national security agency
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The Most Infamous Story in Tech Returns With New Details, But No Hard Evidence
More than two years after Bloomberg Businessweek published a widely disputed investigation claiming the Chinese government had secretly installed microchips on server motherboards produced by Supermicro that were used to spy on companies like Amazon and Apple, the outlet has published its follow-up, which doubles down on the initial report and expands the scope of…
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Trump Hints He’s Open to Pardoning Edward Snowden
Donald Trump — who once demanded that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden be executed for leaking classified intel on dystopian surveillance of U.S. citizens — has mused that Snowden has “not been treated fairly,” spurring a call from GOP Rep. Thomas Massie to finally pardon him.
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Stop What You’re Doing And Update Windows Right Now
The U.S. National Security Agency disclosed a major vulnerability in the latest version of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 to Microsoft, which released a fix for the issue on Tuesday, the MIT Technology Review reported.
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The NSA Has Found A New Way To Categorically Deny FOIA Requests
The notoriously secretive National Security Agency is raising “security concerns” to justify an apparent new policy of pre-emptively denying Freedom of Information Act requests about the agency’s contractors.