Tag Archives: Privacy

In the aftermath of the push back from the Snowden revelations American tech companies are feeling the heat about suspicions they are a bit too cooperative with the NSA and various law enforcement agencies. Now they are endeavoring to put … Continue reading →

Edward Snowden asks an embarrassing question: Why hasn’t the Director of National Intelligence been punished for lying to Congress? After all, for the relatively trivial offense of lying to Congress about steroid use, Barry Bonds was convicted of a felony. … Continue reading →

The NSA and its apologists are fond of insisting that the NSA’s mission is to monitor our enemies and that any interception of Americans’ or American Allies’ communications are incidental and that such data, once collected, is promptly destroyed. Only … Continue reading →

From time to time I’ve mentioned articles that help you maintain your privacy. Some of us grumpy and misanthropic types have nothing to hide but do everything we can to maintain our privacy out of orneriness. If that sounds like … Continue reading →

I’ve written before about the Iron Law of Data Collection, the idea that no matter the rationale given for the collection of the data or the promises made about its confidentiality there will always be mission creep that finds new … Continue reading →

An excellent suggestion from Ryan Paul (via Jean-Philippe Paradis) Let’s start describing NSA’s activities as “state-sponsored cyberterrorism” because that’s what the US would call it if anybody else did it. — Ryan Paul (@segphault) April 11, 2014

Klint Finley over at Wired has an article that discusses the pros and cons of encrypting the Internet. By that he means using SSL/TLS instead of plain HTTP for every connection. It’s not a new idea. For example, the EFF … Continue reading →

Bloomberg is reporting that the NSA knew about and exploited the heartbleed bug for years. The NSA is, of course, denying that but if you’ve been keeping score it’s pretty easy to figure out who to believe. If it’s true … Continue reading →

Surprise! It turns out that the NSA was looking at the phone calls and emails of Americans without a warrant after all. According The Guardian, James Clapper sent a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden admiting to the practice. What’s surprising … Continue reading →

I know it’s preaching to the choir and even to me it seems like the gazillionith time I’ve written about it but we really must convince our friends and neighbors that metadata isn’t some harmless bit of information that’s on … Continue reading →