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SECRET WIRETAPPING, HACKING, SURVEILLANCE – WITHOUT SUSPICION OF A CRIME

Sweden: The police can freely use so-called "preventive coercive measures" (preventiva tvångsmedel), including cyber attacks/hacking.

Police are allowed to secretly wiretap phones, hack computers and smartphones, and also monitor people – who are not suspected of committing a crime.

Resources have been added, to be able to start using the new methods. How many employees or consultants are involved and with what skills are not mentioned, citing security reasons.

Source: SVT News, 2023.10.01




THE SWEDISH BAR ASSOCIATION WARNS THAT NON-CRIMINALS MAY BE WIRETAPPED

Sweden: Police and prosecutors can use secret coercive measures for so called preventive purposes outside of an actual investigation. That is, in "cases" where there is no concrete suspicion of a crime committed, by the targeted person. The Secretary General of the Swedish Bar Association (Advokatsamfundet), Mia Edwall Insulander says that:

"If you are going to wiretap [hack] people preventively, who are not suspected of having comited a crime, then I think there is a risk that you will wiretap too broadly and too extensively. That is, wiretapping people who are not criminals."

Use of secret coercive measures is increasing

The latest statistics show that the use of secret coercive measures increased in 2020, compared to the previous year. Camera surveillance increased sharply, 61 percent more permits, which means that the declining trend since 2017 was broken, according to the Swedish Prosecution Authority (Åklagarmyndigheten).

Secret data interception (hemlig dataavläsning, HDA) was introduced as a new secret coercive measure on 2020.04.01. This means that:

Police and other law enforcement authorities have the right to secretly and with technical aids access/hack computers, smartphones and user accounts for storage and communication services, such as email, social media, direct messaging apps, etc...

...in order to access and copy information contained in the physical equipment or service. Secret coercive measures include cyber attacks/hacking computers and smartphones (so-called secret monitoring of electronic communications), wiretapping phones, camera surveillance, and room tapping.

Source: SVT News 2021.11.02




PROPOSAL THAT POLICE BE ALLOWED TO CONDUCT HOME SEARCHES - WITHOUT SUSPICION OF A CRIME

Sweden: The investigation on preventive coercive measures is now presenting further proposals for tools the police could be allowed to use. For example:

Police and customs to be allowed to conduct secret room tapping, home searches and so-called remote searches (cyber attacks/hacking) – without suspicion of a crime.

The purpose is said to be for the authorities to have better opportunities to prevent and detect plans for crimes "in advance."

Source: Altinget 2023.10.12




SWEDISH STATE FOUND GUILTY IN EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE – SHORTCOMINGS IN FRA LEGISLATION

Sweden has shortcomings in the FRA legislation (Swedish equalent of NSA and GCHQ), the European Court of Justice has ruled. It has been 13 years since the organization Center for Justice (Centrum för rättvisa) submitted its complaint. Now the decision of the European Court of Justice will become legally binding and the FRA legislation needs to be rewritten.

The ruling is guiding the entirety of Europe. It states that nations states must be allowed to conduct surveillance, in order to be able to reveal external threats, but in this ruling the European Court of Justice says that there are shortcomings in the FRA legislation.

"My spontaneous reaction when reading the ruling is that the court approves the main features of the Swedish legislation, but that it has found three shortcomings. Now we and the government (Regeringskansliet) will review how these shortcomings can be resolved," says Ola Billger, head of communications at FRA.

According to the court, there is no protection for data relating to legal persons, for example for organizations such as the complainant, Center for Justice. The second point where the legislation is lacking concerns the exchange of information between different nation states. Fredrik Bergman, head of the Center for Justice, says that:

"The European Court sees shortcomings in how the Swedish government use information as a commodity for exchange with other countries. If you hand over information to another country, there is no guarantee that the other country will protect that information."

The third point:

The FRA legislation is considered deficient in the supervision of intercepted information. For someone who has been intercepted, there is no way to verify that the interception was carried out appropriately.

The FRA legislation was widely discussed in 2008, and was introduced the following year. It was in the context of these discussions that the Center for Justice filed its report:

"It was submitted 13 years ago and today the ruling came. A ruling that will be a guide for the whole of Europe. If you are going to be allowed to intercept people, you must also ensure that there are guarantees of due process," says Fredrik Bergman.

Rulings in the European Court of Justice are legally binding, which means that the Swedish state will now have to rewrite the FRA legislation on the three points in which it has been found to be deficient.

