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Edward Snowden reminds us all that he was right after WannaCry fallout

It’s hard being right all the time, especially if you’re Edward Snowden. The infamous whistleblower who curently calls Russia home spoke on Monday via…

WannaCry ransomware infects a quarter million computers in 150 countries

WannaCry wins 2017’s prize for most ominously named ransomware, and it has seemingly lived up to its name. A worldwide attack involving the ransomware…

Yahoo’s end-to-end encryption tool will combat email snooping

Yahoo is now the second major tech influencer to actively support email privacy. At Black Hat USA, the multifaceted tech giant recently announced to…

Google offers mail encryption tool for paranoid Chrome users

Google announced a new tool called End-to-End that encrypts your email when it leaves your web browser until it is decrypted by the recipient…

Edward Snowden: we all need to fight government surveillance [SXSW]

In a rare appearance, and via Google Hangout from Russia where he has been granted political asylum, Edward Snowden urged thousands of tech enthusiasts…

Movies aren’t just starting to influence tech, they always have

I heard once that the CIA investigated the producers of Star Trek because they were showing technology on their show that was actually in…

Edward Snowden declares mission accomplished, says he’s ‘already won’

It’s been half a year since NSA contractor Edward Snowden released the first in a series of leaks that showed how much of…

Google, Microsoft lead tech coalition to limit government spying on their users

After months of leaks and revelations about exactly how the US’ National Security Agency has been spying on everyone from presidents to casual Facebook…

Mandela mourned, NSA knows where you are and Amazon’s drones: #StuffToKnow this week

Madiba passes and leaves behind a better world than he came in to, but the NSA is tracking your every move, and I do…

Confused about how the NSA gathers info? Check out this nifty animation

When NSA-contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed just how much of our online activity was being captured by US and UK security agencies earlier…

Twitter’s worth $31bn, net no longer neutral and Google teaches us to cook: #StuffToKnow this week

A certain internet birdie is now worth US$31-billion, but you probably already knew that right? If we are not careful meanwhile, some sites could…

Hey tech optimists, we need a little activism for the unmonitored self

Historians will look back at the past 20 years as a unique period, a time when there was great opportunity to see deep into…

NSA secretly broke into Yahoo! and Google’s data centres

The US’ National Security Agency (NSA) has secretly been infiltrating the communications links that connect Google and Yahoo!’s global data centres. That’s according to…

Snowden denies ever helping out foreign secret agents

Whistleblower Edward Snowden remains adamant that Russian and Chinese intelligence officials did not compromise any classified documents he took with him when he fled…

Darn it, the NSA broke the web’s shiny new advertising model

In the throes of the Publicis Omnicom merger, speculation is rife that the advertising world is due for a sea change, with more big…

The NSA’s pretending to be Google: that’s got to be bad for business

The NSA Edward Snowden revelations are getting worse and worse for the reputation of leading Silicon Valley companies as the latest information shows that…

The NSA isn’t to blame for our surveillance culture, companies have been doing it for years

It’s ironic that with all our technologies for keeping things secret our secrets have a way of coming out into the open. We now…

Latest Snowden dump reveals NSA pays tech companies for access to networks

The US’ National Security Agency (NSA) pays big tech companies hundreds of millions of dollars a year for access to their networks. That’s according…

Spy games or no, China’s stuck with US technology

We recently wrote about allegations in the Chinese press that Cisco has been working with the NSA to help the US spy on China….

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