25/06/2013 | Frente Externo
Whistleblowers: Thanks for Nothing, Snowden
When Edward Snowden first started revealing secrets about the National Security Agency's massive surveillance operations, the small community of U.S. government whistleblowers and their advocates publicly leapt to Snowden's defense.
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04/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - Secret Space Plane Can’t Hide From Amateur Sleuths
The U.S. military likes to be a little sneaky with its robotic space planes. Unlike typical spacecraft, these vehicles can shift their orbits, frustrating the global network of skywatchers who keep track of just about every man-made object rotating the planet.
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30/07/2010 | High Tech
Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring
The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.
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06/02/2010 | High Tech
¨Don’t Be Evil, Meet ¨Spy on Everyone¨: How the NSA Deal Could Kill Google
The company once known for its “don’t be evil” motto is now in bed with the spy agency known for the mass surveillance of American citizens.
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29/12/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Can U.S. Troops Run McChrystal’s ‘Soft Power’ Playbook?
America has fought in its fair share of insurgencies and counterinsurgencies — from our own revolution to Iraq. But in Afghanistan, the U.S. military is trying something different. In a rather unorthodox approach, commanders there are radically de-emphasizing the “kinetic,” bombs and bullets fight, and instead putting a premium on persuading the people to side against the Taliban.
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