Showing posts with label snowden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snowden. Show all posts

Saturday, 2 November 2013

NSA leaker Edward Snowden gets job in a major Russian website


The NSA leaker Edward Snowden got a job after three months of his shipment to Russia. He got the job in a major Russian website, his lawyer said Thursday.

Edward Snowden will start working at a big Russian company on Friday, November 1. His job will be to support and develop a major Russian website,”lawyer said.

Asking upon the company’s name in which Snowden got job, lawyer didn’t disclose that, citing security concerns.

Speculation over Snowden’s new employer centred on the Russian equivalent of Facebook, Vkontakte, whose charismatic founder Pavel Durov publicly offered Snowden a post in August.

Right now two major Russian internet companies—yandex.ru and Mail.Ru Group said, “No, we didn’t hire Snowden.”

According to Snowden’s lawyer, he was running out of money that’ why he need a job.

After the revelation of secret documents of NSA, he was on a year temporary asylum in Russia.

Snowden spent more than a month in a Moscow airport before receiving a year’s temporary asylum and heading to a secret address.

Snowden supporter website also has raised $49,000 in donations.

Saturday, 31 August 2013

After Snowden’s surveillance revelations, TOR users from US has grown by more than 75 percent


After Snowden’s revelations about National Security Agency that they SPY on every internet user in United States, just after that People from US were under fear of being spied and finding out some ways to by pass NSA Spying.
TOR is one of the way that users using and the number of  TOR users doubled from June of this year.

What is Tor?

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis
TOR metrics show out the number of users and you can see the graph below in which it is showed up how TOR users increasing day by day, In the U.S., the number of users has grown by more than 75 percent.

If we explore more from their metrics then we find that more than 1.2 million people now regularly connect to the Tor network to engage in online activities. That is up from just over 600,000 worldwide users in June of this year. Of those 600,000 new users, roughly ten percent are from the United States.
Below is the United States Graph:

Daily Traffic from United States is increasing by 17.25% and it is only the country, whose users are increasing more than 10%, it looks like Americans really under fear of NSA Prism and wants to keep their privacy secure.