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GCHQ data collection regime violated human rights, court rules
▻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/gchq-data-collection-violated-human-rights-strasbourg-court-rules

Surveillance system revealed by Snowden breached right to privacy, Strasbourg judges say GCHQ’s methods for bulk interception of online communications violated privacy and failed to provide sufficient surveillance safeguards, the European court of human rights has ruled. But the ECHR found that GCHQ’s regime for sharing sensitive digital intelligence with foreign governments was not illegal, and it explicitly confirmed that bulk interception with tighter safeguards was permissible. The (...)

#GCHQ #algorithme #spyware #écoutes #web #surveillance #hacking #ACLU #PrivacyInternational

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The WIRED Guide to Digital Security | WIRED
▻https://www.wired.com/2017/12/digital-security-guide

Voici une petiite collection d’articles qui nous informent sur des méthodes de résister aux tentatives de surveillance et espionnage. Petit guide du parano débutant.

In an age of nonstop breaches and hacks, getting a handle on your own digital security matters more than ever. But everyone has their own threat model—a set of concerns unique to themselves. The average smartphone user doesn’t need to know what a Faraday cage is; an NSA contractor probably already has a good grasp of security basics. (Or … do they?) In this guide, we’ve included a few ways to improve your online security posture based on those different levels of risk. These won’t prevent the next megabreach or banish ransomware from the earth. They’re not all-encompassing. But they’ll help get you in the mindset of the types of steps you should be taking based on your particular situation. And they’ll help ensure that the next time you read one of those paralyzing headlines, it doesn’t apply to you.

The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked - Motherboard
▻https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3devm/motherboard-guide-to-not-getting-hacked-online-safety-guide

Surveillance Self-Defense | Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications
►https://ssd.eff.org

Smartphone Security 101: Key Steps From PINs to Permissions | WIRED
▻https://www.wired.com/story/smartphone-security-101

How to Encrypt All of the Things, From Chats to Calls and More | WIRED
►https://www.wired.com/story/encrypt-all-of-the-things

How to Sweep For Bugs and Hidden Cameras | WIRED
▻https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-sweep-for-bugs

What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed | WIRED
▻https://www.wired.com/story/what-do-to-if-you-are-being-doxed

Cybersecurity Campaign Playbook | Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
▻https://www.belfercenter.org/CyberPlaybook

#surveillance #résistance #espionnage

Refugees: the Trojan horse of terrorism?

Why are leaders in the EU and US reluctant to admit that the main terrorist threat to western countries comes from home-grown extremists?

▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/jeff-crisp/refugees-trojan-horse-of-terrorism
#réfugiés #asile #migrations #terrorisme #préjugés #mythe

A Generational Battle Among Brothers - ▻http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/2015/01/29/generational-battle-among-brothers/i0u1

Sur les restructurations internes de la confrérie, analyses de Mostafa Hashem.

“The leadership also merged a number of committees to reduce the number of party officials and curb the organization’s overall spending. In particular, committees pertaining to political action and online communications were reduced in favor of preaching, rights, and charity committees, which had been neglected under Morsi. But the more important change is the election of the committee to manage crisis and mobilization, which will pursue action to topple the Sisi government and that includes Brotherhood members from both at home and abroad.

To achieve this end, the Muslim Brotherhood’s youth are looking to restore ties with civic opposition movements with whom they protested alongside in the January 25 revolution. Brotherhood youth are trying to find ways to cooperate despite their base’s hostility toward some of the groups that called for Morsi’s removal. Joint committees from the two have already been in contact over the past month. Recent events have also supported this approach, especially after the January 25 killing of Shaima al-Sabbagh, an activist from the Socialist Popular Alliance party who was taking part in a peaceful march toward Tahrir Square to place flowers at the memorial for martyrs of the revolution.

