Bush Defends Spying Program & Snowden About to be Homeless ..!!

Snowden damaged security of US: Bush
WASHINGTON: Fugitive American intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has damaged security of the country by his actions, former US President George W Bush said today. 

"I think he damaged the security of the country," Bush said on Snowden, the 30-year-old former technical contractor and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, a contractor for the US National Security Agency (NSA). Bush said he believes the Obama administration "will deal" with the fallout from the controversy unleashed by Snowden, who is now thought to be holed up in the transit area of a Moscow airport after fleeing there from Hong Kong. 

Snowden's disclosures about the spy programmes carried out by the NSA and other intelligence entities have shaken the US intelligence community and put the Obama administration on the defensive over accusations of government overreach into citizens' privacy and angered Western governments. But Bush, who was president from 2001 to 2009, refrained from criticising Obama, his successor. 

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Vladimir Putin: Edward Snowden Must Stop Harming US If He Wants To Stay In Russia

MOSCOW, July 1 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia would not hand former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden over to the United States but that if Snowden wants to stay in Russia he "must stop his work aimed at harming our American partners".

Snowden "is not a Russian agent", Putin said, repeating that Russian intelligence services were not working with the fugitive American, who is believed to remain in the transit area at a Moscow airport eight days after arriving from Hong Kong.

He said Snowden should choose his final destination and go there. (Reporting by Alissa de Carbonel; Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Douglas Busvine)

USA / NSA ..!!! LEAKED ..!!!!!

New NSA leaks show how US is bugging its European allies

US intelligence services are spying on the European Union mission in New York and its embassy in Washington, according to the latest top secret US National Security Agency documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.

One document lists 38 embassies and missions, describing them as "targets". It details an extraordinary range of spying methods used against each target, from bugs implanted in electronic communications gear to taps into cables to the collection of transmissions with specialised antennae.

Along with traditional ideological adversaries and sensitive Middle Eastern countries, the list of targets includes the EU missions and the French, Italian and Greek embassies, as well as a number of other American allies, including Japan, Mexico, South Korea, India and Turkey. The list in the September 2010 document does not mention the UK, Germany or other western European states.

US intelligence targeted Italy and France embassies

LONDON: France, Italy and Greece were among 38 "targets" of spying operations conducted by US intelligence services, according to documents leaked to Guardian newspaper by fugitive former CIA operative Edward Snowden.

One of the leaked US National Security Agency(NSA) files said that intelligence officials targeted embassies and UN missions by implanting bugs in electronic communications gear, tapping into cables and collecting communications using specialised antennae, according to a report on the Guardian's website Sunday.
Attempts were made to eavesdrop on the French, Italian and Greek embassies in Washington while Japan, Mexico, South Korea, India and Turkey were all named as subjects of operations in a 2010 document.German weekly Der Spiegel earlier revealed that the European Union was one of the "targets" of Washington's huge Internet spy programme, with bugs hidden in EU offices in Brussels and the US.

Women ..!!

Wendy Davis: Abortion Rights Supporters Will Not Back Down In Texas

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) is calling a second special session of his state's legislature to pass a controversial bill limiting abortion rights in the state -- but the woman who spoiled his first go-around is not backing down.

Wendy Davis, the Democratic Texas state senator who foiled the anti-abortion rights bill SB 5 by mounting an epic 11-hour filibuster, pledged Sunday to fight on.

"For all that you have achieved in terms of your profile and your views, are you not just delaying the inevitable?" David Gregory asked Davis on "Meet the Press.""We will fight as we begin the session again on Monday," Davis responded. "I don't think that we'll concede that the battle is over. And even if this bill passes, obviously there will be other challenges to it going forward." Davis, who represents Fort Worth, also took another shot at comments from the governor, who targeted her for her own experience as a single teen mother. "My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally," Davis said. "I think some of the comments that he made really demean the high office that he holds.

WOMEN TRIED TO SELL HER 3 YEAR OLD ON CRAIGSLIST

A bicycle. An old jailbroken iPhone. Maybe used furniture. Some free dirt. Those are the type of things you expect to buy off Craigslist. You definitely don't expect a Mom to offer up her three-year-old son on the seedy but useful classifieds website. But that's just what Stephanie Redus did. She used Craiglist to get her son adopted by a new family.

