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Ex-White House Officials Criticize Vague Rules Around Disclosure of Hacking Tools
Ex-White House Officials Criticize Vague Rules Around Disclosure of Hacking Tools WHEN U.S. GOVERNMENT officials discover a new vulnerability they can use to hack into people’s computers, they have a decision to make: Should they keep it to themselves? Or should they warn the world? Exactly how they make that decision is a mystery. Now, two […]
The Government Is Building A Database To Predict Who Will Be The Next Edward Snowden
The Government Is Building A Database To Predict Who Will Be The Next Edward Snowden CREDIT: AP PHOTO/PATRICK SEMANSKY Army Pfc. Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, is escorted to a security vehicle outside a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., in 2013. Manning was convicted in military court and sentenced to 35 years for […]
The Intercept is Broadening Access to the Snowden Archive. Here’s Why.
THE INTERCEPT IS BROADENING ACCESS TO THE SNOWDEN ARCHIVE. HERE’S WHY FROM THE TIME we began reporting on the archive provided to us in Hong Kong by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we sought to fulfill his two principal requests for how the materials should be handled: that they be released in conjunction with careful reporting that puts […]
FBI Caught Planting Microphones Under Rocks, Inside Light Fixtures, and at Bus Stops in California
FBI Caught Planting Microphones Under Rocks, Inside Light Fixtures, and at Bus Stops in California When a reporter for the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command interviewed Frank Zappa for the commands news syndicate, the story was held by a superior who demanded that Zappa – who had been rather hard on the army […]
NSA Whistleblower Karen Stewart Speaks Candidly About Illegal and Criminal NSA & FBI Programs of Organized Stalking and Electronic Harassment in the USA & Abroad
NSA Whistleblower Karen Stewart Speaks Candidly About Illegal and Criminal NSA & FBI Programs of Organized Stalking and Electronic Harassment in the USA & Abroad We’ve documented US government use of harmful and deadly experiments upon the public (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here for just a few, and that the US tortures people in Orwellian violation of six binding areas of […]
Rotten to the Core
Rotten to the Core Poison Money BALTIMORE – We live in a world of sin and sorrow, infected by a fraudulent democracy, Facebook, and a corrupt money system. Wheezing, weak, and weary from the exertion of trying to appear “normal,” the economy staggers on. Staggering on…. Image credit: David Sidmond Last week, we gained […]
A Key Similarity Between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What’s Been Legalized
A Key Similarity Between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What’s Been Legalized FROM THE START of the reporting based on Edward Snowden’s leaked document archive, government defenders insisted that no illegal behavior was revealed. That was always false: Multiple courts have now found the domestic metadata spying program in violation of the Constitution and relevant statutes and have […]
Intelligence Community Olive Branch on Data Sharing Greeted With Skepticism
Intelligence Community Olive Branch on Data Sharing Greeted With Skepticism TOP INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY lawyer Robert Litt has offfered a rare olive branch to privacy advocates on Wednesday, in the form of information. In a post on one of their favorite blogs on Wednesday, Litt, general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, outlined new intelligence data-sharing guidelines that he said […]
5 Things You Should Know About the FCC’s Proposed Privacy Rules
5 Things You Should Know About the FCC’s Proposed Privacy Rules It stops Verizon’s zombie cookie in its tracks, but allows AT&T to keep charging customers extra if they want privacy. Federal Communications Commisison Chairman Tom Wheeler testifies at a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in March 2015. (Lauren Victoria Burke/AP Photo) Last week, the […]
Geopolitics, the State, and Cybersecurity in a Globalized World
Geopolitics, the State, and Cybersecurity in a Globalized World On February 9th of this year, the Obama administration announced that after a seven year observation of the cybersecurity environment, it was going to establish the Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP). The new cybersecurity plan was formulated to counter the ever-morphing threats and hackings […]
War on Terror Turns Inward – NSA Surveillance Will Be Used Against American Citizens
War on Terror Turns Inward – NSA Surveillance Will Be Used Against American Citizens In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will […]
Rights, Privileges, & Immunities Always Vanish in the Shadow of Government
Rights, Privileges, & Immunities Always Vanish in the Shadow of Government The cyber police are monitoring everything. Anyone who appears to be organizing any type of protest in Germany is visited by the police. This is the new national security and slight statements are being targeted as “troublemaker speech.” We are heading into the dark land of government […]
The FBI vs. Apple Debate Just Got Less White
The FBI vs. Apple Debate Just Got Less White The court fight between Apple and the FBI prompted a slew of letters and legal briefs last week from outside parties, including many tech companies and privacy groups. But a particularly powerful letter came from a collection of racial justice activists, including Black Lives Matter. The letter focused on potential […]
The Human Rights Risks of Encryption ‘Back Doors’
The Human Rights Risks of Encryption ‘Back Doors’ a katz / Shutterstock One fact that has received little attention in the current encryption debate is that many categories of individuals rely on strong encryption for their own security. These include sexual and gender-based rights activists, domestic violence victims, journalists and their sources, and human rights […]
