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Intelligence Services Block Activists’ Emails … And Frame Them With Fake Emails

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You send an email to a reporter saying that you’ve got proof of criminal wrongdoing by a government official … or a big bank.  You never receive a response.

Or you send an email to an expert on monetary policy asking if the Federal Reserve’s policies help the rich at the expense of the little guy … or an expert on radiation asking if the Fukushima accident might endanger public health.  You never receive a response.

This might be for any number of perfectly innocent reasons, including:

  • Your email ended up in their spam folder
  • They’re busy
  • They’re not interested enough to write back
  • They think you’re a bore or a crank

But there could be another explanation …

By way of background, China has blocked gmail for its citizens.

Yahoo blocked emails relating to the Occupy protests.

Bahrain uses British software that allows the government to frame political activists by creating messages from that person that they never typed.  35 other countries use the same software.

Tunisia monitored and blocked the emails of activists, so they were never delivered.  For example:

There is also technical surveillance whereby downloading or adding attachment to an email must go through a central server. Under the pretext of protecting public order and national security, a 1998 post and telecommunications law enables the authorities to intercept and check the content of email messages and in fact electronic surveillance such as filtering of email messages of government opponents have been reported.  Global Voices Advocacy Director and Tunisia Activist Sami Ben Gharbia conducted a test from the Netherlands with two Tunisia-based activists and confirmed by logging to their email accounts from the Netherland that what he sees is not what they receive when they login from Tunisia, and that they cannot access some of the messages they receive.

The Tunisian government used software from Western companies to block emails of political dissidents.

A prominent American political writer said that – if Tunisia is doing it – you can bet that Western countries are, as well.

Indeed, Snowden revealed that the British spy agency GCHQ has developed numerous offensive digital tools, including:

Ability to deny functionality to send/receive email or view material online.

 

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Ability to spoof any email address and send email under that identity.

 

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Mass delivery of email messaging to support an Information Operations campaign.

The potential for stifling dissent is staggering.

 

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Thu, 03/26/2015 - 05:48 | 5928405 Jack Daniels Esq
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Explains why I keep getting all these hot porn bitchez

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 04:46 | 5928377 JustUsChickensHere
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Snowden also mentioned that PGP annoyed the snoopers because it is difficult to break. Basically to compromise it, you need physical intervention on the PC such as a hardware keystroke logger. The cryptography itself is not breakable at present.

What he did not highlight, is that PGP also allows 'signing' of your messages - and that delivers two things.

  • messages you sign are definitely unmodified
  • messages you sign are undeniably from you

Messages you do not sign, can not be trusted.

 

I suspect lots of people think PGP is 'too hard' - it used to be... but can be easy now.

My preferred setup...

  • Thunderbird Email Client (works really well with most ISP's)
  • Enigmail addon (PGP user interface the is really simple to use)

Available for Windows (yuck), OSX and Linux

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html

https://www.enigmail.net/home/index.php

 

Plenty of set up guides available... and the setup process is a once only task..  The only bit many people forget is to upload (publish) their public key to the keyservers ... you need to do that so other people can easily find/check your key.

After setup, it becomes painless to sign and/or encrypt your email.

 

 

 

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 01:13 | 5928235 gregga777
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This 'revelation' is hardly a surprise.

It's surprising and rather darkly amusing that anyone is surprised by this 'revelation'. Thus providing further proof that few people think for themselves.

The U. S. alphabet agencies (intelligence, surveillance, covert intelligence collection, photographic and sensory data collection and analysis, etc.) many decades ago collectively amassed sufficient computing power far, far beyond that needed for merely passive requirements.

They've been performing "key word" and "key phrase" searches, voice analysis, translation of telephone calls, data collection, cracking encrypted communications, searching network activity for 'virtual' locations that enemy organizations may use for real-time communications, to mention the most obvious.

They've had many decades, and cumulatively trillions of constant 2015 dollars, since WW II to develop EM antennae array & receiving stations, various hardware development projects including super computers from early MFLOPS—>GFLOPS—>TFLOPS(M-mega, 10^6; G-giga, 10^9; T-Tera, 10^12; FLOPS-floating point operations per second, a standard measure of computing power I'm familiar with)—>maybe even functional Quantum computers, software applications, etc., on their prioritized short-, medium-, and long-term "must have", "nice to have", "wish to have" lists.

