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    Moscow Subway To Use Devices To Read Data On Phones

    Wednesday, August 07, 2013



    Russia

    Moscow Subway To Use Devices To Read Data On Phones





    A subway train stops at the Mayakovskaya station in Moscow.


    July 29, 2013

    The head of police for Moscow's subway system has said stations will soon be equipped with devices that can read the data on the mobile telephones of passengers.

    In the July 29 edition of "Izvestia," Moscow Metro police chief Andrei Mokhov said the device would be used to help locate stolen mobile phones.

    Mokhov said the devices have a range of about 5 meters and can read the SIM card.

    If the card is on the list of stolen phones, the system automatically sends information to the police.

    The time and place of the alert can be matched to closed-circuit TV in stations.

    "Izvestia" reported that "according to experts, the devices can be used more widely to follow all passengers without exception."

    Mokhov said it was illegal to track a person without permission from the authorities, but that there was no law against tracking the property of a company, such as a SIM card.

    Russia - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

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    Re: Moscow Subway To Use Devices To Read Data On Phones

    July 05, 2013

    The French daily "Le Monde" reports that the country's foreign intelligence service intercepts all electronic communications in France.

    The paper says data from communications were stored at the headquarters of the DGSE intelligence service.

    "Le Monde"says data collected from telephone conversations and Internet communications are then stored "for years" on a supercomputer where other security services can access them.

    Intelligence services analyze the "metadata" -- the records revealing who is speaking to whom, when, and where, but not the actual contents of e-mails and other communications.

    France has been critical of the revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been storing huge amounts of data on Americans and foreigners.

    President Francois Hollande had on July 3 threatened to block EU-U.S. trade negotiations after media reports the NSA was spying on EU offices and embassies.

    The British daily "The Guardian" cited leaks by fugitive U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden indicating Washington spied on 38 embassies and representative offices of its European and non-European allies, including France, Italy, Greece, Japan, and Turkey.

    Snowden, who leaked the details of classified U.S. electronic surveillance programs, faces espionage charges in the United States.

    He was last seen disembarking from a plane at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on June 23, and is believed to still be in the transit area there awaiting definitive word on any of around 20 asylum requests.

    Moscow has indicated it would not send Snowden back to the United States.

    Based on reporting by AFP and BBC

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    Why Might The United States Be Spying On Germany?

    Why Might The United States Be Spying On Germany?

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    A kite flies near the antennas of a former U.S. National Security Agency Cold War listening post at Teufelsberg hill in Berlin.


    July 01, 2013
    Germany's "Der Spiegel" magazine has reported that U.S. intelligence services intercept and store data from as many as half a billion German phone calls, e-mails, and text messages each month. The report, published June 30 and based on top-secret documents leaked by whistle-blower Edward Snowden, also indicates that the National Security Agency bugged the European Union's offices in Washington and at the United Nations in New York.

    Johannes Thimm, a U.S. expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, spoke to RFE/RL's Claire Bigg about NSA's interest in Germany and the revelations' impact on U.S.-German relations.

    RFE/RL: According to "Der Spiegel," the NSA combs through roughly half a billion German phone calls, e-mails, and text messages in a typical month. This is much more than any European nation. The U.S. intelligence agency has also reportedly classified Germany as a "third-class" partner, on a par with China or Iraq. If this is true, why is the NSA taking such an acute interest in Germany?

    Johannes Thimm: Based on the information that we have so far, it looks like Germany has been targeted to a level exceeding that of other European countries. And while we still don't have all of the information and have to be careful with speculation, I can think of a number of reasons why this has shown up in the documents in the way it has.

    One of the reasons is that German and American intelligence agencies have a very close cooperation dating back to the years of the Cold War, when Western Germany was a frontline state in the standoff with the Soviet empire. A lot of the United States' intelligence infrastructure and presence in Germany, including that of the U.S. intelligence agency, dates back to that time.

    Another reason is that there might be infrastructure in Germany that functions as a hub for communications that originate elsewhere in the world and go through German communication lines or servers and that the U.S. intelligence community might have an interest in.

    Johannes ThimmJohannes Thimm
    A third reason is that Germany is an economic heavyweight within Europe, meaning that its positions on all kinds of issues related to economic policy and trade matters more than the positions of other European countries. Examples could be the question of how to solve the euro crisis or the European economic crisis, where Germany has a prominent role to play, or the negotiations about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), in which Germany's position also matters greatly and where the U.S. government may be very interested in the European stances on certain issues.

    RFE/RL: Do you think the revelations could affect negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between Europe and the United States?

