Minnesota’s House of Representatives voted on Monday to stiffen penalties for protesters who block traffic on highways and other roadways. The move was seen as a response to recent highway blockades in the state utilized by Black Lives movement demonstrators to protest the police… Read More ›
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Whistleblowing não é apenas vazamento de informações. É um ato de resistência política.
“Venho esperando por alguém como você há 40 anos.” Essas foram as primeiras palavras de Daniel Ellsberg quando nos encontramos pela primeira vez no ano passado. Dan e eu sentimos uma afinidade imediata, já que conhecíamos a dimensão do risco… Read More ›
Surveillance and Border Security Contractors See Big Money in Donald Trump’s Immigration Agenda
Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to ramp up border security and to deport as many as 3 million undocumented people — rhetoric that is being celebrated as a potential goldmine for some in the surveillance and homeland security contracting industry. Leidos, Infosys,… Read More ›
Star Witness in “Sleeper Cell” Case Blazed a Trail of Lies From Pakistan to California
The prison warden’s letter arrived three days before Christmas. Last fall, I wrote a letter to a medium-security prison in Arizona, requesting an interview with an inmate named Hamid Hayat. He was serving a 24-year sentence after being convicted of… Read More ›
The Infamous Post-9/11 “Sleeper Cell” Case in California Continues to Unravel
Nazhat Shaheen has twice endured the loss of her first son. The first time she lost him, he was a newborn. Soon after she gave birth in her native Pakistan, her in-laws took her son, Naseem, during a contentious divorce… Read More ›
When the FBI Has a Phone It Can’t Crack, It Calls These Israeli Hackers
Earlier this year, at the height of a very public battle between the FBI and Apple over whether the computer maker would help decrypt a mass murderer’s locked iPhone, it appeared that a little-known, 17-year-old Israeli firm named Cellebrite Mobile Synchronization might finally get… Read More ›
Spies for Hire
In July, Simone Margaritelli, an Italian security researcher, boarded a Boeing 777 in Rome headed for Dubai, a city now billing itself as a tech startup hub. He had a big job interview with a new, well-funded cybersecurity company called… Read More ›
I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be
I never really got a chance to play any pen-and-paper role-playing games growing up, so being thrown into a prison system in which such things as Dungeons and Dragons are relatively common constituted one of the silver linings of my… Read More ›
Pentagon Video Warns of “Unavoidable” Dystopian Future for World’s Biggest Cities
The year is 2030. Forget about the flying cars, robot maids, and moving sidewalks we were promised. They’re not happening. But that doesn’t mean the future is a total unknown. According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept,… Read More ›
How a Facial Recognition Mismatch Can Ruin Your Life
It was just after sundown when a man knocked on Steve Talley’s door in south Denver. The man claimed to have hit Talley’s silver Jeep Cherokee and asked him to assess the damage. So Talley, wearing boxers and a tank top,… Read More ›