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Leaked Snowden Docs Show Canada's "False Flag" Operations
An anonymous reader writes Documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and The Intercept show the extent to which Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) cooperates with the NSA — and perhaps most interestingly details CSEC's "false flag" operations, whereby cyberattacks are designed and carried out with the intention of attribution to another individual, group or nation state. The revelations come in the midst of Canadian controversy regarding the C-51 anti-terrorism bill.
Say it ain't so.
is covered in blood red with nine swords as the logo.
Sounds like outsourcing labour to from the US so that a third party catches flack for it should it go south. Canada, who basically has few natural enemies, could end up with a kick me sign on its back because of this.
This story isn't coming out too long after the whole doxing American soldiers thing. It makes you wonder.
Yes I'd expect this from the USA or the UK. But I thought Canada was better than that
Are the very opposite to what you want to run in a true democracy. If you must lie through your teeth to keep your own electorate in the dark, simply because you fear that the action(s) you are about to take would not be sanctioned by a well informed populous, then it's time to stop calling your country a democracy and start owning up to the fact that you live in and operate a dictatorship.
Perhaps not as bad as most dictatorships out there, but it can be a very slippery slope..
world governments to USA in public: "we are outraged about the NSA!"
world governments to USA in private: "everything is coming along nicely"
world governments, we-hate-USA-edition, in public: "we are outraged about the NSA!"
world governments, we-hate-USA-edition, in private: "so how soon can we have NSA style abuses to add to our extensive portfolio of abuses?"
americans should complain loudly about the NSA
but the rest of the world, you should clean up your own fucking house, your government is feeding you manufactured NSA outrage as a distraction while it does the same
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Linky:
The document suggests CSE has access to a series of sophisticated malware tools developed by the NSA as part of a program known as QUANTUM. As The Intercept has previously reported, the QUANTUM malware can be used for a range of purposes – such as to infect a computer and copy data stored on its hard drive, to block targets from accessing certain websites, or to disrupt their file downloads. Some of the QUANTUM techniques rely on redirecting a targeted person’s internet browser to a malicious version of a popular website, such as Facebook, that then covertly infects their computer with the malware.
According to one top-secret NSA briefing paper, dated from 2013, Canada is considered an important player in global hacking operations. Under the heading “NSA and CSEC cooperate closely in the following areas,” the paper notes that the agencies work together on “active computer network access and exploitation on a variety of foreign intelligence targets, including CT [counter terrorism], Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and Mexico.” (The NSA had not responded to a request for comment at time of publication. The agency has previously told The Intercept that it “works with foreign partners to address a wide array of serious threats, including terrorist plots, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and foreign aggression.”)
Notably, CSE has gone beyond just adopting a range of tools to hack computers.
According to the Snowden documents, it has a range of “deception techniques” in its toolbox. These include “false flag” operations to “create unrest” and using so-called “effects” operations to “alter adversary perception.” A false-flag operation usually means carrying out an attack but making it look like it was performed by another group – in this case, likely another government or hacker. Effects operations can involve sending out propaganda across social media or disrupting communications services. The newly revealed documents also reveal that CSE says it can plant a “honeypot” as part of its deception tactics, possibly a reference to some sort of bait posted online that lures in targets so that they can be hacked or monitored.
Isn't "behaving" like a terrorist exactly the same as "being" a terrorist?
only problem is the people in opposition will do 100% exactly the same type of stuff, they are even bigger statists.
Am I missing something? As far as I can tell the document just outlines what they can do, not what they have done. Having been through countless meetings with powerpoint presentations outlining what a department 'can' do, I can appreciate just how far apart these two things could potentially be.
Just remember this next time they use silly words like "conspiracy theory" as if the term means something that doesn't happen.
Conspiracy theories like... US funded pro- and counter insurgencies....
False flag attacks...
Rigged elections...
etc.
They happen and they're quite well documented. The government attempts to ridicule the evidence, but in the end they are the ones who look idiotic.
Take this recent hilarity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"you should clean up your own fucking house" : firstly we are outraged too when it comes out our nation cooperated, even when they were blackmailed into it. It is not a XOR situation that you can be outraged either at the NSA stuff OR at our own government. We can be outraged at BOTH. Secondly, if the incredible spying of the USA did not went that deep , exploiting so many vulnerabilities, and now false flag operation... Well if the american public got a little bit more outrage than "meh" as a whole, then we would not be so outraged at YOU. Look we go into the street for less than that where I live. I don't see any of you before the white house or congress yelling to have it stopped , millions walking in the street. All I see is "meh" type of outrage. Shifting the blame onto other seem to be all well alive tough.
Which is just one reason why I'm always incredibly dubious that cyber-attacks "coming from China" etc. are used as potential justification for retaliation. This is entirely different to "proved originating from", where China etc. could just be an unfortunate third-party, a plant, or deliberately infiltrated to further some other countries ends with a cyberattack that DOES come from their country even if they don't know it.
Sorry, but you cannot go to war on the basis of what packets travelled over the Internet. It's just too damn unreliable and unaccountable that you can't do such things.
