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- NSA chief admits govt collected cellphone location data
- FBI seizes Silk Road black market domain, arrests owner
- The first Obamacare security breach leaks 2,400 Americans’ info
- NASA To Have A BIG Announcement On November 13th!!
- US Supreme Court to review existing gun ban for domestic abusers
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Posted: 02 Oct 2013 09:52 PM PDT
 The director of the National Security Agency admitted this week that the NSA tested a program that collected cellphone location data from American citizens starting in 2010, but suspended it shortly after.Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of both the NSA and the United States Cyber Command, told lawmakers in Washington early Wednesday that the secretive pilot program was taken offline in 2011, but that the intelligence community may someday in the future make plans to routinely collect location data about US citizens. Alexander briefly discussed the program during a Senate hearing on the Hill early Wednesday that focused on the data provided to the government through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, including programs that were exposed earlier this year by unauthorized disclosures attributed to contractor-turned-leaker Edward Snowden. Only days earlier, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) asked Alexander during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing if the NSA was collecting location data on American citizens. “I’m asking, has the NSA ever collected, or ever made any plans to collect, American cell site information?” Wyden asked last Thursday. The NSA, Alexander responded at the time, “is not receiving cell-site location data and has no current plans to do so.” During this Wednesday’s hearing, Alexander explained that, “In 2010 and 2011, NSA received samples in order to test the ability of its systems to handle the data format, but that data was not used for any other purpose and was never available for intelligence analysis purposes.” According to a written copy of the statement obtained by The New York Times before Wednesday’s hearing, Alexander said that location information is not being collected by the NSA under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Alexander did not discuss if any other laws are being implemented to otherwise allow for the collection and analysis of location data. Moments after Alexander revealed the pilot program before the Senate committee, he said that the NSA may someday want to seek approval from Washington to revive that initiative as part of a fully functioning intelligence gathering operation. “I would just say that this may be something that is a future requirement for the country, but it is not right now,” Alexander said. Alexander’s statement regarding the new defunct program was expected, and obtained by The New York Times moments before Wednesday’s hearing was underway. Times reporter Charlie Savage wrote that morning that information about the pilot project was only recently declassified by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and that the draft answer obtained by the paper and later read aloud by Alexander was prepared in case he was asked about the topic. Still unsatisfied by the intelligence community’s explanation about the collection of cellphone location data, Sen. Wyden supplied the Times with a response suggesting that the truth behind the NSA’s activities isn’t being fully acknowledged by the intelligence community. “After years of stonewalling on whether the government has ever tracked or planned to track the location of law-abiding Americans through their cellphones, once again, the intelligence leadership has decided to leave most of the real story secret — even when the truth would not compromise national security,” Wyden said. Read More Here |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:46 PM PDT
 Authorities have arrested a man in San Francisco, California accused of operating an underground website that allowed users to purchase guns and drugs from around the world using encrypted, digital currency. Ross William Ulbricht, a 29-year-old graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Materials Science and Engineering known by the online alias “Dread Pirate Roberts,” was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday for his alleged involvement in the Silk Road online marketplace, according to court papers published this week. The Silk Road website was shut down following Ulbricht’s arrest on Tuesday. A sealed complaint dated September 27 was unearthed by security researcher Brian Krebs, in which Ulbricht is accused of narcotics trafficking conspiracy, computer hacking conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and more. According to prosecutors, Ulbricht aided in the trafficking of controlled substances from January 2011 up until last week. Through a government investigation, authorities determined that several thousand drug dealers used Silk Road to distribute hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs to over a hundred thousand buyers, laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in the process. Additionally, prosecutors say Ulbricht solicited a Silk Road user in March of this year to “execute a murder-for-hire.” The would-be victim, according to the FBI, was another user of the website who “threatened to release the identities of thousands of users of the site.” According to the complaint, Ulbricht eventually agreed to pay an online hitman the equivalent of approximately $150,000 to execute the user who threatened to leak customer details. “Ulbricht has been willing to pursue violent means to maintain his control of the website and the illegal proceeds it generates for him,” the FBI attests. The special agent who filed the criminal complaint wrote that law enforcement has no record of the homicide ever occurring. Elsewhere in the complaint, authorities quote from a private message between Ulbricht and another user of his site in which the administrator claimed to have previously ordered a “clean hit” for $80,000. The FBI says that law enforcement agents participating in the Silk Road probe made over 100 individual undercover drug deals from Silk Road vendors since November 2011. Sellers, authorities say, came from no fewer than 10 foreign countries. Read More Here |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2013 05:06 PM PDT
