Rule 41 Now In Effect. US Stasi Powers Greatly Expanded.
While you were sleeping last night, Rule 41 became law. That was the deadline for Congress to block it from taking effect, but since we now have a FAKE GOVERNMENT®, they did nothing to stop it.
A last minute effort on Wednesday by the Senate failed to block the so-called Rule 41 change, which allows magistrate judges to issue search warrants for a slew of US agencies to remotely access and search computers in any jurisdiction, including abroad.
The government had argued it needed the powers to investigate systems where their location had been obscured.
Magistrates were only able to allow federal agencies to conduct searches within their own jurisdiction, often confined to a few counties. But the Justice Department said in recent days that the rule change would help prevent botnet-style attacks on US services and infrastructure, as well as ransomware attacks that often target indiscriminately.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-gains-expanded-hacking-powers-after-con...
So why should you care? Well, now you may be under secret government surveillance for simply visiting a 'bad guy' website. And what is a 'Bad Guy' Website? It's any site they say. Under Rule 41, federal agencies can secretly install spyware on your computer to read your harddrive and keep an eye on you. Click on a link out of curiosity, too bad, you're subject to a Rule 41 search warrant. Hey maybe someone here at C99 writes an essay that the National Stasi Agency doesn't like. Too bad, we'll all be under surveillance. But If you trust your government and the fascists running it, then this is no problem.
Without a debate or any new law, the rights of every American -- and basic privacy of people around the world -- have been narrowed. #Rule41 https://t.co/JstitiGBgs
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) December 1, 2016
Comments
Oh why not... they already demand...
that they can track us at all times with our phones which are now practically mandatory.
Then the banks demand that we get their app on a smart phone, and back it up by ensuring that there are only one or two physical tellers to serve major cities.
Governments then ban cash.
The fucking technocrats really think they can end the empire cycles of history via technological dog leashes and tattletales. (As in, preserve an obviously crumbling empire.)
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Right. This helps grease the NSA's wheels
of the Massive Spying Data Center In Utah. I guess we should start calling it Area 41.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Area 41. Excellent idea.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
This law doesn't make sense
And is easily stopped is a little technical know how. And the criminals they are supposedly after already use a cabble cade of encryption technologies and secure linux/bsd operating systems.
Its not that difficult to protect a system from most hacking even State actors such as the NSA/FBI/CIA. Its actually more difficult to stop ad tracking then system penetration attacks!
1. You cant secure windows, just give up, its designed that way.
2. Use linux, Ubuntu if you are new to it, Fedora if you have used it before.
3. While your system might be secure, always assume the other side of your communications isn't.
4. Treat communications over the internet like shouting in a public place filled with government, and corporate recording microphones in your face the entire time
5. Encrypt EVERYTHING, Its really hard to break modern encryption, even State actors with quantum computers can't break large keys, 2048bit key with a 4092bit prime, Even if you could try a hundred trillion trillion keys every second it would still take more time then the enthropy death of the universe to try all of the possible keys, and note a hundred trillion trillion keys is many orders of magnitude larger then what the largest cluster in the world can do.
6. When possible, with computer to computer communication use pre shared keys, shared via sneaker net. That is stored and traded via a usb stick or something, and never sent via email or some other patently insecure(aka anything on the internet) communication method.
7. Always assume that with your ISP, gmail or any other service that hacking is unnecessary, most of the time, the government can simply request access and get it, without bothering with hacking, or warrants. AKA why encryption is absolutely vital.
8. Government hates encryption, it is not uncommon to see people claim that 2048bit keys have been broken, or articles claiming PGP has been cracked. Both statements are complete bullshit, They might be able to break 1024bit keys on some older algorithms, or break keys from systems that all used the same prime number, both easily solved by using 4096bit keys and modern algorithms. And PGP can use lots of different encyption algorithms, so its not so much breaking PGP as breaking whatever algorithm it is currently using, which has happened in the past years after the messages where exchanged.
9. Encryption is actually pretty good, Everyone wants to break it, and funny enough this works in its favor, Plenty of people to sell the secret, plenty for the accolades, plenty from within the many governments of the world. Broken algorithms are found out pretty quickly, and the understanding of them has grown to a point that breaking them just doesnt happen very often anymore. And even if you break an algorithm that doesnt mean you can immediately read messages from it, large enough keys will still provide a fair amount of protection.
You Miss the Point.
Like the rest of the domestic spying suite, it's not about finding the needle in the haystack: finding the terrorist communications amongst the general population.
It's about finding or making hay on individual needles: finding damaging information on particular individuals.
This kind of surveillance is garbage for tracking and getting terrorists, but it's great for finding dirt and leveraging it against potentially inconvenient respectable individuals.
NSA programs are about controlling the population, not securing it.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
Your missing the point, this is why everyone should encrypt ever
Your missing the point, this is why everyone should encrypt everything. support efforts to make it easier for everyone todo encryption and their will be nothing for them to find, because it will ALL be crypto text they cant read, with no more use then any other stream of nearly random gobboldy guuk.
The Law Makes Complete Sense IF You Realize What It's Intent
is.
It only doesn't make sense if you accept the Establishment rationale.
It's like Bush being an unsuccessful President. He wasn't. He got everything he wanted save Social Security. His intent was not to serve the people. It was to serve Big Corporate & the Oligarchs.
It's like Democrats losing. It doesn't make sense unless you get the real intent of the DLC.
Or the Economy. Of course it's hard to grok unless you get to the intent to liberate consumers from the encumbrance of a fat wallet.
I agree that more people should be encrypting. Myself included.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
I Mean, You Said It Yourself, It's Easy to Beat If You Try.
