Did Nokia and Apple sell their customers' data to Indian intelligence?

According to the proofs which can be heard in the web, telecom giants helped Indian intelligence agencies to spy on the members of the comission focused on American-Chineese relations. 

The information was revealed on Saturday 7th by the Indian group "Lords of Dharamraja" who on their website had published documents according to which Apple, Nokia and Research in Motion (Blackberry producer) had helped the services to break into the mobile phones belonging to the comission members. 

The "eavesdroppes" had started on April 2011. United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission is a governmental institution created in 2000 in the US is responsible for monitoring and investigating national security and trade issues between the United States and People's Republic of China.

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The reasons why the companies had helped the Indian intelligence remain unknown. One hypothesis is that this helped them to enter an enormous Indian market of more than billion consumers. It is also important to say, that the New Delhi authorities had given permission to their major spy agency RAW to spy on electronic communication of all their citizens. 

It is still unknownd if the Indian hackers' allegations are trustful. Critics point that there are several uncertainities about their "break in". First of all, "The Lords of Dharamraja" are claiming that they have used a source code from anti-virus system Norton Security to break into intelligence servers. This information is being questioned by the producer - Symantec Company, which had also stated that the case will be investigated. The second reason is the information about the "back door" existing in the smartphones - there is an open discussion in the web about this and the opinions are split. There is also a third reason - the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission reports are public and available in the web, which makes the sense of such risky actions made by Indian services questionable. On the other hand the intelligence services can be interested in some informations which would not be revealed in official reports. 

If the allegations of "The Lords of Dharamraja" are real this would mean this year's first scandal revealed by the group of hackers. We could notice a growing influence of such people whether it was by the portal Wikileaks or famous Anonymous group. Also in Germany a case of a special computer virus created by the government agency was revealed by the group of hackers called Chaos Computer Club.

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Home made satellites - a new frontline is open

The Internet is rising. It is a source of knowledge, opinions and revolutions. It is the Internet which was used to inform and gather protesters in Egypt and Tunisia. The people from the "Occupy" decided to protest also in the web.

The authorities are looking forward to establish, very often undercover, some kind of new law, which will be able to take control over the Internet, or at least get the knowledge about the most active participants in the web. 

These efforts seem to be more and more intense recently, that is why during the last Chaos Communication Congress which took place in Berlin between December 27-30 2011, an idea of hacker satellite network was discussed. 

The project is going to be called Hackerspace Global Grid and is going to allow communication out of government control as well as the access to 2P2 network. 

It is proposed that the satellites would be sent on the Earth's low orbit. This way a new network which will be created will allow the internauts to remain independent from local web providers but will also make them harder to find. 

Small satellites network on the low orbit is becoming possible even for a average person, proper network can open a new frontline in the cyberwar and make partizans hidden somewhere in the urban jungle much stronger. 

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The eavesdropped world.

Are you sure that you’re not being bugged while reading this text? Maybe your favorite phone has been tapped to record every single word you say. Who’s done that? You don’t know, do you? You’d better wonder if you’re not in someone’s bad books. 

The conspiracy theory

Is it a joke? Or a conspiracy theory? Those who claim that we were, we are, and we will always be eavesdropped are considered to be insane, aren’t they? Or at least they’re said to be the conspiracy theorists. The possible grain of truth included in those theories stems from wrong interpretation of the facts or even more often from essentially unjustified presumptions. These believers will always find a place in a cabaret or a madhouse. So, how should we explain the statement of Zbigniew Brzeziński, ex-advisor of the president of the USA, who says: ‘The technocratic era will be based on increase in the social control. This kind of society will be dominated by the ruling èlite which has no regard for traditional values’? How good does the second sentence sound? Is the society, which shows complete disregard of the traditional values, so greedy that it treats the rest as slaves throwing their way around? So does this control apply to all or just the rebels? 

The formal government institutions would be, in conformity with the law, enabled to control and to eavesdrop the citizens, moreover secret spies would be devised. 

There are two kinds of espionage. The first one is presented in books or movies. The second one is the genuine one. The first one is connected with car crashes and beautiful women. The real spying consist of digging through the garbage, planting bugs in someone’s flat and many hours spent with headphones on. The taps are installed everywhere: in your shoes, phones, pens. They quietly wait for you under your bed or desk. 

The history of eavesdropping includes incidents with jealous wives and ‘thrifty’ politicians. The crucial moment was the famous Watergate scandal, when it has turned out that everybody can eavesdrop. The case came out into the open thanks to two Washington Post journalists: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. The authorities were those who eavesdropped and stayed beyond any suspicion. The incident has shocked the whole USA. It has turned out that several people connected with president Nixon used the ex-workers of the secret service to eavesdrop the campaign headquarters of the Democratic Party. Moreover the case of the burglary to the headquarters in Watergate complex, Washington has been exposed during the election campaign in 1972.

