By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI has not been getting the response it is used to. The Washington Post reports that, increasingly, many communications companies have not been disclosing the kind of information previously offered from FBI requests. Investigators have routinely used national security letters to get information about who sent and received e-mails and…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Using a law passed before the birth of the Internet, the U.S. government has obtained a controversial court order to force Google and a small Internet provider, Sonic.net, to hand over information regarding a WikiLeaks volunteer, reports the Wall Street Journal. The WikiLeaks volunteer was identified as Jacob Applebaum, and the…
WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, on the 5th floor of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, in the shadow the nation’s Capitol, John G. Perren, special agent in charge of the Counterterrorism Branch, talked to ticklethewire.com editor Allan Lengel about lessons learned since Sept. 11, about the challenges the Internet has posed for terrorism investigations and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is making moves to try and get a better handle on the activities of terrorists. Charlie Savage of the The New York Times reports that federal law enforcement and national security officials plan next year to seek new regulations from Congress that would allow agencies to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The third time worked for federal prosecutors. After bumping up against two mistrials because of hung juries, federal prosecutors on Friday convicted Hal Turner, a racist internet radio talk show host and blogger, in Brooklyn U.S. District Court of threatening to assault and murder three U.S. Court of Appeals judges in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI could be getting more powers when it comes to getting data on Internet activity. Reporter Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post reports that the Obama administration wants to change a law so that it would allow the FBI to compel companies over individual’s records of their Internet activity without…
The Internet has become a staple for terrorists. This trial illustrated that. Federal authorities have been working to monitor the terrorists activities on the Internet and have actually shut down sites. But it’s a daunting task considering there’s so much activity out there. How do you catch it all — or most? By Sebastian Rotella…
From the Pentagon and utility companies to Obama’s own campaign headquarters, hackers have been making Swiss cheese out of our cyber-security. Appointing a leader to guard against this new threat to our nation will hopefully lead to standardization of our nation’s digital defenses and better ways to keep our nation’s secrets safe. CNN WASHINGTON –…
