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What could have been the motivation for Snowden to become the whistleblower? This question intrigued many ever since Edward Snowden, the ex-NSA contractor, leaked intelligence documents and sought asylum in Moscow. Two of the top intelligence officials of the US intelligence community share a common thinking on this question. Rep. Mike Rogers, chairperson of the […]
Although Snowden is held in high esteem by ordinary citizens of America, as a whistle-blower, there are quite a few who swear otherwise. A pentagon official told BuzzFeed, “I would love to put a bullet in his head.” These sentiments are shared by many. Michael Hayden, former NSA and CIA chief, and Mike Rogers, chair […]
Delivering a speech on NSA reforms after seven months since the first revelations on NSA by Edward Snowden, President Obama remained unapologetic about the intelligence programs run by the US and affirmed that “we cannot unilaterally disarm” and needed systems in place so that US security is not undermined. The 45-minute speech on Huffington Post stressed […]
Post-Snowden revelations about NSA snooping on private data of almost every individual, Silent Circle, a Switzerland based encryption firm, has partnered with the Spanish phone manufacturer, Geeksphone that uses Android platform for its mobile devices, to produce Blackphone—the most secure smartphone in the world. Phil Zimmerman, one of Silent Circle’s founder and a renowned cryptographer, […]
The US government’s extensive dragnet across the country keeping track of almost everything that travels across the internet and following every single phone call has not helped much in preventing terrorist attacks, according to a report released by the New America Foundation, a Washington-based nonprofit policy group. The group analyzed 225 terrorism cases in the […]
A European Parliament committee has approved inviting the ex-NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, to testify for US snooping on the EU leaders through a video link. The Justice and Civil Liberties Committee of the parliament voted 36-2 with one abstention in favor of seeking testimony from the US whistleblower who has sought asylum in Moscow temporarily. […]
Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), had alleged through his leaked documents that the NSA along with its British counterpart GCHQ monitored the email traffic of Ehud Olmert in last days of his tenure; others being intercepted were Ehud Barak and the Hebrew University’s Institute of Physics—a renowned center […]
Academics from all over the world have joined hands in form of a protest against mass surveillance. There has been an increasing uproar about privacy encroachments; thanks to many such revelations that have highlighted the degree of surveillance a person can face. To counter this unprecedented level of surveillance, academicians around the world have come […]
NSA involved in abusive surveillance and offensive cyber attacks, manipulating bank balances to achieve targets. Until now we only knew one side of the story but now it is time to expose the other side. A general perception that National Security Agency (NSA) spies on just about everyone in the world may need to be revisited. According […]
A federal judge has said in his ruling that spying and collecting personal information of American citizens is completely legal and a ”counter-punch” to eliminate al-Qaeda’s terror network. A New York federal judge has given a ruling that National Security Agency (NSA)’s PRISM surveillance and spying program is legal. The ruling is opposite to ruling that […]
NSA‘s whistle blower Edward Snowden has a special message for you on this Christmas. We thank Mr. Snowden for his contribution in exposing the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program. Follow @HackRead
The NSA’s whistle blower Edward Snowden has said that ‘’he has already won, he has achieved what he dreamed of ’’ especially when journalists around the world got keen to expose what NSA has been doing since 2001. In an interview to the Washington post, ex – NSA tech Snowden said that it is satisfying […]
Despite Snowden’s voluntarily offer to help Brazil in investigating National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying activities against the country, the land of beauty has no plans to grant him any kind of asylum. Reuters- Brazil carries no plans for giving asylum to Snowden even after this former contractor of NSA has offered them to be part […]
It seems as if those business which bowed down in front of NSA are now facing a backlash. That’s what we can see from several tech giants and business institutions who cooperated with the American National Security Agency (NSA) for its spying and surveillance project PRISM. These companies are now loosing billions of dollars and most […]
The Guardian has come up with in depth analysis of documents leaked by NSA’s whistleblower Edward Snowden. The presentation shows what came up in Snowden’s mind that forced him to leave a lavish job and how he faced the hard time in HongKong followed by deportation pressure from the government of HongKong. Presentation talk about […]
Germany’s Green Party leader Hans-Christian yesterday met NSA’s whistleblower met Edward Snowden in Moscow where Snowden was invited to testify against NSA in Germany. According to reports Snowden has agreed to visit Germany in order to testify against NSA’s spying over German Chancellor Angela Merkel but at the same time according to legal experts in Russia, Snowden […]
According to a recent report, National Security Agency (NSA) has infiltrated into the communication links that are present between global data centers of Yahoo and Google. This revelation has been made by a document that has been released by the whistle blower Edward Snowden. By penetrating into those links, it has allowed the agency to […]
Diane Feinstein who is member of the senate committee of US and the lawmaker has said that she supports NSA and its surveillance programs. The agency has faced many allegations after Edward Snowden has released a lot of documents that show that NSA has been spying on the telephonic data of millions of US citizens. […]
Edward Snowden, the former contractor for NSA has released yet another classified document which states that around hundreds of telephone numbers of some of the top world leaders have been tapped by NSA. Guardian which is Britain’s newspaper has posted in its fresh release that Edward Snowden has provided a memo which states that the […]
If you live in New York or San Francisco, you will know the importance of its billboards and strange messages mentioned on them. Last week, the popular internet protocol BitTorrent used the billboards to bash the United State’s National Security Agency (NSA) for spying over people all over the globe. The important point is that […]
John McAfee who is the founder of McAfee anti-virus has told that he will unveil a gadget that would enable internet users to protect their activities and privacy from spying eyes of the NSA. He has named the gadget as D-central and says that it will be devised with a cost of less than 100 […]