From Statista.com, a revealing glimpse of the growing number of Americans picked up by U.S. national security agencies work. A report released on Tuesday found that there has been a huge rise in the number of identities of U.S. persons revealed by the National Security Agency (NSA). While the process is known as “unmasking”, the term “U.S....
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Mass Surveillance Program Ended By Trump Uncovered Exactly One Case of Terrorism
The mass surveillance program, launched by President Bush, defended by President Obama, and now reportedly discontinued by President Trump, was spectacularly unsuccessful at achieving its stated goal of making Americans safer. Susan Landau, a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, explains: While initial statements by the intelligence community brought up 54 incidents in...
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Was Snowden Right? Disputed NSA Phone Program Is Shut Down
In June 2013, NSA network administrator Edward Snowden gave Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian internal documentation of a surveillance system that analyzes logs of Americans’ domestic calls and texts in the search for suspected terrorists. Now, a senior Capitol Hill Republican staffer says NSA has discontinued the program and the Trump administration might not ask...
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‘Paint the X:’ Fallen Cryptological Technician Targeted ISIS
Shannon Kent was one of four Americans killed in a suicide bombing in Syria last month. The New York Times profiles her work as cryptological technician who worked linked the National Security Agency to the Syrian battlefront. She was an intelligence officer. Cryptology is code breaking; sigint is signals intelligence, like intercepting and interpreting phone calls and...
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Reuters: Ex-NSA Cyberspies Reveal How They Hacked Foes of UAE
This is a story about how intelligence agencies deploy private contractors for surveillance and repression. It’s about the globalization of intelligence. Exhibit A: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which detained an innocent British graduate student as a spy and conferred with the chief of Israel’s Mossad. The UAE is an ally of the United States,...