The NSA’s surveillance powers are set to lapse before the Senate can vote on a compromise bill. tramadol for saleThe Washington Examiner explains what happened: buy tramadol no prescriptionA bill to extend a controversial anti-terrorism surveillance tool cleared a key…
I think by now people are aware that if government spies want to listen in to their phone conversations they can. What they might not know is that the government has the capability to transcribe those conversations and turn them into…
Kevin Williamson alerts us to the unnamed creeps in the NSA who use the tools of their jobs to stalk their romantic interests, and anyone else who suits their fancy. Thanks to a Christmas Eve document dump, we learn that…
The Guardian reports that the typewriter might be making a comeback, at least in Germany. German officials are considering going back to the typewriter thanks to the NSA spying scandal. German politicians are considering a return to using manual typewriters…
Al Fasoldt has been the technology writer for the Syracuse Post Standard for a few decades. Since I spend so much of my time on the computer, or connected through the phone, I’ve always found his columns to be useful.…
So much for the standing in the world of the United States. The Germans are so angry about the US spying on them that they are now kicking the top US spy of out of their country. Germany took the…
The Washington Post has more from the trove of leaks by Edward Snowden. I doubt these new revelations will do much to restore most Americans’ faith in government. Ordinary Internet users, American and non-American alike, far outnumber legally targeted foreigners…
Isn’t this just lovely? The NSA has been using and exploiting the “heartbleed” computer bug for years while leaving consumers vulnerable to attack by hackers. Our tax dollars paid them to do that. Bloomberg has the full story. Tyler Durden…
A few years ago the US government contracted with private intelligence companies to create a whole bunch of internet trolls, or “fake people” as the news reported. Well, it looks like that program has come full circle, and is much…
The NSA has found another way to collect data on us - our phone apps, including games like Angry Birds. Of course this news comes to us not from the American media, but from The Guardian. It looks like the…
Fox News reports that an independent watchdog report finds that’s the NSA’s program of sweeping and storing all of our cell phone data is illegal. In its report, obtained by Fox News and scheduled for release Thursday afternoon, The Privacy…
Dianny did the word count on President Obama’s big NSA speech. It came in at over 5,400 words. Yesterday, I was going to write a DIANNY RANTS about Barack Obama’s speech on the NSA’s surveillance program. I found the transcript…
I wasn’t that concerned about the NSA accessing the computers of foreign operators, but this is a different story. Text messages, financial data, even travel itineraries! The handy feature that lets you take a photo of a check with your…
Last night the top story Drudge linked to was a report about how the NSA can access computers that aren’t connected to the internet. There’s a lot of distrust of this administration, so it’s understandable why people would be concerned.…
