There’s a report that the FBI has identified a second leaker: The case in question involves an Aug. 5 story published by The Intercept, an investigative website co-founded by Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who first published sensitive NSA documents obtained from Snowden. Headlined “Barack Obama’s Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers,” the story cited a … Read More “US Intelligence "Second Leaker" Identified” »
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Last month, I wrote that the FBI identified Ross W. Ulbricht as the Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts through a leaky CAPTCHA. Seems that story doesn’t hold water: The FBI claims that it found the Silk Road server by examining plain text Internet traffic to and from the Silk Road CAPTCHA, and that it visited … Read More “How Did the Feds Identity Dread Pirate Roberts?” »
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Interesting essay about James Bamford and his efforts to publish The Puzzle Palace over the NSA’s objections. Required reading for those who think the NSA’s excesses are somehow new. Powered by WPeMatico