Snowden Surprise: Anonymous search makes DuckDuckGo successful in 2013
DuckDuckGo became more than a Google alternative with an amusing name, in 2013. After Edward Snowden revealed the existence of the CIA’s worldwide internet surveillance programme, PRISM, the...
View ArticleEdward Snowden live chat, January 23 at 10pm
Whistleblower and PRISM-buster Edward Snowden will host a live chat tomorrow, January 23, at 10pm SAST. This will be your chance to ask all those burning questions about whether or not the services...
View ArticleMicrosoft offers non US data storage to lessen NSA concerns
Microsoft has announced that they now offer customers in foreign countries the option of having their data stored in data centres that are exclusively outside of US borders. The move is the first of...
View ArticleThe NSA’s website for kids teaches them about the joys of spying
For the last nine years the NSA has had a website aimed at children that seeks to educate them about the NSA with friendly looking cartoon characters. The ‘America’s CryptoKids’ website stars a host of...
View ArticleA glossary of all things Edward Snowden and the NSA
In June last year Edward Snowden an NSA contractor disclosed top secret NSA documents to the media initiating one of the largest privacy scandals in history. Seven months later the articles written...
View ArticleEdward Snowden nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
Former National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden, has been nominated by two Socialist Left party politicians for a Nobel Peace Prize. In a letter submitted to the Norwegian Nobel Committee...
View ArticleThe NSA has been spying on Huawei for years
Huawei and the United States government have had a turbulent history in the past few years, in fact the Chinese technology giant has all but seen its chances of entering the US market scuppered by a...
View ArticleAfrica Check picks up R2.6m cheque from Omidyar
Africa Check, the South African website that trawls through the claims of politicians and the media to independently verify their truth, has been given a $250K (R2.6m) grant by the Omidyar Foundation...
View ArticleSnowden revelations win Pulitzer for Guardian US and Washington Post
The Washington Post and the US edition of The Guardian have been jointly awarded this year’s Pulitzer Prize for journalism. They won in the Public Service Journalism category for their work exposing...
View ArticleJulian Assange: SA companies still producing interception equipment
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has repeated the claim that South African companies are producing interception equipment for spying on civilian communications. He made the revelation during a WeChat...
View ArticleImporting network gear from the US is “a big f***ing mistake”
Ever since the revelations from Edward Snowden regarding the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) mass interception of online communications, many individuals have taken measures to secure...
View ArticleZimbabwe firm takes UK spies to court
A Zimbabwean email service is taking UK security services to court following the revelations about government spying from whistleblower Edward Snowden, and the June publication of Vodafone’s first...
View ArticleYou are probably already on the NSA’s naughty list
Ever since Edward Snowden’s revelations about the international spying done by the NSA, it has open a flood gate of information, knowledge and investigations. And the chance that you have been targeted...
View ArticleSnowden wants you to improve privacy tech for the masses
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has called on those who understand tech to better educate those who don’t in order to improve our overall ability to retain some vestige of privacy online. Snowden...
View ArticleChina says ‘nyet’ to Kaspersky’s anti-virus
A growing fear of online security has been at the forefront of everyone’s minds ever since Edward Snowden dropped the bomb on how the NSA spies on individuals. But governments aren’t immune to the...
View ArticleStep aside Edward Snowden, there is a new leaker in town
Edward Snowden opened a proverbial can of worms when he started leaking top-secret US government documents and information. And while his revelations were incredibly important, they have to be seen not...
View ArticleZapiro, Zackie Achmat, Henrietta Rose-Innes to read at Snowden-athon in Cape...
Capetonians, show your support for whistleblowing hero Edward Snowden – he behind the wide-ranging NSA leaks which have opened our eyes to state surveillance around the road – and get to meet some...
View Article“Get rid of Dropbox” urges Edward Snowden
In the information age where everything can probably be hacked into or spied upon, users can’t always be sure that what a company is offering is in fact what they are going to get. No man knows this...
View ArticleMillions of old Dropbox passwords leaked online
Online file storage website Dropbox is one of the biggest names in cloud, but yesterday it had one of those days that tech companies dread having. A thread on Reddit popped up with a user claiming that...
View ArticleTor Browser gets updated to version 4.0
Even before the NSA allegations of spying on average citizens by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the Tor browser, or The Onion Router, was a favourite browser for those who value their online privacy....
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