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Google Will Survive SESTA. Your Startup Might Not.

• Requires unreliastic levels of censorship by platforms; not even the big players will be able to comply 100%

• Proponents consider startups to be outliers, which “will be successfully prosecuted, civilly and criminally under this law”.

• Proponents are overstating the effectiveness of filtering

• Proposed standards actually discourage platforms from filtering

Companies Look to an Old Technology to Protect Against New Threats

• Tape is an old techology. It is also highly reliable and stable

• Tape sales are increasing

• Yep, backup to NAS is great, but do you have different versions of your data?

CBS’s Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers’ web browsers

• This isn’t about CBS. It’s about the potential for abuse by website owners

• Code unlikely to be official sanctioned / added by CBS; mure more likely it was a malicious third party or insider.

• The email address associated with the mining account is personal, not corporate

• Ethical issues for content providers to figure out

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Atom-sized storage could change the face of data and memory, Opera gets sold, Tesla is in some hot water, Netflix beams up Star Trek, hackers claim to have gone after Pokémon Go servers & more!

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• Germany Will Now Require ‘Black Boxes’ In Self-Driving Cars
• The first self-driving car fatality proves nothing | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian
• AutoPilot – note to drivers and Consumer Reports | Tesla Motors Club
• Elon Musk on Tesla’s Auto Pilot and Legal Liability – YouTube
• Atom-sized storage could change the face of data and memory
• Hackers: We Attacked Pokemon Go Servers | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
• Beware the fake Pokémon Go apps | TechCrunch
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Hewlett-Packard is splitting into two, Google wants its own chips for Android, Comcast has new caps & our mixed reaction to the announcement of a new Star Trek series.

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• Hewlett-Packard Is Splitting Into Two Companies

• With Apple in Mind, Google Seeks Android Chip Partners

In the discussions, which occurred this fall, Google representatives put forward designs of chips it was interested in co-developing, including a phone’s main processor. The designs enable new features Google hopes to implement within Android software in the next few years, according to people briefed on the discussions.

• Android App Mutates Source Code, Spreads Virally and Enables Mesh Networks

• Comcast Dramatically Expanding Usage Cap Areas December 1

• Google engineer leaves scathing reviews of dodgy USB Type-C cables on Amazon

• New ‘Star Trek’ TV Series To Launch In 2017 – Update

• Petition · CBS: Cancel the New Star CBS Star Trek Series Now! · Change.org

In summation, and let me be clear:

We want it for free.

But first, we want you to cancel it.

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Grab the popcorn it’s special occasion and were throwing out the playbook and doing it live. Unfilter is bringing you play-by-play coverage of Obama’s 2014 Station of the Union.

Plus we’ll fact checking the talking points, take your live calls, our follow up, and much much more.

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State of the Union

• Obama invites guests to State of the Union

• President Obama lauds partnership with Apple, other tech firms in ConnectED program

• The State of Obama’s Past SOTU Proposals

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• Angry Birds and ‘leaky’ phone apps targeted by NSA and GCHQ for user data

Exploiting phone information and location is a high-priority effort for the intelligence agencies, as terrorists and other intelligence targets make substantial use of phones in planning and carrying out their activities, for example by using phones as triggering devices in conflict zones. The NSA has cumulatively spent more than $1bn in its phone targeting efforts.

The disclosures also reveal how much the shift towards smartphone browsing could benefit spy agencies’ collection efforts.

A May 2010 NSA slide on the agency’s ‘perfect scenario’ for obtaining data from mobile apps. Photograph: Guardian

One slide from a May 2010 NSA presentation on getting data from smartphones – breathlessly titled “Golden Nugget!” – sets out the agency’s “perfect scenario”: “Target uploading photo to a social media site taken with a mobile device. What can we get?”

The question is answered in the notes to the slide: from that event alone, the agency said it could obtain a “possible image”, email selector, phone, buddy lists, and “a host of other social working data as well as location”.

• Snowden-Interview in English

Whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked the documents about US mass surveillance. He spoke about his disclosures and his life to NDR journalist Seipel in Moscow.

