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5-Eyes Spying- 17-04-2019: Microsoft didn't want to sell its facial recognition tech to California police. [Engadget]
- 14-04-2019: Google faces surge in police requests for mobile location data. [Engadget]
- 08-04-2019: Ghidra: NSA's reverse-engineer tool. [Schneier] [Ghidra]
- 03-04-2019: It's time to end the NSA's metadata collection programme. [Wired]
- 13-01-2019: How FBI tried to force Facebook to wiretap its chat app. [The Register]
- 25-01-2019: Hacking the GCHQ backdoor. [Schneier]
- 18-01-2019: Evaluating the GCHQ exceptional access proposal. [Schneier]
- 14-01-2019: Feds forcing mass fingerprint unlocks is an “abuse of power.” [Ars Technica] [The Register] [HardOCP] [Forbes]
- 10-01-2019: Kaspersky blew whistle on NSA hacking tool hoarder. [Ars Technica]
- 29-11-2018: GCHQ pushes for 'virtual crocodile clips' on chat apps. [The Register] [HardOCP] [Lawfare]
- 29-11-2018: High Court agrees to hear full legal challenge of UK Snooper's Charter. [The Register]
- 29-11-2018: GCHQ reveals vulnerability disclosure process. [The Register]
- 28-11-2018: DoJ made secret arguments to break crypto, now ACLU wants to make them public. [Ars Technica]
- 27-11-2018: Australia: opposition offers encryption backdoor compromise. [The Register]
- 26-11-2018: The FBI impersonated FedEx to catch cybercriminals. [HardOCP] [Motherboard] [Graham Cluley]
- 31-10-2018: Feds took woman’s iPhone at border, she sued, now they agree to delete data. [Ars Technica]
- 29-10-2018: Oz spy boss defends 'high risk vendor' ban. [The Register]
- 24-10-2018: Apple have completely blocked police password cracking tool in iOS 12. [The Verge] [ExtremeTech]
- 24-10-2018: Apple boss decries 'data industrial complex' while pocketing billions to hook Google into iOS. [The Register]
- 17-10-2018: UK.gov takes red pen to spy court rules, asks for Parliament's OK. [The Register]
- 15-10-2018: Five Eyes reports on hackers' tools. [TechBlog NZ] [NCSC]
- 14-10-2018: Police told to avoid looking at recent iPhones to avoid lockouts. [Engadget]
- 01-10-2018: NZ border police to demand travelers hand over electronic passwords. [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Stuff]
- 20-08-2018: The law of snooping. [Geoff Huston]
- 17-08-2018: US reportedly pressuring Facebook to break Messenger’s encryption over MS-13 investigation. [The Verge]
- 13-08-2018: When's a backdoor not a backdoor? When the Oz government says it isn't. [The Register] [Russ White] [CDT]
- 15-08-2018: Australia's Snooper's Charter: experts react. [The Register]
- 19-09-2018: AU government rushes its anti-crypto legislation into parliament. [The Register]
- 03-10-2018: Australian encryption law a bad move for New Zealand. [NZ Herald]
- 12-10-2018: Apple fires back at Australian encryption bill. [Engadget]
- 20-10-2018: AU intel committee: Crypto-busting is only bad if you're a commie, and we're not. [The Register]
- 29-07-2018: NSA has yet to fix security holes that helped Snowden leaks. [Engadget]
- 27-07-2018: New report on police digital forensics techniques. [Schneier] [CSIS]
- 23-07-2018: UK spies broke law for 15 years, but what can you do? [The Register] [BBC News]
- 19-07-2018: GCHQ doubts Huawei’s role with UK networks. [PocketNow]
- 18-07-2018: Judge slams FBI for improper cellphone search, stingray use. [Ars Technica]
- 13-07-2018: How the US government secretly sold 'spy phones' to suspects. [Wired] [The Register]
- 06-07-2018: The NSA's domestic surveillance centers. [Schneier] [The Intercept]
- 05-07-2018: London police chief ‘completely comfortable’ using facial recognition with 98 percent false positive rate. [The Verge]
- 04-07-2018: How the GCSB collects information about Kiwis through spying on the Pacific - and why it's legal. [NZ Herald]
- 30-06-2018: NSA deletes hundreds of millions of call records over privacy violations. [Engadget]
- 29-06-2018: ACLU's biggest roadblock to fighting mass surveillance. [Wired]
