Security
can be about national issues or personal safety. This means dealing
with the threats from without and within. Politicians have views on
security and also on power. Democracy and freedom come down the line with too many of them. Government apparatchiks can be even
worse. Bush in America is a tyrant in the making. Blair is a
manipulator grabbing for power and wealth. Telling lies about threats
is just a way of manipulating us.
Bruce Schneier is a highly
respected author and the founder of a well known security firm He
understands the issues. Politicians understand power.
The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked
Comes recommended by
Bruce Schneier, who really knows what he is
talking about.
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is sold
as the Next Big Thing. It is a very obvious way to expose your data to
prying eyes. Go that way? Not me. Get an external hard drive and back everything
up on it.
Security Real Or
Imaginary
Politicians make laws, regulations, decisions that affect us all.
Are they right? NO! Are they well advized? NO! Do they understand the issues?
NO! Our brains are hard wired for Stone Age problems. They fail in modern
circumstances. Then there are chancers out there keen
to sell them widgets, very expensive widgets that do not work. But it is only
tax payers' money so nobody cares. Bruce Schneier hits the nail on the head
again.
Privacy
We like it - Facebook users apart. Governments hate it when we have it but
want it for themselves, their crimes, their goings on. How do you protect
it? Read about answers.
The
NSA, PGP And Fraud
QUOTE
For
decades, the US
National Security Agency (NSA) has been reading
effortlessly ultra sensitive messages intercepted from all parts of
the world. This extraordinary feat was not the consequence of the
work of some genius cyber mathematician. Nor was it the result of the
agency dominance in the field of super computers, which allegedly
have outpaced their most direct rivals by orders of magnitude. The
truth is far simpler and quite troubling. The game was rigged.
For
half a century, Crypto AG, a Swiss company located in Zug, has sold
to more than 100 countries the encryption machines their officials
rely upon to exchange their most sensitive economic, diplomatic and
military messages. Crypto AG was founded in 1952 by the legendary
(Russian born) Swedish cryptographer Boris Hagelin. During World War
II, Hagelin sold 140,000 of his machine [ sic ] to the US
Army.
UNQUOTE
Crypto AG was well thought of and the major weak
point in security systems. Ditto for PGP versions later than PGP
6.58 All it needs for one man, Phil Zimmerman to cave into
threats or temptation and millions of users are screwed. It is too
easy.
NSA, Computers And Security
Security is a mess, for everyone, not just governments. Putting the NSA in
charge would be a dreadful idea. They are more interested in breaking
security than making it. We ALL use the same systems so the NSA is
everyone's enemy. Bruce Schneier explains all. He is lucid as always.
Cypher
Challenge
Enigma was the German system used during the war. Now a
rebuilt system will transmit genuine messages for anyone to decrypt. The
challenge was won by a German, a rather good one. See
Cypher Challenge
Winner.
Google
Use
Google and have all of your searches logged. Do you really want this?
There are answers though. Use
www.ixquick.com. There are others at Search Engines
Hints and Tips for
Whistleblowers
This article is big, thorough and rather good. It was written by
a programmer(?) who knows his stuff.
How Secure is America's
Nuclear Arsenal?
The answer should be very secure. It isn't. The
NSA has compromised
the launch codes. All it takes is for someone to make off with them and Armageddon
becomes reality.
Internet Privacy A Practical Guide
If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear. That is
their story. The truth is rather different. I know. I have been spied on by
those wonderful people who run England. Here are some useful steps.
Laptop
KeyLogger
This
article is all too plausible. I have not checked the chip numbers but
one is from the 4000 series which are CMOS logic chips like 74 series
TTL. It could all be done in the BIOS, the permanent memory which
connects hardware and software.
Phones
tapped at the rate of 1,000 a day
QUOTE
Britain
is in danger of becoming a "surveillance state" as
authorities including councils launch bugging operations against
1,000 people a day........ The report,.........; has fuelled fears that Britain
is becoming a state where private communications are routinely
monitored. It also found that more than 1,000 of the bugging
operations were flawed. In some cases, the phones of innocent people
were tapped simply because of administrative errors.
