On Monday, the ex-National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of more than a million top-secret documents to the press in 2013 - leading to an avalanche of revelations about the U.S. cyberspy agency's activities - took the (virtual) stage at South by Southwest.
During a tech-oriented show at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas on Monday, whistleblower fugitive Edward Snowden made a video appearance and gave an hour-long talk denouncing the U.S. government's surveillance policies.
South by Southwest Interactive has always been seen as the hip place to go to learn about the next big Silicon Valley startup, but the tone and focus has changed a little this year. The festival is toning down the "trendy" and enlarging its international focus, along with taking on some serious issues in technology.
The National Security Agency is working with the Joint Special Operations Command's High Value Targeting task force to track targets using their cellphones and blow them away using drones, according to a new report.
After ex-contractor Edward Snowden's leaks sparked months of revelations about the National Security Agency's collection of U.S. phone records, as well as a breadth of other sweeping NSA surveillance programs, President Barack Obama spoke on Friday about changes he plans to make to the agency's mass data collection policies.
According to a new report from The New York Times, citing National Security Agency documents, "computer experts and American officials," the NSA has an ability to gain access to computers and alter their software remotely, using radio waves.
Ever since ex National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked a ton of top-secret material detailing many of the agency's projects and capabilities, any illusion of data privacy has been thoroughly stomped out. There are basically two reactions to this disquieting knowledge: to say "oh well" and continue about your life or try harder to protect your data. A new smartphone, called Blackphone, hopes to cater to the second type.
The National Security Agency (NSA) are reported to have monitored the calls of 35 world leaders, and over the course of one month last year, they monitored more than 60 million phone calls made in Spain, alone, according to a Spanish Newspaper, El Mundo.
If you are a high-profile person and you log onto your computer, conduct your work and surf the Internet to freely access an open marketplace of ideas, you may think that you are alone in your search -- think again, especially if you're in Latin America.
If you are a high-profile person and you log onto your computer, conduct your work and surf the Internet to freely access an open marketplace of ideas, you may think that you are alone in your search -- think again, especially if you're in Latin America.
Snowden and the man who broke his story state that The Independent must have been fed the info on a Middle East spy base by none other than their own U.K. government.
Lavabit, the email service Edward Snowden used for sensitive information has been forced to shut down. Additionally, the German government appears to have been using tactics similar to the NSA for the past six years.