"The signals intelligence we carry out is important and is a good protection for Sweden. FRA is subject to Swedish law, so what the regulations look like is primarily a matter for the politics," says Ola Billger.

Source: SVT News 2021.11.26




"A FREE AND OPEN INTERNET IS THE MOST IMPORTANT"

Glenn Greenwald: "Nothing drives me more insane than the ability of the British elites to convince the British people, that they are in the world, with forrein policy – fighting for democracy and against tyranny, and that the US is doing the same. When [in reality] the US and the UK count among their closest and most important allys, some of the the most savage and brutal dictatorships on the planet – including ones' that they [themselves] helped impose – after overthrowing the democratically elected [governments].

When you compare the reality of what the US and Great Britain have been doing in the world, with the propaganda – the disparity is glaring.

I think this kind of propaganda appeals to people, people wanna believe that about their government, they wanna believe that about their country, that we’re out there doing good things in the world, that we represent freedom and democracy, that we fight wars to liberate other people.

Even though people in principle, in the abstract, are very much opposed to the idea of having more wars and being involved in foreign countries, whenever a particular new war gets sold, the propaganda is so heavy, like it was [regards] Russia and Ukraine [in 2022]. A lot of Americans didn’t ever think about Ukraine in their whole life, didn’t know where it is or what it was, but because this propaganda was so intense and so immersive, the majority of Americans supported the American war in Ukraine [back in 2022], even though now [in 2024] they don’t." /---/

Professor Glenn Diesen: "It’s all conditioned on the ability of the west to maintain it's collective hegemony [empire] and of course – that’s why I think we see all the conflicts in the world. /---/

We have compliant [mainstream, legacy] media and government funded NGOs, to make sure that the civil society doesn't deviate 'too far' from the state [policy]." /---/

Greenwald: "There are promising developments and for me:

I think a free and open internet is probably the most important cause, precisely because it offers the greatest promise - to be a countervailing force against this centralized flow of information so necessary to keep populations propagandized.

The cause of the Snowden reporting, the reason Snowden was willing to go to prison for the rest of his life, wasn’t so much about the right to privacy from government surveillance, allthough obviously that was a big part of it. It was more:

What is the Internet going to be? Is it going to fulfill it promise of empowering and liberating ordinary people and populations from this kind of suffocating stranglehold, that governments and corporate elites have maintained, largely through the flow information?

George Orwell talked a lot about this, Noam Chomsky talks a lot about it, how - the much more effective form tyranny is not when you send armed guards dressed in black with facemasks, and drag off dissidents to prison cells, that can be terrifying, but it’s so overt that it creates it's own backlash and can be seen so easily.

The much more subtle and therefor effective form of tyranny, is to make it seem as you have a free society, but then control the institutions that are really deciding what information can be heard, what opinions can be expressed.

The Internet was and is a geat threat to that, [because] we can reach a thousand people, potentially hundreds of thousands of people, more sometimes, with nothing more than you know – we don’t need a newsroom with the printing price, we don’t need satellites, we don't need to spend millions of dollars. The internet permits us to be heard by a lot of people, really an unlimited number, and obviously establishment centers of power always recognize weapons that emerge that can be a threat to their hold on power and they try to destroy them.

If you’re looking for promising developments, I would say the independent media and then also I think every time the West promise certain things about a war and it fails, wether in Ukraine, or Irak, or Libya, or Syria and now in 'Israel' and Gaza, there is a constantly diminishing rapidly collapsing amount of faith and trust, that the public places in these previously unquestioned institutions and all of this kind of anger and unrest, and kind of sense that these institutions don’t really have our own best interest in mind and don’t tell us the truth, it can be misdirected into something as bad if not worse, but it can also be harnessed into something very positive and I think:

All the conditions are here to do it, and the internet is the key weapon. That’s the reason why the UK, EU, Canada, Brazil and the US are working so hard to find a means to suffocate and control it."

– Professor Glenn Diesen [Political Scientist, Analyst, Author, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway]
– Glenn Greenwald [Journalist, Author, former Lawyer], on Glenn Diesen's Greater Eurasia Podcast, 2024.10.07




AIRPORT CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION SEARCH TRAVELLERS PHONES – DENY ENTRY

"us": "...agents have drawn public outcry for denying travelers 'us' entry based on searches of their phones. A doctor on an H-1B visa was deported to Lebanon after CBP found 'sympathetic photos and videos' of Hezbollah leaders.

A French scientist was turned away after a device search unearthed messages criticizing the Trump administration's cuts to research programs, which officers said 'conveyed hatred of Trump' and 'could be qualified as terrorism.'

