NSA files decoded: What the revelations mean to you
The Guardian has an excellent interactive mini-site on NSA, check it out.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Category Government spying
Who is NSA selling data to and who profits from it?
NSA taps data at Google and Yahoo, spies on the College of Cardinals electing the Pope, intercepts phone calls and emails made by friendly heads of state. Most of what they do is illegal. practically none of it has anything…
Former NSA contractor designs surveillance-proof fonts
To paraphrase John Gilmore, the internet treats surveillance as damage and routes around it. These surveillance-proof fonts have been carefully designed and tested, and cannot be read by high-end OCR readers. Sang Mun’s response was more direct — the Korean…
Rally Against Mass Surveillance. Oct 26, DC
The recent NSA revelations have laid it all out: The NSA is watching us online and on our phones. The NSA has corrupted security and cryptography, undermining the fabric of the Internet. Its overreaching surveillance is creating a climate of…
Security Now podcast on how NSA deliberately weakened crypto
Steve Gibson details on a Security Now podcast in his usual expert and friendly manner how NSA did indeed weaken a NIST cryptographic standard. Fortunately, that particular standard is so lame and slow it is virtually never used. Happily, the…