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Schauen Sie zurück auf diese Geschichte und fragen Sie sich, ob diese Entscheidung frei von politischem Einfluss war.
spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…
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The Snowden documents showed that by 14 September – just three days after the attacks – the then director of the NSA, Michael Hayden, had taken a “tactical decision” to begin snooping on the digital communications of people based in the US.
theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
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Dies bedroht die Rechte aller. twitter.com/andre_meister/…
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"Our combat mission in Afghanistan is ending, and the longest war in American history is coming to a responsible conclusion." — @BarackObama, 2014
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-offi… twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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"I GENERALLY CARE relatively little for the personal lives of people of note, but something that always nagged me just slightly about Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations that the NSA was spying on pretty much everyone was — how angry was his girlfriend?" lareviewofbooks.org/article/snowde…
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Submitted without comment:
"...Executive Order 12333 rules permit bulk, indiscriminate collection without a warrant. That has long raised privacy and civil liberties concerns about what the government may do with Americans’ private messages."
nytimes.com/2021/06/29/us/…
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Sometimes it only takes a few people with the right skills to undermine a censorship campaign.
"9 servers he raised alone had 155,762 users from Kazakhstan between January 4 and 11."
codastory.com/authoritarian-…
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This is incredibly defensive. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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The truly secret was kept long before the passage of a "National Security Act"—and would be kept again after abolition—because the necessity is obvious.
If you can't rely on kindred to keep your ᴛᴏᴘ ꜱᴇᴄʀᴇᴛ without the force of threats, it's not "obvious"—it's omerta. twitter.com/B_Morrows/stat…
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Whether we like it or not, adversaries and allies share a common environment, and with each passing day, we become increasingly dependent on devices that run a common code.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-ho…
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For all those still working behind the keyboards at the institutions of great power, take a moment to appreciate that National Whistleblower Day and Sysadmin Day this year happen on the same day. Maybe it's a sign.
Stay free, my friends.
openaccessgovernment.org/sysadmin-day/1…
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You wake up and find China has moved on Taiwan. What happens to the dollar?
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As an intensely private person, Laura Poitras has not sought the credit she deserves for her role in what is now quite literally written about in history books as the biggest story of the last decade. But her work changed the public mind around the world.
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With pleasure: twitter.com/nntaleb/status…
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(Yes, the Star Wars thing is a parody, but the Fight Club thing is real.)
theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/…
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The entire point of advertisers is to carry out watering-hole attacks on human attention. If you keep enough attention, they're always going to be there -- right behind the tall grass.
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That even the greatest apologists for mass surveillance in Congress are now abandoning its most indefensible incarnations as ineffective and excessive is of historic significance. It marks the beginning of the long road to real reform. twitter.com/dnvolz/status/…
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Don't miss this extraordinary profile of my good friend @WolfgangKaleck's lifelong battle against impunity for official crimes. He is the reason many Bush-era officials—including Bush himself—have been afraid to travel to Europe. newrepublic.com/article/160515…
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Does this look like pornography to you, @elonmusk? If you have a machine handing out bans for pictures that could be on a Hallmark Card, it's time to dial back the algorithm.
Just my opinion. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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I know it is a slow news days with nothing at all happening in the world, but this is a very important story: nytimes.com/2020/02/23/us/…
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Seems like a good day for this: edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/cbdcs
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Nobody outside the story understood how much pressure we were under. It is not an exaggeration to say that a single mistake could have sent everyone involved to prison—or worse. And during the most sensitive period of the reporting, Laura had the hardest part of it.
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