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Ryan Gallagher | RJGallagher.co.uk: Operation Socialist

http://www.rjgallagher.co.uk/2015/03/operation-socialist-gchq-belgacom-hack.html

Ryan j gallagher journalist. Friday, 20 March 2015. When the incoming emails stopped arriving, it seemed innocuous at first. But it would eventually become clear that this was no routine technical problem. Inside a row of gray office buildings in Brussels, a major hacking attack was in progress. And the perpetrators were British government spies. Last year, documents from National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden confirmed. Now, in partnership with Dutch and Belgian newspapers NRC Handelsblad.

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Ryan Gallagher | RJGallagher.co.uk: Lady Liberty

http://www.rjgallagher.co.uk/2013/05/statue-of-liberty-face-recognition-cognitec-total-recall.html

Ryan j gallagher journalist. Wednesday, 1 May 2013. The Statue of Liberty is getting a facelift, though the changes aren’t only cosmetic. An upgraded "state of the art" security system will help keep Lady Liberty safe when it reopens soon. But what does the system entail, and could it involve a controversial new face-recognition technology that can detect visitors’ ethnicity from a distance? I tried to find out — and a New York surveillance company tried to stop me. Face recognition was first implemented.

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Ryan Gallagher | RJGallagher.co.uk: Cyberwar's Secret Trade

http://www.rjgallagher.co.uk/2013/01/cyberwar-secret-trade-zero-day-exploits-regulation.html

Ryan j gallagher journalist. Wednesday, 16 January 2013. Behind computer screens from France to Fort Worth, Texas, elite hackers hunt for security vulnerabilities worth thousands of dollars on a secretive unregulated marketplace. Across the globe, there are fears that the burgeoning trade in finding and selling exploits is spiralling out of control — calls for new laws to rein in the murky trade. Launched by the United States and Israel). Last year, at least eight zero days in programs like Flash and...

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Ryan Gallagher | RJGallagher.co.uk: The Barrett Brown Saga

http://www.rjgallagher.co.uk/2013/03/barrett-brown-anonymous-antisec-fbi-arrest.html

Ryan j gallagher journalist. The Barrett Brown Saga. Friday, 22 March 2013. Until the moment the FBI burst through his door, it had been much like any other day for Barrett Brown. US authorities have made it clear in indictments. Of conspiring with Anonymous, and Aaron Swartz, the prominent internet freedom activist who committed suicide. In January while facing a host of controversial hacking charges. In reality, neither side is the full story. Brown, just short of 6 feet tall, skinny with sandy brown h...

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Ryan Gallagher | RJGallagher.co.uk: August 2013

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Ryan j gallagher journalist. The FBI's WikiLeaks Mole. Sunday, 11 August 2013. When he met Julian Assange for the first time, Sigurdur Thordarson admired the WikiLeaks founder’s attitude and quickly signed up to the cause. But little more than a year later, Thordarson was working as an informant spying on WikiLeaks for the US government — embroiling himself as a teenager in one of the most complicated international events in recent history. That the US government may next go after the 42-year-old Austral...

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Ryan Gallagher | RJGallagher.co.uk: March 2015

http://www.rjgallagher.co.uk/2015_03_01_archive.html

Ryan j gallagher journalist. Friday, 20 March 2015. When the incoming emails stopped arriving, it seemed innocuous at first. But it would eventually become clear that this was no routine technical problem. Inside a row of gray office buildings in Brussels, a major hacking attack was in progress. And the perpetrators were British government spies. Last year, documents from National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden confirmed. Now, in partnership with Dutch and Belgian newspapers NRC Handelsblad.

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Ryan Gallagher | RJGallagher.co.uk: May 2013

http://www.rjgallagher.co.uk/2013_05_01_archive.html

Ryan j gallagher journalist. Wednesday, 1 May 2013. The Statue of Liberty is getting a facelift, though the changes aren’t only cosmetic. An upgraded "state of the art" security system will help keep Lady Liberty safe when it reopens soon. But what does the system entail, and could it involve a controversial new face-recognition technology that can detect visitors’ ethnicity from a distance? I tried to find out — and a New York surveillance company tried to stop me. Face recognition was first implemented.

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Ryan Gallagher | RJGallagher.co.uk: The Surveillance Engine

http://www.rjgallagher.co.uk/2014/09/icreach-surveillance-snowden-proton-crisscross-nsa-cia.html

Ryan j gallagher journalist. Thursday, 4 September 2014. The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept. By NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Earlier revelations sourced to the Snowden documents have exposed a multitude of NSA programs for collect...

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Ryan Gallagher | RJGallagher.co.uk: Mass Interception

http://www.rjgallagher.co.uk/2013/02/verint-mass-interception-surveillance.html

Ryan j gallagher journalist. Thursday, 21 February 2013. Every day, billions of emails and phone calls flow through communications networks in countries across the world. Now, one American company has built technology capable of spying on them all — and business is booming. Verint sells what it calls “monitoring centers” that “enable the interception, monitoring, and analysis of target and mass communications over virtually any network.” These systems are designed to be integr...The technology Verint des...

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Ryan Gallagher | RJGallagher.co.uk: September 2014

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Ryan j gallagher journalist. Thursday, 4 September 2014. The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept. By NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Earlier revelations sourced to the Snowden documents have exposed a multitude of NSA programs for collect...