UNQUOTE
Blair
is grossly corrupt. He has done more to destroy liberty than any
other prime minister. That ugly cow he takes to bed is part of it
too.
PGP Encryption
High grade encryption for free is as good as it is going
to get.
Proxy Servers
Are part of the answer. Do your surfing through another computer. Use
www.ixquick.com
Microsoft
Versus The Customer
Microsoft
is the enemy. Or to put it differently; they see us as their enemy to
be robbed and cheated to the maximum. Selling shoddy goods and
customer lock in
are what it
all about. It is a matter of fact that Microsoft is run by a Jew.
MyPGP
Is well worth a visit.
Security
as Theatre
Those
security announcements keep on coming. Do they do any good? As far as
security is concerned the answer is nothing. As a way of oppressing
us and getting us to tolerate harassment by government snoops the
answer is yes. Fred explains all.
Security Clearance
Making sure that government employees are not spying is sensible. Making sure
that politicians are not traitors would be sensible too. That does not happen.
Security
Outfits
Private
outfits tend to come in for abuse especially if they are called
Blackwater. They can be good, bad or indifferent. Do they come cheap?
I seriously doubt it.
The Six
Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
Some sound points from someone in the business.
Skype
Security
Use
your computer as a phone with Skype. Is it secure? It does have
encryption. It might be implemented properly. It must be to be secure. Some one has an insider's view. But the Austrian government has broken
in. Force majeure was the technique used. That means bullying.
Skype Security
Skype turns your computer into a phone that makes cheap calls
worldwide. That is a big plus point. It also has encryption built in. That
makes it better. How much better? It is a question.
Surveillance Cameras
Bruce Schneier explains again. They are a waste of money at
best.
TOR
Is a tool for secure, online browsing. Take the time to learn
how to use it.
Truecrypt
Is a programme that creates an encrypted disc for you. It
works on Windows XP and probably other operating systems too. It is
recommended if PGP Disc is incompatible with your machine.
Security Clearance
The
Guardian tells it version of the truth. Army
clearances are different. The
Guardian does not explain how a drunken pornographer
like Campbell got high clearance. Abuse of power by Blair springs to mind. Then
there is Brown, a communist apparatchik. Believe nothing until it is officially
denied.
From
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/21/andy-coulson-security-clearance-vetting
Vetting levels
Strap' classification
Used for particularly sensitive information,
and is sub-divided into three levels of access: documents have a cover sheet
that must be signed each time they are accessed.
Developed vetting (DV)
Required for any officials with routine or
unsupervised access to top-secret material. To receive this level of
clearance, applicants must complete a 53-page assessment form. That is then
verified with a three-hour interview, and references are cross-checked. The
process can be expedited to a few weeks, but can take up to six months.
Security check (SC)
Grants routine access to secret material,
but only occasional supervised access to top-secret documents. Applicants fill
out a 29-page form and are subject to security and credit reference checks.
The process typically takes just a few weeks, but can be completed faster.
Counter-terrorism check (CTC)
Basic security check for people in close
proximity to public figures, or with access to low-level sensitive
information. Applicants have their criminal records and other security
information checked.
National
ID Cards [ 15 April 2005 ]
Are
a terrible idea. Bruce Schneier explains why. But tyrants love them.
BTW, two men on the 9/11 Job
had valid American driving licences. Does national ID work?
See
the next article.
Ring
Smuggled 1,000 People [ 15 April 2005 ]
This
little outfit is only one of several that have been caught moving
people into Europe and America. Russian crooks are doing it. It is
where the money is. Moving bodies, weapons and drugs is free trading
but the security is the problem with it. Some of them are known to be
terrorists. Do Labour want to stop it? They have swallowed
the
Western Guilt theory that the left likes so no chance.
Airport
Security - Blair Lied [
27
August 2006 ]
Airports
had a major security alert. Hundreds of thousands were held up and
given major hassle and it was all based on a lie. At all events the
excuse used was a lie, a deliberate lie and Blair knew it. Making
explosive from innocuous looking liquids sounds plausible - if you
are not a chemist. It is possible - if you are a chemist but not in
an aircraft loo. Making TATP involves mixing the right chemicals at
LOW temperature and waiting hours with first class ventilation. That
means it is impossible in the current case.
