As is so often the case these days, yet more details have been leaked by Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency’s surveillance efforts. Only this time, it was something that we had already suspected: they regularly break their own rules. The lack of shock from the American public is […]
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LavaBit and Silent Circle email clients shut down to prevent further problems
After ten years as an alternative email client that didn’t scan user information and respected privacy above all else, LavaBit is shutting down. The reason? Because the Federal government are allegedly attempting to push the Texas based company to cooperate in the case against Edward Snowden. Snowden used LavaBit as […]
New details on XKeyscore tool shows NSA’s alarming reach
If you weren’t already paranoid enough, new information has been released from the Edward Snowden leaks. This time about a tool called XKeyscore, a program that by the National Security Agency’s own admission gives them access to “nearly everything a user does on the internet”. Remember when Snowden claimed he […]
Secret files detail Microsoft’s assistance in PRISM program
While there has been a lot of speculation about just how much technology companies were contributing to government surveillance as part of PRISM, Microsoft has denied any real violations for customers. For awhile they even denied having knowledge that the program existed. But now details have emerged thanks to secret […]
MIT tool shows why metadata is really a big deal
Meta-data contains a great deal of information, and when gathered together it forms a startlingly clear picture of the person it comes from. A point that Professor César Hidalgo and graduate students Daniel Smilkov and Deepak Jagdish of MIT are trying to get across. They have created a new program called Immersion. It […]
Apple is the latest to release NSA PRISM details
We have been following the NSA scandal over PRISM, including the denial from various companies about direct involvement. Now, Apple is officially releasing some details about the information requested as part of the program. However, they still deny any knowledge of the PRISM program itself. In a public release on […]
PRISM gives NSA, FBI partial access to citizen information
The Internet has exploded with activity this morning, after dual articles were released by the Guardian and The Washington Post about a secret government project called PRISM. It has given official agencies like the FBI and NSA unprecedented access to user information from various tech companies, making it the largest […]