Nate Cardozo and Eva Galperin write: In comments yesterday during a cybersecurity conference at the New America Foundation, the Director of the NSA, Admiral Mike Rogers faced vocal criticism from the tech community (including cryptography expert Bruce Schneier and Yahoo CISO Alex Stamos). The criticism focused on the Obama administration’s insistence that it should have access to…
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Yahoo executive and NSA chief clash over online data privacy
Bloomberg reports: Silicon Valley’s rift with the U.S. government over access to secure e-mails and other communications spilled into public view Monday when a Yahoo! executive confronted the nation’s surveillance chief. National Security Administration Director Michael Rogers was confronted by Alex Stamos, Yahoo’s chief information security officer, over whether he believes companies should be required to…
REAL-ID Act implementation, enforcement, and resistance
Papers, Please! writes: As gradual implementation of the REAL-ID Act cooking us slowly, like frogs who, if the temperature of the water is increased gradually enough, don’t realize that they need to jump out of the pot until it’s too late? Last month was another of the deadlines set by the Department of Homeland Security for “implementation” and “enforcement”…
‘Citizenfour’ wins Oscar
Update: Ars Technica reminds us all that Citizenfour will air on HBO tonight and on Channel 4 in the UK on Wednesday night. The following is a statement from Edward Snowden provided to the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents him: “When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant….