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Snowden docs had NYTimes exec fearing for his life
Holding on to Snowden's NSA documents "can get scary," says the New York Times' top tech executive.
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Sweden aids NSA-led hacking ops: report
Sweden cooperated with the United States in operations to hack into computers and carry out internet surveillance on Swedes, according to documents leaked by NS
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The internet after Snowden: what now?
Since June, thanks to the information disclosed by National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, a troubling truth has come to light. The internet, and with it the entire gamut of new communication technologies, have become the centrepiece of a gigantic, secret and complex system of mass surveillance used by governments to spy on citizens, on allies and enemies.
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Lawsuit accuses IBM of hiding China risks amid NSA spy scandal
IBM Corp has been sued by a shareholder who accused it of concealing how its ties to what became a major U.S. spying scandal reduced business in China and ultimately caused its market value to plunge more than $12 billion. IBM lobbied Congress hard to pass a law letting it share personal data of customers in China and elsewhere with the U.S. National Security Agency, in a bid to protect its intellectual property rights, according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
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The NSA is Coming to Town
We now know that this holiday season, our private communications aren't as private as we thought. While we're calling, texting, emailing, and visiting our friends and loved ones, the NSA is tuning in and collecting massive amounts of data on millions of Americans.
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By cracking cellphone code, NSA has capacity for decoding private conversations
The cellphone encryption technology used most widely across the world can be easily defeated by the National Security Agency, an internal document shows, giving the agency the means to decode most of the billions of calls and texts that travel over public airwaves every day.
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Why Won’t Obama Rein in the N.S.A.?
Why won’t the President rein in the intelligence community?
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White House to preserve controversial policy on NSA, Cyber Command leadership
Critics say agencies needed separate heads to avoid undue concentration of power in single individual.
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Keeping Secrets: Pierre Omidyar, Glenn Greenwald and the privatization of Snowden's leaks
Who “owns” the NSA secrets leaked by Edward Snowden to reporters Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras? Given that eBay founder Pierre Omidyar just invested a quarter of a billion dollars to personally hire Greenwald and Poitras for his new for-profit media venture, it’s a question worth asking.
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Lawsuit accuses IBM of hiding China risks amid NSA spy scandal
NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM Corp has been sued by a shareholder who accused it of concealing how its ties to what became a major U.S. spying scandal reduced business in China and ultimately caused its market
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The NSA: An Inside View
In which I relate my experience as an NSA employee and impart my thoughts on the policies in place, my former coworkers, and the current cyber war.
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IBM faces shareholder lawsuit over cooperation with NSA
Lawsuit accuses the company of concealing that involvement with a controversial surveillance led to loss of sales and stock price decline.
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Don't be fooled by the 60 Minutes report on the NSA
Tonight's episode of 60 Minutes featured what CBS promised was an unusual inside look at the secretive National Security Agency, but instead offered a routine look at the agency's propaganda with no critical voices.
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Judge: NSA domestic phone data-mining ruled unconstitutional
A federal judge says he believes the NSA collection of domestic telephone communication records is unconstitutional.
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Obama To Meet Tech Execs Over NSA Spying, Obamacare Website
President Barack Obama will meet with many of Silicon Valley's best-known executives Tuesday at the White House to discuss the troubled Healthcare.gov website and controversial surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency, the administration announced.
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Snowden offers to help Brazil investigate NSA spying when he's given asylum
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has pledged to help Brazil investigate the NSA’s spying activities. Snowden said he had been asked by Brazilian senators for information on “suspected crimes against Brazilian citizens.”
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An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'A Genius Among Geniuses'
Perhaps Edward Snowden's hoodie should have raised suspicions. The black sweatshirt sold by the civil libertarian Electronic Frontier Foundation featured a parody of the National Security Agency's logo, with the traditional key in an eagle's claws replaced by a collection of AT&T cables, and eavesdropping headphones covering the menacing bird's ears.
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NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy Our Economy By Bricking Computers Across The US
The National Security Agency described for the first time a cataclysmic cyber threat it claims to have stopped On Sunday's "60 Minutes." Called a BIOS attack, the exploit would have ruined, or "bricked," computers across the country, causing untold damage to the national and even global economy.
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Merkel compared NSA to Stasi in heated encounter with Obama
German chancellor furious after revelations US intelligence agency listened in on her personal mobile phone.
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Edward Snowden doesn’t show up once in Google’s list of top 2013 searches
The biggest tech policy story of the year is missing from the search giant's year-in-review.
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