New Snowden Documents: Phones Outside U.S. Are Tracked
The Washington Post has the latest revelation from NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowdeen. While it hardly comes as a surprise, it may be the largest and most comprehensive of the agency’s global surveillance programs: The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, […]
Report: U.S. In Partnership with Canada Spied During G20 Summit In 2010
November 29, 2013
Documents obtained from whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal the joint spying effort. Both the G8 and G20 summits were held in June 2010 in Canada’s most populated city. And both times, America’s National Security Agency conducted widespread surveillance that was “closely coordinated with the Canadian partner,” according to CBC’s account of a briefing note from the […]
NSA Spied On Porn Habits Of Islamic Radicals
November 27, 2013
They thought if they could expose these six radicals as porn-lovers it would make them less credible to other jihadists. The American surveillance agency targeted six unnamed “radicalisers”, none of whom is alleged to have been involved in terror plots. One document argues that if the vulnerabilities they are accused of were to be exposed, […]
NSA Snoops On Porn Habits Of Islamist Radicals
November 27, 2013
To be honest, we’re not terribly surprised at The Guardian’s latest NSA revelation courtesy of Edward Snowden, though it gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, “The National Security Agency is engaged in questionable dirty work“: The NSA has been collecting details about the online sexual activity of prominent Islamist radicals in order to […]
Has The NSA Penetrated Cable Internet?
November 26, 2013
Security experts believe that the NSA has gotten in a vulnerable “back door” in Internet security — electronics connected to the fiber-optic cables to and from their data centers: The recent revelation that the National Security Agency was able to eavesdrop on the communications of Google and Yahoo users without breaking into either companies’ data […]
Report: NSA Infected 50,000 Computer Networks Worldwide With Malware
November 24, 2013
The National Security Agency hacked more than 50,000 computer networks last year and infected them in the process, according to an Edward Snowden-originated leak. The new revelation comes from a 2012 PowerPoint slide published by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. The document shows a world map that highlights, among other things, more than 50,000 “world-wide implants” […]
Supreme Court Refuses To Hear NSA Spying Case
November 18, 2013
SCOTUS refused to hear a challenge to the National Security Agency’s global spying. The Court made no comment as it turned aside an unusual request by an advocacy group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (docket 13-58). The EPIC plea was filed directly in the Court, without prior lower court action. The group sought orders to […]
Is A Judge About To Gut NSA Surveillance?
November 14, 2013
This writer is a little skeptical, but a whole lotta folks in the Beltway and Pentagon are a little on edge awaiting a crucial court ruling: A federal judge could grant a preliminary injunction blocking some National Security Agency surveillance programs as early as Monday. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon will consider oral arguments […]
NSA, Homeland Security, Bullying Parody Product Vendors
November 4, 2013
It’s not every day I quote from an article in the paleo-neo-ultraconservative Washington Times — or agree with Larry Klayman — but here’s a story that has First Amendment supporters on both sides of the aisle miffed: The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security have issued “cease and desist” letters to a […]
White House Rejects Clemency For Snowden
November 4, 2013
The White House says it will not give Edward Snowden clemency and says that he should return to the United States to stand trial. Dan Pfeiffer, an Obama administration adviser, said on Sunday the NSA whistleblower’s request was not under consideration and that he should face criminal charges for leaking classified information. Dianne Feinstein and […]
