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Update on Lavabit 27 Aug 2013 | 08:05 pm
I’ve been trying to keep an eye on the public information about the government’s demand on Lavabit. And in a new interview with Ars Technica, Ladar Levison basically gives us a multiple choice guess o...
As with Manning Leak, Snowden Leak Reveals DOD Doesn’t Protect Security 27 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
MSNBC has an update to the continuing saga of “Omigod the NSA has inadequate security.” It explains why the “thin client” system the NSA had (one source calls it 2003 technology) made it so easy for E...
“Credibility” 27 Aug 2013 | 07:17 am
An embarrassing number of people in DC have been saying publicly since Friday that we have to launch cruise missiles against Bashar al-Assad or risk the “credibility” of the United States. John McCain...
Are the Brits Trying to Protect British Telecom? 26 Aug 2013 | 08:15 pm
In addition to her latest stories describing the generalized spying the NSA and GCHQ engage in, Laura Poitras today also tells her side of the David Miranda story. In it, she reveals the hard drives d...
How Long Until ESPN Brand Is Damaged By Money Trumping Safety? 26 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm
ESPN stands perilously close to damaging its brand with repeated recent moves that appear to place their income stream ahead of safety. After working closely with Frontline for well over a year on a p...
Laura Poitras Chips at the Terrorism Lie 26 Aug 2013 | 06:29 pm
Laura Poitras has another piece in Spiegel laying out NSA’s spying on diplomats — this time focusing on how NSA acquired blueprints of the new EU building in NYC to facilitate tapping it all. To a si...
How the NCTC Gets Its NSA Data 26 Aug 2013 | 04:12 am
I’m working on a more substantive post on the Section 702 Semiannual Compliance Assessment released last week as part of the I Con dump. But for the moment, I want to point to a passage that begins t...
The Google/Yahoo Problem: Fruit of the Poison MCT? 24 Aug 2013 | 11:15 pm
OK, this will be my last post (at least today) to attempt to understand why some Internet providers incurred so many costs associated with the response to the FISA Court’s October 3, 2011 decision tha...
Parchin Asphalt: Obstructing Sampling or Sealing the Record? 24 Aug 2013 | 08:05 pm
With the opportunity for significant progress in negotiating a peaceful settlement regarding Iran’s nuclear activities looking better than it has in a long time, I had intended to ignore the latest bl...
Upstream Internet Collection and Minimization Procedures 24 Aug 2013 | 07:02 pm
As I noted in this post, the Guardian’s report on the aftermath of the October 3, 2011 FISA Court decision seemed to suggest that Google and Yahoo content was collected as upstream collection, not fro...
