From total beginner to photo pro, we’ll share workflow tips, tools, tricks & backup techniques to super-charge your photography workflow under Linux.

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Perfect Photo Workflow with Linux

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Prepare your Monitor:

• Color management

Getting the photos into Linux:

• Rapid Photo Downloader

Rapid Photo Downloader for Linux is written by a photographer for professional and amateur photographers. Its goal is to be the best photo and video downloader for the Linux Desktop. It is free software, released under the GNU GPL license.

Quick Sorting of Photos:

• gthumb

gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop. It also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras.

Tweaking your RAW Pictures:

• RawTherapee Features

HDR Photo Editing:

• LuminanceHDR

Luminance HDR is a graphical user interface (based on the Qt5 toolkit) that provides a complete workflow for HDR imaging.

• HDR Photography on Linux | LAS s30e06

Photo Organization

• darktable | the photo workflow software

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.

• Corel AfterShot Pro

Say hello to the world’s fastest RAW photo-editing software. Corel AfterShot Pro 2 is changing the way the world works with RAW, with 64-bit performance that’s 30% faster than AfterShot Pro 1 and up to 4x faster than the competition. AfterShot Pro 2 is the best way to unlock the freedom and flexibility of shooting RAW. With unparalleled speed and power, and a sleek new interface, AfterShot Pro 2 is a RAW converter, non-destructive photo editor and complete high-speed photo manager in one. Whether you’re batch processing thousands of RAW images, or making detailed adjustments to your latest prize-winning shot, AfterShot Pro 2 gives you the tools to quickly take complete control over every aspect of your photo workflow.

Photo Backup Under Linux:

• SpiderOak

SpiderOak ONE is the leading private backup solution and is 100% Zero Knowledge. Get a ton of space for only $12 a month. Plans starting at $7 a month for 30GB and up to 5TB.
Pay monthly or annually. Upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time.

• Grsync rsync GUI interface frontend for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X

Grsync is a rsync GUI (Graphical User Interface). Rsync is the well-known and powerful command line directory and file synchronization tool.

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Runs Linux

• The NSA XKEYSCORE, Runs Linux

This global Internet surveillance network is powered by a somewhat clunky piece of software running on clusters of Linux servers. Analysts access XKEYSCORE’s web interface to search its wealth of private information, similar to how ordinary people can search Google for public information.

Desktop App Pick

• digiKam

digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux, Windows, and Mac-OSX.

The people who inspired digiKam’s design are the photographers like you who want to view, manage, edit, enhance, organize, tag, and share photographs under Linux systems.

You can take a look into the digiKam Overview page to take a tour or the Features page to see more advanced information about.

Weekly Spotlight

• OpenMediaVault 2.1

• Using Sencha ExtJS 5.1.1 framework for the WebGUI
• Add a new dashboard and widgets
• Many internal improvements and bugfixes
• Improved the internal network interface backend
• Add Wi-Fi support. Only WPA & WPA2 is supported
• Add VLAN support
• The network interface configuration page has been modified. Now only the configuration values are displayed. Use the dashboard widget to show the state of all network interfaces.
• The public key of the user must now be specified in the RFC 4716 SSH public key file format. It is possible to add multiple keys.
• Option to turn off the collection of system performance statistics.
• Use the browser local storage to store the WebGUI state (e.g. displayed grid columns, column width, …) instead of cookies.

The whole changelog for 2.1 can be viewed here.

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Introducing Pinos

So what is Pinos? One of the original goals of Pinos was to provide the same level of advanced hardware handling for Video that PulseAudio provides for Audio. For those of you who has been around for a while you might remember how you once upon a time could only have one application using the sound card at the same time until PulseAudio properly fixed that. Well Pinos will allow you to share your video camera between multiple applications and also provide an easy to use API to do so.

ownCloud 8.1 Coming Soon

The first release candidate of ownCloud 8.1 is ready for testing. This release will bring many performance improvements, Encryption 2.0 and much more. If you’re an avid ownCloud user, this is the time to test the upcoming release and make sure it can deal with your specific installation. Get the release on the ownCloud website.

