United States Stories for 2015

Feds: Your Employer Can't Stop You From Recording Conversations At Work 139
NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated 267
1st Circuit Injunction Re: TSA's New Mandatory AIT Search Rule Fully Briefed 122
Drone Ban Extends 30 Miles Around DC, Per FAA 410
US Dept. of Ed: English, History, and Civics Teachers Good Enough For CS Class 242
Database of 191 Million US Voters Exposed On Internet 77
FAA's Drone Laws Clash With Local Regulations 115
Bruce Schneier: IoT + DMCA = More Monopolies, Limits On Consumer Choice 118
Dissecting a $231 Million High-Tech Boondoggle 139
Justice Department Shuts Down Huge Asset Forfeiture Program 232
Vice: Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving In America 150
Motion Filed In 1st Circuit To Enjoin TSA's New Mandatory "AIT" Screening 129
NORAD's Amazing 60-Year Santa Tracking History 90
Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified For First Time 166
US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland 704
Kim Dotcom Loses Extradition Case 98
ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 129
DOE Launches Nuclear Waste Disposal Initiative 143
NASA Has Suspended Its Next Mission To Mars 46
DHS's Ongoing Drone Boondoggle 77
FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress 226
Tim Cook Calls Apple's Tax Questions 'Political Crap' 456
Miniature Flying Car Receives US Airspace Approval For Testing 95
White House Expected To Announce Big Computer Science Push 161
LifeLock Agrees To Pay $100 Million Fine In Settlement With FTC 50
Catalogue of Government Gear For Cellphone Spying 69
FOIA'd Documents Give Tour of Minuteman Missile National Historic Site 85
Why President Obama Was Held Back a Year Before Starting Code School 117
Rubber Tanks and Sonic Trucks: the Ghost Army of World War II 82
The FAA To Facilitate American Commercial Participation In the ESA Moon Village 31
CISA Surveillance Bill Hidden Inside Last Night's Budget Bill 166
Budget Agreement Boosts US Science 52
Marco Rubio and Other Senators Move To Block Municipal Broadband 352
FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February 533
A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal 339
FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors 347
Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump 365
Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 543
US Navy's $700 Million Mine-drone Won't Hunt 92
Obama Administration To Offer Full Position On Encryption By End of Year 152
Deputy Secretary of DHS On Agency's Role In Cybersecurity 19
Ex-US State Dept. Worker Pleads Guilty To Extensive Sextortion Case 60
NHTSA Toughens Crash Test Rating Standards 165
Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption 556
Theremin's Bug Let Soviets Spy On USA For More Than 7 Years 99
Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" 735
B-52s: The Plane That Refuses To Die 290
Largest Destroyer Built For Navy Headed To Sea For Testing 331
Senators: Has Uncle Sam Paid Off Ransomware Criminals? 53
California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror 676
FTC Appoints EFF Board Member Lorrie Cranor As Chief Technologist 50
Congress Votes to Scrap Obama's Clean Power Plan 151
DHS Offering Free Vulnerability Scans, Penetration Tests 79
Revealed: What Info the FBI Can Collect With a National Security Letter 93
Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots For Combat Patrols 74
NSA To End Bulk Phone Surveillance By Sunday 139
Greenwald: Why the CIA Is Smearing Edward Snowden After Paris Attacks 298
KGB Software Almost Triggered War In 1983 210
With $160 Billion Merger, Pfizer Moves To Ireland and Dodges Taxes 365
Whistleblowers: How NSA Created the 'Largest Failure' In Its History 119
US and China Setting Up "Space Hotline" 15
Satellite Wars 98
Ex-CIA Director Says Snowden Should Be 'Hanged' For Paris Attacks 486
Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims 608
Judge: Stingrays Are 'Simply Too Powerful' Without Adequate Oversight 111
