hackerNews

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NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes (www.cypherspace.org)

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How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists (www.commondreams.org)

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US surveillance Court's "NSA surveillance is unconstitutional" must stay secret. (www.eff.org)

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People with nothing to hide (twitter.com)

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Room 641A (en.wikipedia.org)

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Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks: officials (www.reuters.com)

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Bradley Manning leaked Granai Airstrike "~86-147, mostly women and children" (en.wikipedia.org)

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Sources: NSA sucks in data from 50 companies (theweek.com)

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Rope (data structure) (en.wikipedia.org)

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So You Still Don't Understand Hindley-Milner? (akgupta.ca)

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The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism (www.zdnet.com)

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GNUnet (gnunet.org)

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US surveillance revelations deepen European fears (www.reuters.com)

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Assange: US rule of law suffering 'calamitous collapse' (www.france24.com)

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Don’t Take Your Vitamins (www.nytimes.com)

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Oracle Discontinues Free Java Time Zone Updates (developers.slashdot.org)

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The Singapore way of censorship: blogs must be licensed, license costs $39500 (rt.com)

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ECHELON was used for industrial espionage (European Commission report) (cryptome.org)

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Why I'm boycotting US cloud tech (www.theregister.co.uk)

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What If China Hacks the NSA's Massive Data Trove? (mashable.com)

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How not to be alone (www.nytimes.com)

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Torservers.net: Professional Global Tor infrastructure (mailman.stanford.edu)

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Logic Programming is Underrated (swannodette.github.io)

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Senator introduces bill protecting phone records from NSA (abcnews.go.com)

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Why a top terrorist analyst thinks US government surveillance has gone too far. (www.slate.com)

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US spends $80 billion/yr on secret data intelligence gathering. (www.ft.com)

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How JavaScript compilers work (creativejs.com)

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Eric Schmidt: CNET gets it right on the NSA/Google issue (plus.google.com)

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4 UX Problems Holding Back Crypto And Anti-Wiretapping Technology (falkvinge.net)

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The Eternal Value of Privacy (www.schneier.com)

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Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004) (static.usenix.org)

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U.S., companies: Internet surveillance does not indiscriminately mine data (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Solving the mystery of PRISM (theweek.com)

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Setting the Record Straight (yahoo.tumblr.com)

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Show HN: Easily add a NSA backdoor to your Rails app (github.com)

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Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Rover Finds New Evidence That Ancient Mars Was Habitable (www.space.com)

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Homeland Security: Requirements for Security Decision Support Systems (2004) (www.dtic.mil)

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Nothing to Hide (danielsieradski.com)

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Lobster today is viewed as a delicacy, but was once reviled (sub.garrytan.com)

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Instagram: Making the Switch to Cassandra from Redis (planetcassandra.org)

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PRISM: "Collection directly from the servers" (twitter.com)

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EasyPost (YC S13) Response to PRISM Accusations (blog.easypost.com)

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Why the NSA Prism Program Could Kill U.S. Tech Companies (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Greenwald has "highly detailed technical NSA materials on how they eavesdrop" (twitter.com)

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Wood Egg (my new company) (sivers.org)

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Poll: Will you be changing how you manage your data after the NSA scandal? (news.ycombinator.com)

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NSA Chief describes what PRISM is (www.businessinsider.com)

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Obama defends surveillance effort as 'trade-off' for security (www.reuters.com)

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Have Ideas to Help the NSA Handle All That Data? (www.nsa.gov)

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Barbara Liskov: The Power of Abstraction [video] (www.infoq.com)

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Design thoughts on next-gen PKI for better privacy (ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com)

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Mary Meeker's misinformation has influence (www.sfgate.com)

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Prosecutor posts as accused killer's fake girlfriend on Facebook (www.digitaltrends.com)

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Facial recognition is coming to Glass, whether Google likes it or not (arstechnica.com)

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Xonotic 0.7 released - New maps, animation blending and much much more (www.xonotic.org)

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Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy Problems (2010) (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ask HN: How can I see top HN posts Not about NSA/PRISM? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google Maps personalization will hurt public space and engagement (www.slate.com)

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Elon Musk: "I am terminating the interview." (online.barrons.com)

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No evidence of NSA's 'direct access' to tech companies (news.cnet.com)

