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Net Neutrality – mail your Congressional Reps and Senators & state

governor – do not email or fax them. Put it in the mail.

• FYI, but mail them instead: Redditor shares a text bot that will send a fax to your state representative, senators, and governor, with message to fight for net neutrality

• Net Neutrality subreddit

• Hacker News: what can you do to help net neutrality

Security Alerts from GitHub

• define dependencies in one of the supported manifest file types, like package.json or Gemfile.

• similar to FreeBSD vuxml database – uses dependencies already listed in each FreeBSD port

here are over a billion outdated Android devices in use

• It’s common knowledge that Android device tend to be more out of date than iOS devices, but what does this actually mean?

• People sometimes compare Android to Windows XP because there are a large number of both in the wild and in both cases, most devices will not get security updates. However, this is tremendously unfair to Windows XP, which was released on 10/2001 and got security updates until 4/2014, twelve and a half years later.

• Another difference between Android and Windows is that Android’s scale is unprecedented in the desktop world. The were roughly 200 million PCs sold in 2017. Samsung alone has been selling that many mobile devices per year since 2008.

• If we look at the newest Android release (8.0, 8/2017), it looks like you’re quite lucky if you have a two year old device that will get the latest update. The oldest “Google” phone supported is the Nexus 6P (9/2015), giving it just under two years of support.

• But even with the data we have, we can take a guess at how many outdated devices are in use. In May 2017, Google announced that there are over two billion active Android devices. If we look at the latest stats (the far right edge), we can see that nearly half of these devices are two years out of date. At this point, we should expect that there are more than one billion devices that are two years out of date! Given Android’s update model, we should expect approximately 0% of those devices to ever get updated to a modern version of Android.

• Project Treble

Flight rules for git

A guide for astronauts (now, programmers using git) about what to do when things go wrong.

• Flight Rules are the hard-earned body of knowledge recorded in manuals that list, step-by-step, what to do if X occurs, and why. Essentially, they are extremely detailed, scenario-specific standard operating procedures. […]

• NASA has been capturing our missteps, disasters and solutions since the early 1960s, when Mercury-era ground teams first started gathering “lessons learned” into a compendium that now lists thousands of problematic situations, from engine failure to busted hatch handles to computer glitches, and their solutions.

• What did I just commit?

• I wrote the wrong thing in a commit message

• I committed with the wrong name and email configured

• I want to remove a file from a commit

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• Dan announces he is leaving the show.

• postgres and shared memory

• containers vs VM

Round Up:

• StartCom gets out of the certificates business – some background

• Massive US military social media spying archive left wide open in AWS S3 buckets

• ZFS from a MySQL perspective

• Announcing Prometheus 2.0

  • Node Exporter
  • Installation overview of node_exporter, prometheus and grafana

• The 3-Minute SQL Indexing Quiz That 60% Fail

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Low-latency satellite broadband gets approval to serve US residents

UK Cops Say Visiting the Dark Web Is a Potential Sign of Terrorism

• Dark web was mentioned in a leaflet amongst other items to watch

• Police in the capital (London) have reportedly been handing out leaflets listing what authorities deem as suspicious activity, in the hope that vigilant community members can continue to provide helpful information to law enforcement.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/06/got-robocalled-dont-get-mad-get-busy/

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• Black and white print tracking dots: document forgery and counterfitting is not limited to cash, nor is the desire to track. – Joe

Round Up:

• Windows 10 Lock Screen Leaks Clipboard Contents

• The Elgin rectangle: why couldn’t people lock their cars in Carlton?

• How to use BeyondCorp to ditch your VPN, improve security and go to the cloud

• Australia advocates weakening strong crypto at upcoming “Five Eyes” meeting FIve eyes? What’s that?

• 25 Microchips That Shook the World

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What’s Next for LAS

• 6 episodes of LAS after this episode.
• Chris gone next week, driving to Texas

• Linux Action Show goes to Dell, and why.

• Noah and Special Guest the week I am gone.

• Then live from Dell, plus inside look at all their Linux.

Live From Dell

• Chris and Noah go to Austin
• Meet the teams behind Sputnik, Servers/Cloud, IoT, networking, HPC.
• Meet up with Texas JB community members.
• Going to try and vlog the entire thing
• Rover Tracker will be LIVE again

Final LAS

• Final LAS May 7th Live at LinuxFest Northwest 2017
• Please come join us and hang out!

