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Google: FBI Sought Data on Thousands of Accounts Without a Warrant – Digits – WSJ

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation made warrantless requests for data on at least 1,000 Google accounts last year, using a controversial and secretive technique known as a “national security letter,” Google said Tuesday. These letters allow the government to seek financial, phone and Internet data without going before a judge or grand jury, if it’s relevant ...

FBI tracking Portland anarchist groups | kgw.com Portland

http://www.kgw.com/news/local/FBI-tracking-Portland-anarchist-groups-193163921.html#Related PostsFBI Surveillance Of Occupy Wall Street Detailed 2012: Maybe the Mayans Were Right FBI Report Mentions Plot To Kill Occupy Protesters

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FBI Opens Fresh Criminal Investigation Into Anonymous Following Hack

Bankers affected say it’s no big deal Jo David Cummins, president and CEO of Community First Bank of the Heartland in Illinois, laughs off Anonymous’ mid-January “hack” of a U.S. Federal Reserve database, which scooped up his record and over 4,000 others. He tells Reuters, “It hasn’t been much of a hassle. The information that was on the contact system was [...]

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Matthew Aaron Llanez Charged In Oakland Car Bomb FBI Terror Sting

A 28-year-old man from San Jose, Calif., tried to set off what he thought was a car bomb outside of a bank in Oakland, Calif., on Friday morning, federal authorities said. Matthew Aaron Llaneza was arrested as part of an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation terror sting and charged with attempted use of a weapon [...]

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Affidavit Indicates FBI Targeted Anarchists for Being Anarchists

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The newest document released in the Pacific Northwest Grand Jury case reveals the federal government’s criminalization of anarchists. On January 30, a redacted affidavit was unsealed by order of Judge Richard Jones. The affidavit can be found Redacted Warrant. Throughout the document Geoffrey Maron, an FBI Special Agent assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, [...]

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FBI Employees Download Pirated Movies and TV-Shows

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BitTorrent is used by millions of people every day, even in places where you wouldn’t really expect. New data suggests that employees at the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division are sharing movies and TV-shows with the rest of the world. Is the FBI gathering information on BitTorrent users, or could it be that the feds harbor in-house pirates?

Source: FBI Employees Download Pirated Movies and TV-Shows

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Why Is Barrett Brown Facing 100 Years in Prison?

It was announced on Wednesday morning that Barrett Brown, a man who became a very public talking head for AnonOps (the brain trust that is arguably the cortex of the hacktivist group Anonymous, even though there technically isn’t one) is facing up to 100 years in jail for three separate indictments. The most recent two [...]

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FBI Banned from Iceland

FBI agents landed in Reykjavík without prior notification in an attempt to investigate WikiLeaks operations in the country, but Home Secretary Ögmundur Jónasson found out about the visit and forced them to leave the country, with the Icelandic government then issuing a formal protest to US authorities, according to Islandsbloggen. The hunt for WikiLeaks by [...]

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FBI is increasing pressure on suspects in Stuxnet inquiry

Holder appointed Rod J. Rosenstein, the U.S. attorney for Maryland, to lead the Stuxnet inquiry after a New York Times article about President Obama ordering cyberattacks against Iran using a computer virus developed in conjunction with Israel. Other publications, including The Washington Post, followed with similar reports about Stuxnet and a related virus called Flame. [...]

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FBI Keeps Surveillance Policies Secret

From the legal rationale for lethal drone strikes to the when and how of perusing library records to the basis for warrantless wiretapping, the federal government’s increasingly obvious stance ranges somewhere between “trust us” and “catch us if you can.” That’s all the more apparent now that the Federal Bureau of Investigation …Related PostsCypherpunk rising: [...]

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The FBI Wrote A Letter To Martin Luther King Telling Him To Commit Suicide

Happy Martin Luther King Day. To honor Martin Luther King it seems appropriate to remember what the government of his time (and clearly ours) did to thwart his activism. Letters of Note published an interesting piece of correspondence this time last year. It is a letter from the FBI, written in 1964, trying to convince [...]

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A Window Into Infiltration: The FBI Informant File of Sheila Louise O’Connor

By Aaron Leonard, Truthout 16 January 2013 The story of 1970s FBI informant Sheila O’Connor provides lessons for today’s progressive organizations about infiltration by the state security apparatus. Back in 1972, Sheila O’Connor was a busy woman. She had a job in the Washington, DC office of the National Lawyers Guild. In her off time, [...]

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Manufacturing Terrorists: Inside the FBI’s terror sting operations

The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism, by Trevor Aaronson, Ig Publishing, 256 pages, $24.95. Imagine a country in which the government pays convicted con artists and criminals to scour minority religious communities for disgruntled, financially desperate, or mentally ill patsies who can be talked into joining fake terror plots, even if [...]

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What the FBI Doesn’t Want You To Know About Its “Secret” Surveillance Techniques

The FBI had to rewrite the book on its domestic surveillance activities in the wake of last January’s landmark Supreme Court decision in United States v. Jones. In Jones, a unanimous court held that federal agents must get a warrant to attach a GPS device to a car to track a suspect for long periods [...]

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FBI Documents Shine Light on Clandestine Cellphone Tracking Tool

The FBI calls it a “sensitive investigative technique” that it wants to keep secret. But newly released documents that shed light on the bureau’s use of a controversial cellphone tracking technology called the “Stingray” have prompted fresh questions over the legality of the spy tool. Functioning as a so-called “cell-site simulator,” the Stingray is a [...]

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FBI Occupy Wall Street Memos Skip Infiltration Of Occupy Cleveland

Connor Stevens was sentenced to eight years in prison in mid-November for taking part in a plot to blow up an Ohio bridge. The 20-year-old’s sentence was the culmiation of work by an FBI informant, who pushed the bridge idea, and furnished Stevens and his associates with jobs, drugs, and ultimately explosives. The informant’s operation [...]

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Chris Hedges: New Documents on Activist Surveillance May Be “Just the Tip of the Iceberg”

Shannon McLeish of Florida is a 45-year-old married mother of two young children. She is a homeowner, a taxpayer and a safe driver. She votes in every election. She attends a Unitarian Universalist church on Sundays. She is also, like nearly all who have a relationship with the Occupy movement in the United States, being [...]

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Polish prof discovers way to encrypt secret messages into silence on Skype (even if the FBI is listening)

Skype calls use 256-bit advanced encryption by default, but that’s not secure enough for some people. So a prof at the Warsaw University of Technology has created a way to communicate even more privately on Skype — by using silence. Wojciech Mazurczyk (10 points if you can pronounce that name) has found a way to [...]

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