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UK intelligence agencies are claiming that they are having to move agents who are endangered in the field, and according to this report the reason is... Edward Snowden! I must say, this has the stink of the barnyard.  Information about the nature of surveillance programs, which is…

Email I received from the ACLU this morning. Timely! Also attributed to Mr. Snowden - and I love this one: Hi David– Simple truths can change the world. Two years ago today, in a Hong Kong hotel room, three journalists and I waited nervously to…

We website developers put up with a lot from those security folks.  We're constantly hearing them nag us to do boring things like scrub inputs to prevent SQL injection flaws.  Enforce up-to-date encryption standards.  Quit putting auth tokens into URLs.  All of these things would…

When the FBI or some other government agency comes a-calling at any custodian of your private information, from Google or Yahoo! to the local public library, they bring something called a National Security Letter (NSL).  This not only serves as a warrant for the information…

What price do we pay to play our favorite games?  Especially the "free" ones? Privacy.  It's not that we don't value it.  We do; we treat it as currency.  And it's sobering how lavishly we spend it. I just sampled the permissions requested by the…