- 29-06-2018: UK has made 'significant progress' in spy control. [The Register]
- 26-06-2018: Senator to FCC: How much do police stingrays drain a cellphone battery? [Ars Technica]
- 24-06-2018: NSA "systematically moving" all its data to the cloud. [HardOCP] [Defense One]
- 22-06-2018: Amazon staffers protest giant's 'support of the surveillance state'. [The Register]
- 14-06-2018: Apple to block police iPhone hacking tools in future update. [ExtremeTech]
- 15-06-2018: Police say iPhone hackers have workaround to Apple’s new security feature. [HardOCP] [Motherboard]
- 09-07-2018: Apple releases iOS 11.4.1 and blocks passcode cracking tools used by police. [The Verge]
- 10-07-2018: New iOS security feature can be defeated by a $39 adapter… sold by Apple. [Graham Cluley] [Schneier]
- 05-06-2018: End-to-end encryption doesn’t stop the FBI reading your messages. [Graham Cluley]
- 05-06-2018: NSA security education posters from the Cold War. [Ars Technica] [Engadget]
- 29-05-2018: GCHQ claims most of their work is making sure they operate within the law. [The Register]
- 23-05-2018: FBI admits over-counting locked iPhones and other mobiles. [BBC News] [Ars Technica] [The Verge] [Wired]
- 17-05-2018: Senators to DOJ: Reveal your secret paragraph-long explanation of stingrays. [Ars Technica]
- 14-05-2018: UK's National Crime Agency: encryption makes policing hard. [The Register]
- 10-05-2018: ZTE sanctions see Australia’s top telco dump mobile vendor. [The Register]
- 10-05-2018: New law would stop feds from demanding encryption backdoor. [The Register]
- 06-05-2018: A facial recognition program used by British police yielded thousands of false positives. [The Verge]
- 05-05-2018: NSA tripled its phone record collection in 2017. [Engadget] [HardOCP] [Reuters] [HardOCP]
- 27-02-2018: Cellebrite unlocks iPhones for the US government. [Schneier] [Forbes] [HardOCP] [Graham Cluley]
- 27-02-2018: Australia: IPv6 and 5G will make life hell for spooks and cops say. [The Register]
- 22-02-2018: Man removes feds’ spy cam, they demand it back, he refuses and sues. [Ars Technica]
- 30-01-2018: The UK’s mass surveillance powers have been ruled illegal. [The Verge] [THG]
- 25-01-2018: UK Prime Minister urges nerds to come up with magic crypto backdoors. [The Register]
- 20-01-2018: When it comes to voice identification, the "NSA Reigns Supreme". [HardOCP] [The Intercept] [The Verge]
- 13-01-2018: Feds may have to explain knowledge of security holes – if draft law comes into play. [The Register]
- 12-01-2018: FBI security expert: Apple are “jerks” about unlocking encrypted phones. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [Motherboard]
- 11-01-2018: Yet another FBI proposal for insecure communications. [Schneier] [DoJ]
- 10-01-2018: U.S. House to vote on FISA mass surveillance bill. [THG] [HardOCP] [New America] [House PDF]
- 09-01-2018: How the government hides secret surveillance programmes. [Wired]
- 09-01-2018: FBI says it can't unlock 8,000 encrypted devices, demands backdoors for America's 'public safety'. [The Register] [Stuff] [Engadget]
- 06-01-2018: NSA’s top talent is leaving: low pay, slumping morale, unpopular reorganization. [HardOCP] [Washington Post] [Schneier]
- 27-12-2017: FBI fingerprint-analysis software may be compromised by Russian code. [HardOCP] [BuzzFeed] [ExtremeTech]
- 21-12-2017: NSA surveillance reauthorization bill won't go to a vote just yet. [Engadget]
- 20-12-2017: GCHQ cyber-spies 'over-achieved'. [BBC News]
- 19-12-2017: US senators rail against effort to sneak through creepy mass spying bill. [The Register]
- 12-12-2017: SIS criticised by government watchdog over 'unlawfully accessing' information. [Stuff] [NZ Herald]
- 12-12-2017: FBI director again laments strong encryption in remarks to Congress. [Ars Technica]
- 06-12-2017: White House lets NSA's warrantless surveillance continue until April. [Engadget]
- 02-12-2017: NSA surveillance expansion bill moves to House for a vote. [Engadget]
