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The Mostly Untold Story of the NSA

by Samir Chopra | Jul 18, 2013 | National Security

In the 1970s and 1980s, mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers, having realized that electronic communications required encryption for the sake of privacy, started working on developing tools for providing just that. Academic research is public. At its best, it is open for inspection, perusal, sharing, distribution and modification. That means if research on privacy-enhancing cryptography […]

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New York City’s Spies Are Worse than the NSA’s

by Peter Lindstrom | Jun 19, 2013 | National Security

It’s not that Americans shouldn’t be concerned about the National Security Agency.But the fact is we’ve known that we must have more oversight of federal security operations. In fact, the first major call for oversight of federal intelligence programs was a report by the Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson in 1956. So oversight is long […]

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Why the NSA Story Is the Wrong Fight for Civil Libertarians

by Doug Daniels | Jun 13, 2013 | National Security

Revelations of a classified program by the National Security Agency to collect data in the U.S. has prompted outrage as well as denunciation from the left and right. Many are under the impression that the Obama administration has been eavesdropping on phone calls and reading private emails. And comparisons to George W. Bush’s abusive, post-9/11 […]

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Secret Court Judge Attended Seminar Connected to Charles Koch

by WS Editors | Jun 11, 2013 | National Security

U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who signed an order requiring Verizon to give the National Security Agency telephone records for tens of millions of American customers, attended an expense-paid judicial seminar sponsored by a libertarian think tank that featured lectures from a vocal proponent of executive branch powers. Vinson, whose term on the secret Foreign […]

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5 Basic Things We Still Do Not Know about NSA Snooping

by WS Editors | Jun 10, 2013 | National Security

Last week saw revelations that the FBI and the National Security Agency (pictured from the sky) have been collecting Americans’ phone records en masse and that the agencies have access to data from nine tech companies. But secrecy around the programs has meant even basic questions are still unanswered. Here’s what we still don’t know: […]

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