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Faraday Cages In Your Kitchen

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:02:10 +0000

Paranoiacs rejoice! Last week, Heather Murphy of the New York Times explained that Edward Snowden had lawyers place their cell phones in a refrigerator to block the signals, using the fridge as a makeshift Faraday cage. Murphy quoted Adam Harvey, a countersurveillance products designer, who said that a martini shaker is a foolproof Faraday cage that can […]

Edward Snowden Boards Wikileaks Airlines

Yoni Gross — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:50:30 +0000

Edward Snowden has taken the world on a wild ride over the last two and a half weeks, revealing first a pair of massive NSA surveillance programs, and then his own identity, motives, and level of access to the sort of information he revealed. This weekend, Snowden himself became the focus of the story. On […]

Just Because You’re Paranoid… Part 1: Securing Your Email

Ari Baronofsky — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:00:06 +0000

The news has been awash with stories lately of how the National Security Agency has the ability to access the telephone records and internet usage patterns of Americans and possibly others around the globe. Our own website featured an article on this subject when the story first broke over a week ago. While bringing down a […]

NSA Demands Verizon Turn Over Caller Database

Tom Wyrick — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:26:08 +0000

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Do […]