National Security Agency (NSA)
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Fourth of July Rallies Protest NSA Surveillance
In marking Indpendence Day, protesters nationwide called for outlawing National Security Agency domestic spying. In response, NSA officials released a statement endorsing demonstrators’ constitutional right to free speech. Officials made no mention of the constitutional right to freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures... Read More »
How Hackers Beat the NSA In The ’90s and Can Do It Again
While the world parses the ramifications of the National Security Agency’s massive snooping operation, it’s important to remember an earlier government attempt at data collection and, more important, how a group of hackers and activists banded together to stop it. Read More »
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'Beyond The Law?' FBI Criticizes Apple, Google Privacy Features
The FBI director criticized Apple and Google Thursday for adopting new policies that will block police from accessing private data on phones and tablet computers. An FBI spokesman confirmed that Director James Comey told reporters he is "very concerned" that the new features could thwart critical police investigations...
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10 Disappointments For Open Source In 2013
[...] Here are 10 of the most disappointing developments for this past year. Some of them were game changers, others were simply thorns in the side of the open source community, and a few may even have spurned a change for the positive within the community. Let's take a look at the cruft that dared to mar the sheen of an otherwise outstanding year. Read More »
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10 Questions For Obama’s Chief Technology Officer
[Todd Park's] role has taken on heightened importance after several recent developments, including the implementation of the new health care law, efforts to reduce the backlog in Department of Veterans Affairs claims processing, and privacy issues raised by disclosures about data collection by the National Security Agency. Read More »
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10 Reasons To Fear LinkedIn’s New Service
The business social media network wants to rout your email. The benefits to you are unclear... Read More »
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3 NSA Veterans Speak Out On Whistle-Blower: We Told You So
In a roundtable discussion, a trio of former National Security Agency whistle-blowers tell USA TODAY that Edward Snowden succeeded where they failed. Read More »
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3 Ways To Strengthen Press Freedom At The U.S. Justice Department
One of the most troubling things about the politicians and pundits who are calling for Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald’s prosecution, calling him an accomplice to Edward Snowden’s leaks, is that just a month ago we saw the same language coming out of the Justice Department itself. [...] Read More »
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5 Things To Know About The NSA Court Ruling
A District Court decision that the NSA's sweeping data collection program is unconstitutional paves the way for a Supreme Court review of the counterterrorism program, and creates a major headache for the Obama administration in the process. Read More »
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500,000 Contractors Can Access NSA Data Hoards
Firms like Booz Allen have army of employees, but only Snowden spoke up Read More »
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7 Reasons Why iPhone Fingerprint Security Might Not Be So Secure
Apple's latest smartphone, the iPhone 5S, contains a sensor for unlocking the device with a tap of the finger, including those belonging to a growing number of federal employees. The Defense Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are just a couple of the agencies that issue personnel iPhones for work. Read More »
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A CEO Who Resisted NSA Spying Is Out Of Prison. And He Feels ‘Vindicated’ By Snowden Leaks.
Just one major telecommunications company refused to participate in a legally dubious NSA surveillance program in 2001. A few years later, its CEO was indicted by federal prosecutors. He was convicted, served four and a half years of his sentence and was released this month. Read More »
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A Modern-Day Stasi State
Thanks to whistleblower Edward Snowden, we now know that an army of private contractors can monitor anyone’s phone calls and e-mails. Read More »
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A Refresher: Warrantless Spying Was Blatantly Illegal
Frontline's new documentary about NSA spying is an important reminder of how Bush officials violated the Constitution...
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Accumulo: Why The World Needs Another NoSQL Database
If you’ve been unable to keep up with all the competing NoSQL databases that have hit the market over the last several years, you’re not alone. To name just a few, there’s HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, CouchDB, Redis, and Neo4J. To that list you can add Accumulo, an open source database originally developed at the National Security Agency... Read More »
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