Get job at the NSA by cracking coded tweets

 It is known that job applicants can extremely ingenious when it comes to finding new ways to make their CV’s stand out of the crowd but it’s not that common to hear about unconventional methods when it comes to employers methods of hiring.

This is the case of the National Security Agency (NSA) which are interested in hiring people with outstanding potential. Their method is at least interesting as they cut off the classic process: the typical job application, the CV and the covering letter. These been said, you might ask yourself how could you take a shot at a job at NSA.

Your answer awaitson Tweeter as NSA posted last night onits @NSACareers account a tweet containing a series of what seemed at first sight random letters and spacing followed by the hashtags #MissionMonday #NSA #News. At first this lead to confusion, some users even suggested that he feed was hacked or maybe an employee played a prank.

Later, the NSA confirmed the tweet and stated that it was part of a month long campaign of coded tweets to “explore careers essential to protecting our nation”. “As part of our recruitment efforts to attract the best and the brightest, we will post mission related coded Tweets on Mondays in the month of May” an NSA representative said. Well, NSA is known as the code makers and code breakers.

Within minutes after the tweet was posted, the code was cracked and translated simply as: “Want to know what it takes to work at NSA? Check back each Monday in May as we explore career essentials to protect our nation.”

The puzzles are expected to get harder in the coming weeks. Those who are able to crack the most complex codes are likely to be of interest to the NSA’s recruiters.

NSA leaker Edward Snowden gets job in a major Russian website

The NSA leaker Edward Snowden got a job after three months of his shipment to Russia. He got the job in a major Russian website, his lawyer said Thursday.

Edward Snowden will start working at a big Russian company on Friday, November 1. His job will be to support and develop a major Russian website,”lawyer said.

Asking upon the company’s name in which Snowden got job, lawyer didn’t disclose that, citing security concerns.

Speculation over Snowden’s new employer centred on the Russian equivalent of Facebook, Vkontakte, whose charismatic founder Pavel Durov publicly offered Snowden a post in August.

Right now two major Russian internet companies—yandex.ru and Mail.Ru Group said, “No, we didn’t hire Snowden.”

According to Snowden’s lawyer, he was running out of money that’ why he need a job.

After the revelation of secret documents of NSA, he was on a year temporary asylum in Russia.

Snowden spent more than a month in a Moscow airport before receiving a year’s temporary asylum and heading to a secret address.

Snowden supporter website also has raised $49,000 in donations.

FBI demands SSL Keys from Secure-Email provider Lavabit in Espionage probe

During the summer, The Secure email provider 'Lavabit' and preferred service for PRISM leaker Edward Snowden decided to shut down after 10 years to avoid being complicit in crimes against the American people.

The U.S. Government obtained a secret court order demanding private SSL key from Lavabit, which would have allowed the FBI to wiretap the service’s users, according to Wired.

Ladar Levison, 32, has spent ten years building encrypted email service Lavabit, attracting over 410,000 users. When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was revealed to be one of those users in July, Ladar received the court orders to comply, intended to trace the Internet IP address of a particular Lavabit user, but he refused to do so.

The offenses under investigation are listed as violations of the Espionage Act and Founder was ordered to record and provide the connection information on one of its users every time that user logged in to check his e-mail.

The Government complained that the Lavabit had the technical capability to decrypt the information, but that Lavabit did not want to defeat its own system, So on the same day, U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan ordered Lavabit to comply, threatening Lavabit with criminal contempt.

FBI's search warrant also demanded all information necessary to decrypt communications sent to or from the Lavabit email account redacted including encryption keys and SSL keys.

But because Lavabit hadn’t complied till August 5, and a court ordered that Levison would be fined $5,000 a day beginning August 6, for every day he refused to turn over the key. 

On August 8, Levison finally decided to shut down Lavabit. “I’m taking a break from email,” said Levison. “If you knew what I know about email, you might not use it either.”

Fear of NSA PRISM : Indian Government may ban US email services for official communication

The Indian Government is planning to ban the use of US based email services like Gmail for official communications to increase the security of confidential government information.

The recent disconcerting reports that that India was being spied upon by American intelligence agencies has opened an all new chapter in the cyber security space. As leaked by former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, that NSA involved in widespread spying and surveillance activities across the globe.

The Government plans to send a formal notification to about 500,000 employees across the country, asking them to stick to the official email service provided by India's National Informatics Centre, Time of India Reported.

The fact that several government officers in top positions use their Gmail IDs for official communications i.e. Several senior government officials in India, including ministers of state for communications & IT Milind Deora and Kruparani Killi, have their Gmail IDs listed in government portals as their office email.

