NSA revelations of the day - Russ Tice interview.....Microsoft close work with US Intelligence Services revealed....Russia reverts to the typewriter for secrecy's sake ...... Is someone listening ? .....

http://beforeitsnews.com/obama/2013/07/is-the-nsa-blackmailing-obama-interview-with-whistleblower-russ-tice-2453550.html

Is the NSA blackmailing Barack Obama? If so, WHO would be doing the blackmailing? WHO is in charge of the NSA if not Barack Obama? Is there a ‘power behind the scenes’ that we are not aware of? Who could it be? Zionists? Nazi’s? The Russians? China? The Bush’s? CIA? NWO? The Muslim Brotherhood? Who??? I’ve got my own theory, backed up by much evidence over a long period of time! I sure hope that I’m wrong. I’d love to read our readers theories in the comments below. Who is in charge of the NSA? The same people in charge of the MSM? Obama certainly has much he can be blackmailed over, we all know that!

Whistleblower and former NSA intelligence analyst Russ Tice talks with Abby Martin about how the recent NSA scandal only scratches the surface of a massive surveillance apparatus, citing specific targets the he saw spying orders for including former senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. Feel free to POUND the NSA public information office at 301-688-6524. It’s time that the government, or WHOEVER is in charge here, KNOWS that WE are WATCHING THEM, too. I dare you!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/11/us-usa-cybersecurity-microsoft-idUSBRE96A11R20130711

(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp worked closely with U.S. intelligence services to help them intercept users' communications, including letting the National Security Agency circumvent email encryption, the Guardian reported on Thursday.

Citing top-secret documents provided by former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden, the UK newspaper said Microsoft worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the NSA to ease access via Prism - an intelligence-gathering program uncovered by the Guardian last month - to cloud storage service SkyDrive.

Microsoft also helped the Prism program collect video and audio of conversations conducted via Skype, Microsoft's online chat service, the newspaper added.

Microsoft had previously said it did not provide the NSA direct access to users' information. On Thursday, it repeated that it provides customer data only in response to lawful government requests.

"To be clear, Microsoft does not provide any government with blanket or direct access to SkyDrive, Outlook.com, Skype or any Microsoft product," the company said in a statement on its website.

Facebook Inc, Google Inc and Microsoft had all publicly urged U.S. authorities to allow them to reveal the number and scope of the surveillance requests after documents leaked to the Washington Post and the Guardian suggested they had given the government "direct access" to their computers as part of the NSA's Prism program.

The disclosures have triggered widespread concern and congressional hearings about the scope and extent of the information-gathering.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/11/russia-spies-nsa-typewriters-documents-computers/2508751/

Spooked by NSA, Russia reverts to paper documents

Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY2:40 p.m. EDT July 11, 2013

One reason for using typewriters is that each creates its own unique "signature" that can be traced.

(Photo: John MacDougall AFP/Getty Images)

In the wake of recent NSA spy scandals, Russia's Federal Guard Service has decided to revert to using more typewriters and paper documents,Izvestia reports.

Toward that end, the FSO, which protects Russia's top officials and Kremlin communications, recently ordered 20 Triumph Adler typewriters, the newspaper reports.

"After the scandal with the spread of secret documents by WikiLeaks, the revelations of Edward Snowden, reports of listening to Dmitry Medvedev during his visit to the G20 summit in London, the practice of creating paper documents will increase," an unidentified FSO source tells Izvestia.

One key reason for using typewriters is that each creates its own unique "signature" that can be traced, the newspaper says.

The source notes that many critical groups, including the defense ministry, emergency situations ministry and the security services, have never switched over to electronic documents.

"From the point of view of ensuring security, any form of electronic communication is vulnerable," Nikolai Kovalev, an MP and former head of the Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB, tells Izvestia.

"Any information can be taken from computers," he says. "Of course there are means of protection, but there is no 100% guarantee they will work. So from the point of view of keeping secrets, the most primitive method is preferred: a human hand with a pen or a typewriter."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-11/someone-listening

Is Someone Listening?

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/11/2013 20:28 -0400

• national security

With the revelation that the federal government, through the National Security Agency, has been collecting phone and Internet records of U.S. citizens in the name of preventing terrorism, Americans are wondering whether private communication exists. In the infograohic below, we explore how this surveillance works and the history of domestic spying programs(because, let’s face it, they’re not new) and how, even with broader knowledge of the government’s activities, a minority of Americans oppose such programs.

Source: SecurityDegreeHub.com