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The Equation Group hacker gets nabbed; WWIII will be lethal and fast; and peer review vigilantes take matters into their own hands.

The Equation Group hacker gets nabbed; WWIII will be lethal and fast; and peer review vigilantes take matters into their own hands.

PrivacySOS – 10/05/2016 Big news dropped yesterday in Reuters : In 2015, the US government asked Yahoo to scan all incoming email looking for certain, unknown characters in emails or attachments; unfortunately, Yahoo agreed to do it—without putting up a fight. The demand came in the form of a classified “edict,” as Reuters describes it, to Yahoo’s legal […]

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-10-06%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This week on the New World Next Week: the Equation Group hacker gets nabbed; WWIII will be lethal and fast; and peer review vigilantes take matters into their own hands.

21st Century Wire says…
QUESTION: Is this the same ‘malware leak’ that US elected officials blamed on Russia?
His name is Harold Thomas Martin III. He is a US Navy veteran and NSA contractor…

21st Century Wire says…
This will rank as one of the most egregious miscarriages of consumer trust in US history. 
In a brief statement to Reuters, according to these Silicon Valley executives:
“Yahoo is a law-abiding company, and complies with the laws of the United States.”

There is an inverse relationship between public access to the Internet and the inability of governments and institutions to control information flow and hence state allegiance, ideology, public opinion, and policy formulation. Increase in public access to the Internet results in an equivalent decrease in government and institutional power. Indeed, after September 11, 2001, Internet traffic statistics show that many millions of Americans have connected to alternative news sources outside the continental United States.

When the NSA screws up, it exposes its willingness to harm American tech companies to further its own intelligence needs.”

He may have had no other choice.

The tensions between those engaged in the dangerous and compromising pursuit of whistleblowing, and those who use the fruit of such efforts has been all too coarsely revealed in the Washington Post stance on Edward Snowden.