The NSA

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - Born Bugged
3. Chapter Two - Eavesdropping Goes Global
4. Chapter Three - The Math Nerds Take Over
5. Chapter Four - Oops, We Invented the Internet
6. Chapter Five - 9/11: The Panic Button
7. Chapter Six - Total Information OVERkill
8. Chapter Seven - Big Tech Bends the Knee
9. Chapter Eight - Oops, Ed Leaked It
10. Chapter Nine - The Domestic Listening Party
11. Chapter Ten - Predictive Policing and Other Sci‑Fi Nightmares
12. Chapter Eleven - The Quantum Panic Room
13. Chapter Twelve - Who’s Supposed to Stop This?
14. Chapter Thirteen - Silence Wins

Excerpt

PROLOGUE YOU ARE BEING listened to. Not maybe. Not hypothetically. Not in some future dystopia where everyone wears gray jumpsuits and calls each other “comrade.” Now. Right now. That buzzing in your wall? Probably nothing. That weird permission request on your phone? Also probably nothing. But the keyword alerts, the passive geolocation, the behavioral drift models running in the background of every major platform? Yeah. That’s real. Welcome to the NSA — the National Security Agency. An organization so secretive, it didn’t officially exist for decades. An agency so powerful, it can break into your phone through a firewall you didn’t know was there. And a surveillance state so big, it no...