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• Ideal ZFS Configurations | TechSNAP 135
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• Best Tool for the Job | TechSNAP 80
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• One Ping Only | TechSNAP 133
• Ideal ZFS Configurations | TechSNAP 135
• A Rip in NTP | TechSNAP 237
• EXTenuating Circumstances | TechSNAP 215
• Not Neutrality | TechSNAP 161
• Double ROT-13 | TechSNAP 241

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WireLurker is attacking iOS and Macs in China & researches say it could be the future of attacks for the platform. Google fires back at Dropbox & Microsoft by owning your “Open With” menu.

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Google Drive now lets you open files in compatible Mac & PC apps w/ new Chrome extension | 9to5Google

Google announced today that it’s releasing a new Chrome extension called Application Launcher for Drive that allows users to open files directly from its Google Drive service in compatible apps on a Mac or PC. The extension adds an “Open With” option that will let users launch files in apps like, for example, Mac OS X’s Preview app or third-party editing apps like those from Adobe and Microsoft.

Users can enable the feature by installing the new Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store and making sure files are synced using the latest version of the Drive app for Mac or PC. You’ll then be able to see compatible apps by right-clicking files and selecting “Open With” in Drive (as pictured above).

Researchers Discover New ‘WireLurker’ Malware Affecting Macs and iOS Devices in China – Mac Rumors

Researchers from Palo Alto Networks (via The New York Times) have published a research paper on WireLurker, a malware new family that’s been infecting both Mac OS and iOS systems over the course of the past six months. The researchers say that WireLurker, which is targeting users in China, “heralds a new era in malware attacking Apple’s desktop and mobile platforms.”

The WireLurker malware is the “biggest in scale” in the trojanized malware family, and it is able to attack iOS devices through OS X using USB. It’s said to be able to infect iOS applications similar to a traditional virus, and it is the first malware capable of installing third-party applications on non-jailbroken iOS devices “through enterprise provisioning.”

Thus far, WireLurker has been used in 467 OS X apps in the Maiyadi App Store, which is a third-party Mac app store in China. The apps have been downloaded 356,104 times, infecting hundreds of thousands of users.

According to the researchers, WireLurker looks for iOS devices connected via USB to an infected Mac, installing malicious third-party applications onto the device even without a jailbreak.

Once installed, WireLurker can collect information from iOS devices like contacts and iMessages, and it’s able to request updates from attackers. It’s said to be under “active development” with an unclear “ultimate goal.”

Former NSA lawyer: the cyberwar is between tech firms and the US government | Technology | The Guardian

Former NSA general counsel Stewart Baker said on Tuesday.

Speaking at Web Summit in Dublin, Baker claimed that moves by Google and Apple and others to encrypt user data was more hostile to western intelligence gathering than to surveillance by China or Russia.

“The state department has funded some of these tools, such as Tor, which has been used in Arab Spring revolutions or to get past the Chinese firewall, but these crypto wars are mainly being fought between the American government and American companies,” he said, in conversation with Guardian special projects editor James Ball.

Baker said encrypting user data had been a bad business model for Blackberry, which has had to dramatically downsize its business and refocus on business customers. “Blackberry pioneered the same business model that Google and Apple are doing now – that has not ended well for Blackberry,” said Baker.

OnePlus One sales numbers: 500,000 smartphones sold to date, stretch goal of 1 million by year’s end | 9to5Google

OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei confirmed to Forbes that OnePlus One smartphone sales have eclipsed the 500,000 mark to date, adding that the Chinese company has a lofty goal of selling 1 million units by the end of the year.

Forbes claims that OnePlus has achieved half a million sales of its flagship One device, which has been available on an invite-only basis since April, with an advertising budget of just $300. That small figure was allocated towards OnePlus experimenting with Facebook advertising.

Models go for $299 and $349.

OnePlus has been able to sell its flagship One smartphone for so cheap because it is only barely profiting off each handset sold. “We’re making a single-figure dollar amount on each phone,” Pei told Forbes. “That’s not the way we’re going to make money in the future, it’s just to keep the operation going.”

Microsoft Changes Tack, Making Office Suite Free on Mobile

“We’d like to dramatically increase the number of people trying Office,” John Case, corporate vice president of Office marketing at Microsoft, said about the new offering. “This is about widening the funnel.”

