How a Rumor Sent a Teen to Prison for Murder in Vegas
The state of Nevada says Kirstin Lobato committed a brutal murder in Vegas when she was 18. But apart from a wild rumor, no evidence connects her to the crime.
The state of Nevada says Kirstin Lobato committed a brutal murder in Vegas when she was 18. But apart from a wild rumor, no evidence connects her to the crime.
“Fuck!” says Stellar CEO Christian Steffen.
Across the world, people who work as system administrators keep computer networks in order – and this has turned them into unwitting targets of the NSA for simply doing their jobs.<!--more-->
British surveillance agency GCHQ secretly coveted the NSA’s vast troves of private communications and sought “unsupervised access” to its data as recently as last year, classified documents provided NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal.
Secret documents newly disclosed by the German news magazine <em>Der Spiegel</em> on Saturday shed more light on how aggressively the National Security Agency and its British counterpart have targeted Germany for surveillance. <!--more-->
Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack into computers on a mass scale by using automated systems that reduce the level of human oversight in the process. <!--more-->
Intercept editors Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras have won the George Polk Award, one of the highest prizes in journalism, for revealing expansive National Security Agency surveillance programs detailed in documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. They shared the national security reporting award with the Guardian's Ewen MacAskill and the Washington Post's Barton Gellman. <!--more-->
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