And yet all the first-world nations are saying that such things could be "just cause" for doing exactly that.
If your military systems are THAT bad that you can even get into anything at all from the ordinary Internet, it's your own fault.
The whole point of these false flag ops is to make the world APPEAR to be less safe than it really is. The attacks you see, are actually your own side! So the tradeoff security vs liberty, APPEARS to require a lot less liberty.
That Sony Hack evidence makes no sense, so now I wonder if one of the 5-eyes did it to market these new cyber laws that will legalize their actions. Laws like C51
One of these day the entire world will declare war against the United States.
The conspiracy theorists were right! Damn!
I don't understand how those things work, how come documents are still leaking after years of Snowden's escape? Can't the world know everything at once? Does he sip them for better suspense? Or did they forget to revoke his password?
Maybe they can follow through by increasing science research.
"Hey terrorists are scary and we need new laws, so lets commit terrorism so we can make these new laws!" XD
Oh, Canada...
Don't just stand there, get that other dog!
Don't be naive, and ascribe personal ethics to the behaviors of state actors. States' behavior is driven by the lowest common ethical denominator of it's collective leadership. For any sufficiently large state, this will trend towards 0.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
... shit is funny, I want to be in on the joke.
We need more whistle blowers.
Super powers are aiding each other and snooping on each other and throwing 'false flags' all behind our backs.
That doesn't make it easy for us to make informed decisions.
It's 'Government by the government for the government'.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
But I thought Canada was better than that
Really, why? We were talking about Echelon here more than fifteen years ago.
Hosers.
(sorry)
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
1. So far, all disclosures have been about the 5 eyes. That does not mean others are doing it, but you have no proof, are just mouthing off because it makes you fell better (or because you are a shrill).
2. Most governments don't even have a budget big enough to fund NSA style snooping. For the time being, economics still protect us.
3. US is spying everyone else. As much as I distrust my government, I reckon it has *more* interests in common with me than US government (namely, my country's interests. US has once and again shown that it will screw other countries (population included) to further its interests.
4. World governments, we-hate-USA edition, in public have proofs of their saying. In private. as soon as something leaks, we'll take care don't you worry.
5. World governments, we-are-USA-puppets edition (the ones you don't branded) are part of the problem too. They should be dealt with along the US.
The US government and the 5 eyes are the only ones caught in this abuse of their own (and other countries) population. Like you said, YOU should clean up YOUR fucking house, before claiming of others something you don't even have any proof of.
Their targets are located in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and Mexico, plus other unnamed countries
Such as the United States and Canada
connected to the two agencies' counterterrorism goals
Such as the total suppression of all civil rights
Other leaked documents revealed back in 2013 that the CSE spied on computers or smartphones connected to Brazil's mining and energy ministry to get economic intelligence.
Industrial espionage purely for illicit profit
But the latest top-secret documents released to CBC News and The Intercept illustrate the development of a large stockpile of Canadian cyber-spy capabilities that go beyond hacking for intelligence, including:
destroying infrastructure, which could include electricity, transportation or banking systems;
Otherwise known as acts of war
creating unrest by using false-flags — ie. making a target think another country conducted the operation;
Such as hacking Sony so the FBI and the Obama administration can make threats at North Korea
disrupting online traffic by such techniques as deleting emails, freezing internet connections, blocking websites and redirecting wire money transfers.
aka criminal hacking, one wonders just how many hackers selling their stolen credit card numbers to black markets are actually US and Canadian spooks
It sounds like Canada needs to join the United States on the international terrorist watch list and have the UN call for Soviet Spetsnaz commandos to locate and destroy terrorist training camps deep inside the US and Canada's intelligence agencies.
What has Special Ed done that's "wrong"?: 1) Theft 2) False credentials 3) Tampering with national security 4) Placing all Americans at risk 5) International flight 6) Traveling on a voided passport 7) Bartering with items/information he doesn't legally own nor has personally created 8) Terroristic threats 9) Unethical treatment toward his employer 10) Misrepresentation 11) Perjury/breach of oath 12) Dereliction of duty 13) Failure to follow orders. 14) Impersonation of known government officials/identity theft. He's also flirting with, in fact, trying to set up the two main offenses: A) Assisting foreign powers B) Aiding the enemy. Sure, the Constitution guarantees our freedom to share more information with the public, and the right to free speech is great... but NOT when it will cause a danger to National Security. The info Snowjob likely possesses is probably EXACTLY the kind of stuff al Qaeda wants leaked out so they can learn better of how to successfully find ways to kill Americans at will. Not to mention, maybe names and locations of counter-terrorism spies that the U.S. has out in the field infiltrating the ranks of those would-be murderers. People want to complain about the NSA and alleged "spying", but then they'll also complain about not feeling the government is doing enough to protect them from al Qaeda! The NSA is not "hiding" anything, but they'll be truly ineffective if EVERYONE knows what they're working on. Has NOBODY stopped for a moment and asked "why" the NSA has been doing what they're doing? Did people think the authorities use magic to uncover terrorist plots? Which would you prefer, spying on you or terrorism on you? http://www.newser.com/story/17...