- 27-11-2017: The 'StingRay' device that sweeps up data. [NZ Herald]
- 24-11-2017: Judge who once ruled against NSA metadata program tosses lawsuit. [Ars Technica]
- 14-11-2017: Long article on the NSA and the Shadow Brokers. [Schneier] [NYT]
- 09-11-2017: DOJ: Strong encryption that we don’t have access to is “unreasonable.” [Ars Technica]
- 08-11-2017: FBI can’t break the encryption on Texas shooter’s smartphone. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [Washington Examiner] [The Verge] [Engadget] [The Register]
- 08-11-2017: Apple offered to help FBI unlock Texas shooter's phone. [Engadget] [BBC News] [PocketNow]
- 10-11-2017: FBI and Apple may again clash over encypted iPhone after Texas shooting. [ExtremeTech]
- 08-11-2017: US foreign spying bill progresses through Congress. [The Register]
- 07-11-2017: UK's surveillance regime challenged in landmark European court hearing. [The Register]
- 21-09-2017: Court rules Stingray use without a warrant violates Fourth Amendment. [Engadget]
- 21-09-2017: ISO rejects NSA encryption algorithms. [Schneier] [Reuters] [Engadget]
- 20-09-2017: WhatsApp reportedly refused to build a backdoor for the UK government. [The Verge]
- 14-09-2017: NSA once spied on your *NSYNC downloads from Kazaa. [Engadget]
- 14-09-2017: Google stops challenging most US warrants for data on overseas servers. [Ars Technica]
- 14-09-2017: Microsoft adds cloud security to keep out hackers and government snoops. [DC Knowledge]
- 08-09-2017: Shadow Brokers releases NSA UNITEDRAKE manual. [Schneier] [Document Cloud PDF]
- 01-09-2017: Updating U.S. surveillance laws. [Russ White] [The Federalist]
- 31-08-2017: NSA enters stage two of its spying revival plan: getting Trump on board. [The Register]
- 30-08-2017: US government: We can jail you indefinitely for not decrypting your data. [The Register] [Ars Technica]
- 29-08-2017: How the NSA identified Satoshi Nakamoto. [HardOCP] [Medium]
- 25-08-2017: NSA ramps up PR campaign to keep its mass spying powers. [The Register]
- 24-08-2017: The CIA built a fake software update system to spy on intel partners. [The Verge] [Engadget]
- 19-08-2017: US DoD, Brit ISP BT reverse proxies can be abused to frisk internal systems. [The Register]
- 17-08-2017: Do the police need a search warrant to access cellphone location data? [Schneier]
- 15-08-2017: Apple, Facebook, and other companies ask Supreme Court to block warrantless cellphone tracking. [The Verge]
- 15-08-2017: US military spies: We'll capture enemy malware, tweak it, lob it right back at our adversaries. [The Register]
- 12-08-2017: Russian group that hacked DNC used NSA attack code in attack on hotels. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 11-08-2017: Former UK spy boss backs crypto. [The Register]
- 08-08-2017: Warrantless US spying is set to expire soon -- let it die. [Wired]
- 03-08-2017: WikiLeaks releases docs on 'Dumbo' CIA tool allowing control of webcams. [HardOCP] [WikiLeaks]
- 01-08-2017: 'Real people' do not want secure communications, claims UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd. [Graham Cluley] [The Register]
- 01-08-2017: NSA collects MS Windows error information. [Schneier] [Der Spiegel]
- 28-07-2017: Zero-day vulnerabilities against Windows in the NSA tools released by the Shadow Brokers. [Schneier] [Rapid7]
- 26-07-2017: US spies hacked our phones over the air, claim pipeline protesters. [The Register]
- 24-07-2017: NZ spies surveilled Kim Dotcom for 2 months longer than admitted. [Ars Technica]
- 18-07-2017: ISPs barred from telling users they’re under FBI investigation. [Engadget] [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 14-07-2017: US border agents: We won’t search data “located solely on remote servers”. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 14-07-2017: UK GCHQ can crack end-to-end encryption says Australian Attorney General. [The Register]