• Edward Snowden tells German TV that NSA is involved in industrial espionage | World news | The Guardian

“If there’s information at Siemens that’s beneficial to US national interests – even if it doesn’t have anything to do with national security – then they’ll take that information nevertheless,” Snowden said in the interview conducted in Russia, where Snowden has claimed asylum.

Snowden also told the German public broadcasting network he no longer had possession of any documents or information on NSA activities and had turned everything over to select journalists. He said he did not have any control over the publication of the information.

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President Obama has outlined his so called reforms of America’s controversial surveillance tactics. But as expected the reforms are light on real change, and leave many of the worst policies in place and unabated. We’ll dig into the most egregious.

Plus: It’s new round of character assassination for Edward Snowden, and this time the claims are even more ridiculous. Is Snowden a double agent for the FSB? We’ll debunk.

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NSA is CRAZY

• Michael Morell joins CBS News

Michael Morell, who retired as deputy director of the CIA last summer, has joined CBS News as an intelligence, national security and counterterrorism contributor, the network announced this week.

• Obama’s proposed NSA ‘reform’ changes nothing

The Washington Post has already identified the five big takeaways from Obama’s speech:

1. US intelligence agencies will no longer hold Americans’ phone call records.

2. There will, nevertheless, be some system for those records to be accessible when required.

3. The US will no longer monitor the communications of the heads of state or government of “close friends and allies”.

4. A new panel will be created to provide additional input into the secret court that oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), including privacy specialists and other non-government folks.

5. There will be new rules to extend some of the privacy provisions applying to US citizens to foreigners, unless there’s a “compelling national security purpose”.

6. ’The USA knows that for us spying is a crime’

“The German justice system will not stand idly by if the efforts of the NSA blithely continue here,” he told Bild newspaper on Monday.

• New documents: NSA provided 2–3 daily “tips” to FBI for at least 3 years | Ars Technica

Hours after President Barack Obama finished his speech last Friday on proposed intelligence and surveillance reforms, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) declassified a number of documents from the nation’s most secretive court.

The new documents are heavily redacted orders from FISC to the FBI. These items request that the court order an entity (likely a business) to provide “tangible things” under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act. The documents do not refer to who the target is, nor which company or organization they apply to.

“The Court understands that NSA expects that it will continue to provide on average approximately three telephone identifiers per day to the FBI,” reads a footnote in a 2007 court order (PDF) authored by FISC Judge Frederick Scullin, Jr.

• Rating Obama’s NSA Reform Plan: EFF Scorecard Explained | Electronic Frontier Foundation

We’ve put together a scorecard showing how Obama’s announcements stack up against 12 common sense fixes that should be a minimum for reforming NSA surveillance. Each necessary reform was worth 1 point, and we were willing to award partial credit for steps in the right direction. On that scale, President Obama racked up 3.5 points out of a possible 12.

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Snow Job:

• Snowden Denies Suggestions That He Was a Spy for Russia – NYTimes.com

Mr. Rogers said on the NBC News program “Meet the Press” on Sunday that Mr. Snowden should be seen not as a whistle-blower but as “a thief, who we believe had some help.”

Officials at both the N.S.A. and the F.B.I. have said their investigations have turned up no evidence that Mr. Snowden was aided by others.

• Snowden Calls Russian-Spy Story ‘Absurd’ in Exclusive Interview : The New Yorker

Speaking from Moscow, where he is a fugitive from American justice, Snowden told The New Yorker, “This ‘Russian spy’ push is absurd.”

“It’s not the smears that mystify me,” Snowden told me. “It’s that outlets report statements that the speakers themselves admit are sheer speculation.” Snowden went on to poke fun at the range of allegations that have been made against him in the media without intelligence officials providing some kind of factual basis: “ ‘We don’t know if he had help from aliens.’ ‘You know, I have serious questions about whether he really exists.’ ”

Snowden went on, “It’s just amazing that these massive media institutions don’t have any sort of editorial position on this. I mean these are pretty serious allegations, you know?” He continued, “The media has a major role to play in American society, and they’re really abdicating their responsibility to hold power to account.”

