Edward Snowden
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- rosem0
the same people who want Snowden hung are the same people who praise George Washing and the founding fathers...
- Christa0
Email encryption service, Lavabit.com shuts down to fight gov interference, cannot comment due to gag order- home page asking money for legal fees. Silent Circle, preemptively, destroys their email encryption servers rather than give up user information. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/20…
- utopian0
Unhappy With U.S. Foreign Policy?
Pentagon Says You Might Be A High Threat!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20…
- ukit20
Connections Between Michael Hastings, Edward Snowden And Barrett Brown
- Miguex0
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Full video- these guys are so talented...Miguex
- Yeah these guys are greatukit2
- This one is pretty funny too
http://www.youtube.c…ukit2
- ukit20
The editor of the Guardian claims the British government told him to stop publishing the Snowden stories, and eventually sends people over to their offices to smash their computers.
http://www.theguardian.com/comme…
A little over two months ago I was contacted by a very senior government official claiming to represent the views of the prime minister. There followed two meetings in which he demanded the return or destruction of all the material we were working on. The tone was steely, if cordial, but there was an implicit threat that others within government and Whitehall favoured a far more draconian approach.
The mood toughened just over a month ago, when I received a phone call from the centre of government telling me: "You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back." There followed further meetings with shadowy Whitehall figures. The demand was the same: hand the Snowden material back or destroy it. I explained that we could not research and report on this subject if we complied with this request. The man from Whitehall looked mystified. "You've had your debate. There's no need to write any more."
During one of these meetings I asked directly whether the government would move to close down the Guardian's reporting through a legal route – by going to court to force the surrender of the material on which we were working. The official confirmed that, in the absence of handover or destruction, this was indeed the government's intention. Prior restraint, near impossible in the US, was now explicitly and imminently on the table in the UK. But my experience over WikiLeaks – the thumb drive and the first amendment – had already prepared me for this moment. I explained to the man from Whitehall about the nature of international collaborations and the way in which, these days, media organisations could take advantage of the most permissive legal environments. Bluntly, we did not have to do our reporting from London. Already most of the NSA stories were being reported and edited out of New York. And had it occurred to him that Greenwald lived in Brazil?
The man was unmoved. And so one of the more bizarre moments in the Guardian's long history occurred – with two GCHQ security experts overseeing the destruction of hard drives in the Guardian's basement just to make sure there was nothing in the mangled bits of metal which could possibly be of any interest to passing Chinese agents. "We can call off the black helicopters," joked one as we swept up the remains of a MacBook Pro.
- ukit2-1
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- imagineallthepeople-1
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Ströbele, that German politician, is somewhat of a kindred spirit.Making bad things worse out of idealism or naivité, whatever you want to call it. Both righteous activists, which you have to respect, but unfortunately without the backbone to stand up for their actions.
As an attorney in the 70s Ströbele smuggled contraband into prison for the imprisoned Baader-Meinhof gang, they used the gear he brought in to coordinate their suicide action. Ströbele wasn't the gun mule but he knew that his clients, unrepentant murderers, had been provided with firearms. Goes without saying that after the deaths he accused the German government and murdering his clients, conspiracy and that.
- ernexbcn-1
Tapping on Angela Merkel personal mobile phone is a pretty big deal in my book.
- utopian0
USA #1
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- nb-1
I've been reading about this guy the past few days. HOLY SHIT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKe…
"You could read anyone’s email in the world, anybody you’ve got an email address for. Any website: You can watch traffic to and from it. Any computer that an individual sits at: You can watch it. Any laptop that you’re tracking: you can follow it as it moves from place to place throughout the world. It’s a one-stop-shop for access to the NSA’s information."
"You can tag individuals... Let’s say you work at a major German corporation and I want access to that network, I can track your username on a website on a form somewhere, I can track your real name, I can track associations with your friends and I can build what’s called a fingerprint, which is network activity unique to you, which means anywhere you go in the world, anywhere you try to sort of hide your online presence, your identity.”
- Reap what you sow bitchez. n not a word or action taken..yurimon
- Not a word? There have been tons of words on the subject. It's a major media news story.nb
- oops no action taken. the criminals are still at large... i mean.. n you are still sheep monkeys. everyone is.yurimon
- Well, they haven't disclosed all the information. Some 2 million documents, most of which haven't been published.nb
- These things take time, perhaps there will be fundamental changes. Too early to tell.nb
- yeah but no one who broke the law arrested or visible outrage for something to happen..yurimon
- Huge ramifications in the security world. Global security agencies are being affected & taking measures.nb
- Just because there was no public protests doesn't mean there is no effect on the world. Not everything warrants a revolution.nb
- CALLES0
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