EGOTISTICALGIRAFFE, MINARET and SHAMROCK are a few of the tens of thousands of code names the NSA gives everything, including programs, exercises,... Why Does The NSA Keep An EGOTISTICALGIRAFFE? It's ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) opened up a Github account and has already shared code repository for 32 different projects. None of them are as revealing as you might have hoped, but there are ...

The National Security Agency appears to be suffering a case of mission creep. For years, NSA, the Defense Department’s lead agency for information gathering and protection, has said that it has its ...

If you are wondering what NSA insiders think of the millions of us who are being watched by the agency, we now have a clue. As part of a slide deck that shows how the NSA can use location information ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese spies used code first developed by the U.S. National Security Agency to support their hacking operations, Israeli researchers said on Monday, another indication of how ...

Below you can see a chart of the total requests over the six month period ending December 31, 2012 — besides for Google, which gives an annual report and does not include FISA orders. By shear numbers ...

This is the big one: New documents released by Edward Snowden show that the NSA and its British equivalent, GCHQ (pictured above), have cracked VPNs, SSL, and TLS -- the encryption technologies that ...