File Says NSA Found Way To Replace Email Program 93
FDA Signs Off On Genetically Modified Salmon Without Labeling 514
Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets 200
Facebook Can Block Content Without Explanation, Says US Court 147
How Cisco Is Trying To Prove It Can Keep NSA Spies Out of Its Gear 130
US Rep. Joe Barton Has a Plan To Stop Terrorists: Shut Down Websites 275
ULA Concedes GPS Launch Competition To SpaceX 55
Terrorism Case Challenges FISA Spying 108
DoJ Going After Makers of Dietary Supplement 161
US Navy Is Planning To Launch a Squadron of Underwater Drones By 2020 38
Democrat Drops MN State House Run After Tweeting 'ISIS Isn't Necessarily Evil' 519
Spaghetti Strainer Helmet Driver's License Photo Approved On Religious Grounds 518
Ask Slashdot: Undervalued, Livable American Tech Towns? 464
Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? 400
Prison Hack Shows Attorney-Client Privilege Violation 190
Tor Project Claims FBI Paid University Researchers $1m To Unmask Tor Users 108
Justice Officials Fear Nation's Biggest Wiretap Operation May Not Be Legal 118
Classified Report On the CIA's Secret Prisons Is Caught In Limbo 54
Microsoft Putting Servers In Germany To Keep User Data Away From US Intelligence 173
2016 Presidential Candidate Security Investigation 97
US Judge Rules Against NSA In Phone Spying Case 93
US Spends $1bn Over a Decade Trying To Digitize Immigration Forms, Just 1 Is Online 305
Rural Mississippi: The Land That the Internet Era Forgot 154
Israel 'To Review' Top Appointment After Facebook Controversy 351
$1 Bid Wins Government Open Source Software Purchasing Experiment 124
Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline 369
Senators Attempting To Remove Robocall Loophole 108
Federal Prison System Wants Anti-Drone Technology 156
How the FBI Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk 318
'Game of Drones' -- a Live War Game About Drone Combat Strategy 37
Larry Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign, Citing Unfair Debate Rules 309
Virginia Radio Station Broadcasting Chinese Propaganda 294
US Law Can't Keep Up With Technology -- and Why That's a Good Thing 187
Feds Have a Plan For Catastrophic Solar Flares 188
Real-World Roadblocks To Implementing CISA 31
EU Parliament: Citizens' Rights Still Endangered By Mass Surveillance 53
US Tech Giants Increasingly Partner With Military-Connected Chinese Companies 100
A Push To Ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? 67
US Army Tests Swarms of Drones In Major Exercise 47
Meet the Drone Registration Task Force 92
Chinese Hackers Targeted Insurer To Learn About US Healthcare 157
Non-Binding Resolution: EU States Should Protect Snowden 210
Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber 237
US Senate Passes the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act 74-21 157
US Military Websites Still Relying On SHA-1 52
How Nukes Were Almost Launched From Okinawa During Cuban Missile Crisis 289
Is Buying Cuban Software Legal In the US? The Answer is Hazy 75
Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns US 273
Oklahoma Earthquakes Are a National Security Threat 166
The Army Bug Bounty Program: a Critical Need In Defense 90
Affordable Care Act Exchanges Fail To Detect Counterfeit Documentation 246
Google, Facebook, Microsoft Deliver K-12 CS Demands To Congress 120
Government Team Experiments With Paying For Small Open Source Tasks 90
Secret Service Allowed To Use Warrantless Cellphone Tracking 104
Sen. Ron Wyden Explains the Fight Ahead Over CISA 23
FCC Passes Landmark Reform of 'Egregious' Prison Phone Charges 173
Makers Compete To Produce US Army's Next Official Handgun 469
'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar 621
US Will Clean Area In Spain Where Hydrogen Bombs Fell 216
Irish Data Protection Commissioner Ordered To Investigate Facebook Data 18
Former Governor On Holding the Department of Energy Accountable In Idaho 120
Despite Promises, China Still Targeting US Firms 125
