Tag: Distributed Denial of Secrets

For Some Reason, LA Drug Cops Received Intelligence, Training On ‘Muslim Extremists’ From The Israeli Military

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

For Some Reason, LA Drug Cops Received Intelligence, Training On ‘Muslim Extremists’ From The Israeli Military

What is clear is that several US law enforcement agencies are working closely with pro-Israel groups and participating in seminars that encourage surveillance of Muslims — ones performed not by law enforcement agencies but rather the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), a pro-Israel non-profit group.

Emails preserved in BlueLeaks show various agencies promoting ADL training sessions for law enforcement officers, including a January 2013 session on “screening of persons by observational techniques” and a seminar at the Southern Nevada Counter Terrorism Center on the “evolving nature of Islamic extremists”.

ADL staff are shown as registered attendees at events run by fusion centers, offering bios that advise the organization that “we facilitate workshops for law enforcement on extremism, hate crime and (in Washington DC and Israel) counter-terrorism”.

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Ron Wyden Wants To Know Why The DEA Still Has On-Demand Access To Trillions Of Phone Records

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

For decades, the government has used the Third Party Doctrine to obtain massive amounts of phone records without a warrant.

Even prior to the creation of the Third Party Doctrine by the Supreme Court in 1979, government agencies were obtaining phone records using pen register requests that provided them with info on numbers called and the length of the calls. This method, however, required the government to supply some information of its own: specifically, a targeted source phone number phone companies could use to search for call metadata.

Ron Wyden Wants To Know Why The DEA Still Has On-Demand Access To Trillions Of Phone Records

Was the Hacking of Ottawa Trucker Convoy Donors a US-Canadian Intelligence Operation?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Aubrey Cottle, the hacker claiming credit for stealing convoy donor info, has boasted of work with the FBI and Canadian law enforcement. The data was published by DDoSecrets, an anti-Wikileaks non-profit which has targeted states in the crosshairs of US intelligence.

Was the Hacking of Ottawa Trucker Convoy Donors a US-Canadian Intelligence Operation?

Interestingly, WikiLeaks has been accused of the same thing.

Twitter Blocks Users From Sharing Links to ‘BlueLeaks’ Data Dump

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Twitter Blocks Users From Sharing Links to ‘BlueLeaks’ Data Dump

Twitter will crack down on tweets that link to a 269GB leak of police files

The social media site this week permanently suspended the Twitter account of Distributed Denial of Secrets, a group of journalists and activists that obtained the 269GB trove of files and published it under the name “BlueLeaks.” 

According to a Twitter spokesperson, the company decided to take action because Distributed Denial of Secrets has admitted the 269GB of information came from the hacktivist group Anonymous. Last year, Twitter introduced a rule that banned users from sharing hacked materials on the social media service. “You can discuss a hack that has taken place,” the policy says. But posting the hacked content in an image, text, or via a link is a violation. 

Hack Brief: Anonymous Stole and Leaked a Megatrove of Police Documents

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Hack Brief: Anonymous Stole and Leaked a Megatrove of Police Documents

On Friday of last week, the Juneteenth holiday, a leak-focused activist group known as Distributed Denial of Secrets published a 269-gigabyte collection of police data that includes emails, audio, video, and intelligence documents, with more than a million files in total. DDOSecrets founder Emma Best tells WIRED that the hacked files came from Anonymous—or at least a source self-representing as part of that group, given that under Anonymous’ loose, leaderless structure anyone can declare themselves a member. Over the weekend, supporters of DDOSecrets, Anonymous, and protesters worldwide began digging through the files to pull out frank internal memos about police efforts to track the activities of protesters. The documents also reveal how law enforcement has described groups like the antifascist movement Antifa.