The mainstream media need to find a spine and start asking the Prime Minister some hard questions again about mass surveillance. I appreciate the last person to do that was John Campbell and he was killed off by Key’s personal friend and CEO of TV3, Mark Weldon, but someone needs to start acting like journalists again, so why not ask the media to get over a provincial rugby win and the christening of the 4th in line to the Royal throne and actually do some journalism.
This week a corporate hacking company called ‘Hacking Team’ were themselves hacked. They are hacking mercenaries for police forces and security agencies around the world. They have previously aided repressive regimes silence journalists and activists…
Surveillance software maker Hacking Team gets taste of its own medicine
Italy’s Hacking Team, which makes surveillance software used by governments to tap into phones and computers, found itself the victim of hacking on a grand scale on Monday.The controversial Milan-based company, which describes itself as a maker of lawful interception software used by police and intelligence services worldwide, has been accused by anti-surveillance campaigners of selling snooping tools to governments with poor human rights records.
Hacking Team’s Twitter account was hijacked on Monday and used by hackers to release what is alleged to be more than 400 gigabytes of the company’s internal documents, email correspondence, employee passwords and the underlying source code of its products.
“Since we have nothing to hide, we’re publishing all our emails, files and source code,” posts published on the company’s hijacked Twitter account said. The tweets were subsequently deleted.
Company spokesman Eric Rabe confirmed the breach, adding that “law enforcement will investigate the illegal taking of proprietary company property”.
Rabe acknowledged that the company was recommending that clients suspend use of the snooping programs until Hacking Team determines whether specific law enforcement operations have been exposed.“We would expect this to be a relatively short suspension of service,” Rabe told Reuters.
Hacking Team customers include the US FBI, according to internal documents published Monday. That agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
One US privacy rights activist hailed the publication of the stolen Hacking Team documents as the “best transparency report ever”, while another digital activist compared the disclosures to a Christmas gift in July for anti-surveillance campaigners.
Among the documents published was a spreadsheet that purports to show the company’s active and inactive clients at the end of 2014.
Those listed included police agencies in several European countries, the US Drug Enforcement Administration and police and state security organisations in countries with records of human rights abuses such as Egypt, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.
Sudan’s National Intelligence Security Service was one of two customers in the client list given the special designation of “not officially supported”.
However, a second document, an invoice for 480,000 euros to the same security service, calls into question repeated denials by the Hacking Team that it has ever done business with Sudan, which is subject to heavy trade restrictions.
…what has any of this got to do with NZ you might ask? In the build up to the election last year, I wrote a blog on Hacking Team’s involvement in NZ…
The latest hate crime against our privacy that is being exposed is a corporate entity called Hacking Team that help Police use existing communications systems to hack in and spy on those the Police are hunting down. This is supposed to be for drug dealers and child rapists blah blah, but in reality of course it’s being used against activists and anyone deemed a political threat against the state.
Each client gets their own server to use internally for each country. Australia has 4 servers to spy on, but here’s the spooky thing, NZ has 7 servers for these corporate hackers.
Why the hell do we have almost twice as many spy servers as Australia does? How many people are the NZ Police spying on and for what purpose?
…now they are in the news again, perhaps a journalist would like to ask John Key the following questions…
1. Why does Hacking Team have 7 servers in NZ?
2. What work are they doing for NZ government departments in the wake of the mass surveillance law change?
3. How ethical is it to use a corporate hacking team that work with repressive regimes?
4. If they are employed by NZ government departments, what oversight is there on them and who are they answerable to?
5. Why would a corporate hacking team have so many servers in NZ?
6. What if any information they obtain is available to anyone else?
Excellent questions agent Bradbury. Well done. It will be very interesting to see if any in our mainstream media pick this up and run with it.
But who hacked them, and why, and what will happen to the data that was accessed?
Unfortunately, Martyn, I suspect very few journos will run with this.
Radio NZ, possibly.
‘Native Affairs’? Nah, that’s been gutted.
