Blog Posts Tagged with "NSA"
Warrantless Surveillance 101: Introducing EFF's New NSA Domestic Spying Guide
December 06, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
On December 14th, we hope that the Northern District of California federal court will agree with us that our case challenging illegal domestic spying should move forward. Warrantless wiretapping isn't a state secret—it's a clear violation of FISA, other laws, and the Constitution...
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EFF Opposes Government's State Secrets Claim in Wiretapping Case
October 14, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF filed its latest brief in the Jewel v. NSA case, aiming to stop the government from engaging in mass warrantless collection of emails, phone calls, and customer records of ordinary Americans. The matter is set for hearing on December 14, 2012 in federal court in San Francisco...
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New Book Details the NSA’s Warrantless Wiretapping Program
October 07, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Three more NSA whistleblowers, including William Binney a former high ranking official involved with the program during its infancy, also submitted affidavits laying out how the NSA illegally spied on Americans in the aftermath of 9/11...
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House Passes the Broad Warrantless Spying Bill
September 23, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The House voted to renew the dangerous FISA Amendment Act which hands the NSA broad, warrantless surveillance powers for another five years. Sadly, the House refused to add any oversight powers or privacy protections, despite evidence the NSA has used it to spy on Americans...
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NSA Still Warrantlessly Wiretapping Americans
August 30, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
There’s long been ample evidence the NSA has been unlawfully collecting Americans' communications since the passage of the FISA Amendments Act. As the New York Times reported in 2009, the NSA was still collecting purely domestic communications of Americans' in a "significant and systemic" way...
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Government Hackers: Party in the NSA
August 02, 2012 Added by:Bill Mathews
General Alexander says that private sector, hackers, exploit developers, etc. need to share information and tools in order to help protect the US. Is the NSA being nefarious and wanting to spy on hackers, or are they legitimately seeking help for a problem that will only continue to grow in the future?
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Why the NSA Can’t Be Trusted to Run Cybersecurity Programs
August 01, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Senators John McCain and Kay Bailey Hutchison have proposed amendments that would hand the reins of our nation’s cybersecurity systems to the NSA. The agency's dark history, flouting of domestic law, and resistance to transparency makes it clear that the nation's cybersecurity should not be in its hands...
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Defcon Grows Up and Gets Recruited as an Asset
July 31, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
With the advent of Anonymous and Stuxnet and the nascent idea of the internet becoming a “digital nation state” we all have to be mindful that while the technologies out there are a commodity, so too are we in the great game of cold war intelligence and cyber war. We are the commodity that makes the new exploit...
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NSA Seeks Solutions for Secure Mobile Capabilities
July 23, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“First and foremost, our whole strategy from a classified mobility perspective is very much focused on commercial solutions for classified [communications]... It’s our intent that we would deliver, end-to-end, a solution that is reliant on all commercial components and we believe we can do that...”
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NSA Chief: Cyber Presents Opportunities and Challenges
July 11, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“If the critical infrastructure community is being attacked by something, we need them to tell us at network speed... It requires them - the Internet service provider or that company - to tell us that that type of event is going on at this time. And it has to be at network speed if you’re going to stop it...”
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Obama Administration Won't Discuss NSA Email Surveillance
July 10, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
A few members of Congress have been trying to get the Obama administration to answer a question: How many Americans’ phone calls or emails have been and are being collected without a warrant under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008? Unfortunately, no one else in the government seems to want that question answered...
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Microsoft, the CIA and NSA Collude to Take Over the Internet
June 20, 2012 Added by:J. Oquendo
The CIA, NSA and Microsoft created a completely separate operating system somewhere in the Beltway. Microsoft decided to give the agencies the specific code to make the rogue changes. Microsoft allowed the rogue system to be placed inside of their network and only allow a specific country to be infected...
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NSA's National Centers of Academic Excellence Announced
June 15, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Program graduates often develop into cyber experts who help to protect national-security information systems, commercial networks, and critical information infrastructure in both the private and public sectors – meeting the increasingly urgent needs of the U.S. government, industry, and academia...
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Cloud Insecurity? NSA Chief Keith Alexander Thinks Not
June 14, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“If you’re moving information into the cloud, it just seems to me that all kinds of nasty activity could go on in there. I would take a Missouri approach and say, ‘prove it to me, show it to me,’ how it’s more secure,” said former director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for the Air Force...
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NSA Announces New Program for Careers in Cyber Ops
May 23, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Many of the nation's colleges and universities offer courses or promote projects in cybersecurity. NSA's new program differs in that it integrates the relevant academic disciplines, with a focus on technology and the techniques associated with specialized cyber operations...
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Cyber Warriors Shine in NSA Competition
May 01, 2012 Added by:Headlines
During the competition, NSA network specialists and military network experts formed the red cell team that challenged cadet blue cell teams to defend a closed-computer network that the cadets designed, built and configured at their respective academies...
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