Snowden Ten Years Later
June 6 2023In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. But I had a more personal involvement as...
Read moreThe FBI Identified a Tor User
January 17 2023No details, though:
According to the complaint against him, Al-Azhari allegedly visited a dark web site that hosts “unofficial propaganda and photographs related to ISIS” multiple times on May...
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NSA Over-surveillance
November 11 2022Here in 2022, we have a newly declassified 2016 Inspector General report—”Misuse of Sigint Systems”—about a 2013 NSA program that resulted in the unauthorized (that is, illegal) targeting of...
Read moreNSA on Supply Chain Security
November 4 2022The NSA (together with CISA) has published a long report on supply-chain security: “Securing the Software Supply Chain: Recommended Practices Guide for Suppliers.“:
Prevention is often seen as...
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Levels of Assurance for DoD Microelectronics
August 29 2022The NSA has has published criteria for evaluating levels of assurance required for DoD microelectronics.
The introductory report in a DoD microelectronics series outlines the process for determining...
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Ecuador’s Attempt to Resettle Edward Snowden
June 29 2022Someone hacked the Ecuadorian embassy in Moscow and found a document related to Ecuador’s 2013 efforts to bring Edward Snowden there. If you remember, Snowden was traveling from Hong...
Read moreOn the Subversion of NIST by the NSA
June 23 2022Nadiya Kostyuk and Susan Landau wrote an interesting paper: “Dueling Over DUAL_EC_DRBG: The Consequences of Corrupting a Cryptographic Standardization Process“:
Abstract: In recent decades, the U.S. National Institute of...
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Details of an NSA Hacking Operation
March 3 2022Pangu Lab in China just published a report of a hacking operation by the Equation Group (aka the NSA). It noticed the hack in 2013, and was able to...
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