Attempts by UK, US govs to suppress reporting on NSA not working out so great
The governments of the United States and the United Kingdom have pressured news organizations connected to the Edward Snowden stories to STFU. That doesn't seem to be accomplishing what the...
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Bruce Schneier's 'How to remain secure against NSA surveillance'
Security guru Bruce Schneier has posted a typically pragmatic and passionate overview of why you can, and should, follow practices that improve your odds of being able to communicate privately in the...
View ArticleAmid NSA spying scandal, Yahoo releases transparency report on gov data requests
The Internet company Yahoo! has released a Transparency Report today, detailing the requests it receives for user information from government agencies. Yahoo said today it received 12,444 requests for...
View ArticleRadio interview with Washington Post's Barton Gellman on Snowden NSA leaks
This Terri Gross interview with Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman on WHYY's "Fresh Air," which is syndicated by NPR, is really terrific. I caught it while driving home yesterday, and had a...
View ArticleSecret spy spy court demands government transparency on surveillance programs
Over at Wired.com, David Kravets writes about an order by a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) judge demanding that the US government begin to declassify its opinions related to the Patriot...
View ArticleDNI chief and FISC judge agree Snowden leaks prompted important civil debate
Even the NSA's boss and a lead judge in the secret intel courts admit Edward Snowden's leaks were in the public interest. “The unauthorized disclosure in June 2013 of a Section 215 order, and...
View ArticleLatest reporting from Snowden leaks: How NSA watches international bank...
In Spiegel today, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark report on how the National Security Agency monitors banks and credit card transactions, sometimes in apparent violation of national...
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John Cusack: Will the US allow NSA reporters like Greenwald and Poitras to...
Trevor Timm of EFF.org and FPF working with John on this op-ed, a few weeks ago. Photo: XJ. Activist and filmmaker John Cusack, in the Guardian, asks if US attorney general Eric Holder will guarantee...
View ArticleSpiegel: UK spy agency GCHQ hacked Belgian telecom, Snowden docs reveal
Today, in Der Spiegel: Documents from the archive of whistleblower Edward Snowden indicate that Britain's GCHQ intelligence service was behind a cyber attack against Belgacom, a partly state-owned...
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Snowden said to be in disguise
*Not* Edward Snowden (probably). Walter White (Bryan Cranston) in Episode 16 of Breaking Bad. Photo by Ursula Coyote/AMC. Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker who is currently a fugitive in Russia, "walks...
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Rally against mass surveillance, DC, Oct. 26--'Stop Watching Us'
The team behind Stop Watching Us says: "Since the Snowden leaks started, more than 569,000 people from all walks of life have signed the StopWatching.us petition telling the U.S. Congress that we want...
View ArticleSenators back bipartisan NSA reform bill to curb US surveillance
Four senators working on efforts to limit US government spying programs have announced a comprehensive package of surveillance reforms. "The draft bill represented the first sign that key Republican...
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At least a dozen 'Loveint' episodes identified by NSA Inspector General
How do I love thee? Let the National Security Agency count the ways. On at least twelve occasions in the past ten years, NSA employees illegally listened in on phone calls of girlfriends, boyfriends,...
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Ex-NSA director jokes of placing Edward Snowden on kill list, Rep. Mike...
Former NSA Director Michael Hayden.Brendan Sasso of The Hill reports that during a Washington Post cybersecurity summit today, former National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden made a joke about...
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NSA and UK intel agency GCHQ target online anonymity tool Tor, according to...
Despite the fact that online anonymity tool Tor was developed with US government funds, the NSA really does not like Tor. Top-secret documents leaked to the Guardian by former US intelligence...
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Russian tabloid publishes picture said to be Edward Snowden shopping for...
I mean, who knows. [lifenews.ru. HT: @adrianchen]
View Article'How Lavabit Melted Down'
There's an excellent tick-tock of the Lavabit saga in the New Yorker, by Michael Phillips and Matt Buchanan. Lavabit founder Ladar Levison says he believes even if he hadn’t hosted an email account for...
View ArticleEdward Snowden’s dad visits his son in Moscow
"Mr. Snowden said that he did not expect his son to return to the United States, where the 30-year-old former intelligence contractor is wanted on espionage charges, and did not give any indication...
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NSA chiefs confiding in their allies: Obama is hanging us out to dry
General Keith Alexander arrives at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in Washington, June 2013. Photo: Reuters. At Foreign Policy, Shane Harris writes about leaders within the National Security...
View ArticlePatriot Act author pushes bill to put NSA's data dragnet 'out of business'
"Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, who worked with president George W. Bush to give more power to US intelligence agencies after the September 11 terrorist attacks, said the intelligence community had...
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