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CIA and Google Team Up Again For More Spying
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Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, March 31, 2008
Google is supplying the software, hardware and tech support to US intelligence agencies who are in the process of creating a vast closed source database for global spy networks to share information.
Google is selling storage and data searching equipment to the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency, and other intelligence agencies, who have come together to build a huge internal government intranet.
Google is also providing the search features for a private Wikipedia-style site, called Intellipedia.
"We are a very small group, and even a lot of people in the federal government don’t know that we exist," said Mike Bradshaw, who leads Google’s federal government sales team and its 18 employees, yesterday to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The government supply arm of Google has also reportedly entered into a number of other contracts, details of which it says it cannot share.
Google’s partnership with the intelligence network is not new. As we reported in late 2006, An ex-CIA agent Robert David Steele has claimed sources told him that CIA seed money helped get the company off the ground
Speaking to the Alex Jones Show, Steele elaborated on previous revelations by making it known that the CIA helped bankroll Google at its very inception. Steele named Google’s CIA point man as Dr. Rick Steinheiser, of the Office of Research and Development.
"I think Google took money from the CIA when it was poor and it was starting up and unfortunately our system right now floods money into spying and other illegal and largely unethical activities, and it doesn’t fund what I call the open source world," said Steele, citing "trusted individuals" as his sources for the claim.
"They’ve been together for quite a while," added Steele.
Late last year, new programs of internet monitoring were announced by a freshly created department branch of Homeland Security called the National Applications Office
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"Mr. Chertoff also plans soon to unveil a cyber-security strategy, part of an estimated $15 billion, multiyear program designed to protect the nation’s Internet infrastructure. The program has been shrouded in secrecy for months and has also prompted privacy concerns on Capitol Hill because it involves government protection of domestic computer networks." The Wall Street Journal wrote.
Essentially the program allows the DHS to regulate and control access to the internet in the name of "protecting" national security.
The news came on the back of separate revelations that another military spy agency, the NSA has increasing control over SSL, now called Transport Layer Security, the cryptographic protocol that provides secure communications on the internet for web browsing, e-mail, instant messaging, and other data transfers.
In other words the agency is capable of intercepting and reading your emails and instant messages in real time.
Earlier this year came the announcement that US National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park".
The plan would mean giving the government the authority to examine the content of any e-mail, file transfer or Web search.
Recently, the lawyer for an AT&T engineer has alleged that "within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans” That is BEFORE 9/11, before the nation was embroiled in the freedom stripping exercise commonly known as the "war on terror" had even begun.
Earlier this year, CNET reported that both Google and Microsoft refused to say if they have provided users private data to the federal government under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — the warrantless wiretapping program.
We have also previously reported on a vast intelligence program, being overseen by the FBI, which is to establish a global biometric database known as "Server in the Sky" that will collate and provide an "International Information Consortium" with access to the biometric measurements and personal information of citizens of the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand in the name of fighting the "war on terror".
After 9/11 the work of 16 different intelligence agencies, including the CIA and the giant National Security Agency, which eavesdrops on international communications, as well as the Energy Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration was centralized under the office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Over decades we have witnessed the evolution of Government surveillance programs and information databases targeting citizens. We are now witnessing the centralization of this vast control grid Panopticon beyond our own borders.
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March 31st, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I believe the C.I.A. needs to go google itself.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:15 pm
LOL concerned. Then we’d have to taser them for seeking the truthing. Hmmm…sounds like a plan,lol.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:53 pm
High-tech gear disables car if borrower misses payment By Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY
Mon Mar 31, 7:25 AM ET
MURRIETA, Calif. – When the light starts to flash, you had better have the cash.
That’s the reality for millions of subprime borrowers whose used car purchase is contingent upon having an unusual option: a little box mounted underneath the dashboard that forces them to make their payments on time.
A light on the plastic box flashes when a payment is due. If the payment isn’t made and the resulting code punched in to reset the box, the vehicle won’t start. The next step is a visit from the repo man.
As tighter credit crunches consumers, it seems business can only get better for Sekurus, a company based in this suburb east of Los Angeles. It’s among several companies that market such devices.
“We’re just starting to see that,” says Sekurus CEO Mike Simon, as the potential market of an estimated 7 million subprime auto borrowers continues to swell.
The device helps stave off default, a growing problem. Car and truck repos this year are predicted to hit the highest level in at least a decade, according to Manheim, a wholesale auto-auction service.
As more dealers look for ways to protect themselves, Simon says privately held Sekurus has grown at a 30% clip in recent years. Revenue goal this year: $20 million.
A forerunner company to Sekurus was founded in 1995 to sell anti-theft devices for cars based on radio-frequency identification, or RFID, technology. But within a couple of years, lenders had another idea: Could engineers come up with a device to force car buyers to pay up on time?
