2016 News
- 23-12-2016: Russian military using smartphones to track troop movements. [Schneier] [CrowdStrike]
- 20-12-2016: How to safely delete private data forever. [Gizmodo]
- 20-12-2016: Egypt has blocked encrypted messaging app Signal. [Engadget]
- 21-12-2016: Encrypted chat app Signal circumvents Egyptian government censorship. [Engadget] [Wired] [The Register]
- 28-12-2016: How Signal is evading censorship. [Schneier]
- 30-12-2016: Encrypted chat app Signal sidesteps censorship in Cuba and Oman. [Engadget]
- 19-12-2016: Turkey blocks Tor's anonymity network. [Engadget] [BBC News]
- 19-12-2016: Cellphones the most ubiquitous surveillance device ever. [Stuff]
- 02-12-2016: 2016 claims another victim: Your privacy. [Engadget]
- 28-10-2016: Eavesdropping on typing over VoIP. [Schneier] [Cornell arXiv: PDF]
- 27-10-2016: The new FCC privacy rules are here, and nobody is happy. [The Register]
- 24-10-2016: Every LTE call, text, can be intercepted, blacked out, hacker finds. [The Register]
- 20-10-2016: NSA, GCHQ and even Donald Trump are all after your data. [The Register]
- 19-10-2016: How to track your kids without freaking them out. [Gizmodo]
- 18-10-2016: Intelligence oversight and how it can fail. [Schneier]
- 13-10-2016: Euro politicians are hyping the terror threat to steal your privacy. [The Register]
- 12-10-2016: Building on surveillance reform. [Google]
- 04-10-2016: Decryption mandates and global internet freedom. [Russ White] [Hoover Institution]
- 28-09-2016: Australia wants law to ban de-anonymisation of anonymous data. [The Register]
- 27-09-2016: Using neural networks to identify blurred faces. [Schneier] [Motherboard]
- 23-09-2016: NSA hushed up zero-day spyware tool losses for three years. [The Register]
- 16-09-2016: DE-CIX - world's largest internet exchange sues Germany over mass surveillance. [The Register]
- 05-09-2016: German spies violated law, must delete XKeyscore database -- watchdog. [Ars Technica]
- 29-07-2016: Sniffing and censoring in real life. [Russ White] [Medium]
- 28-07-2016: Don't use a VPN in the UAE – unless you wanna risk jail and a $545,000 fine. [The Register]
- 21-07-2016: The not-crazy person’s guide to online privacy. [HardOCP] [Bloomberg]
- 27-06-2016: Snowden: Russian data collection plans 'dangerous'. [BBC News] [Engadget]
- 08-07-2016: Edward Snowden speaks out against new Russian law. [Engadget]
- 09-07-2016: "Dark day" in Russia after president introduces new surveillance laws. [HardOCP] [The Independent]
- 22-06-2016: The Great Firewall of China gets stronger. [Russ White] [The Stream]
- 29-05-2016: The privacy of telephone metadata. [Russ White] [PNAS]
- 26-05-2016: Watch Edward Snowden teach Vice how to make a phone ‘go black’. [Wired]
- 29-04-2016: New study shows mass surveillance breeds meekness, fear and self-censorship. [The Intercept]
- 18-04-2016: How hackers eavesdropped on a US Congressman using only his phone number. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 06-04-2016: Privacy and secrecy are not the same. [Russ White] [Just Security]
- 01-04-2016: How we're unwittingly letting robots censor the Web. [NZ Herald]
- 31-03-2016: The government (probably) requested Reddit user data last year. [Gizmodo] [Reddit] [BBC News] [Engadget] [ExtremeTech] [Russ White] [Just Security]
- 31-03-2016: Is your step counter spying on you? [ReadWriteWeb]
- 29-03-2016: Mass surveillance silences minority opinions. [Schneier]
- 23-03-2016: The FCC’s subtractive privacy rules. [Russ White] [Heartland Institute]
- 21-03-2016: Snowden's tips on personal privacy in a wired world. [Stuff]
- 18-03-2016: What is a VPN, and why should you be using one? [Graham Cluley]
- 16-03-2016: Google adds worldwide HTTPS info to transparency report. [The Register]
- 14-03-2016: This massive VPN comparison spreadsheet helps you choose the best for you. [Lifehacker]
- 11-03-2016: Your browser's private ,ode isn't as secret as you think. [Gizmodo]
- 04-03-2016: Google endorses US VPN providers with 'right to be forgotten' expansion. [The Register] [HardOCP] [Google Europe] [Engadget]
- 08-03-2016: Google extends right-to-be-forgotten rules to all search sites. [Ars Technica]
- 02-03-2016: US debates a world without privacy. [BBC News]
- 01-03-2016: Is your smartphone listening to you? [BBC News]
- 05-02-2016: Tracking anonymous web users. [Schneier] [SSRN]
- 03-02-2016: Security vs surveilance. [Schneier]
- 27-01-2016: Ban internet anonymity – says top US Homeland Security official. [The Register]
- 27-01-2016: How to make your own NSA bulk surveillance system. [Wired]
- 27-01-2016: In this Facebook and Google-owned world, it's time to rethink privacy. [The Register]
- 06-01-2016: The father of online anonymity has a plan to end the crypto war. [Wired]
2015 News
- 31-12-2015: Forget anonymity, we can remember you wholesale with machine intel, hackers warned. [The Register]
- 24-12-2015: Internet freedom is actively dissolving in America. [HardOCP] [Motherboard]
- 21-12-2015: The medieval origins of mass surveillance. [Schneier] [Lapham's Quarterly]
- 21-12-2015: New HTTP error code 451 to signal censorship. [The Register] [THG]
- 17-12-2015: China tells the world to respect its censorship. [Engadget]
- 13-12-2015: Tor's new executive director is a digital privacy legend. [Engadget]
- 12-12-2015: Your VPN may be worthless. [Engadget]
- 06-12-2015: Kazakhstan will require internet surveillance back doors. [Engadget]
- 04-12-2015: Blackberry leaves Pakistan rather than provide a government backdoor. [Schneier] [cNet]
- 30-11-2015: Your browser history, IP addresses, online purchases all up for grabs without a warrant. [The Register]
- 30-11-2015: A history of privacy. [Schneier] [The New Yorker]
- 21-11-2015: How to baffle web trackers by obfuscating your movements online. [Wired]
- 18-11-2015: BlackBerry believes in encryption backdoors - believes it's good for business. [Graham Cluley]
- 16-11-2015: Germany scales back its spying while other nations want more. [Engadget]
- 16-11-2015: Edward Snowden thinks you should use an ad blocker. [Stuff]
- 12-11-2015: The Edward Snowden guide to practical privacy. [The Register] [The Intercept]
- 08-11-2015: FCC won’t force websites to honor "Do Not Track". [HardOCP] [ComputerWorld]
- 05-11-2015: The effects of surveillance on the victims. [Schneier]
- 02-11-2015: Signal, the Snowden-approved crypto app, comes to Android. [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [PocketNow]
- 02-11-2015: Kim Dotcom is building his own private internet. [Stuff]
- 29-10-2015: Tor just launched the easiest app yet for anonymous, encrypted IM. [Wired] [Engadget] [The Register] [BBC News] [Ars Technica]
- 27-10-2015: The need for transparency in surveillance. [Schneier]
- 23-10-2015: EU net neutrality up for a vote next week. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 22-10-2015: 'Get a VPN to defeat metadata retention' is good advice. Sometimes. [The Register]
- 21-10-2015: Microsoft deems privacy a fundamental right, asks U.S. And EU governments to obey it. [THG]
- 21-10-2015: German infosec bureaucrats want mail providers to encrypt. [The Register]
- 15-10-2015: How French spies can silently command Siri, Google Now on phones. [The Register] [Wired]
- 14-10-2015: Encryption is the only guarantee of data destruction in the cloud. [Graham Cluley]
- 13-10-2015: A new way for tech firms to fight unlock orders. [Wired]
- 12-10-2015: Where do major tech companies stand on encryption? [Gizmodo]
- 08-10-2015: Post-Stuxnet hack group builds formidable LinkedIn phish network. [The Register]
- 07-10-2015: Your boarding pass has a ton of personal information on it: shred it. [Lifehacker] [Krebs] [Schneier]
- 06-10-2015: Thanks, or blame, Snowden for Europe's big privacy ruling. [Wired]
- 28-09-2015: How to send and receive encrypted email for free. [ExtremeTech]
- 23-09-2015: Snowden treaty asks nations to resist mass surveillance. [Wired] [Ars Technica] [HardOCP]
- 22-09-2015: India withdraws controversial encryption policy. [BBC News]
- 17-09-2015: New crypto tool makes anonymous surveys truly anonymous. [Wired]
- 14-09-2015: How to avoid surveillance... with your phone. [TED YouTube]
- 09-09-2015: End mass snooping and protect whistleblowers, MEPs tell EU. [The Register]
- 01-09-2015: What can you learn from metadata? [Schneier] [ABC: part 1, part 2]
- 31-08-2015: The best browser extensions that protect your privacy. [Lifehacker]
- 27-08-2015: German spies sold out citizens' data to NSA in exchange for XKeyscore. [The Register] [Schneier] [Ars Technica]
- 26-08-2015: Read Julian Assange's introduction to The Wikileaks Files. [Gizmodo]
- 24-08-2015: How to stop a domestic abuser stalking you via your smartphone. [Graham Cluley]
- 21-08-2015: SS7 phone-switch flaw enabled surveillance. [Schneier] [Engadget]
- 17-08-2015: Anti-privacy unkillable super-cookies spreading around the world. [The Register]
- 12-08-2015: The NSA Playset: Espionage tools for the rest of us. [Ars Technica]
- 10-08-2015: The government shouldn't be the reason you encrypt your data. [Graham Cluley]
- 29-07-2015: Bizarre high-tech kidnapping. [Schneier] [Wired]
- 28-07-2015: How the way you type can shatter anonymity -- even on Tor. [Ars Technica] [Graham Cluley]
- 24-07-2015: French surveillance law implicates ISPs, web hosts. [DC Knowledge]
- 22-07-2015: Pakistan wants to copy GCHQ and eavesdrop on everyone. [The Register]
- 22-07-2015: Malaysia admits to censoring the Internet. [Gizmodo]
- 14-07-2015: Google's hidden data reveals details of 'right to be forgotten' requests. [Engadget] [The Guardian]
- 10-07-2015: Organisational doxing. [Schneier]
- 09-07-2015: UK politicos easily pwned on insecure Wi-Fi networks. [The Register] [Graham Cluley]
- 08-07-2015: Holland: laid-back, chilled, and monitoring everything. [The Register]
- 04-07-2015: France evicted from moral high ground over spying revelations. [Engadget]
- 26-06-2015: Fueled by Snowden and Apple, private search engine DuckDuckGo rapidly grows. [Ars Technica]
- 24-06-2015: With the French NSA leak, Wikileaks is back. [Wired] [Schneier]
- 29-06-2015: WikiLeaks docs show NSA's 10-year economic espionage campaign against France. [The Register]
- 21-06-2015: Social media debunked. [NZ Herald]
- 18-06-2015: How Facebook is censoring content in the United States. [Gizmodo] [EFF]
- 18-06-2015: Counterfeit social media accounts. [Schneier] [The Week]
- 14-06-2015: Amazon turns up spectacularly late to 'transparency' party. [The Register]
- 11-06-2015: 3 privacy tradeoffs that might be worth it. [Wired]
- 11-06-2015: Decrypted WhatsApp chats laid groundwork for Belgian terror raids. [The Register]
- 08-06-2015: Deleting your browser history could land you in court. [HardOCP] [The Denver Channel]
- 08-06-2015: What to do when you lose your phone. [PocketNow]
- 06-06-2015: Spy-grade gadgets to protect your privacy online. [Stuff]
- 03-06-2015: China cracks down further on VPNs as censorship intensifies. [The Register]
- 01-06-2015: New privacy app takes a page from NSA technology. [HardOCP] [Yahoo News]
- 28-05-2015: UN says encryption “necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom". [Ars Technica]
- 25-05-2015: How one mayor struggles with balancing privacy and surveillance. [Ars Technica]
- 23-05-2015: Americans value privacy, but don't trust tech companies to provide it. [Gizmodo] [Wired]
- 21-05-2015: Flawed Android factory reset leaves crypto and login keys ripe for picking. [Ars Technica] [Graham Cluley]
- 21-05-2015: ISPs really don’t want to follow new customer data privacy rules. [Ars Technica]
- 19-05-2015: Spyware - required by law on South Korean teenagers' smartphones. [Graham Cluley]
- 17-05-2015: Use privacy software if you want to be safe from Facebook, warns watchdog. [Ars Technica]
- 15-05-2015: IdentityTheft.gov shows you how to recover from a stolen identity. [Lifehacker] [identitytheft.gov]
- 15-05-2015: Facebook "tramples European privacy law". [HardOCP] [Reuters]
- 13-05-2015: What Google knows about your web searches. [Intego]
- 13-05-2015: BitTorrent's secure messaging app arrives. [The Register]
- 08-05-2015: 1975 article on Internet spying not written by time traveler, probably. [Gizmodo]
- 08-05-2015: A new court ruling means that privacy doesn't require secrecy. [Gizmodo]
- 06-05-2015: An example of cellphone metadata forensic surveillance. [Schneier, Schneier]
- 06-05-2015: French parliament approves new surveillance rules. [BBC News]
- 05-05-2015: Police want your PC? Brick it with a USB stick before they probe it. [The Register] [Gizmodo] [Graham Cluley]
- 04-05-2015: Internet censorship, kill switches violate human rights law. [HardOCP] [ZDNet]
- 29-04-2015: Remote proctoring and surveillance. [Schneier] [NYT]
- 28-04-2015: China censors Facebook.net, blocks sites with “Like” buttons. [Krebs]
- 25-04-2015: Google and Facebook come out against government spying. [Engadget]
- 14-04-2015: The future of privacy. [Schneier]
- 13-04-2015: Ultimatum for China website: improve censorship. [NZ Herald]
- 12-04-2015: Russia’s Internet censor reminds citizens that some memes are illegal. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 31-03-2015: Survey of Americans' privacy habits post-Snowden. [Schneier] [PRC]
- 26-03-2015: Yahoo dishes out new transparency report. [THG]
- 25-03-2015: Snowden urges cloud providers to take action against mass surveillance. [DC Knowledge]
- 20-03-2015: Snowden-approved: The ‘Citizenfour’ hacker’s toolkit. [ExtremeTech]
- 16-03-2015: Snowden tells tech bigwigs: it's up to you to thwart mass surveillance. [The Register]
- 13-03-2015: NYPD caught wikiwashing Wikipedia entries on police brutality. [BoingBoing] [Capital] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
- 17-03-2015: NYPD officers who wikiwashed police brutality pages will get wrist-slaps. [BoingBoing] [DNAinfo]
- 12-03-2015: The changing economics of surveillance. [Schneier] [The Guardian]
- 11-03-2015: The human cost of phone hacking. [Graham Cluley]
- 05-03-2015: Now corporate drones are spying on cell phones. [Schneier] [VentureBeat]
- 04-03-2015: EFF: Snowden, NSA spying, hard drive malware... a UN privacy watchdog is needed. [The Register] [EFF PDF]
- 02-03-2015: Would you trust 'spyproof' mobes made in Putin's Russia? [The Register]
- 02-03-2015: Silent Circle revamps secure smartphone. [The Register] [Gizmodo]
- 01-03-2015: VPNs: which ones value your privacy? [BoingBoing] [TorrentFreak]
- 24-02-2015: AT&T charging customers to not spy on them. [Schneier] [The Guardian] [GigaOM]
- 23-02-2015: Drones are spying on cell phone signals now. [Gizmodo]
- 19-02-2015: Spies can track you just by watching your phone’s power use. [Wired] [Gizmodo] [Schneier]
- 17-02-2015: Smart devices think you're 'too lazy' to opt out of privacy defaults. [HardOCP] [CBC News]
- 16-02-2015: Dutch DPA says government's data retention plans still illegal. [The Register]
- 13-02-2015: Russia might ban Tor and virtual private networks. [ExtremeTech]
- 11-02-2015: The consumer data revolt is coming. [HardOCP] [Bloomberg]
- 11-02-2015: Steal the hackers' thunder by revealing yourself online. [Stuff]
- 10-02-2015: How your travels around the Internet expose the way you think. [Wired]
- 10-02-2015: Privacy is a myth on the Internet. [HardOCP] [Medium]
- 09-02-2015: Surveillance scandal blowing up Macedonian government. [BoingBoing] [BalkanInsight] [Engadget]
- 08-02-2015: Anonymity is dead and other lessons from the Silk Road trial. [Engadget]
- 07-05-2015: The real impact of surveillance. [BoingBoing] [Open Rights Group]
- 05-02-2015: Say goodbye to privacy. [Wired]
- 04-02-2015: Germany's BND muscles in on metadata mass surveillance. [The Register]
