In Spying, "Things like phone numbers or emails" Turn Out to Be Far More

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emptywheel
The privacy community and the international community are shocked that the FBI and the FISA Court ordered Yahoo do to a scan of all its incoming email. They probably shouldn't be -- but the IC went well out of its way to mislead on this point.
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The Jetzon's Self Driving Auto Car Drone Aint Here Yet

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bmaz
History shows again and again How nature points out the folly of men. Yeah, truer words never spoken. Even if in relation to Godzilla. And you can apply that to the relentlessly ballyhooed "autonomous driving automobiles". Seriously,…
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The Kids Are Alright Trash Talk

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bmaz
Been in a rather heated matter all week, and Marcy has been traveling. Bottom line is, blogging has been thin here. Sorry about that. And this post will be only a band-aid, and I apologize about that as well. Problem is, while I was off heatedly…
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Yahoo to Clapper: Global, Global, Beyond our Borders, Global

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emptywheel
In its letter asking James Clapper's office to explain the scan it was obligated to do last year, Yahoo emphasizes the global implications of ODNI's continued silence.
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Some Cops Will Stand against Grabbing Women By Their P*$$y, But Not the National Fraternal Order of Police

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emptywheel
The Fraternal Order of Police president says they won't rescind their endorsement of Donald Trump unless someone actually pressed criminal charges for sexual assault.
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When Reporters Discover Selective Leak Targeting

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emptywheel
Shane Harris is surprised that only James Cartwright is being prosecuted for leaking about StuxNet. But that's not really all that surprising.
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The Same Month CBP Missed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, It Was Ramping Up Searches for "Good" Guys

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emptywheel
The month that Customers and Border Protection failed to question Tamerlan Tsarnaev on his way to Russia, CBP was ramping up a program to start stopping the "good" guys looking for informants.
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This Stupid Election Campaign

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Ed Walker
We left the country to get away from this stupid election campaign. It's everywhere.
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In Latest Russian Plot, WikiLeaks Reveals Hillary Opposes ISDS

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emptywheel
The Intelligence Community is still not willing to say that WikiLeaks is a Russian agent. Which makes sense, because some files in recent leaks have countered the claimed Russian narrative about Hillary.
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[Photo: National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, MD via Wikimedia]

NSA, Lazarus, and Odinaff

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emptywheel
A third hacking group -- which Symantec dubs Odinaff -- appears to be attempting to hack the SWIFT messaging system, targeting the US and countries closely aligned with it.
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Tuesday: Disinfowar Dust Up

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Rayne
In this roundup: Disinfowar, fossil fuels' finale, pipeline problems, and a longish short film about evolving hope.
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On Provenance and Putin: That Sid Blumenthal Story

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emptywheel
Kurt Eichenwald may be justifiably horrified that Trump used Eichenwald's own judgment that Benghazi is a fair line of attack on Hillary. But his story on how that happened is overheated.
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Can the Government Use FISA to Get Evidence of Past Criminal Activities?

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emptywheel
The case of Ahmed Mohammed El Gammal, who was indicted for conspiring to materially support ISIL, seems to feature some novel programmatic surveillance techniques and parallel construction.
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Argument: The DNC Hack Attribution Was A Response to Brick and Mortar Events

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emptywheel
Why did the government release a statement accusing Russia of hacking the DNC now reflecting the same degree of certainty and uncertainty it has had for months?
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Week Five NFL Trash Talk: The Return of Brady

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bmaz
It may not be the biggest game of week five, but all eyes will be on Tom Brady and his return from the idiotic, dishonest and petulant suspension manufactured by Roger Goodell and the NFL. That is going to be the story. What can we expect?…
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More Thoughts on the Yahoo Scan

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emptywheel
We're getting some clarity on what the scan of Yahoo's email systems was. But not on when and why the scan was removed.
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Trump Is Who He's Always Been, And Trump Is the Epitome of the GOP; They Have To Own Him

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bmaz
The Friday night news of the Trump extreme misogyny video was really not shocking. It is who Trump is. But that is also who todays GOP is, and they can't walk back from their Trumpism. And it's too late for them to change the ballot.
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FBI's Surveillance Arbitrage, First Amendment Edition

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emptywheel
While I was cycling around Provence without a care in the world last week, DOJ's Inspector General released an IG Report mandated by the USA Freedom Act. It reports on the use of Section 215 from 2012 to 2014 (which means NSA and FBI have successfully…
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