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  • Pour aider à faire les sous-titre français de “citizenfour”, le documentaire sur l’histoire d’Edward Snowden

    transcription | LQDN Public Etherpad

    via @slhaen sur Twitter
    https://pad.lqdn.fr/p/citizenfour_transcription

    Citizenfour is the documentary and film of Laura Poitras,
    with Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney,
    telling the story of Edward Snowden, a former NSA sysadmin who blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of NSA, GCHQ and other secret services on our communications.
    This documentary is a 1h53" feature film, currently available only in English wih no subtitles.
    We propose to collaboratively create an English subtitle of it, each of us doing a small part of it, this will be fast ;)
    We already have someone willing to do the subtitle synchronization once we have a proper transcription of it.
    Then if anybody in any country which to translate it, please feel free to do so ;)

    A French version will certainly be launched collaboratively too, once we have a proper English one.
    Thanks for your help ! Use one of the pad below to participate:
    If you have a legal copy of this film and want a digital one, here it is on torrent: https://paf.lu/citizenfour

    #snowden #citizenfour

  • CITIZENFOUR - Laura Poitras (2015)
    https://citizenfourfilm.com

    Film très regardable (bien qu’un peu étouffant dans le huis-clos de la chambre d’hotel) ; ce qui m’a frappé, c’est la qualité de l’expression d’Edward Snowden : ses phrases sont mesurées, claires, et d’une grande finesse. Et d’un humour qui fait mouche quand il apprend au journaliste anglais pourquoi la #NSA aime tant le #GCHQ. Ou quand il revêt sa cape d’invisibilité, le moment le plus #WTF du #documentaire — jusqu’à ce qu’on se rappelle qu’il ne s’agit pas d’une fiction.

    #NSA #Snowden #Wikileaks #surveillance #film

    • Vu ce soir, film prenant. On ressort la gorge serrée. L’occasion d’une petite mise à jour en anglo-américain (vocabulaires et formes grammaticales intéressantes dans les dialogues).

      Et c’est promis, demain, (j’arrête de boire) et je quitte Dropbox !

    • Le film montre un Snowden sensible, calme et simple. Et surtout, comme il le dit à plusieurs reprise, une volonté farouche de ne pas vouloir être le héros de l’histoire, il le dit à plusieurs reprises, "Ce n’est pas une histoire sur moi, c’est une histoire sur les gens et les menaces qui pèsent sur eux, c’est pourquoi je fais appel à vous, journalistes" et avec Glenn Greenwald, j’ai l’impression qu’il ne pouvait pas mieux tomber. Glenn Greenwald, formidable journaliste, qui montre respect et modestie.

    • Edward Snowden refuse d’utiliser un iPhone à cause du mouchard

      http://www.numerama.com/magazine/31997-edward-snowden-refuse-d-utiliser-un-iphone-a-cause-du-mouchard.html

      Edward Snowden ne veut pas utiliser un iPhone pour ses communications téléphoniques à cause du mouchard qui se trouve dedans, a fait savoir son avocat. Les documents confidentiels que le lanceur d’alerte a révélés montrent l’existence d’un programme de la NSA qui permet d’accéder aux données principales de l’iPhone.

    • Pour aider à faire les sous-titre français de “citizenfour”, le documentaire sur l’histoire d’Edward Snowden

      transcription | LQDN Public Etherpad

      via @slhaen sur Twitter
      https://pad.lqdn.fr/p/citizenfour_transcription

      Citizenfour is the documentary and film of Laura Poitras,
      with Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney,
      telling the story of Edward Snowden, a former NSA sysadmin who blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of NSA, GCHQ and other secret services on our communications.
      This documentary is a 1h53" feature film, currently available only in English wih no subtitles.
      We propose to collaboratively create an English subtitle of it, each of us doing a small part of it, this will be fast ;)
      We already have someone willing to do the subtitle synchronization once we have a proper transcription of it.
      Then if anybody in any country which to translate it, please feel free to do so ;)

      A French version will certainly be launched collaboratively too, once we have a proper English one.
      Thanks for your help ! Use one of the pad below to participate:
      If you have a legal copy of this film and want a digital one, here it is on torrent: https://paf.lu/citizenfour

      #snowden #citizenfour

    • Pour l’heure je retiens surtout ce moment où Snowden parle de la surveillance, qu’elle soit ou non actualisée (qu’on soit ou non actuellement surveillé), comme une limite qui s’impose à l’exploration intellectuelle — de manière insidieuse, difficilement estimable certes, mais néanmoins certaine. Et puis sinon, #d'accord_avec_fil : il est incroyablement éloquent et précis.

      DL > http://www.datalove.net/citizen-four-movie

      Grâce au lien de @reka, je retrouve la transcription du passage en 2/2 :

      Right, so but if your self interest is to live in a world in which there’s maximum privacy, doing something that could put you into prison, in which your privacy is completely destroyed as sort of the antithesis of that, how did you reach the point where that was a worthwhile calculation for you ?

      [00:25:54] - I remember what the Internet was like before it was being watched. And there has never been anything in the history of man like it. I Mean you could have children from one part of the world having an equal discussion, where you know they were sort of granted the same respect for their ideas and conversation, with experts in the field from another part of the world on any topic, anywhere, anytime, all the time. And it was free and unrestrained. And we’ve seen the chilling of that, the cooling of that and the changing of that model towards something which people self police their own views. And they literally make their own jokes on ending up on the list if they donate to a political cause or if they say something in a discussion. And it has become an expectation that we’re being watched. Many people I’ve talked to have mentioned that they’re careful about what they type into #search engines. Because they know that it’s being recorded. And that limits the boundaries of their intellectual exploration. And I’m more willing to risk imprisonment or any other negative outcome personally than I am willing to risk the curtailment of my intellectual freedom and that of those around me, whom I care for equally as I do for myself. And again that’s not to say that I’m self sacrificing because it gives me, I feel good, in my human experience to know that I can contribute to the good of others.

