national security agency

Tech giants Microsoft , Apple , and Amazon.com are generally considered fierce rivals with competing interests. Yet Apple and Amazon recently came to Microsoft's defense in its ongoing battle with the U.S. government over cloud privacy. The fight between Microsoft and the U.S. government...

We have not heard much lately about arguably one of the most important people in the last few decades. Our hero, Mr. Snowden is conspicuously absent from the news lately. Let's use this thread to post updates, links, and stories about Ed Snowden's latest... Ed, if you're out there, RPF still...

I just discovered Bill Burr. Love his stuff. Here he's being kind of serious, but I love his stuff.

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell will stand with his home-state colleague Sen. Rand Paul and oppose the National Security Agency reform bill up for a vote on Tuesday evening. Though McConnell and Paul will both vote against the legislation, they will do so for different reasons. Paul, a likely...

Google’s secret NSA alliance: The terrifying deals between Silicon Valley & the security state In mid-December 2009, engineers at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, began to suspect that hackers in China had obtained access to private Gmail accounts, including those used by...

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dkRu6BctHWk Ron Paul warns of coming Surveillance State in 1984! The only one who predicted it!

Here's some good news for you guys for a change. By Craig Timberg September 18 Apple said Wednesday night that it is making it impossible for the company to turn over data from most iPhones or iPads to police — even when they have a search warrant — taking a hard new line as tech companies...

There are some sane people left after all... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-01/ex-nsa-director-us-intelligence-veterans-write-open-letter-merkel-avoid-all-out-ukra

Feds call it “twelve triple three”; whistleblowers says it's the heart of the problem.One thing sits at the heart of what many consider a surveillance state within the US today. The problem does not begin with political systems that discourage transparency or technologies that can intercept...

Continued - NSA search engine allows law enforcement to scour data on citizens Source note -

New documents show the agency missing a massive number of violations. And that's before it set up a new program with virtually no oversight. http://theweek.com/article/index/266785/this-is-why-you-cant-trust-the-nsa-ever tons of links to documents - click through Also, ODNI claims that the...

German Double-Agent caught... Former NSA mathematician and technical director, William Binney testified to the German National NSA Committee: NSA 'totalitarian,' ex-staffer tells German parliament "German companies are increasingly worried about economic espionage which is rising...

Hope this wasn't already posted earlier. I didn't see it. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/05/19/data-pirates-caribbean-nsa-recording-every-cell-phone-call-bahamas/ Much more at the link...

h/t LRC: http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/gary-north/the-mob-is-sickening%E2%80%A8/ How Snowden's Revelations Have Strengthened the NSA http://www.garynorth.com/public/12446.cfm Gary North (14 May 2014) It has been a year since Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the NSA. I appreciate what...

h/t LRC: http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/no_author/spying-is-meant-to-crush-dissent/ Spying Is Meant to Crush Citizens' Dissent, Not Catch Terrorists http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/spying-meant-crush-dissent-terrorism.html Washington's Blog (15 May 2014) [emphasis in original] The...

Full article here: http://nyyrc.com/blog/2014/04/and-the-pulitzer-goes-to-a-spy/ On Monday, April 14, 2014, the Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in American journalism, was awarded to the Washington Post and (UK’s) The Guardian for their coverage related to the revelations of spy...

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/tails More info at the link..

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/04/01/2144257/nsa-confirms-it-has-been-searching-us-citizens-data-without-a-warrant (embedded links not copied) Oh, really? We didnt know that. We would have had no idea our Govt was violating every single one of our Rights on as regular of a basis as is...

h/t LRC: http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/02/no_author/no-water-means-no-spying/ Utah lawmaker floats bill to cut off NSA data centre's water supply Impending bill from Republican Marc Roberts highlights growing movement at state level against government surveillance powers...