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FBI’s Warrantless Spying on US Must Continue, Says FBI

Privacy, schmivacy: FBI head Christopher Wray (pictured) doesn’t see what all the fuss is about. Just renew FISA section 702 already! ...

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Chinese Supply-Chain Attack on Computer Systems

Bruce Schneier | February 13, 2021 | backdoors, china, Cybersecurity, FBI, FISA, intelligence, Internet of things, national security policy, Reports, supply chain, Uncategorized

Bloomberg News has a major story about the Chinese hacking computer motherboards made by Supermicro, Levono, and others. It’s been going on since at least 2008. The US government has known about ...

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Evaluating the NSA’s Telephony Metadata Program

Bruce Schneier | August 12, 2019 | academicpapers, FISA, metadata, nationalsecuritypolicy, nsa, phones, Terrorism

Interesting analysis: "Examining the Anomalies, Explaining the Value: Should the USA FREEDOM Act's Metadata Program be Extended?" by Susan Landau and Asaf Lubin. Abstract: The telephony metadata program which was authorized under ...

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Visiting the NSA

Bruce Schneier | May 22, 2019 | china, Cybersecurity, FISA, Infrastructure, machinelearning, nationalsecuritypolicy, nsa, Privacy, Russia

Yesterday, I visited the NSA. It was Cyber Command's birthday, but that's not why I was there. I visited as part of the Berklett Cybersecurity Project, run out of the Berkman Klein ...

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