While Americans shuddered over revelations about NSA surveillance earlier this year, hundreds of private companies have been marketing technology that lets anybody be a spy. We’re not talking about a few nanny cams here and there, either. We’re talking about military-grade tools for whomever has the cash.
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The CIA is quietly trying to stop Russia building a series of monitoring stations—devices that form part of Moscow’s version of the Global Positioning System—on US soil.
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The Central Intelligence Agency has been busy aggregating a huge database of international money transfers, according to the Wall Street Journal—and it includes millions of Americans’ financial and personal data.
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It’s been nearly half a year since the first revelations from Edward Snowden’s leak made it into the press, but until now, we’ve been in the dark about exactly how big that leak was. Well, ladies and gentlemen, NSA Director General Keith Alexander is finally shining a light in that direction.
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It seems like every day brings a new "revelation
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A new analysis of the Snowden papers by German magazine Der Spiegel shows GCHQ–the English counterpart to the US’s NSA–served false copies of LinkedIn and Slashdot pages to install malware on a few target individuals’ computers. This latest revelation is not a mass spying program, but a server-heavy, speed-dependent initiative to spy on key individuals […]
The Hill reports today that the White House is considering appointing a civilian leader to run the NSA when current director Keith Alexander
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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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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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There are lots of reasons not to love smog. It stinks. It makes it hard to breathe. It gives children cancer. And, for certain countries, that decreased visibility makes it really hard to spy on your citizens. We’re looking at you, China.
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