• Before Snowden, Nixon Admin Pioneered Evidence-Free ‘Russian Spy’ Smears Against Daniel Ellsberg | Techdirt

Ellsberg is commonly looked at as the quintessential whistleblower today, but shortly after he leaked the top secret Vietnam War study, the Nixon administration made a concerted effort to paint him as a Soviet spy in the press, using anonymous quotes and non-existent ‘secret’ evidence.

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• NSA collects millions of text messages daily in ‘untargeted’ global sweep

The National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million text messages a day from across the globe, using them to extract data including location, contact networks and credit card details, according to top-secret documents.

The untargeted collection and storage of SMS messages – including their contacts – is revealed in a joint investigation between the Guardian and the UK’s Channel 4 News based on material provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The documents also reveal the UK spy agency GCHQ has made use of the NSA database to search the metadata of “untargeted and unwarranted” communications belonging to people in the UK.

The NSA program, codenamed Dishfire, collects “pretty much everything it can”, according to GCHQ documents, rather than merely storing the communications of existing surveillance targets.

The NSA has made extensive use of its vast text message database to extract information on people’s travel plans, contact books, financial transactions and more – including of individuals under no suspicion of illegal activity.

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On Monday a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate American’s rights. A Federal Judge ruled that the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans phone records almost certainly violates the protections of the 4th Amendment against unreasonable search.

Timed like an Amazon Cyber Monday ad, 60 Minutes attempts the boldest white wash of the facts and lies surrounding the NSA spying yet.

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CBS Whitewashes the NSA

• CBS Airs NSA Propaganda Informercial Masquerading As ‘Hard Hitting’ 60 Minutes Journalism By Reporter With Massive Conflict Of Interest

The reporting was conducted by John Miller, a former intelligence community official (who worked for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the NSA) in a spokesperson role and a variety of historical roles in the intelligence community. While he does “disclose” the ODNI role upfront (but not the others), he left out that he’s about to be hired in an intelligence role for the NYPD, a deal that has been described as “a 99.44 percent done deal.”

• How we know the 60 Minutes NSA BIOS Plot Attack was crap

Stripped of techie talk, this passage simply says “The NSA foiled a major plot, trust us.” But of course, there is no reason we should trust them. It’s like how the number of terrorist plots foiled by telephone eavesdropping started at 50 then was reduced to 12 then to 2 and then to 0, as the NSA was forced to justify their claims under oath instead of in front of news cameras.

• 60 Minutes Contiunes Edward Snowden Charecter Assanstation

The interview also featured an extensive attempt by NSA agents to discredit former contractor Edward Snowden. Snowden, who leaked documents this year revealing the extent of the telephone-records program and other efforts like PRISM, was described by CBS’ John Miller as a “20-something-year-old high school dropout contractor.” Discussing the NSA’s visit to Snowden’s former Hawaii home, Rick Ledgett, the agency’s head of an Edward Snowden task force, said he “couldn’t bring himself” to sit in Snowden’s chair.

Alexander went a step further, comparing Snowden to a murderer. “This is analogous to a hostage taker taking 50 people hostage, shooting 10 and then say, ‘if you give me full amnesty I’ll let the other 40 go.’”

• NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS’s flawed report

Our take on five things the spy agency would like the public to believe about its vast surveillance powers

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”It’s Surely Orwellian”

• Judge: NSA phone program likely unconstitutional

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon found that the program appears to violate the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. He also said the Justice Department had failed to demonstrate that collecting the information had helped to head off terrorist attacks.

• As Judge Rules NSA Surveillance “Almost Orwellian,” Obama Prepares to Leave Spying Program Intact

Judge Leon was appointed to the bench by Republican President George W. Bush in 2002. Leon suspended enforcement of his injunction against the program pending an expected appeal by the government. The lawsuit was brought by conservative attorney Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch, and based on information leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

• Larry Klayman: the Tea Party ‘gadfly’ who took on the NSA

• Tea Party activist was plaintiff in landmark case against NSA
• Notoriously litigious, he sued Clinton administration 18 times
• Klayman is a former prosecutor for the US Justice Department
• Larry Klayman in his own words: why I challenged the NSA in court

• Klayman brought the case on behalf of Charles Strange

Klayman brought the case on behalf of Charles Strange, the father of Michael Strange, a cryptologist technician for the NSA and a support personnel member of Navy SEAL Team 6.

