Former Microsoft Security Advisor Caspar Bowden gave a presentation at 31C3, the hacker conference in Hamburg last month, that gave the conspiracy theorists some more ammunition. An article on his presentation appears here, his slides are here, and a video of the talk is on YouTube here. A quote from the article gives you a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]HR 4681, the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2015 was signed into law on December 19th, 2014 and provides funding for the intelligence community until next September. The bill and now law contains one section – section 309 – that deals with the collection, retention and sharing of information collected by the intelligence community. Because […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Der Spiegel wrote an article on efforts by the NSA and GCHQ (their British equivalent) to crack encryption of various sorts. Take the article at what it is worth; it is based on documents that Snowden released, so it is a little bit old. I apologize that this post is pretty long, but there is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to articles on ZDNet and ABC, NSA chief Admiral Mike Rogers said in testimony before the US House Intelligence Committee that China and probably one or two other countries could shut down critical computer networks that could force U.S. power and water grids, aviation systems and financial systems offline. Let that sink in for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Both the New York Times and USA Today reported on an interview with former NSA employee Edward Snowden that appeared in the Guardian. In the interview, Snowden says that NSA analysts do exactly what you would expect twenty something single guys to do when they come across sexually explicit pictures as part of looking for […]
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