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Tales of an IT professional sailing around the Antarctic loop – sent in by Eric Miller

• CTD device – A CTD or Sonde is an oceanography instrument used to measure the conductivity, temperature, and pressure of seawater (the D stands for “depth,” which is closely related to pressure). The reason to measure conductivity is that it can be used to determine the salinity.

• Had to reinstall software for a winch to get it working

• Registered a new website and webmail and created a custom email solution so scientists would remotely access their email

security.txt – an RFC in the making

• Based on /.well-known/ of RFC5785 and similar in nature to robots.txt

• JSON was discussed, but dismissed

• CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) will be used

• Versioning of security.txt by third parties

• Generation utilities have been created](https://github.com/EdOverflow/security-txt/issues/10)

Dumping Data from Deep-Insert Skimmers

• Deep-insert skimmers

• Romanian links to US crime

• European data skimmed from cards, then used in US because chip technology is not widely deployed there

• ‘wands’ inserted deep into the ATM to retrieve data

Feedback

• re Database migrations in Episode 332 jungle boogie writes in to mention Sqitch github by David Wheeler. JB says “This is a program written in perl and looks to have support for many databases”. JB also mentioned [pgBackRest](https://www.pgbackrest.org/] github

• Gary Foard writes in about a command line utility called shred. He uses to erase laptops from a live Linux disc. I checked the FreeBSD manual pages to check it’s there also, and it is – although I had to search for gshred instead of shred to find shred which I find weird. – See sysutils/coreutils in the FreeBSD Ports tree. – Dan notes: not recommended for erasing files any more. Not feasible for COW filesystems.

• prime62 mentioned on the TechSNAP sub-reddit mentioned some password hashing/salting resources: Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right and The definitive guide to form-based website authentication

• Also seen on Reddit: There is no point [on max password lengths] since the field is hashed.

Round Up:

• Mobile operators deploying portable Cell-On-Wheels/Cell-On-Truck units along eclipse path to handle huge data usage of photos and streaming

• Security Keys

• 83601 is a supervisor number

• Brian Krebs Fan Creates New Cryptocurrency Miner for Linux Devices

• Random Thoughts – next release of OpenSSL see Password Strength

• Create randomly insecure VMs

• This algorithm cleverly recreates 3D objects from tiny 2D images

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Massive cyberattack hits Europe with widespread ransom demands

• New Ransomware Variant Compromises Systems Worldwide

• some infections may be associated with software update systems for a Ukrainian tax accounting package called MeDoc

• MDDoc posts about a virus

• notes at SANS ISC InfoSec Forums

Google Says It Will No Longer Read Users’ Emails To Sell Targeted Ads

• Google will no longer scan emails in Gmail accounts in order sell targeted advertising, the company said Friday.

• Google’s blog post

• more than 3 million paying companies that use G Suite

• Bloomberg post on same topic

Does US have right to data on overseas servers? We’re about to find out

Feedback

• AES-256 encryption keys cracked by hands-off hack from Shawn via Twitter

• workflow and backup strategy advice

• Regarding DNS, I think Dan mentioned that he didn’t have any of the books he used to learn about it. Any suggestions about some good reading material on that topic? Thanks for the awesome show. – DNS and BIND is the name of the book

Round Up:

• How LZ4 works

• Know your Times Tables, but… do you know your “Hash Tables”?

• AWS Security Primer

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High ranking members of the intelligence community have come forward and stated the Obama administration is manipulating ISIS intelligence reports and targets & the most likely reason is troubling.

Russia is caught supplying Assad with weapons, China is flexing its muscles & a lot more!

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• Ezgi Basaran, “Former CIA officer says US policies helped create IS.” Al-Monitor, 2 September 2014. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2014/09/turkey-usa-iraq-syria-isis-fuller.html#.