Yotaphone Adopts Sailfish – Drops Android

Today the news has it for us as Yota Phone, the recently famous Russian [Android] phone manufacturer with their revolutionary “two-faced” phone has dropped their near-stock Android OS in favor of our beloved Sailfish OS which has raised a fair bit of keyboard warriors to attack the comments section on some websites saying things like “Why dumping the most popular OS in the world for the least popular?” Uh, excuse me as your most popular OS (Which I admit I am an Android user alongside Sailfish) does not care about user’s privacy and wants to send everything directly to that famous and most hated agency in the world! (NSA)

• No, the Yotaphone Isn’t Switching From Android to Sailfish | Ink, Bits, & Pixels

Codeweavers On DX11 in WINE, Steam Machines & Porting

The recent news of WINE/Crossover supporting DX11 is significant, because up until now there were no FOSS solutions to get such support. Sure, the eON wrapper from Virtual Programming was one commercial option for game companies to develop ports for Linux, but it was not available for end users. With WINE supporting DX11, this opens up a whole new library of recent Windows games for the Linux platform.

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The release of Glenn Greenwald’s new book has brought a wave of new NSA revelations. We’ll focuses in on the major ones, and discuss the broader context of these revelations.

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NSA is Crazy

• ‘No Place to Hide’ by Glenn Greenwald, on the NSA’s sweeping efforts to ‘Know it All’

In one remarkable slide presented at a 2011 meeting of five nations\’ intelligence agencies and revealed here for the first time, the NSA described its \”collection posture\” as \”Collect it All,\” \”Process it All,\” \”Exploit it All,\” \”Partner it All,\” \”Sniff it All\” and, ultimately, \”Know it All.\”

In a one-month period last year, for example, a single unit of the NSA, the Global Access Operations unit, collected data on more than 97 billion e-mails and 124 billion phone calls from around the world; more than 3 billion of those calls and e-mails were collected as they passed through the United States. As of 2012, the agency was processing more than 20 billion telecommunications per day. In a single month in 2011, the NSA collected 71 million calls and e-mails from Poland alone

The NSA achieves these ends by working hand in hand with private telecommunications and Internet service providers.

One NSA document describes an unnamed corporate partner as “aggressively involved in shaping traffic to run signals of interest past our monitors” and reports that in a single month, this top-secret, public-private partnership yielded more than 6 billion records of telephone calls and Internet activity.

Other documents describe X-KEYSCORE, the NSA’s most powerful tool, which, as its name implies, enables the agency to track every keystroke on a computer, permitting the agency to monitor in real time all of a user’s e-mail, social-media and Web-browsing activity. In a single month in 2012, X-KEYSCORE collected 41 billion records for one NSA unit. Greenwald contends that this is the program Snowden was referring to when he said that, with an e-mail address, he could tap into any American’s communications.

He notes that the NSA collects data not only for counterterrorism purposes but for economic and diplomatic advantage.

NSA Docs Detail Efforts To Collect Data From Microsoft’s Skype, SkyDrive, And Outlook.com

Greenwald published a set of documents, some of which were not new and some that were. Inside the set were four slides detailing the NSA\’s relationship with Microsoft, as well as the company\’s work with the FBI to provide for quicker and easier deliverance of required files and the like

PDF of New Slides from Greenwald’s new Book

Sony Pictures Buys Film Rights to Book on Snowden

Sony said on Wednesday that it had acquired rights to Mr. Greenwald\’s book, \”No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the U. S. Surveillance State,\” for the producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. Mr. Wilson and Ms. Broccoli are known for their work on James Bond films like \”Skyfall\” and \”Quantum of Solace,\” both of which were released by Sony and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Orwellian threats caused the New York Times to spike a story on NSA spying way back in 2004

Working with New York Times reporter James Risen to make the story public. But Risen\’s editors decided to run the story by the government. They wanted to get the government\’s take, before the Times revealed \”The Program.\” Kirk says top White House officials made three arguments to Times editors, in trying to convince them not to run the story.

