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Judges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to the Internet
How does the NSA get the private crypto keys that allow it to bulk eavesdrop on some email providers and social networking sites? It’s one of the mysteries yet unanswered by the Edward Snowden
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Edward Snowden: NSA Used Angry Birds, Other Apps to Track People
Documents leaked by former NSA contactor Edward Snowden suggest that spy agencies have a powerful ally in Angry Birds and a host of other apps installed on smartphones across the globe. The documents, published Monday
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President Obama’s NSA ‘ruse’
We were all looking at the president’s speech the wrong way. It was billed as a major speech on reform to the nation’s intelligence programs. But although some genuine reforms were introduced, the speech really
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Snowden to ask Russian police for protection after US threats – lawyer
NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, will ask Russian law enforcers to protect him, his lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, has said. The former NSA contractor is concerned about his safety after seeing death threats coming from the
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NSA Put Software In 100,000 Computers Worldwide
A new report has revealed that the US National Security Agency has illegally implemented software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world to spy on them. The software enables the US spy agency to conduct
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The NSA reportedly collects a ‘goldmine’ of data from nearly 200 million texts daily
The U.S. National Security Agency may be storing your text messages. The data-hungry intelligence agency collects and stores nearly 200 million text messages each day in an “untargeted” global sweep, report the Guardian and the
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Video: A Christmas Message from NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who prompted a worldwide debate when he leaked a cache of top secret documents about US and UK spying, has recorded a Christmas Day television message in which he calls
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Ex-NSA/CIA chief Hayden jokes of putting Snowden on kill list
When it comes to Edward Snowden, it's reasonable to expect a little hard talk from former NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden. After all, it is HIS baby that’s been shamed by Snowden’s leaks. But
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Bush-Cheney began illegal NSA spying before 9/11, says telcom CEO
Contradicting a statement by ex-vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday that warrantless domestic surveillance might have prevented 9/11, 2007 court records indicate that the Bush-Cheney administration began such surveillance at least 7 months prior
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Lawlessness Is The New Normal
In various articles and in my latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism And Economic Dissolution Of The West, I have pointed out that the European sovereign debt crisis is being used to
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Open Letter to US Law Enforcement
Who are you, really? And what exactly is your role in the bigger picture? This is not an academic question, but goes to the heart of who is in charge and if they themselves are
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CIA whistleblower to Snowden: ‘Do not cooperate with the FBI’
NSA leaker Edward Snowden is the subject of an open letter of support just published from behind bars by John Kiriakou, a former CIA agent currently serving time for sharing state secrets. In a letter
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‘World order unjust and immoral!’ Ecuador’s Correa rips into Snowden coverage
Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa came up with scalding online remarks over criticism his country faced from the US press for potentially granting asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden
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