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Attorneys for National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner have asked a court to suppress the statements she made to investigators prior to being taken into custody and charged with leaking classified intelligence.

Ms. Winners legal team wrote in a motion filed Tuesday that their client wasnt read her Miranda rights prior to being questioned by authorities inside her home June 3 and that her statements from then shouldnt be used as evidence.

Winner was never told she was free to leave, nor was she advised as to her arrest status; indeed, when she specifically asked whether she was under arrest, the agents told her they did not know the answer to that yet, her attorneys wrote.

The filing also requests a hearing be scheduled regarding the request.

Ms. Winner, 25, is accused of leaking a classified document to the website The Intercept detailing Russias involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential race.

According to the federal complaint filed against her, Ms. Winner printed and improperly removed classified intelligence reporting in early May obtained on the job at Pluribus International Corporation, an NSA contractor near Augusta, Georgia.

Federal investigators learned about the leak after The Intercepts reporters contacted the government May 30 prior to publication. Investigators subsequently traced the leak to Ms. Winner and questioned her at her Augusta home on June 3, according to charging documents.

During that conversation, Winner admitted intentionally identifying and printing the classified intelligence reporting at issue, the government argued. Winner further admitted removing the classified intelligence reporting from her office space, retaining it and mailing it from Augusta, Georgia, to the news outlet, which she knew was not authorized to receive or possess the documents.

Winner further acknowledged that she was aware of the contents of the intelligence reporting and that she knew the contents of the reporting could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation, according to investigators.

Ms. Winner ultimately pleaded not guilty to a federal charge of gathering, transmitting or losing defense information, and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison if convicted.

A tentative start date for the governments case against Ms. Winner was established during a status hearing Wednesday for Oct. 23, a local Fox affiliate reported.

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PrintWednesday 30th August, 2017By EdnaA. Quansah, GNAAccra, Aug. 30, GNA - The Director General ofthe National Sports Authority (NSA) Mr. Robert Sarfo Mensah has said that hisprayers is for Egypt to lose against Uganda as they lock horns in the qualifiers of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.The Pharaohs of Egypt have amassed six pointsin Group E and top the standing after beating Congo and Ghana in their theirtwo mat

By EdnaA. Quansah, GNA

Accra, Aug. 30, GNA - The Director General ofthe National Sports Authority (NSA) Mr. Robert Sarfo Mensah has said that hisprayers is for Egypt to lose against Uganda as they lock horns in the qualifiers of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

The Pharaohs of Egypt have amassed six pointsin Group E and top the standing after beating Congo and Ghana in their theirtwo matches played so far.

Uganda are lying second with four pointswhilst Ghana and Congo have with one point and zero respectively.

The Black Stars of Ghana will play Congo onFriday, September 1 at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi before travellingto Congo Brazzaville for the return encounter whilst Uganda hosts Egypt onThursday, August 31.

Though Egypt, the seven times Africa Championsare in a better position to qualify to the quadrennial showpiece, the NSA bosstold the GNA Sports that he is praying and fasting that Egypt slips tomorrowagainst Uganda so that our chances will be brighter.

He urged the team to concentrate on theremaining matches and do all they can to win all the remaining games.

This is the beginning of our qualification tothe World Cup. The previous matches played are over. What I want to tell theBlack Stars is that, they should do their best to win for us. They shouldforget about all the permutations and win all the matches.

They should concentrate on our remaining fourmatches and I believe that with God on our side, Egypt can slip against Uganda.In football anything can happen and thats all what we hopping for.

This years qualification is similar to whathappened in 2006 and I dont think it is beyond us. Ghanaians are counting onthem and whatever they need to do, they should do and qualify us to thetourney.

Ghana will be chasing her fourth appearance tothe competition under Coach James Kwesi Appiah who qualified the country to thelast edition in Brazil.

GNA

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Researchers hack Intel's back door

A team of insecurity experts from Positive Technologies has found a way to disable the Intel Management Engine (ME) thanks to the NSA.

For those who came in late, ME is as popular with the IT community as Donald Trump is in Scotland. Most see it as a backdoor, even if Intel advertises it as a "remote PC management" solution.

For this reason, security experts have been trying for years to find a way to disable the Intel ME component, but have failed. If you disable Intel ME, the computer crashes because it runs initialisation, power management, and launch of the main processor.

However apparently there is a hidden bit inside the firmware code, which when flipped (set to "1") will disable ME after ME has done its job and booted up the main processor.

The bit is labelled "reserve_hap" and a nearby comment describes it as "High Assurance Platform (HAP) enable". High Assurance Platform (HAP) is an NSA program that describes a series of rules for running secure computing platforms.