Given
that Blair and Bush lied we can wonder why. The security mobs have
their agendas. So do politicians and feeding us
lies is a
way of terrorizing us and increasing their power. See
State
of Fear on the point. Political
corruption is wide ranging and Blair's mob are setting records. They
are also destroying the laws that protect us against a
corrupt,
malicious state.
It
does not follow that the Islamics taken prisoner are not guilty as
Hell. England is full of bad tempered rogues in silly hats. Blair
imports them as matter of policy. Then Blair annoys
them
by sending the British Army to kill Islamics in Iraq as a way of
stealing oil for Israel. What is the pay off for England? Not a lot.
Having an unscrupulous liar as Prime Minister is bad news. Even his
own detest him and they know him better than us.
PS
Did your wonderful local newspaper bother to tell you the truth about
this one? Did the BBC, and the rest of the main stream media? You
might think it worth writing to them to ask what the game is.
Blair
Government Concocts Terror Threat - Scares British People Into
Silence [
27
September 2006 ]
Some
of them anyway. Most of us just ignore the swine and try to get on
with our own lives. While they lie to us about making explosive from
liquids carried onto aircraft Israelis have been murdering hundreds
and thousands in Beirut but they are only foreigners.
US
pushed MI5 into airport terror swoop [ 1 October
2006
]
They
were going to stick the villain in one of their illegal prisons. This
would be why MI5 lied to us about the liquid explosives. It is a
blatant lie which any half way competent chemist will be able
to confirm. Hundreds of thousands were inconvenienced big time. Who
cares? See
Airport
Security - Blair Lied for more and better details.
MI6,
Liquid
Bombing and Blatant
Lies
[
3 October 2006 ]
QUOTE
Happening
upon retired Lieutenant-Colonel Nigel Wylde’s debunking of
the
August liquid-bomb Brothers Grimm story, posted on the
Raw
Story site, it immediately becomes obvious why the corporate
media did not pick up the story.
Wylde,
a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer, knows what he is
talking about, as he was awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal
for his command of the Belfast Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit in
1974.
UNQUOTE
So does any one with more than a slight
knowledge of chemistry. There is collusion between Secret Squirrel
and Islamics too. See US
pushed MI5 into airport terror swoop and
Airport
Security - Blair Lied for more and better details.
Never
believe anything in politics until it has been officially
denied.
Source - Otto
von Bismarck who was in politics for real.
US
prepares for killer prayer bead WMD attack [ 4
November 2006 ]
QUOTE
Did
you know you can buy a WMD on eBay? It's true. Right
here.
Those are rosary peas, seeds of the Crab's Eye weed, which is
commonplace in Florida and known as ratti in India. It also contains
the protein abrin, which is more toxic than ricin, another similar
enzyme.... [ Now
we have ]
the US-led war on terror, a war in which the incompetent
concoct terror scenarios about weapons of mass destruction, scenarios
which toss common sense and critical-thinking out the
window.
UNQUOTE
Remember the major airport security nausea a
while ago. Islamics were going to make their own explosives in the
air using innocuous liquids. It was a lie concocted by Her Majesty's
Government that cost millions. Every chemist knows it is a lie but
the main stream media didn't bother to tell us the truth. They are
part of the problem too. See
We
are being lied to big time, MI6,
Liquid
Bombing and Blatant
Lies,
Raw
Story,
US
pushed MI5 into airport terror swoop or
Airport
Security - Blair Lied for more and better details.
Here is
another lie brewing up.
Airport
Security - Blair Lied [ 14 November 2006 ]
Remember
the major airport security nausea a while ago. Islamics were going to
make their own explosives in the air using innocuous liquids. It was
a lie concocted by Her Majesty's Government that cost millions. Every
chemist knows it is a lie but the main stream media didn't bother to
tell us the truth. They are part of the problem too. See
We
are being lied to big time, MI6,
Liquid
Bombing and Blatant
Lies,
Raw
Story,
US
pushed MI5 into airport terror swoop or
Airport
Security - Blair Lied for more and better details.
Here is
another lie brewing up.
