Link blog: prism, spying, nsa, privacy

The Ecuadorian Library — Geek Empire — Medium

SF author Bruce Sterling on Assange, Manning and Snowden, and the surveillance geeks at the NSA: "Citizens and rights have nothing to do with elite, covert technologies! The targets of surveillance are oblivious dorks, they’re not even newbies! Even US Senators are decorative objects for the NSA. An American Senator knows as much about PRISM and XKeyScore as a troll-doll on the dashboard knows about internal combustion." Via Mefi
(tags: politics bradley-manning nsa russia spying bruce-sterling xkeyscore julian-assange edward-snowden wikileaks internet prism)

What they mean when the government says “We do not have ‘direct’ access to your info” | Fabius Maximus

They mean "we’re sniffing the traffic, we don’t have root on Google’s servers", alleges Marcus Ranum.
(tags: nsa google spying sniffer marcus-ranum privacy security prism)

Gigantic Pentagram Found in Kazakhstan – Can Be Seen in Google Maps – The Vigilant Citizen – The Vigilant Citizen

Paging Charles Stross…
(tags: kazakhstan maps occult laundry pentagram)

Oversight: Thank you for volunteering, citizen. – YouTube

What David Cameron did next.
(tags: parody surveillance privacy funny oversight internet prism satire)

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