The Watergate scandal implied the end of Richard Nixon’s political career. He resigned from office under the threat of impeachment in August 1974. His successor, Gerald Ford approved a document a month later, which declared amnesty for Nixon concerning all offences he had or might have committed as the president. Due to the scandal 40 high ranking public officials were accused or arrested including John Mitchell the director of the Committee to Re-elect the President and Charles Colson. Richard Nixon resisted on his innocence till the end. 

The Polish Watergate

Wiretapping has been used in Europe as well. It’s worth noticing that this time the authorities were those who were wiretapped. The well-known scandal of the tapes of truth, where the then Prime Minister of Hungary Ferenc Gyurcsany unaware of being recorded admitted to lying to his electors, had a widespread impact. The consequences of the tap were so grave that the long protests of citizens became ferocious. 

There was a time when Rydzyk’s and Oleksy’s tapes were a popular topic in Poland. And the most renowned recordings brought the famous incident about which caused the fall of the Miller’s government and the beginning of SLD failure. The Michnik’s scandal took place when Adam Michnik recorded Lew Rywin who offered a bribe while visiting him and was later proven guilty. 

According to the official data from the June report Prosecutor General Andrzej Seremet, the police and other authorities applied for ordering operational supervision and inspection for 6723 citizens and the court complied with 6453 cases. It isn’t terrifying at all, is it? Are you sure? According to the report of the European Commission, Poles are the most surveillanced nation in the European Union. The authors of the report state that the police along with secret services have analyzed thoroughly citizens’ billings more than 1 300 000 times. Even if billings of the same people were looked through more than once it’s easy to see how many citizens were actually inspected. 

There are nine institutions which eavesdrop us. These are: the Military Police, the Border Guard, Government Protection Bureau, the Internal Security Agency, Foreign Intelligence Agency, the Counterespionage Services, military intelligence, General anti-corruption bureau, the Revenue Intelligence. What’s more, the amount of bugs has increased since last year. 

The situation in Europe is not getting any better. While the clerks are still using the phone billings, the potential terrorists have already switched to the modern technologies such as free Skype. 

Several years ago the Italian police took the initiative of push the possibility of recording the conversations held via this communicator. The case was send to the highest resorts of the European Union, but has so far ended in failure. 

The invisible microphone

According to the historians the bugs using the radio waves were available soon after World War II and the Polish secret services owned them in the fifties. Nowadays the GSM technology solutions are being broadly used. 

There are many ways of eavesdropping, even the person who is not an expert on electronics would be able to construct a tap. One should only find a suitable instruction film to build a simple device using the radio waves. But why should we bother? Dozens of companies offer all that’s necessary to record the crucial words. Sale of the devices is legal, isn’t it? Only eavesdropping is forbidden. Since the bugs are available it’s obvious that there are also various devices to drown them. The online shops offer the necessary equipment-everything, depending on what we need. Their good stock includes devices generating low tones which are inaudible, but despite that decoding the records from bugs is impossible. The other kinds of appliances drown the GSM signal and therefore the mobile phones and cameras can’t work properly within 50 meters in this frequency band. Unfortunately the privacy costs dear, most of the drowning appliances cost at least few hundred and the prices of the most expensive ones reach few thousand. 

Speaking of the GSM, it’s worth underlining that the mobile phone connections aren’t safe any longer. A short time ago the algorithms used to code them were really outdated, today they would be 23 years old. Two years after the effective breaking of the codes by a German computer scientist the coded were updated. But will this be enough? Human creativity knows no bounds. In 2010 during the Def Con Conference Chris Paget showed new method of intercepting phone conversations which only requires a laptop, appropriate program and some knowledge. The total cost of constructing this device reached only 1500$. It’s easy to see that it’s available to the general public. 

The legal question of accessing the information from mobile network operators are still unregulated, hence the services can easily find out when and who have we talked with. The text messages are even worse. It’s unofficially said that the operators are partially archiving the messages, thus they can also pass on the data to the third party-all that makes this way of communication rather fear arousing. The most careful ones can follow Julian Assange and change their phone number after every single call. 

