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NSA slides reveal: iPhone users are all ZOMBIES
OK, not literally. Plus: Our favourite spooks show us how to hack an iPhone – report
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The Rest of the Snowden Files Should Be Destroyed
The leaks have done a lot of good. But a lot more damage could be done.
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Facebook wants to be specific about which data the government has asked it for
Facebook is joining other companies in pressuring the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court—the secret court that oversees National Security Agency surveillance programs like PRISM—to allow the release of more specific information about government information requests.
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How the feds asked Microsoft to backdoor BitLocker, their full-disk encryption tool
As the astonishing news that the NSA spent $250M/year on a sabotage program directed against commercial security systems spreads, more details keep emerging.
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Yahoo CEO Mayer: we faced jail if we revealed NSA surveillance secrets
Mark Zuckerberg joins Mayer in hitting back at critics of tech companies, saying US government did 'bad job' of balancing people's privacy and duty to protect.
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Did the FBI Lean On Microsoft for Access to Its Encryption Software?
The NSA is reportedly not the only government agency asking tech companies for help in cracking technology to access user data. Sources say the FBI has a history of requesting digital backdoors, which are generally understood as a hidden vulnerability in a program that would, in theory, let the agency peek into suspects' computers and communications.
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NSA violated privacy protections from 2006 to 2009, pins blame on confusion
By now, it's no secret that the NSA has courted privacy violations, but new documents divulge just how long such incidents have occurred.
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Kim Dotcom sues New Zealand over electronic snooping
The Megaupload founder is suing the New Zealand government for $4.8 million, claiming it illegally spied on him in advance of a raid on his house, says Wired.
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Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world
By default, Android devices phone home, copying Wi-Fi passwords to Google servers. While they may be encrypted, it seems fairly obvious that Google can read these Wi-Fi passwords. And if Google can read them, the U.S. government can compel them to turn over the passwords. WPA2 encryption? Extra-long random password? It's all meaningless.
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How the US government inadvertently created Wikileaks
I was in Germany for Chaos Congress 2009, a hacker conference, and after attending a series of talks I was headed back to my hotel when I spotted Julian Assange. This predated my working as a proje...
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NSA Allegedly Spies On International Credit Card Transactions
Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper – increasingly joining the NSA revelations train – reports today that the intelligence agency is interested in international credit card transactions and may have found a way to monitor payments processed by companies including Visa. Spiegel alleges it has even set up its own financial database to track money flows.
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Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet
Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington's widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward politically fracturing a global network built with minimal interference by governments.
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Fugitive Snowden in running for European rights prize
Fugitive U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden is in the running for a European human rights prize whose past winners include Nelson Mandela and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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An Open Letter to the Next Edward Snowden
In the national security state, whistleblowers may be some of the last vanguards of the old democratic system.
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U.S. secret surveillance court rules phone metadata collection lawful
A U.S. secret surveillance court has ruled the mass collection of telephone call data by the U.S. government as lawful, despite fears that the practice may fall in breach of Fourth Amendment rights against unwarranted searches.
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U.S. to seize Manhattan skyscraper secretly owned by Iran
The U.S. government is set to seize a Manhattan skyscraper that prosecutors say is secretly owned and controlled by the Iranian government.
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The NSA Has No Solution For The Real 'Snowden Problem' And It's Only Going To Get Worse
The NSA still has no idea what Snowden took or what leak is going to be revealed next. It also seemingly has no contingency plan for the sort of situation any forward-thinking intelligence agency should realize is a distinct possibility.
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Facebook's Zuckerberg says U.S. spying hurt users' trust
Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said revelations about U.S. government surveillance hurt users' trust in Internet companies and that knowing more about the programs would help relieve some of the public concerns.
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Paranoia or privacy erosion? A primer on what's at stake
If Google and Apple already have all this information about us, do we really care if the NSA does too?
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Facebook's Zuckerberg says U.S. spying hurt users' trust
Facebook Blames Government Spying for Lack of User Trust
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