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GCHQ's dirty-tricking psyops groups: infiltrating, disrupting and...
In a piece on the new Omidyar-funded news-site "The Intercept," Glenn Greenwald pulls together the recent Snowden leaks about the NSA's psyops programs, through which they sought to attack, undermine,...
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GCHQ spied on millions of Yahoo video chats, harvested sexual images of...
A stunning new Snowden leak reveals that the UK spy agency GCHQ harvested images and text from millions of Yahoo video chats, including chats in which one or both of the participants was British or...
View ArticleUK Deputy PM commissions independent review of spy powers
Glyn sez, "UK Deputy PM Nick Clegg has commissioned a review into the new intrusive capabilities of British intelligence agencies and the legal framework in which they operate." (more…)
View ArticlePodcast: If GCHQ wants to improve national security it must fix our technology
Here's a reading (MP3) of my latest Guardian column, If GCHQ wants to improve national security it must fix our technology where I try to convey the insanity of spy agencies that weaken Internet...
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NSA wiretapped 122 world leaders; GCHQ penetrated German satellite companies...
Newly disclosed documents from the trove Edward Snowden provided to journalists reveal the existence of the "Nymrod" database that listed 122 world leaders, many from nations friendly to the USA, that...
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Britain is turning into a country that can't tell its terrorists from its...
Sarah Harrison, a British journalist who's worked with Wikileaks and the Snowden papers, writes that she will not enter the UK any longer because the nation's overbroad anti-terror laws, combined with...
View ArticleYahoo beefs up security in two meaningful and important ways
Yahoo has taken some serious steps towards protecting user-privacy, writes the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Seth Schoen. After revelations that the NSA and GCHQ had hacked its services,...
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Mathematicians: refuse to work for the NSA!
In a stirring editorial in the New Scientist, University of Edinburgh mathematician Tom Leinster calls on the world's mathematicians to boycott working for the NSA, which describes itself as the...
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Did GCHQ reveal secrets about computer insecurity when it exorcised the...
When Prime Minister David Cameron ordered two GCHQ spooks to go the the Guardian's offices and ritually exorcise two laptops that had held copies of the Snowden leaks, we assumed it was just...
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Privacy vs network effects
Respected cryptographer and security researcher Ross Anderson has a fascinating new paper, Privacy versus government surveillance: where network effects meet public choice [PDF], which explores the...
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GCHQ claims right to do warrantless mass interception of all webmail, search...
The UK spy agency GCHQ says it doesn't need a warrant to intercept and store all UK social media traffic, search history and webmail because it is headed offshore, so it's "foreign communications". It...
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UK secretary of state: "There is no surveillance state"
UK Secretary of State Theresa May -- part of a regime that presides over a spy service that claims the right to intercept all webmail, search and clicks; that spends hundreds of millions sabotaging...
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ISPs sue UK spies over hack-attacks
ISPs in US, UK, Netherlands and South Korea are suing the UK spy agency GCHQ over its illegal attacks on their networks in the course of conducting surveillance. (more…)
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Snowden: #DRIP "defies belief," could have been dreamed up by NSA
Edward Snowden has spoken out on #DRIP, the surveillance bill that the UK's major parties have vowed to ram through without any debate. (more…)
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GCHQ's black bag of dirty hacking tricks revealed
The dirty tricks used by JTRIG -- the toolsmiths of the UK spy agency GCHQ -- have been published, with details on how the agency manipulates public opinion, censors Youtube, games pageview...
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Honorable spies anonymously leak NSA/GHCQ-discovered flaws in Tor
Andrew Lewman, head of operations for The Onion Router (TOR), an anonymity and privacy tool that is particularly loathed by the spy agencies' capos, credits Tor's anonymous bug-reporting system for...
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UK spies secretly granted power to spy on journalists and lawyers
The UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal secretly granted permission to MI5 and MI6 to spy on journalists and lawyers, in ways that violate attorney-client privilege. (more…)
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Vodafone made millions helping GCHQ spy on the world
A newly released Snowden doc, published in the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, shows how Cable and Wireless (now a Vodafone subsidiary) made millions of pounds illegally installing fiber-taps to...
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NSA leak reveal plans to subvert mobile network security around the world
The NSA's AURORAGOLD program -- revealed in newly released Snowden docs -- used plundered internal emails to compromise nearly every mobile carrier in the world, and show that the agency had planned...
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Spies can't make cyberspace secure AND vulnerable to their own attacks
In his Sunday Observer column, John Naughton makes an important point that's hammered home by the escape of the NSA/GCHQ Regin cyberweapon into the wild: spies who make war on the Internet can't be...
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