Feds Reveal Arrest Of Another Silk Road Vendor, Did He Become An Informant?
Court documents filed Tuesday suggest that a man in custody may have been used by federal agents to learn more about Silk Road.
View ArticleThese Companies Build The Technology Used To Spy On You
The Surveillance Industry Index is a ccollection of 1,203 documents on the private surveillance sector, detailing mass surveillance technologies capable of covertly collecting millions of emails, text...
View ArticleAlleged Dread Pirate Roberts Murder Target Led Massive Bitcoin Scam On Silk Road
One of the six individuals Ross Ulbricht is accused of trying to have murdered was a trusted Silk Road vendor who scammed users of thousands of dollars.
View ArticleIlluminating The Billion Dollar U.S. Intelligence Budget: Project SpyLighter...
Project SpyLighter aims to use Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to document surveillance technology used by the NSA and other U.S. intelligence agencies.
View ArticleFreedom Of The Press Foundation To Release New Version Of Anonymous...
Freedom of the Press Foundation to release new version of anonymous whistleblower submission system, installations at major news organizations in Australia and in the United States following shortly after
View ArticleHarvard Student Receives F For Tor Failure While Sending 'Anonymous' Bomb Threat
FBI tracks down Harvard University student who used Tor to anonymously send bomb threats to delay his "Politics of American Education" exam.
View ArticleHow A Bank Gave My Data To A Marketing Firm Before The Signup Process Was...
Before I had completed the online application--and without ever submitting the form--Charles Schwab had given my personal information to a third party for marketing purposes.
View ArticleAttackers Scrape GitHub For Cloud Service Credentials, Hijack Account To Mine...
Attackers scrape GitHub for AWS credentials embedded in code and use these to launch instances and mine virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin and Litecoin.
View ArticleWhat You Should Know About Verizon's Transparency Report
Verizon's transparency report goes into great detail about the different requests and the showings that law enforcement has to make to obtain each one, but it also shows that Verizon is willing to give...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome Add-On Turns Your Browser Into A Bitcoin Wallet
Google Chrome add-on turns your browser into a Bitcoin wallet, created as an alternative to similar add-ons
View ArticleThe Email Service The Dark Web Is Actually Using
Users of anonymous drug market sites decide to make Safe-mail, a provider of a "free high security web-based e-mail system" based in Jerusalem, Israel, the new king of e-mail for the dark web.
View ArticleThat One Time I Threw A CryptoParty With Edward Snowden
On December 11, 2012, I threw a CryptoParty in Honolulu with the man who would be the source of the most significant leak of classified material in U.S. history.
View ArticleEncryption Tool Endorsed By Snowden Abruptly Shuts Down
On Wednesday afternoon, the official website for the TrueCrypt encryption software was updated to say that it is no longer safe to use
View ArticleWhat Edward Snowden Said At The Nordic Media Festival
On May 8, Edward Snowden spoke to the audience at the Nordic Media Festival in Bergen, Norway about surveillance and digital security. This is a lightly edited transcript of Runa Sandvik's interview...
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