Al-Qaeda
to explode 30 jetliners and trains in Europe on Christmas eve
[ 14
November 2006 ]
QUOTE
Al-Qaeda
may apparently be working on another grand terrorist act, this time
for Europe. According to reports received from Western intelligence
services, al-Qaeda's terrorists prepare to explode 30 planes and
trains across Europe on Christmas time
UNQUOTE
Do we take
these twerps seriously? They lied to us last time about liquid
explosives being taken onto aircraft. Of course Blair is murdering
Arabs but he has armed thugs protecting him from them and honest men.
We just get to pay in blood and gold.
PGP
Encryption Beats Criminal Investigators
[
10 February 2008 ]
QUOTE
BURLINGTON,
Vt. (AP) When Sebastien Boucher stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border,
agents who inspected his laptop said they found files containing
child pornography [ but they lied - Editor ].......... Now Boucher is
caught in a cyber-age quandary: The government wants him to give up
the password, but doing so could violate his Fifth Amendment right
against self-incrimination by revealing the contents of the
files.
UNQUOTE
Whether it will beat Secret Squirrel, the NSA,
GCHQ et cetera is another issue. The answer is classified TOP SECRET
or higher.
Encryption
still good except when the computer sleeps
[ 26 February 2008 ]
QUOTE
A
team of security researchers have demonstrated that common disk
encryption technologies that are intended to keep data on computers
safe from theft
can
be bypassed if an attacker gets a hold of the computer while
it
is sleeping or waiting for a password prompt.
The
attack shows
that the products like Microsoft's BitLocker
and Apple's
FileVault -- as well as PGP's Whole Disk Encryption
product -- aren't as secure as many think they are. (See
previous
post with full explanation and video).....
In fact, this
correspondent admits to having habitually left an encrypted laptop
running in sleep mode in the past. That security sin shall not be
repeated.
UNQUOTE
Security means assessing the risks and
making the moves. This one means turn your machine off when you are
not using it. Easy peasy.
High-Quality
Cryptography - You Need It As Well
[ 26 February 2008 ]
QUOTE
....
our power-hungry federal government likes to unaccountably
violate the
4th
Amendment by intercepting citizens' and non-citizens'
electronic
communications......... The solution is wide deployment of
high-quality encryption that is sufficiently difficult to crack that,
with a limited budget, "our" government has to make
practical choices regarding whose communications really merit the
effort [ They should
be doing it anyway -
Editor ]. After all,
it would be extremely
embarrassing if a
successful terrorist attack
took out a vital national asset because the Department of Homeland
Security was too busy decrypting my grocery list.
To be
effective at protecting our privacy, then, the encryption must both
be high-quality and widely used, even for matters that aren't
especially important.
QUOTE
More is better - the more
people use it the safer we are. Her Majesty's Government is our
enemy; a sad reality but true. But good encryption is free. It works
on Windows. Get it from GPG4Win
Lock
it or lose it.
41 Million Card Numbers Stolen
[ 7 August
2008 ]
QUOTE
Federal prosecutors have charged 11
people with stealing more than 41 million credit and
debit card numbers, cracking what officials said on
Tuesday appeared to be the largest hacking and identity
theft ring ever exposed. The
thieves focused on major national retail chains like
OfficeMax,
Barnes & Noble,
BJ’s Wholesale Club, the Sports Authority and T. J.
Maxx — the discount clothes retailer that first
suggested the existence of the ring early last year,
when it said its systems had been breached by hackers.
Underscoring the multinational, collaborative aspect of
organized crime today, three of the defendants are United States citizens,
one is from Estonia, three are from Ukraine, two are from China and one is
from Belarus. The name and whereabouts of the final defendant are
unknown.....
“These guys were obviously sophisticated and organized,”
said Toby Weiss, chief executive of Application Security, a database
security firm. “In this economy, we can’t have people afraid to spend.”.
UNQUOTE
Governments tell us that our data is secure and they want
more. Believe them if you want. They might even believe it themselves.
Create A Strong Password The Easy Way [ 1 August 2009 ]
QUOTE
Fix Your Terrible, Insecure Passwords in Five Minutes
Your passwords aren't very secure. Even if you think they
are, they probably aren't............. I found a foolproof technique to create
passwords that are near-impossible to crack yet easy to remember. Even
better, it'll take just five minutes of your time. Ready?
