Megaupload and data security. Don’t put it out there

If you’re afraid you might lose it: George Washington at Naked Capitalism:

The government’s takedown of the 800 pound gorilla online storage site Megaupload may have killed the cloud storage model.

Many innocent users have had their data taken away from them.

Washington quotes PC World:

The MegaUpload seizure shows how personal files hosted on remote servers operated by a [...]

Journalism is not an Attack, Wikileaks is not Warfare

Are supporters of Wikileaks feeding into the crackdown by the US Government? [...]

Nonviolence does not equal complacency

I went to a protest in Philadelphia this past Saturday, and it was more disheartening than anything else.  It was against the wars and various other injustices, with a special focus on he recent FBI raids of peace activists and Pennsylvania Homeland Security spying on innocent civilians and activists.

By the end of it, I [...]

FBI involved in RNC protest raids

The FBI used informants inside the groups, yet the charges are bogus. Thus the raids were clearly coming from the federal government and were meant as political intimidation.

So here we have a massive assault led by Federal Government law enforcement agencies on left-wing dissidents and protesters who have committed no acts of violence [...]

TSA Gangstaz. Tha Unfriendly Skiez

“How I can be sure you’re not a member of al Qaida? Now excuse my wand while I slide it up inside ya.”

Hilarious. NOT worksafe.

Fear, uncertainty and doubt in the UK

Adam Curry blogs and podcasts about the new Orwellian “fear mongering campaign” in Britain, with the government running ads encouraging people to report those who, are you ready for this, take too many photos of buildings, behave suspiciously, or have too many cell phones.

You don’t have to know if they are doing [...]

Why the Big Slurp doesn’t work

Danger Room on the government wanting to snoop on all Internet traffic.

Of more interest to observers of intelligence activities is the issue of quality vs. quantity and the slow creep towards doom that these efforts foretell. The fact that we are essentially attempting to gill-net bad guys is a fairly strong indicator that the [...]

Sigh

U.S. at the bottom of global privacy rankings.

In case you think Bloomberg would make a swell president

The New York Times has the files of the NYPD surveillance of groups planning protests at the 2004 Republican convention. It appears they were “monitoring” virtually every group. WitnessVideo has a searchable version.

The Bloomberg administration allowed this probably illegal spying on antiwar groups to happen, and also made every attempt to block protests [...]

FBI illegally interrogated anti-war activists

Washington Post

The revelations, combined with protester accounts, provide the first public evidence that Washington-based FBI personnel used their intelligence-gathering powers in the District to collect purely political intelligence.

The Partnership for Civil Justice has more. They filed the lawsuit which forced the release of the police logs.

“It really is a secret police: This [...]