16 stories tagged nsa, newest first.
151 points by rdmuser | 79 comments
Washington Sun news article reporting that classified estimates show the NSA is spending billions of dollars to test AI models, more than previously known.
649 points by EXHades | 464 comments
Blog post tracing how news outlets stopped publishing Snowden archive documents, with the last release in May 2019 after The Intercept closed its archive.
388 points by eustoria | 265 comments
A Coveillance guide describing a walking tour of Seattle surveillance sites, including cameras, Amazon Go, license plate readers, a fusion center, and an AT&T NSA peering site.
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664 points by the-mitr | 224 comments
MIT Press Reader book excerpt recounting how whistleblower Mark Klein gave the EFF evidence of the NSA's secret AT&T wiretapping facility, Room 641A.
406 points by Palmik | 292 comments
Reuters news article relaying an Axios report that the NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos AI model despite a government blacklist.
476 points by cf100clunk | 140 comments
Techdirt article on Senator Ron Wyden warning that Americans will be stunned when a secret NSA interpretation of FISA Section 702 is declassified.
419 points by handfuloflight | 208 comments
GitHub repository for Ghidra, the NSA's open-source software reverse engineering framework licensed under Apache 2.0.
1512 points by leotravis10 | 320 comments
EFF memorial post by Cindy Cohn and Corynne McSherry honoring Mark Klein, the AT&T technician who exposed NSA mass spying on internet traffic.
840 points by gaws | 195 comments
NSA historical release page for Capt. Grace Hopper's 1982 lecture "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People," published via its FOIA declassification program.
502 points by whatever3 | 174 comments
Atlas Obscura article from 2016 recounting the history of US government attempts, including by the NSA, to insert backdoors into encryption.
366 points by rntn | 167 comments
Techdirt article on Senator Ron Wyden's letter revealing that the NSA buys Americans' data, including location data, from commercial data brokers.
348 points by repelsteeltje | 94 comments
Techdirt article on FBI Director Wray admitting the agency rarely has probable cause when performing backdoor searches of NSA Section 702 collections.
1135 points by moyix | 547 comments
A tweet by cryptographer Matthew Green sharing a Snowden document excerpt naming Cavium as a SIGINT-enabled CPU vendor, used in routers like the UniFi USG3.
330 points by hosteur | 141 comments
Adam Back's page describing how he reverse-engineered Lotus Notes to extract the NSA key-escrow public key, named "MiniTruth"/"Big Brother", used in export versions.
486 points by LinuxBender | 293 comments
IETF Internet-Draft by Farrell, Badii, Schneier, and Bellovin reflecting on ten years since the Snowden NSA revelations and the resulting security and privacy challenges.
621 points by doener | 246 comments
PRISM Break is a directory of privacy-respecting, open-source alternatives to proprietary software, organized by platform, to help users avoid mass surveillance.