What’s New:

• Two new shows, one revival
• User Error relaunch, with more the Linux content that was cut to hold for LAS.

Linux News Show, with Chris Fisher and Joe Ressington

• Live Sunday’s during LAS’ old time slot.
• Going to add a new voice, and more focus on one of the most liked segments of LAS.
• Released to the LAS rss feeds, and its own dedicated YouTube channel.
• More details to come.

Ask Noah

• Launching April 3rd
• New user content, howtos, and questions answered.
• Simulcasted on KEQQ 88.3 LPFM
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We’re going to do our best

• This will mean more, and better weekly Linux content.
• We’re creating new content, with better focus, that better reflects the kind of stuff we are passionate about making.
• We know we will lose some of you, please remember how hard we’ve worked every Sunday for a decade when you flame us.
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GNOME 3.24 is the latest version of GNOME 3, and is the result
of 6 months’ hard work by the GNOME community. It contains major new
features, as well as many smaller improvements and bug fixes. In total, the
release incorporates 28459 changes, made by approximately 753
contributors.

• Firefox Sync Support Is Coming to GNOME Web – OMG! Ubuntu!

Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) Final Beta Released with Linux Kernel 4.10, Mesa 17.0

Canonical released today, as expected, the Final Beta of the upcoming Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) operating system, due for release on April 13, 2017, along with the rest of the opt-in flavors, such as Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, etc.

• Ubuntu MATE 17.04 Beta 2

We’re absolutely chuffed to bits to announce, what is quite possibly,
the best Ubuntu MATE beta we’ve ever released. We didn’t participate
in the Beta 1 so we have quite the change log from Alpha 2 that was
released in January. We still have some fixes to land for the themes
but overall this release is shaping up to be really great.

• 99900 – [NVC1] nouveau: freeze / crash after kernel update to 4.10

Xorg is now crashing whenever my monitors are going to sleep (happens always in my lunch time) – after returning its crashed and i need todo a hard reset to get the gpu running again.

State of Linux on the MacBook Pro 2016

The following document provides an overview about Linux support for the Apple
MacBook Pro 2016 line.

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017

Linux Desktop was the most loved platform. Sharepoint was the most dreaded. And finally, more developers wanted to work with Android this year than any other platform.

Senate votes to let ISPs sell your Web browsing history to advertisers

The US Senate today voted to eliminate broadband privacy rules that would have required ISPs to get consumers’ explicit consent before selling or sharing Web browsing data and other private information with advertisers and other companies.

Private Internet Access, a VPN provider, takes out a full page ad in the @nytimes calling out 50 senators #Broadbandprivacy pic.twitter.com/Gg62Fwycb7

— Zuri Berry (@zuriberry) March 26, 2017

• US Senate votes to allow sale of people’s browsing history without consent

Following the vote, Senator Ed Markey said “ISP” should stand for “information sold for profit,” and “invading subscriber privacy,”

How ISPs can sell your Web history—and how to stop them

So what has changed for Internet users? In one sense, nothing changed this week, because the requirement to obtain customer consent before sharing or selling data is not scheduled to take effect until at least December 4, 2017. ISPs didn’t have to follow the rules yesterday or the day before, and they won’t ever have to follow them if the rules are eliminated.

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Re: our call out for engagement

• We know not all, maybe even the majority are very active on social networks/reddit.
• We are making a plea to those that are, those that reshare and are active. Help us please.

Feedback Takeaways

• Each feedback medium reflects the era of the show when it was created to a degree.

• r/las: Turns into a mob after a couple of days, misses our replies, accuses us of not replying. Often critical of Noah, tends to be nostalgic of the past.

• Telegram: Loves Noah, mostly likes the show as is. Most of them have suggestions/ideas. All of which seem the best so far. Say I’ll keep following whatever you do.

• Email: A lot of love, def some strong ideas for change.

• Twitter: Mixed bag, but majority is positive.

• YouTube: Similar to the r/LAS.

• Patreon: Positive, and encouraging.

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Why boring technology might be the better choice, Google revokes & China chokes, why you want to create an account at irs.gov before crooks do it for you.

