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Some thoughts on the nature of cyber-weapons
The agents of cyber-warfare are trapped as much as liberated by the ambiguities surrounding what the nature of a cyber-weapon is at all, with what intent and for what purpose it was crafted, allowing its repercussions to seem anywhere from rapid to evanescent. Continue reading
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Tagged Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, cyber-war, cyber-weapons, doctrine of proportionality, Edward Snowden, Heartbleed, intent, Joseph Rotblat, just war, Kiwicon 2015, nuclear weapons, Solly Zuckerman, Wassenaar Arrangement
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AT&T, the weakest link
In the throng of American companies and their confused compliance with the National Security Agency’s controversial decade-long snooping on internal and international communications, The New York Times and ProPublica have unravelled one that actually bent over backwards to please the NSA: … Continue reading
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Tagged AT&T, Edward Snowden, National Security Agency, SIGINT, snooping, telecommunications, Verizon
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Leaked emails say India is ‘really huge’ market for snooping, spyware
The Wire July 10, 2015 Bangalore: Indian intelligence agencies and police forces are listed among the customers of an Italian company accused of selling spyware to repressive regimes. Apart from the NIA, RAW, the intelligence wing of the Cabinet Secretariat and … Continue reading
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WikiLeaked emails of IT firm show India as ‘really huge’ market for snooping, spyware
The Wire July 10, 2015 Bangalore: Indian intelligence agencies and police forces are listed among the customers of an Italian company accused of selling spyware to repressive regimes. Apart from the NIA, RAW, the intelligence wing of the Cabinet Secretariat and … Continue reading
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A call for a new human right, the right to encryption
The Wire June 2, 2015 DUAL_EC_DRBG is the name of a program that played an important role in the National Security Agency’s infiltration of communication protocols, which was revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The program, at the time, drew the … Continue reading
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Tagged anonymity, backdoors, cryptographic encryption, Edward Snowden, Freedom Act, Patriot Act, Secure Data Act, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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