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Leak investigations and surveillance in post-9/11 America
Warning there are thousands of Islamic extremists who view British citizens as “legitimate targets,” the chief of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, said leaks about government spying capabilities caused enormous damage, handing “the advant
Here's Who Is Behind Those Creepy Billboards That Say 'Your Data Should Belong To The NSA'
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created a smartphone messaging app with security that not even the NSA can break. The app is called SafeSlinger, and is free on the iTunes store, and Google play store for Android phones.
"If the 'Affordable Care Act' is not fixed, and it destroys the health and welfare funds that we have all fought for and stand for, then I believe it needs to be repealed," emphasized O'Sullivan during a firm rebuke of the crafty and malicious g
Canada spied on communications at Brazil’s Mining and Energy Ministry, according to Canadian intelligence documents revealed Sunday by Globo television.
Since I started working with Snowden’s documents, I have been using a number of tools to try to stay secure from the NSA. The advice I shared included using Tor, preferring certain cryptography over others, and using public-domain encryption wherever
Security measures at the Sochi winter Olympics will include such extensive electronic eavesdropping and surveillance that the US State Department has advised Americans headed to Russia to leave smart phones and laptops at home, an investigation has r
Ilija Trojanov was at the airport in Brazil’s Salvador da Bahia, on September 30, checking in for his flight to the United States, when the person behind the American Airlines counter told him that the computer had issued a “Border Security Crossing”
Earlier this week, USA Today reported that massive payment processor MasterCard had joined the FIDO alliance. FIDO is an acronym for Fast IDentity Online, and the group describes itself as:
British police said they would conduct a “targeted attack” on mobile phone data of people who were near the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz when British girl Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007. The phone data was now being cross-referenced
BBC Newsnight exclusive interview with journalist Glenn Greenwald on Edward Snowden, the PRISM revelations and mass surveillance.
Bitcoin has appealed to high-tech skeptics of government-issued money, as well as global criminals who are eager and able to capitalize on a totally free market. But mainstream investors are taking notice.
What does come as a surprise is the government has attained the level of sophistication necessary to break Tor, to identify the users behind the curtain, to track their virtual existence back to the real world, where people have names, live in rented
In 2004, my telephone records, as well as those of another New York Times reporter and two reporters from the Washington Post, were obtained by federal agents assigned to investigate a leak of classified information. What happened next
'Dread Pirate Roberts' wasn't as smart as he — and everyone else — assumed he was
You may have heard that Silk Road – the truly free online market – was taken down today, by the FBI. In response, the price of Bitcoin crashed 24%.
National Security Agency chief Gen. Keith Alexander revealed Wednesday that his spy agency once tested whether it could track Americans' cellphone locations, in addition to its practice of sweeping broad information about calls made.
A federal court should not permit five leading Internet companies to reveal how often they are ordered to turn over information about their customers in national security investigations, the government argued in papers released Wednesday.
The American government obtained a secret order from a federal judge demanding that Lavabit hand over its private SSL key, enabling authorities to access Edward Snowden’s e-mail, and e-mail belonging to Lavabit's 400,000 other users
It began as an ordinary purse snatching. On an early Baltimore morning in 1976, a local street thug crouched alongside his green Monte Carlo, pretending to change a flat, biding his time.
Jean Luc Picard: "I don't like what we have become."
A leak about an August al-Qaida plot reportedly has left U.S. intelligence reeling
The NSA isn’t just spying on foreigners
Well that didn't take long,....
Anybody in public life, or person in a position of influence in government, business or bureaucracy, now is thinking about what the NSA knows about them. So how can we trust that the decisions that they make are objective and they aren’t
Snooping on Americans; business as usual
A sensor previously used for military operations can now be tuned to secretly locate and record any single conversation on a busy street
An LED light can be used to spy on someone and hear everything that they are saying in their home. Don't believe? Here's your proof!
Folks from Datacoup put together the very amusing GETPRSM website, which looks very much like the announcement of a new social network, but (the joke is) it's really the NSA scooping up all our data and making the connections.