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MH17 and big data: preventing the tragedy?
Can big data be applied to the tragic recent shoot-down of MH17? Could lessons from a country-scale analytics dashboard have prevented this tragedy?
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NSA Tried To Delete Court Transcript In Lawsuit Over Deleting Evidence
The National Security Agency secretly tried to delete part of a public court transcript after believing one of its lawyers may have accidentally revealed classified information in a court case over alleged illegal surveillance.
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Edward Snowden: The Untold Story of the Most Wanted Man in the World
The message arrives on my “clean machine,” a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package. “Change in plans,” my contact says. “Be in the lobby of the Hotel ______ by 1 pm. Bring a book and wait for ES to find you.”
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Syria Dropping Off The Internet In 2012 Was Result Of NSA Hack Gone Wrong, Not Syrian Government
You may recall that, back in 2012, Syria suddenly dropped off the face of the internet. It actually happened twice. There was all sorts of speculation about how it happened. At the time, Cloudflare's analysis was one of the most...
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How Boston Police Used Facial Recognition Technology to Spy on Thousands of Music Festival Attendees
Although we look back on it now through a mournful or angry lens, it's easy to forget just how downright disorienting the days and weeks following the Boston Marathon bombing in April of 2013 were. Adding to the surrealism of the drama for me was a night spent on lockdown in my Watertown home while the gun fight between authorities and the alleged bomber raged on blocks away, and the intrusion of heavily armed law enforcement trampling through my front yard during the next morning's manhunt
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Snowden willing to serve prison time in the U.S. if it ‘served the right purpose’
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden told Wired magazine that he would willingly return the United States and face jail time “for the right purpose.” The revelation was part of an in-depth interview Snowden gave to Wired’s James Bamford, published this month.
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5 Lessons Learned From Recent Retail Data Breaches [infographic]
Here are some hard lessons learned for retailers concerning data breaches.
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The Future of Home Security
Is scarier than you think.
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If You Have Facebook Messenger, You Are Being Recorded Even When Not On The Phone
Geez, how much more in bed with Obama and the NSA can Facebook get? My suggestion: If you have messenger on our phone delete it. Then re-download it and read the terms of agreement. This is sheer lunacy. Also for those who didn’t know this one, check out the video below. This news is actually about 5-7 years old. Notice what the government has made cell phone makers do now? Notice you can’t take the battery out?
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ICREACH: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept.
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Watching the Watchers: A Spy's Guide to Berlin
Spooks have left their mark on a once-divided city still thought to be an espionage hotbed.
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CISPA Is Back With A New Name: "CISA"
CISA is an even more toxic bill than the original CISPA bill. CISA stays in line with the original objective of the CISPA bill to strengthen and legitimize the NSA’s surveillance programs. But this time the bill would allow for and encourage sweeping datamining taps on Internet users for the undefined purpose of domestic “cybersecurity”.
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The US government can brand you a terrorist based on a Facebook post. We can't let them make up the rules.
The US government’s web of surveillance is vast and interconnected. Now we know just how opaque, inefficient and discriminatory it can be. As we were reminded again just this week, you can be pulled into the National Security Agency’s database quietly and quickly, and the consequences can be long and enduring. Through ICREACH, a Google-style search engine created for the intelligence community, the NSA provides data on private communications to 23 government agencies. More than 1,000 analysts...
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The Open Source Tool That Lets You Send Encrypted Emails to Anyone
In the wake of the mass NSA surveillance scandal sparked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, all sorts of hackers, academics, startups, and major corporations are working to build tools that let us more easily secure our email messages and other online communications. Dozens of projects have emerged in recent months, ranging from the email client Mailpile…
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The NSA Was Going to Fine Yahoo $250K a Day If It Didn't Join PRISM
When we first learned about NSA metadata collection, we wondered how readily the biggest tech companies acquiesced to the government. Today we start to find out. This is the story of how Yahoo was coerced into PRISM, as told by court documents cited by the Washington Post today.
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National Insecurity
"YOU'RE STILLA SUPERPOWER," a top diplomat from one of America's most dependable Middle Eastern allies said to me in July of this year, "but you no longer know how to act like one." He was reflecting on America's position in the world almost halfway into President Barack Obama's second term. Fresh in his mind was the extraordinary string of errors (schizophrenic Egypt policy, bipolar Syria policy), missteps (zero Libya post-intervention strategy, alienation of allies in the Middle East...
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New Zealand Launched Mass Surveillance Project While Publicly Denying It
he New Zealand spy agency, the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), worked in 2012 and 2013 to implement a mass metadata surveillance system even as top government officials publicly insisted no such program was being planned and would not be legally permitted.
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US Court Renews NSA Phone Surveillance Program
A federal court renewed an order allowing the NSA to collect phone records for virtually all calls made within the United States
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Government demands for Google user data skyrocket
Google says it's getting more requests for user data than ever before, while simultaneously pressuring the US government to change how it regulates electronic communications.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook on Snowden, surveillance, sweatshops, and the threats to the planet
The usually tight-lipped chief executive of Apple opened up to PBS' Charlie Rose in a two-part interview. Here's the second part.
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