skiwillgee opened this issue on Jul 27, 2013 · 29 posts
Quest posted Sat, 10 August 2013 at 10:29 PM
Just a few updates concerning this post as far as the NSA and American rights are concerned and trivials from around the world that happen to be off-shoots of the same problem.
Earlier this week I read about how the FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software from CNET.;
“The U.S. government is quietly pressuring telecommunications providers to install eavesdropping technology deep inside companies' internal networks to facilitate surveillance efforts.
FBI officials have been sparring with carriers, a process that has on occasion included threats of contempt of court, in a bid to deploy government-provided software capable of intercepting and analyzing entire communications streams. The FBI's legal position during these discussions is that the software's real-time interception of metadata is authorized under the Patriot Act.”
Then I hear from the Tor Project;
This is a critical security announcement.
An attack that exploits a Firefox vulnerability in JavaScript [1]
has been observed in the wild. Specifically, Windows users using the
Tor Browser Bundle (which includes Firefox plus privacy patches [2])
appear to have been targeted….
Tor Browser Bundle users should ensure they're running a recent enough
bundle version, and consider taking further security precautions as
described below…”
The Tor anonymous system has been attacked and who are the culprits;
“Initial investigations traced the address to defense contractor SAIC, which provides a wide range of information technology and C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) support to the Department of Defense. The geolocation of the IP address corresponds to an SAIC facility in Arlington, Virginia.
Further analysis using a DNS record tool from Robotex found that the address was actually part of several blocks of IP addresses permanently assigned to the NSA. This immediately spooked the researchers. “
The NSA…those same people who can’t stand a free and opened Internet that government can’t tax and control (yet) and want to subjugate their people with, now becomes open target.
Under the scurrilous threat and guise of terrorism, child pornography or any other arguments from the government that the general public can’t stand, It gives them “reason” under the name of protecting “American rights” to follow through on falsified and aggrandized accusations.
Eric Eoin Marques who owns his own server amongst all those servers that favored the Tor project but in the end of itself it garnered scrupulous sites is not what the Tor project is at all about. These are but stepping stones through a better garden. There will be some bad apples.
The Tor project continues to offer unrestricted open uncensored, communication among people, cultures and societies, internationally. It has learned the NSA infiltration as a javascript weakness in FireFox 17 and now continues from lessons learned. Please open your minds and seek answers to a deeper world.