Articles by Ellen Nakashima
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WikiLeaks’ Assange Arrested in London, Accused by U.S. of Conspiring in 2010 Computer Hacking Attempt
William Booth, Ellen Nakashima, James McAuley and Matt Zapotosky - The Washington Post,
15 Apr 2019
11 April 2019 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was expelled from the Ecuadoran Embassy here today and arrested on a U.S. hacking charge — maneuvers that initiated a potentially years-long legal battle over his extradition and reignited debates about press freedom.
→ read full articlePowerful NSA Hacking Tools Have Been Revealed Online
Ellen Nakashima – The Washington Post,
22 Aug 2016
16 Aug 2016 – Possibly Stolen NSA Spy Tools May Be Auctioned Off to Any Bidder Soon – Some of the most powerful espionage tools created by the National Security Agency’s elite group of hackers have been revealed in recent days, a development that could pose severe consequences for the spy agency’s operations.
→ read full articleTim Cook: U.S. Government Wants ‘Something We Consider Too Dangerous to Create’
J. Freedom du Lac and Ellen Nakashima – The Washington Post,
22 Feb 2016
The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand.
→ read full articleSecrecy around Police Surveillance Equipment Proves a Case’s Undoing
Ellen Nakashima – The Washington Post,
23 Feb 2015
An FBI-imposed gag order about the StingRay, a sophisticated surveillance device that mimics cell towers, endangers some criminal cases when its use is questioned by defendants or judges.
→ read full articleCourt Gave NSA Broad Leeway in Surveillance, Documents Show
Ellen Nakashima and Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
7 Jul 2014
Virtually no foreign government is off-limits for the National Security Agency, which has been authorized to intercept information “concerning” all but four [anglo] countries, according to top-secret documents: Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
→ read full articleU.N. Diplomat Is Denied Private Meeting with WikiLeaks Suspect Bradley Manning
Ellen Nakashima – The Washington Post,
18 Apr 2011
A United Nations diplomat charged with investigating claims of torture said Monday [11 Apr 2011] that he is “deeply disappointed and frustrated” that U.S. defense officials have refused his request for an unmonitored visit with Pfc. Bradley Manning… Juan E. Mendez, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture, said his request for a private interview with Manning was denied by the Defense Department on Friday. Instead, he has been told that any visit must be supervised.
→ read full articleWith Air Force’s New Drone, ‘We Can See Everything’
Ellen Nakashima and Craig Whitlock – The Washington Post,
3 Jan 2011
The hunger for these high-tech tools was evident at the conference, where officials told several thousand industry and intelligence officials they had to move “at the speed of war.” Cartwright pressed for solutions, even partial ones, in a year or less.
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