Tag: NSA
“Open Informant” is an app created by Superflux that searches your phone using real NSA trigger keywords and then displays those communications on a wearable badge. The NSA, GCHQ and other government security services secretly collect and scan our personal information and correspondence for trigger words; from the overtly malevolent: ‘anthrax’, ‘assassination’ and ‘bomb’ to the seemingly benign: ‘pork’, […]
Ron Paul is putting his money where his civil-liberties-minded mouth is. The Libertarian stalwart started a petition to give Edward Snowden clemency for leaking classified information about the NSA’s massive surveillance operation. Snowden’s year of asylum in Russia ends this July, and Paul says he hopes his petition will show the U.S. government that “Mr. Snowden […]
No longer must every article about the National Security Agency be accompanied by the same, state-supplied image. The artist Trevor Paglen, commissioned by Creative Time Reports in partnership with The Intercept, rented a helicopter and took rare, hi-res aerial photos of the offices of the NSA, the National Reconnaissance Office, which operates American spy satellites, and the […]
“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 hardware host tap that copies traffic from […]
A new report from the think tank New America Foundation claims NSA surveillance isn’t nearly as effective at stopping terrorism as the feds would have you believe. The study, titled “Do NSA’s Bulk Surveillance Programs Stop Terrorism?” Of the 225 counterterrorism cases researchers studied, only 7.5 were investigated under evidence obtained by the NSA. The […]
NSA’s ANT division — specializing in inserting itself into the global security architecture so they can spy on you through your iPhone microphone, etc — has a catalogue! The names of these end-user devices and software are funky. They sound like band names, almost. If they were band names, would would they sound like? EBSR: Post-dubstep, dark […]
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 […]
Remember those billboards that popped up around town last week, ostensibly advertising things like the NSA and internet regulation? We knew the ads were part of a teaser campaign, and now, BitTorrent, Inc. is taking responsibility. That’s a lot more interesting than I was expecting. The company unmasked itself today by altering the ads to […]
Artist and composer Ben Grosser created a new Google Chrome extension that, when enabled, automatically adds a passage of additional algorithmically generated text to your emails containing many of the keywords known to trigger the National Security Agency‘s email surveillance systems. This extension, in theory, works as a trap to not only force these systems to […]
“Your data should belong to the NSA,” reads a new billboard on West Broadway near Canal Street. There’s no indication of who put it up–just that phrase, all-caps, against a plain white background. It’s the kind of sly commentary one might expect from Banksy, if he wasn’t busy painting dogs peeing on things. A similar […]