The Craigslist ad stated:

Hi, I'm trying to adopt out my 3yr old son. I'm not in a good place in my life and don't feel like I can care for him properly but I don't know where to start. If you or know anyone who is interested in caring for him, please let me know. I'm a single mom and can't do this.

Thanks, Desperate.

Street children survive on porn & Men poking holes in condoms

Street children survive on porn, not food

In a dark and dingy room, the only thing visible is the blue flickering light from a television set as a dozen-odd boys, teens and below, watch with eyes riveted on the screen. 

"Ohs" and "ahs" are heard on occasion. At first it seems they are watching a Hindi film, but a closer look reveals they are hooked on to a porn movie.

The boys are runaways or vagabonds who beg at many of Delhi's crossroads or are rag-pickers.
According to child activists and NGOs working with these children, most of them are hooked to either porn movies or video games and spend most of their earnings on them, on occasions forgetting to eat.

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Men poking holes in condoms to get women pregnant

From poking holes in condoms to stealing birth control pills, some men are doing it all to get their partners pregnant.

The sex trend is being called "reproductive coercion" by the doctors and new research suggests that it is not just young women involved in abusive relationships who are at risk as previously believe

ebecca Levenson of Futures Without Violence, which helps educate doctors about the unique form of abuse said that women have come to tell her that their partner took their IUD out or took her money so she is unable to buy birth control pills, the New York Daily News reported.

NSA Can Store A Billion Cell Phone Calls Every Day - The Guardian | ET | The Guardian Website Blocked

Glenn Greenwald: NSA Can Store A Billion Cell Phone Calls Every Day

Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald says he has another big scoop about the National Security Agency's surveillance practices up his sleeve.

Speaking over Skype to the Socialism Conference in Chicago, Greenwald claimed that the NSA has the ability to store one billion phone calls each day.

Greenwald's reporting earlier this month sparked the scandal over NSA surveillance practices that is currently plaguing the Obama administration. The stories were based on classified documents leaked to him by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and Greenwald indicated Friday night that he's sitting on several more -- one of which he decided to talk about even though his story on it hasn't been public.

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The Guardian Blocked By The Army After NSA Stories

The Guardian's recent stories about NSA surveillance have been blocked across the entire US Army , the Monterey Herald reported on Thursday night.

The paper has made huge waves, of course, with its series of explosive stories about the NSA's highly classified surveillance programs. Though it has

always maintained an American presence, its visibility has skyrocketed in the wake of the scoops.

UK secretly tapping fibre-optic cables |ET| US trying to prosecute whistleblower

UK secretly tapping fibre-optic cables for data

Uk serectly tapping fiber optics cable 

LONDON: UK's spy agencies gained secret access to fibre-optic cables carrying global communications and gathered data larger than the US, a media report said on Saturday, quoting documents leaked by American whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The Guardian newspaper said the revelations were based on leaked documents from the GCHQ - the UK's electronic eavesdropping agency. 


The information, including phone calls, Facebook posts, emails, Internet histories, was stored for up to 30 days to be sifted and analysed, the paper alleged. 
The GCHQ has started processing vast amounts of personal information and is sharing it with its US partner the National Security Agency (NSA), it said. 
 US trying to prosecute whistleblower Snowden


 BRUSSELS: The United States is confident it will bring Edward Snowden to justice for "extremely damaging" leaks about secret internet surveillance programmes, US Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday. 

Snowden is hiding in Hong Kong and the United States has launched

Facebook Exposed Million's Of Us ..!! | ET | Facebook Loses Million User's..!!

Facebook Bug Exposed Email Addresses, Phone Numbers Of 6 Million Users

On Friday, Facebook admitted that a bug made the private contact information -- either email addresses or phone numbers -- of 6 million users accidentally accessible to Facebookers who downloaded their account histories onto their own computers. Compared to Facebook's over 1 billion total members, 6 million isn't much. But any security flaw has the potential to frighten people away from a website.