• A 2008 US Army-commissioned RAND report outlines a ‘Divide and Rule’ strategy for US engagement in the region, noting that the strategy “focuses on exploiting fault lines between various SJ (Salafi-jihadi) groups to turn them against each other…” The report calls for the US to “capitalize on the Shia-Sunni conflict by taking the side of the conservative Sunni regimes… and working with them against all Shiite empowerment movements in the Muslim world” while as well maintaining “a strong strategic relationship with the Iraqi Shiite government.” The report confirms that the ‘Divide and Rule’ strategy was already being deployed in Iraq “to create divisions in the jihadist camp. Today in Iraq such a strategy is being used at the tactical level,” by forming “temporary alliances” with al-Qaeda affiliated “nationalist insurgent groups.” Although they have directly fought against the US for four years and “cooperated with al-Qaeda against US forces,” these groups are now being supported to exploit “the common threat that al-Qaeda now poses to both parties.” Christopher G. Pernin et al., “Unfolding the Future of the Long War.” RAND Corporation, 2008. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG738.pdf; Nafeez Ahmed, “Pentagon report predicted West’s support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS.” Insurge Intelligence, 22 May 2015. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-west-saw-isis-as-strategic-asset-b99ad7a29092; Early on during the invasion the US covertly supplied arms to al-Qaeda affiliated insurgents while propping up a Shia-dominated government. Pakistani defense sources confirmed to Asia Times that ‘former Ba’ath party’ loyalists were being supplied Pakistani-manufactured weapons by the US. These ‘former Ba’ath party’ loyalists were being recruited and trained by al-Qaeda in Iraq under the leadership of Abu Musab Zarqawi. The arms “could not be destined for the Iraqi security forces because US arms would be given to them”, a source told Asia Times’ Pakistan bureau chief Syed Saleem Shahzad, who was “known for his exposes of the Pakistani military” according to the New Yorker, and was murdered in 2011. Syed Saleem Shahzad, “US fights back against ‘rule by clerics.'” Asia Times, 15 February, 2005. https://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB15Ak02.html; Nafeez Ahmed, “Caught red-handed.” The Raw Story, 23 September, 2005. https://rawstory.com/news/2005/CAUGHT_RED__0923.html; Nafeez Ahmed, “How the west created the Islamic State.” Insurge Intelligence, 11 September 2014. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-west-created-the-islamic-state-dbfa6f83bc1f; According to a report for the US Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) and Strategic Studies Department titled “Dividing Our Enemies”, post-invasion Iraq strategy relied upon pursuing public legitimacy through social welfare programs while simultaneously delegitimizing local enemies by escalating intra-insurgent violence, even though this would harm civilians. The report notes that Iraq post-invasion was “an interesting case study of fanning discontent among enemies, leading to ‘red-against-red’ [enemy-against-enemy] firefights,” this strategy however “involves no effort to win over those caught in the crossfire of insurgent and counterinsurgent warfare, whether by bullet or broadcast. On the contrary, this underside of the counterinsurgency coin is calculated to exploit or create divisions among adversaries for the purpose of fomenting enemy-on-enemy deadly encounters.” The ‘enemies’ included jihadis, Ba’athists, as well as peaceful Sufis. “Evidence of factional fighting between the residents came to light with nightly gun battles not involving coalition forces. These firefights between insurgent factions represented the impact of U.S. psychological operations (PSYOP), which took advantage of and deepened the intra-insurgent forces. The PSYOP contingent cleverly crafted programs to exploit Zarqawi’s murderous activities and to broadcast them countrywide, thereby diminishing his folk-hero image among Iraqis. Although the jihadis and Baathists shared hostility to the U.S. military forces surrounding Fallujah, their mutual antipathy to each other presented an opportunity to turn them against each other.” Thomas H. Henriksen, “Dividing Our Enemies.” Joint Special Operations University (JSOU), November 2005. https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2005/0511_jsou-report-05-5.pdf; Nafeez Ahmed, “How the west created the Islamic State.” Insurge Intelligence, 11 September 2014. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-west-created-the-islamic-state-dbfa6f83bc1f; US employs the “Salvadorian Option” for Iraq utilizing Shi’ite paramilitaries to lethally quell Sunni uprisings. Michael Hirsh and John Barry, “The Salvador Option.” Newsweek, 9 January 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20050110030928/https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek/; Mona Mahmood et al., “Revealed: Pentagon’s link to Iraqi torture centres.” The Guardian, 6 March 2013. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/06/pentagon-iraqi-torture-centres-link; Mona Mahmood, et al., “From El Salvador to Iraq: Washington’s man behind brutal police squads.” The Guardian, 6 March 2013. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/06/el-salvador-iraq-police-squads-washington; According to the UK based monitoring group Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) Iraq topped the worlds ‘most dangerous’ places list in June of 2015. “Iraq tops ‘most dangerous’ place in world list.” RT, 22 June 2015. https://www.rt.com/uk/268810-top-ten-dangerous-countries/.

