Yahoo: Our spying policy would ’shock’ customers

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In response to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details of Yahoo’s! policies allowing the Justice Department to request wiretaps of its users and the amount they charge US taxpayers per wiretap — the search engine leviathan declared in a 12-page letter that they couldn’t provide information on their approach because their pricing scheme would “shock” customers. The news was first reported by Kim Zetter at Wired.

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8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight

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Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers’ (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive customer information was made possible due to the roll-out by Sprint of a new, special web portal for law enforcement officers.

The evidence documenting this surveillance program comes in the form of an audio recording of Sprint’s Manager of Electronic Surveillance, who described it during a panel discussion at awiretapping and interception industry conference, held in Washington DC in October of 2009.

It is unclear if Federal law enforcement agencies’ extensive collection of geolocation data should have been disclosed to Congress pursuant to a 1999 law that requires the publication of certain surveillance statistics — since the Department of Justice simply ignores the law, and has not provided the legally mandated reports to Congress since 2004.

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Multi Channel Beeper Buster System

Single Channel Beeper Buster^TM System

 

If the bad guys in your jurisdiction use pagers to conduct their business, you need The Beeper Buster^TM. With The Beeper Buster^TM, you can sit in the privacy of your own office and monitor every message sent to any pager. You do not need the cooperation of the paging system operator, nor will the user of the pager know you are monitoring all his messages. The Beeper Buster^TM can capture all messages sent to a target pager, capture all messages containing a particular “search string” (such as the phone number of a suspect location, pay phone), or any combination of the above. Special techniques are used to determine the unique address (the “capcode”) of the pager, meaning you do not need access to the target pager to capture its messages. It’s very simple. And, the The Beeper Buster^TM is affordable. Unlike rival units, The Beeper Buster^TMactually operates faster than the paging system. This means no missed pages, for any format at any speed. Persons using other less capable pager intercept systems are well aware of the problems of missed pages. The high speed and perfect accuracy of The Beeper Buster^TM is due to our extensive use of custom designed high speed hardware. If you need to use captured messages as evidence in court, the specially designed features of The Beeper Buster^TMguarantee the integrity of the data.

Interceptor – Pager Interception System

Interceptor is a system used to log pager message traffic over Pocsag or Flexpaging networks directly to a PC or computer network. The software is available in single PC or networked client/server versions.

Interceptor consists a 4 channel receiver unit and a Windows based application which together are able to monitor up to 4 paging frequencies within up to 4 pre-selected frequency bands. Pocsag and Flex pagers may be monitored on separate channels.
(For single channel logging see LogPage)

 

Interceptor is equipped with powerful filtering and reporting tools that enable the user to automatically search through received pager messages using different criteria and output the filtered results to the screen, resend it to apager or other messaging device such as a cellphone or forward it via email.

Pager reception and decoding

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The only requirements to decode pager transmissions is a scanner / receiver capable of receiving FM on pager frequencies, ( the low 900Mhz band seems to be the most active) and software that is capable of decoding pager transmissions. The software I use is calledPDW, and is freely available. It is capable of receiving both POCSAG and FLEX transmissions in all bit rates including a handful of other protocols.

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Gold Lock Intercept Video (English)

 

Feed The Children president Larry Jones fired

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The board did not disclose in its statement why Jones was fired. His attorney said Jones was dismissed over his decision last April to place hidden microphones in three executives’ offices.

Jones has denied wrongdoing, insisting he only intended to record his own conversations with executives who had twisted his statements before. The owner of the company that installed the microphones told police the recorder never worked and the microphones were later removed.

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Parents need tools to check on teens

This is in response to Chuck Goudie’s article on teenage texting. Goudie says, “Once upon a time it was easy to eavesdrop on your teenagers and check their pockets or backpacks for incriminating notes.” Maybe. But it’s not too difficult to do some electronic eavesdropping.

Cell phone service providers often offer a plan for parents of teens in which it is remarkably easy to see whom your kid is texting or calling and at what hours.

Our plan allows us to turn our teen’s cell phone off for certain hours (let’s say, the middle of the night). Another tool is a calling circles plan, which allows unlimited calls only to certain numbers that your teen would pick – such as home, our cell phones, a few friends, and the significant other.

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Gold Lock Enterprise VS Skype

Skype uses SSL which uses electronic certificates and 128 bit encryption (standard for credit card transactions online also) This level of encryption is NOT appropriate for even top secret level communications. How many times have credit card numbers been stolen online?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security

128-bit 2^128 2 multiplied by 2 128 times over. = 339,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (give or take a couple trillion…).

Gold Lock Enterprise uses 4 different encryption methods. One of which is 16,384 Bit Authentication. That is 2 multiplied by 2, 16,384 times over (not just 128 times). This method IS appropriate for top secret level communications. Enterprise uses 16,384 Bit Authentication Elliptic Curve 384 Bits (RSA 7680 Bits Equivalent) AES 256 Bits Diffie Hellman 4096 Bits

AES – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard Top Secret appropriate

RSA – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA Top Secret appropriate

Diffie Hellman – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie-Hellman_key_exchange Top Secret appropriate

In addition to this technical “stuff” the facts remain that Skype provides a key to governments for lawful interception (which means all the security in the world in now a mute point) and  Skypes 128 bit encryption has been broken, and hackers now easily intercept their calls.

http://sigillu.wordpress.com/category/technologies/skype/

As you can see Enterprise has significantly higher encryption capabilities than Skype. Skype encrypts just enough to satisfy their customers. Gold Lock takes pride in having the best and highest encryption software on the market. Gold Lock Enterprise is a military grade encryption software. No military uses Skype to relay orders or pass top secret information.

Gold Lock protects your communications

Gold Lock keeps your communications safe

Gold Lock Enterprise is the preferred solution for thousands of users around the world Licensed by the  Israeli Ministry of Defense, Gold Lock Enterprise is a world-class software-based solution providing military-grade encryption for voice and data communication. Gold Lock’s triple layered security scheme turns your PC/Laptop, Nokia Phone or Windows Mobile devite into a military grade encrypted communicator, protected against any interception attempt by private, governmental or military entities. Gold Lock Enterprise encrypts your calls, file transfer and text all over the world, including international calls. No VOiP provider is needed, the systems works on all types of internet connections (for example: 3G, EDGE, GPRS, WIFI…) Gold Lock Enterprise is easy to use, all key management is auto managed without any need for complicated user defined keys. Gold Lock Enterprise now supporting iPhone We have great news! Gold Lock is proud to announce that our flagship voice and data encryption software is now compatible with iPhone. We are the first, once again, to bring you the best solution on the market.  Now you can protect your communications on your Nokia Phone, Windows Mobile, iPhone or Blackberry, keeping conversations secure. The iPhone encryption system is completely compatible with all other Gold Lock Enterprise devices – Nokia, Windows Mobile, and PC (Windows XP/Vista. Gold Lock Enterprise available for Blackberry One of our main goals lately has been to release a Blackberry compatible version. Gold Lock Enterprise is now compatible with Blackberry, making it the most suitable and s ecure encryption tool, working on multiple platforms. Gold Lock Enterprise is now able to encrypt your calls, file transfer and text internationally with your favorite device. Sigillu is the authorized representative of Gold Lock in America. We are looking to partner with companies possessing a deep understanding of customer needs and the ability to faithfully represent the values of uncompromised security and trust for governments, corporations and individuals using Gold Lock encryption systems. If you are interested, contact Doug Haskins at doug@gold-lock.com

Gold Lock Enterprise, through Sigillu www.sigillu.com email: doug@gold-lock.com Tel: 954.892.5868