Dec 27
In a ruling on federal phone-tracking this week a U.S. District Judge based in New York has ruled that the NSA’s actions thus far have been legal. Judge William Pauley … Continue reading
Dec 26
When the NSA’s phone tracking was revealed, the agency was quick to point out that it’s not listening to phone conversations. But the agency is tracking who you call, when, and for how long — your metadata. Claims that metadata is anonymous have never been fully comforting
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Dec 26
Attempts to edit Edward Snowden out of cyber security history have prompted fierce debate about the role played by the NSA whistleblower, after famed spy museum Bletchley Park opted not … Continue reading
Dec 24
Snowden’s “Alternative Christmas Message”: Why privacy matters [TRANSCRIPT]
Posted in: Today's ChiliEdward Snowden has recorded this year’s “Alternative Christmas Message” for Great Britain’s Channel 4. The video is brief — lasting just 1:43 — with Snowden directly addressing “you and your … Continue reading
Dec 24
Edward Snowden Takes a Victory Lap
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The Washington Post just published the first interview with Edward Snowden since the initial wave of press after the 30-year-old former analyst’s leaks this summer. His main theme: Edward Snowden done good.
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Dec 24
This has been a bad week for RSA after insiders announced that the NSA had paid the company $10 million. The payment was allegedly to make a random number generator … Continue reading
Dec 23
Security firm RSA has categorically denied colluding with the US National Security Agency (NSA) after allegations that the company accepted $10m of government cash in order to make compromised code … Continue reading
Dec 23
We’re all outraged by the NSA’s invasions of privacy, sure—but we don’t perhaps understand exactly how it managed it. This video explains the maths behind the agency’s surveillance.
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Dec 22
The United States Director of National Intelligence has publicly acknowledged — for the first time — the existence of National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance programs dating back to 2001. … Continue reading
Dec 22
NSA Reportedly Paid Software Encryption $10m To Make Their Software More Vulnerable
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At the moment the NSA is getting a lot of flak from people all over the world, not just US citizens, over its spying program that was revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Not only did we find out that the NSA is spying on its own citizens, but now according to the latest reports, it seems that one of the reasons the NSA is able to gather data is because they could have been paying off security firms to insert code into their software that would make it easier for the NSA to access. This is the latest accusation in which it claims that the NSA paid off security company, RSA, about $10 million to sell encryption software that would be vulnerable to surveillance.
While this has been suspected before and mentioned by Snowden, this report by Reuters would make it the first where an actual company has been named, along with possible monetary compensation at the same time. RSA claims that they were unaware of the NSA’s backdoor capabilities, with the company releasing a statement that says, “RSA always acts in the best interest of its customers and under no circumstances does RSA design or enable any back doors in our products […] Decisions about the features and functionality of RSA products are our own.” It was recently that the top executives from tech companies such as Apple, Google, and Yahoo met with President Obama to discuss NSA reforms.
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