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Jeff Larson is a News Applications developer at ProPublica. He is a winner of the Livingston Award for the 2011 series Redistricting: How Powerful Interests are Drawing You Out of a Vote. Previously, he was the Online Director at The Nation where he coordinated the magazine's editorial and business activities on the web during the 2008 political season. Jeff's public key.

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NIST to Review Standards After Cryptographers Cry Foul Over NSA Meddling

Nov. 4, 3:05 p.m.

The federal institute that sets national standards for data encryption has announced it is reviewing all of its previous recommendations.

Government Standards Agency “Strongly” Suggests Dropping its Own Encryption Standard

Sep. 13, 1:07 p.m.

The decision follows revelations about the NSA’s covert influence on computer security standards.

Johns Hopkins and the Case of the Missing NSA Blog Post

Sep. 9, 5:58 p.m.

The university, which works closely with the NSA, apologizes to a professor after he was asked to remove his post.

Revealed: The NSA’s Secret Campaign to Crack, Undermine Internet Security

Sep. 5, 2:08 p.m.

Newly revealed documents show that the NSA has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption that automatically secures the emails, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world.

NSA: Responding to this FOIA Would Help “Our Adversaries.”

June 25, 1:57 p.m.

Here’s what I got when I asked the NSA if they’re collecting my metadata.

New Maps and a New Plan for New York

June 12, 11:41 a.m.

FEMA's released new, preliminary flood insurance maps for New York City, which specify how likely areas are to flood. The new maps, which replace maps that used data from 1983, double the number of structures in flood zones.

How We Analyzed Medicare’s Drug Data

May 11, 8:12 p.m.

ProPublica obtained Medicare Part D data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Freedom of Information Act. Here follows more information about the data and how we analyzed it.

Prescriber Checkup

May 11, 8:10 p.m.

Medicare’s popular prescription-drug program now serves more than 35 million people, but the names of prescribers and the drugs they choose have never previously been public. Use this tool to find and compare doctors and other top prescribers in 2010.

An Exchange About California’s Redistricting Process

March 14, 12:40 p.m.

An exchange between ProPublica and the California Redistricting Commission.

RIP EveryBlock

Feb. 8, 2:47 p.m.

EveryBlock is gone, here's how we archive our apps.

Updated: State Gas Drilling Regulatory Staff Tracker

Feb. 4, 3:57 p.m.

How big is the natural gas drilling regulatory staff in your state?

How Disaster Aid Recipients Voted on Sandy Relief

Feb. 1, 6:21 a.m.

Though the Sandy relief bill passed both the Senate and the House, many members of Congress voted no despite their own states receiving millions of dollars in federal disaster assistance in 2012.

Housing Segregation: The Great Migration and Beyond

Dec. 20, 2012, 4:29 p.m.

Explore the great migration of African Americans from 1940 to 2000 and segregation in Northern cities.

Anatomy of a News Map

Dec. 10, 2012, 9 a.m.

Behind the scenes on our great migration graphic.

Iraq Blocks Syria’s Request to Fetch Combat Helicopters from Russia

Dec. 5, 2012, 6:45 a.m.

Mystery solved. Syria had requested to ferry attack helicopters from Russia over Iraq, but the flights hadn't happened. Now, the Iraqis say they denied permission.

To Retrieve Attack Helicopters from Russia, Syria Asks Iraq for Help, Documents Show

Nov. 29, 2012, 3:17 p.m.

Documents show that Syria asked Iraqi authorities to grant air access to fly in refurbished attack helicopters from Russia, putting a spotlight on Iraq’s role in the nearly two-year conflict.

Syria Claims Turkey Committed ‘Air Piracy,’ New Documents Say

Nov. 27, 2012, 7:52 p.m.

Hackers with the online group Anonymous posted new documents giving Syria’s version of how Turkey impounded a Syrian Arab Airlines passenger jet last month. The documents could not be authenticated.

Flight Records Say Russia Sent Syria Tons of Cash

Nov. 25, 2012, 11 p.m.

The records of overflight requests show more than 200 tons of “bank notes” from Moscow to Damascus.

New Open Source Project: Daybreak, a Simple Key/Value Database for Ruby

Nov. 19, 2012, 11:19 a.m.

A couple of weeks ago, in an article about the science behind the Message Machine project, we mentioned the custom key-value store we built to store non-relational data. Today, we're open sourcing the library which we're calling Daybreak.

Message Machine: Tracking Political Targeting

Nov. 3, 2012, 7:35 p.m.

Political campaigns send many variations of each email to supporters. We've been collecting emails from political campaigns and tracking the variations

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