Oct 26
Germany is sending intelligence officials to the U.S. capital today, to discuss this week’s allegati
Posted in: Today's ChiliGermany is sending intelligence officials to the U.S. capital today, to discuss this week’s allegations
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Oct 25
The completely competent folks of the NSA are saying that its nuked website
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Oct 25
The NSA has been a big source of controversy this year, having been responsible for a variety of spying activities both domestically and abroad. The agency’s activities were brought to light in several Edward Snowden leaks, among others, and the legality of such measures have been the source of much public discussion. Now the tables […]
Oct 25
The NSA’s Website Is Down
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NSA.gov was unresponsive late Friday afternoon due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS), according to packs of Anonymous-types on Twitter. Indeed the website would not load for us when we tried, but it’s hard to know why until we get confirmation from the NSA. If it is indeed a DDoS attack on the NSA, it would not be the first.
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Oct 25
As relations between the US and Europe become increasingly strained because, uh, the NSA spied on 35 world leaders
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Oct 25
As relations between the US and Europe become increasingly strained because, uh, the NSA spied on 35 world leaders
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Oct 24
The recent dustup over the NSA maybe monitoring German chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone looks like peanuts compared to the latest Snowden-fueled revelation. It turns out, the agency has actually been spying on 35 world leaders—three five!—and encouraging other departments to shovel more contact information their way.
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Oct 23
Everybody knows that this year’s NSA revelations are a big deal. The whole debacle’s already prompted the president to order reforms
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Oct 21
In early August, Silent Circle shutdown its encrypted email service, having been spooked by the government-spurred Lavabit closure in late summer. Now another service is following suit, with CryptoSeal announcing that its Privacy VPN service has been completely shuttered due to concerns about government mandates and privacy violations. The specific cause of the shutdown involves […]
Oct 21
CISPA, the bill that grants legal immunity to large information-collecting companies from being sued for sharing the personally identifying information of all their customers with the US government, has risen from the grave once again. The “Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act” was introduced in the Senate by Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.). […]
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