Progress Report: Galley Proofs
It's crunch time. The galley proofs are here. One big final read before it gets set forever. —YL (…
Trump's Purge of Kaspersky Simply Proves the Internet is a Weapon
Zoomed in image of the 1970s ARPANET via Matt Novak/Gizmodo. Update: It happened. "Trump…
The USG agency behind Internet Freedom still 😘 Nazis
Courtesy of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the main backer of Internet Freedom — including To…
The Impossibility of Cyber Attribution
Talking Russia, election hacking and bungled NSA leaks on Doug Henwood's "Behind the News"
Listen to me talk about Russia, election hacking hysteria and The Intercept's bungled NSA…
The Eagle Has (Almost) Landed
Happy to announce that I just sent the final manuscript for Surveillance Valley to my editor at…
Interview on This Is Hell: The DNC Russian Hack Story
I dialed into Chuck Mertz's great radio show, This Is Hell, to talk about my Baffler Magazine…
Interview on TYT: Russian Hacks and Politicized Cyber Attribution
Michael Tracy interviews me for TYT about my investigation for the Baffler on the inflated history…
Cyber Scammers: Russia, Hacking, Elections and Cyber Attribution
The Baffler just posted my long investigation into the politicized, con-infested cyber-attribution…
Encryption is not journalism
Seems not a day goes by that I don't hear someone try to sell encryption as some kind of panacea…
The Editing Continues (In the Cold)!
Ice Fishers of Leningrad Time for another irregularly scheduled Kickstarter update! I've been…
I talk about the cult of crypto and protest culture on Doug Henwood's "Behind the News"
Listen to me talk about CIA-funded crypto culture and the strange politics that underpin it on Doug…
#J20, Signal, spies and the cult of crypto
I'm hearing from concerned activists taking part in the #J20 anti-Trump protests next week that…
Spy-funded privacy tools (like Signal and Tor) are not going to protect us from President Trump
Don't believe the privacy experts, spy-funded encryption is not politics
Since I'm perhaps the only journalist in the world digging into this, I feel it is my duty to…
On Blacklists and Russia 'Hacking' American Democracy
Where's the evidence? So much effort has been thrown at implicating the Russians in some way and…
German magazine "konkret" interviews me about about Tor, spies and the cult of crypto
German leftwing magazine konkret published an interview with me on the the dark origins of the Tor…
Silicon Valley gives us the finger
By Yasha Levine Google and other Silicon Valley megacorps want us to trust them with our most…
