Berto Jongman: New Movement “Reset the Net” Fights NSA’s Mass Surveillance — Google and Twitter NOT Joining the Movement

New Movement Aims to ‘Reset the Net’ Against Mass Surveillance By Kim Zetter WIRED 05.06.14 A coalition of nearly two-dozen tech companies and civil liberties groups is launching a new fight against mass internet surveillance, hoping to battle the NSA in much the same way online campaigners pushed back on bad piracy legislation in 2012. The …

Rickard Falkvinge: More People Were Paid To Exploit Heartbleed For The NSA Than To Fix It

More People Were Paid To Exploit Heartbleed For The NSA Than To Fix It Infrastructure – Zacqary Adam Green: Unsurprisingly, it turns out that the NSA knew about the Heartbleed bug since shortly after it was added to OpenSSL. While thousands of salaried NSA personnel search for bugs like these to exploit, OpenSSL has only four …

Eagle: Empowering Your Health – Beyond Monsanto, Rockefeller and the American Medical Association

Empowering Your Health: Beyond Monsanto, Rockefeller and the American Medical Association By Kimberly Carter Gamble with Erin Breech When your doctor tells you your prescription is approved by the American Medical Association (AMA), it’s intended to give you confidence. But what it really means is that the drug or procedure is endorsed and funded by …

Berto Jongman: Quantum Encryption NSA Proof? Plus 16 Disturbing Things Snowden Has Taught Us So Far…

Physicists are building an NSA-proof internet The next generation web — far more secure than today’s — is on the way. Here’s how it works. “This now works in the lab. It has even gone commercial: There is a small industry doing what is called quantum-key distribution…” Read full article. 16 disturbing things Snowden has …

Berto Jongman: Greenwald on NSA & US Hypocrisy

Reader comments are also useful. Some Facts About How NSA Stories Are Reported Several members of the august “US Journalists Against Transparency” club are outraged by revelations in yesterday’s New York Times (jointly published by der Spiegel) that the NSA has been hacking the products of the Chinese tech company Huawei as well as Huawei itself …

Jon Rappoport: Is the NSA manipulating the stock market? Is this creating a black off-budget slush fund for the Pentagon?

Is the NSA manipulating the stock market? Trevor Timm of the Electronic Freedom Frontier dug up a very interesting nugget. It was embedded in the heralded December 2013 White House task force report on spying and snooping. Under Recommendations, #31, section 2, he found this: “Governments should not use their offensive cyber capabilities to change …