    • moi aussi j’ai particulièrement apprécié la personnalité que dégage snowden. pour moi son intégrité découle de sa façon de parler, les mots qu’il utilise, ses intonations, son rythme, ses regards, les mouvements de sa bouche/ses lèvres, tout son visage, sa tête.

      puis le calme qu’il tente de préserver alors qu’il est quand même pour moi clairement stressé (par exemple lors du test d’alarme incendie dans l’hôtel) ; ça ne fait que confirmer une fois de plus qu’il estime que ça ne tourne pas autour de lui, et qu’il doit tout faire pour que ça ne le fasse pas. et comme le dit @reka, il a la chance d’avoir greenwald comme porte-parole ; à plusieurs reprises on peut comprendre dans le discours de greenwald (notament quand il parle de son article sur les whistleblowers) qu’il est on the same page as snowden.

      j’ai particulièrement été touché du comportement de snowden vers la fin, quand greenwald lui apprend des trucs en l’écrivant sur un bout de papier. le suspense mis à part, sa tête quand il dit "that’s fucking ridiculous" ça m’a touché parce que ça permet de prendre la mesure de la gravité de la situation quand un expert comme lui réagit ainsi à un truc qu’il ne savait pas.

      un autre moment fort est quand greenwald se rend compte de l’ampleur de la chose et qu’il est d’accord qu’on ne peut qu’exposer tout ceci « it brutally hits home », « this needs to get out » ; tout ce pouvoir ne peut pas rester dans les mains de la NSA sans que le monde soit au courant. c’est trop grotesque.
      on ressent bien que greenwald ne participe pas juste par sensationnalisme, mais surtout parce qu’il est convaincu de la cause.

      le documentaire construit un bon suspense, et les petits extraits de musique de temps en temps (NIN, album Ghost) y contribuent certainement.

      par contre, je ne suis pas tout à fait d’accord avec snowden dans le passage, justement cité plus haut « I remember what the Internet was like before it was being watched. » incitant à penser qu’avant tout était innocent et libre sur internet, sans qu’on soit observé.
      je ne suis pas d’accord (c’est personnel, je ne dis pas qu’il ait tort) parce que dès mes début en 1992 (où il n’y avait principalement que l’e-mail, ftp, usenet, gopher, archie, wais, irc, et puis le début d’http) j’avais cette sensation qu’il fallait faire attention à ce qu’on disait, et que si on avait une impression de liberté de pouvoir dire ce qu’on voulait, c’était aussi parce que c’était encore une communauté assez restreinte et pas très « publique » (même si je retrouve encore aujourd’hui des trucs que j’avais dit dans des newsgroups il y a plus de 20 ans...), alors que maintenant internet est clairement publique. dès mes débuts (réseaux, télécoms & protocoles dans milieu académique) je savais qu’il était facile d’être observé ( « being watched »).
      ceci dit, je viens de prouver que je rejoins aussi ce que dit snowden, càd que sachant tout ça, je me limite automatiquement ; « Because they know that it’s being recorded. And that limits the boundaries of their intellectual exploration. »

      PS : dans le documentaire on voit aussi le livre de cory doctorow, « homeland »

    • À tou⋅te⋅s les suiveureuses de ce fil : la transcription anglaise est quasiment terminée, et elle est déjà complètement validée pour les premières parties.

      N’hésitez pas à apporter dès maintenant votre grain de sel pour la traduction en français : celle-ci est déjà commencée directement dans les mêmes bloc-notes, par exemple ici pour la première :
      https://pad.lqdn.fr/p/citizenfour_transcription_part1

      Vous pouvez donc traduire ou corriger les fautes d’orthographe petit à petit sans aucun logiciel particulier.

    • Je n’y comprends que dalle, ni comment on traduit, ni suffisamment l’anglais pour traduire une partie. Sorry. Mais merci à celles et ceux qui participent à ce magnifique projet ;)

    • Vu cette semaine. Je l’ai lancé, en me disant “Bon, un documentaire en huis-clos, ça va être un peu scolaire”.

      J’ai été scotché. En plus de ce qui a été dit ici, j’ai trouvé le documentaire très beau (image et montage). Laura Poitras (et son équipe) ont un sacré talent.

  • Susie Day, « Outing Torture Queen Bikowsky »
    http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/day060115.html

    Dear Alfreda Frances Bikowsky,

    So many people want to be famous. Not you. You were content to let Jessica Chastain portray a more competent version of your waterboarding and bin Laden-stalking self in the film Zero Dark Thirty. You never asked for credit. But now, thanks to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee’s Report on CIA Torture, we know you’ve made more history than the average, anonymous schlub. Jane Mayer of The New Yorker calls you “The Unidentified Queen of Torture.” She says you:

    dropped the ball when the C.I.A. was given information that might very well have prevented the 9/11 attacks; . . . gleefully participated in torture sessions afterward; . . . And then . . . falsely told congressional overseers that the torture worked.

    Of course, Jane Mayer doesn’t name you. Neither does Matthew Cole in his NBC News report, which was the basis for Mayer’s article. You are the “Unidentified Queen” because the CIA told the media not to reveal you. According to Mayer, you were the reason the Senate Intelligence Committee was not even allowed to use pseudonyms to identify you or any of the major players in its torture report, making it “almost impossible to . . . hold anyone in the American government accountable.”

    We only know you are Alfreda Bikowsky because of journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has problems with authority. Glenn defied the CIA to identify you in an article for The Intercept, an investigative news website that purposely operates outside the parameters of mainstream media. Thanks a lot, Glenn Greenwald.

    I said that sarcastically, Ms. Bikowsky. Or, if I may: I said that sarcastically, Your Majesty. Glenn should not have “outed” you. After all, Glenn’s gay; he should know better.

    Being a queer of the more sensitive variety, myself, I feel that people should not be forced out of the closet before they’re ready. There can be hard feelings. Like, I can only guess how you feel now. But if it’s even a little like being shackled and hung from the ceiling in freezing rooms, or forcibly hydrated and fed rectally, or stripped naked and deprived of sleep for a week, or put in stress positions for hours, you have my deep sympathy.

    It’s not easy to be exposed as a war criminal. Now that you’re out, though, you may take a page or two from the Gay Rights movement. Here are some hard-won pointers to help you face an ignorant and uncomprehending world.

    Say It Loud: War Criminal and Proud

    According to NBC News, your name was redacted at least three dozen times from the declassified Senate Committee’s report on torture. This self-redacting tendency indicates that you are an extremely modest person, Your Majesty. Yet, like so many women, you may be sacrificing your self-esteem just to avoid “making a scene.”

    Coming out allows you to proclaim your worth to society. Did you stop to think that maybe God made you this way? Much like God gave gay men, brain-wise, a small hypothalamus gland, He may have given you an abnormally tiny empathy-inducing anterior insular cortex. But whether your condition is biological or chosen, it’s time to step up and say, “Yes, America, I AM a war criminal. So what if all that torture did not yield useful information in finding bin Laden or anybody else — it was FUN!”

    Back to the woman thing. Very few satanic creatures of note are women. Are you going to let Henry Kissinger and Beelzebub take all the credit? Isn’t it time Dick Cheney made coffee for YOU, for a change?

    Out of the Black Sites and Into the Street

    Contrary to myth, war criminals make good citizens. Like gay people, they boost property values and contribute to art and high culture. In fact, thanks to America’s more discerning war criminals, many prestigious U.S. museums are simply teeming with artifacts and masterpieces acquired from backward, terrorist-friendly countries that never fully appreciated them.

    It’s often hard for prejudiced “normal” people to accept that war criminals are human. Part of being human is, of course, making mistakes. So stand up for your war criminal humanity, Your Majesty, by proudly defending your royal fuckups. Anybody in your CIA position could have goofed in snatching Khalid el-Masri, an innocent German citizen, off the street and torturing him for months in Afghanistan’s Salt Pit prison. Why, even most non-war-criminals mistake people with Muslim names for terrorists. It’s what unites us!

