Declan McCullagh reports: The U.S. Department of Justice has expanded its investigation of WikiLeaks-related accounts to encompass Google and Internet provider Sonic.net. Both companies received secret court orders directing them to turn over information from the e-mail account of Jacob Appelbaum, a hacker and human rights activist who has been affiliated with WikiLeaks, the Wall…
Category: U.S.
Government Email Delivery Tracks Recipients
Seen on Cryptome.org: DoJ and DHS — which should know better but may pretend innocence — use govdelivery.com, probably others. We have complained to the service before without response. To see the tracking code look at the HTML code underlying the links. Clicking a link will produce a 404. This was discovered by use of…
Hayden Urges Congress to Let NSA Monitor Public Networks for Threats
Kim Zetter reports: Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden revived a controversial meme on Tuesday when he urged Congress to allow his former agency to monitor public networks in order to defend against malicious activity coming from nation states and others. “We’ve got capability on the sidelines wanting policy guidance,” he told the House…
Will GPS Tracking Render the Fourth Amendment Quaint?
Jim Harper writes: If the government put a GPS monitor on your car and used it to track every vehicular movement of yours for four weeks, do you think that would violate your Fourth Amendment rights? The government would like to be able to do that kind of thing without getting a warrant, and the…