On May 7, I appeared on the PBS Newshour to discuss an appeals court ruling on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) program that collects the phone data of millions of Americans. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found that the program is illegal and not sanction by the Patriot Act.
The full…
If you think Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald have stopped attacking NSA, you haven’t been following them closely enough. While American media have largely lost interest in Snowden and Greenwald, the pair continue to campaign outside the United States against the intelligence agency.
Their most ambitious effort was in New Zealand, a member of the…
The evidence is mounting that Edward Snowden and his journalist allies have helped al Qaeda improve their security against NSA surveillance. In May, Recorded Future, a predictive analytics web intelligence firm, published a persuasive timeline showing that Snowden’s revelations about NSA’s capabilities were followed quickly by a burst of new, robust encryption tools from al…
The wave of service disruptions to several major US financial institutions are widely attributed to Iran. These distributed denial of service attacks have grown so serious that US banks have asked the National Security Agency for help.
However, privacy advocates tell us who we should really be worried about: “’The dual mission of the…
