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Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters
Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart reveal for the first time how the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups with tactics ranging from covert surveillance to prosecution.
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Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network
Edward Snowden revealed the agency’s phone-record tracking program. But thanks to “precomputed contact chaining,” that database was much more powerful than anyone knew.
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Edward Snowden on 9/11 and why he joined the army: ‘Now, finally, there was a fight’
In an extract from his memoir, the US whistleblower shares his experiences on the day the twin towers fell – and the aftermath that led him to join up
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'They wanted me gone': Edward Snowden tells of whistleblowing, his AI fears and six years in Russia
The man whose state surveillance revelations rocked the world speaks exclusively to the Guardian about his new life and concerns for the future. The world’s most famous whistleblower, Edward Snowden, says he has detected a softening in public hostility towards him in the US over his disclosure of top-secret documents that revealed the extent of the global surveillance programmes run by American and British spy agencies.
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NSA improperly collected Americans’ phone records for a second time, documents reveal
Newly released documents reveal the National Security Agency improperly collected Americans’ call records for a second time, just months after the agency was forced to purge hundreds of millions of collected calls and text records it unlawfully obtained. The document, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, shows the NSA had collected a “larger than expected” number of call detail records from one of the U.S. phone providers, though the redacted document did not reveal which provider nor how many records were improperly collected.
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This Windows Flaw Is So Bad, Even the NSA Is Begging You to Update
It’s not every day that the National Security Agency urges you to update your computer.
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Stolen NSA hacking tool now victimizing US cities, report says
A hacking tool developed by the US National Security Agency is now being used to shut down American cities and towns, says a Saturday report in The New York Times. Code-named EternalBlue, the hacking exploit involves malicious software and was leaked in 2017 by a group called Shadow Brokers. Hackers used the tool that same year in the worldwide WannaCry ransomware attacks, which locked up computer systems at hospitals, banks and phone companies and required a ransom to set the networks free.
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China eats NSA's lunch, uses its zero-days for a year
Hobbs, Kerckhoffs and Shannon were right: Security by obscurity is no security at all. Chinese state-sponsored hackers have been making fools of the US National Security Agency. It turns out that Shadow Brokers weren’t the first to steal the NSA’s secret exploits. "NObody But US"—NOBUS, the NSA doctrine of not reporting vulnerabilities so it can keep them for itself—is once again under fire. It’s now believed that China has been using the NSA’s own spy tools since early 2016—months before any previously known leak. You gotta be kidding me! Nope. In this week’s Security Blogwatch, we jest not.
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NSA Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program
The National Security Agency has recommended that the White House abandon a U.S. surveillance program that collects information about Americans’ phone calls and text messages, saying the logistical and legal burdens of keeping it outweigh its intelligence benefits.
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NSA no longer spying on phone records of US citizens, legislation may not be renewed
The NSA spying program to analyze logs of the domestic calls and texts of US citizens is reportedly no longer in use, and the legislation which made it legal may not be renewed when it expires at the end of the year. The National Security Agency’s mass monitoring of logs of phone calls and texts relating to US citizens first began in 2006, some five years after the 9/11 attacks.
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Disputed N.S.A. Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says
The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans’ domestic calls and texts, according to a senior Republican congressional aide, halting a program that has touched off disputes about privacy and the rule of law since the Sept. 11 attacks. The agency has not used the system in months, and the Trump administration might not ask Congress to renew its legal authority, which is set to expire at the end of the year, according to the aide, Luke Murry, the House minority leader’s national security adviser.
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NSA staffer takes top-secret hacking tools home ‘to study’, gets 66 months
Taking work-related documents home to study might get you a promotion and pay raise at some jobs, but not when your employer is the National Security Agency (NSA) – and most certainly not when those materials are classified. Former NSA employee Nghia Hoang Pho, 68 – a naturalized US citizen who was originally from Vietnam but who’d been living in Ellicott City, Maryland – was sentenced last week to 66 months in prison plus three years of supervised release for willful retention of classified national defense information.
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The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really?
In our two-part series, Ars looks at what Snowden's disclosures have wrought politically and institutionally.
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Australia's intelligence overseer frets decryption abuse
Powerful immunities, negotiable backdoors. No exclusions for conduct that causes serious loss of, or damage to, property; or causes significant financial loss to another person.” No requirement for agencies to keep any records of, or notify anyone about, what civil immunities it offered providers.
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ACLU: The NSA Continues to Violate Americans’ Internet Privacy Rights
A federal court will be scrutinizing one of the National Security Agency’s worst spying programs on Monday. The case has the potential to restore crucial privacy protections for the millions of Americans who use the internet to communicate with family, friends, and others overseas.
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Former NSA contractor Reality Winner sentenced to 5+ years in prison
Former NSA contractor Reality Winner sentenced to 5+ years in prison for leaking secret report on Russian election hacking to The Intercept.
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Before Snowden, an NSA Spy Tried to Incite Change From the Inside. He Called Himself the “Curmudgeon” of Signals Intelligence
Rahe Clancy thought the NSA had become too corporate. So he wrote an agitated series of missives — for the agency. By Peter Maass.
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The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
These fortress-like AT&T buildings are central to a secret NSA program that has monitored billions of communications, documents and sources reveal.
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On 5th anniversary of Snowden leak, one state effectively bans the NSA
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden marks five years in exile next month. And 11 days after the anniversary of his initial public surveillance disclosure, the first state will implement a law that arguably cuts the NSA off from local water and electricity.
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NSA collected 500 million U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise
The U.S. National Security Agency collected more than 500 million phone call records of Americans last year, more than triple gathered in 2016, a U.S. intelligence agency report released on Friday said.
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