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Mar 02, 2015 | blog

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. …

Dec 29, 2015 | blog

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…

Dec 27, 2015 | blog

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…

Nov 29, 2015 | blog

Jacob Appelbaum: Wikileaks insider, military contractor, Tor developer

By Yasha Levine Earlier, I had written about the Tor Network, an anonymity tool developed, …

Nov 09, 2015 | blog

Pentagon's 1969 Quadruped Hotrod

A bit of random war nerd porn from my Surveillance Valley archive research. This one comes courtesy…

Oct 11, 2015 | blog

What Snowden won't tell you: The conflicted government ties of the Tor Project

Edward Snowden joined Twitter a few weeks ago — and it didn't take him long to start promoting the T…

Sep 26, 2015 | blog

End of summer update: 100-year-old computers and surveillance

Hey — it’s been a while! But I've been keeping busy. Between writing/researching the book, moving to …

Jul 07, 2015 | blog

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…

Jun 27, 2015 | blog

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…

May 01, 2015 | blog

Quick update...

It's been about a month since my last update. I've been finishing up some of old reporting projects…

Mar 17, 2015 | blog

Video: Google Robot-Cheetah on the prowl in Surveillance Valley

My good friend Zam, a filmmaker in Los Angeles, was inspired by my book project and made a short…