NSA

The proliferation of end-to-end encryption services has been fantastic for end users and for privacy, but it has also been a huge problem for intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Ironically, it’s the Snowden revelations from a few years ago that shined …

from the too-much-of-a-useless-thing dept The NSA may have extremely belatedly decided to give up its bulk phone records collection, but that's only after years of dysfunction, abuse, and escalating uselessness. The problems with the NSA's collection of phon…

Hackers from the Five Eyes intelligence agencies have been accused of breaking into systems at Yandex, dubbed Russia's Google. A report by Reuters today cites four sources claiming Western spies are believed to be behind a malware infection spotted spreading…

The American Civil Liberties Union released internal NSA memos received under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit revealing that, once again, the NSA improperly collected phone call and text message metadata of US citizens. A spokesperson for the agency was…

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Bill Binney, a former NSA technical director who became a legendary national security whistleblower. The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that the National Security Age…

Bitcoin’s biggest flaw is its lack of privacy, said Edward Snowden at the Bitcoin2019 conference. The cybersecurity expert noted the importance of privacy as a source of liberty. The lack of privacy is an existential threat to Bitcoin. Is the only protectio…

Edward Snowden, the notorious American whistleblower, has confirmed he relied on the censorship resistance of Bitcoin BTC to help leak data to journalists in 2013. Snowden made headlines across the globe after leaking highly classified information from the N…

The agency unlawfully slurped up a “larger than expected” volume of call and text records from one US telecom provider under the metadata-collection program known as Section 215, according to a document obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union as part o…

WASHINGTON (AP) Newly released documents show the National Security Agency improperly collected phone records four months after it said it had fixed technical problems that caused a similar collection of data that violated federal law. Internal documents obt…

In this June 6, 2013 file photo, the sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. Former contractor Harold Thomas Martin III on March 28, 2019 pleaded guilty to willfully retaining national defense information. More The …