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More Military Cryptanalytics, Part III

Posted on August 31, 2021 By infossl
cryptanalysis, cryptography, foia, history of cryptography, military, nsa, Security technology, Uncategorized

Late last year, the NSA declassified and released a redacted version of Lambros D. Callimahos’s Military Cryptanalytics, Part III. We just got most of the index. It’s hard to believe that there are any real secrets left in this 44-year-old volume. Powered by WPeMatico

Newly Unclassified NSA Document on Cryptography in the 1970s

Posted on May 10, 2021 By infossl
cryptography, foia, history of cryptography, nsa, Security technology, Uncategorized

This is a newly unclassified NSA history of its reaction to academic cryptography in the 1970s: “NSA Comes Out of the Closet: The Debate over Public Cryptography in the Inman Era,” Cryptographic Quarterly, Spring 1996, author still classified. Powered by WPeMatico

NSA Security Awareness Posters

Posted on January 31, 2020 By infossl
NSA Security Awareness Posters
foia, nsa, Security technology, securityawareness, securityeducation

From a FOIA request, over a hundred old NSA security awareness posters. Here are the BBC’s favorites. Here are Motherboard’s favorites. I have a related personal story. Back in 1993, during the first Crypto Wars, I and a handful of other academic cryptographers visited the NSA for some meeting or another. These sorts of security … Read More “NSA Security Awareness Posters” »

Police Surveillance Tools from Special Services Group

Posted on January 10, 2020 By infossl
cameras, eavesdropping, espionage, foia, lawenforcement, police, privacy, Security technology, surveillance

Special Services Group, a company that sells surveillance tools to the FBI, DEA, ICE, and other US government agencies, has had its secret sales brochure published. Motherboard received the brochure as part of a FOIA request to the Irvine Police Department in California. “The Tombstone Cam is our newest video concealment offering the ability to … Read More “Police Surveillance Tools from Special Services Group” »

Palantir’s Surveillance Service for Law Enforcement

Posted on July 15, 2019 By infossl
datacollection, foia, lawenforcement, nsa, police, privacy, Security technology, surveillance

Motherboard got its hands on Palantir’s Gotham user’s manual, which is used by the police to get information on people: The Palantir user guide shows that police can start with almost no information about a person of interest and instantly know extremely intimate details about their lives. The capabilities are staggering, according to the guide: … Read More “Palantir’s Surveillance Service for Law Enforcement” »

What the NSA Collects via 702

Posted on September 20, 2017 By infossl
courts, datacollection, foia, nationalsecuritypolicy, nsa, privacy, Security technology, surveillance

New York Times reporter Charlie Savage writes about some bad statistics we’re all using: Among surveillance legal policy specialists, it is common to cite a set of statistics from an October 2011 opinion by Judge John Bates, then of the FISA Court, about the volume of internet communications the National Security Agency was collecting under … Read More “What the NSA Collects via 702” »

NSA Insider Security Post-Snowden

Posted on June 22, 2017 By infossl
edwardsnowden, foia, insiders, leaks, nsa, Security technology

According to a recently declassified report obtained under FOIA, the NSA’s attempts to protect itself against insider attacks aren’t going very well: The N.S.A. failed to consistently lock racks of servers storing highly classified data and to secure data center machine rooms, according to the report, an investigation by the Defense Department’s inspector general completed … Read More “NSA Insider Security Post-Snowden” »

The Dangers of Secret Law

Posted on June 21, 2017 By infossl
courts, eff, fisa, foia, nationalsecuritypolicy, secrecy, Security technology

Last week, the Department of Justice released 18 new FISC opinions related to Section 702 as part of an EFF FOIA lawsuit. (Of course, they don’t mention EFF or the lawsuit. They make it sound as if it was their idea.) There’s probably a lot in these opinions. In one Kafkaesque ruling, a defendant was … Read More “The Dangers of Secret Law” »

The DEA Is Buying Cyberweapons from Hacking Team

Posted on April 20, 2017 By infossl
cyberweapons, dea, foia, hacking, malware, Security technology, zeroday

The US Drug Enforcement Agency has purchased zero-day exploits from the cyberweapons arms manufacturer Hacking Team. BoingBoing post. Powered by WPeMatico

NSA Documents from before 1930

Posted on March 21, 2017 By infossl
foia, historyofcryptography, historyofsecurity, nsa, Security technology

Here is a listing of all the documents that the NSA has in its archives that are dated earlier than 1930. Powered by WPeMatico

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