I mention WW II because in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) it was an intensely electromagnetic (EM) war. The German Luftwaffe deployed 4800-some radars throughout Western Europe. A number of regionally centralized ground stations collected data and tracked Allied bombers from when the first bomber climbed above the relative horizon to the last threatening bomber. Ground controller tracked bomber streams, determined likely targets and directed Luftwaffe fighters to intercept Allied bombers. Allied bombers carried electromagnetic countermeasures (ECM). The Germans developed electromagnetic counter-countermeasures (ECCM).

An EM war of successive tit-for-tat ensued. It's a shame that all of the movies during the war and decade after decade of post-War movies concealed that from the public.

Well, it was known locally, especially to those on the inside, as Microwave Valley decades before it came to be known as…

Can you guess?

Well…

…Silicon Valley!

One parent of an Apple founder was one of the denizens of Microwave Valley.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 19:55 | 5927439 Reaper
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The message or the non-message and the messenger may not be connected. Nothing can be trusted. Always, cui bono? Yes, we fear, but they fear too.

Government is the lie, they are more capable than you. E-mail is a medium, but government lies is the message. Government controls the mediums to control the message.

The message: "Everything the government says is a lie. Your god, aka trust in your government, was found dead and his priests, aka as hacks or bureaucrats, are hiding the body." ~Nietzsche paraphrased.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 23:30 | 5928071 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Speaking of messages.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/25/its-ok-to-leak-gove...

Interesting article equating Clinton's emails to Snowden's leaks.

Also speaking of messages concerning Snowden.

Anyone watch Citizen Four yet?

http://cryptome.org/2015/03/snowden-hk-security-devices.htm

Notice the notebook he is using. It is called a moleskine then he uses a red sheet (which country is associated with the color red) to cover his head and moleskine to log in.

Kinda sends a wrong message unless that was the point. Blows a hole in that whole narrative about him being a concerned whistleblower. He should have won an Oscar for that performance.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 19:47 | 5927413 me or you
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No mine. I use Chinese and Russian based emails I have US providers just for junks and other stuff.

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 02:41 | 5928308 conscious being
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I can't see how that would make a bit of difference.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 19:43 | 5927392 Luc X. Ifer
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Ceausescu would be so proud of his disciples ...

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:11 | 5927517 Bananamerican
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you mean, Clouseau

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 19:29 | 5927348 SnatchnGrab
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So I guess doing some legwork and picking up a phone is too hard?

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 17:49 | 5927045 Shitgum Suicide
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GDub/. The best bottom bitch eva. Keep it real ho.

http://southpark.cc.com/clips/251900/all-about-knowing-the-game

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 02:40 | 5928307 conscious being
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Why are you so perverse?

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 17:04 | 5926859 dexter_morgan
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So, I guess this has no shot of going anywhere?

http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/24/house-revives-bill-to-completely-repea...

 

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 17:11 | 5926884 kchrisc
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Snow cone's chance in Hell.

More theater to distract the sheeple, and make them think they are more than the livestock on Zion's farm.

The banksters need to repay us.

 

Actually the snow cone as a better chance.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 16:08 | 5926631 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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I'm an activist, and a dissident, Z/H. Signals Intelligence built the WWW primarily for control purposes. That was the objective that Professor Tim Berners Lee was tasked with when the USA ARMY contracted him to build this control system. To think that subterfuge, and PSYOPS, as well as propaganda, are not an integral part of it all is naïve, at best. Everyone  on Z/H has likely been subjected to some sort of manipulation on the part of IS at some time over the last decade. Manipulation is nothing new or novel IMHO. Black hats will always be black hats and white hats know this.

The Internet is not new anymore, and neither are the spooks!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 15:57 | 5926561 Seize Mars
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Case in point, GW: they have harassed this guy all over the globe: http://82.221.129.208/

 

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 02:37 | 5928302 conscious being
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Thanks for that. I bookmarked it. Iceland, land of the free, home of the brave.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 15:56 | 5926544 Prober
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Don't worry GW impostor anti-America propagandist islamic-cult worshiping scum, we are NOT blocking your communications because we want to know everyone who is collaborating with you :-))

 

Do you hear the gentle hum of an approaching drone ????

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 02:05 | 5928282 conscious being
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Are you the zionist cult worshiping scum?

I don't see anything of value in your posts. You and your fellow travellers are just here to destroy and derail. Why does ZH put up with scum like you? I don't mind an opposing view. I don't want sn echo chamber, but you just bring the whole site down, which I'm sure you are happy about. Most of your responses are just perverse. Must be awful to be you.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 15:43 | 5926506 DOGGONE
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Do you reckon this content is getting blocked?

