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
Germany is sending intelligence officials to the U.S. capital today, to discuss this week’s allegations
As relations between the US and Europe become increasingly strained because, uh, the NSA spied on 35 world leaders
As relations between the US and Europe become increasingly strained because, uh, the NSA spied on 35 world leaders
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.
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.). […]
A new consumer app tells you when spy satellites are overhead and potentially taking pictures of your area. SpyMeSat collates publicly available information about low-orbit spy satellites, issues alerts when one is overhead, and delivers technical information about the specific models of satellite that might be checking you out. It also tells you which nation […]
According to the latest revelation by the Washington Post, the NSA isn’t just tracking what you’re doing on the internet. It’s also cataloging who you know, at a scope so expansive that it can barely find a way to store it all.
Privacy is on everyones’ minds in the U.S. since revelations about the NSA exploded. You can’t talk on the phone about some casual pot smoking anymore without your friend making the, "Hi NSA!" joke. And apparently for good reason.
This is embarrassingly funny. The WSJ reports that the NSA’s new Utah data center has suffered 10 meltdowns in the past 13 months because of electrical surges. The NSA is basically using so much power in its spying efforts that it is poetically killing its data centers. Seriously, the surges have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars in machinery.
In the days after 9/11, as the media tried to assume some kind of normalcy, I remember watching talk shows attempt to dissect the week’s unbelievable events. And I remember one guest who kept popping up night after night: Novelist Tom Clancy, who died Tuesday at 66.