Favorite 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 shooting of unarmed African-American men. The provision, which was part of a public safety…
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Whistleblowing não é apenas vazamento de informações. É um ato de resistência política.
Favorite “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 em revelar fatos secretos e ter nossas vidas irreversivelmente afetadas por isso. Um dos…
Surveillance and Border Security Contractors See Big Money in Donald Trump’s Immigration Agenda
Favorite 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, and CACI International, among the largest defense contractors in the U.S., have told investors…
Star Witness in “Sleeper Cell” Case Blazed a Trail of Lies From Pakistan to California
Favorite 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 receiving terrorist training in Pakistan. Although Hayat’s case made international headlines when he was…
The Infamous Post-9/11 “Sleeper Cell” Case in California Continues to Unravel
Favorite 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 from her husband. Her own parents then sent her to the United States, to…
When the FBI Has a Phone It Can’t Crack, It Calls These Israeli Hackers
Favorite 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 its moment in the spotlight. After weeks of insisting that only Apple could help…
Spies for Hire
Favorite 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 DarkMatter, whose self-described mission is to “safeguard the most complex organizations,” from government to…
I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be
Favorite 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 2012 arrest, along with not having to deal with an infestation of those little…
Pentagon Video Warns of “Unavoidable” Dystopian Future for World’s Biggest Cities
Favorite 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, the future of global cities will be an amalgam of the settings of “Escape…
How a Facial Recognition Mismatch Can Ruin Your Life
Favorite 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, went outside to take a look. Seconds later, he was knocked to the pavement…