Europol Chief Warns Of Terrorist Threat From Encrypted Communications

     Sunday, 29 March 2015, LONDON - Europol Chief Rob Wainwright told BBC Radio Live 5 that encrypted communications and those on the "dark net" made anonymously have become the biggest problem for law enforcement seeking to monitor terrorist communications. Mr. Wainwright who is the chief of Europe's police acknowledged that Edward Snowden's revelations about the enormous scope of unconstitutional NSA and criminal GCHQ spying on ordinary citizens' communications was the basis for the universal distrust by technology companies and ordinary citizens of the US and UK agencies and their governments for repugnant enormous continuing violations of individuals' fundamental privacy rights.
     Incidentally in "Citizen Four" the film about Mr. Snowden's path through making his astounding revelations of secret government abuses of enormous global proportions against citizens' fundamental liberties which earlier this year as covered in the Ninth Amendment won the Academy Award for best documentary film Mr. Snowden in one aside when the GCHQ comes up in conversation states to two select reporters present with him in his Hong Kong hotel room that the abuses of the British GCHQ were even significantly wider-ranging than the NSA's  (which it seems hard to believe is even possible although in any case the NSA and GCHQ are partners in crime and share their illegally gained citizen surveillance information).
     Mr. Wainwright said that law enforcement was trying hard to regain the trust of technology companies who increasingly are working to make encryption of communications available to individuals. The Ninth Amendment editorial board suggests that this seems a tall order and questions exactly how law enforcement is "trying" as neither U.S. officials including President Obama, the head of the NSA, the FBI chief, CIA chief murderer John Brennan, nor their British government counterparts are known to the Ninth Amendment to have given any indication that they intend to cease their repugnant and blatantly unconstitutional and illegal universal spying practices against ordinary citizens. In fact quite the opposite from all news accounts.
     One issue looming in the U.S. is that certain sections of the so-called "Patriot Act" the misuse of which blatantly unconstitutional legislation has appalled even its original congressional sponsor face sunset provisions in coming months which will kill significant provisions of the cynically misnamed Patriot Act failing congressional intervention (the Obama administration favors the continuation of these provisions in force but so far has claimed it will not intervene if Congress fails to act to preserve these provisions).
     Europol Chief Wainwright in warning of encrypted communications as the biggest problem facing law enforcement which presumably would include those available on certain email accounts most notably the allegedly most NSA-proof encrypted free ProtonMail also covered here in an earlier Ninth Amendment post as well as in many new apps including for cellphones being made widely available specifically referenced his concerns about Apple's new cellphones with encryption that is apparently uncrackable by law enforcement who have been provided no "backdoor" key with which to capture cellphone users every word.  
     Another area of significant concern to law enforcement is the so-called "dark net" which can be accessed easily with the U.S. government created publicly available for free immediate download "Tor" browser which although the FBI claims at least once to have cracked apparently only has endpoint vulnerability which if not exploited makes internet communications impossible to trace. Finally Europol Chief Wainwright also specifically warned of threats posed by availability of social media to terrorists. Mr. Wainwright claimed that IS (aka ISIS aka ISIL) has at least 50,000 Twitter accounts tweeting upwards of 100,000 messages a day.      In response to such challenges facing totally discredited law enforcement which has disgusted entire nations Mr. Wainwright claims that Europol is now setting up a European Internet Referral Unit to identify and remove internet sites used by terrorist organisations. The Ninth Amendment would like to point out that it most likely would be difficult to remove Twitter from online existence. In any case Mr. Wainwright unbelievably went on to apparently even better his American counterparts in criminal surveillance ambitions to state that existing laws are "deficient" and law enforcement should be able to monitor all areas of the online world. Europol Chief Wainwright's reported remarks concluded with him saying "[w]e have to make sure we reach the right balance by ensuring that the fundamental principles of privacy are upheld so there's a lot of work for legislators and tech firms to do".
     The Ninth Amendment will not be holding its breath. Interested readers will find more information on the above at the link below to the BBC News Tech article reporting on the BBC Live 5 interview with Europol Chief Wainwright also providing further links.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32087919

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Obama Vapid Response Shocks Again Dismays Entire New York Times Editorial Board On But Most Recent Executive Major U.S. Constitutional Attack

