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Reporters following up on this story should look at the burning question @washingtonpost inexplicably failed to raise: how the IC transitioned from subverting crypto via foreign cut-outs to corrupting domestic companies like RSA (reuters.com/article/2013/1…) (and through them NIST). 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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BIG: Presidential hopefuls should be asked their position on the costly failure of the NSA's unconstitutional mass surveillance program, part of which is up for renewal on March 15th. Today's report reveals a long history of abuse & no meaningful success.
nytimes.com/2020/02/25/us/…
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If you're a reporter and following the Assange Espionage Act extradition case--and you should be, since it's possibly the biggest press freedoms case in a generation--it's worth reading this thread on the defense's first arguments, which really blow a hole in the govt's case. twitter.com/kgosztola/stat…
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A big position just opened up at @EFF, one of the world's most important digital rights organizations. Everyone on the internet depends on their work, and you could be their new Tech Projects director. eff.org/deeplinks/2020…
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The government is attempting to exploit anger at tech companies to pass a law that intentionally undermines digital security (eff.org/deeplinks/2020…), and censors speech. That such a law is even being considered by Congress is a national disgrace.
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Remember, the EARN IT act is only the latest attack in the government's very long war on encryption. Switzerland's most sensitive communications-security company was secretly run by the CIA. There is nothing these people won't do to stamp out the idea of a private conversation. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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The government cast Manning into a dungeon for resisting a scheme to make publishers of news subject to the Espionage Act. They offered to let her out in exchange for collaboration, but she chose her principles instead.
That is moral strength.
@xychelsea twitter.com/FreedomofPress…
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This is the first time in a while I've felt like buying bitcoin. That drop was too much panic and too little reason.
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A Seattle hospital just fired a 17-year ER doctor for exposing its refusal to implement crucial nCoV safety measures, risking community health. "Several" staffers just tested positive for #COVID19, but the hospital denies liability, claiming coincidence.
seattletimes.com/seattle-news/h…
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We need to know whether our hospitals are safe. If we can't even prevent retaliation against healthcare workers for warning of hazards during a pandemic, "whistleblower protection" is a cruel myth. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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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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Governments around the world are exploiting the pandemic to monitor us like never before. I discuss it with @ggreenwald here on SYSTEM UPDATE: youtube.com/watch?v=Nd7exb…
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Apple and Google intend to push pandemic trackers into most of the world's smartphones. In response, @ACLU just published a whitepaper listing bottom-line principles phone-based contact-tracing systems must follow to comply with basic rights. Summary: aclu.org/news/privacy-t…
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Here's a link to the full paper: aclu.org/report/aclu-wh… twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Wer hätte es wissen können? twitter.com/BVerfG/status/…
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Il semble que le gouvernement français capitulera face au cartel du Cloud et fournira les informations médicales du pays directement à Microsoft. Pourquoi? C'est juste plus simple. interhop.org/le-gouvernemen…
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En français: interhop.org/le-gouvernemen… twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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If you ever wonder where we're at on the dystopia scale, consider that it's normal to believe the government is spying on you, and crazy to believe that they're not.
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If you're in media, you should be following this. The number of violent attacks on journalists by police we've seen during the #GeorgeFloyd protests is unprecedented in the history of our work. twitter.com/uspresstracker…
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We're live in a half hour. twitter.com/MijenteComite/…
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This. Sure, taking a phone to a protest is unsafe, but *going* to a protest is unsafe, because the problem isn't your phone—it is the decades of authoritarianism that made it a weapon.
Your phone will be safe when everyone is safe, and that won't come without taking some risk. twitter.com/sarahjeong/sta…
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This is the story of your future, told today. twitter.com/kashhill/statu…
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You too can get access to the "100s of petabytes of data"—perfect records of our private lives—that the NSA routinely ingests about people who have never been suspected of any wrongdoing. They'll tell you this is legal. They'll say it's constitutional.
But you'll know better. twitter.com/NSAGov/status/…
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