    Thimm: Yes, I definitely think they will be affected. We have also learned that EU institutions are the target of systematic intelligence gathering or spying. Hard economic interests are involved in the TTIP negotiations. These negotiations are very complex and require a lot of communication between EU institutions and member states, and having access to these communications would give the U.S. government a tactical advantage. I do think that this will be a burden on the negotiations.

    RFE/RL: How has the broader public in Germany reacted to the revelations, and do you think they will hurt diplomatic ties with Washington?

    Thimm: I think this influences the perception of U.S. foreign policy among the European public. One poll showed that one-third of Germans see Edward Snowden as a hero. In several European countries, including Germany, people are greatly concerned about data protection and privacy issues. Consequently, they are upset about what is going on. So I do think that it will affect the image of the United States in Europe.

    RFE/RL: German federal prosecutors are currently examining whether U.S. surveillance activities broke German laws. What are the chances of criminal charges being filed against U.S. officials?

    Thimm: Again, we know very little about what has been going on. What I can say is that German prosecutors operate quite independently from the German government. So regardless of how the government decides to deal with this politically, I think German prosecutors feel they have a duty to look into the matter and come up with [their] own conclusions.
    Last edited by airdog07; August 16th, 2013 at 05:23 PM.

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    Australian Teenager Exposed Apple

    Australian Teenager Exposed Apple
    Added: Saturday, August 10th, 2013

    The tech giant is trying to plug the source of a leak exposed by an Aussie teenager. A boy named Sonny Dickson seems to be causing Apple serious problems by leaking prototypes of the company’s products online long before they are officially revealed. However, Apple can’t find the way to silence the boy.




    In addition, the teen has also been making money by selling off some of the kit he gets his paws on. For instance, Sonny published a snap of an iPhone 5 battery before the launch of the device, and both the battery and specifications listed on it later turned out to be real. Local media reported that the tech giant fails to stop him simply because the guy is neither an employee nor a worker from one of its suppliers’ plants.

    Apparently, the boy has some strong contacts with someone ready to leak Apple data. Besides, he claimed that he also likes uncovering upcoming features in Apple OS by trawling through developer code for signs developers have left behind. Actually, Sonny is doing what the tech press used to do before becoming owned by NDAs and press offices. According to one of the bloggers who knows the boy, the latter had made a name for himself in the trade of Apple-owned content which nobody else would make public.

    This means that the formal tech press is afraid to annoy Apple by setting its hacks to work doing the same sort of thing. The teenager has connections with the company’s Asia supply chain by hanging out on Internet forums or on Chinese social networks like Weibo.com. Language barrier is not a problem when you have Google translate.

    So, Dickson has even managed to get his paws on internal Apple training videos and details about the new device’s parts, including battery, motherboard, lightning cable and nine-pin connector before those were officially unveiled. The latest leak from Dockson included several snaps of a casing of a cheaper, plastic iPhone which he said is expected to come in different colors. However, the teenager stopped selling prototypes right after one of his contacts warned him that the company’s global security team was ready to start an investigation. Dickson has made a right decision and was lucky to get rid of all his prototypes before the police knocked on his door.
    Last edited by airdog07; August 16th, 2013 at 05:22 PM.

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    Re: Moscow Subway To Use Devices To Read Data On Phones

    London Turns Off Snooping Trash Cans That Tracked Pedestrians' Phones

    The City of London has killed off smart recycling bins that detect passing cell phones.
    By: Kit Eaton

    Renew London has been asked to switch off its smart recycling bins which had been tracking pedestrian traffic data by sniffing wireless signals emanating from passersby.

    The 12 devices, which also feature LCDs that broadcast advertisements, were installed in London to monitor how people moved through the dense urban streets. But, as the BBC reports, the Big Brother Watch campaign, an effort to limit the amount of personal surveillance that goes on in the U.K., brought serious privacy concerns to the City of London Corporation about the bins. Renew London insisted that the devices only recorded very "limited, encrypted, aggregated and anonymized data" that couldn't possibly compromise any particular user's privacy. Spotting the unique MAC addresses of each phone's Wi-Fi signal isn't technically illegal in the U.K., but the fact that it constituted widespread hidden surveillance was apparently enough to get the bins turned off.

    Location tracking using cellphones is a growing trend, with occasional media sensations arising when companies like department stores admit to tracking their clients' whereabouts in stores as part of customer service and businesses improvement plans. Apple has previously been in the crosshairs for allegedly tracking iPhone users' position data, along with the Android OS, and the NSA has been revealed to be tracking phone data that includes position information.

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