Russian FSB to Give NSA Lesson in Digital Surveillance at Winter Olympics Kevin Fogarty, October 7, 2013 5 min read Olympic arena under construction in Sochi, Russia in preparation for Winter Games starting Feb. 2014. The Winter...
Sqrrl’s New Analytics Platform Based on NSA Tech Nick Kolakowski, June 21, 2013 3 min read Sqrrl's cartoon squirrel promotes the firm's use of Accumulo. Database-software startup Sqrrl released version 1.1...
Why Is Google Pushing Back So Hard Against the Feds? Nick Kolakowski, June 19, 2013 3 min read Google can't keep going without ad dollars, and that means preserving user trust. Google has asked the Foreign...
Yahoo Becomes Next Firm to Reveal Law-Enforcement Requests Nick Kolakowski, June 18, 2013 3 min read Yahoo has disclosed the total number of law-enforcement requests it received between December 1, 2012 and May 31,...
Amazon, IBM Battling for CIA Cloud Contract: Report Nick Kolakowski, June 13, 2013 3 min read Amazon and IBM are reportedly locked in battle for a CIA cloud-computing contract, according to a new report from...
Big Data and the End of Secrecy Nick Kolakowski, June 10, 2013 6 min read Edward Snowden. Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who also worked as a contractor for the NSA, has been...
Google, Microsoft, Others Deny Involvement in NSA Project Prism Nick Kolakowski, June 7, 2013 6 min read A leaked slide from the alleged NSA PowerPoint presentation. James R. Clapper, the nation’s Director of National...
Facebook’s Project Prism, Corona Could Ease Data Crunch Nick Kolakowski, August 24, 2012 3 min read When it comes to the information Facebook keeps in-house about its users, the term “Big Data” seems like...
