Collaborate Disseminate
Keith Gartenlaub seemed like he’d be the first person to challenge secret FISA court surveillance. Then an appeals court had a secret meeting with the government’s lawyers. Continue reading FISA Court’s Secrecy Threatens to Subsume Our Open Court System
Thought FISA Section 702 was due to bite the dust on New Year’s Eve? Think again, say Trump’s lawyers: you’re stuck with it until the spring Continue reading Warrantless surveillance can continue until April, say Feds
The encryption battle between the FBI and apple is all octopus ink, if you go by what the government says
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The proposal would put curbs on Section 702, but will it pass? Continue reading US Senate takes aim at “warrantless surveillance”
The lines are drawn, with predictable players on each side Continue reading Debate rages over divisive US surveillance law renewal
Last week, the Department of Justice released 18 new FISC opinions related to Section 702 as part of an EFF FOIA lawsuit. (Of course, they don’t mention EFF or the lawsuit. They make it sound as if it was their idea.) There’s probably a lot in these opinions. In one Kafkaesque ruling, a defendant was denied access to the previous… Continue reading The Dangers of Secret Law
Earlier this month, the NSA said that it would no longer conduct "about" searches of bulk communications data. This was the practice of collecting the communications of Americans based on keywords and phrases in the contents of the messages, not based on who they were from or to. The NSA’s own words: After considerable evaluation of the program and available… Continue reading NSA Abandons "About" Searches
How did the NSA end up collecting the records of so many people on 2015 when it was only authorized to go after 42 suspected terrorists? Continue reading NSA collected records of 151m Americans – but wait, didn’t bulk collection stop three years ago?
The leaked NSA documents and tools published in recent months by the mysterious Shadow Brokers group have provided rare insight into the clandestine digital espionage operations pursued by the spy agency over the past few years, including information on operations aimed at Iran and Russia. Last Friday the rogue group released a new package of NSA files, this time detailing numerous tools designed to break into older versions of Microsoft Windows and a campaign to compromise banking networks in the Middle East. Additional targets were also mentioned one week prior in a separate archive that was largely ignored by most media outlets. Yet the document cache published April 8 provides evidence that the NSA had once launched a series of successful computer-based intrusions against multiple high-profile foreign targets, including the Office of the President of Iran and the Russian Federal Nuclear Center, said two former intelligence officials who spoke to CyberScoop on the condition of […]
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It will be a banner year for cybersecurity debates in Congress — and that isn’t necessarily a good thing, says Michael Bahar, the staff director of the House Intelligence Committee. “We have kicked off the year with a lot going wrong with Russia and its hacking,” he says. While there are multiple probes in the […]
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