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Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

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Did Obama just destroy the U.S. Internet Industries International Growth? (www.linkedin.com)

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Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle? (mailman.stanford.edu)

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Why we can't go back to business as usual post-PRISM (mailman.stanford.edu)

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I'm Ready To Help NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Seek Asylum (www.forbes.com)

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Iain Banks dies of cancer aged 59 (www.bbc.co.uk)

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obamaischeckingyouremail.tumblr.com (http://obamaischeckingyouremail.tumblr.com)

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Sweden warrantlessly wiretaps all Internet traffic crossing its borders (en.wikipedia.org)

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Wuala: Dropbox alternative with servers in Europe and data encrypted locally (www.wuala.com)

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Joseph Nacchio (CEO, Qwest), Refused to comply NSA Wiretaps - still in jail. (en.wikipedia.org)

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Rewarding Edward Snowden's Courage (www.crowdtilt.com)

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How well do you know HTML? (jakearchibald.github.io)

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Rand Paul wants to lead a Supreme Court challenge to Feds' tracking of Americans (www.foxnews.com)

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If the NSA Trusted Edward Snowden With Our Data, Why Should We Trust the NSA? (www.slate.com)

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Vagrant: Create and configure portable development environments (www.vagrantup.com)

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Microsoft admits Patriot Act can access EU-based cloud data (2011) (www.zdnet.com)

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Obama's NSA Defense: Congress Can Raise Objections It Can't Actually Raise (www.theatlanticwire.com)

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What are the implications of NSA surveillance on the average Internet user? (security.stackexchange.com)

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[python] Flask NSA Backdoor (github.com)

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United States incarceration rate (en.wikipedia.org)

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Edward Snowden, The N.S.A. Leaker, Comes Forward (www.newyorker.com)

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Google set to acquire Waze for $1.3B (www.globes.co.il)

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Hong Kong Baffled by Snowden’s Hideout Choice - China Real Time Report - WSJ (blogs.wsj.com)

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Linux Performance Analysis and Tools (dtrace.org)

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EFF: Google's Transparency Report does not include FISA court orders (twitter.com)

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The secret of Costco’s success revealed (hint: no MBAs need apply) (www.washingtonmonthly.com)

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Treaty gives Hong Kong option to reject Snowden extradition to the US (www.scmp.com)

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Thinking of Doing a PhD? Take this simple test (blog.prof.so)

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NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls (2006) (usatoday30.usatoday.com)

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PBS The Spy Factory. An inside look at NSA's repeated failure to protect the USA (www.pbs.org)

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Why is elliptic curve cryptography not widely used, compared to RSA? (crypto.stackexchange.com)

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Bradley Manning Trial: Is Our Future an Orwellian Nightmare Or Info Anarchy? (www.policymic.com)

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22 American nuclear bombs are stored in The Netherlands (www.dutchnews.nl)

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WWDC 2013 Expectations (daringfireball.net)

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Pseudo-Random vs. True Random (boallen.com)

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About a Month at Yahoo (bensign.com)

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Flood Washington with 1984 (www.facebook.com)

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Is the NSA outsourcing its domestic spying to Israel? (geektime.com)

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Debian in Space on ISS computers (rollingdebian.com)

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The Algebra of Algebraic Data Types, Part 2 (chris-taylor.github.io)

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Booz Allen Statement on Reports of Leaked Information (www.boozallen.com)

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India copies the US: To setup a national cyber snooping agency (www.thehindu.com)

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How to Give a Keynote (chadfowler.com)

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Edward Snowden's lesson to both businesses and NSA (qz.com)

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Free Javascript and Python eBooks (www.codersgrid.com)

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My Privacy Plan (benrmatthews.com)

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Feynman vs. The Abacus (www.ee.ryerson.ca)

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Scottish author Iain Banks dies aged 59 (www.scotsman.com)

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ffind: a sane replacement for command line file search (wrongsideofmemphis.com)

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To Whom the 4th Amendment Doesn’t Apply (policeledintelligence.com)

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NSA security guidelines (1994) (vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu)

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The new Bootstrap 3 grid system (www.williamghelfi.com)

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Inside the United States (www.globalpost.com)

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Has identi.ca given private data to the government? (e14n.com)

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The Japanese have embarked on the most intriguing and desperate monetary policy (www.businessinsider.com)

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ViziCities Update #2: London Underground in 3D w/ live trains, and Leap Motion (rawk.es)

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What's wrong with JavaScript (rdallasgray.github.io)

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List of Countries by Incarceration Rate (en.wikipedia.org)

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Director Of National Intelligence Tries To Downplay PRISM Paranoia (techcrunch.com)

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Trello CLI (www.weav.net)

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'Hidden' economy in Silicon Valley built without advanced degrees (www.mercurynews.com)

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Rigging any vote-based social website to keep the “early spirit” (alimony.github.io)

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Go to Homeschool (www.vice.com)

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What's the Deal with Hong Kong? (talkingpointsmemo.com)

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Interview with Bruce Schneier on Technology and Power (thecommandline.net)

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Show HN: Give stuff away on Craigslist more easily (www.nobenjam.in)

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Who Made That? (www.nytimes.com)

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Todo. - The To-Do web-app for overworked hackers (todo.cryto.net)

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Panic Mode: Privacy Extension for Google Chrome (chrome.google.com)

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Dokku - Docker powered mini-Heroku in lt 100 lines of Bash (github.com)

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Ask HN: Countries easy to immigrate to, with tech oppurtunities? (news.ycombinator.com)

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NYC Union Square Rally Tomorrow for Edward Snowden (news.ycombinator.com)