As the administration ratchets up pressure to turn away even legal immigrants, its justifications are becoming thinner and thinner — but travelers can still benefit from knowing what are supposed to be their legal rights. /---/

The Supreme Court ruled in 2014 that warrantless searches of people's cell phones violated the Fourth Amendment. But there's one exception to that rule: searches that happen at the border. The courts have held that border searches 'are reasonable simply because they occur at the border,' meaning in most cases, CBP and Border Patrol don't need a warrant to look through travelers' belongings — including their phones. That exception applies far beyond the 'us’s' literal borders, since airports are considered border zones, too. /---/

Not only information stored on a phone's hardware, but anything that's accessible on it with a data connection. 'When you look at devices, the data that you carry with you isn't just pertinent to your travel. This data can precede your travel by over a decade because of how much information is stored on the cloud,' Hussain said.

'It can show every facet of your life. It can show your financial history, your medical history, your communications with your doctor and your attorney. It can reveal so much information that is not analogous at all to the notion of a customs officer looking through your luggage.'

Backing up sensitive or personal data [and deleting it from your device] doesn’t just prevent others from accessing [it on] your device; it also ensures you don’t lose that data if CBP seizes your phone or computer. McBrien also suggests that people turn their phones off when they’re crossing the border or at the airport. 'Turning the phone off means that when you turn it back on, it requires a passcode whether or not you use FaceID or other biometric measures,' McBrien said."

The Verge 2025.03.23




EXPOSED: HOW "israeli" SPIES CONTROL YOUR VPN

"Few people know that a considerable chunk of that market – including three of the six most popular VPNs – is quietly operated by an 'israeli'-owned company with close connections to that 'country’s' national security 'state', including /.../ Unit 8200 and Duvdevan Units of the ['israeli' occupation forces, 'iof' aka. 'idf'] /.../ Previous MintPress News investigations into...

'israel’s' growing control over the tech industry have outlined how those units have been involved in many of 'israel’s' most outrageous hacking, surveillance and assassination programs, acting as spies and death squads.

Unit 8200, for example, has been the source of much of the world’s most infamous spying software, including Cellebrite and Pegasus, the program used to snoop on tens of thousands of the world’s top politicians and journalists, including by Saudi Arabia, who used it to help...

Track down and kill Washington Post [journalist] Jamal Khashoggi.

Given this context, justifiable fears arise that control over a vast VPN empire could add to 'israel’s' influence over the online information and security world, creating backdoors for 'israeli intelligence' to carry out a vast kompromat operation on users around the globe. /---/

Kape Technologies is a major player in the online privacy world, one of the three giants that collectively control the market. It owns many of the world’s top VPNs, including:

– ExpressVPN
– CyberGhost [VPN]
– Private Internet Access [VPN]
– ZenMate [VPN]
– Intego [antivirus]

...and a host of tech websites that promote its products. Kape brands can be seen sponsoring a wide array of public figures, such as Tucker Carlson, Angry Video Game Nerd, Drew Gooden, Lex Fridman, Cody Ko, Uncle Roger, and Ben Shapiro."

Mint Press News 2024.09.11




LASTPASS "israeli" OWNED, NSO GROUP

The password manager LastPass has been revealed to be not only very insecure, but also owned by "israeli"-connected malware investors, same as behind the NSO Group.

Addie Lamarr, 2025




"CIA FOUNDED BY JEWISH MOB AND ITALIAN MAFIA"

Whitney Webb: "Some of the most scandalous CIA-operations of the last several decadaes, a lot of them were done jointly with 'israeli intelligence' – so if your're interested in tackling the 'national security deep state' of the 'us', it's completely tied up with the 'intelligence agencies' of 'israel' to the point – I've been arguing for a decade now – that the 'us' have a bi-national security state. The 'military' and 'intellience apparatus' is dependent on a lot of 'israeli intelligence' cut outs arguably, in cyber security, critical infrastructure and other things, meaning you can't really separate the ties of the 'us' from it's ostensible greatest ally without looking at those points. /---/

It is made possible by these monied interests that greatly influence both countries, but again it's broader than the 'us' and 'israel'. You can see it very significantly by looking at the oligark networks of those two countries in particular. /---/

Our 'national security apparatus' was compromised before 'israel' was even created [in 1947], by these organized crime interests

...which was really a specific faction of organized crime, that grew out of what was referred to as the national crime syndicate, which was really a meeting of the Jewish Mob and the Italian Mafia [Meyer Lansky aka. the 'Mob's Accountant' and Charles Luciano aka. 'Lucky']. /---/ After Luciano was deported to Europe, the Lansky syndicate ended up taking all the chips. /---/

In World War II, the 'us intelligence apparatus' formally teamed up with this specific organized crime network, and then that organized crime network armed the [Jewish terrorist organisation] Hagana – the precursor of the ['israeli' occupation forces, 'iof' aka. 'idf']. And, a lot of the organized crime linked billionaire families, that are still prominent, furnished 'israel's' early 'national security state' with what would in today's money be billions of ['us'] dollars in weapons.

It starts to make more sense how we ended up here, so to speak [in 2025]. If our interest is really to interrogate power here, and what we're observing today – where did it come from – we have to understand the history and realize that this is something much bigger than any one nation state. And, in order to understand how we can extricate ourselves from it, we have to have a good idea of what this power structure ultimtely is.

These entities, and this power structure, has been successful because people have not really been aware of what's been going on, and how interconnected a lot of these oligark networks ultimately are, and how connected they are to our 'national security state.'

/---/ Who does the CIA work for? Who does the Mossad work for? In the case of the CIA, it's very clear that it was created by Wallstreet bankers, who enetered into questionable alliances with organized crime – both ultimatey interested in expanding their rackets and making as much money as possible. Eventually you have certain econommic networks. These alliancens dominated what is now corporate 'America' – the multinational corporations – that's who the CIA has through out most of it's history conducted [criminal military] coups on behalf of. /---/

So, we have to go a level up if we really want know what's going on, look beyond CIA and Mossad, see who's really at the scale – key part of the power structure thats really running the show. Because it's important for them that the public doesn't really look that high up.

It just seems like we can't really do anything about it, but I think ultimately people can. /.../ People need to and extricate them selves from the biggest iteration of what this mob is today, which is really Big Tech. A lot of these CEOs are connected to figures like Epstein [sex trafficking pimp and blackmail criminal billionaire, who – allegedly – died by suice while in custody] or other questionable associations, and also almost all of the big Silicon Valley companies today have their origins or funding tied to the CIA or DARPA, or ['us government'] entities like that.

We should boycott [Big Tech] as much as possible, not be dependent on these entities, because if we are – they can do whatever they want to us. If we are dependent on them, we are basically slaves to these people.

There's a lot of efforts being made to sort of keep people in the box of where they think 'If I vote for this party, or this politician, I don't have to do anything to ensure my independence from the system. I can remain dependent on the sysmtem and hope that politician XYZ will magically save the day and fix the country.' /---/

This ruling power of 80+ years of 'intelligence' and organized crime... I think it's really something that has to be done on an individual level, people need to take indiviual resposnibility if they don't want to be part of the system, particularly as we move into this increasingly digital future that this handful of companies are going to completely control.

Whitney Webb [Researcher, Journalist, Writer – One Nation Under Blackmail (TrineDay Press, 2022)], interviewed at The Kim Iversen Show 2025.03.28





RESOURCES – TOOLS, EDUCATION | 7.2


Software & Services

proton.me – VPN, email, calendar, password manager, 2FA authenticator, cloud, video conferencing, crypto wallet, privacy-first AI | 14 days free: DB9J1DS9

mullvad.net – VPN with very good reputation, censorship evasion, accepts payments in cash (snail mail)

signal.org – Direct messaging, end-to-end encryption by default, with the open source Signal Protocol

telegram.org – Direct messaging, based on the MTProto protocol, not end-to-end encryption by default but available as Secret Chat

clamav.net – ClamAV; Free, cross-platform anti-malware/anti-virus toolkit for Unix, has third party versions for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, OpenVMS, OSF (Tru64), Solaris, Haiku, Windows

simply.com – European web hosting, optimized for WordPress | 90 days free: NB2WEE

starlink.com – Satellite internet, low orbit | 30 days free: RC-DF-7264287-24281-51

ollama.com – Chat and build with open models (LLMs)

jmail.world – Search and read the Jeffrey Epstein PDFiles!