    And be PROUD you testified to Congress that waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (about 183 times, but who’s counting?) led to the apprehension of a particular terrorist — despite the fact that this suspect was already in CIA custody.

    You will encounter prejudice. Some people will assume you “got that way” by being waterboarded as a child or exposed to a war criminal teacher at an early age. Although this may well be true, it’s none of their business. When confronted with such war-criminal-o-phobe behavior, it is best to respond thusly: “I appreciate your concern, but I feel comfortable with who I am.” Then arrest this person and have them slammed repeatedly against a wall.

    Accept Your Greatness

    Bottom line, O Queen? If we anonymous schlubs can’t hold you accountable for anything you’ve done, the least you can do is become a celebrity.

    See, you know all about us — our metadata is vacuumed up every second by your friends in the NSA — but we know nothing about you. Do you own a PC or a Mac? What’s your most embarrassing moment? Favorite brand of toothpaste?
    Please tell us, Your Majesty: Who ARE you? If we knew that, we might know something more about who we are.

    The Unidentified Queen of Torture
    By Jane Mayer
    http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/unidentified-queen-torture

    Had the Senate Intelligence Committee been permitted to use pseudonyms for the central characters in its report, as all previous congressional studies of intelligence failures, including the widely heralded Church Committee report in 1975, have done, it might not have taken a painstaking, and still somewhat cryptic, investigation after the fact in order for the American public to hold this senior official accountable. Many people who have worked with her over the years expressed shock to NBC that she has been entrusted with so much power. A former intelligence officer who worked directly with her is quoted by NBC, on background, as saying that she bears so much responsibility for so many intelligence failures that “she should be put on trial and put in jail for what she has done.”

    Instead, however, she has been promoted to the rank of a general in the military, most recently working as the head of the C.I.A.’s global-jihad unit. In that perch, she oversees the targeting of terror suspects around the world. (She was also, in part, the model for the lead character in “Zero Dark Thirty.”)

    Je ne suis pas de l’avis de Jane Mayer. J’ai l’impression que la divine Alfreda Frances Bikowsky ressemble plutôt à ça :

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBu4TEO2X1A

    #terrorisme #usa

    • CE n’est pas la meilleure décision qu’il ait prise dans sa vie, et hélas, ça le décrédibilise .

      http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2015/01/15/suis-dieudonne-quand-greenwald-prend-defense-polemiste-257117

      #JeSuisDieudonné : le journaliste américain Greenwald prend la défense du polémiste

      C’est d’abord un message posté sur Twitter qui retient l’attention.

      Le journaliste américain Glenn Greenwald, connu pour avoir publié les révélations d’Edward Snowden, tweete une image « #JeSuisDieudonné », avec ces quelques lignes : « J’attends que tous les défenseurs de la liberté d’expression dans l’Ouest postent ceci en signe de solidarité. »

      Après avoir posté (puis retiré) sur sa page Facebook un message se terminant par « Je me sens Charlie Coulibaly », en référence au terroriste auteur de la prise d’otages de Vincennes et du meurtre d’une policière à Montrouge, Dieudonné a été placé en garde à vue dans le cadre d’une enquête pour « apologie du terrorisme ».

      Dans le même temps, plusieurs condamnations ont été prononcées envers des personnes ayant signifié leur sympathie pour les actes perpétrés par les frères Kouachi et par Coulibaly. Ainsi, un multirécidiviste de 34 ans, en état d’ivresse au moment des faits, a été condamné à quatre ans de prison pour avoir dit à des policiers : « Les terroristes ont bien fait de vous buter à Paris. »

      Dans le cas de Dieudonné, ses soutiens – encore nombreux et actifs sur Internet, malgré les hoquets de ces derniers mois – font des parallèles osés entre l’humour de Charlie Hebdo et celui du comparse d’Alain Soral.

      L’« arnaque » de la marche républicaine

      Dans une veine libertarienne, Glenn Greenwald prend donc la défense du polémiste, dans un long billet posté sur son site The Intercept. Il va jusqu’à qualifier d’« arnaque » les rassemblements en défense de la liberté d’expression de ces derniers jours : « Depuis [ces marches], la France aurait ouvert 54 dossiers criminels pour approbation du terrorisme. »

      Lui estime que :

      « La liberté d’expression, dans les mains de beaucoup d’Occidentaux signifie en réalité : “Il est vital que les idées que j’aime soient protégées et que le droit de s’en prendre aux groupes que je n’aime pas soit préservé. Tout le reste est une cible légitime.” »

      Greenwald qualifie bien les vues de Dieudonné de « nocives », mais les compare aussitôt aux caricatures publiées par Charlie Hebdo. Il moque ensuite les médias occidentaux, qui, selon lui, n’oseront jamais prendre la défense de Dieudonné, même lorsque la liberté d’expression est « clairement » malmenée par son arrestation :

      « C’est parce que les rassemblements de la semaine dernière à la mémoire des dessinateurs de l’hebdo (bien au-delà du deuil de leur meurtre injuste et horrible) étaient au moins autant en approbation de leurs messages antimusulmans que de la liberté d’expression évoquée pour porter ces messages. »

      Contre toute loi anti-liberté d’expression

      Mais Greenwald va encore plus loin en suggérant que le discours « les-pays-occidentaux-comme-la-France-ont-tellement-violenté-les-musulmans-dans-leurs-propres-pays-que-je-crois-maintenant-qu’on-peut-justifier-le-fait-de-violenter-la-France-pour-arrêter-cela » ne devrait pas être poursuivi pénalement. Il se prononce ensuite contre toute loi qui pourrait atteindre à la liberté d’expression sous prétexte de limiter les propos haineux.

      Et il conclut (toujours ma traduction) :

      « Mais c’est précisément le but, et l’effet, de ces lois qui criminalisent certaines idées : de codifier un système où les vues appréciées par les porteurs de la loi sont sanctifiées et les groupes auxquels ils appartiennent sont protégés.

      Les vues et les groupes qu’ils n’aiment pas – et seulement ceux-ci – sont des cibles légitimes pour l’oppression et la dégradation. »

  • North Korea/Sony Story Shows How Eagerly U.S. Media Still Regurgitate Government Claims - Glenn Greenwald
    https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/01/north-koreasony-story-shows-eager-u-s-media-still-regurgitate-government-

    It’s tempting to say that the U.S. media should have learned by now not to uncritically disseminate government claims, particularly when those claims can serve as a pretext for U.S. aggression. But to say that, at this point, almost gives them too little credit. It assumes that they want to improve, but just haven’t yet come to understand what they’re doing wrong.

