Comey refused to accept the nearly universal agreement among technologists that there is no way to give the government access to encrypted communications without risking national security.
Dr. Mandeep K. Dhami wrote a 42-page paper advising the controversial GCHQ spy unit JTRIG — work some peers have blasted as unethical. JTRIG aims to "discredit," promote "distrust," "dissuade," "deceive," "disrupt," "delay," "deny," "denigrate/degrade," and "deter."
Iranians: are they normal human beings like us, or are they weirdos whose foreign, mysterious thought processes can only be understood by experts like Michael Rubin?
A shadowy Pentagon program to share elite skills with troubled security forces has expanded since 9/11 with little scrutiny. A thinly funded vetting process rarely stands in the way of training Saudi, Bahraini, Colombian or Chadian forces.
Prosecutors failed to disclose key evidence that suggested an informant had enticed Eric McDavid with the prospect of a romantic relationship.
The Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, was once a great civil rights organization. Then came Roy Innis.
President Obama has been denouncing "dark money" since 2010, when he declared it a "threat to our democracy." But Obama doesn't need Congress to force dark money into the sunlight.
The killing of a Mexican photographer, murdered along with four women over the weekend in Mexico City, has added another name to the nation’s long list of dead journalists, leaving many to wonder if any place in the country is safe.
Computer security experts worry that BitLocker may be compromised by the government. Microsoft addressed some of those concerns for <em>The Intercept</em> — and left some unanswered.
Former NSA director Michael Hayden marveled at the puny nature of the reforms put in place two years after Edward Snowden revealed vast, intrusive U.S. government surveillance.
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