Louis Freeh and the 1996 Demand for Digital Backdoors
The state spent decades trying to ensure no citizen could whisper in private. Louis Freeh's 1996 testimony sought to kill encryption in the name of public safety.
By Marcus Boone ·
Privacy
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 ·
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 ·