Jerry Berman and the 1996 Battle to Lock the Internet
A South African engineer warned the Senate that the state was breaking the web's privacy to maintain its watch, a plea the FBI would systematically dismantle one month later.
By Marcus Boone ·
Privacy
Watergate Prosecutors Sifted Nixon's Secret Tapes for Other Crimes
Private conversations captured without consent between 1971 and 1973 were sorted by prosecutors seeking crimes beyond the Watergate break-in, though many names remain in the dark.
By Miriam Adler ·
DARPA targeted civilian homes with 15-centimeter covert drones
People in high civilian concentrations were watched in their bedrooms and offices by insect-sized machines that could deliver remote precision mines.
By Marcus Boone ·