Hagel Thanks Alexander Cyber Community For Defense Efforts
US Military News
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel paid tribute to retiring Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, crediting him with leading U.S. Cyber Command and the NSA during one of the most challenging periods in history.
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How the NSA Can Use Metadata to Predict Your Personality:
A group of researchers from the MIT Media Lab found that your metadata - including, but not limited to, the way in which you use your phone, how you make calls, to whom, for how long, etc. - can serve as an indicator of your personality. Ref. Source 6
Digital arms makers building NSA arsenal
On Florida's Atlantic coast, cyber arms makers working for US spy agencies are bombarding billions of lines of computer code with random data that can expose software flaws the US might exploit. Ref. Source 6
N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images:
The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to top-secret documents. Ref. Source 6
Judge Orders NSA To Stop Destroying Evidence - For The Third Time:
A federal judge has ordered the government to stop destroying National Security Agency surveillance records that could be used to challenge the legality of its spying programs in court. Ref. Source 6
Thought better of it: NSA can get rid of evidence, judge says:
A federal judge who ordered the National Security Agency to retain all records of its secret telephone surveillance related to an ongoing case has reversed the order - just a day after it was issued. Ref. Source 4
The NSA is Probably Already Following You:
Remember all those times we were told that the government, especially the National Security Agency (NSA), only tracks folks who either guilty of something or involved in suspicious-seeming activity? Well, we're going to have amend that a bit. Ref. Source 5