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Why you should choose boring technology

• The basic premise is that in building technology, specifically web sites and web services, there is often a bias towards using the latest and greatest technology, rather than the same old boring stuff
• This often turns out to bite you in the end. Look at people who based their site or product on FoundationDB, which was recently bought and shutdown by Apple
• Look at one of the most popular sites on the internet, Facebook, originally written in PHP and MySQL, and still largely remains based on those same old technologies
• “The nice thing about boringness (so constrained) is that the capabilities of these things are well understood. But more importantly, their failure modes are well understood.”
• “Anyone who knows me well will understand that it’s only with a overwhelming sense of malaise that I now invoke the spectre of Don Rumsfeld, but I must.“
• “When choosing technology, you have both known unknowns and unknown unknowns”
• The Socratic paradox
• A known unknown is something like: we don’t know what happens when this database hits 100% CPU.
• An unknown unknown is something like: geez it didn’t even occur to us that writing stats would cause GC pauses.
• “Both sets are typically non-empty, even for tech that’s existed for decades. But for shiny new technology the magnitude of unknown unknowns is significantly larger, and this is important.”
• The advantage to using boring technology is that more people understand how it works, more people understand how it fails, more people have come before you, tried to do something similar to what you are doing
• You won’t find the answer on Stack Overflow if you are the first person to try it
• “One of the most worthwhile exercises I recommend here is to consider how you would solve your immediate problem without adding anything new. First, posing this question should detect the situation where the “problem” is that someone really wants to use the technology. If that is the case, you should immediately abort.”
• People like new toys and new challenges
• Businesses should try to avoid new costs, and new risks
• Adding a new technology is not a bad thing, but first consider if the goal can be accomplished with what you already have

Google revokes CNNIC root certificate trust

• On March 20th Google security engineers noticed a number of unauthorized certificates being used for gmail and other google domains
• The certificates were issued by a subordinate CA, MCS Holdings
• “Established in 2005, MCS (Mideast Communication Systems) offers Value Added Distribution focusing on Networking and Automation businesses.”
• MCS Holdings makes Firewalls and other network appliances
• MCS got its subordinate CA certificate from CNNIC (Chinese Internet Network Information Center)
• “CNNIC is included in all major root stores and so the misissued certificates would be trusted by almost all browsers and operating systems. Chrome on Windows, OS X, and Linux, ChromeOS, and Firefox 33 and greater would have rejected these certificates because of public-key pinning, although misissued certificates for other sites likely exist.”
• Google added the MCS certificate to its revocation list so it would no longer be trusted
• “CNNIC responded on the 22nd to explain that they had contracted with MCS Holdings on the basis that MCS would only issue certificates for domains that they had registered. However, rather than keep the private key in a suitable HSM, MCS installed it in a man-in-the-middle proxy. These devices intercept secure connections by masquerading as the intended destination and are sometimes used by companies to intercept their employees’ secure traffic for monitoring or legal reasons. The employees’ computers normally have to be configured to trust a proxy for it to be able to do this. However, in this case, the presumed proxy was given the full authority of a public CA, which is a serious breach of the CA system”
• Google accepted the explanation as the truth, but is unsatisfied with the situation
• “This explanation is congruent with the facts. However, CNNIC still delegated their substantial authority to an organization that was not fit to hold it.”
• CNNIC has specific obligations it must fulfill in order to be a trusted CA
• The CA/Browser Forum sets the policies agreed upon for signing new trusted certificates
• Mozilla has an existing policy that enumerates the possible problems and their immediate and potential consequences
• “Update – April 1: As a result of a joint investigation of the events surrounding this incident by Google and CNNIC, we have decided that the CNNIC Root and EV CAs will no longer be recognized in Google products. This will take effect in a future Chrome update. To assist customers affected by this decision, for a limited time we will allow CNNIC’s existing certificates to continue to be marked as trusted in Chrome, through the use of a publicly disclosed whitelist. While neither we nor CNNIC believe any further unauthorized digital certificates have been issued, nor do we believe the misissued certificates were used outside the limited scope of MCS Holdings’ test network, CNNIC will be working to prevent any future incidents. CNNIC will implement Certificate Transparency for all of their certificates prior to any request for reinclusion. We applaud CNNIC on their proactive steps, and welcome them to reapply once suitable technical and procedural controls are in place.”
• CNNIC has released an official statement calling Google’s actions “unacceptable”
• Mozilla is considering similar actions:
• Reject certificates chaining to CNNIC with a notBefore date after a threshold date
• Request that CNNIC provide a list of currently valid certificates and publish that list so that the community can recognize any back-dated certs
• Allow CNNIC to re-apply for full inclusion, with some additional requirements (to be discussed on this list)
• If CNNIC’s re-application is unsuccessful, then their root certificates will be removed
• The Mozilla community feels that CNNIC needs more than a slap on the wrist, to ensure other CAs (and Governments) get the message that this type of behaviour is unacceptable
• Google reiterates the need for the Certificate Transparency project
• “Certificate Transparency makes it possible to detect SSL certificates that have been mistakenly issued by a certificate authority or maliciously acquired from an otherwise unimpeachable certificate authority. It also makes it possible to identify certificate authorities that have gone rogue and are maliciously issuing certificates.”
• Additional Coverage – Ars Technica

