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‘Zero Days’ director says U.S. government secrecy trend ‘appalling’

counts of several NSA insiders, that Stuxnet was just the tip of the iceberg.\n\n\”I mean you\’ve been focusing on Stuxnet but that was just part of a much larger operation… Nitro Zeus, NZ,\” an actress says in the film, speaking for several NSA employees who were interviewed but whose identity was kept secret for source protection.\n\nAccording to these accounts, the NSA spent \”hundreds of millions, maybe billions\” on Nitro Zeus to be prepared for the eventuality that Israel decided to attack Iran and the United States would be drawn into the conflict.

US spied on Netanyahu during talks on Iran deal

The United States monitored phone conversations between top Israeli officials and U.S. lawmakers as well as U.S. Jewish groups in the U.S., current and former U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal.

Snowden denies he got help from Russia in leaking U.S. secrets

Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden said he acted alone in leaking U.S. government secrets and that suggestions by some U.S. lawmakers he might have had help from Russia were \”absurd,\” the New Yorker magazine reported on Tuesday.

Ron Galperin backs Big Data to improve City Hall

Controller Ron Galperin is City Hall’s new numbers guy, hoping to bring the era of Big Data to the creaking bureaucracy. His plan is to use computers to analyze huge amounts of information as is now done by police departments, baseball teams, other businesses and, infamously, the National Security Agency.

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