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Freedom of Information
By Ken Auletta – With eighty-four million monthly visitors, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the Guardian Web site is now the third most popular English-language newspaper Web site in the...
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The NSA Tried to Undermine Online Anonymity, and Failed
By Philip Bump – The “terrorist,” at left, is playing the role of a user. When he goes online, his requests for information are routed through a number of other servers before arriving at their...
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Why Surveillance Cameras Might Be Bad for Creative Economies
By Emily Badger – Speaking Tuesday (Oct 8) at The Atlantic‘s CityLab summit on innovation, she argued that heavily surveilled cities are fundamentally incompatible with environments where people have...
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Internet freedom group splits from tech companies over surveillance concerns
By Kate Tummarello – Recent revelations about government surveillance have begun splintering the Global Network Initiative (GNI), a group of Internet advocacy groups and tech companies dedicated to...
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The Future of the Internet: Balkanization and Borders
By Sascha Meinrath – Traditionally, the debate has featured America in the role as champion of a free and open Internet, one that guarantees the right of all people to freely express themselves....
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Here’s How Former Top Spooks Cashed In On ‘Retirement’
BOOK REVIEW Spies for Hire, Author: Tim Shorrock. By Andy Greenberg – Luckily for General Keith Alexander and John Inglis, they have a perk-filled escape route from the NSA controversy: A lucrative...
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Reining in the snoops
Washington Times – The Obama administration is doing all it can, short of dispatching a squad of park rangers to barricade the justices’ parking spaces, to prevent the Supreme Court from reviewing the...
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NSA surveillance creeps onto tech’s lobbying agenda
By Tony Romm – The companies’ aim with the new D.C. effort isn’t entirely clear. Silicon Valley to date hasn’t pushed to restrict the NSA’s ability to reach into the Internet’s backbone for foreign...
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Our Fear of Al-Qaeda Hurts Us More Than Al-Qaeda Does
By David Rohde – The United States is losing its way in the struggle against terrorism. Sweeping government efforts to stop attacks are backfiring abroad and infringing on basic rights at home. “The...
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How NSA Anger at President Obama Undermines the Surveillance State
By Conor Friedersdorf – That’s just the beginning of the bad news for Obama—there’s just no way he comes out of this with his reputation intact. Either he knew about the spying and is lying to us,...
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The case for NSA reform
By Sen. Patrick Leahy and Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner – In the days and weeks following Sept. 11, 2001, we were the primary authors of the USA PATRIOT Act — legislation that responded to those attacks by...
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Obama’s Credibility Is At Risk
By Charlie Cook – What makes these problems more troublesome than some other controversies is that they go to the question of Obama’s competence, rather than to differences of policy or ideology....
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Better police surveillance technologies come with a cost
Surveillance cameras in Singapore (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Phil Ciciora – The widespread use of advanced surveillance technologies such as automatic license plate readers, surveillance cameras, red...
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NSA’s Vast Surveillance Powers Extend Far Beyond Counterterrorism, Despite...
By Trevor Timm – Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, NSA is given a mandate for collecting “foreign intelligence information” but this is not a very substantive limitation, and certainly...
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Google, Facebook and other tech giants object to secret government arguments
By Brandon Bailey – It’s hard to win a debate when you don’t know what the other side is arguing, the tech companies said in their own filing this week at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a...
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Google: Our transparency reports aren’t enough; blame the U.S. government
By Zack Whittaker – Google isn’t happy. Not one bit. The U.S. government has over the last three years doubled its requests for Google customer data, the search and Internet giant said in a blog post...
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Silicon Valley Nerds Seek Revenge on NSA Spies With Coding
By Chris Strohm – Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. are fighting back against the National Security Agency by using harder-to-crack code to shield their networks and online customer data from...
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NSA slapped malware on 50,000+ networks, says report
By Violet Blue – A new slide culled from the trove of documents leaked by Edward Snowden shows where the NSA placed malware on more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide, according to Dutch media...
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How the NSA was Infiltrated and Why Your Business May Be Next
By Jeff Hudson – In spite of the uproar, none of the journalists, pundits or politicians has taken an opportunity to explain to the public one of the most essential facts about the scandal: How exactly...
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NSA spying hurts business of large U.S. hardware makers
By John Shinal – With evidence mounting that NSA spying has damaged the business of some of the largest U.S. technology companies, the question now is how long it will take them to win back the trust...
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NSA’s virtual waste of time? Spying in ‘World of Warcraft’ is harder than you...
By Yannick LeJacq – “We know that terrorists use many feature-rich Internet communications media for operational purposes such as email, VoIP, chat, proxies, and Web forums and it is highly likely they...
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Tone-Deaf at the Listening Post
By Daniel Drezner – The NSA can point to their triple-branched oversight as much as they like, but as Ryan Lizza and others have documented, that doesn’t mean that the oversight is terribly effective....
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Shopping for Spy Gear: Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox
By Jacob Appelbaum, Judith Horchert and Christian Stöcker – Specialists at the intelligence organization succeeded years ago in penetrating the company’s digital firewalls. A document viewed by SPIEGEL...
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The Inside Story of Tor, the Best Internet Anonymity Tool the Government Ever...
By Dune Lawrence – Tor provides privacy by separating identity from routing online. In a normal session online, you’re browsing from your computer or a router that’s assigned its own IP address. Every...
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How many criminals have NSA’s phone records busted? Maybe one
By Grant Gross – “Made in the U.S.A. is no longer a badge of honor, but a basis for questioning the integrity and the independence of U.S.-made technology,” Dean Garfield, president and CEO of the...
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Spy Chief James Clapper: We Can’t Stop Another Snowden
By Eli Lake – James Clapper also acknowledges that the very human nature of the bureaucracy he controls virtually insures that more mass disclosures are inevitable. “In the end,” he says, “we will...
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Defeating NSA Surveillance Isn’t the Real Problem
By Max Eddy – The NSA wasn’t operating in a vacuum. Two key changes aided the creation of the massive spying operation we know today. The first was the cost of search and storage, which Bruce Schneier...
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How international relations theory shapes U.S. cybersecurity doctrine
By Henry Farrell – The fundamental logic of the security dilemma is straightforward. Imagine two neighboring states, each of which wants peace while not being sure of the other’s intentions. Imagine...
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How the NSA Made Your Legal Defense Illegal
By Ben O’Neill – In order for a plaintiff to challenge the constitutionality of the NSA’s illegal surveillance programs, the person first had to prove having been subjected to surveillance, in order to...
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Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It
By Kevin Kelly – The internet is a tracking machine. It is engineered to track. We will ceaselessly self-track and be tracked by the greater network, corporations, and governments. Everything that can...
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