National Security Agency (NSA)
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The Internet's Anti-NSA Revolt Starts Tuesday
Thousands of civil-liberty and online-freedom groups and websites will take to the digital streets next week to wage a coordinated war against the National Security Agency's spying powers, a battle strike reminiscent of a virtual protest that two years ago killed an online piracy bill. Read More »
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The Latest Snowden Leak Is Devastating To NSA Defenders
The agency collected and stored intimate chats, photos, and emails belonging to innocent Americans—and secured them so poorly that reporters can now browse them at will...
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The NSA And Big Data: What IT Can Learn
Enterprises can put the tools Big Brother uses to analyze our online activities to productive use. Here's how. Read More »
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The NSA Can Get You Offline, Too -- With Radio Waves
Remember how we thought/hoped that keeping our computer offline would protect us from NSA snooping? Well, it won't! According to the New York Times' latest report from the Snowden files, the NSA has developed technology (under the Quantum code name, also used for those malware attacks) that can access computers through radio waves. Read More »
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The NSA Is Commandeering The Internet
Technology companies have to fight for their users, or they'll eventually lose them. Read More »
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The NSA's New Spy Facilities Are 7 Times Bigger Than The Pentagon
He works at one of the three-letter intelligence agencies and oversees construction of a $1.2 billion surveillance data center in Utah that is 15 times the size of MetLife Stadium, home to the New York Giants and Jets. Long Island native Harvey Davis, a top National Security Agency official, needs that commanding presence. Read More »
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The NSA's other victim: U.S. business competitiveness
This week, a review panel commissioned by the White House determined that the NSA needs reining in to prevent overreaching and damaging America. Read More »
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The NSA-Reform Paradox: Stop Domestic Spying, Get More Security
The nation can survive the occasional terrorist attack, but our freedoms can't survive an invulnerable leader like Keith Alexander operating within inadequate constraints. Read More »
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The Secret Sharer
On June 13th, a fifty-four-year-old former government employee named Thomas Drake is scheduled to appear in a courtroom in Baltimore, where he will face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen. A former senior executive at the National Security Agency, the government’s electronic-espionage service, he is accused, in essence, of being an enemy of the state... Read More »
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The Staggering Power Of NSA Systems Administrators
Reflections on the Ex-PFC Wintergreens of the national-security state Read More »
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The Top Secret Rules That Allow NSA To Use US Data Without A Warrant
Fisa court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication Read More »
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The Ultimate Goal Of The NSA Is Total Population Control
At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says whistleblower William Binney – that's a 'totalitarian mentality'...
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The White House Comedy Club
While the nation’s attention has been riveted on the Keystone Congress, the executive branch was busy developing its own comedy routine. Picture the cast (you know the characters) shrugging their shoulders in unison: “Who, me?” Read More »
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Time For Internet Engineers To Fight Back Against The “Surveillance Internet”
Amid torrent of revelations that the NSA finds mass surveillance easy, the IETF ponders how to harden the Internet. Read More »
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Tomorrow’s Surveillance: Everyone, Everywhere, All The Time
Everyone is worried about the wrong things. Since Edward Snowden exposed the incipient NSA panopticon, the civil libertarians are worried that their Internet conversations and phone metadata are being tracked; the national-security conservatives claim to be worried that terrorists will start hiding their tracks; but both sides should really be worried about different things entirely. Read More »
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