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Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 23 Aug 2013, 21:01
by Pedro-NF
NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies
- Top-secret files show first evidence of financial relationship.
- Prism companies include Google and Yahoo, says NSA.
- Costs were incurred after 2011 Fisa court ruling.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 23 Aug 2013, 21:10
by Pedro-NF
Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself
The NSA whistleblower says: 'I have never spoken with, worked with, or provided any journalistic materials to the Independent'.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 23 Aug 2013, 21:15
by Pedro-NF
'Sending a message': what the US and UK are attempting to do
State-loyal journalists seem to believe in a duty to politely submit to bullying tactics from political officials.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 25 Aug 2013, 01:50
by Pedro-NF
Press freedom: an open letter to David Cameron from Nordic editors
While domestic security must be upheld, it is equally important to protect open public debate.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 25 Aug 2013, 01:51
by Pedro-NF
David Miranda's detention is a threat to press freedom, say European editors
Newspapers urge prime minister to restore Britain's reputation for free press after holding of Guardian journalist's partner.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 27 Aug 2013, 08:29
by Pedro-NF
NSA leaks: David Cameron's response is intimidation, says world press body
World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers tells the UK government its actions could threaten press freedom.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 27 Aug 2013, 18:53
by Pedro-NF
Facebook report: governments asked for data on 38,000 users this year
First report of its kind reveals more than half of government requests for user data in first half of 2013 came from the US.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 31 Aug 2013, 04:56
by Pedro-NF
Microsoft and Google to sue over US surveillance requests
Technology firms want to be allowed to publish information about US government requests under the Fisa legislation.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 31 Aug 2013, 04:57
by Pedro-NF
US should re-evaluate surveillance laws, ex-NSA chief acknowledges
Bobby Ray Inman defends the NSA's bulk surveillance but says the nature of communications has changed – and that the US must revisit laws in the private sector as well.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 03 Sep 2013, 01:22
by Pedro-NF
NSA 'spied on communications' of Brazil and Mexico presidents
Brazil's Globo news program reports revelations based on documents obtained by Glenn Greenwald from Edward Snowden.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 03 Sep 2013, 01:23
by Pedro-NF
US drug agency partners with AT&T for access to 'vast database' of call records
Hemisphere project, revealed by NYT, has AT&T employees sit alongside drug units to aid access to data in exchange for payment.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 03 Sep 2013, 18:26
by Pedro-NF
Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange: our new heroes
As the NSA revelations have shown, whistleblowing is now an essential art. It is our means of keeping 'public reason' alive.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 06 Sep 2013, 00:16
by Pedro-NF
US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet
- NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records.
- $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products.
- Security experts say programs 'undermine the fabric of the internet'.
Sigint – how the NSA collaborates with technology companies
Document shows how 'signals intelligence', or Sigint, 'actively engages US and foreign IT industries to covertly influence and/or overtly leverage their commercial products' designs'.
NSA: classification guide for cryptanalysis
Guide reveals that NSA 'obtains cryptographic details of commercial cryptographic information security systems through industry relationships'.
Project Bullrun – classification guide to the NSA's decryption program
Guide for NSA employees and contractors on Bullrun outlines its goals – and reveals that the agency has capabilities against widely-used online protocols such as HTTPS.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 06 Sep 2013, 00:18
by Pedro-NF
How internet encryption works
You may not realise you use encryption, but you probably do – and if someone breaks it, your details are theirs to own.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 06 Sep 2013, 00:21
by Pedro-NF
How to remain secure against NSA surveillance
The NSA has huge capabilities – and if it wants in to your computer, it's in. With that in mind, here are five ways to stay safe.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 06 Sep 2013, 00:23
by Pedro-NF
The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back
The NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. We engineers built the internet – and now we have to fix it.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 06 Sep 2013, 23:02
by Pedro-NF
Microsoft and Yahoo voice alarm over NSA's assault on internet encryption
Tech companies say they were unaware of top secret programs but warn they present 'substantial potential for abuse'.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 06 Sep 2013, 23:04
by Pedro-NF
Welcome to the end of secrecy
The real lesson of the Snowden leaks is not the threat to privacy. It is the NSA's losing battle against the new agents of openness.
Explaining the latest NSA revelations – Q&A with internet privacy experts
The Guardian's James Ball and cryptology expert Bruce Schneier answer questions about revelations that spy agencies in the US and UK have cracked internet privacy tools.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 06 Sep 2013, 23:06
by Pedro-NF
NSA encryption story, Latin American fallout and US/UK attacks on press freedoms
The implications of the prior week's reporting of NSA stories continue to grow.
Re: The USA can ban you
Posted: 07 Sep 2013, 22:47
by Pedro-NF
Yahoo files lawsuit against NSA over user data requests
Yahoo says 'withholding information breeds mistrust' and asks to be allowed to publish its number of received data requests.