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Google has started resorting to some odd and arguably evil tricks as well: http://i.imgur.com/gqJAfH2.png "Your channel will get a new page on Google+" only appears after checking …

Is there any hard proof that marijuana prices have been affected by the availability of medical marijuana? Further north they certainly haven't (medical marijuana sells for more ),…

You seem to be conflating PRISM with NSA's entire SIGINT operation, I see a lot of people doing that. PRISM is one out of 504 programs that collectively obtain vast amounts of info…

Section 702 was written, and has been interpreted, to have very few restrictions. 1) It bars the NSA from collecting data on people unless "reasonably believed to be located outsid…

Error in 2nd to last paragraph: bars the NSA from collecting data on people unless ... i.e. excluding Americans from collection vs excluding non-Americans.

From my reading I understand that the comment on being able to wiretap absolutely anyone was on the basis that he was a sysadmin. He had write access to databases of people who's c…

I disagree, some key points were clarified. To wit - 1. Encryption works, but "endpoint security" is easily defeated. 2. "US Persons do enjoy ... one very weak technical protection…

tl;dr citation 9. If nothing else, read that. Great article. The massive scale of the NSA's operations are hardly being disputed (logging of US-based backbones, underwater cables, …

I'm 20 now, and I think I'm smart. When I was 15 I did as well, but now I think I was pretty stupid at the time. No doubt the pattern will continue at 25.

Do you know more than I do about Microsoft's disclosures to the US Government (effectively nothing) or is it an educated guess that what they receive is comparable with MAPP?

It seems disingenuous to compare it to the disclosure to commercial vendors when the government is not listed as a MAPP partner. I have no clue what they actually disclose, but I d…

Sen. Wyden is on said Committee, and asked Clapper a question that, in Clapper's own words, he answered with a "least untruth" statement that was "too cute by half". This can be ro…

How would he know what are lies? He isn't on the Senate Intelligence Committee, the 15 people in Congress privileged enough to know the truth.

"the NSA does not use that program to keep geolocation data" How does this mesh with the Verizon court order specifically demanding trunk identifiers for calls, which can be resolv…

What makes you think PRISM collects data about everyone? BLARNEY/FAIRVIEW are their "upstream data collection" programs. PRISM isn't one of their dragnets, so it confuses me that p…

According to the Guardian article that broke the news, "[a] 2005 court ruling judged that cell site location data – the nearest cell tower a phone was connected to – was also trans…