The Hill reports today that the White House is considering appointing a civilian leader to run the NSA when current director Keith Alexander
New details are emerging about how Edward Snowden gained access to the classified NSA documents he would later leak to the press, and boy are they curious.
Check it out, guys. It’s a creepy revelation about the government spying on your phone calls that didn’t come from Edward Snowden’s NSA leak. Nope, just your standard sketchy CIA arrangements with a telecommunications company—AT&T to be exact.
Google Engineers reply to NSA: “all too often, laws are for the little people”
Posted in: Today's ChiliThere are a couple of Google engineers working for the Google security team replying in kind to the NSA and the GCHQ (on the other side of the ocean) regarding the most recent round of Edward Snowden-leaked documents on government snooping into Google and Yahoo cloud networks. What you’ll find is a rather everyman-level bit […]
Today Apple has released a form which shows the most recent round of government requests for data from Apple on their user base. What you’re going to see is two charts, one that shows account requests, the other that shows device requests, the both of them detailed to a point by Apple insofar as what […]
The NSA directorship might revert from a military to a civilian post, The Hill has reported. The Pentagon “has already drawn up a list of possible civilian candidates for the next NSA director,” the report said, although “no formal decision has been made yet.” The NSA directorship would relinquish authority over Cyber Command, and a […]
Google’s executive chairman Erc Schmidt has publicly rebuked the NSA over recent revelations the US spy agency has tapped the company’s international data cables to conduct surveillance on hundreds of millions of people around the world, including most of the American Internet user base. He has registered formal complaints with the NSA and members of […]
The latest revelation to come out of the famous Snowden papers is that England and mainland Europe all spy on citizens in the same way the NSA does. According to yet another new analysis of the papers–this time by England’s The Guardian–spy agencies in multiple nations collaborate with privately run telecommunications companies to gather data […]
According to AP, Edward Snowden has secured a “technical support” job with a “major” Russian website
Posted in: Today's ChiliAccording to AP, Edward Snowden has secured a "technical support" job with a "major" Russian website and will start work on Friday. Even big-time whistleblowers need to earn some dollar, right?
Lavabit and Silent Circle have joined forces to form the Dark Mail Alliance: a spy-proof email servi
Posted in: Today's ChiliLavabit and Silent Circle have joined forces to form the Dark Mail Alliance: a spy-proof email service that applies peer-to-peer encryption to both the body of your message and its metadata (at least, between Dark Mail accounts).