Sekurus was founded in 1999 and started selling On Time, as the device is called. It has sold 250,000 at up to $250 each. Most are bought by finance companies or dealers who cater to the most troubled car buyers, those who need basic transportation yet have checkered credit histories.
The box’s LED light starts blinking when a payment is nearly due. On deadline day, the unit not only blinks, but beeps. Motorists find it so annoying that it drives “them absolutely nuts,” Simon says.
When the customer makes the payment, the lender gives them a six-digit code to enter into the box.
The device lowers default rates for subprime auto loan borrowers that typically run about 30% to about 5%, according to Simon. When default rates fall, lenders feel more secure offering financing for more valuable cars to high-risk customers. By forcing buyers to pay on time, the device also rebuilds their credit record.
Car dealers say most customers aren’t thrilled to punch in a code with every payment but grow accustomed to the device.
“We’ve used it as a tool to keep the repo rates down,” says Jeff Hamilton, partner in the family-owned Hamilton Classic Cars in Chester, Va. “We don’t have to go after them as much.” Most of his customers are required to make payments twice a month, and often wait until the last day, “when it starts beeping at them.”
Cedric Brown, a loan specialist at Star Loan Acceptance Center in Clifton Heights, Pa., says he’s had a great response. “We are able to help a lot of people who otherwise might not be able to get a vehicle,” he says. A few customers, he adds, even grow to like the discipline it enforces.
Car dealers have a choice when it comes to such payment devices.
One Sekurus rival is Pay Technologies in Cleveland, which sells mostly wireless systems. Dealers can access accounts through the Internet and send a message to the device in the car as with a paging system. Again, the car is shut down if payments are not made.
“It’s a huge improvement,” says President Jim Krueger. He says Pay Technologies started a decade ago with a keypad system “and I can’t tell you how many calls we got on the weekends” from customers who lost codes or tried to enter the wrong one.
Another competitor is PassTime USA in Littleton, Colo., which uses a mix of keypad and wireless systems. President Frank Jacobsen says he thinks the credit crunch will “make a difference” in sales, along with payments from the federal economic stimulus package that could boost car buying.
Sekurus is continuing to introduce products. The latest enhancement is coupling the keypad to a global positioning device. Not only will the car’s starter automatically shut off, but a message will go to the loan holder with its location to make repossession easier.
Simon says he hopes the new system will give lenders added assurance, allowing more high-risk borrowers to buy better cars.
March 31st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I got Linux, sorry to ruin the fun.
March 31st, 2008 at 5:26 pm
DO NOT use google… theres a free program called “scroogle” which EVERYONE should be using so that you arent tracked. check out ”anonymouse” also.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
one word — anonymouse !!!
March 31st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Of course Google and the CIA are working together. Google comes from the Bay Area there in Sunnyvale right in the heart of the NSA-CIA-MIC Silcon Valley. The CIA and NSA have been intimately involved in the building of the Silcon Valley since WW2. Every major company like Faichild and Hewlett Packard started as government ops programs or building devices for the government for the war machine and the coming electronics industry in fact ww2 was the first electronic war. IBM is there also and we all know how the first computers were meant to track of the numbers tattooed on Jewish and other prisoners of war. The Bay Area is one of the major spook centrals right up ther with Langley and has been for many years working in tandum with the MIC. Google is just one of many companies there in the SV that doesn’t have the people’s best interests in mind. If you are on the internet you can easily be tracked now with the cable and phone companies like ATT who also work with the NSA since it started helping the spooks. Google is presently building the biggest data base on the planet and what info isn’t a concern if it’s info they will record it, so it really doesn’t matter if you use google or not if there’s something they want they will get it. Your only recourse is to stay off the net, unplugging you TV, and stop all phone services and move underground litterally.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:09 pm
ALE.X J.ONE.s if frickin funny man. I was just listening to him and he said qoute
” Americans are the dumbest people on the face of the earth. Im not saying all of you are. We are crybabies. Theres a paper box on the side of the road on I-35 Waa Waaa.”
So true man. I dont care if some one leaves a briefcase at the airport and leaves. So What ill return t to him. No BIG DEAL. Its normal people forget stuff sumtimes.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I had to google anonymouse.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:38 pm
I’ve mention this here before and no one responded, so I’ll ask everyone again: have you experienced the following while on your computer?:
1. About every fifteen minutes or so, the interface of whatever software you’re using at the time, whether a web browser, word processor or whatever, goes “white” and all input via either your mouse or keyboard is frozen until you click somewhere on the screen.
