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The Making of a Republican Snowdenista
Prior to the Snowden revelations, Massie says, he knew almost nothing about the NSA’s surveillance techniques. Now, he says: “If you assume the worst, it’s not a bad position to take, given what we’ve found out.” By Jenna McLaughlin.
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Activists: US overstates encryption threat, underreports wiretap figures
Privacy advocates argue government exaggerates how many messages are undecipherable, while hiding scope of monitoring. By Jenifer Fenton -
Why appeasing governments over encryption will never work
David Cameron and the director of the FBI have both asked for ‘backdoors’ to be included in encryption software. By John Naughton.
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Well-written article by the Intercept. We conservatives against NSA data mining finally have a voice.
"The most important is an amendment to the Pentagon appropriations bill, which passed the house 293 to 123. The amendment, which Massie also partnered with Lofgren to put forward, would forbid the NSA from using its funding to perform “backdoor searches” without a warrant on Americans’ communications. "