Chinese intelligence alerts travelers to cyber spies
This past week, the head of the Chinese National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX) held a press conference noting that “Somebody with a wireless device in the US should expect it to be compromised while he’s there.”
Oh wait, no, that didn’t happen.
In a case of the pot calling the kettle black, the US NCIX told Americans traveling abroad that their electronic devices (such as laptops and cell phones) could be compromised by foreign spies.
Curiously, there was no mention of the domestic spying conducted every day by a plethora of US intelligence agencies.
And while the PRC may indeed be tracking your movements and attempting to spy on your online activity, the current US administration has no moral high ground to stand on, as it has:
- created a militarized cyber command to conduct covert espionage on digital properties, both foreign and potentially domestic
- used the NSA and other intelligence agencies to intercept all electronic communication
- enacted dozens of anti-privacy statutes including the PATRIOT Act and REAL ID
- amended FISA to immunize companies that operate wiretapping stations and retroactively legalize any potential illegalities
- compiled an ever increasing dragnet dubiously called the “No Fly List” which has more than a million suspects
- continued to operate and upgrade ECHELON listening stations domestically and overseas
Last year Judge Napolitano discussed these intrusions in length at the summer FFF convention, noting then that the NSA is also provided a backdoor to track and monitor all cellular devices.
And not content with strip searching you in public a new Homeland Security policy allows the US government to confiscate (indefinitely) and search any electronic device at any port of entry.
Thus, ignoring star chambers, detention camps, extraordinary rendition, and PLA torture techniques, no amount of foreign borrowing could prop up the insolvent nature of the US administrations moral bankruptcy and brazen disregard for individual privacy.
Via Kathryn Muratore
See also: The Fear Factory
Professional Protestors and the Political Class
R. Nelson
August 10th, 2008 at 12:43 am
True, true, but don’t forget that we, the United States of America, are locked in deadly combat with several hundred rifle-toting goatherders 10,000 miles away. With a threat of that magnitude, we cannot do other than crush domestic liberty, smother the Constitution and the treasonous freaks who keep bringing it up, and wet our pants at any mention of Al-Qaida.
On the other hand, the Chinese are just a bunch of power-hungry tyrants bent on stomping out any spark of liberty they can find. See? Same actions on both sides, but one is fully justified and the other not.
Chinese intelligence alerts travelers to cyber spies « Terror News Briefs
August 10th, 2008 at 10:14 am
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1984
August 10th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
China’s All-Seeing Eye
With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state. It is ready for export.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20797485/chinas_allseeing_eye
Lear K
August 10th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Travelers’ Laptops May Be Detained At Border
No Suspicion Required Under DHS Policies
“Federal agents may take a traveler’s laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.
Also, officials may share copies of the laptop’s contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation, data decryption or other reasons, according to the policies, dated July 16 and issued by two DHS agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/content/article/2008/08/01/laptops.html
MoT
August 14th, 2008 at 4:33 am
Now doesn’t that tell you everything. Time to start encrypting all your crap. Be careful though… the federal stooges will likely be morphed into a pack of rabid howler monkeys.
I just thought about something. Why not get one of those artistic types to put on some sort of “live theater” where they get a group of naked “passenger/citizens” to pass through the check points. Clearly we’re being brought to the point where we have nothing left to hide so why not go all the way. Unless, of course, the tickets themselves are seen as threatening.