Police State

Trump supports renewal of invasive spy law without modification.

We can only hope for an exodus of talent from the NSA. I'm skeptical.

NSA and GCHQ have intercepted in-flight mobile communications for years.

History of CIA incompetence.

Street lamps to be wired with cameras and microphones in San Diego. I won't visit there.

Spies have so much data on everybody they can selectively reveal whatever they want to benefit or destroy whomever they want. That's why I say NSA is the ultimate power in the country.

UK passes most invasive spy law in western world.

Hacked NSA tools for sale on market.

Prosecutors subpoena Alexa records in criminal case. Amazon claims Alexa is protected by the first amendment. That's a crazy argument. Regardless, Alexa and all other voice command assistants are spying all the time. The government gets that info whether it has a warrant or subpoena or not.

Amazon refuses to turn over Echo recording to Arkansas police.

Microsoft can call for a digital Geneva Convention, but all governments will break it. They always spy to the limits of technology. They limit themselves to legal spying.

Government allows Microsoft to sue it over email surveillance.

Twitter blocks government from accessing user data.

US-born NASA scientist detained at border and coerced into unlocking his phone.

State-sponsored hackers hack journalists.

DHS considers forcing US visitors to surrender social media passwords.

Man arrested for arson based on pacemaker data. Even medical devices are spying on you.

FBI reverts to using fax machines and snail mail to slow down responding to FOIA requests.

Secret rules make it easy for FBI to spy on journalists.

FBI hacked 8,000 computers in 120 countries based on one warrant. FBI uses malware like a grenade.

Fusion centers are a billion dollar boondoggle to promote paranoia.

Groupthink in the 17 member intelligence community which is focused on only expansion.

Obama signed new law against whistleblowers in December.

Why we need whistleblowers.

DHS and FEMA expose 10,000 trainees to ricin.

Anti-surveillance clothing hides people from surveillance cameras.

Local police building their own DNA databases.

Politics

DHS hackers tried to hack Georgia's election. And you naively believed it was the Russians. More. DHS scapegoats rogue employee.

Politics

Secret Service, DHS scramble to secure election. If you replace the word scramble with federalize, you get the truth.

Comey says no charges from Clinton's newest email discovery.

Obama tells illegal aliens they can vote without consequence.

Politics

After making sure voting machines and the internet is easily hackable, Feds use that as an excuse to have DHS take over elections.

Forgotten men revolt against leftists in Europe.

Police State

DHS customs agents seize phones from Wall Street Journal reporter.

Cops are equal opportunity killers.

"Increasingly, Americans realize we pay for “police protection” with our blood: in the ten days between July 7’s five dead cops in Dallas and Baton Rouge’s ambush of three on July 17, police nationwide slew almost four times as many of us. And only ten of those 31 fatalities were black. Not that it matters—but let’s repudiate the notion that black Americans alone die from serficide. This tragedy affects all of us, regardless of color."

Serficide.

Police State

DHS funding audio surveillance in cities.

The dead Boston Marathon bomber may have been a double-agent working for the FBI.

TSA beats up brain cancer patient proving once again it has nothing to do with stopping terrorism.

Police State

Orlando killer worked for the government.

"He may not have come out as a homosexual, but Mateen was loud and proud about his orientation as an aspiring Islamic terrorist. He did so while safely ensconced in law-enforcement. His career Mateen launched at the Florida Department of Corrections. His duties frequently took him to the St. Lucie County courthouse, in Fort Pierce. Mateen was serving as guardian of people and property when he committed the worst massacre since 9/11.
Since 2007, Mateen had worked at the Florida subsidiary of a multinational British security firm, the largest in the world, and, as we now know, likely one of the worst. Mateen’s (likely Kufar) coworkers described him as “racist, belligerent” and generally “toxic.” G4S responded by transferring the complaining coworkers rather than firing the menacing Mateen."

Political correctness kills.

"G4S Secure Solutions has contracts with the Department of Homeland Security. It would appear the company assists DHS in operating the taxpayer-funded, catch-and-release, illegal-alien racket. According to investigative journalist Paul Sperry, many of these offenders are “classified as OTMs—Other Than Mexican—and include … possibly also foreign border-crossers from the Middle East and Pakistan.”"

Great.

"The government agency’s media front men and women insist that there’s nothing here to see. All are agreed that the FBI’s 35,000 agents can’t possibly be expected to surveil 1000 purported suspects. In the private, productive economy that state-of-affairs would portend subpar—make that abysmal—productivity. Try telling the clientele you cater to that the 35 workers in your employ can’t possibly be expected to carry a caseload of … one, for that’s the ratio of workers-to-work the FBI is kvetching about."

No kidding.

"The FBI missed the Tsarnaev Brothers of Boston Marathon fame. They missed The Fockers, I mean the Farooks, butchers of San Bernardino, and they missed Omar Saddiqui Mateen, whose actions media are now finessing as those of a latent homosexual-cum-homophobe, fixated on phallic symbols like big guns."

They profit from terrorism. They'll probably get a bigger budget and more agents.
Promotions for everybody.

Police State

Obama's DHS claims right-wingers are as dangerous of terrorists as jihadists.

"Just months after Department of Homeland Security advisers claimed “the threat from right-wing extremists domestically is just as real as the threat from Islamic extremism,” DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson is now suggesting his department should be in charge of implementing gun control."

Obama through and through.

The FBI radicalized the Orlando shooter for ten months in 2013, but FBI director blames internet.

Claim that Intel chipsets contain autonomous CPU the NSA will no doubt control. So much for buying Intel.