- 12-07-2017: More on the NSA's use of traffic shaping. [Schneier] [TCF] [Russ White]
- 11-07-2017: DoJ: FBI didn’t need warrant for stingray in attempted murder case. [Ars Technica]
- 31-05-2017: Man gets 180 days in jail for not handing over his iPhone PIN. [Engadget] [HardOCP] [Miami Herald] [Stuff]
- 25-05-2017: UK ministers to push anti-encryption laws after election. [The Register]
- 23-05-2017: Apple reveals it received at least one secret FBI request for user data. [Gizmodo]
- 23-05-2017: Wikimedia is clear to sue the NSA. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica] [THG]
- 23-05-2017: US Immigration & Customs is using Stingray to track illegal immigrants. [Schneier] [Gizmodo]
- 23-05-2017: Senator demands answers after ICE uses 'Stingray' to arrest immigrant. [Gizmodo]
- 23-05-2017: Two rulings go against the NSA. [The Register]
- 19-05-2017: Federal agents used a Stingray to track an immigrant's phone. [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
- 19-05-2017: NSA abandons "About" searches. [Schneier]
- 18-05-2017: Australian privacy commissioner flags new data mining rules for government agencies. [The Register]
- 17-05-2017: The US Senate is using Signal. [Schneier] [Engadget] [THG] [The Verge]
- 16-05-2017: NSA brute-force keysearch machine. [Schneier] [The Intercept]
- 09-05-2017: I side with the 'bad guys' on encryption. [Stuff]
- 03-05-2017: ACLU says demanding US citizens unlock phones at the border is unconstitutional. [The Verge]
- 04-05-2017: US Intelligence “transparency report” reveals breadth of surveillance by NSA, others. [Ars Technica]
- 04-05-2017: FBI's disturbing hacking powers challenged in court. [Gizmodo]
- 03-05-2017: FBI director Comey backs renewed push for decryption law. [Engadget]
- 01-05-2017: Who is publishing NSA and CIA secrets, and why? [Schneier]
- 30-05-2017: CIA tracked leakers with bad Web beacon trick. [The Register]
- 28-04-2017: NSA ends spying on messages Americans send about foreign surveillance targets. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [HardOCP] [NSA] [Wired] [Engadget] [BBC News]
- 28-04-2017: Australian Federal Police accessed metadata without warrant, broke law. [The Register]
- 24-04-2017: FBI allays some critics with first use of new mass-hacking warrant. [Ars Technica]
- 20-04-2017: The DEA is buying cyberweapons from Hacking Team. [Schneier] [Motherboard]
- 19-04-2017: We're spying on you for your own protection, says NSA, FBI. [The Register]
- 18-04-2017: Rights warrior to US Homeland Security: stop asking people for their passwords. [The Register]
- 11-04-2017: Notes on the FCC and privacy in the US. [Russ White] [CircleID] [Shelly Palmer]
- 08-04-2017: 'Shadow Brokers' give away more NSA hacking tools. [Engadget] [Schneier] [BBC News] [The Verge] [Ars Technica] [NZ Herald]
- 14-04-2017: Major leak suggests NSA was deep in Middle East banking system. [Wired] [Engadget]
- 14-04-2017: Leaked NSA point-and-pwn hack tools menace Win2k to Windows 8. [The Register] [Engadget] [Ars Technica]
- 15-04-2017: Microsoft has already patched the NSA's leaked Windows hacks. [The Verge] [Engadget] [Ars Technica] [BBC News]
- 21-04-2017: Script kiddies pwn 1000s of Windows boxes using leaked NSA hack tools. [The Register]
- 26-04-2017: NSA backdoor detected on >55,000 Windows boxes can now be remotely removed. [Ars Technica]
- 07-04-2017: Judge invalidates FBI mass hacking warrant over jurisdiction, particularity issues. [THG]
- 05-04-2017: NY court slaps down Facebook's attempt to keep accounts secret from search warrants. [The Register]
- 04-04-2017: New bill would crack down on border phone searches without warrants. [The Verge]
- 03-04-2017: More stingray action in Canada, perhaps foreign this time. [PocketNow]
- 03-04-2017: FBI paid Geek Squad ‘informants’ to search computers for illegal material. [The Verge] [Gizmodo]
- 18-05-2017: Judge: don't gripe if you hand your PC to Geek Squad and they rat you out to the Feds. [The Register]
