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From Clipper chip to secure email shutdowns
Chances are you don’t remember much about then-President Bill Clinton‘s public encryption management directive — also known as the Clipper chip — whereby private encryption keys would be escrowed...
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Obama administration walks back Clapper appointment
President Obama’s statements are no longer allowed time to cool off even a little bit before they become outright lies. On 9 August, President Obama took to the TelePrompTer to assure the nation that...
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Propaganda without camouflage from the StarTribune
As a former employee of the University of Minnesota — both my wife/business partner and I retain group health insurance through the University — it unnerves me no end to learn about changes to the...
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Encryption works
The Freedom of the Press Foundation has published its Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillance, a guide to using cryptography effectively on the internet.Written...
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Now the surveillance cat’s really out of the bag
The latest cache of classified documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveals that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has continued to conduct a secret war on strong cryptography and has enlisted the...
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Collective action planned against mass surveillance
All of the usual suspects — ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the Writers Guild — are following up the 4 July protests against the US government’s mass surveillance with another...
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NSA intercepted Google and Yahoo data center links
Just before Halloween, in the latest disclosure of US surveillance state leaks from Edward Snowden, Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani writing for the Washington Post reveal that the US National...
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Apple’s warrant canary
Apple recently published its first transparency report (.pdf; 82KB), covering global governmental information requests on its customers received during the first half of 2013.While Apple was slower...
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The weaponization of the internet
Nicholas Weaver, a computer science researcher at the University of California (Berkeley and San Diego), has written an important opinion piece for Wired. His nut graf: “According to revelations about...
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Another FISC judge finds NSA overstepped
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) Judge John. D Bates found that the US National Security Agency (NSA) disregarded the FISC guidelines for surveillance of domestic email metadata. The...
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Google’s PREF cookie, mobile phones, and the meaning of “relevant”
Edward Snowden’s latest disclosure regarding the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) domestic surveillance program reveals the agency is surreptitiously using advertising tracking cookies in users’...
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NSA domestic telephone surveillance program likely unconstitutional
Early this week, US District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled that the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) domestic telephone surveillance program collecting information on nearly all telephone calls...
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NSA paid RSA US$10 million to include encryption back door
According to Joseph Menn writing for Reuters, The US National Security Agency (NSA) secretly paid US$10 million to encryption vendor RSA to include a back door in its BSAFE encryption product. In the...
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NSA domestic telephone surveillance program ruled legal
Less than two weeks ago, US District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled that the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) domestic telephone surveillance program that collects information on nearly all...
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God bless librarians
Librarians have always been on the side of the angels when it comes to recognizing, respecting, and advocating for individual privacy rights. From the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s, the US Federal...
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NSA’s surveillance tool catalog revealed
Classified documents obtained by Jacob Appelbaum, Judith Hochert, and Christian Stocker writing for Der Spiegel reveal a veritable catalog of spook tools used over the past decade enabling the US...
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ACLU files FOIA complaint challenging Executive Order 12333
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order 12333 allegedly granting the authority relied upon by the US intelligence agencies to surveil foreigners outside of the borders of the US. The...
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Obama’s Orwellian surveillance reform
Last Friday, President Barack Obama announced “reforms” for the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance programs that are little more than lipstick on a pig. Like putting Bondo on a car’s...
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And you thought the New York Times didn’t have a comics page
Yesterday, the New York Times published an article with a shocking hed: “Congressional leaders suggest earlier Snowden link to Russia.” Oh, my goodness, Edward Snowden, the former US National Security...
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PCLOB finds NSA surveillance program ineffective, illegal, and unconstitutional
Late last week, the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) released its long-awaited report concluding that the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) program to collect the telephone...
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