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The workers also contributed to that 92% increase in profit.

Balloons are treated differently under the Chicago convention. There’s a little bit more leeway for balloons when it comes to overflights on sovereign territory.

Which programs are you referring to?

Yes! In our newsroom (which isn't perfect by any means) - I have been testing using Qubes for really sensitive/untrusted documents. We also open un-trusted documents (from e.g. FOI…

I see your point, however, having worked in newsrooms - it really is about their beat and their threat-model. My organization covers a wide range of beats and folks covering nation…

Paper: https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/6/50/eabf4315?utm_so...

Do you have any thoughts on how the October bulletin might affect folks on cap-exempt visas? (non-profits, academia etc)

One of the more extreme cases we found: A woman was detained at Philadelphia International Airport on her return from Punta Cana. After a few hours (~7hrs) of questioning she is pr…

The searches that even a U.S. Citizen could be subject to (without a warrant) are extremely broad[1]. > Legal precedents grant federal officers at ports of entry the power, without…

FWIW - ALEC does make all their model bills available online: https://www.alec.org/model-policy/ But they are hardly the only player, we were interested in not only identifying how…

Hi everyone! I'm a news developer at the Center for Public Integrity. I worked on this project. Happy to answer any questions. This project was basically an all-pairs text similari…

FOIA officers will still find a way to send me scanned PDFs of spreadsheets.

Right, I was just pointing out that OPs case is in the minority of tax filers and that making this option available would benefit a lot of tax-filers and wouldn't prevent OP from f…

I don't think this would prevent you from using a CPA or Itemizing your return. However, this system could be very beneficial for the 68.5% of the population that doesn't itemize[1…

Michael Ossmann gave a great talk at DEFCON on RF Retro-reflectors. Provides a good technical overview of the approach they used here. Starts at 3:32 -- https://youtu.be/mAai6dRAtF…