Michael Strange was killed in Afghanistan when his helicopter was shot down in 2011.

Charles Strange, as a subscriber of Verizon Wireless, brought the case against the NSA, Department of Justice and several U.S. officials, including President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.

• Lawyer who won ruling against NSA claims the government has been harassing him

“I think they are messing with me,” Klayman told the
court, according to Judge Leon’s memorandum from Monday.

Klayman told the court that “he and his clients had received
inexplicable text message and emails, not to mention a disk
containing a spyware program,” Leon wrote

NSA is CRAZY

• NSA review panel releases findings on US surveillance practices – live | World news | theguardian.com

"Finally, we cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake of wholly “trusting” our public officials."

• NSA shouldn’t keep phone database, review board recommends

The recommendation that the NSA no longer keep the phone database — estimated by some former officials to contain more than 1 trillion records — is among a set of sweeping technical reforms aimed at restoring public confidence in the spying apparatus, said individuals briefed on its contents.

The 200-page report’s 40-plus recommendations, also include barring NSA from asking companies to build “backdoors” into their software so that the government may gain access to encrypted communications. The NSA would also be prevented from undermining global encryption standards and prohibited from stockpiling “zero day” hacking tools that can be used to penetrate computer systems, and in some cases, damage or destroy them, according to the individuals, who were not authorized to speak on the record.

“I have significant doubts about the efficacy of the metadata collection program as a means of conducting time-sensitive investigations in cases involving imminent threats of terrorism,” Leon wrote. “The government does not cite a single instance in which analysis of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the Government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive in nature.”

• Ed Snowden Sends Open Letter To Brazil… Which The Press Blatantly Misrepresents

Reading the actual letter, that doesn’t seem to be the case at all. While he does mention that without being granted political asylum, the US government “will continue to interfere with my ability to speak,” there does not appear to be any quid pro quo setup, in which he’s asking for asylum. He’s just laying out the situation.

• ‘NSA’s goal is elimination of privacy worldwide’ – Greenwald to EU (FULL SPEECH)

The NSA’s ultimate goal is to destroy individual privacy worldwide, working with its UK sidekick GCHQ, journalist Glenn Greenwald warned an EU inquiry, adding that they were far ahead of their rivals in their “ability to destroy privacy.”

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Dianne Feinstein and Mike Rogers the supposed chief overseers of the the US intelligence war machine held a joint interview over the weekend that gives us new insights into the rampant paranoia and circular logic that dominates their thinking and enables them to justify the spying of the world’s connected population. We’ll bust their talking points and focus on their real motivations.

But first: The editor of The Guardian was grilled by politicians and his patriotism called into question. Meanwhile Greenwald takes to the air to defend their reporting on the Snowden leaks.

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Amazon’s Cyber Monday Ad

• Amazon Drones: Amazon Unveils Futuristic Delivery Plan – CBS News – CBS News

60 Minutes associate producer Nathalie Sommer says even Bezos built up the surprise during breaks in filming the 60 Minutes segment. During a tape change, Bezos told the producers, “If you can guess what it is, then…I will give you half my fortune and send you to Vegas with it.”

• Here’s why Amazon drones may never land at your door | PCWorld

The 10-mile delivery radius for the drones shown in the Amazon video seems quite literally a stretch, according to Colin Guinn CEO of DJI Innovations, a Texas based company that makes unmanned aerial cinematography systems for commercial and recreational use.

“The [Amazon] video is by far the most fleshed out proof of concept yet,” Guinn said. “But with the system they showed, a 20-mile round trip on a single charge isn’t possible with today’s technology.”

He said that the system Amazon presented would carry a five-pound payload for a maximum flight time of about 15 to 20 minutes. “That would amount to maybe about a five-mile delivery radius,” he said, adding that a 10-mile radius might be possible in about a year from now.