2. If yes to the above, does this occur on computers you use both at home and at work?
This is what I have experienced daily for about eight to nine months. I have discussed it with others and one, who’s opinion I trust, has said that is sounds like I’m being monitored – perhaps by NSA or CIA – using some kind of keylogger and data mining software. The phenomenon I experience usually “kicks in” after I begin typing, but it can also occur from a mouse click. Once it starts, it continues at intervals of about every fifteen minutes or so and can even occur when I’m idle; i.e., not typing or clicking my mouse. It happens in every program I use. It happens in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Outlook, my word processor and even in Autocad while I’m at work. The commonality between my home and work computers is that I’ve used both to send emails and to post to message boards about the topics we discuss here on Infowars, etc.
I “woke up” last May and have been very active online in researching and writing about the NWO. The strange behavior I described above didn’t begin until a month or two after I began this.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Gary,
Switch to a linux-based system. I couldn’t tell you what’s causing your problems but as a network engineer I can say that the odds are much higher that you’ve got some sort of virus or adware causing the intermediate delays.
Government spying would be conducted at a much more sophisticated level and would be transparent to the average PC surfer.
Be care not to look too hard so as to see things that likely aren’t there…
Just one computer geek’s opinion…
TVB
March 31st, 2008 at 7:49 pm
A side-note:
Look at it this way, wouldn’t it make a LOT more sense to engage the cable/dsl provider to put a “sniffing” device on your internet connection back at the ISP’s switch than trying to push some crazy application down the “pipe” to self-install on your PC???
Remember that there’s always someone smarter that’s going to find it and expose it because governement is notorious for screwing up everything it touches!
I just wanted to inject some common sense into the equation…
TVB
March 31st, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Mmmm so they were compromised from the beginning, not recently.
March 31st, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Gary: sounds like your computer has a virus. But always store important data on disks and back-up disks not on the computer memory or software memory like Microsoft word, excel etc, in short don’t store personal info about yourself on computer memory, software files. Always delete revealing info from e-mails, don’t store info about your address, identity or revealing info about who you are, work address, phone, health in e-mails, or attachments in e-mails. E-mails aren’t private and can be read by hackers, and are generally read by the delivery system that delivers the e-mail. Have many e-mail addresses, and with false identities, make up false nicknames . If you join online clubs, myspace, and other sites, and purchase online, or give your e-mail address to traditional companies your identity is connected to that e-mail you give them. Also your IP address reveals to online secret investigators the owner of the computer, and home address. Never give your real name in e-mail and your phone numbers. There are so many ways someone can steal your identity and used it against you but so many more ways that people can be spied on illegally and legally. Some people store their internet browsing on temporary files that they erase before logging off they also discard e-mail addresses every so often for new ones, and also many change their passwords every couple of months. If you check AOL on privacy and protecting your identity there are some tips. Either way even if you do all this they still have your IP address which everyone has to give out in order to have an operating system and to register your laptop or computer to the operating software company, ie Windows XP, Safari and so on. Check out http://www.spychips.com for more info on how major companies plan on having a data bank of info on customers. Funny how they waste their time with honest people and don’t go after real scum criminals.
March 31st, 2008 at 11:22 pm
It’s funny because isn’t the search engine for this website powered by Google? Just something to chew on.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:56 am
Thanks for the tips, guys. Whether it’s the government or not, I still think there is probably some form of keylogger in use, as it begins each time I start typing or using my mouse. This is a characteristic of keyloggers. Who’s behind it is the question. But, yes, you’re right that the government would simply use my ISP as the nexus for datamining, rather than rely on installing software on individual machines. After all, the NSA and Sun Microsystems developed the internet (DARPANET), in the first place. They know more about its structure and how to exploit it directly than anyone does. Thanks, again.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:00 am
Oh, one more thing, though. It seems a bit unlikely that the same thing would be happening on both my home and work computers unless I’m being personally targeted, don’t you think? Then again, it could something that just happens to have been installed on both machines randomly, or as the result of visiting the same site on both machines.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:21 am
Hey Gary, I too get the blank white screen, I’m willing to bet the latter is from IE 9. Even though same happens on firefox.
I have several friends that are PC Tech’s, and they all say shortly after downloading MoneyMasters and/or Endgame….is when acronyms like: NSA, US Department of the navy, British intelligence agency’s and so-on, started to showing up in their registry logs.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:22 am
TO GARY AND RVMICHAEL:
(First a quick one to rvmichael: There is no “IE9″ yet. Current version is IE7 with a beta of IE8 available from Microsoft for testing. — Just nit-picking a bit, sorry, lol.)
Now to GARY: To me it does not sound like a “key-logger” as those could run without that “white screen effect.” I know, because I’ve used them. They even very old ones (like I used) are totally unnoticeable.
To me it sounds, if anything besides a virus, is someone is doing a 15 minute “screen capture” on you. Ever 15 minutes someone takes a “picture” of your whole screen.