Researchers believe Intel has added the ME-disabling bit at the behest of the NSA, which needed a method of disabling ME as a security measure for computers running in highly sensitive environments.

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First Response NSA means " No Strings Attatched" Basically it's just a one night stand, or not even the length of a night. Just a random hookup. A common website for nsa sex is Mysecretnsa.com since they cater to this specific type of relationship. Second Response

Not to take sides, but No Strings Attached sex is not necessarily a one night stand. In our society's youth today is quite common to have hook up sex. We hear of this at the hospital a lot now a days. The term of engagement is not important to them. One girl said it just means that she likes and wants sex, but doesn't necessarily want a long term relationship with that person or even a relationship at all. She stated she has a guy that she goes to when she needs "release" with no questions asked. They are not even close friends.

On another note, I have two friends, who are friends with each other but not seeing each other socially. They both just got out of long term relationships. They never spend the night together afterwards or cuddle or anything "intimate" in that context, they just use each other to get off because they have both been tested and aren't at a point where either wants a relationship.

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Colour me shocked. It appears the NSA has been collecting a treasure trove of hacks for Windows, both desktop and servers, covering all versions of the OS bar Windows 10. And this toolbox of capabilities, which also included ways to get into banking and other related systems, has leaked to the public.

I suspect your jaw isnt gaping in surprise. Whats followed has been just as predictable.

First, theres shock that the NSA might have built such a collection of exploits. Sorry, what doyou expect the NSA to be doing? Creating toolkits that can be used against undesirables is what it exists for. Injecting custom spyware onto the laptop of a terrorist could bring up incredibly useful intelligence information, after all.

Then theres the public horror that the NSA didnt tell Microsoft about the exploits. Why is anyone surprised? Sure, its good practice for security researchers to tell Microsoft (or Apple, Facebook, Google, whoever) that theyve uncovered a security hole. There are processes inplace by which such reports are made, the vendor is given time to patch things and issue anupdate, and then the exploit is made public once the patch has been issued. Its all very gentlemanly, and some companies even offer financial rewards.

Would I expect the NSA to tell Microsoft about the exploits? Of course not. Keeping such flaws hidden from Microsoft meant they were exploitable for as long as possible.

No-one is suggesting the NSA, or any other equivalent organisation, is using these tools against the wider population. I dont think there have been mass deployments of EmeraldThread or EternalRomance or EclipsedWing or any of the other rather charming codenames. (Nasty1 and Nasty2 and ReallyNasty3 just dont have the same ring to them.)

But then we come onto the real problems. The tools have now been released into the wild, and it doesnt take much effort to download them. Thismeans there will be a flood of script kiddies trying them out and targeting everyone from NASA to the takeaway down the street. Thats a whole pile of grief no-one needed.

It would be interesting to analyse which antivirus packages would protect you against these exploits. My hunch, backed by discussions with friends in the industry, is almost none. As they say about financial results, past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Even so, now the toolkit has leaked, its of much less use to the NSA, and any other organisations that might have had access to it. That cant be a good thing. Dont confuse that statement with any desire on my part to see government-mandated encryption backdoors being forced into end user applications. I see a differencebetween what an organisation such as the NSA or GCHQdoes and thefar more widespread misuse of data-snooping that we have seen in the UK. And my distrust of the ability of government departments, including the NHS, to keep massive datasets secure has almost no limits.

Then we come to Microsofts interesting claim that these exploits have been patched already, but only very recently. One wonders whether the NSA told Microsoft about the leak once it knew its toolkit was compromised and Microsoft went into top gear to get fixes out as soon as possible.

It does mean, of course, that the old mantra about running only the most current and fully patched versions of applications and operating systems is as true today as it has ever been. Microsoft rather coyly states that Of the three remaining exploits, EnglishmanDentist, EsteemAudit, and ExplodingCan, none reproduces on supported platforms, which means that customers running Windows 7 and recent versions of Windows or Exchange 2010 and newer versions of Exchange are not at risk. So if youre on XP, youre on your own.

Its also true that weve managed to get ourselves into a situation where OSes are so complex that it is now effectively impossible to ensure they are secure. The approach taken by Apples iOS, forcing a walled garden approach on the developers and the execution of code, is arguably the most secure widespread end user platform available. But that still doesnt mean that the core OS itself is secure. Is open source the answer? Maybe, but exploits are found there too.

You may be thinking Ill use this final paragraph to deliver the answer. Sadly, there isnt one. If GCHQ or the NSA want to access my computers, they will either hack their way in, use a backdoor that we dont know about, or just turn up with a warrant and remove every device fitted with a mains plug. And there is nothing I, or you, can do.

This article originally appeared in PC Pro.

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