"In 2012, Brown similarly pored over millions of emails hacked by Anonymous from the private intelligence company Stratfor. It was during his work on the Stratfor hack that Brown committed his most serious offence, according to US prosecutors – he posted a link in a chat room that connected users to Stratfor documents that had been released online.
The released documents included a list of email addresses and credit card numbers belonging to Stratfor subscribers. For posting that link, Brown is accused of disseminating stolen information – a charge with media commentators have warned criminalises the very act of linking."
The best cloud security solution is one where you control the encryption keys AND stuff is encrypted on your device BEFORE uploading to the cloud.
We tried SpiderOak but the security was hard for our users. We ended up using Syncdocs which encrypts Google Drive. It lets our team share and use Google Docs normally, but secure folders we need to keep encrypted. They also disclose their AES encryption source.
The rule of law is absolute, however its application is tentative and selective.
The plea bargain -- admissions of guilt where defendants are under threat of death and lifetime prison sentences -- has prevented 95% Federal court cases from proceeding, and it inches higher year-over-year.
Enron's disgraced and final CEO has had his prison sentence reduced significantly under an agreement to stop the legal ballet of refuting prosecution and wilfully forfeiting $42M for distribution to Enron fraud victims, effectively buying his way out of prison. "Too big to jail" indeed.
The US Government, at the behest of AT&T, Verizon, et al, unilaterally denied Samsung's lawful and justified victory in a patent dispute with Apple. Lesson learned? Don't bother with a healthy and useful patent portfolio, and do stay in the good graces of the US Government for there are benefits to signing into PRISM-like programs.
You will not have a hard time finding pro-state shills that happily declare that the state can do no wrong -- indeed, the law simply doesn't apply to government employees acting in the "nation's best interest."
In international waters, you still own your boat; The cables are owned by the company who laid them, under the sovereignty of their country of charter, with provision to international law regarding telecommunications and maritime navigation.
The biggest thing stopping multiple countries from tapping the same fibers is signal strength; I imagine that it becomes obvious that you've got a 'leak' after just a few splices. The other thing is that few countries posess the technology to pull off an undersea cable tap; There's only one USS Jimmy Carter, and I don't think the US loans it out, and while I'm certain that China, Russia, and some of the major European states have their equivalents, I doubt the list is very long.
None of this matters in context of the article, of course; Glimmerglass's technology seems to mostly live on the ends of these cables, in the comms cabinets just onshore where the cables emerge. There, you can tap as much as you want, so long as you're the sovereign. They simply wave a national security letter or equivalent in the face of the telco, and they've got a rack next to the cables doing whatever it is they want to do.
