Edward Snowden

Are we using a double standard in IT security?

Are we using a double standard in IT security? In the last years Cyber Security has raised as a major concern in any sector of our lives, from government to business and even at private and personal level. But I am wondering if there is a sort of double standard when we judge facts happening when they are related to cybersecurity. Let’s make some example: We all have read concerns rising form the rumoured new rules that china will impose to companies selling IT equipments in some sensitive sector like financial, western expert have raised all so of questions pointing out that…

Inside Politics: Pulitzers for NSA leaks?
Wash Post, Guardian share Pulitzer for NSA coverage

The Guardian and the Washington Post shared a Pulitzer Prize Monday for reporting on leaks from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that revealed a global surveillance network monitoring millions of Americans and foreigners. The…

Greenwald, Poitras, Gellman, MacAskill: key in NSA coverage

The Guardian and the Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism on Monday for their in-depth reporting on Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency and its vast global surveillance network. The citations…

e l’Italia scoprì PRISM

Viaggiare in metropolitana è interessante per diversi motivi, da un lato scopri usi e costumi della gente, come cambiano le abitudini, il modo di vestirsi, la composizione etnografica, dall’altro puoi farti una idea di quanto la gente legga, cosa legga e, nel caso dei quotidiani, anche vedere le prime pagine anche se non hai avuto tempo di farti la rassegna in tv o non hai voglia di fartela online. Oggi l’occhio mi è caduto, casualmente, sul corriere della sera che riportava in prima pagina la notizia che anche l’italia è stata spiata dagli americani. La cosa sfiora abbastanza il ridicolo…

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