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GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware
An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica reports how a Snowden leak shows British spy agency GCHQ spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot so as to serve malware to targeted employees. From the article: 'Der Spiegel suggests that the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British sister agency to the NSA, used spoofed versions of LinkedIn and Slashdot pages to serve malware to targets. This type of attack was also used to target “nine salaried employees” of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the global oil cartel.'"
The Gestapo, KGB, and Stasi were mainly agencies of internal political repression, although the KGB also spied outside the country as well. Since the targets of surveillance were apparently outside the UK, it isn't really the same. That doesn't mean you can't find it disagreeable.
Even if the anglosphere currently isn't openly corporate fascist that doesn't mean it wont be 5, 10, 15 or 20 years down the road. If they have years worth of supposedly private communiques from people thats is like Stasi's wet dream where the people being repressed write their own profile, willingly.
Once the thugs are in power they are not gonna delete that data, they are going to use it.
SSL didn't seem to help LinkedIn. They use ssl and they successfully spoofed that.
And when they say they dont do domestic data gathering you shouldn't trust them. NSA was already caught wiht its hand in the cookie jar.
Semantics; Assuming it's not a baldfaced lie, they can 'partner' with the NSA then 'share resources' and they've got their hands on the results of domestic spying while only having encouraged and facilitated it themselves.
In the US, courts have ruled that corporate spying on individuals is legal so 'privatizing' the actual data gathering launders it into legality under this time honored principle: 'What are you gonna do about it, you're powerless'.
The term "Rogue" is used to denote "dishonest and/or unprincipled".
They used to put USSR, China, North Korea under the "Rogue Government" category.
Both the governments of the United States of American and that of Great Britain have proven to be DISHONEST _and_ UNPRINCIPLED !
IMHO, it's time we should include the government of the United States and that of United Kingdom under the "Rogue Government" category.
And btw, if you see the performance of John McCain, especially how he tried to blame Edward Snowden, you would understand how ludicrously pathetic American politicians have become ...
As an American, I am beyond furious ...
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
And if you just enjoy playing god, well, go into the City, or start up your own business. If you're that good, then you can perform in plain sight, can't you?
Speaking from experience here ... it's not that simple
I started to plan for my escape from China way back in the late 1960's because of the social madness created by Mao back then.
Thongs of mindless assholes with red armband parading on the street, waving that little red book and plunged the Chinese society into total darkness.
Those of us with brains knew that the things coming from Mao were bullshit, but those without brains who embraced Mao's bullshit outnumbered us 1000 to 1.
So we ran, and ran, and finally I got to Hongkong.
From Hongkong I ended up in the United States, and at that time, the U. S. of A. was a paradise, a place where brainy people get to do whatever they want to do without having fear of official repression.
Some 40 odd years have passed, and the United States is turning into just like Mao's China ...
Everything coming from Washington D.C. is pure bullshit, and the things I have noticed right now is that the mindless fucktards who bought into Washington D.C.'s bullshit are outnumbering those who know better.
While the society in the United States of American haven't plunged into darkness yet, there is no certainty that it won't.
When the controlling regime got desperate ~ (Mao's reign at that time was in danger of collapsing from within, motivating Mao in his encouragements to the mindless assholes with red armbands creating social havoc), ~ they will do anything to remain in charge.
And if (and when) the regime which is reigning over Washington D.C. (democrats _ and_ republicans) is in danger of collapsing, there is NO TELLING what they would do.
To make the matter worse ... they have a lot of very powerful tools Mao couldn't even begin to dream of 50 years ago.
I am an American now, and I am looking at my adopted country, the United States of America, with the same dismay as Mao's China, back in the 1960's.
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
I've read a similar post you made before. You have a powerful point to make, and you make it well.
It would be a service to the country you loved, and freedom in general, if you spent an hour or two to write that up "properly", to spend a few minutes editing it to say exactly what you want to say. I could see such an article being shared quite a bit via social networking, blogs etc.