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NSA Mass Surveillance Program Is Ruled Illegal

Adam Levin

Information about the widespread data collection was initially brought to the public’s attention in 2013 by Edward Snowden, a government whistleblower who fled to Russia after exposing evidence of the program. . “I The post NSA Mass Surveillance Program Is Ruled Illegal appeared first on Adam Levin. The ruling from the 9th U.S.

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NSA Over-surveillance

Schneier on Security

Here in 2022, we have a newly declassified 2016 Inspector General report—”Misuse of Sigint Systems”—about a 2013 NSA program that resulted in the unauthorized (that is, illegal) targeting of Americans. Given all we learned from Edward Snowden, this feels like a minor coda.

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The FBI Identified a Tor User

Schneier on Security

Without the FBI deploying some form of surveillance technique, or Al-Azhari using another method to visit the site which exposed their IP address, this should not have been possible. There are lots of ways to de-anonymize Tor users. Someone at the NSA gave a presentation on this ten years ago. (I

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Google Receives Geofence Warrants

Schneier on Security

Sometimes it's hard to tell the corporate surveillance operations from the government ones: Google reportedly has a database called Sensorvault in which it stores location data for millions of devices going back almost a decade. In 2013, we learned from Edward Snowden that the NSA does this worldwide.

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Bart Gellman on Snowden

Schneier on Security

Bart Gellman's long-awaited (at least by me) book on Edward Snowden, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State , will finally be published in a couple of weeks. It's an interesting read, mostly about the government surveillance of him and other journalists. There is an adapted excerpt in the Atlantic.

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Cisco to pay $8.6 million fine for selling flawed surveillance technology to the US Gov

Security Affairs

Back in 2008, a whistle-blower identifies a vulnerability in Cisco video surveillance software, but the tech giant continued to sell the software to US agencies until July 2013. Cisco finally addressed the flaws in 2013 and stopped selling Cisco Video Surveillance Manager (VSM) in 2014. Cisco is going to pay $8.6

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. I wrote the essay below in September 2013. Many have written about how being under constant surveillance changes a person. But I had a more personal involvement as well.