One of the most famous, lauded men in technology just called one of the most infamous men in the world a "traitor," on national television—all because the former is worried the latter might cost him some money.

When Edward Snowden revealed the NSA was wiretapping basically every mainstream tech company in the United States, Silicon Valley cried plead innocence—and ignorance. But according to the agency's top attorney, that was a lie.

Glenn Greenwald's Snowden files are the bottomless mimosas of cyber-security scares. The latest dispatch from The Intercept describes how the National Security Agency exploited Silicon Valley by disguising itself as a fake Facebook server in order to infect targeted computers with malware.

Yesterday, we called the coalition behind "The Day We Fight Back," an initiative protesting mass surveillance, to find out why NSA-friendly tech giants had not signed up alongside Reddit, Tumblr, and other companies for today's event. Just wait, they said.

The denial phase is over. In his speech about NSA spying tactics, President Obama just said: "We will also enable communications providers to make public more information than ever before about the orders they have received to provide data to the government."

Twitter wasn't always Marc Andreessen's jam. His recent bout of 140 character logorrhea came after a lengthy 983 day silent period. But the venture capitalist is back with a vengeance and recently launched a diatribe dismissing people who question the NSA as naive and possibly illiterate.

It only took half a year for the un-beating heart of America's tech sector to show any unified opposition to NSA dragnet techniques: ReformGovernmentSurveillance.com is a lazy piece of PR dreck—and about as transparently self-serving as it gets.

Just because large, important chunks of Silicon Valley will play ball with American spies, doesn't mean all the underlings are game. Two security engineers at the company that runs your email inbox are speaking out, and they are using bad words.

If anyone knows where "the creepy line" lies, it's Eric Schmidt. And he says the NSA has crossed it by spying on Google's data centers. "The steps that the organization was willing to do without good judgment to pursue its mission and potentially violate people’s privacy, it’s not OK,” Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal.

In order to keep the internet humming, the biggest data companies in the world link enormous data centers together—and at the seams, the NSA has been listening. The Washington Post reports just how deeply the feds have infiltrated our online lives.

Cool, more things to be terrified of: the Washington Post has more Ed Snowden slides detailing our federal government's data mining operations, and they are bad. Hundreds of millions of address books across Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, and other various inboxes are subject to secret NSA collection.

On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt yesterday, after signing Michael Arrington's copy of Vogue, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer offered an odd defense of tech companies silence over PRISM. "We fought, we lost. If you don't comply it's treason."

If you want to make a company premised on squeezing money out of vast troves of personal data, our U.S. government is one swarming job fair jamboree. The New York Times details how tax-trained engineers are cashing out through California startup jobs.

If you're wondering who the hell still uses Hotmail, now we know: the NSA. The corporate refrain of We're just doing what the feds make us do! is a little less credible, with a new report from The Guardian detailing Microsoft's efforts to help Prism work better.

Codeacademy is a pretty neat idea: learning the basics of a programming language shouldn't be so intimidating, so let's break it down into friendly, digestible online segments. Cool. What's not so cool is using the threat of digital totalitarianism as a marketing ploy.

Edward Snowden is doing a live Q&A with the Guardian, and one of the most important questions has already hit: what's up with all of the very similar dismissals of "direct access" coming from Facebook, Apple, and the rest? Snowden's not buying it.

Zuck says he doesn't work directly with NSA or any other program" to "PROACTIVELY" give user information

No one knows what Palantir—named after a magical rock in Lord of The Rings that granted remote vision—exactly does. But we know enough to know it's not just another California startup. The secretive data-mining company works directly with the American government, has a product named "Prism," and some very close ties to Facebook, one of the NSA's top targets.

You've never heard of the NSA's "PRISM" project, but it might know lots about you: according to a new report by the Washington Post, the agency has been secretly collecting enormous, intimate troves of internet data from the biggest tech companies in the world. They can watch you as you type.