Hacks May Have Been By AMERICAN Insider

Washington’s Blog – Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said today:

It is not at all clear to me, just viewing this from the outside, that this hacking into the DNC and the RNC was not a false flag operation.

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If you think the Russians did this, then why did they leave fingerprints?

We would want to know who else might want to influence the election and why they would leave fingerprints that point to the Russians. That’s why I say until we know more about how the intelligence community came to this conclusion we don’t know whether it is Russian inspired or a false flag.

What’s he talking about?

The NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information, who served as the senior technical director within the agency, who managed six thousand NSA employees, the 36-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the agency and the NSA’s best-ever analyst and code-breaker, who mapped out the Soviet command-and-control structure before anyone else knew how, and so predicted Soviet invasions before they happened (“in the 1970s, he decrypted the Soviet Union’s command system, which provided the US and its allies with real-time surveillance of all Soviet troop movements and Russian atomic weapons”) – says that Russia probably would not have used a “known” hacking method to gather and then leak DNC emails to sway the election.

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Worried Your Emails Might Be Spied On? Here’s What You Can Do

encryptionMonique Mann – We live in a post-Edward Snowden world, in which US tech companies have been accused of complicity in mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA). One recent allegation is the claim that Yahoo scanned hundreds of millions of emails at the NSA’s request.

We don’t truly know how much or how often this is happening within the companies that host millions of people’s email accounts.

According to Reuters, Yahoo was ordered by the secret US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to scour emails for a specific string of characters. This is significant, as it required Yahoo to create a custom-built program for real-time surveillance of email traffic.

The power for this type of surveillance was expanded by the US Patriot Act, which allows for the use of secret National Security Letters (NSL) to compel service providers to hand over customer data. The letters come with gag orders, prohibiting companies like Yahoo from even admitting that they have been ordered to monitor customers.

But email scanning does not only occur at the behest of national security agencies. The past decade has seen the rise of “surveillance capitalism” and “data brokers”, who collect your information for behavioural profiling and targeted advertising.

Google has admitted to scanning emails to deliver targeted advertising and customised search results. Facebook is currently facing legal action for scanning private messages to do the same. And earlier this year Yahoo itself settled a class action lawsuit for scanning non-Yahoo customer emails without consent.

Protecting your privacy

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Obamessiah Meets Pope Francis as Misleaders Converge on UN

encryptionJames Corbett – Welcome to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. In this week’s episode:

Story #1: The White House Thinks It Can Make a Deal With Companies to Break Encryption

  • http://tinyurl.com/oubhdsm
  • Obama Faces Growing Momentum to Support Widespread Encryption
    http://tinyurl.com/q7x52bu
  • i9-11: US Government Ready with a “Patriot Act” for the Internet
    http://tinyurl.com/6z47zh
  • Larry Lessig for President 2016
    https://lessig2016.us/

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Story #2: Pope’s Visit Poses a Security Test for New York

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