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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky... →
Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.
Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.
Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about... →
At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research... →
The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with... →
Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who you are and how you live your life - online and... →
The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future... →
The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston... →
NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.