The NSA can tap data in smart phones, including iPhones, Android, and BlackBerry.

While there is not much detail here, the fact that BlackBerry was temporarily not accessible suggests that this is not done using the universal back door that nearly all portable phones have. It may involve exploiting various bugs.

2013 might not set a new record in loss of Arctic sea ice, because the process is not steady; but it is continuing.

John Gilmore, a GNU developer, describes the NSA meddling he observed in the IPSEC standardization process and the cell phone encryption spec design.

Many Tor nodes are still using 1000-bit keys that the NSA can very likely crack.

German intelligence reports say the chemical attacks in Syria were made by Assad's army but without his approval.

We must not put much confidence in these reports, nor in the vague reports from the Obama regime, nor in the reports cited by Thomas Drake & friends saying that rebels are responsible. We are not really in a position to know.