    But that’s deeply implausible. At this point - eleven years after the run-up to the Iraq War and 50 years after the Gulf of Tonkin fraud - any minimally sentient American knows full well that their government lies frequently. Any journalist understands full well that assuming government claims to be true, with no evidence, is the primary means by which U.S. media outlets become tools of government propaganda.

    U.S. journalists don’t engage in this behavior because they haven’t yet realized this. To the contrary, they engage in this behavior precisely because they do realize this: because that is what they aspire to be. If you know how journalistically corrupt it is for large media outlets to uncritically disseminate evidence-free official claims, they know it, too. Calling on them to stop doing that wrongly assumes that they seek to comport with their ostensible mission of serving as watchdogs over power. That’s their brand, not their aspiration or function.

  • Aux Etats-Unis, le débat sur la #surveillance relancé
    http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2014/11/SCHILLER/50928

    Quelques jours seulement après la publication de l’article du Guardian dans lequel le journaliste Glenn Greenwald révélait que l’Agence nationale de sécurité américaine (National Security Agency, NSA) collecte les données téléphoniques de millions d’abonnés américains (5 juin 2013), le président Barack Obama réunissait un groupe de conseillers. Après plusieurs mois d’enquêtes — et alors que les révélations fracassantes se succédaient —, le comité publiait des conclusions accablantes : les justifications fournies par la #NSA n’étaient pas valides ; elle n’avait pas apporté la preuve que la surveillance non autorisée des résidents américains avait empêché des attentats terroristes.

  • Snowden, les yeux et la mémoire
    http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2014/11/RIMBERT/50929

    Au printemps 2013, un consultant informatique d’une entreprise sous-traitante de l’Agence américaine pour la sécurité (National Security Agency, #NSA), M. Edward #Snowden, transmet aux journalistes Glenn Greenwald et Laura Poitras plusieurs centaines de milliers de documents secrets relatifs aux programmes d’#espionnage conduits par les Etats-Unis et leurs alliés au nom de la lutte antiterroriste. Si nul ne soupçonnait la première puissance mondiale d’angélisme, les publications qui se succèdent depuis dévoilent un système tentaculaire.

  • Vidéo : Jacob Applebaum et Laura Poitras au Big Brother Symposium de Lisbonne
    http://reflets.info/video-jacob-applebaum-et-laura-poitras-au-big-brother-symposium-de-lisbonn

    Voici la vidéo de la discussion avec la salle après la projection de Citizen Four, le documentaire de Laura Poitras qui raconte la rencontre entre elle, puis Glenn Greenwald et Edward Snowden. Laura Poitras et Jacob Applebaum répondent aux questions des spectateurs. Jacob Applebaum est un hacker impliqué dans le développement de Tor et il […]

    http://reflets.info/wp-content/uploads/citizen4.mp4

  • Glenn Greenwald : il y a des gens sincèrement enthousiastes pour la candidature d’Hillary Clinton (Wall Street, le lobby israélien, les va-t-en-guerre et les néoconservateurs old-school) : Cynics, Step Aside : There is Genuine Excitement Over a Hillary Clinton Candidacy
    https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/14/despite-cynicism-genuine-excitement-hillary-clinton-candidacy

    It’s easy to strike a pose of cynicism when contemplating Hillary Clinton’s inevitable (and terribly imminent) presidential campaign. As a drearily soulless, principle-free, power-hungry veteran of DC’s game of thrones, she’s about as banal of an American politician as it gets. One of the few unique aspects to her, perhaps the only one, is how the genuinely inspiring gender milestone of her election will (following the Obama model) be exploited to obscure her primary role as guardian of the status quo.

  • Edward Snowden and the golden age of spying
    http://mondediplo.com/openpage/edward-snowden-and-the-golden-age-of-spying

    Director Laura Poitras, like reporter Glenn Greenwald, is now known almost as widely as #Snowden himself, for helping facilitate his entry into the world. Her new film, the last in a trilogy she’s completed (the previous two being My Country, My Country on the Iraq War and The Oath on Guantanamo), takes you back to June 2013 and locks you in that Hong Kong hotel room with Snowden, Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill of the Guardian, and Poitras herself for eight days that changed the world. It’s a riveting, surprisingly unclaustrophic, and unforgettable experience.

    Before that moment, we were quite literally in the dark. After it, we have a better sense, at least, of the nature of the darkness that envelops us. Having seen her film in a packed house at the New York Film Festival, I sat down with Poitras in a tiny conference room at the Loews Regency Hotel in New York City to discuss just how our world has changed and her part in it.

  • Snowden : Get rid of #Dropbox, avoid #Google and #Facebook

    http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/11/edward-snowden-new-yorker-festival

    Comme alternatif à Dropbox il suggère #SpiderOak http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/07/17/snowden-says-drop-dropbox-use-spideroak

    The difference between Dropbox and SpiderOak is that SpiderOak encrypts the data while it’s on your computer, as opposed to only encrypting it “in transit” and on the company’s servers.

    Il propose aussi de protégér vos SMS et appels téléphoniques avec des outils comme ceux de #Whispersystems (#Redphone, #TextSecure) https://whispersystems.org et #Silent_Circle https://silentcircle.com

    Interview donné dans le cadre du film/documentaire Citizenfour de Laura Poitras qui vient de sortir pour le New Yorker Festival. Dans ce documentaire de près de deux heures apparaissent entre autre Edward Snowden, Jacob Appelbaum, Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill.

    L’interview pour le New Yorker est ici :
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fidq3jow8bc

    #privacy
    #surveillance
    #cloud #storage
    #SMS

    • Compte-rendu par Courrier International

      INTERNET • Edward Snowden : « Laissez tomber Dropbox, Facebook et Google » | Courrier international
      http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2014/10/13/edward-snowden-laissez-tomber-dropbox-facebook-et-google

      Pour Edward Snowden, le meilleur moyen de protéger sa vie privée en ligne, c’est de laisser tomber les services comme Google, Facebook et Dropbox. C’est ce qui ressort de l’interview que l’homme à l’origine des révélations sur la NSA a accordée ce week-end dans le cadre du New Yorker Festival. Le site Techcrunch revient sur les conseils distillés par Snowden.

      Première recommandation : ne pas utiliser les services « hostiles à la vie privée », comme DropBox, qui ne permettent pas de crypter les données. Snowden précise que même si Facebook et Google ont amélioré leur niveau de sécurité, ils restent des services « dangereux ». Techcrunch souligne avec ironie que « les internautes qui suivaient l’interview en direct sur Google Hangouts ou YouTube pouvaient voir un logo Google au-dessus du visage de Snowden en même temps qu’il prononçait ces mots ». Dernier conseil de Sno_wden : « N’envoyez pas de SMS non cryptés. Utilisez les services comme RedPhone et Silent Circle [des applications de cryptage pour smartphone]. »

      « _Certains disent qu’ils n’ont ’rien à cacher’, mais dire cela, c’est inverser les responsabilités », a expliqué Edward Snowden. « Dire : ’Je n’ai rien à cacher’, cela revient à dire : ’Je me fiche de ce droit’. C’est dire : ’Je ne dispose tellement pas de ce droit que j’en suis arrivé au point où je dois m’en justifier’. Alors que normalement, c’est le gouvernement qui doit se justifier de ne pas respecter vos droits », a-t-il développé, pour appuyer son appel à une réforme de la politique américaine en matière de respect de la vie privée.

