April 26, 2019

NSA asks to end mass phone surveillance

The NSA has asked the White House to end its mass phone surveillance program because the work involved outweighs its intelligence value.

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March 07, 2019

NSA might shut down phone snooping program, whatever that means

We've heard this tale before. This time, it was mentioned by a congressional aide. Also, the NSA released Ghidra, a free reverse-engineering tool.

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October 03, 2018

NSA staffer takes top-secret hacking tools home ‘to study’, gets 66 months

Nghia Hoang Pho may not have had malicious intent, but removal of the materials forced the NSA to abandon years of signals collection work.

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August 28, 2018

NSA leaker Reality Winner gets 63 months in jail

Reality Leigh Winner, the NSA contractor who leaked sensitive information to the Intercept last year, was sentenced to 63 months in prison last week along with three years of supervised release.

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September 30, 2015

Snowden joins Twitter, follows the agency that follows everyone else

Edward Snowden signs up for Twitter, promises cat pics and asks about border control on Mars.

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August 27, 2015

Now there’s a species of crayfish named after Edward Snowden

In a research paper published this week in the journal ZooKeys, German carcinologist Christian Lukhaup revealed the name of a new species of crayfish he discovered. He called it Cherax snowden.

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July 07, 2015

NSA’s XKeyscore collects router data, Skype conversations, webcam images

Newly revealed documents from the Edward Snowden trove show that XKeyscore is much more than a Google-like search engine for the world's private communications data.

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July 01, 2015

Surveillance court OKs NSA phone metadata collection for six more months

Let the NSA's bulk metadata collection continue for six more months, the court rules, until the phone companies get control over the records. Plus ça change...!

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May 08, 2015

NSA metadata collection is illegal, rules US court

Three appeal court judges have ruled that the NSA's bulk collection of metadata went far beyond the original intent of the Patriot Act.

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