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There’s a paper that has been making waves, claiming it has found a formula to debunk conspiracies based on the likelihood if they were real, they would have already been leaked. Never mind that people have already found fault with the math, the study has another glaring flaw. It treats the PRISM program — and not, […]
As you may have heard, from February 20 to March 4, 2015, the FBI was operating the world’s largest kiddie porn site, during which point it hacked the site and thereby IDed the IP address of up to 1,500 users, both in the US and abroad. Ars reported on the first known bust here and […]
At the end of September, I Con the Record released a bunch of documents relating to 2014’s Section 702 certification process including the August 26, 2014 Thomas Hogan opinion that, among other things, authorized an expansion of FBI’s minimization procedures. The memo reflects a 2013 change to FBI minimization procedures (it was first approved on September […]
I’m working on a longer post on the timing of the NSA’s bid to get a cyber Section 702 certificate in 2012. But I wanted to point to a detail about upstream 702 collection that may be relevant to the issue. According to the 4Q FY2012 Intelligence Oversight Board report — the one covering the quarter ending September […]
I have been reporting for years that the government uses Section 702 for cybersecurity purposes, including its upstream application. June 10, 2013: Hacking was the biggest success story for 702 August 7, 2013: Me, saying I told you so October 21, 2013: An upstream application of 702 to cyber was NSA’s big 702 success story November […]
By his own admission, James Clapper had dinner with the North Korean General who (again, according to Clapper) ordered the hack on Sony just weeks before the hack happened. That puts him at most two degrees away from the actual hackers, according to the evidence presented by Clapper and Jim Comey. According to the Intelligence […]
In a piece for Salon, I note some of the weird silences in yesterday’s PCLOB report, from things like the failure to give defendants notice (which I discussed yesterday) to the false claim that Targeting Procedures haven’t been released (they have been — by Edward Snowden). One of the most troubling silences, however, pertains to cybersecurity. […]
I will have far more to say about PCLOB once I finish my working thread. But there’s one glaring flaw in the report’s claim that the government complies with the statute. Based on the information that the Board has reviewed, the government’s PRISM collection complies with the structural requirements of the statute. But here’s the […]
There are two details about the Massie-Lofgren Amendment — which passed the house by a 293-123 vote last night — that are currently being missed. First, the bill would shut down all back door searches under Section 702. Except as provided in subsection (b), none of the funds made available by this Act may be […]
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has released the transcript of the first panel from its hearing on Wednesday. And while I was concerned by the following exchange — between Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brad Wiegmann and PCLOB Chair David Medine — in real time, I find it even more troubling on second […]
