Author: RidgeCook

Which, of course, is the refrain of petty authoritarian bureaucrats. (Another in a continuing series on public communications monitoring.) Baltimore police have been using “cell phone trackers” or Stingrays for a...

The Intel and DoD establishment has been coming out against the FBI’s campaign to weaken or backdoor encryption programs.  We can speculate why but the inside fighting first became public at a corporate forum and now...

No, it isn’t an Onion parody or a SNL skit. It’s a mini cell phone, that JUST MAKES PHONE CALLS! My god, what a radical concept. Their slogan? The phone away from your phone. No, I didn’t make that up. So craft...

A feature of the national security bedwetting after 9/11 was the National Security Letter, essentially a demand for records concerning an individual who, may or may not be under investigation .  The recipient of such a...

While not illegal at the time she was in office.  Sec. of State Clinton used private email accounts instead of the official Dept of State system.  As Dept of State’s system was hacked, then some mail...