Schlagwörter
Desinformation, Heuchelei, Israel, Propaganda, USA, Verzerren
Seit Jahrzehnten gehört es zur westlichen Propaganda, dass die USA sich als Vermittler und Friedensstifter in Israel und Palästina darstellen. Reihenweise reisten Präsidenten in die Krisenregion und luden Führer der Konfliktparteien in die USA, um eine öffentliche Show zu inszenieren, die nur den einen Zweck hatte: Israels Verbrechen am palästinensischen Volk in jeder Hinsicht zu unterstützen, zu legitimieren und sich selbst als Friedensengel darzustellen.
Diese aufwändig inszenierte Show, die jahrelang über die Mainstreammedien und den öffentlich-rechtlichen Manipulationsanstalten in die Köpfe der Bürger gehämmert wurde, wird nun durch neue Snowden-Dokumente entlarvt, die Glenn Greenwald öffentlich gemacht hat. Demnach unterstützten die USA Israel insgeheim bei allen militärischen Aktionen, während US-Präsidenten öffentlich rhetorische Krokodilstränen vergossen oder den Krieg gegen die Palästinenser als unabwendbares Naturereignis darstellten. Fleissig unterstützt und proudly presented von Hofberichterstattern und servilen Maulhuren in den deutschen Medien.
Die Turbolenzen im Nahen Osten sind eine direkte Folge der Lieferung von Geld, Waffen und Überwachungsinformationen an Israel durch die USA, enthüllen die neuesten Snowden Dokumente. Obamas “hilflose Distanziertheit” ist nur eine Show, schreibt Intercepts Glenn Greenwald.
In einer mutigen Untersuchung, enthüllt der frühere Guardian Journalist den augenfälligen Kontrast zwischen dem, was die USA öffentlich sagen und dem, was sie hinter den Kulissen veranstalten. Dies beinhaltet den sichtlichen Herzschmerz Obamas über den Nahen Osten genauso, wie die öffentlich wirksame Nennung Israels als Gefahr für den regionalen Frieden, während gleichzeitig seit den 60er Jahren, Waffen und Spionagegüter im Wert von Milliarden Dollar nach Israel geliefert wurden… (RT)
Zu Glenn Greenwalds Artikel gehts hier.
29 November 1999. Thanks to The New Yorker and SH.
Source: Hardcopy The New Yorker, December 6, 1999, pp. 58-76.
ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
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THE INTELLIGENCE GAP
How the digital age left our spies out in the cold.
BY SEYMOUR M. HERSH
THE National Security Agency, whose Cold War research into code breaking and electronic eavesdropping spurred the American computer revolution, has become a victim of the high-tech world it helped to create. Through mismanagement, arrogance, and fear of the unknown, the senior military and civilian bureaucrats who work at the agency’s headquarters, in suburban Fort Meade, Maryland, have failed to prepare fully for today’s high-volume flow of E-mail and fibre-optic transmissions — even as nations throughout Europe, Asia, and the Third World have begun exchanging diplomatic and national-security messages encrypted in unbreakable digital code.
http://cryptome.org/nsa-hersh.htm
acqq 8 days ago | link
What could „NSA/CSS Commercial Solutions Center (NCSC)“ (from [1]) actually do? They write on their public web page:
https://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/ncsc.shtml
„The NSA/CSS Commercial Solutions Center (NCSC) addresses the strategic needs of NSA/CSS and the national security community by harnessing the power of U.S. commercial technology.“
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EthanHeilman 8 days ago | link
Two pieces of information that add up to a larger story:
* The NSA/CSS Commercial Solutions Center (NCSC) is specifically built around Elliptic Curve Cryptography that they acquired from Certicom.
>The NCSC also manages the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) program on behalf of the NSA/CSS. Elliptic curve provides greater security and more efficient performance than first generation public key techniques currently in use. NSA/CSS purchased a license that covers intellectual property in a restricted field of use to assist in the implementation of elliptic curves to protect U.S. and allied government information. – https://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/ncsc.shtml
* Certicom designed the Elliptic Curve DRBG (Dual_EC) algorithm including the backdoor (Certicom patented the backdoor functionality in 2005)[0]. The NSA then included this algorithm + backdoor into NIST standard and payed RSA 10 million dollars to make it the default DRBG.
Putting these two facts together suggests that the NCSC was responsible for the Dual_EC backdoor.
[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
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xnull2guest 8 days ago | link
“The facts contained in this program constitute a combination of the greatest number of highly sensitive facts related to NSA/CSS’s overall cryptologic mission,” the briefing document states. “Unauthorized disclosure…will cause exceptionally grave damage to U.S. national security. The loss of this information could critically compromise highly sensitive cryptologic U.S. and foreign relationships, multi-year past and future NSA investments, and the ability to exploit foreign adversary cyberspace while protecting U.S. cyberspace.”
Maybe they could have not published this one.
I’m very much interested in the Snowden Documents and am a strong advocate for civil liberties (look at some of my other posts, and the ones under the handle ‚xnull‘).
I also repeatedly explain, on Hacker News, and other places, that there is a global cyber intelligence war and that the Snowden Leaks showed us key insights into what was going on, how it’s not ‚about terrorism‘ and a great number of other things.
But I’m bewildered by this article. It seems really damaging, and like it doesn’t really add very much to the corpus they’ve already published.
Any ideas?
Edit: Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden, etc all decide what material to publish and what material not to publish. Greenwald, by his own admission, works with US officials to redact information and to choose which stories make it out of the gate. He’s also said that he isn’t revealing (paraphrasing) ‚the most horrendous material in the Snowden documents, for fear of the fallout‘. My question should not be thought of a challenge to revealing Snowden documents as a whole. Contrary to this I think it is of the very highest service. My question is only ‚why this document‘?
