NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones
The NSA and its partners developed a top-secret method to infect smartphones with spyware through Google and Samsung app servers, Snowden documents reveal.
The NSA and its partners developed a top-secret method to infect smartphones with spyware through Google and Samsung app servers, Snowden documents reveal.
They look like insignificant places, but all are sites of premature death and most also index an unrestituted crime. A visual intervention by <em>Intercept</em> data artist Josh Begley.
A man with my name somehow created an Ashley Madison account, which — as the latest hack reveals — I am unable to delete without paying.
Prior to the Snowden revelations, Massie says, he knew almost nothing about the NSA’s surveillance techniques. Now, he says: "If you assume the worst, it’s not a bad position to take, given what we’ve found out.”
To thwart and extract hacks from anti-virus software companies, the spy agencies reverse engineered software, intercepted email and spied on web traffic. Kaspersky Lab was a major target.
They are protesting the extent to which industry lobbyists have hijacked the Commerce Department's emerging code of conduct for facial recognition technology.
After months of citing hypothetical crimes as a reason to prevent the FBI from "going dark," Comey has pulled out the terror card.
How to have encrypted chats across four computing platforms — without compromising your identity or partner.
A good rule of decency is to stay out of the private, personal, and sexual lives of consenting adults, absent some very compelling reason to involve yourself.
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