Film: The Tiny West Virginia Town Haunted by an NSA Secret
Sugar Grove lost the naval base that was its livelihood — but remains a looming NSA listening post
Sam Biddle
Sam Biddle is a technology reporter focusing on issues of surveillance, privacy, and corporate power. He was previously a senior writer at Gawker, and his work has also appeared in GQ, Vice, and the New York Times magazine, among other outlets.
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- sam.biddle@theintercept.com
- @sambiddle.99 on Signal
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The War on Immigrants
These Are the Technology Firms Lining Up to Build Trump’s “Extreme Vetting” Program
ICE's Homeland Security Investigations division hosted an “industry day” for technology companies interested in building a new tool for “extreme vetting.”
Election Insecurity
White House Says Russia's Hackers Are Too Good to Be Caught but NSA Partner Called Them "Morons"
Canadian signals intelligence found Russian hackers were logging into personal accounts on systems intended to mask their identities.
Election Insecurity
Just Six Days After Trump Jr.'s Meeting, Guccifer 2.0 Emailed Me -- But There Was One Key Difference
This is how the hacked material began making its way into the public domain.
Facebook’s Tough-on-Terror Talk Overlooks White Extremists
The social network has detailed its fight against jihadist groups but has nothing to say about domestic radical groups.
Republican Data-Mining Firm Exposed Personal Information for Virtually Every American Voter
A California-based security researcher says Republican-linked election databases were inadvertently exposed to the entire internet, sans password.
Election Insecurity
Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election
A top-secret National Security Agency report details a months-long Russian hacking effort against the U.S. election infrastructure.
Facebook Won’t Say If It Will Use Your Brain Activity for Advertisements
A forthcoming mental-input system from Facebook assumes that if you sent a thought to the speech center of your brain, you want to share it.
Feds Hunted Down An Undocumented Immigrant Using Controversial Phone Tracker
By using a so-called Stingray, immigration agents homed in on the location of a restaurant worker — an apparent first.
The Real Roots of the Worldwide Ransomware Outbreak: Militarism and Greed
Microsoft is right to blame the NSA for the WannaCry malware outbreak, but they're not blameless either.