John Campbell? Silenced.
‘Seven Sharp’? *snort!*
Q+A or The Nation? Nah – most of the country is asleep at that time of the day. In more ways than one, actually.
Time will tell.
Anyhoo, even if some poor brave soul did lob those questions at Key, I suspect his response would be the same as usual; “We don’t discuss intelligence matters…”
Or just lie.
Either/or.
Jonkey will be comfortable with that.
You forgot Paul Henry (snort).
The “hacking team” must be on one of Paul Henry’s “5 things you need to know today”.
Or
The “hacking team” must be on one of Paul Henry’s :5 things you don’t need to know today.
Maybe Hillary will do some investigative journalism, since she has been compromised by Henry saying she has 2 road cones n her garage, and she shed tears over Campbell Live’s demise….?
The level of investigative journalism will be working out what a new flag will look like and whether Kate will have a third heir to the throne….
Hi Martyn,
“but someone (msm) needs to start acting like journalists again, so why not ask the media to get over a provincial rugby win and the christening of the 4th in line to the Royal throne and actually do some journalism.”
Do we have any out there?
I only see them on RT or occasionally Aljeera but never here.
Then on Radio live driving down to Gisborne today I had to stop and spew when Plonker Shawn Plunket was telling us all that we need to be proud of Government and the marvellous way they are pouring money into the provinces, Yuk!!!!
I get to Gisborne and everything’s closing up there except the work & income offices.
The roads are now crammed with monster trucks and potholes in all the roads that my wheel hit and now my car steering is crooked so I will need a wheel alignment.
So we are headed for the wall in the provinces, and I wonder what I will see when I go to Napier next weekend except for more of the same??
What a shithole Key has made for us all now even Canada looks good again to me.
We need to get half the pubic TV and RNZ back for the opposition Parties and the old honest Invesigative Journos to run before we all are suffocated mate.
Hacked off with the Hackers?
Do you have WiFi?
Do you use mobile data?
Is there a fake cell tower in your neighborhood?
It seems that the government hackers don’t limit themselves to working in the virtual world with intrusive software, but also invade the real world, by constructing hardware.
Scientific American reports that the US surveilance agencies have been building fake cell phone towers to illegally intercept US citizens wireless data.
Read about: Operation ‘Stingray’
The extremely close links between the GCSB and US intelligence agencies, revealed by Edward Snowden show that it is not unfeasible that our snoops are also erecting fake cell phone towers to illegally spy on us.
Some one, somewhere knows something. There are few secrets in the age of the internet.
Councils have to give consents, contractors have to be hired to construct and erect them. Experts have to be hired to test them and prove that they perform as specified.
The neutering of our Main Stream Media Journos makes sure that this will never be looked into.
But, I wonder, if any citzen journalists set out to locate and identify if there are any fake cell phone towers in this country, what they would uncover?
Let’s find out.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-big-secret-surrounding-stingray-surveillance/
Good blog Pat;
Of course FJK will follow the US and place (If not already) GWEN towers everywhere, “In selected areas” to neutralise us all with VLF (very low frequencies of 150 to 175 kHz to disable our capacity and thought process, when we rise up to revolt against their autocracy and dictatorship.
http://educate-yourself.org/dc/gwentowersbybyronweeks.shtml
The Ground-Wave Emergency
Network (GWEN) System
ELF has a number of potential military uses, including “dealing with terrorist groups, crowd control, controlling breaches of security at military installations, and antipersonnel techniques in tactical warfare.”
