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Did Edward Snowden cause the shutdown of secure email service Lavabit?

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Privacy has been a red hot topic for the past couple of months -- ever since the whole PRISM story hit the news, or shall I say slammed into the news. Nobody likely denies the government the right to attempt to keep citizens safe. In fact, we expect this from it.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 09, 2013

Does the NSA's SE Linux code need a review?

In the wake of the recent revelations that America's National Security Agency is spying on all and sundry, is it time for the Linux community to take another good, hard look at the NSA-developed Security Enhanced Linux?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 25, 2013

A Problem with the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

I haven't heard much about the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. They recently held hearings regarding the Snowden documents.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 16, 2013

In WikiLeaks Probe, Feds Used a Secret Search Warrant to Get Volunteer

The Justice Department used a secret search warrant to obtain the entire contents of a Gmail account used by a former WikiLeaks volunteer in Iceland, according to court records released to the volunteer this week.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 24, 2013

5 Fun Facts From the Latest NSA Leak

After a brief respite, the Guardian newspaper has resumed its publication of leaked NSA documents. The latest round provides a look at the secret rules the government follows for collecting data on U.S. persons. We found a number of interesting disclosures in two documents released by the newspaper. Among them:

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 21, 2013

It's over: All private data is public

This is not another article explaining that Google and Facebook already know everything about us or that our governments sniff all our Internet transmissions. That's true, but it's just the tip of the iceberg.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 20, 2013

3 Questions About NSA Surveillance

A number of questions have been raised in the last few days about the civil-liberties implications of the National Security Agency

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 19, 2013

Prism doesn't have CIOs in a panic -- yet

Revelations over the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism surveillance program have much of the general public in uproar, but in terms of the controversy's impact to enterprise IT, some CIOs have measured, albeit watchful reactions.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 18, 2013

Our Top-Secret Message to NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden

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LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 17, 2013

Blowback from the NSA Surveillance

There's one piece of blowback that isn't being discussed -- aside from the fact that Snowden killed the chances of a liberal arts major getting a job at the DoD for a decade -- and that's how the massive NSA surveillance of the Internet affects the US's role in Internet governance.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 17, 2013

NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning. Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us Into Cyberwar

Inside Fort Meade, Maryland, a top-secret city bustles. Tens of thousands of people move through more than 50 buildings

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 13, 2013

Mozilla, EFF and 86 others launch campaign against surveillance

Under the banner Stopwatching.us, the Mozilla Foundation, the EFF and 86 other civil liberties organisations have launched a campaign that calls for "a full accounting of the extent to which our online data, communications and interactions are being monitored".

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 12, 2013

Government Secrets and the Need for Whistle-blowers

Yesterday, we learned that the NSA received all calling records from Verizon customers for a three-month period starting in April. That's everything except the voice content: who called who, where they were, how long the call lasted -- for millions of people, both Americans and foreigners.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 10, 2013

NSA snooping bolsters opponents of U.S. Internet control

The National Security Agency's massive data gathering from the world's largest Internet companies could bolster arguments that the United States should have less control over the Internet, an expert says.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 10, 2013

White House defends snooping

The Obama administration calls the NSA's practice of gathering phone records "a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats," reports the AP and Reuters.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 07, 2013

The Problems with CALEA-II

The FBI wants a new law that will make it easier to wiretap the Internet. Although its claim is that the new law will only maintain the status quo, it's really much worse than that. This law will result in less-secure Internet products and create a foreign industry in more-secure alternatives.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 04, 2013

Little Brother Is Watching You

In the post-9/11 atmosphere of ever-increasing government secrecy and surveillance, the real surprise to me about the Department of Justice

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 31, 2013

Bitdefender Clueful exposes Android spies

Bitdefender Clueful is designed to warn Android users about apps that put their privacy at risk. Available free of charge, the app checks whether any of a user's installed programs are known to transmit smartphone numbers to advertising networks or cause push-message spam.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 22, 2013

Transparency and Accountability

As part of the fallout of the Boston bombings, we're probably going to get some new laws that give the FBI additional investigative powers. As with the Patriot Act after 9/11, the debate over whether these new laws are helpful will be minimal, but the effects on civil liberties could be large.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 14, 2013

Dear hacker: Please help us eavesdrop on our customers

Mobily, a Saudi Arabian telecommunications company with 4.8 million subscribers, is working on a way to intercept encrypted data sent over the Internet by Twitter, Viber, and other mobile apps, a security researcher said Monday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 14, 2013

Linux Privacy - Page 21

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Google Chooses Passkeys Over Passwords: Examining the Security Benefits for Linux Users

Tails 6.6 Released: Unpacking Key Features & Updates