Report: The Next NSA Chief May Be a Civilian

Report: The Next NSA Chief May Be a Civilian

The Hill reports today that the White House is considering appointing a civilian leader to run the NSA when current director Keith Alexander, who has led the agency since 2005, steps down in the spring. This could signal a changing view of the agency’s role, and is seen by some as a promising if small first step toward greater transparency.

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Edward Snowden Tricked NSA Coworkers into Giving Him Their Passwords

Edward Snowden Tricked NSA Coworkers into Giving Him Their Passwords

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.

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Report: The CIA Pays AT&T Over $10 Million a Year to Spy on Phone Calls

Report: The CIA Pays AT&T Over $10 Million a Year to Spy on Phone Calls

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.

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Google Engineers reply to NSA: “all too often, laws are for the little people”

There 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 […]

Apple government user data requests for 2013 revealed

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 […]

NSA directorship to go civilian, report asserts

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 chairman Schmidt speaks out against NSA on data taps

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 […]

GCHQ, European spy agencies conduct mass surveillance via telecoms

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

According 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?

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Lavabit and Silent Circle have joined forces to form the Dark Mail Alliance: a spy-proof email servi

Lavabit 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).

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