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Feigning Deafness, Giving Your Dog’s Email and Other Reader Tips to Thwart Privacy Grubbers
This made me laugh. Homework for the next time I need to sell my soul to the Devil (i.e. A retailer): come up with a snarky fake email address.
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NSA review panel argues in Senate against bulk collection of phone data
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/14/nsa-review-panel-senate-phone-data-terrorism
Interesting update in the government surveillance fiasco. I’m not holding my breath.
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With Great Computing Power Comes Great Surveillance
Moore’s Law turning insidious, morphing.
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Report: NSA Intercepting Laptops Ordered Online, Installing Spyware
I really shouldn’t be shocked any more. I should feel right at home in this George Orwell world I woke up to.
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How feds use one “seed” and 3 “hops” to spy on nearly everyone
http://gigaom.com/2013/12/17/how-feds-use-one-seed-and-3-hops-to-spy-on-nearly-everyone/
The Brave New World dawns over the Animal Farm.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/bulk-telephone-metada-ruling/
Let’s hope the checks and balances envisioned by our Founding Fathers work as they were designed and stop the privacy invasion train wreck.
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International bill of digital rights: call from 500 writers around the world
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/international-bill-digital-rights-petition-text
Better even to hear from so many and not just the big corporations.
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This 23-year-old’s open-source project, a server running on Raspberry Pi, gives the middle finger to Google
http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/10/arkos-secure-google-alternative/
I may need to investigate this further. Seems promising.
The Battle for Power on the Internet
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/the-battle-for-power-on-the-internet/280824/
Very long article but interesting analogy to medieval feudalism.
NSA reportedly collecting millions of email address books and IM contact lists worldwide
Reminds me of the days of my youth and the party-line telephone our family shared with about four of our neighbors. Only this time it’s not the farmer’s wife next door that’s eavesdropping … it’s good old not-so-trustworthy Uncle Sam.