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Justin Amash Argues With AIPAC Stooge Over NSA Spying

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August 2, 2013

Justin Amash Argues With AIPAC Stooge Over NSA Spying

Glenn Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have 'Powerful and Invasive' Search Tool

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July 28, 2013

Glenn Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have 'Powerful and Invasive' Search Tool

Hacker dies days before he was to reveal how to remotely kill pacemaker patients | XRepublic

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July 27, 2013

Security researcher Barnaby Jack has passed away in San Francisco, only days before a scheduled appearance at a Las Vegas hacker conference where he intended to show how an ordinary pacemaker could be compromised in order to kill a man.

Jack, who previously presented hacks involving ATMs and insulin pumps at the annual Black Hat conference in Vegas, was confirmed dead Friday morning by the San Francisco Medical Examiner's office, Reuters reported. He passed away Thursday this week, but the office declined to offer any more details at this time. Jack's death came one week to the day before he was scheduled to detail one of his most recent exploits in a Black Hat talk called "Implantable Medical Devices: Hacking Humans."

Anonymous Operation NSA's first target: Californian Senator Dianne Feinstein. She has taken over $698,000 in bribes from security and defense contractors to vote in favor of them and against you.

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July 18, 2013

Greetings Californian State Senator Dianne Feinstein. We are Anonymous. Did you think that your actions against the citizens of this country would go unnoticed?

Did you think that we the people, would not respond to your gruesome dishonesty? We have been watching. In accordance with phase II of #Op NSA we have found you, Senator Feinstein, GUILTY Of supporting unconstitutional acts carried out by the Government and its agencies. Although the opinion of the FISA court that oversees the National Security Agency's operations is often not released to the public, we are now making it known to the public. While the public may have been kept in the dark; you, Senator Feinstein were fully aware of the FISA court's two thousand and eleven opinion. Eighty pages detailing how the National Security Agency's surveillance conduct is in direct violation of the fourth amendment of the United States Constitution as well as in excess of the limitations imposed by the statute: The FISA amendments act of two thousand and eight. When you told the American people that you have no knowledge of the National Security Agency's surveillance program, PRISM, of violating anyone's civil liberties or freedoms: You were lying.

WSJ: The NSA's Surveillance Is Unconstitutional

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July 15, 2013

Due largely to unauthorized leaks, we now know that the National Security Agency has seized from private companies voluminous data on the phone and Internet usage of all U.S. citizens.

We've also learned that the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has approved the constitutionality of these seizures in secret proceedings in which only the government appears, and in opinions kept secret even from the private companies from whom the data are seized. If this weren't disturbing enough, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform, is compiling a massive database of citizens' personal information-including monthly credit-card, mortgage, car and other payments-ostensibly to protect consumers from abuses by financial institutions.

Oops: IRS Publishes Tens Of Thousands Of SSN's To Online Database

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July 8, 2013

It turns out you can't even trust the Internal Revenue Service with your social security number.

Some bungling IT staffer at every Americans' favorite government agency forgot to redact tens of thousands of SSNs when uploading a new online database on the $1.5 trillion nonprofit industry. Thanks to the keen eyes of PublicResource.org, a nonprofit that specializes in publishing government archives, the IRS has already shut down the database, so criminals looking for easy identity theft victims will have to search elsewhere for the time being.

Tea Party Members Fit Profile of Domestic Terrorists, Obama Claims (which subjects them to "kill lists" and the NDAA)

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July 4, 2013

A short time ago while addressing a CEO roundtable and Business Forum in Tanzania, President Barack H. Obama, told reporters and attendees that today's Tea Party members in the United States very closely fit the U.S. government's profile for domestic terrorists. The President's response came after a Tanzania businessman asked if civil unrest in the U.S. is likely to affect doing business with American companies. The President and First Lady are in Tanzania as part of their tour of South Africa. The President and First Lady attended a tree planting ceremony with President Kikwete earlier and are scheduled to have dinner with the South African President of the United Republic of Tanzania later at the State House, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

Ecuador breaks US trade pact to thwart 'blackmail' over Edward Snowden also offered a $23m donation for human rights training in the US

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June 27, 2013

Ecuador has ramped up its defiance of the US over Edward Snowden by waiving preferential trade rights with Washington even as the whistleblower's prospect of reaching Quito dimmed.

President Rafael Correa's government said on Thursday it was renouncing the Andean Trade Preference Act to thwart US "blackmail" of Ecuador in the former NSA contractor's asylum request. Officials, speaking at an early morning press conference, also offered a $23m donation for human rights training in the US, a brash riposte to recent US criticism of Ecuador's own human rights record.

xkcd: PGP

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March 3, 2013

How to use PGP to verify that an email is authentic...

xkcd: ISO 8601

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February 27, 2013

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