The likely culprit: YOUR WORK. Many workplaces “spy” on their employees, to make sure they are “working” and not surfing porn, or anything like that. I also know that because I worked in the tech field, and have set such systems up. Now, you might be thinking: “Well, how does that explain my home computer doing it as well?” … right? … Well, it could happen that way especially if you and your work have agreed that some of your work would be done on your home computer.. Even more likely if your “home computer” is PROVIDED by your work, as either a desktop or a laptop.
If you still think it’s is a key-logger, there is a way to test it. Obviously if “someone” is trying to get info. you type on your computer, then that info. would have to be transmitted over a network (Internet or company), to somewhere else. So the way to “test” this is to do the following:
Many firewall/anti-virus programs offer a some kind of “Identity Protection” software. What that is, is somewhere within part of your firewall/anti-virus software, they will offer you a place to type in key words, like your real name, or your social security number, or a bank account number or credit card number, etc. And if that word you type in, is ever attempted to be sent out of your computer on a network (Internet or whatever) that program monitors those words, and notifies you that that particular word(s) is trying to be sent over the net.
So what to do is this, as you are typing in a word processor or whatever put in your own special testing word that you previously blocked from being sent by using this type of program. For instance set the word: “keylogtester” as your ‘test’ word. Then every now and then type that word ‘keylogtester’ into whatever you are doing. And if it is trying to be “sent” anywhere, you will be notified by that identity protecting program. This way you will be able to tell if it is a key-logger or not. (Note: Not all key-loggers “send” information, but then the parties who put the key-logger on your computer would need physical access to your computer to get the information out.)
But overall, if it’s not “someone” trying to take a screen-capture of your monitor, I’d say it sounds like some type of virus or malware. Yet, to me it sound more like a screen-capture than a key-logger.
Good luck.
– RackAttack
P.S. ALEX DITCH GOOGLE!!! It’s time. Go to Yahoo, or elsewhere… Yeah, I know “they’re all bad” as you have said on one of your shows when this was brought up once before, but sounds to me like Google is the worst.
April 1st, 2008 at 9:39 am
Yea I get those too after awhile many of other friends say they get them also I always thought of it being a virus but I think its not but now I know that its not just here where I live so Im pretty sure its the government all I have to say to them GO FUCK YOURSELVES you Satanic pieces of shit your days are numbered and you know it. WE THE PEOPLE WILL PREVAIL!!! NO matter if WE ALL DIE. I GARANTEE YOU that WE WILL be back to haunt every single one of you SATANIC prics AND YOU WILL answer to the most HIGH. AND WE WILL HUMILIATE YOU FOR ETERNITY!! If ant surf the any web pages I WILL.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:01 am
RackAttack, there are some firewalls out there which actually double as spyware, namely ZoneAlarm.
And Yahoo! is just as bad…….they’re basically now just a division of Microsoft.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:26 am
rvmichael, it’s not that the screen turns blank. The interface simply goes “white,” or gray as in disabled.
One other possible source of this “virus,” or whatever it is is Microsoft. Their “Genuine Advantage” crap, which is downloaded and installed automatically on any computer set to receive Microsoft Automatic Updates for Windows, is basically, spyware. It has a component that contacts Microsoft’s servers on a regular basis (used to be daily, until people caught wind of it and complained, now it’s “just” weekly) and transfers data about your computer to their servers. I suspect that if it isn’t the NSA or CIA responsible for this odd behavior I’m experiencing, then it’s probably Microsoft and/or Google.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:29 am
“To me it sounds, if anything besides a virus, is someone is doing a 15 minute “screen capture” on you. Ever 15 minutes someone takes a “picture” of your whole screen.”
Yep, that’s my impression, also.
April 1st, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Notice the trend anyone? “Spy vs. Spy”. They are watching you more, you are watching them less. And less, and less, and less- and finally not allowed to watch them at all, while they surveil you 24 hours a day, everything you do, anywhere you go.
Ultimately, you are forced to wear the Star Trek compliance shock collar, while they bet quatludes as you kill one another in futuristic Roman spectacles- and other such pleasantries.
If you get angry when people call you sheeple, my advice is- STOP BEING ONE.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:41 am
#7, remember when Atari’s headquarters were in Sunnyvale? I used to buy hardware and software directly from Atari itself when it was owned by Jack Tramiel. Mostly for my Atari XL and ST computers. The worst thing that company ever did was ditch their computer industry in order to concentrate on that Jaguar video game system. Sure they probably would have gone out of business anyway, but the ST computers were WAY more useful than that stupid Jaguar. (I should know, because I bought a Jaguar. Other than Alien Vs Predator and Tempest 2000 and Doom and Super Burnout, it was a HUGE disappointment.)