1. It\’s completely legal.

2. It\’s a vulnerable secret. If you reveal it, hundreds of thousands of Americans may die in a future attack.

3. It\’s working. You wouldn\’t believe the threats we\’re stopping.

Former Editor Bill Keller spiked the story, outraging Risen.

Edward Snowden makes video explaining how to avoid NSA tracking emails

Mr Snowden made the video last year for Glenn Greenwald in an effort to get the then-Guardian reporter to communicate securely with him online so he could send over documents he wanted to leak.

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Ukraine

Russia says open to talks if Ukraine pays off some gas debt

Russia will restart gas talks with Ukraine if its new leaders pay off at least part of its gas debt, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday, softening Moscow\’s stance in a dispute that has raised fears of a new \”gas war\”.

Ukraine Stops Water Supply to Crimea

\”The North Crimean canal is currently operating in a mode that has been adjusted to meet the needs of the Kherson Oblast\’s water users due to the absence of constructive proposals to establish contractual relations for providing the Autonomous Republic of Crimea with water resources for domestic water supply and irrigation,\” said the statement of May 8.

Nuland has tough time justifying US involvement in Ukraine

During a two hour House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, the US
Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland shared her assessment of the US role in Ukraine\’s crisis
and the upcoming presidential election.

• Washington is offering \”financial, technical and
  non-lethal security assistance\” for the May 25 election.

\”In addition to $92 million in FY2013 State/USAID funds and
$86 million in FY2014 funds, we are providing an additional $50
million in technical assistance and the $1 billion dollar loan
guarantee under the authority passed by Congress on April
1st.\”

The US electoral assistance includes \”$11 million for
non-partisan election activities, including efforts to support
voter education and civic participation\” as well as
participation as observers in the upcoming poll.

\”In addition to the 100 OSCE observers we are sending, the
United States is supporting 255 long-term observers and over 3300
short-term observers,\” Nuland said.

Financial aid also involves \”$18 million in non-lethal
security assistance to the Ukrainian armed forces and
State Border Guard Service to enable them to fulfill their core
missions.\”

Biden son’s appointment to Ukraine gas company raises no conflict of interest, White House says

The White House on Tuesday brushed aside questions about whether the involvement of Vice President Joe Biden\’s son in a Ukrainian natural gas company raised ethical issues at a time when the administration is promoting energy diversity in the country.

Weed Wackers:

John Mica, fake joint roll into pot hearing

The subcommittee hearing came in response to the Washington D.C. Council\’s recently passed bill that would decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. The new law won\’t take effect until Congress — which ultimately has oversight over D.C.\’s laws — finishes its review.

With regular banks wary of pot, Colorado lawmakers okay special bank for marijuana trade

They approved a plan to setup a network of uninsured cooperatives that would offer basic banking services to pot businesses.

The so-called \”cannabis credit co-ops\” would function like credit unions, allowing licensed marijuana businesses to pool resources, have checking accounts and take out loans. The co-ops would be able to make investments on behalf of their members in municipal bonds and other securities.

• Bank of America Will Accept Washington State Marijuana Revenue

Bank of America declares it is willing to accommodate new marijuana related businesses, according to Jim McIntire, Treasurer for the state of Washington. \”I mean, in fact, we\’re already taking some tax revenues, I believe, for medical marijuana. So it\’s not a real issue in terms of their perception.\”

3 Months Since Legalizing Marijuana, Here\’s What Colorado Looks Like

The state\’s Department of Revenue reports that marijuana retailers sold nearly $19 million in recreational weed in March, up from $14 million in February. The first three months of legal weed have netted about $7.3 million in taxes, not including medical marijuana sales taxes and licenses, which bring the number to $12.6 million.

