Today I'm going to dive into the science of searching for extraterrestrial life in our galaxy, communicating across interstellar distances, and the role that encryption and information theory play in all of this.
The NSA whistleblower sat down with <em>The Intercept</em>’s Micah Lee in Moscow.
Despite attempts to blame encryption for the Paris attacks, evidence suggests that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected strategist of the attacks, doesn't encrypt his communications or his phone.
Corrupt public officials like Joe Lieberman realized they can abuse their power to pressure corporations to "suffocate" private actors whom they dislike but who are breaking no laws. This new ruling makes that tactic much more difficult.
Mass, warrantless surveillance is inherently abusive and unjustified, and one shouldn't need a report that this was done to the Benjamin Netanyahus and Pete Hoekstras of the world to realize that.
Yaseen Kadura just boarded an airplane for the first time in three years following a legal battle. He's just starting to get his life back on track.
It's not clear that Penn's digital security practices got El Chapo busted, but we can all learn from the litany of seeming operational security mistakes in his article.
Agents monitored military operations in Gaza, watched for a strike against Iran, and kept tabs on drone technology.
Top-secret documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden expose U.K. eavesdropping agency GCHQ's attempts to create the largest mass surveillance system anywhere in the world.
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