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Snowden Says NSA Is Lying When It Claims He Didn't Raise Concerns Through The Proper Channels
In a new interview with Vanity Fair magazine, Ed Snowden seems to be hitting back at nearly every bogus claim made by his critics. He kicks it off by responding to the claims that if he were a real whistleblower, he should have just gone through...
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Why Is The Government Killing Millions Of Animals?
It was reported last year that the U.S. government killed 4 million wild animals! Why did they do this? Trace explains their reasoning, and why these killings are so controversial.
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The NSA Won't Hand Over Data Because It Literally Can't Keep Track Of It
Last week, a US District judge ordered the NSA to stop destroying data that pertains to a pre-Snowden lawsuit against the agency. There’s just one teensy weensy problem with that: Apparently NSA’s systems handle so much data that it literally cannot find what it’s supposed to stop deleting.
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A Party At The Last Magazine: An Exclusive Excerpt From Michael Hastings' New Novel
Next week marks the publication of The Last Magazine, the late BuzzFeed reporter’s first novel — as well as the first anniversary of his death. We’re celebrating his work and his life with these chapters, chronicling a book party that totally in no way took place in the offices of Newsweek.
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‘Inventing terrorists’: New study reveals FBI set up terrorism-related prosecutions
Nearly 95 per cent of terrorist arrests have been the result of FBI foiling its own entrapment plots as a part of the so-called post-9/11 War on Terror, a new study revealed.
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Spying Together: Germany's Deep Cooperation with the NSA
Cooperation between Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, and America's NSA is deeper than previously believed. German agents appear to have crossed into constitutionally questionable territory.
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Hackers reverse-engineer NSA's leaked bugging devices
Using documents leaked by Edward Snowden and a new form of radio, hackers have recreated the bugs that US spies plant to steal personal information
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Chicago to Implement Street Pole Spy Boxes in the Name of ‘Safety’
Planners from the Urban Center for Computation and Data, part of a joint initiative between the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, are implementing a project called “Array of things,” in which spy boxes disguised on light poles will collect data. The project involves installing “curled metal fixtures,” or data-collecting-sensor boxes, throughout Michigan Avenue, a swanky part of Chicago.
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Fundraiser to support 'NSA-proof' email gets off to a roaring start
ProtonMail, an encrypted email service that advertises itself as “NSA-proof,” launched to much acclaim about a month ago. Since then, the company says it has signed up 200,000 users – and it just launched a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo because, co-founder Andy Yen says, “that is the best way to get financing and also keep ProtonMail independent.”
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Worried about NSA, Germany kills government contract with Verizon
Germany has opted not to renew its government contract with Verizon, citing concerns over spying by the National Security Agency. The contract will expire in 2015, and the move marks a rare concrete step from Berlin following the October 2013 revelations that the NSA was spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Airship flies above NSA data center, decries “Illegal Spying Below”
Broad coalition petitions the president to end mass surveillance.
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Remaining Snowden docs will be released to avert 'unspecified US war'
All the remaining Snowden documents will be released next month, according to whistle-blowing site Cryptome, which said in a tweet that the release of the info by unnamed third parties would be necessary to head off an unnamed "war".
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Use Tor? Read the Tails website? You're on the NSA's 'EXTREMIST' list
A detailed analysis of the NSA's XKeyscore snooping software has shown the extent of the paranoid agency's targeting of Tor users, Linux Journal readers and and anyone else interested in online privacy.
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NSA: Linux Journal is an "extremist forum" and its readers get flagged for extra surveillance
A new story published on the German site Tagesschau and followed up by BoingBoing and DasErste.de has uncovered some shocking details about who the NSA targets for surveillance including visitors to Linux Journal itself.
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Edward Snowden should have right to legal defence in US, says Hillary Clinton
The former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has said Edward Snowden should have the right to launch a legal and public defence of his decision to leak top-secret documents if he returns to the United States.
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German IT specialist spied on by NSA
A German student who ran a server that hid people's IP addresses to help them stay anonymous was targeted by the United States National Security Agency (NSA). What are Germany's means for holding the NSA accountable?
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In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are
Files provided by Edward Snowden show the extent ordinary Web users get caught in the net of surveillance.
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New Snowden leak: Of 160,000 intercepted messages, only 10% from offical targets
Late Saturday night, the Washington Post dropped a bombshell of a report related to a trove of documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The documents included 160,000 e-mail and instant-message conversations intercepted by the NSA, as well as 7,900 documents taken from more than 11,000 online accounts. The Washington Post says that the information spans from 2009 to 2012.
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To stop terrorism, TSA requires that gadgets have power
Fliers to the US must prove their gadgets work.
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Edward Snowden wants to return to US in 'medium to long term', says lawyer - video
Edward Snowden's lawyer in Germany says the NSA whistleblower wishes to return to the US in the 'medium to long term'. Wolfgang Kaleck says Snowden is living in 'relative safety' in Russia and avoiding any activities that threaten his security. Kaleck says Snowden wants the focus not to be on him as a person but rather the privacy issues at stake
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