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The NSA’s PR team finally gets its own Twitter account
After months of controversy stemming from the Edward Snowden leaks, the National Security Agency has finally stopped using its job-board Twitter account as its official mouthpiece. The NSA now operates an @NSA_PAO account that appears, at first glance, to be legitimate. It's followed by the verified account belonging to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which is the agency that oversees the NSA after the Pentagon.
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Former CIA chief: Snowden should be “hanged by the neck until dead”
A very tentative suggestion of amnesty on a CBS program leads to a threat.
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NSA paid $10 million to put their backdoor in RSA encryption
As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.
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Obama Says Surveillance Program Changes Coming in January
President Barack Obama said he will act in January on the recommendations of an advisory panel suggesting changes to government surveillance programs. “What we’re doing now is evaluating all of the recommendations that have been made,” Obama said at a news conference today. “I’m going to make a pretty definitive statement about all of this in January.”
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Snowden ally Appelbaum claims his Berlin apartment was invaded
Jacob Appelbaum, a US Internet activist and one of the people with access to Edward Snowden's documents, has told a Berlin paper that his apartment was broken into, saying he suspected US involvement.
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RSA comes out swinging, denies taking NSA's $10m to backdoor its crypto
In summary: Yes, the biz worked with spies. But it knew about a gaping hole? No, siree!
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Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished
His leaks have fundamentally altered the U.S. government’s relationship with its citizens, the rest of the world.
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Edward Snowden: ‘I already won’
'For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,' NSA whistleblower says
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Edward Snowden’s Christmas message: NSA surveillance exceeds Orwell’s imagination
Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden resurfaced again on Wednesday, delivering the “alternative Christmas message” for Britain’s Channel 4 and drawing a specific link between the NSA’s data-gathering activities and the surveillance state George Orwell described in the novel 1984.
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2013 in Review: The Year the NSA Finally Admitted Its "Collect It All" Strategy
As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2013 and discussing where we are in the fight for free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. Click here to read other blog posts in this series.
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Radio station experiences major software meltdown during anti-NSA broadcast
During a simple discussion of the National Security Agency's surveillance practices, a US radio program experienced a unique "technological meltdown" on Thursday, prompting many to question whether the NSA was censoring the show. During an interview with Larry Klayman, the lawyer who recently won a preliminary injunction against the NSA’s bulk collection of phone records, Aaron Klein’s WABC radio program began experiencing what was termed a “tech meltdown” on the air.
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Internet founder hails Snowden - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
Edward Snowden did the world a favour by revealing the scale of surveillance by governments, according to the inventor of the internet.
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N.S.A. Phone Surveillance Is Lawful, Federal Judge Rules
A federal judge in New York on Friday ruled that the National Security Agency’s program that is systematically keeping phone records of all Americans is lawful, creating a conflict among lower courts and increasing the likelihood that the issue will be resolved by the Supreme Court.
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Denmark is one of the NSA's '9-Eyes'
Denmark has a closer relationship with the US intelligence agency than Sweden and Germany to the concern of Danes and the annoyance of Germans
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Judge rules NSA collection of phone records is legal
A federal judge rules that the National Security Agency's collection of phone records is legal.
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Top Secret NSA catalog reveals back dooring of equipment from US companies.
After years of speculation that electronics can be accessed by intelligence agencies through a back door, an internal NSA catalog reveals that such methods already exist for numerous end-user devices.
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The NSA Actually Intercepted Packages to Put Backdoors in Electronics
The NSA revelations keep on coming, and if you're feeling desensitized to the whole thing it's time to refocus and get your game face on for 2014. Because shit continues to get real.
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Report: NSA Intercepting Laptops Ordered Online, Installing Spyware
According to a new report, the NSA is intercepting laptops ordered online in order to install spyware.
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Snowden's biggest revelation: We don't know what power is anymore, nor do we care
It’s been a busy end of 2013 for the Snowden/NSA story: a pair of conflicting judicial rulings on the legality or illegality of the NSA’s phone surveillance program; an Obama-appointed panel recommending mild NSA reforms, including scaling back the NSA’s phone metadata vacuuming program; a rare and remarkably unrevealing interview with Snowden in the Washington Post, in which Snowden declared “Mission Accomplished”; followed up by a rather sad “Snowden Xmas Message” aired on Britain’s Channel 4.
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NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware
According to a new report from Der Spiegel based on internal NSA documents, the signals intelligence agency's elite hacking unit (TAO) is able to conduct sophisticated wiretaps in ways that make Hollywood fantasy look more like reality.
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