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Pentagon and intelligence community chiefs have urged Obama to remove the head of the NSA
The heads of the Pentagon and the nation’s intelligence community have recommended to President Obama that the director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Michael S. Rogers, be removed. The recommendation, delivered to the White House in last month, was made by Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., according to several U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
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President Obama Should Stop NSA Spying Before It's Too Late
President Obama has just 71 days until Donald Trump is inaugurated as our next commander-in-chief. That means he has a matter of weeks to do one thing that could help prevent the United States from veering into fascism: declassifying and dismantling as much of the federal government’s unaccountable, secretive, mass surveillance state as he can — before Trump is the one running it.
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New leak may show if you were hacked by the NSA
Shadow Brokers—the name used by a person or group that created seismic waves in August when it published some of the National Security Agency's most elite hacking tools—is back with a new leak that the group says reveals hundreds of organizations targeted by the NSA over more than a decade. "TheShadowBrokers is having special trick or treat for Amerikanskis tonight," said the Monday morning post, which was signed by the same encryption key used in the August posts. "Many missions into your networks is/was coming from these ip addresses."
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New leak may show if you were hacked by the NSA
Shadow Brokers identifies hundreds of organizations it claims were hacked by NSA.
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Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for US intelligence
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The company complied with a classified U.S. government directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said two former employees and a third person apprised of the events.
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These Are Supposedly The Words That Make The NSA Think You're A Terrorist
This is an (admittedly huge) list of words that supposedly cause the NSA to flag you as a potential terrorist if you over-use them in an email. We found this on Reddit, where James Bamford, a veteran reporter with 30 years experience covering the NSA, is answering questions from the community. He just wrote a big profile for Wired on NSA director Keith Alexander that's really good and well worth a read.
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Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal
As Barack Obama’s second term comes to an end, an increasingly loud chorus of voices are calling for a dramatic final presidential act: the pardoning of..
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The NSA’s British Base at the Heart of U.S. Targeted Killing
The narrow roads are quiet and winding, surrounded by rolling green fields and few visible signs of life beyond the occasional herd of sheep. But on the horizon, massive white golf ball-like domes protrude from the earth, protected behind a perimeter fence that is topped with piercing razor wire. Here, in the heart of the tranquil English countryside, is the National Security Agency’s largest overseas spying base.
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After 27 Years, Reporter Who Exposed ECHELON Finds Vindication in Snowden Archive
Ever since legendary British investigative journalist Duncan Campbell told the world in a 1988 magazine article about ECHELON — a massive, automated surveillance dragnet that indiscriminately intercepted phone and Internet data from communications satellites — Western intelligence officials have refused to acknowledge that it existed. Despite sporadic continuing press reports, people who complained about the program — which, as Campbell disclosed...
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The Raid
In Bungled Spying Operation, NSA Targeted Pro-Democracy Campaigner. How a middle-aged pro-democracy activist was falsely accused of terrorism and placed on a top-secret NSA surveillance list. By Ryan Gallagher and Nicky Hager.
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Stolen NSA hacking tools reportedly on sale for $8,000
It’s been a rough week for the NSA, to say the least. Last week, a group of hackers collectively known as The Shadow Brokers allegedly stole and released a treasure trove of NSA hacking tools…
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Commentary: Evidence points to another Snowden at the NSA
In the summer of 1972, state-of-the-art campaign spying consisted of amateur burglars, armed with duct tape and microphones, penetrating the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Today, amateur burglars have been replaced by cyberspies, who penetrated the DNC armed with computers and sophisticated hacking tools.
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New Snowden Documents Links Shadow Brokers Leak to Official NSA Hacking Tools
The Intercept has published today new Snowden documents that reveal an official connection between official NSA cyber-weapons and the malware dumped by The Shadow Brokers.
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Here's why the NSA won't release a 'smoking gun' implicating Russia in these major hacks
A "smoking gun" clearly pointing the finger at Russia — or some other nation — for a cyberattack bears a much larger risk of blowing future operations.
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Powerful NSA hacking tools have been revealed online
The cache mysteriously surfaced over the weekend and appears to be legitimate.
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NSA website recovers from outage amid intrigue
A nearly daylong outage that ended Tuesday came amid much speculation about an alleged theft of the agency's cyber tools.
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Hackers Say They Hacked NSA-Linked Group, Want 1 Million Bitcoins to Share More
A mysterious group claims to have stolen some hacking tools allegedly belonging to the NSA.
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Edward Snowden wants to build an iPhone case that will tell you if the NSA is listening
Edward Snowden wants you to know at all times whether the NSA is keeping tabs on your iPhone. Along with Andrew Huang, his coauthor and fellow hacker, Snowden presented his research on phone "hardware introspection" at MIT, which aims to give users the ability to see whether their phone is sending out secret signals to an intelligence agency. "This work aims to give journalists the tools to know when their smart phones are tracking or disclosing their location when the devices are supposed to be in airplane mode," the pair wrote in their technical paper.
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3 Years Later, the Snowden Leaks Have Changed How the World Sees NSA Surveillance
Three years ago today, the world got powerful confirmation that the NSA was spying on the digital lives of hundreds of millions of innocent people. It started with a secret order written by the FISA court authorizing the mass surveillance of Verizon Business telephone records—an order that members of Congress quickly confirmed was similar to orders that had been issued every 3 months for years. Over the next year, we saw a steady drumbeat of damning evidence, creating a detailed, horrifying picture of an intelligence agency unrestrained by Congress and shielded from public oversight by a broken classification system.
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President Obama, pardon Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning
When it comes to civil liberties, Obama has made grievous mistakes. To salvage his reputation, he should exonerate the two greatest whistleblowers of our age. As he wraps up his presidency, it’s time for Barack Obama to seriously consider pardoning whistleblowers Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. Last week, Manning marked her six-year anniversary of being behind bars. She’s now served more time than anyone who has leaked information to a reporter in history – and still has almost three decades to go on her sentence.
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