A bug allowed "some of a person’s contact information (email or phone number) to be accessed by people who either had some contact information about that person or some connection to them," Facebook wrotein a note on its security page. Using the network's "Download Your Information" tool, some Facebook members were inadvertently sent the phone numbers or email address of Facebook friends that were otherwise private. Facebook assured users that the bug was fixed within a day, and that there is no evidence that the information was used maliciously.

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  Facebook Losses Million User's

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Youth rapes girl, uploads video on Facebook | ET | Social media can help prevent crimes

Youth rapes girl, uploads video on Facebook

Youth raped girl uploads video on facebook

ALWAR: A youth allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl in Rajasthan's Alwar and uploaded a video clipping of the act on Facebook.
An FIR was registered by the girl's father against Samir alias Lala on Tuesday after some relatives watched the video and told the victim's family members. 
According to the police Lala came in contact with the girl on Facebook nearly one-and-a-half years ago. 
"As per the FIR, Lala visited the girl when she was alone in her house and then raped her. The girl didn't report the matter as Lala had made a video clipping using his mobile phone," a police officer said. 

The officer said that the accused started blackmailing the girl using the video and threatened to make it public if she told anyone. 
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Youth-rapes-girl-uploads-video-on-Facebook/articleshow/20657345.cms

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 Social media can help prevent crimes
NEW DELHI: Monitoring and use of social media can help prevent crimes and police will be "foolish" if they do not take advantage of it, a senior Delhi Police official said here. 

S N Srivastava, Special Commissioner of Delhi Police (Special Cell), said there is a "little scope" of increasing manpower in police but through proper training and use of technological advances this gap could be bridged. 

The Good Hacker & The Bad Hacker ..!!

Fund Grows For KYAnonymous, Who Helped Expose Steubenville Rapists

Deric Lostutter, who may face hacking charges after helping expose details in the Steubenville rape case, is getting a hand from supporters. As of Tuesday morning, his legal defense fund had collected more than $49,000.

"There is nothing that we would like more than the government to come to its senses and decide not to charge Deric and for us to be able to return all the funds to the wonderful people who have showed him support," his attorney, Jason Flores-Williams of the Whistleblower Defense League, told The Huffington Post on Monday. "Unfortunately, our indications are that that isn't going to happen, so we are preparing for a vigorous fight."

Flores-Williams said the government has indicated that it will indict Lostutter, 26, on alleged felony violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/18/deric-lostutter-legal-defense-fund_n_3455627.html?ir=Technology&ref=topbar

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Anonymous Hackers Bring Down Sony Websites

If Sony’s ongoing legal offensive against those who reverse engineer its products was intended to protect the company from hackers, it seems to have had the opposite effect. On Monday, as of 1pm Eastern time, Sony.com and Sony’s Playstation.com were both suffering intermittent downtime as a result of denial of service attacks launched by the hacker group Anonymous.

Google Hits Back At U.S. Snooping | ET | NSA secret data gathering 'transparent': Obama

Google Thinks It's Its First Amendment Right To Publish Info On FISA Requests

Google is taking its fight for transparency and image rehabilitation one step further in the wake of the revelation that the government is collecting people's digital data in a sweeping program called PRISM.

The Washington Post reported late Tuesday that Google is preparing to challenge a clandestine court's long-standing gag order over publishing the number of data requests the National Security Agency makes to collect emails, photos and other files people send over the Internet.

Though Google has published transparency reports since 2009, the company has long thought the current level of transparency doesn't go far enough. Earlier this year, Google won the right to tell the public the number of times it was sent "national security letters," or the federal requests to look at Americans' "metadata" (like who emailed whom) but not the files themselves (what the email said).

Under pressure, the federal government last week gave major Internet companies permission to publish the numbers of requests authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to gather online correspondence, but only if that data was coupled with other requests made by local authorities. At the time, Google sent a letter to the FBI and Attorney General Eric Holder asking for permission to disclose more.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/18/google-fisa-first-amendment_n_3461572.html

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NSA secret data gathering 'transparent': Obama

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama
defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview, and called them transparent - even though they are authorized in secret.

"It is transparent," Obama told Public Broadcasting Service's Charlie Rose in an interview broadcast late Monday.

