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2013/10/192013/10/19

SchwartzReport: NSA Has Not Foiled a SINGLE Terrorist Plot + NSA Meta-RECAP

Here is what I believe is a correct assessment concerning the creation of the national security state in which we live today. Absurd amounts of money have been spent, and civil liberties abridged to an unprecedented degree, on the basis of a threat consisting of little gangs. It is transparently disproportionate, there has to be …

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2013/10/15

Event: 30-31 OCT 13 NYC Power, Privacy, & the Internet [Free, Registration Required]

October 30, 2013 — October 31, 2013 Power, Privacy and the Internet The Edward Snowden affair, and the willingness of the US government to violate the privacy of internet communications on a gigantic scale in the interests of national security, have propelled internet technologies to the center of our political, and civic concerns. There is …

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2013/10/092013/10/09

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 1.1 + Comment & Links to Alternative C2 Alternative ISR

Bikes versus Cars: Politics Of…. Bitcoin and Snowden Building a More Secure Internet Culture and Extremism Evading NSA is Simple – Avoid the Internet Every Nuclear Missile an Accident Waiting to Happen

2013/10/072013/10/08

Berto Jongman: NSA Utah Suffers Ten Meltdowns — Cost Plus Gov Spec + NSA Meta-RECAP

NSA data center suffers ‘meltdowns,’ is delayed by a year, report says The giant Utah facility has been dogged by electrical problems, a report says By James Niccolai, IDG News Service October 07, 2013 09:35 PM ET Read full article.

2013/10/01

John Steiner: From Sanity Central on NSA and the Surveillance State

“The potential of the surveillance state goes way beyond anything in George Orwell’s 1984, (said Guardian Editor) Alan Rusbridger . ‘Orwell could never have imagined this concept of scooping up everything all the time’. The NSA stories were ‘clearly’ not about totalitarianism, but an infrastructure had been created that could be dangerous if it fell …

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2013/09/292013/09/29

Marcus Aurelius: NSA’s Creeping Cloud

New York Times September 29, 2013 Pg. SR11 Creeping Cloud By Maureen Dowd BLUFFDALE, Utah — AT the Husband and Wife lingerie store here in Mormon country — where babies are welcome amid the sex toys and the motto is “Classy, tasteful and comfortable” — no one had heard of it. At the Allami smoke …

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2013/09/292013/09/29

Chuck Spinney: Sy Hersh Channels John Boyd, Chuck Highlights Hersh

In identifying “difficult subordinates who should have been promoted, I should have included Colonels Doug Macgreagor and Jim Burton and especially Major Don Vandergriff. Sorry for the omission CS note – Hersh channels John Boyd* : my comments are inserted in “blue” [italics] my added emphasis to Sy’s words in bold black. Of course, this …

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