acme klein bottles A profile of Cliff "Cuckoo's Egg" Stoll, a pioneering "hacker hunter" Cory Doctorow
de-baathification 900 pages of leaked Iranian spy cables reveal how America's failures after invasions allowed Iran to seize control of Iraqi politics Cory Doctorow
binary analysis Assessing the security of devices by measuring how many difficult things the programmers tried to do Cory Doctorow
public interest defenses Ed Snowden says he'll stand trial and even go to prison in the USA if he can have a public trial and mount a public interest defense Cory Doctorow
if all you have is a $600 hammer everything looks like an f-35 Information security and warfare metaphors: a toxic mix made in hell Cory Doctorow
permanent record Edward Snowden's memoir, "Permanent Record," will go on sale on Sept 17 Cory Doctorow
sytech Massive trove of Russian spy-agency docs hacked from private sector contractor and passed onto media Cory Doctorow
cloud act After Microsoft moves its servers back to the USA, German state's privacy commissioner advises schools not to use Office 365 Cory Doctorow
2g EFF publishes an indispensable, plain-language guide to "cell-site simulators": the surveillance devices that track you via your phone Cory Doctorow
internet watch foundation UK ISP Association, spies, censorship organsation jointly condemn Mozilla for supporting secure DNS because it breaks UK internet censorship rules Cory Doctorow
booz allen Ex-NSA whistleblower says she and other US ex-spooks targeted Americans on behalf of UAE Cory Doctorow
advance-fee fraud Phone scammer tried to con William Webster, the only person ever to serve as director of both the CIA and FBI: it did not go well Cory Doctorow
Aharon Almog-Assoulin Undercover who targeted Citizen Lab over Israeli cyber-arms dealer is an ex-Israeli spook linked to black ops firm used by Harvey Weinstein Cory Doctorow
shitty spooks Spies tried to infiltrate Citizen Lab and trick them into talking about their research on Israeli spytech company NSO Group Cory Doctorow
in the bags Latvia opens up its KGB files and names 4,000+ "informants," many of whom claim they were framed Cory Doctorow
35c3 A deep dive into the technical feasibility of Bloomberg's controversial "Chinese backdoored servers" story Cory Doctorow