Americans Show 'Surprising Willingness' To Accept Internet Surveillance 223
Space-Time: Scott Kelly Breaks Time-Aloft Record For US Astronauts 35
NBC News Reports US Will Require Registration For Consumer Drones 235
House of Representatives Proposal Aims To Regulate Car Privacy 58
US Identifies ISIL Hacker Linked To Military Breaches 83
FCC's WiFi Rule-Making: Making It Fair For Both Open Source and Proprietary 173
Documents Expose the Inner Workings of Obama's Drone Wars 169
The United States and Israel Sign Space Cooperation Agreement 145
FBI and Join UK Against Forces Against Spread of Dridex Banking Malware 70
How Putin Tried To Control the Internet 245
NASA Chief Says Ban On Chinese Partnerships Is Temporary 63
Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against CISA 211
Electoral System That Lessig Hopes To Reform Is Keeping Him Out of the Debate 239
2016 Election Cycle Led By Billionaire Donors 370
Another Drone Crashes Near White House 58
NASA Releases 'Journey To Mars' Plan -- But Not a Budget 170
China Arrests Hackers At Behest of US Government 74
EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared 399
US Government Will Not Force Companies To Decode Encrypted Data... For Now 110
Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal 479
ESR On Why the FCC Shouldn't Lock Down Device Firmware 144
NSF Awards $74.5 Million To Support Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Research 9
Jimmy Wales and Former NSA Chief Ridicule Government Plans To Ban Encryption 176
EU Court of Justice Declares US-EU Data Transfer Pact Invalid 205
Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached 278
4 Calif. Students Arrested For Alleged Mass-Killing Plot 452
US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital 410
DHS Detains Mayor of Stockton, CA, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords 399
China Beats US In Early Cuban Internet Infrastructure Investment 109
The FAA Has Missed Its Congressionally Mandated Deadline To Regulate Drones 184
South Korean Citizen IDs Vulnerable, Based On US Model 57
Former Cisco CEO: China, India, UK Will Lead US In Tech Race Without Action 109
Legal Loophole Offers Volkswagen Criminal Immunity 323
The Global Struggle To Prevent Cyberwar 57
NY Times: Temporary Visas To Import Talent Help Copycats Take Jobs Abroad 231
FBI and DEA Under Review For Misuse of NSA Mass Surveillance Data 86
Raytheon Wins US Civilian Cyber Contract Worth $1 Billion 62
Europe Agrees To Agree With Everyone Except US What 5G Should Be 164
Analysis: China-US Hacking Accord Is Tall On Rhetoric, Short On Substance 38
Don't Worry, That Blimp Isn't Watching You Much 43
Tank Hack Ensured Farmland Didn't Thwart the Invasion of Europe 143
Nuclear Energy: The Good News and the Bad News In the EPA Clean Energy Plan 121
The US and China Agree Not To Conduct Economic Espionage In Cyberspace 108
Car Industry "Buried Report Showing US Car Safety Flaws Over Fears For TTIP Deal" 181
Speaker of the House Boehner Announces Resignation 406
America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses 435
EU May Forbid the Transfer of Personal Data To the US 202
Obama Administration Explored Ways To Bypass Smartphone Encryption 142
Phone Passwords Protected By 5th Amendment, Says Federal Court 178
US Rank Drops To 55th In 4G LTE Speeds 70
OPM Says 5.6 million Fingerprints Stolen In Cyberattack 93
US Restarts Hunt For Gravitational Waves With Advanced LIGO 72
George W Bush Made Retroactive NSA 'Fix' After Hospital Room Showdown 258
Chinese Compiling "Facebook" of US Government Employees 113
Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School 657
NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out 263
Law Professor: Genetic Engineering Is (Probably) Protected By the First Amendment 127
Man Receives a Prosthetic Hand That Allows Him To Feel 45
How To Find Out If GCHQ and the NSA Spied On You, and How To Complain 79
Sen. Ron Wyden Says CISA Data Collection Could Put Americans At Risk 58
Sharebeast, the Largest US-based Filesharing Service, Has Its Domain Seized 122
