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Edward Snowden: 5 years in Russia and still relevant as ever
Edward Snowden: 5 years in Russia and still relevant as ever Edward Snowden changed the practices of both the internal and external focused US and global intelligence agencies. TASS reported that August 1 was the five year anniversary of Edward Snowden’s being granted temporary asylum in the Russian Federation. This happened after his release of […]
Bill Binney In His Own Words: ‘A Collaborative Conspiracy to Subvert the Government of the US’
Bill Binney In His Own Words: ‘A Collaborative Conspiracy to Subvert the Government of the US’ “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe William Edward Binney is a former highly placed intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency (NSA) turned whistleblower who […]
The Wiretap Rooms
THE WIRETAP ROOMS The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities THE SECRETS ARE hidden behind fortified walls in cities across the United States, inside towering, windowless skyscrapers and fortress-like concrete structures that were built to withstand earthquakes and even nuclear attack. Thousands of people pass by the buildings each day and rarely give […]
Edward Snowden: ‘The people are still powerless, but now they’re aware’
Edward Snowden: ‘The people are still powerless, but now they’re aware’ Five years after historic NSA leaks, whistleblower tells the Guardian he has no regrets Edward Snowden remains in exile in Russia. Photograph: Lindsay Mills Edward Snowden has no regrets five years on from leaking the biggest cache of top-secret documents in history. He is […]
Tripling Its Collection, NSA Sucked Up Over 530 Million US Phone Records in 2017
Tripling Its Collection, NSA Sucked Up Over 530 Million US Phone Records in 2017 “Overall, the numbers show that the scale of warrantless surveillance is growing at a significant rate,” says POGO’s Jake Laperruque. In 2017, the NSA tripled the amount of data it collected from U.S. phones. (Image EFF Photos/flickr/cc) The National Security Agency […]
The NSA Wants a Skeleton Key to Everyone’s Encrypted Data
The NSA Wants a Skeleton Key to Everyone’s Encrypted Data Encryption can protect personal data from government intrusion, which means the government wants the key to break it. Like it or not, you are your data. In this day and age, your receipts, social media activity, public records, GPS data, and internet search history are […]
Know Your History: Google Has Been a Military-Intel Contractor from the Very Beginning
Know Your History: Google Has Been a Military-Intel Contractor from the Very Beginning Levine’s investigative reporting on the connection between the Silicon Valley tech giants and the military-intelligence community has been praised by high-level NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, and many others. [See my interviews of Drake here: NSA Started Spying On Journalists in 2002 … […]
The NSA Worked to ‘Track Down’ Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal
Illustration: Tyler Comrie for The Intercept THE NSA WORKED TO “TRACK DOWN” BITCOIN USERS, SNOWDEN DOCUMENTS REVEAL INTERNET PARANOIACS DRAWN to bitcoin have long indulged fantasies of American spies subverting the booming, controversial digital currency. Increasingly popular among get-rich-quick speculators, bitcoin started out as a high-minded project to make financial transactions public and mathematically verifiable — while […]
Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers
AP LEAKED FILES SHOW HOW NSA TRACKS OTHER COUNTRIES’ HACKERS WHEN THE MYSTERIOUS entity known as “Shadow Brokers” released a tranche of stolen NSA hacking tools to the internet a year ago, most experts who studied the material honed in on the most potent tools, so-called “zero-day” exploits that could be used to install malware […]
Mass Surveillance and the Memory Hole
Mass Surveillance and the Memory Hole The NSA’s recent destruction of evidence in contravention of a court order follows a long-established pattern of intelligence abuses, as Ted Snider explains. Seal of the National Security Agency Though it received disturbingly little attention – perhaps a symptom of desensitization to news that we are constantly being surveilled […]
Quantum Encryption even NSA Cannot Break!
Quantum Encryption even NSA Cannot Break! Quantum Encryption is a dream that is rapidly coming true (University of Science and Technology China). At this level, it can make data secure and virtually impossible to hack. This will put the NSA back to the stone age where they belong. Crimes will have to be solved the old fashion […]
Foxes in Charge of Intelligence Hen House
Foxes in Charge of Intelligence Hen House Recent revelations of “inadvertent” deletions of electronic data at the FBI and NSA relating to alleged felonies are being described as a “foul-up,” but the intelligence agencies’ track record suggests a possibly more nefarious explanation, explains Ray McGovern in this op-ed. We learned in recent days that the FBI […]
The NSA Is a Blackmail Agency
The NSA Is a Blackmail Agency The main function of the National Security Administration is to collect the dirt on members of the house and senate, the staffs, principal contributors, and federal judges. The dirt is used to enforce silence about the crimes of the security agencies. The blackmail mechanism was put into gear the […]
NSA “Sincerely Regrets” Deleting All Bush-Era Surveillance Data It Was Ordered To Preserve
NSA “Sincerely Regrets” Deleting All Bush-Era Surveillance Data It Was Ordered To Preserve There is a growing consensus among many observers in Washington that the national security agencies have become completely politicized over the past seventeen years and are now pursuing selfish agendas that actually endanger what remains of American democracy. As Philip Giraldi notes, […]
