Basque Country: another communications sabotage

A telecommunications antenna serving the companies Orange and Vodafone has been sabotaged today in Lezama, near Bilbao. 

After breaking in, the attackers burned tires destroying the cables and rendering the facilities useless for some time. They also left pamplets in the area reading  

Sozialismoaren bidean borroka da bide bakarra

Independentzia, Socialismoa

Kapitalismoari sua

Translated:

The struggle is the only way in the road to Socialism

Independence, Socialism

Fire to Capitalism

Police thinks it is an urban guerrilla action (wow, brilliant!)

Another conceptually similar attack took place near Donostia (San Sebastian) on August 29. While it seems clear that both actions are ideologically related, it's not whether the various groups keep any kind of organic affiliation. 

Whatever the case it is clear that there are some people who are willing to risk their freedom because they feel that the current unilateral peace process is going nowhere worth going to. 

Source: Euskal Herria Sozialista.

FBI collecting Apple users' personal data

The US secret police (FBI) collected some twelve million unique IDs with personal data of users of iPhone and iPad, star products of Apple Computers. A hacker group known as AntiSec had no trouble getting them and releasing a token one million of them, after removing all personal data. 

Neither the FBI nor Apple have made any comments yet. The USA is under permanent emergency legislation, renewed systematically every year since September 2011, which allows police, military and spy agencies to do as they wish or almost.

Not only the FBI was collecting this data without any sort of judicial surveillance or search order but the data was not stored securely, potentially allowing anybody with minimal technical skills to access them.

Source: Al Jazeera.