brian mcguigan

Docs show FBI tracks cell, phone, email, and IM extrajudicially

Washington Post reports today on documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that depict a FBI communications dragnet consisting of open circuits from telecom companies:
The circuits — little-known electronic connections between telecom firms and FBI monitoring personnel around the country — are used to tell the government who is calling whom, along with the time [...]


3 Fiber Optic Cables Cut, Severe Millions from Internet

A submarine cable in the Middle East has been snapped, adding to global net problems caused by breaks in two lines under the Mediterranean on Wednesday.
Bloomberg and Times UK are reporting that the two cables cut in the Mediterranean Wednesday are the result of an ‘errant anchor.’ Although this has not yet been confirmed, storms [...]


Google and Internet Privacy

Google’s tracking capability is changing the internet.