Signup for an account at irs.gov before crooks do it for you

• “If you’re an American and haven’t yet created an account at irs.gov, you may want to take care of that before tax fraudsters create an account in your name and steal your personal and tax data in the process.”
• “Recently, KrebsOnSecurity heard from Michael Kasper, a 35-year-old reader who tried to obtain a copy of his most recent tax transcript with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Kasper said he sought the transcript after trying to file his taxes through the desktop version of TurboTax, and being informed by TurboTax that the IRS had rejected the request because his return had already been filed.”
• “Kasper said he phoned the IRS’s identity theft hotline (800-908-4490) and was told a direct deposit was being made that very same day for his tax refund — a request made with his Social Security number and address but to be deposited into a bank account that he didn’t recognize.”
• The fraudster filed the new return using nearly identical data to the correct information that the victim had filed the previous year
• The victim suspects that the fraudster was able to use the irs.gov portal to view his previous returns and extract information from them to file the fraudulent return
• The fraudster files a corrected W-2 to adjust the withholding amount, to get a bigger refund
• The story goes on into details about the case, including the college student that was used as a money mule
• “The IRS’s process for verifying people requesting transcripts is vulnerable to exploitation by fraudsters because it relies on static identifiers and so-called “knowledge-based authentication” (KBA) — i.e., challenge questions that can be easily defeated with information widely available for sale in the cybercrime underground and/or with a small amount of searching online.”
• In addition, Americans who have not already created an account at the Social Security Administration under their Social Security number are vulnerable to crooks hijacking SSA benefits now or in the future. For more on how crooks are siphoning Social Security benefits via government sites, check out this story.
• In Canada, to get access to your CRA Account, a passcode is mailed to you, at the current address the government already has on file for you
• In order to gain access to your account, you also must answer more specific questions than just KBAs, usually including things like “the number from line 350 of your 2013 tax return”

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• I heard Allan likes ZFS

• ultimate travel router?

• Linux Server Management

• freenas backup sanity check

Round Up:

• Facebook successfully tests laser internet drones
• “Not Invented Here” is bad, but “Never Invent Here” is worse
• A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: Truecrypt report
• Personal details of a number of world leaders were accidently emailed to Asian Cup organizers by Australian immigration department, the leaders were not notified of the disclosure
• New Firefox version says “might as well” to encrypting all Web traffic
• Firefox contains mp3 playback vulnerability, could lead to code execution
• N.J. school district’s ‘bitcoin hostage” problem caused by weak passwords, firewall holes | NJ.com
• Vulnerable hotel Wifi puts guests at risk
• What every stackoverflow question looks like
• Vulnerability in python scripts shipped as part of SELinux allow attackers to execute commands as root

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Netflix is naming and shaming ISPs right on the buffering screen of your movie and Verizon is not happy about it.

Plus Amazon is putting the hurt on book publishers, leveraging it’s growing monopoly and why despite our better judgment, we can’t help but live Prime.

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Valve shows off updated VR headset prototype with Dota 2 demo

Valve’s prototype unit looks a lot like Oculus’ recently demoed Crystal Cove test unit. It’s a black wrap-around device covered with white IR-reflective dots. A separate camera uses those dots to keep tabs on how the wearer is moving his or her head. This allows for much more accurate motion tracking and a better immersive experience than simply using accelerometers and gyroscopes in the device itself. The last prototype, which was demoed in a very limited fashion, used QR codes and a camera attached to the visor to improve tracking.

