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#July4th: Declaring a higher loyalty to the people than to the state.
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"‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’ He did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak for self-interest." twitter.com/alfredmalmros/…
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"My experience is that as people get closer to the press, they often like it less." —@emilybell
She told me that over five years ago, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/st…
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For those of you who read me at edwardsnowden.substack.com, I've got my very first audio encounter dropping tomorrow: a conversation with the legendary @DanielEllsberg. Don't miss it.
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Want something new to listen to as you go about your day?
I spoke to my good friend @DanielEllsberg, who says even fifty years later, most people still don't understand the reason why he risked his freedom. Find out here:
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ellsberg1
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"Our Presidents have the power to stop democracy from one day to the next." How?
Hear it from @DanielEllsberg, legendary source of the Pentagon Papers: edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ellsberg1
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Every time I use @Blender, I'm blown away by what free and open source software can achieve. I honestly don't know how they do it. It's a monument. blender.org/download/
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P.S. @GIMP_Official, I'm really hoping for a major UI overhaul. You guys could be eating Adobe's lunch.
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Stop what you're doing and read this. This leak is going to be the story of the year: (LINK: theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…)
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The Israeli company behind this -- the NSO group -- should bear direct, criminal liability for the deaths and detentions of those targeted by the digital infection vectors it sells, which have no legitimate use. twitter.com/wcathcart/stat…
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The coming week's stories about the global hacking of phones identical to the one in your pocket, by for-profit companies, make it clear that export controls have failed as a means to regulate this industry.
Only a comprehensive moratorium on sales can remove the profit motive.
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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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Hungary gave the most incriminating response I've ever seen to a request for comment on the #Pegasus surveillance scandal. I mean, whenever I'm "not aware" of whether I did something or not, I demand to know if foreign spies tipped you off about it.
LINK: theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/…
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Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. twitter.com/UKDefJournal/s…
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There are certain industries, certain sectors, from which there is no protection. We don’t allow a commercial market in nuclear weapons. If you want to protect yourself you have to change the game, and the way we do that is by ending this trade.
theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/…
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If we don’t do anything to stop the sale of this technology, it’s not just going to be 50,000 targets. It’s going to be 50 million targets, and it’s going to happen much more quickly than any of us expect. theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/…
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"Those who did [the hacking] were looking to take undue advantage of their position of power... It is an attack on the democratic foundations of our country. It must be thoroughly investigated and those responsible be identified and punished.”
theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/…
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The text delivered last month to the iPhone 11 made no sound. It produced no image. It offered no warning of any kind as an iMessage from somebody she didn’t know delivered malware directly onto her phone — and past Apple’s security systems. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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"Apple restricts the access researchers have to iOS in a way that limits the ability of consumers to discover when they’ve been hacked." washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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Read about the Biden, Trump, and Obama officials who accepted blood money from the NSO group to bury any efforts at accountability -- even *after* their involvement in the death and detention of journalists and rights defenders around the world! washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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They spied on the opposition. They spied on judges, journalists, and even teachers. They spied on their wives and children, their doctors -- and priests. It is unbelievable how deep this story goes.
theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/…
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This is an industry that should not exist: they don't make vaccines—the only thing they sell is the virus.
theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/…
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This probably didn't end the way people expected.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/qa01
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ICYMI, you can read the rest here: edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/lifting-the-…
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