National Security Agency (NSA)

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In Depth Review: New NSA Documents Expose How Americans Can Be Spied On Without A Warrant

Kurt Opsahl and Trevor Timm | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | June 21, 2013

The Guardian published a new batch of secret leaked FISA court and NSA documents yesterday, which detail the particulars of how government has been accessing Americans’ emails without a warrant, in violation of the Constitution. [...] Read More »

In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers Of N.S.A.

Eric Lichtblau | New York Times | July 6, 2013

In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism suspects, but also people possibly involved in nuclear proliferation, espionage and cyberattacks [...]. Read More »

In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers Of N.S.A.

Eric Lichtblau | The New York Times | July 6, 2013

In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism suspects, but also people possibly involved in nuclear proliferation, espionage and cyberattacks, officials say. Read More »

Innovation And Trust In Open Source

Peter Lieberwirth | Open Source Delivers | December 11, 2013

It has been a fascinating year in Internet security, privacy, and related technologies. NSA revelations have given us a glimpse through the looking glass, leading to questions about the trustworthiness of the core technologies used to power the Internet. Read More »

Intel Uses Open-Source, OpenStack Cloud to Its Advantage

Sean Michael Kerner | eWeek | September 19, 2013

At LinuxCon, Dirk Hohndel, Intel's chief Linux and open-source technologist, explains why Intel is invested in open source and what his company is doing with the OpenStack cloud.

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iPhones Have A Major Security Hole That Apple Installed On Purpose

Zach Wener-Fligner | Quartz | July 22, 2014

If you use an iPhone or iPad, your photos, web history, and GPS logs are vulnerable to theft and surveillance via back-door protocols running on all iOS devices, according forensic scientist Jonathan Zdziarski, better known by the hacker moniker “NerveGas.”...

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Is Accumulo The World’s Most Scalable Graph Store?

Staff Writer | Sqrrl Blog | May 29, 2013

NSA just released some fascinating new data on Apache Accumulo performance as a massively scalable graph store.  The data was presented last week at Carnegie Mellon University, and the abstract of the report reads: Read More »

James Risen's Risk Of Prison Means Journalism Is Being Criminalised

Lindsey Bever | The Guardian | August 10, 2013

That a New York Times national security reporter may be jailed for refusing to name a source is a total affront to press freedom Read More »

Judge Doubts NSA Program Is Constitutional-But Upholds It Anyway

Brendan Sasso | Nextgov.com | June 4, 2014

A federal judge in Idaho upheld the NSA's controversial phone surveillance program Tuesday.  But Judge B. Lynn Winmill seemed to invite the Supreme Court to overturn his decision...

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Just How Closely Can The NSA Really Watch You?

Brian Proffitt | ReadWrite | June 20, 2013

Leaks that suggest the NSA is vacuuming up personal information from the phone records and online-service data of U.S. citizens have some people concerned about the prospect of an Orwellian surveillance state that can track our every move. Read More »

Larry Ellison, NSA Database Supplier, Approves Of NSA Surveillance

Philip Bump | The Atlantic Wire | August 13, 2013

Larry Ellison is exceedingly rich and powerful. He is the third-most-wealthy person in the United States and runs Oracle, the database giant. And yet somehow, as he revealed during an interview on CBS Tuesday morning, he is hopelessly uninformed on the ramifications of NSA surveillance. Or, perhaps willfully uninformed. After all, the NSA is an Oracle client, which CBS didn't mention. Read More »

Late Digital Rights Activist, International Access To Knowledge Advocate, And NSA Spying Journalists Win EFF Pioneer Awards

Press Release | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | August 21, 2013

EFF to Honor Aaron Swartz, James Love, and Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras Next Month in San Francisco Ceremony Read More »

Latest NSA Overreach Awakens Tech Giants In Washington

Dustin Volz | Nextgov | November 4, 2013

The most recent round of National Security Agency revelations have prompted major tech firms to publicly take a stronger stance against government surveillance activities, an escalation that could portend a shift in the way Silicon Valley does business in Washington. Read More »

Lavabit Files Opening Brief In Landmark Privacy Case

Kevin Poulson | Wired | October 10, 2013

Secure email provider Lavabit just filed the opening brief in its appeal of a court order demanding it turn over the private SSL keys that protected all web traffic to the site. Read More »

Laying The Foundation For Innovation Open Source Access

Staff Writer | PSFK | September 15, 2014

For innovation to really explode, we may have to rethink traditional ways of protecting proprietary information. Is it time to leverage the latent opportunities hidden in open datasets?...

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