Bombshell Report About Americans Helping UAE Hack Phones Is a Warning Against Compromising Encryption
Hacking tools end up in the hands of some dangerous people. So, apparently, do our government hackers.
Hacking tools end up in the hands of some dangerous people. So, apparently, do our government hackers.
This will have potentially serious consequences for those investigating election meddling.
The USA Freedom Act was supposed to reduce unwarranted access to our personal data. That's not what happened.
Our terrible federal espionage laws won't let her argue the leak served the public's interest.
Democrats are rehabilitating the deservedly poor reputations of surveillance-state officials who were caught lying to the American people
Public-key encryption has brought a drastic shift in power from the state to individuals.
The surveillance agency's mission statement is updated to reflect reality: It doesn't answer to you.
The former Director of National Intelligence lied under oath about warrantless NSA spying on American citizens.
The NSA's surveillance of international communications is not limited to "foreign bad guys on foreign land."
Push by lawmakers for stricter warrant requirements fails.
Hours later he walks it back.
House to vote on a bill that would codify unwarranted searches of Americans' communications.
Short extension of FISA snooping powers shoved into temporary spending bill.
The crew of The Post celebrates leaking the Pentagon Papers but gets all touchy when Obama's secret surveillance is mentioned.
Can they get past the FBI vs. Trump narrative to talk about snooping on the rest of us?
Congress might quietly expand the feds' surveillance powers without any actual debate.
Will snooping reauthorizations just get quietly dumped into a spending bill?
FISA reauthorization would majorly expand use of warrantless digital surveillance data against Americans.
The backdoor, warrantless searches won't end, but will see new limits.
It's time to rein in warrantless domestic surveillance before it's too late.
A Senate report on Trump administration leaks overstates national security risks.
Meet the developers behind Blockstack, who are using blockchain technology to reconfigure the web. It'll make NSA mass data collection impossible.
Trump and group of GOP senators don't want us to have greater privacy protections from unwarranted domestic surveillance.
Imprisoning people who reveal top-secret reports has become business as usual. Should it be?
A failure of transparency and responsibility by multiple nations.
More than 150 million phone call records of Americans were collected in 2016.
No more gathering communications from Americans that were 'about' a foreign target.
They were once concerned about "incidental" data collection by the NSA.
Privacy concerns that are worth debating get sucked into White House fight.
Yes, they're even spying on the president.
'Fundamentally, security is more important than surveillance.'
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) unleashed demons that now seem beyond the government's control.
Journalists shouldn't have to sue to get public information.
White House does not want federal surveillance authorities reformed.
Terrorism is only a real threat if it frightens us into destroying our liberties.
"I tend to err on the side of security, I must tell you."
More federal employees will have access to raw intel data gathered without warrants.
Don't let the fight over Russia's behavior allow interventionist answers to go unchallenged.
Report may be out by next month.
"Hacking" and "leaking" are two different things, and the distinction is significant.
The departing director of national intelligence had no respect for our rights, no problem lying about it, and no apparent ability to do the basics of his job right.
New Russian anti-encryption and data retention laws look sadly familiar.
Sources say Yahoo let government malware scan the contents of all emails sent to Yahoo accounts. And why would the feds stop with Yahoo?
This all happened last year, even after Snowden's revelations and government reforms.
Who will actually be defining the agenda, because it won't be these two?
Newspaper demands less government transparency.
Will Obama salvage his legacy on protecting whistleblowers?