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Q&A: ON THE UNTOUCHABLE ‘LORDS OF SECRECY’
Q&A: ON THE UNTOUCHABLE ‘LORDS OF SECRECY’ Powerful, unaccountable, and operating far in the shadows, the Lords of Secrecy, as author Scott Horton calls them, are real, and they are in charge of our national security state. Horton, a lawyer, journalist and human rights advocate, makes the case in his book, Lords of Secrecy: The National […]
Leaked NSA Documents Reveal How To Hide From The NSA
Leaked NSA Documents Reveal How To Hide From The NSA. If you want a truly anonymous life, then maybe it’s time you learned about Tor, CSpace and ZRTP. These three technologies could help people hide their activities from the National Security Agency, according to NSA documents newly obtained from the archive of former contractor Edward Snowden by the German […]
Can Iceland become the ‘Switzerland of data’? – Features – Al Jazeera English
Can Iceland become the ‘Switzerland of data’? – Features – Al Jazeera English. Reykjavík, Iceland – On a cold, windy December afternoon in the southern Icelandic town of Reykjanesbaer, this former NATO airbase looked like nothing more than a huge warehouse from the outside. But the barbed-wire fence surrounding it and surveillance cameras atop its […]
NSA Fesses Up To Improper Surveillance Of U.S. Citizens
NSA Fesses Up To Improper Surveillance Of U.S. Citizens. While you were drinking eggnog on Christmas Eve, the National Security Agency released hundreds of pages of heavily redacted documents detailing instances of improper surveillance on U.S. citizens in the last 12 years. The batch of documents, stretching from the fourth quarter of 2001 to the second […]
This Week In Energy: Low Oil Prices Not The Only Threat To US Energy
This Week In Energy: Low Oil Prices Not The Only Threat To US Energy. Urgent Note: This week, our analyst Dan Dicker provides key insights into the companies now considered to be the walking dead in the energy space. The debt burdens of these companies make for a bleak outlook, and this information is need-to-know […]
Operation AURORAGOLD: How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide
Operation AURORAGOLD: How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide. In March 2011, two weeks before the Western intervention in Libya, a secret message was delivered to the National Security Agency. An intelligence unit within the U.S. military’s Africa Command needed help to hack into Libya’s cellphone networks and monitor text messages. For the NSA, the […]
British Court Rules in Favor of Electronic Surveillance – NYTimes.com
British Court Rules in Favor of Electronic Surveillance – NYTimes.com. LONDON — The court that oversees Britain’s intelligence agencies ruled Friday that electronic mass surveillance of people’s cellphone and online communications, like the Prism program revealed by Edward J. Snowden, is legal. The ruling, on a complaint brought by privacy advocates and rights groups like Amnesty […]
Talking to James Risen About Pay Any Price, the War on Terror and Press Freedoms – The Intercept
Talking to James Risen About Pay Any Price, the War on Terror and Press Freedoms – The Intercept. James Risen, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for exposing the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program, has long been one of the nation’s most aggressive and adversarial investigative journalists. Over the past several years, he has received at least as […]
Britain’s GCHQ monitored Irish internet traffic — RT News
Britain’s GCHQ monitored Irish internet traffic — RT News. Britain’s surveillance body, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), could be tapping underwater cables connecting Ireland to the global web, according to a new document leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and released by German media. The document, titled ‘Partner Cables,’ identifies the cables that GCHQ has […]
The German BND and American NSA Cooperate More Closely than Thought – SPIEGEL ONLINE
The German BND and American NSA Cooperate More Closely than Thought – SPIEGEL ONLINE. Three months before Edward Snowden shocked the world with his revelations, members of NSA’s “Special Source Operations department” sat down for a weekly meeting at their headquarters in the US state of Maryland. The group, considered internally to be particularly efficient, […]
