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My 2014 resolution: stop my country from becoming a surveillance state
Our New Year's resolutions tend to be well-meaning and hard to keep. That's because we resolve to change our lives in fundamental ways – get fit, etc. But inertia and habit are the enemy of change, and we usually fall back into old patterns. It's human nature.
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How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and the other tech titans have had to fight for their lives against their own government. An exclusive look inside their year from hell—and why the Internet will never be the same.
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How a major bank and the U.S. government joined forces to spy on Anonymous
According to new information, Bank of America solicited information about social activists from various federal agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Cloak and Drone: The Strange Saga of an Al Qaeda Triple Agent
For years, Hassan Ghul was a critical member of Al Qaeda, until sources say he was turned and sent back to infiltrate the enemy. So why did a CIA drone kill him in Waziristan?
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The Case Against Clemency: Expert Says Snowden's Leaks Hurt Security
A former NSA general counsel tells NPR's Morning Edition that Edward Snowden advertised his theft of government secrets as an act of civil disobedience and should take responsibility. "He did the crime — he should do the time," says Stewart Baker, also a former assistant secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush.
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What It's Like When The FBI Asks You To Backdoor Your Software
When an FBI agent casually approached Nico Sell about installing a backdoor into her secure messaging program, the agent did not know what he was in for.
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With Great Computing Power Comes Great Surveillance
We have yet to fully grasp the implications of cheap surveillance. The only thing that is certain is that we will be seeing a great deal more surveillance—of ordinary citizens, potential terrorists, and heads of state—and that it will have major consequences.
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How the NSA makes the nation insecure
Critical new report calls for intelligence reform, interprets citizens' security as protection from government meddling
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Obama to announce changes to NSA surveillance Jan. 17
The president and his aides are now wrapping up a review of spy programs.
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Canada's NSA admits to 'incidentally' spying on own citizens
The admission, posted on the Communications Security Establishment Canada's website, actually came back on Dec. 20, though it went largely unnoticed at the time. It shouldn't come as too much a surprise, considering many Canadians were unaware the CSEC even existed until some of its programs were brought to light by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks.
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Is quantum cryptography the key to thwarting the NSA?
Since former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden first began leaking classified information about the National Security Agency’s controversial online surveillance operations, the possibility for privacy in the Internet age has become an open question. At the forefront of that concern is encryption. As Snowden revealed back in September 2013, the NSA has done a considerable amount of work to gain backdoor access through the encryption schemes that protect much of the world’s Internet traffic.
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I Spent Two Hours Talking With the NSA's Bigwigs. Here's What Has Them Mad
My expectations were low when I asked the National Security Agency to cooperate with my story on the impact of Edward Snowden’s leaks on the tech industry. During the 1990s, I had been working on a book, Crypto, which dove deep into cryptography policy, and it took me years — years! — to get an interview with an employee crucial to my narrative.
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NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep
NSA extracts location, contacts and financial transactions from up to 200 million texts daily that GCHQ can tap into to search metadata from UK numbers
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A Major Victory for Snowden and N.S.A. Reformers
It’s reasonable to suspect that the modifications to the N.S.A.’s telephone-metadata program that Obama announced on Friday are simply cosmetic changes meant to short-circuit the pressure for substantive reform. For example, Obama made it clear that he wanted the “capability” of the telephone metadata “preserved.” But Obama’s speech was undoubtedly a victory for the reform side of this debate
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What if Edward Snowden were president?
A free society must always be vigilant in watching its guardians. But that doesn’t mean a free society can do without guardians in the first place. Those are the proper starting points from which to judge President Obama’s speech at the Justice Department Friday morning. The modest moves he announced to reform the data-gathering and surveillance practices of the federal government’s sprawling national security infrastructure should be welcomed
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Do cops need a warrant to search your phone? US Supreme Court will rule
Two cases will decide whether police can peek at your selfies
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1984 by George Orwell (free in text format)
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel by George Orwell published in 1949. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or, in the government's invented language, Newspeak, called Ingsoc) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite.
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FBI Tried To Blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. Into Suicide
Every year, the memory of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. evokes a nationwide sense of self reflection. The legendary Civil Rights leader forced the country to take a cold, hard look in the mirror and face the bitter treatment and hypocritical denial of basic liberties to African-Americans.
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Would You Feel Differently About Snowden & Assange If You Knew What They Really Thought?
We live in the age of the leaker. Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and Julian Assange are celebrated as heroes on op-ed pages and across glossy magazine spreads...
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New documents: NSA provided 2-3 daily “tips” to FBI for at least 3 years
According to newly-declassified court orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the National Security Agency (NSA) was (and may still be) tipping off the FBI at least two to three times per day going back at least to 2006.
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