This week on NWNW: The EU may soon cave to political pressures and "suspend" the Shengen Area; the Feds just come right and admit they'll use the "Internet Of Things" to spy on you; and a whitehat hacker replaces malware with its antivirus.
This week on NWNW: The EU may soon cave to political pressures and "suspend" the Shengen Area; the Feds just come right and admit they'll use the "Internet Of Things" to spy on you; and a whitehat hacker replaces malware with its antivirus.
NSA Director Mike Rogers surprised a lot of people with his latest remarks on encryption.
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Several of the GOP's Deep Bench were on the network gasbag shows yesterday advocating doing away with whatever small amount of constitutional authority to prevent domestic spying on American citizens is still left. After all, they argued passionately, we're in mortal danger from evil Eurasia, I mean evil Eastasia... oops... no, no... ISIL or ISIS.
Privacy SOS | November 18, 2015 Even before the victims of the Paris attacks had been moved from the scene or their bodies identified, members of the US national security state began speculating that encryption was likely part of the reason the terrorists were able to plot and execute their deadly mission without getting caught. […]
Leak shows White House working with tech corps to break encryption; World misleaders converge on NYC for UN General Assembly; Good News Next Week with the 'Library of Things'.
This week we break Bill C-51, down Kanada’s sinister new law, that would give the Canucks increased spying powers over its population.
On the break, long standing hip-hop act Onyx, returns with “Fuck The Law.” We wrap things up with an interview with Antoine, a computer security ninja, about how we can protect ourselves from surveillance.
Encryption has gained the attention of actors on both sides of the mass surveillance debate. For example, in a speech at the Brookings Institution FBI Director James Comey complained that strong encryption was causing U.S. security services to “go dark.” Comey described encrypted data as follows:
Ed Snowden recently gave fellow NSA whistleblower James Bamford an “extended cut” interview in Moscow.1 While Snowden offered up a few morsels of headline-worthy information, like how he purposefully left forensic artifacts for investigators or details on the NSA’s automated cyber-attack system called MonsterMind, Bamford’s piece ends with Snowden describing what he views as the answer to the NSA’s global surveillance program:
