NSA's corporate agents spend millions of the tax dollars they receive lobbying for more.
NSA plants spies in companies to put in secret backdoors.
NSA asked the New York Times not to print an article about it defeating some encryption standards.
"This is true in so many ways. As the NY Times report notes, there had been a public debate about all of this in the 90s, when there was the big fight over the Clipper Chip, an NSA-created form of encryption with backdoors. That fight ended with the NSA losing... and now it appears that they just ignored that and effectively spent the past few decades doing the same exact thing, but in secret. That deserves public exposure and discussion. "Exactly. There's nothing accidental or innocent about NSA's activities, contrary to the narrative they've created.
NSA claims adding 16,000 numbers that had no relationship to terrorism to an alert list was a mistake. They're admitting small failures to distract from the real story of their ubiquitous spying on Americans.
Yahoo CEO claims she faced jail if she didn't go along with NSA. Of course she did. This is a great reminder that the government has all the power, and it's just one of many ways the government controls corporations and turns them into its agents. I guess that was an accident too. Apparently they threatened her with treason charges if she failed to cooperate. She also claims Yahoo filed a lawsuit against the Patriot Act, NSA and FISA in 2007 and lost.
The new Apple iPhone is a trojan horse enabling government to collect fingerprints of adults. No thanks. New iPhone greeted with big ho-hum. I hope people are rejecting that fingerprint collection.
Former DHS and NSA agent blames privacy advocates for TSA's indiscriminate molestation.
Chicago Mayor Emanuel admits police used torture to obtain confessions.
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