Retail marijuana sales taxes brought in $1.4 million in January, $1.43 million in February and now $1.898 million in March — a clear upward trajectory. And total marijuana tax transfers and distributions went from $2.927 million in January to $4.077 million in March.
the up-trending numbers indicate that initial sales weren\’t simply the result of \”new-toy\” excitement wherein everyone was buying pot just because they could.

Over the same time period, crime in Denver has slightly declined, making opponents who said it would result in more trafficking seem kind of silly. It\’s created a modest number of jobs ranging from \”budtending\” and marijuana journalism to farm labor and ownership.
Legal cannabis sales in the United States are projected to reach as high as $2.57 billion this year, split among the 21 states that allow the sale of some form of marijuana. That\’s up from $1.53 billion a year ago.

The Colorado legislature has already formed a plan to spend $33 million of the marijuana taxes on school nurses and public education on marijuana. Even Colorado cops plan to get a chunk of the new revenue, asking for 10-15% of the proceeds for DUI enforcement and fighting diversion to other states and unlicensed sales.

The bulk of sales, however, continue to be in medical marijuana, which has been legal in Colorado since 2000 and recorded $35 million in sales in March. However, since recreational weed is more heavily taxed, it could still rapidly outpace medical marijuana in total tax dollars.

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A BGP hack reroutes the traffic of banks, Amazon and many others. We’ll explain how this can happen, and why we don’t see it more often.

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BGP hijack used to redirect traffic destin for online banking

• On 24 July 2013 a number of specific IP addresses were maliciously mis-routed to an ISP in the Netherlands
• This is especially unusual because most all BGP routes are /24 or larger (because routers only have so much RAM in which to hold the routing table for the entire Internet), and most of these were specific /32s (a single IP address).
• This might be considering a mistake or something, however the owners of the specific IP addresses suggest otherwise:
  • AMAZON-AES – Amazon.com, Inc.
  • AS-7743 – JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  • ASN-BBT-ASN – Branch Banking and Trust Company
  • BANK-OF-AMERICA Bank of America
  • CEGETEL-AS Societe Francaise du Radiotelephone S.A
  • FIRSTBANK – FIRSTBANK
  • HSBC-HK-AS HSBC HongKong
  • PFG-ASN-1 – The Principal Financial Group
  • PNCBANK – PNC Bank
  • REGIONS-ASN-1 – REGIONS FINANCIAL CORPORATION
• The ISP, NedZone.nl normally announced about 30 prefixes of various sizes between /18 and /24, but on the date in question, they were announcing 369, most all of which were smaller than /24 (usually the smallest that would be announced)
• It is most likely this was caused by a malicious customer, rather than NedZone or one of it’s Employees
• The attack appears to have been an attempt to run a MITM attack against online banking
• RIPE AS Dashabout for AS25459, showing list of prefixes announced in the last 30 days
• HE BGP Looking Glass AS25459 Prefixes

Digital Ocean Cloud ‘Droplets’ found to be reusing same SSH private keys

• While using Digital Ocean’s cloud server to write a comparison of Ansible and Salt, two different administration/orchestration tools, Joshua Lund discovered that many of his ‘Droplets’ had the same SSH fingerprint
• While rapidly creating and destroying Droplets, he ended up with the same ip address, and noticed that he did not receive an SSH fingerprint mismatch, warning him that this server is not the same as the one that resided at this IP address previously
• Upon further investigation he found that the SSH keys appeared to be part of the base image, rather than being generated on first boot
• While this was likely a simple oversight while creating the images, or an attempt to make the droplets boot faster by foregoing the SSH key generation, it is a significant security issue
• This means someone could replace your droplet with their own and have the same SSH private key (and therefore fingerprint), if you or one of your old users connected to your old IP which now belonged to someone else, they could capture your password or otherwise perform a MITM attack
• The issue was reported to Digital Ocean and they responded the same day
• The immediate fix did not resolve all instances of the issue, but within 7 days the issue had been resolved
• Digital Ocean then started working with their customers to have them replace their SSH host keys with unique ones
• 6 weeks later a public security advisory was issued
• If you do not install the OS your self, it may be a good idea to regenerate the SSH keys as part of the initial setup process
• Official Advisory
• On a future Episode of TechSNAP we’ll talk about SSHFP DNS records and maintaining a system wide ssh_known_hosts file

