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Is Russia Thinking About Sending Snowden Back to US as a ‘Gift’ to Trump?
You should probably take this news with a grain of salt, but sources such as NBC have recently reported that Russia might be considering sending Edward Snowden back to the United States in an effort to improve relations with the new administration. The report hinges on an unnamed US official who…
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Guest Speakers and Exhibition Details Reveals @ CeBIT Preview 2017
Here we are at the official start of CeBIT Preview 2017, as the event sets it goals on digitalisation for businesses and technologies for this year’s exhibition. With the show set to take place in March, there will be strong focus on spying, politics and more. With the recent US…
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Intelligence Report Suggests Edward Snowden Could be a Spy
The talk of Edward Snowden is so well known that it has even been turned into a biopic, eponymously titled “Snowden”: the former NSA employee stole confidential documents from the US intelligence agency, released them to journalists from Hong Kong, and fled to Russia, where he currently resides under amnesty.…
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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for US Government
In a staggering revelation today, a new report has surfaced regarding the struggling tech firm Yahoo. According to the revelations by former employees, in 2015, the company built a custom software program to scan all of their user emails. More critically, the move was done at the behest of a classified…
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Apple Designing Servers In-House to Prevent Snooping
With the amount of sensitive information stored on their servers, cloud providers take security very seriously. However, many cloud services actually use third-party servers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure to run their platform. Even for those with their own servers, the hardware is made by and supplied by third-parties. In…
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NSA and GCHQ Worked Together to Hack Juniper Firewalls
Spies from the UK intelligence services worked with the US National Security Agency to hack firewalls developed by top internet security firm Juniper Networks, according to documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. GCHQ, wanting to crack Juniper’s encryption, specifically sought help from the NSA for that task, Russia Today reports.…
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HTTP/2 Opens New Connections With the Word ‘PRISM’
Since whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the extent of the US National Security Agency’s mass surveillance program, the word Prism has taken on a sinister meaning. The NSA’s PRISM program collected the internet communications of its citizens via nine major internet companies, including Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Yahoo. Now, John Graham-Cumming,…
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NSA Kept E-Mail Metadata Program After Claiming it Ended in 2011
Following the massive leak of surveillance data by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013, it was revealed that the US National Security Agency (NSA – its headquarters pictured above) had been collecting e-mail metadata as part of a program it claimed ended in 2011. However, a lawsuit filed by the New…
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Government Officials Blame Snowden Leaks for Paris Attacks
In the wake of the tragic and devastating attacks in Paris last week, many questioned why the authorities were unable to predict and stop the attacks. In fact, despite the wide-ranging and intrusive surveillance systems in place, the only whiff of intelligence was about a generalized threat against France. Now many officials…
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Edward Snowden Explains Why he Supports Ad-Blockers
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower-turned-press freedom advocate exiled in Russia after leaking NSA documents that demonstrated the terrifying scope of its mass surveillance program, has publicly endorsed ad-blocking software and has encouraged every internet user to employ it. Speaking to The Intercept’s Micah Lee, Snowden, responding to the question “Do you…
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WhatsApp’s Promise of True Encryption Proven False
Last year, the Facebook-owned messaging app Whatsapp, in a move applauded by privacy advocates, announced that it would be introducing end-to-end encryption to protect user data from being intercepted in transit, viewable only by sender and receiver. While, strictly speaking, WhatsApp did as it promised – using a system designed…
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European Parliament Votes to Protect Edward Snowden
After the mess the European Union made of its net neutrality laws, it’s heartening to see them doing something positive. Earlier today (29th October), the European Parliament voted in favour of protecting NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden from prosecution and extradition to the US, as well as dropping any charges against…
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Snowden Leak Reveals How Microsoft Helped the NSA Bypass Encryption
Privacy, spying, hacking, monitoring, tracking, just some of the words that people around the world have become frighteningly familiar with over the last few years. Edward Snowden uncovered many details of how our governments treat our data and he’s showing no sign of slowing down. His latest revelation reveals how…
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We Have Edward Snowden to Thank for The X-Files Revival
We’re but four months away from the much-hyped The X-Files revival, which reunites David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as the iconic Mulder and Scully to investigate the paranormal and government conspiracies, but it seems we might have a real-world scandal to thank for inspiring the show’s return. The X-Files creator…
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Wikipedia Founder Says There’s “No Excuse” Not to Use Encryption
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, a major proponent of both freedom and privacy online, as evidenced by him filing a lawsuit against the NSA following the reveal of its mass surveillance program by whistleblower Edward Snowden, has declared that there is “no excuse” for not using internet encryption, whether that is…
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