NSA Propaganda video achieves record for YouTube DownVotes
A propaganda video released on YouTube October 24th has earned a staggering 9,900 down votes compared to a paltry 150 up votes. The 32 minute clip is below if …
Category: Privacy & Spying
Whistleblower Snowden disputes Feinstein’s NSA claim
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has responded to an op-ed by Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) in USA Today. Feinstein claimed, "The call-records program is not surveillance. It does not collect the content of …
Hackers attacked NSA website?
The National Security Agency (NSA) was likely the target of a cyber attack Friday. NSA.gov has been unavailable globally since Friday afternoon, most likely due to a dedicated denial …
NSA gathers so much private American data, they sometimes run out of storage
Despite President Obama's assurances in June that the NSA's email collection program "does not apply to U.S. citizens," it turns out the spy agency gathers millions of email address …
DHS considers government privacy officers to be terrorists
Wall Street Journal Reporter Jennifer Valentino tweeted: [blockquote style="1"]Former DHS Privacy Officer Mary Ellen Callahan: DHS Privacy Office was accused monthly of being “terrorists” by DHS, IC[/blockquote] In fact, …
NSA phone call database fails to thwart terror plots
Despite NSA advocates' reasoning that phone record collections are necessary to foil terror plots, it turns out the system doesn't achieve much of that. [blockquote style="2"]Pressed by the Democratic …
Block the NSA with upcoming device from John McAfee
This weekend, John McAffe, eccentric antivirus developer, announced plans for a product to allow citizens to thwart (NSA) Internet surveillance. [blockquote style="2"]Dubbed "Decentral," the as-yet-unbuilt device will cost less …
LoveInt: Some NSA operatives spied on lovers
Suspicious of your lover? You need a job at the NSA! These incidents hint at the potential of vast government powers used secretly and without oversight. [blockquote style="2"]The National …
Latin Americans resent US spying
Bolivian President Evo Morales and his Brazilian counterpart, Dilma Rousseff are just two of the leaders of democratic Latin Amercian nations fed up with U.S. spying. We've already seen …
Cryptographer explains: NSA spying “Weakens US Security”
In an interview with RT, Johns Hopkins Cryptography Professor Mathew Green reveals, "The NSA was no good at decrypting online communications, so they used their authority to spoil encryption …
