The Guardian reports that “intelligence agencies are using military aircraft equipped with sophisticated surveillance equipment to eavesdrop on and monitor the movements of suspected terrorists” by flying over cities in the U.K. The plane is thought to be equipped with technology to monitor telephone calls and automatically recognize license plate numbers. The plane’s have also [...]
October 3rd 2007 
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It is being reported that Mumbai police are looking into installing monitoring software — including a keystroke logger — to catch terrorists who use the Internet in cyber-cafe’s.
The Mumbai police are in dialogue with M/s Micro Technologies for procuring a software called CARMS (Cyber Access Remote Monitoring System), a powerful monitoring tool that seeks to [...]
September 12th 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
Not fully understanding or improperly using applications that protect your privacy and allow you to bypass censorship can seriously affect your online security. A researcher recently revealed that he was able to gather sensitive data including the user names and passwords of government email accounts by snooping on the traffic of five Tor exit [...]
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The Bush Administration is seeking to shield telecom’s that participated in its illegal wiretapping scheme from privacy law suits being brought forward against them. However, they do not want to name the dozen or so companies involved. AP reports:
The vaguely worded proposal would shield any person who allegedly provided information, infrastructure or “any other form [...]
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China isn’t the only one hiding behind “state secrets“, it is now the defense in the law suit brought on by EFF on behalf of AT&T customers who were victims of illegal NSA spying.
EFF is representing the plaintiffs in Hepting v. AT&T, a class-action lawsuit brought by AT&T customers accusing the giant telco [...]
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