The Psvchology Behind Mind Control and Psychic Warfare
Body identification gives rise to a host of sociological phenomena, the least of which is the mechanistic view that consciousness is a product of the brain, and secondarily that the mind is centered in the brain. Dr. Jose Delgado was one of the chief proponents of this viewpoint. Delgado was the author of the book “Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society”. For Delgado, the mind existed only in the brain; to postulate its existence as an independent entity was to him sheer nonsense. He rejected the concept of free will, and proposed that the mind was a functional entity produced by the electrical operations of the brain, and as such should be manipulated and controlled in order to control the behavior of the population. This was a view that seems to be shared by proponents of the New World Order. Delgado, since the mid-1970’s, was the director of the Spanish neurophysio- logical laboratory Centro Ramony Cajal. As time went on, his interests shifted from direct
stimulation of the brain to the broader area of the biological effects of electromagnetic fields, an area that has been eagerly embraced by the military and political system as a means to achieve their goal of absolute control of the population.
From the Scientific American report on the construction of fake “illegal” cell phone towers in the US, we can see that it was trialed in other countries first:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-big-secret-surrounding-stingray-surveillance/
Let’s find these things.
And before we find them, a good question our media could ask our PM is this: “Mr Key, as the head of the intelligence services, to your knowledge have any fake “Stingray” cell towers been built in this country?”
“And if you are not aware of such things, and they are discovered, will those responsible be held to account, for these undemocratic activities and for keeping this information from you?”
And they could start by asking about ‘Stingray’.
Or will like Winston Smith hard at work at his desk at the Ministry of Truth, will they file ‘Stingray’ in the memory hole.
New Zealand is bankrupt. So, with no gold reserves, the Reserve Bank and high street banks all under the umbrella of a single owner what do you do? Location, location, location. John Key and his bankster cronies at Bilderberg uses New Zealand as a piece of the earth for the global spy network.
Meanwhile, the N.Z. ants, 99.99% of the population (who think they own their country), are duped by inane distractions, bridges in Northland to nothing and nowhere, flag changes, dropping dairy prices (deliberately designed to cause loss of confidence), gagging or firing of the outspoken, and on and on and on.
John Key was bought and paid for and was groomed to bring about what you see today. And his string pullers? – the Rothschild Elite.
The above comment was made by me.
🙂
Why aren’t the Opposition parties asking these sorts of questions? Surely that should be your first point of call.
It makes no difference what they ask if the media are unwilling to report it. Go back into Hansard and you can find a multitude of questions asked by opposition that never get a single mention, because the media are only interested in pushing the agendas that sell.
Ha! Our idiot MSM will say “good morning Mr Key, what a neat tie you’re wearing! We have an important question to ask you: Do you like your eggs sunny side up or over easy?” He will reply something like: It is right that you would question me about eggs. Eating more eggs is a cornerstone of the National government’s war on poverty. When there is an egg in the house there is a meal in the house….”
David Icke YouTube website – ridiculed over the years and now lauded and applauded around the world is an amazing site to begin research into how and why this spying and “war on Terror” is a cover up for world economic takeover. Pedophilia is documented and proven to be rife in the military, governments, child welfare agencies, justice system, banking and Royal families.
When everyone can talk to everyone there can be no secrets.
Let the Light Shine.
Helena
It’s my understanding that 90% of what David Icke says is relatively
true.
However, if you have covered his work extensively you will find he
believes in a real Reptilian Elite that is controlled by alien entities that
communicate with them.
This,I believe,feeds into the ‘Illuminate Cult’ of misinformation that is
so prevalent on the net.
So they can blame others for their activities? Play God?
or to discredit the bulk of what he has to say about their political
agenda’s? that are confirmed by many other sources.
I think he is a shill, and I believe he confirmed that with his ‘Do Not
Vote’ message just prior to our last election.
Just what was he doing here at that particular moment in time?
He’s good and entertaining,I’ll give you that.
Similar to Russel Brand.
Cheers.
He’s right about the paedofilia. The sick bastards!
Cheers.
Interview “Kay Griggs U.S. Marine Colonels Wife Tell-All” is worth watching (long, 4 interviews, a little repetitive) but gives a good background for further research – particularly regarding Nato and its current role in the Middle East.
The role of Black Ops in infiltrating nations and starting mini-wars is, to say the least, extraordinary. Can Black Ops role be included in continuing the Israel/Palestine disaster?
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