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Pollution in Northern Hemisphere helped cause 1980s African drought (www.washington.edu)

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Stashing your work (pierrerambaud.com)

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Bridgewalker: an exchange rate adjusted Bitcoin wallet (www.bridgewalkerapp.com)

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The Internship: Not the Movie (www.nytimes.com)

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PRISM Documentation (www.wikileaks-forum.com)

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Show HN: Trailers for Netflix (Chrome extension) (chrome.google.com)

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Apple to patent a mobile-based method and system to transfer money (appft1.uspto.gov)

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Snapchat Hiring Massive Sales Team, Said To Be Raising $100M At $1B To Pay Them (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: What would it take for you to take action? (news.ycombinator.com)

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NSA tech stack for Boundless Informant (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Boundless Informant NSA data-mining tool – four key slides (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Ask HN: As a Big Data engineer, how do I avoid helping governments spy on us? (news.ycombinator.com)

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RedPhone - end-to-end encryption for your calls (play.google.com)

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Twitter refused to join PRISM (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Are losing article flagging abilities permanent? (news.ycombinator.com)

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NSA Honeypot (camdp.com)

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A 1 percenter tells the truth about "job creators" (digbysblog.blogspot.tw)

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Google and Facebook DID allow NSA access to data despite denials (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Man able to view ultraviolet light after eye surgery (www.komar.org)

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PRISM: New slide released by The Guardian (www.guardian.co.uk)

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New XSS Bypass on Google Chrome filter (html5sec.org)

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Drone.coffee: A drone noise generator using the Web Audio API. (meleyal.com)

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1984 (en.wikipedia.org)

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StatusNet, Free Social projects merge with GNU social (news.ycombinator.com)

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Git and GitHub Secrets (2012) (speakerdeck.com)

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Ask HN: How can I easily but securely encrypt my laptop & emails? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Backbone Debugger (github.com)

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Anonymous has infiltrated the PRISM network, intercept President's private Skype (www.chronicle.su)

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No, John Sculley really doesn't want to be your friend on LinkedIn (www.forbes.com)

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Show HN: Want an idea for your startup? Generate it automatically here (news.ycombinator.com)

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After ExactTarget, Salesforce Buys Intelligence And Analytics Startup EdgeSpring (techcrunch.com)

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Vietnamese girl travels to 25 countries with US $700 (english.vietnamnet.vn)

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Ask: Would you write software Spy on users or censors users for a govt? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google: Create A Native Linux Google Drive Application (www.change.org)

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Ask HN: Anyone Else Tired of All The Leak and 'PRISM' Stories? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How to find the Rootkit that was used in the Hetzner hack (news.ycombinator.com)

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Obama defends NSA spying program as new Prism details emerge (www.guardian.co.uk)

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PRISM Predecessor (more cost-efficient) (en.wikipedia.org)

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Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data (m.guardian.co.uk)

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Ted Dziuba — Google, Take a Real Stand (teddziuba.com)

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How your VPS provider can steal your SSH server's private key (www.reddit.com)

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Ask HN: Secure Paid Alternatives to Google Mail, Calendar and Drive (news.ycombinator.com)

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Was anyone enrolled in Algorithms, Part 1/2 on Coursera? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The LittleBigFund launches Crowdfunding & storytelling for charitable passions (https://www.LittleBigFund.org)

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All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need (www.theatlantic.com)

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Is your info in PRISM? Here's how to get to it (www.tnl.net)

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Stasi - The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: echoplexus, anonymous chat, collaborative REPL, and whiteboard (echoplex.us)

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Jacob Appelbaum on Dystopian Securitization (orationing.tumblr.com)

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Show HN: Decentralized Operations - Hierarchical trust based darknet (swax.github.io)

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Arrest That Phone (www.nytimes.com)

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Ada Web Server web framework with WebSockets support (libre.adacore.com)

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Do you really know cloud computing? Watch this first (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: What is your experience with mentorship? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Low costs and huge profits irresistible lure for Chinese to mine Ghana's gold (www.scmp.com)

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Who Cares if NSA Snooping Is Legal? It's Still Disgusting. (reason.com)

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If spying on citizens was a business (news.ycombinator.com)

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Jacob Appelbaum: "Not My Department" (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: Is there a news startup for collating sources? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Slicing text for reading (medium.com)