"On some chipsets, the firmware running on the ME implements a system called Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT). This is entirely transparent to the operating system, which means that this extra computer can do its job regardless of which operating system is installed and running on the main CPU. From the report: The purpose of AMT is to provide a way to manage computers remotely (this is similar to an older system called "Intelligent Platform Management Interface" or IPMI, but more powerful). To achieve this task, the ME is capable of accessing any memory region without the main x86 CPU knowing about the existence of these accesses. It also runs a TCP/IP server on your network interface and packets entering and leaving your machine on certain ports bypass any firewall running on your system."

Insane. Let's hope AMD doesn't do the same.

FBI keeps locations of surveillance cameras in Seattle secret. Where else do they have them?

Police State

How can one man kill 50 and wound 53 more inside a nightclub without anybody tackling him?

Orlando shooter was a spook with a fascist security firm. More.

"We are now hearing that Mateen was “on the radar” of law enforcement “for some time,” although what this means exactly is not at all clear. Apparently Mateen was “well-organized and well-prepared,” which raises the as yet unproven possibility that he may have had international connections. There are reports that Omar Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS, possibly during the shooting, as well as in a 911 call made the night of the shooting. NBC is reporting that he referenced the Tsarnaev brothers during the shooting."

They never stop real terrorists, even when they're watching them. Is it government failure or a false flag?

ISIS claimed it was targeting Florida three days ago. This suggests ISIS has infiltrated DHS. More likely he was radicalized by US aggression like the Fort Hood shooter.

I don't like license plate scanners, but I can see no legal reason to block cops from using them because government owns the roads.

This is the first organization I've heard of calling to reject city surveillance. I'm surprised surveillance camera defeating masks aren't already on sale.

Immigration

DHS helps illegal immigrants.

"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly transporting illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to Phoenix and releasing them without proper processing or issuing court appearance documents, Border Patrol sources tell Judicial Watch. The government classifies them as Other Than Mexican (OTM) and this week around 35 were transferred 116 miles north from Tucson to a Phoenix bus station where they went their separate way."

Lawless Obama.

Police State

Government using spy planes over US cities.

"U.S. Government aircraft are using 'augmented reality' software during flights as they circle above major cities and 'target' Muslim areas.The software, which works through the spy plane's high resolution cameras, can be used by pilots to superimpose information - including the names of house owners and businesses - onto their screens.FBI and Homeland Security can also track the mobile phones of the residents below as dozens of aircraft take to the skies each day."

It would be bad enough if they only targeted Muslims, but that's not true. More.

The head of the TSA landed in Brussels just as the bombs went off offering more evidence for a false flag.

Government sets up fake university to entrap 21 people on visa fraud. Big deal.

FBI claims its iPhone hack tool doesn't work on newer phones. 

Immigration

Obama ordered DHS not to deport illegal immigrants.

Police State

The Internet of Broken Things.

Hackers leak list of FBI employees after leaking list of DHS employees.

Police State

Somebody just noticed the surveillance implications of self-driving cars.

European Human Rights Court rules mass surveillance illegal. Governments laugh.

DHS wants to outlaw internet anonymity.

Google exec wants to lock ISIS out of open web.

Police State

DHS lies about the cost of drones.

"Last year, the department's own inspector general declared that DHS drone purchasing program, which had spent $360 million since 2005 — $62 million in 2013 alone — was largely a failure. DHS had taken delivery of 11 MQ-9 Reaper drones, unarmed but otherwise similar to the ones used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan. DHS anticipated that the cost per flight hour would be $2,468, far lower than the actual $12,225. The agency was using accounting tricks to move the costs of pilots, equipment, and overhead off the books. Even the actual flights hours — 5,102 — were a fraction of the promised 23,296."

SOP.

Police State

Feinstein to use recent attacks as pretext to ruin encryption. They've been talking about it. Now they have their pretext.

FBI admits to using stingrays and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities.

DHS deployed plane and intercepted all phone calls after San Bernardino attacks.

How long have I been saying government was the worst threat to our security?

Police State

Chicago cops busted destroying security camera evidence after they killed somebody. SOP for them. The story is they caught and the police chief got fired.

DHS giving US firms "free penetration tests". What an ironic title. Maybe rapists should claim they provide free penetration tests. You know they're injecting malware too.

FBI uses national security letters as a pretext for bulk, warrantless spying.

HTTPS coders protest NSA spying by encoding the word PRISM into every connection. This means they're finally really focused on security.

LA cops abuse license plate readers by sending letters to people who drive on streets with prostitutes, warning them against hiring one.

Lampoon of terrorist threat.

Police State

DHS claims people have no rights when crossing the US border.

New Jersey court authorized warrantless searches of vehicles for any or no reason.

Spy agencies take revenge on security researchers who identify their hacks.

Hackers battle to control surveillance satellites.

The reason government pushes connected cars isn't safety. It's they can be easily tracked.

Secret Service claims power to track cell phones without warrant or probable cause.

Foreign Policy

The FBI, Secret Service and DHS are looking into reports the CIA director's email was hacked. Why isn't the CIA looking into it? Nothing sensible will come from this alphabet soup.

We're supposed to be unhappy Chinese firms are still targeting US firms, as if the US isn't doing the same but more aggressively and better.

Hubris has replaced discourse in foreign policy. For a while now.

I love that somebody is picking up my mantra: are warhawks stupid or evil?

Heavily armed by the US. Saudis threaten Iran.

Politics

I'm skeptical scientists can claim people are gay based on DNA.

DHS computer user accuses House majority leader of affair through Wikipedia. Hilarious, except for the victims. Who would you expect to investigate such an accusation? DHS.

Seattle yoga class excludes whites with no repercussions. Try doing the opposite.