The scandal

When the opportunities of eavesdropping are broadening we can no longer be sure of being more lucky than the British. The scandal with the News of the world has exposed new facts. It has turned out that the bugs are also planted by the journalists, who used to be adored for their honesty. Jacek Mojkowski from the Focus has noticed that the system in Great Britain was ‘a toxic agreement between the police, media and politics’ - even though the Scotland Yard knew about the bugs didn’t launch the investigation, as many of their employees had worked for the ‘NoTW’ before. So the last resort for the citizens longing for the truth has vanished. The journalist may have learnt the shocking actions from the Deutche Telekom, which received the ‘Big Brother Award’ in 2008 for disturbing the press freedom after catching their employees eavesdropping the journalists’ conversations. Anyway, passing over the offenders, we can’t be sure if the information about us will not be given to the third party. 

Overhearing the ordinary Mr Brown regardless of his mother country is becoming easier. The increasing control doesn’t cause neither anxiety nor protests. Considering the recent events in Norway we may expect ideas for even stronger control. But is that right?

The shocking world

Our world – what’s it like? Is it like heaven in the Bible? Or maybe like Hell? One thing is for sure: the fact of Adam and Eva’s exile from paradise is a innocent deed in comparison to what people did to each other for the next thousands of years. What God is preparing for them now?

“Gazeta Wyborcza” alarms that our government, among other new rights, wants to provide police and other services with the information about our bank and brokerage accounts without any approval from the court. The project is quickly and silently accepted by the parliament. The Ministry of Interior and Administration admits that there were some new rights added to the regulations treating EU decisions on cooperation in fighting crime. Adam Rapacki – the vice-minister of Interior claimed that if the project is controversial, they are willing to resign from those rights which are not necessary to execute EU decisions.

Since there’s a possibility to see how much money I have and where do I get them from – then maybe one will know what I’m thinking about? What else do we need do control our emotions?

The Immersive Labs company is working on new technology which enables reading essential data about a person watching a commercial. The Singularity Hub service says that a special scanner put into the billboard’s screen will be able to read basic demographic characteristics of the watcher (age, sex, race) and adjust the content to his/her profile in a split second.

Intelligent billboards have already appeared in the science-fiction film: “Minority Report”. However, the authors of this device claim that it won’t read the exact identity of the passer-by; it will only recognize his age or sex. This innovative appliance is created in order to make commercials more accessible to customers.

Since we have mastered the influence on emotions, let’s create something that enables to control our behavior.

As presented in the New York Times, the American intelligent services are working on system which will be able to collect all the data coming from social networks available on the Internet.

Huge amounts of data will be used by scientists in order to create a big “store” where all the information will be processed. Thus, for the firs time in history, we will be able to make precise maps of human behavior. This kind of maps can be used to predict social and economical breakdowns, political crises and revolutions.

Going further, let’s present the information from “Dziennik Internautów” (Net surfers’ Journal) about another documents created to control the Internet.

Recently, eight countries along with USA have signed a controversial agreement “ACTA” concerning fake products and piracy in the web. This international rapport allows all countries in ACTA to introduce strict regulations on intellectual property protection. The controversial thing is e.g. the fact that the democratic procedures like the consent of American Senate were omitted.

At the same time, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is being elaborated. As presented in some leaked information, TPP wants to introduce compensations for the owners of copyrights. The compensation will take into account the retail price of products and the responsibility of Internet Service Providers (ISP) which largely exceeds American standards. According to www.di.com.pl webpage, some legal encouragements for ISP will be introduced: they are to prevent the non-authorized storage and transmission of materials protected by the copyright law.

As we can see, it is never enough to have plenty of methods of security protecting a citizen from another citizen. After all, we should feel safe being just one step from heaven.

As the Daily Beast service claims, the armament companies treating military contracts for American army are looking for some new markets because their budget has been cut.

Companies producing drones, radars and sensors want to sell their technology (reserved only for the army till now) to border guard and police.

A secret IBISS (Integrated Building Interior Surveillance System) will be also accessible: this technology enables people to see through the walls. Its producer – the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) was not allowed to say anything about his product. Yet, IBISS has appeared in their offer as a device which improves police’s and firemen’s operations.

None of the methods of protecting the citizen’s security can be denied. Can’t they? According to The Telegraph, the Brazilian police will be soon equipped with special glasses able to recognize faces.

While preparing the football World Cup 2014 in Brazil, the Ministry of Interior wants to provide Brazilian police with glasses having special cameras. These cameras will be able to scan almost 400 faces in a second and then send them to a special computer archive with a 13 million photos capacity. Thanks to a special system of biometrical data analysis, the computer will analyze 46 000 of points on the face and will immediately inform about the resemblance with a wanted person.

Leandro Pavani Agostini, person responsible for the police in São Paulo claims that “this method is much more discreet because you don’t have to interrogate or ask for the documents. The computer does it.”

Still, we cannot complain: the technical development should be helpful. Is that so?

