The government, alleging that Snowden violated NDAs with the CIA and NSA, isn’t looking to stop the book’s publication or distribution.
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NSA asks to end mass phone surveillance
The NSA has asked the White House to end its mass phone surveillance program because the work involved outweighs its intelligence value.
NSA might shut down phone snooping program, whatever that means
We’ve heard this tale before. This time, it was mentioned by a congressional aide. Also, the NSA released Ghidra, a free reverse-engineering tool.
NSA hasn’t closed security windows Snowden climbed through
One of three problems found in an audit: two-person access controls haven’t been properly implemented at data centers and equipment rooms.
Snowden joins Twitter, follows the agency that follows everyone else
Edward Snowden signs up for Twitter, promises cat pics and asks about border control on Mars.
Apple iMessage’s end-to-end encryption stymies US data request
Apple recently told a US court that it couldn’t turn over to law enforcement messages that were sent between iPhones via Apple’s iMessage system, which uses end-to-end encryption. And the crypto-wars rage on.
Now there’s a species of crayfish named after Edward Snowden
In a research paper published this week in the journal ZooKeys, German carcinologist Christian Lukhaup revealed the name of a new species of crayfish he discovered. He called it Cherax snowden.
NSA’s XKeyscore collects router data, Skype conversations, webcam images
Newly revealed documents from the Edward Snowden trove show that XKeyscore is much more than a Google-like search engine for the world’s private communications data.
Obama signs USA Freedom Act into law, clipping NSA’s powers
Patriot Act provisions snap back to life, but spying will be a tad more inconvenient for the NSA, and there’ll be a bit more transparency.
NSA metadata collection is illegal, rules US court
Three appeal court judges have ruled that the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata went far beyond the original intent of the Patriot Act.