From Occupy Corporatism: http://www.occupycorporatism.com/doj-to-grant-fbi-unlimited-access-to-online-communications/
Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
May 9, 2013
The Obama administration is expected to endorse the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) initiative that would stop the “Going Dark” problem with the US government having unlimited access to online communications in a shadow web.
By 2014 the Department of Justice (DoJ) wants to have the advantage of sporadically wiretapping online conversations at their whim with the FBI having the authority to force internet service providers (ISPs) to comply.
Robert Mueller, director of the FBI maintains that social media sites like Facebook and Twitter who offer instant messaging capabilities are a line of defense in online intelligence gathering and should be made to comply with federal intrusions.
Gregory T. Nojeim of the Center for Democracy and Technology stated that “the FBI’s proposal would render Internet communications less secure and more vulnerable to hackers and identity thieves. It would also mean that innovators who want to avoid new and expensive mandates will take their innovations abroad and develop them there, where there aren’t the same mandates.”
QinetiQ claims to have been attacked by Chinese military hackers between 2007 – 2010 wherein digital information concerning drones, satellites, military robotics, and the US Army’s combat helicopter fleet. Allegedly several terabytes of data on weapons programs were also stolen.
Interestingly, QinetiQ ignored the initial security breach. Considering this corporation’s database storing sensitive governmental information, it is quite easy to hack into QinetiQ by syphoning passwords that are not protected with double authentication encryption.
In the Pentagon annual report to Congress, the Chinese military is implicated as using cyber weapons against the US in order to steal corporate and military intellectual property to gain a strategic advantage.
The report stated: “In 2012, numerous computer systems around the world, including those owned by the U.S. government, continued to be targeted for intrusions, some of which appear to be attributable directly to the Chinese government and military.”
The hacktivist group Anonymous have warned of their latest attack scheduled for May 7th known as “Op USA” which would use cyberspace to assault the White House, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA); as well as technocratic institutions such as:
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