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How Cops Can Secretly Track Your Phone
HOW COPS CAN SECRETLY TRACK YOUR PHONE A guide to stingray surveillance technology, which may have been deployed at recent protests. SINCE MAY, AS protesters around the country have marched against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, activists have spotted a recurring presence in the skies: mysterious planes and helicopters hovering overhead, apparently […]
The Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate
The Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate Journalist Glenn Greenwald has been charged by the Bolsonaro government in Brazil with the same prosecutorial angle used by the US to target WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Per The New York Times: Citing intercepted messages between Mr. Greenwald and the hackers, prosecutors say the journalist played a “clear […]
How a Small Company in Switzerland Is Fighting a Surveillance Law — And Winning
How a Small Company in Switzerland Is Fighting a Surveillance Law — And Winning Photo: ProtonMail A small email provider and its customers have almost single-handedly forced the Swiss government to put its new invasive surveillance law up for a public vote in a national referendum in June. “This law was approved in September, and […]
Why Do We Expose Ourselves?
WHY DO WE EXPOSE OURSELVES? AMONG CRITICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE, there are two allusions so commonplace they have crossed into the realm of cliché. One, as you have probably already guessed, is George Orwell’s Big Brother, from 1984. The other is Michel Foucault’s panopticon — a vision, adapted from Jeremy Bentham, of a prison in which […]
Recently Bought a Windows Computer? Microsoft Probably Has Your Encryption Key
RECENTLY BOUGHT A WINDOWS COMPUTER? MICROSOFT PROBABLY HAS YOUR ENCRYPTION KEY One of the excellent features of new Windows devices is that disk encryption is built-in and turned on by default, protecting your data in case your device is lost or stolen. But what is less well-known is that, if you are like most users and login […]
NSA Helped British Spies Find Security Holes in Juniper Firewalls
NSA HELPED BRITISH SPIES FIND SECURITY HOLES IN JUNIPER FIREWALLS A TOP-SECRET document dated February 2011 reveals that British spy agency GCHQ, with the knowledge and apparent cooperation of the NSA, acquired the capability to covertly exploit security vulnerabilities in 13 different models of firewalls made by Juniper Networks, a leading provider of networking and Internet security gear. […]
‘Emergency’ Measures May Be Written Into the French Constitution
“EMERGENCY” MEASURES MAY BE WRITTEN INTO THE FRENCH CONSTITUTION JUST HOURS INTO A TERRORIST ATTACK that started on the evening of Nov. 13, and would eventually claim 130 lives, François Hollande announced that France was reestablishing border controls, and used a 1955 law to proclaim a state of emergency. This 60-year-old law gives French law enforcement […]
Big Banks In a Tizzy Want to Take Their Billions and Go Home
Big Banks In a Tizzy Want to Take Their Billions and Go Home The big banks are not taking a rare legislative defeat lying down. Days after President Obama signed into law a highway package that finally ended an egregious, 100-year-old subsidy for big banks, two of Wall Street’s favorite legislators want to attach a last-minute rider to the […]
Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy
Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy LAST MONTH, I met Edward Snowden in a hotel in central Moscow, just blocks away from Red Square. It was the first time we’d met in person; he first emailed me nearly two years earlier, and we eventually created an encrypted channel to journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, to whom Snowden would disclose […]
Erasing Mossville: How Pollution Killed a Louisiana Town
Erasing Mossville: How Pollution Killed a Louisiana Town ALLEN LEBLANC LED A VIGOROUS LIFE as a young man growing up in Mossville, Louisiana. He had a sheet-rocking business, drove trucks, and worked at the Conoco oil refinery. He helped his mother and stepfather run their nightclub, where Tina Turner and James Brown used to play. He […]
Why NYT Dissed the ‘Drone Papers’
Why NYT Dissed the ‘Drone Papers’ When the “Downing Street Memo” surfaced in the UK in 2006 revealing that the intelligence to justify the Iraq War had been “fixed” around the policy, the mainstream U.S. media largely ignored it. The same has now happened with the leak of documents about President Obama’s drone war, writes John […]
U.K. Government Proposes More, Not Less, Electronic Snooping
U.K. Government Proposes More, Not Less, Electronic Snooping Two years after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the vast reach of U.S. and U.K. surveillance, the U.S. Congress rolled back the most manifestly unconstitutional element: the bulk collection of domestic phone data. The U.K. government, on Wednesday, chose to double down instead. The newly unveiled text of what critics are […]
EPA Used Monsanto’s Research to Give Roundup a Pass
EPA Used Monsanto’s Research to Give Roundup a Pass THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY concluded in June that there was “no convincing evidence” that glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the U.S. and the world, is an endocrine disruptor. On the face of it, this was great news, given that some 300 million poundsof the chemical were used on […]
