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By cracking cellphone code, NSA has capacity for decoding private conversations
The cellphone encryption technology used most widely across the world can be easily defeated by the National Security Agency, an internal document shows, giving the agency the means to decode most of the billions of calls and texts that travel over public airwaves every day.
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Lawsuit accuses IBM of hiding China risks amid NSA spy scandal
NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM Corp has been sued by a shareholder who accused it of concealing how its ties to what became a major U.S. spying scandal reduced business in China and ultimately caused its market
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Spycrash: 5 CIA operations that went south -- spectacularly.
The Associated Press yesterday revealed that Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent, was working for the CIA when he disappeared on Iran in March 2007.
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The NSA: An Inside View
In which I relate my experience as an NSA employee and impart my thoughts on the policies in place, my former coworkers, and the current cyber war.
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IBM faces shareholder lawsuit over cooperation with NSA
Lawsuit accuses the company of concealing that involvement with a controversial surveillance led to loss of sales and stock price decline.
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Don't be fooled by the 60 Minutes report on the NSA
Tonight's episode of 60 Minutes featured what CBS promised was an unusual inside look at the secretive National Security Agency, but instead offered a routine look at the agency's propaganda with no critical voices.
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Judge: NSA domestic phone data-mining ruled unconstitutional
A federal judge says he believes the NSA collection of domestic telephone communication records is unconstitutional.
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An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'A Genius Among Geniuses'
Perhaps Edward Snowden's hoodie should have raised suspicions. The black sweatshirt sold by the civil libertarian Electronic Frontier Foundation featured a parody of the National Security Agency's logo, with the traditional key in an eagle's claws replaced by a collection of AT&T cables, and eavesdropping headphones covering the menacing bird's ears.
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Edward Snowden doesn’t show up once in Google’s list of top 2013 searches
The biggest tech policy story of the year is missing from the search giant's year-in-review.
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Former Top NSA Official: "We Are Now In A Police State"
"This is a total corruption of the justice system not only in our country but around the world. The source of the info is at the bottom of each slide. This is a totalitarian process – means we are now in a police state."
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NSA Takes a Hit in Fight for American Public Opinion
The National Security Agency began the week with a public relations coup: a favorable segment on the spy agency by the CBS News program 60 Minutes. The segment was authored by CBS correspondent John Miller, an intelligence community veteran and former public affairs officer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who failed to disclose to viewers that he was eyeing a return to his career in law enforcement when the episode aired, a fact that was first reported by the New York Post.
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NSA review panel releases findings on US surveillance practices – live
Read the latest blog summary live
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How Britain exported next-generation surveillance
Thousands of cameras, millions of photographs, terabytes of data. You’re tracked, wherever you go.
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EPA official, who pretended to work for CIA, sentenced to 32 months
John C. Beale skipped out on work for years by pretending to work for the CIA.
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Finland implements fibers to avoid spying from NSA
Countries ranging from France to Finland have started responding to NSA revelations in different ways, ranging from new fiber optic cables to government-backed industrial espionage. By 2015, some European countries will start implementing surveillance programs that go even beyond the NSA — and are explicitly meant to protect not only national security, but also economic interests.
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NSA paid $10 million to put their backdoor in RSA encryption
As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.
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AT&T to join Verizon in government data-request disclosures
AT&T Inc will join rival Verizon Communications in disclosing details on government requests for customer data starting in 2014, after investors called on the two largest U.S. carriers to reveal more about controversial spying operations. New York-based Verizon, the second-largest U.S. telephone company by revenue, unveiled its move on Thursday following pressure from activist investors concerned about the extent of network operators' roles in systematic government surveillance.
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Dismantling the Surveillance State
A series of court rulings will determine if Americans enjoy any meaningful constitutional protection against government monitoring in the information age.
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Snowden ally Appelbaum claims his Berlin apartment was invaded
Jacob Appelbaum, a US Internet activist and one of the people with access to Edward Snowden's documents, has told a Berlin paper that his apartment was broken into, saying he suspected US involvement.
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Conspiracy Theories that Turned Out to be True (infographic)
Just because you think something is a conspiracy doesn't mean that it might not be true.
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