The NSA has asked the White House to end its mass phone surveillance program because the work involved outweighs its intelligence value.
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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 staffer takes top-secret hacking tools home ‘to study’, gets 66 months
Nghia Hoang Pho may not have had malicious intent, but removal of the materials forced the NSA to abandon years of signals collection work.
NSA leaker Reality Winner gets 63 months in jail
Reality Leigh Winner, the NSA contractor who leaked sensitive information to the Intercept last year, was sentenced to 63 months in prison last week along with three years of supervised release.
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.
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.
Surveillance court OKs NSA phone metadata collection for six more months
Let the NSA’s bulk metadata collection continue for six more months, the court rules, until the phone companies get control over the records. Plus ça change…!
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.
EFF sues NSA over hoarding of zero days
Wouldn’t it be nice to know just how, exactly, the spy agency decides whether to silently exploit zero days for snooping purposes while leaving businesses and individuals in the dark with their bellies exposed? The EFF has filed a FOIA lawsuit to help find answers. 