• Craig Whitlock, “U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups, cables released by WikiLeaks show.” Washington Post, 17 April 2011. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-secretly-backed-syrian-opposition-groups-cables-released-by-wikileaks-show/2011/04/14/AF1p9hwD_story.html; “US trains activists to evade security forces.” AFP, 8 April 2011. https://www.activistpost.com/2011/04/us-trains-activists-to-evade-security.html; Ron Nixon, “U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings.” The New York Times, 14 April 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&emc=eta1.

• Greg Miller et al., “Secret CIA effort in Syria faces large funding cut.” Washington Post, 12 June 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/lawmakers-move-to-curb-1-billion-cia-program-to-train-syrian-rebels/2015/06/12/b0f45a9e-1114-11e5-adec-e82f8395c032_story.html; David E. Sanger, “Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to Benefit Jihadists in Syria.” The New York Times, 14 October 2012. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/world/middleeast/jihadists-receiving-most-arms-sent-to-syrian-rebels.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&.

• “They trained us to ambush regime or enemy vehicles and cut off the road. They also trained us on how to attack a vehicle, raid it, retrieve information or weapons and munitions, and how to finish off soldiers still alive after an ambush.” “Syria: Arming the Rebels.” Frontline, 27 May 2014. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/syria-arming-the-rebels/; The Conventions offer protections to wounded combatants, and prisoners of war must be humanely treated at all times. “Reference Guide to the Geneva Conventions.” Society of Professional Journalists. https://www.spj.org/gc-index.asp#woundedcombatants.

• Josh Rogin, “America’s Allies Are Funding ISIS.” The Daily Beast, 14 June 2014. https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/14/america-s-allies-are-funding-isis.html; “Biden: Turks, Saudis, UAE funded and armed Al Nusra and Al Qaeda.” Mideast Shuffle, 4 October 2014. https://mideastshuffle.com/2014/10/04/biden-turks-saudis-uae-funded-and-armed-al-nusra-and-al-qaeda/; “General Dempsey acknowledges U.S. Arab allies funding ISIS.” C-SPAN, 20 September 2014. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4509231/general-dempsey-acknowledges-us-arab-allies-funding-isis; All of this was coordinated out of US-led operation rooms in Turkey and Jordan, Eric Schmitt, “C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition.” The New York Times, 21 June 2012. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html?_r=0; Mark Hosenball, “Exclusive: Obama authorizes secret U.S. support for Syrian rebels.” Reuters, 1 August 2012. https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/01/us-usa-syria-obama-order-idUSBRE8701OK20120801; Adam Entous, et al., “A Veteran Saudi Power Player Works To Build Support to Topple Assad.” The Wall Street Journal, 25 August 2013. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323423804579024452583045962; FSA commander: “We are collaborating with the Islamic State and the Nusra Front”, Elise Knutsen, “Frustration drives Arsal’s FSA into ISIS ranks.” The Daily Star, September 8, 2014. https://cached.newslookup.com/cached.php?ref_id=394&siteid=2319&id=8144452&t=1410149280; US-backed SRF commander: “If the people who support us tell us to send weapons to another group, we send them. They [Jabhat al-Nusra] asked us a month ago to send weapons to Yabroud so we sent a lot of weapons there. When they asked us to do this, we do it.” Isabel Hunter, “‘I am not fighting against al-Qa’ida… it’s not our problem’, says West’s last hope in Syria.” The Independent, April 2nd, 2015. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/i-am-not-fighting-againstalqaida-itsnot-our-problem-says-wests-last-hope-in-syria-9233424.html; US-backed commander Okaidi: “My relationship with the brothers in ISIL is good… I communicate almost daily with brothers in ISIL… the relationship is good, even brotherly… They [al-Nusra] did not exhibit any abnormal behavior, which is different from that of the FSA.” Joshua Landis, “US Key Man in Syria Worked Closely with ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra.” https://twitter.com/joshua_landis/status/504610185952784384; Then US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford admits US-backed rebels collaborated with ISIS and al-Qaeda, Brad Hoff. Levant Report, May 25th, 2015. https://levantreport.com/tag/robert-ford/.