     Wednesday, 19 June 2013, NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The Ninth Amendment most sincerely regrets yet again in what seems to be but a matter of weeks and indeed even through this log's most recent post to inform readers of reports that President Obama continues to dismiss and oddly appear to believe he is somehow even distanced from continuing reports of blatant Executive Branch (of which he of course is the Chief) encroachments of potentially calamitous historical Constitutional proportions on some of its most sacred and fundamental protections of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

     Many are perhaps most specifically and extensively set forth with the ratification by a majority of the several states of the Bill of Rights (which of course still in the view of this log known after all as "The Ninth Amendment"  has some VERY largely obviously to most anyone who can read English individually protective yet oddly indeed near-completely unexplored, unrecognized, unacknowledged and actually effectively ignored provisions which the State in the view of this log can only be said to maintain ludicrously are some sort of vestigial surplusage which would have had to be absolutely uncharacteristically inserted by the Founding Fathers as if they were, say, getting paid by the hour or page.

     In any case it was at most some few months ago that the entire editorial board of The New York Times as reported here called for the complete closure of Guantanamo Bay and release of remaining detainees especially in light of some who had now spent about a decade there even AFTER federal judges ORDERED them released and all essentially agreed that many (but not all - those being segregated) posed no threat at all. But Congress refused to provide funding.

     Then of course heinous legislation such as the cynically entitled "Patriot Act" survives even in all its admittedly worst provisions thrown in in the dead of night with President Obama's administration actually having had its and other legislation's Bush-era "sunset provisions" not only not left effective but having done so by making these laws destroying the fabric of this country permanent.

     And now in the wake of the most recent revelations of the Obama administration's continuation of the NSA's seven-year-old unconstitutional universal surveillance program even as the President and his new century "lethal surveillance teams" and Oval Office direct controlled drone assassinations and murders continue, the New York Times reports on President Obama's shockingly dismal and disingenuous statements in defense of the new surveillance state he oversees, even calling it successful when he well knows that the telephone component in particular produces far less safety-enhancing results.

     The Ninth Amendment has as recently indicated here had about as much as it cares to stomach for the moment. Interested readers are encouraged to click to the New York Times editorial link directly below for further details. God Bless America.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/opinion/details-on-spying-not-more-assurances.html?ref=todayspaper

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CIA "Zuckerboy" Handlers Direct "Facelog" To Continuously Track Users Buy $1 Billion Waze Corporation GPS Technology

     Friday, 10 May 2013 - Langley, VA - In perhaps the worst-kept CIA secret of all time the torture and assassination rogue democracy-destruction outfit more commonly known as the"Center For International Assassinations"  (CIA) in the operation of its so-called "Facebook" (CIA codename "Facelog" or "Mugbook") social cataloging and reported "data-mining" operation established and consistently operated in direct contravention of laws establishing the limited geographical CIA operational area expressly excluding the domestic United States reportedly now has ordered CIA puppet tool "Zuckerboy" to acquire GPS and related technology allowing the CIA to track Americans at all times using his "Facebook" franchise.
    "Zuckerboy" already nailed by European regulators with staggering fines for his previous CIA-ordered efforts to use "facial recognition" technology in the European Union and more recently again was slapped down heartily by European regulators for further CIA-ordered privacy invasion and spying attempts there allegedly in the CIA's failing efforts to keep up with other U.S. "national security" agencies which provide actual physical evidence rather than the CIA's frequently incorrect "analyst" reports prepared by recent college graduates who often have never left the Eastern seaboard of the United States in their entire lives spent "book-learning" or studying at Princeton's (home of the DOE "Tokamok" experimental fusion reactor) Woodrow Wilson School  to become future CIA "never-in-the-field" top brass.
     Reportedly CIA puppet tool "Zuckerboy" took a break from the innumerable lawsuits (such as Yahoo's most recent patent infringement suit) and several major enforcement actions being leveled against "Facelog" for negotiations with Waze Corporation to purchase it for its "social GPS navigation and traffic application" (so-called "app") for somewhere in the range of one billion dollars. The app is excpected to further CIA-Facebook plans to further expand and enhance its privacy invasion and surveillance and spying network significantly by enabling the physical tracking of Facebook users around-the-clock.
     As previously reported when European regulators doubtlessly hammer Facebook with another fine nearing one billion dollars the fine can be expected to be indemnified by the CIA out of its so-called "black book" budget for so-called "black-ops". Such black book budget funds in contravention of the United States Constitution are not made public to most members of the government nor of the American taxpayers who will be as usual the ones footing the bill for the CIA's latest misadventures. God Bless America.           

