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Google publishes national security letters for the first time

14

Dec

2016

Google is providing for the first time a look into the world of national security letters — demands from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to hand over details about account holders and keep quiet about it. The letters are a part of business for Google and other major internet companies, but traditionally they have been […]

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TrueCrypt development stopped amid a cloud of mystery

31

May

2014

Last Wednesday the SourceForge page for popular open-source disk encryption software TrueCrypt started recommending the use of BitLocker on Windows instead. Visitors were told that the application was not secure anymore. Of course, social networks exploded with speculation, with people claiming the page was hacked or that the government, using a National Security Letter, might […]

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Microsoft challenged an FBI gag order and won

23

May

2014

Late last year, Microsoft got a request from the FBI, a national security letter asking for data from one of the companys enterprise customers. Someone paying for Microsoft server time had an interesting user, and the feds wanted to know more about that user. The letter came with a gag order, preventing Microsoft from saying […]

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