Tag Archives: NSA

The Very Best Reason to Keep the Government Shut Down

Posted on October 2, 2013 by DRenegade

Although I suspect that most of the NSA’s illegal surveillance of Americans is automated, this is the best silver lining to date for the government shutdown. And that is saying something. David DeGerolamo Over Six Thousand NSA Workers Furloughed First, … Continue reading →

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Spy Agencies Are Doing WHAT?

Posted on September 24, 2013 by DRenegade

Revelations about the breathtaking scope of government spying are coming so fast that it’s time for an updated roundup: The government is spying on essentially everything we do. It is not just “metadata” … although that is enough to destroy your privacy The government has adopted … Continue reading →

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NSA disguised itself as Google to spy, say reports

Posted on September 13, 2013 by DRenegade

Here’s one of the latest tidbits on the NSA surveillance scandal (which seems to be generating nearly as many blog items as there are phone numbers in the spy agency’s data banks). Earlier this week, Techdirt picked up on a … Continue reading →

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Code Cracking: NSA spent billions to foil safeguards of web privacy

Posted on September 7, 2013 by DRenegade

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QG40WraOCA From YouTube: If you think encrypting online data could save it from the prying eyes of the NSA or Britain’s GCHQ Edward Snowden’s latest leak will disappoint you, to say the least. It shows America spent billions of dollars … Continue reading →

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Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the ‘shit-bag’ now?

Posted on August 31, 2013 by DRenegade

by Julian Assange It has been revealed today, thanks to Edward Snowden, that Google and other US tech companies received millions of dollars from the NSA for their compliance with the PRISM mass surveillance system. So just how close is Google … Continue reading →

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Ben Swann: NSA Using Copyright Claims to Stop Criticism?

Posted on August 20, 2013 by DRenegade

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How The NSA Scours 75% Of The Nation’s Internet Traffic

Posted on August 20, 2013 by DRenegade

The NSA – which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens – has, according to the Wall Street Journal, built a surveillance network that covers more Americans’ Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed, current and former officials say. The system … Continue reading →

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Support North Carolina Statist University

Posted on August 15, 2013 by DRenegade

NSA to open data analysis lab at NCSU The National Security Agency plans to create a data analysis lab on North Carolina State University’s Centennial Campus, officials said Thursday. The NSA grant to fund the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences is … Continue reading →

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Obama Throws It in Our Face Again

Posted on August 13, 2013 by DRenegade

Until the people start to suffer, they will not stand up. I believe the suffering is starting to have an impact. This appointment is a direct message to the people of America by Obama: I have complete control. I miss … Continue reading →

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Obama tells Leno: ‘We don’t have a domestic spying program’

Posted on August 7, 2013 by DRenegade

President Obama on Tuesday defended the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance programs in a wide-ranging interview on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” arguing that the agency doesn’t target U.S. civilians. “We don’t have a domestic spying program,” Obama said, … Continue reading →

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‘The Tide Has Turned’: NSA Protesters Back to the Streets for #1984Day

Posted on August 5, 2013 by DRenegade

Thousands of people are expected to rally in cities across the U.S. on Sunday in protest of the National Security Agency’s recently exposed dragnet surveillance programs, in what organizers from the group Restore the Fourth are calling 1984 Day. Protesters in San Francisco, … Continue reading →

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Puppet Master Keith Alexander

Posted on August 1, 2013 by DRenegade

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x4XrY_I7QQ NSA director Keith Alexander defends surveillance tactics in speech to hackers The director of the National Security Agency has tried to dampen the current outcry over US government surveillance programmes by insisting such programmes respect Americans’ privacy. He also said that he … Continue reading →

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NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails

Posted on July 26, 2013 by DRenegade

The NSA is a “supercomputing powerhouse” with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. The agency turns its giant machine brains to the task of sifting through unimaginably large troves of data its surveillance programs capture. … Continue reading →

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Are You Surprised that the US House Rejected a Proposal to End NSA Surveillance?

Posted on July 24, 2013 by DRenegade

See additional comments on Tea Party Nation. The US House rejected the suspension of illegal NSA surveillance. Why was a vote even necessary? And where are the hearings about this illegal surveillance and its unbridled funding? Here is Rep. Bachmann’s … Continue reading →

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How’s That Internet Connection?

Posted on July 22, 2013 by DRenegade

See additional comments on Tea Party Nation. Ever have a piece of equipment fail over time? It works good enough so that you accept the “minor” inconvenience of it running slower, costing money to patch it and/or listening to its … Continue reading →

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