University Employees Suspended Due To Guest Worker Scandal 209
Dept. of Energy Compromised 159 Times Over Four-Year Period 35
10 Major Automakers Agree To Include Automatic Emergency Braking On New Vehicles 451
Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over 'Deep Cynicism' of American Public 403
US Defense Secretary Mulls Rapid Grants For Tech Companies 58
John McAfee On Why He's Running For President 242
US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup 317
Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate 528
Microsoft Continues To Resist US Warrant For Irish Data 195
John McAfee Pondering Presidential Bid 184
Apple To FBI: Encryption Rules Out Handing Over iMessage Data In Real Time 306
Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US 696
Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President 281
Pentagon Halts Work at Labs For Dangerous Pathogens After Anthrax Scare 50
Government Still Hasn't Notified Individuals Whose Personal Data Was Hacked 71
US Weighs Sanctioning Russia As Well As China In Cyber Attacks 78
Where the Tech Industry's Political Donations Are Going 130
"McKinley" Since 1917, Alaska's Highest Peak Is Redesignated "Denali" 389
F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test 502
Assange Says Harrods Assisting Metro Police in 'Round-the-Clock Vigil' 275
Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages 576
Federal Court Overturns Ruling That NSA Metadata Collection Was Illegal 151
Docs: Responding To Katrina, FBI Made Cell Phone Surveillance Its Priority 84
Kansas Secretary of State Blocks Release of Voting Machine Tapes 288
North Dakota Legalizes "Less Than Lethal" Weapon-Equipped Police Drones 180
Calls For Funding NASA Commercial Crew Grow 71
Court: FTC Can Punish Companies With Sloppy Cybersecurity 86
FBI Informant: Ray Bradbury's Sci-fi Written To Induce Communistic Mass Hysteria 282
Mostly Theater? Taking Aim At White House 'We the People' Petitions 68
Two US Marines Foil Terrorist Attack On Train In France 468
Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? 698
Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption 495
Evidence That H-1B Holders Don't Replace US Workers 417
Former Rep. Louis Stokes, the Man Who Saved the Space Station, Dies At Age 90 50
US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence 264
How an Obscure Acronym Helped Link AT&T To NSA Spying 54
Virginia Ditches 'America's Worst Voting Machines' 393
F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters 732
Georgia Aquarium Battles Federal Government Over Belugas 90
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Is Now Chairing Lessig's Presidential Bid 119
AT&T Helped the NSA Spy On Internet Traffic 82
Time Runs Out On Sweden's Sexual Assault Charges Against Julian Assange 226
The Fastest-Growing Tech State Is... Minnesota 155
Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found 676
The NSA's Philosopher 95
Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign 458
Congressional Black Caucus Begs Apple For Its 'Trade Secret' Racial Data 337
Dr. Frances Kelsey, Who Saved American Babies From Thalidomide, Dies At 101 278
Twilight of the Bomb 332
NBC Report: Russian Hackers Behind Attack On Pentagon Mail System 81
FDA Approves First 3D-Printed Drug Tablet 64
How Boing Boing Handled an FBI Subpoena Over Its Tor Exit Node 104
Obama Unveils Major Climate Change Proposal 413
DoD Ditches Open Source Medical Records System In $4.3B Contract 186
China To Impose Export Control On High Tech Drones and Supercomputers 67
Epic Mega Bridge To Connect America With Russia Gets Closer To Reality 465
Germany Won't Prosecute NSA, But Bloggers 111
Interviews: Kim Dotcom Answers Your Questions 90
Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer 223
What Federal Employees Really Need To Worry About After the Chinese Hack 123
US Military Stepping Up Use of Directed Energy Weapons 83
Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition 608

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