- 29-01-2015: Dropbox now reports when non-US governments want your data. [Engadget]
- 29-01-2015: Mozilla dusts off old servers, lights up Tor relays. [The Register]
- 27-01-2015: Here is EFF's master plan for ending global mass surveillance. [Gizmodo] [EFF]
- 26-01-2015: How to protect your information from the Internet. [Kotaku]
- 26-01-2015: Google handed over WikiLeaks emails. [Stuff] [HardOCP] [Engadget] [The Register]
- 24-01-2015: China beefs up Great Firewall, snips off VPN access. [The Register] [Stuff]
- 23-01-2015: I2P: the super-anonymous network that Silk Road calls home. [Gizmodo]
- 21-01-2015: Snowden SLAMS iPhone, claims 'special software' tracks users. [The Register]
- 17-01-2015: Turkey is blackmailing Twitter into censorship -- again. [Gizmodo] [NYT] [Engadget]
- 18-01-2015: Twitter complies with Turkey's 'national security' blackout demand – blocks newspaper's tweets. [The Register]
- 27-01-2015: Rather than face ban in Turkey, Facebook blocks “anti-Islamic” pages. [Ars Technica]
- 15-01-2015: How to stop data thieves from stealing information off your old gadgets. [Gizmodo]
- 15-01-2015: The EFF’s secure messaging scorecard. Which app will you use? [Lumension] [EFF]
- 14-01-2015: Using encrypted email in Spain? Do not pass go, go directly to jail. [The Register]
- 13-02-2015: A history of internet spying. [Gizmodo: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5]
- 13-01-2015: More surveillance won't protect free speech. [Gizmodo]
- 12-01-2015: The importance of deleting old stuff -- another lesson from the Sony attack. [Ars Technica]
- 12-01-2015: Leaked Palantir doc reveals uses, specific functions and key clients. [TechCrunch]
- 11-01-2015: Paris terror attacks: ISPs face pressure to share MORE data with governments. [The Register]
- 08-01-2015: Browsing in privacy mode isn't as secure as you think. [ReadWriteWeb]
- 07-01-2015: Traveling with two-factor: how to access your accounts abroad. [Gizmodo]
- 06-01-2015: With the power of social media growing, the police are now monitoring and criminalising online speech. [The Intercept]
- 06-01-2015: HTTPS can be set as your super-cookie. [The Register] [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [Pro Publica]
- 16-01-2015: Verizon is still using 'supercookies' to track your browsing whether you like it or not. [Android Police]
- 06-01-2015: Boffins spy I in your little eye. [The Register]
- 06-01-2015: Lavabit founder wants to make “dark” e-mail secure by default. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing]
- 05-01-2015: Saudi Arabia hires 'ethical hackers' to silence smut slingers. [The Register]
2014 News
- 30-11-2014: German spy agency can monitor its own citizens via technicality. [Ars Technica]
- 25-11-2014: Video: should online surveillance be wider? [BBC News]
- 21-11-2014: Human rights groups' anti-surveillance tool. [Stuff] [Detekt]
- 20-11-2014: China ramps up censorship as it hosts World Internet Conference. [DC Knowledge]
- 12-11-2014: Who will save Europe's privacy from the NSA? Oh dear... it's Google. [The Register]
- 12-11-2014: Why are ISPs removing their customers' email encryption? [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing] [EFF] [The Register]
- 10-11-2014: Mozilla will start hosting Tor relays as part of Polaris privacy push. [GigaOM]
- 07-11-2014: The Arab Spring of privacy is upon us. [Wired]
- 07-11-2014: Dropbox responds to Snowden privacy criticisms. [ReadWriteWeb]
- 05-11-2014: Facebook sees 24% uptick in government requests for user data. [HardOCP] [cNet]
- 04-11-2014: Does your phone company track you? [Ars Technica]
- 28-10-2014: Verizon gives 120 million customers a cookie they can’t delete. [Graham Cluley] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Schneier]
- 31-10-2014: Why Verizon is tracking all your mobile web traffic. [ReadWriteWeb]
- 14-11-2014: AT&T will stop putting undeletable tracking IDs on your phone. [Gizmodo]
- 27-10-2014: Schneier, Diffie, ex-MI5 bod, privacy advocates team up on Code Red. [Schneier]
- 23-10-2014: Privacy complaints skyrocketed in 2013-14, says Pilgrim. [The Register]
- 20-10-2014: How to uncover blurred information in photographs. [Lifehacker] [dheera]
- 20-10-2014: When can the police search your computer/phone? [BoingBoing] [EFF] [Gizmodo]
- 16-10-2014: Tor Browser goes 4.0. [BoingBoing] [Tor Project]
- 16-10-2014: How Whisper app tracks ‘anonymous’ users. [The Guardian] [The Register] [Engadget]
- 16-10-2014: Whisper: we don't track ‘anonymous’ users. [HardOCP] [Washington Post] [Business Insider] [BBC News]
- 17-10-2014: Whisper CTO says tracking “anonymous” users not a big deal, really. [Ars Technica]
- 18-10-2014: Whisper's users may not be so anonymous after all. [ReadWriteWeb]
- 19-10-2014: Whisper chief: 'We're not infallible but strive to do right by our anonymous users'. [The Register]
- 20-10-2014: Whisper tracks its users. So we tracked down its LA office. This is what happened next. [The Register]
- 24-10-2014: Whisper: explain this 'questionable' behavior – senior US senator. [The Register] [The Guardian]
- 24-10-2014: Whisper responds to Guardian's “10 questions”. [PDF]
- 27-10-2014: Why weasel words might not work for Whisper. [The Register]
- 29-10-2014: Whisper CEO denies Guardian allegations that it tracks users locations. [Engadget]
- 13-10-2014: With this tiny box, you can anonymize everything you do online. [Wired]
- 11-10-2014: Librarians on the vanguard of the anti-surveillance movement. [BoingBoing] [Washington Post]
- 10-10-2014: Google received over 144,000 'Right To Be Forgotten' requests. [HardOCP] [cNet]
- 09-10-2014: Gadgets held as evidence being remotely wiped. [BoingBoing]
- 07-10-2014: Hong Kong Transparency Database: tracking HK gov't requests to ISPs. [BoingBoing] [HKTR]
- 03-10-2014: New Google transparency report is out. [HardOCP] [Google]
- 01-10-2014: The criminal indictment that could finally hit spyware makers hard. [Wired]
- 29-09-2014: We take your privacy and security. Seriously. [Krebs]
- 21-09-2014: Special pleading against mass surveillance won't help anyone. [The Register]
- 16-09-2014: Israeli spies rebel over mass-snooping on innocent Palestinians. [The Register]
- 15-09-2014: Several Massachusetts libraries installing Tor on all public PCs, coordinating privacy classes. [BoingBoing]
- 12-09-2014: EFF urges Congress to protect privacy in the cloud. [ReadWriteWeb]
- 11-09-2014: Dropbox transparency report: 268 law enforcement requests, up to 249 national security requests. [VentureBeat]
- 23-08-2014: China censorship filters are hamstringing posts that help their cause. [Ars Technica]
- 19-08-2014: Think crypto hides you from spooks on Facebook? Think again. [The Register]
- 18-08-2014: Rupert Murdoch says Google is worse than the NSA. [The Register]
- 18-03-2014: John McAfee wants you to stop using Google. [Gizmodo] [BBC News]
- 15-08-2014: Researchers figure out how to spy on your smartphone in a way you’ll never see coming. [BGR]
- 11-08-2014: US tech companies rally behind Facebook in privacy case. [BBC News]
- 09-08-2014: Crypto Daddy Phil Zimmerman says surveillance society is doomed. [The Register]
- 05-08-2014: Ubiquitous surveillance in Singapore. [Schneier] [Foreign Policy]
- 25-07-2014: Intimate data kept on file. [NZ Herald]
- 21-07-2014: Hidden network packet sniffer found in millions of iPhones, iPads. [The Register]
- 08-07-2014: Facebook is beating the FBI at facial recognition. [HardOCP] [The Verge]
- 04-07-2014: Web activity used in court to portray state of mind. [Schneier]
- 03-07-2014: UK "porn filter" triggers widespread internet censorship. [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
- 18-06-2014: TOR is '90 per cent of the net' claims City of London Police Commish – and he's dead wrong. [The Register]
- 15-06-2014: Big Brother at work may be no bad thing. [BBC News]
- 05-06-2014: Today is the day we Reset the Net. [BoingBoing] [ResetTheNet] [Stuff]
- 05-06-2014: Volume of encrypted email rising. [Stuff] [NZ Herald]
- 03-06-2014: Transparency Report: protecting emails as they travel across the web. [Google]
- 27-05-2014: The FTC wants to save you from data brokers that sell your secrets. [Gizmodo]
- 21-05-2014: Surveillance state: the NSA doesn't stand alone. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
- 16-05-2014: EFF heaps praise on Apple for protecting customer data. [TUAW] [iMore]
- 15-05-2014: Most tech giants now score well in EFF's first post-Snowden "Who Has Your Back?" report. [EFF]
- 09-05-2014: New guidelines outline what iPhone data Apple can give to police. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 02-05-2014: White House seeks legal immunity for firms that hand over customer data. [The Guardian] [Engadget]
- 02-05-2014: Apple and other techs to notify users of government data collection. [GottaBeMobile] [TrustedReviews]
- 30-04-2014: TAILS: Snowden's favorite anonymous, secure OS goes 1.0. [BoingBoing] [Tails] [Hexus] [Engadget]
- 23-04-2014: Conversnitch. [Schneier] [Wired]
- 21-04-2014: Info on Russian bulk surveillance. [Schneier] [CSIS] [BoingBoing]
- 17-04-2014: Putin tells Snowden live on air: no 'massive scale' surveillance of public communications. [Engadget] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing]
- 17-04-2014: Snowden: "Vladimir Putin must be called to account on surveillance just like Obama". [BoingBoing]
- 18-04-2014: Snowden on his Putin TV appearance: 'Why all the criticism?' [The Register]
- 19-04-2014: Snowden op-ed explains reasons for calling out Putin on live TV. [Ars Technica]
- 17-04-2014: Despite Lavabit contempt order, e-mail privacy stalled in Congress. [Ars Technica]
- 16-04-2014: Snowden-inspired crypto-email service Lavaboom launches. [The Register]
- 15-04-2014: Google admits just how much it scans our Gmail. [BGR] [Ars Technica]
- 14-04-2014: FBI plans to have 52 million photos in its NGI face recognition database by next year. [EFF] [Gizmodo]
- 15-04-2014: Privacy fears over FBI facial recognition database. [BBC News]
- 15-04-2014: There'll be no escape from the FBI's new facial recognition system. [Engadget]
- 14-04-2014: Security breaches at federal agencies involving PII just keep mounting up. [Collaborista]
- 09-04-2014: EU court rejects requirement to keep data of users by telecom companies. [Tracy and Matt]
- 31-03-2014: You’ve uploaded files to Dropbox. But just how private are they? [Graham Cluley]
- 22-03-2014: Time Warner Cable issues first transparency report. [Engadget]
- 22-03-2014: Turkey widens Internet censorship. [Daily News] [Washington Post]
- 24-03-2014: Turkey's farcical Twitter ban leads to SPIKE in tweets. [The Register]
- 26-03-2014: Turkey will lift its Twitter ban. [ReadWriteWeb]
- 27-03-2014: Turkish government blocks YouTube to shut down spread of phone recording in which PM conspires to hide millions from investigators. [BoingBoing] [WebRazzi]
- 28-03-2014: Turkish court rules tweets are free speech. [Engadget]
- 30-03-2014: Google claims Turkey intercepts their DNS. [ZDNet] [HardOCP] [Ars Technica] [The Register] [BBC News]
- 08-04-2014: Turkish ISPs make getting to YouTube a little easier, but haven't unblocked it yet. [Engadget]
- 21-03-2014: Forget the NSA, tech companies may be reading your email too. [Wired]
- 22-03-2014: EFF lawyer questions Microsoft's ability to search our email, claims it's open to abuse. [Engadget]
- 21-03-2014: Gmail goes HTTPS-only, inside and out. [Graham Cluley]
- 20-03-2014: Microsoft snooped on a blogger's email to hunt down a Windows 8 leaker. [Gizmodo] [The Register] [BBC News]
- 24-03-2014: It’s not just Microsoft: Apple and Google can also read your emails. [BGR]
- 25-03-2014: Ex-Microsoft worker arrested after passing Windows 8 trade secrets to blogger. [Collaborista]
- 26-03-2014: Google denies snooping on Gmail users to hunt down leaks. [BGR]
- 28-03-2014: Microsoft changes privacy policy to ban accessing users' email. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Wired] [BoingBoing]
- 20-03-2014: NZers' online privacy behaviours under the microscope. [Voxy]
- 17-03-2014: Australian attorney general wants the power to launch man-in-the-middle attacks on secure Internet connections. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt] [The Register] [Ars Technica]
- 13-03-2014: Researches attack secured internet activity to mine personal data. [HardOCP] [Network World]
- 13-03-2014: Bad news for NSA, Google encrypts search. [Stuff]
- 10-03-2014: Snowden says encryption and oversight are key to protecting the public from surveillance. [Engadget]
- 06-03-2014: Microsoft received 35,083 government requests for data impacting 58,676 accounts in the second half of 2013. [TNW]
- 05-03-2014: Ex-NSA official Inglis warns tech firms: be transparent. [WSJ]
- 28-02-2014: Tor is working on a messaging app that will take privacy to the next level. [BGR] [DailyDot] [HardOCP] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
- 18-02-2014: Detailed analysis of Syria's network censorship with logs from Blue Coat's surveillance boxes. [BoingBoing] [Arxiv PDF]
- 17-02-2014: Undeniable proof that Facebook knows way too much about your life. [BGR]
- 16-02-2014: NSA sanctions Australia’s spying on US law firm representing a foreign country. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [NYT] [BBC News]
- 06-02-2014: Turks bid farewell to the Internet in the face of brutal censorship/surveillance law. [BoingBoing] [Medium]
- 05-02-2014: Wozniak criticises cloud dependence in light of NSA. [HardOCP] [cNet]
- 05-02-2014: New surveillance tech that tracks everyone from above. [HardOCP] [Washington Post]
- 05-02-2014: GCSB spies admit to illegally deleting key evidence in Kim Dotcom case. [BoingBoing] [NZ Herald]
- 04-02-2014: Anonymous means NO identifying element left behind – EU handbook. [The Register]
- 03-02-2014: Legendary hacker group CCC files complaint against German government over surveillance. [GigaOM] [Stuff]
- 29-01-2014: Lavabit goes head to head with feds in contempt-of-court case. [Ars Technica] [PCWorld]
- 27-01-2014: What is exposed about you and your friends when you login with Facebook. [BoingBoing] [Twitter]
- 27-01-2014: US government reaches deal with tech firms on data requests. [WSJ]
- 21-01-2014: Russian spy nodes caught snooping on Facebook users. [Wired]
- 17-01-2014: UK 'complacent' over mass surveillance revelations. [BBC News]
- 16-01-2014: Creator of PGP e-mail encryption making secure Android “Blackphone”. [Ars Technica] [Geekzone] [DailyTech] [BGR] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [TechCrunch] [BoingBoing] [Blackphone] [PocketNow] [ExtremeTech] [HardOCP] [BetaBeat] [The Register] [Stuff] [GottaBeMobile]
- 13-01-2014: Out in the Open: An NSA-Proof Twitter, Built With Code From Bitcoin and BitTorrent. [Wired]
- 11-01-2014: Canadian spy agency admits to illegally spying on Canadians. [BoingBoing] [The Observer]
- 10-01-2014: It's insanely cheap for cops to track your cell phone. [Gizmodo]
- 10-01-2014: Coalition to fight mass Internet surveillance declares global day of action, Feb 11. [BoingBoing] [thedaywefightback.org] [Reddit]
- 09-01-2014: Small telecoms company believed to be at centre of government court fight files surveillance transparency report. [Wired]
- 08-01-2014: Online privacy could spark US-EU trade rift. [WSJ]
- 08-01-2014: Facial recognition app helps you internet stalk that girl you saw on the bus. [Graham Cluley]
- 07-01-2014: The Pirate Bay to launch game changing app. [NZ Herald]
- 06-01-2014: Agencies too slow in destroying shared data. [Stuff]
- 03-01-2014: Coca Cola slurps millions of MAC addresses. [The Register]
- 03-01-2014: Facebook sued over alleged private message scanning. [BBC News] [cNet] [The Register] [BGR] [NZ Herald]
