Unlimited Wikileaks Shenanigans

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

STANFORD, Calif. - President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.

It's "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20027837-501465.html



So basically the internet is going to become facebook. Fuck. Now I have to get a facebook.

[Triple Zero]

Guardian on the same Wikileaks/Twitter/Iceland events:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/08/us-twitter-hand-icelandic-wikileaks-messages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/08/wikileaks-calls-google-facebook-us-subpoenas

"If the Iranian government was to attempt to coercively obtain this information from journalists and activists of foreign nations, human rights groups around the world would speak out," Assange said in a statement.

Jonsdottir said in a Twitter message: "I think I am being given a message, almost like someone breathing in a phone."

However, big kudos to Twitter, they got the subpoena and were ordered not to notify the subjects of the subpoena, but they challenged this order--and won. They could also have quietly accepted, sit back, and give out the data, like Google and Facebook have done.

We don't know 100% sure if Google and Facebook did, but if the secret US government grand jury subpoenaed Twitter, I really don't see why they wouldn't have done the same with Google and/or Facebook.

[Requia ☣]

STANFORD, Calif. - President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.

It's "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20027837-501465.html



So basically the internet is going to become facebook. Fuck. Now I have to get a facebook.

I figured they'd try this sooner or later.

I give 5 to 1 odds that the system will have such piss poor security I can teach my grandfather how to beat it.

[Don Coyote]

The White House is telling US agencies to create "insider threat" programmes to ferret out disgruntled workers who may leak state secrets, reports say.

The move follows the leaking of thousands of secret US cables to the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.

An 11-page memo by US intelligence officials detailing the advice has been published by US broadcaster NBC.

Correspondents say the Obama administration is trying to prevent more embarrassing disclosures.

Agency officials are being urged to find ways to "detect behavioural changes" among those employees who might have access to secret documents.

The memo suggests the use of psychiatrists and sociologists to measure the "relative happiness" of workers or their "despondence and grumpiness" as a way to assess their trustworthiness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12117113

Please tell me this was a leak to NBC. 

Well I'm fucked.

[Phox]

The White House is telling US agencies to create "insider threat" programmes to ferret out disgruntled workers who may leak state secrets, reports say.

The move follows the leaking of thousands of secret US cables to the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.

An 11-page memo by US intelligence officials detailing the advice has been published by US broadcaster NBC.

Correspondents say the Obama administration is trying to prevent more embarrassing disclosures.

Agency officials are being urged to find ways to "detect behavioural changes" among those employees who might have access to secret documents.

The memo suggests the use of psychiatrists and sociologists to measure the "relative happiness" of workers or their "despondence and grumpiness" as a way to assess their trustworthiness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12117113

Please tell me this was a leak to NBC. 

Well I'm fucked.

Since they are going to can you anyway, you should swipe a bunch of classified shit on your way out. Ya know, justify their actions. 

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

http://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/statuses/23939621570215936

Brb changing identity.

EVERYONE WHO FOLLOWED WIKILEAKS ON TWITTER IS ON THE GOVS SHIT LIST.

[Jasper]

I love the administration's decision.  I am in love with it so much.  I could shoot someone for joy.

Let's ditch the "accidental leak" model and go for "self fulfilling prophecy" driven failures by heckling workers who don't have rock steady mood patterns.

[Requia ☣]

Reading the subpoena, I don't think they want information on who followed the wikileaks twitter account.  I think they're putting everybody who ever so much as glanced at a wikileaks related twitter account on the shitlist.

Also, I point out that there's an email address for sending the relevant information in the order.

[Pæs]

Clearly, Twitter is a terrorist organisation.

Has Twitter been the target of any of these political DDOS attacks? It would be great if they had to trawl through every connection made during those.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/01/11/bradley-manning-and-the-rule-of-law

Jesus christ look at that photo.
Its like a before and after meth picture.

[Telarus]

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/01/11/bradley-manning-and-the-rule-of-law

Jesus christ look at that photo.
Its like a before and after meth picture.

"Wikileaks..... Not Even Once."

[Telarus]

Oh shit, somebody just cranked this up to 11.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1716675/unredacted-wikileaks-cables-leaked-counterpunch-ASTANA-72-TASHKENT-465-902

[Juana]

STANFORD, Calif. - President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.

It's "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20027837-501465.html



So basically the internet is going to become facebook. Fuck. Now I have to get a facebook.

Not mandatory. Yet, perhaps.

[Don Coyote]

The White House is telling US agencies to create "insider threat" programmes to ferret out disgruntled workers who may leak state secrets, reports say.

The move follows the leaking of thousands of secret US cables to the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.

An 11-page memo by US intelligence officials detailing the advice has been published by US broadcaster NBC.

Correspondents say the Obama administration is trying to prevent more embarrassing disclosures.

Agency officials are being urged to find ways to "detect behavioural changes" among those employees who might have access to secret documents.

The memo suggests the use of psychiatrists and sociologists to measure the "relative happiness" of workers or their "despondence and grumpiness" as a way to assess their trustworthiness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12117113

Please tell me this was a leak to NBC.  

Well I'm fucked.

Since they are going to can you anyway, you should swipe a bunch of classified shit on your way out. Ya know, justify their actions.  

Luckily, despite me having a clearance I have NEVER even glanced at so much as the folders used to transmit such documents.

But if I had seen anything like what Manning ran into, I would have done the same thing.

[BadBeast]

The White House is telling US agencies to create "insider threat" programmes to ferret out disgruntled workers who may leak state secrets, reports say.

The move follows the leaking of thousands of secret US cables to the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.

An 11-page memo by US intelligence officials detailing the advice has been published by US broadcaster NBC.

Correspondents say the Obama administration is trying to prevent more embarrassing disclosures.

Agency officials are being urged to find ways to "detect behavioural changes" among those employees who might have access to secret documents.

The memo suggests the use of psychiatrists and sociologists to measure the "relative happiness" of workers or their "despondence and grumpiness" as a way to assess their trustworthiness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12117113

Please tell me this was a leak to NBC. 

Well I'm fucked.

Since they are going to can you anyway, you should swipe a bunch of classified shit on your way out. Ya know, justify their actions. 

Luckily, despite me having a clearance I have NEVER even glanced at so much as the folders used to transmit such documents.

But if I had seen anything like what Manning ran into, I would have done the same thing.

Yeah, but you'd have to say that, whether you had or not really. Not that I blame you. Particularly. If I farmed a load of Secret Docs out to the Net, I'd deny it too. Just on principle. (Especially if I hadn't done it yanno, maliciously)