Errata Security

Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker. Later, the arrest warrant  request for an NSA contractor ...

The vague story about Yahoo searching emails for the NSA was cleared up today with various stories from other outlets [1]. It seems clear a...

Joseph Menn (Reuters) is reporting that Yahoo! searched emails for the NSA . The details of the story are so mangled that it's impossibl...

Edward Snowden (NSA leakerblower) won’t be pardoned. I’m not arguing that he shouldn’t be pardoned, but that he won’t be pardoned. The cha...

A few months ago, many stories covered "intelexit.org", a group that bought billboards outside NSA buildings encouraging moderate...

The EFF got (via FOIA) the government's official policy on handling/buying 0days . I thought I'd write up some notes on this, based ...

Snowden appeared at a #CatoSpyCon, and cited evidence of how things have improved since his disclosures (dislaimer: as Libertarian, I'm ...

The computer's the CIA spied on were owned and operated by the CIA. I thought I'd mention this detail that is usually missing from...

For those of you rusty on your regex code, I thought I'd explain those found in the alleged XKeyScore source . The first one is: / b...

Back in the day there was talk about "jamming echelon" by adding keywords to email that the echelon system was supposedly looking ...

Today's story is about "XKeyScore source code" leak. As an expert, I'm going to read through the code line-by-line and com...

The latest Jacob Appelbaum story is, as usual, activist garbage. The underlying technical information is solid, but their conclusions are co...

For me, Snowden is a hero , having revealed intolerable actions by Congress, Courts, the Executive branch, and collusion among the two offic...

The recent 60 Minutes  report on the NSA contains many factual errors (like those about BIOS ). One thing that looks like an error is the de...

Regardless of where you stand on the Snowden/NSA debate, it's obvious tonight's "60 Minutes" was a travesty of journali...

Over the weekend it was revealed that the NSA is slurping up everyone's email "address book" and chat "buddy lists"...

According to the  complaint against Silk Road, the investigation into Ulbricht  appears to have  started when border agents intercepted fak...

This is an example of how my experiences with the NSA jar with the press's reporting. An article in Foreign Policy Review claims that G...

According to the law, you can't use the NSA log -- or even mention the letters "NSA" or use the name "National Security ...

The NSA has been exposed as evil and untrustworthy, but so has the press. The press distorts every new revelation, ignoring crucial technica...