Safer email – Transparency Report – Google

Gmail has always supported encryption in transit by using Transport Layer Security (TLS), and will automatically encrypt your incoming and outgoing emails if it can. The important thing is that both sides of an email exchange need to support encryption for it to work; Gmail can\’t do it alone.

Our data show that approximately 40 to 50 percent of emails sent between Gmail and other email providers aren’t encrypted.

• Of course this is not talking about email storage, but email in transit.

• ProtonMail – Secure Email, Made Simple

ProtonMail was founded in summer 2013 at CERN by scientists who were drawn together by a shared vision of a more secure and private Internet. Early ProtonMail hackathons were held at the famous CERN Restaurant One. ProtonMail is developed both at CERN and MIT and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland

Intel Reaches 5GHz with New Core I7 Chip for Gamers

Intel is shipping a new Core i7 chip for gamers that runs at 4.4GHz — and can be overclocked to 5GHz.

The Core i7-4790K is a quad-core chip based on the Haswell microarchitecture. It draws 88 watts of power and has 8MB of cache, integrated graphics, memory controllers and support for the latest I/O technologies. It also supports multithreading and allow cores to process two tasks at one time.

Netflix Blames Verizon for Slow Streams

In April, Netflix signed a Web traffic deal with Verizon. Now it is telling some of its customers that Verizon\’s pipes — and, presumably, other ISP\’s as well — aren\’t up to snuff.

Amazon

Amazon/Hachette dispute unlikely to provoke regulators, experts say

Amazon has delayed the delivery of some Hachette Book Group titles and even removed an option to pre-order \”The Silkworm,\” by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith. Hachette, the fourth largest U.S. book publisher, is owned by France\’s Lagadere SCA.

• How the Amazon-Hachette Fight Could Shape the Future of Ideas – Jeremy Greenfield – The Atlantic

By some estimates, today Amazon controls around 50 percent of all book sales—physical and electronic—in the U.S. In the past decade, the company has steadily grown that market share, taking it from Barnes & Noble (shrinking), Borders (bankrupt since 2011), and independent bookstores (around 2,000 remain today out of the nearly 7,000 there were in the mid-1990s).

Amazon CEO wins World\’s Worst Boss

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the world\’s worst boss, according to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).

More than 20,000 voted for nine bosses who exemplified the worst behavior and abuses in workers\’ rights, tax avoidance, and corporate bullying and other abuses.

Bezos resoundingly won.

\”Jeff Bezos represents the inhumanity of employers who are promoting the American corporate model. The message to big business is back off, you are not going to mistreat workers,\” said Burrow.

Amazon Robotics Kiva Systems

Amazon currently uses some 1,000 robots by Kiva Systems, a company it bought for $775 million in 2012, to fill its customers\’ orders. Now CNN reports that Amazon will have 10,000 robots doing the same by the end of this year.

CEO Jeff Bezos revealed the plan to double down on robotics during a shareholder meeting and emphasized that despite the popular sci-fi theme of robotic uprising, no humans will lose their jobs as a result of the increased robotic workforce.

A Day in the Life of a Kiva Robot

Kiva Systems founder and CEO Mick Mountz narrates a play-by-play video of how Kiva robots automate a warehouse environment.

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

Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn\’t content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that\’s never been cracked. Until now.

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A series of leaks have blown the lid of the NSA’s massive surveillance dragnet of the Internet forcing the Federal Government to come clean to the world. We’ll dig into the new revelations, how this could be technically be done, and then we’ll expose the lapdog media’s attempt manipulate the narrative.

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Turkey protests

• Turkish Protesters Use Fireworks to Battle Cops – ABC News

Protesters in Turkey’s ancient city of Istanbul fought running battles with police today, sending fireworks into police lines while being forced back with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon.

• Turkish protesters clash with police in Istanbul – in pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk

Unrest continues as riot police return to Taksim Square, which has been occupied by protesters for more than a week, in Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city

NSA Data Center Nears Completion

• NSA’s secret Utah data center

. The NSA is currently finishing construction on its Utah Data Center, a new $1.2 billion storage facility near Salt Lake City. When it’s finished, the data center will be able to hold and process five zettabytes of data, according to NPR.

