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Title: Wikileaks' Spyfiles: Julian Assange Tells Phone Owners 'You're Screwed' Assange
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URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201 ... ng-bugs-_n_1122983.html?ref=uk
Published: Dec 1, 2011
Author: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/
Post Date: 2011-12-01 12:25:42 by tom007
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Wikileaks' Spyfiles: Julian Assange Tells Phone Owners 'You're Screwed' Assange Wikileaks has released the first swathe of 'spyfiles' documents from security companies around the world, in an effort to “shine a light" on a "secret industry worth billions". In partnership with Bugged Planet and Privacy International, as well as media organisations including the Washington Post and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in the UK, Wikileaks has released 287 documents from security companies in 25 different countries. Revealing the names of surveillance companies including BAE systems, Thales and Siemens, the files offer an insight into the sophisticated technology which governments or organisations can purchase, spying on individuals or even as Wikileaks alleges, whole populations. Apparatus that can record the key strokes on a Blackberry or iPhone can hold everything a person types, while other technology claims to be able take a picture of an owner sitting at their macbook. "Who here has an iPhone?" Assange asked attendees of a press conference in London on Thursday. "Who here has a Blackberry? Who here uses Gmail? Well you are all screwed. The reality is intelligence contractors are selling right now to countries across the world mass surveillance systems for all of those products." An interactive map shops the security companies operating in each country and the type of ‘security invasion’ they pose: whether internet, GPS tracking or mobile phone recording. Assange said the US, UK, Australia, South Africa and Canada are all developing the "spying systems", and the information is being sold to "dictators and democracies alike". In total 160 companies across 25 countries are said to be pedalling these invasive devices, either ignoring or bypassing regulation and “turning a blind eye to dictatorial regimes that abuse human rights.” Through investigating these companies, Wikileaks in partnership with Owni, a Paris-based online magazine, claims to show how French security company Amesyssold equipment to Gaddafi, allowing him to spy on the people now running Libya. Wikileaks has also released a new whistle-blowing platform to allow individuals to submit documents without fear of being compromised.
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#1. To: All (#0)
I only use Facebook, so I'm safe from all this.
You use Facebook? You're a dead man walking.
Tooooooooooo funnnnnnnnnny ! "Anyone intent upon achieving "smaller government" should consider quitting the current fraud."
Who here has a brain? This CIA/Mossad agent is for the most part just repeating current news here, nothing new. Also the iPhone location logging software is not on iOS5 and deactivated on iOS4 so he is just spreading fear about it now. God is always good!
Frightening to say the least. But, I do not use Blackberry or iPhone. "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
You remember the line from the Wizard of Oz? By the Scarecrow? "If I only had a brain!" "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Yes it is. Do you use the internet? So do I and it seems every data is stored for sixty days or so, special data longer, and under current legal "theory" is that it is not survailed (sp) until read. O - and then the agencies have four days to report it to the FISC (sp) the foreign intelligence judges that approve 99.9 of all requests. IOW - we have NO privacy in electronic commms - all of it appears to me to be instantly available to high level govs. Right now, only at the library. Soon to hope that will change. "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#2. To: tom007 (#1)
#3. To: tom007 (#1)
I only use Facebook, so I'm safe from all this.
#4. To: tom007 (#0)
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"Who here has an iPhone?"
#5. To: tom007 (#0)
Assange said the US, UK, Australia, South Africa and Canada are all developing the "spying systems", and the information is being sold to "dictators and democracies alike".
#6. To: RickyJ (#4)
Who here has a brain? This CIA/Mossad agent is for the most part just repeating current news here, nothing new. Also the iPhone location logging software is not on iOS5 and deactivated on iOS4 so he is just spreading fear about it now.
#7. To: BTP Holdings (#5)
Frightening to say the least. But, I do not use Blackberry or iPhone.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#8. To: All (#7)
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#9. To: tom007 (#7)
Do you use the internet?
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