  • Glenn Greenwald : Why Privacy Matters ?

    Talking about what’s wrong with this general response to the mass surveillance question: "well, why be afraid if you have nothing to hide?"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcSlowAhvUk

    The people who are actually saying [they have nothing to hide] are engaged in a very extreme act of self-deprecation. What they’re really saying is, “I have agreed to make myself such a harmless and unthreatening and uninteresting person that I actually don’t fear having the government know what it is that I’m doing.” This mindset has found what I think is its purest expression in a 2009 interview with the longtime CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, who, when asked about all the different ways his company is causing invasions of privacy for hundreds of millions of people around the world, said this: He said, "If you’re doing something that you don’t want other people to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place."

    Now, there’s all kinds of things to say about that mentality, the first of which is that the people who say that, who say that privacy isn’t really important, they don’t actually believe it, and the way you know that they don’t actually believe it is that while they say with their words that privacy doesn’t matter, with their actions, they take all kinds of steps to safeguard their privacy.

    [...]

    The very same Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, ordered his employees at Google to cease speaking with the online Internet magazine CNET after CNET published an article full of personal, private information about Eric Schmidt, which it obtained exclusively through Google searches and using other Google products.
    This same division can be seen with the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, who in an infamous interview in 2010 pronounced that privacy is no longer a “social norm.” Last year, Mark Zuckerberg and his new wife purchased not only their own house but also all four adjacent houses in Palo Alto for a total of 30 million dollars in order to ensure that they enjoyed a zone of privacy that prevented other people from monitoring what they do in their personal lives.

    He also references Bentham’s #panopticon and Foucault’s extension to any kind of institution seeking human control:
    "mass surveillance creates a prison in the mind"

    What all of these seemingly disparate works recognize, the conclusion that they all reach, is that a society in which people can be monitored at all times is a society that breeds conformity and obedience and submission, which is why every tyrant, the most overt to the most subtle, craves that system. Conversely, even more importantly, it is a realm of privacy, the ability to go somewhere where we can think and reason and interact and speak without the judgmental eyes of others being cast upon us, in which creativity and exploration and dissent exclusively reside, and that is the reason why, when we allow a society to exist in which we’re subject to constant monitoring, we allow the essence of human freedom to be severely crippled.

    [...]

    Equally critical is that the measure of how free a society is is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens, but how it treats its dissidents and those who resist orthodoxy. But the most important reason is that a system of mass surveillance suppresses our own freedom in all sorts of ways. It renders off-limits all kinds of behavioral choices without our even knowing that it’s happened. The renowned socialist activist Rosa Luxemburg once said, “He who does not move does not notice his chains.” We can try and render the chains of mass surveillance invisible or undetectable, but the constraints that it imposes on us do not become any less potent.

    Full transcript:
    http://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters/transcript?language=en

    #Snowden
    #privacy
    #surveillance

  • Surveillance : la NSA a créé son propre « Google »

    http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2014/08/26/surveillance-la-nsa-a-cree-son-propre-google_4476822_4408996.html

    Un véritable « Google made in NSA » : c’est ainsi que le site The Intercept, fondé par le journaliste Glenn Greenwald, qui a divulgué les documents secrets d’Edward Snowden, décrit le programme ICReach, dont il a dévoilé l’existence ce lundi.
    ICReach est, en résumé, un moteur de recherche basique, mais qui permet d’effectuer des recherches dans les gigantesques bases de données d’informations collectées par la NSA lors de communications téléphoniques ou électroniques. Huit cent cinquante milliards de communications sont ainsi mises à disposition des agences fédérales partenaires de la NSA, comme le FBI.

    Ce qui est plus surprenant, c’est qu’elles sont, en partie, également à la disposition d’agences étrangères. « Le 5-eyes shareable » indique que vos communications sont peut-être actuellement entre les mains d’agents canadiens (CSE), australiens (DSD), britanniques (GCHQ) ou néo-zélandais (GCSB).

  • Leaked classified memo reveals U.S.-Israeli intel cooperation on Egypt, Iran - Diplomacy and Defense Israel News | Haaretz
    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.608802

    Leaked classified memo reveals U.S.-Israeli intel cooperation on Egypt, Iran
    Top-secret memo, published by Glenn Greenwald, describes deep exchange of information between NSA and IDF Unit 8200; takes pride in ’success stories.’

    L’article est payant mais il a l’air d’être largement résumé dans cet article de Rai al-youm (http://www.raialyoum.com/?p=134798) dont le titre met en évidence le désir commun égypto-israélien « d’étrangler » le Hamas.
    Pas mal d’infos (?) aussi apparemment sur le rôle de l’Unité 8200 dans les réseaux sociaux arabes.
    Quelqu’un a-t-il accès à la version du Haaretz ?

    #tic_arabes

  • C’est pas tous les jours qu’on est cité par Glenn Greenwald :

    Twitter / ggreenwald : Palestinians returning home ...
    https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/497710452554862592

    Palestinians returning home find Israeli troops left feces http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/palestinians-return-home-israeli-troops-faeces-graffiti … - not remotely the first time http://angryarab.blogspot.com.br/2014/08/israeli-soldiers-defecate-in.html …

    (l’article de Angry Arab cité est le message que je lui ai expédié hier soir).

    #je_suis_super_fier_tu_peux_pas_savoir

  • Why Snowden hasn’t harmed Israel’s intelligence services
    There was an expectation that the Snowden documents would yield details on Israel’s electronic surveillance capabilities, yet Glenn Greenwald has barely reported on Israel.
    By Anshel Pfeffer | Aug. 6, 2014 |
    Haaretz
    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.609090

    For over a year now, Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (NSA) systems administrator who fled to Russia, has been distributing through the media part of the hundreds of thousands of classified documents he took with him. Many of these reports have seriously damaged the operations of American and British intelligence services. On Monday, Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who cooperated with Snowden and wrote most of the reports based on his documents, published on the Intercept website new details on the close cooperation between NSA and its Israeli counterpart - the IDF’s Unit 8200. This is only the second time in which the Snowden documents have referred to Israel.

    Then report is fascinating and sheds new light on the way Israeli and American intelligence work together on joint targets in the region and elsewhere, in this case Egypt under the previous Muslim Brotherhood government. But it didn’t tell us anything we didn’t know before. The two countries have a long history of intelligence-sharing which has continued to deepen despite the political pitfalls and lack of personal chemistry between the heads of state. The new details Greenwald adds on the direct line between headquarters, the joint projects against Iran (partly funded by the U.S.) and the use of each other’s installations are interesting but hardly surprising.