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• XKeyscore – NSA program allows analysts to search vast databases of emails, online chats and the browsing histories
• Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords | Politics and Law – CNET News
• Canada’s hangup with foreign owned telcos
• Google gives AT&T the boot, will supply 7000 US Starbucks locations with WiFi starting next month
• College students misdirect an $80 million Yacht with GPS spoofing
• Russia proposes ban on foul language on the internet with a law named \”On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development\”
• A look at LZ4 in ZFS

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A diagram that literally puts the NSA’s world wide spying system on the map has been exposed in a newly released presentation giving us a better picture of the surveillance system that is said to hold a three day buffer of all Internet activity.

Plus: An update on Bradley Manning, the Obama Administration pledges not to torture Snowden, and the US continues to dance around that big problem in Egypt.

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Violence in Egypt Over the Weekend

• Why U.S. Aid to Egypt Is Here to Stay

A coalition of human rights liberals and conservatives opposed to foreign aid is gaining strength. In mid-July, Senate Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham, two party leaders on foreign policy, called canceling military aid “right and necessary.” Though, Graham said Tuesday he’s reserving final judgment until he and McCain return next week from a trip to Egypt at President Obama’s behest.

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• ABC News Dethrones NBC in Crucial Ratings Race

In a twist that television industry gawkers immediately homed in on, the victory was shared by Ms. Sawyer and one of her regular fill-ins, David Muir. That was because Mr. Muir substituted for Ms. Sawyer three nights last week — the same three nights, it turned out, that ABC beat NBC in the all-important ratings demographic. Mr. Williams prevailed, barely, on the two nights that Ms. Sawyer was at work.

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Manning Not Aiding the Enemy – Faces Years in Prison

• Manning acquitted of aiding enemy, still may face long jail term

A military judge on Tuesday found U.S. soldier Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, the most serious charge he faced for handing over documents to WikiLeaks, but he still likely faces a long jail term after being found guilty of 19 other counts.

• One of Manning’s most visible supporters was banned from the trial Friday

One of Manning’s most visible supporters was banned from the trial Friday after the judge said someone posted threats online. Clark Stoeckley, a college art instructor from New Jersey, confirmed he was the one booted.

Stoeckley attended the court-martial as a sketch artist, arriving each day in a white box truck with bold words painted on the sides: “WikiLeaks TOP SECRET Mobile Information Collection Unit.”

A tweet Thursday night from an account Stoeckley used said: “I don’t know how they sleep at night but I do know where.” It was removed Friday and Stoeckley told The Associated Press on Twitter he couldn’t comment.

• Sketch artist banned from Manning trial – YouTube

During Bradley Manning’s trial in Fort Meade, Maryland, many of the soldier’s supporters showed up during the trial to back the whistleblower for revealing one of the biggest data leaks in US history, but last Friday Clark Stoeckley, courtroom sketch artist, was banned for one of his tweets.

NSA is Crazy

• NSA Documents About XKeyscore Search Tool – Business Insider

From Greenwald:

XKeyscore provides the technological capability, if not the legal authority, to target even US persons for extensive electronic surveillance without a warrant provided that some identifying information, such as their email or IP address, is known to the analyst.

Furthermore, Greenwald reports that analysts can use XKeyscore and other NSA systems “to obtain ongoing ‘real-time’ interception of an individual’s internet activity.”