- 03-01-2014: Why Facebook is right to scan ‘private’ messages. [Graham Cluley]
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5-Eyes Spying -- 2016 News
- 29-11-2016: Investigatory Powers Act signed into UK law by Queen. [The Register] [Engadget]
- 29-11-2016: What the internet surveillance law means to you. [BBC News]
- 06-12-2016: The UK's Investigatory Powers Act allows the State to tell lies in court. [The Register]
- 29-11-2016: FBI and NSA poised to gain new surveillance powers. [DC Knowledge] [The Register] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [HardOCP] [Reuters]
- 02-12-2016: FBI joins Rule 41 in setting troubling precedent. [ExtremeTech]
- 24-11-2016: Snowden can be asked to testify in person in German NSA probe. [Ars Technica]
- 23-11-2016: Twitter to police: stop mining tweets for surveillance. [HardOCP] [ZDNet]
- 17-11-2016: Snoopers' Charter, UK’s most privacy invasive law passed by parliament. [THG] [Engadget]
- 01-11-2016: New leak may show if you were hacked by the NSA [Ars Technica]
- 31-10-2016: America has one month to stop the FBI getting its global license to hack. [The Register]
- 26-10-2016: Say goodbye to the fingerprint; it's your digital footprint the FBI wants. [Stuff]
- 24-10-2016: UK spies paid a New Zealand firm to help tap key internet lines. [Engadget]
- 18-10-2016: Cops serve warrant to enter property, demand everyone's fingerprints to unlock phone. [Graham Cluley] [HardOCP] [Forbes] [Ars Technica]
- 17-10-2016: UK spy agencies broke privacy rules says tribunal. [BBC News] [Graham Cluley] [The Register] [THG] [Engadget]
- 10-10-2016: 'Cyber terrorist' trades cufflinks for handcuffs. [Graham Cluley]
- 10-10-2016: UK police forces own IMSI grabbers, but keeping quiet on use. [The Register]
- 07-10-2016: There's an NSA data center in the UK. [DC Knowledge] [The Intercept]
- 04-10-2016: FBI demands Signal user data, but there’s not much to hand over. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Graham Cluley]
- 04-10-2016: Yahoo secretly scanned users' emails for the NSA and FBI. [Gizmodo] [Stuff] [Graham Cluley] [The Register] [HardOCP] [Reuters] [Lifehacker] [Wired] [Schneier] [Reuters]
- 05-10-2016: Spark seeks information on US spying after Yahoo scanned emails. [Stuff]
- 06-10-2016: Yahoo claims Reuters NSA scanning report was 'misleading,' not false. [THG]
- 08-10-2016: Yahoo email scanning done with a Linux kernel module. [Engadget]
- 14-10-2016: Yahoo applies for patent on mass surveillance system the Soviets would envy. [ExtremeTech]
- 14-10-2016: End-to-end encryption could’ve protected Yahoo mail users from 2014 data breach and NSA spying. [THG]
- 14-10-2016: US Congress demands answers from Yahoo. [The Register] [Ars Technica]
- 20-10-2016: Yahoo begs US spymaster Clapper: Spill the beans on secret email snooping. [The Register] [Gizmodo]
- 27-08-2016: Congressman to FCC: Fix phone network flaw that allows eavesdropping. [Ars Technica]
- 21-08-2016: Here's how the NSA spied on Cisco firewalls for years. [Engadget]
- 19-08-2016: How the NSA snooped on encrypted Internet traffic for a decade. [Ars Technica]
- 19-08-2016: Internet spying powers backed by review. [BBC News]
- 15-08-2016: Report reveals identity of NSA and PRISM surveillance target. [Engadget]
- 15-08-2016: New GCSB bill allows spying on Kiwis. [Stuff] [Stuff]
- 06-08-2016: Privacy warriors drag GCHQ into Euro human rights court over blanket spying, hacking. [The Register]
- 22-08-2016: Review concludes UK bulk surveillance powers are necessary. [Engadget]
- 02-08-2016: Judge blasts FBI for bugging courthouse, throws out 200 hours of recordings. [Ars Technica]
- 02-08-2016: InternetNZ Easy Transparency aims to help identify mass surveillance in NZ. [Geekzone] [InternetNZ]
- 01-08-2016: Secure email service GhostMail shutting down in fear of being abused. [Graham Cluley]
- 18-07-2016: Obama wants to give the British permission to read American emails. [Gizmodo] [WSJ]
- 13-07-2016: An FBI 'pilot' collected over 434,000 iris scans since 2013. [Engadget] [BBC News] [HardOCP] [The Verge]
- 31-05-2016: All your disk image are belong to us, says appeals court. [Ars Technica]
- 31-05-2016: Cops can easily get hundreds of days of location data, appeals court rules. [Ars Technica]
- 24-05-2016: FBI wants to keep its biometric database secret. [HardOCP] [ZDNet]
- 23-05-2016: Geek Squad employee allegedly searched PCs for the FBI. [Engadget] [HardOCP] [Consumerist]
- 16-05-2016: Spied upon by GCHQ? You'll need proof before a court will hear you. [The Register]
- 16-05-2016: Everything we know about how the FBI hacks people. [Wired]
- 12-05-2016: FBI director is upset you can communicate securely on WhatsApp. [Gizmodo] [Politico] [Ars Technica]
- 09-05-2016: Twitter blocks US spies from analyzing your tweets. [HardOCP] [Engadget]
- 30-04-2016: US surveillance court didn't reject a single spy order last year. [Engadget] [Ars Technica]
- 04-05-2016: CIA and NSA doubled their searches for Americans' data in 2 years. [Engadget]
- 10-05-2016: Warrantless spying on Americans more than doubled since 2013: oversight report. [ExtremeTech]
- 10-06-2016: Congress calls for change to NSA spying law. [The Register]
- 29-04-2016: Documenting the chilling effects of NSA surveillance. [Schneier] [Reuters] [Washington Post]
- 28-04-2016: Supreme Court approves feds' request for greater hacking powers. [Engadget] [The Register] [BBC News] [ExtremeTech] [THG] [Gizmodo]
- 27-04-2016: Why you should care about the coming email privacy law . [Gizmodo]
- 28-04-2016: Email privacy bill passes Congress with flying colors [Engadget]
- 23-04-2016: Congress asks the NSA how often it spies on Americans. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica] [Russ White] [MarketWatch]
- 21-04-2016: How innocent people 'of no security interest' are mere keystrokes away in UK's spy databases. [The Register]
- 20-04-2016: FBI's PRISM slurping is 'unconstitutional' – and America's secret spy court is OK with that. [The Register]
- 17-04-2016: Comprehensive takedown of mass surveillance. [Gizmodo] [YouTube]
- 15-04-2016: The CIA is investing in social media surveillance even more. [Engadget]
- 14-04-2016: Microsoft sues DoJ over 'unconstitutional' secret data searches. [Gizmodo] [NZ Herald]
- 13-04-2016: US House Committee approves bill requiring warrants for e-mail. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 02-04-2016: FBI offers crypto assistance to local cops: “We are in this together". [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
- 31-03-2016: Why do the Feds usually try to unlock phones? It’s drugs, not terrorism. [Wired]
- 31-03-2016: UK cops tell suspect to hand over crypto keys in US hacking case. [Ars Technica]
- 31-03-2016: Spying without a warrant: Spy agencies utilise new power under anti-terror legislation. [Stuff]
- 28-03-2016: A 1976 congressional report on surveillance. [Schneier] [US Archive PDF]
- 23-03-2016: Representatives say NSA must end plans to expand domestic spying. [Ars Technica]
- 22-03-2016: The Investigatory Powers Bill - it's time to take a closer look. [Graham Cluley]
- 21-03-2016: Brennan Center report on NSA overseas spying and executive order 12333. [Schneier]
- 14-03-2016: The Feds are prepping strict rules to protect your online privacy. [Wired]
- 14-03-2016: John Key: Undercover spies can't break laws, but may need 'different laws'. [Stuff]
- 09-03-2016: Expanding spy agency powers 'significant erosion of Kiwis' privacy'. [Stuff]
- 08-03-2016: Secret court approves classified rule change on how FBI can use NSA data. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [The Register] [ExtremeTech] [HardOCP] [The Guardian] [Washington Post] [Privacy SOS]
- 26-02-2016: Obama administration closing in on rules to let NSA share more freely with FBI, CIA. [Ars Technica]
- 17-02-2016: Five Eyes nations must purge terrorists from the web, says Theresa May. [The Register]
- 14-02-2016: The government wants to listen in on your smart home. [Wired]
- 13-02-2016: Tribunal rules computer hacking by GCHQ is not illegal. [BBC News]
- 09-02-2016: UK's Intelligence And Security Committee heavily criticizes Investigatory Powers Bill. [THG] [The Register]
- 09-02-2016: Large-scale FBI hacking. [Schneier] [Motherboard]
- 05-02-2016: Brit spies want rights to wiretap and snoop on US companies' servers. [The Register]
- 29-01-2016: NSA, GCHQ used open source software to spy on Israeli, Syrian drones. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [Schneier]
- 28-01-2016: NSA’s top hacking boss explains how to protect your network from his attack squads. [The Register] [Wired] [Schneier]
- 27-01-2016: Cops hate encryption but the NSA loves it when you use PGP. [The Register]
- 22-01-2016: UK government promoting backdoor-enabled voice encryption protocol. [Schneier]
- 21-01-2016: The NSA can spy on you with or without encryption. [Gizmodo]
- 21-01-2016: California lawmaker wants to ban phone encryption in 2017. [Engadget] [HardOCP] [ZDNet] [Ars Technica]
- 19-01-2016: GCHQ-built phone voice encryption has massive backdoor. [The Register] [Ars Technica] [BBC News] [Engadget]
- 21-01-2016: GCHQ spies quashed this phone encryption because it was too good against snoopers. [The Register]
- 14-01-2016: The NSA releases its first transparency report under the US Freedom Act. [Engadget]
- 14-01-2016: Investor to AT&T – give us a peek at your NSA data dealings. [The Register]
- 06-01-2016: How the US is playing both ends on data privacy. [Schneier] [Foreign Affairs]
- 06-01-2016: Mass-surveillance 'undermines security' and failed to stop 9/11 attacks, says ex-NSA officer. [Graham Cluley]
- 06-01-2016: GCHQ mass spying will 'cost lives in Britain,' warns ex-NSA tech chief. [The Register]
- 06-01-2016: Draft super-snoop bill's data protection Code of Practice is a blank canvas. [The Register]
- 05-01-2016: NSA spies on Israeli prime minister. [Schneier]
- 05-01-2016: A redaction re-visited: NSA targeted “the two leading” encryption chips. [The Intercept]
- 03-01-2016: Most Americans are OK with warrantless Internet surveillance. [HardOCP] [Softpedia]
5-Eyes Spying -- 2015 News
- 31-12-2015: In 2015, promising surveillance cases ran into legal brick walls. [Ars Technica]
- 30-12-2015: It's amazing the UK Parliament agreed to track 22bn Brits' car trips. Oh right – it didn't. [The Register]
- 29-12-2015: The NSA spied on Congress, too. [Engadget] [The Intercept] [The Register]
- 22-12-2015: Apple formally objects to the UK's Investigatory Powers Bill. [Gizmodo] [The Guardian] [HardOCP] [Engadget]
- 18-12-2015: Behold, the catalog of cellphone spying gear the feds don’t want you to see. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Wired] [Schneier]
- 18-12-2015: Why product builders need to worry about CISA. [ReadWriteWeb]
- 17-12-2015: Canadian live route map highlights vulnerabilities to NSA spying efforts. [The Register] [IXMaps]
- 14-12-2015: GCHQ creates Github repo, offers graph database. [The Register]
- 10-12-2015: GCSB 'Cortex' system aimed at ISPs. [NZ Herald]
- 10-12-2015: GCHQ could 'grab' UK shopping data. [BBC News]
- 01-12-2015: GCHQ v Privacy International: Computer hacking tribunal showdown begins. [The Register] [Stuff]
- 01-12-2015: GCHQ can hack your systems at will – thanks to 'soft touch' oversight. [The Register] [THG]
- 01-12-2015: FBI national security letter details revealed by court. [BBC News] [ExtremeTech] [Engadget]
- 30-11-2015: Man fighting FBI spying gag order can finally speak after 11-year court battle. [Gizmodo]
- 28-11-2015: At 11:59pm EST on Saturday, the NSA will stop in-house phone metadata collection. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [Reuters] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [Stuff]
- 30-11-2015: The NSA is still spying on you. [Engadget]
- 27-11-2015: UK ISP boss points out massive technical flaws in Investigatory Powers Bill. [Ars Technica]
- 20-11-2015: It’s official -- NSA did keep its e-mail metadata program after it “ended” in 2011. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Engadget] [Schneier]
- 18-11-2015: Overwhelmed NSA surprised to discover its own surveillance goldmine on Venezuela's oil exectuives. [The Intercept]
- 18-11-2015: US attorney calls for access to Google and Apple phones. [BBC News] [NZ Herald]
- 13-11-2015: Yes, the NSA worried about whether spying would backfire. [Wired]
- 11-11-2015: ToR says Feds paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to help unmask users. [THG] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [BBC News] [Gizmodo]
- 11-11-2015: Appeals court allows NSA bulk phone spying to continue unabated. [Ars Technica]
- 11-11-2015: UK citizens will have to pay government to spy on them. [The Register]
- 11-11-2015: Ex-GCHQ chief: Bulk access to internet comms not same as mass surveillance. [The Register]
- 10-11-2015: GCHQ director blasts free market, says UK must be 'sovereign cryptographic nation'. [The Register]
- 10-11-2015: Tim Cook: UK crypto backdoors would lead to 'dire consequences'. [The Register]
- 10-11-2015: Weeks before NSA bulk phone spying ends, US judge (kinda) reins in program. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [Wired]
- 09-11-2015: Here's the little-known legal loophole that permitted mass surveillance in the UK. [The Register]
- 06-11-2015: MI5 carried out secret mass surveillance for a decade. [Ars Technica]
- 05-11-2015: Top FBI lawyer: You win, we've given up on encryption backdoors. [The Register]
- 05-11-2015: FBI official: It’s America’s choice whether we want to be spied on. [Ars Technica]
- 04-11-2015: GCHQ 'smart collection' would protect MPs from spies, says NSA expert. [The Register]
- 03-11-2015: UK to ask US tech giants for crypto backdoors. [The Register]
- 01-11-2015: Theresa May says 'contentious' parts of web surveillance plan dropped. [BBC News]
- 04-11-2015: Investigatory Powers Bill: ISPs to keep 1yr of your browsing history. [Hexus] [ExtremeTech]
- 05-11-2015: Encrypt voice calls, says GCHQ's CESG team... using CESG encryption. [The Register]
- 05-11-2015: UK cyber-spy law takes Snowden's revelations of mass surveillance and sets them in stone. [The Register]
- 05-11-2015: GCHQ's CESG team's crypto proposal isn't dumb, it's malicious. [The Register]
- 30-10-2015: Court says it’s legal for NSA to spy on you because Congress says it’s OK. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Engadget]
- 27-10-2015: Top German official infected by highly advanced spy trojan with NSA ties. [Ars Technica]
- 24-10-2015: Judge tosses Wikimedia’s anti-NSA lawsuit because Wikipedia isn’t big enough. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Engadget]
- 23-10-2015: 20 years after the first Internet wiretap, the government still sucks at cybersecurity. [Gizmodo]
- 23-10-2015: DoJ: Apple owns your iPhone's software, so it should have a backdoor. [Engadget]
- 22-10-2015: CISA blowup: 'Web giants sharing private info isn't about security – it's state surveillance'. [The Register]
- 21-10-2015: FBI, US g-men tried to snatch DNA results from blood-testing business. [The Register]
- 21-10-2015: Warrantless cellphone data collection spotlighted on Capitol Hill. [PocketNow]
- 17-10-2015: The NYPD doesn't want you to know about its X-ray spy vans. [Wired]
- 14-10-2015: GCHQ can and will spy on politicos, rules tribunal. [The Register]
- 13-10-2015: The end of Australians' digital privacy. [Stuff]
- 10-10-2015: Obama administration won’t seek encryption-backdoor legislation. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Wired] [Android Police] [HardOCP] [TechCrunch] [Schneier] [NYT] [Washington Post]
- 12-10-2015: Cops don't need a crypto backdoor to get into your phone. [Wired]