    What is surprising is the paucity of mentions of Israel in the flow of Snowden documents. The two reports so far describe the contours of the US-Israel intelligence relationship but unlike the documents on the electronic intelligence-gathering by the U.S. and its ally, Britain, there have been no reports on actual details of Israel’s surveillance methods and its penetration of communication networks. The revelations of eavesdropping programs of the NSA and Britain’s GCHQ have caused immense damage to their countries ability to follow potential terror targets and gather information through phone and internet networks. They have lead to acrimonious debates in the west over the line between national security and intrusion on civilians’ privacy. The damage done to the intelligence services from the disclosure of their methods to keep tabs on terror organizations is assessed by the NSA at billions of dollars.

    Due to the close NSA-Unit 8200 cooperation, there was an expectation that the Snowden documents would yield similar details on Israel’s electronic surveillance capabilities. But in the thirteen months since they started to appear, we’ve yet to read any operational details. The timing of this week’s report was meant to embarrass the Obama administration for working with Israel while the Gaza operation was ongoing but in a tense period for the diplomatic relations between Washington and Jerusalem, a reminder of the closeness between their intelligence services boosts Israel’s international standing.

    Why hasn’t Greenwald published any damaging details on Israel’s eavesdropping techniques, as he has on the U.S. and Britain? There are four possible reasons.

    So many documents, so little time - Snowden hoovered up as many as 1.7 million classified documents, according to some estimates. It’s unclear whether this figure is accurate and how many of them have been handed to Greenwald and other journalists, but in every interview, Greenwald promises there are many more revelations to come that will embarrass the NSA. His new and well-funded website was founded mainly upon that promise. It’s possible that the Israeli chapter is still to come. And yet, it seems unlikely that Greenwald, who has been a constant and coruscating critic of Israel in his columns over the years, would hold back if he had anything that could harm its intelligence services. Especially as there are other competing journalists with access to some of the documents and any report on Israel’s spying activities is guaranteed click-bait.

    Special classification - In the months before he fled for Russia, Snowden accumulated as many documents as he could put his hands on. He used passwords of work colleagues to obtain those he had no access to. If he failed in purloining documents relating to joint operations with Israel, of the kind he found on the U.S. and Britain, it would indicate that Israel-related material is stored under a higher classification and different level of total compartmentalization from most NSA employees. This could be due to Israeli requirements or an American attempt to keep these operations separate from its core operations out of concern of Israeli spying. Snowden who showed great creativity in storing up his secret cache would be aware of the value of such material yet he seems to have failed to breach that particular wall of secrecy.

    Under threat - There is no evidence but at least one European intelligence analyst has wondered over the last year whether Israel has found a way to pressure either Snowden or Greenwald not to publish damaging details on Israel’s capabilities. “It’s impossible to believe that Snowden discovered so much about American and British networks yet found so little on Israel,” says the analyst who has devoted months to studying Snowden’s intelligence heist. “The only explanation I can think of is that Israel found a creative way to get to Snowden or Greenwald and convince them not to use these documents.”

    Russian interests – Snowden has lived in Moscow for the last year, since escaping there via Hong Kong. Western intelligence agencies are convinced that he and almost certainly his stolen documents are now controlled by the Kremlin’s spies, though they’re still unsure whether he was in their service (perhaps unwittingly) before he arrived in Russia. The Kremlin has a clear interest in damaging the American and British intelligence-gathering networks as the old Cold War rivalries swiftly reemerge in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. The embarrassment and anger caused in the west by Snowden’s revelations and the public suspicion of the governments’ intrusion into civilians’ privacy, have certainly served Russia, which intrudes on its own citizens to a much larger degree, well. Israel’s relationship with the Kremlin is much more opaque.

    Despite the strategic relationship with the U.S., successive Israeli governments have steadfastly refrained from criticizing Russia for its arms shipments to Syria, its nuclear assistance of Iran and most recently the invasion and annexation of Crimea. Snowden serves Russian interests and the fact that he has so far not published any documents damaging Israel’s intelligence operations could be a result of the careful efforts by Jerusalem to build quite links with Moscow since the fall of the Iron Curtain.

  • Leaked classified memo reveals U.S.-Israeli intel cooperation on Egypt, Iran
    Top-secret memo, published by Glenn Greenwald, describes deep exchange of information between NSA and IDF Unit 8200; takes pride in ’success stories.’
    By Amir Oren | Aug. 5, 2014
    Haaretz
    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.608802

    After Mohammed Morsi became Egypt’s president in June 2012 with backing from the Muslim Brotherhood, the intelligence communities of the United States and Israel expanded their cooperation to keep an eye on what was happening in Egypt.

    With approval from U.S. National Intelligence Director Lt. Gen. (ret.) James R. Clapper, the National Security Agency’s signals intelligence agency gave the Israel Defense Forces’ intelligence Unit 8200 the task of providing information about “select strategic issues, specifically terrorist elements in the Sinai.”

    This information is included in a highly classified NSA memo from April 2013 published Monday morning on The Intercept, the website run by Glenn Greenwald, a partner of Edward Snowden. Snowden had worked in the service of the NSA, during which he gathered American intelligence documents that he subsequently leaked.

    Since the memo was written during Morsi’s term in office, before the military coup that overthrew him and led to the presidency of Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi, it does not tell us whether the exchanges of information about the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel, and about which Israel’s intelligence-gathering capabilities have been restricted — still continue.

    When the document in question was written, General Keith Alexander was in charge of the NSA, and Brig. Gen. Nadav Zafrir was commander of Unit 8200.

    The memo was only distributed to the two countries that had signed it, and not to other members of the Anglo-Saxon Five Eyes alliance: Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It details the intelligence relationship between the NSA and Israel, and updates a previous version of a document that Snowden published last year.

    The depth of the bilateral cooperation is reflected, among other things, in a term used to describe Unit 8200’s task to carry out espionage in Egypt: “tasking” – meaning collection of vital information, as is usual among agencies belonging to the same intelligence community.

    According to the document, which describes significant, joint intelligence successes such as those involving the Iranian nuclear program, “NSA maintains a far-reaching technical and analytic relationship with the Israeli SIGINT National Unit [i.e., Unit 2800], sharing information on access, intercept, targeting, language, analysis and reporting. This SIGINT relationship has increasingly been the catalyst for a broader intelligence relationship between the United States and Israel. Significant changes in the way NSA and ISNU have traditionally approached SIGINT have prompted an expansion to include other Israeli and U.S. intelligence organizations such as CIA, Mossad, and Special Operation Division (SOD)" – the latter is evidently a reference to the Pentagon term for the special operations department of Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate.

    Most of the bilateral intelligence cooperation, if not all of it, concentrates on “targets in the Middle East which constitute strategic threats to U.S. and Israeli interests. Building upon a robust analytic exchange, NSA and ISNU also have explored and executed unique opportunities to gain access to high priority targets. The mutually agreed upon geographic targets include the countries of North Africa, the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, South Asia, and the Islamic republics of the Former Soviet Union," according to the memo.