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PRISM

• NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program – The Washington Post

Through a top-secret program authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence community can gain access to the servers of nine Internet companies for a wide range of digital data. Documents describing the previously undisclosed program, obtained by The Washington Post, show the breadth of U.S. electronic surveillance capabilities in the wake of a widely publicized controversy over warrantless wiretapping of U.S. domestic telephone communications in 2005. These slides, annotated by The Washington Post, represent a selection from the overall document, and certain portions are redacted. Read related article.

• New NSA leak: BOUNDLESSINFORMANT documents the extent of NSA spying around the world – Boing Boing

The Boundless Informant documents show the agency collecting almost 3 billion pieces of intelligence from US computer networks over a 30-day period ending in March 2013.

• Obama defends surveillance effort as ‘trade-off’ for security | Reuters

“You can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience,” Obama said. “We’re going to have to make some choices as a society. … There are trade-offs involved.”

• He told you so: Bill Binney talks NSA leaks – YouTube

In the wake of multiple leaks regarding the data mining programs PRISM and Boundless Informant, whistleblowers are coming out in droves to talk about the unprecedented government surveillance on the American public. RT Correspondent Meghan Lopez had a chance to sit down with NSA whistleblower William Binney to talk about the latest developments coming out of the NSA case. Binney is a 32 year veteran of the NSA, where he helped design a top secret program he says helps collect data on foreign enemies. He is regarded as one of the best mathematicians and code breakers in NSA history. He became an NSA whistleblower in 2002 when he realized the program he helped create to spy no foreign enemies was being used on Americans.

• Edward Snowden: “I am not here to hide” – CBS News

Edward Snowden has surfaced again, according to a local Hong Kong newspaper, telling them he has no intention of hiding from whatever may come next.

• Majority Of Americans Okay With NSA Dragnet… Or, Wait, Not Okay With It; Depending On How You Ask | Techdirt

Pew’s more thorough poll does alert us to the fact that a majority of the population is either ambivalent to the NSA’s actions – or completely unaware. Only 27% of respondents claim to be following the story closely, with those polling as opposed to the NSA’s data harvesting holding a slight lead over those who support these efforts. This low level of engagement isn’t uncommon and has helped to ensure that questionable Bush-era policies remain in place years down the road, in some cases being expanded by the current administration

• Two months ago, in a Senate Integlligence Hearing, Sen. Ron Wyden asked the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” His response: “No, sir.”

But one of the Senate’s staunchest critics of the surveillance programs put Clapper in the crosshairs, accusing him of not being truthful in March when he asked during a Senate hearing whether the NSA collects any data on millions of Americans. Clapper said it did not. Officials generally do not discuss classified information in public settings, reserving discussion on top-secret programs for closed sessions with lawmakers where they will not be revealed to adversaries.

• Court finds NSA surveillance unconstitutional. Administration’s response: keep the ruling secret and carry on

It turns out that Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2011 found that the NSA’s surveillance under the FISA Amendments Act to be unconstitutional. Why doesn’t anyone know this? Because the decision was kept secret:

• George Takei Fears NSA Spying Programs Having Lived in an Interment Camp

“We were rounded up simply because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. And we were put in prison camps with barbed wire and machine guns pointed at us. It was a horrific violation of our Constitution.”

Because of that experience, Takei is particularly wary of the government’s powers being abused. “We know where this can go,” he said. “We have to be ever vigilant against overstepping of the fundamental ideals of our democracy.”

• Edward Snowden: how the spy story of the age leaked out | World news | The Guardian

Snowden, aged 29, had flown to Hong Kong from Hawaii, where he had been working for the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton at the National Security Agency, the biggest spy surveillance organisation in the world. Since Monday morning, he has gone underground. Hong Kong-based journalists, joined by the international press, have been hunting for him.

• Total Information Awareness

The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillance and information technology to track and monitor terrorists and other asymmetric threats to U.S. national security, by achieving Total Information Awareness (TIA).

US Concerned Over Military Equipment Built in China

• Some U.S. military parts imported from China – CBS News

The cybersecurity issues aren’t the only U.S. concern has about China. The Pentagon is growing increasingly worried about relying on military components made in China.

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