Category Archives: whistleblowers

Journalists Generally Do Not Use Secure Communication

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This should come as no surprise: Alas, our findings suggest that secure communications haven’t yet attracted mass adoption among journalists. We looked at 2,515 Washington journalists with permanent credentials to cover Congress, and we found only 2.5 percent of them solicit end-to-end encrypted communication via their Twitter bios. That’s just 62 out of all the broadcast, newspaper, wire service, and… Continue reading Journalists Generally Do Not Use Secure Communication→

Who Are the Shadow Brokers?

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In 2013, a mysterious group of hackers that calls itself the Shadow Brokers stole a few disks full of NSA secrets. Since last summer, they’ve been dumping these secrets on the Internet. They have publicly embarrassed the NSA and damaged its intelligence-gathering capabilities, while at the same time have put sophisticated cyberweapons in the hands of anyone who wants them…. Continue reading Who Are the Shadow Brokers?→

Whistleblower Investigative Report on NSA Suite B Cryptography

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The NSA has been abandoning secret and proprietary cryptographic algorithms in favor of commercial public algorithms, generally known as "Suite B." In 2010, an NSA employee filed some sort of whistleblower complaint, alleging that this move is both insecure and wasteful. The US DoD Inspector General investigated and wrote a report in 2011. The report — slightly redacted and declassified… Continue reading Whistleblower Investigative Report on NSA Suite B Cryptography→