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Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden himself is going to be 'involved in' working on the problem of embedding security into technology
HOPE X. Edward Snowden speaking via video link at the HOPE X conference. Screen shot from video feed.
MANILA, Philippines Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden called on developers over the weekend to build systems that protect personal privacy and security by design.
Speaking via videolink at the Hackers on Planet Earth Conference (HOPE X), Snowden once again asked the technology sector to increase privacy-protecting technology in tech products.
According to TechCrunch, Snowden discussed the importance of building new privacy-protecting protocols and technological infrastructures.
"It doesnt end at encryption; it starts at encryption," noted Snowden. "Encryption protects the content but we forget about associations. These programs like Section 215 [of the Patriot Act] and mass surveillance in general is not about surveilling you, its not about surveilling me. Its about surveilling us collectively. Its about watching the company, for everybody in the country and on a global scale.
"This is basically a big data program which provides the raw data that can then be analyzed, it can be filtered, it can be subjected to rules, for example. It says everything you do is being analyzed, its being weighted, its being measured and thats without regard to whether or not youve done anything wrong."
According to tech website Re/Code, Snowden also said, without elaborating, that he was going to be "involved in" working on the problem of embedding security into technology himself.
"We the people you the people, you in this room right now have both the means and the capability to help build a better future by encoding our rights into the programs and protocols upon which we rely every day," Snowden said.
"And thats what a lot of my future work is going to be involved in, and I hope youll join mein making that a reality," he added.
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Racy photos seen as a "fringe benefit" of surveillance positions, says Edward Snowden. Photo: NBC
Washington: Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said the oversight of surveillance programs was so weak that members of the United States military working at the spy agency sometimes shared sexually explicit photos they intercepted.
He also said the British government often pioneered the most invasive surveillance programs because its intelligence services operate with fewer restrictions designed to protect individual privacy than its counterpart in the US and other allies.
The interview in London's Guardian, was conducted in Moscow where Mr Snowden has been marooned for a little more than a year. He fled there from Hong Kong after he gave journalists hundreds of thousands of classified documents he downloaded from the NSA, which specialises in electronic surveillance. He had most recently worked for the agency in Hawaii.
Mr Snowden said that some of the US military personnel working on agency programs were between the ages of 18 and 22 and did not always respect the privacy of those whose communications were intercepted.
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"In the course of their daily work they stumble across something that is completely unrelated to their work, for example an intimate nude photo of someone in a sexually compromising situation but they're extremely attractive," he said. "So what do they do? They turn around in their chair and they show a co-worker. And their co-worker says: 'Oh, hey, that's great. Send that to Bill down the way.'"
Mr Snowden said that type of sharing occurred once every couple of months and was "seen as the fringe benefits of surveillance positions". He said that this was "never reported" and that the system for auditing surveillance programs "is incredibly weak".
"Now while people may say that it's an innocent harm - this person doesn't even know that their image was viewed - it represents a fundamental principle, which is that we don't have to see individual instances of abuse," he said.
NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines said that the agency had zero tolerance for wilful violations of authority or professional standards, and would respond as appropriate to any credible allegations of misconduct.
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A former Obama Administration official calls attention to unaccountable mass surveillance conducted under the guise of a 1981 executive order.
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John NapierTyeisspeaking out to warn Americans about illegal spying. The former State Department official, who served in the Obama administration from 2011 to 2014, declared Friday that ongoing NSA surveillance abuses are taking place under the auspices of Executive Order 12333, which came into being before the era of digital communications but is being used to collect them promiscuously. The whistleblower alleges that the Obama Administration has been violating the United States Constitution with scant oversight from Congress or the judiciary.
"The order as used today threatens our democracy," he wrote. "I am coming forward because I think Americans deserve an honest answer to the simple question: What kind of data is the NSA collecting on millions, or hundreds of millions, of Americans?" If you've paid casual attention to the Edward Snowden leaks and statements by national security officials, you might be under the impression that the Obama administration is already on record denying that this sort of spying goes on. In fact, denials about NSA spying are almost always carefully worded to address activities under particular legal authorities, like Section 215 of the Patriot Act orSection 702of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. An official will talk about what is or isn't done "under this program,"eliding the fact that the NSA spies on Americans under numerous different programs, despite regularly claiming to be an exclusively foreign spy agency.
Executive Order 12333 is old news to national security insiders and the journalists who cover them, but is largely unknown to the American public, in part because national security officials have a perverse institutional incentive to obscure its role. But some insiders are troubled by such affronts to representative democracy. A tiny subset screw up the courage to inform their fellow citizens.
