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The 6 Most Important Things We Learned From Edward Snowden's Guardian Q&A
A Hong Kong SkylineWikimedia CommonsEdward Snowden is believed to still be hiding out in Hong Kong.Two weeks ago, the Guardian published PowerPoint slides detailing a previously unknown, sweeping...
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How Surveillance Has Evolved In The United States [Timeline]
History of WiretappingWikimedia CommonsPresident George W. Bush signs the Patriot Act.Americans have been spying on each other since the earliest days of the republic. This interactive timeline is an...
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Counterpoint: The U.S. Could Totally Kill Edward Snowden With A Drone Strike
A panoramic view of the Hong Kong skyline taken from a path around Victoria PeakPhoto by David Iliff via Wikimedia CommonsIn a recent PopularScience.com post, contributing writer Kelsey Atherton...
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Where In The World Is Edward Snowden?
Where in the World?@darthEdward Snowden, the NSA contractor who has acknowledged that he leaked classified information on government surveillance programs to journalists, has had one hell of a busy...
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Can Putting Your Phone In The Fridge Keep It Safe From Eavesdroppers?
Faraday Fridge?Wikimedia CommonsBeing legal counsel for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden probably comes with its fair share of paranoia. To combat eavesdropping techniques that can activate a cell...
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Man Who Blew Whistle On Danger At Oak Ridge Lab Has Died
Charles VarnadoreKen Murray via NYTimesBack in 1990, Charles Varnadore, a technician at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, had had enough with the unsafe conditions at the lab. He saw...
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NSA Has Secretly Been Hacking, Cracking, And Circumventing Encryption For Years
Fairly Secure, Actuallyvia Creative Commons SearchNewly disclosed documents from leaker-on-the-run Edward Snowden reveal that the National Security Agency has been fighting a secret war on...
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NSA Document From 1996 Warns Of 'Insider-Gone-Bad'
NSA Powerpoint SlideNSAEven the slides get redacted.A story quietly titled "Out of Control," published in a special 1996 issue of the National Security Agency's professional journal Cryptologic...
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The NSA Collects 200 Million Random Texts A Day
TextingFlickr/SleepynekoAccording to a report just released by The Guardian, the National Security Agency has been collecting and storing 200 million text messages a day--at random, according to leaked...
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Edward Snowden Reveals NSA's MonsterMind Program
NSA's Utah Data CenterParker Higgins, Electronic Frontier FoundationA view of Monstermind's physical lair, photographed from an Electronic Frontier Foundation airshipIn the high desert near Bluffdale,...
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New Series 'Truth and Power' Explores The Intrigue Of Online Life
Entertainment The Pivot documentary show examines malware, private prisons, and data brokers The series is hosted by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
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Edward Snowden Thinks A Global iPhone Attack Will Happen This Year
Technology As a result of the FBI's battle with Apple In the wake of the FBI's legal battle with Apple, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has made a bold prediction.
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Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken
The activist talks to Popular Science about digital naïveté An exclusive interview with Edward Snowden.
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How To Fix Our Broken Internet
Technology A conversation with privacy activists Laura Poitras and Jacob Appelbaum We spoke with Laura Poitras and Jacob Appelbaum to find out the changes that need to impact the Internet.
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Moxie Marlinspike Makes Encryption for Everyone
The Signal developer on why the FBI and governments can’t be trusted On the heels of WhatsApp adding end-to-end encryption, Moxie Marlinspike on the importance of encryption becoming more mainstream.
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The 'Snowden' Movie Trailer Is Here To Sex Up Your Cyber Espionage
Entertainment Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley and NICOLAS CAGE! Sure, Joseph Gordon-Levitt impersonating Snowden's deep and thoughtful tenor is a little weird at first, and there...
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Edward Snowden Re-tweets Photo Of His Own Hillary Clinton Protest Tweet
Entertainment Tweetception This brings a whole new meaning to the once trendy phrase "RLRT (real-life retweet)."…
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Even the 'most transparent administration in history' failed to pardon Snowden
Military Obama is out of time. Despite the promise of a radically transparent government, Barack Obama has failed to pardon Edward Snowden. Read on.
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The NSA Collects 200 Million Random Texts A Day
wtf so random According to a report just released by The Guardian, the National Security Agency has been collecting and storing 200 million text messages a day--at random, according to…
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Edward Snowden Reveals NSA's MonsterMind Program
Technology It's a cyberwar robot that always hits back. In the high desert near Bluffdale, Utah, there lurks a creature made entirely of zeroes and ones. Called "MonsterMind", the project is an...
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