Articles by Morgan Marquis-Boire

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XKEYSCORE (Part I) – NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications
Morgan Marquis-Boire, Glenn Greenwald, and Micah Lee – The Intercept, 6 Jul 2015

1 Jul 2015 – One of the National Security Agency’s most powerful tools of mass surveillance makes tracking someone’s Internet usage as easy as entering an email address, and provides no built-in technology to prevent abuse. Today, The Intercept is publishing 48 top-secret and other classified documents about XKEYSCORE.

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XKEYSCORE (Part II) – Behind the Curtain: A Look at the Inner Workings of NSA
Micah Lee, Glenn Greenwald, and Morgan Marquis-Boire – The Intercept, 6 Jul 2015

Around the world, when a person gets online to do anything — write an email, post to a social network, browse the web or play a video game — there’s a decent chance that the Internet traffic her device sends and receives is getting collected and processed by one of XKEYSCORE’s hundreds of servers scattered across the globe.

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Popular Security Software Came Under Relentless NSA and GCHQ Attacks
Andrew Fishman and Morgan Marquis-Boire – The Intercept, 29 Jun 2015

To thwart and extract hacks from anti-virus software companies, the spy agencies reverse engineered software, intercepted email and spied on web traffic. Kaspersky Lab was a major target.

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Secret Malware in European Union Attack Linked to U.S. and British Intelligence
Morgan Marquis-Boire, Claudio Guarnieri, and Ryan Gallagher – The Intercept, 1 Dec 2014

Complex malware known as Regin is the suspected technology behind sophisticated cyberattacks conducted by U.S. and British intelligence agencies on the European Union and a Belgian telecommunications company, according to security industry sources and technical analysis conducted by The Intercept.

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Secret Manuals Show the Spyware Sold to Despots and Cops Worldwide
Cora Currier and Morgan Marquis-Boire – The Intercept, 3 Nov 2014

There are already methods to bypass encryption, thanks to off-the-shelf digital implants readily available to the smallest national agencies and the largest city police forces — easy-to-use software that takes over and monitors digital devices in real time, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.

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You Can Get Hacked Just by Watching This Cat Video on YouTube
Morgan Marquis-Boire – The Intercept, 18 Aug 2014

Many people think they have to do something wrong, or stupid, or insecure to get hacked—like clicking on the wrong attachments, or browsing malicious websites. But according to research I am releasing today at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, many of these commonly held beliefs are not necessarily true.

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Leaked Files: German Spy Company Helped Bahrain Hack Arab Spring Protesters
Cora Currier and Morgan Marquis-Boire – The Intercept, 11 Aug 2014

7 Aug 2014 – A notorious surveillance technology company that helps governments around the world spy on their citizens sold software to Bahrain during that country’s brutal response to the Arab Spring movement, according to leaked internal documents posted this week on the internet.

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