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Building a Bigger Beast, Presidential Order Links Cybersecurity Program to NSA
Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has dropped the bomb.At a speech to hundreds of security professionals Wednesday, Chertoff declared that the federal government has created a cyber security “Mahattan Project,” referencing the 1941-1946 project led by the Army Corps of Engineers to develop American’s first atomic bomb.
According to Wired’s Ryan Singel, Chertoff gave few [...]
CIA and NSA Enlist Google to Build Intellipedia Spy Database
Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects.
Agencies such as the National Security Agency have bought servers on which Google-supplied search technology is used to process information gathered by networks of spies around the world.
Google is also providing the search features for a [...]
NSA Warrantless Spying Resurrects Banned ‘Total Information Awareness’ Project
Total Information Awareness — the all-seeing terrorist spotting algorithm-meets-the-mother-of-all-databases that was ostensibly de-funded by Congress in 2003, never actually died, and was largely rebuilt in secret by the NSA, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman.
In a fantastic story Monday, Gorman pulls together threads and lays out what many have suspected and alleged in [...]
