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Snowden may have persuaded 20 to 25 NSA colleagues to give up their passwords
Anonymous sources speaking to Reuters said late Thursday that Edward Snowden was able to collect all the material that he's been leaking over the past few months by convincing “20 to 25” of his coworkers to hand over their login credentials and passwords.
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U.S. seeks $864 million from Bank of America after fraud verdict
The U.S. government urged that Bank of America Corp pay $863.6 million in damages after a federal jury found it liable for fraud over defective mortgages sold by its Countrywide unit.
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John McCain says NSA chief Keith Alexander 'should resign or be fired'
Senator John McCain has called for Keith Alexander to "resign or be fired" as the head of the National Security Agency, in an interview with the German news weekly Der Spiegel published on Sunday.
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NSA's Vast Surveillance Powers Extend Far Beyond Counterterrorism, Despite Misleading Government Claims
Time and again we’ve seen the National Security Agency (NSA) defend its vast surveillance apparatus by invoking the spectre of terrorism, discussing its spying powers as a method to keep America safe. Yet, the truth is that counterterrorism is only a fraction of their far broader authority to seek “foreign intelligence information,” a menacing sounding term that actually encapsulates all sorts of innocuous, everyday conversation.
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Andrew Huszar: Confessions of a Quantitative Easer
In The Wall Street Journal, Andrew Huszar writes that the Fed went on a bond-buying spree that was supposed to help Main Street. Instead, it was a feast for Wall Street.
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Author Of The PATRIOT Act Goes To EU Parliament To Admit Congress Failed, And The NSA Is Out Of Control
It's already strange enough that the author of the PATRIOT Act, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, has come out strongly against the NSA's mass spying, said that James Clapper should be fired and prosecuted, and introduced sweeping new legislation that would significantly curtail the NSA's activities.
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C.I.A. Collecting Data on International Money Transfers, Officials Say
The Central Intelligence Agency is secretly collecting bulk records of international money transfers handled by companies like Western Union — including transactions into and out of the United States — under the same law that the National Security Agency uses for its huge database of Americans’ phone records, according to current and former government officials.
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TSA's $1 Billion 'Behavioral Detection' Program Only Slightly More Accurate Than A Coin Flip
I have yet to see a Government Accountability Office report that can't be described as "highly negative" -- at minimum. Most tend to fall somewhere between "brutal" and "scathing." This is a good thing, although I imagine any agency that is the subject of these reports strongly feels otherwise.
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The US can lock up hackers, but it can't crush their spirit
Laurie Penny: Jeremy Hammond is just the the latest to be targeted in a global witchhunt against the brightest minds of a generation
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Home Wireless Network Keeps the Snoops Away
Wireless mesh networks - internet access that's crazy cheap, locally controlled, and without government snoopage. You could totally do this.
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NSA chief says Edward Snowden leaks increase the probability of a terrorist attack
NSA Director General Keith Alexander was asked what steps U.S. authorities were taking to stop Snowden from leaking additional information to journalists at a Q&A session in Baltimore October 31. 'I wish there was a way to prevent it. Snowden has shared somewhere between 50 (thousand) and 200,000 documents with reporters. These will continue to come out,' Alexander said. He also warned that these leaks made a terrorist attack more likely.
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NSA logged 33m calls in Nato ally Norway
The US National Security Agency (NSA) logged more than 33 million phone calls made by its Nato ally Norway over just one month, a secret document seen by Norway's Dagbladet newspaper has revealed.
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Google's Schmidt predicts end of censorship within a decade
Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has a bold prediction: Censorship around the world could end in a decade, and better use of encryption will help people
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Swedish Regime To Give Police, Customs, Tax Authorities Realtime Access to Citizens' Phone, Mail, More
The Swedish citizens will get all their phone calls and e-mail traffic wiretapped in real time not just by the Swedish NSA branch, but also by police, customs, the tax authority, and others. These plans were revealed today by the Ny Teknik magazine, sending shockwaves among civil rights activists.
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Despite US Opposition, UN Pushes Forward Surveillance Bill of Rights
'Stop spying on us.' That is the message being sent by the majority of nations to the world's most powerful and aggressive surveillance states. An effort to move forward on the United Nation's draft agreement on the right to privacy in the digital age met opposition this week from the so-called "Five Eyes" nations—which includes the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
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Edward Snowden pic coming to D.C. buses
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund announced Wednesday that buses carrying ads with the National Security Agency leaker’s face next to the message, “Thank You Edward Snowden,” will be hitting the streets of the D.C. area next week.
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Edward Snowden a 'hero' for NSA disclosures, Wikipedia founder says
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has called on Barack Obama to rein in the National Security Agency as he described the whistleblower Edward Snowden as "a hero" whom history will judge "very favourably".
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Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit 'Radicalizers'
The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, according to a top-secret NSA document.
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Watch How "1984" Becomes Real Life
What if Edward Snowden was made to disappear? No, I'm not suggesting some future CIA rendition effort or a who-killed-Snowden conspiracy theory of a disappearance, but a more ominous kind. What if everything a whistleblower had ever exposed could simply be made to go away?
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Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the NSA's Secrets
How two alienated, angry geeks broke the story of the year.
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