Revealed in a Monday article in The Intercept, the ICREACH tool appears to be a way of sharing surveillance data — likely covering the lives of many Americans — with domestic… Read more »
The anonymity network Tor has always enjoyed a paradoxical relationship with the U.S. authorities – part-funded by the State Department and previously the military; targeted by the NSA – but this… Read more »
The draft, authored by Tor’s Jacob Appelbaum and others, aims to standardize a technique called TCP Stealth, for keeping servers safe from mass port-scanning tools like GCHQ’s HACIENDA. Read more »
Though no names were named, a report from the United Nations human rights chief has stressed that mass surveillance clashes with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — and… Read more »
A newly-published list of GCHQ tools that were in operation or being developed a couple years back, provides a fascinating insight into modern propaganda and disinformation techniques. Read more »
Small, activist-friendly providers from around the world have joined Privacy International in suing GCHQ over its malware-aided surveillance of telecommunications networks. Read more »
The carrier group has published a very lengthy and reasonably detailed breakdown of its interactions with law enforcement and spy agencies, covering 29 countries where its operators have faced metadata and… Read more »
Confidential documents from the BND, Germany’s answer to the NSA and GCHQ, suggest the agency could soon get major funding to improve its online surveillance and hacking capabilities. Read more »
The British signals intelligence agency GCHQ used its tapping of the internet’s backbone to monitor visitors to a WikiLeaks site, including Americans, according to a document leaked by Edward Snowden and… Read more »
The first story from Pierre Omidyar-funded The Intercept describes a shift toward relying on signals rather than human intelligence for targeting drone victims, and claims this tactic kills more innocent people. Read more »