NSA’s XKeyscore Source Code Leaked
We learnt about the NSA’s XKeyscore program a year ago, and about its incredibly wide reach. But now the German TV stations NDR and WDR claim to have excerpts from its source code. We already knew that the NSA and GCHQ have been targeting Tor and its users, but the latest leak reveals some details about which Tor exit nodes were selected for surveillance — including at least one in Germany, which is likely to increase public anger there. It also shows that Tor users are explicitly regarded as “extremists”
Ernst & Young to Pay $4 Million over Lobbying Charges
The accounting firm Ernst & Young has agreed to pay more than $4 million to settle claims one of its units lobbied on behalf of two companies it had been hired to audit. The Securities and Exchange Commission accused Ernst & Young of violating rules meant to preserve independence, but did not name the other two firms.
Facebook users react angrily to a ‘creepy’ experiment
Users of Facebook have reacted angrily to a “creepy” experiment carried out by the social network and two American universities to manipulate their emotions. The US technology giant secretly altered almost 700,000 users’ news feeds to study the impact of “emotional contagion”. It tinkered with the algorithm controlling users’ feeds to find out what effect it had on their moods in January 2012. The aim of the government-sponsored study was to see whether positive or negative words in messages would lead to positive or negative content in status updates. [This proved again that the purpose of these tools are to control population.]
React to the killing of innocents in Middle East
Also boycott following Israeli related companies
Intel
Motorola
Hewlett-Packard
Amazon.com
IBM
Pampers
Coca-Cola
Caterpillar
GAP, Banana Republic, Calvin Klein, BOSS, M&S, DKNY which uses Delta-Galils textile
Gillette
Head & Shoulders
Vicks
Old Spice
Procter & Gamble
Johnson & Johnson
Revlon
McDonald’s
Nestle
Milkmaid
Maggi
KitKat
L’Oréal
Please reduce oil use as energy source as well as fertilisers, plastics etc in the chemical industry.