The former State Department employee, Tye, is but the latest surveillance whistleblower, though he took pains in hisWashington Post op-ed, where he leveled his accusations, to distinguish himself from Snowden and his approach to dissent. "Before I left the State Department, I filed a complaint with the departments inspector general, arguing that the current system of collection and storage of communications by U.S. persons under Executive Order 12333 violates the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures," Tye explained. "I have also brought my complaint to the House and Senate intelligence committees and to the inspector general of the NSA." These stepswhich many say Snowden should've takenproduced no changes to the objectionable NSA spying and wouldn't be garnering attention at all but for Snowden's leaks. It is nevertheless telling that another civil servant with deep establishment loyalties and every incentive to keep quite felt compelled to speak out in dissent.
As Tye put it:
I have never made any unauthorized disclosures of classified information, nor would I ever do so. I fully support keeping secret the targets, sources and methods of U.S. intelligence as crucial elements of national security. I was never a disgruntled federal employee; I loved my job at the State Department. I left voluntarily and on good terms to take a job outside of government. A draft of this article was reviewed and cleared by the State Department and the NSA to ensure that it contained no classified material.
When I started at the State Department, I took an oath to protect the Constitution of the United States. I dont believe that there is any valid interpretation of the Fourth Amendment that could permit the government to collect and store a large portion of U.S. citizens online communications, without any court or congressional oversight, and without any suspicion of wrongdoing. Such a legal regime risks abuse in the long run, regardless of whether one trusts the individuals in office at a particular moment.
This act of conscience illuminates yet another path that a surveillance whistleblower can take. If more current and former federal officials believe that the NSA is in flagrant violation of the 4th Amendment, they should consider declaring themselves too. "Based in part on classified facts that I am prohibited by law from publishing," Tye wrote, "I believe that Americans should be even more concerned about the collection and storage of their communications under Executive Order 12333 than under Section 215." I wonder what he saw but isn't revealing.
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It was quite a coup for HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth). At the 2014 hacker event, Hope X, in New York City this weekend, Edward Snowden delivered a speech to those in attendance, advocating the use of encryption online. The former NSA analyst was not at the event himself -- he's still holed up in Moscow -- but he called on those present to help to protect privacy online. Speaking via a video link Snowden said: "You in this room, right now have both the means and the capability to improve the future by encoding our rights into programs and protocols by which we rely every day".
It was a great piece of work keeping the presentation a secret. There were, of course, fears that Snowden's appearance would somehow be thwarted: "We had to keep this bombshell quiet til the last minute since some of the most powerful people in the world would prefer that it never take place." There were certainly risks involved, but it was a risk worth taking. "[Snowden's] revelations of the massive NSA surveillance programs confirmed the suspicions of many and shocked those who havent been paying attention".
Speaking to the Guardian last week, Edward Snowden said that "Any communications that are transmitted over the internet, over any networked line, should be encrypted by default. Thats what last year showed us." Having helped to enlighten the world about online surveillance, Snowden has now expressed something of a shift in focus. The whistle has been well and truly sounded. Now is the time for something to be done. The hissing and moaning is all well and good, but now there is a call to arms. However loudly and frequently complaints are made, the chances of invasive surveillance programs coming to an end are pretty slim. But this does not mean we have to accept things lying down. Snowden is calling for the development and adoption of easy to use techniques to counter surveillance.
One of the most obvious options here is to embrace encryption. Governments "don't like the adoption of encryption. They say encryption that protects individuals' privacies, encryption that protects the publics privacy broadly as opposed to specific individuals, encryption by default, is dangerous because they lose this midpoint communication, this midpoint collection".
Encryption. "That is what a lot of my future work is going to be involved in", Snowden promised at Hope X. There's no word on quite what form this will take, but his vocal opposition to what has been taking place made it clear that this is a man with a great deal of fight left in him. He will undoubtedly push for a system that is accessible for all, cheap and simple to implement, and difficult to circumvent.
Many people have said that internet users should expect their communication to be monitored, intercepted, violated. But why? The simple fact that surveillance is possible -- and, at the moment, relatively simple -- is not a justification. Nor is the assertion that terrorist attacks could be stopped. "Could" is the key word here. A large number of crimes could be prevented ahead of time if the government was to intercept every single letter sent through the postal system. It would be a mammoth task, for sure, but is it something people would stand for? Of course not. If it transpired that all of our phone bills, credit card statements, birthday cards, love letters, and anything else you sent or received through the mail was being read or scanned by the government there would be complete outrage. Would the fact that organized crime might be reduced soften the blow for you? Would that be enough for you to permit all of your paper-based mail to be read and stored? I sincerely hope not. I hope you all value your privacy, and indeed dignity, more than that.
