Above image by Gil C / Shutterstock.com A long-time, trusted employee of the National Security Agency—one of the rare geeky technocrats allowed a say among a group of otherwise cynical, paranoid conservatives—was forced to resign from the agency after confessing to federal investigators that he happily […]
Newly released documents suggest that western spy agencies have infiltrated the online fantasy game World of Warcraft, fearing that terrorists or criminal networks use it to communicate secretly, move money or plot attacks. The spies have created make-believe characters to snoop and to try to […]
Ladar Levison, founder of email service provider Lavabit, finds himself in a Kafkaesque situation after the NSA ordered him to hand over any and all data his company had on all of its users. The reason for this intrusion was the former NSA-employee turned whistle-blower […]