"Stop whoring for Wall Street"
http://www.showrealhist.com/yTRIAL.html
http://patrick.net/?p=1223928

Non-reply is usual!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 14:52 | 5926319 Augustus
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More of the daily dose of Geo Wash bullshit. 

He turns on the governments he admires, China, Tunisia, Russia for controlling interent access and emails.  Of course it has long been well known.  Geo Wash is reporting it now as he must have just found out about it.

After revealing the secrets of his Chinese buddies, he goes on to claim that the US must be doing it also.  No facts, just bullshit.  Always bullshit. 

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 19:02 | 5927244 TheReplacement
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From which page is this 'don't like the message and don't have a valid argument so attack the messenger' tactic?  Is that all the better you NSA/GCHQ types can do?  Oops, missed the baldfaced lie about "No facts, just bullshit".  There are so many facts in there that even Obama must have heard about it by now.

I don't care if he has Putin's mug tattooed on his yoohoo, what is being do to us, in our name, on our dime, without our consent is the kind of thing that is going to cause massive trauma to a lot of good people just so the few evil ones, and their employees like you, can be done away with.

Do you realize the kind of danger in which you and your employer are putting yourselves and the rest of us?  Shills of TPTB are as good as murderers and if there even is a history book after this blows up it will be written just like tha so future generations know to snuff anyone who thinks they deserve the power and authority over others like we are seeing today.  It is either that or your side will just keep following orders until you exterminate us all.

Save yourself and all of us the halfassed 'I'm not a shrill I hate so and so' rejoinder.  Just admit the truth.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 17:49 | 5927044 PoasterToaster
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Yes, this is old bullshit.  What brand of new bullshit are you selling?

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 15:20 | 5926436 Alananda
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@Augustus

And the "nations" GW rarely mentions and almost never takes to task, much less name names here and abroad, warrant scrutiny.  Despite "Cognitive Dissonance" defense of same.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 14:59 | 5926346 litemine
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Brush your teeth. The bullshit stuck............. "minion"

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 14:46 | 5926303 ch25061
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With the government having the ability to create fake but believable evidence trails,  does it not become

possible to introduce that concept as "reasonable doubt" and beat most any rap in a court of law??

The more this becomes widespread and widely known, the more doubt will be shed on so-called "evidence".

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:17 | 5927724 Rock and Hard Space
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Apparently you haven't been paying attention to conviction and incarceration rates.

The ONLY people that find "justice" on their side are cops.  The rest of us are being convicted and destroyed at ever increasing rates.

Always remember that you will be judged by a jury comprised of citizens too stupid to get out of jury duty.

And if it is Fed charges, no worries, they will just comb through every picture, conversation, purchase, area you have EVER made/traveled through and find some law you broke.  Not very hard now.

People still trusting a system that quit working that way in '80s. The War on Drugs, Drinking, Prostitution and now Terrorism has turned justice into nothing but a pipe dream for most that are being ground under the wheels.

Unless you are rich and connected like Durst and his lawyers, then you at least have a chance of buying it.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 15:17 | 5926299 Bumbu Sauce
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Wed, 03/25/2015 - 14:45 | 5926298 Bumbu Sauce
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ROFL "George Washington" is sympathetic to the occutards. Holy fuck that is hilarious. What a misnomer. That cunt should have taken a different name.

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 06:17 | 5928432 damicol
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here, wipe your face..

 You have some Kenyn faggot monkey jizz on your lip

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 15:31 | 5926466 cigarEngineer
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ad hominem much? you did nothing to persuade anyone against the merits of the above post.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:56 | 5927820 Bumbu Sauce
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Plus voted by this retard's 14 sock puppets? Holy fuck this place is retarded.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 17:31 | 5926962 Bumbu Sauce
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cigarEngineer is a bot. do not reply. the bot will quit posting.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 17:08 | 5926877 lakecity55
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Bumbu is a bot. do not reply. the bot will quit posting.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 17:26 | 5926942 Bumbu Sauce
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Just look at that intellect...

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 15:38 | 5926488 Bumbu Sauce
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Shit on a police cruiser or rape someone lately?

Persuade me occutard.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 14:02 | 5926104 rwe2late
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 Blocking and faking e-mails?

That's outrageous!

 

and must be frowned upon,

otherwise next they might be tempted to

1) frame individuals by using false testimony

2) frame individuals by planting evidence (like drugs)

3) frame individuals with forced confessions

4) commit false flag attacks and blame others

5) or even start wars based on fabricated evidence ! ! !

