Leaked Documents Show AT&T has Helped the NSA Spy on Customers for Decades
Leaked classified documents provided to The New York Times and Propublica by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that AT&T has facilitated NSA spying operations for decades. The leaked documents, which were the first covered by the New York Times, is the most recent in a series of leaks provided by Snowden over the last two years. Snowden first gained fame after revealing thousands of classified government documents to journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill that provided information about previously unknown spying programs — such as PRISM — in June, 2013. According....
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Rabobank, the Netherlands' third-largest retail bank by market share, blocked its customers' transfers to bitcoin exchanges for 'ethical reasons', according to several first-hand customer reports and bank documents leaked to Dutch news sites. When questioned about the blocks, Rabobank apparently told some customers there were "technical problems" with the transfer, but told others the bank's own internal Ethics Commission had ruled to disallow bitcoin trading. Dutch whistleblowing site Publeaks also published an internal Rabobank document first obtained by another website, Tweakers, that....
The 11.5 million leaked “Panama Papers” detailed financial attorney-client information for over 214,488 offshore companies. At the heart of the controversy was the Panamanian law firm and corporate service firm Mossack Fonseca. The documents spanned a wide timeline, ranging from the 1970s to today. In the court of public opinion, the documents provided evidence that wealthy individuals and public officials keep certain financial dealings private. As pointed out in much of the original coverage of the Panama Papers leak, offshore business entities are often legal. Of course, some people....
Though it has been the United States National Security Agency (NSA) that has been widely reported to snoop on foreign governments, leaked documents show — perhaps for the first time — that Chinese spies are reading the emails of some of the top officials in Obama administration. According to a senior US intelligence official and a top secret document, China has been intercepting email exchanges from at least April 2010, as their cyber spies accessed the private emails of “many” top Obama administration officials. A top-secret NSA briefing from 2014 informs that the email grab was detected....
A series of private documents with discussions not meant to be seen by all eyes have been leaked on the BitcoinTalk forums today, pointing at some features that perhaps threaten the very idea of Bitcoin as we know it. The documents discuss Bitcoin blacklisting, transaction reversing, and proof of sacrifice - a new proof of work for asset forfeiture. The original poster of the documents added the following: "It is VERY important that you understand what is going on behind closed doors of the Bitcoin Foundation. I am absolutely disgusted by the approach the foundation is taking to make....