• Why Amazon’s appearance on 60 Minutes was more about Cyber Monday than Prime Air drones. — Gavin Donovan

As you can see, tweets for “Amazon” increased by 180% between Saturday (11/30) and Sunday (12/1). Their 60 minutes appearance was a great tool for getting people to talk about Jeff Bezos, Amazon and their drones. Of course, Amazon hopes that this increase in conversations will influence people to visit Amazon.com.

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Audiobook

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• Zucker plans massive change at CNN

“The goal for the next six months, is that we need more shows and less newscasts.”

He wants the network to attract “viewers who are watching places like Discovery and History and Nat Geo and A&E.”

NSA is CRAZY

• NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show – The Washington Post

The NSA does not target Americans’ location data by design, but the agency acquires a substantial amount of information on the whereabouts of domestic cellphones “incidentally,” a legal term that connotes a foreseeable but not deliberate result.

One senior collection manager, speaking on condition of anonymity but with permission from the NSA, said “we are getting vast volumes” of location data from around the world by tapping into the cables that connect mobile networks globally and that serve U.S. cellphones as well as foreign ones. Additionally, data are often collected from the tens of millions of Americans who travel abroad with their cellphones every year.

• How the NSA is tracking people right now

• Guardian will not be intimidated over NSA leaks, Alan Rusbridger tells MPs | World news | theguardian.com

In one curious exchange, the committee chair, Keith Vaz, asked Rusbridger if he loved his country.

“I’m slightly surprised to be asked the question,” replied Rusbridger. "But, yes, we are patriots and one of the things we are patriotic about is the nature of democracy, the nature of a free press and the fact that one can in this country discuss and report these things.

• UK Parliament Makes A Mockery Of Itself Interrogating Guardian Editor

• Feinstein and Rogers say terrorism threat to US is increasing | World news | theguardian.com

Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Mike Rogers appeared together on CNN’s State of the Union, on the day that al-Qaida’s US spokesperson called for attacks on US interests around the world. Rogers said al-Qaida groups had changed their means of communication as a result of leaks about US surveillance programs, making it harder to detect potential plots in the early planning stages.

“We’re fighting amongst ourselves here in this country about the role of our intelligence community that it is having an impact on our ability to stop what is a growing number of threats,” he said. “And so we’ve got to shake ourselves out of this pretty soon and understand that our intelligence services are not the bad guys.”

Feinstein, a California Democrat, said there were more terrorist groups than ever, with more sophisticated and hard-to-detect bombs. She said: “There is huge malevolence out there.”

• Death and the NSA: Motherboard Meets Bruce Schneier

I asked him about the NSA disclosure that bothered him most. He described how, in the name of defending the country, the hackers of the NSA are committing a cardinal digital sin: weakening the Internet by targeting cryptography and other security measures that make the Internet secure for the bad guys and for everyone else too.

The Season of Weed

• The War on Marijuana in Black and White: Report | American Civil Liberties Union

OVER-POLICING

Between 2001 and 2010, there were over 8 million pot arrests in the U.S. That’s one bust every 37 seconds and hundreds of thousands ensnared in the criminal justice system.

WASTED TIME AND MONEY

Enforcing marijuana laws costs us about $3.6 billion a year, yet the War on Marijuana has failed to diminish the use or availability of marijuana.

STAGGERING RACIAL BIAS

Marijuana use is roughly equal among Blacks and whites, yet Blacks are 3.73 times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession.

• Mom Recounts Using Medical Marijuana To Treat Her Son’s Epilepsy (VIDEO)

Mom Recounts Using Medical Marijuana To Treat Her Son’s Epilepsy: He went 48 hours without a seizure immediately. Within three days he was pumping his legs on the swings, which is something I had tried to teach him for seven years…tomorrow he’ll be 14 months seizure-free."

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This morning, the online streaming market exploded as Amazon landed a nut-punch to Netflix by announcing their own streaming service. FREE for Amazon Prime members. Netflix quickly responded with an announcement of their own, revealing a partnership with CBS.

Tonight, we’re taking a closer look at each of these announcements, and seeing how they really stack up against one another. Is Amazon priming up to knock Netflix from the top dog position as King of Streaming? Or can Netflix withstand the punishment?

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