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Wikileaks is releasing over 500,000 U.S. national text pager intercepts from September 11, 2001, over the next two days : From 3AM on Wednes...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed Jewel v. NSA to try another tactic in stopping unconstitutional warrantless wiretapping of U.S....

I saw two articles this morning which I think invite comparison. First, Phil Dunkelberger, CEO of PGP Corporation, says people visiting Chi...

There's a telecom panel at the Netroots Nation conference today on the subject of "Big Telecom: An Emerging Threat to Our Democracy...

The March 10 Wall Street Journal contains a fairly detailed description of the data mining operation being run by the NSA . The program de...

Gary D. Barnett, president of a financial services firm in Montana, has written an article about InfraGard for The Future of Freedom Foundat...

An article in The Progressive by Matthew Rothschild worries that the FBI's InfraGard program is deputizing businesses, training them f...

The Washington Times reported on December 21 that several years ago, Chinese intelligence successfully subverted the National Security Agen...

Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio, found guilty of insider trading in April, is claiming in his appeal that part of the reason Qwest stock dro...

CIA Director (and former head of the NSA) Gen. Michael Hayden is unhappy with CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's work uncovering abu...

Virgil Griffith has put together a fascinating data-mining tool that compares anonymous Wikipedia edits to WHOIS records for IP addresses,...

Department of Justice civil appellate attorney John S. Koppel has written a scathing editorial in The Denver Post : As a longtime attorney a...

In 2000, an article about "The Secret FISA Court: Rubber Stamping Our Rights" created outrage and prompted comments like this: Th...

Although the ACLU's lawsuit against AT&T in Illinois was thrown out , a separate case in Michigan filed on January 17 of this year a...

A 91-page document describing the Republican strategy for the 2006 elections has been leaked and is available online (PDF). The document w...

While the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against AT&T continues , U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly today threw out ...

Salon.com has a new article on a room in an AT&T facility in Bridgeton, MO (a St. Louis suburb) that may be an NSA interception facilit...

This post is an index to posts at The Lippard Blog on the subject of information security. This is probably not a complete list; I've t...

Ed Brayton points out a paragraph from an AP story that says : The Bush administration has urged a judge to dismiss a similar case, saying ...

The Baltimore Sun has reported on a shelved 1990s NSA program to collect and analyze phone records which had the following features: *Use...