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Snowden's biggest revelation: We don't know what power is anymore, nor do we care
It’s been a busy end of 2013 for the Snowden/NSA story: a pair of conflicting judicial rulings on the legality or illegality of the NSA’s phone surveillance program; an Obama-appointed panel recommending mild NSA reforms, including scaling back the NSA’s phone metadata vacuuming program; a rare and remarkably unrevealing interview with Snowden in the Washington Post, in which Snowden declared “Mission Accomplished”; followed up by a rather sad “Snowden Xmas Message” aired on Britain’s Channel 4.
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NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware
According to a new report from Der Spiegel based on internal NSA documents, the signals intelligence agency's elite hacking unit (TAO) is able to conduct sophisticated wiretaps in ways that make Hollywood fantasy look more like reality.
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The 10 NSA leaks you need to understand in 2013
On June 5 of this year, the Guardian began publishing reports of the U.S. National Security Agency’s massive online spying operations. As the world would soon find out, the classified documents were given to the paper by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who is now a fugitive living under asylum in Russia.
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The NSA’s Metadata Program Is Perfectly Constitutional
his month two judges issued two different opinions about the NSA’s controversial bulk metadata collection program. Judge Richard Leon ruled in Washington, D.C., that the program likely violated the law. Judge William Pauley ruled in New York that the program did not violate the law. Judge Pauley’s opinion is both correct legally and more sensible than Judge Leon’s, but it’s not hard to imagine that even our conservative Supreme Court could go the other way.
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The NSA has nearly complete backdoor access to Apple's iPhone
SMS messages, location, camera, hot mic. The NSA can see it all.
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President Obama claims the NSA has never abused its authority. That's false
Time and again since the world learned the extent of what the NSA was doing, government officials have defended the controversial mass surveillance programs by falling back on one talking point: the NSA programs may be all-powerful, but they have never been abused.
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NSA's Secret Toolbox: Unit Offers Spy Gadgets for Every Need
The NSA has a secret unit that produces special equipment ranging from spyware for computers and cell phones to listening posts and USB sticks that work as bugging devices. Here are some excerpts from the intelligence agency's own catalog.
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What Snowden really revealed
Government agencies empowered after 9/11 have been transforming themselves into the real holders of power in the US.
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Global poll: U.S. is regarded as greatest threat to peace
The poll sampled around 1,000 people in each of 65 different countries and a total of 66,805 respondents. In aggregate terms 24 per cent of those polled thought that the United States was the greatest threat to world peace today. The runner-up was Pakistan but only 8 per cent thought it the greatest threat. China came third at 6 per cent. North Korea, Israel and Iran all came in at five per cent.
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The New York Times To Obama: Let Snowden Come Home
The New York Times Editorial Board is out with an opinion piece in support of ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, wherein they call him a "whistleblower" and ask the president to stop vilifying him for exposing alleged wrongdoings within the U.S. intelligence community. The board writes that Snowden should be allowed to return home and be granted a plea bargain, "some form of clemency" or reduced punishment for doing his country "a great service."
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How the NSA hacks PCs, phones, routers, hard disks 'at speed of light': Spy tech catalog leaks
Analysis A leaked NSA cyber-arms catalog has shed light on the technologies US and UK spies use to infiltrate and remotely control PCs, routers, firewalls, phones and software from some of the biggest names in IT. The exploits, often delivered via the web, provide clandestine backdoor access across networks, allowing the intelligence services to carry out man-in-the-middle attacks that conventional security software has no chance of stopping.
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The Privacy Threats of 2014
After Edward Snowden released some of the most significant national security leaks ever, we've been fed a constant stream of sickening revelations. Snowden's message has mostly been listened to, and the year culminated with him even getting a spot on prime time TV to tell us that “a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.”
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NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
According to documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the effort to build “a cryptologically useful quantum computer” — a machine exponentially faster than classical computers — is part of a $79.7 million research program titled, “Penetrating Hard Targets.” Much of the work is hosted under classified contracts at a laboratory in College Park.
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Online Privacy: We Are The Authors Of Our Own Demise
We used to pay with money. Now we pay with our private data. Will we regret it?
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Edward Snowden Evolved From Gaming Geek to Conscientious Whistleblower
The year 2003 was the last that 18-year-old Edward Snowden lived a normal life. Snowden, a computer gaming jock and fan of Japanese animation, was about to enter a decade-long journey deep inside the "black ops" secret spy world of the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA], the Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA] and the National Security Agency [NSA].
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Big Beef: A Big Rip-off
Independent ranchers and animal rights activists don’t agree about much, except that it’s time to stop using federal tax dollars to support the meat lobby.
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Snowden: NSA's indiscriminate spying 'collapsing'
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden wrote in a lengthy "open letter to the people of Brazil" that he's been inspir
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Germany eyes parliamentary inquiry into NSA activities
German politicians across party borders have spoken out in favour of setting up a parliamentary inquiry into the NSA's spying activities in Germany. But what could such a panel achieve?
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Secret court approves three more months of NSA phone snooping
The secret court that oversees the nation’s intelligence activities renewed its approval of the National Security Agency’s telephone-records program on Friday, granting the government a new three-month window to collect data on all Americans’ phone calls. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s office announced the court’s ruling in a statement, though officials didn’t make the ruling itself public, saying it was going through declassification procedures.
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NSA researching quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
The NSA is racing to build a computer that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the world.
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