Microsoft says it has more than 7 million consumers subscribing to Office 365. It says there have been more than 40 million downloads of its Office apps for the iPad. In its most recent quarter, which ended Sept. 30, Microsoft said its consumer Office revenue grew 7 percent.

By making an unabridged version of Office available for free on mobile, Microsoft is betting it can get even more people to start using the software, without stealing sales from the PC and Mac versions of the product, where it still makes truckloads of money.

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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday proposed shrinking the Army to its smallest size in 74 years, closing bases and reshaping forces to confront future threats like cyberwarfare. Old special interests are digging in and fighting back with everything they’ve got. But how deep are the cuts? And is there really any reduction in spending? We’ll dig in.

Plus: The NSA doubles down in Germany, an update on the Ukraine, and much much more.

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NSA is Crazy

• Obama Administration Seeks to Hold NSA Phone Records Longer – WSJ.com

The Obama administration has asked a special court for approval to hold onto National Security Agency phone records for a longer period–an unintended consequence of lawsuits seeking to stop the phone-surveillance program.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Justice Department was considering such a move, which would end up expanding the controversial phone records database by not deleting older call records.

Under the current system, the database is purged of phone records more than five years old. The Justice Department, in a filing made public Wednesday, said it needs to hold onto the older records as evidence in lawsuits brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and others.

Under the proposal made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the older data would continue to be held, but NSA analysts would not be allowed to search it.

After having stopped spying on Merkel, the NSA is now focusing on German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière and other confidants (google translate)

• How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations – The Intercept

These agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself.

Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.

Other tactics aimed at individuals are listed here, under the revealing title “discredit a target”:

Then there are the tactics used to destroy companies the agency targets:

GCHQ describes the purpose of JTRIG in starkly clear terms: “using online techniques to make something happen in the real or cyber world,” including “information ops (influence or disruption).”

• Reddit Censors Big Story About Government Manipulation and Disruption of the Internet Washington’s Blog

The moderators at the giant r/news reddit (with over 2 million subscribed readers) repeatedly killed the Greenwald/Snowden story on government manipulation and disruption of the Internet … widely acknowledged to be one of the most important stories ever leaked by Snowden.

Similarly, the moderators at the even bigger r/worldnews reddit (over 5 million subscribers) repeatedly deleted the story, so that each new post had to start over at zero.

• Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying

Under current plans, a joint venture between Brazilian telecoms provider Telebras and Spain’s IslaLink Submarine Cables would lay the communications link. Telebras would have a 35 percent stake, IslaLink would have a 45 percent interest and European and Brazilian pension funds could put up the remainder.

• Brazil, EU to circumvent NSA spying with undersea cable – YouTube

Brazil and the European Union are joining forces against the National Security Agency and spying by the United States. Brazil and the EU announced they will build an undersea communications cable to connect the two areas and to reduce the reliance on cables going through the US. The proposed $185 million cable would stretch from Fortaleza, Brazil to Lisbon, Portugal.

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Shrinking the Beast

• Hagel says US military must shrink to face new era – The Washington Post

In a speech at the one-year mark of his tenure as Pentagon chief, Hagel revealed many details of the defense spending plan that will be part of the 2015 budget that President Barack Obama will submit to Congress next week. Hagel described it as the first Pentagon budget to fully reflect the nation’s transition from 13 years of wa

• Defense.gov News Article: Hagel Outlines Budget Reducing Troop Strength, Force Structure

Some of that risk, Hagel said, is associated with a sharp drawdown in the size of the Army, which the proposed budget calls for reducing to as low as 440,000 active duty soldiers from the current size of 520,000, while ensuring the force remains well trained and equipped.

The cuts assume the United States no longer becomes involved in large, prolonged stability operations overseas on the scale of Iraq and Afghanistan. “An Army of this size is larger than required to meet the demands of our defense strategy,” Hagel said. “It is also larger than we can afford to modernize and keep ready.”

• Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in Feb 2011: Defending US defense spending Cuts

“It is my judgment that the Department of Defense needs an appropriation of at least $540 billion for FY2011 for US military to properly carry out its mission, maintain readiness and prepare for the future,” said Gates, who also discussed cuts he’s made to the military budget, on programs no longer needed.
However, what is not widely known is that most of the $78 billion he’s cut would not take place until 2014 and 2015, when there will be a new secretary of defense and possibly a new president.

