How to Spy on 600 Million People

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2016-06-05 / www.foreignaffairs.com

The Hidden Vulnerabilities in Chinese Information Technology

Three years ago, Edward Snowden, a CIA employee, leaked documents revealing the U.S. government’s extensive surveillance of foreign and domestic phone calls. On the anniversary of that explosive disclosure, media outlets are no doubt ...

ISIS Twitter Handles Traced To UK Government By Hackers

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2015-12-15 / www.zerohedge.com

There’s no shortage of speculation about the possible role the West plays in funding, arming, and otherwise assisting Islamic State.
The theories range from the outright conspiratorial (the CIA created and to this day supports the group) to the ...

The U.S. Government Should Pay Anonymous in Bitcoin to Fight ISIS

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2015-03-03 / www.foreignpolicy.com

… How is it that the U.S. government, capable of coordinating a complex air campaign from nearly 6,000 miles away, remains virtually powerless against the Islamic State’s online messaging and distribution network? For months, the militant group’s horrifying, crisply edited ...