The Snowden Effect Continues
NSA reform died in the U. S. Senate two weeks after the 2014 midterm election. The lame duck Democratic majority and Libertarian minded Republicans produced 58 of the 60 votes needed, agonizingly close to collaring an agency that has clearly run amuck. This seeming ideological dividing line is a bit puzzling, given the broader effects Snowden's revelations have had on the U. S. defense industry. Brazil was in the market for 108 new fighters, a $6.6 billion expenditure that would have greatly benefited Boeing, which is struggling to keep the F/A-18 Super Hornet production line open long....
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The whistleblower and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee and subcontractor Edward Snowden has revealed he is stepping into the world of non-fungible token (NFT) assets. Moreover, 100% of the NFT sale proceeds will be donated to the Freedom of the Press Foundation. American Whistleblower Edward Snowden Mints an NFT Edward Snowden is a well known whistleblower who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) back in 2013. Snowden is a privacy advocate and has explained that he is positive about digital currencies like bitcoin (BTC) in the past.....
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which handles cases involving Britain's intelligence agencies, ruled Friday that electronic mass surveillance of people's cellphone and online communications, like the Prism program revealed by Edward J. Snowden, is legal, The New York Times reports. "The 'Snowden revelations' in particular have led to the impression voiced in some quarters that the law in some way permits the intelligence services carte blanche to do what they will. We are satisfied that this is not the case." Also read: The Snowden Effect Continues. The decision came after a global....
The infamous whistleblower and privacy activist Edward Snowden commented on bitcoin on Friday, after the Biden administration said this week it was shooting for 6 trillion dollars in stimulus proposals. Snowden Sees Stimulus Has A Good Boost For Biitcoin Edward Snowden, a 37-year-old former computer intelligence consultant for the National Security Agency (NSA) and contractor […]
On Saturday evening, the privacy advocate and well known whistleblower, Edward Snowden, spoke out against some criticism stemming from the Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein. Snowden attacked the tribalism taking place in the crypto space and said that some people “lose sight of the world beyond their cave.” Alex Gladstein Calls Snowden’s Interview Clip a ‘Disaster’ Just recently, the Human Rights Foundation’s (HRF) Alex Gladstein had some words to say to the former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden. Gladstein didn’t like....
Former NSA contractor and alleged information leak Edward Snowden recently shared his thoughts on the cryptocurrency bitcoin and its flaws. Although he pointed out the disadvantages of the network, he also had some positive remarks as well. For one, Snowden mentioned that "the protocol has a lot of weaknesses and transaction sides and a lot of weaknesses that structurally make it vulnerable to people who are trying to own 50 percent of the network and so on and so forth." Snowden Comments on Bitcoin. "But when we think about the basic principles behind it, there are some very interesting....