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Leaked FinFisher presentation details toolkit’s spying capabilities
F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen has shared several interesting slides from a presentation that displays the wide range of capabilities offered by the FinFisher commercial …
Detailed US intelligence community’s $52.6 billion budget leaked
Leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and analyzed by The Washington Post reporters, the summary of the $52.6 billion US National Intelligence Program budget for the 2013 …
Open source encrypted email service reaches crowdfounding goal
Mailpile, the open-source web-mail client with user-friendly encryption whose developers have been asking for funding on Indiegogo, has surpassed its $100,000 goal three weeks …
How did Snowden steal the NSA documents and cover his tracks?
Many things have been unveiled by the documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, but the question of how he managed to extract them from the agency’s internal …
Poorly redacted court filing reveals Google contested NSL gag order
A court filing that has been improperly redacted and has recently been made public by the US Department of Justice shows that Google asked a US court to remove the gag order …
Tech companies received millions for PRISM compliance costs
The NSA reimbursed the costs that Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo incurred for having to meet new certification demands following a FISC ruling about the …
NSA spied on UN officials after cracking encryption on UN teleconferencing system
The NSA has actively spied on United Nations’ officials and personnel after managing to compromise the encryption of the organization’s internal video conferencing …
Ruling shows NSA misled the FISC about data collection volume and scope
A (redacted) FISA court opinion released yesterday by the US government has shown that in 2011, a judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) found that for …
NSA surveillance system can listen to 75% of US Internet traffic
Another day, another set of revelations about NSA’s Internet surveillance capabilities and practices. Current and former government officials that (predictably) …
Miranda battles to have seized stuff back, Guardian details drive destruction
David Miranda, the partner of The Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, has employed UK lawyer firm Bindmans LLP to inform the British Home Office that they will challenging the …
Groklaw shuttered because email is no longer safe
Since 2003, Pamela Jones – then a simple paralegal, now a journalist and editor – covered legal news regarding free and open source software on her law blog …
UK agents detain Greenwald’s partner, destroy The Guardian’s hard drives
It has been an eventful weekend for The Guardian newspaper, its reporter Glenn Greenwald and his partner David Miranda, as the British police held the latter and questioned …
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