Jim Bamford: Elergy on Keith Alexander Pseudo-Geek

The Secret War INFILTRATION. SABOTAGE. MAYHEM. FOR YEARS FOUR-STAR GENERAL KEITH ALEXANDER HAS BEEN BUILDING A SECRET ARMY CAPABLE OF LAUNCHING DEVASTATING CYBERATTACKS. NOW IT’S READY TO UNLEASH HELL. James Bamford Wired, 12 June 2013 EXTRACT Alexander runs the nation’s cyberwar efforts, an empire he has built over the past eight years by insisting that …

Josh Kilbourn: PRISM BREAK Opt-Out of the “Machine” — Instead of Google, Microsoft, Et All — Each a Collaborator with PRISM — Go Open Source Everything

The listed alternatives at the link below are organized as follows: Operating System   .   Web Browser   .   Web Browser Plug Ins   .   Web Search   .   Online Transactions   .   Email Services   .   Email Desktop Clients   .   Email Encryption   .   Maps   .   Cloud Storage   .   Social Networking   .   Instant Messaging   .   Video-Teleconferencing   .   Media Publishing   .   Document …

Berto Jongman: Overview of How NSA Can Socially Graph Anyone Into Virtual Nakedness — Always

How to Build a Secret Facebook By Alex Pasternack Motherboard, 10 June 2013 Since retiring from a three-decade career at the NSA in 2001, a mathematician named William Binney has been telling anyone who will listen about a vast data-gathering operation being conducted by his former employers. “Here’s the grand design,” he told filmmaker Laura Poitras last year. “You …