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Politifact: True ✔️
gizmodo.com/snowden-people…
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The ability to invisibly hack your phone is being sold to countries at the red-hot intersection of a Venn Diagram between “desperately craves the tools of oppression” and “sorely lacks the sophistication to produce them domestically.”
Why is it legal?
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-ho…
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"Nothing will fundamentally change." twitter.com/CNBC/status/14…
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Great to hear, but there's no record of you speaking like this last week when your close partners in Israel—who, unlike China, you can definitely influence—were exposed by the #PegasusProject for their involvement in the actual *deaths and detentions* of journalists.
Why not? twitter.com/SecBlinken/sta…
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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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Three days ago you sentenced Daniel Hale, one of the most important whistleblowers in the history of American Intelligence, to nearly four years in prison. commondreams.org/news/2021/07/2… twitter.com/ODNIgov/status…
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The semantic contortions the government engages in for the pageantry of a "National Whistleblower Day"—while refusing to acknowledge any of the actual whistleblowers it put in prison (such as the source of the revelation below)—are more than offensive. They are shameful. twitter.com/DevlinBarrett/…
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系统的目的不是帮助你，而是控制你。 无论您感到多么孤立，请永远不要忘记您并不孤单：对新兴世代的剥削是一场全球斗争。
(对不起，我可怜的中文。'-.-)
youtube.com/watch?v=corZx0…
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@Gueren1 The system was not designed to help you, but to control you. No matter how isolated you feel, never forget that you are not alone: the exploitation of rising generations is a global issue.
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For those who aren't yet on the mailing list, I've answered another little tranche of subscribers' questions over at Substack: edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/qa02
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@MojoJosho oh for sure, man. nobody loves kamala harris more than putin. it's in the bible.
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Enormous: official confirmation of the allegations regarding Israeli hacking-for-hire company NSO Group's involvement in targeted attacks on EU journalists.
If they will do it in France, they will do it anywhere. Shut them down—ban the exploit trade.
theguardian.com/news/2021/aug/…
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Just as we cannot trust governments to decide what can and cannot be said, we must not empower them to determine the things we can or cannot install.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/qa02
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Imagine the government hacking your phone, stealing some old photo of you in a swimming pool, and then leaking it alongside a lie that it was taken by some horrible boss they want people to think you're screwing.
Sound crazy? Read the story: twitter.com/FreedomofPress…
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“If a woman tries to express their opinion about unjust laws or says something that doesn’t please the government, they will leak your private pictures to intimidate you.”
nbcnews.com/tech/social-me…
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I was looking to understand why @nntaleb was cyber-bullying a young woman who writes on economics, and I stumbled upon a frankly unbelievable history of inability to handle even gentle criticism—by a man who titled his book "Antifragile."
This behavior goes back years.
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With respect, I would be more sympathetic to this defense had you not been using substantially the same language in 2016 (and perhaps earlier) about subjects entirely unrelated to Bitcoin—which at the time was largely ignored at $700.
Exhibit A: twitter.com/nntaleb/status…
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This you?
Because it sure looks like you were trying to destroy a promising young woman's reputation in front of extremely powerful members of her industry—with precious little to support your claims.
I guess my eyes deceive me. twitter.com/nntaleb/status…
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With pleasure: twitter.com/nntaleb/status…
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I want you to try and imagine a public intellectual arguing the proper response to the revelation of his years-long harrassment of critics is to claim:
1) His victims were the real bullies
2) He is the real victim
3) The true problem is my speaking out
And then attacking *me.* twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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The easier it becomes to produce information, the harder that information becomes to consume — and the harder we have to work to separate the spurious from the significant. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-p…
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Apple plans to modify iPhones to constantly scan for contraband:
“It is an absolutely appalling idea, because it is going to lead to distributed bulk surveillance of our phones and laptops,” said Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering. ft.com/content/14440f…
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