Hasta La Gadget!

Let’s just put it this way, the National Security Agency, or NSA for short, has not exactly been the darling government organization to date. Unfortunately for us, the ‘Big Brother’ role that the NSA plays has raised the ire of many a citizen due to privacy issues. In fact, it has been reported that the NSA has already developed a surveillance system which is capable of recording “100 percent” of a foreign country’s telephone calls. This would prove to be a unique engineering triumph on the proverbial (and real) battlefield, as it allows the NSA to rewind and review conversations for up to a month since these conversations happened.

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NSA Can Record ‘100%’ Of A Foreign Country’s Phone Calls original content from Ubergizmo.

Last year a former CIA technical analyst became one of the most popular advocates of online privacy after he leaked a barrage of highly classified documents. Criminal charges await him on his return to the U.S., for leaking documents that exposed U.S. National Security Agency’s wide reaching electronic spying programs. Most people might consider him a hero, but Bill Gates isn’t one of them. The Microsoft co-founder believes that methods used by Snowden to to unveil the NSA’s secrets don’t exactly solicit “admiration” from him.

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Bill Gates Doesn’t Consider Snowden A Hero original content from Ubergizmo.

Yesterday The Intercept posted a massive write up detailing an NSA project called TURBINE, which is said to involve the mass infection of millions of computers globally, as well the … Continue reading

It does’t normally do this, but the NSA just released a statement in response to the recent report about the agency’s habit of infecting millions of computers with malware and impersonating Facebook servers. Unsurprisingly, the NSA is denying everything.

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Last year shocking revelations were made when top secret documents were leaked by Edward Snowden. The National Security Agency’s electronic spying programs came into the spotlight, this caused trouble for major internet companies, some of which were even named in those leaked documents. Since then most companies have publicly stated their opposition to state backed spying, Google is one of them. The company says those revelations underscored the need to strengthen its networks, which is why it will be actively encrypting Google Search by default around the globe.

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Google Search Will Be Encrypted Globally By Default original content from Ubergizmo.