• Nafeez Ahmed, “Pentagon report predicted West’s support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS: Anti-ISIS coalition knowingly sponsored violent extremists to ‘isolate’ Assad, rollback ‘Shia expansion.'” Insurge Intelligence, 22 May 2015. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-west-saw-isis-as-strategic-asset-b99ad7a29092; Nafeez Ahmed, “Ex-intel officials: Pentagon report proves US complicity in ISIS.” Insurge Intelligence, 2 June 2015. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/ex-intel-officials-pentagon-report-proves-us-complicity-in-isis-fabef96e20da.

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It’s a special holiday episode! We asked you guys in the audience to send in the tale of how you first got into BSD, and we’re going to share those with everyone today. We’ll also be playing two bonus mini-interviews, so get comfy by the fire and listen to some BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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How our viewers got into BSD

• Jason’s story (text)
• bsdx’s story (text)
• David’s story (text)
• Brad’s story (text)
• Reese’s story (video)
• Bryan’s story (video)
• Pete’s story (text)
• Anders’ story (text)
• Guillermo’s story (text)
• Jonathan’s story (text)
• Adam’s story (text)
• Chris’ story (text)
• Tigersharke’s story (text)
• Roller and Kandie’s stories (text)
• Uwe’s story (text)
• Pascal’s story (text) and (image)

Interview – Erwin Lansing – erwin@freebsd.org

BSD advocacy in Europe, getting people involved

Interview – Cristina Vintila

BSD conferences

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The NSA chilling effect is in full force, and you can probably guess where many companies are feeling too.

Then hidden problem facing IT security and why users expect magic.

Plus it’s a great batch of your questions, and our answers.

All that and more, on this week’s TechSNAP!

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Companies start moving data and jobs to Canada to avoid the NSA

• “U.S. industry stands to lose billions as companies spooked by security leaks seek to store banks of personal data outside U.S.”
• “It’s also a question of perception. The Europeans want to say to their clients that their information is not in the United States even though it stays in North America.”
• Canada is also attractive due to the availability of skilled labour, the cooler climate (requiring less air conditioning) and cheap electricity
• Compared to moving data to Europe, the latency to Canada is much lower because of its proximity and diversity of fibre paths
• “No one will say which companies have decided to flee the U.S., but they are said to vary from European banking and insurance firms with operations in the U.S. to American oil and gas companies and retail outlets, according to Canadian industry representatives interviewed by the Star”
• Cisco has chosen Ontario as the destination of a $4 billion investment that will create 1700 engineering and tech jobs
• The 10 year deal will see more than half of the $4 billion spent on salaries
• The number of jobs could grow as high as 5000

