Homepage article image

The NSA’s ‘Follow the Money’ tracks VISA transactions worldwide

But VISA denies the agency has a backdoor into its systems.

On Sep 16, 2013 by Kevin Collier

Homepage article image

What do the latest NSA leaks mean for Bitcoin?

The NSA, FBI, and DEA are all probably interested in Bitcoin users. 

On Sep 16, 2013 by [email protected]

Homepage article image

Is Dropbox reading your documents?

A new web app that tracks documents suggests that Dropbox is opening users' files.

On Sep 12, 2013 by Joe Kloc

Homepage article image

How a parody T-shirt beat the NSA

When the NSA went after parody merchandise on Zazzle, its scare tactics only ended up drawing more attention to the spoofs.

On Sep 12, 2013 by Kevin Collier

Homepage article image

Snowden reveals NSA’s virtually unrestricted intel-sharing deal with Israel

Israel's ISNU intelligence agency is just strongly encouraged to delete whatever information the NSA gives it on Americans.

On Sep 11, 2013 by Kevin Collier

Homepage article image

Gems mined from the NSA documents and FISA court opinions released this week

The EFF covers the highlights from the NSA documents they just obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

On Sep 11, 2013 by [email protected]

Homepage article image

Homeland Security abused anti-terrorism powers to target Chelsea Manning supporter

Declassified documents reveal the Department of Homeland Security improperly searched David House's electronic devices

On Sep 11, 2013 by Curt Hopkins

Homepage article image

How Bitcoin and Tor fail to obscure your identity

Think you're a master of Internet stealth? Think again.

On Sep 11, 2013 by Miles Klee

Homepage article image

NSA broke privacy rules because its phone data system was too ‘complex’

Hundreds of pages of formerly top secret documents reveal constant privacy violations between 2006 and 2009.

On Sep 10, 2013 by Jay Hathaway

Homepage article image

NSA slide ties U.S. surveillance to Brazilian oil company

The revelation comes from a slide titled “Private networks are important” leaked by Edward Snowden.

On Sep 10, 2013 by Curt Hopkins

Homepage article image

Will Apple’s new iPhone turn your fingerprints over to the NSA?

Apple picked an interesting time to add a fingerprint scanner to the iPhone.

On Sep 10, 2013 by Kris Holt

Homepage article image

Buying the new iPhone? The NSA thinks you’re a ‘zombie’

Newly leaked NSA slides refer to Steve Jobs as "Big Brother" and iPhone users as "zombies."

On Sep 10, 2013 by Joe Kloc

Homepage article image

A DIY Internet grows in Brooklyn

A group of residents in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn have built their own Internet out of rooftop antennas.

On Sep 10, 2013 by Joe Kloc

Homepage article image

Some Canadians are making a full-length Edward Snowden biopic

Starring that guy from The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes as the titular NSA leaker. Not that guy. The other guy.

On Sep 9, 2013 by Kevin Collier

Homepage article image

Google speeds up plan to encrypt its data after NSA revelations

Encryption won't stop the NSA entirely, but it will limit the agency's ability to do broad searches of Google's data.

On Sep 9, 2013 by Tim Sampson