Collaborate Disseminate
In the 1950s and 1960s, the NSA was very worried about employees spilling secrets. Here’s some of the best internal propaganda posters that taught them to keep their mouths shut. Continue reading The NSA Just Released 136 Historical Propaganda Posters
Surveillance memes are everywhere because it feels like surveillance is everywhere. Continue reading Mass Surveillance Memes Show Our Collective Anxiety Over Government Spying
The long-simmering battle over the future of the internet’s most important security protocol is over: TLS 1.3 was approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force after over four years and 28 drafts of back and forth. TLS secures a huge swath of the internet. HTTPS-enabled websites, like the one you’re visiting, is possible thanks to TLS. TLS is also used to secure email, voice, video and messaging. The newest version, TLS 1.3, is the biggest change in the standard’s two decades of existence. The biggest battle of note over TLS 1.3 was prompted by a push from the Financial Services Roundtable to include and standardize interception so that banks and other data center owners could more easily decrypt connections in order to comply with regulations, implement data loss protection, detect intrusions and malware, capture packets, and mitigate denial of service attacks. Opponents called in an intentional weakness that could put the entire […]
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Bitcoin was the spy agency’s “#1 priority,” Snowden documents published by The Intercept show. Continue reading The NSA Tried Tracking Bitcoin Users In 2013
The National Security Agency has been spying on bitcoin users around the world beginning as early as March 2013, according to a story published by The Intercept. Classified documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden show the NSA used a secret data source that “leveraged the NSA’s ability to harvest and analyze raw, global internet traffic while also exploiting an unnamed software program that purported to offer anonymity to users.” The NSA reportedly tracked bitcoin users by collecting sensitive information from their computers, including passwords, internet activity, and unique identifiers assigned to devices known as MAC addresses. Documents also suggested that the agency used XKeyScore, the NSA’s formerly secret global internet data analysis program, to monitor targets tied to bitcoin. According to the documents, the tracking of bitcoin users as of 2013 was done through OAKSTAR, a program that consisted of a “collection of covert corporate partnerships enabling the agency to monitor communications, including […]
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The tech and financial industries are butting heads over the latter’s push to intentionally weaken a security protocol that underlies how the public securely accesses the vast majority of the internet. Critics are charging that the financial industry is pushing for a weakness in the new version of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, all for the sake of avoiding the time, effort and resources needs to adapt to the new standard. TLS is a bedrock internet security protocol used to secure everything from web browsing and email to instant messaging, voice, video and the internet of things. A new version, known as TLS 1.3, will usher in the largest changes in the protocol’s history. Contributors are hammering out the details before the update is likely finalized at the March meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), an independent group that designs internet standards. Heading into the meeting, the financial […]
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Telecom companies scrapping plans to sell Huawei phones reeks of hysteria and protectionism. Continue reading There’s No Public Evidence Huawei Spies on Americans, But the Company Is Getting Blackballed Anyway
If you’re a member of the US “intelligence community” Thursday was a great day for homeland security. Less so if you’re a privacy advocate. Continue reading House votes for six more years of warrantless surveillance
The media overhyped Snowden’s new app, according to security experts, and also made no mention of its origins. Continue reading Snowden’s App Probably Can’t Protect You From Targeted State Surveillance
Famed whistleblower [Edward Snowden] has recently taken to YouTube to announce Haven: an Open Source application designed to allow security-conscious users turn old unused Android smartphones and tablets into high-tech monitoring devices for free. While arguably Haven doesn’t do anything that wasn’t already possible with software on the market, the fact that it’s Open Source and designed from the ground up for security does make it a bit more compelling than what’s been available thus far.
Developed by the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Haven is advertised as something of a role-reversal for the surveillance state. Instead of a smartphone’s …read more
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