A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to rule on whether lawsuits seeking to target President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping are covered by secrecy laws or can be challenged in court.Citing the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday sent the case entitled "Hepting v AT&T" back to a district court that had heard an
I know what you’re thinking: You are certain that in the 29 gazillion press availabilities that you have watched, you have heard everything that former White House press flack Scott McClellan has to say about George W. Bush’s great American truth killing machine. But there he is, on the radio, on the TV, up in the sky. . . and you find yourself looking and listening again.
OK, I didn’t see h
For 2007, the department confirms that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the secret court that approves such warrants, approved 2,370 requests, compared to 1012 in 2000. ~ more... ~
You can now rule out the baseball field at Glen Cove High School as a place where it is safe for organized-crime figures to plot their racketeering activities.
Two reputed members of the Colombo organized-family were convicted Thursday of racketeering and extortion after a trial in which testimony centered around FBI wiretap's made with bugs planted at the school's ballfield, according to
Just four days after Michael B. Mukasey was sworn in as attorney general, Justice Department officials said Tuesday that President Bush had reversed course and approved long-denied security clearances for the Justice Department’s ethics office to investigate the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program.read more | digg story
This week - new developments in two stories we reported on last year.In August, a federal judge tried to stop what the Bush administration calls the Terrorist Surveillance Program. A presidential order let the National Security Agency read e-mails and listen to calls to or from al-Qaida suspects in the United States without a court order.The judge in Detroit said the program violated rights of free speech and privacy. She ruled it unconstitutional and in violation of a federal intelligence law.In October, an appeals court said the government could continue the program while it appealed the ruling.But this week the administration said it has ended the use of surveillance without court approval. It says the program now operates under rules prepared by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.Democrats, newly in control of Congress, praised the move but said it should have happened sooner. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont said there are still questions about exactly how the program wil
On Thursday, out of the Democratic dung heap, emerged a person with courage and conviction.The Democrats in Congress were about to cave in once again, when Senator Christopher Dodd said enough is enough and put a hold on a bill that would have granted immunity to the telecommunications companies which assisted the White House in committing illegal and unconstitutional wiretaps.So despite the efforts of the Democratic pussies to appease our dear President, the bill is now stalled. In 2001 Bush authorized the NSA to secretly wiretap Americans without a court order, which happened to be illegal. Telecommunication companies jumped at the chance to give away private citizens' records and Comcast even charged the government a thousand dollars for each record.Now please don't comment that the poor telecoms were just following orders. That issue was settled a long time ago at Nuremberg. And it is not like these guys are wanting for legal representation, which is quite capable of evaluat
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Welcome to installment 17 of MMwOSX. This time around I'll be giving away a free month pass to HowAudio.com where you'll find my new Ableton Live video course, reviewing the latest release from Propellerheads, Reason version 4, doing a quick intro and recap for any new readers/listeners, giving away more free loops from www.BeatHive.com, and covering new software releases including Ambrosia Software's WireTap Studio, a new beta version of the AudioCodex program and Digidesign's new virtual amp plug-in "Eleven."----------HowAudio: Ableton Live Videos and Free Pass ContestI've just finished a series of video tutorials called "Ableton Live: Basics" for HowAudio.com. The course includes over 5 and 1/2 hours of information, concepts and in-depth coverage on using this amazin
The government got companies to wiretap phone lines for a thousand bucks a pop. Then...it cost $750 to continue it each month!! Before you think, "gee, the government is really getting ripped," realize that you are actually the ones paying Comcast to illegally spy on yourselves. Great deal, eh?read more | digg story
Ambrosia Software lanza al mercado una completa suite para gestionar todas las fuentes de entrada de audio en tu Mac.
WireTap Studio 1.0.0 permite grabar fuentes de audio desde la entrada de micrófono o Line-input de cualquier Mac para grabar emisiones de radio desde iTunes o capturar viejos LPs para pasarlo a formato Digital.
Con WireTap Studio [...]
In addition to subpoenas issued to the White House, the VPs office and the Department of Justice: “the panel is seeking materials on related issues, including the relationship between the Bush administration and several unidentified telecommunications companies that aided the N.S.A. eavesdropping program.” So upon the question of illegalities in the NSA program, the usual games of rhetoric and politics can be played. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) called the response prior to the subpoenas issuance as ‘“stonewalling of the worst kind.”’ May saw the testimony of James Comey a former deputy AG during which he described a March 2004 “confrontation” between Justice officials and White House aides regarding the “legality of the wiretapping program.” Of the testimony Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in fine politically tuned rhetoric said: ‘“The Comey testimony moved this front and center. Alarm bells went off. His testimony made it clear that there had been an effort
Happy Friggin Monday … NOT
Hai 2 U Americans. Get your privacy apps and proxies ready, cause the FBI will have all their gear set up by Monday May 14th:
May 14th is the official deadline for cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, satellite internet companies and some universities to finish wiring up their networks with FBI-friendly surveillance gear, to comply with the FCC’s expanded interpretation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.
Isn’t that special? Oh well, its not like “they” weren’t listening in the whole time anyway. Only now, its all legal thanks to a bill, aka CALEA, passed by Congress in ‘94 to help expedite the process of phone/cellular wiretapping, which was expanded to wiretapping the net in June of 2006. Unfortunately, we can’t just blame G W Bush for all this crap. Darn.
However, fear not! An IP address does not represent a person. They are easy to change and easy to
This week's installment covers remixing the new Nine Inch Nails song "Survivalism" in GarageBand 3, Recording your Mac's Text to Speech functionality with WireTap Pro, IcedAudio's AudioFinder 4.5 update and OS X Audio Resources on the World Wide Web.
Britain may have more CCTV cameras per head than anywhere else in the world but when it comes to electronic surveillance the country is way behind Italy, the Netherlands and even Sweden. Official figures have revealed UK law enforcement agencies and other government bodies made 439,000 requests to monitor telephones and email addresses [...]
Gadget Reviews: Now we are bounded to transfer the electrical information via the Internet both for personal and business essential communication and its privacy is our right. But on the other part of the coin some devil minds misuse it, "The Cyber Criminals" and threats personal safety and national security. FBI was using a software based tool which was used to monetize the activity of some suspected person over internet. This tool is called Carnivore, later it was named DCS1000. Carnivore is a software based tool which is used to scan all Internet Protocol packets. But it records on only those packet(s) or segment(s) that meet very specific parameters.The packets are or can be selected based on the following:a. IP address or protocolb. In the case of e-mailc. On the user names in the TO and FROM fields.d. In limited cases, packets can be selected based on their content.e. Packets can be recorded in their entirety (full mode) or recording can be limited to addressing information (
