Pranking the NSA
The latest leak to come from fugitive whistle-blower Edward Snowden suggests the National Security Agency can defeat even the toughest encryption codes available. That means, in theory, the NSA can read email and other protected communications online. Last week, Iranian-born Dutch filmmaker Bahram Sadeghi called up the Agency and asked them to help retrieve an email he accidentally deleted (see...
The latest leak to come from fugitive whistle-blower Edward Snowden suggests the National Security Agency can defeat even the toughest encryption codes available. That means, in theory, the NSA can read email and other protected communications online. Last week, Iranian-born Dutch filmmaker Bahram Sadeghi called up the Agency and asked them to help retrieve an email he accidentally deleted (see the video below). And Jonathan Corbett mailed in some 1,500 Freedom of Information requests as a form of protest. We ask David Sobel, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, whether an person can successful track their information from the NSA.
Calling the NSA, Part 1
When Bahram Sadeghi called the NSA to ask them to help him retrieve an email he'd accidentally deleted, he also videotaped the conversation. Here's what happened:
Calling the NSA, Part 2
Shortly after that phone call, Bahram's friends worried that his prank may have ironically put him on some kind of NSA watch list. So, about a week later, Bahram decided to call the NSA again and ask them if they were, in fact, watching him:
Calling the NSA, Part 1
When Bahram Sadeghi called the NSA to ask them to help him retrieve an email he'd accidentally deleted, he also videotaped the conversation. Here's what happened:
Calling the NSA, Part 2
Shortly after that phone call, Bahram's friends worried that his prank may have ironically put him on some kind of NSA watch list. So, about a week later, Bahram decided to call the NSA again and ask them if they were, in fact, watching him: