Mediagazer: Activists call on N.Y. Times, ProPublica to release unredacted NSA information (Hadas Gold/Politico)

5:55 AM ET, September 7, 2013

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Hadas Gold / Politico:

Activists call on N.Y. Times, ProPublica to release unredacted NSA information — Several privacy and tech activists are calling on the New York Times and ProPublica to release unredacted documents in the wake of their report about how the National Security Agency is able to break encryption codes.

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ProPublica's Jeff Larson on the NSA crypto story — Yesterday, ProPublica, the New York Times, and the Guardian collaboratively broke the story of the NSA's Bullrun program and its encryption-cracking capabilities. This afternoon, Erin Kissane sat down with ProPublica's Jeff Larson …

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