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Memes
Mass Surveillance Memes Show Our Collective Anxiety Over Government Spying
Surveillance memes are everywhere because it feels like surveillance is everywhere.
Mack DeGeurin
4.2.18
ruh roh
ruh roh
The NSA Tried Tracking Bitcoin Users In 2013
Bitcoin was the spy agency's "#1 priority," Snowden documents published by The Intercept show.
Jordan Pearson
3.21.18
wannacry
wannacry
Cryptocurrency Mining Malware That Uses an NSA Exploit Is On the Rise
Say hello to WannaMine.
Daniel Oberhaus
1.30.18
surveillance state
surveillance state
The Senate Just Voted to Expand the Warrantless Surveillance of US Citizens
Once Trump signs the bill into law, US intelligence agencies will be able to spy on the electronic communications of Americans with an overseas contact without a warrant.
Daniel Oberhaus
1.18.18
surveillance state
surveillance state
5 Senators Are Filibustering an Attempt to Expand Warrantless Surveillance of Americans
3 Democrats and 2 Republicans are filibustering the Senate vote on the reauthorization of FISA Section 702.
Daniel Oberhaus
1.16.18
surveillance state
surveillance state
The House Just Voted to Expand Warrantless Surveillance of US Citizens
A similar bill will now be considered in the Senate.
Daniel Oberhaus
1.11.18
HOTY2017
HOTY2017
This Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI to Find Hate Symbols on Twitter
NEMESIS, developed by Emily Crose, is a program to automatically identify hate symbols on the internet.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
1.4.18
State of Surveillance
State of Surveillance
FISA Court's Secrecy Threatens to Subsume Our Open Court System
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.
Marcy Wheeler
12.14.17
Internet Insecurity
Internet Insecurity
Ex-NSA Hackers Worry China And Russia Will Try to Arrest Them
The US government has been indicting foreign government hackers, and American government hackers are worried China and Russia might start doing the same to them.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
12.1.17
FOIA documents
FOIA documents
Here Are the NSA’s Internal Grammar Advice Columns
The intelligence agency’s Grammar Geek explained things like the difference between “affect” and “effect.”
Louise Matsakis
11.27.17
classified
classified
Amazon Unveils New ‘Secret Region’ Cloud for Spies
AWS couldn’t be worse at keeping secrets than the US government, right?
Michael Byrne
11.21.17
backdoor
backdoor
Internal Kaspersky Investigation Says NSA Worker’s Computer Was Infested with Malware
The Russian cybersecurity firm released a new report that pushes back against accusations that it helped leak sensitive NSA materials and suggests that a backdoor found on worker’s machine could have allowed others to take files from his machine.
Kim Zetter
11.16.17
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