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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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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending... the hopes of its children." twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/…
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is this real twitter.com/MichaelToole/s…
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"Roughly 4 in 10 (41%) of Biden and half (52%) of Trump voters at least somewhat agree that it’s time to split the country, favoring blue/red states seceding from the union."
🔥🔥🔥🔥
🔥🐶☕🔥
🔥🔥🔥🔥 twitter.com/Mediaite/statu…
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14 years ago today, yet Satoshi remains anonymous. Remarkable.
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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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they really underestimated how hard we can screech
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Papers writing on Assange should mention the core of the US's extradition case—a frail and deeply suspect "hacking" claim—collapsed in June when the US's prime witness recanted his testimony (stundin.is/grein/13627/). What remains are only "unlawful journalism" charges. twitter.com/khrafnsson/sta…
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funny how ten seconds after they blew up the entire global economy, the people who spent a decade denouncing "whataboutism" became mysteriously incapable of getting through a conversation without thrusting their fingers at some random flag
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for those concerned by recent Supreme Court decisions, remember that under our enlightened system this same cosseted cohort will only be stamping out these mad decrees for the rest of their natural lives, and elite life spans are increasing—so progress is merely a century away!
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Starting to look like pattern behavior.
apnews.com/article/biden-…
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Many of the questions I'm getting about @signalapp can be answered by reading this article a lot of folks missed about its founder, @moxie. newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
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For a long time now, I’ve wanted to write to you, but found myself unable. Not from illness—although that came and went—but because I refuse to put something in your inbox that I feel isn’t worth your time.
This is worth it.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/culturalrevo…
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On Oct. 11, 2001, a few days after the United States started bombing the Taliban, a reporter asked Bush: “Can you avoid being drawn into a Vietnam-like quagmire in Afghanistan?”
“All together now — quagmire!” Rumsfeld joked at a news conference on Nov. 27, 2001. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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In times of trouble, take comfort in knowing that the ol' proxy-war-via-arming-and-militarizing-random-populations strategy is definitely not the kind of short-sighted policy that everybody will soon regret.
It is simply the road to peace.
independent.co.uk/news/long_read…
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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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Can you think of any examples from history of a secret operation that the White House was responsible for, but strongly denied? Besides, you know, that little "mass surveillance" kerfuffle.
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The consensus is wrong.
A painful part of aging is coming to realize how often this is true not due to a universal and honest ignorance, but rather a collaborationist submission to the fangs of popular opinion. For fear of ostracism, the human tribe will eat years of bitterness.
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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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This is a very big deal, and not in a good way.
The dissenting judge argues this "extreme departure from accepted constitutional and procedural law" ignores all evidence and totally abandons the Fourth Amendment.
The year has not been kind to the legitimacy of our court system. twitter.com/PatrickCToomey…
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"Maybe I should just ask the CIA what to think" is extremely 2021. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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I want to revive the original spirit of the older, pre-commercial internet—if not in form, then in function. A slower, more thoughtful, more creative space. You're invited:
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/lifting-the-…
You can find me on #nostr @ pubkey: #npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9. (use Damus on iOS, Amethyst on Android, or snort.social)