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acqq 8 days ago | link
You summarized already in your sentences („I’m bewildered by this article. It seems really damaging, and like it doesn’t really add very much to the corpus they’ve already published“) how you feel and why you feel that way: it appears damaging because it contains the paragraphs that explicitly contain the words „it’s damaging.“ But it’s just a general introduction to the „juicy bits“ without the bits themselves.
In fact you recognized this too writing: „it doesn’t really add very much to the corpus they’ve already published.“ Once you attempt to identify the new information, you can recognize that 99.5% of it appeared in some other form before.
The older published documents already were marked „top secret.“ This markings are given to the content that is considered „damaging“ by these who write the documents. You just percieved it differently because these markings were just markings for you, not the sentences spelling out „damaging.“
Still, the value to the public of this very document is that it’s a single document summarizing nicely the previously disclosed ones in much less words. By its nature though it doesn’t contain the details published previously. (Edit: technically, it’s a set of the documents but all of them together appear to me just as a big table of contents for the disclosures already published.)
Now let’s discuss the new 0.5% of information, even if it’s very general.
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xnull2guest 8 days ago | link
To clarify I mean that I don’t believe it adds much to the corpus of information about domestic and civil rights infractions.
On the other hand it deals a pretty big blow geopolitically/internationally.
The big deal about this article is that it reveals the major tactical capabilities and efforts the NSA has invested in the intelligence war.
Edit: Right now HN is limiting the number of replies I can initiate. Will reply as I can.
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Tomte 8 days ago | link
> To clarify I mean that I don’t believe it adds much to the corpus of information about domestic and civil rights infractions.
As a foreigner, I’m actually more interested in non-domestic stuff.
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hueving 8 days ago | link
Of course, but to be honest, that was the previous expectation of the NSA. It’s not that apparent that there is anything useful to gain by leaking their attempts to spy on foreign counties like every other country does.
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belorn 7 days ago | link
Since when is sabotage an act of spying, or for that matter acceptable behavior in peace time?
Lets say Swedish spies was sent to the US in order to infiltrate and weaken the 911 system, the power grid, or other key infrastructures of the US. Would you shrug at that also, since after all, what should people expect from spies?
Sabotage and spying is two different activities. Sabotage is a tactic employed during war. Spying is a tactic employed during peace. Confusing the two simply states that peace is war, and war is peace, and anything goes so long its against foreigners.
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coldtea 7 days ago | link
>On the other hand it deals a pretty big blow geopolitically/internationally.
So? For me (Godwin’s law be damned) it’s like leaked documents about Nazi germany practices. If you were not a German you’d cheer, and if you were a non-Nazi German you’d also cheer.
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acqq 8 days ago | link
> The big deal about this article is that it reveals the major tactical capabilities and efforts the NSA has invested in the intelligence war.
It does? What is actually new and specific I fail to see. But it’s a really, really nice summary.
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xnull2guest 8 days ago | link
SENTRY EAGLE and the 13 page draft (summarized in the article) is new.
SENTRY EAGLE is the protection program outlined jointly by the NSA and the U.S. Strategic Command.
The first line reads:
„SENTRY EAGLE… compartmented program protecting the highest and most sensitive level [by] NSA/JFCC to support the U.S. government’s efforts to protect America’s cyberspace.“
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/10/10/natio…
The document goes on to specify the broad U.S. cyber protection strategy broken down into Sentry Hawk, Sentry Falcon, Sentry Osprey, Sentry Raven, Sentry Condor, and Sentry Owl – all of which are new.
Add on top data about infiltration into (allied) South Korea and Germany. Not a good day for the NSA.
………
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8441055
Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany
By Peter Maass and Laura Poitras
@maassp …
The agency’s core secrets are outlined in a 13-page “brief sheet” about Sentry Eagle, an umbrella term that the NSA used to encompass its most sensitive programs “to protect America’s cyberspace.”…………
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/10/core-secrets/
20. Februar 2015, 06:20
Neue Snowden-Enthüllung Geheimdienste hackten größten Hersteller von SIM-Karten
Neue Snowden-Enthüllungen belegen, dass der US-Abhördienst NSA und sein britischer Partnerdienst GCHQ massenweise Verschlüsselungscodes des SIM-Karten-Herstellers Gemalto gestohlen haben.
Das Unternehmen produziert im Jahr etwa zwei Milliarden Mikrochips.
Mit den Daten konnten die Spionagedienste unbemerkt Mobiltelefone überwachen.
Im großen Stil Verschlüsselungscodes geklaut
Der US-Abhördienst NSA und sein britischer Partnerdienst GCHQ haben laut der neuesten Snowden-Enthüllung in großem Stil Verschlüsselungscodes für Handy-SIM-Karten gestohlen.
Geheimen Unterlagen aus dem Jahr 2010 zufolge sei der Kartenhersteller Gemalto ins Visier genommen worden, berichtete die Enthüllungs-Website The Intercept. Die mit Hacker-Methoden erbeuteten Schlüssel zu den SIM-Karten ermöglichten es, unauffällig die Kommunikation von Nutzern zu überwachen….
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/neue-snowden-enthuellung-geheimdienste-hackten-groessten-hersteller-von-sim-karten-1.2359692
Reine Erpressund der USA gegen Dritt Staaten
Und willst du nicht mein Brother sein, …
Greenwald: USA drohten Deutschland, bei Asyl für Snowden Warnungen vor Terroranschlägen zu unterlassen
http://www.heise.de/tp/news/Und-willst-du-nicht-mein-Brother-sein-2581389.html
siehe auch Neusealand
https://jasminrevolution.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/massenuberwachung-neuseelands-premierminister-belugt-sein-volk/