• FreeNAS Mini on Amazon

Some speakers quit RSA conference and call for boycott

• After the revelation that RSA received $10 million from the NSA to make a flawed algorithm the default in their BSafe product, a number of speakers and panel participants have pulled our of the yearly conference run by RSA
• RSA denies it entered into a contract for the purpose of weaking its products
• RSA issued a warning against using the flawed algorithm in September when NIST issued a similar warning after the Snowden documents were leaked
• Researchers who have pulled out of the conference include:
• Mikko Hypponen – F-Secure’s Chief Researcher – Talk: Governments as Malware Authors
• Adam Langley – Google Security Expert
• Chris Palmer – Google Chrome security engineer
  • Christopher Soghoian – researcher with the American Civil Liberties Union
  • Marcia Hoffman – privacy attorney and former Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer
    
  • Alex Fowler – Mozilla privacy and public policy expert
  • Josh Thomas – “Chief Breaking Officer” at security firm Atredis
  • Jeffrey Carr – Taia Global
• Taia Global is developing a product called Chimera, a commercial database of “rival state research and development projects” on the basis that knowing what the attackers are working on, lets you know which of your assets they may be out to steal
• “Organisers have said that next month’s conference in San Francisco will host 560 speakers, and that they expect more participants than the 24,000 who showed up last year”
• Additional Coverage

The hidden threat to network security? Management

• A survey and study by Stroz Friedberg called Information Security Risk in American Business was recently released
• The study shows much what you would expect, few people take security seriously, although everyone claims to care about it
• Most people expect the IT experts to somehow magically keep everything security, while end users go around sprinkling sensitive files all over the Internet and clicking the link in every spam email they get, and opening every attachment
• “Insiders are by far the biggest risk to the security of a company’s sensitive information, whether it’s a careless executive or a disgruntled employee”
• The horrible stats:
  • 87% of senior managers frequently or occasionally send work materials to a personal email or cloud account in order to work remotely
  • 58% of Senior management have accidentally sent sensitive information to the wrong person (compared to 25% of workers overall)
  • 51% of Senior management, and 37% of mid-level management have taken files with them after leave a job
    +45% of senior management say that C-level leadership are responsible for protecting companies against cyber-attacks
  • “Yet, 52% of this same group indicated they are falling down on the job, rating corporate America’s ability to respond to cyber-threats at a “C” grade or lower.”
  • Employees disagree, 54% say IT professionals should be responsible for cyber security
  • 73% of Employees fears their personal details such as Social Security numbers, birth date, banking information and home address could be stolen
  • “Only 35% of respondents reported receiving regular training and communications on mobile device security from their employers”
• “BYOD and the use of personal online accounts have become prevalent in American businesses, as workers use their personal smartphones, tablets, and preferred cloud providers to stay productive while at work and out of the office. This is opening the door for businesses to encounter new and emerging threats from hackers, malware, and viruses.”
• Full Study

Feedback:

• VPN’s: A developer’s nightmare
• FAQ – Microsoft’s PPTP Implementation
• Free and Open Source Support and FreeNAS Mirroring
• Nginx Client side SSL limiting
• Hows my SSL?
• Low-end server hardware prices

Round Up:

• Yahoo malware turned European computers into bitcoin slaves
• Humourous USENIX article about password security
• openSUSE forums defaced, emails leaked
• Poem about hacking the truth machine
• Zimbra 8 remote exploit
• How a simple screwup lead to a compromise and a $500 amazon bill
• Intel renames its ‘tainted’ McAfee brand to ‘Intel Security’
• Reading this May Harm Your Computer: The Psychology of Malware Warnings
• Not Cool: MPAA Joins The W3C
• OpenSSL site defaced – Official Statement
• The US Federal Election Commission is highly vulnerable to intrusions and data breaches
• Asprox botnet pushes KrebsOnSecurity themed malware

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Obama shrugged him off, calling him some 29 year old hacker. But this week the Administrations actions spoke louder than their words. Their hunt for Edward Snowden intensifies as they twist the arm of Vladimir Putin, ground the jet of the Bolivian president, and placing frantic calls to nation leaders around the world.

