GCHQ, the British version of the NSA created a program around 2008 that hacked into Yahoo’s network and captured stills of video chats being conducted by Yahoo users. So as not to overload GCHQ’s servers, the software only stored one image per video session every 5 minutes. Still, in a 6 month period, they captured […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apparently some British Members of Parliament (MPs) are not terribly happy today. It came to light by way of some more leaked documents from Edward Snowden that GCHQ – the British equivalent of the CIA – has been reading the emails of Members of Parliament for years. Given that Parliament is in the middle of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]GCHQ is The British version of the CIA. Usually, they are out chasing bad guys in foreign countries. This week they are protecting British citizens. With all of the news of intelligence agencies eavesdropping on citizens, it is nice to hear a story where they are decidedly, doing the right thing. This all started with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the U.S. has Snowden, The Brits have Privacy International. As part of a lawsuit, Privacy International obtained formerly secret files regarding the extent of British surveillance. The data the Brits are hoovering up includes private medical records, correspondence with your doctor or lawyer, financial data and other information. And the government admits that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I said last night in the article about the European Court of Justice, every national intelligence agency that has the ability to do so is vacuuming data from the Internet. The Intercept wrote a very detailed article analyzing some new documents from the Edward Snowden document dump. The article links to the original documents […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A newly published article in The Intercept says that the NSA and GCHQ hacked anti virus vendor’s software and networks in order to “neutralize the threat” posed by that software. Based on newly released Edward Snowden documents, GCHQ obtained a warrant in 2008-2009 to have legal permission to monitor web traffic, hack email and reverse engineer […]
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