- 12-10-2015: The battle over backdoor government data access isn't over. [Engadget]
- 09-10-2015: I showed leaked NSA slides at Purdue, so feds demanded the video be destroyed. [Ars Technica]
- 05-10-2015: GCHQ can take control of smartphones. [BBC News] [The Register]
- 29-09-2015: Feds say your hard drives are for the government’s keeping. [Ars Technica]
- 29-09-2015: US government deny illegal spying to EU top lawyer. [The Register]
- 28-09-2015: This new campaign wants to help surveillance agents quit NSA or GCHQ. [Wired]
- 25-09-2015: GCHQ stores 50+ billion records a day on people. [The Register]
- 25-09-2015: GCHQ spooks spied on every web user ever. [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [The Intercept] [Schneier]
- 17-09-2015: Britain's FBI wants 'Five Eyes' cosy hookups with infosec outfits. [The Register]
- 16-09-2015: Anonymous browsing at the library. [Schneier] [ProPublica] [The Register]
- 15-09-2015: ISP wins 11-year battle to reveal warrantless FBI spying. [Engadget]
- 15-09-2015: Hacking Team, Computer Vulnerabilities, and the NSA. [Schneier]
- 14-09-2015: Did GCHQ illegally spy on you? Now you can find out from this page. [The Register] [Wired]
- 14-09-2015: Jeb Bush asks that you stop demonizing the NSA. [Wired]
- 11-09-2015: GCHQ wants to set your passwords -- in a good way. [The Register]
- 10-09-2015: FBI and Apple's encryption. [Schneier]
- 01-09-2015: Spy agencies can run wild because oversight is broken. [Wired]
- 01-09-2015: NSA boss: encrypted software needs government backdoors. [Wired]
- 04-09-2015: FTC commissioners call for strong encryption, push back against FBI, NSA. [ExtremeTech] [The Register]
- 06-09-2015: US trade watchdog to FBI: you think the crims won't know about the back door too? [The Register]
- 31-08-2015: Spy agencies mining Ashley Madison data for blackmail material. [Stuff]
- 30-08-2015: NSA wants encryption that fends off quantum computing hacks. [Engadget]
- 29-08-2015: The NSA can keep spying on phone call metadata through November. [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
- 28-08-2015: Why it's hard to sue the NSA: you have to prove it spied on you. [Wired]
- 21-08-2015: NSA preps quantum-resistant algorithms to head off crypto-apocalypse [Ars Technica] [Schneier]
- 18-08-2015: Jeb Bush thinks we haven't given the NSA enough power to spy on us. [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica]
- 17-08-2015: The secret project to turn the Internet into an anti-Soviet spy network. [Gizmodo]
- 15-08-2015: NSA's partnership with AT&T. [Schneier] [ProPublica] [NYT] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [The Register] [DC Knowledge]
- 13-08-2015: NZ spies want greater powers. [Stuff]
- 05-08-2015: FBI must get proper warrant to track somebody by cellphone - US appeals court. [The Register] [Gizmodo]
- 04-08-2015: TrueCrypt 'decrypted' by FBI to nail doc-stealing sysadmin. [The Register]
- 04-08-2015: Duncan Campbell: GCHQ and me and a roomful of Reg readers. [The Register]
- 31-07-2015: Wikileaks: US spied on Japan. [BBC News] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
- 30-07-2015: The NSA, metadata, and the failure of stopping 9/11. [Schneier] [Foreign Policy]
- 27-07-2015: NSA won't look at call metadata collected under the Patriot Act. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Wired] [The Register]
- 27-07-2015: Even former heads of NSA, DHS think crypto backdoors are stupid. [Ars Technica] [Schneier]
- 23-07-2015: How British spies really spy: Information that didn't come from Snowden. [The Register]
- 23-07-2015: Galloway and Greens challenge Brit spooks over dragnet snooping. [The Register]
- 17-07-2015: Feds bust through huge Tor-hidden child porn site using questionable malware. [Ars Technica]
- 14-07-2015: ACLU wants to end NSA mass spying forever. [The Register]
- 13-07-2015: NSA antennas. [Schneier] [Nautilus Institute]
- 09-07-2015: Another NSA leak: Network security code appears on GitHub. [The Register]
- 09-07-2015: This is the most outrageous government tirade against iOS 8 encryption. [Ars Technica]
- 08-07-2015: NSA runs on Linux, Apache, MySQL. [The Register]
- 07-07-2015: FBI director says he's 'not a maniac' about backdoor cellphone access. [Engadget]
- 09-07-2015: FBI chief tells Senate committee we’re doomed without crypto backdoors. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
- 06-07-2015: Australian government mulls secret terror court proposals. [The Register]
- 04-07-2015: NSA's top Brazilian political and financial targets revealed by new Wikileaks disclosure. [The Intercept]
- 03-07-2015: UK’s Cameron wants to ban encryption. [ExtremeTech]
- 02-07-2015: GCHQ did spy on Amnesty International, secret tribunal admits. [Ars Technica] [BBC News]
- 02-07-2015: New intelligence briefs show US spied on German leader. [Ars Technica] [Schneier] [Der Spiegel]
- 09-07-2015: Wikileaks: NSA snooped on German chancellors for decades. [The Register]
- 01-07-2015: XKEYSCORE. [Engadget] [Schneier] [Schneier]
- Part 1: NSA’s Google for the world's private communications.
- Part 2: Behind the curtain.
- 30-06-2015: Warrantless phone tapping, e-mail spying inching to Supreme Court review. [Ars Technica]
- 29-06-2015: Expert says NZ should seek 'Five Eyes' role change to protect China relations. [Stuff]
- 26-06-2015: GCHQ accidentally spied on its own staff too much. [Graham Cluley] [HardOCP] [Wired] [The Register]
- 24-06-2015: What is the DoD's position on backdoors in security systems? [Schneier]
- 22-06-2015: Spies hacked computers thanks to sweeping secret warrants, aggressively stretching UK law. [The Intercept] [The Register]
- 22-06-2015: Controversial GCHQ unit engaged in domestic law enforcement, online propaganda, psychology research. [The Intercept]
- 22-06-2015: New Snowden docs reveal NSA, British government attacked antivirus companies. [ExtremeTech] [Graham Cluley] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [Schneier]
- 22-06-2015: GCHQ 'broke rules' when spying on NGOs. [BBC News] [Engadget]
- 17-06-2015: FBI aerial surveillance revelations prompt backlash from US lawmakers. [Ars Technica]
- 17-06-2015: Even former NSA chief thinks USA Freedom Act was a pointless change. [Ars Technica] [Schneier]
- 17-06-2015: Downing Street secretly deletes emails to avoid exposure to FOI requests. [The Register]
- 15-06-2015: Five reasons the MI6 story is a lie. [Graham Cluley] [The Register] [The Intercept] [NZ Herald]
- 16-06-2015: China and Russia almost definitely have the Snowden docs. [Wired]
- 16-06-2015: Sunday Times reporter tells CNN everything you need to know about Snowden story. [Graham Cluley]
- 12-06-2015: Germany drops probe into NSA's Merkel phone-hacking. [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Engadget]
- 11-06-2015: If hackers can spy on you all then so should we – US Senator logic. [The Register]
- 11-06-2015: Review of UK surveillance laws: as you were, GCHQ. [The Register] [Engadget]
- 11-06-2015: A sensible way forward on UK surveillance? [BBC News]
- 10-06-2015: Mass snooping fake mobile towers 'uncovered in UK'. [BBC News] [Engadget]
- 10-06-2015: Techies to Obama: keep your hands off encryption. [Stuff]
- 09-06-2015: Canada greenlights an anti-terror law that hurts internet privacy. [Engadget]
- 09-06-2015: If the FBI has a backdoor to Facebook or Apple encryption, we are less safe. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
- 09-06-2015: Undetectable NSA-linked hybrid malware hits Intel Security radar. [The Register]
- 09-06-2015: NSA slapdown prompts Privacy Int'l to file new lawsuit against GCHQ. [The Register]
- 04-06-2015: New Snowden documents reveal secret memos expanding spying. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [NYT] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [ExtremeTech] [Schneier]
- 03-06-2015: US Senate votes to curtail bulk data collection. [BBC News]
- 02-06-2015: Let the snooping resume: Senate revives Patriot Act surveillance measures. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Wired] [The Register]
- 02-06-2015: Forget black helicopters, FBI flying surveillance Cessnas over US cities. [The Register] [Gawker] [BoingBoing] [Engadget]
- 04-06-2015: How I tracked FBI aerial surveillance. [Ars Technica]
- 06-06-2015: Divining the capabilities of the FBI's ubiquitous spy aircraft. [BoingBoing] [Wired]
- 18-06-2015: FBI says in secret that secret spy Cessnas aren't secret. [The Register]
- 02-06-2015: How the end of Patriot Act provisions changes NSA surveillance. [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Lifehacker] [BoingBoing]
- 02-06-2015: IT-savvy US congressmen to Feds: End your crypto-backdoor crusade. [The Register]
- 01-06-2015: How the government will spy on you if the Patriot Act dies. [Gizmodo] [The Register]
- 01-06-2015: This shadow government agency is scarier than the NSA. [Gizmodo]
- 01-06-2015: UK cops average a personal metadata request every 2 minutes. [BoingBoing] [Pando]
- 01-06-2015: NSA can't legally surveil Americans' every phone call, for now. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian] [The Register] [Engadget]
- 31-05-2015: PATRIOT Act expires -- now what? [BoingBoing] [EFF]
- 31-05-2015: Parts of Patriot Act expire tonight after Senate Fails to pass reform. [Wired] [Ars Technica]
- 31-05-2015: If the PATRIOT Act ends tonight, what will that mean? [BoingBoing] [USA Today]
- 31-05-2015: Thousands of websites block Congress in protest of NSA surveillance. [Gizmodo] [The Guardian]
- 31-05-2015: “Terrorist elements” are watching today’s Senate Patriot Act vote. [Ars Technica]
- 31-05-2015: The Patriot Act may be dead forever. [HardOCP] [The Daily Beast]
- 31-05-2015: Another tech firm says it has quit the UK over government internet surveillance plans. [Graham Cluley]
- 30-05-2015: The PATRIOT Act is uglier than you thought, and what to do about it. [BoingBoing]
- 30-05-2015: Rand Paul plans to crush the Patriot Act. [BoingBoing] [Politico]
- 30-05-2015: Proposal to massively expand FBI's legal hacking abilities moves forward. [Gizmodo]
- 29-05-2015: Weaponizing code: America's quest to control the exploit market. [Engadget]
- 22-05-2015: Senate blocks NSA reform bill and Patriot Act extensions. [Engadget] [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [EFF] [Stuff] [Wired] [The Register] [HardOCP] [PCWorld] [Stuff] [Gizmodo] [DailyTech]
- 26-05-2015: Obama urges Senate to preserve NSA's illegal, useless phone record programme. [BoingBoing] [LA Times]
- 21-05-2015: How NSA, allies exploit mobile app stores. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [CBC News] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [THG] [HardOCP] [The Intercept] [ExtremeTech] [Android Police] [The Register] [NZ Herald]
- 20-05-2015: NSA spying shutting down this week. [HardOCP] [National Journal]
- 20-05-2015: 'Logjam' crypto bug could be how the NSA cracked VPNs. [The Register]
- 19-05-2015: Americans do not like NSA spying and want to reform the Patriot Act. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
- 19-05-2015: Want to hack companies and not get punished? Just join GCHQ. [Graham Cluley]
- 18-05-2015: Apple and Google push Obama to prevent encryption backdoors. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [ExtremeTech]
- 17-05-2015: UK government quietly rewrites hacking laws to give GCHQ immunity. [Ars Technica]
- 15-05-2015: Even the FBI had privacy concerns on license plate readers. [Wired]
- 15-05-2015: Law changed to allow GCHQ hacking ... just as GCHQ hauled into court for hacking. [The Register]
- 14-05-2015: Metadata scope creep sees Border Force ask for access. [The Register]
- 13-05-2015: House votes 338-88 to stop bulk phone data collection. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Wired] [ExtremeTech]
- 12-05-2015: Wyden: If Senate tries to renew NSA spying authority, I’ll filibuster. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 11-05-2015: More on the NSA's capabilities. [Schneier] [Light Blue Touchpaper]
- 08-05-2015: Snowden: court ruling against NSA surveillance 'encouraging'. [Engadget]
- 08-05-2015: Google executives talk Snowden and NSA backdoors during AMA. [Engadget]
- 08-05-2015: So, the NSA has an actual Skynet programme. [Wired] [Gizmodo]
- 08-05-2015: Theresa May: Right, this time we're getting the Snooper's Charter in. [The Register] [Graham Cluley]
- 11-05-2015: Tories vow to ram through mass spying bill -- you can stop them! [BoingBoing] [Open Rights Group]
- 13-05-2015: Technology firm says it is quitting the UK because of government internet surveillance plans. [Graham Cluley]
- 27-05-2015: Queen's Speech: New monitoring powers 'to tackle terrorism'. [BBC News]
- 07-05-2015: Canada passes controversial spook-powers law. [The Register]
- 07-05-2015: NSA phone dragnet is illegal, appeals court rules. [Ars Technica] [BBC News] [The Register] [HardOCP] [Consumerist] [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [ExtremeTech] [Stuff] [The Gadgeteer]
- 08-05-2015: NSA spying is illegal? Then let's make it law, say Republicans. [The Register]
- 10-05-2015: What did the courts just do to NSA spying? [BoingBoing] [EFF]
- 07-05-2015: The FBI’s secret air force watched the streets of Baltimore. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
- 06-05-2015: NSA, GCHQ lingo-spies replaced by unstoppable RHINEHART robots. [The Register]
- 05-05-2015: The NSA's voice-to-text capability. [Schneier] [The Intercept] [HardOCP] [Gizmodo]
- 03-05-2015: Germany investigates claims that it helped the US spy on Europe. [Engadget] [The Register] [Gizmodo]
- 07-05-2015: Red-faced Germans halt NSA cooperation after Euro spying revealed. [The Register]
- 01-05-2015: NSA-restraining US law edges closer to reality, leaves just 6.81 billion under mass surveillance. [The Register]
- 30-04-2015: Airbus to sue NSA, German spies accused of swiping tech secrets. [The Register] [BBC News]
- 29-04-2015: Today in Congress, we heard that encryption is enabling upskirt photos. [Gizmodo]
- 28-04-2015: FBI's crypto backdoor plans require them to win the war on general purpose computing. [BoingBoing] [Web Policy]
- 25-04-2015: CIA couldn’t fully use NSA spy program as most analysts didn’t know about it. [Ars Technica] [Engadget]
- 25-04-2015: Officials knew the legal basis for an NSA spying program was bullshit. [Gizmodo]
- 24-04-2015: NSA spied on EU politicians and companies with help from German intelligence. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 22-04-2015: When the Schmidt hits The Man: Look what the NSA made Google do. [The Register]
- 21-04-2015: Jeb Bush praises Obama's expansion of NSA surveillance. [The Intercept] [BoingBoing]
- 20-04-2015: Counting the US intelligence community leakers. [Schneier]
- 19-04-2015: FBI can’t cut Internet and pose as cable guy to search property, judge says. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
- 16-04-2015: New Zealand involved in spying on Bangladesh. [Stuff]
- 11-04-2015: NSA dreams of smartphones with “split” crypto keys protecting user data. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [BoingBoing] [Washington Post] [The Register] [ExtremeTech]
- 10-04-2015: Impact of NSA surveillance on US cloud providers not as bad as we thought. [DC Knowledge]
- 10-04-2015: European court challenge to UK surveillance. [BBC News] [Engadget]
- 08-04-2015: The DEA collected call metadata way before the NSA did. [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
- 02-04-2015: The FBI has its own secret brand of malware. [HardOCP] [Gizmodo]
- 02-04-2015: NSA's internet spying will cost US tech vendors $47B. [HardOCP] [cNet]