We’ll bring you up to date on the twists and turns in hunt for Snowden, analyze the latest leaks, and discuss why some of America’s allies are very angry.

Then we’ll cover the historic showdown in Egypt as millions take to the street, your feedback, and much much more.

On this week’s Unfilter.

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Germany, France outraged by US ‘Cold War’ spying web

• EU concern over Der Spiegel claim of US spying

The report, carried by Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine, cites a secret 2010 document alleging that the US spied on EU offices in New York and Washington.

• Germany, France outraged by US ‘Cold War’ spying web – YouTube

Europe’s reeling from revelations that its leaders and citizens have been targeted by U.S. wiretapping and mass surveillance. That information was leaked to the German media – and the American ambassador there has been summoned for an explanation. RT is joined by Lizzie Phelan, newsroom chief at RT’s video agency in Berlin, Ruptly. RT is also joined by French journalist and blogger Jean Marc Manach.

• German Magazine Der Spiegel Lands Latest Edward Snowden NSA Scoop

“The documents prove that Germany played a central role in the NSA’s global surveillance network – and how the Germans have also become targets of U.S. attacks,” Der Spiegel reported. “Each month, the U.S. intelligence service saves data from around half a billion communications connections from Germany.”

• France wants to ‘temporarily suspend’ trade talks with US over NSA spying — RT News

France wants to delay the ‘biggest bilateral trade deal in history’ by 2 weeks after learning the USA was allegedly tracking economic communications of EU member states. But Germany says they should go ahead as planned.

• Warren on Trans-Pacific Partnership: If people knew what was going on, they would stop it

• Bug found at Ecuador’s embassy in London

At Tuesday’s press conference in the capital Quito, minister Patino said that the hidden listening device was found during a regular security check by the Ecuadorian intelligence for the Ecuadorian embassy in the UK on June 16.

The microphone was found in the office of the ambassador Ana Alban.

“We immediately conducted an investigation to find the source and I will release our result at tomorrow’s press conference including the source of the device, who was using it and which department installed it”, Patino told reporters.

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Where in the World is Snowden

• Biden asks Ecuador to reject Snowden’s asylum request

Vice President Biden has asked Ecuador to turn down an asylum request from National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, the country’s president said Saturday.

Rafael Correa said he had a “friendly and very cordial” conversation with Biden, and told the vice president that Ecuador hadn’t sought to be put in the situation of deciding whether to harbor an American fugitive. Correa said Ecuador can’t consider the asylum request until Snowden is on Ecuadorean soil.

• Ecuador Leader Says Biden Called About Asylum Request – NYTimes.com

White House officials have said in recent days that in their contacts with foreign governments about Mr. Snowden, they have warned those governments about the felony charges that Mr. Snowden faced in the United States and urged that they not further aid his international flight.

• Bolivian president’s jet rerouted amid suspicions Edward Snowden on board | World news | The Guardian

France and Portugal accused of refusing entry to their airspace, while plane lands in Vienna with no sign of Snowden

• Charlie Rose – Alan Rusbridger and Janine Gibson – YouTube

Guardian editors Alan Rusbridger and Janine Gibson on Edward Snowden and the NSA leaks

Showdown: Egypt

• Egypt’s military suspends constitution, replaces President Morsi – latimes.com

CAIRO – Egyptian military leaders on Wednesday said they were suspending the constitution, and they replaced President Mohamed Morsi with the head of the nation’s constitutional court.

• Raw: Egypt Military Releases New Protest Video – YouTube

The Egyptian military released new images taken from the skies above Cairo during this weekend’s huge anti-government protests. Hundreds of thousands of protesters can be seen gathered at Tahrir Square and the Ittihadiya presidential palace. (July 2)

• Egypt – Imgur

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• Isn’t a government that is large enough to effectively spy on all of its people, simply a government too large?