• Pentagon proposes to shrink US Army to pre-WWII level – YouTube

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recommended Monday that U.S. troops be reduced levels not seen since prior to World War II. In a news conference at the Pentago.

• Proposed defense budget cuts would ground A–10 fleet – YouTube

The future of the A–10s is up in the air again after Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel outlined Monday massive proposed cuts to the military.

• Cheney Bashes Food Stamps In Pro-Military Rant, Forgetting Military Families Rely On Them

In the first half of fiscal 2013, however, those eligible to shop in military commissaries – which include disabled veterans and others with military identification – cashed in nearly $53 million in food stamps, according to data provided to The Huffington Post by the Defense Commissary Agency. In 2011, more than 5,000 “active duty military” relied on the government aid.

A September report by nonprofit think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated that at least 900,000 veterans received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program assistance, or food stamps, each month.

• President Obama Is Fighting Cuts to the Military, Not Demanding Them

You might disagree with Obama’s priorities, but Cheney’s claim is based entirely on the notion that Hagel and Obama are proposing military cuts. But they aren’t. Hagel proposed a change in force structure that would lead to a smaller Army, but his overall budget proposal is $115 billion more than the current sequester levels demanded by Republicans

• Army Gives Out $500,000 Armored Trucks for Free – YouTube

The U.S. Army is giving away 13,000 armored trucks, worth about $500,000 each. The 20-ton MRAPs, or Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected trucks, were built specifically to save U.S. soldiers from roadside bombs in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Now the trucks are patrolling U.S. city streets. U.S. law enforcement agencies have received the lion’s share of this high-powered military surplus. (Source: Bloomberg)

• Obama assessing four alternatives to NSA phone data collection: WSJ | The Verge

One proposal would be to put phone metadata collection under the purview of US telecommunications companies. Under this option, the NSA would inform the companies of when it needs to search their databases for terrorism-related investigations, and the phone companies would return only the results of those searches, rather than data on consumers unrelated to the investigations.

A second proposal would see a different federal agency hold the data — the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), for instance — and a third would place them under the control of a third entity that’s neither a federal agency nor a telecom company.

The final proposal would abolish the data collection program altogether, an option that Obama in January said would require more work “to determine exactly how this system might work.”

• List of countries by military expenditures – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is a list of countries by military expenditure, the amount spent by a nation on its military in a given year.

• U.S. defense spending compared to other countries | pgpf.org

We currently spend more on defense than the next 10 countries combined. Defense spending accounts for about 20 percent of all federal spending — nearly as much as Social Security, or the combined spending for Medicare and Medicaid.

• Video: The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight

Mike Lofgren, a former GOP congressional staff member with the powerful House and Senate Budget Committees, joins Bill to talk about what he calls the Deep State, a hybrid of corporate America and the national security state, which is “out of control” and “unconstrained.” In it, Lofgren says, elected and unelected figures collude to protect and serve powerful vested interests.

Ukraine mayhem

• BBC News – Ukraine crisis: Yatsenyuk is PM-designate, Kiev Maidan told

The Maidan council named Arseniy Yatsenyuk to become prime minister. The cabinet – to be voted on by MPs on Thursday – includes leading activists.

The US has offered Ukraine’s struggling economy – which faces default – loan guarantees of up to $1bn (£600m).

Meanwhile, Mr Yanukovych has been put on the international wanted list.

The fugitive president – whose whereabouts are unclear – is accused of being behind last week’s deaths of more than 100 protesters at the hands of riot police in and around the Maidan.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington planned to offer Ukraine the loan guarantees to help stabilise the country’s economy.

Mr Kerry also warned Russia it would be a “grave mistake” to embark on any military intervention in Ukraine.

• Russia flexes military muscle as tensions rise in Ukraine’s Crimea

Russia ordered surprise military exercises on Ukraine’s doorstep Wednesday as tensions in that country’s southern Crimea region simmered, with pro-Russian demonstrators facing off against rival protesters in the city of Simferopol.

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This week marked the five-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers investment bank, which triggered the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression. And it also marked second anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall Street.

