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Show us a better way than collecting metadata, NSA director says to critics
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2013-12-12 02:12
Critics of the U.S. National Security Agency’s bulk collection of U.S. residents’ telephone records should offer a better way to track terrorists and protect the country against attacks, the agency’s director said Wednesday.
The NSA’s bulk collection of U.S. telephone records is the “least intrusive” way to track suspected terrorists’ communications with people in the U.S., General Keith Alexander said, defending the NSA’s mass data collection and surveillance programs to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Google Cookies Help NSA Identify Targets for Hacking and Spying
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2013-12-12 02:03
It isn’t just online advertisers that benefit from user-tracking cookies. The National Security Agency has been taking advantage of the cookies that companies force on users to pinpoint targets they want to hack, according to newly released Edward Snowden documents.
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NSA tracks hundreds of millions of cell phones worldwide
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-12-04 23:35
Where's Waldo? Ask the NSA.
That's right, you can add location tracking to the list of surveillance activities being carried out by the secretive US National Security Agency.
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The chilling effect: Snowden, the NSA, and IT security
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-12-02 04:06
When we look back at 2013 a decade from now, the one technology story that's likely to have the biggest long-term impact is the Edward Snowden revelations.
While there were major password breaches at Adobe, Evernote, and Twitter as well as the Healthcare.gov debacle, nothing rocked the IT world more than the 200,000 classified documents that Snowden leaked to the press, uncovering the NSA's startling digital surveillance programs that reach more broadly across the internet than even many of the most extreme conspiracy theorists would have feared.
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Security upgrades show Snowden won
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-12-02 03:56
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden succeeded where President Barack Obama couldn't - getting Microsoft, Google and Yahoo to upgrade computer security against hackers.
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