Category: Liberty
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The NSA phone surveillance program was illegal and expensive: And it did not stop a single terrorist attack.
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a U.S. intelligence agency responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S. government communications and information systems. In the course of its work, the NSA has been known to conduct surveillance on U.S. citizens, both inside and outside the […]
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Encrypt all the things!
Encrypting our communications is a good step, but we need to do more.
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Zero for 40 at Predicting Attacks: Why Do Media Still Take FBI Terror Warnings Seriously?
A casual search reveals the FBI and DHS are a pitiful 0 for 40 warning of terror attacks—some of which were specifically about 4th of July threats, none of which materialized in any way. Source: Zero for 40 at Predicting Attacks: Why Do Media Still Take FBI Terror Warnings Seriously?
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Cory Doctorow, “Little Brother”
If you love freedom, if you think the human condition is dignified by privacy, by the right to be left alone, by the right to explore your weird ideas provided you don’t hurt others, then you have common cause with the kids whose web-browsers and cell phones are being used to lock them up and […]
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Fight 215: Stop the Patriot Act’s Mass Surveillance