FISA

Congress Punts FISA Section 702 Renewal to June

| | Congress, FISA, Founders, Analysts & Industry Voices
What happened Congress approved a 45-day extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Thursday, hours before the program was set to lapse, pushing the next deadline to June ...
CISO Whisperer
A caricature of FBI head Christopher Wray

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

| | 4th Amendment, Democracy, FBI, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Federal Government, FISA, Fourth Amendment, government, government access, government surveillance, Government Surveillance Reform Act (GSRA), lawful surveillance, mass surveillance, nsa, police surveillance, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, Section 702, surveillance, US Constitution, US FBI, warrantless search
Privacy, schmivacy: FBI head Christopher Wray (pictured) doesn’t see what all the fuss is about. Just renew FISA section 702 already! ...
Security Boulevard

Chinese Supply-Chain Attack on Computer Systems

| | 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 ...
Schneier on Security

Evaluating the NSA’s Telephony Metadata Program

| | 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 ...
Schneier on Security

Visiting the NSA

| | 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 ...
Schneier on Security