- 29-03-2015: NSA considered scrapping its mass phone surveillance program. [Engagdet] [Gizmodo] [HardOCP] [The Register]
- 26-03-2015: As crypto wars begin, FBI silently removes sensible advice to encrypt your devices. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt] [Gizmodo]
- 26-03-2015: GCSB will be investigated over claims New Zealanders spied on in Pacific. [Stuff]
- 25-03-2015: NSA doesn't need to spy on your calls to learn your secrets. [Wired] [HardOCP]
- 25-03-2015: EU: Don’t use Facebook if you want to keep the NSA away from your data. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 24-03-2015: Snowden dump details Canadian spies running false flag ops online. [The Register]
- 24-03-2015: Internet 'Threat-sharing' bill introduced in U.S. House. Promise: security. Reality: surveillance. [BoingBoing]
- 24-03-2015: Reforming the FISA court. [Schneier]
- 23-03-2015: New Zealand used NSA data to spy on rival trade leader candidates. [Engadget] [The Register] [Schneier]
- 19-03-2015: Cisco is going to ship its equipment to empty houses to dodge the NSA. [Gizmodo] [Schneier]
- 19-03-2015: US threatened Germany over Snowden, vice Chancellor says. [The Intercept]
- 18-03-2015: Campaigners call to curb GCHQ spying powers. [BBC News]
- 17-03-2015: National Archives crowdsources transcription of CIA files. [Ars Technica]
- 17-03-2015: Five ways to stop NSA spying on your email. [NZ Herald]
- 16-03-2015: White House exempts itself from Freedom of Information Act. [BoingBoing]
- 12-03-2015: Bulk interception is NOT mass surveillance, says parliamentary committee. [The Register] [The Intercept]
- 12-03-2015: UK surveillance 'lacks transparency', ISC report says. [BBC News] [Engadget]
- 11-03-2015: Australians - let us all rise up against data retention. [The Register]
- 11-03-2015: UK foreign secretary: stop talking about Snowden, let spies get on with it. [BoingBoing] [The Inquirer]
- 11-03-2015: GCSB spies 'collecting less intelligence'. [Stuff]
- 10-03-2015: The CIA is giving its surveillance tech to US law enforcement. [Engadget]
- 10-03-2015: Bulk comms spying is not mission creep, insists UK foreign secretary. [The Register]
- 10-03-2015: Wikimedia sues NSA and DOJ over mass surveillance. [The Register] [BBC News] [BoingBoing] [Wikimedia] [HardOCP] [NYT] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [NZ Herald] [Stuff]
- 10-03-2015: Banning Tor unwise and infeasible, MPs told [BBC News] [BoingBoing] [Parliament] [The Daily Dot] [Ars Technica]
- 10-03-2015: The CIA has been desperately trying to break Apple's encryption system. [Gizmodo] [HardOCP] [The Intercept] [Wired] [Stuff] [DailyTech] [The Register]
- 10-03-2015: Can the NSA break Microsoft's BitLocker? [Schneier]
- 16-03-2015: How the CIA might target Apple's XCode. [Schneier]
- 09-03-2015: CIA re-orgs to build cyber-snooping into all investigations. [The Register]
- 08-03-2015: UK Supreme Court waves through indiscriminate police surveillance. [The Register]
- 05-03-2015: Canadian bloke refuses to hand over phone password, gets arrested. [The Register] [HardOCP] [CBC News]
- 04-03-2015: NZ Customs seeks powers to disclose passwords. [Stuff]
- 05-03-2015: Customs password plan slammed by Labour, Greens. [Stuff]
- 09-03-2015: No foundation to Customs' password call. [NZ Herald]
- 19-03-2015: Customs downplays password plan. [Stuff]
- 04-03-2015: Kiwis will be 'shocked' by spy claims. [Stuff]
- 05-03-2015: NZ spied on Pacific Island neighbours. [Stuff] [The Register]
- 05-03-2015: New Zealand right to spy on Pacific Island neighbours. [Stuff]
- 05-03-2015: What's in Snowden's latest New Zealand spying files? [Stuff]
- 05-03-2015: NZ spying to secure our place in the 'club'. [Stuff]
- 06-03-2015: Spying on Pacific neighbours 'protects NZ'. [Stuff]
- 07-03-2015: John Key burning up political capital following Edward Snowden revelations. [Stuff]
- 08-03-2015: Silence on surveillance not healthy. [Stuff]
- 08-03-2015: Snowden files: Inside Waihopai's domes. [Stuff] [Stuff]
- 08-03-2015: Snowden files: NZ's spying on the family. [Stuff]
- 09-03-2015: John Key: no assurance over spying on Kiwis in Pacific. [Stuff]
- 09-03-2015: NZ prime minister retracts vow to resign if mass surveillance is shown. [The Intercept]
- 02-03-2015: US court rubber-stamps dragnet metadata surveillance - again. [The Register]
- 25-02-2015: Citing encryption, FBI lobbying to keep phone metadata spying powers. [Ars Technica]
- 25-02-2015: Canadian spies collect domestic emails in secret security sweep. [The Intercept]
- 25-02-2015: Why does the NSA's boss care so much about backdoors when he can just steal all our encryption keys? [The Register]
- 24-02-2015: Snowden: spy agencies ‘screwed all of us’ in hacking crypto keys. [Wired]
- 24-02-2015: Yahoo executive challenges NSA over encryption demands. [BBC News] [BoingBoing] [Ars Technica] [Just Security]
- 24-02-2015: Major expansion of CIA online spy efforts [Stuff]
- 22-02-2015: How the NSA’s firmware hacking works and why it’s so unsettling. [Wired]
- 19-02-2015: The NSA has the master key to unlock your phone's messages. [Gizmodo] [PocketNow] [Engadget] [The Register] [THG] [BBC News] [Stuff] [Ars Technica] [Schneier] [The Register] [ExtremeTech]
- 19-02-2015: Canada's new surveillance bill eliminates any pretense of privacy. [BoingBoing] [Michael Geist]
- 19-02-2015: Hoping for spy reforms? Jeb Bush, dangerously close to being the next US prez, backs the NSA. [The Register]
- 18-02-2015: Hacker claims Feds hit him with 44 felonies when he refused to be an FBI spy. [Wired]
- 17-02-2015: Find out if the UK used NSA data to spy on you. [Engadget] [Graham Cluley]
- 17-02-2015: Fight back against illegal GCHQ spying with paperwork. [The Register]
- 16-02-2015: How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years -- and were found at last. [Ars Technica] [Wired]
- 16-02-2015: Kaspersky says 'The Equation Group' is a unique and dangerous threat. [THG]
- 17-02-2015: NSA hiding Equation spy program on hard drives. [Stuff] [Engadget] [BoingBoing] [Reuters] [The Register] [DC Knowledge] [HardOCP]
- 17-02-2015: Password cracking experts decipher elusive Equation Group crypto hash. [Ars Technica]
- 17-02-2015: The Equation Group's sophisticated hacking and exploitation tools. [Schneier]
- 18-02-2015: “How do I stop this virus?” Equation Group victim pleaded for online help. [Ars Technica]
- 19-02-2015: How hackers could attack hard drives to create a pervasive backdoor. [Ars Technica]
- 19-02-2015: Have you got Equation NSAware in your drives? Not really our concern, says EU. [The Register]
- 12-03-2015: New smoking gun further ties NSA to omnipotent “Equation Group” hackers. [Ars Technica]
- 12-03-2015: Inside EquationDrug: The world’s premier, NSA-backed espionage platform. [ExtremeTech] [The Register]
- 16-02-2015: Kara Swisher interviews Obama about security, gov't spying. [BoingBoing] [reCode YouTube]
- 16-02-2015: Find out if the NSA spied on you and shared the info with the UK. [BoingBoing] [Medium]
- 11-02-2015: NSA wins key ruling in years-old phone and Internet spying lawsuit. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Gizmodo] [Engadget]
- 11-02-2015: FBI really doesn’t want anyone to know about “stingray” use by local cops. [Ars Technica]
- 17-02-2015: In rare move, local cops reveal details to judges on “stingray” use. [Ars Technica]
- 18-02-2015: Police talk about use of “stingrays,” but aren’t saying anything. [Ars Technica]
- 18-02-2015: Here is the spy equipment that powers the FBI's secret dragnet. [Gizmodo]
- 22-02-2015: Stingray phone trackers coming to Santa Clara after “15 minutes” of review. [Ars Technica]
- 23-02-2015: ACLU: cops are using the FBI's fake cell-tower tech to track crims' phones. [The Register]
- 01-03-2015: Feds admit Stingrays can disrupt cell service of bystanders. [Wired] [HardOCP] [Gizmodo]
- 07-04-2015: FBI would rather prosecutors drop cases than disclose stingray details. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [Gizmodo]
- 07-04-2015: NY cops used 'Stingray' spy tool 46 times without warrant. [Wired] [ExtremeTech] [Engadget]
- 14-04-2015: County prosecutor says it has no idea when stingrays were used, so man sues. [Ars Technica]
- 21-04-2015: Prosecutors drop robbery case to preserve stingray secrecy in St. Louis. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Ars Technica]
- 21-04-2015: This machine catches stingrays: Pwnie Express demos cellular threat detector. [Ars Technica]
- 27-04-2015: The further democratization of Stingray. [Schneier]
- 01-05-2015: FBI dumps 5,000 redacted pages on its cellphone-tracking device. [Engadget] [HardOCP] [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
- 12-05-2015: Cops must now get a warrant to use stingrays in Washington state. [Ars Technica]
- 15-05-2015: FBI now claims its stingray NDA means the opposite of what it says. [Ars Technica]
- 15-05-2015: FBI says police can disclose Stingray use, but not what they can do. [Engadget]
- 24-05-2015: County sheriff has used stingray over 300 times with no warrant. [Ars Technica]
- 19-06-2015: How a jailbird con artist uncovered a secret FBI surveillance tool. [Gizmodo]
- 03-09-2015: FBI, DEA and others will now have to get a warrant to use stingrays. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Wired] [The Register]
- 21-10-2015: Homeland Security will now get warrants for Stingray surveillance. [The Register] [The Verge] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica]
- 30-10-2015: Stingray phone surveillance tools can also record your calls. [Engadget]
- 21-11-2015: Judge: Stingrays are “simply too powerful” without adequate oversight. [Ars Technica]
- 02-12-2015: IRS admits to using the same spy tech as the FBI to track 37 phones. [Gizmodo]
- 08-12-2015: FBI admits it uses stingrays, zero-day exploits. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [cNet]
- 12-01-2016: Chicago police must finally produce stingray records, judge orders. [Ars Technica]
- 27-01-2016: California police used Stingrays in planes to spy on phones. [Wired] [Engadget] [Ars Technica]
- 29-01-2016: Warrantless stingray case finally arrives before federal appellate judges. [Ars Technica]
- 11-02-2016: NYPD has used Stingrays more than 1,000 times since 2008. [HardOCP] [NYCLU]
- 17-03-2016: How the government keeps its phone spying gear a secret. [Gizmodo]
- 31-03-2016: Appeals Court: No stingrays without a warrant, explanation to judge. [Ars Technica]
- 06-04-2016: Spy tool ruling inches the Stingray debate closer to the Supreme Court. [Wired]
- 27-05-2016: Stringray phone tracker use in the UK admitted for the first time. [Engadget]
- 12-07-2016: For the first time, federal judge tosses evidence obtained via stingray. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
- 16-08-2016: Baltimore cops accused of violating FCC rules with Stingrays. [The Register]
- 26-08-2016: FBI’s stingray quickly found suspect after local cops’ device couldn’t. [Ars Technica]
- 13-09-2016: Leaked Stingray manuals. [Schneier] [The Intercept] [ExtremeTech] [Engadget] [Russ White]
- 20-12-2016: Cops, Feds spend 100m on Stingray cellphone snooping gear – with no oversight. [The Register]
- 10-02-2015: Hackers unknowingly gather intel for the NSA. [HardOCP] [Computer World]
- 09-02-2015: Obama asks Germany “to give us the benefit of the doubt” on NSA spying. [Ars Technica]
- 09-02-2015: We'll ask GCHQ to delete records of 'millions' of people – Privacy International. [The Register]
- 08-02-2015: British spies come out as mega hackers. [The Register]
- 08-02-2015: UK government reveals its hacking guidelines. [Engadget]
- 06-02-2015: GCHQ censured over sharing of internet surveillance data with US. [BBC News] [The Register] [HardOCP] [The Guardian] [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Engadget]
- 05-02-2015: US anti-backdoor bill: If at first you're shot down in flames – try, try again. [The Register]
- 05-02-2015: NSA lays out its reforms post-Snowden. [The Register] [HardOCP]
- 04-02-2015: Western spy agencies secretly rely on hackers for intel and expertise. [The Intercept] [The Register]
- 04-02-2015: One year later: Obama failing to rein in the NSA. [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing] [EFF]
- 04-02-2015: Who's come to fix your broadband? It may be a Fed in disguise. Without a search warrant. [The Register]
- 03-02-2015: New Obama rules on surveillance fall short, privacy group says. [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
- 03-02-2015: No one knows what happened to NSA staffers who snooped on their lovers. [Ars Technica]
- 31-01-2015: New e-mail shows feds considered snooping on cars parked at gun shows. [Ars Technica]
- 29-01-2015: Researcher says Aussie spooks help code Five Eyes mega malware. [The Register]
- 28-01-2015: Canada casts global surveillance dragnet over file downloads. [The Intercept] [BoingBoing] [CBCnews] [HardOCP] [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Schneier] [DocumentCloud] [The Register]
- 28-01-2015: US expands spy program on American drivers beyond border region. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
- 27-01-2015: Spies track mobile users with BADASS tracker. [Ars Technica]
- 26-01-2015: NSA gunning for Google, wants cop-spotting dropped from Waze app. [The Register] [Engadget] [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [CBCnews]
- 24-01-2015: Britons: we have three days to kill the new Snooper's Charter. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
- 27-01-2015: Snoopers' Charter amendments withdrawn – for now. [The Register]
- 27-01-2015: Lords try again on Communications Data Bill powers. [BBC News]
- 30-01-2015: Snooper's Charter is dead. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
- 31-01-2015: Snapchat jihadist-fearing peers return with Snoopers' Charter demand. [The Register]
- 02-02-2015: 'Snoopers' charter' revival dropped by peers. [BBC News]
- 23-01-2015: Net firms condemn revival of 'snoopers' charter'. [BBC News]
- 22-01-2015: Microsoft handed FBI data on Charlie Hebdo probe in 45 minutes. [Stuff] [Ars Technica]
- 21-01-2015: Playing NSA, hardware hackers build USB cable that can attack. [Ars Technica]
- 20-01-2015: My message to MI6? I’m not expecting you to stop terrorism. [Graham Cluley]
- 20-01-2015: NSA: We're in your botnet. [The Register]
- 20-01-2015: British spy agency captured journalists’ messages amongst 70,000 e-mails. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Graham Cluley] [TrustedReviews] [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
- 19-01-2015: NSA secretly hijacked existing malware to spy on N. Korea, others. [Ars Technica] [NYT]
- 18-01-2015: New NSA documents on offensive cyberoperations. [Schneier] [Der Spiegel]
- 18-01-2015: Leaked Snowden docs show that some spies treat cyberwar as a punchline. [Gizmodo]
- 18-01-2015: Feds operated yet another secret metadata database until 2013. [Ars Technica]
- 17-01-2015: NSA brags about turning the tables on cyberwarfare hackers. [Engadget] [BoingBoing] [Der Spiegel] [HardOCP]
- 17-01-2015: US drug squad cops: We snooped on innocent Americans' phone calls too. [The Register] [NYT] [Engadget] [BoingBoing] [Schneier]
- 16-01-2015: The problem with the White House cybersecurity proposals. [BoingBoing] [UoC]
- 16-01-2015: Latest FBI claim of disrupted terror plot deserves much scrutiny and skepticism. [The Intercept]
- 15-01-2015: Technology offers no magic solution to bulk data collection issues, says NSA panel. [The Guardian] [Gizmodo]
- 15-01-2015: The CIA has cleared its own spies of snooping on Senate computers. [Gizmodo] [CIA PDF] [Ars Technica] [The Register] [HardOCP] [NationalJournal]
- 14-01-2015: No, the NSA isn’t like the Stasi -- and comparing them is treacherous. [Wired]
