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Based on internal NSA documents, Der Spiegel reveals that the spy agency planted backdoors to access computers, hard drives, routers, and other devices from companies such as Cisco, Dell, Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor and Samsung.

According to the report, the NSA has planted back doors to access computers, hard drives, routers and other devices from companies such as Cisco, Dell, Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung and Huawei. The report describes a 50-page product catalog of tools and techniques that an NSA division called ANT, which stands for Advanced or Access Network Technology, uses to gain access to devices.

This follows a report that the security firm RSA intentionally allowed the NSA to create a backdoor into its encryption tokens.

Nearly seven months after journalist and privacy activist Glenn Greenwald publicized Edward Snowden's first revelations of the vast scope of the NSA's digital surveillance, his life has changed absolutely.

Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked intelligence about the security agency's surveillance activities, has broadcast a Christmas message to the world. This is the first ...

As the Obama administration responds to the NSA mass surveillance revelations, Dave Eggers reflects on the impact they have had on US writers, and asks if the prevailing sense of fear heralds an intellectual ice ageheralds an intellectual ice age...

Most citizens would object to their government searching their homes without a warrant. If you were told that while you were at work, your government was coming into your home and rifling through without cause, you might be unsettled. You might even consider this a violation of your rights specifically and the Bill of Rights generally.

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is coming under fire (again) for the privacy implications of Google Glass. Being able to capture a photo with nothing but a wink is worryingly creepy. As is real-time facial recognition.

Newly published documents from Edward Snowden's trove show that the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ use Google's "preferences" cookies to follow suspects as they move around the Internet, and target them for later exploitation.

On November 7th, Brazil and Germany jointly proposed a preliminary version of a resolution on online privacy at the UN General Assembly. At a time when public outrage over the reach and scope of U.K. and U.S.

British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters reportedly used spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot pages to compromise the computers of network engineers working for global roaming exchange providers based in Europe.

The revelations that the NSA has seemingly managed to infiltrate and spy upon individuals are bad enough for most of us, but some members of the Google tech team that work specifically ...

Agency positioned itself to collect from among millions of accounts, many belonging to Americans.

The MUSCULAR project appears to be an unusually aggressive use of NSA tradecraft against flagship American companies. The agency is built for high-tech spying, with a wide range of digital tools, but it has not been known to use them routinely against U.S. companies.

It’s been moving slow until now, but things are finally shaping up as more and more countries decide to unite in protest against the NSA spying....

After years of speculation that electronics can be accessed by intelligence agencies through a back door, an internal NSA catalog reveals that such methods already exist for numerous end-user devices.

Weihnachtsansprachen halten der Papst, der Bundespräsident, die Queen - und jetzt auch Edward Snowden. Im britischen TV fordert der US-Whistleblower ein Ende der Massenüberwachung. Die Lage sei schlimmer als in Orwells Roman "1984".

"Ein heute geborenes Kind wird nicht mehr wissen, was Privatleben ist", fügte Snowden hinzu. "Es wird nicht mehr wissen, was ein Moment Privatsphäre bedeutet, einen Gedanken zu haben, der weder aufgenommen wurde, noch analysiert. Das ist ein Problem, denn das Privatleben ist wichtig, das Privatleben hilft uns zu bestimmen, wer wir sind und wer wir sein wollen."

State-sponsored surveillance and repression should not be your concern. Social networks, providers and employers you trust to safeguard your data and livelihood is what worries me most.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S.

A coalition of the world's leading technology companies - AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo - is asking the world's governments to reassess intelligence gathering...

November 26, 2013

This is a long article about the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit (DITU), which is basically its own internal NSA.

It carries out its own signals intelligence operations and is trying to collect huge amounts of email and Internet data from U.S. companies -- an operation that the NSA once conducted, was reprimanded for, and says it abandoned.

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The unit works closely with the "big three" U.S. telecommunications companies -- AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint -- to ensure its ability to intercept the telephone and Internet communications of its domestic targets, as well as the NSA's ability to intercept electronic communications transiting through the United States on fiber-optic cables.

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After Prism was disclosed in the Washington Post and the Guardian, some technology company executives claimed they knew nothing about a collection program run by the NSA. And that may have been true. The companies would likely have interacted only with officials from the DITU and others in the FBI and the Justice Department, said sources who have worked with the unit to implement surveillance orders.

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Über gefälschte LinkedIn-Seiten verschafft sich der britische Geheimdienst GCHQ Zugang zu den Rechnern von Zielpersonen.

Apple has published a Report on Government Information Requests detailing the number of requests it receives from governments around the world to turn over customer data. At present, ...