Last week, India's IT minister Kapil Sibal revealed that the new policy will enforce rules such as use of static IP addresses, virtual private networks and one-time passwords for accessing Indian government email services on all Indian officials who are stationed abroad.

“All Indian missions will use NIC servers which are directly linked to a server in India and that will keep government information safe.” Sibal said.

War on secrecy will be won by whistleblowers, but they’ll have to sacrifice

Radomes stand on the former monitoring base of the U.S. intelligence organization National Security Agency (NSA) in Bad Aibling, near Rosenheim, southern Germany

Whistleblower will have to face sacrifices if they want to engage in such activity, Kristinn Hrafnsson spokesperson for the WikiLeaks has told ExtremeXploit. But WikiLeaks is there to help.

Kristinn Hrafnsson: This is a war on secrecy that we have seen escalate in recent years, it is a war for transparency, it is a war for government accountability. It will be won of course with more information coming out to the general public, information from important people important sources like Edward Snowden, like Bradley Manning. It is amazing that we’re seeing this development escalating year by year. I’m certain that is a war that it will won. It is a war for their people and for their rights.

RT: A war that could be won sacrificing the likes of Assange, Manning and Snowden, because nobody knows what fate they now face…
 
Kristinn Hrafnsson: In all wars there is sacrifice. Let’s all hope that Assange will be released shortly and will be able to go freely. The same would apply to Edward Snowden. It is a dark day for Bradley Manning who we could see in prison for more than 100 years. But that does not change the fact that we should fight for him and all other whistleblowers’ right to disclose to the public information about the wrongdoings.

ExtremeXploit: It took five weeks for Snowden to leave Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow.  He is now entering a very uncertain future. It does not sound or look that everything is going his way and indeed, can it now be seen as a victory for WikiLeaks and what has happened to him?
 
Kristinn Hrafnsson: This is a part victory. It is good that he is now being able to move freely about in Russia. He had of course had offers of permanent asylum in Latin American countries and he has indicated that he wants to get there. That is not that easy. We have seen the unprecedented, ridiculous steps by the US government of getting their allies in Europe to close their airspace for the jet of Evo Morales over suspicions that Snowden was onboard. So, it is obvious that the US government is ready to go to great length to apprehend them. But there’re ways and means, so let’s see what happens.

ExtremeXploit: Is the plan, now that Snowden got his paperwork that WikiLeaks will help him now to get to his eventual destination? He will be leaving Moscow; he will be going to a Latin American country?
 
Kristinn Hrafnsson: He did indicate in a statement a few weeks ago that he wanted to go to a place where he would get permanent asylum. We would of course continue to assist him in his full right as a recognized political refuge to seek asylum and get asylum in any way possible.

ExtremeXploit: But he has accepted his asylum here in Moscow under condition that he won’t release any more leaks damaging the US. So in effect, has he not just given up and stopped his whistleblowing mission. Has he not been beaten into defeat?
 
Kristinn Hrafnsson: That is a bit speculative. I can only refer to what the journalists that have been working with Edward Snowden have said that he was sending information that would produce stories for the months to come and indeed only today and yesterday we saw very important stories based on information  from Edward Snowden coming out in the Guardian.
 
ExtremeXploit: Will WikiLeaks take the Guardian journalist under his wing if he gets into trouble, perhaps sides will be now focusing on Glenn Greenwald?
 
Kristinn Hrafnsson: We will support any journalist source and whistleblower that gets into trouble for revealing the truth about the wrongdoing that is what we are here to do, even though we are of course first and foremost a publishing organization.

ExtremeXploit: And the fact that there has been such a strong reaction from Washington and even the European countries who are upset that they have been surveyed by the US, they have in fact turned their backs on Snowden. So what does it send as a message to future whistleblowers? Will it discourage them rather than encourage them?
 
Kristinn Hrafnsson: This is amazing that even though we have the example of the treatment of Bradley Manning, a brave and courageous man like Edward Snowden, he did step forth, he did blow the whistle on absurd overreach and the attack on privacy by the US government. So courage is contagious and there’re many people up there who are willing to take risk to get the truth to the people as it should be. And I believe that the government should start listening to its people. I’m sure that in the majority of European countries, there is an overwhelming support for Eduard Snowden even though their governments don’t show him that support. Even a recent US survey showed that 55 percent of Americans see Edward Snowden as a legitimate whistleblower , a hero. That information should somehow reach Washington and they should change their position there and actually do what Obama did promise prior to 2008 when he was elected on a platform promising to support whistleblowers and said that they should be encouraged not stifled.