Start with an original but memorable phrase. For this
exercise, let's use these two sentences: I like to eat bagels at the
airport and My first Cadillac was a real lemon so I bought a Toyota.
The phrase can have something to do with your life or it can be a random
collection of words—just make sure it's something you can remember..... Which brings us to Step 2: Turn your phrase into an
acronym. Be sure to use some numbers and symbols and capital letters, too.
I like to eat bagels at the airport becomes Ilteb@ta, and
My first Cadillac was a real lemon so I bought a Toyota is M1stCwarlsIbaT.
That's it—you're done. These mnemonic passwords are hard
to forget, but they contain no guessable English words.
UNQUOTE
Not a
bad idea and it is about something that really matters.
TSA Security Checks Let 95% Of Weapons Through
Source Daily Mail by
way of
Fred On Everything - The Embassy In Bogota - A Descent Into The Third World
Cameron Puts Jew In Charge Of Government Cyber Security
[ 9 November 2015 ]
QUOTE
A chilling remark from a House of Lords debate just
caught my eye.
[ The Jew ]
Lord
Mendelsohn: We welcome the appointment
of the former British ambassador to Israel, [ the Jew ]Matthew
Gould, who will
have a key role in cybersecurity inside the Cabinet Office — a very
useful and important position............
They must think we have very short memories.
Gould was the first Jew
ever to hold the post of Britain’s ambassador to Israel. He describes
himself as a “passionate” Zionist and whilst in Tel Aviv was
instrumental in setting up the UK-Israel Tech Hub..........
Four years ago Craig Murray, a former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan,
argued that British policy was being driven in an underhanded fashion by
the Israel Lobby. He linked
. Gould
with the Fox-Werritty scandal and
raised
questions about meetings between disgraced former Defense Minister
Liam Fox and Fox’s friend/adviser Adam Werritty (who was backed
financially by Israel lobbyists but had no security clearance and
therefore no authorized role) and Gould..........
Labour MP
Paul
Flynn [ an honest man ] remarked that no previous ambassadors to Israel
had been Jewish so as to avoid conflict of interest and accusations of
going native. He immediately came under intense flak. Flynn too asked
about meetings between Werritty and Gould, as some reports suggested
that Gould, Werritty and Fox discussed a potential military strike on
Iran with Mossad. “I do not normally fall for conspiracy theories,” said
Flynn, “but the ambassador has proclaimed himself to be a Zionist and he
has previously served in Iran.”......
Gould’s new job as head of The Office of Cyber Security & Information
Assurance (OCSIA) involves giving strategic direction to cyber security
and information assurance for the UK. This includes e-crime, working
with private sector partners on exchanging information, and engaging
with international partners in improving the security of cyberspace and
information security. Does it seem right for such a person to be in
charge of crucial security matters at the heart of our government? What
was in fellow Zionist David Cameron’s mind when he appointed him?
Well, here’s a possible clue. In March of this year Francis Maude [
a Traitor - see
Treason At Maastricht
- Editor ],
the previous Cabinet Office minister responsible for cyber security,
announced three UK-Israel academic collaboration ventures with cyber
research funding, the partnerships being University of Bristol/Bar Ilan
University, University College London/Bar Ilan University and University
of Kent/University of Haifa..........
Still sitting comfortably? Only this week the Cameron government was
lecturing us on threats to national security and announcing plans to
trawl through our personal emails and web browsers in order to “keep us
safe”. Question is, who trawls Gould’s private emails?
UNQUOTE
Is putting an enemy alien in charge of security a good idea? NO! It is what
the American government did with the Department of Homeland Security. Now Her
Majesty's Government has followed suit.
You don't have to be Paranoid but you should
be. As
The Atlantic explains
If You Are Not Paranoid You're Crazy. Trusting
Her Majesty's Government,
believing that it is not controlled by the Puppet Masters, by the
Enemy Within is
being naive albeit some of
The Atlantic's examples are badly chosen.
Errors & omissions, broken links,
cock ups, over-emphasis, malice [ real or imaginary ] or whatever; if
you find any I am open to comment.
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