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A single court-authorized wiretap order resulted in authorities in the Southern District of Texas scooping up more than 9.2 million communicationsbecoming the federal wiretap with the most intercepts in 2018, TechCrunch reported on Saturday, citing the federa…

Hackers believed to be working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex from October to November 2018, deploying a malware variant called Regin that is known to be used by the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance …

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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…