Source: FBI looking at wife's phone call
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters cite it as an example of claims that government can access digital communications and that none is secure.
What it is
A short CNN news segment reporting that the FBI is looking at a phone call between Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow and her husband after his photos were released. It is brief 2013 coverage of the Boston bombing investigation.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2013 to 2013.
What Hacker News said
Cites lurchpop · 2013-06 · on “Shia LaBeouf: phone surveillance whistleblower? ”
There's also this: FBI agent for the second time says all communications are recorded. "No digital communication is secure" [this video]
Cites espeed · 2013-06 · on “Journalists Need To Start Asking About Storage, Not Access”
I remember during the Boston bombing investigation, Tim Clemente, a former FBI counter-terrorism agent, told Erin Burnett on CNN that they could go back and get access to the content of the calls between the deceased bomber and his wife, Katherine Russell. After some Googling, I found a partial transcript of the CNN interview... "Almost immediately Erin Burnett, the host of CNN's Outfront, wanted to know how the government knew. Aren't phone calls supposed to be private? She interviewed Tim Clemente, a former FBI counter-terrorism agent on May 1, asking:" Is there any way … they [the federal investigators] can try to get the phone companies to give that up … It’s not a voice mail. It's just
Cites fossuser · 2013-07 · on “A thorough PGP tutorial”
I agree with your first two points and if the complexity of using pgp were reduced to that of simply using email then I think it'd become more widely used. I didn't mean to imply that cryptocat itself is a reasonable compromise (I don't know enough), but that a centralized system that implements encryption for its users might be which leads into your fourth point. Yes javascript client-side encryption is fundamentally flawed in its current form from targeted attacks, but I'm thinking of untargeted and immediate wide spread adoption. If you're collecting everything from everyone in perpetuity the risk for abuse I see is when someone becomes interesting to the government they can query their d
Cites espeed · 2013-08 · on “NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst”
Reposting this from a previous thread ( [LINK] )... I remember during the Boston bombing investigation, Tim Clemente, a former FBI counter-terrorism agent, told Erin Burnett on CNN that they could go back and get access to the content of the calls between the deceased bomber and his wife, Katherine Russell. After some Googling, I found a partial transcript of the CNN interview... "Almost immediately Erin Burnett, the host of CNN's Outfront, wanted to know how the government knew. Aren't phone calls supposed to be private? She interviewed Tim Clemente, a former FBI counter-terrorism agent on May 1, asking:" Is there any way … they [the federal investigators] can try to get the phone companies