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The Sun Does Not Revolve Around the US
The Sun Does Not Revolve Around the US While visiting Galileo’s house in Florence, Jean Ranc reflected on how America thinks the world revolves around it, as it was once falsely thought the sun revolves around the earth. On a sunny day last January, my visit to Florence took me deep into the Tuscan hills […]
NSA Cracked Open Encrypted Networks of Russian Airlines, Al Jazeera, and Other “High Potential” Targets
Photo: Kamran Jebreili/AP NSA CRACKED OPEN ENCRYPTED NETWORKS OF RUSSIAN AIRLINES, AL JAZEERA, AND OTHER “HIGH POTENTIAL” TARGETS THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY successfully broke the encryption on a number of “high potential” virtual private networks, including those of media organization Al Jazeera, the Iraqi military and internet service organizations, and a number of airline reservation […]
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 […]
Silicon Valley Will Not Save You from the Surveillance State
Silicon Valley Will Not Save You from the Surveillance State There was something quite odd about the very welcome news that some Google employees were objecting to a military contract, namely all the other Google military contracts. My sense of the oddness of this was heightened by reading Yasha Levine’s new book, Surveillance Valley: The […]
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 … […]
Facebook: Six Degrees of Giant Squid
Facebook: Six Degrees of Giant Squid Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) German artist, philosopher, composer, mystic Cosmic TreeAll of a sudden, politicians in the EU, UK, and USA all want to talk to Mark Zuckerberg. That’s a bad enough sign all by itself. It means they all either have been asleep, complicit, or they’re not very […]
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 […]
Edward Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As “Social Media”
Edward Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As “Social Media” NSA whistleblower and former CIA employee Edward Snowden slammed Facebook in a Saturday tweet following the suspension of Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and its political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, over what Facebook says was imporoper use of collected data. In a nutshell, in […]
Tell Me More About How Google Isn’t Part Of The Government And Can Therefore Censor Whoever It Wants?
Tell Me More About How Google Isn’t Part Of The Government And Can Therefore Censor Whoever It Wants? When you tell an establishment Democrat that Google’s hiding and removal of content is a dangerous form of censorship, they often magically transform into Ayn Rand right before your eyes. “It’s a private company and they can do […]
