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Noah Shachtman

NSA Introduces New Plan To Prevent Leaks

On Thursday during a cybersecurity conference, General Keith Alexander said that the NSA is planning to reduce the number of systems administrators–a position previously held by leaker Edward Snowden–by up to 90 percent. There are currently 1,000 system administrators working for the NSA, but much of the work they do will eventually be automated. By […]

Iran has multidimensional spy agency keeping it stable

High-technology drones and surveillance: How the US tracks terrorists

Environment

New WikiLeaks Document Dump

The World

Helicopter Crash in Afghanistan

Conflict & Justice

How Jammers Helped Counter the Iraqi Insurgency

Conflict & Justice

The US military came up with a better technology to thwart remote-controlled bombs in Iraq.

The World

Taliban target WikiLeaks names

Conflict & Justice

The WikiLeaks documents have far reaching consequences in Afghanistan. BBC correspondent David Loyn brings details from Afghanistan. Noah Shachtman, contributing editor at Wired says that the WikiLeaks documents should not be taken as a complete picture.

The World

CIA and Google invest in web monitoring company

Conflict & Justice

Google Ventures and In-Q-Tel (investment arms of Google and the C.I.A.), are backing a start-up that monitors activity and text on the Web in real time in order to spot early trends and events. We speak with Noah Shachtman of Wired about Recorded Future.

The World

Defense secretary ousts top Air Force officials after nuclear weapons blunders

Conflict & Justice

In an unprecedented double firing, Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked for the resignation of two top Air Force officials. Gates cited the mistaken shipment of missile parts to Taiwan and a declining nuclear mission focus in announcing the removal of Chief of Staff General Michael Moseley and civilian secretary Michael Wynne. Noah Shachtman, editor of […]