Police State

Tor usage doubles in August.

NSA continues to discover how Snowden outsmarted all of them.

"Snowden used his sysadmin privileges to assume the user profiles of top NSA officials in order to gain access to the most sensitive files. His sysadmin privileges also enabled him to do something other NSA users can't — download classified files from NSAnet onto a thumb drive. 'Every day, they are learning how brilliant [Snowden] was,' said a former U.S. official with knowledge of the case. 'This is why you don't hire brilliant people for jobs like this. You hire smart people. Brilliant people get you in trouble.'""

This is another reason government seems so dumb.

Spying is expensive and frequently ineffective. Imagine that.

"• The CIA and NSA have launched offensive cyber operations to hack into foreign computer networks systems to steal secrets and commit sabotage. USA TODAY has reported on the military's efforts to develop offensive cyber abilities, including the capability to knock off an adversary's computer networks.
• The CIA is the intelligence community's top dog, spending $14 billion, half again as much as the NSA, the top eavesdropping agency.
• The NSA planned to investigate 4,000 "insider threats" in which one of the agency's own, like Snowden, divulged secrets."

They don't mention how dangerous it is for Americans.

The US black budget tops $52 billion.

"The 178-page budget summary for the National Intelligence Program details the successes, failures and objectives of the 16 spy agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, which has 107,035 employees."

We're the stupidest people in the world.

The New York Times reports this expenditure info comes from another leak. The government is a leaky ship that's sinking.

Another friend of the Boston Marathon bombers indicted.

We're all terrorists now.