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Not a News Pick, but should be - SCOTUS bans Free Speech
Authored by: celtic_hackr on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 01:57 AM EDT
This is the most repugnant thing I've seen, possibly ever, from a US Government body.

In brief, new rules established by the SCOTUS bans picketing, speeches, marching, or vigils on SCOTUS grounds.

Shame on the Court for this!

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Market forces not good enough
Authored by: sciamiko on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 04:45 AM EDT
Ira Rothken (Twitter) says that market forces will drive clouds to privacy friendly places. But even that may not prevent a US corporation buying out the foreign company to bring it under US laws.

The only way is to keep the data yourself. We all need a simple appliance that can be plugged in at home and operate like a cloud storage from afar via encrypted comms. Just a storage area would be a good start, assuming the ISPs allow access of course.

s.

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Economics play an important role...
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 05:40 AM EDT
https://twitter.com/rothken/status/344152045206519810

Which are these "privacy protective nations"?

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Memoranda to the Examiner Corps re Myriad
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 07:16 AM EDT
Well, the USPTO leadership has wasted no time on responding to this ruling,
anyway! At a minimum, they're applying it to genetics, but it is clear they're
also looking at isolation of products of nature in general.

Bravo! (completely sincere)

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Nsa surveillance: major blow to global internet freedom efforts?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 09:39 AM EDT
How NSA surveillance undermines internet freedom .

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RE: Feds May Have To Reveal FISA Phone Records - IRS/WH phone logs Requested by Congressman
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 11:54 AM EDT
Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Texas 36) Tuesday asked the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee to subpoena all National Security Agency records of phone calls between employees of the White House and the Internal Revenue Service.
http://stockman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/stockman-requests-subpoena -of-nsa-s-white-house-irs-phone-logs

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Landmark Patent Office Ruling Strikes Abstract Software Patent; EFF Joins Amicus Brief
Authored by: JamesK on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 01:30 PM EDT
"Nevertheless, SAP was found directly liable for patent infringement. On
appeal, the Federal Circuit affirmed liability (and upheld a $345 million
damages award).

Isn't that the same as holding hammer manufacturers liable, because some people
use them to break windows?


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U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 02:12 PM EDT
"Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software company, provides
intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software
before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the
process."

It's the smoking gun of the Microsoft back door.

NEXT WE WILL FIND OUT IF IT IS INTENTIONAL back doors.

At least with Linux you can audit the software yourself.

With Microsoft, they have provided back doors and you cannot find it.

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Patients Put at Risk By Computer Viruses
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 02:50 PM EDT
“it’s not difficult to imagine how these types of events could lead to patient
harm.”

Hack the computer in the cardiologist's office used for changing parameters on a
patient's pacemaker and target someone you wish dead.

We went through some of the same problems with the Y2K issues. I would have
thought that the machine designers could have figured this stuff out already.

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Techcrunch: With Waze, Google Gets . . . And Possible Patent Legal Hea
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 03:47 PM EDT
Techcrunch: With Waze, Google Gets Access To Social Mapping Data — And Possible Patent Legal Heat From Nokia

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NSA-proof encryption exists.
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 03:01 AM EDT
Why doesn’t anyone use it?

Funny you should ask
Note the uptick in installs from a week ago.

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Restore Our Privacy Act
Authored by: miltonw on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 12:18 PM EDT
I haven't waded through Bernie Sander's proposed bill, but from his own description, it sounds horrible. It sounds like it would still allow all the data collection to continue exactly like it is today, but the Feds wouldn't be able to look at it "without authorization".

Yeah, so they can still violate the 4th Amendment as much as they want, but they have to get FISA's approval to "search" it - which has proven to be so very hard - NOT!

Bernie's bill carefully protects the rights of ... the NSA.

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Encrypted e-mail: How much annoyance will you tolerate to keep the NSA away?
Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 05:18 PM EDT
I used to use X.509 certificates from a company called Thawte, which used to be
owned by Mark Shuttleworth. Unfortunately, he sold it to Verisign and they
killed the free digital certificate program that had been available from Thawte.

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