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The Fourth Amendment exists to forbid the government from trampling the reasonable expectation of privacy.
It is long past time to require the surveillance-advertising industry, at the center of which stand Facebook and Google, to at *least* the same low standard.
#facebookdown twitter.com/evan_greer/sta…
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Apple today: "In 3 months, we spent $10 billion on dividends and $66b on stock buybacks."
Sure sounds like a good time to commit $10b to improving iOS security, since companies are selling iPhone hacks for less than your lunch money to actual murderers:
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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HUGE: Israel's NSO group has repeatedly denied having had anything to do with Khashoggi's killing -- but astonishing new evidence confirms the phones of the central women in his life were hacked right around his murder. twitter.com/jsrailton/stat…
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"Originally, tracking phones was the only way to deliver service, but that’s not true anymore—now the carriers are lining their pockets by tracking us while turning a blind eye to techniques that can protect our privacy."
Worth reading:
aclu.org/news/privacy-t…
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"It took years — eight years and counting in exile — for me to realize that I was missing the point: we talk about conspiracy theories in order to avoid talking about conspiracy practices, which are often too daunting, too threatening, too total." edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-p…
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This is the most significant 4th Amendment victory in quite some time, and will have national (and hopefully via norms, international) impact.
We have a reasonable expectation that our daily movements will not be persistently monitored, and Baltimore violated that. twitter.com/ACLU/status/14…
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I've been using @OBSProject for years. It's good software. Accept no substitutes.
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"I didn't realize the vast hoard of wealth I continuously abused as a slush fund *belonged* to someone, man. It was, like... labels or something. Whatever. Who among us hasn't accidentally spent the life savings of their customers without noticing?"
Color me unconvinced.
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The most essential journalism of every era is precisely that which a government attempts to silence. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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@jilliancyork For what it's worth, I encourage you to disagree with me. I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again—the only way we find what's right is by challenging it. Even when I hold a different opinion, I value your criticism and am glad you share it. Sorry you had a bad experience.
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As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world. Here's how it happens: youtube.com/watch?v=k5OAjn…
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@Dr_CSWright @hodlonaut And hey while we're playing the memory game, the next time you want to tell Twitter you were never anonymous, try and keep your story straight, you miserable corncob.
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No, I don't use Wickr. The point is that in 2021, you can't credibly purport to provide a secure app when you
a) take money from the CIA and
b) literally give the CIA a seat on your board of directors.
ayfkm?
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I keep trying to imagine a context in which the Federal Reserve talking about calories is not inherently alarming, but the spinning red lights and blaring klaxon make it difficult to concentrate.
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My mentions: an endless scroll of this guy explaining to me what summers are like in the city I've lived in since 2013.
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To remember 9/11 means confronting the fact that the carnage and abuses that marked my young adulthood were born not only in the executive branch and the intelligence agencies, but also in the hearts and minds of all Americans, myself included.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/9-12
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The FBI is breaking into Americans' computers to delete malware—and going beyond the law to do it. (Thread by an ACLU attorney:) twitter.com/granick/status…
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Downing aircraft to pursue the arrest of dissidents has always been outrageous. It is the modern expression of Bush-era "extraordinary rendition" (international kidnapping by state agents), and should be opposed no matter the flag under which it occurs.
greenwald.substack.com/p/as-anger-tow…
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"A US appellate court in September ruled the NSA’s mass domestic surveillance was illegal, as well as likely a violation of the Fourth Amendment. The court knew about this program only because of one of this generation’s most consequential whistleblowers..." twitter.com/ggreenwald/sta…
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Once you wake up to the idea that the world has been patterned, intentionally or unintentionally, in ways you don’t agree with, you can begin to change it. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-p…
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the tiktok meta:
a) five seconds of cooking,
b) ten seconds of dancing, or
c) fifteen seconds of crying.
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What is #nostr?
Unlike the old social media "platforms" where the platform-owner (FB, Tiktok, Twitter) gets to decide who can speak—and what can be heard—#nostr is an open protocol.
If a platform is a silo, a protocol is a river: no one owns it, and everyone is free to swim. twitter.com/jack/status/16…
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Normally I would suspect an article like this of blame-shifting, but once you see that picture of the military successfully cramming 600+ refugees on a single plane, you realize if they had started even one week earlier, it would have made the difference. usnews.com/news/world/art…
You can find me on #nostr @ pubkey: #npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9. (use Damus on iOS, Amethyst on Android, or snort.social)