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The NSA’s Technotyranny: One Nation Under Surveillance

The NSA’s Technotyranny: One Nation Under Surveillance “The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control.”—William Binney, NSA whistleblower We now have a fourth branch of government. As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this fourth branch came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum, […]

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Latest Privacy Revelations Show It’s Up to Canadians to Protect Themselves

Latest Privacy Revelations Show It’s Up to Canadians to Protect Themselves The most important self-help step? Get into encryption Another week, another revelation originating from the seemingly unlimited trove of Edward Snowden documents. Last week, the CBC reported that Canada was among several countries whose surveillance agencies actively exploited security vulnerabilities in a popular mobile web browser […]

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From the Very Creation of the Internet, U.S. Spy Agencies Fought to Block Encryption

From the Very Creation of the Internet, U.S. Spy Agencies Fought to Block Encryption American spy agencies have intentionally weakened digital security for many decades. This breaks the functionality of our computers and of the Internet. It reduces functionality and reduces security by – for example – creating backdoors that malicious hackers can get through. The spy agencies […]

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Researchers Predicted In 1971 that Debit Cards Would Become the Ultimate Spy Tool

Researchers Predicted In 1971 that Debit Cards Would Become the Ultimate Spy Tool We noted in 2013: The Wall Street Journal reported that the NSA spies on Americans’ credit card transactions. Senators Wyden and Udall – both on the Senate Intelligence Committee, with access to all of the top-secret information about the government’s spying programs – write: Section 215 […]

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FBI Confirms No Major Terrorism Cases Cracked via Unconstitutional Patriot Act Phone Spying

FBI Confirms No Major Terrorism Cases Cracked via Unconstitutional Patriot Act Phone Spying FBI agents can’t point to any major terrorism cases they’ve cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Department’s inspector general said in a report Thursday that could complicate efforts to keep key parts of the law […]

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Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware

Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware Users of millions of smartphones put at risk by certain mobile browser gaps, Snowden file shows Canada and its spying partners exploited weaknesses in one of the world’s most popular mobile browsers and planned to hack into smartphones via links to Google and Samsung app […]

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NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones

NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones The National Security Agency and its closest allies planned to hijack data links to Google and Samsung app stores to infect smartphones with spyware, a top-secret document reveals. The surveillance project was launched by a joint electronic eavesdropping unit called the Network Tradecraft Advancement Team, […]

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USA Freedom Act Passes House, Codifying Bulk Collection For the First Time, Critics Say

USA Freedom Act Passes House, Codifying Bulk Collection For the First Time, Critics Say After only one hour of floor debate, and no allowed amendments, the House of Representatives today passed legislation that seeks to address the NSA’s controversial surveillance of American communications. However, opponents believe it may give brand new authorization to the U.S. government to conduct domestic dragnets. The […]

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Many of the NSA’s Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors

Many of the NSA’s Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors The debate over the NSA’s bulk collection of phone records has reached a critical point after a federal appeals court last week ruled the practice illegal, dramatically raising the stakes for pending Congressional legislation that would fully or partially reinstate the program. An army of pundits […]

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NSA Spying Ruled Illegal, But Will Congress Save the Program Anyway?

NSA Spying Ruled Illegal, But Will Congress Save the Program Anyway? This week the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the NSA’s metadata collection program was not authorized in US law. The PATRIOT Act, under which the program began, was too vague, the court found. But the truth is the Act was intended to […]

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The Computers Are Listening: Speech Recognition Is the NSA’s Best-Kept Open Secret

The Computers Are Listening: Speech Recognition Is the NSA’s Best-Kept Open Secret Second in a series. Part 1 here. Siri can understand what you say. Google can take dictation. Even your newsmart TV is taking verbal orders. So is there any doubt the National Security Agency has the ability to translate spoken words into text? But precisely when the […]

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Will Appeals Court Ruling Really Stop NSA Bulk Phone Data Collection?

Will Appeals Court Ruling Really Stop NSA Bulk Phone Data Collection? Don’t Crack Open the Champagne Bottle Just Yet While congress ponders the merits of the USA Freedom Act of 2015, a bill which revises the business records provisions of the Patriot Act, a panel of judges in a federal appeals court has just thrown a clump of sand […]

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NSA’s Bulk Collection of Phone Records is Illegal, Appeals Court Says

NSA’S BULK COLLECTION OF PHONE RECORDS IS ILLEGAL, APPEALS COURT SAYS A federal appeals court panel ruled on Thursday that the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata of phone calls to and from Americans is not authorized by Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, throwing out the government’s legal justification for the surveillance program exposed by NSA […]

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The Computers Are Listening: How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text

THE COMPUTERS ARE LISTENING: HOW THE NSA CONVERTS SPOKEN WORDS INTO SEARCHABLE TEXT Most people realize that emails and other digital communications they once considered private can now become part of their permanent record. But even as they increasingly use apps that understand what they say, most people don’t realize that the words they speak are […]

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USA FREEDOM Act: Just Another Word for Lost Liberty

USA FREEDOM Act: Just Another Word for Lost Liberty Apologists for the National Security Agency (NSA) point to the arrest of David Coleman Headley as an example of how warrantless mass surveillance is necessary to catch terrorists. Headley played a major role in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack that killed 166 people. While few would […]

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