• XKeyscore presentation from 2008 – read in full | World news | theguardian.com

Training materials for the XKeyscore program detail how analysts can use it and other systems to mine enormous agency databases and develop intelligence from the web

• XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’. A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals. : news

Some highlights:

“Performs strong (e.g. email) and soft (content) selection.” pg 2

“Provides real-time target activity.” pg 2

“Show me all the VPN startups in country X, and give me the data so I can decrypt and discover the users” pg 17

“Show me all the exploitable machines in country X” pg 24

• Security Now 415 | TWiT.TV

• FISA court judge: No company has ever challenged Patriot Act sharing | Ars Technica

According to one of the 11 judges that sits on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), no corporation ever served with a “business record” court order under the Patriot Act has ever challenged one, even though the law provides them a means to do so.

• Wyden: Intel violations ‘troubling’ – POLITICO.com

Sen. Ron Wyden said Tuesday that U.S. intelligence agencies’ violations of court orders on surveillance of Americans is worse than the government is letting on.

Wyden (D-Ore.), as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is privy to classified briefings on the government’s surveillance. On Tuesday, he told Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC that all he could say is that the violations are worse than being made public.

• XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’ | World news | theguardian.com

• XKeyscore gives ‘widest-reaching’ collection of online data
• NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches
• Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history
• NSA’s XKeyscore program – read one of the presentations

• Chairman Mike Rogers | The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

United States Representative Mike Rogers serves as the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The Committee is the House’s primary panel responsible for authorizing the funding for and overseeing the execution of the intelligence activities of the United States government.

General Keith Alexander Visits Black Hat

• NSA Director Heckled At Conference As He Asks For Security Community’s Understanding – Forbes

Alexander’s talk had begun with a plea for the hacker and security researcher community to reconsider the NSA’s role in the wake of a still-unfolding scandal revealed by the classified leaks of former Booz Allen contractor Edward Snowden. “Their reputation has been tarnished,” he said, speaking of his NSA staff. “But you can help us articulate the facts properly. I will answer every question to the fullest extent possible, and I promise you the truth: What I know, what we’re doing, and what I cannot tell you because we don’t want to jeopardize the future of our defense.”

After the talk, I found McCoy in the crowd and asked him about his not-so-friendly debate with the general. “His speech was pretty canned,” said McCoy. “It’s anything you can see on Fox News any day. We’re in danger, we have to get rid of your freedom to keep you safe.”

“Everyone’s thinking this, but no one’s saying it public, so everyone thinks they’re alone,” he said. “Ninety-eight percent of society has issues with this…But no one speaks up.”

• NSA headman: ‘Don’t worry, our watchful analysts TAKE EXAMS’ • The Register

He attempted to reassure a skeptical audience by saying “our people have to take courses and pass exams to use this data.” Data from the interception programs has “provided value” across some 53 “terror-related activities” detected by the NSA.

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Where in the World is Snowden

• US will not seek death penalty for Edward Snowden, Holder tells Russia | World news | The Guardian

In a letter sent this week, US attorney general Eric Holder told his Russian counterpart that the charges faced by Snowden do not carry the death penalty. Holder added that the US “would not seek the death penalty even if Mr Snowden were charged with additional, death penalty-eligible crimes”.

Holder said he had sent the letter, addressed to Alexander Vladimirovich, Russia’s minister of justice, in response to reports that Snowden had applied for temporary asylum in Russia “on the grounds that if he were returned to the United States, he would be tortured and would face the death penalty”.

• Rep. Mike Rogers: Snowden’s actions defy logic

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) said Sunday that Edward Snowden’s actions defy logic.

• Feinstein says Russia is buying time on Snowden – POLITICO.com

By granting NSA leaker Edward Snowden temporary asylum, Russia is giving itself time to figure out what their best move is, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday.

• Edward Snowden and the NSA files – timeline

What has happened to NSA whistleblower who leaked files to Guardian since he decided to reveal his identity to the world and began his asylum battle

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