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FBI Letter to Martin Luther King Jr Reveals Ugly Truths From Hoover's Era
MLK is depicted as evil and a fraud in the letter that urges the civil rights icon to commit suicide.
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Typewriters are back, and we have Edward Snowden to thank.
In writing, music, photography and other areas, “outdated” technologies have initially been valued for their retro, nostalgic appeal in the hipster culture. Vinyl is one of the most notable technologies to have achieved a noticeable revival, not only for its retro value but also for its superior sound quality.
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Report: The U.S. is putting fake cell towers in planes to spy on people
The U.S. Department of Justice is putting devices that emulate cellphone towers in Cessna aircraft and flying them around the country to track the locations of cell phones, a practice that targets criminal suspects but may also affect thousands of U.S. citizens, according to a news report Thursday.
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AT&T drops 'super cookies' from cellphone data
AT&T Mobility, the nation's second-largest cellular provider, says it's no longer attaching hidden Internet tracking codes to data transmitted from its users' smartphones. The practice made it nearly impossible to shield its subscribers' identities online.
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Google’s secret NSA alliance: The terrifying deals between Silicon Valley and the security state
Inside the high-level, complicated deals -- and the rise of a virtually unchecked surveillance power
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USA Freedom Act for NSA reform is voted down in the Senate
The US Senate has just voted down the USA Freedom Act by a vote of 58-42, leaving it just two votes shy of the 60 it needed. The bill would have ended the controversial phone record metadata collection by the NSA, but the Senate was not in favor of rolling back any of the NSA's broad surveillance powers.
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The Real Lesson From Recent Cyberattacks: Let's Break Up The NSA
Over the weekend, the U.S. State Department shut down its unclassified email network after finding evidence that hackers might have been prowling around. It's in good company: In the past several weeks, hackers have poked around in computers at the White House, the Postal Service and the National Weather Service—not to mention JPMorgan and nine other big banks.
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Why Can't I Take an Orange Through Customs?
Fruit flies, agroterrorism, and how a healthy snack became a threat to national security.
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Utah lawmaker wants to shut off NSA’s water supply for good
Bill bans aid between any
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The FBI Is very excited about this machine that can scan your DNA in 90 minutes
Rapid-DNA technology makes it easier than ever to grab and store your genetic profile. G-men, cops, and Homeland Security can't wait to see it everywhere.
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New Snowden leak - Spy cable revealed: how telecoms firm worked with GCHQ
One of the UK's largest communications firms had a leading role in creating the surveillance system exposed by Edward Snowden, it can be revealed.
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How to Encrypt the Entire Web for Free - The Intercept
If we’ve learned one thing from the Snowden revelations, it’s that what can be spied on will be spied on. Since the advent of what used to be known as the World Wide Web, it has been a relatively simple matter for network attackers—whether it’s the NSA, Chinese intelligence, your employer, your university, abusive partners, or teenage hackers>>
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Local judge unseals hundreds of highly secret cell tracking court records
Stingray docs unsealed by North Carolina judge could prompt wave of new appeals.
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Theresa May moves to give police powers to identify internet users
Police are to get powers to force internet firms to hand over details linked to IP addresses in order to help them help identify criminal suspects online. The anti-terrorism and security bill will oblige internet service providers (ISPs) to retain information linking IP (Internet Protocol) addresses to individual users.
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Records reveal chats between FCC and telecoms on net neutrality
It's no secret that the FCC has at least a few links to the communications companies it's policing. Chairman Tom Wheeler is a former lobbyist, and commissioners have taken industry jobs mere months after leaving office.
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NSA Privacy Director says fears of government spying are unwarranted
It was one of the final questions of the NSA's open Q&A today, and one that's weighed heavily on the minds of American citizens since the Prism
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Postal Service almost never denies mail-surveillance requests
The Postal Service tracks information from the outside of mail items on behalf of law-enforcement agencies in a controversial surveillance practice known as mail covers.
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Why It’s Impossible to Indict a Cop
It’s not just Ferguson—here’s how the system protects police.
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CIA Won’t Defend Its One-Time Torturers
When the long-awaited ‘Torture Report’ finally drops, don’t expect the CIA to stand up for its interrogation programs—or disavow those controversial efforts.
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The U.S. Government Has a Secret System for Stalling Patents
Entrepreneurs and established companies alike depend on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to legally protect their inventions. But the Patent Office has been using a secret system to withhold the approval of some applications. Newly released documents reveal that the office, tasked with evaluating and protecting the rights to intellectual property, has a covert system for delaying controversial or inconvenient patents. It’s a system that attorneys say, if abused...
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