Police State

Guy discovers his Android phone sends all his personal information to Motorola. I think this is why the web seems so bogged down all the time now.

Every time some government employee or stooge uses the world 'security', they mean 'control'.

Summary of what we know about NSA's programs so far.

The people are more against NSA programs than propagandists tell us.

Technology, not law, limits mass surveillance. That's because the government never obeys the law. The law is for serfs, not rulers.

"Spying no longer requires following people or planting bugs, but rather filling out forms to demand access to an existing trove of information. The NSA doesn’t bear the cost of collecting or storing data and they no longer have to directly interact with their targets. The technology-enabled reach of these programs is vast, especially when compared to the closest equivalent possible just 10 years ago."

I like how they push the cost onto businesses.

"What we have learned about the NSA’s capabilities suggests a move toward programmatic, automated surveillance previously unfathomable due to limitations of computing speed, scale, and cost."

NSA agents can't keep up.

How corrupt the government is at fighting terrorism. It's quite the long list of abuses.

Visualization of six months of cell phone meta-data.

Director of National Intelligence Clapper admits he lied before Congress, calls it a mistake. He'd have never admitted it if not for Snowden's documents.

You know somebody is lying when a story begins like this:

"A federal judge has appointed former FBI Director Louis Freeh to conduct an independent investigation of alleged misconduct..."

I don't know whether the target of this investigation is screwed or if this is a whitewash, but Freeh is a corrupt tool of the establishment, so the outcome of this investigation has already been determined.