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  euicho 4:21 pm on 6/26/2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: gadgets ( 8 ), phone ( 12 ), privacy, security ( 3 ), technology ( 19 )   

  Cell Phone Tracking and Bugging 

  

  photo by Jurvetson (flickr)

  Tell your average hipster that they can use VZ Navigator on their phone to get directions to the coolest new club through a GPS chip in their phone, and they’ll probably think its pretty neat. Tell the same thing to your average healthily paranoid geek, and they’ll hopefully question how else it might be used. Sure its cool, but if Verizon can do it, so can the government. On top of that, they may also turn on on your mic even when you’re not on a call. In a follow up to my article on FBI cell phone tapping, we’ll be discussing how you can be tracked on your cellphone, and under what circumstances.

  UPDATE: See this article on cellular phone company tracking

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  euicho 10:47 am on 8/8/2007 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: activism ( 8 ), privacy, wiretapping   

  More on Warrantless Wiretapping 

  As if the government didn’t try hard enough to keep us in a state of constant fear, THIS tops almost all (the rest of our civil rights that are currently being violated excluded).

  via Threat Level

  A new law expanding the government’s spying powers gives the Bush Administration a six-month window to install possibly permanent back doors in the nation’s communication networks. The legislation was passed hurriedly by Congress over the weekend and signed into law Sunday by President Bush.

  The bill, known as the Protect America Act, removes the prohibition on warrantless spying on Americans abroad and gives the government wide powers to order communication service providers such as cell phone companies and ISPs to make their networks available to government eavesdroppers.

  Basically, all phone, internet and Voice over IP service providers (including Skype, Google Talk, and Gizmo Project) can now be ordered to put in back door spying measures for the government, all without warrant. I’ll stick to encrypting sensitive emails and using paper for other sensitive data.

   
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  euicho 3:32 pm on 8/17/2006 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: privacy, security ( 3 )   

  Judge orders halt to NSA wiretap program 

  You read correctly Ladies and Gentlemen, someone is actually defending the Constitution!

  Today a Detroit federal judge ordered the Bush administration to halt the NSA’s domestic “eavesdropping” (illegal wiretapping) program. You go Judge Anna Diggs Taylor! Finally someone in the judicial system has stepped forward and said warrantless wiretapping is a major violation of the United States Constitution.

  So sayith Reuters:

  Judge Taylor said the controversial practice of warrantless wiretapping known as the “Terrorist Surveillance Program” violated free speech rights, protections against unreasonable searches and the constitutional check on the power of the presidency.

  Specifically, Judge Taylor ruled that the Bush administration had violated the terms of a 1978 surveillance law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which requires warrants for individual eavesdropping on suspects inside the United States. (swissinfo)

  Thanks to Think Progress who found a copy of the injunction that can be viewed here: 06-10204Injunction

  Today is a good day.

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    Bob 5:39 pm on 8/21/2006 Permalink

    And in other news (probably) …

    Adult Oriented Phone Services have recorded a record surge in business since the latest wiretapping program has been found unlawful.

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    Doody 11:20 pm on 8/27/2006 Permalink

    Yeah, well we will see what that will do. Unfortunately in the realm of the World Politique, there is a lot of talk and very little action. Kind of like the UN Sanction on Lebanon, which is just like “uh, hey, could you guys like, stop? Please?” We will see my friend, we will see.

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    Jesse 8:36 pm on 9/5/2006 Permalink

    Are you doubting the government in some way… thats very unamerican. I’m going to have to report you to the FBI.

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    euicho 1:06 pm on 9/6/2006 Permalink

    oh no!!!

    I better go delete all references to hating bush on my blog!
    lol.
    Thats the problem. People don’t realize you can distrust and detest your government while still loving your country. The government doesn’t make a country, the *people* do. (o.o)