19 February 2014

Tifatul Sembiring Ancam Tutup Telkomsel dan Indosat

TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA - Jika terbukti membantu penyadapan, Telkomsel dan Indosat terancam ditutup pemerintah. Hal tersebut sesuai dengan Undang Undang Nomor 36 Tahun 1999 tentang Telekomunikasi.

Sanksi tersebut disampaikan Menteri Komunikasi dan Informatika, Tifatul Sembiring, menyusul bocornya dokumen Badan Keamanan Nasional Amerika Serikat (NSA) dan Direktorat Intelijen Australia yang menyadap jutaan pelanggar Telkomsel dan Indosat.

November, kapal selam pertama buatan Indonesia mulai dibangun

MERDEKA.COM. Mulai diproduksinya kapal selam buatan anak bangsa November mendatang merupakan satu loncatan besar bagi Indonesia. Produksi ini disebut akan memperkuat alutsista yang dimiliki oleh Indonesia demi menjaga kedaulatan negara.

Wakil Ketua Komisi I DPR TB Hasanudin, berkelakar jika selama ini Indonesia baru mampu membuat kapal selam dalam bentuk makanan. Yakni pempek yang terkenal dari Palembang.

17 February 2014

Spying by N.S.A. Ally Entangled U.S. Law Firm

By JAMES RISEN and LAURA POITRAS, FEB. 15, 2014

The list of those caught up in the global surveillance net cast by the National Security Agency and its overseas partners, from social media users to foreign heads of state, now includes another entry: American lawyers.

A top-secret document, obtained by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden, shows that an American law firm was monitored while representing a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States. The disclosure offers a rare glimpse of a specific instance in which Americans were ensnared by the eavesdroppers, and is of particular interest because lawyers in the United States with clients overseas have expressed growing concern that their confidential communications could be compromised by such surveillance.