Wiretaps

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• Alberto Gonzales Wont Be Charged Over Eavesdropping Testimony

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff Bush made me do it! Its his fault. I just followed orders: Alberto Gonzales, pilloried for allegedly misleading Congress about the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping program, has been exonerated — sort of. According to public records and interviews with federal ...
  10 hours ago

• Bush Administration Was Afraid It Would Have To Admit Telcos Hel...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 168
  With the EFF finally successful in getting the federal govt to hand over some lobbying documents involved in the process of granting telcos total immunity in lawsuits over warrantless wiretapping, the press is starting to go through the documents. read more
  1 week ago

• OBAMA’S GODFATHER: CHAPTER 10: SPYING ON AMERICANS

  
  Pumas Unleashed — Authority: 125
  Editor’s Note: This chapter discusses the extent to which the Obama Administration is spying on Americans. Prior administrations did this for security reasons. There is evidence that the current administration is doing it for political reasons as well. If that is true, then the words of Orwell in the classic book ...
  1 week ago

• How to DDOS a federal wiretap

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 144
  Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they’ve discovered a way to circumvent the networking technology used by law enforcement to tap phone lines in the U.S.The flaws they’ve found “represent a serious threat to the accuracy and completeness of wiretap records used for both criminal investigation ...
  1 week ago

• How to DDOS a federal wiretap

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 134
  Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they’ve discovered a way to circumvent the networking technology used by law enforcement to tap phone lines in the U.S. The flaws they’ve found “represent a serious threat to the accuracy and completeness of wiretap records used for both criminal ...
  1 week ago

• A single smartphone can DoS federal wiretaps

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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  1 week ago

• A single smartphone can DoS federal wiretaps

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 161
  As the telecommunications world went wireless and digital, the tried-and-true method law enforcement agencies used for wiretaps—splicing into the local loop—was in danger of becoming an anachronism. In 1994, Congress passed the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act , which required telecommunications ...
  1 week ago

• A single smartphone can DoS federal wiretaps

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 759
  As the telecommunications world went wireless and digital, the tried-and-true method law enforcement agencies used for wiretaps—splicing into the local loop—was in danger of becoming an anachronism. In 1994, Congress passed the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act , which required telecommunications ...
  1 week ago

• Government Will Release Some Telco Wiretap Lobbying Documents – Though they’ll protect AT&T and Verizon company identities

  
  remove the labels | Gadgets and Life — Authority: 437
  A Federal Judge has demanded, three times now, that the Obama Administration hand over documents that highlight how major phone companies AT&T and Verizon lobbied for legal immunity for their involvement in the government’s warrantless wiretap program. The government, with no real legal footing to stand on, has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Civil Lib Groups Endorse H.R. 3845, American Lib Assoc. Issues Action Alert

  
  banned librarian — Authority: 104
  A coalition of 20 civil liberties organizations, including the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), released a letter today endorsing the USA Patriot Amendments Act (H.R. 3845) and pointing out the failures of the Senate’s PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act (S. 1692). As their names suggest, the Amendments ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hey, even the FBI gets telemarketing calls

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 693
  Yep, it’s true. Even the G-men who are trying to track down criminals get calls from those pesky telemarketers. Buried in a 160-page report by the U.S. Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine was a little nugget that the Federal Bureau of Investigation apparently has been receiving calls from ...
  4 weeks ago

• Wiretaps on Wall Street

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 480
  “Leave the gun, take the cannoli.” The world of organized crime evokes thoughts of payoffs, extortion, racketeering, and wiretaps. Are regulators now utilizing tools previously relegated to infiltrating the backroom dealings of the underworld to discover illegal activities on Wall Street? Yes, they are. The ...
  4 weeks ago

• Galleon Wiretaps Rattle Hedge Funds as Insider Trading Targeted

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 153
  by Katherine Burton and Richard GlovinOct. 26 (Bloomberg) – First came the biggest bear market since the 1930s, then Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme and the threat of increased regulation. Now hedge funds have a new concern: getting caught on tape as the government expands its use of wiretaps to ferret ...
  4 weeks ago

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