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 17:08 | 5926876 kchrisc
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Makes one wonder what they have in mind for the DNA they are gathering.

"We don't care if you were in Hong Kong giving a conference in front of 300 people, we put, I mean have, your DNA from the scene, so it's SuperMax for you."

The banksters need to repay us.

 

We don't need DNA to convict them of their crimes and treason. Do we Lon Horiuch?!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:20 | 5927561 Milestones
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NO--We need to repay the bankers--and the FUCKS that supposedly represent us. Your thoght is assbackwards.        Milestones

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 03:16 | 5928331 kchrisc
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The so-called money that the banksters loan into society is counterfeit fiat backed by the deposits they have looted from their depositors, you and I. Their counterfeit fiat is theft against what the economy, you and I, produces, and shows up later as price increases. Their counterfeit fiat also shows up as cheap capital overseas that employes cheap labor in production that was once done here at home.

They are, have, loaned to us our own money. The money, wealth, and opportunities that they have stolen from us, you and I, they have loaned back to us with usury.

Therefore, they owe us, you and I, not we them, and I demand repayment. What you do is your concern.

The banksters need to repay us.

 

I will gladly accept gold, silver, and/or heads in payment.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 17:03 | 5926850 dexter_morgan
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LOL - kinda puts it in perspective.......

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 13:46 | 5926020 lasvegaspersona
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Our only hope is the death of the dollar.

Today the governments that cooperate with the USA have unlimited access to currency. As long as that persists we are simply unneeded baggage to the government.

With a properly functioning monetary system real wealth will return to those who created it and governments will be back to begging for taxes (as it should be.)

I know I'm pipe dreaming and the change over will be bad but I can dream....or just wait...apparently there are some creaking sounds heard in the foundation...

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 17:04 | 5926844 kchrisc
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"Our only hope is the death of the dollar."

That is hope based on passive inaction.

Our only real hope is to take action by first and foremost instigating the collapse, and the freeing of ourselves from them, by Stopping Paying. Stop paying on their fiat debts that are really wealth stolen from us and then loaned back to us. Just Stop. Then break out the guillotines when they come for payment.

The most powerful weapon the American people have is Rejection.

The system of fraud and theft that has been built up upon the backs of the American people is dependent upon our backs. Withdraw our backs, and the whole scheme collapses. This is our greatest weapon.

Stop Paying--Put it into food, and precious metals, etc. They stole whatever "debt money" they loaned you in the first place (fractional reserve banking) and soon you won't be able to pay them anyways, so Stop Paying.
Stop Playing--Stop being a tool for them to use, mock, and call "stupid." Stop Playing.

Stop Obeying--If they are in violation of the Constitution then they are not legitimate anyways, so Stop Obeying their unlawful dictates.

The Four Rs
Rejection: Stop Paying. Stop Playing. Stop Obeying.
Revolution: It is inevitable, so prepare, as they are.
Retribution: The guilty must answer for their crimes against the American people and the Constitution. No “truth and reconciliation,” but “trial and Retribution.”
Restoration: Restore the American people, country and Constitutional republic.

The banksters need to repay us.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 14:40 | 5926276 ch25061
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This is EXACTLY the problem.  The root of all evil is not money, but the ability to print unlimited amounts of

fake money and steal any amount of resources and human loyalty to preserve this unjust and ever self-aggrandizing

system.  Unless the fake money becomes worthless, the System of Counterfeit Reality will continue on and the

Real Reality will deteriorate until it becomes so unbearable that the people will either rise up or all die.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 14:26 | 5926219 Clycntct
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Keep the lilght bulb of thoughts on so Us dimwits can be reminded of Ideas beyond our phone.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 13:36 | 5925970 Aussiekiwi
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When I've been drinking and on the computer sending emails, I often find the next day that  the bastards have done that to me pricks!!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 14:12 | 5926162 SmedleyButlersGhost
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You might want 2 email accounts - one for sober emails and the other when you're drunk. I programmed my drunk account to deliver all sends to the trash. Haven't heard from the ex wife's lawyer since.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 11:48 | 5925517 Jonesy
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Really, they would do that?

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 13:30 | 5925934 BigJim
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 Really, they would do that?

I know! Ridiculous, isn't it; Obama is such a nice man. Ask any Libyan.

GW is just some paranoid conspiracy theorist.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 13:28 | 5925931 Anybody
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Because they can.

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