Who tries? People who have nothing to hide? Or people who are doing bad things they want hidden?
The idea is that nobody is going to encrypt because,"Why Bother?". So it's only useful against non-dangerous, non-combatant, civilian operators.
I thought this was about Terrorism and bad guys?
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
but, but, but here we have no "bad guys", so I am safe, right?
I am always honest, dear surveillance master minders, tell you where I am and reveal all my secrets deliberately. So, be kind to me, will you? /s
Funk that sh...cookie.
My grandson's bank said he could no longer use
Square Cash. Has to be the bank's app. We keep telling him to change banks.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
A credit union might be better.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
They learned...
from Bernie's campaign (and perhaps the election) that corporate media doesn't control the masses as well as it should. The open internet is the enemy, and I'm pretty certain they are going after it now that the election is over.
Everyone seems worried we are going to become fascist. Too bad they don't recognize that train left the station long ago.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Make no mistake. The internet is next. Youre right.
The Washington Post is reporting that Donald Trump is gearing up to overturn Net Neutrality.1 In fact, an analyst quoted in this story says that “Net Neutrality has a big target on its back.”
Trump’s made no secret of his hatred for the open internet. He’s called Net Neutrality a "top-down power grab" and a force designed to attack conservative media.
His top two tech advisers, Mark Jamison and Jeffrey Eisenach, are tech industry mouthpieces who promote harmful mergers and rail against the open internet. Jamison even wants to get rid of the FCC — the agency charged with protecting our rights as internet users and media consumers.
If this isn't a fascist move, I do not know what is. "top-down power grab" I cannot think of a more obvious lie.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
Let's all remember that this happened under a Democratic
administration. And the party has been worthless in down ticket offices. The party that has been gloating about the death of the GOP has been the one doing the dying, culminating in nominating a non-viable presidential candidate. But this will all be laid at the feet of the voters, although we've screwed either way.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Turd Way = Fake Democrat. This sounds like Nixon Redux!
Rec'd!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
The Dim-o-crats went *too* far right
and left plenty of room for a non-doctrinaire Republican to run to their left. Guess who did.
Remains to be seen if either party learns the obvious lesson from this. (Probably not.)
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Keep saying it, Lily
Every time I hear "fear the Trump," I do the same thing.
Democrats have deported the most people
Democrats have instituted drone-kill lists
Democrats are persecuting whistleblowers
Democrats are (mostly) being silent on Standing Rock
. . . etc., etc., etc.
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
In the words of our fearless leader, Nancy Pelosi, "Embrace
the suck."
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
"A last minute effort"
shows how deeply concerned they are, in light of the litigation in April that found this rule to be just fine and dandy.
How many federal judges will Trump be appointing?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I love the FAKE Concern Of Congress Critters
This time they stage an 11th hour speech (probably to an empty hall) just so they can say "Hey we tried. But we couldn't do nothin about it."
FAKE GOVERNMENT®, that's my new favorite term. H/T to Obomba for starting the FAKE News meme.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
MSM is already trying to claim...
That we MUST support them, because otherwise we're just like Hitler.
I wish I was fucking kidding. If we call them out on their lies, we are Nazis. Yeah, apparently the only acceptable action is to support the people they say we should support.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/10/24/the-ugly-hi...
Seriously, this is getting STUPID. They diminish the power of history by ignoring the fact that there was an actual opposition party in Germany. Here... Eh, Not so much.
Ah hell with it, we already KNOW what they're really doing.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq4K1N9XttY]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
What is the Difference Between LuegenPresse and Fake News?
Other than the language?
And the irony of LuegenPresse first being used in 1918, when Eddie Bernays was changing the mood of the country from a landslide Presidential victory for: "He Kept Us Out of War" to "Kill the Kaiser" or be a seditionist is just too much.
May you live in interesting times, indeed.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
I refuse to download apps
for my credit union or much else. I have a solitaire app. I have a flashlight app. I have a pedometer app. They are already tracking my phone calls and texts, although I use the app, signal, to text-hope it helps.
Bottom. Fuckin' Line. We. Are. Not. free.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Ditch the flashlight app.
Those are notorious for spyware.
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." - Mark Twain
I had no idea!
Thanks for the tip! Deleting now!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Fuck this fascist country.
I'm ashamed I served it.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
Essentially
This already existed. This just gives government spying a veneer of legality. Even before the Promis software story, the internet was created and designed to be hackable.
Step back. During WWII the Nazis kept track of Jews and other undesirables in the Reich with the help of IBM punchcards. When the CIA imported Nazis into the US intelligence services at the end of WWII fascism was on the way. When someone figured out the internet someone was standing by him figuring out how to exploit it.
And no, paranoia should not be discouraged these days.
it's not paranoia if they're actually after you
We were called paranoid in the 60s and 70s. But as FOIA documents were revealed, it became clear that the infiltration, spying, disinformation, and assassinations were worse than we ever thought.
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
Since Allstate is cancelling my car insurance
I can now toss that tracking device. Always gave me the creeps, and I knew they could activate GPS. I ask during new insurance shopping (bundled home+car, plus umbrella) if they require a tracking device. Once learned, very skeptical.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Allstate use to be know for cancelling policies
My father in law had his homeowners insurance through Allstate for more than 2 decades. One of my sister in laws ran their car into his garage door and he submitted a claim to his homeowners insurance. They paid the minor claim, only a couple of hundred dollars back then, and then immediately cancelled him. He'd never had a claim before that. Insurance companies love you when sending them premium payments, they hate you when you make a claim!
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
George W. Bush