- 30-03-2017: How many NSA spy hubs are scooping up your Internet data? [Ars Technica]
- 28-03-2017: US Customs sued for information about border phone searches. [The Register]
- 27-03-2017: FBI's facial recognition database is dangerously inaccurate. [Engadget]
- 26-03-2017: UK wants backdoor for WhatsApp encryption. [The Register] [BBC News] [HardOCP] [The Verge] [Gizmodo] [NZ Herald]
- 27-03-2017: Encryption is a good thing. [Graham Cluley]
- 27-03-2017: UK digital minister praises 'crucial role' of encryption. [The Register]
- 22-03-2017: Congress is about to give away your online privacy. [Wired]
- 22-03-2017: The Senate prepares to send Internet privacy down a black hole. [Wired]
- 23-03-2017: Senate agrees to let carriers use your data however they want. [Engadget] [Lifehacker] [The Register] [Engadget]
- 28-03-2017: VPNs won't save you from Congress' internet privacy giveaway. [Wired]
- 28-03-2017: For sale: Your private browsing history. [Ars Technica]
- 30-03-2017: What is a VPN? [Lifehacker]
- 30-03-2017: Post-FCC privacy rules, should you VPN? [Krebs]
- 04-04-2017: FCC privacy rules repealed, but ISPs' "fairness" argument is weak. [THG]
- 05-04-2017: VPNs might not be all that secure. [NZ Herald]
- 22-03-2017: Police 'persistently' breach data protection laws with police tech. [The Register]
- 21-03-2017: UK Home Office admits it's preparing to accept EU ruling on surveillance. [The Register]
- 14-03-2017: FBI’s methods to spy on journalists should remain classified, judge rules. [Ars Technica]
- 14-03-2017: NSA routinely monitors Americans' communications without warrants. [The Intercept]
- 12-03-2017: How the FBI used Geek Squad to increase secret public surveillance. [HardOCP] [OC Weekly]
- 10-03-2017: The Wikipedia for spies - and where it goes from here. [Wired]
- 10-03-2017: The US auto-scanned visitors' social media profiles -- it didn't work properly. [The Register]
- 08-03-2017: FBI boss: 'Memories are not absolutely private in America'. [The Register] [Engadget]
- 02-03-2017: US Congress to NSA: How many Americans do you illegally spy on? [The Register]
- 01-03-2017: Republicans want to let ISPs secretly sell your data. [Gizmodo]
- 24-02-2017: Palantir and the NSA. [Schneier] [The Intercept]
- 24-02-2017: Overhaul of legislation on spy agencies to go ahead. [NZ Herald]
- 22-02-2017: NSA using cyberattack for defense. [Schneier]
- 17-02-2017: UK Snoopers' Charter gagging order drafted for London Internet Exchange directors. [The Register]
- 22-02-2017: LINX members vote no to constitution tweak. [The Register]
- 16-02-2017: GPS act aims to stop warrantless smartphone tracking done with cell-site simulators. [THG]
- 12-02-2017: American Spies: how we got to age of mass surveillance without even trying. [Ars Technica] [American Spies]
- 08-02-2017: US visitors may have to reveal social media passwords to enter country. [Ars Technica] [The Verge] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
- 22-02-2017: What to do when border officials ask for your passwords. [Ars Technica]
- 01-02-2017: Secret documents reveal Trump inherits FBI with vast hidden powers. [The Intercept]
- 30-01-2017: DC police surveillance cameras were infected with ransomware before inauguration [Ars Technica]
- 28-01-2017: Twitter discloses two far-reaching FBI data requests. [Engadget]
- 20-01-2017: CIA boss wants a big database of surveillance on citizens and foreigners. [The Register]
- 16-01-2017: Cloudflare's experience with a National Security Letter. [Schneier] [Cloudflare] [TechCrunch]
- 13-01-2017: Obama expands the NSA's ability to share data with other agencies. [Engadget] [Wired] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
- 11-01-2017: FBI takes gag out of CloudFlare's mouth after three-year legal battle. [The Register] [THG] [Engadget]
- 06-01-2017: Australia telcos warn: Opening metadata access will create a 'honeypot' for lawyers. [The Register]
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