    "Within that set of countries, cooperation covers the exploitation of internal government, military, civil, and diplomatic communications; and external security/intelligence organizations. Regional Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and ’Stateless’/International Terrorism comprise the exchanged transnational target set. A dedicated communications line between NSA and ISNU supports the exchange of raw material, as well as daily analytic and technical correspondence. Both NSA and ISNU have liaison officers, who conduct foreign relations functions, stationed at their respective embassies [Washington and Tel Aviv].”

    The memo continues: “The Israeli side enjoys the benefits of expanded geographic access to world-class NSA cryptanalytic and SIGINT engineering expertise, and also gains controlled access to advanced U.S. technology and equipment via accommodation buys and foreign military sales.

    “Benefits to the U.S. include expanded geographic access to high priority SIGINT targets, access to world-class Israeli cryptanalytic and SIGINT engineering expertise, and access to a large pool of highly qualified analysts.”

    The author of the memo — the country desk officer of the NSA’s Foreign Affairs Directorate — took pride in what he called “success stories.” First among them was “the Iranian nuclear development program, followed by Syrian nuclear efforts, Lebanese Hezbollah plans and intentions, Palestinian terrorism, and Global Jihad. Several recent and successful joint operations between NSA and ISNU have broadened both organizations’ ability to target and exploit Iranian nuclear efforts. In addition, a robust and dynamic crypanalytic relationship has enabled breakthroughs on high priority Iranian targets.

    “NSA and ISNU continue to initiate joint targeting of Syrian and Iranian leadership and nuclear development programs with CIA, ISNU, SOD and Mossad. This exchange has been particularly important as unrest in Syria continues, and both sides work together to identify threats to regional stability. NSA’s cyber partnerships expanded beyond ISNU to include Israeli Defense Intelligence’s SOD and Mossad, resulting in unprecedented access and collection breakthroughs that all sides acknowledge would not have been possible to achieve without the others.”

    In September 2011, NSA and Unit 8200 also signed a memo of understanding for cooperation in communications and cyber realms. In January 2012, one of Gen. Alexander’s deputies visited Tel Aviv and specified the NSA’s targets in those fields: cyber threats from Iran, Hezbollah and other elements in the region. In exchange, the NSA would provide Israel with “limited, focused support on specific Russian and Chinese cyber threats.” Additional talks “to further develop this partnership” were held in May and December 2012.

    Moreover, under the heads of NSA and Unit 8200, encrypted video communication was inaugurated between both intelligence communities “that allows both sides to broaden and accelerate the pace of collaboration against targets’ use of advanced telecommunications. Target sets include, but are not limited to, Iran nuclear, Syrian foreign fighter movements, Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps activities.”

    According to the section of the memo entitled “Problems/Challenges:” “The three most common concerns raised by ISNU regarding the partnership with NSA is NSA’s reluctance to share on technology that is not directly related to a specific target, the ISNU’s perceived reduction in the amount and degree of cooperation in certain areas, and the length of time NSA takes to decide on ISNU proposals. Efforts in these three areas have been addressed with the partner and NSA continues to work to increase cooperation with ISNU, where appropriate and mindful of U.S. policy and equity concerns.”

  • Lire absolument: Cash, Weapons and Surveillance: the U.S. is a Key Party to Every Israeli Attack - Glenn Greenwald
    https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/04/cash-weapons-surveillance

    Last September, the Guardian revealed that the NSA “routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens.” The paper published the full top secret Memoranadum of Understanding between the two agencies governing that sharing. But the NSA/ISNU relationship extends far beyond that.

    One newly disclosed top secret NSA document, dated April 13, 2013 and published today by the Intercept, recounts that the “NSA maintains a far-reaching technical and analytic relationship with the Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU) sharing information on access, intercept, targeting, language, analysis and reporting.”

    Specifically, “this SIGINT relationship has increasingly been the catalyst for a broader intelligence relationship between the United States and Israel.” Moreover, “NSA’s cyber partnerships expanded beyond ISNU to include Israeli Defense Intelligence’s [Special Operation Division] SOD and Mossad.”

    Under this expanded cooperation, the Americans and Israelis work together to gain access to “geographic targets [that] include the countries of North Africa, the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, South Asia, and the Islamic republics of the former Soviet Union.” It also includes “a dedicated communications line between NSA and ISNU [that] supports the exchange of raw material, as well as daily analytic and technical correspondence.”

    […]

    One top secret 2009 GCHQ project named “YESTERNIGHT” involved “Ruffle,” the British agency’s code name for ISNU.

    […]

    The NSA and GCHQ receive intelligence about the Palestinians from many sources. The agencies have even succeeded in inducing the U.S.-supported Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF) to provide them with surveillance and intelligence about other Arab groups in the region.

    […]

    Jordan also feeds surveillance data about the Palestinians to the NSA.

    […]

    In stark contrast to the public statements about Israel made by American and British officials, the Snowden archive is replete with discussions of the Israelis as a menace rather than an ally.

    NSA documents previously published by the Guardian stated that “one of NSA’s biggest threats is actually from friendly intelligence services, like Israel.” Another notes that the National Intelligence Estimate ranked Israel as “the third most aggressive intelligence service against the U.S.”

  • NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children - The Intercept
    https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/17/nbc-removes-ayman-mohyeldin-gaza-coverage-witnesses-israeli-beach-killing
    By Glenn Greenwald 17 Jul 2014, 12:43 PM EDT

    Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been told by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately. According to an NBC source upset at his treatment, the executives claimed the decision was motivated by “security concerns” as Israel prepares a ground invasion, a claim repeated to me by an NBC executive. But late yesterday, NBC sent another correspondent, Richard Engel, along with an American producer who has never been to Gaza and speaks no Arabic, into Gaza to cover the ongoing Israeli assault (both Mohyeldin and Engel speak Arabic).

    Mohyeldin is an Egyptian-American with extensive experience reporting on that region. He has covered dozens of major Middle East events in the last decade for CNN, NBC and Al Jazeera English, where his reporting on the 2008 Israeli assault on Gaza made him a star of the network. NBC aggressively pursued him to leave Al Jazeera, paying him far more than the standard salary for its on-air correspondents.

    Yesterday, Mohyeldin witnessed and then reported on the brutal killing by Israeli gunboats of four young boys as they played soccer on a beach in Gaza City. He was instrumental, both in social media and on the air, in conveying to the world the visceral horror of the attack.

    Mohyeldin recounted how, moments before their death, he was kicking a soccer ball with the four boys, who were between the ages of 9 and 11 and all from the same family. He posted numerous chilling details on his Twitter and Instagram accounts, including the victims’ names and ages, photographs he took of their anguished parents, and video of one of their mothers as she learned about the death of her young son. He interviewed one of the wounded boys at the hospital shortly before being operated on. He then appeared on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, where he dramatically recounted what he saw.

