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Hacking as Offensive Counterintelligence
Washington, DC, is reeling from revelations that the Office of Personnel Management, the Federal government's HR hub, has been extensively hacked. OPM is an obscure but important agency since it ho...
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U.S. tech companies expected to lose more than $35 billion due to NSA spying
U.S. companies will likely lose more than $35 billion in foreign business as a result of the vast NSA-surveillance operations revealed by Edward Snowden, according to a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). "Foreign customers are shunning U.S. companies," the report asserts, causing American businesses to lose out on foreign contracts and pushing other countries to create protectionist policies that block American businesses out of foreign markets.
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If the FBI has a 'backdoor' to Facebook or Apple encryption we are less safe
The FBI must decide which is more important: strong cybersecurity or the ability to read every message we send
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Bill C-51 Just passed. Where do we go from here?
This just in from Ottawa: The Senate just passed Bill C-51 today by 44-28, despite massive opposition from hundreds of thousands of everyday Canadians and the country’s top privacy experts...
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Obama lawyers asked secret court to ignore public court's decision on spying
Justice Department’s national security chief cites six-month transition period in the USA Freedom Act as a reason to turn the bulk surveillance spigot back on
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Reason Magazine Subpoena Threatens Free Speech
The U.S. government is more interested in punishing dissent than protecting judges.
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Mass snooping fake mobile towers 'uncovered in UK' - BBC News
Fake mobile towers that scoop up data from passing phones are routinely being used in London, an investigation by Sky News suggests.
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They're beating us at our own game!
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Dems declare cybersecurity war
Democrats are in an uproar over Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s surprise move to tie cybersecurity to a massive defense bill...
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Remember that secret spy summit Apple and Google attended? Here's what happened
"Chatham House rules" meant everyone could speak freely as it was off the record. Here's what was said, in an overview.
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Snowden Doc Search
Currently only 459 documents to search against, but enough for some interesting reading.
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Patriot Act Reform Curbed NSA; Cybersecurity Bill Would Empower It
Only a week after Congress passed reforms to the Patriot Act ending the National Security Agency’s metadata phone collection program, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, with the help of big business allies, is moving to expand domestic surveillance of a different type...
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When the U.S. Government Classifies People’s Memories
For years, Guantanamo detainees couldn’t publicly tell their own stories. That’s starting to change.
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White House Confirms Second Government Data Breach Targeting Sensitive Military, Intelligence Personnel Data
The White House has confirmed that the Office of Personnel Management has suffered a second cyber attack, likely carried out by the same hackers who infiltrated the OPM's server and stole 4.2 million federal employees' data, according to the New York Times.
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‘The Art of Dissent’
The filmmaker Laura Poitras documents the dissidents Ai Weiwei and Jacob Appelbaum as they collaborate on an art project.
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On ethics in information technology
Our field requires ethical frameworks we accept, instead of rules that remain technically unbroken while we hackers violate their spirit with as much ingenuity as we can muster.
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A government surveillance bill by any other name is just as dangerous
The CISA ‘cybersecurity’ bill is really a way to blow another massive hole in Americans’ privacy. By Trevor Timm
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‘Undemocratic, unnecessary, intolerable’… The official verdict on Britain’s state snoopers
The British are remarkably unconcerned about phone hacking and GCHQ snooping. Could a new report on our intelligence agencies wake us up?
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Britain pulls out spies as Russia, China crack Snowden files - report
Britain has pulled out agents from live operations in "hostile countries" after Russia and China cracked top-secret information contained in files leaked by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the Sunday Times reported.
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The Police Are Scanning the Faces of Every Single Person at Download [Festival]
The festival will be the first in the UK to allow the police to use facial recognition software.
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