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• U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement – NYTimes.com

“Show all mail to supv” — supervisor — “for copying prior to going out on the street,” read the card. It included Mr. Pickering’s name, address and the type of mail that needed to be monitored. The word “confidential” was highlighted in green.

• ‘Hell to pay:’ Residents angry as RCMP seize guns from High River homes (with video)

About 30 RCMP officers set up a blockade at the checkpoint, preventing 50 residents from walking into the town. Dozens more police cars, lights on, could be seen lining streets in the town on standby.

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We look at the tricks and distractions the campaigns and media use to keep the public focused on their pet topics.

In ACT 1: We unfilter the media\’s talking points around the tragic shooting that took place this last week in the south of Milwaukee. Plus the story behind the bad week medical marijuana had, and some news updates from around the world.

In ACT2: Is the media robbing the American people of their opportunity for a rational, and effective public discussion? This week using the lens of the reignited gun-control debate we\’ll ask some hard questions.

In ACT 3: Some follow up on a few stories from the recent weeks.

All that and much more, in this week\’s Unfilter.

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ACT ONE:

• U.S. Freezes All Nuclear Power Plant Licensing Decisions

• Sikh temple shootings leave 7 dead in Wisconsin

• Sikh temple shooter Wade Michael Page Sikh temple shooter played bass in white supremacist bands

• Kim Dotcom raid video revealed

• Europe\’s economic woes deepen amidst uncertainty

• Greece Considers Labor Pool

• Crazy Details About The Bank That’s Been Accused Of Transferring $250 Billion To Iran

• \’New Approach Washington\’ Launches Pro-Marijuana Legalization Ad In Evergreen State

• Tacoma pot doc fighting state charges, says ad ban restricts doctors\’ right to free speech
• Medical Marijuana Crackdown: Rep. Barbara Lee Tells Feds to Back Off
• New Hemp Bill Introduced in US Senate

Tech Related News:

• Googlers to Begin Commuting in Self-Driving Cars

• Google Creates Interactive Visual About Small Arms Trade

• NASA\’s Mars Rover Crashed Into a DMCA Takedown top story on the Unfilter Reddit this week

ACT TWO: Election Year Distractions

• Ohio Man arrested for weapons in theater; attorney says he was just protecting himself
• Oak Creek tragedy should prompt new gun debate
• Movie Theater Shooting Prompts Gun Control Debate
• Historic NDAA Battle Underway: TV Networks Silent
• Earl Ofari Hutchinson: How the Economy Can Help or Hurt President Obama

ACT THREE: Feedback

• Obama That I Used To Know – Gotye \’Somebody That I Used To Know\’ Parody – YouTube
• Blackwater to pay fine to settle arms charges
• White House considers executive action to address cybersecurity
• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Admits He Hid LIBOR Fraud From The DOJ

Song pick(s) of the week:

• Save Me Now by Blood Angel released under a creative commons license
• Only A Pawn In Their Game by Bob Dylan

• Only A Pawn In Their Game by Bob Dylan on Amazon UK

• Correction from last week I (Dan) said that my intro to podcasting presentation at the Syracuse Innovators Guild was going to be on the 14th. However, it going to be this Saturday August 11th from 6:00PM to 8:00PM at the Syracuse Innovators Guild Makerspace located at 3650 James st Suite 111, Syracuse, NY the class is open to everyone so if you in the area and interested in learn how on earth I end up on Unfilter along with other stuff I’ve learned about podcasting please stop by.

Follow the Team:

• Filterfree.ME show Blog
• Chris on Twitter
• Follow DanFilterFree on identi.ca if you want to know when he is at the Syracuse Innovators Guild if you want to stop by send him a PM and he will make sure the doors are open. Learn more about our upcoming events at https://www.meetup.com/Syracuse-Innovators/.
• Chase’s Geek Stuff
• Michael Vail\’s Website

If you don’t already have a Dropbox account help Dan out by signing up using this link and then installing Dropbox

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