As it appears YotaPhone serves a backdoor to its customers opening gates to customers privacy to FSB (former KGB). Source: Russian YotaPhone Special Feature = >>>

A trove of emails provided to The Intercept detail Russian schemes to obtain a crucial component for military thermal imaging systems. Source: Hacked Emails Reveal >>>

The most controversial elements of the spying bill may never be coming back, lawmakers from both parties tell The Daily Beast. Here’s why. Source: The >>>

Last week, the Obama administration said that it would begin winding down the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ private phone data i Source: >>>

Source: Steve Wozniak: Edward Snowden is ‘a hero to me’

The NSA and its partners developed a top-secret method to infect smartphones with spyware through Google and Samsung app servers, Snowden documents reveal. Source: NSA >>>

A renowned cybersecurity expert once used his hacking knowledge to control a plane he was riding in, according to FBI documents. Source: Expert told Feds >>>

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The House overwhelmingly approved legislation to end the federal government’s bulk collection of phone records, exerting enormous pressure on Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader. >>>

Twitter moves non-US accounts to Ireland away from the NSA.