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'Hello, NSA? I accidentally deleted an email'
Iranian-Dutch filmmaker Bahram Sadeghi accidentally deleted an email message and couldn't get it back, so he decided to call up an organization with a reputation for email storage: the U.S. National Security Agency.
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Washington Post report details how often security agencies break into other networks
The latest national security related revelation to come from the documents leaked by Edward Snowden is an account of how offensive computer operations work, and how many there are. The Washington Post reports that in 2011, 231 took place with about three quarters of them against "top-priority" targets, which its sources indicate include Iran, Russia, China and North Korea.
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$59 billion black budget: US spying detailed in secret report
US spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of September 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information on a range of national security threats, according to the government's top secret budget.
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The world's worst director is raising money for a WikiLeaks/Snowden farce
Controversial WikiLeaks founder and unlikely entertainment superstar Julian Assange has conquered the worlds of war documentaries, television talk shows, dating games, and power ballads. Now he faces his greatest (non-extradition-related) challenge: conquering the Hollywood box office. But this time, he's not alone—he has the world's worst director by his side.
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Brazilian government plans national 'anti-snooping' email system
The Brazilian government is planning to develop a national email system that is protected from the sort of espionage that the US National Security Agency carries out.
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Manning seeks presidential pardon
Chelsea Manning, the US soldier convicted of providing secret files to WikiLeaks in the biggest breach of classified materials in the nation's history, has asked for a presidential pardon, his supporters have said.
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The NSA: Even Worse Than You Think!
They’ve made you paranoid, but that doesn’t mean they’re doing their job.
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How Advanced Is the NSA's Cryptanalysis — And Can We Resist It?
The latest Snowden document is the US intelligence “black budget.” There’s a lot of information in the few pages the Washington Post decided to publish, including an introduction by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. In it, he drops a tantalizing hint: “Also, we are investing in groundbreaking cryptanalytic capabilities to defeat adversarial cryptography and exploit internet traffic.”
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Almost 90 percent of Internet users have taken steps to avoid surveillance
A majority of U.S. Internet users polled in a recent survey report taking steps to remove or mask their digital footprints online, according to a report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project and Carnegie Mellon University.
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Mexico leader to discuss alleged U.S. spying with Obama
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Wednesday he would voice concerns about alleged US spying on his emails to US counterpart Barack Obama, warning it would be illegal if proven true.
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US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet
Through covert partnerships with tech companies, the spy agencies have inserted secret vulnerabilities into encryption software.
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The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back
Bruce Schneier: The NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. We engineers built the internet – and now we have to fix it
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21 Rules For Spies, From A Former NSA Officer
John Schindler, a National Security Agency veteran and now a professor at the Naval War College, tweeted out a series of what he calls Spy Rules
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How US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security
US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails, according to top-secret documents revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden.
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Yahoo will start releasing transparency reports, too
Transparency reporting is getting trendy, guys. Yahoo announced today that it will release a transparency report for data requests from governments around the world — and we’re glad it is.
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Thousands of Berliners join anti-NSA protest
Thousands took to the streets in Berlin Saturday in protests against Internet surveillance activities by the US National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies, and the German government’s perceived lax reaction to them.
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NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data
SPIEGEL has learned from internal NSA documents that the US intelligence agency has the capability of tapping user data from the iPhone, devices using Android as well as BlackBerry, a system previously believed to be highly secure.
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Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011
The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material.
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Yahoo says U.S. sought data on 40,332 user accounts in 2013
In its first government transparency report, the Web firm says it released data on e-mail accounts and content.
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Internet companies in new effort to disclose more on NSA requests
Some of the world's biggest Internet companies on Monday increased efforts to disclose more about their forced cooperation with U.S. spy agencies, and Google Inc asked a court
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