Operating Systems

tails.net – Anonymous, portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship, utilizing TOR

whonix.org – Anonymous operating system that runs like an app and routes all internet traffic through TOR

qubes-os.org – Security-oriented operating system for single-user desktop computing, leverages isolated compartments

kali.org – Debian-based Linux distribution geared towards various information security tasks, such as penetration testing

parrotsec.org – For security specialists, pen-testers, network engineers

debian.org – Linux-based operating system for a wide range of devices including laptops, desktops and servers

linuxmint.com – Based on Debian and Ubuntu, Linux Mint is a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system

ubuntu.com – The world’s favourite Linux operating system. Run it on your laptop, workstation, server or IoT device


Tools & Drivers

whatismyip.com – IP address lookup

haveibeenpwned.com – Check if your email address is in a data breach

virustotal.com/.../browser-extensions – Right-click on a link and check it against Virus Total

wiki.ubuntu.com/UncomplicatedFirewall – Frontend for iptables; UFW provides a framework for managing netfilter, and a command-line interface for manipulating the firewall

github.com/alobbs/macchanger – MAC Changer is an utility that makes the maniputation of MAC addresses of network interfaces easier

github.com/v1s1t0r1sh3r3/airgeddon – A multi-use bash script for Linux systems to audit WiFi

weakpass.com/wordlists – Password lists

rapid7.com – Vulnerability & exploit database

github.com/ArgeliusLabs/Chasing-Your-Tail-NG – Advanced surveillance detection

github.com/EFForg/rayhunter – Detecting IMSI catchers

github.com/abstrude – Tools written in Python


Hardware & Products

github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi – Kali and other distros for security testing, need USB WiFi adapters that have drivers supporting monitor mode

alfa.com.tw/.../apa-m25 – Long range WiFi antenna (8 dBi @ 2.4 GHz, 10 dBi @ 5 GHz)

yubico.com/why-yubico/about-us – Hardware-based passkey authentication security (2FA/MFA)

istorage-uk.com/encrypted-flash-drives-matrix – External drives with hardware based encryption (FIPS 140-3 level 3)

istorage-uk.com/.../cloudashur – Cloud security module, hardware based encryption (FIPS PUB 197)

apricorn.com – External drives with hardware based encryption (FIPS 140-3 level 3)

mosequipment.com – Mission Darkness; Radio frequency shielding solutions, Faraday bags

slnt.com/.../military – SLNT; Faraday bags, Berry and TAA compliant (with a good FAQ)


Research & Education

ssd.eff.orgSurveillance Self-Defense, by Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation

wikileaks.org – Specializes in the analysis and publication of large datasets of censored or otherwise restricted official materials involving war, spying and corruption

addielamarr.com – Cyber security advisor, hacker, educator

lizthe.dev – Cyber security expert, educator

nbtv.media – For people to protect their fundamental rights in the digital age, to ensure that privacy, individual autonomy, and human dignity extend to the digital landscape

cyberlixir.com – Providing cybersecurity for the enhancement of people’s resiliency, flourishment, and capacity to look out for each other

mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded – Warnings on products consumers should think twice about before buying

privacytools.io – Services, tools, and privacy guides to counter global mass surveillance

stationx.net – Course bundles on cybersecurity, networking, cloud, Linux, programming, ethical hacking


Web & Software Development

developer.mozilla.org/.../How_the_web_works – Clients and servers, DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP(S), packets, domins, subdomains

developer.mozilla.org/.../Learn_web_development – JavaScript, HTML/CSS

freecodecamp.org/learn – Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, front-end libs, back-end, databases


Literature

Extreme Privacy – by Michael Bazzell, 2024 (inteltechniques.com) PDF and print

OSINT Techniques – by Michael Bazzell, 2024 (inteltechniques.com) PDF and print

Everything You Need to Know About Privacy in the Digital Age – by Addie LaMarr, 2022 (addielamarr.com) Free PDF!

Total Surveillance – by Mullvad, Amagicom, 2024 (mullvad.net) Free PDF!

Gouging the Eyes of the Beast – A Community Guide on how to defend against hostile surveillance, by Mark Wayne, 2025 (colonialoutcasts.com) Free PDF!





BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS AGAINST "israel"

The global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, firmly believes that ending the complicity of states, corporations, and institutions in “israel’s” ongoing, live-streamed genocide against 2.3+ million Palestinians in Gaza [and the West Bank] is the most effective form of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle to end the genocide and dismantle “israel’s” 78-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid.bdsmovement.net


BOYCAT – ETHICAL SHOPPING

Search brands and scan products, to see if it’s being boycotted and why. Make ethical shopping choices with confidence!boycat.io


JMAIL, JEFFTUBE – THE "israel"/TRUMP/EPSTEIN FILES

Read the PDF-file emails! [SFW, redacted]jmail.world Watch the videos! [SFW, censored]jmail.world/jefftube




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