Zuckerboy And CIA Tools Facebook, Google and Twitter Lead Attack Of Viral Social Media Giants On Privacy Of American People

     Wednesday, 12 December 2012, SAN FRANCISCO - Hardly a moment passes on North Korea's "atomic clock" that megalomaniac Zuckerboy at the helm (a la drunken sot Exxon Valdez Captain Hazelwood) of Facebook, or "Mugshot" as more popularly known in the so-called law "enforcement" community, and other viral social media cohort CIA-fronts Google, Twitter and lesser players in the war on Americans' fundamental privacy rights announce some new "privacy policies".
     The Ninth Amendment's legal department scarcely is surprised to find these policies about as incomprehensible as impossible to decrypt when taken together as the latest "health" insurer "benefits" guide written exclusively by armies of hack two-bit lawyers with no healthcare knowledge whatsoever save further ripping off the American people for some mega-rich "health" insurer that dare not actually affix its name to the thousands of anonymous highrise towers insurance companies long have been known to own in downtown cities across the United States. (Hey Prudential, still own San Francisco's Embarcadero Center in a joint venture with the Rockefeller family?) That is, one is left with the overwhelming question (like T.S. Eliot), am I really getting something more here for my benefit, or am I actually losing even more rights and benefits at greater cost to me? The answer actually is not too difficult to predict at this point in the game.
     The Ninth Amendment strongly recommends this above date's New York Times technology section to interested readers especially as rich in details of the latest hijinks of the viral media giants as well as many references to websites devoted to providing readers with free means of defeating at least some of the tracking mechanisms of these CIA tools. Needless to say the Ninth Amendment was horrified to see that even the once-venerable New York Times has joined the game of tracking its readers and in some cases merely visitors who do not even "click" on anything.
     Readers are reminded to refrain from READING FREE UNLIMITED NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLES SIMPLY BY SETTING FREE FIREFOX BROWSERS TO "PRIVATE BROWSING" NOR SHOULD THAT TECHNIQUE NO LONGER WORK TO REFRAIN FROM PERFORMING SIMPLE SEARCHES SUCH AS "DEFEATING NEW YORK TIMES PAYWALL".
     Because of the rich material especially made available in this above date's Times to find websites dedicated to protecting readers' privacy including with free adjustments to different browser settings, the Ninth Amendment in its recognition of the importance of getting this material to press for the benefit of interested readers below provides the link to the main "Facebook" article which should lead resourceful readers to many of the tips for defeating viral social media privacy invasion practices. If but one life is saved....

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/facebook-changes-privacy-settings-again/

     The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment submitted the following comment for publication in the digital edition of the above date's New York Times in response to the Times' request for comments on the linked preceding article. The comment later was published in the digital New York Times.

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The editorial staff of the Ninth Amendment log at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com expresses no surprise at the apparent complete ignorance of Facebook, Google and the rest of the "viral social media" crowd of CIA child tools in their continuing demonstration of complete ignorance of the Bill of Rights in general and here in particular fundamental privacy protections identified at least as long ago as Mr. Justice Douglas' identification of "penumbras" of fundamental privacy rights in his seminal opinion Griswold v. Connecticut. Probably as a result of most of these one-dimensional ill-educated techno-geeks having dropped out of Ivy League schools (those who got in them in the first place) long before receiving a well-rounded education and considering perhaps even graduating given the almighty allure of the dollar to megalomaniac Zuckerboy and his fellow viral social media cohorts. But shame on the New York Times for playing along including with this most dangerous game of tracking American citizens -- or has it forgotten so quickly what absolutely vital protections the United States Constitution afforded it in, among other things, in [sic] its complete protection by the United States Supreme Court from "prior restraint" in the Pentagon Papers case? As they say, what goes around comes around.

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