Edward Snowden, NSA, Booz Allen Hamilton and personal privacy

Mr. Snowden works for Booz Allen Hamilton which have been since 2011 under attack by Anonymous hackers for such activities.

 

Anonymous Hackers Breach Booz Allen Hamilton, Dump 90,000 Military Email Addresses

 

7/11/2011 @ 3:02PM |17,276 views 

 

 Andy Greenberg, Forbes Staff 

 

The summer of anti-security rolls on.

As part of the spree of data breaches that the loose hacker movement Anonymous is calling AntiSec, the group announced Monday that it had penetrated a server belonging to the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and released what it claims are 90,000 military email addresses, encrypted passwords and an assortment of data related to other companies and government networks. It also claims to have accessed and deleted four gigabytes of the firm’s source code.

 

“In [Booz Allen Hamilton's] line of work you’d expect them to sail the seven proxseas with a state-of-the-art battleship, right? Well you may be as surprised as we were when we found their vessel being a puny wooden barge,” reads the group’s statement posted to the Pirate Bay. “We infiltrated a server on their network that basically had no security measures in place.”

 

Though the passwords included in the leak are scrambled, Anonymous’ statement claims that the passwords are encrypted with an MD5 function that is widely considered to be insecure.

I’ve contacted Booz Allen Hamilton for comment but haven’t yet heard back from the firm. Update: the company writes on its Twitter feed that “as part of @BoozAllen security policy, we generally do not comment on specific threats or actions taken against our systems.”

 

Anonymous and Anonymous splinter group LulzSec have said that the campaign of attacks they’re calling “AntiSec” is designed to humiliate companies and agencies that fail to adequately protect consumer and employee data. It’s already hit targets ranging from the Arizona State Police to Viacom and Universal Music.

 

Booz Allen has already been involved in one Anonymous hack earlier this year. When the hacker collective dumped 71,000 emails from the cybersecurity firm HBGary Federal in retaliation for what it interpreted as an attempt to unmask key figures within Anonymous, the emails revealed that HBGary had worked with Booz Allen Hamilton to develop a response plan for Bank of America based on what the bank feared might be an upcoming leak of its internal documents by WikiLeaks. The Anonymous statement also paints the contractor as a revolving door of military-related conflicts of interest, and argues that the firm has been involved in mass surveillance projects.

“You would think the words ‘Expect Us’ would have been enough to prevent another epic security fail, wouldn’t you?,” Anonymous wrote in its statement. “Well, you’d be wrong. And thanks to the gross incompetence at Booz Allen Hamilton probably all military mersonnel of the U.S. will now have to change their passwords.”

The group ended the statement by invoicing Booz Allen Hamilton $310 for its security audit. “Trolling is our specialty,” it added. “We provide this free of charge.”

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/07/11/anonymous-hackers-breach-booz-allen-hamilton-dump-90000-military-email-addresses/ 

Guevara is dead جيفارا مات

On the 8th of October 1967, this man, Mr. Ernesto Che Guevara, died.

You can look up his life but I prefer to speak of his death . 

Look up  an extensive chronology of his death here

 On Guevara's assassination:

On October 9th, 1967, Ernesto "Che" Guevara was put to death by Bolivian soldiers, trained, equipped and guided by U.S. Green Beret and CIA operatives. His execution remains a historic and controversial event; and thirty years later, the circumstances of his guerrilla foray into Bolivia, his capture, killing, and burial are still the subject of intense public interest and discussion around the world. 
 

As part of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Che Guevara, the National Security Archive's Cuba Documentation Project is posting a selection of key CIA, State Department, and Pentagon documentation relating to Guevara and his death. This electronic documents book is compiled from declassified records obtained by the National Security Archive, and by authors of two new books on Guevara: Jorge Castañeda's Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara (Knopf), and Henry Butterfield Ryan's The Fall of Che Guevara (Oxford University Press). The selected documents, presented in order of the events they depict, provide only a partial picture of U.S. intelligence and military assessments, reports and extensive operations to track and "destroy" Che Guevara's guerrillas in Bolivia; thousands of CIA and military records on Guevara remain classified. But they do offer significant and valuable information on the high-level U.S. interest in tracking his revolutionary activities, and U.S. and Bolivian actions leading up to his death.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB5/ 

 

White House Memorandum, October 11, 1967: In another daily update, Walt Rostow reports to President Johnson that "we are 99% sure that 'Che' Guevara is dead." Rostow believes the decision to execute Guevara "is stupid," but he also points out his death "shows the soundness of our 'preventive medicine' assistance to countries facing incipient insurgency--it was the Bolivian 2nd Ranger Battalion, trained by our Green Berets from June-September of this year, that cornered him and got him." 

 

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB5/