 Beyond the glitches.An employee of Minnesota’s Obamacare exchange, MNsure, sent an unencrypted file to the wrong person and left 2,400 people’s private information at the mercy of a nearby insurance agent.We’ve written about the possibility of fraud, but as with all government endeavors, incompetence and carelessness are at least equal threats. I’ll be damned if I’d put my Social Security number into one of these untested databases today, so it can be handed off to a random navigator without a background check, printed off and left in a public library printer tray, or leaked to a local insurance agent. This is dangerous stuff, and it will happen over and over again. I tried my hand at the Maryland Healthcare Connection today, and after three hours of waiting, could not load more than one screen in the process. I tried Maryland’s site in an attempt to be charitable to Obamacare and offset my own bias somewhat. Maryland has been proactive about exchange development, started on Day One after the law passed, is a small state with a frightening ratio of health care bureaucrats to citizens, and should have been one of the most prepared states to launch an exchange. The exchange’s opening was pushed from midnight to 8 a.m. to noon, at which point they put up this considerate message: That’s sort of the pitch from Congressional Republicans. We want to make Obamacare as pleasant an experience for the American people as possible by giving them the option to not experience it at all. Many Obamacare supporters emphasized that the “giltches” in exchanges today are no biggie. They’ll be ironed out quickly, they’re a “great problem to have,” they’re only happening because so very many people want to sign up. Debatable. As I’ve written before, those who crafted the bill had no concept of how complicated what they were proposing would be to build. Today, Jay Carney revealed the depth of that ignorance when he answered questions about system, database, and server capacity problems with Obamacare today by saying, “I’m not an expert in web design.” Federal regulators, at the behest of Obama administration officials, delayed filling in the blanks left by ignorant lawmakers, further slowing the preparation process. Maryland, which was anxious to do all it could, was often running ahead of the feds, waiting for vital pieces of regulatory information. Read More Here |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2013 05:05 PM PDT
This site was sent to Alex Jones anonymously by an alleged NASA Employee yesterday Oct 1st (Day One of Gov Shutdown) who was frustrated by the gov shutdown. The website is supposedly unreleased and isn’t supposed to be released to the public yet due to the gov shutdown. The weird thing is that the domain expires on February 02, 2020 and it was registered on February 01, 1995.
 “The Biggest Discovery That will shake the earth, It will never be the same again.” |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2013 05:02 PM PDT
 The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on whether a conviction for domestic violence precludes Americans from obtaining a firearms license. The Obama administration has argued that ending the prohibition would invalidate bans in much of the US.The Justices announced Tuesday they would hear eight cases of the more than 2,000 appeals that accumulated over the summer. Among them is an argument from James Alvin Castleman, who maintains that his misdemeanor domestic assault conviction in Tennessee does not prevent him from legally owning a gun. Castleman pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor assault charge in 2001. Federal law forbids the purchase, possession, or transportation of guns and ammunition by people convicted of “a misdemeanor crime of violence.” Federal authorities investigating a murder in Chicago, Illinois years later discovered that Castleman and his wife were illegally dealing weapons on the black market. Castleman’s wife would purchase the guns legally in her name then give them to Castleman, who resold the guns. When he was arrested on gun charges in 2009, Castleman contested the federal indictment, claiming the he was not convicted of using physical force in his domestic assault case eight years before. A judge and the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals concurred, ruling that his conviction did not qualify as domestic violence which requires “the use or attempted use of physical force,” as outlined under federal law. “Castleman’s indictment does not provide a basis from which we conclude that his domestic assault conviction entailed violent physical force,” the Cincinnati, Ohio-based appeals court wrote. “Castleman may have been convicted for causing a minor injury such as a paper cut or a stubbed toe.” A government certiorari petition asked the Court to determine whether Castleman’s “Tennessee conviction for misdemeanor domestic assault by intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to the mother of his child qualifies as a conviction for a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” under the ban. The Obama administration has said that ruling the Tennessee law unconstitutional would nullify similar laws in many states throughout the US. The 1996 federal law barring gun possession for domestic violence offenders “would be rendered largely inoperative,” the administration wrote. The Supreme Court’s review, which is scheduled to take place in January, happens at a time when Congress has sought to add more domestic violence-related offenses – including temporary protective orders and stalking crimes – to the prohibition list. A 2011 assessment of FBI crime data by the Violence Policy Center found that 94 percent of female homicide victims were killed by a man they knew. The male spouse was the killer in 61 percent of such incidents. |
