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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. It’s a surreal experience, paging through hundreds of top-secret NSA documents. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. And then I flew to Brazil.

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Swiss army asks its personnel to use the Threema instant-messaging app

Security Affairs

All communication is end-to-end encrypted, and the app is open source. With this in mind, the army staff sent an email at the end of December to instruct all commanders and chiefs of staff to use the Threema messenger app for business communication with private smartphones from now on.” ” reported the Swiss Tagesanzeiger.

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Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It?

Krebs on Security

-based tech firm to secretly embed tiny computer chips into electronic devices purchased and used by almost 30 different companies. The chips were alleged to have spied on users of the devices and sent unspecified data back to the Chinese military. In a nutshell, the Bloomberg story claims that San Jose, Calif.