U.S. gives big, secret push to Internet surveillance

Justice Department agreed to issue “2511 letters” immunizing AT&T and other companies participating in a cybersecurity program from criminal prosecution under the Wiretap Act, according to new documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

Declan McCullagh CNET 4/24/2013

Senior Obama administration officials have secretly authorized the interception of communications carried on portions of networks […]

April 24th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Barack Obama, Civil rights, Congress, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Internet, Military, religion, Right to Privacy, US Constitution | Comments are closed

Obama rejected tough options for countering Chinese cyber attacks two years ago

“There’s so much of it going on the adversaries don’t know what the line is. They do not know that there is a line they can’t cross.”

 

Soft on Cyber Crime

Bill Gertz The Washington Free Beacon 3/11/2013

President Barack Obama two years ago rejected a series of tough actions against China, […]

March 11th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Barack Obama, China, Federal spending, Internet, Military, National Security | Comments are closed

White House Hack Attack

Chinese hackers break in to White House military office network in charge of the president’s nuclear football

Bill Gertz The Washington Free Beacon 9/30/2012

Hackers linked to China’s government broke into one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands, according to […]

September 30th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Asia, China, Computers, Department of Defense, Internet, Military, National Security, nuclear weapons | Comments are closed

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