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Prism-break.org Opt Out of Global Data Surveillance Programs

Prism-break.org is a great website that everyone should check out for a list of alternatives to the NSA connected programs and applications that most of us use every day. Please share the word about this website so more people can be informed about the ways to opt-out!

Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora.Stop governments from spying on you by encrypting your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary services.

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PRISM barely scratches the surface ... 50 years of global surveillance

Mick Meaney

This report looks at the reality of the global surveillance network and explains how PRISM is just a small part in a decades-long agenda to monitor citizens.

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http://www.nickyhager.info/ebook-of-s...
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http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/...
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More news and videos can be found at Mick Meaney's site RINF.com 

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PRISM - Just The Beginning of Spying on You

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Whistleblower behind exposing NSA surveillance programs reveals his identity, motivations and more

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Madison Ruppert

Today the man behind exposing the highly secretive programs of the National Security Agency (NSA) including PRISM, the software known as Boundless Informant and the surveillance of all U.S. Verizon customers has revealed his identity.

The individual responsible is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old currently working for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and a former technical assistant for the CIA, according to the Guardian.

“I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong,” Snowden said, explaining his motivation for asking the Guardian to reveal his identity.

Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Program Needs to Stay Secret

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In a rare public filing in the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the Justice Department urged continued secrecy for a 2011 FISC opinion finding government surveillance to be unconstitutional. Significantly, the activities at issue were carried out under the controversial legal authority that underlies the National Security Agency’s recently-revealed PRISM program.

EFF filed a suit under the Freedom of Information Act in August 2012, seeking disclosure of the FISC ruling. Sens. Ron Wyden and Mark Udall revealed the existence of the opinion, which found that collection activities under FISA Section 702 "circumvented the spirit of the law” and violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. But, at the time, the Senators were not permitted to discuss the details publicly. Section 702 has taken on new importance this week, as it appears to form the basis for the extensive PRISM surveillance program reported recently in the Guardian and the Washington Post. 

Report states tech giants worked with government surveillance program, companies deny role in PRISM

Madison Ruppert

The New York Times reports that the Internet giants involved in the secret PRISM surveillance program agreed to cooperate with the government. The same companies have issued denials which some argue are actually cleverly worded attempts to obscure their involvement.

All of this comes in response to the reports exposing the NSA’s massive surveillance program known as PRISM which gives them access to the servers of some of the largest Internet companies which was quickly defended by Obama. The information about PRISM was released shortly after it was revealed that Verizon was secretly ordered to hand over all the records of U.S. phone calls in their system.

This slide shows when each company joined the PRISM program
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Now the New York Times reports that in some cases the companies actually changed their computer systems to make it more efficient and secure for the government to conduct surveillance.

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Are Political Dissidents the Real Target of NSA’s PRISM?

Big brother really is watching us.

Melissa Melton

While Washington Post Company Chairman and CEO Donald Graham was busy attending the 2013 Bilderberg meeting where the agenda included big data, the Washington Post itself released National Security Agency (NSA) slides showing that the government has been tapping into servers filled with customer information from nine major Internet companies including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple and SKYPE.

Among collected communications were emails, videos, photos, voice chats, file transfers and more. The secret warrantless domestic surveillance program is code-named PRISM.



Well, you didn’t think the government paid $2 billion for a data hub out in the middle of Utah for nothing, did you?

CISPA Will Legalize PRISM Spy Program

Eric Blair

Give them an inch and they will take a mile. That is how power-hungry tyrants interpret any law.

The PATRIOT Act and the FISA court led to the blanket wiretapping of every American citizen and a PRISM lens into all Internet activity for the NSA.

Now we are supposed to trust this Peeping Tom government by giving them more authority for "cybersecurity" with the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)?

As George W. Bush once eloquently said with his patented deer-in-the-headlights conviction "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again, see."

Oh, I bet the American people will get fooled again. But it's not their fault. When authority figures tell bald-faced lies to the public, most people instinctively want to believe them because the majority of people are honest and perceive others to be honest.

Obama won the presidency promising to overturn Bush's draconian destruction of civil liberties in the name of fighting terror. The majority of Americans took Obama at his word and gave him the benefit of the doubt. Until now.

