Andy Greenberg reports: Before Ross Ulbricht has even been sentenced for his conviction last month of running the Silk Road’s massive online narcotics operation, his defense team has launched a motion to grant him another trial. And their request is based in part on fresh evidence that the federal government surveilled the Silk Road’s server in Iceland…
Category: Govt
ACLU: The NSA Has Taken Over the Internet Backbone. We’re Suing to Get it Back.
Patrick C. Toomey writes: Every time you email someone overseas, the NSA copies and searches your message. It makes no difference if you or the person you’re communicating with has done anything wrong. If the NSA believes your message could contain information relating to the foreign affairs of the United States – because of whom you’re…
The CIA campaign to steal Apple’s secrets
Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley report: Researchers working with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Intercept. The security researchers presented their latest tactics and achievements at a secret annual gathering, called the “Jamboree,” where attendees discussed strategies for exploiting…
NSA should respect corporations’ privacy
An editorial in the Boston Globe begins: After Edward Snowden’s revelations last year, no one seems surprised at the scope of the National Security Agency’s snooping. Indeed, the recent revelations by the Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab detailing how the spy agency had managed to find a way to hack into almost any computer’s hard drive…