Snowden to Testify in Defence of Creator of Football Leaks More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Edward Snowden speaks via video link as he takes part in a round table on the protection of whistleblowers at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, March 15, 2019. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler By Cat...
Snowden’s Leaks During his years of IT work, Snowden had noticed the far reach of the NSA's everyday surveillance. While working for Booz Allen, Snowden began copying top-secret NSA documents, building a dossier on practices that he found invasive and disturbing. The documents contained vast...
Sawers' comments came after Sir Iain Lobban, head of the GCHQ, Britain's version of the NSA, explained in broad terms the loss of intelligence since the leaks began this summer. Lobban said there's a danger of a "gradual darkening" of global sources and said surveillance had picked up co...
“The audio portions of these sessions have been processed correctly all along, but without the accompanying video,” an NSA document quoted by The Guardian explained. “Now, analysts will have the complete 'picture'."It’s unclear how this squares with Microsoft’s claims to have provided no...
Except at the time of the leaks, Edward Snowden wasn’t working for the NSA. He was working for Booz Allen Hamilton, a company “… is majority owned by private equity firm The Carlyle Group…” as a contractor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton ...
Shortly afterward, Oliver played a reel of a dozen Americans who couldn’t correctly answer exactly who Snowden was—including a mention of WikiLeaks that Snowden incredulously laughed at. Oliver joked about the complicated nature of the leaks—the kind of thing that makes it hard for average Am...
The aspect of the Snowden leaks that most outraged technology experts was not the NSA’s communications surveillance but its efforts to undermine encryption, which had broad impacts on computer security. That news has “created a period of innovation” in encryption, says Moxie Marlinspike, the San...