base stations known as StingRays and have deliberately obfuscated warrants to conceal their use of the technology.

All this secrecy harms our democracy. But effective surveillance does not require total secrecy. It can follow an openness principle: any surveillance process that collects or handles bulk data or metadata about people who are not specifically targeted by a warrant must be subject to public review and should use strong encryption to safeguard the privacy of the innocent. To gain access to unencrypted surveillance data, law enforcement agencies must identify people whose actions justify closer investigation and then demonstrate probable cause. The details of an investigation need not be public, but the data collection process should bewhat was collected, from whom, and how it was decrypted. This is no different from the way the police traditionally use an open process to obtain physical search warrants without publicly revealing details of their investigation.

Technology that my colleague Joan Feigenbaum and I and our research group have developed could allow law enforcement officials to enact this approach without hampering their work. In fact, it could even enhance it. Modern cryptography could let agencies surgically extract warrant-authorized data about people of interest while guarding the privacy of innocent users. In the case of bank robbers known as the High Country Bandits, the FBI intercepted cell-tower records of 150,000 people to find one criminal who had carried a cell phone to three robbery sites. Using our encrypted search system, the FBI could have found the bandits number without obtaining data on about 149,999 innocent bystanders.

Its better to risk that a few criminals will be slightly better informed than to risk the privacy and trust of everyone.

Bryan Ford is an associate professor of computer science at Yale University.

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