Month: February 2015

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Gemalto hacking shows that NSA and GCHQ are not shy about targeting market leaders to weaken phone encryption security

February 27, 2015 11:59 am Ashley Jacques 0
February 27, 2015 Gemalto hacking shows that NSA and GCHQ are not shy about targeting market leaders to weaken phone encryption security https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/ http://www.gemalto.com/press/Pages/Gemalto-presents-the-findings-of-its-investigations-into-the-alleged-hacking-of-SIM-card-encryption-keys.aspx https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/25/gemalto-doesnt-know-doesnt-know/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/20/gemalto_sim_surveillance_fallout/ By: Edwin Mok On February 19, 2015, The Intercept reported that in 2010-2011 the American and British spy agencies had hacked the world’s largest manufacturer of SIM cards and stolen encryption keys, potentially allowing intelligence agencies to “monitor mobile communications without seeking or receiving approval from telecom companies and foreign governments”.…
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Department of Justice Warrant Requirement Proposed Amendment Concerning Electronic Surveillance in Anonymous Computer Sources Raises Serious Fourth Amendment Concerns

February 26, 2015 11:55 am Ashley Jacques 0
February 26th, 2015 Department of Justice Warrant Requirement Proposed Amendment Concerning Electronic Surveillance in Anonymous Computer Sources Raises Serious Fourth Amendment Concerns By: Breta Olsen http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/02/19/google_says_proposed_doj_rule_41_revision_is_monumental_fourth_amendment.html http://justsecurity.org/15018/justice-department-proposal-massive-expand-fbi-extraterritorial-surveillance/ https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/government-pursuit-less-secure-internet The DOJ has proposed an amendment to Rule 41 of Federal Criminal Procedure on a proposed amendment that would allow magistrate judges to issue search warrants outside of their jurisdiction that authorize the “use [of] remote access to search electronic storage media and to seize or copy electronically stored information” when the location of the computer source is unknown.…
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U.S. v. Winn

February 26, 2015 11:52 am Ashley Jacques 0
February 26th, 2015 U.S. v. Winn By: Siyuan Wang https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1667465/sd-illinois-cellphone-20150209.pdf http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/02/23/court-invalidates-cell-phone-warrant-as-overbroad/ In this case, a man named Winn (the defendant) had been seen using his cell phone to photograph or videotape a group of minors in their swimsuits while rubbing his genitals.…
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Proposed Congressional Reform to Government Access to Emails

February 23, 2015 11:25 am Ashley Jacques 0
Panel 9 February 23rd, 2015 By: Alexia J Boyarsky Proposed Congressional Reform to Government Access to Emails http://thehill.com/policy/technology/230974-leahy-lee-ready-email-privacy-bill http://ivn.us/2015/02/16/240-u-s-reps-sign-bill-protecting-private-online-communications/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/ecpa-reform-will-kill-warrantless-email-searches/ New bi-partisan Congressional bill was introduced this week, resembling a similar bill from last year, that would require the government to get a warrant prior to obtaining access to any emails.…
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Has media coverage of Snowden’s NSA leaks conditioned Americans to have no subjective expectation of privacy in their virtual lives?

February 20, 2015 1:18 pm Ashley Jacques 0
By: Rose Dorvel February 19, 2015 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/13/david-carr-edward-snowden-death-interview_n_6677790.html Has media coverage of Snowden’s NSA leaks conditioned Americans to have no subjective expectation of privacy in their virtual lives? Earlier this week, New York Times columnist David Carr dropped dead mysteriously following a panel interview with Snowden discussing the film Citizenfour, which tracks the former-NSA-contractor-turned-whistleblower’s decision to leak National Security Agency’s documents on widespread, unchecked governmental spying on citizens to the media.…
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California Lawmaker Proposes Warrant Requirement for Digital Data Access

February 20, 2015 1:12 pm Ashley Jacques 0
February 19 By: Colin Johnson, Panel 9 California Lawmaker Proposes Warrant Requirement for Digital Data Access Article: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/california-lawmaker-proposes-warrant-requirement-for-digital-data-access/ Last Monday, a California state senator introduced the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, a bill that would establish new requirements for law enforcement officials to access suspects’ digital information.…