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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Donna Brazile's Tell-All Is Troubling For the Wrong Reasons
Instead of contributing to our understanding of what happened in 2016, Hacks muddies the waters.
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George Frey / Reuters The NSA Should Delete Its Trove of Data on Americans
It cannot reliably protect even its most closely guarded secrets from adversaries. There is no reason to trust it to store years of details about private citizens’ communications, too.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Mark Warner to Facebook: Tell Me What You Know
The company, along with Twitter and Google, has reportedly been asked to testify publicly before the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russian interference in the election.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters The JCC Bomb-Threat Suspect Had a Client
Newly unsealed FBI documents suggest the Israeli arrested for sending the threats was selling his services for a fee.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters What Did the Senate Hearing Reveal About Russian Hacking?
A Q&A with cybersecurity expert Michael Sulmeyer on today’s Armed Services Committee hearing and the intelligence community’s response to foreign interference
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters How One Reporter Turned to His Readers to Investigate Donald Trump
The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold opened up to his audience, using crowdsourcing to explore the president-elect’s charitable activities.
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Regis Duvignau / Reuters Twitter's Misbegotten Censorship
The right way to deal with social media’s neo-Nazis is not by taking away their platforms, but by taking away their audiences.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters Peter Thiel and the Trump Bubble
The Silicon Valley billionaire says he’s backing Trump because the GOP nominee doesn’t offer easy solutions, but that’s all he offers.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Real Scandal of Hillary Clinton's Emails
It’s not what she wrote—it’s her tendency to wall herself off from alternative points of view.
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters An Attack on Privacy From the Senators Charged With Protecting It
A newly proposed anti-encryption bill would put every American at greater risk from foreign governments, hackers, and President Trump.
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Paul Sakuma / AP Why Technological Innovation Relies on Government Support
Andy Grove’s life reveals the role of public investment in creating and nurturing Silicon Valley—and the dangers of disinvestment.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters The American Idea in 140 Characters
In 10 years of existence, Twitter has given rise to forces that are completely reshaping the course of political dialogue.
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Mike Blake / Reuters The Rapid Rise of Federal Surveillance Drones Over America
An alphabet soup’s worth of government agencies are exercising their ability to look down on ordinary citizens.
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Christian Rasmussen / Flickr Is Digital Privacy Becoming a Partisan Issue?
It’s historically brought together Democrats and Republicans—but the Apple-FBI fight is starting to align along party lines.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Is Law Enforcement Crying Wolf About the Dangers of Locked Phones?
The examples put forward by FBI Director James Comey and his defenders are underwhelming.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters The Conscription of Apple's Software Engineers
The FBI wants to force tech workers to write code that they believe to be unethical, dangerous, and harmful to their country.
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Alan Graf / Corbis Are Slack Messages Subject to FOIA Requests?
If you work for a government agency, your taco emoji are federal records.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters An Unprecedented Threat to Privacy
A private company has captured 2.2 billion photos of license plates in cities throughout America. It stores them in a database, tagged with the location where they were taken. And it is selling that data.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters Can Drone Pilots Be Heroes?
Traditional definitions of valor don’t always account for the practitioners of advanced war-fighting tactics.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Should Intelligence Whistleblowers Be Protected?
Employees seeking to report wrongdoing are safeguarded across all federal agencies—but the process for doing so in the classified intelligence community can be dangerous.