The U.S. Workforce Today Are Less Educated & Here Is Why~ Cause The Math Is Really Hard

People Joining The U.S. Workforce Today Are Less Educated Than Those Leaving It

Things are looking grim for young Americans starting work.

According to a new report on the state of US education from the Council on Foreign Relations, Americans going into the labor force today are less educated than those retiring from it. This phenomenon is unique among developed countries. For 55- to 64-year-olds, the US has the highest percentage of high-school graduates and the third-highest percentage of college graduates; in people aged 25 to 34, the country is 10th and 13th respectively.

At its current pace, the US will need to add a little more than 200,000 jobs a month in order to close the “jobs gap” by 2020, according to the Hamilton Project. But as baby boomers (those born in the generation after World War II) continue to leave the workforce, companies are having trouble finding skilled workers to replace them.

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Here Is Why Cause 

Math is hard

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Google settles lawsuit with shareholder | ET | Google's $5 Million Plan To Rid The Internet Of Child Porn

Google settles lawsuit with shareholder

SAN FRANCISCO: Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year. The settlement announced came on the eve of a scheduled Delaware chancery court trial that threatened to cast an unflattering light on Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The class-action by the Brockton Retirement Board in Massachusetts and another Google shareholder, Philip Skidmore, alleged that Page and Brin engineered the stock split in a way that unfairly benefits them while shortchanging the rest of the company's shareholders. Google denied the allegations and maintained that the proposed stock split announced 14 months ago would benefit shareholders by ensuring that Page and Brin would preserve the power that has enabled them to make the same kinds of bold bets on technology that has helped increase the company's market value by more than $260 billion during the past nine years. 

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Google-settles-lawsuit-with-shareholder/articleshow/20644563.cms

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Google vs. Child Porn: The Search Giant Will Try To Eradicate All Of The Internet's Child Porn

Google's founding mission is to "organize the world's information." But there's some disgusting data that the tech giant will spend millions to scrub off the web.

Over the weekend, Google announced that it has been creating a database tagging child pornography on the Internet in an effort to eradicate images of child abuse entirely from the web. The company plans to spend $5 million to fight child pornography online

Difference between spying and hacking : Barack Obama | ET | NYPD Commissioner Slams NSA Secrecy

Difference between spying and hacking, Barack Obama
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama is drawing a distinction between China's alleged     
                 intellectual property theft and what he calls "standard fare" spying on other countries. 

Obama says every country engages in intelligence gathering, which he called an occasional source of tension. But the president says there's a big difference between China trying to find out what he's saying in meetings with the Japanese and a hacker connected with the Chinese government breaking into Apple or other US companies. 

Obama pressed China's president on cyberhacking earlier this month during a meeting in California. Obama said their conversations on the topic were "very blunt." 

Obama spoke in an interview with the Public Broadcasting Service's Charlie Rose. 
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Difference-between-spying-and-hacking-Barack-Obama-says/articleshow/20642673.cms

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Ray Kelly, NYPD Commissioner, Slams NSA Secrecy About Surveillance

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly slammed the Obama administration for its handling of the National Security Administration scandal -- but not because he thinks the government was overextending its reach.

U.S. Surveillance: China Asks USA | ET | UK Spies Hacked Diplomats Phones & Emails

U.S. Surveillance: China Asks Washington To Explain Monitoring Programmes

BEIJING, June 17 (Reuters) - China made its first substantive comments on Monday to reports of U.S. surveillance of the Internet, demanding that Washington explain its monitoring programmes to the international community.
Several nations, including U.S. allies, have reacted angrily to revelations by an ex-CIA employee over a week ago that U.S. authorities had tapped the servers of internet companies for personal data.
"We believe the United States should pay attention to the international community's concerns and demands and give the international community the necessary explanation," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily briefing.
The Chinese government has previously not commented directly on the case, simply repeating the government's standard line that China is one of the world's biggest victims of hacking attacks.
A senior source with ties to the Communist Party leadership said Beijing was reluctant to jeopardise recently improved ties with Washington.

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UK Spies Hacked Diplomats' Phones, Emails, Guardian Report Claims

LONDON — A newspaper report that British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and emails has prompted an angry response from traditional rival Russia and provoked demands for an investigation from Turkey and South Africa.

