Tag Archives: United States government secrecy

NSA Dishfire program harvested 200 million text messages daily claims report

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A new report has surfaced and the Telegraph reports that the NSA in the US has been running a program code-named Dishfire. Dishfire allegedly captured about 200 million text messages each day. The...
    






Report: NSA maps pathway into computers

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Report: NSA maps pathway into foreign computers using radio waves and covert chips WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers...
    






Report: NSA maps pathway into computers

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Report: NSA maps pathway into foreign computers using radio waves and covert chips WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers...
    






Government moves to appeal surveillance ruling

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Government lawyers appeal ruling that threatens NSA phone surveillance program WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration moved Friday to ask the secretive U.S. spy court to allow the...
    






Privacy advocate exposes NSA spy gear at gathering

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Infected iPhones, radar wave devices, and more: Activist pulls curtain back on NSA spy gear LONDON (AP) — A well-known privacy advocate has given the public an unusually explicit peek...
    






Report: NSA intercepts computer deliveries

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Report lifts lid on NSA hacker unit, says US spies intercept computer deliveries to plant bugs LONDON (AP) — A German magazine lifted the lid on the operations of the National Security...
    






The NSA Used To Be Trustworthy, Now, Not So Much

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Absurd as this may seem given the current revelations about how the NSA is spying on everyone all the time, but there was a time when the NSA was indeed entirely trustworthy. As an example let’s take...
    






Obama urged to set limits on NSA surveillance program

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Days after a federal judge ruled that the NSA's phone tracking practices are unconstitutional, a panel of outside advisers came up with 46 recommendations and called for some restrictions to the...
    






NSA Used 1976 Robbery Case to Justify Spying

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The National Security Agency has used a small robbery case as its justification for spying. The 1976 Baltimore case actually laid the legal grounds for today's global government surveillance. NSA has...