And while the establishment uses false metrics to assure us everything is going in the right direction, the cold numbers paint a much different picture. On the eve of another political showdown that threatens yet another government shutdown, we’ll dig into the fundamental issues that leave us like boiling frogs.

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NSA is CRAZY

• Snowden’s lawyer: US desperate to get Edward, still a threat to him – YouTube

Who pays for Snowden’s security in Russia?

• Cutting the cord: Brazil’s bold plan to combat the NSA | The Verge

Earlier this month, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff announced plans to create an undersea fiber-optic cable that would funnel internet traffic between South America and Europe, bypassing the US entirely.

• Brazilian president Rousseff: US surveillance a ‘breach of international law’ | World news | The Guardian

Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, has launched a blistering attack on US espionage at the UN general assembly, accusing the NSA of violating international law by its indiscriminate collection of personal information of Brazilian citizens and economic espionage targeted on the country’s strategic industries.
Rousseff’s angry speech was a direct challenge to President Barack Obama, who was waiting in the wings to deliver his own address to the UN general assembly, and represented the most serious diplomatic fallout to date from the revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

• NSA planted bugs at Indian missions in D.C., U.N. – The Hindu

  According to a top-secret NSA document obtained by The Hindu, the NSA selected India’s U.N. office and the embassy as “location target” for infiltrating their computers and telephones with hi-tech bugs, which might have given them access to vast quantities of Internet traffic, e-mails, telephone and office conversations and even official documents stored digitally.
  Though emails sent to India’s New York mission have remained unanswered so far, an Indian diplomat told The Hindu that the NSA eavesdropping might have done “extensive damage” to India’s stand on many international issues ranging from UN Security Council reforms to peacekeeping operations. “If they could implant bugs inside communications equipment of European Union office here and tap into their communications cables as well, there is no reason to believe that they didn’t snoop on us,” said the diplomat, speaking strictly on condition of anonymity.

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Economic Dissonance

• How income inequality hurts America – Sep. 25, 2013

“The 400 richest people in the United States have more wealth than the bottom 150 million put together,” said Berkeley Professor and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on a recent CNNMoney panel on inequality.

• Ex-Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich warns about income inequality

Former Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich, who served in the Clinton administration, warned during an interview of the perils of widening income inequality in the United States, excessive executive compensation and the future of labor.

Reich is promoting his new documentary, “Inequality for All,” which looks at the income gap and possible solutions. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and won a special jury prize in the documentary competition for director Jacob Kornbluth.

• This Map Will Show You The Staggering Growth In Income Inequality Over The Past 40 Years

To put the staggering rise in income inequality another way: The incomes of the bottom 90 percent of Americans, adjusted for inflation, grew by $59 on average between 1966 and 2011, while the average income of the top 10 percent grew by $116,071 during the same period, according to an analysis by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston.

• Treasury Puts a Date on When Cash May Run Out – Oct. 17

The Treasury will only have $30 billion of cash on hand by mid-October, putting the United States on the precipice of an unprecedented default, the department said on Wednesday.

In the letter, Mr. Lew set Oct. 17 as the effective deadline for Congressional action: after that date, the country would be at severe risk of missing or defaulting on some of its payments every day going forward.

The Treasury makes more than 80 million individual payments a month. After exhausting its extraordinary measures, it would miss about 30 percent of those payments until Congress raised the ceiling again.

According to the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Treasury is facing a $12 billion Social Security payment on Oct. 23 and a $6 billion interest payment on the public debt on Oct. 31.

On Nov. 1 alone, it needs to spend $18 billion on Medicare, $25 billion on Social Security, $12 billion on military pay and veterans benefits and $3 billion on the Supplemental Security Income program.

Obamacare Showdown

• Sen. Cruz ends anti-Obamacare talkathon after more than 21 hours – The Washington Post

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) ended his marathon talking attack on President Obama’s health-care law Wednesday after 21 hours and 19 minutes — a feat of stamina that seems likely to complicate House GOP efforts to pass a funding bill aimed at averting a looming government shutdown.

The freshman senator ceded the floor — and got his first opportunity for a bathroom break — at noon, after running up against a deadline imposed by Senate procedural rules

• Premiums unveiled for health overhaul plans – SFGate

Before tax credits that work like an upfront discount for most consumers, sticker-price premiums for a mid-range benchmark plan will average $328 a month nationally for an individual, comparable to payments for a new car.

