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Here Are The Best And Worst Redesigns Of PRISM’s Atrocious PowerPoint
There are plenty of reasons to be discomforted the recent NSA PRISM scandal, chief among them the total obliteration of any remaining notion of privacy. But there’s another — less pressing, but still confidence-shattering — concern that has echoed around our internet’s hallowed halls this past week: the fact that this massive, top-secret, data-mining government…
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FBI Pushing Hard For Real-Time Online Spying Powers
The FBI wants more power. That’s not any particular kind of surprising, since the FBI always wants more power, but this push is notable for what’s it’s after: real-time spy privileges for online communication.
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Pentagon: Let’s Threaten Nuke Strike Against Hackers
Most of us are content keeping hackers away with a firewall and decent password. But the Pentagon isn’t nearly content, and in a new report, insists we should keep our nuclear arsenal ready for internet retaliation. What could go wrong?
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US Government Can Use People’s Phones To Figure Out Where Someone Has Been
US court documents obtained by the American Civil Liberies Union (ACLU) reveal just how vulnerable information about people’s private lives are to prying government eyes that get a hold of their phones. It’s more than just your text messages, folks. It’s every connection point their phones have used.