News of the strange got stranger as an actress has now been arrested in connection with the recent batch of ricin mailings..
She has appeared in WALKING DEAD and the VAMPIRE DIARIES..
Friday, June 7, 2013
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
U.S. intelligence has access to the servers of nine Internet companies as part of top-secret effort.
I suppose if the government would have attempted to extract data from Tumblr servers, they would have consistently received the same message that users typically receive when they try to update their websites: ‘WE’RE SORRY, SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE’
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Boy, 9, shot while riding with mother: 'Mommy, I'm shot'
Police believe a 9-year-old boy was shot by a gunman who had been aiming at his mother’s boyfriend as they drove on the South Side.
Stories like this do nothing but make me sick… totally sick, and frustrated with the inhumanity people harbor..
Boy, 9, shot while riding with mother: 'Mommy, I'm shot'
President Obama’s Dragnet - NYTimes.com
Wow.. This is a MUST read from the NEW YORK TIMES..
And this was written BEFORE we found out that the FBI and the NSA tap directly into severs of nine top net companies getting just about everything that everybody does online..
Wow..
President Obama’s Dragnet - NYTimes.com
NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal
The UK GUARDIAN reporting continues.. This new amazing story is rocking the rest of the world that wasn’t rocked by the Verizon story this morning…
NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal
Matt Drudge was right
15 years ago, the Internet pioneer was remarkably prophetic about where journalism was headed.
Interesting story.. And he was right, regardless of your opinion on him. He called this one..
Every era of news reporting has a pioneer.. And often they are flawed, often we’re in awe.. but in the end they are human.
Reporters 15 years ago had disdain for Drudge. They may have more now that he turned out to be spot on..
Matt Drudge was right
Iraqi Birth Defects Worse than Hiroshima
There are some pretty tough images to see in this story.. But we need to perhaps at least be aware of the issue. If this claim is true, then we are seeing horror before our eyes taking place.
Read the story at your own risk..
No images re-printed on here on purpose..
Iraqi Birth Defects Worse than Hiroshima
YES. We hear you. And you hear us.
The world of telecommunications was rocked today when the UK GUARDIAN reported that a FISA court ordered Verizon to provide records of calls of millions of Americans on an ongoing, daily basis. And now the Obama Administration is defending the program as ‘critical’ for safety and the fight against terrorism..
Another report on CNN attempts to break down what exactly the Verizon/FISA/NSA/FBI/Patriot Act issue means for you.. the report concludes that the government cannot hear what you are saying.. At least we think that according to the document released today in the GUARDIAN. We don’t know what other documents exist that have not been leaked…
Lots of people are angry. Some, including Senator Lindsay Graham, assert that they are fine with it because they didn’t do anything wrong…
But the far-reaching program appears to presume someone is doing something wrong.. Constitutional questions are involved.. privacy questions are involved.. Lots of big issues are at stake. This is important, and another issue of government surveillance that hits directly into every home across the United States.
Let's answer Al Gore's question
He asked this:
In the digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
I ask the same. Is it?
According to this document obtained by The Guardian, the federal government, through a court order granted to the National Security Agency, is using the Patriot Act to collect the phone records of millions of Verizon users over a three-month period. Awesome. Read the full document here. It’s like the AP thing, except extended to everyone else.
The court order doesn’t allow the NSA to collect any information whatsoever on the contents of phone calls, or even to obtain any names or addresses of customers. What’s covered instead is known as “metadata”: the phone number of every caller and recipient; the unique serial number of the phones involved; the time and duration of each phone call; and potentially the location of each of the participants when the call happened. All of this information is being collected on millions of calls every day – every conversation taking place within the US, or between the US and a foreign country is collected.
Telephone metadata and what it can tell the authorities about you | James Ball (via rubenfeld)
Big data, federal-style.
(via shortformblog)Verizon order: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily
Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama administrationThe National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.
Verizon order: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
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