The scientists from USA, China and Singapore have elaborated new, unusual technology which combines biology and engineering. It can help in transferring the medical information and computer signal or even be used in spy technology. The service breitbart.com informs us about the so called Epidermal Electronic System (EES). This crucial device is a ultrathin chip resembling a tattoo and is placed on the skin.

The device looking like an adhesive plaster can help in heart disease, brain and muscle tissues monitoring and placed in the patient’s throat it can be helpful in problems with voice. According to the researchers, apart from the normal treatment, the device will be very helpful in treating patients with larynx problems.

This device is thinner than a hair, ultra light and uses a minimal amount of solar energy. Its advantage is that we don’t need some special glue or substance to attach it to our skin.

Data coming from this phenomenal invention will undoubtedly stay in our doctor’s drawer. Seeing that everything about us is known, maybe we should approve the Darpa’s initiative. This agency, subordinate to the Ministry of Defense, wants to invite people from outside to work on new genetic projects. According to the “Wired” magazine, the newly employed engineers, computer scientists and designers are to create the “democratization” of operations on biologic components.

Darpa (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) plans to create a project leading to a great explosion of biologic innovations. There are also some projects to build a factory producing necessary biological organs. Human inventiveness is the only limit.

Since our representatives who rule the world are foreseeing and they emanate a social reliability, how surprised we are about the fact that, according to The-Dispatch.com service, the Japanese citizens, discouraged by the government’s attitude, decided to investigate the radiation level on their own. It turned out that only in Tokyo they came across nearly 20 places where the radiation exceeds the normal level.

One of the citizen researchers - Takeo Hayashida has discovered that near a sports field, where his son is playing baseball, the level of radiation is equally high to the one in the Chernobyl power station. The Japanese government belittles this problem claiming that the majority of radiated products were moved to another place and are not dangerous.

Is this true that a simple measurer is enough to keep the security? Maybe someday, we’ll get to know that all this is complicated by someone else.

Doctor Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person on the Moon during the Apollo program, has recently appeared in a British radio show. He stated that aliens exist and people in NASA know about it since many years. Nick Margerrison, the DJ from Kerrang!Radio couldn’t believe what he heard when Mitchell openly talked about the case in his talk-show on 22nd July 2008.

The prelate Corrado Balducci, a member of Vatican theological curia and pope’s informer had the same opinion – he appeared five times in national Italian television claiming that the extraterrestrial contact is an authentic phenomenon.

Balducci has delivered an alien analysis and said that the image of aliens is consistent with the Catholic Church’s theology. The prelate stressed that “aliens are NOT demonic, they are NOT here to psychically hurt us, but still the fact that we met an alien needs to be studied carefully.” Since the prelate Balducci is an expert of demonology and the Vatican’s counselor, and since the Church has historically demonized many phenomena which weren’t understood well, his statements about aliens and the Church are extraordinary in our history.

Will we know the truth? Actually there’s a small chance for us: according to Paul Krugman’s opinion expressed in CNN, one of the method for taking the economy out from the crisis is a mass plan of armaments caused by the UFO invasion.

The economical Nobel prize-winner (year 2008) claims that the NASA’s information about a possible contact with aliens is not coincidental. In his opinion, just as the II World War has ended the Big Crisis, the UFO invasion will force the humankind to a mass mobilization which will increase national expenses and improve the world’s economy.

If so, we don’t need to be afraid of anything behind the heaven’s door. Surrounded by care and monitored by doctors, we will improve our life standards preparing for a galactic war.

To those who believe in miracles

It is impossible not to comment. The case of bin Laden’s death for sure needs balanced opinion, while it confirms itself, that the solutions cannot be divided in simple right or wrong classification. What had hapenned, so much exceptionable in a Christian context, will surely satisfy, according to the Code of Hammurabi, a great tragedy of September 11th. I am just wondering - what had suddenly happenned, that the man living in a nice mansion for a couple of years was killed, while we should expect him living in a cave hidden deep in mountains? A “bogeyman”, thanks to who they have spent billions of dollars flowing into a certain group of people. Because of him, milions of people who crossed American airports were invigilated and catalogued. Are we going to catalogue all Europeans now, if the terrorists are going to blow a nuclear bomb in Europe? Is it what is all about? Should we really believe, that at the age of technology, which allows to see a needle in a haystack from  the space, the American intelligence, full of real masterminds was at last iluminated after 10 years?  What is the connection between the death of a terrorist and the events in Libya and other countries? Maybe it is a beginning of political campaign in style of Alfred Hitchock, where everything starts from an earthquake and then the tension starts to grow. I esteem Americans higher and that is why I smile when reading these global revelations for naive.