- 14-01-2015: NSA official: Support of backdoored Dual_EC_DRBG was “regrettable”. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 13-01-2015: Obama renews push for comprehensive cybersecurity legislation. [Engadget] [HardOCP] [Yahoo News] [Gizmodo] [BBC News] [Wired] [BoingBoing]
- 14-01-2015: Obama's proposed laws against hacking will negatively impact cybersecurity professionals, create a cyber police state. [Errata Security]
- 15-01-2015: Mr President, is this a war on hackers – or a war on people stopping hackers? [The Register]
- 16-01-2015: Obama backs call for tech backdoors. [The Hill] [PocketNow]
- 13-01-2015: Welcome to 'uber-veillance' says Australian Privacy Foundation. [The Register]
- 12-01-2015: David Cameron threatens to ban encrypted messaging apps. [TrustedReviews] [NYT] [Stuff] [Ars Technica] [PocketNow] [MobileBurn] [ReadWriteWeb] [Gizmodo] [ExtremeTech] [T&M] [ReadWriteWeb]
- 13-01-2015: What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry. [BoingBoing]
- 13-01-2015: Can the government ban encryption? [BBC News]
- 14-01-2015: Euro security agency says more crypto needed in gov policy. [The Register]
- 14-01-2015: Don't use Charlie Hebdo to justify Big Brother data-slurp – Data protection MEP. [The Register]
- 15-01-2015: Cameron: I'm off to the US to get ban crypto – report. [The Register] [The Guardian] [BoingBoing]
- 16-01-2015: Obama snubs Cameron's tough anti-encryption crusade at White House meet. [The Register] [Android Police]
- 16-01-2015: BBC radio punch-up over David Cameron’s surveillance backdoor. [Graham Cluley]
- 16-01-2015: With crypto in UK crosshairs, secret US report says it’s vital. [Ars Technica] [The Guardian] [BoingBoing]
- 03-02-2015: Zimmermann slams Cameron’s ‘absurd’ plans for crypto ban. [The Register]
- 11-01-2015: FBI is broadening surveillance role. [NYT] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
- 09-01-2015: MI5 boss: We need to break securo-tech, get 'assistance' from data-slurp firms. [The Register]
- 06-01-2015: Going postal: Reporter sues government for spying from USPS network. [Ars Technica]
- 05-01-2015: FBI says search warrants not needed to use “stingrays” in public places. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing] [The Week] [HardOCP]
- 01-01-2015: If the Supreme Court tackles the NSA in 2015, it’ll be one of these five cases. [Ars Technica]
5-Eyes Spying -- 2014 News
- 26-11-2014: US courts hope an old law will help them bypass phone encryption. [Engadget] [WSJ] [Gizmodo]
- 01-12-2014: Feds use 18th century law to force Apple to unlock encrypted phones. [Gizmodo] [The Register]
- 05-12-2014: Fact vs Fiction: the 225-year-old all writs act and encryption. [Gizmodo]
- 26-11-2014: The US/UK campaign to demonize social media companies as terrorist allies. [The Intercept]
- 26-11-2014: Five-eyes partners dilute UN resolution criticising metadata collection. [The Register]
- 25-11-2014: NSA source code leak: information slurp tools to appear online [The Register]
- 25-11-2014: New Snowden docs: GCHQ’s ties to telco gave spies global surveillance reach. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [BoingBoing] [Schneier] [SZ]
- 24-11-2014: NSA Privacy Director says fears of government spying are unwarranted. [Engadget]
- 23-11-2014: 'Snoopers' charter is dead', Lib Dems claim as party waves through IP address-matching. [The Register]
- 22-11-2014: Feds proposed the secret phone database used by local Virginia cops. [Ars Technica]
- 22-11-2014: Six journalists sue over surveillance by UK “extremist” police unit. [Ars Technica]
- 22-11-2014: Local judge unseals hundreds of highly secret cell tracking court records. [Ars Technica]
- 21-11-2014: Glenn Greenwald: NSA-proofing your product is good for business. [BoingBoing] [The Intercept]
- 21-11-2014: Some in NSA warned of a surveillance backlash. [NZ Herald]
- 21-11-2014: GCHQ and Cable and Wireless teamed as "Masters of the Internet". [The Register] [Channel4]
- 20-11-2014: US Congress won't limit the NSA: individuals, courts, and other nations must step up. [The Intercept]
- 20-11-2014: Top NSA official raised alarm about metadata program in 2009. [Ars Technica] [Schneier] [AP]
- 20-11-2014: Utah may cut off NSA's water in protest of mass surveillance. [BoingBoing] [Washington Post]
- 20-11-2014: Yet more NSA officials whisper of an internal revolt over US spying -- and yet it still goes on. [The Register]
- 19-11-2014: US Senate falls two votes short of shutting down NSA phone spying. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [The Verge] [Gizmodo] [Wired] [Engadget] [USA Today] [DailyTech]
- 17-11-2014: The NSA's efforts to ban cryptographic research in the 1970s. [Schneier] [Medium]
- 17-11-2014: Tech companies ask The Senate to pass surveillance reform law. [HardOCP] [Engadget]
- 14-11-2014: Microsoft and others ask Europe to stop US feds seizing customer data. [The Register]
- 14-11-2014: Feds gather phone data from the sky with aircraft mimicking cell towers. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [WSJ] [BBC News] [HardOCP] [CNN] [DailyTech]
- 13-11-2014: Americans know about digital snooping but can’t stop it, survey finds. [The Register]
- 13-11-2014: Senate vote on NSA reform. [NationalJournal]
- 11-11-2014: Narrowly constructing national surveillance law. [Schneier] [VLR PDF]
- 06-11-2014: British spies are free to target lawyers and journalists. [The Intercept] [BoingBoing]
- 06-11-2014: Former NSA lawyer: if Google, Apple encrypt user data, they’ll wither on the vine like Blackberry. [DailyTech] [The Register]
- 09-11-2014: 'Tech giants who encrypt comms are unwittingly aiding terrorists', claims ex-Home Sec Blunkett. [The Register]
- 06-11-2014: NSA director: We share most of the [crap] bugs we find. [The Register]
- 05-11-2014: A top appeals court to hear why NSA metadata spying should stay or go. [Ars Technica]
- 04-11-2014: Former NSA lawyer: the cyberwar is between tech firms and the US government. [The Guardian]
- 03-11-2014: UK's GCHQ chief says tech companies enable terrorism and child exploitation, wants them to better facilitate "lawful investigation". [FT] [The Register] [Stuff]
- 04-11-2014: UK security chief: privacy has never been an absolute right. [Gizmodo]
- 04-11-2014: GCHQ head: Extremists use tech firms as 'control centres'. [BBC News]
- 04-11-2014: GCHQ v tech firms: 'net reacts to security director's article. [BBC News]
- 03-11-2014: Australia's going to need a standalone metadata retention bureau. [The Register]
- 01-11-2014: Curious to know if the UK's Tory-led government is a mega spy? Answer: Yes. [The Register]
- 30-10-2014: People trust the NSA more than Google. [HardOCP] [cNet]
- 29-10-2014: FBI proposes invasive new powers for hacking into computers. [Gizmodo] [The Guardian] [HardOCP] [BoingBoing]
- 29-10-2014: FBI turned off hotel internet, impersonated cable guy to catch gamblers. [Gizmodo] [AP] [BoingBoing] [Schneier]
- 12-11-2014: FBI defends “ruse” of undercover agents posing as hotel cable guys. [Ars Technica]
- 03-02-2015: Court tosses warrant where FBI cut Internet, posed as hotel repairmen. [Ars Technica]
- 29-10-2014: Human rights group: 'GCHQ's surveillance data gulp is bulky and warrantless'. [The Register]
- 28-10-2014: Verizon's tech news site will ignore the NSA and Net Neutrality. [Gizmodo] [The Register] [BoingBoing] [The Daily Dot]
- 28-10-2014: FBI planted phishing scam on fake Seattle Times page to trap a teen. [Gizmodo] [HardOCP] [Seattle Times] [The Register] [Engadget] [Graham Cluley]
- 25-10-2014: GCHQ staff 'would sooner walk' than do anything 'resembling mass surveillance’. [The Register]
- 23-10-2014: NSA revelations have chilling effect on cloud growth in US. [DC Knowledge]
- 23-10-2014: 1 in 3 Americans are on file in the FBI's criminal database. [Gizmodo]
- 16-10-2014: FBI Director to citizens: let us spy on you. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [HardOCP] [Engadget] [Washington Post]
- 20-10-2014: Why the FBI Director is wrong about encryption. [Gizmodo]
- 22-10-2014: Congress won't pass a law letting the FBI access your encrypted data. [Engadget] [DailyTech]
- 15-10-2014: Mass internet surveillance threatens international law, UN report claims. [The Guardian]
- 15-10-2014: FOXACID operations manual. [Schneier]
- 14-10-2014: Cognitive Dissonance about the FBI and NSA at 60 Minutes. [BoingBoing]
- 14-10-2014: Call to probe UK firm over Bahraini 'spying' claims. [BBC News]
- 13-10-2014: Private donors supply spy gear to cops. [Pro Publica]
- 13-10-2014: FBI Director: don't trust government, but give it your data without transparency. [DailyTech]
- 13-10-2014: How James Bamford came to write The Puzzle Palace. [Schneier] [The Intercept]
- 13-10-2014: NZ embassies used by spies. [Stuff]
- 10-10-2014: NSA may have undercover operatives in foreign companies. [Wired] [Schneier] [BoingBoing] [The Intercept] [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 09-10-2014: NSA mind-bender: we won’t tell you what info we already leaked to the media. [Wired]
- 09-10-2014: Gadgets held as evidence being remotely wiped. [BoingBoing]
- 08-10-2014: Google: US spying scandal will 'break the internet'. [HardOCP] [cNet] [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Wired]
- 08-10-2014: Ex spy chief defends post-Snowden NSA. [The Register]
- 08-10-2014: Twitter sues FBI, DoJ to release NSA info. [Stuff] [NZ Herald] [THG]
- 07-10-2014: Britain’s snooping powers are 'too weak', says NCA chief. [The Register]
- 05-10-2014: Cops and public bodies bungle snooping powers by spying on 3,000 law-abiding Brits. [The Register]
- 04-10-2014: NSA conducts massive surveillance without ANY Congressional oversight. [BoingBoing] [ACLU]
- 03-10-2014: William Binney explains NSA surveillance using Snowden's documents. [Schneier] [Alex O'Brien]
- 01-10-2014: New docs show how Reagan-era executive order unbounded NSA. [Ars Technica]
- 29-09-2014: Oracle plans German DCs to soothe NSA-ruffled nerves. [The Register]
- 26-09-2014: Apple, Google default cell-phone encryption “concerns” FBI director. [Ars Technica] [BBC News] [DailyTech] [Stuff]
- 30-09-2014: Holder urges tech companies to leave device backdoors open for police. [Washington Post]
- 02-10-2014: US top cop decries encryption, demands backdoors. [Ars Technica]
- 04-10-2014: Why US Feds and g-men kick up a stink about a growing smartphone encryption trend. [The Register]
- 09-10-2014: What default phone encryption really means for law enforcement -- and for you. [BoingBoing]
- 16-10-2014: FBI chief demands an end to cellphone security. [BoingBoing] [NYT] [NZ Herald] [Stuff]
- 26-09-2014: The entire Australian web can be monitored. [Stuff]
- 02-10-2014: Terrorists win under new Aussie spy laws. [Stuff]
- 24-09-2014: Julian Sanchez on the NSA and surveillance reform. [Schneier] [SoundCloud]
- 20-09-2014: Aaron Swartz's FBI and Secret Service files. [BoingBoing] [The Black Vault]
- 18-09-2014: Hidden message in Apple transparency reports suggest new NSA warrants. [Gizmodo] [GigaOM]
- 17-09-2014: Middle-school dropout codes clever chat program that foils NSA spying. [Wired]
- 15-09-2014: The NSA broke into big German networks to map their data traffic. [Engadget] [TripWire]
- 17-09-2014: Deutsche Telekom denies allegations of NSA, GCHQ breach. [DC Knowledge]
- 15-09-2014: Government demands for Google user data skyrockets. [HardOCP] [Google]
- 15-09-2014: Say hello to the FBI's national facial recognition system. [HardOCP] [Engadget] [The Verge] [Gizmodo] [DailyTech] [Ars Technica]
- 15-09-2014: New Zealand launched massive surveillance project while publicly denying it. [FirstLook] [The Register]
- 15-09-2014: Snowden claims US spy sensor 'in NZ'. [Stuff] [Stuff]
- 15-09-2014: Key releases GCSB documents. [NZ Herald]
- 17-09-2014: Secret dangers of released GCSB documents. [NZ Herald]
- 17-09-2014: System not linked to cable. [Stuff]
- 19-09-2014: GCSB clarifies 'Project Speargun'. [Stuff]
- 15-09-2014: It's a 'sound and light show'. [Stuff]
- 14-09-2014: The NSA has a plan to map the entire Internet. It’s called ‘Treasure Map’. [HardOCP] [VentureBeat]
- 14-09-2014: US and Brit spooks 'tap into German telco networks to map end devices'. [The Register] [Der Spiegel]
- 11-09-2014: The NSA was going to fine Yahoo $250k per day if it didn't join PRISM. [Gizmodo] [Washington Post] [Ars Technica] [The Register] [BBC News] [BoingBoing] [Wired] [Schneier]
- 10-09-2014: NSA employees increasingly leave the agency to start security companies like Synack, Virtru, and Morta Security. [Forbes]
- 09-09-2014: Report: Congress won’t shut down NSA database this year. [Ars Technica]
- 06-09-2014: Warrantless phone snooping happens all the time in the UK. [The Register]
- 06-09-2014: Meet the spooky tech companies getting rich by making NSA surveillance possible. [BoingBoing] [ZDNet]
- 06-09-2014: When NSA and FBI call for surveillance takeout, these companies deliver. [Ars Technica]
- 03-09-2014: NSA defender grilled by US judges. [Stuff]
- 31-07-2014: NSA notably uninvited to speak at Vegas hacker conferences this year. [BoingBoing]
- 30-07-2014: The NSA patented tech that will catch you swapping SIM cards. [Gizmodo]
- 29-07-2014: The costs of NSA surveillance. [Schneier] [New America: PDF] [Wired]
- 28-07-2014: EFF asks judge to rule NSA spying on Internet backbone undermines 4th Amendment. [BoingBoing]
- 28-07-2014: Microsoft denies it has ever been asked to plant a snooping backdoor into its products. [Graham Cluley]
- 28-07-2014: FISC judges own stock in telecoms they let NSA access. [Ars Technica] [Vice] [Engadget]
- 23-07-2014: White House caught secretly tracking web visitors with sneaky spyware. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
- 21-07-2014: Apple reaffirms it has never worked with any government agency to create a backdoor in any product or service. [iMore] [ReadWriteWeb]
- 23-07-2014: Back doors in Apple's mobile platform for law enforcement, bosses, spies. [BoingBoing] [Intego]
- 21-07-2014: US judge: yes, cops or feds so can slurp an entire Gmail account. [The Register]
- 20-07-2014: Anti-NSA messages projected on US embassy in Berlin. [BoingBoing] [The Verge]
- 18-07-2014: A convicted hacker and an Internet icon join forces to thwart NSA spying. [Wired]
- 18-07-2014: Snowden: Dropbox is an NSA surveillance target, use Spideroak instead. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
- 18-07-2014: NSA employees routinely pass around intercepted nude photos. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [HardOCP] [Engadget] [The Register] [Gizmodo]
- 17-07-2014: UK, the world’s most surveilled state, begins using automated face recognition to catch criminals. [ExtremeTech]
- 18-07-2014: Cops nab suspect using facial recog system. [The Register]
- 15-07-2014: NSA 'back doors' in US software standards. [Stuff]
- 15-07-2014: In the name of security, German NSA committee may turn to typewriters. [Ars Technica] [HotForSecurity] [The Register]
- 14-07-2014: Everyone hates the NSA: survey. [BoingBoing] [Pew Global]
- 14-07-2014: Hearings into mass surveillance begin in UK. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
- 14-07-2014: Understanding #DRIP: new spy powers being rammed through UK Parliament. [BoingBoing] [Open Rights Group]
- 14-07-2014: GCHQ catalog of exploit tools. [Schneier] [The Intercept] [BoingBoing] [Engadget] [BBC News] [Ars Technica] [BGR]
- 14-07-2014: Tribunal to hear legal challenge to GCHQ surveillance claims. [BBC News]
- 14-07-2014: Emails show NSA monitored destruction of Snowden data at The Guardian. [Ars Technica]
- 13-07-2014: NSA and GCHQ earn Internet villain awards. [HardOCP] [Recombu]
