GCHQ hammers laptops, data resides everywhere

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Fri Aug 28 12:52:59 PDT 2015


https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/26/way-gchq-obliterated-guardians-laptops-revealed-intended/

In July 2013, GCHQ, Britain’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security
Agency, forced journalists at the London headquarters of The Guardian
to completely obliterate the memory of the computers on which they
kept copies of top-secret documents provided to them by former NSA
contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden.

However, in its attempt to destroy information, GCHQ also revealed
intriguing details about what it did and why.

Two technologists, Mustafa Al-Bassam and Richard Tynan, visited
Guardian headquarters last year to examine the remnants of the
devices.
...
“From a privacy perspective, we need to empower users with knowledge
about what their devices do,”




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