UK Lauches Its Own FBI: The NCA

The UK’s latest attempt to launch a national police police force as elite and feared as the FBI came into being Monday. Its purpose, says home secretary Theresa May, is “the relentless disruption of organised criminals.”

October 8, 2013
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PureVPN WAS Hacked, But is NOT Closing

Ever since the extent of government surveillance of the internet became known through the Snowden leaks, public and commercial interest in virtual private networks (VPNs) to both bypass internet blockades and provide user privacy has escalated.

October 7, 2013
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How Does Law Enforcement ‘Subvert’ Tor?

Last summer an FOI request showed that the FBI had abandoned an investigation into TSChan, allegedly a child pornography site on the Darknet, since “because everyone… connected to the TOR Network is anonymous, there is not currently a way to trace th…

October 7, 2013
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Was Nortel’s Ottawa Campus bugged?

On Monday of this week it was reported that listening devices had been found in the former Nortel campus – due to be occupied by the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND). DND has since denied this; but the accusation remains.

October 3, 2013
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