Surveillance state news of the moment
2013-09-03 19:31:53.43061+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011:
By the end of this year, GENIE is projected to control at least 85,000 implants in strategically chosen machines around the world. That is quadruple the number — 21,252 — available in 2008, according to the U.S. intelligence budget.
So we know who's running those botnets now.
Meanwhile, the DEA can go back through phone records to 1987 in some cases:
According to reports from The New York Times and ABC News, the DEA has been paying AT&T since 2007 to work directly with the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program to offer access to every call that goes through the communications company's switchboard.
Although a careful reading suggests that AT&T is maintaining the database to respond to DEA subpoenas, rather than simply offering up all data for analysis. Which is still eye opening, but far less worrying.