Reuters reports today that the NSA spying scandal may "complicate" Obama's agenda for cybersecurity:

Renewed concerns about the spy agency's domestic surveillance programs could also hamper efforts to give it a broader role in defending the country's infrastructure, and put pressure on lawmakers to update laws protecting online privacy, say congressional aides and defense and security experts. 

"They're going to make it harder to do the work that is now going on," said former chief Pentagon weapons buyer Mike Wynne, who also served as Air Force secretary from 2005 to 2008. 

Wynne said growing unease about domestic surveillance could have a chilling effect on proposed cyber legislation that calls for greater information-sharing between government and industry.

But this is laughable. The U.S. government already has been illegally using the authority in CISPA prior to it being codified into law. At least everything Hitler did was "legal" before he did it.

PRISM reportedly forces Internet companies to hand over information to the NSA and FBI. Some even allow a backdoor to their servers. This program has been in place for several years according to reports.

The only difference between the secretive PRISM project and CISPA is that under CISPA personal data will be given to the civilian Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon by communications companies instead of the NSA. Like that matters.

But even this is just window dressing for public consumption because Obama already has authorized these moves with the secret Presidential Policy Directive 20 and an Executive Order.

Presidential Directive 20 shows that the government is drawing up a target list for offensive cyber strikes overseas, and the Executive Order outlines the flow of illegally obtained data of online activity to the DHS, NSA, and other agencies.
Yes, the Pentagon already assumed the role of engaging in cyber war as part of their "operational domain" for "offensive operations", again prior to any legal authority. In July 2011, the Pentagon announced "The United States reserves the right, under the laws of armed conflict, to respond to serious cyber attacks with a proportional and justified military response at the time and place of our choosing."

Their "authority" was later affirmed in the infamous 2012 NDAA which gave the U.S. military the right to launch a global offensive cyber war against perceived threats.

Section 954 of the NDAA titled Military Activities in Cyberspacereceived no debate in Congress as well as in the media. The section states clearly:

Congress affirms that the Department of Defense has the capability, and upon direction by the President may conduct offensive operations in cyberspace to defend our Nation, Allies and interests.

And thanks to whistleblowers we know that telecom companies have been cooperating with government spooks for years.

Significantly, all of this occurred without any public debate, probably because lawmakers understand that it's a gross violation of the 4th Amendment which guarantees privacy to American citizens.

Indeed, the NSA issued a secret memo urging lawmakers to "rethink" the 4th Amendment. This recently declassified memo from 2001 reads:

The Fourth Amendment is as applicable to eSIGINT as it is to the SIGINT of yesterday and today. The Information Age will however cause us to rethink and reapply the procedures, policies and authorities born in an earlier electronic surveillance environment.

Is it any wonder why Americans no longer trust their government? 

As President Obama said in his press conference defending the secret spying program: "If Americans don't trust government, we're going to have some problems."

Yes, as Reuters reports, the Administration may have problems legalizing their illegal activity. And if the people are paying attention, this Administration may have even bigger problems than that.

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Director of National Intelligence criticizes ‘reckless disclosures’ of PRISM as another secret tool exposed

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Boundless Informant
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Madison Ruppert

While Director of National Intelligence James Clapper slammed the press for “reckless disclosures of intelligence community measures used to keep Americans safe” – referring to PRISM – and tried to explain the project, a new secret tool called “Boundless Informant” has been uncovered.

This comes after a report revealed that tech companies had worked with the government on PRISM despite their cleverly worded apparent denials. On Friday, Obama defended the program while a lawsuit was filed by a former Justice Department prosecutor against Verizon and the Obama administration over the seizure of all U.S. phone records.

The Guardian obtained yet another round of top-secret documents, this time about the National Security Agency (NSA) data mining tool Boundless Informant.

NSA, the secret AT&T spy room, 2 Israeli companies, and loss of American privacy

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Jon Rappoport

Boom. Explosive revelations. The NSA is using telecom giants to spy on anybody and everybody, in a program called PRISM.

But the information is not new.

Three books have been written about the super-secret NSA, and James Bamford has written them all.

In 2008, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now interviewed Bamford as his latest book, The Shadow Factory, was being released.

Bamford explained that, in the 1990s, everything changed for NSA. Previously, they’d been able to intercept electronic communications by using big dishes to capture what was coming down to Earth from telecom satellites.

But with the shift to fiber-optic cables, NSA was shut out. So they devised new methods.