Anti-NSA surveillance protest group “Restore the Fourth” has successfully adopted a section of highway that will neighbor a new heavily guarded data center. This particular stretch of suburban highway cuts directly through a National Guard base the future home of this Salt Lake City data center location.
Members of the group plan to maintain the highway as expected but also fully intend to display their protest signs while doing so. The new facility, rumored to contain about $1.7 billion worth of computing power will be used to store seized telecommunications.
Here's an ingenious billboard intervention from the California Department of Corrections, a confusingly-named art group out of the Golden State. The piece flips the Pacific Rim tagline, "To fight monsters, we created monsters," on its head, emblazoning each of the film's giant robots with the names of a U.S. security agency--NSA, CIA,…
On June 5, the Guardian published a report based on a leak from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, detailing how the NSA surveils U.S. phone calls, collecting and analyzing cell phone metadata from Verizon. The following day, the Washington Post revealed PRSIM, a program that allowed the NSA…
"Recently released NSA documents revealed the existence of DRAGONBROKER, a surveillance program that undermined NIST standards for securing one tenth of all internet traffic. Senator Dianne Feinstein assured the public that the program is actually run by the FBI, not the NSA." Or, if you prefer: "Recently released NSA documents revealed the existence of STUMPSHADOW, a USB…