Apple: How Authorities Nibbled Customers' Private Information | ET | Yahoo Forced To Join Secret Program

Apple Reveals How Authorities Nibbled Into Customers' Private Information

NEW YORK — Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May.

The company, like some other businesses, had asked the U.S government to be able to share how many requests it received related to national security and how it handled them. Those requests were made as part of Prism, the recently revealed highly classified National Security Agency program that seizes records from Internet companies.

Prism appears to do what its name suggests. Like a triangular piece of glass, Prism takes large beams of data and helps the government find discrete, manageable strands of information.

Prism was revealed this month by The Washington Post and Guardian newspapers, and has touched off the latest round in a decade-long debate over what limits to impose on government eavesdropping, which the Obama administration says is essential to keep the nation safe.

Apple Inc. said that between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices were specified in data requests between Dec. 1, 2012, and May 31 from federal, state and local authorities and included both criminal investigations and national security matters.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/17/apple-nsa_n_3453183.html

Yahoo Was Reportedly Forced To Join PRISM By A Secret Court

Yahoo fought PRISM, and PRISM won.

Fewer than 300 phones under lens in 2012: US | ET | Obama Thinks It Violates Customer Privacy

Fewer than 300 phones under lens in 2012: US

300 Phones under lens

WASHINGTON: The US government only searched for detailed information on calls involving fewer than 300 specific phone numbers among the millions of raw phone records collected by the National Security Agency in 2012, according to a government paper obtained by Reuters on Saturday.

The unclassified paper was circulated on Saturday within the government by US intelligence agencies and apparently is an attempt by spy agencies and the Obama administration to rebut accusations that it overreached in investigating potential militant plots.

The administration has said that even though the NSA, according to top-secret documents made public by former agency contractor Edward Snowden, collects massive amounts of data on message traffic from both US based telephone and internet companies, such data collection is legal, subject to tight controls and does not intrude on the privacy of ordinary Americans.

The paper circulated on Saturday said that data from the NSA phone and email collections programmes not only led US investigators to the ringleader of a plot to attack New York's subway system in 2009, but also to one of his co-conspirators in the United States.

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NSA Wants To Filter People's Emails And Tweets | ET | NSA snooping: Facebook reveals details of data requests

Keith Alexander, NSA Director, Wants To Filter People's Emails And Tweets, According To Expert

The National Security Agency isn't quite sure that it's doing enough when it comes totuning into people's digital lives. A profile of NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander in Wired magazine offers this frightening possibility: One day the organization may intercept online communications directly.

"In his telling, the threat is so mind-bogglingly huge that the nation has little option but to eventually put the entire civilian Internet under his protection, requiring tweets and emails to pass through his filters, and putting the kill switch under the government’s forefinger," wrote James Bamford for the magazine. It may seem like an exaggeration, but Bamford, author of about a half dozen books on the agency, should know better than anyone else.

Read the rest of Wired's profile of Alexander.

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NSA snooping: Facebook reveals details of data requests

Facebook reveals snooping details

WASHINGTON: Facebook revealed on Friday it received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for user data from US authorities in the second half of last year, as it seeks to shield itself from a growing scandal. 

The requests covered issues from child disappearances to petty crimes and terror threats and targeted between 18,000 and 19,000 accounts, the social networking site said, without revealing how often it complied with the requests. 

Facebook "aggressively" protects its users' data, the company's general counsel Ted Ullyot said in a statement. 

"We frequently reject such requests outright, or require the government to substantially scale down its requests, or simply give the government much less data than it has requested. And we respond only as required by law," he added. 

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Bill Gates joins LinkedIn

Bill Gates joins LinkedIn

Bill Gates Joins LinkedIn

SYDNEY: Microsoft mogul Bill Gates' has joined LinkedIn. Gates made his debut on the professional social networking site with a blog post about the three skills he has learned from Warren Buffet. 

According to news.com.au, Cinton's profile is a bit light on endorsements and summaries of his skills. However, his 38 years of experience as co-founder and chairman of Microsoft speaks for itself. 

Gates is one of LinkedIn's super influencers, whose blog posts can be followed on the site, the report added.