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Metadata-hiding Dark Mail protocol soon to be reality
At the Hackers on Planet Earth X (HOPE X) conference held this weekend in New York, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden called for hackers, coders and developers to “help …
Germany cancels Verizon’s government contract due to spying fears
Verizon will no longer provide internet services to a number of German government departments, as their contract has been cancelled as part of a restructuration of the federal …
Cops must get a warrant before looking through cellphone content
The nine judges of the US Supreme Court have unanimously ruled that law enforcement officers can’t search the contents of an arrested individual’s cell phone(s) …
Capabilities of “lawful interception” mobile malware revealed
Researchers from Russian AV company Kaspersky Labs and the Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto have released details about the mobile surveillance tools provided by …
GCHQ legally intercepts Google, Facebook users’ communications
A successful legal challenge has forced the UK’s top counter-terrorism official to reveal the (until now) secret government policy that allows the GCHQ to intercept …
The state of GRX security
Late last year, documents from Edward Snowden’s NSA trove have revealed that Britain’s GCHQ has mounted a successful attack against Belgacom (the largest telecom …
Some governments have direct access to Vodafone networks
Telecommunications giant Vodafone has released its first-ever Law Enforcement Disclosure Report, and among the things revealed in it is the scary fact that some countries have …
Replicating NSA’s gadgets using open source
One peek at the leaked pages of NSA’s ANT catalog made wireless security researcher Michael Ossmann’s mind start spinning. “Could we – could I – …
German startup raises $2M for NSA-proof server
A German startup has broken crowdfunding records as it managed to get pledges for 1.5 million Euros (around $2 million) in less than a few hours. The project that prompted …
NSA collects photos to feed facial recognition programs
The NSA has been collecting photos of people’s faces at the tune of 55,000 images every day, and has been feeding the images into its facial recognition programs, James …
Anti-surveillance mask foils facial recognition systems
The unnerving ubiquity of security cameras in public places and the fact that an increasing number of them are connected to facial recognition systems has spurred …
Tor cannot protect you from targeted surveillance
In the wake of all the revelations about mass Internet surveillance efforts by the US NSA, a lot of users but also many businesses and government agencies around the world …
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