Snowden gets 3-year Russian residence permitFormer US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by the United States for leaking extensive secrets of its electronic surveillance programmes, has been given a three-year residence permit by Russia, his Russian lawyer told reporters on T More… |
Flaws could expose users of 'Snowden software'Researchers have found a flaw that could expose the identities of people using a privacy-oriented operating system touted by Edward Snowden, just two days after widely used anonymity service Tor acknowledged a similar problem. The More… |
Snowden 'to reveal new secrets on Arab leaders'Edward Snowden, former US intelligence operative Edward Snowden, is likley to reveal new secrets related to Arab dictators, an Al-Arab Al-Yawm website report has been quoted as saying. Sources close to Snowden's Arabic transla More… |
NSA spying undermines US cyber powerRevelations about the scale of US spying on the Internet have badly damaged the country's negotiating power in international talks on cyberspace regulation and law enforcement, analysts and industry leaders said at a conference on Tuesday. More… |
US agency ‘can break common Internet encryption’The US National Security Agency (NSA) has secretly developed the ability to crack or circumvent commonplace Internet encryption used to protect everything from email to financial transactions, according to media reports. The Guard More… |
UK 'has secret monitoring station in Mideast'Britain runs a secret monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept large numbers of telephone calls, emails and internet traffic that it shares with intelligence agencies in the US, the Independent newspaper has reported. &n More… |
Guardian 'forced to destroy Snowden material'The Guardian, a major outlet for revelations based on leaks from former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, says the British government threatened legal action against the newspaper unless it either destroyed the classified documents or h More… |
Snowden row: Obama cancels meeting with PutinUS President Barack Obama on Wednesday cancelled a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin planned for next month in Moscow over frustration with Russia's asylum for fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, the White House sa More… |
Obama 'disappointed' with RussiaUS President Barack Obama confirmed on Tuesday that he would go to Russia this fall for a G20 summit but said he was "disappointed" that Russia granted temporary asylum to former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden. More… |
Russian airport limbo ends for SnowdenAfter nearly six weeks in hiding at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, Edward Snowden walked calmly out of the transit area, ducked into a car and was driven away unnoticed. It was an anti-climactic end to one chapter of a saga wa More… |