- 12-07-2014: Washington Post reporter on the how and why of latest NSA revelations. [Gizmodo]
- 09-07-2014: EFF releases high-resolution photo of NSA's Utah data-center. [BoingBoing] [EFF] [Gizmodo]
- 09-07-2014: FBI and NSA targeted Muslim-American lawyers. [Wired] [The Intercept] [Gizmodo] [Schneier] [BoingBoing] [The Register] [Engadget] [BBC News]
- 09-07-2014: After racial slurs in NSA materials leaked, White House asks security agencies to clean up. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
- 09-07-2014: Glenn Greenwald on why the latest Snowden leak matters. [Wired]
- 10-07-2014: Rights groups decry new NSA leak: Snooping on Muslim-Americans’ e-mail. [Ars Technica]
- 07-07-2014: Mega cloud biz group says NSA just one among many threats. [The Register]
- 06-07-2014: Of 160,000 intercepted messages, only 10% from official targets. [Ars Technica] [Washington Post] [Stuff] [BBC News] [BoingBoing] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [Schneier] [HardOCP]
- 04-07-2014: Germany spy arrested on suspicion of spying for NSA. [BoingBoing] [DW] [The Register]
- 03-07-2014: Is there another NSA leaker? [SecurityCurrent]
- 03-07-2014: NSA man says agency can track you through power lines. [The Register]
- 03-07-2014: NSA targets privacy-conscious for surveillance. [Schneier] [BoingBoing] [Das Erste] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Stuff] [Wired] [BBC News] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [cNet] [HardOCP] [ProPublica]
- 03-07-2014: John Key ignored GCSB advice on hacking. [Stuff]
- 02-07-2014: NSA, GCHQ spies have hurt us more than they know. [The Register]
- 02-07-2014: ISPs take legal action against GCHQ. [BBC News] [The Register] [Wired] [BoingBoing]
- 02-07-2014: Oversight board finds little wrong with NSA surveillance programme. [Wired] [Ars Technica] [DailyTech] [Stuff]
- 02-07-2014: New Snowden docs: NSA spies on pretty much everyone abroad. [Ars Technica]
- 01-07-2014: How traffic shaping can help the NSA evade legal oversight. [Schneier]
- 01-07-2014: Court gave NSA broad leeway in surveillance, documents show. [Washington Post]
- 01-07-2014: All the NSA revelations in one easy-to-read chart. [Gizmodo] [BGR]
- 30-06-2014: FBI, CIA use backdoor searches to warrentlessly spy on Americans' communications. [TechDirt]
- 30-06-2014: Remaining Snowden docs will be released to avert 'unspecified US war' – Cryptome. [The Register]
- 27-06-2014: NSA's first ever 'transparency' 'report' is anything but. [The Register] [HardOCP] [IC on the Record] [The Verge] [Engadget] [Stuff]
- 27-06-2014: Germany ends government contract with Verizon over NSA worries. [Ars Technica] [AP] [HardOCP] [Reuters]
- 25-06-2014: Snarky lawmaker reminds former NSA chief that selling state secrets is illegal. [Wired]
- 26-06-2014: More on Hacking Team's government spying software. [Schneier]
- 24-06-2014: UK secretary of state: "There is no surveillance state". [BoingBoing] [BBC News]
- 24-06-2014: Microsoft has become completely fed up with the U.S. government’s surveillance programmes. [BGR]
- 24-06-2014: US data center providers neutral on government access to customer data stored overseas. [DC Knowledge]
- 23-06-2014: Australian spy agencies in line for new digital surveillance powers. [The Guardian]
- 22-06-2014: The NSA's mass surveillance program for phone call metadata is still going. [Engadget] [HardOCP]
- 21-06-2014: NZ welcomed back to spy network in 2009. [Stuff]
- 20-06-2014: More details on NSA tapping the Internet backbone. [Schneier]
- 20-06-2014: House votes to cut key pursestrings for NSA surveillance. [Wired] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [Engadget] [The Register] [Vox]
- 20-06-2014: Pakistan, Iran, and… USA? New heatmap shows where NSA hacks. [Ars Technica]
- 20-06-2014: Tell a lie, remove the gear: how the NSA covers up when cable taps are found. [Ars Technica]
- 19-06-2014: NSA helps foreign governments conduct mass surveillance at home. [BoingBoing] [The Intercept]
- 19-06-2014: Feds asked cops to deceive courts about use of spy tool, emails show. [Wired] [Ars Technica]
- 19-06-2014: Hackers reverse-engineer NSA spy kit using off-the-shelf parts. [The Register] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [New Scientist] [Gizmodo] [Schneier]
- 19-06-2014: Now that they are being more closely watched, lawmakers voice concern over NSA surveillance. [BoingBoing] [WSJ]
- 19-06-2014: Microsoft: NSA security fallout 'getting worse,' 'not blowing over'. [The Register]
- 19-06-2014: NSA ‘third party’ partners tap the Internet backbone in global surveillance programme. [Information]
- 18-06-2014: NSA’s data center back in the shadows after government manoeuvre. [Wired]
- 18-06-2014: Germany is NSA's largest listening post, according to new report based on Snowden leaks. [BoingBoing] [Der Spiegel]
- 18-06-2014: The British government just set a dangerous precedent for online spying. [Gizmodo]
- 17-06-2014: UK intelligence forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents’ Facebook and Google use. [Privacy International]
- 17-06-2014: Stingray, the fake cell phone tower cops and providers use to track your every move. [ExtremeTech]
- 21-06-2014: Legal experts: Cops lying about cell tracking “is a stupid thing to do”. [Ars Technica]
- 17-06-2014: FBI's 83-page glossary of leetspeak. [BoingBoing] [MuckRock] [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica] [Stuff]
- 17-06-2014: GCHQ claims right to do warrantless mass interception of all webmail, search and social media. [BoingBoing] [BBC News]
- 17-06-2014: Congressman asks NSA to provide metadata for “lost” IRS e-mails. [Ars Technica]
- 14-06-2014: Gov’t must give up 5 secret surveillance docs for court to review, judge orders. [Ars Technica]
- 13-06-2014: New ruling shows the NSA can’t legally justify its phone spying anymore. [Wired]
- 11-06-2014: Microsoft resists US government demand to seize offshore emails. [Engadget] [NZ Herald]
- 11-06-2014: Cops can’t collect your cell tower data without a warrant, court rules. [Wired] [HardOCP] [The Guardian]
- 10-06-2014: NSA: We're too complex to comply with law, so we're destroying evidence in EFF lawsuit. [BoingBoing] [HardOCP] [Washington Post] [Gizmodo]
- 10-06-2014: Tony Abbott: five eyes spies good for us. [The Register]
- 07-06-2014: Judge: NSA doesn’t have to keep all data as part of key surveillance lawsuit. [Ars Technica]
- 06-06-2014: Vodafone: spooks are plugged directly into our network. [The Register] [Engadget] [Wired]
- PDF attached below: vodafone_law_enforcement_disclosure_report.pdf
- 07-06-2014: Vodafone says 6 nations have “direct access” to spy on its customers. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing]
- 05-06-2014: 65 things we know about NSA surveillance we didn’t know a year ago. [Gizmodo]
- 05-06-2014: One year after Snowden, what's really changed? [Gizmodo]
- 05-06-2014: Hi-tech firms battle with NSA fallout. [BBC News] [iMore] [Apple Insider] [GottaBeMobile]
- 05-06-2014: NSA: Inside the five-eyed vampire squid of the Internet. [The Register]
- 03-06-2014: Google renews battle with the NSA by open sourcing email encryption tool. [Wired] [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing] [ReadWriteWeb]
- 03-06-2014: GCHQ's beyond TOP SECRET Middle Eastern Internet spy base. [The Register] [Gizmodo] [Schneier]
- 03-06-2014: How the NSA could bug your powered-off phone, and how to stop them. [Wired] [HardOCP] [Gizmodo]
- 03-06-2014: The 5 dumbest ways that people defend NSA spying. [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing] [Stuff]
- 01-06-2014: NSA facial recognition: combining national ID cards, Internet intercepts, and commercial facial databases for millions of people. [BoingBoing] [NYT] [HardOCP] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [BBC News]
- 03-06-2014: What the NSA can (and can’t) mine from intercepted photos. [Ars Technica]
- 03-06-2014: NSA says it's not collecting images of US citizens for facial recognition. [Engadget]
- 04-06-2014: No worries: NSA chief says facial recognition program is totally legal. [Ars Technica]
- 30-05-2014: Exactly how the NSA violates human rights. [Gizmodo]
- 30-05-2014: Warrantless spying makes spying-with-a-warrant impossible. [BoingBoing]
- 28-05-2014: Germany says 'nein' to NSA hacking prosecution. [The Register]
- 27-05-2014: Meet the guy hired to ensure Snowden docs aren't hacked. [BoingBoing] [Mashable]
- 23-05-2014: Did GCHQ reveal secrets about computer insecurity when it exorcised the Snowden leaks from the Guardian's laptops? [BoingBoing] [Privacy International]
- 23-05-2014: Wikileaks says NSA recording all calls in Afghanistan. [BoingBoing] [The Verge] [Gizmodo]
- 23-05-2014: New NYT editor spiked NSA spying story. [BoingBoing]
- 23-05-2014: Microsoft swats away FBI request for Office 365 subscriber data. [The Register]
- 22-05-2014: Michael Geist on the state of surveillance in Canada. [BoingBoing]
- 21-05-2014: Google, Facebook warn NSA bill wouldn't stop mass surveillance. [National Journal]
- 21-05-2014: Congress guts law to restrict NSA spying, civil liberty groups appalled. [The Register] [BoingBoing] [EFF] [The Verge] [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Engadget]
- 21-05-2014: The NSA is not made of magic. [Schneier]
- 21-05-2014: How the NSA is transforming law enforcement. [Gizmodo] [HardOCP] [EFF]
- 21-05-2014: California lawmakers make modest attempt to halt NSA data collection. [Ars Technica]
- 20-05-2014: Fine line seen in US spying on companies. [NYT]
- 20-05-2014: NSA's future rests on Admiral Rogers. [Stuff]
- 19-05-2014: NSA records every cell phone call in the Bahamas. [BoingBoing] [First Look] [Gizmodo] [Engadget] [The Register] [Ars Technica]
- 20-05-2014: How much it costs the NSA to store an entire country's phone calls. [Gizmodo]
- 21-05-2014: Government policy on cell phone interception technology. [Schneier]
- 14-05-2014: The three big lies: how the federal government kept its post-9/11 spying on Americans a secret. [TechDirt]
- 14-05-2014: Sprint had legal details of the NSA's bulk phone data collection in 2010. [Engadget]
- 14-05-2014: NSA docs detail efforts to collect data from Microsoft’s Skype, SkyDrive, And Outlook.com. [TechCrunch]
- 14-05-2014: GCHQ's 'Nosey Smurf' spyware snoops dragged into secretive tribunal. [The Register]
- 14-05-2014: Encrypted or not, Skype communications prove “vital” to NSA surveillance. [Ars Technica]
- 13-05-2014: Microsoft, NSA and FBI reveal secret 3-way romance. [BoingBoing] [TechCrunch]
- 13-05-2014: New NSA Snowden documents. [Schneier] [Glenn Greenwald PDF]
- 13-05-2014: Legal complaint filed against GCHQ 'hacking'. [BBC News]
- 12-05-2014: Orwellian threats caused the New York Times to spike a story on NSA spying way back in 2004. [PRI]
- 10-05-2014: Intelligence employees, current and past, barred from citing news leaks. [Ars Technica]
- 08-05-2014: Stross on NSA network sabotage. [BoingBoing] [AntiPope]
- 08-05-2014: An avalanche of new Snowden documents will go online next week. [Engadget]
- 07-05-2014: Former NSA chief defends stockpiling software flaws for spying. [Wired] [BoingBoing]
- 07-05-2014: Spy boss won't say if Snowden has NZ files. [Stuff]
- 06-05-2014: Google discusses security with the NSA, but don't draw any wild conclusions. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [Schneier]
- 05-05-2014: Bill to end NSA's mass surveillance moves closer to a vote. [Engadget] [Ars Technica]
- 08-05-2014: House Committee axes NSA bulk phone metadata collection. [Ars Technica]
- 30-04-2014: British spy chiefs secretly begged to play in NSA’s data pools. [The Intercept]
- 30-04-2014: Every 27 seconds, Canadian telcos hand over subscriber data to cops (mostly without a warrant). [BoingBoing] [Michael Geist]
- 29-04-2014: NSA spying means Brazil's $4.5B fighter jets won't be built by Boeing. [BoingBoing] [Reuters]
- 28-04-2014: Former NSA head Keith Alexander interviewed by John Oliver. [BoingBoing]
- 27-04-2014: Mathematicians: refuse to work for the NSA! [BoingBoing] [New Scientist]
- 25-04-2014: Verizon challenges NSA's bulk records collection; FISC says it's perfectly legal. [TechDirt] [Engadget]
- 21-04-2014: Activists want net neutrality, NSA spying debated at Internet governance conference. [PCWorld]
- 16-04-2014: Why the original patriots would’ve revolted against surveillance. [Gizmodo]
- 11-04-2014: US to Angela Merkel: no, you can't see your NSA file but we promise we aren't spying on you anymore. [BoingBoing]
- 10-04-2014: Google to President: leave us out of your spying fight. [HardOCP] [NationalJournal]
- 09-04-2014: NSA spies on human rights groups, including those in the USA. [BoingBoing] [TechCrunch]
- 09-04-2014: Obama privacy chief wants NSA phone-snooping program to end now. [Ars Technica]
- 08-04-2014: US Supreme Court declines to hear NSA mass phone-slurp case. [The Register]
- 07-04-2014: New Captain America movie with clear anti-NSA message is a massive hit abroad. [BGR]
- 07-04-2014: If Obama wanted the NSA to quit storing phone metadata, he’d act now. [Ars Technica]
- 05-04-2014: 50% of Americans changed their behavior due to NSA. [HardOCP] [TechDirt]
- 04-04-2014: Snowden docs show GCHQ discussed using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for covert propaganda. [The Intercept]
- 03-04-2014: Introducing the ACLU's NSA documents database. [ACLU]
- 03-04-2014: Yahoo beefs up security. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
- 03-04-2014: Over 200 NSA documents collected and made searchable, from Snowden to Prism. [Engadget]
- 02-04-2014: What, besides phone records, does the NSA collect in bulk? [Ars Technica]
- 01-04-2014: NSA performed warrantless searches on Americans' calls and emails – Clapper. [The Guardian]
- 01-04-2014: NSA-inspired software sped up code-cracking efforts. [BBC News]
- 01-04-2014: Snowden leaks made us look twice at cloud suppliers. [The Register]
- 31-03-2014: NSA chief's legacy is shaped by big data, for better and worse. [LA Times]
- 31-03-2014: The NSA's been spying on every single call, text, and email in Iraq. [Gizmodo]
- 31-03-2014: Eric Schmidt on the NSA. [BoingBoing]
- 31-03-2014: NSA wiretapped 122 world leaders; GCHQ penetrated German satellite companies for mass surveillance potential. [BoingBoing] [First Look] [Der Spiegel] [The Register]
- 29-03-2014: GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies. [Der Spiegel]
- 29-03-2014: NSA may have spied on 122 foreign leaders. [Engadget]
- 28-03-2014: Feds want an expanded ability to hack criminal suspects’ computers. [Ars Technica]
- 27-03-2014: Experts: NSA rules leave privacy vulnerable. [Stuff]
- 26-03-2014: MIT creates a system to “PRISM-proof” websites. [Ars Technica] [BGR]
- 25-03-2014: The Best NSA Fix Comes From the Patriot Act’s Author. [The Daily Beast]
- 25-03-2014: White House to propose law to end NSA bulk collection of phone data. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [BBC News] [BGR] [The Verge]
- 28-03-2014: How the NSA would get phone data under Obama administration’s new plan. [Ars Technica]
- 24-03-2014: Jimmy Carter: I think the NSA is spying on me. [Gizmodo] [The Hill] [Stuff]
- 21-03-2014: Revelations of NSA spying cost US tech companies. [NYT]
- 21-03-2014: NSA vs puzzles. [BoingBoing] [Mashable]
- 20-03-2014: Barack Obama to meet again with tech CEOs about NSA. [Politico]
- 20-03-2014: Inside the NSA's secret efforts to hunt and hack system administrators. [First Look] [The Register] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
- 20-03-2014: Hacked emails show what Microsoft charges the FBI for user data. [The Daily Dot] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