Within the Muslim Brotherhood, the growing role of the youth will likely intensify the conflict, given Sisi’s complete rejection of the organization. Against the ongoing crackdown—more than 47,000 Egyptians are imprisoned, according to the Egyptian Coordination of Rights and Freedoms—the Brotherhood’s youth is growing more committed to revolutionary action. They have already raised slogans, such as “anything aside from bullets is peaceful,” calling for escalatory measures. These measures would include torching police headquarters and stations, government offices, public buses, and power plants, in addition to blocking vital roads.”

#Freres_musulmans #Egypte

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Modern technology has given the powerful new abilities to eavesdrop and collect data on innocent people. Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF’s guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.

Egypt Begins #Surveillance Of Facebook, Twitter, And Skype On Unprecedented Scale
▻http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/egypt-begins-surveillance-of-facebook-twitter-and-skype-on-u#4fze83k

JERUSALEM and CAIRO — Egyptians’ online communications are now being monitored by the sister company of an American cybersecurity firm, giving the Egyptian government an unprecedented ability to comb through data from Skype, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, among others.
#See_Egypt, the sister company of the U.S.-based #Blue_Coat, won the contract over the summer, beating out the British Gamma System, and the Israeli-founded Narus System. See Egypt has begun monitoring Egyptians’ online #communications, according to several Egyptian government officials who spoke to BuzzFeed News.

“See Egypt has already worked with the government and has strong ties to the State Security Services,” said one official. He asked to remain anonymous, to protect his position within the government. “They were a natural choice and their system is already winning praise.”

While Egypt has tracked online communication in the past using surveillance systems that allowed officials to loosely monitor local networks, See Egypt is the first time the government will be widely using the Deep Packet Inspection technology that enables geolocation, tracking, and extensive monitoring of #internet traffic.

#Egypte

EXCLUSIVE: Egypt Begins Surveillance Of Facebook, Twitter, And Skype On Unprecedented Scale
▻http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/egypt-begins-surveillance-of-facebook-twitter-and-skype-on-u#2otl7iu

n a copy of the tenders issued by the interior ministry, and published on several Egyptian news sites, the ministry spelt out the type of online communications they will be searching for:
Blasphemy and skepticism in religions; regional, religious, racial, and class divisions; spreading of rumors and intentional twisting of facts; throwing accusations; libel; sarcasm; using inappropriate words; calling for the departure of societal pillars; encouraging extremism, violence and dissent; inviting demonstrations, sit-ins and illegal strikes; pornography, looseness, and lack of morality; educating methods of making explosives and assault, chaos and riot tactics; calling for normalizing relations with enemies and circumventing the state’s strategy in this regard; fishing for honest mistakes, hunting flesh; taking statements out of context; and spreading hoaxes and claims of miracles.

Voilà voilà !

Le mythe de l’état omniscient n’est qu’un mythe

Proliferation of new online communications services poses hurdles for law enforcement - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/proliferation-of-new-online-communications-services-poses-hurdles-for-law-enforcement/2014/07/25/645b13aa-0d21-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html

Federal law enforcement and intelligence authorities say they are increasingly struggling to conduct court-ordered wiretaps on suspects because of a surge in chat services, instant messaging and other online communications that lack the technical means to be intercepted.

A “large percentage” of wiretap orders to pick up the communications of suspected spies and foreign agents are not being fulfilled, FBI officials said. Law enforcement agents are citing the same challenge in criminal cases; agents, they say, often decline to even seek orders when they know firms lack the means to tap into a suspect’s communications in real time.

#surveillance

Gadhafi-Era Spy Tactics
►http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304782404577488493816611850.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

Libya’s caretaker government has quietly reactivated some of the interception equipment that fallen dictator Moammar Gadhafi once used to spy on his opponents.

The surveillance equipment has been used in recent months to track the phone calls and online communications of Gadhafi loyalists, according to two government officials and a security official. Two officials say they have seen dozens of phone or Internet-chat transcripts detailing conversations between Gadhafi supporters.