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Notes on Tor Project funding — The Pentagon
From 2011 through 2013, the Pentagon funded Tor to the tune of $2.2 million, through a U.S. …
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Internet Privacy, Funded By Spies
By Yasha Levine Originally published on Pando.com on March 1, 2015. For the past few months I've…
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New Year's Update: Internet Freedom and PublicAffairs
3d printed Snowden at 32c3 Been a while since my last Kickstarter supporter update. So now I have…
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Tor Project: The super secure anonymity network built on deception, false promises and heaps of libertarian bullshit
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Tor Project Runs Away From Public Questions at 32c3
A quick note from 32c3... I was looking forward to this year's State of the Onion address. At this…
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Tor military contractors try to shut down my reporting
A quick note from the road... It’s just past Christmas here in Germany. After spending a few days r…
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Jacob Appelbaum: Wikileaks insider, military contractor, Tor developer
By Yasha Levine Earlier, I had written about the Tor Network, an anonymity tool developed, …
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Pentagon's 1969 Quadruped Hotrod
A bit of random war nerd porn from my Surveillance Valley archive research. This one comes courtesy…
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What Snowden won't tell you: The conflicted government ties of the Tor Project
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End of summer update: 100-year-old computers and surveillance
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Why is the CIA protecting Google?
As part of my Surveillance Valley research, I've trying to pinpoint as best I can the moment when…
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Inside Google's ugly war against the homeless in LA
I just published an important story (and a companion micro-documentary) about Google's relationship…
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Read Spanish? Then check out this interview with me on Surveillance Valley
Read Spanish? Then check out this interview with me in "Ni a Palos" — a paper out of Bu…
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Quick update...
It's been about a month since my last update. I've been finishing up some of old reporting projects…
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BLASTOFF! Surveillance Valley is a success!
The campaign finished with an explosive 125% of the goal met. A huge thank you to everyone who…
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Yasha Levine on RT to talk about US spies funding Internet privacy activists
Yasha Levine talks to RT's Anissa Naouai about how U.S. military and intelligence agencies are…
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Surveillance Valley on Naked Capitalism!
Naked Capitalism, the best and smartest finance web mag in the world, endorses Surveillance Valley.…
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RJ Eskow's "The Zero Hour" supports Surveillance Valley
Earlier today, Surveillance Valley got a huge boost from Richard "RJ" Eskow — host of Th…