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Transfer your Spotify Playlists to Google Music: All Access (www.maui.at)

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The Booz Allen ‘Partner In Ethics’ Progam [pdf] (www.boozallen.com)

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Evolved artificial intelligence can play video games better than humans (www.randalolson.com)

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Obama is checking your email (obamaischeckingyouremail.tumblr.com)

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The PRISM spin war has begun (blog.foreignpolicy.com)

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Ask HN: Where is our zero knowledge cloud? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Petition The Supreme Court to Rule on the Patriot Act Constitutionality (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

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(Maybe) We asked for this (m.techcrunch.com)

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10 European Tech Events That YOU Should Attend (speakerdeck.com)

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NSA Whistleblower Identity Revealed (arstechnica.com)

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Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman (2008) (www.guardian.co.uk)

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What should I be teaching my students, post NSA revellations? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Using Metadata to find Paul Revere - Kieran Healy (kieranhealy.org)

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Tor and HTTPS (www.eff.org)

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Slight paranoia: Analyzing Yahoo's PRISM non-denial (paranoia.dubfire.net)

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Justifying Snapchat’s Valuation (blog.ryanhoover.me)

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Ask HN: Post PRISM - Any companies considering moving their data overseas? (news.ycombinator.com)

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1984 vs. Brave New World (imgur.com)

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This abuse of the Patriot Act must end (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Edward Snowden (en.wikipedia.org)

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Is the NSA Using Backblaze Storage Pods for PRISM Surveillance Data? (blog.backblaze.com)

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A VC Firm Dedicated To Serving Intelligence Community (techcrunch.com)

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Three felonies a day (openlibrary.org)

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Ask HN: What's the most effective way to protest in the wake of the NSA leaks? (news.ycombinator.com)

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NSA whistleblower grew up in Elizabeth City (www.fox43tv.com)

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Web Development With Sublime Text 2 (www.paulund.co.uk)

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Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data (guardiannews.com)

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Setting The Default Encoding In Python (geekforbrains.com)

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Costco CEO Craig Jelinek Leads the Cheapest, Happiest Company in the World (www.businessweek.com)

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Ask HN:Why do you all use macbooks (news.ycombinator.com)

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Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations (m.guardiannews.com)

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Snowden, in exchanges with Post reporter, made clear he knew risks (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Edward Snowden's choice of Hong Kong as haven is a high-stakes gamble (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Tarsnap - Online backups for the truly paranoid (www.tarsnap.com)

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Hague: Law-abiding Britons have nothing to fear from GCHQ (www.bbc.co.uk)

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New PRISM slide released: Direct access + backbone interception used (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Edward Snowden identified as source of NSA leaks (www.washingtonpost.com)

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NSA is wrong, not evil (erratasec.blogspot.com)

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Is China behind the PRISM leak? (plus.google.com)

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Send secure, self-destructing email messages (www.codyromano.com)

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A Proposal for Private Spaces on the Web (www.noahfreitas.com)

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Hacker Faces More Jail Time Than The Convicted Steubenville Rapists He Exposed (techcrunch.com)

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Original 'Hypercube' tracker developed by anataka for TPB now on Github (github.com)

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Ask HN: Useful services for static websites (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What are the realistic capabilities of the NSA? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A Few Thoughts on the NSA Scandal (www.linkedin.com)

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Government Spying: Should We Be Shocked? (the-free-foundation.org)

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Live From Apple’s WWDC 2013 Keynote (techcrunch.com)

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The Changing and Terrifying Nature of the New Cyber-Warfare (www.vanityfair.com)

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I was about to make a note on my iPhone (news.ycombinator.com)

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Being paranoid with Ruby gems (discuss.gemnasium.com)

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New Google Doodle (http://www.google.co.nz)

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And this is why I think Palantir is behind PRISM (someoneweird.github.io)

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Ask HN: Will you join me and change your GitHub avatar to Edward Snowden? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Q&A with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I do not expect to see home again' (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Why do we have a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court? (news.ycombinator.com)

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For 40 Years This Russian Family Was Cut Off From Human Contact, Unaware of WWII (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Was Eric Schmidt attempting to warn us of PRISM in 2009? (en.wikipedia.org)

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Barack Obama defends US surveillance tactics (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Microsoft PRISM Home Server (www.fastcompany.com)

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European Union Data Protection Directive (ec.europa.eu)

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Police Visit Pirate Bay Proxy Owner’s Home Demanding a Shutdown (torrentfreak.com)

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How Startup Funding Works (Infographic) (fundersandfounders.com)

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Visualize who's tracking you online (Firefox extension) (addons.mozilla.org)

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Gzip-1.6 (lists.gnu.org)

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Ask HN: What's the best N/USA-free computing setup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data (m.guardiannews.com)

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Iain Banks. With or without the M. (journal.neilgaiman.com)

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Life lessons in fighting the culture of bullshit (www.theatlantic.com)

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Poster: Yes, we scan. Deal with it. (www.crackajack.de)

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Some shrug at NSA snooping: Privacy's already dead (www.cnn.com)

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Ask HN: Disruptive crypto tools: Develop with true names, or "go Satoshi"? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Don't Freak Out About the New Gmail 4.5 Update for Android OS (contacternst.kinja.com)

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Radicale - CalDAV and CardDAV Server - A Simple Calendar and Contact Server (radicale.org)

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China and Hong Kong Hold Edward Snowden's Fate (www.theatlanticwire.com)

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What is the Price of Freedom? (economistsview.typepad.com)

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The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America (www.amazon.com)