Loss of Privacy

Anonymous hacked into a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard. You can listen to the conversation below.

The Anonymous hacker managed to listen in to the call after accessing an FBI email which gave details of the intended call. The email was also posted online.

Best comment in the audio recording:

“He hacked some gaming site called . . . Steam.”

Yeah, Steam is just some gaming site. Their job is to track online hackers, yet they haven’t a clue what Steam is or what happened when it was hacked.

You can also read it at Pastebin or download the mp3.

The FBI and the Department of Justice thinks that if you use anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address, then you could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity. According to this flier, anyone who uses https is a potential terrorist, including google.

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If you think such policies are fine and don’t have anything to hide, then I would like to know your logins to all your online accounts, forums, and bank details, as well as your Social Security Number, and credit card information. I would also like a record of all your online purchases, you know, for “advertising” purposes. Oh you don’t want me to know that? Then maybe you do have something to hide and fliers like these are meant as scaremongering instead.

The FBI is adding facial scanning, iris scanning, and palm scanning to its biometrics databases at the Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS) and its getting some help from the DOD to accomplish this mission.

CJIS is responsible for information repositories–such as the National Crime Information Center, the Interstate Identification Index, and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System–that provide law-enforcement officers with real-time data on people’s criminal history, stolen property, missing persons, and other information.

The additional biometric information will be added to the system that can already track fingerprints.

CJIS processes about 140,000 requests a day through the system, double the number it could handle on a good day a few years ago, he said. Moreover, the algorithm is allowing the FBI to match fingerprints at 99% accuracy versus 92%, which was the previous norm.

The FBI also added facial-recognition and iris-scan systems to its biometrics matching system–which is gradually replacing its predecessor, the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System–and next year will be able to match palm prints for the first time, he said.

To further its work in biometrics, the FBI is teaming with the Department of Defense to build a Biometrics Technology Center on its FBI campus in Clarksburg, West Virginia, Cutherbertson said. The center, which will focus on research to advance biometrics technology, is due to be completed in spring of 2014. “It will be a tremendous resource to carry us into the future,” Cutherbertson said.

With the inclusion of multiple points of biometric data, the FBI hopes to improve security at home. The research conducted at the new Biometrics Technology Center will also allow the FBI to accomplish one of its other goals, biometrically identifying individuals on the internet.

The tenth anniversary of 9/11 is coming up and the Dallas police and FBI have been stepping up police presence in areas they believe are targets.

This year on September 11, the FBI, Dallas police and state agencies will closely monitor potential targets. “Anything from NFL football games to a political rally will have maximum coverage,” Revell said.

The city will be on high alert. Everything from the water supply to mosques and synagogues will merit extra patrols.

Really? You’re worried about crazy Muslims and Jews, but not crazy Christians?

The fear isn’t a big terrorist organization like al-Qaida striking here, but rather the “lone wolf” who might try something.

Yeah, this is typically the crazy Christian factor, but, since we’re in America, we’re ignoring white folks as only brown folks are going to cause trouble on such a day.

The article also mentions Hosam Smadi, who tried to blow up Fountain Place, in downtown Dallas. The hilarious part to this, of course, is that the FBI set Smadi up by providing him with the homemade bomb and then arrested him after giving the bomb to him and he tried to use it. The FBI, essentially, foiled the plot they created and then patted themselves on the back for it.

The fact that the man from the FBI doesn’t understand why this woman wants to film her interaction or why she doesn’t want to answer any questions. Throughout the video the FBI alludes to the fact that they think this woman or someone she knows might destroy property and/or hurt people.