Event cryptography Installfest Encryption Meetup Workshop A cybersecurity installfest for journalists

• By Mike Tigas
• Hacks/Hackers

Mike Tigas recaps the recent security-for-journalists talk and installfest at Hacks/Hackers NYC.

Interview cryptography data mining ProPublica’s Jeff Larson on the NSA Crypto Story

• By Erin Kissane, Scott Klein, Jeff Larson
• James Ball, Julian Borger, Scott Klein, Jeff Larson, Nicole Perlroth, Scott Shane
• ProPublica, The Guardian, The New York Times

We sat down with ProPublica’s contributor to the story, Jeff Larson—with an assist from news apps editor Scott Klein—to talk about the tech involved and why the story needed someone from the team affectionately called the news nerds.