Category: National Defense Authorization Act

Apple & Iphone: Victim, collaborator, or liar?

Recently, I posted an article that detailed how – via an implant called Dropout Jeep – the omnipresent NSA is able to remotely hack into your Iphone.  Apple, for their part, has responded that it simply ain’t so.  Or it ain’t so at least as far as they know: In the latest instance of a …

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More from the most transparent adminstration . . .

Just in case you need something else to worry about. NSA can hack WiFi devices from eight miles away. The NSA may have the ability to intercept data from around the world, but we now know that it has some impressive (and intimidating) equipment for snooping on nearby targets. Security guru Jacob Appelbaum told those …

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How the NSA remotely hacks your Iphone.

Following up on the latest stunning revelations released yesterday by German Spiegel which exposed the spy agency’s 50 page catalog of “backdoor penetration techniques“, today during a speech given by Jacob Applebaum (@ioerror) at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress, a new bombshell emerged: specifically the complete and detailed description of how the NSA bugs, remotely, …

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Toldya so. Part III

Oops!  Google’s not-so-secret-dirty-little-secret, not a secret at all anymore. The Justice Department recently won a court battle to keep an Internet company from talking about federal demands for user data, arguing that even disclosing the company’s name would damage national security.’ But then, after months of arguments, the department appears to have been foiled by …

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Why Privacy matters.

Here’s a good summary of why it matters.  While I despise the governmental violation of the constitution, especially in the area of unreasonable searches and seizures, the voluntary (and perhaps) indirect surrender of privacy via Facebook and other media is, I fear, without remedy. Peggy Noonan sums it up: What is privacy? Why should we …

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Your government is trying to kill you.

Eric Holder: Drone strikes against Americans on U.S. soil are legal The Washington Examiner reports that Attorney General Eric Holder can imagine a scenario in which it would be constitutional to carry out a drone strike against an American on American soil, he wrote in a letter to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. “It is possible, …

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Goodbye Liberty. Hello Janet “Big Sis” Napolitano & Department of Homeland Security.

Sure you can detect guns and cellphones, but can you read a copy of the Constitution. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones, government documents …

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Is it time to refresh the Tree of Liberty?

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to timewith the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson I appreciate Ann Barnhardt.  She’s a take no prisoner kind of gal.  The pic of her brandishing a pink AR-15 is priceless; though, can’t say I’d ever do that to a perfectly good AR-15.  Sometimes she …

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Some good news; some bad news.

The good news:  I always wanted an armored truck with a rotating turret.  The bad news: there’s one in my front yard right now. Thousands of other local police departments nationwide have been amassing stockpiles of military-style equipment in the name of homeland security, aided by more than $34 billion in federal grants since the …

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Is it too early to forward my mail to Guantanamo?

No sense waiting until the last minute. US lawmakers vote on indefinite detention You know it’s bad when the musloids are reporting on the loss of American liberty.  Al Jazeera reports: The House of Representatives passed the 2012 National Defence Authorisation Act (or NDAA) on Wednesday with a vote of 283 for and 136 against the …

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