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Surveillance Critics in Congress Warned that Coronavirus Spending Bill Could be Used to Cement Spying Powers NSA

Surveillance Critics in Congress Warned that Coronavirus Spending Bill Could be Used to Cement Spying Powers

The Trump administration’s request for $2.5 billion to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic is likely to become an unstoppable legislative vehicle — as must-pass legislation that congressional leaders of both parties could use to ram through a reauthorization of the FBI’s call detail records program. Such a move would sidestep the…
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February 27, 2020
NSA Program that Accessed Americans’ Phone Records Resulted in Just Two Unique Leads in Four Years NSA

NSA Program that Accessed Americans’ Phone Records Resulted in Just Two Unique Leads in Four Years

A customer compares an iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max at the Apple Store in Singapore, September 21, 2018. (Edgar Su/Reuters) A $100 million program that allowed the National Security Agency to access American citizens’ domestic phone logs and text messages produced just two unique leads from 2015 to 2019,…
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February 26, 2020
Donald Trump India visit: Two sides likely to sign MoU on cooperation over homeland security NSA

Donald Trump India visit: Two sides likely to sign MoU on cooperation over homeland security

Written by Shubhajit Roy | New Delhi | Published: February 22, 2020 9:14:39 am This is the first time that First Lady Melania Trump and daughter Ivanka are travelling together on an official visit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci/file)The first stand-alone visit by a US President, a high-powered White House delegation that…
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February 22, 2020
This Week in Security: DNSSEC Temporarily Lost their Keys, FIDO, And One Weird Windows Trick NSA

This Week in Security: DNSSEC Temporarily Lost their Keys, FIDO, And One Weird Windows Trick

DNSSEC is the system that allows for cryptographically secure DNS. It’s all based on a root cryptographic key, maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Ever wondered where the root Key Signing Key is stored, and how it’s accessed? Four times a year, a ceremony is held where the…
bubmag
February 21, 2020
NSA whistleblower who leaked Russian hacking report petitions for clemency via Hvper.com NSA

NSA whistleblower who leaked Russian hacking report petitions for clemency via Hvper.com

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February 18, 2020