- Andrea Peterson
- Reporter
Andrea Peterson covers technology policy for The Washington Post, with an emphasis on cybersecurity, consumer privacy, transparency, surveillance and open government. She also delves into the societal impacts of technology access and how innovation is intertwined with cultural development.
Peterson was previously a tech reporter for ThinkProgress, and her writing has also appeared on Slate and Science Progress. You can follow her on Twitter or send her an e-mail.
Revenge-porn kingpin paid bargain basement prices for hacked nudes, court docs allege
The payments Hunter Moore allegedly made to a hacker for nude photos of his victims were depressingly low.
Yahoo tweeted about the Gmail outage -- four times in a row.
Pretty smug for a company whose mail product had a multi-day outage in December.
Some of the biggest names in cryptography condemn NSA in open letter
An open letter from major players in the computer science and cryptography fields urges the government to reconsider its approach to surveillance.
- The Switchboard: ‘Most hated man on the Internet’ indicted on federal charges
- Government privacy board members say shifting NSA data to third parties is a bad idea
- Government board report refutes 9/11 argument for NSA phone records program
- Just by sitting on them, the government earned another $24 million from Silk Road’s bitcoins
- Half of Americans heard ‘nothing at all’ about the president’s NSA speech
- The Switchboard: ‘Spoiled onions’ on the Tor network
- ’123456 replaces ‘password’ as most common password found in data breaches
- Ukraine’s 1984 moment: Government using cellphones to track protesters
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Conservative author and pundit Dinesh D'Souza charged in campaign finance case -
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Hunter Moore is in jail, but that just means some other despicable character is "the most-hated man on the Internet" now -
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Jesse Ryan Loskarn, former Lamar Alexander aide, dead in suicide -
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