Mystic Politics

As House Passes CISPA, The Fight Is Just Beginning

‘Despite growing resistance to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, CISPA has cleared its first legislative hurdle. But the battle over the widely-criticized information-sharing bill is just heating up.’

CISPA: 6 Things You Need to Know About the Government’s New Spy Law

‘Congress is seriously considering a bill called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Intended to allow information-sharing both between corporations and between corporations and the government, it presents serious dangers to individual privacy.’

CISPA gets a rewrite but still threatens Americans’s Privacy

‘Foes of controversial legislation rally before expected vote next week, with scant success so far: latest draft still allows Internet companies to share customer data and communications with the National Security Agency.’

Revealed: CISPA Internet Spying Law Pushed by For-Profit Private Spy Lobby

‘A cyber security bill moving swiftly through Congress would give government intelligence agencies broad powers to work with private companies to share information about Internet users.’

Anonymous Hackers Crack Great Firewall of China

‘Hackers purporting to be members of the nebulous online hacker community Anonymous have reportedly hit almost 400 websites in China. Targets included the Tongcheng Environmental Protection Agency, a Chinese government site from which phone and email information were stolen, and the Jiangsu Cyberpolice Online Service, for which a cross-site scripting vulnerability was posted.’

Andrew Breitbart’s unexpected death sparks wild conspiracy theories

‘Andrew Breitbart’s untimely death has sparked wild conspiracy theories that the publisher was murdered on the President’s orders.’

Anonymous Declares War On Religion, Attacks Church Sites

‘The AnonymousIRC Twitter account announced on Friday three attacks so far on major church Web sites. These aren’t just regular attacks, however, as they have also defaced the Web sites with anti-religion rhetoric and even a video featuring Richard Dawkins set to auto-play so visitors are forced to see it.’

Who Do You Trust Less: The NSA or Anonymous?

‘Intelligence officials seem to be polishing up their case to take on Anonymous like a ‘stateless’ terrorist group. The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith Alexander, told various high-level audiences that the loosely affiliated group, Anonymous, would soon have the capability “to bring about a limited power outage through a cyberattack,” according to an anonymously sourced article in the Wall Street Journal today.’

Scared of Anonymous? NSA chief says you should be

‘Anonymous has so far plied its trade in “hactivist” exploits. But according to the director of the National Security Agency, it might soon turn its focus to U.S. infrastructure.’

PCFIPA: SOPA replacement uses child porn as excuse to spy on 99.7 percent of Americans

‘The SOPA and PIPA bills that went down in flames earlier this year for their unbearable intrusiveness, used content piracy as an excuse to give the government powerful tools with which to censor Internet content. For 2012 the primary author of those bills has switched to a fallback tactic: using child porn as an excuse to create a vast surveillance network from which the government can demand data on every email sent, site visited or link clicked on by all but a fraction of one percent of the U.S. population.’