  • Pourquoi est-il si difficile de partager des fichiers directement - Wired
    http://alireailleurs.tumblr.com/post/90748631939

    OnionShare est un petit logiciel mis au point par Micah Lee qui créé une connexion directe entre deux utilisateurs, leur permettant de transférer des fichiers, sans avoir à passer par des intermédiaires comme Dropbox ou Mega. Il fonctionne sous Tor, ce qui signifie qui quiconque interceptant le trafic, laisse l’expéditeur comme le récepteur quasiment anonyme, rapporte Parker Higgins de l’Electronic Frontier Foundation pour Wired. L’idée est venue à Micah Lee suite à sa lecture du livre de Glenn Greenwald, Nul part où se cacher. Mais pourquoi nous a-t-il fallu attendre 2014 pour enfin disposer d’un outil aussi simple, interroge Parker Higgins. Parce que 15 ans d’attaques contre les systèmes #P2P par les lobbies du droit d’auteur et les industries culturelles ont laissé des traces, estime Higgins et ont (...)

    #surveillance

    • PS : après quelques difficultés au démarrage, à cause d’un réglage bizarre de mot de passe qui traînait dans Vidalia, ça marche chez moi.

    • Merci pour ces pistes.

      Ces partages sont d’un chiant !

      Pour simplement faire aimer ou faire connaitre, on est obligé d’enfreindre la loi !

      Et la production, je connais, je ponds de temps en temps un ouvrage scientifique (le genre imbitable) : ca sert à mettre de l’ordre dans ses idées, se faire plaisir mais surtout pas à gagner de l’argent !

      En tant que « consommateur » de produits culturels, je laisse chaque mois des fortunes en spectacles, concerts etc.

      Là, on est obligé de ruser avec les flics qui ont vraiment autre chose à faire. Ca me met en rogne.

      J’avais penser à du Dropbox. Mais ils verrouillent les partages, ce qui veut dire qu’ils fouinent.

      J’ai pris un compte sur hubiC, je ne sais pas si vous avez des echos sur ce fournisseur...

      Et des plateformes comme Diaspora* ou Seenthis sont finalement attaquables à cause de ce que l’on peut poster.

      Je me demande d’ailleurs comment tumblr peut s’en sortir : on peut mettre tout ce qu’on veut, ils ont l’air de s’en foutre et ne subissent pas d’attaques à ma connaissance.

      Allez-y pour les idées ! Je vais boire un café pour me calmer.

    • Oui, j’utilise aussi hubiC (essentiellement pour des sauvegardes chiffrées). Aujourd’hui ça fonctionne bien. C’est aussi pratique pour partager rapidement un fichier (30 jours maximum, renouvelable). Mais (ou en plus, c’est selon) c’est du cloud et du cloud français.

      Pour tumblr, ils ont quand même viré de (courts) extraits de films que j’avais pu y mettre. Donc c’est pas satisfaisant non plus. Le partage de vidéos « intégrables » est LE problème pour lequel je n’ai pas encore trouvé de solutions (une piste serait http://mediagoblin.org).

    • J’ai pas tout compris mais :

      Anonymous P2P inside browsers, no installation, compatible with torrents. Encrypted and untrackable - Stream, Download, exchange private data
      http://www.peersm.com

      [D]e nos jours, on ne peut pas facilement échanger des informations sans passer par un tiers qui pourrait utiliser ces informations à notre insu.

      Mais ce n’est pas le seul problème, la plupart des systèmes ne protégent pas votre vie privée et n’empêchent pas d’être suivi ou espionné, ceux le permettant sont généralement inaccessibles en terme d’utilisation pour tout un chacun.

      [...]

      C’est pourquoi nous avons fait Peersm, Peersm permet d’échanger anonymement des informations sur internet ou entre les personnes directement à partir de son navigateur, l’information est alors distribuée dans les navigateurs, les clients Peersm, le réseau bittorent et peut être partagée entre les personnes, la différence étant par rapport aux systèmes P2P courant que personne ne sait ce que vous avez et ce que vous faites..

  • Palantir : Unlocking Secrets, if Not Its Own Value - NYTimes.com
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/business/unlocking-secrets-if-not-its-own-value.html

    Founded in 2004, in part with $2 million from the Central Intelligence Agency’s (#CIA) venture capital arm (#IN-Q-Tel), #Palantir makes software that has illuminated terror networks and figured out safe driving routes through a war-torn Baghdad. It has also tracked car thieves, helped in disaster recovery and traced salmonella outbreaks. United States attorneys deployed its technology against the hedge fund SAC Capital, which was also an early investor in the company.

    (...) Its advisers include James Carville, the Democratic strategist; Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state; George J. Tenet, the former C.I.A. director; and Michael Ovitz, the former head of Disney Studios and Hollywood superagent.

    (...) difficile de faire plus #silicon_army que ça, mais ce sont quand même des « idéalistes » qui veulent « sauver le monde » :

    “When you are saving the world, fighting fraud and slave labor, you can do great things,” Mr. Karp said. Palantir does not charge for most humanitarian work, which is a source of internal pride. “What concerns me,” he said, “is working with commercial entities, and non-U.S. governments.”

    (...) Palantir has worked to recover from its own ethical lapses, but Mr. Karp acknowledges that it cannot control the ethics of its customers.

    (...) Palantir is not the first company dealing with big data that has been conflicted between ideals and commerce.

    Palantir began in the mind of Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley investor and PayPal founder

    sur l’affaire Anonymous :

    In 2011, the world got a taste of what could go wrong with Palantir’s confluence of commerce and surveillance. Along with two Beltway intelligence firms, a Palantir employee had pitched a Washington law firm on ways that it could expose the workings of WikiLeaks, the group that publishes secret government and private-sector information. The pitch included the idea of using disinformation and cyberattacks.

    The idea fizzled, but Anonymous, the loosely associated network of cyberactivists, posted both the pitch and emails indicating that Palantir also proposed creating misinformation about journalists, including Glenn Greenwald, who wrote in support of WikiLeaks and who recently shared a Pulitzer Prize for his articles on Edward J. Snowden’s leaking of National Security Agency spying documents.

    Mr. Karp publicly apologized to Mr. Greenwald. On the recommendation of an outside law firm, the employee was suspended for a while, but still works at Palantir.

    et encore, à propos des capacités de google :

    Courtney Bowman, a former Google employee, works at a Palantir as a “civil liberties engineer,” (...): “I was a quantitative analyst at Google, doing ad auction design and targeting,” he says. “I had access to ways of deriving personal identity information without breaking any laws. It was a constant anxiety to me.”

    #fichage #surveillance #privacy #data-mining et un article que @cryptome juge (à mon avis à juste titre) grotesque. En lien aussi avec Barrett Brown