Espionaje: El FBI se aterroriza de los hackers y los contrata

The FBI Is Terrified Of Hackers, And It Employs Them GEOFFREY INGERSOLL  Getty Images/Andrew Burton The FBI is terrified of hackers, so it avoids them at all costs, unless of course the agency needs to buy some nifty cyber surveillance tools. Intel agents have been buying sophisticated "hacking" surveillance tools from mercenary hacker organizations in order to surveill American citizens, and sometimes their ideas are not always legal, reports Jennifer Valentino-Devries and Danny Yadron of the WSJ. From WSJ: [Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union], who is presenting on the topic Friday at the DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas, said information about the practice...

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Que sabe la NSA acerca de vos

What the N.S.A. Knows About You By Kalliopi Monoyios |  Scientific American Looking for an intuitive way to understand the kind of data the N.S.A. has been collecting on all of us? A team at MIT has developed a helpful graphic for GMail users.Immersion is a program that reads only the meta data from your email – precisely what the N.S.A. is collecting from telephone and internet records – and creates a visual web of interconnectedness between you and the people in your inbox. This is a visualization of my email network as created by MIT's Immersion project. I have removed names out of respect for my friends and colleagues (who would want to be associated with me, anyhow?!) but I have indicated the major relationships...

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La National Security Agency americana introdujo Back Doors en todos los Windows desde 1999

NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999 by WashingtonsBlog Washington Blog Government Built Spy-Access Into Most Popular Consumer Program Before 9/11 In researching the stunning pervasiveness of spying by the government (it’s much more wide spreadthan you’ve heard even now), we ran across the fact that the FBI wants software programmers to install a backdoor in all software. Digging a little further, we found a 1999 article by leading European computer publication Heise which noted that the NSA had already built a backdoor into all Windows software: A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security...

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Gran Hermano en las redes sociales

Las compañías tecnológicas buscan resistir el avance del espionaje digital Google, Facebook y Microsoft, entre otras, intentan evitar los pedidos de información de la Agencia de Seguridad Nacional, a pesar de las pocas opciones legales que cuentan ante la iniciativa conocida como Prism. La Nación Una vista del centro de copias de seguridad de un centro de datos de Google en Berkeley, California. Foto: AP  Una vista del centro de copias de seguridad de un centro de datos de Google en Berkeley, California. Foto: AP  Google, Facebook y Microsoft , entre otras compañías tecnológicas, quieren resistirse a las demandas de Estados Unidos de entregar datos sobre consumidores para investigaciones de inteligencia,...

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