conuly

Ex-NSA chief calls for Obama to reject recommendations

http://usat.ly/1cDuY83

Would NSA surveillance have stopped 9/11 plot?

http://cnn.it/19W4dLl

NSA targets foreigners, catches Americans: Column

http://usat.ly/1bzenxJ

Your USB cable, the spy: Inside the NSA’s catalog of surveillance magic
Latest batch of documents from Snowden shows NSA's power to pwn.

http://bit.ly/KiMmnN

Feds admit start of NSA surveillance, still say it’s too secretive for court

http://bit.ly/1gkhgYo

Obama says Snowden’s actions have “done unnecessary damage”
President will spend winter holiday in Hawaii reflecting on surveillance policy.

http://bit.ly/1fNP2ov

The NSA's TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting.

http://bit.ly/JmZOXM

NSA Uses Windows Error Messages To Spy On People

http://huff.to/1isfgQS

The NSA's elite hackers can hijack your Wi-Fi from 8 miles away

http://bit.ly/1ci0Nia

Report: NSA Intercepting Laptops Ordered Online, Installing Spyware

Also, it's got a creepy/snazzy octopus... logo... badge... thing?

http://onforb.es/JFui6G

U.S. Spy Rocket Has Octopus-Themed 'Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach' Logo. Seriously.

See? I couldn't make that up!

http://onforb.es/18GL69H

The U.S. National Security Agency has the ability to snoop on nearly every communication sent from an Apple iPhone, according to leaked documents shared by security researcher Jacob Appelbaum and German news magazine Der Spiegel.

http://bit.ly/1eRgwg3

Appelbaum: ‘Scary’ NSA will spy on you – every which way they can

http://bitly.com/1ghxCRA

U.S. to China: We Hacked Your Internet Gear We Told You Not to Hack

http://bitly.com/1eSUHwC

Good or not, change is coming to the NSA

http://bitly.com/1eRDrYB

Microsoft responds to report NSA snooped in Windows

http://cbsn.ws/1d6SIOo

What do you know! If this keeps up, we may get a white Christmas for a change.

Removing DRM increases sales

http://news.techeye.net/business/removing-drm-increases-sales

We are very, very bad at washing our hands, says science

http://bit.ly/18OfLMw

Judge's word on NSA program won't be the last

http://abcn.ws/1bc45mV

If this judge doesn’t buy the legal basis for the NSA’s intrusive phone snooping, no one should.

http://slate.me/1fB9Pvx

Study finds evidence of domesticated Chinese cats 5,300 years ago

http://bit.ly/1hYMxTL

A brief history of African click words

http://bit.ly/19aqfvz

Autism hits Somali kids harder, University of Minnesota study finds

http://strib.mn/IZXAN7

Freedoms for Saudi university girls end at gates

http://wapo.st/1hYMTJZ

The NSA: An Inside View [blog-post]

http://bit.ly/19aquab

The Odd Rise of Anonymous Sources

http://bit.ly/19PH5dK

Paul Dini Tells Kevin Smith about Hollywood’s Fear of Girl Cooties

http://bit.ly/18KQa7r

Barbie and Elevator Guy: science and sexism

(Yes, I know it's old.)

http://bit.ly/19veuxT

Sen. Ron Wyden on balancing the 'teeter-totter' of security and liberty

http://to.pbs.org/1b4fEfX

By cracking cellphone code, NSA has capacity for decoding private conversations

http://bitly.com/18Hc5fD

The NSA and our values

http://nyr.kr/1bAXllT

How to tell when the NSA is lying

http://bitly.com/ISpoUy

What's wrong with tracking our cell phones?

http://bitly.com/IPAx80

Why won’t the President rein in the intelligence community?

http://nyr.kr/1bRSijw

White House criticizes AP over CIA story

http://usat.ly/1ecbhY2

NSA Tracks People Using Google Cookies

http://bit.ly/1bDnCfT

The moral of all this is clear: if you can't or won't use a cheap pre-paid, leave the phone at home or swap liberally with family and friends. Pay in cash, and for god's sake never, ever, ever let yourself commit anything in writing that you wouldn't want to be blazoned on the front page of the NYTimes, much less anywhere epically public on the Internet. If it isn't already public knowledge, consider whether you want it to be, because unlike Santa, I don't think the NSA gives gifts if you're good.

After all, we really *do* know they're listening.

http://xkcd.com/525/

The 6 Most Terrifying Pets Humanity Has Bred Into Existence

http://bit.ly/1e2RLgh

The 5 Coolest Pets Humanity Has Bred into Existence

http://bit.ly/18yPhyG

Leak: Government spies snooped in 'Warcraft,' other games

Given the number of terrorists caught this way, I think a better way of interpreting this article would be to say that some government employees wanted to play WoW at work, and found a way to do it on the government dime.

http://cnn.it/IMDfL9

How to Create a Password That's Easy to Remember but Hard to Hack

http://slate.me/IUXEy3

And, if you want to make sure computers aren't likely to guess your password, you can use this site to check. Of course, the sufficiently paranoid might think of all potential issues here, but so long as you never identify a potential password with a potential username at a potential site, you should be safe, right?

https://telepathwords.research.microsoft.com/

Here Are The 20 Worst Passwords You Can Use

http://read.bi/1cd0JRq

Cellphone data spying: It's not just the NSA

http://usat.ly/1d3jfxo

Apple stores to host free coding workshops for kids

http://cnet.co/18wgLIg

Inside the Box

People don’t actually like creativity.

http://slate.me/IVqdMa

Restaurant workers’ wages are routinely docked when customers walk out on their tab.

http://slate.me/1dlhZ9e

David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'

http://bit.ly/1dbxgJw