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Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has silenced America’s war drums, at least for now. While special interests continue to push for war, American’s have awoken from their industrial media induced commas and taken to the streets. We’ll cover the mounting pressure against a new war.

Then the NSA is caught again, this time subverting industry standards and covertly influencing major tech companies. We’ll bring you up to date.

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NSA is CRAZY

• Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security | World news | Guardian Weekly

The files show that the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have broadly compromised the guarantees that internet companies have given consumers to reassure them that their communications, online banking and medical records would be indecipherable to criminals or governments.

The agencies, the documents reveal, have adopted a battery of methods in their systematic and ongoing assault on what they see as one of the biggest threats to their ability to access huge swathes of internet traffic – “the use of ubiquitous encryption across the internet”.

Those methods include covert measures to ensure NSA control over setting of international encryption standards, the use of supercomputers to break encryption with “brute force”, and – the most closely guarded secret of all – collaboration with technology companies and internet service providers themselves.

Through these covert partnerships, the agencies have inserted secret vulnerabilities – known as backdoors or trapdoors – into commercial encryption software.

• NSA FISA Surveillance: NSA Shared Americans’ Info From Phone Data Program With CIA, FBI

The National Security Agency made a select amount of information on American citizens available to the Central Intelligence Agency and two other agencies even though prohibited by court order, according to documents released Tuesday by National Intelligence Director James Clapper.

The unauthorized dissemination of Americans’ data, including telephone numbers and email addresses and culled from the full phone records database on all domestic and one-end-foreign calls, is one of a number of ways in which the NSA misused the database between 2006 and 2009. Though there are authorized reasons the NSA can share information with outside agencies, the dissemination activity revealed in the documents did not fit those criteria.

However, it remains a mystery why the NSA granted the CIA, Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) access to the data, because that information was blacked out when the intelligence community released documentation of this violation on Tuesday.

• NSA: Steve Jobs is the real Big Brother and iPhone buyers are zombies – The Hacker News

• iPhone 5s is a TRAP!

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Syria

• Obama ‘could pause Syria attack plans’

“I want to make sure that norm against use of chemical weapons is maintained,” Mr Obama told ABC News.

“That’s in our national security interest. If we can do that without a military strike, that is overwhelmingly my preference.”

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• Syria accepts Russian chemical weapons proposal

The Syrian government has accepted a Russian proposal to put its chemical weapons under international control to avoid a possible U.S. military strike, Interfax news agency quoted Syria’s foreign minister as saying on Tuesday.

• Russia’s Syria proposal offers major powers clear advantages – latimes.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin appears especially delighted by the tentative acceptance of the plan. It allows him to show that Moscow remains a major player in the Middle East and a world power broker.

“He’s been eager to show that he can fill the partial diplomatic vacuum the U.S. has left in the Middle East, and this lets him make that point,” said Andrew Weiss, a White House advisor on Russia during the Clinton administration and now vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

• New Syria resolution would OK force if talks fail

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday that he is working on a new congressional resolution for Syria that would link the use of force with the failure to achieve a political solution eliminating Bashar Assad’s chemical weapons stockpiles.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., made the remarks a day after President Obama said he would postpone seeking authorization for a military strike to give a diplomatic solution a chance to work.

• President Obama Addresses the Nation on Syria – YouTube

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The Pentagon has announced a $100 million dollar kickstart to an expansion of America\’s espionage programs. The details are stunning, and we’ll share them with you.

Up first: Is the the fear of a Zombie apocalypse really behind the exploding gun sales in the United States? Plus taking the next steps in Syria, a major Drone update and the headlines!

Then: A whistleblower from the NSA claims to have witnessed wide scale and illegal surveillance of all online traffic. We’ll play the clips, and ask you some hard questions.

