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IRS Also Secretly Got Intelligence Info And Was Told To Launder It
Reuters continues to reveal incredible details of how the intelligence community (NSA, FBI, CIA, etc.) has been sharing information with other government agencies -- mainly via the DEA's Special Operations Division (SOD) and then telling those who use that info to do law enforcement work to "launder" their own investigation to hide where they got the information from.
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Lavabit, email service Snowden reportedly used, abruptly shuts down
Remember when word circulated that Edward Snowden was using Lavabit, an email service that purports to provide better privacy and security for users than popular web-based free services like Gmail? Lavabit's owner has shut down the service, and posted a message on the lavabit.com home page today about wanting to avoid "being complicit in crimes against the American people."
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How the NSA plans to avoid future leaks: replace employees with machines
NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander might have had a difficult time recruiting hackers at the Def Con and Black Hat security conferences, but he might not need to recruit again anytime soon. Speaking at a cybersecurity conference in New York City — where he sat down with the heads of the FBI and CIA — he told an audience that he'd like to replace the vast majority of his employees and contractors with machines. No joke.
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President Obama meets with Tim Cook, other execs over government surveillance
U.S. President Barack Obama met with Apple CEO Tim Cook and other technology company executives today to discuss government surveillance, according to a report from Politico.
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NSA secrets kill our trust
Bruce Schneier: Both government agencies and corporations have cloaked themselves in so much secrecy that it's impossible to verify anything they say.
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Lavabit founder has stopped using email
Earlier this week, Xeni reported on the shutdown of Lavabit, the email provider used by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Ladar Levison, Lavabit's founder, has given an interview to Forbes about his reasoning for the shutdown, which comes -- apparently -- as a result of a secret NSA search-warrant complete with a gag order.
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Obama Promises Reform of NSA Spying, But the Devil Will Be in the Details
Earlier today, President Obama held a press conference to address the growing public concern over the National Security Agency’s surveillance practices. We are glad to see that the Administration has been forced to address the matter publicly as a result of the sustained public pressure from concerned voters as well as the ongoing press coverage of this issue.
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Don’t worry, NSA says—we only “touch” 1.6% of daily global Internet traffic
New seven-page document from Ft. Meade defends agency's activities and policies.
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MAD Magazine Uses Iconic Characters to Hit Obama Over Gov’t Surveillance
Now they’ve gone and done it. MAD Magazine has finally decided to weigh in the Obama administration’s multiple government surveillance programs with a cover featuring the president and – you guessed it – the spies from the classic Spy Vs. Spy comics.
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Will you trust Kim Dotcom's Mega with your email?
With three major secure email services down, Mega sees a market opportunity.
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The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet
Technology companies have to fight for their users, or they'll eventually lose them.
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Former NSA chief predicts surveillance programs will expand
The former head of the National Security Agency said Sunday that not only does ending the NSA’s domestic surveillance programs seems unlikely, but he images those endeavors could expand in scope during the coming years.
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DOJ Decided To Ratchet Up Case Against Aaron Swartz Because He Spoke Out Publicly About Being Innocent
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the MIT report concerning the case against Aaron Swartz. A number of people have picked up on some really questionable things in the report.
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FBI suspected of cyber-attack on anonymous web-hosting and email services
Malicious software, thought to have originated from the FBI and able to harvest private data, has been found in web sites hosted anonymously by the Freedom Hosting Company.
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On Friday, the President Treated Us Like Five-Year-Olds
Obama's remarks on Friday about Edward Snowden and the surveillance state were singularly disingenuous.
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NSA hunger demands 29 petabytes of data a day
The intelligence agency claims it can respect both national security and civil liberties.
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Edward Snowden Speaks to NY Times
In the course of reporting his profile of Laura Poitras, Peter Maass conducted an encrypted question-and-answer session, for which Poitras served as intermediary, with Edward J. Snowden. Below is a full transcript of that conversation.
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Feds Board Wrong Plane in Blocking US Airways–American Deal
It may be a sign of just how truly messed up our air-travel system is that the Department of Justice is filing suit to keep US Airways alive. But that’s the logic in the feds’ lawsuit, joined by several states and announced Tuesday, to stop US Airways from merging with the bankrupt American Airlines.
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Documents show Secret Service kept tab of Swartz
U.S. Secret Service documents show that the agency played a key role in the investigation of free-information activist Aaron Swartz and watched his case closely until he committed suicide.
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Yes, Gmail users have an expectation of privacy
Consumer groups are up in arms today over a motion Google made in June to dismiss a class-action lawsuit alleging that Gmail violates federal and state wiretapping laws by scanning emails at the...
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