A Concise History Of The NSA’s Online Spying Program PRISM
Crucial to the program? Online tech companies. This was a bad week for spies, and a great week to find out how we were spied on. Following revelations Wednesday that Verizon handed over millions of...
View ArticleDesigners Spruce Up The Government’s Crappy PowerPoint
Our government wins in espionage, but not in PowerPoint. Luckily for the NSA, there's the Internet. After news broke of PRISM, the government's secret surveillance program, everyone recoiled in horror:...
View ArticleWhat Can We Learn From Spying On Our Own Metadata?
Why let the NSA have all the fun? Okay, so the National Security Agency is sitting on a treasure trove of all your metadata. What exactly can they learn about you from something as vague as the time...
View ArticleThe 6 Most Important Things We Learned From Edward Snowden’s Guardian Q&A
Two weeks ago, the Guardian published PowerPoint slides detailing a previously unknown, sweeping surveillance program by the National Security Administration. Shortly thereafter, the source of those...
View ArticleOverwhelm The NSA With Vice’s New Spam Generator
"Hello, NSA" is a fun plan to befuddle U.S. spies, but will it work? With characteristic subtlety, yesterday Vice launched "Hello, NSA", a site that generates keyword-laden, tweetable messages designed...
View ArticleThe NSA Sucks More Than You Thought
The Guardian just exposed the NSA’s “widest-reaching” surveillance program, “XKeyscore.” While most of us keep going about our internet lives as if that pesky NSA thing never happened–demonstrating a...
View Article5 Sneaky Ways The NSA Spies On Americans
The U.S. government needs only three degrees of separation to look at Kevin Bacon's phone records. The U.S. National Security Agency remains at the center of controversy this summer, nine weeks after...
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