But this is precisely what is happening online. It's communication in a different form, so why is the interception of electronic mail and other web traffic seen as more acceptable than intercepting regular mail? For me, there is no difference whatsoever -- aside from the fact that it is rather easier for agencies to secretly intercept electronic communications. If you learned your letters were being read, you would either stop sending them, or devise a code that you could use to communicate privately. It's heartbreakingly sad that we need to do the same online, but we do. This is not a matter of hiding your data from the government because you have something to hide, it's about protecting a basic human right: the right to privacy.
As Snowden said to the Guardian: "What last year's revelations showed us was irrefutable evidence that unencrypted communications on the internet are no longer safe and cannot be trusted. Their integrity has been compromised and we need new security programs to protect them. Any communications that are transmitted over the internet, over any networked line, should be encrypted by default. Thats what last year showed us". Snowden took unbelievable risks in making contact with the media with his initial revelations, but hopefully things will become easier for future whistleblowers. Also discussed at Hope X was SecureDrop, a system that can be used by those with information to share it with the media. Again, it is desperately sad that a system like this needed to be devised, but the need is there.
I'll leave the final word to Hope X who sums things up beautifully: "We are humbled to have [Edward Snowden] in our program, and hope the day will come when he's not confined to a video link and able to be as free as he is helping all of us to be".
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The Stockholm District Court in Sweden today upheld an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, rejecting a motion that might have allowed him to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been holed up for two years to avoid extradition to Sweden.
Judge Lena Egelin deliberated for about an hour before releasing her verdict. She said that Assange is still suspected, with probable cause, of sex crimes; therefore the detention order will remain in effect. Assanges Swedish attorney says they will appeal the ruling.
Prosecutors in Sweden obtained the warrant in late 2011 for allegations of rape and sexual molestation made by two women in Sweden during a visit Assange made to that country. He has denied the allegations, stating that his relations with the women were consensual. Assange has not actually been charged with any crime in Sweden but is wanted for questioning in the case. Swedish authorities have insisted on questioning him in Sweden instead of traveling to London to do so.
Assange fled to the Ecuadorean embassy in June 2012 after losing a protracted legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning. Assange and his attorneys have asserted that the warrant was just a pretext to extradite him to the U.S. to face possible espionage charges for publishing documents leaked by Chelsea Manning.
Assanges legal team argued that Swedish prosecutors acted improperly by not agreeing to interview Assange at the embassy in London instead of forcing him to return.
We are confident about the hearing, Assanges lawyer Olsson told Agence France Press prior to the ruling on Tuesday. We think we have very strong arguments for the court to overrule the original decision.
Even if the court had ruled today to cancel the warrant, it would not have automatically resolved the case against Assange in Sweden. He would also still face arrest for breach of bail in the U.K. if he left the embassy, so passage for him out of England, under diplomatic cover, would have to be negotiated with U.K. authorities.
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National security leaker Chelsea Manning can get initial treatment for a gender-identity condition from the military after the Bureau of Prisons rejected the Army's request to accept her transfer from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to a civilian facility.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has approved the Army's recommendation to keep the Army private in military custody and start a rudimentary level of gender treatment, a defense official said Thursday. Defense officials have said the Army doesn't have the medical expertise needed to give Manning the best treatment.
The initial gender treatments provided by the military could include allowing Manning to wear some female undergarments and also possibly provide some hormone treatments.
The decision raises a number of questions about what level of treatment Manning will be able to get and at what point she would have to be transferred from the all-male prison to a female facility.
In May, Manning's lawyer, David Coombs, had contended that civilian prisons were not as safe as military facilities. In a statement, he had said, "It is common knowledge that the federal prison system cannot guarantee the safety and security of Chelsea in the way that the military prison system can."
Coombs told The Associated Press on Thursday that he was encouraged that the Army will begin medical treatment.
"It has been almost a year since we first filed our request for adequate medical care," Coombs said. "I am hopeful that when the Army says it will start a 'rudimentary level' of treatment that this means hormone replacement therapy."
If hormone therapy is not provided, he said he will have to take "appropriate legal action to ensure Chelsea finally receives the medical treatment she deserves and is entitled to under the law."
Manning has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the sense of being a woman in a man's body. The Army tried to work out a plan to transfer Manning to a federal prison where she could get better treatment.
Officials said Thursday that federal authorities refused the proposal. Officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly by name.
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