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ACT ONE:

• Spike in gun sales attributed to \’Zombie Apocalypse\’

• Zombies cause rise in US gun sales, says gun rights campaigner

• Pot Is Legal In Washington State, Today

• Former Microsoft manager wants to create high-end marijuana business now that the drug is set to become legal in Washington state

• Cops to Congress: We need logs of Americans\’ text messages

• President Obama to Assad \’The World Is Watching\’

• No, Syria Doesn\’t Have Saddam\’s Chemical Weapons
• Thousands of US troops arrive near Syrian shore on USS Eisenhower
• Chemical scare is a cloak for intervention, says Syria

Drone Update:

• US Navy Aircraft Carrier Tests New Drone

• Robocod: Homeland Security adds underwater drones to their arsenal with robots based on fish

• Unmanned X-47B drone to be tested on US Navy aircraft carrier

ACT TWO:

• Iranian TV shows off \’captured US ScanEagle drone\’

• ScanEagle U.S spy drone gets captured by IRGC.

• Iran says it captures drone; U.S. denies losing one

• US Navy says no drones missing in Middle East after Iran claims it has captured one

• Pentagon reportedly planning to double size of its worldwide spy network

• DIA to send hundreds more spies overseas

• DIA Defense Intelligence Agency Info Video – YouTube

• Defense Intelligence Agency – We\’re DIA – YouTube

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• Actually, The Newest Version Of NDAA Makes It EASIER To Detain Citizens Indefinitely

• \’Everyone in US under virtual surveillance\’ – NSA whistleblower

• More liberal talking points coming out of you that are completely false.

• About climate change

• I would like to hear about Native Americans are viewed by Americans.

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  • Entire Ukrain government resigns following elections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fql8ko6hxA
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• John McAfee confirms he is in Guatemala

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The TSA is one of the stars in the US Government\’s security theater that keeps the public always fearing attack. In this week’s episode we’ll demonstrate how the media is used to manipulate public support for sweeping security changes.

Plus – We’ll unfilter some headlines, and cover your feedback from our first episode.

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• Army Readies Its Mammoth Spgy Blimp for First Flight
• U.S. Outgunned in Hacker War
• More Americans Worried About Cybarmegeddon Than Terrorism, Study Finds
  • Study Confirms The Government Produces The Buggiest Software
• FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit
• Congress Proposes Giving Another $10 Million To ICE To Censor More Websites For Hollywood

ACT TWO: TSA Security Theater

• How much is being spend on the TSA’s?
  • According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Budget-in-Brief for Fiscal Year 2013 The 2013 President’s Budget for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is $7,644,585,000
  • The TSA accounts for 13% of the Department of Homeland Security\’s annual budget.
  • Down from The TSA\’s Fiscal Year 2012 President\’s Budget was $8,115,259,000 and the TSA accounted for 14% of the DHS annual budget
• TSA screeners are only being paid between $9.88 – $16.38 an hour according to payscale.com
• TSA Behavioral Detection Statistics: officers sidetracked 50,000 passengers in 2010 and arrested 300 passengers – none turned out to be terrorists
• TSA Scanners Might Not Catch Underwear Bombs & ID Thief Becomes a TSA \”Officer\”
• TSA Creator Says Dismantle, Privatize the Agency\”
• EDITORIAL: TSA’s \”power grope\”
• TSA Trials Expanding to Busses
• TSA Bus Trial Backfires
• Famed Hacker Arrested for Pot Possession En Route To SXSW by TSA Stop
• TSA’s “VIPER” program stumbles again\”

ACT THREE: Feedback

• Ubiquity Writes…

  Was hoping for a video show, LAS and SNAP are great because of that.

• Jim Writes…

  If you are going to be doing shows on political issues, you at least have to make some kind of attempt at balance. You are going to have to present arguments from all sides of the issue and you need guests on the show to argue the opposing sides.

• Ubiquity Writes.. (again)

  I think it\’s about time more people did discuss issues that do really matter. While not everyone may agree with topics that are political or religious, its discussion that needs to happen. I would suggest sticking to the facts as much as possible, and unfortunately there are many facts that challenge popular beliefs. One advantage of the IT industry is that most \”wise\” decisions are based on facts and statistics. I think of this content as educational, better for the greater good of people.

Unfilter on Reddit

Link List:

• It\’s Like An Advertisement For Airport Security Bomb Detecting Technology
• Al Qaeda Working To Surgically Implant Bombs In People & Even Pets!
• US politicians condemn leak of CIA\’s al-Qa\’ida sting operation

Song pick of the week: SONG: Mr. TSA: a Response to Having My Pants Pulled Down by the TSA Which was released under a Creative Commons License

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