- 20-03-2014: NSA may start transparency reports. [BBC News] [Engadget] [re/code]
- 19-03-2014: Why does the NSA want to keep its water usage a secret? [Wired] [Gizmodo] [ReadWriteWeb]
- 19-03-2014: NSA top lawyer says tech giants knew about data collection. [HardOCP] [cNet] [Engadget] [The Register] [BGR]
- 19-03-2014: Judge rebukes Feds for overbroad search warrant applications for e-mail. [Ars Technica]
- 19-03-2014: NSA collects all calls in a foreign country. [Stuff] [BoingBoing] [Washington Post] [DailyTech] [BGR] [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
- 19-03-2014: NSA's MYSTIC reaches 'into the past'. [Stuff] [Schneier] [Washington Post] [HardOCP]
- 21-03-2014: How the NSA turns back the clock on phone taps without choking on data. [Ars Technica]
- 18-03-2014: A 10-point plan to keep the NSA out of our data. [Wired]
- 18-03-2014: US intelligence oversight group from 1975 says things are way worse now. [Ars Technica]
- 17-03-2014: How Google can repel the attack of the NSA Quantum computer. [Wired]
- 16-03-2014: IBM: We gave NOTHING to the NSA, stateside or elsewhere. [The Register] [HardOCP] [Smarter Planet] [ZDNet]
- 15-03-2014: British spies lied about getting super-censorship powers over YouTube. [BoingBoing]
- 15-03-2014: Congress was giving spies a pass back in 1975, too. [BoingBoing]
- 14-03-2014: New NSA chief explains agency policy on “zero-day” exploits to Senate. [Ars Technica]
- 14-03-2014: In two key cases, activists now ask judge to order NSA metadata preservation. [Ars Technica]
- 14-03-2014: Mark Zuckerberg 'confused and frustrated' by US spying. [BBC News] [Stuff] [Facebook] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [DailyTech]
- 19-03-2014: Facebook fights back against the NSA spying machine. [Wired]
- 13-03-2014: A close look at QUANTUM -- the NSA's most powerful Internet attack tool. [Wired] [Schneier]
- 13-03-2014: How the NSA exploits VPN and VoIP traffic. [Schneier] [First Look]
- 13-03-2014: How international human rights law should be applied to NSA spying. [Gizmodo] [EFF]
- 13-03-2014: NSA’s automated hacking engine offers hands-free pwning of the world. [Ars Technica]
- 12-03-2014: NSA Director nominee wants every branch of the military to have a dedicated cyber attack force. [Engadget]
- 12-03-2014: NSA's TURBINE robot pumps 'malware into MILLIONS of PCs''. [The Register] [BGR]
- 12-03-2014: New information on NSA's QUANTUM programme. [Schneier] [First Look]
- 12-03-2014: STELLARWIND classification guide. [Schneier] [Amazon S3 PDF]
- 11-03-2014: How FISA moved from approving wiretap requests to justifying bulk data collection. [NYT]
- 11-03-2014: British spies are ruining the internet. [HardOCP] [DailyDot]
- 11-03-2014: CIA hacked Senate PCs to delete torture reports. And Senator Feinstein is outraged. [The Register] [Gizmodo]
- 11-03-2014: NSA phone-record destruction halt won by privacy group. [Bloomberg] [Engadget] [MobileBurn] [HardOCP]
- 10-03-2014: US government is creating an electronic monitoring system for employees. [Engadget]
- 08-03-2014: WikiLeaks head doesn't believe Obama is serious about NSA reform. [Engadget]
- 06-03-2014: Middle schooler wins C-SPAN prize for doc about NSA spying. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
- 05-03-2014: CIA spied on Senate committee writing damning torture report and Obama knew about it. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
- 05-03-2014: Journalist: NSA won’t give me a secure channel to communicate on. [Ars Technica]
- 01-03-2014: NSA head floats idea: What if we only gathered terrorist communications? [Ars Technica]
- 28-02-2014: Spy agency intercepts Yahoo webcam chats, nudes and all. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [The Guardian] [BBC News] [HardOCP] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [BGR] [Stuff] [DailyTech] [ExtremeTech] [cNet]
- 27-02-2014: FBI and Secret Service phone calls intercepted by Google Maps exploit. [Gizmodo] [Gawker]
- 27-02-2014: Feds refuse to release public comments on NSA reform -- citing privacy. [Wired]
- 27-02-2014: Q&A: Schneier on trust, NSA spying and the end of US internet hegemony. [The Register]
- 26-02-2014: NSA wants to expand phone database because of privacy suits. [HardOCP] [NationalJournal] [WSJ] [The Register]
- 26-02-2014: Schneier: NSA snooping tactics will be copied by criminals in 3 to 5 years. [The Register]
- 26-02-2014: President already looking at early options for NSA revamp. [GottaBeMobile]
- 25-02-2014: Split the NSA in two, says security firm embroiled in NSA scandal. [Wired]
- 25-02-2014: The NSA may be responsible for iOS 7′s biggest security vulnerability. [BGR]
- 25-02-2014: NSA uses the Internet to 'manipulate and destroy reputations'. [HardOCP] [TechDirt]
- 25-02-2014: Microsoft: NSA snooping? Code backdoors? Our hands are clean! [The Register]
- 24-02-2014: NSA moves from bugging German Chancellor to bugging German ministers. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [DailyTech]
- 21-02-2014: Break up the NSA and save American spooks from themselves. [BoingBoing] [CNN] [Schneier]
- 19-02-2014: Reading between the lines of redacted NSA documents. [Wired]
- 19-02-2014: Clapper: We should have disclosed NSA bulk data collection in 2001. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [The Daily Beast]
- 18-02-2014: New Snowden docs show NSA, GCHQ spied on WikiLeaks, Pirate Bay users. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [First Look] [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak] [BoingBoing] [BGR]
- 17-02-2014: Outgoing NSA director: ‘It’s not our mission’ to spy on everyone in the world. [BGR]
- 17-02-2014: Who should store NSA surveillance data? [Schneier] [Slate]
- 13-02-2014: US senator sues President Obama to stop NSA metadata dragnet. [Ars Technica] [DailyTech] [BoingBoing]
- 10-02-2014: Tuesday declared 'The Day we Fight Back' against NSA. [The Register] [ReadWriteWeb] [Wired]
- 11-02-2014: The day the Internet didn't fight back. [NYT Bits]
- 10-02-2014: Six NSA workers exposed. [Stuff]
- 09-02-2014: "A reason to hang him": how mass surveillance, secret courts, confirmation bias and the FBI can ruin your life. [BoingBoing] [Al Jazeera]
- 08-02-2014: Turning table on NSA, US diplomats' phone call is bugged, leaked to YouTube. [Ars Technica]
- 07-02-2014: NSA collects 20% or less of US cell data. [WSJ] [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
- 07-02-2014: FISA court agrees to changes that limit NSA's ability to query phone records. [TechDirt] [Ars Technica] [Engadget]
- 07-02-2014: 'I plead guilty to DDoS conspiracy and these GCHQ b*stards were doing the SAME thing?' [The Register]
- 07-02-2014: Twitter may sue US government over right to disclose snooping orders. [The Register]
- 07-02-2014: Snowden documents show British digital spies use viruses and 'honey traps'. [The Register]
- 05-02-2014: Former NSA chief explains how Snowden gained high-level access. [BGR]
- 05-02-2014: The man who watches over the NSA. [BBC News]
- 05-02-2014: Snowden, NSA exploit kits, and commercial espionage. [EtherealMind]
- 03-02-2014: Want to email people without the FBI reading it? Try Safe-mail. [BGR]
- 03-02-2014: Shedding some light on FISA requests. [Google]
- 03-02-2014: Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft disclose new data about number of NSA requests received. [TNW] [BBC News]
- 03-02-2014: In just 6 months, the NSA spied on more than 59,000 accounts. [Wired]
- 04-02-2014: First NSA spy request data released. [Stuff]
- 31-01-2014: Canadian spooks used free airport WiFi to track travellers. [The Register] [Engadget] [CBC News] [Ars Technica]
- 31-01-2014: How to stop the NSA? Start with new bills at each statehouse, activists say. [Ars Technica]
- 30-01-2014: David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need mass warrantless electronic surveillance. [BoingBoing] [BBC News]
- 30-01-2014: In rare move, terrorism suspect challenges core of warrantless snooping law. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing]
- 30-01-2014: Catalog of Snowden revelations. [Schneier] [LawFare]
- 30-01-2014: Merkel: spying on allies harms security. [Stuff]
- 30-01-2014: Clapper: Snowden should return docs. [Stuff] [Ars Technica]
- 29-01-2014: Terror defendant challenges evidence gathered by NSA spying. [Wired]
- 29-01-2014: NSA phone-records spying is totally, utterly illegal. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
- 29-01-2014: Top lawyer finds GCHQ spying is illegal & UK spies who help US drone strike may be accessories to murder. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
- 28-01-2014: US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) condemns NSA mass surveillance. [Schneier]
- 28-01-2014: British spy agency said to target Apple's iPhone with remote surveillance exploit kit. [AppleInsider]
- 28-01-2014: British spies can remotely ‘Smurf’ your iPhone and Android phone. [BGR]
- 28-01-2014: British government reportedly tracking YouTube and Facebook data without permission. [Engadget] [BBC News]
- 27-01-2014: NSA slides reveal that spies grab data from Angry Birds and other apps. [GottaBeMobile] [The Guardian] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [BGR] [HardOCP] [BoingBoing] [NYT] [MacRumors] [BBC News] [DailyTech]
- 27-01-2014: NSA-GCHQ leaks: a glossary of the key terms. [BBC News]
- 27-01-2014: Google Chief Legal officer 'shocked' at Snowden revelations. [BBC News]
- 27-01-2014: Google's Drummond calls for new NSA reforms. [BBC News]
- 26-01-2014: NSA engaged in industrial espionage. [BBC News] [Stuff]
- 24-01-2014: European Court of Human Rights will hear case about GCHQ spying. [BoingBoing] [Privacy Not Prism]
- 24-01-2014: Tim Cook will 'absolutely' press Congress for more transparency over surveillance. [AppleInsider] [GottaBeMobile] [ABC News]
- 24-01-2014: Apple: Feds don't have access to our servers. [HardOCP] [Engadget]
- 23-01-2014: US privacy watchdog advises NSA spying is illegal. [BBC News] [HardOCP] [Washington Post] [DaiyTech] [BGR] [Ars Technica] [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
- 23-01-2014: Judge enforces spy orders despite ruling them unconstitutional. [Wired]
- 25-01-2014: White House refuses to accept that NSA phone dragnet is illegal. [Ars Technica]
- 22-01-2014: 13-year-old filmmaker's documentary on NSA spying. [BoingBoing] [YouTube]
- 22-01-2014: Google chairman Eric Schmidt is furious about NSA tapping. [BGR]
- 22-01-2014: Questioning the efficacy of NSA's bulk collection programmes. [Schneier]
- 21-01-2014: NSA surveillance revives calls for an all-encrypted Internet. [Network Computing]
- 21-01-2014 New documents: NSA provided 2-3 daily “tips” to FBI for at least 3 years. [Ars Technica]
- 16-01-2014: Rubberstamping FISA court can't be expected to actually oversee surveillance. [BoingBoing]
- 16-01-2014: The NSA scoops up 200 million random text messages every day. [Gizmodo] [The Guardian] [The Register] [GottaBeMobile] [BBC] [HardOCP] [Engadget] [BoingBoing] [Schneier] [TrustedReviews]
- 17-01-2014: Text messages are ‘a goldmine to exploit’ for the NSA. [BGR]
- 18-01-2014: How the NSA collects millions of phone texts a day. [Ars Technica]
- 16-01-2014: Today I briefed Congress on the NSA. [Schneier] [GottaBeMobile] [BoingBoing]
- 16-01-2014: The silver lining of the NSA scandal. [ReadWriteWeb]
- 14-01-2014: NSA has radio pathway into computers, to spy even when device is offline [BoingBoing] [NYT] [The Register] [Engadget] [GottaBeMobile] [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica] [BBC News] [HardOCP] [BGR] [DailyTech] [Stuff]
- 14-01-2014: Report: NSA bulk metadata collection has “no discernible impact”. [Ars Technica] [NAF] [Gizmodo] [Stuff] [Schneier]
- 13-01-2014: NSA official: mass spying has foiled one (or fewer) plots in its whole history. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
- 13-01-2014: I spent 2 hours talking with the NSA's bigwigs -- here's what has them mad. [Wired]
- 09-01-2014: Obama readies revamp of NSA. [WSJ]
- 10-01-2014: Obama will announce NSA reforms on 17 January. [Gizmodo] [The Hill] [DailyTech] [BGR] [Stuff]
- 14-01-2014: Obama to place some restraints on surveillance. [NYT]
- 15-01-2014: Surveillance-court judges oppose White House group’s NSA proposals. [Washington Post]
- 16-01-2014: Obama NSA announcements just beginning. [Stuff]
- 16-01-2014: Scorecard for Obama's NSA reforms. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
- 17-01-2014: Obama said to keep NSA in charge of phone records for now. [Bloomberg] [BBC News]
- 17-01-2014: Obama's speech on NSA surveillance: more questions than answers. [GottaBeMobile] [MobileBurn]
- 17-01-2014: Obama's remarks on the NSA and surveillance. [BoingBoing]
- 17-01-2014: Obama's NSA reforms come up short. [Gizmodo] [The Register] [HardOCP] [Reuters] [DailyTech] [The Register] [BGR] [ExtremeTech] [The Verge] [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
- 17-01-2014: Everything you need to know about Obama’s NSA reforms, in plain English. [Washington Post]
- 17-01-2014: With NSA reforms, Obama offers peace to a wary Silicon Valley. [Wired]
- 17-01-2014: Why Obama's NSA reforms won't solve Silicon Valley's trust problem. [Wired]
- 17-01-2014: EFF's scorecard rates Obama's proposed NSA reforms. [EFF] [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing]
- 17-01-2014: Obama will prevent NSA from looking at phone records without a legal reason. [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
- 19-01-2014: Tech industry: NSA reforms 'insufficient'. [Stuff]
- 18-01-2014: Obama’s restrictions on NSA surveillance rely on narrow definition of ‘spying’. [Washington Post]
- 20-01-2014: Obama pledges to continue mass searches. [DailyTech]
- 29-01-2014: Obama stays silent on reform of NSA's crypto subversion. [Wired]
- 09-01-2014: NSA and GCHQ activities appear illegal, says EU parliamentary inquiry. [The Guardian]
- 08-01-2014: NSA scandal prompting shift away from US providers. [DC Knowledge]
- 08-01-2014: How should states fight the NSA? Turn off the water, say some. [Ars Technica]
- 07-01-2014: Everything we know about NSA spying. [Graham Cluley]
- 07-01-2014: Burglars who took on FBI abandon shadows. [NYT] [Schneier]
- 07-01-2014: How the NSA almost killed the Internet. [Wired]
- 07-01-2014: NSA: a threat to national security. [BoingBoing] [The Atlantic] [Schneier]
- 07-01-2014: Qualcomm CEO on NSA: "We can't comment on that". [DailyTech]
- 07-01-2014: Obama set to approve “public advocate” position, more NSA reforms. [Ars Technica]
- 06-01-2014: NSA revelations: the 'middle ground' everyone should be talking about. [The Guardian]
- 06-01-2014: Time travellers outsmart the NSA. [The Register]
- 04-01-2014: NSA statement does not deny 'spying' on members of Congress. [The Guardian] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
- 06-01-2014: NSA refuses to answer to Congress. [DailyTech]
- 04-01-2014: NSA spying, favorite gadgets, New Year's resolutions and more. [Engadget]
- 03-01-2014: NSA documents from Spiegel story. [Schneier]
- 03-01-2014: Cost/benefit analysis of NSA's 215 metadata collection programmes. [Schneier] [OSU PDF]
- 02-01-2014: NSA scandal has spawned an industry for spy-proof smartphones. [BGR]
- 02-01-2014: The NSA's trying to build a quantum computer that cracks all encryption. [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica] [Washington Post] [BBC News] [The Register] [HardOCP] [BGR] [ExtremeTech] [Wired] [Engadget] [DailyTech]
- 02-01-2014: NSA exploit of the day:
- 02-01-2014: Hackers vs the NSA in 1986. [BoingBoing]
- 01-01-2014: Your USB cable, the spy: Inside the NSA’s catalog of surveillance magic. [Ars Technica]
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