Mostly secret law enforcement requests to federal courts in the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia for use of electronic surveillance in domestic criminal cases have increased fivefold in the last five years…
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Banker Deaths and WikiLeaks Deaths Have a Common Thread…
Now it has emerged that two of the top lawyers representing Assange, John Jones in London and Michael Ratner in New York, died within less than a month of each other this year. And, Assange’s closest confidant in London and a Director of WikiLeaks, Gavin Macfadyen, died just yesterday…
The Yandex Domain Problem OR Who In Russian Intelligence Doesn’t Speak Russian?…
On March 22, 2016 William “Billy” Rhinehart, a regional field director at the Democratic National Committee, received an email from Google warning him that someone tried to access his account and that he should immediately change his password. He complied…
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Hacktivist Crew Claims it Launched Last Week’s DDoS Mega-Attack…
A group called New World Hackers has claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack that rendered significant portions of the web unreachable last Friday…
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A Denial-of-Service Attack Shut Down Major Websites Across the Internet…
Denial-of-service attacks beginning in the morning and stretching into the afternoon shut down major websites across the internet today, as DNS service company Dyn was hit by at least three apparently targeted strikes…
How Could NSA Contractor Harold Martin Have Been Taking Home Classified Info For 20 Years Without NSA Noticing?…
A few weeks back, we wrote about the arrest of Harold Martin, an NSA contractor working at Booz Allen, for apparently taking “highly classified information” from the NSA and storing it electronically and physically in his home…
All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Hardware Capable of Level 4 Autonomy…
A validation period of unspecified length will be required before the fully autonomous features become available. Here’s a sentence in the press release that’s worth noting…
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Platforms Like Facebook’s Instant Articles and Google AMP Are Making it Harder, Not Easier, to Publish to the Web…
Creating content for these formats reintroduces a coding requirement, and online code is vastly more complicated today than it was in the mid-1990s…
Study: 1 in 2 American Adults Already In Facial Recognition Network…
“Looking at the sum total of what we found, there have been no laws that comprehensively regulate face recognition technology, and there’s really no case law either”…
Feds Walk Into A Building. Demand Everyone’s Fingerprints To Open Phones…
California’s top cops asked to enter a residence and force anyone inside to use their biometric information to open their mobile devices…
Hubble Reveals Observable Universe Contains 10 Times More Galaxies Than Previously Thought…
The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories…
UK Security Agencies Unlawfully Collected Data for Decade…
British security agencies have secretly and unlawfully collected massive volumes of confidential personal data, including financial information, on citizens for more than a decade…
Mozilla Partnered With Voter Registration Group Teaming With Democratic Data Firm…
The “nonpartisan” voter registration group that partnered with Mozilla Firefox to register new voters for the November elections is affiliated with a Democratic data firm…
The World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Passenger Train…
The world’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train has been unveiled this week by French transport company Alstom, which will be operating the incredibly quiet and environmentally friendly…
Overheated Samsung Device Blamed in Southwest Plane Evacuation…
A Samsung smartphone exploded Wednesday on a Southwest Airlines plane at Louisville International Airport, forcing dozens to be evacuated…
How American Companies Enable NSA Surveillance…Like, YAHOO!!!!…
Without the cooperation of American companies — both voluntary and compelled — the National Security Agency’s system of mass surveillance simply would not have been possible…
Yahoo Reports On Yahoo Secretly Scanning All Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence Agencies…
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
Judge Says No Way To Attorneys General Looking To Block Internet Transition…
A judge has flatly denied their request for an injunction meaning that the transition is a go for midnight tonight, barring any really last minute unforeseen methods to block it…
State Attorney’s General Sue to Stop Obama’s Internet Transition…
Four Republican state attorneys general are suing to stop the Obama administration from transferring oversight of the internet to an international body, arguing the transition would violate the U.S. Constitution…
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Internet Security Experts Warn YAHOO Password Breach Could Have ‘Ripple Effects’ for Millions…
As investors and investigators weigh the damage of Yahoo’s massive breach to the internet icon, information security experts worry that the record-breaking haul of password data could be used to open locks up and down the web.
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