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This goes well beyond “jumping the shark” — there is no technology that can be developed that…
The tide has been running against surveillance opponents for 16 years with no end in sight. Two years ago, the Congress passed the USA…
Patrick G Eddington
Past: CIA analyst, House senior policy advisor, USAR officer. Present: Think tank guy, dog dad. Always: Author, writer, researcher, Bill of Rights defender, 21st century Anti-Federalist.
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What’s remarkable about this piece is the absence of any reference to how those trends will impact…
What’s remarkable about this piece is the absence of any reference to how those trends will impact the growth of government surveillance powers.
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A Response to Hadley Beeman on the Encryption vs Security Debate
An oft-repeated canard offers only a dead-end
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What’s missing from this piece is any mention of the true underlying problem: taking government…
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, U.S. government intelligence and law enforcement officials, with a lot of help from House and Senate…
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The difference being the Clinton email scandal was real, involving an epic misuse of a private…
The difference being the Clinton email scandal was real, involving an epic misuse of a private email server to circulate classified information.
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The problem is that America has stopped “doing it the right way”: https://www.cato.org/blog/gao-weig
The problem is that America has stopped “doing it the right way”: https://www.cato.org/blog/gao-weighs-countering-violent-extremism
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The FBI never stopped surveilling Arab/Muslim-Americans: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016
The FBI never stopped surveilling Arab/Muslim-Americans: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/muslim-american-surveillance-fbi-spying-213773
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Worth pointing out that the “reform” USA Freedom Act allegedly achieved remains open to dispute:
https://www.justsecurity.org/22553/usa-freedom-surveillance-reform-minimalism/
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Certainly true, but for the average user probably not a practical alternative.
Certainly true, but for the average user probably not a practical alternative. The larger overall problem here is not technical, but political. Until the composition of the Congress is changed from an anti-Bill of Rights majority to a pro-Bill of Rights majority, we won’t be able to get the
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Only if you use an encrypted cloud service like Spideroak, because under the PATRIOT Act’s lower…
Only if you use an encrypted cloud service like Spideroak, because under the PATRIOT Act’s lower legal standard it’s easier for federal agents to get warrants to search cloud services for your data. Using Spideroak would likely render such a warrant useless.
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Except for the part where every bit of that data in the cloud can be had by federal agents via the…
Except for the part where every bit of that data in the cloud can be had by federal agents via the PATRIOT Act & related surveillance statutes under a legal standard well below the Fourth Amendment’s “probable cause.”
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Should Manning Get Clemency?
Obama has granted it for drug offenders. He should do so for the Army whistleblower