JR: July 2013 U.S. House Vote Tally to Defund NSA Program - The House narrowly rejected a challenge to the National Security Agencys secret collection of hundreds of millions of Americans phone records Wednesday night after a fierce debate pitting privacy rights against the governments efforts to thwart terro... more>> 3 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #nsa #politics #moronism #blog_jr

JR: Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald's quote about the U.S. government - July 3, 2013 WaPo story The Guardians Glenn Greenwald, breaker of stories on the National Security Agency (NSA), recently made the following declaration to the New York Timess David Carr about his approach to his work: All activists are not journ... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #media #politics #nsa #blog_jr

JR: Password encryption methods - The best practice among Silicon Valley companies is to adopt far slower hash algorithms -- designed to take a large fraction of a second to scramble a password -- that have been intentionally crafted to make it more difficult and expensive for the NS... more>> 2 min read
- Oct 09, 2013 - #encryption #privacy #nsa

JR: Obama's Promise to Protect Whistleblowers Disappears from Web - July 25, 2013 article by HN discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6106388 From the Sunlight Foundation: Change.gov, the website created by the Obama transition team in 2008, has effectively disappeared sometime over the last month. ... more>> 1 min read
- Aug 14, 2013 - #politics #moronism #nsa